Jan 09: Spring is in the air and baby mj is due (and some of the others are going to the loo)

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a nice and new and shiny one

120 Someone 'critiquing' your portraits? As an art critic, I'm interested in what was said.

Dry skin. We use Burt's Baby Bee's Apricot oil. Works pretty good.

DH got up with DD this morning and I got a wee lay in and a quiet shower even... we had dance class this morning. Gotta go... DD is climbing all over me being a goof.

120 I'd be stressed in your shoes as well, have a great girls night out. Hope things all work themselves out for you.

DOG hope DD1 sleeps better tonight for you.

Moose the cakes are amazing!

DS wasn't too bad last night as he was shattered after missing his daytime nap. He seems to be getting conjunctivtis though, I'm not sure I can be bothered with cool boiled water shenanigans, think I'll book him in at GP for tomorrow morning and see if I can get some ABs for him asap. They look sore.

LOL at chasing butterflies GA, I can see exactly where you're coming from on that job idea. Makes complete sense to me.

Ooops, didn't realise there was a new thread, sorry for neglecting people

Any niggles MissJ???? He-he! Hope its not too annoying as everyone means well but I remember getting seriously fecked off with phone calls, texts. They are all just bursting with excitement to meet the little one taht they forget you are just as impatient if not a thousand times more!

Hello to moose, good to see you lady, will read your posts for a quick catch up in a mo x

Anyhow, just got back from boot camp and going to eat my salmon pie I made earlier and watched everyone eat (can't eat up to 2 hours before exercise as I get an awful stitch which SUCKS!), so bookmarking for now.

Be back soon

Bkmrkng

Evening.

Am a bit bleurgh tonight, so no words of wisdom for GotArt regarding the job and dh disagreement, or 120 and the art critics. But I can hand out cyber chocolate

Hello to all. Off to bed. Good night to all.

Sorry ladies, nothing doing on the baby front here. 1 week overdue tomorrow. I'm seeing the midwife so maybe I will have a sweep if things look 'favourable', whatever that means.

Good to see you back MM and sounds like some solid progress has been made with DS1's diagnosis at least, well done for hanging in there.

pat am [green] at all your exercising - you must feel fab and bet you look fab too. I remember that exercise high... long time ago for me though.

120 can't believe things are dragging still with your flat. On the plus side, I know many people who just can't sell their place and are stuck for now, waiting for things to change.. Am looking forwards to baby massage with your poster for the new one. What sort of age can you start? Pretty much straight away I guess? I think I did general sort of stroking with N from the start but can't quite remember. I seem to remember they don't like being naked for a while? We'll see.

Waves to everyone else. Sorry for lack of proper catch up. Feeling grumpy and antsy! Also have a stinking cold and hardly slept last night. Just managed to fall asleep tonight when N woke up, and after resettling him, I am now wide awake. Someone please remind me why I thought kids would be a good idea?

MJ Cause its nice to have a family. and [sappy ass emoticon] lol We are planning an Ikea/Vancouver trip first week of May now in hopes that will bring on bambini 2..lol Anyhow, wanted to pass on some info on acupressure and inducing labour. DH and I used the pain relief ones and although he sucks ass at massaging, he got these bang on. This site is pretty informative too.

I don't get a moments rest with this one in my belly, honestly. The second I sit down, the little beggar is kicking and moving around like mad. I've got alien belly movements going on for sure. The other day the baby must have just stuck out the leg and dragged/pushed it across my belly... it was like something out of a movie!

DD is a bad influence. At dance today, the girls were all sitting against the wall (10 of them) and they were waiting for the teacher to make it through them all to find out what toy they were going to be for one of the games they play. One little girl was asked, then her friend, then herself, then her other little friend, then she got up, bolted across the room and was dancing around and the others all go up and followed her! It was mayhem. to say the least. I got a hold of her and told her to behave and she went and sat back down and then I told her two friends too, (we are all about disciplining each others kids and the other two moms have little little ones too so I'm out there wrangling the three together and thank goodness they listen) but the rest were gone. Its worse than trying to herd a flock of chickens. Good grief.

Tomorrow we are off to Strong Start and are doing a little St. Pat's Day themed day. Damned if I couldn't find a shamrock cookie cutter anywhere... I tend to leave things to the last minute, but I did get some for Easter so am ahead of the game. I made some poor man's shortbread and covered them in green sprinkles, and have eaten at least a dozen. I can't believe with all the baking and eating I only gained 4 pounds in a month. Better stick with the treadmill though.

good luck mj sure it wont be long
hi gotart

Dog, let us know how you get on.

White stools are usually something to do with liver or gallbladder (bile duct), although very pale and/or clay coloured stools can just be viral related.

Poor little I, hope the docs get the the bottom of it quickly.

Oh dear Dog,

Yes definitely keep pushing them if you're not happy. As I understand it constipation would usually lead to darker poos not lighter.

We've been going through various health worries with ds2 recently and they only started listening by about appointment number 4, by which time they had actually read his notes, added up the symptoms and started to have a little panic! They didn't even examine him for the first two appointments.

If they won't listen take her to A&E and explain that she has been sick and screaming in pain as well as having the white stools.

