MARTIANS 2014 thread 12: the one where we do nowt but eat.

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Oooh, double Corrie tonight!

I thought rubella was German measles grey mummy ?

Yes Rubella is German measles, different to chicken pox.

Rasp if you've had it then you're almost certainly immune - they can check your bloods though if you're worried.

On the men-women seat offer thing, my theory is this (it's a long journey)

The seats have been occupied with roughly equal numbers of men and women, so it's not like women weren't in a position to offer. But I think that men spend more time looking around the tube carriage (checking out the women) and women spend more time avoiding eye contact (with the men that might be checking them out). So the women simply don't see that someone else might need their seat. Therefore, to maximise seat offers, we need to invent a talking badge.

Pram, there's no work during migraine, no meds, no nothing: just laying in a cold, quiet, dark room for 3 days with a wet flannel on my forehead At least it was nowhere near as long as last time. Seem to be developing an intimate relationship with pain but maybe I can use it somehow in childbirth.

OMG, Lyra, how exciting!!!

Thanks grey. I can't stop thinking about it and dreaming about not being skint for a change. DP is also excited about not working for £x an hour any more.

Evening! Thread 12, wow.

Thanks for the flowers pram, and those who were concerned about my idiotic fall. Have a VERY sore knee. DH has gone to 24hr sainsburys to buy big plasters as clothes rubbing it really hurts.

Whoever was saying about forceps (grey?) I was a forceps baby. I have a huge permanent lump on my head, and it is possibly implicated in my dyspraxia. However, without them, I have recently heard, I probably would have died as I was stuck having taken a breath, and they were worried I might be smothered. I have only herd this second hand from my aunt, as my Mum died along time ago.

And yes I too have my scan next Friday, do I have another buddy as well as Lyra??

Good luck for Monday Lyra, so exciting!

Edamame, sorry you're still suffering. My mum suffered badly with migraines throughout my childhood so I understand how debilitating it can be. Can the docs really do nothing?

I'm watching a documentary about a boy in India who has a parasitic twin growing out of his chest. It's horrible! Just a pair of legs with feet and malformed arms. Poor kid.

Mine seem to be pregnancy hormone related, Lyra. Hopefully they won't persist after giving birth. I'd rather have them confined to 9 months, than suffer in a lifelong way like your mum - how awful.

Hello all, sorry I've been lying low, I have been utterly exhausted the past 24 hours. Thanks for checking on me PrammyAcrossTheMersey

I am finding out the sex on Tuesday! Most excited and a good pre-anniversary present

Sorry for not name checking, brain like a sieve. Off to finish cooking tea. Home made patatas bravas with lamb. Though all I'm interested in is my avocado. Serious penchant for them this week

Love to all x

Greymoose very rarely would keillands forceps be used I don't think we even have them on the maternity unit anymore. They would rather do a forceps or ventouse than LSCS any day as normally baby is very close to being born and for LSCS they would have to push baby 'back up'.

I was a keillands baby and prob would have died otherwise my mum was airlifted to a bigger hospital for a section but they decided to do forceps instead, my poor mum! it makes me appreciate her even more! I was 9lb 12oz!

Also placenta normally goes home in a very glamorous double bagged yellow clinical waste bag :)

Evening ladies.

Exciting news Lyra!

I have my 20 week scan on Monday and will be finding out if we're team pink or blue, eeek!

On the subject of 'bump on board' badges. Do you think I could get a sign for my car that says 'bump on board so please don't park like a twat so mummy-to-be has to crawl over the passenger seat to get in?'

Very jealous of everyone's yummy teas. MummyPig I like the sound of toffee apple crumble. Is it like normal apple crumble with some kind of toffee added? And if the leftovers are up for grabs, I'll have it!

NO FUCKING CORRIE??!! [ANGRY]

, obvs.

Those of you hoping to find out the sex next week: what will you do if the sonographer can't make a decision ie. she can't tell?

Seen as ours is private Prammy we will be asked back for free if scan is inconclusive.

Pram our scan tomorrow is a private one. If they can't tell we have the option of a second one free of charge. Plus we've still got the NHS one in a couple of weeks. If all three fail then it probably isn't meant to be!

I'm an attempted keillands baby (you can feel all the dints in my forehead) but my mum ended up having a section anyway. Poor thing had two really horrible birth experiences :(

I'm heading to bed - my tummy and back are both really aching so I've given up trying to get comfy on the sofa with a puppy climbing all over me! I'm feeling so relieved this work week is over, it's been a particularly hectic one and I'm exhausted.

Hope you all had nice teas - they sounded yummy!

hi all, marking place -

yeah for those with scans sorry I can catch up with everything but I can't get access on my phone to mumsnet.

dinner is chicken fajitas

hope everyone is ok and if not, that you're getting all the support and love and mn attention they need

i'll try and read up on the last thread :(

Wow. So you're paying specifically to find out the sex?

We are indeed!

Your poor mum Comms

Our next scan isn't until Halloween!! My hossie does it at 22 weeks, for some reason. Then we get another at 32 weeks. Still can't decide whether to find out sex but leaning towards finding out, purely so I know which clothes to hold on to out of the older 2 (one of each!).

I will refuse to leave the hospital until they can give me an answer on the sex. If I wasn't skint I would have paid for a scan weeks ago. By their dates I will be nearly 22 weeks.

I'm also a forceps baby. I had a misshapen head after birth as a result. It did go back to normal though.

Meant to add a after saying I'd refuse to leave.

Lyra, usually my pregnancy symptoms make me so ill that I am physically incapable of getting out without help. The main symptoms being nausea/vomiting which is made worse by physical activity, excessive tiredness and extreme breathlessness. This usually means that the limited physical capacity is focussed on attempting to eat/drink enough each day. As an example of the contrast, last pregnancy when I went for a scan at 18 weeks I had to rest four times on the way in from the car park and four times on the way out because I was so out of breath and it took days for me to recover. The difference this time is that I have medication which has controlled the nausea and vomiting meaning that a) I can do more without triggering nausea/vomiting and b) I have been able to eat better which seems so far to have avoided the anaemia which I think contributed to the extremeness of some of my other symptoms.

Edamame I'm glad to hear people are giving you seats on the tube. I would look around and notice and offer if I was able to - in France I had DD1 get up on the bus for a lady with a stick who had just got on the bus (but some speedy able bodied woman already on the bus immediately leapt into it!)

Raspberry, I think as long as you've had it already then you're supposed to be safe with chicken pox.

Ice I once had someone park so close to our car when DD1 was about two that I had a job getting her in and had to crawl through from the passenger side and not only was there an obvious carseat in my car but the car that did it had carseats in so should have known better - I think some people are just inconsiderate regardless.

That sounds awful, BWP. I'm sorry you're suffering so badly.

Blimey, BWP, I can't believe you've had that many kids with such awful symptoms. Sounds horrendous.

Damien Omen is sleeping over tomorrow night. Anyone got any chloroform?