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PuzzleRocks · 16/01/2009 13:50

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

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SpringySunshine · 16/01/2009 21:25

I got stuck between a concrete pillar & the car last time I tried to squeeze sideways through a gap

Yesterday I moved out of DP's way when we were both in the bathroom & he managed to walk straight into my bump & spin me round with the force of it. Luckily me & baby were fine, but it was a bit surreal as he was quite a way away from me

& Schulte, do make up - he'll almost certainly refuse to sleep on the sofa & you won't want to do it whilst this pregnant. It's a tactical thing

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Schulte · 16/01/2009 21:25

BB I DID feel like killing him. Still do. Now where is that sharp kitchen knife...

BabyBolat · 16/01/2009 21:28

Springy I would love to but have a meeting at 10 on monday morning where I have to present back to the client! and I have to get a version across to my boss before hand so he can review and know what we are talking about!

I would absolutely love to be trilingual! I am still trying to learn turkish and it is so hard.

Schulte, LOL at turning sideways, I almost shut the bump in a toilet door the other day as I couldn't get myself in properly!

Schulte · 16/01/2009 21:29

Okay DH is lying on the floor in a big pool of blood. Now where did we get to - oh yes, Swaliswan I am pretty sure Lavender oil is fine - isn't it even recommended to help you sleep? I think it's also an ingredient in some of the Neals Yard mum to be creams and potions. Enjoy that bath!

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thebluefoxategreensocks · 16/01/2009 21:30

BabyBolat: Well, I'm not out at work all day like a lot of you...so I don't feel I have any excuse for a messy house! But usually while kids are awake, it feels like a lost cause trying to have a tidy house!

SpringySunshine · 16/01/2009 21:30

Tonight, I have diva-stropped out of my university library, met DP in Costa for a hot chocolate, over which I cried openly, went to HMV with him to buy a few DVDs to cheer me up, came home & sat on the sofa to MN whilst ignoring 4 hours of Fable bloody 2 on the Xbox. Now I'm watching Big Brother & trying not to shout at him for using the wrong bread (which is the sort of thing I'd get flamed for on AIBU, but I am not BU damn it - he's defrosting bread instead of using the lovely fresh bread that's only going to go stale on the side - NOT UNREASONABLE! ) but am now eating a yoghurt to combat my reflux & am planning to be a much nicer human being

Schulte · 16/01/2009 21:31

I have managed to get stuck in a toilet (the cubicle, not the actual toilet!) WITHOUT being pregnant ... you know the ones that are so small that you practically have to step into the pan to shut the door?

BabyBolat · 16/01/2009 21:32

I love that I can forget everything when on here and giggle at fish jokes and DH stabbings!!!

Swaliswan, think Lavender is fine (although give me 2 minutes and I will google for you!!!)

SpringySunshine · 16/01/2009 21:33

BB, perhaps you could insist on some time off in lieu, then? Start claiming severe stress - in the medical sense, not just 'I'm fed up' & if they don't take you seriously, go & get signed off by your GP for a couple of days so they'll take you seriously next time.

Nutty, I knew you'd appreciate my childish humour, even if everyone else is tutting & rolling their eyes I think it's partly why we got the special mention at the start of the thread

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BabyBolat · 16/01/2009 21:35

Lavender oil is fine apparently as long as you are not in the first trimester - caster oil in case you were wondering is not!!!

SpringySunshine · 16/01/2009 21:36

When I was in reception at school, I was standing on the toilet to talk to my friend over the top of the cubicle (we all did it, I wasn't some kind of pervert ) & slipped, plunging my foot right into the pan (which had already been flushed, thank God) - it's only now that I'm retelling this story whilst 6 months pregnant that I'm realising how funny my parents must've found it that I had to come home with one bare foot & a soggy sock & shoe in a plastic bag because I fell into the toilet

BabyBolat · 16/01/2009 21:37

Nutty, don't be an adult! MN won't be the same....

Springy love the Diva strop and costa crying (I do love a costa hot chocolate hmmmm!!!)

Schulte · 16/01/2009 21:38

ROFL Springy - that's classic!!!

Schulte · 16/01/2009 21:40

AMT do the best hot chocolate...

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Schulte · 16/01/2009 21:43

DH is completely freaked out by all my laughing and giggling... do you think he's just jealous?

BabyBolat · 16/01/2009 21:44

LOL springy! how funny!!! I do look back at some of the things I did when younger and imagine what it will be like when my LO's come home with similar things,, i.e vomiting naked out my window after too much cider but staring at my mum promising I hadn't had a single drink!! (I realise how bad that makes my youth sound but I wasn't a horrendous child!!!) And when I was a lot younger apparently I was too lazy to go back home to go to the toilet if I was out playing so would wet my pants and take them off and throw them away rather than have to go home! Why I didn't just take them off, wee and then put them back on again I don't know but my poor mum when her young daughter came back from the orchards with no knickers on!!!

BabyBolat · 16/01/2009 21:45

Yes so think they are jealous - whenever I get all smiley, DH tries to come and sneak a peak at what we are writing....

Swaliswan · 16/01/2009 21:48

Right, I'm off for my bath now and then will fall into bed. Sleep well everyone!

SpringySunshine · 16/01/2009 21:48

Yes, with marshmallows & whipped cream

I stropped out because literally everyone was staring at me because I'm pregnant. I had a rubbish afternoon (although now realise that it's obviously just one of those days for everyone & I got off lightly!) but I remembered why I don't go out without DP very often these days.

I got on the tram & there were a couple of kids (about 3 - 5) with their respective mothers. They were being a little noisy, but not particularly badly behaved. I sat opposite a middle aged woman & her husband, minding my own business. She then started making really pointed comments to her husband (whilst looking at me, most of the time) about how so many children 'are out of control these days' because their mothers are 'too young to know what to do with them' The mothers in this instance weren't even particularly young, so it was clearly just an issue with me.

I shook that off (some people are just stupid & it's not worth getting upset about stuff like that) & went to my library. Literally from the minute I walked in, 95% of people were staring at me. I honestly wouldn't say that that was an exaggeration.

I tried looking for some books that I knew were in the building, because I'd checked before I left, but somebody must have been using them within the library (& it's a huge place, so I couldn't even track them down & ask to share - they must be on my course, so it wouldn't have been that strange), so I spent ages wandering around various parts of the library for no good reason whilst the bitchy students all sat & gawped & literally gossiped about me whilst I was looking at them.

I wouldn't even mind quite so much, but I wasn't expecting it at all. It's not something that you get in the street, because lots of people in the general population are pregnant. But within the university... I'm yet to see another pregnant woman & I have been looking. I am a freak show there. But last time I went into the library, it wasn't nearly as obvious & I could hide it under my coat. This time I've vastly expanded & it's really obvious. I didn't take that into account & was just really shocked by the general isolation.

I know that they (mostly) weren't being malicious (although I am used to the 'what a slag, I bet she doesn't know who the father is' mentality as well) & just surprised & curious, but I wasn't at all prepared for it & it really shook me up. I'm fine now, but got myself in a right state at the time

BabyBolat · 16/01/2009 21:48

Maybe MN is not so sad and boring after all hey Schultes! ha DH ha!!!

Schulte · 16/01/2009 21:49

BB why were you naked? I wet my pants when I was about 9 or 10 at a neighbour's house because I was in the middle of reading a book and couldn't be bothered to go to the toilet, then used their little daughter's doll to wipe up the mess and hid the doll behind the bed. I then sat in the shower crying and demanding my mum come and pick me up. My poor mum... she must have been so embarassed

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