Due Fab Feb 2009: the Curry and Cake Club

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Just on the edge of leg cramps as I wake. Grrr. I remember this so well from last time.

So.

Bananas for potassium.

And what was the magnesium-rich recommendation?

Actually, Mrsy, could I try the flexitot? If so, I'll facebook you my address.

Its Mag-Phos (magnesium phosphorate) - you can get the tissue salts from health food stores or Neals Yard. Definitely does help - havent been suffering with leg cramps since started taking it.

Thanks, wmmc. And mrsy, I loved trying out different nappies - some are better for daytime, some for night, some are slimmer fitting... I bet you will try others and not just stick with fluffles no matter how much you love them. onward's got the nappy bug, doo dah, doo dah... I like your name, dinky, it has a lovely, sweet ring to it [wonders if I've been pronouncing it right in my head emoticon]. And I know an Antipodean Milan whose family origins are (I think) Eastern European and of course there is Milan Kundera - lovely name.

well i crippled myself again last night

all i did was hoover one room in the afternoon but my back started to spasm in the evening and i ended stuck on the couch unable to walk.... dp had to keep rescuing me whenever i decided to get up and got stuck a step or 2 away from the couch when my back/arse locked. [sob] i feel like such an invalid when it happens and worst of all my manky disgusting floors need mopping so badly and i can't do it and i can't ask dp to as his exam is next week and he's got mountains of work to get through... it's depressing me being in the house now.

having a stressful morning too, i turned my alarm off as we were all awake but all 3 of us dozed off and i only woke up at 9am and had to rush around tying to get dd to playschool, ds spent his first 30 mins awake screaming and crying for no apparant reason and dd left her lunchbag at someones house yesterday so went to school with a tesco bag with her lunch and no spare pants! aaaaarrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! i want to go back to bed already!

Thanks Swampster - is pronounced "Mee Lan" in Hindu. I rather like it but got vetoed last time on the grounds of english friends thinking is pretentious (went for "Kiran" instead - pronounced "Kee Ran"))

PinkTulips - sounds like you've had an awful evening and start to your day: hope your day gets better from hereon in.

Same pronounciation with the Milan I know - no one seem so have a problem with it.

As to pretentious - that you can take with a pinch of salt - HOW VERY DARE THEY???

Insulting a name from a different culture - now THAT is pretentious!!!

To be honest Swampster, I think it was more to do with DH's worries that they/future kids at school would think it pretentious (which is the issue I'm having with Alexander at the moment, which I dont think is a pretentious or posh name - just a nice one with lots of vowels in it and a selection of nicknames to choose from it!) rather than any of our mates actually slating the name (not that they could really given some of the first and middle names that they have chose for their kids but as I said earlier though, your child, your choice of name).

I'm stuck in the middle of a name dilemma - DH likes v traditional names like John / Robert etc. Nothing wrong with them but I find them a bit dull and want something a bit more individual but not wacky IYSWIM. We spent ages choosing DS's name and ending up with a shortlist of three names that neither of us really liked but we didn't detest either. I am dreading the same thing this time - especially as DH is suggesting that if the babe is a boy it could have DH's father's name (FIL is v ill at the moment so there is some emotional blackmail going on here). Not sure how to swerve that one.....

We didn't decide DS's name until 3 days after he was born as I ended up being too tired to argue anymore. I think the mum should have the last say!

dinky - how about Rohan? Have friends whose ds is called that, and know a Kiran too. Nothing wrong with Milan - I like it. You choose whatever you want.

I would love Gabriel but dh simply refuses point blank. Same with Alexander - too reminiscent of Alex Ferguson for him (sigh) .

Calico - I've tried that one my my hubby, and he siad if I name the baby a name he doesn't like, he'd leave me - I said if I'm gonna be a single mum anyway, I might as well choose the name!

Dinky - TBH (and no offence to anyone) if I heard the name Milan - pronounced as the city - in Chatham or somewhere I might think it a bit 'Chardonay/Mercedes/Britney' but if the baby is ethnic-looking, I would assume it is a name from their culture, especially if it is pronounced differently.

(It took me so long to phrase that so if it came out wrong and I sound either snobby or racist I do apologise - for the record I am neither!)

Thanks all. WMMC - Rohan no go as I have 4 -count'em 4! - cousins with the name Rohan already..

Mrsy - the issue is that DS is/DS2 will be half english, half indian - DS looks totally english (with an ability to tan at the drop of a hat) with really fair brown hair and blue eyes (curiously enough, inherited from my totally indian dad) so not really too much of an ethnic giveaway unless you see him out and about with his mummy...

P.s. Mrsy - no offence taken at all at your post!

WMMC- I suggested Theo to DH and he said no way as Theo Walcott plays for Arsenal and he could NEVER name his child after an arsenal player.

I think we may have a problem. Obviously I will have to find a Norwich City or a Spurs player with a name I like.

Then they'll probably get sold. To Arsenal.

Oh and Swampy- I am now on my way to the shop to fondle some nappies. Damn you.

i hate this day.

kids went out in the garden and got themselves soaked through with mud, now my house is muddy(er), i have a pile of filthy washing on top of the mountains already waiting to be washed, still no heating so no way to dry any of it, dd is being a horror (what else is new) and my back feels like someone is sawing at it with a rusty blade, not to mention the fact that we're all slowely freezing to death. 2 hours til dp gets home.

Markstretch - a bit of reverse psychology is in order...

" Mr MS, I have been thinking and I'd really like to name DS after a Norwich FC or Spurs player... I've come up with this shortlist...

Gary
Leroy
Troy
Arturo
Kevin-Prince

What do you think ? "

After that, the name Theo will look like a blessing.

PT - sorry you are having such a crap day. Does DP know he needs to be extra kind to you when he gets home ?

Look what he did to me today.

Now THAT was funny Markstretch - bet your colleagues pissed themselves....

PinkTulips - put Cbeebies on, stick the kids in front of it, make yourself an enormous cup of hot chocolate and think happy thoughts till DP comes home.

tv no can do as i told dd she wasn't allowed any for repeated offences. have resorted to crisps instead

evening everyone.

I had a scare yesterday. I started bleeding at lunch time and called midwife who asked me to go straight to labour ward. While there they did lots of tests (including a speculum which was not nice) and found that I have ectropion cells on the neck of my womb. However the womb is still closed so the baby is fine. I also have a water infections so am on anti biotics again.

We are back home now and have been told to take it easy so dp is cutting his hours at work for a while to help out. I really hope this is my 3 bad things now and that I can move on to nicer times.

I am going to go and catch up on the days news. Hope you are all well!!!

Glad the baby is fine, lardy.

PT, my two are sitting in front of a Planet Earth documentary dvd. DS2 sounds exactly like David Attenborough when he talks. Everyone asks where he got his posh accent from. I say I haven't got a clue .

I love your DH MS.

Oh, and DS2 was two in June and has only really been talking since then. But now you can't shut him up - and he sounds like David Attenborough!

so sorry lardy.... feel awful for whining about my day when you've had that to go through.

hope the infection clears up and baby stays safe and sound. {{{{hug}}}}

Oh Lardy - so sorry you're having such an awful time! Glad the baby is ok and that you're on antibiotics now and you/the midwives are aware of what it is now.