Due June 08 - As we start nesting will the creme eggs start hatching?

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Another new thread! By the time this one runs out we might have some babies!!! Although, we do chat a lot so maybe not...

oops, put my big feet in it there - sorry, shouldn't have insulted HR people! is now the time to confess i used to work in HR?!!

apologies to all HR people on here

and thanks for the tip on upgrading health cover, i will ask dh to ask about this - why should it be only him that gets to swank about in fancy hospitals when he's ill!!!

Morning all

Yep its a morning and im here!!!

We nearly could have had our first aby this week !!!! hehe

On weds i came home for school and BP was through the roof, i wasnt feeling ill but went to maternity hospital and was on monitors for 5 hours BP still wouldnt go now and although LO was fine they were debating whether to keep me in and talking about waht might happen if it didnt go down (ie bring her out early if it was causing her or me distress eeeek) Poor Dp was at home cause i really thought i would be in and out!!!

Turns out it started to go down and at 10.30 they decided to send me home but iwas to see my oncologist the next day. Against DPs orders i went into work the next day looked after 25 3 year oldsgot told off by headmaster!!!! for being in and then went to dr in pm She took one look at my notes, upped my medication and has put me on partial bed rest from today!!

So hence why im here and not with bunch of screaming 3 year olds!!! Still trying to get head round fact that im now off til 1st NOVember!!! And as it hasnt gone how i planned i was going to work til mid may its a bit strange but hey more time to chat on here!!!

Well going to have to get arse in gear and pack hospital bag!!! just in case!!

Skimmed quickly through all your posts too many to answer personally but i hope you all get better soon those that are ill, welcome to newcomers and those of you like me who are now off work heres to long chats on the internet!!!

Hmm, can see why you were sent home - 25 3 yr olds not going to be good for your BP!

Hope you're getting lots of rest and LO can hang on for a little longer!

melly you can still complain! we all have our own perfectly valid set of whinges.

do you think if we named our son Jackson it would be possible to actually have him called that and not Jack? I do know people whose names are usually shortened (Jennifer, Richard, etc.) that only go by their full names. it's not that i dislike Jack but Jackson is the ONLY name dh and i both really like. i like Cooper, Zane, Connor, Griffin. dh likes Darwin, Jared, Winston (ugh), Sebastian. we both are okay with Wyatt but not in love with. why is it SO difficult??

i'm getting very excited about ds' bday party on sunday but nervous about the cake. i decided to make a carrot cake with cream cheese icing as ds' is more of a savoury kind of kid. so i bought some food colouring and am hoping soft cheese icing will work to make mickey mouse!

crossed posts paro - hope you enjoy your time off and don't end up with an early baby!! you'll probably end up nesting like mad since you're home, i sure am!

dylansmum me and my siblings all have names that are easily and usually shortened, but my parents drummed in a real dislike of shortened names, and as a result we are all known by our full names. My mum used to hang up on my brother's mates when they would ask for a 'shortened' version of my brother. There's always a risk that a name will be shortened but that doesn't mean you cant try and stop it. Jackson is a great name btw.

splodgesmum - dont worry, there are a few bloody useless HR people out there. . Give the rest of us a bad name. Sniff.

mellymell sorry you're not feeling to chipper - complain away!

5 weeks to maternity leave but next week is the last week I'll work full-time although NHS ante-natal classes start next week so will only be in the office 4.5 days.

dylansmum, we have friends with a son called thomas who absolutely insist that he's only called thomas and never tom - it seems to have worked

i've also taught children who only went by there long names and never their short names - takes some work and not everyone will adhere to it, but you can do it!

seriously impressed on making your own cake, btw, i can't cook/bake for toffee - will i suddenly turn into a domestic goddess as soon as splodge arrives?! dh is sincerely hoping so!

oops, i meant 'their long names' not 'there long names' - good example to set for a teacher, can't even get my homophones right! !!!

Sybil - thanks for the sympathy - does it increase if I admit that I am also married to a lawyer to add to my woes!! Have another 3 weeks to go before I go on 'holiday' - DH's words! Am crossing off the days.

splodgesmum there are some crap HR people out there... don't worry, us good ones won't take offence!!

paro what are you doing MNetting? you should be resting!! How does it feel to be told off by a head teacher?? I used to dread it (although luckily didn't happen very often - in fact only once, when I was caught kissing a boy in a classroom and even then the head teacher told me I could do better!! )

Right, enough of the self pity and crossness. Thanks for the sympathy.

Dylansmum Like the name Jackson, but does this mean you are now going to have to change your nickname to Dylanandjacksonsmum - might be a bit of a mouthful

I've still got 7 weeks until I go on maternity leave . Someone else please tell me that they have got as long to go.... I must have been mad to suggest working as long.

With all the bank holidays and a few odd days off I am hoping to only have to do one full time week before I finish.

Paro - that we could have had our first baby arrive this week. Current bets are on makecakes or Neenz being the first! Relax and enjoy your time!

nettie - it was very funny actually!! I really felt like i was a kid back at school!!!

and he kind of mumbles so it was more like
uhhmmm Miss Roz (he always addresses us like the kids do!!!) do you uhmmmm really uhmmm think you should be at work today?

mellymell i think i'll be changing my name to mumto2boyswhatwasithinking!!!

just seen splodgesmum that your also a teacher What age do you teach?

