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

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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

Ems - late night arguments & worries are just the best aren't they. I think women's brains switch on to worry mode at night - be it proper worry or what needs to be done tomorrow or forgot to do today. Men's brains just go to sleep. My rational with MrM for this is that I juggle so many balls during the day that it's only when I go to switch off that I start sorting through things. Unlike him and his one item at a time approach. His response is I'm just mad and should shush and go to sleep. I think perhaps we both have valid points ;). I hope it feels less worrisome today ny dear.

Flamingo - my theory is it's the potato in the bubble and squeak. I swear that if I don't have something with potato in daily the nausea returns. Really pleased it's a nausea free day for you today though.

three I understand a little bit what your going through as DH wanted CS this time as would be easier for me but I wanted natural. I now dont have a choice and its CS so maybe just wait and see how things go and what doctors etc say and then make final choice as alot of things can change?

I had a dream about cake last night and had about 50 slices and stuffed it down my dress in a desperate attempt not to share a single slice! I then locked it away and spent the day stalking the place it was locked so no one get near it - think my cake obbession is taking over my life!!!

I'm not sure jojo - there's a place called "Rotations" I think it is on George Street, but I've never actually been in. Might be worth a look. There's bound to be loads though!

Thanks ladies, I'm not sure if I need to - I just double checked and it'll be at 17+4... should be alright eh?

jojo depends on how much cash you've got, nice solid furniture not cheap up here. Foe secondhand stuff suggest you try gumtree, eBay and the ScotAds paper, in newsagent it's green I think, also evening express classified ads. In Inverurie there is a new CVS charity magpie shop, on blackball industrial estate, burghmuir drive open tues, thurs, fri 10-4pm. In Aberdeen Foe secondhand stuff suggest you try gumtree, eBay and the ScotAds paper, in newsagent it's green I think. In Inverurie there is a new CVS charity magpie shop, on blackball industrial estate, burghmuir drive open tues, thurs, fri 10-4pm. In Aberdeen there is the British heart foundation furniture store at top of union street.

For real wood reclaimed or reworked stuff that is lovely try candleclose gallery on schoolhill Aberdeen, they have a website, also there is a reclaimed pine place in Torry in Aberdeen, and perhaps one under the arches in Aberdeen. Google and Yell are your friends! You could also try car boot sale on Sunday at thainstone at Inverurie, but you'd need to get there before 7am to beat the dealers to the good stuff, or as you are in the country try local roups/agri/farm sales. If you are loaded try Annie Mo's, but be prepared to remortgage your soul!!! Down by us there is a place at st Cyrus nature reserve called Steptoes, it's massive but well worth a rummage on a sat or sun!!!!

Oh and try furniture mountain! Theres one in Aberdeen, can't remember address, think maybe at kittybrewster retail park but don't quote me!

Chefette's post much more useful

Wow chefette thanks!! Ha I wasn't expecting quite a list. Thanks too possum!!

combination of work avoidance and diversionary tactics to take mind off this avo! Sorry appeared to have pasted twice a couple bits.

possum never heard of George street place, worth a gander one day cheers

Anymore issues, dilemmas or challenges round these parts I can help with?! Love a puzzle or problem me!!!???

Touchwood in Inverbervie in the square on the coast is also worth a trip lovely reclaimed stuff they are also online

Feel free to call the obstetrics dept at AMH pretending to be me and open a can of whoop ass!! STILL no phone call re surgery :( sad JoJo!!

Weren't they supposed to phone yesterday? Have you phoned them? :(

Ps chefette we've budgeted about £400 for two chest of drawers but looking for solid oak so second hand is probably more like it!!

There's also Oak Furniture Land which is an online discount oak furniture shop.

possum I don't have a number or a name! The consultant took my scan sheet with him. It had all the details on it like his name (it had to be shortened from something very long and complex)!!
I'm going to speak to the MW this afty and see if she can point me in the right direction, as they SHOULD have called yesterday! I'm so impatient BUT I do have a lot to organise! I need to move back down south sort out where I'll be for my 20 wk scan(fx York for gender scan), start my final year at Uni, in addition to all that... Not stress about surgery and any potential risks to bump!

Jojo phone them with you name, address, DOB etc they can trace who you saw and will be able to chase the referral and put you through to the correct team - it can be a bit tedious but you will sort it!!
When chasing my op they put me through to the breast clinic and then the transplant team before they got the right place, I also found out that most ops like this when pregnant are booked by the same team who book the c sections as they run the theatre slots in maternity etc so might be a good starting block!! In the end the out patients dept who sort scanned walked round to the department as they wouldnt answer phone and got it sorted so I would def recommend chasing and getting everything and sorted and in place so you can organise :)

Think I am going to chase my 20 week scan now as I want that date too :) and everyone else has there

jojo have PM'ed you

Made it to most active today ladies!!!!!!!!! It's Jojo's fault ...............!!!!!!!!!!!

