Due November 2008 - hang on a minute, that's NEXT MONTH! Yikes!

[ruthosaurus]

Not that it'll even BE November by the time we run out of space on this thread...

No, but my dad is an owl.

Okay, just read that last one back and realise my energy levels have dropped too far. Cake decorations, here I come. Night all.

Yes agree you have to be there at the right time Lacks! They did have some great baby stuff in the one nearest me. Problem is I have it all already (problem being I would have paid full price for it!). But haey it is getting used twice...

Not sure if mine is the best sling in the world but it doesn't look too complicated! That is good you have 2 to chose from tho!

I am still refusing to buy a double buggy but more because DS wants to walk (short distances) nowadays and I got a buggyboard for my McLaren if he gets tired. Planning on holding on to him with his Little Life Bag. It may be a disaster tho so I still may relent and have to buy a dreaded double...

lacks I have a very nice didymos sling, which I have used lots, but with your age gap youwill not regret having the double buggy, believe me!!

Have you eaten the maltesers yet? My Mil gave me some v.nice handmade belgian chocs today and now they are all gone.

Glad you got sorted with the cloth, rutho, I can't see you having any problems making it up.

sparkle that is inteeresting, what you say about bfeeding and your cycle. My period came back after 7 mon ths with both my DCs. I bfed DS for 7 months, but DD for 15 months, so I had begun to doubt if it was actually related to bfeeding. I think my ovulation may be a different matter, though, as I got pg within a month of stopping bfeeding both times. But as you say, there is now way I would rely on that as contraception.

Jump in - DS went to bed at 7pm again after telling DH he was tired. Even more shocking is that I didnt expect him too because he had hour or so at lunch due to being off colour (cold sore virus in cracked eczema hands, left eye looks like red like maybe virus gone in there, diarrhorea and icky) but completely great in himself.

So (touch wood) DS has now being going to bed 7pmish for nearly a week now and waking up (when not at nursery) 8am onwards. I wonder if his body clock has already gone an hour forward.

I took DS to doctors today and got him some medicine. Was interesting in the waiting room when a lady whom can I say it "seemed to have a few screws missing" constantly chatted to me about children needing discipline and asking me what DS is like.

Afterwards we went to visit an "old" couple whom are not family but might as well be if you know what i mean. I have known them since I was about 6 if not younger and I classed the lady's brother (knew him first) as my grandad. But everytime I see her she looks more frail and sometimes gets more mixed up and I think is this the last time I will see her. Her husband who normally always looks in better health didnt look good either. Really upsetting but the worst is inevitable I guess . Got me even more emotional (didnt show her) when she was telling me to go through her jewellery box and saying "there's not much worth anything in there but there is a gold bangle that is good gold I want you to put on". I didn't do as she asked. Dont feel right going through her things and if something did happen to her the family vultures who have nothing to do with her or care would probably have something to say (previous experience with her brother when he died).

must cheer up now and jump out as going to force myself to pack my hospital bag and coming home stuff. Been saying Im going to do it now every night for the past month and I think at 37wks I should get it done!

last malteser has just gone down the hatch

Question though....why do they put a big blue and yellow sticker on the back of 150g bags of maltesers and minstrels and the like? never been able to figure that one out, but it keeps DD entertained for ten minutes

Daisy lol, me and DH have had the same discussion many times about the big stickers on the back of the bags

Are they for re-sealing the bag (like that's ever going to happen)?

crossed with you there vbab.

sorry to hear DS is a bit poorly. I hope his eyes are OK. Great news on the bedtime though, but be prepared for him to regress a wee bit when the new baby arrives.

that's really sad about your old family friends; and even sadder that her family would create a real fuss . Blardy families. When my gran died, my uncle (her eldest) decided that his daughter, as oldest granddaughter, should have all her jewellery and my mum, her only daughter, got nothing except a few bits of costume jewellery

PMSL, DH has just said they are the best packaging marketing tool aimed at women ever invented........vis women buy the bigger bag saying "oooh, I'll get the bigger bag because then I can reseal it and finish them later/tomorrow/next Tuesday" (he just did this complete with actions and mincing round the living room), when in fact they are kidding themselves and will scoff the lot in five minutes a single sitting

oh, he's soooo insightful isn't he?

oh sorry vabab missed that post, sorry your little one is poorly.

