November 2012 - More group hugs and moral support please

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1676013-November-2012-We-want-rattles-and-we-want-them-now

I'm all prickly. I am mostly amused by my day so I don't cry!

Forgot too add Oscar puked in my hair and right inside my top and bra, and it ran in to my knickers.

I've eaten my weight in donuts. Just to make it all better!

Yea DP is here! The insides just fell out EVERYWHERE!

The shelves are now broked. It's DPs fault but we won't talk about that in case it makes me want to poke his eyes out!

It's still cold so I guess ill just have to make do with no interior!!

detective OMG! Did not know fridges could do that.

VQ So glad that you are feeling better after the chat with hv and that J is settling down. Fingers crossed that everything's on the way up now.

glenda You need to get in touch with student services at your uni. All universities have a pot of discretionary funding for students who are struggling financially and will help you out. You can get a grant for living costs (like fuel going to and from uni), a one off grant for emergency stuff (like car repairs etc) or a short term loan to tide you over until the student finance comes through. They are WELL used to dealing with situations like yours, I promise you. There have been a couple of times wher DH and I would have been truly stuck without it and our university has bent over backwards to help. They even do a maternity grant, but I don't know if that is specific to my uni. If they don't spend it, the gov gives them less money to spend next year, and it has to be used by the end of April, I believe. Usually they want to see 3 months bank statements, tenancy agreements etc, and they want to see that you are using an overdraft, if you have one. If you don't have one, they will prob tell you to get one or want to see written refusals from a couple of banks. Good luck! X

In other news, my smallest DS is close to being put in the bin. He has been a bit of a screechy monster since 2pm this afternoon. I suspect that the week of keeping me up all night is catching up with him and he is muchos overtired

horsey that sounds great. Fingers ceossed. Loved the tweed btw.

VQ You're sounding more positive, that's great.

glenda (((hugs))) I have no advice I have never been able to finish my studies I know how feustrating it is.

Detective you're obviously having trouble with all that is technology related. It seems neverending.

MM is your DP being at least less of a twunt than last week?

Tits I am very thrush prone and since bf I get it on the boobs as well as everywhere else each time I take antibiotics. You have my sympathy, it's awful. LO has it in some of her thigh folds, but it doesn't seem to bother her either. I wonder if babies feel pain like we do. They don't seem to.

Stunt how are you this evening.

General to everyone.

My prickly scar has calmed down this evening. Sorry if I was snappy about it earlier. It was annoying me, and I know it can come and go for --ever- a while yet.

Also, good luck to horsey and pidjin! I know you will both be magnificent

Thanks for asking PR but I'm in a bad mood as this baby will not settle long enough for me to make dinner and I'm STARVING since I had lunch at 11:30 and that was over eight hours ago.

PR less twunty more useless. Still I managed to recover my prevalentines meal and it was lovely ignores burnt custard

Vq - daft as it sounds I think mat leave will have done me good in terms of what I'll go back to. I think they realise what I do now I'm not there.

Stunt I resorted to a carrier this afternoon to make dinner!

PR glad the scar is better.

Detective what is going on in your house!! Try free cycle for a new one?

VQ how is LO now?

Bplp you sound like your having a fab night!

Good luck horsey too!

Cat bag you are still my hero.

Wonder how many of us (when I say us, I do not include me!) will be announcing a second valentine's baby in a few weeks time!

Repeat: definitely NOT me

Luck has never been mine.

Now you know why I worked my ass off in my annual leave web I was pregnant.

You can guarantee this shit will all happen when you can least afford it!

Of course, if DP hadnt knocked the bottom shelf of the door off some weeks back, meaning we had nowhere to store milk without it leaking all over the show, then decided to fuck around with the shelves to see if he could get the milk in....

Fingers glued crossed NOT ME!!

