Right, time to play evening catch-up for me.
Jonah - my heartburn seems directly proportional to the amount of time the baby spends kicking. I was using the 'Frijj choco milkshake' method of treatment but have now moved on to the dreaded Gaviscon. Anything dairy should help, but obviously the advantage of chocolate milkshake is the choc content
Uwila - not sure one can draw any conclusions from this, but a Polish friend of mine reacts in ways not dissimilar to your nanny when he feels threatened (and being a highly suspicious person as well, this is 'all the time' when you first get to know him). He would react like this to something he didn't feel was part of his job, particularly if he felt it was 'beneath' him (these ex-commie types having a very fine grasp of hierarchy it would seem!).
Charley - have a fab time in Venice, esp now you are kitted out with the boob/tummy tube! I think most of the sellers on ABE Books will ship worldwide, I've certainly never had any probs in the past. If not, I'm sure between us we can rustle up a tame US resident to help out.
KVG - these Lindt eggs, I assume that they were eggs and not the spherical Lindt chocolates? As you clearly state "egg shaped" I am sure they must not be. Also finding bending down a chore, I'm thinking about getting some new trainers without laces (i.e. with zips or velcro or summat) so as not to have to bend down for so long to do them up
Lua - has your dh hired his Tens, and if so, where from? I know NCT will be able to help ... Boots sell a Tens but it's not suitable for labour - I figured might as well acquire one that will do both! He does use a 'lazy person's gym' thing as I like to call it, but it's such a hassle getting all the electrodes strapped on ... (no further comment required!). And yes, he has a good pain specialist in Cambridge, albeit a v busy (and not very cheap) chap. Hope your dh is coping okay, sounds very nasty. He must need to be very careful with picking up the small one and so on.
Uki - thanks so much for your kind words! I have broken with the sisterhood and bought one thing for the bean, a teddy bear from Mothercare (cost: 7 quid) in honour of my forthcoming tax rebates!
Coop and everyone - thanks again for the good wishes for dh and db. The adoption panel is tomorrow so hopefully we will have good news tomorrow evening. I didn't tempt fate by buying a bottle of cava on special offer in Sainsburys tonight, will wait and see what happens. I had a huge party in Sweden when they got to adopt their dd, but will have to take things a leetle easier this time.
Further good money-saving news for me: the DVD recorder we have thought was dead for the last 6 months is actually fine on closer inspection (dh thus gutted he can't justify going out to buy a hard disk recorder). I've missed the entire series of ER so far cos it's on after my bed time. No more!
Have a good evening all.