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March 2013 VII: Our little pumpkins are getting fatter

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Sheldonella · 16/10/2012 08:31

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backwardpossom · 18/10/2012 21:00

HearTburn, obviously...

TheAngelsHaveTheOod · 18/10/2012 21:07

zoey so far my work are working on the better they treat me the longer ill stay (physically i mean , it doesn't seem to work regarding cases or covering duty !). Are your work aware you could get signed off any minute and not come back until after maternity leave?

backward I read heartburn as a new poster Blush

zoeymlucas · 18/10/2012 21:20

I have developed heartburn in the last week but didn't know you can get gaviscon from midwife I bought mine

My work are burying there head in sand re pregnancy at mo and boss thinks he don't even need mat cover as I will be able to bits from home! I think maybe a week signed off might scare them a bit and help me ALOT!!! I might bring my gym ball in to prove a point, I am the only female manager and the other 2 treat it a bit like a boys club so not sure they get it- as both childless --and child
Like-- and not that interested!! They never even did a work place assessment when I told them!

backwardpossom · 18/10/2012 21:27

Oh yes, you can get almost anything on prescription, I've discovered. My midwife sent me away with about 2 litres of Gaviscon during my last pregnancy!

theTramp · 18/10/2012 21:58

RTBC (reason to be cheerful) - have actually managed to finish presentation for tomorrow morning. Just 161 slides outlining research results. That is a good month's worth of analysis and presentation work crammed into a week.

WAY (what ails you) - I would really like another day at least to do some more analysis and tidy it all up. Am feeling a bit like more should be done on this.

RTBC - I will prefix the presentation, and frankly after 2 hours everyone sat in that room is going to be coping with information overload.

WAY - this is part one.. part two, three and four of this project yet to happen and really ought to be completed by December at latest. Eeek

Right - bath, chill, bed, sleep - present. Lets hope I can remember it all.

EthelredOnAGoodDay · 18/10/2012 22:11

Hi all

Have caught upon everyones news, but alas have neither the brain capacity, nor energy to name check. Suffice it to say I am thinking of you all!

sheldonella, hope you are feeling a bit less bothered by your MILs coments. I remember my mum saying something like 'oh it makes me feel so sad to think of Anna being in nursery for such long days...'Hmm thanks mum! Anyway, I think she has gradually come round about it. DD has gone from being 9 months and she absolutely loves it! Plus I still get to work 3 days a week and that suits me just fine. Only you and your dh/dp can decide what's best for you and as we discussed way back on previous threads, often you don't really know your true feelings on it til you actually have the baby.

Great news on scan manda.

Been in work today at meetings so bit of respite from the spotty one! Got nct mates visiting tomorrow so that will be good and then got an action packed weekend planned! Friends (with 18 month twinnies) on sat and then stopping with other friends (with 16 year old twinnies!) on Sunday night and going to see Jesus Christ Superstar in Sheffield! Whoop!

ood, hope your grandad is ok. x

Lexiindisguise · 18/10/2012 22:37

Yeay Tramp! You superwoman!

backwardpossom · 18/10/2012 22:40

Hope all goes well Tramp!

mandasand · 18/10/2012 22:48

Just popping in briefly to say...

Tramp, rock it.
(And then sleep as much as poss over the weekend to recover your energy!)

Night all, will look fwd to catching up with you lovelies tmrw Smile

theTramp · 18/10/2012 23:46

Thanks all. Nice long relaxing bio oil & eucalyptus bath watching brutish bake off final. Now a purring prodding cat in seventh cuddly heaven and away to sleep.

Sadly no rest at weekend. Slight matter of 100 person belated house warming, belated birthday, oh look I'm preggers and baby bro birthday Halloween bash to sort out. I do have idea for costume though...

Night all and hope everyone has a good day tomorrow

confuddledDOTcom · 19/10/2012 01:40

Hey all, thanks for all the messages, I'm feeling better today, less BH with lots of rest. I think baby has moved since yesterday because I'm feeling a lot of movement which I haven't before. I had to go out earlier because my eldest had parents evening and needed to go to my job for an hour to debrief the interviews we did last week. Fortunately I don't do a lot with this job, it's mostly meetings. Back in bed now.

Just going back to posts I missed.

Mandasand, my risk of rupture is (or was, it's gone down now because I am "tested") 5% which is the highest possible risk from a CS. It was enough to put everyone else off, although I would have taken it, with my second, so I do understand how scary the numbers can be, especially when you have two. Last time I did a lot of research into what a rupture means, what happens when it does, what the signs are, how the risk can be lowered etc and with the help of a wonderful Doula I went for it. I actually found far more support at the hospital than I expected. One of the things for me is that they leave me labouring until last minute and then crash me, but labour is a higher risk than pushing - although I just happened to be reading that UR is more likely to happen in pregnancy than the birth.

