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Hello Ladies,

Here is the 4th WIIT thread for our enjoyment.

Stats will have to follow at a later date, as I can't check back to see where everyone is accurately at the moment.

Get posting and lets see where this thread takes us. :)

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I can't see the photo either! :(

Hope everyone has had a lovely weekend. Seems so quiet on here these days.

The weekend has gone way too fast, but for once DH didn't spend the whole time working. (Which is good in one respect but obviously means he has no actual work to do! :() No light at the end of the tunel I'm afraid. Just wish life would give us a break. It's been one thing after another!

Making Christmas cakes this week. Just made a big one for us & then making some smaller ones to go in hampers as presents.

Some good news though, I have my first proper cake job lined up for March. So after Xmas it will be project 'sort kitchen' although I have a back up plan of using the kitchen in PILs guest house/granny flat. All very exciting though. Just working on the contract/invoice details for my client! :o Got to did out our wedding stuff to see if I still have the one we had for our cake so I can rip off the t's & c's! :o

Oh my goodness WW - one more week & you are considered 'term'! Scary stuff! How fast has that gone?!

This job I've got for March is 8 cupcake bouquets. It's a lot of work but it's going to be fab! Also been asked by my grandma to make her 80th birthday cake in May, so I'm really excited about that. My birthday is in a couple of weeks so I have plans to make myself something special (that I can photograph for a portfolio...two birds, one stone ).

Have..erm...fun (?!) at the birth unit. :o

Great work on getting some official work Bebe - that is fantastic news and I am sure that before long business will be booming!!

I've changed the permissions on my pic so hopefully it can be seen now. Will change it back tonight though as it's got my name on!! We chose not to find out the sex as DH was really against it. I wish we had but guess I'll just have to wait until March!!!

Went shopping for Mini yesterday with DH ("working from home") and got some lovely stuff from Baby GAP....... I've got the shopping bug now though and really want to buy lots and lots of things!!!

Got my draft agreement through last night so looks like we are all on track for a 31st October finish....... So exciting!

Oooh WW - how was your trip to the birthing unit?

Ah, there's the scan! How sweet. How you've managed to get all that baby in that teeny neat bump I'll never know - clearly you're a tardis SPR.

Quod hope that you recover form last night's party!! Lucozade and salted popcorn was my failsafe cure!!
Think the stomach muscles are about to give in... I can feel everything stretching and today it feels like I might explode! Time to get out the Bio Oil!!!

WhyWait Amazing news that you have such a fantastic place to give birth. I am sure it will help keep you as calm as possible and make the experience as enjoyable as it can be!!
I had a Grazia 30% voucher for GAP so that was really helpful in saving us quite a lot. Have dug out Bebe's list of essentials and am delighted to see that there is still more purchasing of teeny tiny clothes to be done! :)

SPR - What an adorable picture! :) Did you go to the Bath shop, I have friends who work there! (I used to work at the one at Cribbs, but thankfully before I had DD or I would have spent all my wages!!) Cannot even remember what was on my essentials list now!

Quod - Canapes & free wine?! Sounds like my kinda party!

WW - Birth unit sounds lurrrvely!! Fingers crossed he arrives pronto! :o

Yes I do need to be inspected by enviromental health! Eeeek! But I do have a back up of using PILs guest house kitchen which is newer & never used. We do have plans to re-do our kitchen, but with things as they are right now it's been put on hold! A friend of mine has said that all they really want to see is that it is clean...which I can do, obviously! My big concern is that they might be iffy about us having a cat. But he doesn't go on the kitchen counters & he hardly ever uses his litter tray (which technically isn't in the kitchen but by the back door/bathroom) so I'm just not sure what they will say really!

Bebe my friend has 2 cats and a tiny kitchen (part of main living space) in their rented flat, and she was passed by the environmental health inspectors. Like you said, they want to see it's clean and not full of dead mice, cobwebs and rat poison!

DP and I have had another round of The Talk today, prompted by yet another delivery date for his big project being set (April now). I can't let myself get wound up about the date moving constantly into the future otherwise I would actually explode, but today's conversation was actually quite reassuring - I realised I'd been casting him in my head as trying to put off TTC, when actually, as he said, he's not, he really wants to get started on it, but he's really wanting to find the best time so that he and I can enjoy little one's first weeks together properly. He finds the date-moving thing as frustrating as I do. So at least I feel like we're on the same page - we also talked about how we both feel like we'll never feel ready, and we'll always have a certain portion of our brains going 'AGGH IS THIS THE RIGHT THING TO DO?!', but that we need to get on and do it anyway as there's no point waiting for those feelings to subside (it's a natural anxiety and we both actually do want to have children!). I actually feel a lot less conflicted about it now knowing that we do share a perspective much more than I thought, and I'm not the only one who finds it terrifying and exciting in equal measure. Apparently, starting TTC in November is not entirely off the cards - I don't reckon we will, as it'd be sensible to leave a bit more wiggle room, but nonetheless it surprised me that he wasn't ruling it out!

(Phew - sorry for that rant, but it's really useful to see it all written down, IYSWIM?)

Yes I do have a name! :o It's a bit cheesy, but it does make me laugh!! And we (me & DH) have coe up with a whole web design/layout/concept based around it which I think is really good! :o

Hi everyone - and congratulations Strawberry on little Emma. I wrote a long post over the weekend referencing everyone and it took me ages and of course the computer crashed and I lost it just as I was trying to post it.

