Due April 2009 - Tralalaboomdiay, our bumps grow every day!!

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Place your bets on how long this thread will last, my guess is two weeks!!

It seems like cruel and unusally punishment to make you wait that long for pain treatment Nutty. I can hardly believe it. Is there no other course of action for you?

Frekkles- ex's, they're the pits sometimes. Hard to get over and one never forgets, BUT one does get stronger moving on Nutty is right. It's part preggy hormones which is making it bad. Have a nice hard cry in bed and curl up with something lovely and try to do something a little creative, but just for yourself.

Hugs all around.

Good thing I bake when I'm depressed. I almost always have something in the fridge or frezzer for guests to drown their own worries in

Nutty, those people are mental. You should be having physio/back pain clinic/extra ANC care. You can't not treat people AT ALL just because they are pg.

Frekkles, when the sun is out and the baby is smiling and you feel all soppy and in love with it, all will be right with the world, I promise.

I got some lovely things from ebay this morning. And the soap that one woman washed her baby clothes in smells so lovely and soft, just like babies do... Made me go all gooey...I wonder what it is...

Nutty, can I suggest you have a chat to Back in Action in Bristol about whether it would be clinically suitable to hire a Mobiliser?

www.backinaction.co.uk/mobiliser

Nutty and Frekkles - sorry you are having a bad day. Not sure it will make you laugh by it tickled me this morning when DD shook my belly and sang "fatty fatty baby".
Frekkles - I wish you were nearby, I'd do the return for you, i'm an accountant.
BoffinMum is right. That's one of the good things about our timing with these babies. The weather will be just getting warmer again when they arrive.

cheese cake yes please, and a chance to see that actually i'm fine. I'm not in constant pain like nutty and boffin, i'm healthy and have a lot to look forward to. thank you ladies. I'm ashamed of my mood swings. Just wish I could feel normal and like me again. thank you nutty, bleu and boffin x kind words go a long way x

nutty, i'm so sorry they are so blase about your pain. i don't have anything to suggest, but i feel really sad and angry on your behalf. you're always so lovely and positive and chatty too, i admire you x kind and funny lass x

I got really excited yesterday because I had some energy and i felt calm and happy for the first time in months and months, and i actually felt a bit confident and excited, and I went to my studio and did a painting for the first time in months and months. and then it got to tea time and I thought I'd like to show my boyfriend that I can still be happy and positive, as he's always saying that i've changed so much and the stuff he loved about me has gone. so I got on the bus through to glasgow to surprise him. and turned up at his and was really happy to see him. i felt really passionate and so tried it on with him and he pushed me aside and said he didn't want to as his flatmate was in and he hadn't been expecting me and it would be rude. and that was it, everything just came crashing down and i couldn't stop crying. almost walked out and went straight back home, felt so rejected and miserable. had big arguments all night then about how he can't cope with my mood swings and how i can't cope with him not loving me as much as my ex did. thoroughly miserable today. Do love him, but it's all so new and i feel so trapped and bruised from the last year. we're looking at flats next week and half of me wants to be excited and go for it, half of me is terrified of moving in with a man again and the future that is coming far too quickly. i'm never going to cope

It must be the moon or the tides or something; I am really down, too, feeling miserable and overwhelmed by life and am also a bit panicky about how I will cope with 2 kids when DH is out of the house till 9pm every day and I do all shopping, cooking, cleaning, laundry, ironing, school runs, lugging of firewood up from garage, etc., as well as working full-time and looking after DS at lunchtimes and on Wednesdays.

Huge slice of cheesecake for me, please!

