october 2010 continued

[Katy86]

just thought id get a new one going as there are only 2 messages space left on the original..xxx

Jazzie your mum doesn't sound terribly helpful...sorry you got all upset, not surprised though. We like you even if you think your parents don't! My mum couldn't bf so that's why I'm all in a tizz about it, but as you say, we try and then we'll see...and we will feed them something!

The work email was silly, I spoke to a potential student y'day and her English was so poor we were totally at cross purposes the whole time and she made that my problem! And has written me a really shirty email which just shows she didn't understand a single word I said! Cheeky cow! I don't like it as I try really hard but if she can't carry on a conversation, how will she study with us at Master's level?!

On a much nicer note I forgot to tell you - I got home last night and DH had put up all the new bookshelves, and arranged everything beautifully on them, the new lamp was up and switched on and I swear the house looked like something out of a magazine. I was totally overwhelmed! Should have jumped his bones but didn't quite have the energy

sorry - long post
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roobear I'm sure your chilli was delicious; all my DH got last night was a chicken club sandwich and kettle chips after my marathon crying session. When he tried to tell me it was OK, he would cook I started crying all over again and saying it just showed how bad things had gotten if I couldn't even cook him dinner poor chap couldn't do anything right!

dilly it's ok, not everyone can get along, can they? I know they love me, they just don't like me as a person. It's hard to come to terms with but I keep in touch with them on a fairly regular basis because I want them to try and have a loving relationship with their grandson. I can't let my personal upset get in the way of that; the only loser would be my DS. They've kind of given up bothering with me all that much, but they still seem sort of interested in DS so I'm just praying that works out at least. It's a funny thing though, you never stop wanting your Mum do you? Even if she doesn't feel the same about you? I hope my DS always loves me like that

Sorry to hear about the girl at work; you're quite right, if she can't comprehend a conversation in English then she will struggle so much when it comes to moving upwards. Can you flag it to your boss? Try not to take her frustration personally.

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Thanks for pointing that out Patsy I did add a message seconds after I had said that I hadn't seen her saying that I was losing my marbles as she had posted recently!

I used to have brain cells but not anymore! My MW seems to be far less practical, no knitted boobs when I had the breast feed talk, we just went through a tick sheet! Feel cheated as think the boob thing is one of those things you'll remember for the rest of your life!

Jazzie: Bless your cottons, I know what you mean about the emotions, felt like beating DH last night, he was really sweet and said I could go have a bath and he would get dinner sorted, so off I went for a soak, 40 mins later came down to see how long till dinner and he said he hadn't even put it on yet. He'd got caught up playing on the computer, so had a bit of a rant at him, then felt awful as it's obviously my job to cook dinner and I shouldn't have been so lazy as to have a bath! The feelings of a mad women no less! :) It could have been worse, you could have ended up using kitchen roll having run out of toilet roll! :)

Dilly, we get stuff like this all the time, I work in recruitment (Please don't hate me because of my job!) and as we get a lot of massively qualified people applying for roles and we have to turn them down as we haven't been able to understand their e-mails or conversations etc... Plus we aren't allowed to discriminate. But we have to be realistic and think what it would look like if we sent a candidate to an interview as a Supply Chain Manager or something when all they can say in English is "I Job" but people get really shirty with us sometimes.

Once again have written an essay! Sorry! :)

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Dilly I can so empathise with you re students who somehow think it is YOUR fault that their English simply isn't good enough, and can't understand why they have failed all their exams and no law firms want to give them a job!! Er... hello?!

Also lots of empathy for those of us having random sobbing fits, have been doing a LOT of this lately!!

Was going to rant on the AIBU part but think it would end up being a slanging match, so going to rant everso quickly to you guys, hope you don't mind, but am slowly going insane.

There are builders right outside the front of my work (We have a sort of shop front style office, so lots of glass, All single pained to make it worse!) and they are digging up the road so all we have heard all day is one of those hammer drill things!!!!! IT'S SENDING US ALL LOOPY!!!!! Want to go home and cry!

Rant over please ignore me now!
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Lol, yes BB I only noticed after I posted that you had realised Hermya was still about on here, so I'm losing my marbles as much as you! Sorry to hear about irritating builders - can you not stick some earplugs in / tell them to chuffing well chuff off? Getting towards the end of the day now anyway so hopefully they'll knock off early.