I never seem to have time to post these days, but I am keeping up with everyone's news and it's particularly lovely to have some of my having children fears allayed by the positive reports from the front lines.

Thanks Quod :) How is the hangover?

SPR, glad the scan went well, it's a great picture you have got there :) Glad I managed to see it before permissions changed.

bebe, great news on the cake job you have lined up. Cake job sounds a bit wrong, like 'bank job' lol

WW, your birthing unit sounds lovely :)

AC, please don't have any fears. It's easy and hard and rewarding and amazing and well I just can't explain how utterly fantastic being a mum is.

Well hello again. :)

LO had massive growth spurt/milk fest at the weekend, and we had a day out visiting friends on Friday which was TBH a comedy of errors from start to finish! Never mind. We dealt with the 2 total clothing changes on the journey, the mammoth feeding on journeys, the crap foods we had at the services, the possible gallstones attack I suffered in the middle of the night, 2.5 hours sleep altogether that night, but I sat there looking at her at 4am and nearly cried with how much I love her.

Had a visit to my family's yesterday, stopped over at mum's and came home today, saw my sis and her 2 girls, the littlest who was in hosp in April and Aug with a chest infection still has a severe chest infection and will be on antibiotics for 4 weeks, check up again in 6 weeks and if still has an infection she will have to have lots of investigations :( My sister couldn't really talk about it today, it's quite upsetting.

I'm hoping to take part in the eat study am booked to go there in December. I'm also going to donate milk to the milk bank at the hosp I gave birth at, as I have lots and lots of milk going spare :) And want to help if I can.

LO is properly smiling a lot now, chattering away and generally a happy little soul. It's really really lovely having her around. There will be a second one....

Oh dear not before my first one I hope! Everyone is lapping me. DH says we will start as soon as I qualify for contractual maternity pay. Hope it's not a year!

AC - when will you find out about mat pay...and when do you start? (Apologies if you've said & I missed it!)

100 - Glad you are enjoying motherhood. Think it's fab about the milk bank :)

I must go & do the washing up....have got mini xmas cake 1 of 3 in the oven & need to wash up the bowls etc to do the next one!

Oh Edith sounds like such a sweety, like AC it's so nice to hear joyous stories from the other side! That chatting thing some babies do is so sweet isn't it?

WW the thing is that the 6 months after April (or whenever DP's thing finally happens) will potentially be super-busy for DP, and he would possibly be away a lot, which is why we've been holding off TTC as it would be horrible if he wasn't around much in the last bit of pg and the first few weeks after birth. Saying that, it's all so unpredictable I am unwilling to 'peg' TTC on his work thing, IYSWIM? We've been around the point about it potentially taking time to catch, how it's all so unpredictable etc so many times, but he can't let go of being nervous about TTC when his work stuff is about to all kick off. Maybe Jan is a good symbolic starting time?

Strawberry how are you and Emma doing?

Bebe who knows? My PITA of a boss can't seem to find time to write my reference, and as the new job is subject to references, I can't make any plans. Do you think he suspects that I'm toying with the idea of walking out as soon as I sign my new contract?!

AC - What a twonk! Anyway of reminding him....?

I've been assured it's been posted now. The head of department is so pleased to be getting rid of me that it's almost funny. He keeps asking if I know when I'm leaving yet! I can't bloody wait.

Quod it sounds like you'll be starting TTC before me. I'm really sad about having to have another Christmas go by while I'm still waiting - my third since the broodiness started. Once it's out of the way I reckon I'll be coasting along like an endurance athlete for a few months!

AC I dunno, I can't realistically see it happening til April is out of the way.
Do you think you'll move job before Xmas? Nice to have a big change on the horizon.

Wish me luck - I've got a show on tonight and tomorrow as part of a massive club night/party. Hoping all goes to plan!

Hope it went well last night Quod & Good Luck for tonight too!

AC - fingers crossed you'll be out of there by Christmas!

My DH in his infinite wisdom has arranged for us to get a kitten, we are picking him up tomorrow! Apparently the constant 'nagging' (I mentioned about twice that our cat Jaffa was lonely & DD keeps asking, but she's 3 so that doesn't count) made him change his mind!!! WT actual F?!?!?! So he'll cave to getting a kitten then?! If only I could train persuade DD to mention having a baby brother to him more often?! (She doesn't want a baby sister!!) It's alright for him to arrange this, he's not the one who'll be cleaning up after him or feeding him or taking him to the vets (who we still owe money to). I obviously would love to have a kitten (would love a baby more, but hey ho), but wish he had asked first & given it some more thought. We are not set-up for a kitten, we need to kitten proof the dining room/kitchen in order to leave him in at night. We need new bowls, a new litter tray, proper kitten food (which I'll somehow have to persaude the other cat not to eat!). Plus then he'll have to be de-flead, wormed & vaccinated. And we aren't exactly flush at the moment! Sometimes he just doesn't think things through!!!!! (And sometimes he thinks things throughtoo much!!) Oh and apparently DD gets to name him, but the only suggestions she has come up with so far are 'Bag' and 'Mr Bloom'!

Had to go & get kitten today! He's very cute...but I'm still not impressed!

Can we maybe have a picture of the kitten so that we might accurately pass judgement on this incident, Bebe?

Show went well thanks, lucky me now gets to spend a day in bed if I want - after 2 nights of partying I need it these days!