March 2013 Mk IV: Knicker-checking; knicker-wetting; knicker-knackered

[tiddleypompom]

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1535575-March-2013-Mk-III-Hopefully-the-nausea-will-wear-off-soon

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1499519-March-2013-stats-thread

There you go chick-a-dees

Ethelred I do indeed! Very nice part of York! We looked at a house round there. We are just outside the ring road. Village that rhymes with fish!

Zoey, am I right in thinking (I'm exhausted lately and forgetful) it's you who's had early babies before? If so have you been invited onto Opptimum?

tiddleypompom were you at BWH?

MrsRigby sounds like a touch of PGP. You might find it easier to inject into your belly. Not sure your body type but generally there is more fat there, I find having had previous sections that I have a perfect roll there for it. Also, test stick, press gently where you're going to put it and if it hurts it will hurt going in too. I found you can scratch first to get an idea of how it feels there. It is worth it, I blame myself for my #2 being IUGR because I was so bad at taking my injections and it's one of the symptoms.

Em2010 that's my birthday! I'm "due" the day after

tedmundo I'm a bit like that, although the first two were crash sections when I was in labour. The third time I said I want to do this properly and got proactive over it, took on a Doula and saw an SoM. We made a plan to get it right that time and it was a million times better.

sarahs999 even with three scans a week I used to hold my breath until I saw they were alive!

I have a job that's not very regular and not paid [sob] last meeting I told them that I will be unreliable from November and they likely won't see me in January, the bump was noticed lol I didn't have to say anything else. It's the sort of job I won't get leave from, if I'm able to make it I will but they're great, we went away in January and took my youngest, a couple of full time staff who aren't part of this project took her for a drive, came back at lunch time so I could feed her and went off for the afternoon.

Confuddled - I've been lurking around for a while but too knackered to post, I've been invited to do the opptimum study (two previous prem labours). Are you doing it?

peony work loo door doesn't close fast enough so mishap occured as I was trying to discretely (ahem) barf whilst closing door with foot( which leads into main recpetion area directly opposite main entrance- clearly planner was a man) - slight balance issue caused by changed centre of gravity thus overhung head and got my own fringe...now there is a picture for you all!

Yes confuddled I had DS at BWH and also this 12 wk scan, before we moved. Are you there too?

It's a blissful day here - wall to wall sunshine with gentle breeze... We have a couple of horses in one of our fields and I have spent 10 mins watching them munch grass and flick flies with their tails. Before DS had his nap we were in the paddling pool - bonza day all round though I do wish he still had a 2 hour afternoon nap

Fab to hear the march oldies are stat-bashing with great results on nt tests. My Brum midwife called to give me my blood test results and completely deadpan said 'I'm pleased to report that you are HIV and syphilis negative'. Well, that would have been a phone call if it had gone the other way... Low iron again but no surprised as I always do. My blood pressure is always dead low also, but I guess that's the better extreme.

manda we have lovely memories of DS and other mates' kids at our lottie - collecting worms, digging holes, pulling carrots etc. Plus I was digging up our maincrop pots at 28 weeks last year :)

Anyone got chickens? We get our chicks in a week or so and I am not ready for them. The buzzard circling above me is though, as I am sure ate the foxes. Hmm, lessons in life (and death) for DS ahead... I'm not meant to name them, as we will be keeping for meat as well as eggs (sorry to veggies) - but I am tempted to name them in honour of my new friends on mumsnet :o

'here pipsicles, come & get your grain & stop chasing mrsrigby. manda what a fine collection of eggs''

Btw horses aren't ours. They are borrowing the field & mowing it for us :)

ethelred the cockrel! Hahahahahaha!

Sorry. Getting carried away again. Will shut up now.

It's also me that had an early baby, at 26 weeks due to pre-eclampsia. I am hoping to get myself into a prem clinic trial that does the fibrenectin test - is that what optimum is?

Doraemon they rang me today and I said I would, it'll either help or change nothing, right? Might even make me feel a little better if I know I've had a negative FFN already.

tiddleypompom I am, I have to because they're the specialist high risk and connected to the QE for my other care.

Sarah, it's a study into the use of progesterone in known impatient (my word) mums, if they took baby out they may not include you on it.

They take a fibronectin test at 22-24 weeks, it's not the best test but it's not horrible. They have to do a swab from the cervix and lube (or sex) can affect the results so they run the speculum under water first (one time the doctor asked Mum to put the tap on and she said "cold?" totally not thinking what she was asking! I squealed at her lol) which is why it's not nice. Fibronectin is a hormone that is the glue that holds the membranes in the uterus, two weeks before you go into labour it starts to break down and a swab will find it on the outside of your cervix. This should not be found before 36 weeks and means you will have an early baby.

Oh will the misery never end - DS1 and DS2 have done something to the router. Until DH gets back tonight I can't access the internet.

