Cycling, storage, sections and support

We've used the trike every day. We've been to two local supermarkets which are just too far to walk with Linnea, and we ate out several times, and twice Rob has cycled home from work, and then back into town on the trike to collect me and Linnea. The huge buggy just fits in the trike with us, which is very useful when I'm exhausted. It's a lot faster than the bus.

Apparently it's not too hard to cycle, either.

My support belt arrived in yesterday's post, along with a book on c-sections (more later), so I hope to have a go on the trike myself this evening. However, now that we have the means to transport Lots Of Stuff, we have hired a small storage unit for three months and Rob will ferry the first two boxes (one we packed together last night, one I packed alone this morning) out after work today. The idea is to clear stuff out of the house based on whether we need it immediately, until the back bedroom and attic have enough space to be used for their designated purposes. Then we move things back in to proper in-house storage, and probably just plain dump a lot of it. We have a lot of things people gave us "because they might be useful one day and it's a shame to waste it" so we're likely to Freecycle stacks of it at some stage. We may Freecycle straight from the storage unit; place a list of things available on the mailing list and spend X hours sitting outside the storage facility waiting for people to show up and collect. You never know.

The bump support belt from the NCT shop (brand Carriwell) is ok - it is definitely supportive and I think it will help, but I would have benefitted more from the smaller size, silly me. There was no sizing info on the site though.

The book on c-sections (Caesarian Birth your questions answered, published by the NCT) isn't what I'd hoped. There is one page about the operation itself. It has no diagrams and doesn't even list the tissue layers that need to be cut, though it does say that abdominal muscle is pulled aside and not cut. It's just not detailed enough. Luckily I've found a fair bit on the web.

This afternoon will be busy. I have a will to sign, and a Real Nappy meeting to attend. It's a bit of a slog with the bump, and the bus-stop is closed and replaced with a temporary stop miles away at which buses often don't stop because it's just about invisible. Yesterday, after slogging up and down some serious hills to get to the toddler group, Linnea and I got the train into town; we'll probably do that again because it's cheaper than the bus and easier to get the buggy in.