ThreeForTea I think your wishes for birth should always come first above OHs - it is ultimately your body and I found most of giving birth is actually a mental challenge rather a physical one. If you are happy and comfortable and have the freedom to do what your body is telling you to do then you are much more likely to have a good birth experience than pandering to others wishes and experience fear and discomfort. Having said that, I know that my OHs attitude would probably impact on my own mental state so I do take his views into consideration. Luckily my DH is able to calmly determine risk/choices for himself rather than following hospital/NHS 'policy' (which is not always matched up to actual risk) so is supportive of my whatever my choices are.

manda On the topic of NHS policy - you should really look into getting as many opinions as possible on your birth options rather than simply going with NHS/hospital pushing you towards CS. I think your midwife laughing at your 'untried' uterus is an absolutely ridiculous comment. Unfortunately, medics sometimes have competing considerations when making a recommendations and I have had recommendations made to me that have little to do with my/LOs well being and more to do with what is easiest and cost efficient for the hospital. Just make sure that if you opt for an ECS you do it for the right reasons for you and not the right reasons for the hospital.

..and more to the point Jojo who would want to eat a horse? ( they're dead, of course) hope that my silly little song cheered up what is an otherwise stressful sounding morning.

I cannot stop thinking ' it wriggled and tiggled and tickled inside her' urgh ear worm.

tramp potato you say? actually just lookingthrough my food and puke diary ( yep thay have me keeping one) and I seem to be noticably better when potatoes are involved. Whoo we may have a breakthrough here..... I will eat potatoes tonight and report back.

chefette most active again! we will soon be set on the MN naughty stair!!

Me again (I can hear you groaning 'oh no' you know)

DS2 has decided to throw a paddy, so I'm just going to let him get on with it and catch up with you guys. DS1 is happily playing with his Brio trainset (other makes are available).

theTramp if this wasn't my last baby, I wouldn't be bothered, but because DH has said it will be then if it is a girl people will assume I'm done because I was waiting on a girl. I don't want my sons feeling that they weren't good enough and that Mummy always wanted a girl.

I've checked the Chinese birth chart and it seems to think this is another boy so fingers crossed. It did correctly identify DS1 and DS2 as boys and it has also correctly identified SIL and colleagues DC correctly as a girl and boy respectively. SIL is pregnant again and due in December, her and her husband have a girl plus he has 2 girls from a previous marriage. I know he'd love a son and I think this is why they tried for number 2 even though she says it was an accident (I don't believe in accidents). Anyway, the Chinese birth chart says she's going to have another girl.

em2010 as I've said before, I can now understand why there are so many MIL jokes. Sometimes I wish I could take Roy Chubby Brown or Les Dawson with me when I visit the in-laws and they could just speak up for me.

backwardpossom I'll have to leave that for someone else to answer, due to the lack of sleep I can't understand what you're saying

dameflamingo I've heard of the song, but I'll be buggered if I can remember any of it. By the way, I'm doing my DH something similar for dinner tonight, Quorn sausages, mash and cabbage. Just thought you'd want to know

jojobella84 I can't believe you're admitting to singing the song. I'm on your behalf

theTramp I think there may be Irish in my family as I'm addicted to potato and can't go a day without it. God help me if there's another potato famine.

Ah, dd napping, feet up for a few minutes :)

Dame i'm so hoping the DH will come round to the Vbac idea natrually. Its so true that women have so much more info than men. The trouble is the only time men have talked about childbirth to him is the horror stories about women being 'blown apart down there', and ugh his mother who had a cs with him after what sounds like a 3rd degree with his sister and reckons that - catagorically of course - 'a section is much easier to recover from than a normal delivery'.
Thanks Zoey I totally know what you mean about things changing, last time we did have to make the decision in about ten minutes (which I know is more than some!) and I completely panicked becuase I hadn't even thought about the idea of delivering by section until then. I guess when you think about it the whole thing is just so up in the air for all of us.
Rainbow I really think I will do better with DH on board. I think my hosp (well the last time I was there) is like a Vbac speciality hospital, and that they always like to get you to try as they have high success rates. That might have changed by now I guess. I think I see a consultant at some point around 20-25 weeks maybe to discuss it. Maybe I just need to hear some good stories to encourage me and to drip feed to Dh!

Ooh and potato = less sickness symptoms for me too. Bread on the other hand is evil. I'm trying to cold-turkey flour in general will fail miserably get nasty bloated tummy pains that scare me because I think they're other things!

I'm honoured to be the cause of our active thread :)
I got the pm chefette thank you, I'll search through the links!! Just had MW appt. she's chasing it for me and will call me tonight with news :)

Afternoon all! V amused by spider & fly song we are also infested with them! Cats get vey excited but don't catch them often.
Am seized with the idea of making something for the little one so spent lunchtime with a colleague trying to teach me to crochet. DH thinks I have officially lost it. Can't wait to get home & make a mess!

Hi all, nice to see the thread so active today! I can't believe we have nearly filled another one. Someone asked me how I learned to knit - it was a book called knitty gritty combined with watching videos on youtube.