Jazzie hope you're feeling better today. I think hoovering can make anyone go demented, so you're perfectly reasonable to have a good old sob about it! Sounds as though all our OHs are having to put up with a lot of tears and tantrums from us at the moment!

And yes, the knitted boob moment is definitely going in the diary. Don't think poor DH knew quite where to look as she held it up like a third boob between her own ample bosoms, then started stroking the knitted boob to demonstrate hand expressing if you get engorged.

Haha Patsy, the pregnancy brain obviously isn't a myth! and I am pleased to report that the builders have left for the day except they haven't finished so they are back tomorrow! :(
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Knitted boob sounds preferable to the dreadful hippy type lady who came to NCT when I was pregnant with DD1 to talk about breast feeding. She smelt and was still breastfeeding her 3 year old - put me off for life when she offered to come to our houses to help us after we had our babies! Knitted boob sounds good!

hevster oh my God, she sounds awful! I would've probably snorted in her face really loudly... I'm probably going to get flamed for this but... who actually benefits from feeding a 3 year old? If you want to give the child the goodness, surely it would be kinder to the child to express the milk and give it to him/her in a sippy cup? Mind you, apparently the world health organisation recommends that you breastfeed your child until the age of 2 with solids, obviously. I can just imagine my poor nipples being used as a useful alternative to a teether

patsy and babyb yes my poor DH is having to put up with a LOT from me at the moment; I actually feel rather sorry for the poor chap! Attempting to make it up to him tonight though because he's a HUGE Liverpool fan and they're playing tonight so I've plonked him on the sofa with some beer and crisps saving up my brownie points!

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Just a quick thought; where and how would you go about getting a pattern for a knitted boob? I can just imagine going up to the haberdashers in our street... think the lady behind the counter would probably choke on her false teeth...

Hi just lurking from the other thread but couldn't resist the talk of knitted breasts! If you are on Facebook look up the breastfeeding festival, they were having a breast knitting session this week!

Jazzie seriously tempted to pop into the haberdashers tomorrow and ask for a pattern - or praps pop to John Lewis.... Presume your brownie points are now doubles as Liverpool are winning!

Hevster here's hoping it stays that way... especially now DH's man crush favourite player Fernando Torres is playing men are weird, aren't they?!

I shall look up that breastfeeding festival... which sounds like it would either be great fun, or incredibly surreal to attend

Haha! Hevster; can you imagine asking for the wool in 'aereola brown'?!

Hi ladies, not posted on here in ages! Glad to see you are all still as spritely as ever.

Been a rollercoster summer for me which is why I've not had time to chat but have dipped in every now and then to see what you're all up and to!

Next week is my last week at work and I am so glad - I just can't seem to sleep. About an hour ago I woke DH up because I was feeling so sorry for myself and needed a cuddle.

Stupidly swollen feet and hands at the minute, hands are really sore and go numb in the night which freaks me out, but is perfectly normal and fine as long as my blood pressure is ok - anyone else getting this? Feet aren't sore apart from where the skin has split because it can't stretch any more - MW is horrified by them but nothing I can do - pre-existing arthritic condition appears to be part of the problem.

Anyway, just feeling a bit sorry for myself tonight so thought I would come on here and let you know that I'm still OK and so is the little one.

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Oh my god just re-read what I'd written - what a moaning minnie! Possibly not what you all wanted to read first thing on a Friday morning!

Sorry - Will think of something more cheeryfor my next post!

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mummyB feel free tomoan, tis what we are here for - have the same numbness in my hands which is carpel tunnel - annoying but did go after the birth last time - sorry you are having a rough time

Jazzie 04:56 and also sniggering at asking for wool in aereola brown!

DD is making a habbit of waking me up around 3am ish and then going back to oblivion herself leaving me wide awake - v bad for ebay habbit but hurrah for mumsnet which is keeping me sane!

Jaysus mummyB I was reading your post thinking - 'ooh yes my swollen feet are awful too' but they're not as bad as that! AAAAAAARGH! Poor you!!! So sorry! Mine are swollen every day, I wake up with them like that, and my hands are always swollen in the morning hate it...

