Due Nov 2008 - PMA - our tums & bums are growing but we get an excuse to wear big knickers - now that's a stroke of luck!!! x x x

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Hope you like the thread - minds not working so well at the moment!

Yes he is quite a character trouble maker my boy!

Hana /sling queens, another advert has popped up on my email for slings but these ones come from Australia so would have to import. They caught my eye as they don't seem too complicated. Would you mind having a look and telling me what you think? i.e any good? Bubzilla Slings

I am def a first timer when it comes to slings as never had one before so another person's view would be really handy, if anyone doesn't mind... The only thing I could think of is it doesn't look as adjustable to fit child as it grows but as I mainly want for BF don't mind that...

Actually just listened to the sizing link again on the website and appears the sling could be used up to age 4...

Anyone's thoughts would be gratefully appreciated.

Sparks - what a fab story - obviously not for you but hilarious for the rest of us

Will go and check the Recipe thread - my favourite subject - food.....yum!

Daisy - don't worry about the comments - I too get called big by some people and small by others so I guess it depends on their experience etc. My view is that I am what I am and there is nothing I can do about it so stop worrying!

I am not going to get on much (if at all) for the next few days as I am on a course at work for the rest of the week (so obviously can't MN at work as I usually do ) and then we are getting about an hour and a half's homework each evening aswell - so it is SO going to eat into my MN time!! Good job it is a course I really want to do and will enjoy otherwise I would be mighty peed off

Don't chat too much eh??

Glad you liked it! I have plenty more similar stories but don't want to bore you all with them, that is certainly the most recent and most

Ceebs, forgot to say I had meeting with HR and raised the whole childcare vouchers thing. The girl initially try to palm me off with some nonsense about it 'usually being best for people to cancel their vouchers when on maternity'?! She eventually admitted (after I quoted the Sex Discrimination Act amendment) that they were looking into it . Wonder what they'll come up with...

Sparks - don't let them fob you off!! But if it makes you feel better, I am not having an easy ride at work about this either and I work in HR!! So far, my manager has said that as far as she is concerned, the employer should just be able to turn round and say 'no, we are not giving you the vouchers' even though this is so blatantly discriminatory (and this is from a HR Manager fgs!) and then my Director asked why I would need the vouchers anyway if I was on maternity leave as surely there is no need for DS to go to nursery - this was said only half-joking to me. Tis starting to annoy me tbh and I need to push for an answer but it will probably be mid-Sept when they are both back from their holidays that I get an answer.

sorry for not checking in sooner

i have GTT tomorrow morning [wails]

think bubs has turned head down, had a massive movement in my tum yesterday and now the pressure isnt so bad under my ribs. but have a bit of muscle type painm there instead.

STOP STOP talkikng so much!! I am struggling to keep up and I log on at least 2x a day!

autumnlady fantastic news, I know you were worried about the outcome because of your back and I think you are definately going for the right one for you...an elective c section (in my experience) was beautiful...I am hoping for the same this time around!

London Meet up yes we said the first friday in October, which would be the 3rd - can everyone make that? I PROMISE i will look into afternoon tea somewhere which was fab last time i did it, will have to do when I am next working which will be THURSDAY. Someone remind m on thursday to start researching please!!

OBS you absolutely have to ask for your cotbed back - that is incredibly cheeky and rude and I think they are taking the p**s out of you...i bet they don't even realise what a problem it is.........

Can't keep upo with anything else..sorry

HOWEVER off to the FOOD thread now...you know I love 'it!

can some3one remind what details i need to send to secret stork? i have been a bit all over the place lately, and forget easily.

off top of my head...

name: nickname only if you want
address:
sex of baby if known:
whether you want gifts for you or baby:
any things you particularly don't want to receive:

(I think!).

right.

problem is, i am moving house, but dont have a date yet for actual move.

can it get sent to a relative/ friend you see often?

try as i may, i can't keep up with you lot either... there is so much i want to add whilst i read through but by the time i get to writing i have forgotten what i wanted to say

dozy, i am up for oct 3rd... are we planning on a toddler friendly meet or will that be logistically impossible?

off to nosey through recipes and add a couple of my own... i love food.

Ceebee - although after the meeting I had I am not surprised really... I was going to chase the HR girl at my work for a response on Mon am but, she sent me a 'holding' email saying she had referred it to the top benefits guru... Kinda think they are scratching their heads over this one!

Have to say I don't know what this amendment was supposed to achieve as obv companies are going to be pissed off about it. I am more worried that even if they DO give me the vouchers that they will then withdraw the whole option when I return to work! (However, my DH gets most of the vouchers thru his company tho so they'd only be liable for £40 a month for me, am sure others would be due more!!

Forgot to add, enjoy your course Ceebs!

Sparks - the amendment was a general one to prevent women being discriminated against whilst pg/on mat leave - this is just one of the many implications out of it.

Have to agree and, as my boss said, it is just going to stop employers starting up or continuing the voucher schemes as it could potentially cost them too much money - which does seem quite sad and I don't know what the answer is - but that is still not going to stop me claiming what I am entitled to.

Right firstly there is no way in the world I am going to remeber everything I have just read, Chatty day today!
Autumnlady so pleased you have got your date - how very exciting.
Sparkle loved your DS story he sounds just like mine though that is a corker.
Off to drool over the food thread yum.
Hope everyone else is OK

misdee can the package be sent care of one of your sisters? the only people who will know the address are my DH and the sender. DH is going to delete all the personal information once all packages have been received.

details are on the stork thread which i linked earlier today, but MM has summed it up nicely

good luck for the GTT tomorrow misdee; I hope it's normal. virgil is still breach, but DD didn't turn until about 37 weeks (and feck it hurt) so I'm not too worried about it.....yet.

