March 2014 - thread 3....Boy can we chat!

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thread 2

Is your boyfriend really a punk, Grey? Can we see him on fb, pliz?

Welcome, Edamame & congrats.

...may I recommend an early scan?

haha he's not a punk but we have the misfits playing at our venue tonight and i'm on ticket collection duty !

hi edamame, if it's any help, my symptoms come and go, so i wouldn't worry too much if you can help it!

Ice, I agree 100%. Government advice is supposed to be a guideline. People have to be sensible and think for themselves on these things. And guidelines change all the time. Peanuts were banned, now they're not.
I also have wine sometimes and a coffee every morning. I don't believe they'll do my baby any harm. When I was pregnant the first time, a few glasses of wine per week was considered fine. Now the guidelines have changed because the Government doesn't trust people to be sensible so just issues a blanket "don't do it at all". I'll make my mind up myself rather than being dictated to.
Most of the risks are very small so it's up to each of us which, if any, we're willing to take.

Grey, what kind of venue is it? I'm a bit of a gig-goer myself. Though I suspect the festivals wont be an option for a while now.

Sarah, glad you sought help and they're looking after you.

lyra the venues we do are rock stuff - not my cup of tea at all! i actually hate gigs , but am going to jay z in october as a treat from my boyfriend (seated tickets haha), much more my thing!! i was hoping to go to glastonbury next year but think 3/4 months is probably a bit soon haha, will definitely go year after though if possible!

family festivals will be fine though, camp bestival's meant to be amazing, would love to go to that with the baby when it's a bit older!

My friend has taken her daughters to Camp Bestival a few times. Glastonbury is supposed to be child-friendly but having a tiny baby in tow would be very restrictive. I usually go to Reading and that's definitely no place for a baby or young child.

Some friends were all set to go to a child friendly festival this year called 'Early Riser' in the New Forest, a cycling, music and family festival. Sounded ace. But it was cancelled due to poor ticket sales.

I'd love to go to Bestival one year. Festivals can be so darned expensive though and we're saving to extend our house. Maybe I'll look into some of the smaller local one-dayers. There's the Moseley Folk Festival in Birmingham, supposed to be good.

Hi ladies, just been catching up on posts!

sarah, hope you're feeling better.

I'm loving all the bump names people have come up with; mine is known as 'peanut', cause that's sort what he/she looked like at our early scan!

I'm another one who's waiting for my dating scan date; my booking in appointment is 22nd August, when I'll be 9 + 4, so I'm not too concerned that i haven't had the scan booked yet. I hope those who are further along than I am get everything sorted soon, without having to spend ages chasing people up; not what you want to be doing while feeling rough as a badger's arse, and trailing pot noodle fumes...

Speaking of which, I'm oddly free of cravings so far, but am hoping a really weird one develops, just to be interesting and gross people out

I can't stand festivals. I hate people trying to be cool, filthy toilets and noise. I cannot imagine the horror of a 'child-friendly' festival.

Grey, when you say 'your venues' what do you mean? Do you organise venues or summat?

Sarah hope you feel better soon

justmuddlingthroughit I am expecting a call from the midwife tmrw. Have been chasing her since two weeks. The GP receptionist gave me her no on Saturday and said I could call her. Well turns out she doesn't work weekends and was very disgruntled at the phone call.

I Havnt developed any cravings either. Feel very boring.

Does anyone know who Caitlin Moran is and why the frig I should listen to anything she says?

Caitlin Moran is/was a Sunday times columnist. Think she also wrote a novel but I haven't read it. No idea if you should listen to her. Why?

I keep reading about her in snippets this week and I suspect she's a RadFem. Never mind.

Good evening all lovely ladies, just catching up after very busy weekend...

On Friday I have seen a friend and her 8mths old, who was hilarious and then OH and I babysitted for another friend and I must say he was bloody marvelous with her! She loved him, and he was just so clued up about everything, including playing, nappy changing and putting to sleep! I was also present in the room... Also on Friday we have been to see midwife for the first proper check paperwork, scan is on 20th (popular date, its seems), and we both can't wait, especially OH! (I have actually panicked and had an early scan at EPU in my hospital and was so relieaved to see a tadpole waving around! But for OH it will be completely new experience.) I am just so happy right now, especially after all those horrible crying fits recently. SO GLAD to be able talk to people about similar worries, you guys are such a fabulous bunch of people.

On Saturday we went to Bucks to see my dad to tell him the news - wasn't very surprised tbh, but my stepmum is well excited. And today we just went for a walk and first proper look at the buggies... And I was feeling fine and not nauseous for a first time in ages. Just constantly hungry...

Now I am reading all your chat and thank god I like leerdammer not brie, cos would definitely go and buy some. The other day I brought dark chocolate digestives, god they are so goooood!

Also, hope that those of you who are feeling sick and vommy will feel much better soon, specially sarah...

Pram, OH read "How to be a woman" by Caitlin Moran and he loved it, he thought it was hilarious. Not sure it had anything about babies.

Pretty sure she is a RadFem. I tend to ignore her.

talk about unhealthy cravings..
coca cola FFS! I Nvere drink it in a non-pg state, now I think about it. A Lot.

am still outrageously thirsty yet drinking makes me feel very sick.
Thanks body for hormones Vs Kidneys

I read it too, thought it was really funny.

Has anybody had/planning on having a waterbirth?

I said to my midwife that I was really wanting to have one and she kind of said, well you can get in a bath during early labour but you will need to get out when the baby is ready to be born because its dangerous.

All the waterbirth videos I've seen have had the babies being born underwater though.

Evening all. I'm well and truly back in the nausea zone, been feeling rancidly hormonal queasy and tearful yesterday and today (apologies for yesterday's rant). Took mil out for lunch to celebrate stepdaughters exam results. And then told her about puffin...contrary to my negative expectations she is totes over the moon. Also insists it will be a girl...so no pressure then! Also tried to tell me that deep down I must want a girl surely as all women do ....well not necessarily. I love the mess mischief and madness of my little boy and would be thrilled either way...pram as for Caitlin Moran I borrowed the book from my colleague but never read it however my v catholic mother picked it up and was horrified !! (the same mother that accidentally loaded 50 shades on her kindle....go figure!)

dangerous? She's talking out of her arse.

WTF?! How can waterbirth be dangerous?! . Not that I have ever been in labour before, but surely people are doing it all the time?!

Speaking of birth plans, are you thinking about it so early in advance? Especially those of you who are first timers? I think that birth plan is one thing, but I want to be able to change my mind later!

I'm conflicted about Caitlyn Moran. She does write some funny stuff and is very accessible in terms of her feminist message, but she isn't saying anything new and sometimes she comes across as thinking she's GROUNDBREAKING. She also enjoys CAPITALS to make her POINT which can GET A BIT SHOUTY!!
She also instigated the Twitter Silence day in protest at some women getting death threats on twitter, which twitter didn't seem to do a great deal about. So CM didn't use Twitter for a whole 24 hours to show how cross she was about it. I thought, if she was really that cross about Twitters reaction, she should have left it altogether; instead it just came across as an exercise to see how much the minions missed her that day she didn't use it. IF YOU ASK ME. Anyway!

re: water birth, it's not for me but find it very odd they said you couldn't deliver in water. I know loads of people who have done that! Are you high risk for any reason?