October 2013 - may our labours move as fast as our threads!

[PseudoBadger]

New thread!

It's a tommee tippee one!

Anyone got any ideas for music for labouring too trying to put a playlist together my taste is mostly ricky so it hard! got a bit of jason mraz etc anything else?

Thanks for your responses Jelly, Orange and Shire

orange you can read dd's writing but she has commented that her hand becomes tired but so does mine when I do a lot of writing at work -it might be that she is writing more in general. Getting her to hold the pencil the 'snappy finger way' has proved very difficult but I'm not sure what effect that has on her actual handwriting, she is good at drawing and it doesn't seem to disadvantage her with this apart from fine detail maybe. My gut feeling is to encourage her to write and not dwell on the handwriting although she has had spellings marked incorrectly due to poor formation of letters in the past. She's bright generally but seems to like to take short cuts with anything she finds difficult. She doesn't have the curved style writing that I developed but I have to keep reminding myself she is her own person and not me.

thankspinkbuttons I needed reminding today that this will all be worth while when baby is here. think I'm finding that easy to forget!!

I've been looking back... cazbody have you had a home birth before?

The list in my hospital's pamphlet says I have to provide
Plastic sheeting to protect floor/mattress
Hot water bottle to warm baby clothes, if there's no radiator
Old towels clean towels to dry baby
Bright lamp or torch
Overnight bags for me and baby in case if transfer or for our convenience

No newspapers or boxes. I've learned that my hospital provides home birth pools, so there's no need to buy one online. It's worth checking that for anyone else thinking if home water birth.

badger what a day! Glad your bp has lowered now and hope you can get some sleep. I'm sure DS will be ok, bless him. pink please run on the ward with a mcmufgin shouting badger! Hilarious :D

umla I have read the books, they were great. For some reason I couldn't find the series on Netflix, I think DP left it on the wrong country or something. So need to fix that!

jelly I had about 3" cut off today, so know how you are feeling re the lightness.

monkey (disclaimer I'm not a primary teacher!) sorry you are having a tough time with school :( Just keep in mind that in some countries kids don't even start school until 6/7 and don't pick up a pen to write or book to learn to read until then. It would be such a shame to make an issue around writing as it may make things worse. I remember hating joined up writing lessons at school. Boring.

falcon has anyone suggested sex stood up from behind (not anal!!) to you? A friend had a similar thing, MW said baby was stuck on the rim of pelvis and to go home and do this - within 2 hours she was in labour.. Worth a shot.

pink flyer clapham roo anyone else I missed - any more periods of BH? Mine went on all night last night then I woke this morning with a solid stomach that would not soften for ages. Back to normal Irregular BH now though.

Too many pinks! The last "pink" was p-buttons.

good your BP responded to drugs pseudo and sorry you have to stay another night in the hospital...

pink LOL - thanks for the slippers ideas! Very glamorous I must say

a very distressing end of the evening in the Clapham house... was reading DS another C.H. Andersen story, the one about the nightingale - thought this one was safe (weary of his recent meltdown when the tin soldier was thrown in the fire and the ballerina jumped after him and they both melted). However, at one point the emperor is dying asking to hear the nightingale sing one last time and the stupid illustrated painted a death standing next to his bed. First question: "what happens when we die", "how do we die - do we just go to sleep and never wake up", "do terrible things come to us when we die"... and more and more in the same vein... thought I managed to deal with all of them (somehow and probably badly) when the next one came "mummy, I worry I will be alone when I'm old". I told him he will have a little brother so will never be alone. He then cried that "the baby will be alone when he is old". And then asking me when I will die? etc... Crying proper big tears. It was so heartbreaking. Managed to settled him at the end and came downstairs to cry myself, worrying that I will be alone when I'm old...

I'm honestly done with this pregnancy and these hormones. DP is out with work tonight so being on my own probably doesn't help!

tarlia just irregular painless BH here, nothing too alarming. Do you like your new haircut? 3 inches is a lot! I love this feeling of lightness after a haircut

falcon you listen to tarlia

Sorry you feel crap clapham

tralia I am away to give that a go been trying to google ways to engage

glad bp is better pseudo

everyone else hope you are keeping well :)

jelly I had my pre-birth haircut last week. My hair is growing super fast and is really thick at the moment. Had to buy one of those tangle teaser brushes as it gets so knotted, a problem I haven't had since I was a kid and before years of heated appliances and hair products ruined it! Not looking forward to it falling out after baby is born though. Hairdresser said it's often at the sides, above and around the ears where it thins out the most. Sounds a bit Pat Sharp...

tarlia even!

