November 2012 - Roll call!

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Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/2109948-November-2012-Bring-on-the-summer-fun

Calling all lurkers! If you're reading but finding life too hectic to keep up then please check in and give us a brief update.

H still cries occasionally. Its a big change for them. He's been great recently though. He's been going since September and loves it. How did it all go?

Just picked him up. He had crackers for morning snack but no fruit. He tried some lunch. He laid down for nap but not for long. He ate rice cracker for afternoon snack.
So an improvement in that he ate something.

For a first long stretch that is great GT. You may or may not remember that with LO we had to go so slowly to build up to a full day. It took 6/7 weeks before she could do full days. She loves it now.

I appear to be running a creche in my garden.... Great! This day just gets better and better!

What's going on izzy?

Izzy ???? Hope you're OK chick.

All the local kids land in my garden too Izzy. I try to embrace it and pretend I am Mama Walton.

GT it is good if you can do it daily, but really whenever you can. There are guided meditations from 3mins plus so you can start small.

I really do spout a load of shite in the wee small hours, sorry BUT the band app is working already. That combined with the detox has resulted in a whole new me in relation to food. There has been so much stuff to eat at work and I have not been even tempted. One thing I have never been able to do is leave food on my plate. Except if it is celery or beetroot obviously. But this app says to always leave a bit. I left a teeny tiny bit of my toast this morning, a lentil at lunch, and a grain of rice tonight, brown obviously It was like I had to. It works on the subconscious. And I am drinking only water!

I did the GT curry paste today. It is currently simmering with chicken and sweet potato and smells yum. Thanks again GT :)

I can imagine in 50 or so years time, little children will be asking their grandmothers to make them GT curry (apologies, too tired for apostrophes)

Cooking risotto.

Multi-tasking! Stirring and reading

Can't type one handed though so not currently stirring

Why does it always need more stock than the recipe says?

And also take longer, thus requiring more wine drinkage.

Exactly!! Twice the stock and twice the time. Is's mesmeric.

Currently resting - both the risotto and me.

Mmmmmm apple pie

I love risotto but yes I agree, twice the time and twice the stock.

I'm feeling grumpy this evening. I've had a stich like pain since this afternoon and just feel so tired. I felt so good yesterday. Today I feel and look like I'm nine months pregnant. DH is irritating me, we are going out for my sister and her husbands joint 30th do on Saturday night. It's to a noisy bar up town which is obviously not my ideal night out given I can't drink and feel so tired but DH has done nothing but moan about it. I am tempted to tell him to bugger off and not bother coming but I don't want him to get away with it. He can be a miserable bugger at times.

On the plus side MIL cooked me a fab roast dinner. Just what I needed. Think I'll grab an early night and hope for a better mood tomorrow.

I'm back

Phew. 9 hours and many brain cells spent, but....NO MORE REVISION!

I have read and all I can say is -

Yahoooo! Good work bp! I was thinking of you today as I tried and failed to concentrate on a 10 minute lecture. You are a superstar.

Tough day eliza. If you go DH should go but I defo feel you have a great excuse!

Risotto was good if a little sludgey. I never manage to get it cooked and lovely and silky like you see on the telly. It was smoked trout and very tasty.

I must look again at GT's curry paste! Sounded great and I love that it was measured in formula spoons.

Sorry ladies - especially actively trying for baby ladies.
So. I missed a pill in the early days of this month. I carried on as normal and had the 7 contraceptive days (or not shaggin days) as I understood was the way of it. We shagged ONCE and I was not ovulating (according to my app). My period is now two days late. It is never late. I have done a POAS (waitrose no less) and it was a clear negative but I am confused. When would you POAS again?

daily, with updates here

Not sure pass. Could just be your body is befuddled after missing that one?

Pass its probably just late because of the slight change in hormone levels from a missed pill buuuuut I'd test two weeks after DTD. Exciting!

So a colleague at work was raving about her CM, who it turns out lives 2 minutes from our house, directly across the street from J's would be primary school and right on my walk to my work bus stop. She takes them on outings twice a week (the beach and a local PYO fruit farm this week), does a lot of messy play, gardening and baking with them, and has another kid with CMPI, and soy and egg allergies. Oh and would be £60 a month cheaper before childcare vouchers.

I've just called her. She has one space opening up this summer as a kid is about to start school... and one next summer, ideal for number two. I'm going to meet her next Tuesday. She also does emergency cover and sleepovers. Like for when you go into labour and your childcare lives 20 miles away! I'm thinking this is meant to be.....

She sounded lovely. I walk past her house most days as its on our way into town and have seen her enthusiastically teaching 2 kids to ride bikes. And thought at the time 'what a happy lady'. She seemed thrilled at the prospect of a 21 month old to cuddle as her charges are 3, 4 and 5. There is a CM marginally closer (literally over the back fence) but she yells at the kids all the time.

I was going to move him after I had the baby but I think this could be ideal.

That sounds awesome! Like it was meant to be!

You are probably right - the pill was a day late so I suppose that would knock things out. I can't remember when we dtd. I could probably work it out. I will test again on Saturday if there is still nothing

I'm a bit ragey this evening - have been on fb, and v glad to see that a friend from school has finally had her (enormous) overdue baby. Happy times.

But. Her dh has rattled my cage by (totally innocently) posting a status saying how proud he is of her for having a natural delivery, with no pain relief, no screaming or shouting, etc.

Makes me because it is the attitude of "anything less is a failing" - would he have been less proud if she had had an emergency c-section? Doubt it.

Well, considering that he is unlikely ever to be in the position and I not sure he is really is a position to judge. I used to think the same way until I wondered why exactly. I can understand trying to avoid mediation that will make baby sleepy etc but medical intervention is there for our benefit and necessity. It is ludicrous to assert that you have done a better job giving birth than someone else because you had no pain relief - both get babies.

My mum referred to my sister as a wimp for having an epidural. I was very and a bit that she would think this way

BP that'd make me ragey. I hate all this women who are quiet in labour somehow do it 'better' bollocks, it just makes blokes feel less helpless and more able to dismiss it as not that bad.

Hi quiche I seem to have fallen off the thread again! Just been reading back over all the posts. Lots of fun being had as well as worries for some.

Pass it seems a small chance you could be pg but not impossible, maybe give it a couple of days and test again with FMU?

Det and Horsey good to see you guys. I know what you mean about being hard to remember who is who in RL sometimes.

Pennie welcome back too, L is 20months and a few weeks ago he was just starting to make out a few words, the other day I sat down and wrote a list of everything he says now and it's 50+. Definitely good to get the help now so if there is any problem it is being monitored, but my guess is with all that signing the words will suddenly come in an explosion. I speak in full sentences to L but repeat words to emphasise and I repeat back what he is saying correctly, but not like I'm correcting him iyswim, I say for example "that's right, nose". He loves h words like hot, heavy, home.

One thing that makes us laugh is he has some Lego Duplo and he will stick some pieces together and then hold it up and say, "Eggo!" in the style of someone shouting Bingo!

Pikz that was a lovely thing for the woman to say in the supermarket. We all need to hear that sometimes.

VQ well done on the weightloss, I have lost 12.5lbs on slimming world in the last couple of months. It is a hard thing to do.

It's my birthday on Sat and I was really hoping to be pg by now, but I do want to lose some more weight to have a healthy body to carry a baby. I am scared though of leaving it too long as it took us more than a year last time. I am thinking of throwing caution to the wind from this month onwards. Now just have to find time and energy for the sperm transferral part...