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We will BROOK NO ARGUMENT on having serene, pain free, uncomplicated pregnancies and sneeze births! Vol 8

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ScreamIfYouWantToGoFaster · 02/03/2012 10:49

Hello ladies! I can't wait to see how many No Brooking babies arrive during the course of this thread!! Do you realise we have now filled SEVEN threads (and that's just the graduates!) That's 7000 posts and counting!

Let's all get settled in for some serious No Brooking, we have a lot of painless sneeze births to get through over the next couple of weeks!

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jenfraggle · 03/03/2012 14:29

Just a quick one, will do a proper message later.

Musical when we bought our house the roof needed replacing. We got the vendor to agree to knock £2k off but we still took out the same mortgage so them knocking the price down doesn't have to affect how much you borrow. That way we got to choose who did the work, which tiles (we went with slate whereas vendor would have probably chosen cheap tiles if they did the work) and also when the work was done. If the vendor gets the work done then there may be a delay in you moving in as the work may need to be done first. I preferred to have the option to fit in with what was best for us.

pommedechocolat · 03/03/2012 15:39

I want to clarify that my mum had the thing where head is too big for mothers pelvis and they decided to make her do vb anyway. She should always have had a c section - nowadays it would be diagnosed properly. I had a ginormous head. No need to be scared people - sorry!!

Abbie only lost 2oz so less than 1%!! Very happy. My tear okay too.

fishcakefoxtrot · 03/03/2012 15:48

No overhang here dream although not sure I will be so lucky this time! right now to catch up with the rest of the thread.

pommedechocolat · 03/03/2012 16:15

Have just redone my maths - 1.6%!!

Wants3 · 03/03/2012 18:20

scream it is the madeline cotbed. I don't know if they still do it?
It looks like I might have to go back to a Moses basket plan as I have trawled the Internet and cannot find a mattress in the correct size to fit the crib I was given. We are finally ordering the carseat tonight, we had another architect bill last week so had to pay that first! We had the first builder round last night and he reckoned the work would take about 12 weeks with only the last 4 disrupting us inside the house. I just hope the qoutes come in on budget.

Biscuitsandtea · 03/03/2012 18:27

Wants - I have a vague recollection that when I was looking round on t'internet for mattresses, I came across a site that could custom make them for you. Can't remember the prices or anything, or helpfully, what the website was. I think I was recommended the site on a MN thread so when I'm on the 'pooter, I'll look back and see if I can find it for you.

Biscuitsandtea · 03/03/2012 18:43

Here is the link to the website and this was my thread.

Hope that helps?

What size is it you're after Wants?

Now Dream - quick fancy link tutorial!! To do the links you can already do, I presume you do web_address without the spaces after 'and before ''?

So all you need to do is then the web address, then a space and then type what you want the hyper link to say and then finish off with a .

Example: If I did www.bbc.co.uk BBC homepage without the spaces at the start and end, I should hopefully get a link to the BBC homepage

I think it does say how to do them where it also explains the smileys and how to bold and italicise things - Does that make any sense whatsoever? It's really hard to explain it in words!

Biscuitsandtea · 03/03/2012 18:46

Poo - got too many links in that. I should have said:

To do the links you can already do, I presume you do web_address without the spaces after and before .

Let's see if that works.....

Biscuitsandtea · 03/03/2012 18:47

Bugger! I mean that you do web_address without the spaces at the start and end

Gah!

scarletfingernail · 03/03/2012 19:15

Biscuits! and

You may as well have written that in Mandarin Chinese! It is very hard to explain

Look under where it says Links and follow the instructions for the second one down on the list. You can always preview the message before you actually post it and you can check then that it's worked.

scarletfingernail · 03/03/2012 19:17

scarletfingernail · 03/03/2012 19:46

Sorry Biscuits I hope I've not offended you

DreamingOfPeace · 03/03/2012 19:59

Ah ha! I feel all informed. Now, what can I link to to practice?! Thanks biscuits. This must be wierd if I understood but scarlet didn't, she's very sensible!? Oh, and if you spot a thread in Childbirth about preparing for a vb after a third degree tear, stay away, at least from chocolatemousebuttons entry I've read someone else's months ago by a diff poster saying the same too . I'm going with similar to you, with.the CS booked for the deadline but will try for a vb with a spontaneous labour progressing ok I think .