Josie, how many wks will you be when you give up work? Hope it flies by - I'm wishing that I was at home now, but only 2 weeks to go now!

Can you tell I'm really bored at work today?! I work in education and it's the holidays so the phones aren't ringing and there's hardly anyone in - hence just sitting here reading MN like a madwoman!

Sybilvime I am very offended. I am a lawyer and I am not stroppy. Actually I am lying today I am very stroppy, my cleaner had been growing more and more unreliable in the past 5 weeks and basically it now seems that we have to be flexible and do things to her convenience not the otherway round. She stays for 4 hours and last week decided to turn up at 14.30 (meaning she was still cleaning the kitchen when I was trying to cook for and feed DD). I made it clear that I wasn't very happy about how the situation progressed and that I hoped it was a one off and she swore that it was and that she wasn't usually so unprofessional etc

Yesterday she turned up at 15.30. Now how on earth am I supposed to cook, feed and give DD a bath if the cleaner is still in the house at 19.30 i.e the time where I am supposed to put DD in bed. So I told her that I wasn't impressed. She said oh ok I'll go and come back tomorrow. When I asked what time she said 9.00 and she turned up at 10.15. Really really pisses me off. Especially since she has a knack of interrupting me every 20 mins when I work, interrupting conference calls etc. The other day I was on the phone with my boss, she came in the room I was in and started cleaning it when she obviously could see I was on the phone. She was making loads of noise so I changed rooms, 30 seconds later she followed me in the other room and started to make noise there too.

Sorry about rant, I know there are more important things in life and that I shouldn't complain especially since I am lucky enough to have a cleaner but argh she annoys me so much

paro how scary. Are you feeling better now? Just knowing I could have my baby by the end of the week would have stressed me out no end and sent my BP shooting up on its own! Are you feeling better now. I hope you enjoy your best rest and don't get too bored once the novely has worn off

mellymell you are still entitled to rant you know

Debs gosh poor you, a house full of sick men, now that is something I would know how to cope with. It is bad enough when DH has a cold (not often thankfully) as he is usually dying then!

needahand funny you should mention it but we've had a cleaner on and off since ds was a baby. every now and then i get so frustrated i switch them or (like last time) fire them and do it myself for a while. but it's tough on me and dh's relationship because he's sooo messy (honestly, the messiest person i've ever met) and he's in complete denial about it so i nag at him to pick up after himself and he gets defensive and it's just a bad scene! i'm much less resentful of him trashing the house when someone else that he's paying for cleans it!

anyway we just started up again because of my SPD i can't do it anymore even with my overwhelming nesting instinct, and the woman is my new hero. i don't think this flat has ever been so clean, and i'm super fussy. i'm almost on a high from it i'm so pleased!! how sad is that?

but i do think that if your cleaner is taking the p* you should think about letting her go. she obviously thinks you won't do anything about it and so isn't too fussed. i know how hard it is to have someone else come into your home though... it's a tough decision.

Sorry Needahand, obviously you are an exception, and not at all like the stroppy little gits who used to jump on me in a panic when I arrived at work in the morning because they had fifteen minutes to get to court and had no idea how to do basic research... Oh, so glad I am a sahm these days.

I would like a cleaner though, but possibly not yours.

hello - just gatecrashing your thread ... anyone seen Neenzandhertwinbeans around recently? Think she is this June thread usually ... we are missing her on the 'twins or more' thread!

Needahand - I think I have been lucky so far with my cleaners - I got to the stage that I refused to give up any more of my weekends cleaning and just went ahead and got one. Even had it written into my wedding vows that I would never have to hoover, but DH has a selective memory on that one.

The current one is wonderful in every way, but spends a lot of time (I suspect) playing with DS. it's rather telling that his second word after 'Daddy', was the cleaner's name - no mention of mummy or the childminder's names!

Dylansmum: same for us, we started having a cleaner when bothDH and I were doing silly hours in the city and then bickering all weekend to know whose turn it was to clean. We soon decided that this one would be best solved by a cleaner.

At the moment I am mosty working from home because of SPD but when I go to work and work 8 to 12 hours + 4 hours commute, the last thing I want to do at the weekend is clean.

I know she has some personnal issues and we have tried to be understanding, but there is a fine line between being understanding and being taken for a ride and I think this is exactly what is happening. The thing that annoys me the most is that we use an agency just to avoid that type of problems. I think I will have to have a word with both the cleaner and them. She also really ennoyed me yesterday when after turning up at 15.30 without letting me know/asking me if it was ok, when she told me she had given my personal details to a prospective employer so that I could give them references. One it would have been niced to be asked if I didn't mind my personal details being given and two, at the moment funny enough I don't feel like giving references. I would feel like I am lying/misleading the other people.

sybil don't think I am usually stoppy (was teasing you, couldn't help it) but I know what you mean. That is one of the reasons I used to hate working in private practice, all these lawyers who think what they are doing is the most important thing in the world and being stroppy/off-ish and having mini fits just wasn't for me. I am obvioulsy not enough of a dramaqueen!

Pazza no we haven't. I was actually wondering about her this morning when makescakes mentioned her. I don't think she has been on here since the beginning of the week