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

[BabyBolat]

Here we go again....

Lulu, it does indeed do my head in when I am so patently struggling, with a massive bump glued to my front, trying to squeeze around the back of the washing machine with my screwdriver, getting that burning pain at the top of the ribs thing and having to hold my breath, and DD is doing the absolute minimum to help whilst texting away merrily on her Blackberry. Similarly when she walks into a lovely clean kitchen and within 10 minutes it looks like the Braniac team got a branch of Tesco Metro and blew it up in the middle of the room in one adolescent orgy of desctruction. Similarly when she eats all our food through her grazing and fridge raiding, having told us she would only be here until Wednesday this week, which now means we have run out and will have to cope with a stressful Saturday supermarket situation because all the delivery slots have probably gone.

However working with young people as I do, I am fully aware of how utterly hopeless and infantilised they can be, (except Springy of course).

Juwes, those cheesecakes look so excellent I am tempted to marry one of those too.

Boff - married to bleu, cheesecake and your dh you marry well

Boff, thanks for the link.
In return, here is the morally useful song I mentioned about what happens to DDs who disobey...
stern song
I have caught a nasty, chesty cold from DS and have an awful croaky voice. Am scared to cough, because it causes huge pains in my whale belly and I am terrified in case I go into labour. Not sure it's likely, but given that my cervix is dilated...

afternoon all,
boff - sorry for all your worries with dh's hypertension, good to have juwes and auld around. reckon we could cope with any problem on here with all of our different backgrounds.
suprise - how exciting.
lulu - yay for move, hoping it all goes smoothly for you.
mat leave starters - so glad for you guys, particularly bb - enjoy putting you feet up and not worrying about work.
i am feeling soo tired. It is the last day I have to cope with ds all day by myself before baby arrives. feel bad for letting it slip by at just coping but can't do much else.
anyways ds crawling all over me now, so best go...bye.xxx

Ah Nutty - sweet of you to say, but it's been 11 weeks. Was supposed to take 6-7 but extent of woodworm meant our floors / ceilings were actually unsafe and we had to do loads more. Still hard to believe how much work that house has taken (but we did buy it v. cheaply as it was an utter wreck)

Cannot wait to get into it now. Felt so lovely being back in the area yesterday. At the doctors surgery ran into several people I know (including a woman due 2 days before me) and then popped into the library, local shop and took DD to playgroup. Everyone, everywhere we went was so smiley and made such a fuss as they hadn't seen us in ages. Really felt like home.

Best of all I ran into a Spanish mum I know who said that she is starting up a Spanish playgroup in April just 5 mins walk from my house. I love where we live!!!

LuLu - aww that's so fantastic sounds like a lovely community you live in, you will feel so much more relaxed in your own home and area too v excited for you.

Really ought to get back to my packing so that we can be back there in reasonable time to do some unpacking tomorrow.

Oh, LuLu, good luck with the move and settling in. Sounds lovely...

DH just arrived home with 4 bags of Mini Eggs. I love that man. Who wants some?

Of the Mini Eggs, that is. Not him. He's mine, until I'm done with his prostaglandins at least

Your moral rhymes remind me of the one about Matilda Who Told Lies. Quite sinister, really.

LuLu, it is very exciting that it's time for you to move now! & especially as you're moving back to such a great community You can start wishing the baby out of you at warp speed after tomorrow, like most of the rest of us

Ju, I've not bothered with it today. I phoned my dad to talk about the prices yesterday & they're paying a lot less than we are too - I think we are getting ripped off. There's one thing that I'm not sure about, though (about Independent Gas Transporter charges ) that I will phone our current supplier about on Monday to check on, but I'm otherwise completely sure that we'll be moving. Probably to Scottish Power, by the look of it.

Boffin, thanks for making the exception Not sure that I'm not sometimes hopeless & infantile, but I try

OddEyes, don't feel bad - it's impossible to summon much energy for anything at the moment - I have no idea how you people with children already are managing.

mmm - mini eggs - yes please!!
just called and complained about lack of HiP form to the head office, docs been told 5 week delay, been 4 weeks since i made them send off for the form, they were told 10 days!!! Raaa! Have kind of all ready spent the money too! Oh well, see what happens.

Why not to use safety socket covers

Springy - oooohhh your dh is a star!! would love one please

Yes please to mini eggs!

yay for iplayer teletubbies. so much for my 'no more than 10 minutes of tv stimulation a day' rule!

Update from the Land of Boff. Sanity is returning.

Doula rang and cheered me up as well. Lovely lady. Thanks again to Auld and sorry to hear about your chest.

Have managed to get an Ocado slot for 7-8 tomorrow so food situation resolved. DS1 is on grocery unpacking detail so DH can had a stress-reducing lie-in. Have ordered some nice food to cheer us all up, rather than utilitarian stuff. And four bottles of wine. For me if nobody else. Sod it.

Tomorrow organised like a military campaign with deliveries and installations etc so DH does the minimum.

AP has risen to the occasion big time, and has sorted out DD's mess in the kitchen, emptied overflowing bins, hoovered, and offered to spend some of her weekend doing the washing once we have the new machines. This is very good indeed.

Phew.

Boffin - HOORAY !!! thank goodness and well done to your AP!

boff, exactly what i have just done during tubbies, my ocado coming 7.30-8 with lots of Pain au chocolat

So what do you reckon? Is it possible to cough a baby out?

Excellent news, Boff, glad you have a calm weekend in view.

Hooray for sanity in the Land of Boff! Hooray for Ocado! Hooray for pain au chocolat!

(am sure only children in 1930s books say 'hooray')

Juwesm, I think they say "hurrah" in E. Blyton...

wwwooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhooooooooo!!

I HAVE OFFICIALLY FINISHED WORK

Handover done and sent, email inbox empty, admin finished I am no longer a working mum-to-be!!

AND the house has been cleaned from top to bottom so I officially have NOTHING to do! Am hoping that now I have nothing else to focus on this baby will decide to come out!!

DH is home, and in a better mood (although not completely there yet), I manhandled him to the drs today where they gave him about 40 different antibiotic for allergies, infections - he has actually developed quite serious adult asthma but at least has all the stuff for it now) so I can drug him up to keep him quiet and we have all weekend off together and I can't wait!!

We're now watching ER from last night, drinking tea and eating dairy milk - anyone want some....

Surprise any baby yet?

Boff yay for getting organised!!! and feeling better - try not to wear yourself out though!!!

Hurrah, pip pip, tally-ho and jolly hockeysticks BB!!