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November 2012 - Walking or not walking, talking or not talking, any other skillz?

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StuntNun · 28/02/2014 08:00

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/2000561-November-2012-The-exciting-all-new-all-singing-all-dancing-fred

We have quite a range of ages and they each develop at their own rates... so what can your toddler do?

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Elizadoesdolittle · 07/03/2014 20:50

apple It's a difficult one. A lot of men don't have the same interest in weddings as women. He is obviously fully committed to you and in his mind that may be enough. Although he wants to marry you he may have no interest in the planning of it, which is fine as you could do it and get exactly the wedding you want. However it is tricky if he needs to sort out his citizenship in order for you to get married in the first place.

I know this is slightly different but DH is the same with learning to drive. It's not the actual learning to drive and taking the test that bothers him. It's the doing the theory test, which of course you need to do before you can take a driving test. He just won't pick up the bloody highway code or do the computer theory thing I got him. I don't actually mind him not driving most of the time as it means I get the car all the time and I like driving anyway. I'm a bad passenger so I'd do all the driving anyway. It's just sometimes it would be so bloody handy if he could drive. Hmpf, men!

Anyway said DH is out tonight and I was planning on watching some "good" rubbish TV but nothing is on. On the Jane Austen theme I still have Death comes to Pemberley on the planner from christmas just a tad behind so I'll stick that on.

PetiteRaleuse · 07/03/2014 20:53

Sad to stunt poo house

I did the looking at the ceiling thing but that killed me. Not sure about the tongue thing will try Monday soph. Will defo try the crossing arms thingstunt. My abs were my back doctors' Thing. But then I got updiffed. And again. And the EMCS with DD1 followed closely by the stomach surgery buggered everything up. Followed by another pg... They're fucked.

ValiumQueen · 07/03/2014 20:57

No JJ Grin

I have just had a fake pot noodle for my tea. Not good. Especially as I have been fantasising about quiche all day!!!

PetiteRaleuse · 07/03/2014 21:00

Every time I tried to get fit since the back accident something (babies and ulcers) got in the way. Despite a very scary pregnancy scare earlier this week I'm pretty sure nothing can stop me now. But it's been 5+ years since my perfect abs were ruined by laziness and accidents and general trauma (had abandoned them before the back issues)

Pikz · 07/03/2014 21:02

PR you want to look forward and up not backwards and up straight to the ceiling if that makes sense

Feeling rather low. Building work started in ernest today. L very excited about the ractors as he calls them!
Just everything is such a mess and DP is away and I feel very alone and L still not sleeping means I've not had a minute that isn't work or L and bad nights for 10 days.

Sorry meh meh post, it's why I haven't been posting.

Pikz · 07/03/2014 21:03

Pregnancy scare PR???

ChasingDaisy · 07/03/2014 21:16

I'm on a quest to get my abs back too PR. Pre-O they were awesome. I hate having a weak core now and it won't be helping my constant back pain.

fiatpandababba · 07/03/2014 21:23

My tummy is in a poor state. Still look 5 months pregnant. Stupid split tummy muscles. My lower back aches as my core is so weak. I really do need to do my exercises again

PetiteRaleuse · 07/03/2014 21:49

Yeah my last af was two weeks early. This one was a day late but I had scary symptoms. I felt pg. Had a few days of bolloxing dh about not going for post snip tests. Boobs were weird, my senses of taste and smell were scary. But af arrived. And I was nesting. Massively. (Still am - have filled mine and neighbours' bins with decluttering).

I was even worried that last af was a spotting thing and I was further on. It was a dark few days as there was NO WAY I was having another - both physically and psychologically it is impossible. My ob gyn is in Lux where ending pg is v v v complicated (illegal in most cases) and even in France it is not easy. Very very tough few days.

Plus I was superstitious with a gd February after years of bad luck I thought March would be a killer.

But we're ok.

PetiteRaleuse · 07/03/2014 21:51

fiat my muscles split both timesband herniaed last time round. It sucks.

