++++++Serah! Spikey! Mandymac! Pruni!++++++++

[mogwai]

it's our very own thread, you nutters. This way I don't have to trawl the boards looking for the passive laydeeees

Please check in and let us know how you are doing.

M&M - Well no chance of being passive with the weaning then! - I hope you are planning to knit your own muesli . I am going to start weaning dd mid to end nov if she seems ready, as she is off to nursery in January .

Spikemomma - did you not subdue the cat under a pile of pizza boxes yet then, or did it just shrug them off? I still haven't managed to catch dh napping to bury him alive. . Jeans and smart jacket - very last season darling! Bench cardi's rock, I've got one that saw me through pregnancy (nice and stretchy), that I'm still wearing now. Hope its not as bad as you think! (the group that is)

What are technophopes anyway?

We used to play buckaroo with our cat. He used to be in his usual coma in front of the stove, and we used to take turns placing a piece of litter on him until he woke up and stood up - at which point we shouted BUCKAROO! Sadly he died in march and the dog doesn't sleep as soundly - lucky we have DS for entertainment!

MIL is staying for 3 weeks - I honestly can't wait, but this cleaning makarky as part of the charade to make her believe her darling grandson is not being dragged up in a filth pit is very wearing I'll tell you.

Hey ladies, I knitted my own organic chicken risotto and then froze it small pots yesterday. I am like, Nigella Lawson, me. But fatter.

Oh well, on with todays chores - just need to start another thread first "where can I get those rubbery things on baby gates from?"

oh mandy mac - 'knit your own museli' - totally pmsl you mad cow!

cat is driving me insane. jealousy is not a nice quality...

serah - oh noo, little pussy cat mort. v.sad. big hug to you. when my previous cat died a few years ago, i cried for the whole day outside in the garden and my lovely daddy2 kept coming out with sweet tea and hobnobs. what a lovely man he is. and it did make me feel better. hobnobs - it's the way to go. .

the toff group was ok. not many of them turned up - probably too busy checking their fine art is straight on their mansion walls... still not gelling - but i'm trying. going to buy a bag of toffess next time, to ram in my mouth before i speak .

just found a babchannel on the box. sweet baby jesus it is dull... my god, they need cranking up. laters ma petite lapins.

Serah - I have inlaws up next weekend. Its great and they give us a bit of a break, taking dd out for nice long walks so we can grab some 'sleep' - well thats what they think . But I know what you mean about the cleaning. I have very selective vision when it comes to dirt. Although I am having to sweep the floors daily due to the handfuls of hair accumulating - much more and its going to look like we have carpet not laminate .

Spikey - I thought toffees idea was for making friends until I read on - thought you were supposed to stick them on your nose a la 'toffee nosed twit'? Possibly not a good look.

I am in uncharted territory today, dd had an unsettled night and I woke with a headache, so got up an hour late - don't know what will happen to our routine now - wish me luck!!!

Well, the house was eventually "gleaming" for the arrival. So far, we have been out for lunch twice and I have barely had to acknowledge my babys' existence as it is constant Nanny-time. Bovvered? Do I look bovvered? Am I bovvered? BOVVERED????

I haven't bathed him since Tuesday, and by that I am not inferring that he is a stinky ol' baby. I just haven't been able to get into the bathroom with all the clucking and fluffing. I am like, chilled to the extrememis (wherever that lurks).

Wondering why you have an accumulation of hair on your floor though MM? Was there an excess of lanugo at birth that is shedding now, or are you in the cat lovers brigade? Next time I wander round Sherwood I'll keep an eye out for a trail of hair. But nevertheless, wishing you luck for your disturbed nights (Mogwai will tell you, it is purely luck and no sympathy as I am still up twice in the night to feed. As for catching up with anything other than sleep with MIL here... Nah!!!)

May be a window tomorrow night btw M&M. I was invited round for an evening in a hot tub, but unfortunately the booth wouldn't fit throught the back door so I was forced to decline. Apart from anything else, the freeflow wine may make me forget my manners and may lead to my running round the garden aferwards, touching my toes at regular intervals. Couldn't have that.

