July 2008 babies!

Rach - I think I'd stay home and visit too. 10 hour days may well = partial bedtimes by yourself anyway, so I'd rather be in my own house

Cool bananas re: the wiggles. So, seeing as the tickets are available tomorrow.... just need some final numbers (and think I've talked Gary into coming too):

assuming everyone is in for the 'hot potato' tickets @ just over $35 each.... (sunday 24th, 11am)

Julia - 4 tickets
Rach - 3 tickets
Me - 3 tickets

Anyone else? I better check and see if there is a limit on tickets per presale transaction...

Edited by blondy

Sorry Blondy, down here Ticketek are doing a Visa pre-presale, so all you need is a Visa card, not a super-duper special wiggletime code

Funny that you happened to run into Hayden and KK, Sarah!

I've been dragging DH out of bed at night for nappy changes/winding etc, there's not really that much point cos I might catch an extra 15 mins sleep at most, but it's for my own sanity really ... and I might as well do it this week while he's off work and doesn't have the excuse of 'needing' a good night's sleep

yay for bumping into KK and K2 Sarah Small world!!!

and tehehehe Fliss at Dan knowing and liking the wiggles

Weegee if it were me I would stay home same as the others familar surrounds, everything there, friends and family to help out and visit etc and maybe go down for a weekend and DH could come home for a weekend? the time will go quick Im sure!

Im day 5 of no exercise with just how the weeks gone and my PT went on holiday yesterday and Im going NUTS it feels liike major PMS need those endorphens! DH isnt home yet so deciding weather to wait tilll he gets home to go upstairs and do weights or pour myself a glass of wine?

Glad to hear the newborns are all going well....

LOL kye she's 9 months next week. 3 months and she'll be 1!!!

sottise wrote: Being pregnant over Christmas is exceptionally lame.

I know! I went out to dinner last night, and spent a good 5 minutes just absorbing/drooling over the wine menu, as if that would make me feel better

I'm dying for sushi and a beer

(I have been naughty and had ham occasionally, so I'm not feeling the pain there so much).

and for the first time this pregnancy, I'm starting to get a bit over it - first lot of swelling (yes, I know I'm lucky it stayed away this long!), bit of heartburn, rib & back pain, not sleeping well any more....... guess it's par for the course, but I'm now really looking forward to the next 7-9 (hopefully!) weeks just being over with

sorry, whinge over for now!

sottise - hope your xmassy do goes ok tomorrow!

I ate so much homecooked sushi in the first trimester that the idea of sushi now makes me feel sick, bad association! But it was yum when I had it.

Just to skite, Sottise and Blondy, I have been enjoying a light alcoholic drink this week, on these lovely sunny evenings ... shows how good my recovery's been this time around, as I was not interested in alcohol at all after Clara's birth, I think my body was in repair mode IYKWIM.

Whinge away Blondy, I remember the early third trimester being particularly hard, I perked up a bit in the later weeks though, with some extra nesting energy, and surprisingly a lot of my aches and pains easing off, so hopefully it happens the same for you.

Kye, you are crazy! I've never been a real exercise junkie - good on you though!

lilfatty wrote: I was pg over two Christmas's and yep .. it sucks!

Me too. it was dumb. Spesh when I was pg with Ryan and MIL served up a ham for lunch. and I sat there eating potatoes peas and carrots. Yum.

Lots of businesses run competitions on FB Kellie, I wouldn't worry too much about it ... but yeah maybe end it earlier if that will give you peace of mind.

DH is going back to work tomorrow and I think he's looking forward to escaping. Not from the baby - from the toddler ... this week he's been doing most of toddler wrangling (though I still help out too) and yesterday he commented on how tiring Clara is, how she saps all his energy, LOL, try being heavily pregnant with a toddler

Gah I've had a tough weekend. In some ways it was nice having Sylvie on a Sunday afternoon and having the week mostly to ourselves, but we got quite a few visitors this weekend when the sleep deprivation and baby blues were starting to set in... including my ILs, who turn up unexpectantly and expect to be waited on ... and FIL said some hurtful things to us yesterday, lectured us about the dogs (who are still fighting with each other), saying, among other things, that we're not putting our children first, if he was our neighbour he would be calling CYFS to report us, and that Clara doesn't feel safe in her own home (actually, the reason she goes to her bedroom when you come is that you are way too in her face, she can't be forced to be best friends with you when she sees you only a few times a year)... not what I needed to hear, being so emotional anyway! And so today I come down with mastitis - so typical ...

But on a brighter note, Sylvie - touch wood - is such an easy baby compared to Clara, and I'm enjoying her so much, partly because of her temperament but also cos I'm so relaxed this time around. Now if only I could get some sleep, life would be perfect

The night feeding would be hard work Kellie, is he having a growth spurt?

Anna - grr at your FIL What ridiculous things to say to a mother with a newborn (well, actually ridiculous things at all!) I do know what you mean about the IL's expecting to be waited on though.... someone (maybe Fliss?) suggested to me that when they come (they'll be staying at least a couple weeks around the due date), that we are much clearer about what we need help with. After all, the main reason they're here is actually to help us out rather than it be a flitting social visit!

Hope today goes ok with DH being back at work! Do you have some other friends/family (other than the IL's!) that can pop in and help you if you need?

It's nice that your ILs have offered to help out Blondy. At least, I hope they are intending to help you out. I do have friends and family who could help, but everyone is busy with their own lives, especially at this time of year. It might be worth looking into a creche for Clara, for a few mornings a week though - she could probably do with the social interaction, especially now I'm more house bound.

How lovely that your DH had a family-friendly Christmas party Sarah! Yay for the haircut

Yes Sottise when do you settle on the house, is it this week? How exciting!

I might have spoken too soon re: an easy baby, we had a horror night last night, but hopefully it was just related to the mastitis and she'll be ok when it clears up (got some ABs today). Anyway I'd better start cutting dairy etc out of my diet, see if that helps. She has put on over half a kilo in her first week