March 2013 VI: cooking, crocheting and chit-chat

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And on with the conversation

chipbutty if you are wondering about 20 week scan and are heading towards the 20 week mark I would ring - I didn't get date at 12 week or 16 week appt but MW said it should come through in next week or so and if not to chase. good luck.

chef Your commute sounds painful I spend a minimum of about 45 mins in the car each way myself - but this goes up dramatically in summer when every barsteward and their granny hits the M5 heading to Devon, Cornwall or South Wales then Fridays can be 2-3 hours to get home - naturally I tend to organise my diary accordingly and work from home/elsewhere.

wind oh my goodness..yep me too but then I did make split pea soup for supper and brought leftovers into work today. My feet haven't grown a size yet but there is no way I can wear heels. I'm like a weebil.

manda yep heard heartbeat it was extraordinary! around 140 bpm ( someone will tell me this is linked to gender here!)

confuddled and NYD lovely to hear from you both xx
tiddley thanks for teh new stats and the school ma'am voice - love it!

Congrats on all the lovely scan news.

Quick whinge before I head off to the stats thread and then back to the sofa, so you can all tell me to stop being a big wuss. I got half a mile from home this morning to take DD to Under 2s group when there was a badly timed cross wind/pothole combination and I came off the bike. DD absolutely fine, not a scratch on her (WeeRide front seats are awesome for anyone thinking about cycling with offspring) My face, hand and knees are a bit bashed up. Missed the bump, but rang midwife to see if I need anti-D just in case. Feeling v sorry for myself and DH bringing home Chinese so I don't need to cook.

A lovely, lovely woman stopped her car, threw my bike in the back and said she'd take us home. I was about to protest that it was fine until she gave me a tissue to mop the blood off my face! I found a gorgeous bunch of flowers by the back door a couple of hours later with a note saying she hoped I was ok. No contact details to thank her, sadly.

Hope everyone else has had lovely, and less eventful, days.

Hello ladies, I'm back from hols - not a chance of catching up hope everyone is well & growing, all good here - now to buy groceries and tackle the washing mountain, back to reality!

Oh blp I'm sorry to hear about your cycling accident. Must have really shaken you up. Glad dh is bringing you some Chinese home.

Congratulations zoey on your ds and rainbow on your dd. another one here with no patience- just three weeks to go till I can find out!

ethelred hope your commute went well. I don't envy you. Have been stuck in the house all day thanks to the flooding, hope the water goes down tonight!

chef that's quite some commute! Must be very tiring for you.

Sorry if this has been mentioned whilst I've been AWOL but does anyone else have the most awful baby brain?? I can't do anything! My head is seemingly full of feathers (probably a good thing I can't leave the house actually, I probably wouldn't find my way back!)

zoeymlucas, I do seem to be engorged, I don't remember filling up this quickly before. I'm fortunate that the hospital I'm under don't send anyone home not EBF if they intend to, I've seen really tiny ones eventually breastfeeding, but from what I've seen of other hospitals it's not common. Hope it goes better for you this time, it must be awful to express for so long to then not be able to.

DoodleBugBee and Chefette, L'Oréal bought Body Shop off Anita in 2006 and they are a Nestle company, eve without Nestle it was a shocked, Anita said she thought it would be a trojan horse... I wasn't a boycotter until I realised how much I bought of theirs, I thought I didn't use that much so it didn't matter but one day I went through my shopping and felt dirty.

newyearsday, have you chosen a Doula? Glad to hear someone else going for a VBAC! I'm so glad I did it last time and sort of looking forward to doing it again! Very jealous of you getting a HBAC! Because I wouldn't go to term they wouldn't allow me to (well, allow is a bad word but it's acceptable here!)

BestLaidPlans, hope you're feeling better. What a lovely woman!

I heard from the SoM today and she can't get me pushed through my appointment tomorrow, so I'm going to try PALS. I rang ahead and got my prescription sorted for tomorrow so I don't need to hang around for that, so if nothing else I've shortened my day about half an hour or so.

I've done my stats but didn't put myself in date order... really sorry if that was what I was supposed to do .

I can highly recommend delurking - it's liberating! I just wish I had more time to contribute.

Friday tomorrow. Hoorah!

Hoorah indeed DJH! Hopefully a shortish day and then just a 3.5hr drive and i'll be home, haven't been there since Tuesday :o)

Had a wander around the clarks village at Street, it is very cute and I bough me and DH advent calenders where the choc gets bigger the closer you get to christmas, like us!

