Due Fab Feb 2009: the Curry and Cake Club

[onwardandupward]

Here is our new thread!

Sorry haven't been on for a while - it took me ages to catch up on all the posts.

Since DS had his diarhoea bug which lasted till we chnaged his diet to bread & rusks, he's had a chest infection and we are now trying to wean him off his stomachacid inhibitor tablets, which is resulting in much sleepless nights as he is in so much pain.

Physio went well last week, got various excercises to do and DH has to massage my bum each night (keeps trying to convince me I should "massage" a certain part of him in return ) and I have also been given a wobble cushion (cross between a whoopee cushion and a gym ball) to sit on at work so my pelvis keeps moving and doesn't cease up, and it all seems to be doing to trick so far and reduicing my SPD pain which is great as I couldn;t cope with that on top on no sleep.

We have a girl & a boy name ready - DS is Ethan Michael Charles ((his own name with a family name from each of our families) and DC2 will be benjamin hector douglas (same format as DS1) or Maya/Mia (haven't agreed on pronunciation or spelling yet) eleanor florence. It's really interesting to see the other names people choose and why.

Good to see that we are all still here and coping, even though only just about in some cases - lots of hugs & tlc to those in need

agh, trying not to think about the test..... i never test well at anything so can see myself picking that day to rearend someone!

dinky, don't blame you being nervous of a big car. i really do feel how big out estate is but luckily the roads are nice and wide and empty round here... panicing a bit about driving in town, that'll be the next hurdle now!

kazza i have a baby name list as long as my arm, and no hope of narrowing it down - can see DC3 being Baby for days after it's born....

neeerly3 - not many that DH & I agreed on, so getting to our final choices was quite easy. DS1 was going to be benjamin, but then a girl at work used it just before i went on mat leave and then a girl in my nct group also used it, so we had to have a quick rethink last time.

Decided this time that DC2 will be ben or Maya/Mia no matter how many others we find out about between now and its arrival

Talking of names my friend text me earlier to say that the name Frankie which DH and I are keen on is 'appalling'.

I was a little to be honest.

cheeky mare.
it's a great name and I like it.

I did sort of think 'well it's fine if you don't like it but you are my friend so technically you should just smile and say 'lovely' anyway?'

No, MsLucy, "cheeky mare" is a TERRIBLE name for a child

This thread always gives me a craving for curry!

I've started an expecting a premature baby thread on FB if anyone wants to join.

Ignore your friend Markstretch -your baby, your choice of name!

Though CheekyMare is growing on me....

oh dear that did come out rather wrong, didn't it.

People in general never cease to amaze me - if I didn't like someone's choice of baby name I would NEVER tell them, even if they hadn't had the baby yet so it wasn't a done deal. I'd smile and politely lie, because the very fact that they were telling you would mean that they liked it so you should just be supportive.

MS - I'm up in arms for you. Grrrr. I think Frankie is a lovely name, if you like it, use it. Sod your friend!

Ahhh - names are so personal, I really don't expect everyone to like the names I like and when I ask a friend's opinion I expect the truth from them or I wouldn't have bothered asking. Friends who would smile and politely lie aren't really friends.

I know what my baby will be called and if anyfucker doesn't like it they can go have their own baby/dog/cat/goldfish and name it.

swampy - i read that as babyfish/dogfish.catfish/goldfish - i really need to think as i read...

The thing is.... I hadn't even asked her opinion!

Tea party went well, friend with ds is now 8 weeks pg (yay!) and friend who is 16 weeks pg fainted in the dr's surgery after having bloods taken and couldn't come over!

There's babies everywhere!

Am chuffed for my friend who is newly pg, she is a lurker, I spent the afternoon trying to persuade her to join properly.

Names are the most difficult part...and while I agree it wasn't nice of your friend, at least she was honest with you.
My MIL didn't say anything about her daughters choice of names for her 2 DSs and she thinks they are both ridiculous...of course it all came out one evening after too much wine was consumed...God I had a brilliant time!!!
We narrowed DSs name to 2 options and asked the family their opinions. Sometimes other people see differnt angles to the names...iykwim

Started a 'names' topic in FB - don't really want to fess up to the whole world what mine are called.

what...that bad???

Ooh some people MS..... on the names issue my mum is funny, she so can't lie so if you mention a name she would hate she'll exclaim really loudly "how ridiculous !!"...and then today I told her the name we like for a boy - Nathan - which I thought she'd hate and she seemed so relieved that we'd found something she liked she went "oh that's it, what a lovely name, oh I'm glad you've got that sorted out ".....I did say that we might change our minds before (or after) baby arrives and she looked a bit nervous. She can't seem to understand that she won't be around forever and that it's our choice and it'll be something we like and that I really don't care if she likes it or not. Her reasons are usually something like "oh I had a horrible uncle called "x" "....

No, i love my names, chilledmama. I'm just paranoid that all my neighbours, friends and relations are closet mumsnetters. Go judge them on the FB topic .

Lovely names swampster. Still have no name ideas for this little fella. It was hard enough getting one for ds1!!

Morning all - the nappies arrived, and John and I fell in lurve with fluffles! So if anyone wants a size 1 flexitot, let me know...

I'm still trying to get my referral to Guy's sorted out. My GP is useless- grrr, and my oesteopath told me off yesterday for getting stressed and tense. She's also told me that John has to massage my bum - he's happy (it's about the only physical contact we're getting at the moment!)

Morning all. Didnt manage to get much sleep at all last night between Squiglet kicking me around for most of last night, and DS waking up at 5 this morning (his dad has been away this week and think its effecting his sleep as he's been progressively waking up earlier and earlier - thank god DH is home tomorrow as it will be a 4am start over the weekend if this carries on)... roll on the weekend when we're going to a nice family friendly hotel with a bunch of mates and their kids and I get to have a mummytobemassage - will definitely need it.

I have a rather unusual name (even fairly unusual among indians) and to be honest, love my name so really wouldnt be worried about your names of DC (existing or in formation) being perceived as "different" etc by other people. The only reason we're going for english names for first names is that my dear in-laws and DH's extended family all have massive problems pronouncing mine and my family's names right (though bless them, they do try) - so want to ensure that they can at least pronounce my kids names correctly...

Hope you get the referral sorted out today Mrsy. Will move out the way Mrsy for the stampede of flexitot lovers heading in your direction....