Why me?

No confuddled my consultant decided against it for me as he wont let me have speculums when pregnant at all and is putting me on a pessary anyway and said some of the ingrediants with the one I am one and the one in the trial double up so its not worth the risk to have too much of them. Plus they know my problem is my actually cervix as I have done trials before :) My previous 2 were 28 and 33 weeks :)

Tiddley. Name the chickens!!!! Go on, it'll provide hilarity like a sort of mums net big brother on who'll get eaten evicted first (evilest of cackles), when we are all lying around like beached whales (yikes a poorly timed topical image there ) having gone past our due dates.................

Too hot in blinking office and have a headache, furtive MN checking on phone is more soothing than Norwegian invoices for field claims..............

Em, I had to wrack my brain then! Do you mean the one with the Palace?!

tiddley what are you suggesting by making me the cockrel?!?

Feeling really tired today and a bit light headed again, think we did too much at the weekend, thAnk god today was a non-working day! Only 1 week to go til scan. Can't wait.

Okay, someone please explain to me how there are 2 flys flying about the house when a) there are no windows open and b) there are no doors open?

Yes, that's right I give you flygate.

Although tired today which is due to working at weekend I am starting to feel more normal :) Managed to eat all my ham salad sandwich with no reaching at all so was very impressed with myself, lol!

This is the only week I have no appointments in Sept :)

MrsRigby they are clearly ninja flys that steath like sneaked in your house when you least expected it!!

Ah. I think I wouldn't be eligible for lots of reasons confuddled, least of all that I am already on progesterone and have been since BFP. And yes, my DS was emergency CS so I'm not 'impatient' as the charming phrase has it.

Someone I know from the prednisolone thread on here has been on that study though and said that the problems are that it has very reliable negative results, but very unreliable positive results. Her fn test at 29 weeks showed her 70% likelyt o go into labour in the next two weeks. AS it was, her waters broke but she's been sent home from hospital as things seem stable. She's 31 weeks now and counting the days.

tiddley name those chickens! Hysterical!
I am very jealous - would love chickies but DH says no :-(

Ooh, chickens! If you have a scruffy one, call it sheldonella
Lexi Same here, DH thinks we can't have them or our neighbours will complain.

V jealous of all those with pets/animals. DH is quite badly allergic to fur and feather so unless we get a tortoise or fish, our pet owning potential is limited. It's quite ironic really as he comes from a farming family! He was the definite black sheep of the family (eldest of 4 boys, other 3 all farm!)

Love chickens. They'd survive around 20 seconds in our tiny garden though, what with the foxes under the shed and the killer squirrels. Not to mention my fat ginger cat who can move quite fast when the fancy takes him.

Who was asking about feeling movements at 14 weeks? I'm convinced I've been feeling tiny movements for several weeks now. Just now I had faint butterfly versions of the old movements I rememebr from DS, kind of a kick in the cervix that gives you a little start. I know the difference between wind and other things, and not all of these things are wind, I'm convinced! Peopl always poo poo the idea that you can feel anything this early but I think otherwise. Not stretching, not wind. Scrimpling around, as we say in our family :)

I have to say chickens have always given me the willies. They're basically small dinosaurs and If you imagine them a bit bigger you know damn well they'd eat you. Nasty things.

I appreciate this sounds a tad neurotic.

I was hoping to leave early today - say an hour early - managed to leave 5 mins early. Can barely keep my eyes open & the to do list for tomorrow would be exhausting whether I was preggers or not. Role on the energy phase please.

chickens

chefette I love the well used evil cackle there - name the chickens and then bets on who gets eaten first - that does deserve a mwuhaha indeed.

cruel but hilarious selection of names would surely be all of the baby names your DH says you cannot possibly use...

I too would quite like chickens i.e. I like the idea but as I have been nkept awake for teh last few nights by a family of urban foxes larger than the Fantastic Mr Fox clan I imagine they would be short lived - although that would give me more opportunities for using ALL those names that I love that DH simply refuses to consider.

flies poor MrsR sounds like you are having a helluva day - IT literate children adult proofing your outer and ninja flies. Things can only get better!! name the flies after the in laws and set the children to swotting them ( OH GOD! I'M GOING TO BE A TERRIBLE MOTHER!!!!!) evil cackle.

sarah I love the term scrimpling around. I do hope that is what I am feeling (at 14 weeks) when I go in the bath.

Ooh do name the chickens and please name the shortest one ted, it would be an honour!

Spent a great afternoon at the park telling all the other mums I saw there about the pregnancy. Everyone was very excited.

DH back later after working away all weekend. I will be sooooo glad to see him. I have not yet faced the reality of a workaholic husband and 3 kids. I am in denial.

mrsr I know exactly how you get flies in a sealed container, but you won't like it. Check your bins........