Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

Please or to access all these features

Birth clubs

Connect with mums-to-be with similar due dates to share experiences and support.

December 2011- over halfway there!

1000 replies

sevendwarves · 07/08/2011 18:12

Welcome to the new thread ladies!

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
plupervert · 22/08/2011 09:58

kri5ty, do go and see someone about your dizziness. It really sounds as though you ought to stop driving. As inconvenient as that would be, you have to think of safety.

sevensevenseven, that's a crazy amount for curtains! If you can get some curtain heading tape (it's very cheap, from local haberdasher, John Lewis/department store), the tailor who sits in most drycleaners will be able to sew it onto tab-top curtains, or even a length of cloth, for you! You will also need to add curtain heading tape to blackout material (which is coated cloth, so doesn't fray if you cut it, therefore doesn't even need hemming; in fact, the more you sew blackout lining, the more little holes you punch in it!). Read through the bit below about lining up the curtains for hanging, so you know how long to cut the lining (I've marked it with an &) You will also need curtain hooks. I use the plastic "swish" hooks, which won't rust onto curtains and are quite robust enough for these materials.

Using the side threads on the curtain tape, you then cinch up both sets of curtains to fit the window (and tie them off), and then look at the curtain heading tape. Across the tape, there should be two or, more usually, three rows of loops, across the length of the tape. Calculate how many hooks you need for each curtain (not many, if it's such a narrow window. If you've cinched to the window width at the last step, the bunching will have been taken care of neatly by the heading tape). You need this number of hooks for each "piece" (2 x curtains, 2 x blackout lining).

On the blackout lining, push your curtain hooks through the middle row of loops, at the intervals you have decided. On the curtain, push your curtain hooks through the top row of loops.

&Then lie the blackout linings against their respective curtains, curtain-tape-side to curtain-tape-side (hooks to hooks), with the curtain slightly longer at the top, because that is going to hang from the curtain rail, with the blackout lining hanging from the curtain, against the window.

Hook the blackout lining's hooks onto the middle or lower row of the curtain's heading tape. You can line the hooks up with each other, or go either-or, whichever you think will hang better. And you can change it later, since you have not sewn anything together. Blackout lining is £5-10/metre, so it is not the end of the world if you muck up a piece of it and need to re-do a lining (I've cut them too short before now, and it's infuriating, but not too expensive!)

Once your two-piece curtains are secured, hang each whole piece (consisting of curtain and lining) from the curtain rail, curtain side out, lining side in.

Any curtain with curtain heading tape can have a blackout blind made for it in this way. It's a bit pointless to do this with tab-tops, though, since the light will come through at the top of the window Confused, and as for those stupid eyelet curtains, it would be a real faff trying to blackout-line those... and light would still leak in! As you can tell, I like traditional curtains!

I hope that's helpful, but if you need any pictures, let me know.

kri5ty · 22/08/2011 10:10

i did plupervert :( i went to the docs, who took my blood preassure (which was "normal" although i normally have low blood preassure, so technically it is high, but i couldn't get him to understand this!), my blood counts are fine, and my ears are clear

So his conclusion "its just one of those pregnancy things, come back if it gets worse"

I have to drive to get to work as i work shifts, but i dont think i will be in tomorrow, i will self cert for this week, but i donlt know what i will do after that... i don't really know what to say to my doc to ask them to sign me off, i feel cheeky!

HoneyLovesCake · 22/08/2011 10:35

Morning all! I am soooo tired today; is it naive of me that I can't wait 'til this baby's born so that I don't have to work anymore? Confused I'm self-employed so I'm planning on working pretty much until I go into labour; I know newborns can be a lot of work (particularly for 1st timer like me) but at the moment I'm working 6-7 days a week & trying to decorate a house in my "spare time"; I just don't see how it could be any more tiring than this. Hmm Well I hope not anyway.

msbuggy sorry to hear about your grandad; I hope things get better soon.

kri5ty my wknd was not too bad thanks. DP has just booked a really big job for the next 3 months so now he says he'd rather do a private course anyway; hopefully the hypnobirthing lady will work Sundays!

Sorry to hear about your dizziness; have you been pushing yourself too hard? I had a really full on wk 2 wks ago & when I woke up last Sunday the room was spinning so badly I couldn't get out of bed & I was unsteady all day. I generally have low BP so this didn't freak me out as much as it did DP but I was fine after a day resting.

seven I would definitely have a go at making your own, curtains are very simple & once you've made one set it's quite addictive as it's so much cheaper than buying. I know plupervert has given you instructions but if you need to see pictures then just google "make curtains" & you'll find lots of step by step instructions with pics.

jomouse · 22/08/2011 10:41

Kri5ty - I think if you explain you feel unsafe driving, generally not able to focus and feel unsteady on your pins he will sign you off like a shot. You should absolutely not feel guilty about this. I hope you feel better soon :)
Hope everyone had good weekends. So sorry to hear about family illness msbuggy, fingers crossed the recovery is speedy.
I am hoping that this week is exchange week for us...
I am now feeling HUGE and having issues getting settled at night and have started having to roll around like a beetle to upend myself before night time loo trips. Anyone else getting this yet?

LittleMissFlustered · 22/08/2011 10:41

Can you call ADU or your on call midwife number? Doctors aren't specialists, they do general. Hop you're feeling better soon

msB Fingers crossed that the recovery of your grandadcontinues at a steady pace.

