Morning all!
Sorry I've been lurking and not contributing, this hot weather has been doing me no favours what so ever.... meh!
fanny glad that all is ok after trip to hospital and speculum intrusion! Has everything settled down now?
poo I loved your list of man-hates. So much did I laff out loud OH wondered what was going on so I showed him your post, it must have been like reading his own Autobiography! I thought showing him what you said would be a nice and subtle way of suggesting he might want to consider doing a bit more .... I have already had to make a start on the "we need to clean the house for visitors in July rota" - I'm giving him good time to adjust to the idea of what bleach and limelite is for...
ski moi? organised... well maybe a little bit, long gone are the fleeting days of leaving assignments to the last minute and pulling an all nighter to scrape a degree! However if you asked OH we're not nearly enough organised, I thought I was doing OK however considering the monster pile of baby stuff I'm accumulating in the lounge/dining room/soon-to-be nursery... . Wrt your olive branch, pick the fruits carefully and only go for the ripe ones I say, mothers can be tricky (esp. mine). So much so in fact it was only last night I was pondering on what kind of "mother" I'd be, conclusion? Not much like mine, I really don't want to be seen as overbearing or interferring (even if she doens't know she's doing it!)!
moo are you a fellow compulsive list maker like me? Sad as it seems I love lists and to be honest it's the only way I can operate these days as my memory is like that of a goldfish. I too share your ability to opt for the most expensive version of anything that I may require... currently I'm investigating breast pumps... oh, how my days have changed (along with my browser history...)
muser agree with you on the online shopping thing. Whilst I usually enjoy a trip to the food pile (I work from home, it's surprising how exciting a trip to buy grub can be!) I am closing in on the point of returning to online purchasing, esp. for the heavy stuff and things we use lots of... OH might as well piss neat lemonade considering how much he drinks of it! Handily though we have a green grocer just down the road so I'll be sticking to getting fruit and veg from them, cos I've never had a good experience of nice stuff delivered by a man with a van... I have however noticed an Asda van doing the rounds of late which is great, because that now means they're delivery to our area and they are super cheap compared to our local sainsburys.
salty gusset checking is compulsary! Though I did refrain and only did one POAS... negative to that was an unhealthy amount of groping and wiping and knicker examining... like moo I also felt that the first 12 weeks was the longest ever so we booked in for a private scan @ 10 weeks which took the edge of the nerves a bit! Good news on getting your scan date through though at the end of July! One tip, the private lady we go to for scans does her nuchal stuff at 10 weeks, more accurate apparently, esp. the bloods (though she may actually do the scan bit at 11 or 12 weeks and combine the result then).
silver I am liking the sound of your dallas divas and daughters show... I must look that up as our planner has far too higher ratio of man-watches over what I want to veg out in front of! As for knackerness - yep I too was zonked from about 6 weeks to 12, and only now at week 19 has the MS almost gone away (shsss... don't tell ski I said that!
curls sorry to hear about the readmit to hospital, how is the little mite doing now? On the subject of breast milkage I was wondering about this and which way is the best way to go? Straight from nipple or from nipple into bottle so that OH can do feeding as well. Is mixing and matching the too a bad thing to do? anyone got any advice on this? Don't want to cause any nipple confusion iyswim. Oh and kudos to you on the G&A thing - I'd love to
cos my sister is visiting in July and we are bound for M&P to get "stuff" - what bouncer thingy did you go for in the end?
rots good tips on baby clothes for november arrivals - thanks for that!
cunty excited for you! did you burst in public? I have nightmares about that sort of thing... I am pushing for you in my thoughts!!
On a positive note, my incesent peeing at night seems to have eased off, and the weird ass pins and needles I've been getting on my left hip down the front of my thigh and round to my butt cheek as eased off. Seemed to happen when I was laying down... anyone ideas as to what it might have been? I dare say it will revive itself in the near future, but at the moment I'm making the most of 7 hours consecutive sleep!