J'Accuse... I do not believe a sizeable minority on here when they say "I blah blah blah"

[Salmotrutta]

E.g. :-
"I cook from scratch" - I hate "from scratch". We used to say "everything was homemade".

And those of you who state "homemade potato wedges" ? ...yeah, I'm impressed. So that would be some potatoes shoved in the oven then?

EatShitDerek well some women will find any excuse

I had every drug going when I had DD (after saying in my birth plan, I didn't want any...)

The thing I found helped with the pain the most was the birthing pool. I cried like a baby when I was moved me to the labour ward, as DD wasn't chuffing moving.

DD owes me so much, she better look after me when I'm old!

"There's your juice mummy" said DS aged about 3 or 4 pointing at the cans of Strongbow in the supermarket... These days he's a male Saffy to my Edina and seems to be coping ok.

My cousins in Ireland have children who are similar ages to mine, they live in a big house in the middle of big gorgeous nothing much. Cousins have offered so when they are a bit older (and dc2 can be trusted not to hurtle himself into the sea) they will be going, but only so they can experience their cultural roots obviously, not so that I can get two weeks break from them.

I was terribly pfb about my first labour. Wanted it to be drug free, I wanted to experience it all, but I also acknowledged that having never done it before I might change my mind during any part of it. I ended up with an assisted delivery with epidural the first time and an EMCS the second time. If I ever did it again I'd go straight for a csection. I look back at how I approached it during my first pregnancy and laugh my ass off.

EatShitDerek I was only joking btw, sorry you had such a shit experience. maybe if you'd practiced breathing better

I can't bear mine to be away from me for long. They've only slept away once (4 and nearly 2) despite my mum offering last week. I don't think I'm superior because of it, btw, just that it's not alway made up for the smug factor

Hooty my kids had fish finger sandwiches for lunch, also on brown bread as had ran out of white!!

Did they have salad cream on the fish finger sarnies WindMeUp?

Have to have salad cream on a fish finger sarnie! It's the law.

I don't think it is made up I usually think it is from people who haven't got anywhere interesting to go. I especially think this if they are married and don't go out. I mean why?

Sal no they had tomato ketchup - totally wrong!!

I never really understood the point of a birth plan. My sister got half way through labour and had to have a real emergency crash c-section, so I kind of figured you turn up and hope for the best. You have drugs if you want and if not then aren't you lucky.

To go back to the original point of this thread - I am constantly amazed by how much people lie/exaggerate just for effect.

Friends of mine who say they can only eat organic vegetarian? Totally eat a bacon butty given half the chance.

I know loads of people who say "we're regulars at the gym" and mean about once a quarter.

Ignore them all, and raise your glass.

Ha. Birth plan! Four pages for PFB. Half a page for DC2 and stayed in my bag where I found it when packing to leave hospital.

DB and I were shipped off to Scotland every summer and winter holiday until I was 12. If MIL wasn't so much of a royal PITA I would consider it for DD when she's a bit older.

MN seriously makes me doubt myself sometimes. To the point where recently I walked past an aisle of wooden toys and was almost tempted to pick them up and throw out all the Vtec plastic shiny noisy fantastic stuff DD has from assorted people as presents - and absolutely loves. But for some reason wooden stuff is the only thing that will make her the next Einstein. Then I realised I just wanted her to be her own minizuid and find her own path, breathed and walked on.

It was also a good day when I was pg when I didn't end up in McDonald's. These women claiming to live off mung beans and acai berries to preserve their figure and do 'what's best for baby' attending yoga ten times a week - well I don't believe they haven't snuck in a cheeky cheeseburger here and there!

Yes, my consultant paid zero attention to my birth plan prior to labour. Turns out he was right

My birth plan was 2 sentences on the notes they give you and the midwife fills in just before you give birth. I thought everyone did that

Ha, I know someone who always stresses they don't take milk in their drinks because they're lactose intolerant. Their favourite food is cheesecake!!

My birth plan was basically "give me all the drugs you have please".
Which was a damn good idea considering DD took 36hrs on the delivery bed of pain to show up.

As was mine. Didn't work as dd came really quickly all I had was gas and air which really sucks as an analgesic ( perhaps I was doing it wrong)