December 2011: They're one Jim, and highly illogical!

[LittleMissFantabulous]

I went with Gary's suggestion, as it was quite awesome and indeed factual!

:o

Onwards?

Sleep dust wasnt quite so good last night - knew I shouldnt have got too excited! 3 wake ups but she stayed in her cot and didnt have milk but I did need to settle twice.

I really need to step away from that EU referendum thread. But it makes me so ANGRY when PEOPLE are WRONG on the INTERNET aaarrgha;dgaidjaeoru9APS(Ryh

Caaalm xiao
There's a reason I stays orf of the Health and vaccination threads!

and have a for DH.

I had DS jabbed with the MMR and Hib/menC today. Bless him, he was so good and didn't even cry. I was amazed, the DDs both wailed the place down with theirs! No real progress on the house yet, just need them to sort the paperwork, have to be patient, though I am very impressed with the estate agent for our sellers, it really sounds as if he's working hard to try to motivate the solicitors along. Yay for sensible estate agemts!

Was just putting DS to bed (having already put DD down earlier). Came downstairs and was just about to go out swimming and realised DH has buggered off somewhere without telling me. Arse. There is plenty I could get on with but it is still annoying. Lots of work on at the moment so perhaps I will just do that and try not to get even more pissed off with the idiot.

jiggle he's just gone out without saying anything I'd be pissed off too he'd better have gone to shops and be coming back with a big slab of dairy milk for u!! What an arse

Can I have Mr Jon Bon Jovi for a steamy night for my 30th birthday pleeeeasse

DD1 got her first brownie badge tonight - it was her computer badge

Are we all ready for OBEM?

Aethel, well done to your DS for being such a tough little dude!
Estate agents being sensible?! LIES.

Xiao, I've stopped reading the political/emotive threads on here, if it's more serious than the colour of your bathroom suite I stay away.
Tickets to the proms or a naice evening out?
A free pass to spending the weekend dossing about in his boxers?

jiggle, arses . Did he know you were going out swimming?

Queen, no argument from me over Bon Jovi, not my cup of tea at all!
Sky+ OBEM as DH is working nights this week, so we'll watch it together tomorrow morning (he's become such a softie since having DS! Almost to the point where I worry about it affecting his performance at work).
Well done to your DD1!

Having a really crap time being pg atm, my feet/ankles & hands are as swollen as they were at 40wks with DS (can't fit rings or shoes on!) & it's getting really uncomfortable to walk/stand for long so DS isn't getting out with me during the day...so he's grumpy too.
But I know I shouldn't grumble because I'm lucky to be pg after mc, gah!
Kat, Seven or those who can remember being pg (over a year ago!!) what helps/helped your swollen feet?

Seven, is the rescanning purely because the baby was being awkward? And nothing more stressful?

So little SevenJunior is being awkward then?! My friend had to have three more after her original scan, as they just couldn't get a good look at some important bits (heart, spine, etc)- they didn't think anything was wrong but needed to check, and I though how lucky she was!

We have to record it too Queenie, but it's my treat viewing at the weekend

I have to say jiggle that is totally swordfish behaviour from your DH, just buggering off?! And whilst you were dealing with the kids? Hope you manage to keep active and forget about it... And I owe you an apology, I snaffled the sleep dust as DS went through- first time in a while owing to croup, four molars and unidentified virus-y thingy that kept him off nursery.

And I'd give the hired cleaners a go Oi; I'll be able to update you on their performance very precisely after this weekend of fun, hah so you can see what you think. That is grim though- is your DH going to have words with his friend?

Spag bol now being served, we eat stupidly late in the week

Sorry short update and no namechecks. Phone about to die. Just have v few other people to tell this to: I'vr been poo fishing amongst thr bath bubbles!

Urgh.

Sorry short update and no namechecks. Phone about to die. Just have v few other people to tell this to: I'vr been poo fishing amongst thr bath bubbles!

Urgh.

Now my typos making me sound all Zummerzetty, from Glaswegian yesterday!

Now my typos making me sound all Zummerzetty, from Glaswegian yesterday!

I had lots of name checks and multiple rants about various crap things this week, but Seb just grabbed the laptop and I lost the post.

So a cute story instead. He grabbed the remote a little while ago, randomly managed to select a movie channel with the Blues Brothers on and was bopping along to the songs. Cheered me up no end

Had my booking in appt yesterday. MW has put me at 13+2 although I'm massively unsure about my dates and she didn't check my cycle length. She said she's try to rush me a scan date but I've yet to hear anything.

Gary sorry never really had a problem with swelling except post partum and the advice then was just lots of fluid and put your feet up but keep them moving (like flight excercises IYSWIM). If you're swollen up now in the cold, what are you going to be like in the summer? Is it worth checking with your MW?

at poo fishing

To be fair I hadnt had a chance to say I was going swimming but had changed into tracky bums and I do try to swim on Weds, but then again we haven't communicated much since Monday am when we had another row, which I won't bore you all with.

Gary - no help with the swelling but do ask your MW soonish as think it can be a sign of high blood pressure

I do love OBEM.
Poo-fishery pompoms!
jiggle you have my sympathies. What a nob. Ignorant sod, to leave as you're settling the baby. Grrrrr!! Sorry things are not great.
Swollen feet - keep moisturising, keep them raised, keep moving, drink plenty water.
In better news, I won the lottery yesterday, but I don't know what I won yet. Probably £3.60.