JoJo, worrying about you, hoping everything has gone well and you are recouperating well.

Confuddled FX for tomorrow and with PALS, I hope the say isn't too bad for you.

Ok, I have missed about several billion messages.

To the person who asked, get a few different types of nappies as you don't really know which ones you'll like until you start using them. Also, we use them part time (disposables at night). I think if you want to use them, go for it and use them in a way that bests suits your family. But don't beat yourself up if you don't. Life is hard enough as it is without worrying about where your baby does its business.

Ood Snap on the SPD, yay!

Got an email from my manager requesting urgent OH referral too. We are v short staffed and think they are worried about losing me sooner than later!

odd at least ur boss is thinking mine is useless and hasn't mentioned maternity leave and as the finance manager I do all bank, full accounts, payroll, payments etc and there is no one who has ANY idea or will be able to do any of it at all- I have even told how I was bed bound before from December and was ill etc and he just says yeah- think he will get a bit of a shock!!

Come on jojo we are waiting for news :)

Very quick message as very sleepy! Surgery went well, some mild complication and part of my tube had to be removed but I have two ovaries.
Listened to babies heartbeat tonight as I had been re admitted to recovery ward - v low BP and oxygen levels so have spent 14 hours today being monitored.
Will catch up when I have some energy! Thank you for all of your messages!!

Ood Will you be able to keep on working? I know you went off earlier last time due to your BP or something.

Jojo Good to hear!

I was off early on last time cos of my meds. Then finished at 29 weeks ( leave and maternity).

Hoping to get past Xmas. Not liking hopeful this week but will see what Physio/OH think. Not sure how my job can be modified to accommodate crutches.

Ood, do you work for the NHS? If so don't they have to find you something you are able to do? Sounds stressful, hope it isn't.

JoJo, thank you for posting, rest now, thank you for checking in.

I have done too much and I can't really walk now. Scared myself a bit, trying to keep my back and hip warm and not cry in pain and anguish. Hopefully sleeping it off and the weekend will give me a chance to recover. Shit.

Children's services. Last time the job I did i was able to be desk based when I was ill ( no crutches at that point) , current job i wouldn't be able to do much. Plus if I get crutches I'm at a point stairs are difficult so couldn't even get to my desk. Will struggle with the driving & can't visit people unless they are non-volatile and live in ground floor flats!

jojo bet you're glad it over with!

:o( I had to have over a year off when I was a radiographer as I couldn't drive, walk, stand or sit when my hip went. I hope you don't get that bad again, it is miserable. FX for you to remain mobile as long as possible!

Was that pregnancy or 'just' an injury?

Just an injury. Not sure what is going to happen with pregnancy, this is my first. Today I am bad with it all, bit worrying.

I had a severe labral tear caused by a mishaped femoral head that was missed throughout my life. Had to have surgery to have the tear repaired, the instability in my hip fixed and my femur completely reshaped. Unfortunately I have arthritis in that hip now and have a partially collapsed disc in my spine.

Sundae - look after yourself, it's important!

JoJo - nice to hear from you, glad you're ok if not great & rest up. Great news re 2 ovaries too, I know that was worrying you

Lexi - welcome back! We scheduled rain for you specially :)

Congrats to all who now know baby gender who wanted to. Exciting times!

BLP - lovely lovely samaratin lady but gosh. Look after yourself my dear, glad little one & bean are ok but you need to be ok too. Face grazes bad - particularly as it's at least 3 weeks to Halloween :)

BLP, yes, I meant to say something, my gosh you poor thing, you must be shaken. Hope dinner was nice, had a little hormonal cry over the nice lady. I hope I can do something like that for someone one day.

sundae they looked for a tear when I had my hip problems. Did you have the surgery? They gave me horror stories about recovery etc.

I had to have surgery my hip was coming out of the socket regularly and they could do nothing else as it was so unstable :( I had to push for it, but then when they did pre-op xrays they found the major deformity and operated on that too. Original surgery was meant to be a 20 min arthroscopy and labral tear removal, I was told while they were anaesthetising me it was going to be 4hrs. Anaesthetist came to see me afterwards to tell me it was the most brutal surgery he had seen in a long time. Hip is better, but think the labral tear re-occurred very quickly, but they won't repeat the repair and I just live with it.

Sundae Oh my word, are they keeping an eye on you? My friend had back problems (not sure what they were exactly) but she went to a consultant as they didn't want birth to make her injury worse. She was fine to go natural in the end, but for a while was thinking she would have a section.