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your work sounds awful! Your only going to be on maternity for 6 weeks, and they can't understand that the fumes are bad for you and baby! Gosh! xxx
I can't believe how long that took though. I certainly hope this wakes up your power company a little bit to realize they are drastically un-prepared for emergency power off situations! Maybe once your house warms back up LO will decide it's safe to come out now! Glad things are going well at the NST. Too bad he doesn't seem interested in budging yet. 
.). If you read back the past 4 weeks, you will notice that Kristabelle is 100% right about the bitching ahaha. We have gone from pleasant conversations to complain central!! 
! WTF is the OH ex doing? Does she feel like now is the time to step in . She should really consider who she is messing with right now (hormones and all )
The pediatrician who we picked (and who I love!) said to me "I'm sure you've been getting a lot of advice from people" at which I said "yes" and rolled my eyes (couldn't be helped ) and he just smiled and said "well that's about to get a lot worse, so when they all give you advice just nod and say yes, yes, okay... and then call me" He had such a nice calming energy and was so supportive of everything I said and just kept saying "this is your baby, don't worry about other people, only you are her mother". It felt SO empowering after always having people make you feel like you know nothing about anything. I liked him so much. 
Love the pic of Lucas with his big brother! Harrison looks so proud! Completely adorable!!
. I will try my hardest to drop it, once he is proven to be human 
. Your crazy!. Nevertheless, my brain capacity has long dwindled with this pregnancy.. So I'm not sure I would even pass a written driving test at this time . How many exams will you have left after LO is born?
Uk Girl I so dislike your ex. He gets more and more horrible as this saga continues. What a horrible disappointment he must be to your kids, the poor things. Glad Benson is fine after your false labor stuff over the weekend, and omg at his size! I don't think you need to watch what you eat, it is obviously him that is eating it all anyway
So glad your power is back on DL! And you can't blame LO for wanting to stay inside with her perfect temperature jacuzzi and 24 hr a day room service with copious amounts of chocolate, when her other option is to come out to a blizzard with no heat. Your LO is obviously clever like her mama
Steph I absolutely hate any kind of conflict. It always upsets me and I hate when people don't get along so I mostly stay away from those kinds of arguments. Especially because at the end of it nothing is ever resolved and nobody feels good at the end of arguments like that. They just fume away at each other and squabble. Hate that kind of energy. I just stay here on this thread where we really don't argue. And even when people say things I don't agree with, I just think its their opinion and I don't have to do what they say so its no big deal
Melissa, Lucas is so gorgeous!! I'm glad he is doing well now after all that you went through. I think you are right to write a letter about that consultant. It was ridculous for her to get on her high horse and frighten you about things that weren't even relevant and just ignore serious issues, even when you brought them to her attention. So glad everyone is safe
Nimbec, so sorry to hear your OH is not helping out much. Maybe all the complications with the birth and then having to rush back to hospital with Harrison's breathing issues impacted him more than he says. You know what men are like, complete crap at putting their feelings into words. I imagine it would have been really frightening for him to see you suffering and then to see how fragile LO is and that is hard because he loves you both so much even though he is crap at showing it right now because he is overwhelmed. And maybe he worries about his inadequacy at helping out because he's not confident in what he's doing. That is another thing men are terrible at dealing with- any kind of feelings of inadequacy. I hope the night out got some things out of his system and he will be better able to get his feelings in order and pick up his game. Thinking of your little family
I know I am forgetting loads of stuff, sorry! AFM - not much news. My nursery is finally finished. It is hard to get good pictures of it but I will try to post some soon. This Sunday I'm going for my first "induction" session at acupuncture where they target the points that are supposed to encourage labor. Also going on Monday as well. Tuesday of next week is the official hospital due date. I also realized that going by the calendar tomorrow I will be 9 months pregnant. Feeling quite proud of me and LO, we made it all this way together! Now I am dying for her to get here just because I'm getting reeeeeeeally bored without her!
! Have you gotten the printouts yet? I just received my first printed article on feeding children solid food too early . Listen, not only am I not really interested in your article, but I am also more concerned with evicting him atm !. I don't plan to EVER get married (never really wanted to). Both of us want to pass on our name though (and since he part of u both, I think it's only fair). But again, it's a personal choice that everyone has to make for themselves. someone just came off as super judgmental and rude... I'm proud to say though... I did not get involved lol
Now 6 years later I was all for the de-hyphenation so that LO doesn't have to have a hyphenated name. Do I think its wrong for anyone else to give their LO a hyphenated name? No, definitely not. Do I have a different perspective on having a hyphenated name after not having one and then having one? yes. Do I think having a hyphenated name is more complicated than having a non-hyphenated name? Oh yes. But does it really matter if it is very meaningful to other parents to have both names? No. So there is just no one right answer about that at all. Only one answer that is right for each individual family. But that's just my opinion Plus I got my own way on both her first name and her middle name, so I'm pretty satisfied with that
Yeah the surname one is pretty much guaranteed to get people riled up. My DH had a hyphenated name with both his parent's last names combined. We just spent the last few months de-hyphenating the name. I took his hyphenated name when we got married even though he tried to warn me about having a hyphenated name. I didn't listen. How unlike me.
And my DH's middle name is now his mum's last name, so we didn't just totally erase her name or anything. And no way would we hyphenate my maiden name with my husband's dad's name. That would be a long, hard to spell Scottish name combined with a long, hard to spell Swedish name. Plus the hyphen. I think that would be borderline child abuse.
. I don't plan to actually hyphenate the names together (rather it will stay sepperate) and I don't plan to actually have Grayson use my name for non official documents. I just want him to have the choice when he is 18, what name he wants to use. If at that point, he wants to drop mine, I am 100% ok with that. Here is the worst part, my name is already a 2 part name and I have had soo many issues with people getting it wrong . . I already know its going to be a mess 
