November 2012 - The last few first birthdays then we're on to Christmas

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Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1906769-November-2012-Isnt-age-one-a-lot-of-fun

You need to list your skills and put your network to use and work from that. See what service you can sell. What skills you need but don't have but can get. There are sites like people per hour and elance which are worth looking at, however, there are people who will work for almost nothing so v hard to get decent stuff from it. But it does give an idea of what is out there.

As ever I am impressed and intimidated by the level of intelligence in this quiche.

A year ago today I was preparing to go to hospital to be induced.

As ever I am impressed and intimidated by the level of intelligence in this quiche.

You realise half of us have our underwear on the outside when you say this, right?

chasing is it Os birthday today or tomorrow? Hope you are feeling ok, I felt nostalgic before the one year mark.

Thanks pr . I will start having a think in the new year. I am not averse to actually going out to work a little bit, is just if I can find something in the nearby towns, I suppose I would even do
Belfast if it was only a couple of days a week.

Lol luis how right you are! Ahem.

:o luis

Luis.

Sophia he was born at 00:29 tomorrow morning. I was induced at 1pm today, waters broke at 4pm while XP was getting food then straight into gas and air. At 8pm I fell in love with the anaesthetist who managed to get my epidural working on the second attempt and at 11:50pm I started pushing

I am feeling very nostalgic. It's hard to look back at the last 12 months but the thing that stands out is the friendships I have made this year. I feel lucky. It does feel strange not being with XP as we were going through all this together 12 months ago. Part of me wants to speak to him.

Part of me wants to speak to him too!

Chasing go to Costa and treat yourself to a special reminiscing coffee and cake and raise that mug to yourself and your awesomeness ! Get you and just 40 minutes of pushing - what an amazing job you did

Nursery drop offs are getting worse - today he just clung to me and shrieked. I had to peel him off . When will it get easier? At my sister's yesterday he looked distressed whenever I left the room. I know he's emotional from his teeth / teething reflux (am glad we have paed appt tomorrow) and he's knackered as we saw him every couple of hours last night but he's definitely twigged that when I go I leave him all day and he's not happy about that at drop off .

M is currently dropping raisins into my mum's filing cabinet

The midwife said I was very determined! Although I imagine it is much easier to push with an epidural. I refused to let them give me the synto drip without an epidural. When the first one didn't work I refused to carry on with the labour BTW, isn't gas & air brilliant? I felt wonderfully drunk. To help keep me going through each contraction I sang Hey Diddle Diddle... to myself. Each verse was the length of a contraction! Sorry, this is just a stream of consciousness, feeling rather emotional. I can remember the labour almost hour for hour so it is easy to be reminded of exactly what I was doing this time last year.

[luis] [ grin].

Weird morning. L woke at 4ish but DH went in as I had a really sore neck - feels like I slept funny. Then I couldn't get back to sleep till gone six as my neck hurt and I started to feel really odd, like my heart was racing.

Went back to sleep and didn't wake up till gone 8am (neither did L) but my heart was thumping and it felt like it was going at a really irregular rhythm. DH was going to take me to hosp but I felt like I was going to pass out so he called 999 and they did an ECG which showed a very fast irregular heartbeat (AF). So they took me into hospital. Luckily mum was on her way to look after L anyway. The ECG in hospital had gone back to normal and I feel much better, the whole thing went on about an hour and a half. Blood tests came back normal and they're just about to check my urine & do a chest x-Ray. Then I'll have to be referred for a 24-hour trace thing.

Not what I expected to be doing today!

Oh no JJ. Are you feeling better now

H is at his nans today. FH dropped him off at 9 and I'm still in bed with A. Benefits of bf! A d will one child I have no excuse not to get out today. A walk to library to return a book I think.

Lost a post.

Short version - hi everyone.

Work is still beyond crazy but its the interesting stuff I enjoy and its a sufficiently big job that its being led at v senior level so I'm not solely carrying the weight of responsibility which makes me uber stressed.

But, I am v shortly going to have to decide whether I am walking out at 4 as I usually would on this day to allow DH to work or whether DH is going to have to rearrange his shift at very short notice. If I walk out then DH/childcare are sorted but my nice boss is left massively in the shit on his own for several hours until I can log back in. If I don't go, the work will be done, my commitment will be appreciated by a grateful boss, the politics will be easier, but DH risks pissing off his employer. Things like this make being a WOHM very hard sometimes. I have no other childcare options and my boss is very understanding and there will be no repercussions so I'm not needing any quiche solutions. I just hate being caught in the middle.

Maybe wearing my massive, tatty, granny pants on the outside of my clothes will help?

jj I hope all comes back ok. That must be v scary.

zambomi I think moving pants outside of clothing is the right move!

Feel better after my sad feeling this morning. Had a good time at toddlers and have just spent an hour battling the Christmas tree Into an upright position. It wouldn't fit in the stand so I tried, and miserably failed, to saw a segment off the bottom but easy it was not. 50 mins later I thought, sod this and got a mop bucket and some sand. Stable as it's going to be I think. No time to decorate though must go and pick up the reprobates from Nanny's.

Home from Africa. Have missed loads.

Going to try catch up a bit.

Soph Xmas tree! Already. Wow.
I can't decide where to put ours. Xmas dinner at ours means we will need it up for the day.
Am considering literally putting it up Xmas eve after H goes to bed.

((JJ))

Welcome home pikZ

Blimey JJ, that sounds scary. You ok?

BIG NEWS: I have just sterilised my last bottle

TMI NEWS: this time 1 year ago my waters broke

God, we stopped sterilising months ago when we found L licking the bin.

You ok, JJ?

Thanks guys, I'm home now. They gave me the print outs from my ECGs to pass on to the GP, the one this morning had a heart rate of 148bpm No wonder they carted me off. They didn't find out why, kept talking about anxiety but it was as soon as I woke up so I was relaxed as could be.

Anyway I feel fine now so hopefully just a weird occurrence.

I am still sterilising and boiling water, even though I know there's no need... Just can't kick the habit.

Hope everyone else is ok today

jj Gosh, hope your ok. sounds scary!

Welcome home pikz hope you had good travels.

I got my ss present today. I bought it rather than made anything. my recipient will be pleased though as I don't have a creative bone in my body! A hand made gift from me would be a very shite gift indeed.

cross post jj glad you're back home

Jj glad ur home. Hope it turns out to be a one off.

H plays drums with bin now. Much to my germ obsessed sisters disgust. "Argh wash his hands" as soon as he grabs the bin. Actually she says that to everyone when we touch the bin.

Got out for my walk this might seem mundane to you all. But it's the furthest I've been on my 3 solo walks. And I was wavering before I went as it looked miserable out. So glad I went. Just have to mk a habit of it now. And to go out when I have both. I keep thinking ill be better at getting out when the weather improves. But in this country it may still be snowing in match! So need to snap out of the bad weather excuse.

Is it bad saying I've had a lovely day because H wasn't here