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Colleen Rooney, due in October, plans CS in September to fit in with football season

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StealthPolarBear · 16/04/2009 17:17

What do people think? I have no problem with people planing CSs, but this (assuming she's planning it for 2 or 3 weeks in advance of her due date) seems a bit of a superficial reason. I know babies are OK to come at 37 weeks if they're ready but surely this way there's a high risk of delivering a 'not ready' baby. Aren't CSs usually scheduled for about 39weeks? What do people think about this?

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wonderingwondering · 16/04/2009 21:15

Some of the narrowest people I know are the ones that have been brought up in the most privileged environments - private schooling, good uni, good job. They never see the hardship that many people struggle with. People like the Rooneys are probably much better informed about how hard ad unfair life can be and so try to use their money/influence/position to avoid difficulty.

Haribosmummy · 16/04/2009 21:17

FWIW, You CAN drive way before 6 weeks. That whole thing is a total MYTH

You need to get the OK from your Dr. I went to get the OK from my GP, and they looked at my gone out.

I was driving again after 5 days. All you have to be capable of is an emergency stop. (well, obviously, you have to be capable of driving too... )

I came home from hospital on the Wednesday and was walking the dog again on Weds night.

Haribosmummy · 16/04/2009 21:18

wonderingwondering - your post of 21:15:59 is spot on. Couldn't agree with that more.

Some people, who have it so good and so easy just don't realise it at all.

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geordieminx · 16/04/2009 21:23

She was interviewed last week at Aintree, their favouite name at the moment is Kanga

FigmentOfYourImagination · 16/04/2009 21:24

Jesus wept

supergluebum · 16/04/2009 21:27

Sorry but bollocks that the Rooneys in particular have a better opinion or idea of how to use their money for good to influence change and I think you mean to say education. They are for themselves...there I said what I think.

I think that the Beckhams have used their money for change I see no evidence that the Rooneys have...sorry.

It is all madness that we are looking to these people to influence our children and view them as role models. But that is the madness of the current celeb mad culture.

CoteDAzur · 16/04/2009 21:29

'Why would anyone who has never given birth before and has no medical reason want to have a c-section? For convenience? I mean for the love of fucking God! Why?'

Because it is actually possible to learn from others' experiences?

Haribosmummy · 16/04/2009 21:30

The only thing Posh has spent her money on to change is her bloody body!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wonderingwondering · 16/04/2009 21:30

I mean change for themselves. I don't know what they do for others, not exactly a sleb-groupie! Joined in this as the anti-ff comments irritated me.

The fact that sections of the public hang off their every move is a separate issue, and says more about the 'education' of the UK public than it does about the Rooneys.

Haribosmummy · 16/04/2009 21:31

Geordieminx - I only just got your joke!!!

smallorange · 16/04/2009 21:40

I just think it's Colleen's body, she's got the money to buy whatever she wants and at the moment it's an elective section. So WTF?

If she does have a terrible recovery (which I doubt) she will only have herself to blame and we can all feel she has been suitably 'punished' for not pushing it out through her vagina.

It's up to her. I'm not going to judge her for it. At least she's being honest.

chequersmate · 16/04/2009 21:46

Supergluebum, you are very vitriolic when it comes to the Rooney's, aren't you?

Even making up claims that Wayne Rooney is: "just as happy having a fight at a wedding reception or on a Saturday night as he would have been before he had money or wealth."

Then having to admit that you made it up.

God knows why the Beckhams are such better role models in your mind? And I think you'll find Victoria Beckham also had ELCs.

MrsMattie · 16/04/2009 21:46

I don't understand?@Cote

If we all 'learned' from others experiences - or horror stories - we would all have elective sections. So basically, human beings would no longer give birth vaginally. is that healthy or desirable? I don't think so.

Are women so frightened of natural birth now that major surgery is seen as preferable?

supergluebum · 16/04/2009 21:47

I think you've hit the nail wonderingwondering, the media have created them as an ideal couple.
Fantastic, girls, you too can have a mediocre husband who gives you money to make up for love and affection and gets his jollies visiting prostitutes. It won't matter because you will be seen at Aintree, blooming and wearing your finest.

Girls don't go to Uni/drama school/ college/any form of higher education because you too could become part of a brilliant brand where we'll airbrush you to look even more perfect despite the amount you've spent on surgery.

It's all irrelevant really, and removed from our reality, but not that removed and I for one feel a little bit worried that this is the overriding media influence that my daughter will grow up with. FGS I think my idol was Kim Wilde and Barbie....innocent that I am, I still knew deep down that was unattainable. These girls really don't seem unattainable and I think that's the trap.

supergluebum · 16/04/2009 21:50

chequersmate not vitriolic, but uncomfortable. I don't think I made something up then retracted it. As a family I wouldn't want to be anywhere near them in a Harvester. Would you? I got my facts wrong, then admitted it.

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StealthPolarBear · 16/04/2009 21:52

Reassuring to have people coming on here saying that the baby won't be delivered if it's not ready.
And no, if she's due on the 10th October she didn;t conceive on NYE (unless she is a different species!) according to all the pg calendars I conceived that day and am due on the 12th September - almost a month earlier, yet from the way this sounds she'll have her baby before me, probably.

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chequersmate · 16/04/2009 21:52

Supergluebumm, this seems to run very deep with you. What is it you don't like if not their class? The fact that they're from Liverpool? What? Seriously?

I honestly can't see why you'd be so pro-beckham and yet so anti-Rooney?

chequersmate · 16/04/2009 21:53

As a family I wouldn't want to be anywhere near them in a Harvester. Would you?"

PMSL!!! Too funny.

Good night

wonderingwondering · 16/04/2009 21:53

For that very reason I only go to Piz Express.

supergluebum · 16/04/2009 21:57

REALLY don't have a Liverpool issue, maybe I do deep down cos me dad's from Birkenhead...I dunno. I didn't mean to come across as so horrible. I just hate the media circus that surrounds people who really haven't (O I don't know ) realllly made something for themselves! I am not really massively pro Beckham either I am grasping for a relevant opposite I think! Jeez talk about retraction of posts!!

That said Pizza Express...mhhhhhhh family fave!

herbietea · 16/04/2009 21:59

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supergluebum · 16/04/2009 21:59

chequersmate, hope you got me right?

supergluebum · 16/04/2009 22:01

Herbietea, there are more of the Beckhams, more mess yuck!

herbietea · 16/04/2009 22:01

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supergluebum · 16/04/2009 22:02

Ladies thank you all for a fab night of debate see you tomorrow (takes a bow and leaves the thread) (((((hugs)))))

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