I've been filling in my M&B tester forms tonight as they have to be posted Thursday at the latest. I thought I'd done some, but I'd only saved all the documents under products; not actually filled them in. Ah well, 11 down, seven to go

Bed for me; I'll finish the rest tomorrow.

Hey - who is it on here that's a coeliac - is it you Lacks?

I am and have been crap today - went to a kids party / barby and was Starving so had a sausage which I knew had rusk in so now feel a bit sick and been to loo (my normal symptoms) but worried whether it really can affect the baby having a little bit here or there.

Please don't tell me I am putting the baby at high risk with the odd cheeky sausage? I can't find anything online relating to it apart from people who don't realise they are coeliac and eating loads of gluten.....

It is me Roca, but I am not the one to ask about being naughty

Is far as I know being coeliac increases your risk of first trimester miscarriage and of IUGR later on. But I think that is probably the case for badly controlled coeliac disease, not the odd sausage. Also, your iron/calcium levels might be affected if your coeliacs was badly controlled, but as with a lot of things baby related; it's mum that tends to be compromised rather than baby as she is left with not a lot after baby has taken what they need.

Strangely enough my usual symptoms disappear in pregnancy but as my gluten sensitivity is low anyway, that might explain that. Certainly there is no evidence of IUGR in my case and I've been having more regular blood tests and iron levels etc are all fine.

Try not to get too stressed about it; I'm sure all is well.

thanks Lacks - I am hoping that it is only me that is suffering now (3 trips to the toilet so far this evening and a bowl required now by my bed, just in case!) and as you say, that the baby gets what it needs regardless of what I'm up to.

Luckily my 2 DC don't show any signs of having it - do yours? My sister who is a year older than me also has it but not her kids.

Am glad mine will not have to go through going to childrens parties armed with their own sandwiches like I used to have to!

Do you stray occasionaly then?

Love Sparkles's 'big dick' story. Brill.

Have a good course Ceebee. I haven't even asked my work about childcare vouchers yet. But I don't think I can. Becasue they stopped them this month, becasue I asked them to, becasue due to being off, ds was not going to nursery anymore. Plus he starts school in Sept, so I don't think its realistic for me to ask for them.

Thanks to Daisy's link, I have met a nice MN'er who has a cot for me. Not a cotbed, but hey. A cot. For free. Sounds good.

Our nurseryspare room is carpeted, ready for furniture to go in. I MUST start sorting ds's old clothes.

roca - hope you are better now.

sparkles - your 'big dick' story made me LOL. Sometimes in the early days when my DS said 'sock' it sounded like 'cock'.

Well really, really exhausted thanks to all the thank less chores I do 24/7 on top of working 4 days a week, general finances and organisation and looking after/playing with DS!

Even worse while I am rushing and getting stressed trying to pack everything into the day I need to do DH says things like "what is up with you woman" or "calm down" or "why are you rushing" or "i'm fed up with this" when I tell him how fed up i am and his comments are a pain in the arse!

Don't get me wrong I like the feeling of keeping things nice and looking after my family. Yes ... weirdo. But the horrible thing is feeling not appreciated or DH even beginning to comprehend everything I do. Even worse on rare occasions making out I haven't done much or no big deal.

But especially now it wouldn't harm DH to help out without me nagging him into it. On the odd occasion he does help he goes on about it for ages forgetting my 10 things done for his 1.

I hate that I have to fight DH on basic things he should just do like put clothes away or put in wash basket. Put pots in dishwasher. Put empty toiletry bottles in bin rather than leaving around the bathroom. The list goes on and on ...

An eg of typical day (yesterday) ...
6.30am - Get Up
6.30 to 7.45 - tidy up house, empty dishwasher, put stuff away, lunches (which DH has then buys something also!), breakfasts (if toast I get mine cold), get DS clothes & creams out, DS nursery bag.
DH gets DS ready for nursery.
7.45 or later - My shower! Throw on clothes do hair but not get time to dry it.
8am - Leave home and take DS to nursery. Then travel to work.
8.30am to 5pm - WORK. 1hr lunch spent doing food shop or finances or organising bedrooms plastering and decorating.
5.30pm - Pick DS up from nursery.
5.40pm - HOME. Organise plumber. Entertain parents who have come to help with electrics. Washing, put in tumble dryer, amazon purchase for mum, help dad with electrics, DS, cook tea, put DS toys away in garden and house, mop kitchen, utility and out building floors.
8.30pm - Have thrown together, no nutritional value tea.
8.40pm to 11pm - Ironing. Whilst DH sat down and coming out with comments like above.
11pm - SIT DOWN for the second time since been at home. REST feet that are killing and feel sick.
11.30pm - BED.

Then all again the next day. Unless a day off work or weekend when I do more stuff like washing, hanging out, ironing, shopping, cleaning bathroom and playing with DS.

So but and upset at the same time. I love my DH very much (cant tell you why) but I just wish even if he didnt help more he would show ANY appreciation for what I do and LOVE for me apart from saying so every now and again or cards on special occasions.

To be honest I always feel that unappreciated and shit that I dont believe DH when he tells me he loves me. Just feels like something he says because there is never any substance behind it.

Oh Vbab poor you I can't believe you manage to do that much in a day so I am very impressed!! As for your DH, what can I say, to some degree men are all the same in this way - I think it is partly society's fault that we think woman are the homemakers, and even though my DH is relatively good in this respect, it still feels like I should be doing more. Which I think is reasonable when being a mum / homemaker is your job but when you also work outside the home its not reasonable to be expected to do everything and I think women especially really suffer from this change with more women working and being mums.

I'm sure your DH does appreciate you even though he doesn't say it - and leave the washing / ironing / cleaning for a few days and he'll soon start saying it more!