Fab Feb Fourth Thread: are we blooming yet?

[onwardandupward]

Here we are! This should do us for a few weeks...

Ooooh and we are both pregnant and mumsnetting....

With one DC each.....hip/pelvic pain......And didn't you mention a job involving court? Hmmmmmm Shhhhhh people will think we are a schizophrenic name changer

Evening ladies hope you are well... I hate working on Saturdays I want to be at the party with dp and dd...... boo hooo.

We had lemon puddle pudding the night before last (oh my god, it's gooooood, better than lemon cake and I say it as shouldn't)

but I cannot join in with the morrocan lamb (if the lamb chops get from the fridge to the grill that'll be an achievement) or the sportif spouse. feels all left out

Boooo LB - I do hope you get time off in the week!!??? Not that I'm excusing working Saturday'sw - that's just not on.

Sporty DH's aren't anything you're missing out on O&U! Mine plays Footy & Cricket (with a broken toe atm ) and is usually out a min of 3 nights a week and one afternoons at the weekend. His life wasn't affected in the slightest having kids Anyway I digress.....

Mine was Lemon drizzle cake! does that make it slightly better???

Oh did you make the lemon cakes??? If so can you say how because it is my fav....

Lemon puddle pudding (ha! I love it that we have just completely derailed this into a recipe thread!)

4 oz sr flour
4 oz butter
4 oz sugar
rind of 2 lemons
2 eggs (I'm pretty sure. But it is not beyond the realms of possibility that it is only one)
a splash of milk

cream butter and sugar, beat everything else in. Shove in the bottom of a greased baking dish (I use a flat bottomed pyrex one)

Then

juice of a lemon, or a lemon and a half if you want it really tangy. Make that up to 1/2 pint with boiling water. shove in 4 oz sugar and 2 flat dessert spoons of cornflour and mix it up so not lumpy.

Pour over the cake mix.

Despair at obvious total disaster.

Put it in the oven for 30-40 mins at about 180c

The cake rises up through the sticky sauce and ends up on top with magma of lemonaciousness underneath. Really, even the finest lemon drizzle cake does notquite compare with this heaven in a bowl wanders off to the kitchen to see if there are any lemons left. Oh - serve with cream, obvously.

Mmmmm Onward - my mum makes that and it is delicious.

I had SPD from about 28 weeks with DS2 and DS3. I saw an Osteo with DS3 which helped a bit. My friend who is 36 weeks at the mo is using crutches/zimmer frame to get about - not easy with a busy 15 month old DD !

So, it's sunny in Devon today and have been out dans le jardin with the kids. Only 2 1/2 hours to fill before they can go to bed and I can reclaim the house.

spotty/mark - DH has just restarted Rugby. It's joyous isn't it ?

Thanks onward I am going to make it tomorrow... yum yum my mouth is watering already.....

Wonderful. Last weekend of summer hols and the sun finally comes out for the last Saturday. DH back to work on Monday after lovely long teacher summer holiday. He has done the cooking for a month and has been so dutiful I'm not sure I remember how to put the oven on. Help me someone.

Read post from Markstretch a few papges back. My midwife is happy for me to have VBAC but said I would have to have "the talk" from the consultant about the wisdom of this when I go for 20 week scan. I'm pretty certain I'll elect for an epidural tho if VBAC goes ahead. When I was delivering DS all was going well with gas and air but then he had to be whipped out v quickly and I ended up with a GA for the emergency cs and didn't see him until 24 hours later because I was stranded on post-natal ward not strong enough to get out of bed - not helped by GA - and DS was in SCUBU. At least with an epidural if it happens again (unlikely, I know) I can stay awake for the cs.

Ahh you see I dont put it back in the oven. Very similar recipe tho;
6oz Sugar
6oz SR Flour
4oz Butter
2 Eggs
Lemon Rind
splash milk
Bake at 180 for 40mins.

When cool skewer loads of little holes in it, mix lemon juice with icing sugar and drizzle over the top so it fills the little holes. My Stepson would live on it if I let him.

Sunny here too, been out with DS in the park and garden all day, it's been lovely. Just want my bloody tomatoes to turn red now there is some sun!!! I have become obsessed with checking hourly

Mine doesn't go BACK in the oven - it just cooks with the juice already on it! (and it's best eaten hot)

But yes, yours is a classic lemon drizzle cake recipe and if you made it for me I would not refuse to eat half the cake, just out of politeness, you udnerstand

I had a CS with epi and found it actually quite wonderfull! A really positive experience

Well of course, I'm a stickler for manners. it would be rude not to

How's your lasagne MS? I shelved that option until tomorrow as I simply had to have yorkies with jam and cream . So it was mini toad-in-the-holes for DS. He didn't complain bless him and I feel goooood, just so sad that I have run out of cream after 4!!! (must have eaten the other half pot with the cake!)