Right, missed lots, but just going to try and escape from the landing...

scarletfingernail · 03/03/2012 20:09

Nah dream I'm just rubbish at following detailed instructions. I can only manage things if it's being explained as if talking to a 3 year old

Biscuitsandtea · 03/03/2012 20:48

No offence whatsoever Scarlet - that was one of my best 'clear as mud' explanations!!

Frighteningly I used to do training for my job . Not IT though thank goodness.

I've just read that thread Dream (brave? Stupid?) and actually found it vaguely helpful - gives me the other side to my thread (although I'd put mine in pg - I never normally dare go into childbirth....)

DH and I are still going round in CS / VB circles here

DreamingOfPeace · 03/03/2012 21:46

That's the problem isn't it biscuits!! I go round in circles with, liike you, my mum having a bad time and bad tear with me (though not third degree but she said 40 stitches) and an easy birth with my sister, so on a positive day I say 'oh it'll be fine, I'm so unlikely to tear again!' and on a bad day I think 'but what if I do, there's no guarantee I won't be unlucky again?' and the person who had a second third degree tear after her DC2 and ssays she's healing fine 2 weeks on- missed the point love, it's not even so much now you need to worry about as 20-30 years time!!! GAH to the circles!!!! I'm off to hunt your thread now.

DD may or may not be asleep - finally quiet upstairs but at freaking 9:40pm I'd hope so too!!

DreamingOfPeace · 03/03/2012 22:07

eek biscuits, I found your other thread on VB vs CS after a third degree tear. i can't say I'm entirely encouraged for VB.... Plus there's no-one saying I had this 20 years ago and I'm ok now- the womens health physio told me its normally ok while you're young and can compensate for it etc but it's when you're older, and now you mention it. about the going to the loo- I'm the same...

DreamingOfPeace · 03/03/2012 22:08

and guess what?! i just did my first fancy link ever on the twins thread I go on!!

Biscuitsandtea · 03/03/2012 22:20

I'm proud of you and your linking Dream

Even DH has changed his mind no less than 3 times this evening on the CS VB thing

DreamingOfPeace · 03/03/2012 22:25

biscuits, I reckon I change my mind twice a day over it, still . The lack of a crystal ball makes it nigh on impossible to decide for me! IF VB was fine, that'd be better, but CS may be a dream... or may be a slow recovery. and round we go again The only friend I know in RL who had a third degree tear had ELCS for her second- she said it was ok, no problems, no big pain, but her first was a water birth with just her, DH and mw in room and she said she loved that in comparison to the medicalised CS but she wasn't prepared to risk more damage. My other friend, who was also non-instrumental third degree tear with 6lb4 baby still isn't pg yet to see what she'd do how selfish .

NinjaChipmunk · 03/03/2012 22:34

evening all, well done on the linking dream.
I wouldn't like to comment on the vb/ cs thing. I can certainly see why you are both going round in circles, not an easy decision to make.

PurpleWithaBlueBun · 03/03/2012 22:35

Biscuits I have read your thread and this applies to you too Dream I am terrified of Cs, being cut, the spinal.etc However, I would 100% have a cs booked in your shoes. :)

Oh everyone with babies due it is the full moon on the 8th March and apparently people go into labour on full moons so lets see!

Wants3 · 03/03/2012 22:36

Thanks for link biscuits the size I am looking for is 78x 47cm but I would not have a clue what material would be suitable for a baby mattress or whether it would have ventiflow at the head end!

NinjaChipmunk · 03/03/2012 22:56

wants is this any help?

TooImmatureTurtleDoves · 04/03/2012 10:41

Morning!

I have read Biscuits' other thread and Dream's comments on here and I know it's none of my business, but I would be going for the CS in your shoes too. Especially in Dream's case with two babies to deliver! Mind you, I don't have a toddler to look after and CS births have been 'normalised' for me because Mum had one. On the wimpier side, I know quite well that as soon as the cx hit I would be begging for a CS or at least an epidural. It's just that the risk of possible incontinence would outweigh everything else for me. Maybe you should post somewhere like Health or Chat where you'll get a wider age range of women - you might find people who are 20 years post-3rd degree tear who can give you their experiences.

Oooh, 8th March might be labour day? Excitement!

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