Sheldonella, she probably came from a time when things were different and staying home or going to work was a choice. My middlie went to nursery when she was about 18 months, when her sister left they offered me a place for her. She loved it and really thrived, I think it's good for them to have some time with other people and away from their parents, even a SAHP.

Lexi, she's in for a shock! When you've not spoken to any other adults in a week that you hope the postman brings a parcel so you can say at least two words to someone, you soon find that nothing other than talking to an adult will help; when does she think a baby will allow her to study in the first 5 years; and what does she think she will study for 5 years?

Ood, sorry to hear your news.

Vivee74, I've added clothing to the version of this on Facebook that I'm updating as we get more ideas.

tedmundo, I'm hoping for my second VBAC this time. The aspirin shouldn't be having that affect on you, it sounds like you need to see someone pretty urgently though, that's not a good thing to be going through Sad

myjobismum, if everything has been good for you in the past then homebirth is something to look into. Put it this way, my eldest was a crash section, the doctor came in, did a VE and said "We need this baby out now" it took them 15 minutes to prep me and the theatre for the section and another 15 minutes before she was out - that's an absolute emergency and generally you aren't surprised by one, we knew an hour ahead that it could happen, normally you have half to an hour to get to theatre. An ambulance can do the journey to hospital in less than half the time your car could and they'll have been with you quite quickly too. In the time it takes you to get to hospital they will still not have the theatre ready for you. Things like cleaning your nails, removing jewellery, tying your hair up etc can be done on the way, consent forms will be signed when you arrive still with plenty of time to get you to theatre.

Night all!

pinkpeony4 · 19/10/2012 08:17

Place marking again. Can't keep up this week!

ps: I also still sleep on my tummy! Saw the Chiro this week and she was amazing Grin highly recommended. I went in with agonising pelvic pain & now it is minimal.

zoeymlucas · 19/10/2012 08:59

You know its not yur day when you have been in work 20 mins and have dropped a whole chocolate milkshake in your lap and are sat in your panys and socks wrapped in a cardigan waiting for your DH to bring you new clothes

JoJoBella84 · 19/10/2012 09:07

zoey don't you work with mostly men too?!

zoeymlucas · 19/10/2012 10:05

There is normally 4 in the office but 3 are out today and I didnt have any choice but to take the jeans off it was a whole bottle staright in lap!!!!! Luckly the cardigan on the back of my chair is a HUGE woollen snuggly one so covers well below knees and am just staying put on chair!

FloweryBoots · 19/10/2012 10:19

Oh Zoey how grim! Poor you.

Odd thinking of you and your family. Sorry you'be got so much on.

Tramp hope the presentation goes/went well.

So many of you seem to manage to keep up with so much, I just can't do it.

Actually taken the day off poorly today. Not sure I am actually poorly at all but just so utterly exhausted and so hate work just couldn't face another day of sitting there. Have got a sharp pain in my side which I've been having on and off, usually for a few days at a time, and it started again yesterday. Today I'm just not feeling quite right, though it could be 'just' tiredness, but since I have such extreem wearieness and the pain together this time I've taken the day off and have a doc appointment later. No doubt it will just be ligament pain but somehow got it inot my head this morning it could be a kidney infection. Feel guilty though as doubt very much I'd have gone to the docs if I hadn't been dreading work so much. I've been ignoring this pain on and off for weeks and no beothered about it. Oh well, done now, I'm at home on the sofa instead of at my desk!

I'm hoping to work 3 days after mat leave, but will not go back to current job (only stuck it this long as got pregnant) so will have to look for something part time which will be tricky! Have half a mind to try and build up some private teaching (instrumental lessons) and set up some baby/toddler/kiddie music groups, but it would be pretty unstable and not that well paid, plus quite an isolated profession. Also we hope to have 3 kiddies so would leave me without mat pay for the 3rd. Part time jobs are out there of course, but fewer of them, and typically more of them tend to be lower level I think.

After DS I went back to the job I held before mat leave and droped from full time to 4 days. It was a really good ballance for me - I liked the idea of three days but felt I would have had to loose more of my job and it then wouldn't have been as good a job or as fulfilling for me so decided I was better doing 4 days doing something I loved and got such satisfaction from, then 3 days just for the sake of working. I took Wednesdays off which really broke the week up and never felt like I was away from the wee lad for too long at a time. This time I would like 3 days I think as 2 little ones at home to play with on the other days rather than 1, and will be going into a new job so it feels a bit different to 'loosing' stuff out of what I was used to being responsible for.