Arf at Poo Fish! We're yet to have a free-roaming turd anywhere!

It's not high blood pressure (my blood pressure is 90/60), Kat, damn, I forgot we'll both be ready to pop in the height of summer heat...should be really enjoyable.
Oi, I shall moisturise & try to drink more, cheers for the advice.
Hope it's more than £3.60!

Gah, meant to say probably having another girl!

jiggle ((hug)) hope things improved when he came home and you didn't throttle the selfish sod

gary my feet were enormous with DS, though it was right at the end and I had PE. I think drinking plenty of water and sitting and sleeping with your feet raised above your hips are the only things that really help. My pregnancy yoga DVD says sit with legs out straight and alternate pointing your feet towards the ceiling then out in front again encourages fluid back up the legs, though I only got it with DD so I don't know if it works.

DS was a June baby, I remember being uncomfy on the very hot days but other than that it was much better wearing pretty floaty maternity tops and cropped trousers. Plus when they're tiny vests and romper suits beat blankets and pramsuits any day!

I've got another scan booked for 28 weeks at the start of March so we'll hopefully find out for certain then. Sonographer said with legs crossed she couldn't see anything obvious poking out so likely a girl but couldn't get a good enough view to be certain

aethel wow no screams! DS's are next Friday and I am fully anticipating a full-body meltdown like last time but now he's so much bigger he will be harder to keep still. I may whisper in his ear "you know aethel's son didn't even cry...don't you want to be just like him..."

jiggle so sorry to hear and I bet the small daily angers about things like him leaving the house without telling you pile up and turn into larger bigger angers that are harder to deal with. No solutions to offer, just a listening ear - you never bore me no matter what you want to talk about.

plu yuck at poo fishing and thanking my lucky stars that so far, such horrors have never happened to me famous last words

So of all the happy pregnant ones. I'm dithering about number 2 - DH and I had agreed we'd go for a two year age gap which would have worked perfectly at work IF my colleague was taking a 6 month mat leave like I did. Unfortunately (for me not her!) she announced yesterday she wants to take 9 months which means there would be a three month overlap where we are both off. Now...the best laid plans of mice and men etc so maybe we should just do our own thing and risk the massive headaches for the rest of our team...say we delay 3 months but then she decides to take a year, what then?

Arrgh. Decisions!

PS I had an amazing sleep last night on my night off - woke up at 8am after a solid 9 hours. And before that I met a friend I hadn't seen for ages for tapas in Soho and we had such a great time - I usually see her as part of a bigger group so it was great to have dinner one on one and properly talk.

But now, ouch the engorgement!!! DS has been feeding so much in the night recently (hence DH telling me to take a night off) that it's clearly massively upped the milk supply as a couple of months ago I wasn't getting engorged at all when he was sleeping through.

I hand expressed a little bit this morning just to relieve the discomfort but they're starting to hurt again.

xiao - glad to hear you had a lovely night off. Can make all the difference to how you feel. Re trying for number 2 I would just say go for it when you want to as you never actually know how long it will take. It was nearly a year before I got pregnant and then I had a MC before getting pregnant with F so our gap is 3 and a half years, rather than the 2 and a half we planned. I quite like the bigger gap as DS is at school so I can spend time 1 on 1 with F like I did with DS.

I was asleep when DH got in and cant be bothered to make a fuss about it - think he had a committee meeting about something but our communication is pretty crap.

Not sure I want to jinx it again but F slept well again last night - I wake up and she settled herself quickly.

xiao I definitely wouldn't plan your children around your coworker, you never know, she might accidentally get pregnant whilst on mat leave and all your good intentions would have gone to waste.

Question: my colleague is measuring 6 weeks too big, she's had scans to check volume of waters and they are on the high end of normal- could it just be a big baby? She and her dh are both just over 5ftish.

Evening! bee, large waters are sometimes due to problems with baby, but according to this website two-thirds of cases are due to "unknown causes" and they say most cases are relatively mild and don't result in bad outcomes, so hopefully all will be OK with your friend.

xiao, you are sweet, lovely, and dedicated to your job, but take a step back and work out what you would do if you didn't have work in the equation, and then do that. When we were thinking about whether to try for DS I briefly worried about asking for yet more mat leave, but then imagined myself saying to the DDs in twenty years "We always wanted a third, but didn't want to impact on mummy's work"....needless to say DS came along about a year after that conversation!

Very sage advice you're getting ref the babies Xiao; obviously you don't want to screw up work for colleagues, and planning on getting pregnant when you know the entire office is relocating to Nairobi or something wouldn't be great, but generally I'd say just go for it. Only thing we're planning our next one round is when DS gets his free hours otherwise we won't be able to afford nursery fees !

We both are V V keen to get another one brewing, but will have to leave it until next year...sigh....

I remember there were reasons for crossing your fingers for either a boy or a girl seven, but sure you're delighted with your probably XX bean!

Time to 'fess up...I actually remember producing a poo-fish and my Mum having to sort it out Funnily enough the memory stuck with me...

And what are you going buy the thread, oh Mill Oi naire?

We actually have random free time tonight- DS fell asleep in the car, the sort of sleep where he didn't stir being removed, carried through the streets, put on the sofa, etc. So we just put him in bed fully clothed and will wait to see what happens!