Feeling quite weird today. Headache festering, but have a need to do stuff. Probably going to end up at the park though. If anybody sees a woman hiding under a big blue umbrella, that'll be me avoiding the sun!

kri5ty · 22/08/2011 10:45

No honey i havent been over doing things at all, i normally have low bp tpp, so for years i faint/ black out etc through dizziness, but this feels totally different... the room spins, i can't focus on things and it happens if i am stood/sat/lay
And i think you will find a hypnobirth lady to work sundays... if i was running my own business it would make perfect sense to, as many people are off weekends?? lol

kri5ty · 22/08/2011 10:47

jomouse fingers crossed :o :o

lmf i'm at the mw next week, so will mention it, although last time they didnt seem interested... and i am jealous of the park! Hopefully a bit of sun and lots of water will cure that festering headache!!

plupervert · 22/08/2011 11:02

Vertigo can't be that common, though, and the symptoms can be misleading. A dear friend of my husband's family had an attack of vertigo once, which he was convinced was a stroke. The diagnosis of vertigo was a surprise to all.

I know it's awfully stupid to google or wikipedia symptoms (and, in any case, you've probably done this), but the bit about infection in the inner ear on W really stood out for me, as it's a change, producing new symptoms, or a new intensity of symptoms (the fact that you had some symptoms before could have confused matters). The definitition also noted greater prevalence of vertigo in women than men... Marvellous, innit.

kri5ty · 22/08/2011 11:10

i know, its so annoying! i am convinced it is vertigo, but my ears were clear, and the medication cant be prescribed during pregnancy lol

Its been on and off for 5 weeks now, sometimes i'm fine, for a few hours then, like before i nearly carsh my car, or walk in to things/ trip over the floor lol

I guess all i can do is self cert for this week and go back to the docs... im sure people think im on drugs lol :o

plupervert · 22/08/2011 11:15

That's a bugger about the medicine and pregnancy, kri5ty. But the driving is worrying. But if you got a diagnosis, could a heath and safety assessment be made to change your shifts, so you could take public transport?

kri5ty · 22/08/2011 11:20

Not really hun, i already have a different job as my own job is too dangerous whilst pregnant, so im on "light duties", and another pregnant girl comes in after i finish lol, the problem is there are 4 of us pregnant at the moment, and there is just no work for us, 2 of the girls have to travel everyday to an office in birmingham (from manchester) as there isnt anything else here!

Eeee all i can hope for is him signing me off for a bit! I may ask him outright if he can sign me off.. although i hate the idea of it as i feel like i;m taking the piss michael

plupervert · 22/08/2011 11:26

Hmmm, that's tricky. Any chance of carpooling?

HoneyLovesCake · 22/08/2011 11:33

kri5ty I have low bp too & the spinning I felt last weekend was nothing like that either...I'm just grateful I've only felt it the once & not constantly like it seems to be happening to you. All I would say is this; after googling it seems that severe dizziness is not uncommon in pregnancy & doctors don't seem to take it seriously at all Confused I read one lady's account of passing out in her dr's waiting room & she was told to drink more water & not to worry about coming back if it happened again Shock It might seem crazy to us but I suppose dr's & mw's are seeing this all the time with no ill effects so it's hard to argue with them. I would make it really clear to your dr that if you don't get signed off from work then you have to drive your car; maybe that'll do the trick Hmm

kri5ty · 22/08/2011 11:39

haha i like your ideas plupervert :o its so annoying as OH even works at the same place i do, but he starts/ finishes at totally different times, and we can't go in together/ cant take me in

Hmmm i think its getting worse, i just nearly spilt coffee on someone because my feet were all wobbly lol

anyhowww thanks girlies for listening to me moan, i shall now stop :o lol

kri5ty · 22/08/2011 11:43

its horrible isn't it honey and could i get my doctor to understand i am a pro at going dizzy/ fainting / blackouts, and that if it was just my "normal" dizziness i wouldnt be bothered?? noooo lol i couldn't lol, i'm actually a dab hand at knowing when i am going to faint, trying to get to a safe place, then carrying on as normal lol

he did try and tell me to drink more Hmm i am drinking gallons!! I need to be brave and ask him to sign me off lol

jomouse · 22/08/2011 11:48

Just spotted this on another thread

www.msichicago.org/whats-here/exhibits/you/the-exhibit/your-beginning/make-room-for-baby/interactive/

Amazing how much our internal organs have to shift about.

Are we in third tri at 25 weeks or still second? Getting myself a bit lost

kri5ty · 22/08/2011 11:52

oh my gosh... no wonder i am getting full quickly!!

I think its from week 27... but i could be wrong!!

jomouse · 22/08/2011 11:55

Oh my lor - it IS from week 25 on! Time is racing by....

kri5ty · 22/08/2011 11:57

Shock it'll be december before we know it!!!
I am glad i am all organised now or that would have panicked me lol

jomouse · 22/08/2011 11:59

Now I see conflicting stuff - maybe I'll just stick to weeks

HoneyLovesCake · 22/08/2011 12:29

Third trimester is usually considered anything from 26-29 weeks depending on the source.

HoneyLovesCake · 22/08/2011 12:31

That link's amazing jomouse I doin't know how I'm still managing to pack in so much food Blush

kri5ty · 22/08/2011 12:44

me neither honey although my OH did just bring me a krispie kreme to cheer me up :) incase my "blood sugar is low" haha

HoneyLovesCake · 22/08/2011 12:55

Envy kri5ty, my nearest krispy kremes are close to 200 miles away.

kri5ty · 22/08/2011 13:11

i let out a squeal of excitement when they brought them to manchester! :o

Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.

This thread is not accepting new messages.