Due Nov 2008 - Explosion Risks, Names Dilemmas and Baby shopping Galore!

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No I have to admit that DH, when he realises, is much better at it than me. Bless 'im.

No I have to admit that DH, when he realises, is actually much better at it than me. Bless 'im.

MOrning Ladies, such a lot to catch up on!

obs your makeover sounds fab - like Vbab i Have naturally curly hair that has been in the same style for years and years......just on my shoulders and a pain in the rain!

However, I have been wanting to get it cut into a graduated bob since I have been PG but they say not to do anyhting drastic...I am not even sure if it would work???? ANy suggestions??????

Pinkali how was the sacking Like you and Merry I hate confrontations of this nature and must be so hard, more so when pregnant!

Morning All,

Dozy - the actual sacking is on Thursday morning when we will be having a meeting with him. He has suspended with full pay until them. DH did last nights bit and that was bad enough (me sitting at my desk humming trying not to hear), so Thursday is going to be awful when we both have to attend the meeting. YIKES... i hate this type of responsibility..

I have just realised something.. our nursery is going to be similar to the rest of the house. It has the warsdrobes left ot be finished but I feel they may be left until I come out of hospital. All jobs gets started in our house, and so close to being finished, however just not quite finished, nearly though!

I woke up at 1.37am this morning as Tarquin had hic cups (bless), we had a little word and I tried to convince him/her to drink the amniotic fluid backwards! It did the trick!

Gosh, I am rubbish at standing up for my rights. We bought a reclaimed door in June and it is FULL of cracks (some quite large) which have been appearing over the months. I just couldn't face the fight and the company are miles away from us, so have just fillered it myself. It wasn't cheap either. Well, it looks better for now...hope the cracks don't reappear.

Talking of hair...mine is so yuck at the moment. It was really, really, really short. But obviously with pregnancy it has grown a bit and now it just looks middle aged. I don't know whether to go super short (we are talking 1.5cms long) but the problem is that you need to have it cut frequently in that case. With long hair, I used to go once a year or so. Hmmmmm...

ooooh, posh has my haircut (as it used to look). ooooh, oooh. I had it first! (not that I want to be her or anything )

vicky beckham's hair

LOL merry its nice, very elfin like!

i am in a very unmotivated mood today, still in pj's. back to work tomorrow and cant face it!
its so soon until i come off these last couple of weeks seem to be going soooo slow!

MerryM, I love it. I had not seen that V Beck photo.

Ladies, I am looking glam no longer. You knew it couldn't last. It was ME, after all. I look dreadful. This is becasue I did not sleep a wink last night. Not a single MINUTE. I think I was up worrying.

Ds is coming back today. In a few minutes. Sil rang last night. He has had a lovely time, but wants to come home. Sil and I agreed that 2 nights was more than enough for a little one. He is only 4 and a half. We all laughed at being totally over ambitious, thinking he would stay a week ? actually I remember thinking that when she mentioned bringing him back on Friday ? 5 days, that this was FAR too long and that I was very uncomfortable with the idea.

Anyway, dh was already in bed. He and I didn't have a very good night, when he announced he wanted to quit his job. and then promptly went to bed. Left me sat there staggered. He is an Ops manager. It takes months to get a job. Not like me, who can get a job in accounts tomorrow. They do treat him badly. But then he has awful taste in the jobs that he accepts. Now I have the stress of the will he / won't he quit at any moment issue, for th next .....months.

Anyway when I told him this morning that ds was coming back and that sil rang last night, he went mad, saying why didn't I come and wake him. He would have driven down. Sil said this wasn't necessary. But he does have a point.

Oh what a shennanigans.

Good job I got lots done yesterdy. Because now things are back to normal. Ds will be back and I look like shit. Normality resumes.

Good news about Ceebee's ds passing 2 yr checks. Good luck Pinakli for thurs.

Obs, is it definitely a job change he's after, or is it more baby-on-the-way man stress? I only ask as my DH has been talking along similar lines recently and I'm not 100% sure whether to file it under "worry about this" or "man displacement activity". Can he hold on until after the baby arrives? He might forfeit statutory paternity leave otherwise (have persuaded Mr Saurus to hang on in there for another couple of months) but I guess then it'll be Xmas...

I bet your hair still looks ace, pet.