Serah - Handfuls of hair are falling out of my head . I'm thinking of collecting it and making dd or maybe even dh a fetching wig . Can't wait for the inlaws to arrive next weekend. I'm going for a massage on Saturday afternoon and then DH & I are out for Tapas with friends Saturday night (well until about 11pm when I will have to get back for feed).

What is all that about booths, hot tubs and toe touching????? - cryptic and intriguing.

Has pruni not found this thread btw? She was posting on the 80's thread yesterday, and reckons I must have been cool from my description of clothes - I want to set her right .

Mandymac - me too! My hair is falling out all over the shop. Practically tripping over it on the carpet. Consistently prising strand after strand out of ds clammy fists. I'm obviously going back to my minging skinny pre-pregnancy hair. V. V. Sad. I actually got hair when pregnant - first time in my life it felt more than one layer worth. Even my supplier at work - WHO'S A MAN - commented on it(when i was preggers). Sister said it looked like i'd got a nice wig. Ohhhh, such happy days, and now i am a shedding 'Cousin it' lookey likey, with a very hairy carpet, bath, sink, pillow, jumpers... G- utt -ed.

Spikemomma - I very nearly used the Cousin It analogy myself. Its just gross isn't it? and very disturbing. Isn't nature cruel!!! . No sympathy from DH, as he is truly balding poor love.

Message withdrawn

You found us!

Ackturly, I bet I can out-do your bad outfits. When I was 13, I went to the "last day of school before Christmas" come as you like casual stylee wearing a burgundy bell sleeved satin blouse (my mums) topped off with a grey tank top (also my mums) some burgundy t-bar shoes with some grey flowers embroidered on them, and a rather fetching pair of burgundy corduroy flares.

Needless to say I had to go home sick shortly after arriving. How was I to know skin tight jeans were in fashion?

Mandymac.. I was actually invited to a hot tub evening drinks session (in Mapperley don't you know) but I can't face the embarressment of the sight I would currently present in a swimming costume, hence references to victorian bathing booths (once used to protect ladies modesty right down to the sea front) and touching of toes when drunk (i.e. modesty cast aside and presenting horror-arse scenario)

So that's me and Serah in the victorian bathing booth hiding our arses??? Anyone care to join us?? Hey Pruni....we can get this thing kicked off now you are here

Speaking of swimming costumes, took stripe to the swimming pool yesterday. Had to wear a swimming costume my MIL gave me cos mine is still too small. It's ok round the hips but a bit...gapey...round the norks. Anyway, hubby has since put both mine and stripe's swimming cossies in the tumble dryer (who on earth would put lycra in a dryer?)...so looks like we'll be stark bollock nekkid next week. Or will be wheeling the old bathing booth down to the gym

And as for touching your toes....a girl in my antenatal group is married to a guy who used to be a model. She was telling me the other day that he used to model for Jean Paul Gaultier, who flew him to Milan and asked him to "touch his toes". I was trying to puzzle out why he refused, then, clink, sound of penny dropping.

So watch what you say Serah's Carer

hold on...a HOT TUB EVENING DRINKS SESSION???

I don't think I've ever put that combination of words together in my life. You never let on you were a posh cow

oh yeah, and my hair is falling out too, Spikey. It started last week I reckon. Was going to have it cut next weekend but may cancel, as mother nature is saving me the £30 .

Shall look like weird crystal maze/rocky horror man soon (Richard O'Brien??)

Hot tub's in Mapperley eh........not car keys in ashtray scenario I trust . Thanks for explaining - the bending down bit was as rude as I thought then.

How did stripe take to the swimmin Mogwai? We want to take dd, I already have her pink swim nappy wrap thing ready, I was worried about the chlorine in her eyes - was it OK?

