Sticking Together Crew

[babydustcass]

Morning all
Argh Stacey sorry your cat shat on your sofa, nice way to repay you eh? I am allergic to cats and just about any animal out there lol so we shouldn't have the pleasures of wakin uP to cat crap either but net doors cats a driving me mad!! They have pooed all over my garden like it some kind of crap Pitt and I'm sick of trying to keep on top of it when they aren't even mine! And godforbid you should fill the wheely bin in 2 weeks cos you might as well leave the rest of the rotting rubbish in the house unless u want the cats to spread it nice and thinly across the entire surface of your garden Ahhhh there is my cat rant for the day !!! Lol

Sooo what's everyone's plans for today? How's everyone feeling!?

Yay Ysa for clomid really hope this is it!!! Woooop!

 

[Sun_Flower]

Lol well I love my cat, apart from today where she's having a mad half hour and throwing herself round my living room, she's just jumped up the side of one of my book cases and sat on top staring at me, little cow. Maybe she's trying to help me go into labour by making me get up out of my chair seventeen times a second.

Might be walking in to town later to do a little bit of Christmas shopping, trying to do some walking every day. Looks like it might rain though so I'll have to see what happens. Getting my changing table tomorrow, a present from my auntie. Looking forward to getting it, as it's the last piece of nursery furniture and I can then get Eden's toiletries/ nappies etc put away properly

Anyone got any nice plans for the weekend? I know Andrea does

 

[cranberry987]

Sspencer - urg about the cat poo. Weve got three cats here and one was always weeing on things, we had to change all our carpets to karnean (kinda like laminate) and he still wee'd but we could clean it better. then we got a catflap and have had nothing for months now. He was just usually pissed off about being locked in so sprayed.

They never poo in our garden tho ^^ I think thats the only surefire way not to get cat crap in your borders, get a cat.

Exciting about the changing table Sun Have fun stocking it

Im working from home today - Im an interpreter and work remotely via the internet sometimes. Its good as means I sit on my ass all day and eat satsumas, but it gets a bit boring sometimes as its not mega busy.

 

[sspencer99]

Lol cass nearly spat my banana across the office lol

They don't normally crap in the house I was sooo mad just what I needed
But like I said they are now sleeping outside from now on which is what they used to do before I became soft
And cass you can get clothes crystals to put in ur garden stops the cats coming in also they don't like orange so put peel in ur garden

Cran my kitten used to pee everywhere it got too much was close to giving her away but she's been a dimound since we moved

Rachel yay for ur changing table have been debating to get one or not
Let me know if it makes a difference
I live the mad half hrs they go nuts hehe jus imaging It now xxxxx

 

[cranberry987]

My neighbours have plastic bottles of water all over their garden. supposed to mean cats avoid them but it does nothing and now they have bottles AND crap in the borders....

Oh and happy 15w stacey Orange!

One of our cats actually loves oranges too, if I eat a satsuma it sends him insane and I have to chuck him the peel or hes all over me til I finish it. Pepper might work in the garden, but I guess it'd get washed away.

 

[FloridaGirl21]

Do you guys do litter boxes in the UK? When I had cats, I never had issues with them going in the house cause they'd use their litter box.. Just wondering.

 

[cranberry987]

we had 4 litter boxes, it wasnt that he was peeing because he had nowhere to go he was just generally annoyed about not being allowed out so showed it by having a piss. my other two are angels in comparison. he did go in the tray too, so he knew how, but hes just a bolshy male. probably the same with the poo on the sofa tbh. these cats get annoyed and crap/wee on things.

 

[babydustcass]

yeah we have litterboxes here hun, but i think you get rid of them after a certain amount of time.... not sure if thats right as i have never owned a cat. but i know they dont have them anymore next door since they are toilet trained they go outside... IN MY GARDEN!
lol as you can probably tell i dont like next doors cats, i love my neighbours and hadnt mentioned it for the past year its been happening but when i told them about it the other day they didnt seem to give a crap, after all they dont shit in their garden so why would they care about mine, despite the fact i am not even supposed to touch cat poo and when george stepped out of the car the other day on our drive he trod straight in cat crap! in his NEW SHOES!!!!!! lol i guess aa hormonal pregnant woman is not the best person to talk to about cat poo lol who knew it could make me so angry. The little mites have also stolen my clothes before, in the summer they creeped into my house as we left the back door open for air flow and were stealing my clothes from the washing basket and i found them scattered across several shed roofs in the joining gardens next to mine.