Our other course of action is to take them back later on to see the out of hours doctor, as that way you get a second opinion. It was OOH doc that hospitalised ds2 with pneumonia when 3 other GPs had managed to miss it.

Did you emphasize your family history to him? Daft question - of course you did, they never listen do they.

I do hope you get it sorted soon.

Dog Good grief. I've never seen a white poo before or even knew that was possible. Hope it gets sorted sooner than later. The only advice I have is make sure she drinks lots of water to keep everything flushed.

DD woke at 5 for me to change her diaper because she peed... potty training in the wee hours is no good. At least she thanked me after changing it and went back to sleep, but damned if I didn't lay there for an hour awake. I stayed up a bit late last night to wait for DH as I've been completely asleep the last few nights he's come home. Will be taking a nap after Strong Start today. (I'm turning into a bit of an afternoon tv junkie, but fall asleep... Dr. Phil, The Doctor's then Ellen. I usually fall asleep during Dr. Phil. lol)

dog hope she gets better

GA sooo of little Vi, that's amazing, what a good little girl.

Oooo DOG scary stuff hope smiler gets better pronto

Oh DOG just seen this! Hope she is ok. That is very worrying. I hope you get a proper diagnosis quickly.

MJ it's usually recommended that you start massage at 6 weeks on a healthy baby (ie one born at term with no issues at all), but I think as a mum you pretty much get a feeling for where to stroke and how much pressure with a very little one. Am soooo jealous but not of the last days of pregnancy... hope you have someone feeding you grapes and painting your toenails

GA lol at Vi waking you up. H has been doing a bit of that.. much better than us saying to DD just pee in your nappy it's fine.. she is still wearing them now as it's too damn convenient and she doesn't have to get up for her morning wee! On the art front the words 'unintentionally naive' and 'she's just a (quite talented) mum who loves her little baby and that's what you see' annoyed me. Probably doesn't sound that rude to anyone else but it is so patronising and I feel it's sullied my painting now. Maybe I just need to harden up a bit.

oh, and just for the record was extremely sick today after girl's night out. A friend even asked if I was allergic to alcohol. Nope, that'll be a bottle of wine plus each .. need to get some Pat inspiration and burn it all off now.

Dog, poor smiler, hope she's on the mend, big ugs her way (and yours)

120...I love your painting, bollocks to the patronising criticism. Have another

Just dropping in to see if MJ has popped...

Went out last night with an old friend and had a lovely time without any children hanging off me. Think I might be getting used to having a social life again

Have a moth infestation in our clothes, which is driving me insane. I have loads of stuff stored in boxes and am going to have to go through it all now and do another ton of washing. Wish the moths would, quite frankly, fuck off and eat somebody elses woolens!

hello, everybody - glad you're back, moose - was horrified to see i missed the whole end of the last thread!

dog, i hope smiler's a bit better now? sounds scary: hope you can get it sorted soon.

gotart - sorry about job application woes - curating is a very particular business, the people i've known who've done it mostly haven't been practitioners, at least not actively.

120 - hope you had a better day today

missj - knew exactly how you feel, c up half the night and then sleeping restlessly in our bed for the rest of it, dp stormed off to the spare room at about half three, small girl then woke me up about every half hour by head butting me. this the night before last, i spent yesterday thinking if i 'm not pregnant this time, maybe i won't bother....

things mostly good here: have been accepted on a creative writing ma in the autumn. on the sod's law principle, this inevitably means that reproduction will occur... minor cloud on the horizon, a lump in my breast, but the consultant reckons a cyst, so am working hard on not thinking about it at least until the next round of poking and prodding.

anyhow, will try to keep up
and to you all for the day that's in it

Oh that is sooo patronising 120, don't blame you for being pissed off. Don't let it ruin your painting though, no way. Who and why did they forward that comment to you anyway?

dog hope I is okay, white poo does sound very strange.

Went for midwife check today, but refused sweep as feel too ill with this cold to labour at the moment, plus DH has a really busy weekend ahead - have also decided if we get to term plus 14, and I can no longer have a homebirth and have to be induced, I am going to have epidural at the same time as hormone drip put in - just somehow can't face painful labouring in the grim hospital, whereas at home I can be all candles and whale music about it... not quite, but ykwim...

Waves to everyone else

Oooh, x-posted with hkz and stripey. MA creative writing sounds amazing, stripey, am very envious - but like you say, such a plan will no doubt guarantee reproduction. Sounds like we had the same night - OH shipped out to spare room at 3am, N in with me, he woke up every 30 mins or so to have a little cry for approx 30 seconds - at around 6am I found myself commanding him 'stop crying!' in a pissed off fashion, to which he replied 'Okay Mummy' in such a sweet way that I have felt guilty all day....

hkz must keep grown up nights out in sight over the next few weeks... talking of which, 120 if I drank a bottle of wine now I would actually die I think. Can't effing wait .

MJ hope it doesn't come to that... can you try some accupuncture?

Great news on the course stripey and hope consultant can get it all sorted for you quickly.

Glad it's not just me being over-sensitive. It was forwarded from my brother who can be a bit 'well you wanted feedback didn't you' with these sorts of things. I should really learn as have known him for 35 years.

to everyone..