Secrets of your trade.

Gummy I would add to that: midwifes, why are there so many of you who decline local anaesthetic when actually suturing a woman’s perineum after giving birth? The first time I didn’t know any better and went along with her suggestion of gas&air. After the first stitch I was begging her to stop and give me local. The second time I knew what was coming and said I wanted local - I had just given birth with no pain relief whatsoever ffs! Only to be told that I “just needed two or three into the muscle and a few on the outside” and for her to just proceed. I’m still so angry at them!

Midwives, why is there no pain relief for checking to see if stitches are needed? I haven't needed stitches but that was worse than labour. Being told to look at my baby didn't help and being checked is the only time I swore or got angry. I assume that actual stitches have some sort of numbing injection?

I work in the pensions industry, I have no secrets but I would never have a pension with nest or now pensions. Their customer service is absolutely shocking and their systems are awful, contributions getting mixed up or lost constantly. The company I work for is actually really good, you can even get rewarded for not following policy to ensure that the member gets what they need if possible.

The salon I worked in as a teenager (late seventies) did that too. Sometimes a towel would be put aside if it reeked of perm lotion but otherwise they were only laundered once a week. It was part of my job to take them to the launderette two doors down.

PenguinFeathers

Nope that’s just the manky salon you worked for that’s vile!

Following on from the secret Nuclear accidents mentioned at the start. I thought the secret event would be the accident at Windscale (now Sellafield) in 1957.
www.britannica.com/event/Windscale-fire
I live near the Solway Firth and remember a tv programme around the 1970s taking a geiger counter along the banks at the edge of the firth and it clicking like mad. Stuff was being leaked from Windscale .
I don't know if the deposits were a result of the 1957 event or later leaks, or even due to the powerstation on the north side of the Firth. But I remember reading that the 1957 radioactive cloud drifted west (unusually) to Dublin rather than north east with the usual prevailing winds.
I wonder if anyone is following this up to see if there is an increase in illness due to the leak.

These are getting a bit tenuous now.

I used to work in a hair dresser many years ago. I don't know if this is a 'trade secret' or I just worked at a bit of a dodgy salon. When you get your hair washed, the towel used to dry it was put in a laundry basket. When the basket was fully it was taken out back and put straight into a tumble dryer without being washed and then folded and put back on the shelf. They were only washed once a week.

yes it is obviously just an interview about their life, but it is done for the obituary, rather than an interview for something else which is then used.

It is not my field, I saw it on a programme about it a few years ago

@steppemum

What questions?
Would that not just be an interview?

some people are interviewed for their own obituary!

Oh yes bluejelly also there are TV obituries already made for all the major public figures, they get updated periodically. So they can broadcast on the day they die.

I haven't got time to rtft, but just in case this hasn't been posted:
Newspapers write their obituaries in advance. Sometimes years in advance.

Thanks Olddentist

But both my dentist and dental hygienisit have both confirmed that I don't have gum disease. My gums are healthy. I have bone loss in my upper jaw and freaky, pointy molar tooth roots than don't anchor properly, which means I have lost a number of them. And my front teeth are very secure! They don't move like my upper molars did.

My lower jaw doesn't have any such problems. My teeth are all there, still fully intact and not moving. As my dentist said, if I had gum disease I'd have lost them as well. I brush, I floss, I use interdental brushes, I visit the dentist regularly but of course I must have gum disease. You do realise that menopausal women suffer bone loss that affects their teeth and tooth loss?

I didn't get sick with any of my labours, and there's a distinct difference between early stages and active labour, regardless of timing of contractions. I often muse this when watching women having a chat through their contractions that are supposed to be in labour!

Maybe has qualified her post actually so you give it rest. Quite the overeaction towards me on your part!

I used to work in a high street bank and we were under so much pressure to sell. It was ridiculous. Even if someone came in in tears because they couldn't afford their mortgage we had to try and sell something.
I always remember an elderly lady who came in with a credit card which she'd been 'sold' in my branch and taking money out ob it then not realising what she was getting charges for.
She had thousands and thousands in her current account so there was no need for her to use a credit card but she'd been sold it without realising and got into trouble with it.
I hated working there

Tesco there will be a midwife along no doubt to tell you properly re the injection after birth. However I asked for something different the second time. Whatever I had the first time made me hysterical, lightheaded and sick. I mentioned it to midwife and they put it on my notes and had something different- no dramas the second time.

And you managed to get that from her first post?!

Eh?! She's explained about four times that all she meant was that the smoothie ingredients come to the factory already processed, rather than as whole fruit. I'm not sure why that's generating so much outrage...

@Cel982

Perhaps you could enlighten the rest of us then!

Give it a rest, Smother, eh?

Don't worry about it, Maybe - FWIW, I understood your slightly confusing first post and didn't assume you were trying to start some sort of takedown of the smoothie industry

It's common to vomit in transition. I had a physiologic third stage with all of mine. Plancenta came within 10 mins each time. MW had injection on hand in case of pph but wasn't needed.

Tesco, I'm not a midwife, but each time I have given birth, I have vomited just before delivery (and not felt sick or vomited throughout labour otherwise), so I assume it is your body getting ready to push??

Midwives, how do you know over the phone that someone is ready to come in? I'd only had labour pains for around an hour or so before I rang but they were hard and heavy from the beginning. When I was on the phone to the midwife I threw up and she said, have you been sick? Time to come in. I was 3cm when I arrived and stayed but my contractions never became regular even at the end, some were 1 minute apart and some were 20. It was a quick labour.

I also fished my baby out the water.

Next time I don't think I want that injection that helps you give birth to the placenta. It made me feel HORRIFIC, can I say I don't want it or is it necessary?

My midwife was amazing, she was a couple of years above me at school in my brother's year and went to the same first school as me, barely saw her as laboured in the bath then when I moved to the pool she said she was starving and I told her I was fine and to go and eat her lunch, I gave birth about 10 minutes later and she rushed in, my first question was did she get to finish her lunch and she said no

The doctor that stitched me up, I called her a bitch, I still think about it now, she wasn't a bitch but it really bloody hurt. More than giving birth.

I Didnt say the smoothies don't have fruit, i said the factories that make them. Like I said, people assume I work with fruit and I don't. Usually people are surprised.

I explained it badly, I'll admit that

you lot are a bit over invested in the fruit smoothie nonsense.
Does it really matter? 🤪