I got an over the cot changer from babies r us, wish i had the room for a free standing one though. I wonder how much I will actually use it... these things can be kind of a novelty as I found out from George. Really depends on your routine and what is practical.

 

[truthbtold]

Oh that sucks Im allergic to cats too.

 

[AmaryllisRed]

Also allergic to cats.

I loooove the way changing tables look. I think they're gorgeous, and super convenient for having everything organized and in one place. However. I didn't have one with DS and we did just fine. I kept his wipes and diapers and stuff on top of the dresser. At first we changed him in a little detachable changing pad thing that came with his playyard/bassinet, and then when he got too big for it, we had put his bed in his room (even though he was too little for that yet) and changed him on the bed. Probably would've been easier on my back to have something a little higher, but not so much easier that it justifies buying a changing table this time.

Cass, I love how you're still "a wee bit preggo"!

 

[babydustcass]

hehe i didnt even notice that Jen!

 

[cranberry987]

my auntie had this massive self righteous rant about how dangerous changing tables were as babies fell off, but then told me that she changed her babies all on the bed and they all fell off!

 

[Sun_Flower]

Lol we're getting a changing table with a baby bath in it, just because I'd rather bath the baby at my height rather than on the floor or bend over her in our regular bath which has really steep sides. I don't trust myself to bath the baby with me in the bath too, too much slipperiness at once!

getting one that looks a bit like this:

Changing Station

 

[babydustcass]

thats lovely rach! Oh how i wish i had space!!

 

[cranberry987]

ive the same one but in green and yellow, got it off gumtree tho, some couple hadnt ever used it i reckon i can use it for baths in the kitchen and wheel it around wherever its needed.

 

[DrGomps]

All caught up!! Thanks for all your support ladies!! Lots more STC babies to come...
I think Cassie's princess may come next followed closely by baby Eden.

Ysatis, yay for clomid! You are getting scans too this cycle right??

Tracey, you definitely deserve answers hun. When's your next appt??

Cassie, how annoying about your neighbors cats!! Better get on that room!! Your princes will be here before you know it!! Was George on time??

Ericka, at least with the incompetent person you are training you know you will have job security. when is the stitch coming out? A woman in the November moms with an IC went into labor at 36 weeks..right before the stitch was due to be removed.

Happy 23 weeks (yesterday) Logan!

Rachel, I have a changing table too, but no bath attached. We have a removable spout for our shower which will help with bath time.

Jen, I can't imagine having to take care of another kid, on top of a newborn post partum. My mom mentioned it was tough with the 5 of us. My father wasn't super helpful either. Though Thomas is old enough you can try and get him to help.

Cran, your cat situation seems so frustrating. But glad the flap is working.

Stacey... I feel you pain. Ferdie has pooped on the guest futon twice and our bed once. But that is because we don't have a litterbox. Hopefully it was just a crazy fluke.

AFM, Josephine is finally out for the count. After some marathon feeding. She also had a nice poop. so the colustrum is getting through her system, building those nice antibodies. Going to try and take a poo...little scared. (sorry TMI) then going to try and nap while I can.

 

[cranberry987]

we were told at our antenatal class that sometimes the first poo (from mum) is a massive tennis ball type thing as the muscles are ruined. LOVELY!

 

[truthbtold]

Andrea that just scared me lol, my biggest fear is going into labor before the stitches come out. My doc is scheduling giving me the date for my removal next friday. Now I think I may push for 36 weeks instead of 37 lol.

The first poo after stitches sucks, Oh Im having flash backs, I rode home from the hospital sitting on my hip. At least they heal fast.

 

[Sun_Flower]

I definitely think Cass is next seeing as Macie is her second, and Eden will keep me waiting, lol! See wouldn't it just be great if once you got through labour your body was just back to normal and there wasn't all this other stuff you had to worry about - post partum bleeding, stitches, healing etc. You've got enough on your plate with a new baby let alone trying to find time to actually sort yourself out, lol! xxx

 

[truthbtold]

Im betting on Cass too.

But I think Vicki will go before me, my boys are always stubborn.