April 2009 - Episode 13 - 'I've been looking for the exit for months!'

[Schulte]

Fanjo Warriors, here we are

Thanks Schulte :) Want to come visit, say, in Mid August

I'm hearing loads of positive things about Germany/Munich which is really good. We're going to get a firm offer from both this job and hopefully the permanent job based in Farnborough on Tuesday and then we should be able to compare the options better. We're in a weird state of uncertainty here because we've no money coming in right now but two unofficial offers both of which mean big changes to our current situation...

To help with the new baby?

lol sure, or to yell at the german doctors for me depending how well my German progresses...

Hello people
I have been quiet as I had nasty bronchitis over Xmas and NY but I am a lot better now.
I am very jealous of Bebe as I fancy living in Munich myself for a bit ...!

I've missed soo much
congratulations. I hadn't realised that munich one was you either. I had stopped mning and only started again last week

Bebe - with DD1 I had a German speaking doula with me during the birth so someone would translate my yelling. Worth considering the same (i.e. getting an English speaking doula in Munich) if you do go ahead with the move.

The thought of a poor doula having to translate my foul mouthed tirade.

Puzzle. I didn't swear at all but she was great at massaging my back.

Hello ladies!
Haven't been on for soooo long but that was mainly due to my laptop breaking and not getting chance to put PC on unless for work but DS2 had a netbook for Christmas so...hehehe!

It is actually bebe who made me long on - after reading her FB update :D massive congrats to you and also to Bicnod :D anyone else preggy?

Anyone any advice on getting E off BF? really don't want to be doing it anymore (she now shouts 'booby's nose' for nipples!!!). Now the Ds's are back at school and we have routine back I would really like to stop so any tips would be gratefully received!

Isn't this age just adorable?! She has just brought me a little china teacup and a wooden cake and told me to 'sit down there'. as I went to pretend to drink she grabbed it and said 'all gone now' and brought another :)

She is also obsessed with 'itter Tambull' (Mr Tumble) and sings along to the hello song and does all the sign language too.

Hope you are all ok, bebe the move to Munich seems exciting! How is your niece schulte?

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So we're ||

Oh gosh yes, I need the same advice. I still love BFing a lot of the time but I am just too damn knackered. If I wind down with a view to stopping in April then I will have bf'ed for 4 years without a gap. Time to reclaim them I think.

Sorry Bebe, cross posts. I hope you feel better tomorrow.
I'm sure you cat will be well loved.

Have you started a thread about your pre natal care. There's bound to be others on here who have been through similar.

Take care of yourself xx

Awwww Bebe - I'm just escaping the hell of the first trimester but I feel your pain. Still feeling pretty nauseous but it's slowly fading.

Very exciting about Munich - maybe have a chat with the midwives/GP here about prenatal care and the best way forward?

Puzzle - FOUR YEARS?! you are hardcore woman

Surprise - Oscar's favourite Christmas present was a little plastic teaset from my mum - he spends AGES sat on a towel with the teaset and I have to keep filling up the jug ('rinse it, yellow water' is the way he tells me that he wants me to fill up the jug?!) and he pours it from one cup to another. Very very cute.

Boff - bronchitis sounds tough, especially over Christmas. Hope you're being well looked after.

Auld - how's your leg?

Schulte - can't wait to meet up next week - yay

So I had my 12 week scan today and the baby was ping-ponging around my womb like a little rocket

Feeling excited now that we're through the first bit - was too scared to be excited until now but now I'm REALLY excited. Due date is 14th July. EEEEK!

Tell me oh wise mothers of more than one baby - will I survive with two of them?!

Told Meg she had to be careful (she was jumping on daddy then jumped on mommy without warning) because Mommy had a baby in her tummy. She stopped for a second, then pulled the blanket aside.
Moo:Wanna see bebe
Me:You can't it's in mommy's tummy
Moo:Wanna see
(she stuck her finger in my belly button and pulled a little)
Me:You can't it's inside. It'll come out in the summer and then you can see.
(she stopped and laid her head on my belly)
Moo whispered: bebe come now
I laughed. Then Meg pointed at her own belly. Moo: Bebe
(then she laughed and ran off to get her baby doll)

sweetness

So did anyone in their pregnancy have a terribly hot belly at night? (at 7weeks) At night it goes so hot, yet my extremities are quite cold, I cannot get comfortable at night because of it...either I'm boiling hot and need to pull the covers off, or freezing cold and need to pull them back on. I've tried wearing a half buttoned up shirt (with belly exposed) and wearing my pj bottoms under my belly, but it's not comfortable.
Really just wondered if it was normal for other people.