Bloater I tell you!

I am desperate for a CS this time. MW seems dead set against it, but I'm seeing a consultant who I hope will support my decision. My DD2 ended up in NICU for 3 wks after a VB, and I can't bear the thought of going through labour again.

Must be assertive.

(Am not very assertive, generally.)

Mmm, lemon cake.... Wish I could cook. (Yes, I know it is physically possible for me to learn, but still.)

Lasange is in the oven. Flapjacks made. Made TWO crumbles and have frozen one (less for DH to scoff- ha!). Kitchen is clean.

That lemon business sounds gorgeous. I am definately going to make that.

Spotty- I have a step child too, and my hair is brown...

AND I OWN A PAIR OF SPOTTY SHOES.

Oh yeah and a word on 'sporty' husbands.

He gets to go out every other Saturday with his friends, no children, drink copius amounts of beer both before, during and after the game, often sat in the sunshine by the river, and then come home to a tidy house, children sleeping peacefully and a fridge full of homecooked food.

Bastard.

And I have StretchMarks!!! This is freaky

TWO crumbles?.....add forward planning to that bow - very impressed.

Have pinched a sugar free banana and date flapjack recipe from MN section to make later. Am thinking I need to go sugar free the amount of sweet stuff I've been scoffing!

~~~~~~~~~jumps on Pregnancy thread~~~~~~~

I've been reading a couple of threads recently Coco where people have said that consultants are much more sympathic to giving Elective CS's after traumatic VB's than MW's. Hopefully yours will be one of them. At the end of the day it's your body and your wishes should be listened to and respected!

I have reserved my buggy.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKK!

What did you go for ?

one of these

Just the buggy though as my friend has one and is lending me the carrycot and carseat rather than us buying them.

Oh here are the fancy bits.

mark stretch, with dd dp didn't even want baby stuff in the house until she was born the crib and travel system had to stay at my parents til she was born. i fought my corner on baby clothes though.

he quickly came to his senses after she was born and he realised how akward he's made everything and with ds and this one has been right behind me getting organised ridiculously early

started buying? i've almost finished buying for baby! need to get a few wraps and possibly a sling and a bouncewr and then it's on the xmas shopping.

i was 55kg before dd, went up to 70 odd with her, then down to 65kg before getting preg with ds, up to lamost 90kg with him went back down to 75 fairly quickly and have been fightint it ever since, managed to get down to 65 pre preg and the morning sickness had knocked off another 5kgs.... until last night when i weighed myself and it was back up at 70 fecking kilos!!!!! how? in the space of a week! [sulks]

oh well, only another 3 years or so and i'll be back at my 'normal' wight

i'd love to know how i managed it though, 10kg in a week is rather embaressing [shovels pop tarts into mouth and swigs hot chocolate]

My you have all been v busy and MS is indeed a domestic goddess. All the cakes sound fab. I can do lemon drizzle cake, but my dad spoils me by baking fruit pies each week, so where is the incentive for me to bake?

Have had the usual chilled start to the weekend. We all took the dog for a walk and had fish and chips by the lake and, as dh has gone on a stag do tonight, ds and I had homemade mushroom noodle soup (basically supernoodles with shrooms and a few other bits in). I have only just managed to put the washer on for pity's sake!

MS - the buggy looks v funky. Have kind of sold myself on a P&T as not sure if ds will still want to go in the buggy when this one arrives (he'll be almost 3), and popping on a second seat would be no big hassle. Fancy any model but the vibe as my mum said the fancy frame would be "scratched to buggery" after a couple of weeks. Bah - she's so sensible! Plenty of time to look around yet though.

PT - mad pils v kindly bought travel system doodah when pg with ds and then refused to give it to us. They said it was bad luck and mil told me lots of urban myths about such circumstances. They gave in when we pointed out we would need the blardy thing to get ds home with, though I bet they were twiddling their lucky rabbit's foot and touching wood the whole week it was in our house prior to the arival of ds.

Coco - had a couple of friends who had bad vaginal births first time round and asked for cs for their second dc and got them. Reiterate your physical/psychological trauma related to your other delivery, worries in this pg and stand your ground. Hope you get what you want.

Spottyshoes - I ended up with a crash cs with an epidural (as opposed to the usual spinal) with ds. Damned thing had a unilateral block, so only one half of me was fully numb and ended up having IV diamorphine too. Look as high as a kite on the post delivery pics , though I tell people it must be down to newly maternal bliss!

Off to bed as will no doubt have a v hungover dh to look after tomorrow as well as entertaining ds and the dog.