Im away clapham im away

falcon what selfishly worries me is my baby is also not engaged (second dc for me too) and I will be having a sweep at exactly 38 weeks but if u f already 38+ and u had a sweep at already 3-4cm and it hasn't worked yet that mine most likely definately won't work... Have to let us no if that little tip gets things going for u lol x

Oh clapham that's really sad, bless him. I think it's that age for those questions though, and could have be spurred from anything. Luckily his mummy was there to answer the questions, and he didn't have to think about it all day at school first for example. Yep, liking the new hair - hadn't been all pregnancy so it needed a good tidy - still to shoulder blades, it was the longest I've ever had. I couldn't face all those disgusting chemical smells earlier in pregnancy, and have kept forgetting to find a new hairdresser since our move.

Good luck, falcon! If that doesn't work let me know and I'll ask her what the other tips were, so you can try those too. Maybe you need waters breaking floor protection though.. Haha. Whoosh!

MrsO I'm laughing at the thought of our hair loooking like some dodgy pat sharp hair do, era 1986...,like a mullet hair do

I dislike having my hair chopped, only have it done every 6 months and I have foil highlights every 4 weeks, Moroccan Oil is a god send.

Get up those stairs Falcon and get that deed done.

oh no, I had forgotten about thinning hair after birth.. I have alopecia areata and already missing about 15% of my hair, thankfully its long and thick and somewhat easy to hide, but I am now back to worrying about losing it all after birth, fingers crossed that doesn't happen

natalieand yes I am pleased to be close to the hospital that I want to give birth in! I'll be even happier when DH is here too next week, but it's good to know the hospital is just 15 minutes away. Got an appointment with my now local midwife tomorrow at 38w.

Sorry to hear a few of you have had sad or stressful days. I join you, as the dog I took to the vets this morning had to be put down this evening ... She had a very advanced cancer of the lymph nodes; treatment was an option, but she was really very unlikely to make a full recovery. She was getting old, going blind and arthritic and so it seemed unfair to put her through the stress of chemo. We're all quite sad and I am really wishing my DH was here for a cuddle! Although she (Poppy the dog) was owned by my Mum and Dad, she completely doted on my DH, and he on her too.

Really sorry for the me post. I hope everyone is doing ok this evening. We're getting close!

I believe there are some vitamins against PP hair loss - I want to say B something, but it evades me. Damn baby brain.

Why don't you like it cut, but don't mind colour, flyer? I must say, I get very bored of all the small talk and much prefer a hairdresser who will just get on with it, and let me read/flick through mags.

Just to comment on my last post - we didn't know she had cancer until today, we thought it was just laryngitis, so I didn't know that's what I was taking her to the vets for. Bit of a shock really.

Cross post - I'm really sorry about Poppy rox :( It's not easy loosing a pet. It's hard to think now, but it's good to know she won't have to suffer cancer/treatment. Hugsx

Aw, poor dog. Losing a pet is hard but you don't need to watch her suffer anymore, which would be harder still.

I'm going to google those vits tarlia. May save us all from the mullet!

Oh rox really sad news about poppy the dog I'd be totally gutted too, it's horrid losing a pet, sympathies to you and your family.

Tarlia I just hate losing length off my hair, it used to be much longer but over the years had gradually got shorter, it sits on my bra fastening at the moment and I don't like it going above that (I sound very weird)

Advice I've read just says to continue taking prenatal vitamins, which I was planning on doing anyway for bf, but that hair loss can still occur regardless. Oh well, will just have to cross that bridge (to 1986?) when it comes!

4:30am we are not friends, I'm sick of meeting you every single night! Sigh.

Tarlia I feel that! Been up working all night as couldn't get to sleep.

Rox I'm so sorry about your dog. I get teary even when I just think about the day we have to say goodbye to our dog so can empathise completely