Anyway, was really posting to say that I have a biggish bundle of washable nappies that I'd be happy to post to anyone who's planning on using them. I can't say what make or size they are: my Mum got several trial packs for me when I was PG with DS, but in the tropical heat they were just too thick. He got all sweaty and in they gave him an awful rash and I had to switch to disposables. Here, I don't have decent drying facilities and I have a serious hot water shortage (I often end up boiling endless kettles for DS to have a bath), so to my shame I know they'll just sit in the cupboard. They are barely used and I'll post them off if there are any takers...
Oh, and I also have one of these which I was given for Christmas, along with 4 other calendars. Again, I'll post it if anyone's interested.

thanks missy puzzle , kind thoughts.

sorry you're feeling rubbish too auld, maybe it is the moon. let's blame her anyway. bloody loony luna lush. shakes fist at skies maybe we should just start up an mn commune and all help each other cope?

I'd love your nappies btw, if noone else does xx

I'm off for a soak in the bath so shall link to the new thread now as you will no doubt reach 1000 before my return.

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Right more cheesecake coming! I also have some truffles hidden in the back of the cupboard and I can make anyone a nice latte if they wish...

Does anyone know who I contact to find out if I'm eligable for maternity allowance? My husband gave me a number to call, which I now cannot find and I'm not finding any numbers online, just general information about it...

Bleu - The jobcentreplus.co.uk website will help you.

(Get in the damn bath Puzzle)

I am about to be so rude, because I've not caught up at all yet & I'm coming in here begging for help

This is aimed mostly at Boffin, I think - but I'll be grateful of any suggestions (it really will be a measure of how bored you all are ).

I'm trying to tackle a 2000 word essay question on 'An Ideal Husband' by Wilde (it doesn't matter if you've read it or not, as to whether or not you can help me ). The question is:

"You are running a small theatre group which has been asked to put on a one-hour session for A level students based on An Ideal Husband. Suggest some approaches to the play that might accompany the performance. You may use any mix of practical exercises or informative handouts, but document them all and explain their purpose."

I'm just wondering, from a teaching point of view, what you think that would entail? I'm about to head to the library (will check back here once I'm there) to look up various things on context, Victorian theatre, etc. But I'm not sure how I'm going to pad it out to 2000 words without some really good ideas. As I say, I don't expect you to give me ideas relevant to the play, just general teaching methods that I can adapt, if you possibly could

Thank you so much (& sorry to everyone for the hijack, hope you're all okay - will catch up & be less selfish once I have this hideous assessment under control) xxx

graciously accepts all bleu's goodies and magically multiplies them so they become never ending and strangely pain and fear relieving to boot. then magically extends puzzle's bath tub to become a turkish spa big enough for all with copious lush hat boxes, sexy hydrotherapists and furnished with a bar serving all manner of mind altering and intoxicating potions and cocktails, which are all cleverly entirely safe to use during pregnancy. Finishes of by magically stopping time for a few months, taking away all annoying and dehabiltating symptoms, making the sun shine again and the air smell of spring and making sure all our babies are born happy, healthy and ready to sleep and suckle like olympic sleepers and sucklers

all my friends (including boyfriend) are off to a bothy in a beautiful highland glen for the weekend to drink, take drugs and have fun.... hum...fucking...bug

thanks puzzle

No wonder you're feeling down; you're feeling left out and alone. Poor you.

Thank you for all the magic though. It should help sort us all out. -You should be a writer...

Does anyone else eat when they're a bit down? So far, today, I've had half a Spinach & Ricotta pizza, two clementines, three Krispy Kremes and three glasses of juice... and it's not even three o'clock yet! Ah well, I suppose if there's one time to diet this is NOT it...

I eat when I'm down YES

Cannot figure out this MA... as far as I can tell I qualify, but the girl I talked to on the phone said she didn't think I did (she wasn't certain though) and gave me another number to call...but they said we don't deal in MA we only deal in disability... AAaaaaaaaargh

Here's an interesting thought - If sex is supposed to bring on labour does that mean we have to stop at a certain point in our pregnancies? DH and I have been at it like rabbits lately (excuse the pun!) and I suddenly thought "Whoops" - maybe we should chill a bit. Any ideas?

Should I just apply anyhow and see what happens?