I work full time currently and probably wouldn't dislike that so much if it was a job I found enjoyable and fulfilling, but I'd really rather not be doing 5 days. As everyone has said, it's realy about what's right for you and your family, not anyone else. My MIL says things that great with me (how 'sad' it is DS 'has to' go to childminder every day etc.) but I don't think she realises how it comes across. And to be fair, they wouldn't upset me if I didn't feel the sae a bit! Grin. Mind you, thi is a woman who will tell anyone who listens that my DH irons his own shirts you know, as if this is soemthing utterly miraculous and isn't he quite the modern man. He never bloody washes his own shirts. And I've only stood firm on the ironing because that and opening tins jsut wreck my dodgy wrist!

myjobismum · 19/10/2012 11:02

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backwardpossom · 19/10/2012 11:49

Hi all. I'm feeling a bit nauseous this morning, felt better after some breakfast but feeling grim again. Hopefully lunch will sort me out! DS getting some photos done after lunch then I'm getting my flu jab this afternoon - I only phoned the surgery this morning to book it! Impressed!

Flowery, hope you feel better soon!

ThreeForTea · 19/10/2012 11:52

Quick hi! caught up before but lost you again as dd is training for a marathon today (apparently) and won't stay still for more than about a minute at a time. Luckily I love chasing her round constantly!

ted i'm hoping for a vbac following urgent (though non emergency) cs for undiagnosed breech 2 years ago. Feel like an absolute novice in the art of giving birth!

will catch up properly later promise! Have had to write this one handed as dd is pulling my other arm off!

zoeymlucas · 19/10/2012 12:05

Yeah myjob am all dressed again - its not the best outfit but couldnt expect much more of DH to grab and bring to me so it will do for today, lol!

I am hungry today AGAIN and am tempted to pop to argos at lunch and buy a toasty maker so I can have a cheese and ham toasty for lunch even though that does seem a lot of effort I really fancy one :)Will see how it goes in a bit as also spied a cafe near work this morning and am thinking they might do a panni or something there!

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StormyBrid · 19/10/2012 12:37

Ethelred if someone said that to me about nursery, I'd probably very enthusiastically thank them for their offer to look after the kid all day every day, then smirk as they backpedalled rapidly.

Am I the only one of us who doesn't actually work? Takes away the hassle of worrying about whether to stay home or put the baby in a nursery, but it would be rather nice if working was actually an option. Unfortunately Hull has zero jobs available for someone with my qualifications and experience (English degree and none, respectively). In fact the only jobs that seem to exist are in call centres, and I can't handle phones.

How does whooping cough differ from a normal cough? Both my nieces have been coughing all week and now I am too, so naturally I'm paranoid and assuming I'm about to drop dead.

Less than 168 hours until we should find out what this baby is. Will counting down the hours make them pass any faster?

zoeymlucas · 19/10/2012 13:42

Stormy whooping cough will sound like a seal barking so sounds pretty bad so you would know if nieces had it, so dont panic. I think counting down hours might make it go even slower to be honest!

Re work I am seriously thinking of going part time and getting DH to go part time as well as he doesnt work right now but with my health and how things are going to be be it makes sense but just need to look at the penny's

Really cant be bothered today its been one of those days when I just have nothing left to give

theTramp · 19/10/2012 13:48

Zoey - glad you're clothed again. You'll be laughing about this next week you know ;)

Flowery - rest up and I am with you on side pain/is it kidney infection?! Worry. Mine clearly isn't but the idea always pops into my head anyway.

Sorry to hear the MS is back. Bah!

I used my English degree to talk my way onto movies, then sales, then secretarial, then marketing. It's the best foundation for being able to bull shit I can think of ;) I grant you I gave up on Liverpool & moved to London and ive no idea where you'd even start in Hull. I feel for you. Although I can recommend London....

So presentation went well. Wahoo! 3 hours in the end. Def info overload and I'm still not happy with my end analysis but I've time now to tighten that up. Next week is stage two - messaging. The really really fun bit (for me) and then stage 3 strategy. I'm now sitting in seriously cosy chilled waiting room sat on nice comfy sofa awaiting call through for massage. I may fall asleep on them ;)

FloweryBoots · 19/10/2012 14:57

Seen the doc, not kidney or urine infection and just muscular pain, as I thought really. Feel bad about being off work, but hopefully the day on the sofa today follwed by weekend and I'll feel refreshed and more posative for Monday!

Currently under the duvet on the sofa watching trash!

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