Jue in June 2011....... labour here we come!!!!!

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New thread. Should last us a week.

Read this. It will make you laugh so much that your pregnant belly will wobble uncontrollably and your unborn child will think it's stuck in a wave machine

Nurse Just posted it on Facebook!!

Nurse Good news - almight tummy thunder and jelly roll and LO is back on the scene shuffling and tap dancing..no cornetto needed. Must have just been facing a particularly cushioned direction. Now going to feed him an extra hot pizza and super sweet sorbet to make sure he is hyper for a few hours!

Nice one Jasmine, have the cornetto anyway, to celebrate.

love that link nurse made me and DH laugh and laugh!

Brilliant. I love it nurse

Baby has hiccups.. bless him :)

Very jealous of the cornetto jasmine

nurse thanks for the giggle. Am 11,000 words in to an assignment (just over halfway) and needed the boost! Have discovered that baby responds to kitkat ice cream :)

nurse that is hilarious. I almost wanted to buy the car just because of the advert

Reassurance needed, ladies, or advice. I have been gardening without gloves on. I am an idiot. I had gloves on at first, and then I gave them to DH because he was tackling some ivy and he is allergic (we only have one pair). Then I mowed the lawn, which means emptying out the grass all the time by hand.

Then I came inside, washed my hands and made a sandwich. Half way through eating the sandwich I saw mud all over the side of my hand (I am a bit that I can't wash my own hands properly, but never mind ...)

Now I have googled 'gardening without gloves' and 'pregnancy' and have freaked myself out about toxoplasmosis.

Should I go to the doctor's? Can they give me antibiotics? Or am I being crazy and the risk is really low?

TTL think that's to do with cat poo isn't it? I reckon the chances are really low of anything nasty getting to you. If you start to feel unwell then call the midwife but reckon you should be fine :)

takethat I am sure the risk is low, but there is nothing to stop you ringing your midwife to ask if there is a check they can do to stop you worrying. Is there lots of cats in your area? If not I wouldn't worry too much.

I have found it really hard to not be out in the garden manhandling plants - have banned myself from buying or growing any from seed this year as we get lots of cats and I'm rubbish with gloves etc, and have tendency to eat strawberries and gooseberries straight off the bush!

sorry cross post knackered

Thanks ladies. Lots of googling, a panic-stricken phonecall to my mum, and a call to NHS Direct later and I'm still feeling worried, though a bit reassured. We don't have cats but there is a cat that wanders about our garden - but we've never ever seen any cat faeces in the garden so I don't think it goes to the toilet there. I just can't believe I have spent the last two days mucking about in the garden (I never garden!) with my hands bare for most of the time, touching the soil, probably touching my mouth and face with my hands, and then making a sodding sandwich having only half-heartedly washed my hands. DH said it's only really the same as going for a picnic where you could easily touch the soil and the grass and then eat, which makes me feel a bit better.

It would be okay if there was something you can do or if the risks were less severe - but brain defects, blindness and deafness are not the things you want to see as the possible consequences of eating a sandwich with a bit of mud on your hands!

I am drinking loads of water, have scrubbed under my nails and am about to have a hot shower just in case. It's really weird I'm freaking out about this as I've been really relaxed throughout the second and start of the third trimesters, thinking nothing could phase me and eating prawns and runny eggs and drinking two cups of tea a day with gay abandon. 99% of me knows not to worry and that the chances of having picked anything up are really low, but that 1% just won't let go of the fact that I have needlessly exposed myself to a really bad risk.

I'm going to call the midwife in the morning - maybe she can just keep an eye on it. Even if you get it it takes 4-8 weeks to be passed on to the baby anyway, and in the third trimester the risk of problems is much lower than in the first or second trimesters, or at least the problems are generally much less serious. But there are antibiotics you can take which might help stop the infection crossing the placenta if you are found to have got it.

This is mad, I know, so I'm going to stop now!

I've been using weedkiller in the garden.

I think I got some on my leg! Not worried though. Handled much worse substances when pg with DS...

kara guess what my next job was

What a fucking imbecile I am :(

I'm sure you will be fine though :)

I am going to call the midwife tomorrow and ask if I can be tested for it. At least it will put my mind at rest.

Sorry you're so worried TTL - I am also rubbish at touching grass/soil/dirt and forgetting that there is a risk.
I'm sure you'll be fine but like pps said, it won't hurt to have a quick chat with your mw

Hi there, I hope you ladies will help me out - can I please ask you all a question?

If you were attending a breastfeeding education session for pregnant mums and their partners, and you were asked "name one thing you know about breastfeeding and one thing you'd like to know" what would your answers be?

I'm a BFing peer supporter and I have an interview for a job as a breastfeeding support worker on Thursday. I have to give a presentation about what I would cover during an antenatal Bfing workshop and how I would deliver it. I was thinking of starting by asking everyone to introduce themselves and tell me one thing they know and one thing they'd like to know about BFing. Obviously I need to know what type of answers I'd likely receive!

And I thought who better to ask than the lovely pg mums on MN

I would say 'I know that it brings a variety of health benefits to both mother and baby' and I would want to know how much difference it makes in quite specific terms - i.e. what the rates are of babies developing allergies if they have been bottlefed, breastfed, or a mixture; how much protection against certain forms of cancer mothers can get from breastfeeding, etc.

Basically I feel that while people are very keen to tell you it brings benefits to mother and child, it's very difficult to get specifics on that. Does it make masses and masses of difference to my baby, or just a bit (which could be outweighed if it was too difficult for me to bf, etc)?

I would say that I know bf gives my baby's immune system a boost. And i would like to know what the benefits of continuing to bf longer term are? So is there actually a benefit in continuing to bf to 6 months over 6 weeks for example.

Neez - I would be prepared to objection handle. Think about the sort of barriers to breastfeeding.

• I was bottlefed and I turned out fine.
• Won't breastfeeding ruin my boobs?
• My partner doesn't want me to breastfeed because he wants to help feed the baby.

There are the sort of things that some women may come up with and if you can find some simple answers to these questions this would be very useful.

What about saying you would show videos of mums breastfeeding in ordinary situations? There was a fantastic ad compaign in Scotland that did this and it was a case of "can you spot the breastfeeding mum?" to explain that bfing isn't about wapping your tits out

Good luck :)

I'm shattered ladies...I walked 7 miles today! But I did get a very nice burger and an ice cream out of it. The in laws have gone home and it was an okay weekend...only 4 days to the next weekend and then holidays!

I hope you are feeling a bit better TTL. Sounds like a good idea to talk to your MW tomorrow.

Argh I'm so thirsty...it might actually drive me from the sofa!

Hello everyone,

I haven't posted in a while, but hope were all well and ready. I can't believe that I've approx 9 weeks left; its just gone so quick.

nursesunshine that was the best thing I've read in ages, have even posted it on my facebook. I haven't laughed like that in ages and if I had the money, I would have bought it just to meet the seller, lol x

YAY DP is coming home tomorrow!!!

haha glad it made everyone laugh

Joanne 7 miles is pretty impressive. At least there was ice cream at the end.

Nicki I've got 9 weeks as well. Which is nothing and I know it'll fly by but it seems as though it'll never pass. I just want my baby!

TTL do try not to worry, you can be tested for toxoplasmosis so if your MW thinks there is a risk she will do that but I seriously doubt you've done any harm :)

Great news Crazy

Neez I think Kara's post is really good.
BFing is in desperate need of being 'normalised'