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BigMoFos Week 22

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WigWamBam · 05/10/2006 10:16

OK, here we go ... a new thread for a new week. Big fat hairy line drawn underneath last week, and here's to a better week this week.

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coppertop · 08/10/2006 21:54

Thanks, Sue. I've added it to my Favourites so I don't lose it again.

justamindlesszombiemum · 08/10/2006 21:59

SUE!! Tuesday all fingers and all toes crossed for you. I'm so glad I came on here tonight or I would have missed you. I so hope everything goes right for you. We'll miss your wise words if you aren't around all that much while you're over there.
Happy Birthday Jackie- hope you had a lovely day
Dottydot, go for the wrapdress- if there is one thing Trinny and Tranny have right it is the wrap. If you can get one with a bow or tie detail at the side it really detracts from your tummy (not saying you need to)and don't get one with a belt that goes across the front because there is no natural place for it to lie, if, like me, you don't have much of a waist. Anyway the neckline means your boobs look so great no one is looking anywhere else anyway. If you feel self conscious you can always buy a pashmina to swathe yourself in. I have a couple of wrap tops and they are the only thing that make me feel vaguely stylish as i look like I am about 6mnths pg again. (can't use the excuse that it is only 6mnths since I had dd because I weighed so much less just after having her) There are loads of nice wrap looks out there, I think fashion is much kinder to the fuller figure just now than it was a few years ago.

hub2dee · 08/10/2006 22:08

Best of luck, sj. Oh, and nice one WWB.

JackieNoHeadJustABloodyStump · 08/10/2006 22:16

Thanks, justamum - had a lovely day, went out for lunch, and enjoyed every bite. I really can't do drinking at lunchtime any more though - knocks me for six. Is it a good thing I'm a lightweight in at least one area of my life?

Dottydot · 08/10/2006 22:20

Right - a wrap dress it is! And the more distraction away from my tummy the better... Have just eaten 5 Thorntons chocolate footballs (fortunately they're not the size of real footballs, but I'm still feeling bad). Don't know why I do this mindless grazing/eating sometimes - I can be really good all day and not even think about having naughty stuff, and then my willpower deserts me in the evening.

Ah well - off to bed - at least I don't eat when I'm asleep...

TitianRed · 09/10/2006 11:21

2lb off this week. That's 16lb so far.

JackieNoHeadJustABloodyStump · 09/10/2006 11:22

Yay - well done TitianRed. Brilliant!

suejoneziscalmernow · 09/10/2006 12:31

NEXT Tuesday ladies, NEXT Tuesday not this one, you have me for at least another week yet!

JackieNoHeadJustABloodyStump · 09/10/2006 12:32

Oh well - at least you've now got the date, even if it's not this week. Did the letter not arrive in time then?

suejoneziscalmernow · 09/10/2006 12:35

letter isn't due to arrive until NEXT monday - I obviously phrased my post badly and have now confused everyone!

JackieNoHeadJustABloodyStump · 09/10/2006 12:36

Oh - I must have got the wrong end of the stick - thought it might be going to arrive today. But at least it's happening.

justamindlesszombiemum · 09/10/2006 14:03

no Sue, it was me getting over excited and not reading things properly, you quite clearly state monday week, doh! I seem to be saying that quite a lot recently, the other day I texted a friend with my new mobile no and didn't say who it was, she only knew it was me because I congratulated her on being pg and she has only told one or two people yet, I wonder if this is early onset dementia? I certainly feel a bit demented.
I'm back off up to my mums again as dh is in San Fransisco this time, I am dreading him coming home, he is bad tempered enough without disorienting jetlag. He has to go to work the next day despite not having had a day off in 21/2 weeks. His job seems to be taking all his energy just now and me and the kids are just a tiring inconvenience, I feel so sorry for him but it is exhausting for both of us. I am usually the one that says "i'll take the kids out and you have a sleep" but i don't have the energy for that either at the moment.

suejoneziscalmernow · 09/10/2006 15:44

apt change of name then, Justamum

suejoneziscalmernow · 09/10/2006 15:50

a friedn said to me at dinner Saturday night... "I'm SOOOO worried about you, afer the years you have spent working towards this child, I really worry for you because children are really quite boring most of the time".

I smiled nicely between gritted teeth and said that I didn't think I'd find having a small child any better or worse than anyone else and that the last 4 years hasn't exactly been a picnic (I know, I know children are much harder).

Am I being sensitive if I find her comment condescending? I'm getting a bit p'ed off with people saying to me smugly "Oh dear your life's really going to change now. Children are such a tie". This once from someone who had three children - FFS if its so bad why did they keep going after the first one?!

JackieNoHeadJustABloodyStump · 09/10/2006 17:33

I know. It's infuriating. It happens all the time when you're pregnant too - just look forward to the time when you have Junior, and can say it to other people.

suejoneziscalmernow · 09/10/2006 17:38

I was going to start a thread on "does this happen when you're pregnant too" - makes me feel better to know it does!

Dottydot · 09/10/2006 17:58

You're not being (overly) sensitive at all - and it is the kind of thing people with kids say to you when you're pregnant! Just ignore them - we all find it different and it's a surprise to all of us when it happens in whatever way it does.

suejoneziscalmernow · 09/10/2006 18:05

its not even what they say that irritates - I do agree that life will change in ways I can;t even imagine now - its the pious way some of them say it. TBH its been such a long hard struggle getting this far, if you count previous fertility treatment too that I really don't want someone making pointless comments me about how awful its going to be. Do they think I'll suddenly think "God god they;re right, maybe I wont bother"?

It's the unutterable smugness of it that I find impossible to swallow.

Dottydot · 09/10/2006 20:07

You're so close to it being a reality that every daft thoughtless comment must be even more irritating than usual. Just keep thinking about the next couple of weeks!

How long will it take to meet your baby once you get there? Don't know how I'd cope with the suspense..!

littlemisssensible · 09/10/2006 20:56

Just to depress everyone further...it doesn't stop once the baby is home, over one, two, five, ten or even eighteen!

There is always someone with one older than yours who is dying to tell you how much more difficult the next stage is!

I have 2 grown up children and I'm often told to just wait 'til they're married/ have kids of their own, then I'll know what problems are
Maybe I should disown them now huh!?!

suejoneziscalmernow · 10/10/2006 00:05

I will meet them the day I arrive in Ust-Kamenogorsk which is about 3 days after leaving the UK. Fingers crossed I can leave next Tuesday, logistics are not looking promising at the moment but we'll see.

NumberNineteen · 10/10/2006 20:54

Hello.

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WigWamBam · 10/10/2006 20:56

See you found us then ...

Loads of us are in the same boat as you are, but these threads seem to be really helping. Talk to us, tell us how you feel.

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WideWebWitch · 10/10/2006 20:57

Hello everyone, I periodically join you and then dip out again but I am pissed off with how I look and I'm BLOODY FORTY in 2 weeks time and aaaghhhhhhhh!
So far, I've done 2 days with no wine (one of mydownfalls) or grazing out of stress (one of my other downfalls)

WideWebWitch · 10/10/2006 20:58

hello no19! See, it could be worse, you could be FORTY and fat! You're only 34 and fat!