Hi, hope everyone is well. I haven't had a chance to catch up yet, hope to get to it later. Having a rough few days. DD has a bad cold and is not sleeping, therefore I am not sleeping. On top of that my younger sister has finally told my parents that she has left her husband. They are completely devasted (so am I). He is a lovely person and hasn't treated her badly but he suffers from depression and she is tired of struggling with it. I've known for a while but felt I had to let her tell them herself so it is a relief to have it out in the open.

Hug, Suiledonn - sounds like a really rough time for all. I bet you're relieved not to be tiptoeing round and watching what you say to who all the time, though. Hope sis (and husband)okay.

Hana, that's so romantic! I cannot remember the name of the forest but it was a really bumpy 6-hour drive from Arenal volcano in a cloud forest and it was ace! Did you do the zip-lining thing as well?

Mine proposed to me in bed one night. It was going to be on a tall ship [swoons with the wild, windswept nauticalness of it all] but he got caught up in the moment. He had it all written down and planned out in a notebook, bless him. Not all bad, really.

We got married on 22 April 06 - maybe you were getting proposed to as we were tying the knot...

Ooh proposals - I got proposed to by DH (derr obviously) behind the Forbidden City in Beijing in China (another obvious, sorry).. it was quite funny really because we had just done a charity bike ride for Princes trust along side the great wall and we had 2 days off and we were staying in real beds (had been camping). DH had arranged for us to stay in a suite and me being the dizzy person I can be thought ooh isn't the room rather posh for a charity event.

Anyway, we went to the forbidden city, now imagine no one has ever done it as quickly as we did. He rushed me round, almost dragged me out the other side, rushed me up some steps (remembering legs were somewhat achy after cycling 100's of miles) and he said "oh i can't wait any longer will you marry me".. well my heart started pounding and my legs went to jelly. I shouted "are you joking" so he said "no, will you carry me my legs are knackered", so I felt like a complete willy. Then he said "no will you marry me" so i said "oh wow", he then said "oh brilliant" to which I replied "I haven't said yes yet" to which he replied " i haven't given you the ring yet" ANYWAY, long and short of it is, I LOVE HIM.......

We got engaged 7 months after first meeting, then married 7 months after getting engaged.

Anyway, long and short of it really is.. why the hell have i just told you all that. Oops sprry for long post. Sorry... i just got all romantic thinking about proposals.

Ooh my sister had a show on Friday so how long can it be before labour commences?

Proposals ?
We were in bed one night. Dh said, "Rach, I love you, will you marry me" to which I said, "of course". He said "fantastic" and rolled over and started snoring.
I wouldn't have it any other way.
And I really mean that.

Hello ladies - My user name has changed from Bettispaghetti as I somehow managed to delete my original registration details (just don't ask!!!). hope admin can recover it for me.

Haven't managed to catch up with everything yet. Just back from 2 weeks in Brittany and to be honest wish we'd never bothered wasting the money as the weather was awful. I was really looking forward to some r & r by the pool in readiness for this dc's arrival but that was not to be!

This baby is sooooo active - all day and night. Hope it's not a sign of things to come! Still suffering from heartburn. The doctor's surgery know exactly what I want without me even asking as I've had so many repeat prescriptions for gaviscon!!

Got all the baby clothes out of the loft at the weekend and sorted them into girls and boys piles. It'll be lovely to off-load one of the piles once the baby is born and I know the sex.

Off to catch up with all your news now. Hope everyone's feeling well.

Ooh I love hearing about proposals, how romantic DH proposed to me at a friend's 30th birthday party whilst we were dancing. Apparently he had no intention of doing so that evening but he just got caught up in the moment That was 3 months after we first started seeing one another (although we'd known one another for over a year before that). We got married 18 months later - can't believe it's been 8 years already
Pinkali How exciting for your sister! I think it can be a few days before labour actually starts but hopefully somebody else can confirm.
Friends of mine had a little girl yesterday morning 8h labour so not too bad - 2nd DC. We both found out that we'd mc'd on the same day at a scan last September so I'm really pleased for them. They're still trying to think of a name for her
Betti Sorry to hear your holiday wasn't great. The weather has been awful on the Atlantic coast in France this year (a bit like here!) but that's no consolation for you
Suiledonn Sorry to hear about your sister and her husband. My BIL got divorced a few years ago and it was hard for everybody. Hope DD is better soon too.
The baby's cot arrived today - now I just need to make room for it in her room!
Hope everybody else is OK - Daisy how was the NCT refresher course?