And it is very sad about your friends. We are going through this a bit with DH's parents, it horrible watching people you love decline. And the way some peopple pick over their belongings is just horrid.

lacks it's soo sad that we are sussed out that easily!!

Completely agree with Rutho - eat the maltesers Lacks!!
ooh! Love Gormenghast - have never been able to convince anyone I know to read it though

Pants!! Should've refreshed the page first

ha ha...PMSL at rutho's Gormenghast analogy and Angry gran-in-law. Oh families, how we love em...
Lacks Can't believe you even contemplated saving the maltesers. Are you quite mad? Glad to see that in the short time it's taken to catch up on the last 3 pages, you have had the inward mental battle, deliberated, made a decision and scoffed the lot! Good girl!!!
CeeBee oops - soz - didn't mean to offend the entire HR community
Vbabs sorry to hear about your elderly friends. It's lovely that you've kept in touch with them all these years.
I absolutely STINK of garlic. It's offending me. I've brushed my teeth twice and it's still awful. I think it's even worse than my dog's breath (and that's baaaad) .
I finally bit the bullet and told my mum tonight I was having a home birth. I was a bit worried she'd be really negative, but au contraire - she was most supportive which was cool. My evilWitch MIL, on the other hand, heard second hand about our HB plans, and thinks it is stupid and ridiculous. Anyone who cares to have a look can see how miserable my MIL is by checking out my recent photos posted on FB at the wedding last weekend. You'll get the picture.

Pinky maybe the 6 month rule applies after all then..! DON'T go there though anyone!! May be the origins of such false info tho if 7 mnths is a 'normal' time limit for re-appearance of periods if you BF.. Dunno just speculating.

Vbab your poor DS. Understand why you about your family friends too. Horrible situation.

Monkey are we back to Viz analogies "Eh my mother in law's a right..." (Roger Mellie)?! Oh and what kind of dog do you have?

I think monkey has a JRT, at least from her profile she does. We had a beautiful broken coated JRT. He was soo fab, could do lots of tricks and always full of beans!

Hi Vbab, that's really sad, poor things. I bet they really appreciated you coming to see them though, especially when you're so pg. Pinky I'm sorry to hear you've got similar going in with your inlaws. Hugs all round.

On a literary note...Barb, I think the first bit of Titus Groan puts people off as it's an awful lot of description and scene setting. Mind you, the TV adaptation from about, ooh, 8 years ago was a flawed gem. I don't think Jonathan Rhys Meyers is so good as Henry VIII but he was rather lush as Steerpike... which is just wrong, isn't it?

Sorry to follow that with this, but I've just got to ask, given yesterday's conversations about strep B, why Monkey stinks of garlic. Just asking, you understand. Btw, kudos on telling your mum about the HB, Monkey, and nuts to your MIL, who is indeed a miserable looking specimen.

Lacks, I used to wonder why people bought those wine stopper things for v similar reasons. Never understood it til I got pg and went off all alcohol on the grounds it smells like meths.

Ignore this bit, it's all rant:

I am still mad at DH's evil grandma and really want to call her and give her a piece of my mind. She hasn't got a clue about what's been going on with us in the last month - no wonder DH forgot to call her and say thanks, what with the whole hospital thing, threatened redundancy, having to decorate the house on his own, scans etc. Apparently she actually told her daughter, DH's lovely auntie, that she's not leaving a will because when she's "gone" she wants to look down from heaven at all her relatives fighting over her house etc (count me out, couldn't care less). Sort of the opposite of the family being vultures, I guess. I honestly have no idea why she sent us the damn cheque in the first place.

Okay, I've finished. Sorry.

lacks You ate that entire bag in 40 mins!! You go girl! I like the supply and demand idea! haha
Also lacks DH mincing about doing girly impressions!!

