A busy day or two

[ailbhe]

Today Linnea woke early, Rob got up with her, gave her some bread to be going on with, put the porridge on, made himself a cup of tea, sat down, and fell asleep. The smell of burning porridge woke him some 40 minutes later.

We had pancakes for breakfast; they were lovely.

Because of that, Rob was late leaving for work, so he worked from home until it was time to go to our appointment. We got a taxi there and back and he was probably at work in the office by noon, I reckon. I spent some time chatting to the woman who was minding Linnea for us, which was very pleasant, and then came home with time to feed Linnea her lunch before the midwife was due (she tends to book a 2-hour slot for visits to my house, to allow herself to be late leaving her previous appointments). She arrived, took blood, blood pressure, urine sample, fetal heart, etc. All well. Her back is getting better too. We had a lovely long chat but I still haven't learned what would make a good gift and I still haven't remembered to check her ears for piercings. Perhaps I'll just get her a pinard pendant, a photo of Tadpole, some wine vouchers, and a copy of the new book. It doesn't quite amount to the Nobel Prize for Midwifery but I can't quite obtain that single-handed.

She's moving to Scotland in the winter. Oh well.

After she left flybabydizzy came and we had much chatting and tea-drinking and when Rob came home we ate dinner (Sweet Masala vegan Indian takeaway) and then they went to bring stuff to the storage unit. Diz can't come unless I can think of a helpful task for her to do, so that's it this time.

Tomorrow 10-12 at least, probably later, some Tigglers Togglers people will be here, since the group is closed for the summer holidays. Then 2-4 Mary from Homestart, then 4:30 another friend with toddler, and we'll all have takeaway Indian, probably, from the meaty place. They're not as good as Sweet Masala but they're ok and they do things all the guests will eat.

On Thursday my mother in law will come at some point, possibly in the late evening, staying until Saturday, to do housework and things. I'll get out of the way on Friday so that I don't start doing any heavy housework myself, which is highly likely; I can't stand seeing someone do things in my house. I'm not fit to do serious housework; even hoovering is extremely hard on me these days, and really the two downstairs rooms need to be done daily. We have a little buggy for Linnea now so I can take her around in that on the buses - I think the pool, the library, and something in the town centre would be a good start. Not sure what in the town centre. Then on Saturday morning we're going to see if we can find the huge leisure complex somewhere around Bracknell which has a pool with waves and a pirate ship and things. Last time we went I had a period and couldn't swim; this time there's no way that can happen :)

And it's quite possible that on Sunday we'll go to WOMAD.

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[tiggsybabes.livejournal.com]

I love pancakes, yum :)

One of my lj friends lives in Bracknell, small world, eh? :)

[ai731.livejournal.com]

Oh WOMAD. I miss WOMAD. I miss many things (and people, of course) and WOMAD is one of them. I hope one day we'll be visiting the UK at the right time to go for a day.

[ailbhe]

We're hoping to make it the last The Three Of Us outing for our family, IYSWIM. Linnea would love it, if we make it there. Mucis and food and colours and people and interesting things in tents! what could be better?

[alison.hemuk.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

Town centre - the museum? Any time you fancy company at the pool (assuming you go to the one nearest you and me), let me know!

[beckyl.livejournal.com]

Friday town centre - stop in for a fruit tea? I have some 'younger gamer' games in the library now which might interest Linnea.

[ailbhe]

Highly likely actually, because you're next to the train station so I wouldn't have to walk far if we came by train :) I can't walk much any more.

[sidheag.livejournal.com]

Where in Scotland is your lovely midwife moving to, and will she practise, do you know? Scotland sorely needs more IMs (though I was about to moan that there are none at all who cover Edinburgh now, which was the case for a couple of years, but a quick check of the IMA website shows Carrie McIntosh and Fiona Boswell both practising here now, which is good news; thought Carrie was still in the NHS though so maybe she's in the process of making the move? Still, there's also the rest of Scotland to be considered!)

[hfnuala.livejournal.com]

It's a real problem in some parts of Scotland. My ante-natal teacher told me about a lady who had two homebirths when she lived in Edinburgh and has moved near to Fort William. The local community midwife doesn't want to support another home birth and when she approached the supervisor for help, they suggested she move to Inverness for the last month of her pregnancy, so she'd be close to the hospital.

I feel so lucky to live in Edinburgh.

[ailbhe]

She's an NHS midwife, not an independent, and I expect she will work *somewhere* but dunno if she'd consider independent. She told me where in Scotland but I can't remember now :/

[sidheag.livejournal.com]

Ah, I thought she was NHS, but then when you said she allocated 2 hours for a meeting, I thought I must have misremembered!

[ailbhe]

She does some in-clinic work, and she does some home visits. She has a two-hour slot for visiting me, which allows her to give her clinic patients a little more time too. She wouldn't do it if it annoyed me, but I like that she likes to give people time :)

As far as I know she gets paid by the visit or by the patient-seen, not by the hour, but I could be wrong.