Due Jan 2008 - Ahhh getting close now!!!!

[mixedmama]

Helloooooo????

Just a quick one to say hi all.
NCT class got cancelled last night and they're not putting another one on so what would have been 2 hours of labour and then 2 hours of pain relief is now being put together so 2 for both of them. Not fair.

Anyway gotta go, got my appeal meeting with work today and i'm not letting them walk all over me this time!

Speak to ya all later! xxx

Luckysalem - just noticed we're due on the same day!

Go get 'em Lucky Salem!!! Hope appeal goes well.

Had my GP appointment just now, and he's happily signed me off for two weeks, under 'general exhaustion' (or general 'something' - can't quite make out his scrawl). am so pleased. He seemed quite at my boss insisting I go to London 2x in a week at 34+ weeks.

Thanks for the info about mat leave kicking in if its 4 weeks before due date - at my work, that's right if you've been signed off for a pregnancy related condition, but seeing as my GP made it 'general' something rather than pregnancy specific, it won't automatically trigger mat leave (just checked with the HR people).

Oooh, bliss. Feel like such a weight has been lifted.

LuckyS - good luck hun, hope it goes well - we're all rooting for you ...and whatever happens just think "nili illegitimi carborundum" (or "don't let the b*stards grind you down!!)

Lulu - so pleased for you...what a relief!! Hopefully your boss will be able to manage a 2+2 on this one, so next time a heavily pregnant employee says "that's going to be a bit much" he gets the point

Am so ready for the weekend, really don't want to be working today And can't believe I'm off to Glasgow again on Monday

Although I am really really really looking forward to meeting the lovely Glasgow ladies on Tuesday afternoon

Hi all, am in Leicester today as they have no effective management here and none of the legal staff have had any supervisions or file reviews for months.

Thanks for all the concerns over my poor team member and my stress levels. Thing is, I have been working with torture victims for years (I am a lawyer/manager in an immigration law centre)and tend not to take things home at all, it is the same even with my poor colleague. I feel really sorry for her and do my best to support her, but it does not keep me awake at night. Am I hard? Can't be, SMA commercial makes me cry atm!!

Read a lot of interesting things on the last few pages about sleeping that seem really familiar. Am also quite capable of keeping self and husband awake and would be lost without support cushion.

More worrying, I have discovered that if I do not have time to lounge on my lovely sofa, I have no sciatica pains - but my feet swell more if I don't put them up. Can't win .

Fruitful, glad to hear from you, but it sounds all thoroughly scary. Would an epidual afterwards help you to have a clearer head?

Go get em Lucky!!

Well done Lulu, go sleep now . Just one more week for me, and I know it will fly.

LS - good luck with the appeal process - let us know how it goes.

Lulu - make ure you relax at home now, think you need it after all that travelling!

Gosh, it's lunch time - what shall I pig out on today??

remembered one bit from last night - Mrs B any tips on making playlists on the zen???

luckyS - go get em girl!

lulu - phew what a relief! hope boss does get it now.

fluffy - bless you!

fruitful - difficult choices i agree, re the skin to skin thing, in the Bounty book it says:
"it helps keep baby warm, regulate his temp, heart rate & breathing. Ideally this bonding shd a) take place within 30mins, b) be in a calm, relaxed environment & c) be for as long as you like."

To me this means it could be anyone who wants to bond with baby. dad shd be just as good as mum. in fact dh basically did it with ds as i took 2 hrs to delived the placenta. so i had ds first, then dh held him for those 2 hours. i think your baby would really benefit

right, ds sleeping, i'm catching up on sky+ junk (dirty dancing competiton anyone???)and really shd be doing something useful....

Sorry luckysalem - was posting at same time as you - Hope appeal goes / went well!

Lulu- glad your doctor was clever! And glad you're getting to put your feet up. Well done.

lack of sleep is catching up now....feeling so tired.....

Hi everyone! My son is due on 8th jan 2008. I already have an 11 yr old daughter, and Im 28.
I live in Cardiff and was wondering if there is any local mums on here due around the same time as me?

xx

Hello! Happy Friday everyone!
Thanks for all the good wishes for my dad - he was ok when I went to see him - bit shattered after the op and worried about how much his shoulder has been damaged, but generally upbeat given he has to keep his shoulder strapped to his side until Xmas. Then had a shocking drive back to London thru not great traffic on the M1 and HORRENDOUS rain for the last half hour.
Lulu - so pleased for you on the sick leave - you sound ecstatic!
Good luck for appeal LuckyS - your mum sounds a shocker! She seems to be using cost to someone else as her strongest argument when it's irrelevant - what else have you been paying your taxes for?
T&T - good to see you back and sorry about the bed rest - just cannot see how you are supposed to do that with your brood. Likewise you fruitful - nasty choices but I am sure it is all part of envisaging all the potential pitfalls and hopefully it won't be like that when you get to it.
Naetha - good to hear kitchen nearly done and concert was great. You will be glad to have house to yourselves for the last few weeks before you are 3!
Fluffy - poor you on the cold! REALLY feel for you as my standard approach to colds is to drug them into submission with nurofen cold and flu and that's just not an option. Go easy on yourself eh!
Mrs McJnr - thanks for the nighties link - have gone for some myself at that price. The Next ones I got the other day were WAY too big and had to return them and thought they were a bit fussy by the time I got them on so didn't bother buying smaller size. Glad all else well with you.