On the hair thing, got mine cut about 6 weeks ago and had some of the weight taken out - oh goody - that was a really good move! . Anyone noticed their nethers getting a bit sparse too . I'm considering some radical topiary just to disguise this awful development - brazilian anyone .

haven't paid any attention to the nethers for ages, well, except shifty shave before going to the pool (with resultant stubble meaning can't go swimming for a fortnight...must dig out my tub of NADS). And me, who used immac before going into labour

Stripe seemed indifferent to the pool at first (one wobble of the bottom lip then nothing), but she did seem very interested in the whole thing, didn't cry at all. We stayed in a for about 15 mins, didn't get her head wet so not sure about eyes and chlorine. Some of my antenatl group go to a swimming lesson where the babies are taken to sit on the bottom of the pool while they still have the "breath holding" reflex. Couldn't bring myself to try it though!

I love the wobbly bottom lip! It's sad but funny at the same time. DD has taken to doing a kind of pretend one, which I poke in with my finger whilst telling her to 'put it away' .

the bottom lip is excellent.

Stripe isn't afraid of anything except when we fill her bath with the shower attachment. The sound of the water spraying the plastic freaks her out, even if she's in a different room. Tonight she just screamed and cried real tears

NOT funny!

DD seems to be a bit freaked out by people looming over her in her buggy - you know sticking their faces right in under the hood, and who can blame her. So she sees them off with a red faced scream and likewise real tears .

My little button has had 'the lip' move practically from day one. Hilarious. I think i'm meant to take the gesture seriously, but it's too funny not to laugh. He's almost given up on it now - i think he's gone on lip pout strike. Aww.

Re. nether's - hmmm, interesting, i'll have to have a shufty downstairs and check. Last time i took an active interest down there i was planning the body glitter in preparation to pod (ahh passive birth thread - happy days!)

Taking sprog on 'little dippers' course in a couple of weeks. Involves legging them in water and dunking them underneath - keeking it. But it's meant to be brilliant. I've got 'exercises' i've meant to have started in the bath with him... better start soon - other wise the lips a kimbo and i'm screwed! Of course i'll be looking like cindy crawford in me now baggy pregnancy swimsuit. Which entails baggy vest and bright pink nickers, which now show off me lovely stretch marks. Marvelousy sexy look...

Pants - just did a long post and lost it - baaaah! .

short version: rubbish weather. I have got beginnings of mastitis (trying to self treat, but docs tomorrow if no joy). Local mummy mates all away this week - buggers .

Moan, whinge, complain.

Rant over.

Hope you all had lovely weekends and better mondays than me

Skippydy, skip, skip, skip - like a cheery little lamb - I just cleared my blocked duct (with a little help from dd) . I'm a simple soul and easily pleased. If anyone had ever told me pre dd that I would be sharing such info, on t'interweb with all an sundry (well all on mumsnet), I'd have thought they were mad! .

oh to skip on such a rainy day - tis lovely. good news about clearing your duct (phnaa). re. boobies - i accidently squirted sprog right in the head whilst checking if he'd finished his feed. clearly not. i've done that twice now. frightened the life out of me - and me boy! right on his lovely clean hair. did pee myself laughing at his misfortune. he just frowned...

know what you mean about sharing such particulars with all and sundry on't interweb. i used to have dignity. not any more... i'd practically show anyone any part of my flagging body these days, i'm so used to it.

Oh I know what you mean about lack of shame - I had to have my derriere inspected by physio after dd's birth (stretched coxcycx - ouch!). 'Did I mind if 2 students observed?' - 'Bring um on' says I. .

Lol at squirting ds - I've done that too, or she has pulled off mid suck and kind of squirted herself - very amusing

lol at physio checking your derriere

After I had stripe, I went to a wedding reception for a girl from work. One of my work colleagues came up and asked me "how was the birth?" in hushed tones. "You never told me how bad it would be!" I moaned.

"Darling", she continued.."you think YOU had it bad? I had to have physio..on..my..fucking..arse" she continued in determinedly bitter tone.

I very nearly wet my pants