Nice People 13: Nice Save

ukmaggie45

I fell asleep half way through Wolf Hall last night and watched it this afternoon while OH is visiting his Mum in nursing home, and also going to look after GrandTwins while parents go to school parents evening...

But in the meantiime I got out my camera which I thought I'd broken completely a few days back, and took a photo from bedroom window.

View from bedroom window by ukmaggie45, on Flickr

It's much the same as the last one I sent, but was so chuffed to find camera working again. Really thought was going to have to cough up for a new one! :eek:

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

The babies are not playing ball and refusing to turn head down so we are now booked in for a caesarian on Wednesday...OH is delighted to have an end date!

There was a programme on TV earlier in the week following a few women who were having babies - one asked her mum if they had caesarians back when her mum was pregnant with her...

Please send her best wishes from bunch of weirdos she has never met .

vivatifosi

What a lovely DIY SOS tonight. I hope they get a lovely house at the end of this, they really deserve it.

CKhalvashi

Generali wrote: »

Yeah 2*14 is the year that need not be mentioned again.

I think many of us will agree on that one :beer:

silvercar

chewmylegoff wrote: »

The babies are not playing ball and refusing to turn head down so we are now booked in for a caesarian on Wednesday...OH is delighted to have an end date!

There was a programme on TV earlier in the week following a few women who were having babies - one asked her mum if they had caesarians back when her mum was pregnant with her...

Will they try and manipulate?

ukmaggie45

Please cross your fingers for us - we have someone may be interested in our old home, depends on report from structural engineer.

chewmylegoff

silvercar wrote: »

Will they try and manipulate?

No, not with both twins lying transverse. If one isn't head down and engaged they strongly recommend that you have a c section. They will manipulate the second twin once the first one is out but not when there are two in there. At least that's wot our consultant said anyway.

Generali

chewmylegoff wrote: »

No, not with both twins lying transverse. If one isn't head down and engaged they strongly recommend that you have a c section. They will manipulate the second twin once the first one is out but not when there are two in there. At least that's wot our consultant said anyway.

Don't underestimate the beating up that chewherlegoff will have with a cesarean, it's a pretty tough op to get over. If I had my time again I'd have taken considerably more time off after the birth of The Boy.

Also, remember that chewherlegoff will be incapable of looking after the chewettes for the first few days as she will be immobile. If you experience what we did, there will be no nursing care whatsoever offered to the baby beyond passing to Mrs Generali.

I had to change nappies and fresh sheets, required as a result of the total neglect of The Boy, were handed over grudgingly. The nurses were much happier for him to continue to lie in his own p1ss than trouble themselves to pass me fresh sheets so I could change the bed.

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

Please send her best wishes from bunch of weirdos she has never met .

Absolutely! Hope it all goes smoothly for all four of you.

Agree with what the others say about babies coming of their own accord - both mine were overdue to the point where I was booked in for an induction, but both came naturally in the gap between booking the induction and the date set for it.

DS's parents' meeting at school tonight. Have finalised his options, as follows:

Has to do English lang, Eng lit, maths, double science
Options history, philosophy & ethics, computing, drama, food tech

The history teacher was happy to have him and thought he should be able to do quite well. The RS teacher was confident he would be a good student for phil & eth. The food tech teacher seemed pleased he'd picked it (although I couldn't tell if she was pleased to get him in particular, or just generally pleased to get a student picking it). Both the computing and drama teachers made it v clear they think he has talent so they really want him and would be sad if he hadn't picked them. Oh, and the Spanish teacher confirmed that all the stuff about "everybody ought to do a foreign language" doesn't apply to him - she said it would be 2 years of being miserable, when he could instead be doing a different subject he could do well at!

Over the last 22 years I have done loads of Y9 parents' evenings from the teacher's side of the desk, advising students and parents about their options. I like them - they are easier than parents' meetings for other year groups because the focus is on their choices, which is a positive thing and less likely to be "sticky" than when the focus is on the student's progress more generally or the upcoming exam. It was really interesting to experience it from the other end.

Generali

LydiaJ wrote: »

It was really interesting to experience it from the other end.

It is always interesting to experience your job being done from the other end as you say. I find it very amusing when companies try to sell me financial products and assume I'm the sort of run-of-the-mill idiot that they normally sell to that will buy whatever they dangle under my nose.