Afternoon all,

Frutiful - not nice choices but it is nice that they are still offering all sorts of options, sometimes with things like CS all manner of choice seems to be swept away. You sound like you are keeping upbeat about it tho.

T&T - bed rest sounds awful, but you must need it if that is what they are suggesting.

Lulu - great news about docs. Are you still in London next week for meet up? werent you visiting a friend or soemthing???

DH and I have a date night in planned tonight. DVD and takeaway, were going to try for the cinema but i just know i will fall asleep. We are childless tonight and missing him already, but we prob wont be able to do this for a long time once LO gets here so am overlooking the fact that he is at ILs. Being very calm about it all.

HELLLLLOOO to everyone.

Barristermum - great news about your dad, am glad he's doing well.
Mixedmama - you're right, I was meant to be visiting a friend in London , which was why I was going to be able to make the meet up, but am just so shattered, don't think I'll be able to make it after all I'll be so sorry to miss it, but at the moment, I'm about as graceful as a walrus, and just can't imagine doing the whole train and tube thing. Was really craving chinese food too

I had my driving test today, and it was awful! I haven't driven that badly in ages, if ever. Didn't tell anyone in RL except DH, because I didn't want a fuss.

didn't pass, but have to say I had a real dragon of an examiner. At the beginning, I told her 'please excuse my pregnancy brain at the moment, and just point a little when you're asking me to go right or left' - because lately, my brian just seems to freeze when my instructor says left/right, its like I can't translate those words into a direction . My instructor said it would be ok if I asked the examiner, but the examiner said she wasn't willing to do it. Why? For health and safety reasons!

So mean.

And of course that completely flustered me and I panicked, so wasn't at my best.

Oh {{{{lulubump}}}}, for you. So brave that you even attempted it at this stage. She sounds like a silly dragon. My uncle is a very clever man but he cannot tell left from right, and he passed alright. Some people just can't and it does not affect their driving. health and safety gets used as an excuse for so much these days!

Ahhh lulu sorry about the test... examiners are well known arse holes tho so dont worry too much. Dont worry about meet up at all... I can completely understand.

hahahaha stupid temp just got in trouble (i am such a child) she has been putting down 30 mins lunch instead of an hour when we have been told we are to take our full hour and is basically p taking cos we have a new supervisor... supervisor said no overtime to be done and she is pretending she has always been allowed to do it. Silly cow. Cant wait to get out of here.

mixedmama - so the supervisor's not accepting her excuse that she adds on the time for her 15 minutes breaks during the day! Hahaha [evil chuckle]

Not that upset about my driving test - apparently, she's the strictest examiner I could possibly get, so hopefully won't get her next time. Am still determined to go for my test again, if I can get a date before I'm 37 weeks. Thanks for the sympathy

meant not ...although a stiff G&T would go down a treat!

No Lulu tthat was last week. This week she is claiming that she has had 30 mins lunch instead of 1 hour, but without clearing it with anyone. Temp is trying to say that she has always done this whereas in fact we have been told previously by last suprvisor that we have to take the full hour. Very pleased in a smug childish way.

Incidentally, not everyday this week has she only had 30 mins which is what she is claiming.

Nightmare temp of yours mixedmama - serves her right

RANT COMING:
I didn't tell u guys the full story re: my boss and the London trips - remember he wasted me back in Nottingham on Wed, and in London on Tues and Thurs next week? It was so that I'd be available to do a handover with the girl doing my maternity cover. I told him I had already booked 5 full days with her over the next few weeks (who the hell else gets a 5 day handover????), he was still insistent. I then said, well, why don't we see what she's planning to do, so I asked her and she's planning to read through my files, BUT said she needed me there. Why? to help her turn the pages?? Who knows! Anyway, I then said I was going to be in all day on Monday that week, so could talk through any questions then, but it turns out my boss had allowed her to have the day off!! BUT was still insistent that I had to do all that travelling up and down to accomodate her. Sorry, but I don't see them making any effort to accomodate me!

What b*llocks. So tough for them, now I won't be going back til next year, and they'll have 2 cope!! AND she'll have to read through my files all on her lonesome.

Gosh, my bitchy streak is showing this afternoon lol.

love it lulu. stuff them.

Hey girls (ladies?...nah......not us!!!)

Hope you all have lovely weekends, even/especially those on enforced bedrest or with dodgy ankles, pelvises (pelves? i mean, what on earth is the plural of pelvis?! oh dear, 8 years at university studying latin and the pregnancy brain has wiped it all away....), other bodily parts and so on.

Here's hoping that everyone gets some sleep, and that all the bumps and dps/dhs/dds and ds's behave themselves, not to mention the ILs, parents, friends and anyone else who could possibly cause grief!

Love to all!!! xxx

ahhhh so late in the day and I haven't had a chance to catch up at all hopefully I will tomorrow. Hope everyone is well