gratefulforhelp's austerity measures

cha97michelle

Oh no - is there still glass everywhere? Apparently the best thing to use is a piece of bread to dab it up as it picks it all up.

Sounds like the puppy is doing well.

gratefulforhelp_2

Piece of bread is a good idea! I have been dreadful, and been sleeping, but I am sooo tired.

cha97michelle

After a busy few weeks you probably need a day of just sleeping while home alone. Make the most of it.

gratefulforhelp_2

Its not going to happen too much, that's for sure. Lazy me.

twinklie

Lol bless you and bless the good little puppy. Soooo sweet. It makes me jealous and want Belle to be a baby baby again. But then she didn't sleep well for quite a while. Boo.

gratefulforhelp_2

Well good little puppy has gone 48 hours without pooing in the house, but she has weed. She has also been a bit hoity toity with DD1, so we will have to fix that...and DH thought it was ok to have her on the sofas but she has now been consigned to the dog shelf, to help with her delusions of grandeur. She sleeps fine so far, though.

Just had a plumber round to see about bathroom/s. Have hatched a cunning plan to turn downstairs loo into a shower room, which would be ACE! Will have to see what the cost will be.

I'm at the stage( eta of pregnancy not bathroom design!) where I have permanent indigestion, which is horrible.

lincoln-potter

cha97michelle wrote: »

Oh no - is there still glass everywhere? Apparently the best thing to use is a piece of bread to dab it up as it picks it all up.

Sounds like the puppy is doing well.

michelle I think I have learnt more tips from you than anybody else so far on MSE!

:T

gratefulforhelp_2

And me, but I tried this one and it is only a good idea if there are no puppies in the house. She thought I was putting food down for her, and tried to hoover up the breadcrumbs, and broken glass before I could pick them up.

D'oh! should have thought of that and locked her out first.

Going to look at bathroom tiles online today and tackle the ironing mountain.

CathT

Great news about getting your homebirth, i would really like one this time.

gratefulforhelp_2

Well I haven't had it yet, but I am stroppy enough to stick my neck out, I wouldn't do it if there was a proper medical reason not to, but raised BMI (in my case) isn't a proper medical reason. I don't have diabetes or high bp and I have done it before.

This may help when your turn comes http://www.aims.org.uk/

You are legally entitled to a home birth as I understand it, though you may have to stick your neck out to get one.

SIL has lectured me endlessly about how selfish I am and I am not considering the needs of women on the labour ward (she is a m/w) but

1. When I am in labour I am entitled to be selfish I think ...and

2. Our rather more enlightened midwives here point out that there are m/w managers sitting in offices who can be called on to work if needed, and there is also an on-call rota, so there is no need for anyone to suffer a m/w shortage. I also agreed to have a student here in addition, which saves them the need (I think) for a second m/w and provides an increasingly rare training opportunity.

OOh a rant, sorry!!

Just been online and put in my basket £36 worth of sample tiles for the bathroom works...going for mostly white with maybe a row of accent tiles in an art nouveau style, house is victorian looking but built in 1920s.