January 2011 babies!

Ohhhh can I have the link toooo please?

My MW weighs me EVERY month! I seem to be used to it... but seriously! I have put on 1.7kg from time I got pregnant... that's OK eh? Some of the rude ladies at work are talking about how I should really be watching what I eat so I don't get really big... ahem... half a bread roll and fruit... and I should eat LESS?!?!

Heartburn.. I eat icecream, no I'm certainly not joking! 30-60 mins before I go to bed, cures me and stops me waking up at 4am starving!! I'm not good with getting enough calcium in my diet so 2 birds, one stone

We're walking after work most days - well after DH's work.. will be interesting to see how it goes from next week with me back at work! Well done LozNZ on the yoga!

Bowie - sounds a pain in the behind banning everyone... surely a warning would suffice!

Does anyone get the throbbing legs? They're not cramps (like you get from exercise etc)... more painful throbbing at 3am and you have to go for a walk to make them stop.... any magic ways of stopping them??

Well ladies I feel like a REAL domestic goddess... have finished my first every (riduculously HUGE) patchwork quilt for DH's brother's wedding (4 months before wedding! Considering it's only my 2nd sewing project ever.. Very proud.. and now on to making neinish (sp?) tarts! Wohooo

Hope everyone is enjoying themselves!

sorry for all the spelling above!!! MMMMMmmm... been on holidays for way to long!!

Yay Nicole on a perfect result from your polycose test!

Bowie: arse about being banned. You must sooo be counting down when you can kiss that place goodbye doll!

Cord banking:
DH & I have discussed it in great depth & although we soooo see the merits of it, we just can't afford to do it x2 & to store it x2 per year. If we won Lotto before these two arrive it is at the top of our wish list tho.

I remember someone on here was talking about it a little while ago & they did it with their first, & will do with their 2nd, & highly recommended it. Bugga can't remember who sorry!

I wish the government would subsidise it as wouldn't it save them $$$ in the long run on the public health system??? Maybe sometime in the future - yeah right!

Minxy - could cord blood have been used when your brother first had his accident?

DH & I planted our two small raised vege gardens last night. We've now got 10x beetroot, 2x zuchinni, 6x lettuces, 6x mesclin lettuces, 6x spinach, 1x roma & 1x cherry tomato plants, 4x strawberries, basil, pesto basil, corriander, parsley, lots of radishes & parsnip, & 5x capsicum (red, orange, yellow, purple, & a long red spicy variety).

Feel very proud of our efforts - now we just have to keep them alive long enough to harvest our efforts!

DH is 1/2 way through cleaning out our sleepout so we can turn that into a guest bedroom so we have an empty room to make into the nursery. Kinda bummed that the cots won't be here til Dec as the nursery will look empty til then - but at least its a start right????

YAY end of the week & a busy weekend ahead: Sat: working garden/garage bee at M&FILs in preparation for his 60th party in Dec then multiple antenatal class &... Bathurst on Sunday! DHs family tradition - the men-folk sit downstairs at B&SILs watching it on the projector screen & the woman-folk serve them beer & nibbles all day. I can't hardly wait....NOT!

I must find an event that the ladies can spend 6+ hrs watching & the men can wait on us (once I can drink wine & eat soft cheeses again of course!!!).

HAVE A GREAT FRIDAY & WEEKEND EVERYONE!!!
You are all gorgeously stunning mums & mums-to-be. May the men folk bow at our feet in appreciation.

Edited by Wannabe

I have put on 1kg over my prepregancy weight. which means that I have lost 8kgs and gained 9 during the pregnancy.

I am shell shocked right now. I feel like I've been hit by a train. The person that dh is covering for in his maternity leave position is handing in her 1 month notice to come back so this time next month dh will be out of a job.

God amme - I am so sorry! I dont knwo what to say - that is such a curve ball hun. When did she originally intend to come back?

Island girl you sweetie - the pics show my bloaty bloaty. And in any case the majority of the weight has gone on BEHIND me - like I have a giant counter weight of an arse, getting ready for the huge bump I am going to grow. I think my body has a good pregnancy memory...even from 20yrs ago. It remembers what a Gigantor of a baby I had last time and is preparing itself so i dont fall over frontwards when I get to 9 months. Clever fatty boom-ba-la-da body! ;)

Anyone considering taking a breastfeeding class? I wan't going to but figure it might not be a bad idea if I really want to have the best shot at it this time around.

Oh F**K, Amme, that is major suck!! When was she supposed to come back...?

MAJOR RANT - Skip if you wish, i just have to get it out..

So, a few months ago i left about four baked potatos in the blast chiller (a machine that can freeze things in 10min, like a freezer on turbo) to cool down and totally forgot them - they sat there overnight. It was like world war three from the bosses. I'm stupid, i'm careless, i wasted the produce, i should f*ck off because i'm a pathetic waste of space etc etc. Today i started work, and someone had left 6 trays of chicken liver pate in the oven, at 200 degrees overnight. It was ON FIRE!!! Literally, FLAMES! ON FIRE!!! I put it out, because i'm super woman, but obviously had to mention it to the boss. His comment to the chef responsible? Oh well, we make mistakes, be more careful next time. Hmmm, frozen harmless potatoes, deadly inferno of chicken liver...yeah i can see those reactions were totally in line with the offence. I am sick of being treated like the scum of the kitchen. Being a female in a professional kitchen is hard enough, let alone being a PREGNANT female. Being both of those things as well as being hated on by both bosses is the worst experience of my life.

Argh! RANT OVER!!!!

I'm very tired, and i'd quite like to just go to sleep and wake up when the baby is here.

hugs bowie, that is terrible.

DH is a teacher so she was not meant to be coming back until next year. now dh will have to find a temporary job for a couple of months to cover us before he can start a teaching job (assuming he gets one).

We looked into cord banking but as much as I hate it to be cost is definitely the deciding factor which means no.

Amme that sucks! Strange she would want to come back in 4 weeks.... then she will only be teaching for 5-6 weeks! The contract for pregnant teachers works REALLY well for teachers wanting to take maternity leave, but it is quite tough for the people who take a maternity leave position!!

Bowie - doesn't that just rip your undies!! Ohhhh the things you could say to him if you didn't need the job/references!!!

Minxy - we don't have any breastfeeding classes in my area - had heard about them, bet they have some good advice.. if you go... perhaps we could sneek in a video and you could post it on youtube for us with all the info?!

Limochick YAY for starting baby girl's room tomorrow..... suck for the painfulness

Wow I'm shagged - all the baking... not sure how work is going to feel next week... bring on 9 weeks from today!!

islandgirl wrote: Minxy - we don't have any breastfeeding classes in my area - had heard about them, bet they have some good advice.. if you go... perhaps we could sneek in a video and you could post it on youtube for us with all the info?!

Absolutely!!
Ha – just had a thought. I’ve never been to one before and I certainly don’t recall having ‘lactation consultants’ when Callum was a baby……so what if things have come so far that we’re all expected to get our mammaries out for a show at the first class. You know – as an introduction. “Hi, I’m Minxy and these are my girls” God. Should I prepare by naming them? Get an “Introducing….” Sticker for each breast? I should at least put some glitter or something on them. I mean what an embarrassment of everyone has their boobs all glammed up and I am the underdressed one? Shame!

Minxy, i doubt they will ask you to get your nips out but you should totally get name tags for each one, just to start conversations

BTW - My maternity booklet thing they gave me at the first doc appointment suggests that my midwife may have wanted to examine my nipples to check they are sutiable for b/f. I was scared as sh*t approaching my first appointment - but she hasnt asked yet and hopefully never will