It has taken me an absolute age, again to catch up, I nearly gave up! Then you kept talking about food so I got all distrated by my giant caramel bar shouting from the kitchen!

I am at my mums now, prob for a week, whilst DH and his dad (and my mum, who will keep them all in line and work every bit as hard!) put in my new kitchen.
Mum and Dad came today and tore out my old one, yeah! I bet it is all neatly stacked in my back garden too ( I didn't look, it was dark). They are so good!

Had funny pains in my tummy today, so I took myself off to bed (also to remove myself from the work going on in my kitchen which I felt so guilty at being unable to assist, but was shoo'ed away if I even tried to enter the room). Had a lovely sleep but pains were still there, was beginning to worry a little when I realised what was wrong. Had to admit, in whispers to my mum, that I just needed a poo
Feel much better now!

Isn't pregnancy fun!?

Just worked out what a JRT is and realised it's not a medical term. For a minute I was trying to work out if it was related to HRT... Time for bed.

ooh, someone still up

It actually took much much less than 40 mins to polish them off . It's like a drug when I start a bag, and I've never really been bothered for maltesers before

rutho, it took me a while to work out JRT as well

Right am defo off to bed; I think it;s only the sugar and caffeine that is keeping me going at the minute.

No more sick in the daisy house so fingers crossed he is over the worst of it.....and no-one else (ie ME) gets it!

tomorrow

My mums dad says the same thing, well almost. He says he has written a will but that it is 50 50 to my mum and her brother and he plans to laugh from heaven too. But he is a nice old bugger, so I feel a little differently.
She sounds nasty

Can I have a we moan, again?
Well, not really cos I love my DB but my mum has come home from visiting my new niece with stories about how lovely and clean his house is, how well they are coping and how much they are working together with their PFB.
There is a stoopid part of me jealous
My house is never clean, you shoulda heard my mum squeal when she cleared out some of my kitchen cupboards. I did cope well with DD, but DH and I were far from a team. DH went off in his own world and couldn't really cope. How I wish he had been like my DB and confused I was that he was not. It is so stupid to be but there is it, the wee green monster.
It is not nice though, I want to feel happy for him, and I am, but the monster wants........golly what does the flamin monster want!!

I am always on at this silly hour lacks and always quite alone!

Ah, poor me, do you hear the violins?

Bet you really have gone to bed and I am talking to myself again, too.

Not bover'd
Do I look bover'd?

Hi all. Insomnia is great for catching up on the thread! But...what can I remember?

Rutho, that is SO SWEET that you were going to get your dh a gift from the baby. I was , like, ahhhhhhhhhhh...he is one lucky guy to have YOU. I didn't get anything, not a thing, not a flower, a balloon, a card from dh. On my 4th day 'baby blues' (still in hosp, but about to leave), I "let it all out". Anyway, he did write me a very sweet, long card all about how he felt and what he'd seen at the birth, what I'd gone through etc., which is a wonderful reminder of those first days of emotions and MUCH better than some dead ol' flowers . He is THE BEST card writer in the world cos he just writes it all straight from his heart, whereas I am always too busy thinking: how does this SOUND?!!

Lacks, your poor, poor ds. I feel less sorry for my bug now (ears are still blocked but cold is better).

vbab, wanna swap ds's. Mine has been playing up since I came back from hosp and mucks about for a good hour before sleeping at 9ish. We had BIG FIGHT last night and I really lost it with him, poor kid, but also he needs to know he cannot get away with constantly getting out of bed and demanding this, that and the other and then not having it when brought to him in bed (just an excuse to get out).

Barbs, not sure how safe this is, but I got some very thick 'pretend sheepskin' stuff from J Lewis and cut a piece to fit the Moses basket mattress and then put it on top of mattress before the sheet. Made it a bit more cosy than the waterproof fabric. After all that, he would only sleep in it during the day anyway!

5 more days to go, yippee, yippee, yippee.

Barbs, forgot to say, I still have some of that stuff for the basket if you can be bothered to come and get it!

I ain't goin NOWHERE now no more till Tuesday night.

Sorry we never got to meet up, but you're welcome here or at Whipps.