Earthgirl gets back on track!

earthgirl

Courgette wrote: »

:shhh::shhh::shhh::shhh::shhh::shhh: Shh! That's quite enough about painful births, thank you! :eek::cool:

:wave:Welcome, master Earthlet. Glad all is well now :T:T:T

Enjoy these magical first few days, they grow up so quickly :A

Sorry, was thinking about not posting about it on your behalf, but I am sure you will be much better at coping than me, and I am sure you will be really well looked after and relaxed at home

earthgirl

Thanks for all the well wishes! We decided on James William as he looks quite a traditional chappie!

Everything fine and dandy here. Electricity bill arrived and we are £220 in credit on actual meter readings, yipee!! I have been round and switched loadsof things of this morning so feel much better control freak, I know!!

I have done an online food order, that with top up shops of fruit and milk, should last 2 weeks and I've picked really healthy foods that give lots of energy and stamina! I also got more disposables to make up the amount so that I could get £10 off, I seem to change them all the time - this has really surprised me (very niave!).

Anyway, I have about £40 that I hope will see us to the end of the month, but really I'll just be doing my best to be a mum this month!

cha97michelle

You sound like you are doing fab lovey. Don't put too much pressure on yourself, and make sure you get a little drink and snack every time you sit down to feed and you should be absolutely fine. I did ok on the drinking, but with DS1 i found it hard as i never made time to eat properly. I had to with DS2 as i had to make food for DS1 and found it so much easier. Then i felt like a lightbulb went on and i knew where i had gone wrong.

You've picked a lovely name. x

taka

Congratulations Earthgirl and OH! :j Sorry to hear it was traumatic...

Welcome to the world James!

Queen-Bee_2

Congratulations Earthgirl...

...and happy birthday James!!

Really lovely news...
QB

sparklymessygirl

I am a lurker but love your thread and am really pleased that baby James is here safely. I hope the trauma memories fade REALLY quickly!! You are doing really well to be even thinking about the leccy ATM!

Sparkly

Kittikins

Congratulations to you and Mr, and welcome to the world Earthlet xx

SmlSave

Congratulations earthgirl and earthguy

Welcome James :j

earthgirl

Hi all,

Thanks again for the well wishes!

All fine here, and just going to take 10 mins to catch up on a few diaries, baby asleep and should stay that way for a while:)

I have had to turn down work twice in 2 days, which is so unusual for me that it stings a bit I was contacted to run a course for business people by a training firm, and would have got around £1500 for it, but its in 2 weeks time and I can't leave the baby obviously!

I was also asked to do some translation work, which would bring in around £300, but I just haven't got the time and I don't know how tired I am going to feel from one day to the next. Oh well, never mind. People just heard of me and called me up to do this, so I think if theres a demand for business courses and adoc translation work its something I could investigate promoting later.

Still, someone gave me £10 for 'essentials' which I am taking to be my nappies and baby bits and bobs on my online order, so I am banking the £10 as a little towards oping as I'd already paid for these... time to get used to the very small and slow collecting of ops, and forgetting about overpaying £1000's at a time!

earthgirl

sparklymessygirl wrote: »

I am a lurker but love your thread and am really pleased that baby James is here safely. I hope the trauma memories fade REALLY quickly!! You are doing really well to be even thinking about the leccy ATM!

Sparkly

I feel absolutely normal (well normal for me anyway!!), which is wierd - I thought I'd have a baby and forget about my everyday life... apart from bonding with him, everything else is the same...:D