MSE Pregnancy Club VII

Glamazon

Krystaltips wrote: »

Well... I think my oven just gave up... Pukka pie night again too! It's not heating up this time as opposed to over heating before... And I just put a cake mix in there! Just spent 10mins going through the stoopid automated phone thing for the service centre only for an answer machine to pop on going 'sorry this office is now closed' Grrrrrrr!

Know howyou feel - my ovens been on blink for a week. Quote today of £131 so OH is checking with a mate to see if this is reasonable.

Chippie tea for me!

Krystaltips

Glam, that sounds expensive to me... The reciept I've got here says my oven only cost £169 to buy new... But then it's only a basic built in fan oven... No hob or anything... I can't complain about mine really, it was actually free in a roundabout way... Even the 5yr extended warranty... (My ex bought a reeeeeeeally expensive DVD player with surround sound and ext warranty, 18months after I booted him out it died... Currys wouldn't fix it, just sent me a voucher for about half the original cost and another voucher for the remaining term of the warranty... I managed to get a new DVD player and the new oven for the cost of half the old DVD player!)

Anyone that bakes... Can I steam my banana loaf in the loaf tin? It's not going to cook in a cold oven... (Also explains why yesterdays toad in the hole didn't work... Can stop beating myself up about it now )

Glamazon

It's a built in fan oven with grill and hob - think it's over £500 new.
Thermostat broken :mad:

Sami_Bee

Glamazon wrote: »

£7.11p - that is cute!!

I've been meaning to ask all weekend - is it the law that you have to finish at 38 weeks? A friend said for insurance purposes you have to finish at 38 weeks but it's the first I'd heard of it!!

Oh yeah - MIL works at DWP and says benefits for new mums and mums to be changing over the next 6 months so watch this space.
She bought me loads of info over the weekend - SMP, MA, SureStart, HIPG, Free Milk - apart from SMP and HIPG I won't get anything because I earn too much! Oh well :rolleyes:

Glam you can work right up until you go into labour and not a moment longer
Then you legally have to have 6weeks off.

It was on "The Wright Stuff" the other day that they were considering cutting womans mat leave to 5 months and giving men 4mths paternity pay! - what a load of tosh! if they want to make things equal them give the parents the choice of who gets how much as long as added up it comes to 9months receiving some pay/benefit while baby is at home with a parent!

mookiandco

Thank you for sharing Becky. Hugs and strength to you and yours.

AM sorry to hear about your fall. Wishing you a speedy recovery. When I fell on the ice a couple of months back I felt really sorry for myself and I only had bruises to my knee and hurt pride!

Sami - congrats on team blue (only just catching up from the weekends goss)! My little brother absolutely dotes on my older brother and hero worships him. It will be a very special relationship between 2 brothers so close in age.

AF - congrats on your little girl - BS and pics now please!

Bump envy - I did used to push my bump out in the earlier weeks and stroke it protectively but dont think anyone noticed and it just gave me a bad back! Everyone elses bumps always look nicer/bigger/better than your own - its just one of those things!

A client asked me at work today if I was still able to do my job given that 'i'm in the family way'. I told him that I am pregnant and it does not affect my brain or ability to do my job! Sexist pig.

Dinner time for me and beanie now, swiftly followed by strawberry and cream ice cream xxxx

tarajayne

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Glam you can work right up until you go into labour and not a moment longer
Then you legally have to have 6weeks off.

It was on "The Wright Stuff" the other day that they were considering cutting womans mat leave to 5 months and giving men 4mths paternity pay! - what a load of tosh! if they want to make things equal them give the parents the choice of who gets how much as long as added up it comes to 9months receiving some pay/benefit while baby is at home with a parent!

They were talking about this on the news this morning. If it was only 6 months for women then the men get 3 as they said today then as I am having 3 months off before bubs comes then she would only be 3 months when I would go back, therefore OH would then take over but would need to grow b00bs in order to keep up the feeding, huh?

Evansangel

Hi everyone, how are you all doing today?

Had a nice day today, it was sunny and i had a day off work so i met my friend in town for lunch

Then me and OH went to sainsburys and i claimed my free mum and baby bundle.

So i got a pack of nappies and a bundle of baby stuff for free as the voucher is worth £9.99 and all togther it came to £9.95 as you had to buy the nappies to get the bundle for free and they have a 1/3 of baby stuff.

Got home and tore it open haha, there are some small little booties in there

xx

Glamazon

Oh dear - remind me never ever to wander off from thsi thread again.
Foolishly posted a question and have had a horrible response from some jackass who hasn't even read my posts properly!

I wanna delete it!!

MrsTinks

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Glam you can work right up until you go into labour and not a moment longer
Then you legally have to have 6weeks off.

It was on "The Wright Stuff" the other day that they were considering cutting womans mat leave to 5 months and giving men 4mths paternity pay! - what a load of tosh! if they want to make things equal them give the parents the choice of who gets how much as long as added up it comes to 9months receiving some pay/benefit while baby is at home with a parent!

Wrong... yes you can work right up till you go into labour if you so wish but you only HAVE to take 2 weeks maternity leave (4 if you work in a factory). These are compulsary.

As for the womens/mens mat leave - I think the UK gets a rubbish deal myself... in Denmark you get as standard:

Under the Sickness and Maternity Benefits Act (Chapter 7), in the event of absence from work in connection with childbirth the starting-point is that the public authorities (the municipality in which the employee lives) pay a maternity benefit (barseldagpenge) to the mother starting from 4 weeks before the anticipated date of confinement. After the confinement, benefit is payable to the parents for a combined entitlement of 24 weeks, 10 weeks of which may, subject to more precisely specified conditions, be claimed by the father after the 14th week following the confinement. Independently of this, the father is entitled to benefit for 2 weeks after the confinement. The rules also cover the case of adoption. The benefit is calculated in the same way as sickness benefit, i.e. corresponding to 90 per cent. of pay but subject to a specified maximum amount.

And that is the utter minimum - most employers offer much more than that - I like that 10 of the 24 weeks you OR your partner can take as parental leave DH would love that! There is unpaid leave after that too like in the UK and I think that the deal has actually got better recently - that one was from 2007

MrsTinks

Glamazon wrote: »

Oh dear - remind me never ever to wander off from thsi thread again.
Foolishly posted a question and have had a horrible response from some jackass who hasn't even read my posts properly!

I wanna delete it!!

Put them on ignore hun