New West London Meet Thread

[Paddlechick666]

Wow! We filled a thread!

Hope you all find this new one!

Our evening was great, had a lovely time. kids were all very well behaved. dd sleeping in our bedroom is a nightmare tho - she's sooo noisy!

we need a 3rd bedroom

we're off for Sunday lunch at The Botanist later YUM!

2cute, we're scheduled to have skids that weekend but not confirmed yet. if we do, not sure if i could come and don't want to invite 2 extra kids and dh as that'd be rather cheeky! if we don't then we'll be there

it's far too early for a Sunday!

Good luck for today Foxie

I'm so tempted to start a thread on 'my 5 year old is more mature than my dh' or 'dh is a idiot' thread...

Won't go into detail as it's over nothing but he's having a strop because we're not doing what he wanted to do - which would have involved leaving ds with a carer for 3-4 hours who he's meeting for the first time today... not on my watch, no matter how easy going ds is.

Too much too read, just had quick scan! Foxy if you need a lift you can call on me. Have driven there lots of times .

Haven't had to deal with nits yet, but i'm sure I will!

So this renovated Tesco, does it have a bigger range of kids clothes?

Still no date yet - have an Au Pair starting 22nd March so I will probably go back around then.

I would get dh to do the feed but he has to go to work and I can have a lie-in so not really fair. Plus he'll be away for 8 days on Wednesday (going to St Tropez the lucky thing).

MrsBigD - they are such big kids aren't they? All men are the same - you're not alone. dh was so angry at getting woke up at midnight by ds screaming when it was him that told me to put in his own room and leave him. I wouldn't mind but he can go back to sleep and I have to feed him every 3 hours.

Gosh, it's quiet here today. Hope Foxie comes back with some news soon.

Hey all

BigD - stick him on the naughty step and make him think about what he's done! Men

Back is still really painful but getting better. Thanks for asking Managed to drug myself up and get to Hounslow farm this morning with DH, SIL and the kids which was good.

Paddle - Hope you get a positive response from ur DH's doc.

Has anyone heard from Foxie yet?

let us know how the power nap goes PC. Its was nice seeing you, sorry about ds2's snot kiss

2cute just got your email about the party - cheers

well, we had to go and walk around the block before she finally succumbed. waking her again was hard but it seems to have done the trick.

mind you, let's see what time she's in bed before declaring success!

was lovely to have you over, the snot kiss was a highlight

2cute, got your email too thanks. i expect it'll just be me and dd the way things are at present......

dd has just managed to grab a packet of maltesers and open them [proudemiticon]!!

Hi everyone

had the most frustrating day at the hospital.

It involved three events specifically:

Me throwing Dh's pager against the car park wall so it smashed (and I have no remorse). Was paging him all morning to "test" whether he'll actually answer it on the big day. Turns out he won't answer it - well he certainly didn't today ('cos he's fecking useless )

Me threatening to walk out of the ante natal unit having been kept waiting for an hour (WTF is the point of appointments if you turn up on time then have to wait for an hour? )

Me, on the verge of tears by this time, saying to the consultant "this is the point where you try and bully me into an induction isn't it?"

The scan went OK - placenta is now 3.9cm from Os - ideally it needs to be 4cm.

The baby is big and chubby

They "offered" me a mebrane sweep today (no thanks)

They want me to go in for fetal monitoring next week on Mon, Weds and Fri

They have booked an induction for 5 March - way past my due date anyway (DS and DD both came early)

Quokka - thanks for the offer - it would involve you driving here, then driving to QC, then you could pop back home....? Probably 1 1/2 to 2 hrs max.

Am quite worried about the whole logistics on the day, as have no way of contacting DH (now he has no pager) and my Dad doesn't seem to understand that he'll have to get here quickly and take over.

Oh no, foxie. So sorry about the unresponsive DH. Maybe you should post on here when it hapens and if someone is around they can initiate a mumsnet scramble.

But, very glad baby (can we call him Monti now?) is fat and placenta has moved.

Mrs Recycle - will try that, thanks

oh foxie sorry you had a frustrating and stressful time
but you know you can count on usreally!

have you noticed the thread about killing husbands while heavily pregnant?

sfx - oooh no, that sounds good (the thread)!

It just upsets me that I feel I can't relay on my family. All the other people on my March thread have trillions of family members milling round ready to go into action at short notice and I'm stuck with useless DH and my Dad who is only half committed (i.e. he's happy to help as long as its not too inconvenient)

OH Foxie, aren't men just useless at times!?!!!

I'm sure one or several of the posse will take care of you and your kids when the need arises and your dh is non-responsive to any atempts of contacting him. So try not to stress too much about logistics 'on the day'.

Shall we do a list who's willing to help including response times?

Thought I'll do a thread trying to escape from ds who seems to be hell bent to bite my nose... he's weird!
Foxies Back Up Crew

MrsD - Tempted to take a contract out on him atm

SFX what's that thread called - can't locate it?

I feel crap asking you people to help me - isn't that what family are for???

foxie - poor you! I think men never get the importance of what is happening. My dh missed the birth of dd2, partly due to staff forgetting to call him and partly due to it being so quick but its still a sore point for him and he feels very bad about it - I don't try to make him feel better! Unfortunately I don't drive so can't help but if quokka has to pick you up am happy for her to drop off her kids with me if she likes!

Alternatively, is there any chance of you having a home birth?

foxie - don't feel bad about it! We all know what it can be like.

here
it seems to have moved on a bit

T2BG - to your DH for missing your birth. MY DH nearly missed mine too (ignored my pager messages for over 4 hours as he was watching the world cup in the pub)

I'd love a home birth, but am worried about placenta and small risk of heamorraging [sp!?). My cousing nearly died as she heammoraged with a low lying placenta.

fox - if there is a risk, you are right to go to hospital.

foxie, glad your placenta's moving and baby's doing well. Men can be such selfish idiots at times .

SFX - that's BooBoo from my antenatal thread!!! Our babies are due the same day and she's my "birth buddy"

T2BG - I chose Quween Charlotte's as its "home from home " birth centre is fab - trouble is its about 5 miles away!!

Paddle and I were plotting yesterday about me just turning up at West Mid on the day with my notes and baby half out!!

just to change the topic slightly, would anyone like to meet up tomorrow? I'm trying to avoid all the usual places with it being half-term & I'm a bit stuck as to where to go already!