Happy New Year, my fellow gorgeous pregnancy victims
So pleased to see that frekkles got her scan & everything's okay! Must be so relieved xx
What was in your parcel, mathsmummy? MIL bought us our cotbed today. There was no way that we were going to avoid, or even postpone, it so we just went along & nodded in the right places. Whilst (obviously) very grateful, I've had a few issues (but I'll have a mini-rant in a minute ) about the whole thing.
Nutty, you weren't half dedicated to the New Year wishes at 3 minutes past midnight! We're honoured Although DP & I went all the way to the ILs (3 hours in the car) to spend NYE with his family, we ended up spending the whole night alone anyway because they went to bed
I am being woken several times a night by persistent kicking & the need to wee - let alone the trying to get to sleep in the first place. & I had the first bath in months last night & my bump actually made a couple of its own splashing noises which was a bit surreal.
Boffin, so pleased that your SPD is better! Long may it continue! & your independent midwifery experience sounds a million times better than the crap you've put up with so far (loving the Indian call centre transcript ) Lovely to hear you more cheerful xx
BB, you're going to have to put up a photo of your nursery so I can be enough to bother sorting ours out. I'm always telling my bump off out loud. He's taken to protesting so strongly when I move that I've been very close to telling DP off with a proper face for prodding me in the tummy before I've realised that it's coming from the inside on quite a few occasions now & my skin is just beyond help now - I've given up & accepted looking like I'm 14
My last couple of days have been okay. I got really overemotional on Wednesday. It started when I was trying to pack to visit the ILs & realised that I've been wearing the same clothes about twice a week every week for months now & that none of them were clean and dry. Then I remembered how I spent last NYE (it was fantastic - out with friends in a club with a fantastic atmosphere & arriving home at 5am with party popper paper still in my hair ) & compared it to be 6 months pregnant with the ILs scenario I was about to face. Then I started freaking out about the magnitude of motherhood & how it was nearly 'this year' that I was having the baby & how am I going to cope? I just about calmed down enough to get in the car & go to the ILs' to arrive to immediate over-excitement & "look what I've been buying for the baby!". Which was 4 massive bags of clothes (some of which for when he's 4 because she 'couldn't resist' ) & various other madness. I sat & was grateful & enthusiastic, but all the while was close to running back out of the door.
Eventually got DP to myself after making an excuse to go upstairs & just burst into tears about how overwhelmed by everything I was. Whilst he didn't really understand he understood as much as a man really can, I think. & I think after the hours of looking at cotbeds on the internet with his mum (which we didn't really want to do) & then having to make a special 40 mile round trip to go to Mothercare to look at them & buy one, he's beginning to see that it's a bit much. Especially when late last night she suddenly announced "I know what else we need! Scratch mitts!" with extreme excitement.
Bless her, she's lovely. I really do like her. She's as mad as a box of frogs sometimes, but she's really, really nice. I feel a bit bad saying any of this because she is being really generous & helpful. But there are 3 months left to go & she's acting like the baby's arriving tomorrow - & that she's the only person capable of organising everything for his arrival.
DP said earlier, though, that she's dangerously close to making it 'all about her' & that he may have to have words - especially if she becomes the overbearing grandmother type, trying to tell us how to do everything her way. That was really nice because it's the first time that I've really felt that he's more interested in pleasing this family than that one
On the funny IL side of things, there was a great 10 minute period where she decided that it'd be fun to corner me with her new 'Men In Uniform' calendar & rate every single man whilst fanning herself & making hilariously lewd comments. When I told DP about it after she'd gone to bed, he said 'Yes, that was a bit inappropriate Sadly, that's just the way she rolls ' I'm actually quite pleased that I got a type MIL story from the festive season that doesn't involve any or faces
Hope everyone's okay & has a nice weekend planned. I have my sister visiting until Sunday night (unexpected, but very welcome visit) & we've been out for a lovely meal tonight. She & DP are currently playing Fight Night on the Xbox (saying things like 'come here, I haven't smashed your eye up enough yet!' & so on to each other )but I'm going to throw them off so I can watch Celebrity Big Brother now
My life is so rock & roll