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Due September thread 10 - On the downhill slope...

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Kiwifruit · 11/07/2005 21:06

Here's the new thread ladies - may it be as chatty as the last 9!!

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jessysmummy · 01/08/2005 11:05

oooh, forgot to say - redhelen - get in touch with your payroll dept. Surely they can backdate your holiday pay and adjust your starting date for mat pay? Every penny counts. I had this problem 18 months ago when I was on mat leave with DD. Took a while to sort out but got there in the end.

LadyLazarus · 01/08/2005 11:13

Jessysmummy - yes that's the caring, sharing face of nursing in the NHS! I think perhaps it's just the ward I was on, as other places have been much more friendly, my ward was a bit bitchy and cliquey. Best off out of it!!

Boompi · 01/08/2005 12:01

LadyL - admire your actually doing something about your dreams! To be honest the registrar I saw on fri didnt seem to understand my notes and not sure if any indication for a growth scan really but I am not going to refuse it. Especially so close to the big day! She also didnt say why they thought it was big - may be my sudden weight gain though. First really rude professinal Ive met so far though as all mw's, consultant and SHO have been really helpful -Admit being in the profession may help at times! At least it makes the SHOs anxious!!
BTW - have put on same weight as you LadyL.

pooka · 01/08/2005 12:27

LadyL- because I'm pretty certain I wont be returning to work I have asked for my OMP to be withheld until I have been back at work for 3 months. That way, if I don't go back, I've lost nothing and if I do, I get a lovely lump sum 3 months later. I thought it would jsut be too much hassle working out what to put aside each month to be paid back eventually, particularly taking into account tax, pension, etc.
Still wont be returning, though!

bubbles2904 · 01/08/2005 12:54

wow, sometimes i wish i was a home person, but i love to go to work and get adult conversation for a few hours a day. my dp works from home so childcare isn't a problem for us, but we'd end up apart if i stayed at home too, we'd just wind each other up constantly.LOL it's only my second week off and it's doing my head in already. love him to bits though and wouldn't have him any other way.

LadyLazarus · 01/08/2005 13:09

pooka - yeah Im just going to keep that money by (well, try to!) until next summer when I have to decide whether I'll go back or not. If I DO decide not to go back, I'll hopefully have the money handy. I am not keen, even on a different ward / hospital. The idea of staying at home with baby is far more appealing!

pooka · 01/08/2005 13:57

I loved doing my 2 days a week at work when dd was 1 and my mat. leave ended. My mother looked after dd. it was like having 2 weekends in some respects - weekend No. 1 when dh was home with Lucy and me. Weekend No. 2 when I was at work and able to have lunch, talk to adults and go to the loo in private. I think staying at home is much harder in some respects than being at work, certainly in terms of sheer effort and your hours. But I do love it, especially now dd is such good company. And I really couldn't ask my mother to look after 2 children as I think she deserves to have more free time to herself, though of course she'll love having them on a more fluid and flexible basis.

jessysmummy · 01/08/2005 14:05

I always find that I am much more tired after having spent a day at home/out and about with DD than a day at work in the office. Probably due to the fact that I'm relatively inactive at work and have to run around after DD while at home. I was quite ready to go back to bed at 10.30 both mornings this weekend, though didn't get the chance. know what you mean about going to the loo in peace, Pooka!

bubbles2904 · 01/08/2005 14:16

i wasn't trying to offend anyone with my comment about not working. i couldn't afford not to go back to work so it isn't really an issue for me, but if i was at home, it's a different kind of work, much harder but much more rewarding. i'm so sorry if anyone thought i meant that comment in a different way, i just meant that i'm not really a staying at home kind of person.
just been to see my friends son who was born on sunday, god i was emotional. he is beautiful. God i'm soooooo broody now.

PiccadillyCircus · 01/08/2005 15:14

Don't seem to have posted on here for a while - took me rather a long time to read all the posts since I last posted .

I have finally started nesting. I have sorted out DS's old clothes and discovered that when he was very small, he had a LOT of babygros and vests. Possibly millions although when they have all been washed and dried I might count them and find out.

DH and I are spending today, Tuesday and Wednesday "getting more ready" for DD/DS2's arrival. DH is having an afternoon nap . But he knows that he has to work hard tomorrow and Wednesday.

I will be going back to work (I work part time as an accountant). I think about working for myself - I might do it in a couple of years' time possibly.

I also managed to not get anything at all from work on leaving - I have worked for my firm for 4.5 years, but recently moved departments (and offices). The result of this has been that my new department didn't get me anything as I'd only been there since the beginning of May, and my old department hasn't got me anything as I should think not many of them know that I've stopped work. I don't really mind, but wouldn't have said no to some sort of present, or at least a card.

pooka · 01/08/2005 16:20

I'm totally with you Bubbles about work in that I'm pretty certain that I will go insane in about 6 months time. Hope to do some freelance for my current employer then. I thought I'd miss the cut and thrust of he office more than I have, but it helps that I seem so busy now and that dd is talking and more of a "person" than she was before I went back last time. Of course I loved her as a baby, but I find her so much more interesting now than when she was under a year old.
Should we start a new thread at some point, now we've gone over the 500 posts? I don't know why, but my competitive nature is kicking in, and I want the September crowd to have the most threads EVER!!!!!

bubbles2904 · 01/08/2005 16:26

let's do it although we don't seem to be a very talkative bunch lately

jessysmummy · 01/08/2005 16:30

I would if I could but I'm technically inept so I can't...

bubbles2904 · 01/08/2005 16:39

me neither LOL

pooka · 01/08/2005 17:05

just making a link to thread 11

pooka · 01/08/2005 17:08

new thread here

pooka · 01/08/2005 17:08

yay - link works!

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