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Dinah93

I'm always cold.

Been packing for holidays all morning. Only have 5 vests for Grace which at the rate she goes through them will last at most two days, hopefully more are on the line and may dry out if for NIM to bring down if it ever stops raining long enough.

Little chunk is now 7lbs 10oz, but she feeds really well for my mum so I think by the time we have her next check in 12 days after 9 days of family holiday she may be coming towards 8lb 6oz-8lb-10oz. She's also trying to get a bit mobile, not quite getting the hang of it but maybe we'll see some rolling while we're away.

N.I.M

Dinah93 wrote: »

I'm always cold.

Been packing for holidays all morning. Only have 5 vests for Grace which at the rate she goes through them will last at most two days, hopefully more are on the line and may dry out if for NIM to bring down if it ever stops raining long enough.

Look on the dining table love, LOADS of mildly moist stuff was left there to finish drying remember?

shrimpy_80

I don't know why but "mildly moist" just made me giggle!

Dinah93

N.I.M wrote: »

Look on the dining table love, LOADS of mildly moist stuff was left there to finish drying remember?

We must have left it drying more than 30mins, she's outgrown it all!

Cinny91

Birdie85 wrote: »

You could have a little Ralph on the way this time next year!

And you too, of course although hoping you'll be well into motherhood by then

Although little Ralph is no more! We rehauled the name list so it's either Nicholas Mason or April Paige depending on gender/if it suits them! Not that I'm planning waaaay ahead or anything. Pssh.

I'm with you on the mildly moist, Shrimpy! Heheheee

N.I.M

I thought guys were the ones who were supposed to find phrases like that funny.

Dinah93

Please just don't call your child April if it is born in April, I always find that a bit uninspired. Mum had two girls through her last nursery, April and January.... yep, both born in those months. Lovely names you've picked otherwise, but I bet you find once there's a LO inside you all your ideas change. I love the name Paige. We had LOADS of lovely names but we just kept going through them and saying 'nice, but that's not her name'.

Glad I didn't just assume something as vital as Grace's holiday oxygen would be hassle free. Have spent nearly an hour on the phone to various companies but long story short her usual provider hadn't faxed the request through to the company down there, so we'd have arrived and she'd have been off the oxygen as a matter of course due to having absolutely none there! I have to call back in two hours see if the fax has arrived. I feel the need to write to the head office requesting their management train staff in the differences in time delays when conveying a short message between traditional communication such as letter, carrier pigeon, semaphore, morse code and smoke signals, with modern communication such as phones or email. Training should also be considered in that a fax machine is in fact heading more in the traditional than modern direction and they should consider the marvels of email to send information through.

Strangest phone call afterwards though 'this is the hospital, just wondered if she can come in for an echo on Thursday afternoon'
me 'no, we're at my cousin's wedding that day sorry'
hospital 'is it all day? Only the clinic is only on in the afternoon so she might be able to come afterwards?'
I know small weddings are getting more common, but surely it's not overly likely that she's going to a local, early morning wedding, with no after meet up whatsoever?!
She seemed quite put out when I said we were away all week, apparently we have to go back on the normal waiting list now which will take about 8 weeks - I felt like pointing out it was the consultant who cancelled our appointment due to being poorly not me - Grace and I were ready and willing to go!

ETA Ralph parts is still the most acceptable way for anyone to refer to a member of the dangly gender on this thread. We won't ruin another of Cinny's baby boy names.

Birdie85

Cinny91 wrote: »

And you too, of course although hoping you'll be well into motherhood by then

Meh, I'm sure you'll be sprogged up before I am! At least I'll be an Auntie in April/May so I get all the nice things but can hand it back when there's a dirty nappy to change!

Hope the oxygen fiasco gets sorted Dinah! My Dad has had to buy a fax machine for doing business with the NHS as they don't *do* orders by e-mail, how old fashioned!

Don't know why you're all giggling at mildly moist... how immature you all are! Teehee... moist

archersluck

Oh wow Cinny, exciting decision! Freaks me out that you're a little younger than me yet a zillion percent more sorted! But I know you guys will make an awesome family (totally picturing Ryder in a bonnet like Nanny in Peter Pan...)

Birdie I'm sure you'll be up to your neck in your own dirty nappies in no time. Wait, no that sounds like you have continence problems, but you know what I mean!

So with you Shrimpy, I've decided it's now winter, Brrrr.

Hope you get packed and away with minimum hassle Dinah, and that you have a lovely time

Not much to report here, work was insane but now a little calmer. The other graduates all begin next week, I started early, so hoping they'll be nice and I appear knowledgeable and successful. The problem is that as soon as any one else is near me I start dropping things and talking nonsense...

shrimpy_80

Hope you got the oxygen sorted Dinah, OH actually works for an oxygen delivery company and they cover part of the north east, so depending where you live he *may* have been the one fixing the mistake (he is in logistics and basically redeploys drivers and stock for emergencies like yours but you wouldn't have spoken to him). I couldn't agree more about the archaic methods they use, I actually couldn't believe they rely on fax machines still. Hope it was resolved.

Cinny the names are lovely, have never thought of Paige but it's a beautiful name and they all go really nicely together too.