I always said I would not marry anyone who asked me in public. Well, dh got down on one knee ON THE HUNGERFORD BRIDGE (IN CENTRAL LONDON) ON A STAURDAY NIGHT. I was so embarassed and he had this lovely, sweet, nervous speech to which I just replied, "Get up, just get up!". But in hindsight it was romantic. Ironically it was the same day that someone I had been in love with for a good, few years got married (we were also good friends, so we went to the wedding). Talk about closure!

Pinkali - oooh exciting about your sis. Mine is TTC now, and it's hard not to ask everytime we speak, "So...any news?" (I am refraining).

Posh - I love her hair. I wonder why! At least I know the hairdresser will understand what I want (even if embarassing to ask for it!)

Obs - sorry about bad night and stressed dh. I have the opposite problem with my dh he hates his job and refuses to leave. I wish he would (though probably right now would not be a good time).

Betti, sorry about the hol. Nothing worse than a rainy hol, you spend the days thinking: oh, the money we have spent for nothing...

Suiledonn - hard time for right now...you sound like a lovely close family though.

Oh I love all your romantic proposals - am a little bit as mine was not dissimilar to Oblomov's DH had been out the night before and was lying in bed with a hangover, he muttered to me that there was something in his bag for me so I went and looked and there was an engagement ring - to this day, he still has never uttered the words 'will you marry me'! I got my own back though as I didn't like the ring so we had to go back to the jewellers and swop it for one I did like

Had a cuddle with a 17-week old baby today at work - he was so cute and has made me SO broody - I want my baby now!!!

Am being hormonal and shedding a tear at the proposals but am also more than a little . No such romance for DH and I; we were meant to get married, we had discussed it, no soppy proposal at all, and then he called it off . Two weeks later I found out I was pregnant with DS, he not best pleased. cue a few months incommunicado, but he was with me for the birth and for a few weeks afterwards, and used to come and stay originally every four weeks, then it was three, then two until we got it back together after a "family" holiday when DS was two. After a few months we discussed the possibility of us all being under the one roof at some point. It was easier for me to find a job than DH, so he asked me to move to Leeds. Me, being the pragmatist, said yes, we'll come to Leeds, but I want a firm commitment from you first and that I wasn't prepared to move down only for him to change his mind again......so we got married on 27th May, had a few days away and then DS and I moved to Leeds on the 2nd June.........not much romance about it; but the wedding was just perfect; even DH agrees there. He said it's the best wedding he has ever been to, lol!

NCT class was great today; the tutor was really good, considering it was her first ever refresher course (she does 1st timer AN classes all the time). I was a bit worried about how DH would deal with it, but it was really informative and she really got the DPs involved so it went really well. Some of the photos she showed us though . She said she doen't normally show them to 1st timers, but as we'd all been there we were made of sterner stuff, lol

Looks as tough DH has got the job he went for last week. The guys boss wants to see him on Friday, but it is more of a formality as they mentioned making him an offer

and we found out today that DS is colour blind. We had no idea, but it was picked up at a routine eye test this afternoon.....and the defective gene was passed on by me it would appear.

Not had a chance to catch up fully.

Obs....sorry about DHs bombshell; I hope you can get a chance to talk about it soon.

Doctors wife.....I've emailed you back and DH is on the case.

Tomorrow I'm going to post a list of everyone he has emailed for the secret stork; I'm a bit concerned that some emails have gone by the wayside.

Had another terrible night last night and am coming down wioth a stinker of a cold, so am posting and running; I'll catch up tomorrow!

ooh I didn't realise there was a 'due in november' thread. hello everybody!

i'm writing this while watching 'other people's breast milk' on channel 4... hmm... this may be a case of too much too soon...

PROPOSALS - - Not romantic at all ... me and DH went on our 1st hol together to Maguluf (classy I know). 2 days into the hol, in a pub, DH had drank a FEW bottles of lager, me nothing as had D&S bug all the start of the hol, DH said something like "you know err err we have been together for a while and I love you and stuff what you reckon?". WOW! GASP! So romantic.

This was Sept 1998, been together 2 years (since me 18 & DH 21). Got married in Cancun, Mexico in July 2005, bit of a gap from engagement to marriage I know. I was at uni when we got engaged and then we had to save up to get a house then save up to get married.

DS arrived June 2006!

Now been together 12 glorious years!

Must admit would of liked a more grand gesture or ROMANCE but it makes me smile when I think about it and is probably quite fitting for how things have continued. At least DH didn't build up my expectation levels for future years so saving on disappointment.

YORKY WHERE ARE YOU? IS ANYONE OUT THERE? ARE YOU OK?