BigPigLittlePig · 07/03/2014 21:58

PR I thought of you today. For reasons that are unclear, my sense of smell has been a bit keen lately. Today a demented lady was wandering the ward with a glass of milk which she kept splashing onto the floor/chairs/whatever. I kept getting little milky whiffs. Was so close to gagging on so many occasions Envy

My junior kept laughing at me Blush

PetiteRaleuse · 07/03/2014 22:18

I chucked out 6 bottles (a full pack) of milk this week for being stinky. They were well within the sell by date but I opened the first and it REEKED.

PetiteRaleuse · 07/03/2014 22:21

Don't blame you piggy milk reeks. You updiffed?

YellowWellies · 07/03/2014 22:22

BP boak... am weaning J in just over three weeks and in theory I'll be able to enjoy a cuppa. Finally. My first in nearly 15 months. But the thought of tea with hot milk in and that funky manky hot sweet / sour cow smell makes me heave. I think going dairy free this last year and a bit has put me off a good old cuppa.

We had a nice day of playgroup, tidying up the front garden with J saying hiya to everyone who walked down the street, then scurrying to hide behind my legs when a wee girl of maybe eight years old said hiya back to him. Then later he crashed his toy ride-on car down the kitchen steps a la Thelma and Louise - he really caught some air. I hurried to free his furious roaring self from under his car and my word he's copped a huge bump on his noggin. I gave him calpol at bed as it is a massive bruised lump and it must be sore. What a plonker.

VQ mmmm I'm going to have me a green pot noodle come J weaning time - fcking bollcksy things chock full of dried shit and chemicals would contain real f*cking milk wouldn't they.

BigPigLittlePig · 07/03/2014 22:26

I believe you have to dtd in order to be updiffed?

YW I know what you mean, someone made me a coffee at work the other day and it was too milky, I had one boaksome sip then had to "forget" until sadly it was too cold to drink. Dairyfree dieting has put the nail in the milky coffin Confused

Passmethecrisps · 07/03/2014 22:44

I have never liked milk and have got bored of years of people pre-milking my tea so I now just say and dispose of it. People just keep doing it otherwise.

And I have forgotten how babies are made.

fiatpandababba · 07/03/2014 23:12

I'm off cheesecake, yoghurts, lattes, pizzas with mascarpone (anything overly milky) after being pregnant. I used to love New York style cheesecakes :(

Elizadoesdolittle · 07/03/2014 23:13

I spilt a 2 pint milk bottle all over MIL kitchen worktops/floor this evening. It was gross and I actually like milk, but what a smell!

fiatpandababba · 07/03/2014 23:29

Split twice pr - I feel for you.

PetiteRaleuse · 07/03/2014 23:34

I have been milk phobic since I was a toddler. NOW do you get why I hated bf'ing? Or at least empathise a tad? I apparently left my bottle on a radiator at our LO's age.

Never touched milk again until it was literally dripping from me.

But I'm trying so hard when I shake a bottle and it drips...

PetiteRaleuse · 07/03/2014 23:40

When I was about 5/6 I had tonsilitis and the GP locum came home to see me. I was either v ill or i am very old (34) for her to come to the house. But she told my mum, and I remember it very clearly: give her milk lollies.

Her clothes were not clean when she left.

Vom at the thought.

[vom]

PetiteRaleuse · 07/03/2014 23:43

And when I bashed my teeth on the side of the swimming pool. Baby teeth. They were all wobbly.
Milk, they said. Milk lollies.

[vom]

Elizadoesdolittle · 07/03/2014 23:56

Oh pr You've really got it bad Grin

BigPigLittlePig · 08/03/2014 00:22

World war 2 day at school. 7 years old. Milk poured into a polystyrene cup early on. Milk left to stand for sufficient time that said milk was warm. Had to drink it as it was "our rations". To this day I don't know how I drank it. But worse was to come.

^We had to keep the cups to reuse for orange squash later that day.^

PetiteRaleuse · 08/03/2014 00:27

piggy