Loving the knitted boobs...I can't knit, can someone knit me one please? As a sort of comforter I think....

I was tempted to ask MW for knitted boob pattern, but thought I may come across as a bit odd. It was a really nice shape and if it hadn't been stuffed, and knitted in flesh colours, (areola was interesting shade of dark pinky brown, but main bit of boob was very realistic flesh colour) it would make a lovely pixie type hat for a little newborn. the inner workings of my brain! Might just try and finish knitting the blanket I've started first...

Sorry to hear about all the swollen feet etc out there. Doesn't sound very comfortable. At least we all seem to be finishing work / coutning down the days now, so will hopefully get some time to relax before the LOs arrive.

Hello all.... IT'S FRIDAY!!!

I thought today would never come - such a long week. Only 5 weeks to go until maternity leave - can't wait.

Had my last antenatal class last night, we've got the crib, got the pram - just starting to get impatient now though and just want my baby.

Dilly Love the idea of a knitted boob as a comforter - might ask my mum if she can knit one for LO's arrival - she's quite handy with the knitting needles!!

Happy Friday all!

Also sniggering at "aereola brown" !!

Hevster feel your pain re night time wakenings, DS has taken to getting up around every 2 hours or so through the night (must be bad dreams as he wakes up crying and sweating and takes quite a while to calm back down) which is spectacularly bad timing . Got back into bed this morning at 4.30 only for DH's snoring to keep me awake for another hour grrrr!!

Yes, 'aureola brown' should be a Farrow and Ball paint colour

Patsy I so want the boob pixie hat...seriously, there's a business idea!

Am I the only one who has GP led care (I think it's called "shared care")? I was happy with it because the midwives I met at 10 and 16 weeks were horrible However, I now feel like I am missing out. No knitted boobs that I am aware of in my GP's surgery!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend. I am mad busy at work today and really should not have taken a few mins out to check MN. -But I am pleased I did because the knitted boobs image will stay with me throughout my meetings this afternoon. We are redecorating at the moment, maybe aureola brown would look good in the cloakroom.

Hello Ladies,

Its Friday -Again! These weeks are going so fast (cannot believe i actually said that) but they are. only 6 weeks left at work - 2 of which are 3 day weeks, my last 2 weeks. and i wont be returning as long as emmigration works out as planne. :(

Is anyones younger children going through an emotional stage at all right now? I only ask as my 2 yr old seems very worried im going to disappear and not come home lately and i have no idea why as i am just doing things i would normally do - going to work, coming home, havent been out for a night away for yonks so its not that. Just wondering if it may be to do with 'baby sister' as he calls her?
When i put him to bed, after story time when i say night night, love you etc, he says it back but as soon as i go out of sight he starts getting upset shouting 'nite nite....mummy!..nite nite!' as if he's worried im going somewhere and wants me within eyesight?! Its very strange behaviour for him anyhow and wondered if anyone else has anything similar going on with their little ones due to new baby coming along soon??

Jenko77 - havent even been told when our antenatal (if they are evn running any!)classes start yet let alone got to my last one! are you glad u went to them? I think theyr useful just to confirm you have done all the reading up you need to before the birth if nothing else!

LMFAO Check this out! "pattern"

Glad I don't have any DC's waking me up already! Can only just cope with waking up 5 times a night to pee! TMI sorry!

Got some really weird and uncomfortable pains today around the groin etc... Feels like period pains but they are kind of stabbing pains. Anyone else had this?

Also very pleased it's Friday though wish I was finishing soon rather than at 5.30! Plus the builders are outside again with pneumatic drills which is making the day just that little bit harder! :(

Anyway hope you enjoy the pattern! :)

Babybunting loving the pattern - I'm printing that one off and sourcing some areola and skin coloured wool!! Fantastic . Hope your builders piss off go home early today, what with it being Friday and all.

Yummy As a first time mum, I'm glad I did the antenatal classes. They were the basic NHS ones, but it did talk you through all your options, pain relief, what might go wrong etc, and a tour of the facilities. It was more beneficial for DH who isn't likely to sit down and read up on that sort of stuff, and it helps to hear the MW telling us all that we might poo during labour, there might be lots of blood, boobs will be fit to burst on day 3 etc etc. It helps to be pre-warned on all that.