Graduated Elderberries (thread 2)

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Oops, seems we ran out of room without noticing!

I might have mum hair but I am still in my normal thongs. Hurrah!

Gaviscon is available on prescription in the UK. My Sis is currently getting through a 1l bottle weekly Ask your MW for a prescription apparently.

1Litre a week!!!

Though I will ask doc for a script next time I have an appt - Gaviscon ain't the cheapest but is great stuff.

at thong-wearing freedom.

Yeah, I know Brave. She says she struggles to go a few hours without getting her Gaviscon 'fix.' A girl from work who had a baby a few weeks ago took a different approach to third trimester heatburn and just ate a Magnum every time she had it, which she said worked fine I will be trying this out before the Gaviscon.

The thong-wearing doesn't feel like freedom when I am going through about 5 pantyliners (hate that word, 'panty' - almost as bad as babydust) a day and still have a pretty much constant feeling of having wet myself (which I haven't). I don't think big pants would change that though. Pregnancy is just a barrel of laughs sometimes.

Lol I hate the word panty too

Funny isn't it because I keep hearing everyone saying about the umm 'moistness' but I'm the complete opposite, ever since I've been pregnant I've been unusually dry in the whole. Just shows how different everyone is (I cannot believe I'm discussing this with anyone!)

Hahahaha epic auto correct fail, I meant ON the whole, in the whole sounds suitably rude though!

I'm with you purple! Same as before - possibly less. Glad it's not just me!

I hate the word panty too. DH insists on using it just to irritate me!

On which topic, bless him, DH went to the shops to get panty liners for me. It wasn't like the shops were out of them. But he came back with maternity pads and a pack of extra thick extra long night pads!! Bless him. He pleaded confusion at the shops and picking up the first two packs of whatever looked likely

Laughing A LOT at that autocorrect! Hilarious!

At yesterday's class the MW mentioned Hypnobirthing and how, from what she'd seen, the women who'd given birth after taking Hypnobirthing classes had a very positive experience of labour and birth.

Now, I am very skeptical of all wacko cuckoo hippy shit - it really is not me.... but out of curiousity and a morbid fear of pain I just had a look at some threads on here and did some Googlng and 99% of the women who'd done it rave about how good it is, to the point that they say their MW didn't even realise they were fully dilated because they appeared to be so calm and in so little pain.

It's £200 for 4 x 2.5 hour classes, a book and a CD. Do you think it's worth doing or completely cuckoo?

Ah Zombies I remember it well. The one occasion I had to ask DH to buy tampons I told him about 10 times to buy regular and he still came back with something you could use to plug the hoover dam. At least the towels he bough will come in useful after baby

I wonder if it is what you actually learn on the course that makes you cope better or just the sense that you've done something and 'know what yo do' so feel more in control? It's a moot point for me because I can't afford it! I figure though that hippy shit or not, if it makes you feel at all better prepared and therefore more calm it might well be worth it.

Yeah that's the dilemma. Do I really need it can I adopt the right attitude without it? And £200 is a lot to waste if I end up with CS for breech

Or on the other hand, £200 is NOT a lot to spend if it helps you calmly sneeze out a baby using only a whiff of gas and air

Ah, didn't even spot that typo, really making me laugh!

Made DH watch OBEM. I think he's now sitting in another room, breathing into a paper bag and shouting that he will not cut the cord, thanks very much!

Yes Purple that's also what I'm thinking.

I've emailed the woman who does it in my area to ask about availability so hopefully she'll reply saying she's full and it will take the decision out of my hands! I am trying to be sensible but I daren't add up how much the baby stuff has cost so far and this could be another £200 on top.

Our house is too small and we're trying to save as much as possible towards a decent deposit to move house next year. We're not going to save as much on the 9 months of wanky SMP I'm about to get so I am trying really hard at the moment not to waste money.

But I am quite scared at the thought of the birth. I hate dilemmas!

Hazle if he expects it to be horrific then yours can only be better than he expects?

yes that was the idea. At least he won't expect it to be like in movies, where you just sneeze and baby pops out.

You're very brave Hazle, I can't bring myself to watch anything like that incase I freak myself out! My OH has already got a13 year old so I think he probably knows what he's doing more than I do with the whole birth thing.

Ah I made mine watch OBEM.
Poor thing, he actually earnestly ended up asking me after a few episodes if I wanted to go through with this!
Obviously yes said she when the going was good

It's probably a bit late to be asking you that now, after he's already put a baby in there!

Mine refuses to watch OBEM. He says he'd rather have rusty needles poked into his eyes, which coincidentally is what I am planning to do to him if labour gets too bad.

Lol at rusty needles! Mine won't watch it with me, so I have to watch it in secret when he's not here like some kind of binge eater or something lol... Tho he did come home part way through an episode one day and watched the end with me. I even took his comment of 'you're just looking at women's bits' as encouraging. Dysphemism has always been one of his strong points, sigh...

Would love to try hypnobirthing but it depends on your partner committing to it as well, doesn't it? A very good friend of mine's hubby is a pro hypnotherapist who can do hypnobirthing, prob at mates rates, but it falls under 'hippy role playing breathing shit' which is categorically not allowed by my dearly beloved, yet occasionally caveman OH.

I have to say that OBEM does not look so bad. I understand it's edited and all, but I just watch and go "Yeah, I can do that!". So quite reassuring actually.

Have also been hearing a lot of raving about hypnobirthing, but like you all, I'm not into the hippy-earth mother-whale song stuff and might just laugh when they start telling me to find my inner goddess...or whatever they do in such classes. Don't think there are even any English courses around here. There are home study courses available though I see, and tons of books, so might give it a go anyway, just in case it's helpful.

yeah Hazle think I might have a look at some books and see what it says. I'm also hoping to find a really specific book about labour and childbirth, one that describes what is happening and why at each stage.

I figure that if I know why it feels like I'm being ripped in two, I might be less scared IYSWIM.

Having never really seen proper childbirth until OBEM, I am very grateful for it existing, although I think that sometimes the ratios of interventions are possibly a lot higher than in real life - having said that, it spells out, categorically, that mothers often need assistance - before watching I would have thought it was much more unusual than that. It's good to know in advance.