Bicnod - as a mother of two, I am still alive.

just....

besides, some people have three - not looking at anyone in particular (points subtly at surprise )

belated congrats, bebe, on the baby and the Munich job. Sounds like a fun adventure!

Thanks WFH. I'm just assuming it's going to be hellish for the first few months (I suspect I have an inkling where your namechange came from) but so so sooooo happy

Bebe - O thinks there's a baby sheep in my tummy

I just made some wholemeal vegetable muffins (carrot, tomato and broccoli) in an attempt to get something healthy into O. He helped make them and tried a bit when they came out of the oven and seemed keen (I just ate one - they are YUM) so fingers crossed this particular ploy will work as I now have a freezer full of the little blighters.

I am not really here, as I have a major work crisis due to not getting any done when I was laid up and MIL was winding me up.

Bicnod, knee is miles better, but not right. A bit painful, and I still limp. Seeing physio tomorrow, surgeon on Tuesday.

You can survive with two. Some people around here have even had four (glances in general direction of da Boff). A little more worn, a little more frayed, but you survive.

Bebe, I am of the Munich plans. I have always admired the way Germans organise their towns, a good mix of the fun, the ecological and the eminently practical, IME. (Disclaimer: I have never been to Munich, though).

Don't forget Bron. She has about 9 kids I think.

Oh and yes, I had a very toasty pregnant belly.

the throw up fairy has been to visit... I shall not go into it more than say strawberries kinda burn coming back up :(

glad to hear someone else had a toasty preggy belly

and sorry for not commenting on the illness Boff I did read and register but my fingers never managed to type the words. I hope you're still managing to recover as I assume you're back to work. It's hard to go back to work after horrible, tiring illness. make sure you still are taking good care of yourself.

Our cat goes off to his new family on Saturday. If I think about it ball like a baby (hormones partly to blame- or so I'm pretending). But honestly it's for the better, he'll have more room, and a more steady family.

thinking of a kindle or e.reader because I cannot possibly bring enough books with me to make me happy and we won't have the space for sure... they're expensive, but it'll be my new contract, birthday, Valentines and anniversary gift...

Worried about what and how much I need to bring for Meg toy/book wise...trying to think of toys/books which she likes and will still likely want to play with in a couple of months and also don't take up a lot of space... if I would have know before x-mas we were going to do this I'd not have bought her so many big gifts and would have tried to find more space saver toys...

I like the sound of veggie muffins...well as much as my sickly stomach likes the sound of any food...

Sorry for not posting. I'm pretty down. No real reason, just winter and loneliness.

I too wouldn't mind winding down th ebf but Izy seems to have other ideas, I'm sure hes doing it more not less.

I need to stay off mn cos I've been feeling bas enough anyway without being informed on threads being a sahm mum isnt working. Goodness knows why I'm so exhausted then

Sorry to hear that Bron. You know only those insecure about their own choices need to pick holes in others. FFS why can't people just mind their own? The whole SAHM v WOHM thing is such bullshit. For what it is worth I am in awe of you. You have twice as many as me and I am always tired.

I am absolutely bloody knackered. Fed up of not having time to myself, a crap aprent at th emoment because I'm grumpy as hell so I think I'm just feeling the bashing more than I normally would.
PEople make such generalisations and it looks like dh might be getting a job where hes away at months at a time, to know that people were supportive would be good but instead I can see a future where i'm considered not to work as well as getting all the shit.

How are you going about stopping bf? I can't say no easily because he cries oh so pitifully. I'm giving him cows milk as much as possible to try and fill him up a bit but hav eno other ideas

BF- what we did with Moo was offer a LARGE cup of milk before the feed and then offer the breast. We did this basically until she stopped asking for breast milk and I didn't offer it. We still did everything else the same...still laid down and cuddled but kept my shirt on, and offered cupped milk then the breast. It was over time she wanted less and less breast until she wanted none at all.