Hello Ladies,
TY - did you go to you meditation class? If so how was it? I've never been to anything like that! Don't feel guilty when your fella asks what you've been up to, It's a standard conversation making phrase and if you've been up to nowt because you've felt up to nowt then so be it, you are only human after all!
omy - hope your DH recovers from his much deserved ear bashing and I hope your DD recovers from him letting her down.
mymissus - I prefer watching things like lost in one big marathon run, you don't loose track of what happened in the last episode! You'll be surprised how quickly you get through all the episodes though!
Saskia - CONGRATULATIONS! I thought you might have been off sprogging! I'm looking forward to your birth story, sounds like it's going to be a cheerful one. Hope you're both doing well.
princess - could you not buy a length of PVC table cloth to feed your lo on that way as much mess can be made as is liked and it can all be wiped away in next to no time and nop one has to freeze in the kitchen. You can buy the table cloth off the roll from asian run shops around by us and they don't cost very much per meter at all.
Althernatively you could wrap your little one up as if you were going on an expedition to the south pole before each meal and make an adventure of it!
Put your John Lewis melt down down to hormones, believe me when I tell you that everyone else will have!
Moses basket, clean it thorougly and then cover it (it will fit rather snuggly in two 25lt bin liners) you don't need it out until the baby comes anyway.
I understand you being worried about the dust but the only thing you can do is clean it all up every day. And air the place out as much as possible. You could also get one of these or something similar to cleanse the air.
Once the builders have finished things will improve very rapidly.
Love - Your BP should be lower at home as it's where you should be more relaxed. I hope your twice daily BP checks show nothing to worry about.
Great news about your baby turning.
I was not carrying just MILs shopping home I was carrying our shopping home. I'll try to explain it... MIL came over just before 8 in the morning yesterday (her brother gave her a lift) I made them a cup of tea and sat down with them. She sat there chain smoking and told me the following
i)She realises that calling me every day pisses me off somewhat be she HAS to do it because she HAS to know that I'm ok
ii)She knows from her own experience that a new mom does not want people in her house when she first comes home from the hospital with her baby so she is only going to stay long enough to let me have a rest and a good long sleep
iii)My family are shit and uncaring and not a proper family at all because they don't call me every single day and they aren't constantly harrassing me about my pregnancy and they aren't constantly buying me things for the baby that I don't really want in colours and styles that I don't like from tacky cheap shops with chavy styling.
iv)She has told her brother that she will not be seeing him on his birthday which is also mothers day and the day after her 50th wedding anniversay because she is going to be at home so that HER BABY can come and visit her WHOS FECKING BABY? (She's going to be let down because it'll be my first mothers day and DP has told me I'm not going anywhere, I'm going to be waited on hand and foot by my fella all day and that's that.)
She then goes in to the kitchen, presumably to wash up her cup, and comes out having looked through my cupboards and announces that her brother had better go home now as she was going to have to take me shopping as there was no food in the house and so we were obviously keeping the fact that we have no money secret from her again and she wasn't going to have her son and HER BABY (she said it again) going without.
So she hands me my coat and I grab my granny shopping trolly and off we go.
As we are walking round the supermarket I pick up the odd thing that I knew we were going to need over the next three days or so (I go out to the shop every couple of days so I don't have very much to carry)and she grabs all kinds of stuff more than triples the amount of stuff in the trolley. I assumed all the other stuff was stuff she wanted for her house and so said nothing about it.
we get to the checkout and she piles 90% of the contents of the trolley on the conveyer, puts a next customer sign up and then puts the rest up.
She then hands me £20 and tells me the massive pile of shopping is mine and this money is towards it. We were in Lidls but I could see that £20 wasn't going to cover this mound of shopping even at their prices!
The shop ends up coming to over £40 and I had to pay the rest with money that was actually budgeted for other things (now Neither DP nor I have any mobile phone credit and we don't have money for a taxi to the hospital should we need it)
I filled my granny trolley and still had to buy two large carrier bags to fit the rest of the shopping in, meanwhile, she fits her little shop into her handbag!
I handed her the carrier bags as I knew that the trolley was going to be too much for me on it's own without the carrier bags which was when she told me that she couldn't carry them as she's riddled with arthritis.
So I pull all this shopping all the way home uphill whilst 39 weeks pregnant!
When we get in she actually asked me to make her a cup of tea. I told her she could make her own. I'd have said more but I was too busy trying not to pass out at the time!
She didn't help me unpack any of the shopping, She made me make lunch and then when she'd finally decided to f@*k off and leave me in peace she asked me to carry her handbag to the bus stop for her as she was tuckered out and was afraid she wouldn't be able to get home with out the help. Of course I helped, I wanted her gone!
Ok so that was longer than intended but at least you now have the full picture of my MIL horror!
lolo - I'm sorry thursday holds such sad memories for you. Please try not to dwell on it as you'll only bring yourself down. If your little one does show up on thursday you could look at it a different way from los birthdfay always having sad undertones and see it as the circle being completed and a way to remember your dad.
Egg - sorry to hear you had a shitty night. Ihope you're feeling better now you've had your coffee!
looby - wow busy morning!
Count - Hello. thank you for your birth story. glad to hear all is going well and you're enjoying bf this time round.
Lucy - CONGRATULATIONS. I'm glad to hear all went well in the end and you feel better than last time.
joosey - tbh I think I'd be reaching for castor oil too if I went over more than a week! GL with your stretch and sweep, I hope it does the job this time.
Sorry this is such a looooong post guys but it felt really good to get the MIL tale off my chest (I was way too irritated by it all to say much yesterday)