Tamlin Aww, your poor DS! Hope he's all better now. It must be so hard to try to keep yourself together for the little one when I'm sure you're panicking inside!
Koumak Glad you had a good time back home!
Ponkey I can't believe you're still not showing - I look like a Moomin! Doesn't help that I'm carrying ridiculously low and the bean is transverse... I look comical really...
Lemontop ooooh, exciting times! Hope you find everything you need and have a nice chilled shopping trip. It's so much easier for men, isn't it? There's only so many different types of suits...
Missese Welcome to the madhouse!
Weston Sounds like you had a nightmare, but still managed to enjoy yourselves! (And if nothing else, I bet being at home never felt so good!)
I've been having hideous contractions all weekend. Really angry ones, that just don't let go for ages. Moving about certainly doesn't help, rather that's what seems to bring them on! (like getting up if I'm sitting down, bending over, making sudden movements yadayada...) After a bit of googleing and MNing, it seems that I have an "irritable uterus" (the uterus seems to have picked up on my general mood...) does my head in. I keep panicking about the bean arriving early, and have actually written a list of things to pack in case. I know it's paranoid, but it seems to have calmed my nerves a little.
Speaking of labour - anyone else find that their hospital schedules hospital tours and labour workshops during working hours? Men don't seem to get time off work for these things so I don't see why they can't schedule them for evenings/weekends!
DH only has 5 days of AL left, and I'd rather he saved that for when the bean comes...
Thanks for the input on bilingualism. I was trying to keep the amount of personal details to a minimum, but I think anyone who knows me would already have recognized me from other things so it's a bit silly really. My mum speaks Finnish and dad speaks Swedish. So I'm a bona fide Moomin (and now have the looks to match!)
Oh, the kiddicare.com rant. Seeing as you asked for it.
TRIED to order a hammock on Friday and pay with debit card. (Yes, I know it's silly, but it's the only card we've got for our joint account.) 1st time it told me that I'd given an address that didn't match what the bank has for me, 2nd time it told me that I'd given the wrong password for Verified by Visa and that the transaction had been referred to the fraud team. (I double checked the address AND the password and they were both right both times.) So, I called the fraud team who asked me all sorts of questions and in the end I got such a dodgy feeling that I called my bank to find out whether this was genuine or not. Seems that it was. Tried again later on with DH's credit card. SAME thing, first about the address and then the password. Got p-sed off and clicked on the "pay by paypal" option, only to be told that the payment had been referred and we'd be contacted by kiddicare. We weren't. Tried calling them until closing time on Friday, no joy. Tried again on Sat, got cut off a couple of times until I finally got through to someone really vague who said "oh well, it has gone through" and gave me a reference number.
I've still had nothing emailed to me about the order and when I tried tracking it via their "track your order" it comes up saying invalid code. So, I've called them again today to ask what's going on and have been told that it's "gone through" and "should be with us tomorrow" but no explanation as to why they've not confirmed the order in any way.
I've never used kiddicare before, and TBH, would've given up with this order if it wasn't for the fact that the hammock I wanted was in the sale and nearly 25% cheaper than the RRP. I'm not holding my breath about it arriving tomorrow...
Phew.
Will go and eat some grapes to calm down.