Due April 2009 - Sod the thread title, we will need a new one in a week.

[PuzzleRocks]

Welcome new joiners, lurkers, occasional updaters, prolific posters, and Nutty and Springy .
I say this one wont last a full 10 days.

Right, i'm off for a bath. DH has taken DD to see Grandpa so I can have a lovely soak without assorted squeaky fish, octopus, frogs etc being thrown in my water. Yippee!

The reason I get so weird about it is because I have this insane impulse to please...ever since I was little...I often find myself doing things and getting anxious because I want to live up to other people's expectations... Well not even that..but be worthy of their expectations... Paired with being 'head strong' and an independent thinker I find myself in a strange place... struggling to be what they want and need me to be while struggling to be what I want and need to be...

Interestingly enough, what Dh points out is that often the expectations that I feel people have of me are NOT theirs, but MINE... He's said that during this pg it's been even more obvious...

I know. And the very practical logical me knows that too and quite often that means that is how I act... but lately the hormonal me gets terribly frazzled and distraught because I forget about all that and I get terribly upset withother people because I forget all that... Then I get angry with them and then myself for getting angry with them...
I really can commiserate with Frekkles and some of the others. Sometimes I feel like 2 people

lol yes exactly.

Bleuravin, I get homesick & I'm only about 2 hours away from my family - I really feel for you & hormonal irrationality is just one of those things - it's not just you, so don't feel too down about it. It's good that you know that the pressure doesn't come from other people - & it will get easier to deal with when you've settled back down into yourself after the birth

Puzzle, your bath may be without toys & tattoos this time, but you still have to contend with the baby getting overexcited - what it'll be to have our bodies back!

Speaking of hormones, I just had a right little fit at DP because he made a joke that I didn't appreciate about how I'd plagiarised someone's work. Which I didn't.

I was all proud of myself because I thought I was going to have to make a special trip to the (awful, staring) library to physically get my hands on a particular book just so that I could look at the title page to see where it was printed for my references. The content of the book that I wanted is available online, but I needed just that one extra page that hadn't been scanned in. So I (quite ingeniously, I thought) looked it up on Google Scholar & found where other people had cited it & checked their references. There is nothing even slightly morally ambiguous about that, but he made a stupid comment about how I was plagiarising & nearly ended up dead as a result Men are so stupid sometimes.

So I'm thinking of painting the nursery green...but I'm a little afraid of it being 'too much.' I want something fresh and clean, but also calming and 'natural' My general idea is a little 'tree huggers' bedroom. But nothing too cutesy...

I've got the tree fabric from ikea found on this page for curtains -not made yet thinking next couple of weeks I'll get to them...

Dh suggested doing just one wall in green, but I'm not exactly sure which wall to paint as no one wall is really going to be 'the' wall you look at when you come in the room...

Has anyone found a good places/sites to go to see decorating ideas for nurseries?

I was thinking about the window wall because that also happens to be the 1st wall you see from the door/ as you walk in... Dh wrinkled his nose when I suggested it...
But you know..he's gone for so many hours a day ...
That's very cute stuff you found...

Nutty, come & join the fun. This is totally your sense of humour

Looking at those nurseries is so exciting

Re: visual disturbances, I have had migraines before and during pregnancy and usual triggers tend to be: chocolate, citrus fruit, looking at a screen, driving in the dark (glare from headlights), red wine (ha!)......

I just tend to get them when I'm dehydrated, which is pretty easy to manage.

oh Nutty you are brilliant- searching under images... sometimes I just think too much inside the box... I think I'm going to do the whole thing... I really rather like it partly because I saw this which shows a bold green wall and white ceiling with hardwood floors (similar to the one I laid down when we moved in) which is what I was envisioning.
I'm thinking of combining it with this idea using a design similar to the tree on the curtains.
We don't have white furniture (it's all wood colored) but I think it could be rather cute...

I think it'll look really nice, bleuravin. Is it a light room with big window(s)? That's the only thing I'd worry about - it might be a little much to have such dark paint in a dark room.

That's interesting maths- I've noticed the same about myself before pregnancy...It's one of the reasons I'm not a huge chocoholic, and never have been. I've not had visual disturbances though... Usually I just get the pounding and vomiting and see red (literally)... I was a bit worried about migraines during pg, because the meds are so strong, but 'touch/knock on wood' I've not had any...

Hi girls - very quickly popping in to say hello

Bleu, Green is lovely, especially on one or two walls!

Springy LOL at that thread - dear lord!!

Puzzle, discreet yes but not shocking - had four in my belly button, both my nipples, two in my tongue, my lip (for a very short period (a day) as I hated that you could see it, and 8 in my ears so nothing too intimate!

We just went shopping for cot blankets and bits and bobs for the baby and I am amazed at how expensive they are, the cheaper ones feel horrible and the nice ones are extortionate, got a couple of sheets but that was it and am really disappointed!

Also tried to get curtains but they are awful so going to make them I think now I just have to find the right material! So feeling very annoyed as wanted to have a really productive day!

Also, I want to buy LO a really beautiful quality teddy for his or her first bear (my dad has his - mow in our nursery and we all had first toys) but don't know where to get one, don't want to get anything from Babies R us or places like that as I want it to be special grrr with the frustration of today!!

Puzzle re tattoo baths - I used to absolutely love those bath crayons so secretly looking forward to them coming back in to my life....

You can tell by my activity on that thread that I'm actually meant to be doing my assignment

My first teddy (who still lives by my bed ) was my dad's present to me the day I was born - he brought it into the hospital after going home to shower / change / nap / whatever (I was born at 2am). Can't you just leave DH to sort it out?

The room is quite big and very light because while there only being one window it faces in the right direction year round and the sun streams in from mid morning til night...
blackout linings on the curtains will help when baby is sleeping...

I've read through and caught up (ish although I can't remember all).

Frekkles - secret (bad thing to say) I don't like being pregnant at all either . When you've had your LO he/she will be wonderful and it'll all be worth it.

Springy - all this talk of university libraries makes me wish I hadn't deferred the final two modules of my masters. In the absence of anything else to do in the next hour, I could just go now for a little pg waddle round Warwick university library, but unfortunately my library card doesn't work.

Haha bleuverin I can't stand being told what to do - yes having a baby changes your life but it doesn't end it. Unfortunately it seems to end a lot of people's lives! I can't wait to get back to riding my horse even though loads of people will tell me I won't have time/won't be able to be separated from little one etc. I think that's bollocks, personally - my OH wants to have time to himself with the baby anyway. My friend had a baby last year (May) and by December had not been separated from her little one at all because she's apparently 'clingy' I wonder why that is????

Boffin - do you have a sympathetic GP who you can get to seriously kick off over this lot on your behalf? Sorry if that was tried three months ago but it's just so frustrating.

Me, I'm knackered today - spent all day walking round London yesterday. We went down mainly to go on the eye which was broken . Had a nice time anyway though - went to dungeons and imperial war museum, then for nice dinner. Is hubby's birthday today so am cooking nice dinner and baking a cake.