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Due April 2009 - Chapter 24: Pulling the Plug on the April babies!!!

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BabyBolat · 25/03/2009 10:59

Here we go again....

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SmuttyNuttyTaff · 27/03/2009 13:37

thats fair enough

SpringySunshine · 27/03/2009 13:49

Well worth a read

brettgirl2 · 27/03/2009 13:55

What's wrong with having a tache? Mine is gorgeous :0

SpringySunshine · 27/03/2009 13:57

Yeah, but you're not Freddie Sodding Mercury

Juwesm · 27/03/2009 13:59
BoffinMum · 27/03/2009 14:09

Bit stressed myself now. Doctor told me to get DH to get his blood pressure at work if possible and to get him home immediately if it's over 120 (lower figure). I have phoned him with the news. Will ring him again in a minute to make sure he is doing it.

Have put up privacy roller blind in dining room ready for birth, so DH doesn't have to do it ... very hard to do with SPD and a big bump.

Have unwired washing machine and tumble dryer and unplumbed tumble dryer - can't quite manage umplumbing the washing machine, as the fitting is stuck. DD helped reluctantly and somewhat ineffectually whilst talking to friends on her Blackberry. Also very hard to do with SPD and big bump. Have phoned a firm to install the new ones tomorrow afternoon. They will only work until 1.30 and the delivery is scheduled 7-2 so I can only hope the van comes early.

Then unloaded the plants from the garden centre outing yesterday - I had asked various family members for help with this and they all had excuses or forgot. Plants were starting to look very fragile. Planted them up in window boxes for kitchen windowsill, after a fashion, so they don't die.

DD now being very difficult and teenagery, having hardly helped me at all today. Currently turning kitchen upside down making some meal or other. Bin overflowing, every pan used, mess everywhere (it was cleaned yesterday). Desultory tidying up after herself in a half hearted fashion. Has been sleeping in nursery on a mattress, and made a right mess in there too. Bits of her stuff all over the house, used cups, plates, dirty tights, phone chargers, etc. Living room looking well used (again, cleaned yesterday although you couldn't tell now). I pointed out to her she had got my wheelchair cushion all muddy by putting it into the car with the went wheelchair on top of it, and now it needed cleaning, and she said, 'well next time I won't put your wheelchair in the car then'. I have now told her to go back to her college room because I can't be doing with her nonsense.

SpringySunshine · 27/03/2009 14:13

Oh Boff Sit yourself down with a nice cup of tea & play with us for a bit. You have enough on your plate without worrying about other people's silliness. You've done loads today - the main practical things of any urgency are done, so you can definitely afford to have a break.

It's a shame your DD is being so daft - she usually seems such a helpful person to have around, but isn't doing so well right not!

AuldAlliance · 27/03/2009 14:15

Oh Boff, I am so sorry. This should be "me, me, me - and the baby" time for you and you are dealing with so many other things.
Your DD is really being a bit of a brat, I feel, if you'll excuse my frankness. Hopefully she'll snap out of it soon. But you don't deserve any of this rubbish just now.

Please try and take it easy for a bit . Don't want your BP meeting BoffinDad's up in the stratosphere.

Thoughts winging their way over the Channel to you...

BoffinMum · 27/03/2009 14:19

DH has just phoned to say his lower BP is under 100 and he is going to go back onto the betablockers for now, so that's one good thing.

BoffinMum · 27/03/2009 14:22

Thanks for good wishes. In glidey chair now, and will make self nice capuccino on new machine in a minute whilst not looking at the state of the kitchen. Wondering whether to ring doula but not sure exactly what she would end up doing really apart from talking to me and making tea.

AuldAlliance · 27/03/2009 14:36

Boff; d'you want me to call you? I still have your number. Can't make you tea, and am sure as hell not a doula, but I can talk/listen.
Will be around for the next 40 mins.

Juwesm · 27/03/2009 14:38

RIng doula - tea and talk sounds like what you need!

SpringySunshine · 27/03/2009 14:39

I think this must be the most genuinely supportive ante-natal club MN's ever seen

Juwesm · 27/03/2009 14:42
Schulte · 27/03/2009 15:01

Bonjour

Being very naughty letting DD watch a DVD just so I can put my feet up for a mo and catch up on the thread. BUT she wouldn't have a lunchtime nap despite nearly falling asleep in her bowl of risotto earlier.

Surprise, how exciting, does sound like early labour! Keep timing them...

Boff so sorry you're having such worries with DH and DD being unhelpful cappuccino sounds good though, can I have one too? And are there any more mini eggs on offer or will I have to traipse to the corner shop? All this talk of them has made me really want one... or twenty...

No news here apart from that I had a call earlier saying my TENS machine was on the way - brings it home how close it all is now I know most of you will disagree but I wouldn't mind staying pregnant for a couple more months now... as long as the bump doesn't grow any more.

BoffinMum · 27/03/2009 15:05

Doula busy but lovely, lovely Auld rang me from France and gave moral support. xx

Auld: Max and Moritz as discussed, re: children's discipline.

Max and Moritz If you are naughty you will be eaten by ducks, make no mistake.

SmuttyNuttyTaff · 27/03/2009 15:15

awwww i love this thread ( yes i have said it before but i truly mean it)

Boffin - glad you feel better xxx stay in your glidey chair and relax with us and ignore the chaos if you can for a bit xx

LuLuBai · 27/03/2009 15:17

Afternoon - any babies. Surprise is yours still bellyside?

Boffin I had a little google on diets to help blood pressure - worth looking into there is quite a lot of info out there. The basics seems to be to cut back on meat (esp red meat) eat plenty of veg and grains (apparently oats and pearl barley are particularly good), and very little salt (one site recommended spicing food to make up for lack of salt, as apparently most spices / curry type flavours are fine). So porridge for breakfast, big hearty soups with pearly barley for lunch, veg sticks with humous for snacks, big veg curry with lots of rice, lentils etc for supper and so on.

Schulte my DD has had far too much screen time lately. But she does seem to learn new words, and she really likes programmes with music and dancing (which I have limited energy to do with her these days)

I've been trying to clean and sort to get ready for the move tomorrow but the nesting instinct seems to have abandoned me in my hour of need. Drat. Have scrubbed out bathroom, dusted and polished and heaped lots of stuff that needs packing in a huge pile. Now I just want to sit and enjoy the peace while DD sleeps.

BoffinMum · 27/03/2009 15:26

Now eating Hotel Chocolat white strawberry creme chocolate and trying to calm down.

Thanks for dietary tips Lulu, although his diet is generally good, I will remind DH about the virtues of porridge and steer him away from steaks.

DD being packed out of house kindly but firmly with her bus fare. She has at least picked her underwear etc off nursery floor and said thank you for bus fare.

LuLuBai · 27/03/2009 15:31

Well done with DD. It must seem strange /frustrating to you seeing her being all teen-tantrummy when you were being a responsible mother at her age.

Juwesm · 27/03/2009 15:32

Boff - British Heart Foundation have some good stuff on diet, and they have lots of good leaflets, which I used to order by the bucket-load for waiting room at work. Hypertension one here, but have a browse.

Hope am not going on too much - you seem like someone who prefers more info to less !!

Juwesm · 27/03/2009 15:34

Plus, I find this website absolutely invaluable in all kinds of stressful situations.

Juwesm · 27/03/2009 15:40
Juwesm · 27/03/2009 15:41

Springy - did you get anywhere with your energy supplier switching?

SmuttyNuttyTaff · 27/03/2009 15:42

Boffin - well done

LuLu - i cant believe you're moving tommorow!!! wow that seems to have gone really quickly

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