April 2009 Episode 14 "Operation Kill is standing down."

[AuldAlliance]

Voici FWs!

BB are you finding eating difficult at certain times (or all the time)? Being sick is really very very difficult and draining. I have found, for instance that the garbage bin sets me off, so we've now put it outside on the balcony (even tho someone yelled at us abt this?!) and I found that I I'm only throwing up half as often. It also helps having a window cracked and a little air moving around, even tho I have to wear a sweater in the cold.
Hopefully the tablets help you (the MW were very very reluctant to give me any with Moo) I know they helped my sister loads.

I've started walking with a waddle so I'm getting a lot more sympathetic looks from people... tho I don't know how you could be any more pathetic to be throwing up into a bag and no one helping :(

Bebe - didn't mean talking to the HCP about looking after Moo, more generally about preparing for birth. but yes, I hope you can get to some baby groups or some other social things soon. Is there any sort of expat, English-speaking community that might be an easy start?
I really hope the medical stuff gets sorted soon. I am sure you are a very good nurse but still... it would be good to have check ups.

ah yes, that makes more sense
I don't know what they'd tell me that I don't know already which would help me prepare at this point. (What prep I did with Moo I did all on my own- when asked I just got shrugged at really)
Basically, if I were to happen to have the baby here I know you don't get painkillers (no gas and air but they are into aromatherapy, but personally it does nothing much for me) or you get and epi -pretty much like in the States. It's all in the hospital with an ob/gyn present and whatever midwives etc are on duty. The ob/gyn is not necessarily one I'll have seen during any check ups. Apparently a mw (who is more like a HV at this point)will come visit after you're released from the hospital (with a week long stay being expected even for natural births). It doesn't make me feel happy or content for the possibility tho I know some people would not find any of this concerning.

Sorry for ignoring everyone - haven't got time to catch up right now but was hoping someone could give me some advice here? Thanks! Will catch up later, promised www.mumsnet.com/Talk/parties_celebrations/1162259-Party-politics-who-to-invite-and-not-to-invite-having-sleepless-nights

Gah. H with her fussy eating is really getting on my nerves.

Waves to everyone, I'm baaaaaack!

BeAfraidBeVERYAfraidTiggaxx

Happy spring everyone! I've just eaten two creme eggs .

We are eating cornettos (cornettoes? cornetti?)

Schulte, I am already having birthday anxiety; I woke in a cold sweat after dreaming that no one turned up at Ellen's.

Bloody hell how did they end up almost 2?

Anybody got a catch up for name changes?

SlightlyConfusedTiggaxx

Mine's not almost 2 nope nope nope (I think she thinks she's going on 12)
Cannot remember what everyone's names are (or were)

vezzie is gingersarah
wildrumpus is, erm, wrigglyfish, no lulubai
respectthedoughnut cannot be named, I think, but is identifiable from her posts
apologies if I have forgotten folk

Auld blossom plastering is a black art - re-paper!

Thanks for the update.

CanPrettyMuchBuildAHouseButPlasteringIsBeyondMeTiggaxx

Arse.
You are so right, Tigga. The wall looks worse than it did when I started. :(

Call it rustic! You still living in France?

ListeningToTheWailingCubTiggaxx

Yes, I am.
Just spoke to British friend who lives nearby and he said that French plaster is really, really fast-setting, so even someone good at plastering (which he is) is likely to make a mess. A novice has no hope, especially on an ancient, dry as dust, crumbly wall. I feel a little better, though not that much when I glance at the cock-up I have made.

I am indeed looking at the rustic option. V tempted to go and get some rough-look, rustic paint that you slap on with a knife. Don't like it, though...

How are the corsets? Why is the cub wailing?

Corsets are ok - am doing a fashion course at college now!

The Cub is wailing because his Dada told him that he couldn't eat loo roll. He wails a lot now.

I'm going for the worlds meanest Mama award.

What is new with you?

WillGetAGoldMedalForItTiggaxx

marking thread - lots of catching up to do

yawn

wake me when they're self-sufficient

that includes the husbands...

Good morning. The sun is shining. Hurrah.

Bebe - you ok?

Lovely sun! I wish it would warm up properly here!!

Yeah for the most part i.e. I'm alive and everyone else is...
I'm struggling with major sleep deprivation (Moo keeps waking in the night and coming to get us-once awake I'm up for hours) and on top of the pregnancy and my tantruming toddler and the disorganised husband and my not yet here EHIC card...I'm stressy and headachey and teary. I could really use some baking in the sun and then a gentle breeze while I sleep under a palm and a thin sheet of soft cotton

so what are the 2yo party plans? if any?
MIL called last night and was all upset that we're away for Moo's 2nd when we didn't have a 1st. 'we're just missing out on all her formative milestones!' fn hell woman walking is a milestone, talking is a milestone...a birthday party is NOT a formative milestone.
She's also nagging about me and Moo coming to visit them as it's 'going to be just so long before we see her again and we were just starting a relationship with her' -this really truly irritates me because MY parents don't get to see Moo for at least 6m at a time, and there have been times it's been a whole FN year since I've seen them...but this just doesn't matter to her and it's sounding a little too much like her 'well you ought to come live in the UK because your parents have 5 kids and I only have the 2 so I'd miss out more' when dh and I got married (tho at the same time I do understand what she's saying abt Moo-I just hate that she's really trying to guilt me into it)....anyhow
I told her I'm just not fit to travel alone with Moo right now because of the pregnancy sickness and that I have very strict dietary needs currently which I don't feel comfortable imposing on other people/dealing with outside the 'home' I mean I have enough troubles when we go away on the weekends for drives...I just cannot see myself dealing well at their house and during the travel. PLUS, the fact that Moo is not sleeping thru the night and I need to have dh around at night to support me. She said they'd be happy to do it, but it's just not the same. As Moo wouldn't won't settle for them I am positive, and it's not like she'd be in their room to deal with...I'd still be having to get up by myself to settle her, and while yes, they could deal with her during the day and I could get some rest, I'd not really be comfortable with that, and she'd not want to go anywhere with them without me because she's just really not that comfortable with them yet. (AIBU?)
Anyhow (again) I reminded her we were coming home for Easter most likely and then if they were coming to visit in June and then we'd be back the end of July it really wasn't that long in between visits and moo seeing them.
AIBU? Should I be making more of an effort and it's just my lack of sleep causing the annoyance/ feelings like it's just not possible right now?

We had a meal last year with the entire family. As dp's mother is lovely and her partner is a passive aggressive twunt we won't be doing that this year. I see making a meal as an extension of my love and quite frankly I'll tap dance on the mans grave so I won't be feeding him from my table again.

And imnsho ffs they are 2! What they really want is cake and a box to play with.

YANBU more passive aggressive rubbish from P/IL's. You're pregnant and having a hard time, if they want to see their grandchildren more tell them to get Skype.

SlightlyBelligerentTiggaxx

(I'm feeling equally belligerent)
SIL has just FB me and said Mum's really sad that she won't be seeing moo for so long. Maybe you could come and stay here with us...

My eye is twitching and I'd really just like to scream