MARTIANS 2014 - Thread 8: Scans done, bumps showing, first flutters

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If you want to know all about NHS vaccines and what they've done in the past, the green book www.gov.uk/government/organisations/public-health-england/series/immunisation-against-infectious-disease-the-green-book is the place to look.

Measles chapter is here: www.gov.uk/government/publications/measles-the-green-book-chapter-21

Although possible I'm the only one who reads about them in that much detail.

Now I feel like an old fogey - I'm 33!

BadlyWritten. I'm 30 dec 31st so not that far behind you. Don't feel old!

Thanks sunshine

Ooh thanks for all the info! joll I think youngest is either gaw or hottie, may be wrong!

Hi guys. MMR wasn't around when I was a kid (I'm 30) so I had the separate jabs, but before I had em I caught the mumps and went deaf in my left ear . It's alright though, you only really need one

My sofa is coming tomorrow! So excited! It's only taken them 3 bloody months! Would have been sooner, but they made the corner the wrong way around and so had to make it again. Idiots. There was even a drawing of the sofa on the order so that didn't happen!

My Mum & Dad were warning me off reusable nappies. I think they still have horrible memories of boiling them up! I imagine things have come on in the last 30 years though.

Baby shows - for some reason I have agreed to go to one with Mum in Manchester next weekend. This is not my thing atall, I hope it's nothing like the wedding fair I went to - that was hell! But I've been promised there will be freebies. I'm not planning on buying anything, will just have a look round.

Well that didn't go well.

It wasn't the same midwife I had last time. This new one was equally as scathing.

It took her a while to find the heartbeat. She said, and I quote ''This machine is really accurate, it's probably because you are a larger lady.''

I'm a size 14 ffs. And she was about the same size as me. Patronising arsehole.

Then she went through a scaremongering list of reasons why I shouldn't have a homebirth, and asked if I'd got dp's 'permission' to have the baby at home.

I stuck to my guns though and she referred me to the home birth team. It'll be worth it just so I don't need to see her again!

Permission...was she born in the middle ages!?! I'd have replied something like "as my other half thinks more of me than he does the cream coloured carpet, I really don't think there will be an issue, but should this change before the next pregnancy, I'll keep it in mind, thanks". The smegging cheek of it!

Oh and I forgot to say. As she was telling me I was a 'larger lady' she did a sort of sumo wrestler motion with her arms. Which would be really funny if it wasn't so fucking depressing

Fox - there's a baby show in Manchester!? link please (sorry to be cheeky )

Hot - "I eat anyone who doesn't have the decency to use their manners"

Or, come to think of it, "was the sumo wrestler really necessary you patronising cow?" would work too.

Wow, she sounds like a dick Hot Hope you don't have to see her again!

Jol Don't know, sorry. My mum's sorted it all. I just blindly agreed to it!

Don't worry Hot, someone at work said I'm probably struggling to fit into my clothes because all my fat has shifted around. Charming.

fox my auntie had the same with mumps - she is brilliant but it is made worse by the fact she is quite Gibraltarian so would shout even without the deafness in one ear, she has to sit at a certain side of the table and everyone fights for the furthest seat to avoid also going deaf in one ear

hot I am starting to think midwives don't like pregnant women very much

It's also made funnier because she's 4 foot 10 and manages to just boom

Haha idk if im youngest here grey im 20. Was in kitchen tidying up and was about to put washing on and a whopping spider come out behind a cupboard so ive fled and shut the kitchen door :D work soon :(

So sorry about your mw hot!! How rude she was probably trying to make you look bad instead of her not being able to find it, cow!!

Ha! I'm 5'10" and I don't THINK I shout. If anything I mumble. But I do always have to sit/stand on the left of people. It freaks me out when people stand on my left.

You're 20 gawj?! Wow, you are so much more mature than me when I was 20. When I was 20 I was a right dick.

Hot she sounds like a twat. Size 14 is a 'larger lady'? Cheeky bitch. Well done on standing your ground.

Grey your auntie sounds hilarious

Boo to work Gawj

Hope those results come soon BWP. Can I ask what elimination communication is?

maybe she really is, unfortunately though my family are all convinced me and my cousin were swapped because they all say I'm her and my cousin is my mum, it's true, we are the polar opposites of our own parents

fox if you don't think you shout you probably don't! I know I shout and she knows she shouts because everyone tells us constantly!

hot I was meaning to ask how the home dopplers going? Any joy?

Well done Hot. Hopefully you won't see the cow again.

Grey. On the Doppler front, I think I'm going to buy one on payday. Love a gizmo. Any recommendations?

I won't have to see her again because I'll get my dedicated midwife from the home birth team who I will have throughout and at the birth.

No joy Grey it definitely was the placenta I was hearing, because I heard the difference today when she eventually found the heartbeat. I'm not going to stress, I'll just try again when baby is a wee bit bigger.

Thanks everyone. I'm going to dance around the living room to Mika's 'Big girls, you are beautiful' to destress.