Also some more - I made an executive decision today to apply for the LLM at uni, starting in September. I finish my final year in May and I am quite simply not ready to leave yet. I told DH and he was like as I have no idea how we would pay for it. So I need to find a way of putting together £2000 by the Autumn, that in no way impacts the financial well-being of the family. Now I am pulling the

I intend to do it part time over two years so would need to find the other £2000 next year. I don't want to stagnate. It took me so long to finally get my shit together and get to uni (I was 29 when I started), I really don't want to lose my momentum and sit around on my arse until the twins are 5, I am 37 and am trying to pick up where I left off on a degree that is 5 yrs old. Kind of makes me twitch a little that DH doesn't have this issue, although that is a little unfair. He would be happy to stay at home, but as he points out he has a job to walk straight into after uni; I need to study more before I can start my practise. If I could earn more than him straight away, then he would be the SAHD though who knows how the kids would turn out then Mr 17 hours a day on the computer.

So. End result is that I have promised him that if I can't squirrel enough to pay for the first year, I will withdraw my application and not be miserable at him about it (which is what he is most worried about). Ladies, I need to pilfer your combined gargantuan intellect and come up with a way of making this cash. Non-smutty answers only please detective and vq I am looking at you

Just so you know, I totally wasn't scared off by your collective girl-crushes, was just not able to get on MN today. You are all v. lovely

Cat bag can you get any admin work part time from home? For example my DP business hires a part time mum and she gets £12 an hour for the hours she can work. She's at home on a pc doing it.

Wll baby evil has lived upto his name! He has only drank 3 bottles today at 7oz each. He has been grumpy ALL day, and driven me nuts.

I tried to phone the HV as I have given in regarding his colic at 1225, all I got was a recoded message saying phone back before 1230 he has also been teething. Why does there has to be so much druel?

DP is insisting I watch a programme in channel 4 about how bad nurseries are. He still thinks they are bad, and I should hand over baby evil to his crazy mum!

Evil

pikz That I could definitely do. Not sure how I would go about drumming up the business though. Will look into it. By the way, I might be your hero but you are totally mine too. 45oz a day? I do a dance when I get 6. You are a total legend. Take a bow

Passme the simple fact is that it's this or minimum wage shit again. Or starve.

Cat bag look at gum tree, get your linked in profile up to date and try remoteemployment.com and monster.com.

Forgot to say... as DS is so fat chunky he has huge jowls and they get sweaty and grubby even though I wash him and them regularly. The creases are very red and shiny too. Yesterday morning he STANK of off milk to the point that if the smell hadn't gone in the bath I would have taken him to the dr.

I think part of the problem is that it's a hard area to dry. Any advice?

I GIVE UP!

I should just go to bed!

Oscar nearly pulled my nose piercing out. I read how you should let them explore your face. Well. I won't be making THAT fucking mistake again.

Owwwwwwwwww. Btw. My piercing is stuck. It would have to be cut out it just won't come out on its own. This is because the pain is excruciating as the hole has gotten too small!

I may have screamed like a starving baby with a shitty nappy and a bout of colic Oscar has now stopped crying at the shock.

Baby evil and baby pikz have clearly been talking and decided to have a grumpy terrorist day!

Sorry Cat, I missed your post.

I read on MN a while ago that the best way to make money in a certain amount of time is to figure out how much you need to earn per week (so X number of weeks until September... 2000pounds divided by number of weeks = amount needed per week) as that should be far more manageable than a WHOLE 2000. Then figure out what you need to do to get there... ebay? baby sitting?

Sorry, hope I've not written the "earning money" equivalent of saying "just enjoy the free time" to a recently divorced mum who has to send her kids to her ex and OW.

Ah well boo to house hunting just had a bit of good news - an email from my old freelance client asking if I'd consider a few hours a week - at £30 an hour I'm sorely tempted to try to fit in 4 or 5 a week. Especially as I'm still waiting to hear about MA. Thing is some days I barely manage a shower so think I'm not quite ready yet. Still its nice to be missed by the world of the grown ups!

( WARNING moaning)

Pikz- I just don't know what to do, I'm at my wits end. He usally drinks 30 oz a day, but today he has only had 21oz and I've really had to push the milk too.

I recon he will be up, all fucking night.

But why oh why does he have to moan ALL the time.