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PuzzleRocks · 17/03/2009 11:49

Thanks to Nutty for all the thread suggestions including this one. I hope no one minds but I picked this one in honour of the brilliant race commentary we had from Nuts and Frekkles the other night. Hopefully we will get some more.

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WhatFreshHellIsThis · 18/03/2009 16:14

Hello again

Have noted BB's trip to the hospital. No bouncing on ball, but I did walk about a mile and half this morning to the post office and back. And have upped RL extract dose to two tablets......

Springy sorry to hear of your money worries. Men do have rather odd priorities sometimes when it comes to money, it has to be said, but then they probably think the same about us

Good news over here is DS does not have impetigo, so is at nursery. Bad news is the doctors have no idea what the large red lumps on his arm actually are. Still, they don't seem to be causing him any pain or itching, so we're on a watching brief. He's had chicken pox, and isn't ill, so I'm not too worried.

Sorry you're feeling down Bleu - I think ups and downs are pretty much the norm at this stage, I burst into tears after reading George Monbiot's latest climate change article last night . Hope you feel better soon.

No sign of this baby so far, still hixting away every so often but nothing to write home about. If it follows DS' pattern it'll be born on Mother's Day or my birthday (DS was born on Easter Sunday) - nothing like picking a special day to interfere with. Not sure I got any eggs the year DS was born, tchah.

As for orgasmic labour - why not have something else for people to feel bad about? 'Oh didn't you orgasm in labour dahling? I had twelve and DS/DD was born in the throes of ecstasy'. Pshaw.

Can you tell I'm feeling a bit cynical today?

Off to pick up DS from nursery now

xxxxxx

p.s. we did BLW with DS, if anyone wants the details happy to share. It was messy!

BabyBolat · 18/03/2009 16:14

I have to admit my hospital are great - have never had to wait always straight in - they have dedicated teams for antenatal, day monitoring, labour wards etc so you just get sent to the appropriate one and seen straight away!

WhatFreshHellIsThis · 18/03/2009 16:15

glad the baby is ok in there BB!

BabyBolat · 18/03/2009 16:16

WFH yay for no impetigo! you never know you might go for Easter Sunday again this time!!!

bronze · 18/03/2009 16:22

Well I didn't get Nias room finished. I managed one coat then gave up. I have managed to sort the airing cupboard though. My house is a shitehole and I don't think it will ever be presentable. How do people do it?

Lulu ds1s birthday is the 4th and I have done nothing either

LuLuBai · 18/03/2009 16:24

Welcome back BB. Maybe next time, eh!

In the meantime WFH - get back on that bouncing ball.

Dunno about orgasmic labour but I did feel a kind of endorphin rush with each contraction.

Bleuravin · 18/03/2009 16:26

I'm aiming for Easter... according to my figures/calculations that would be about spot on...so even though I say .5 -4.5 weeks...I'm thinking about 3 until Sprite arrives to distract me from the dwindling money on our account...

LuLuBai · 18/03/2009 16:31

Bronze that makes me feel a little better about DDs birthday. I really wanted to make this one special as it will be her last one as an only child before all attention is diverted towards the new baby.

On the plus side, I have done quite a lot of housework. Really trying to get my mother's place ship-shape before we move out (next week yippee!). Have handwashed all the covers to all the scatter cushions (DD's mucky paws leave everything looking a bit grubby).

Have also just handwashed a 6"x3" rug in the bath. DD had spilled food on it and my beloved cat had thrown up on it. Twas truly yucky so I ignored the Dry Clean Only instructions and soaked it in the tub with plenty of detergent and tea trea.

Really, really, really hope I haven't wrecked it.

LuLuBai · 18/03/2009 16:32

Ha ha - I'm reckoning on an Easter baby too!

LuLuBai · 18/03/2009 16:32

Ha ha - I'm reckoning on an Easter baby too!

LuLuBai · 18/03/2009 16:32

(sorry)

Bleuravin · 18/03/2009 16:34

Good job Lulu and Bronze you're doing all the work that I ought to be doing

LuLuBai · 18/03/2009 16:38

Bleu there are still fluff balls in the corners, but I'm leaving all the hoovering for DH until all the laundering and ironing is done as that seems to generate endless fluff.

LuLuBai · 18/03/2009 16:41

Bronze - remind me - how old are you other kids (this is number 4 isn't it?)

BoffinMum · 18/03/2009 16:43

I am now back from the hairdressers and £128 poorer . However the stripey yokel helmet thing has definitely gone now, and I look less like an academic (not a good look) and more like a young (ish) mum. Nutty's technical hairdressing advice and jargon translation via email was absolutely brilliant, and they knew what I meant and I got a much better hairstyle. I will see if DH can photograph it for me and then I will have a go at uploading the picture.

Springy, your financial panic is totally normal. We spent our wedding present money on boring things as well. Perhaps do a load of agency babysitting after the birth and put that money towards one nice thing as a memento?

LuLuBai · 18/03/2009 16:43

I felt DDs name was very personal. Although DH and I knew immediately when she was born what she ought to be called neither of us told any of the hospital staff.

BabyBolat · 18/03/2009 16:46

Yay for the haircut Boff - can't wait to see pictures!

Bleuravin · 18/03/2009 16:46

I don't vacuum anymore...too many steps to lift the damn thing.

I was saying to Dh that if he really wants the ILs down to help clean then maybe I could leave the house for the day and then they could get down to the cleaning without me being around and being stressed about it all...not sure where I'd go/what I'd do though by myself.

LuLuBai · 18/03/2009 16:49

Sorry - that last thread was meant to go on a naming thread I was looking at. I am an utter preghead.

BabyBolat · 18/03/2009 16:50

Bleu, I can't vacuum either it hurts my back too much and lifting the hoover up and down the stairs really puffs me out! I can do a quick whip round if there is not lifting involved but no major vacuuming for me (such a shame!!!)

mathsmummy27 · 18/03/2009 16:51

I have washed all baby things and hung them out to dry could anything be more pleasing to a pregnant lady's heart? (ok - chocolate maybe..)

LuLuBai · 18/03/2009 16:52

Boff - fab that you've got a good haircut. I must, must, must get my mop sorted soon (like BB I have v. long hair that tends to get done twice a year but it is overdue)

Bleu - you could get on the train and head down to Bath - the new Spa is supposed to be good and not killer expensive (compared to some spas!). I would love to go myself as really not far away but can't with DD.

Bleuravin · 18/03/2009 16:54

Yeah. I'm really the same BB.

LuLuBai · 18/03/2009 16:55

Yeah - I have vacuumed one room, but it hurt my back quite a lot so the rest can wait.

Mathsmummy - I LOVE baby clothes hanging on a line. (Perhaps you could post a picture of the washing line to satisfy my cravings for freshly laundered baby clothes - I have a large bar of G&B choc in the fridge which I can swap you)

bronze · 18/03/2009 16:58

BOff yay for good hair, might ave to get nutty to give me some tips

Lulu ds1- 5, ds2- 4 dd- 2

Bleu- do all the things you won't get a chance to do easily with a baby. Cinema etc. Take them up on the offer

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