Martians 2014 Thread 14: on intra-uterine discos and knocking stuff over with your bump.

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Hilarious...sounds like a perfect plan to me Cookie.

In fact, maybe you could both go to the local sling meet/library to try some out before birth. On recent form, I fully expect you to be running the local sling meet within a month of birth ;)

Pirates thanks for the buggy board advice - will def look into that!

Hahahaha at Cookie running a sling meet. Perhaps with a homemade snack of fudge midway through?

"No that's not how you tie it, you daft twat."
"I refuse to let you try it, you will look even more gay." (To any bloke).

Me running a sling meet would be akin to Matt Lucas' character running Fat Fighters.

Cookie ha at fat fighters, wasn't her name Margery? "cut the cake in half, that's half the calories... So you can have twice as much!"

Yes! Yes, Becca! Margery. She cracks me up when she keeps asking the Asian lady to speak up despite her speaking perfectly good English:

Margery: This week we are all going to talk about the favourite foods that are reeeeeeeally bad for us. Awight? Now, [Asian lady], what's your favourite food that makes you fat?

Asian lady: Currry.

Margery: Whassat?

Asian Lady: Currry

Margery: Speak up, lav?

Asian Lady (louder): Curry.

Margery: I'm sorry. What does she say?

Asian Lady: CURRY!

Margery (turning to write on the white board): Fish and chips.

Marjorie takes the weekly weigh-in:

Marjorie: You see your problem is, Tania, you're fat AND old. It gets harder, and there's no man is there, you're on your own?

Tania: Yes, my husband left me.

Marjorie: Yeah, well, he would have done. Yeah, younger woman weren't it?

Tania: Yeah.

Marjorie: Forty-nine, yeah, so you're on your own now, every night crying and eating. Well, at least you've got all of us here at FatFighters to make you feel better. Off you pop. Oh, she stinks an' all...

Fucking priceless

Loved Margery!!

We ask that baby leaves in car seat so that we know they are in a suitable seat to go home in (part of assessment that baby is safe, parent education, demonstrate how to out baby in, doing belts up tight enough etc) also some taxis will refuse to take you with a newborn without a car seat. So if you plan to do this then give them a ring and check beforehand :)

I have hired a car seat for the day before now when my sister came to visit on the train, it only cost £15-20 I think.

Evenin' all,

Just seen my parents and brother off after meeting up for pub lunch and to show off the new(ish) house that I had to spend five hours cleaning in preparation for their visit!

You lot are all way ahead of me; prams, car seats et al will not start being sorted till after the new year. Although I will be getting a sling or two at some point, which DH may wear or not as he chooses. Without the flipflops though, cookie, cos his feet are truly fucked up from playing football and no one should have to see them...

22 weeks tomorrow, and even though the 20 week scan reassured me that everything was actually fine, it's been 10 days since then and I'm still feeling zero movement. Trying to tell myself it's all fine and normal for a high anterior placenta, but I can't wait till I can hear the heartbeat again at the next midwife appointment, which is bloody ages away. Hmmph.

It fucks me off royally when men wear flipflops. Who do they think they are, assaulting my eyes with their gnarled, hairy trotters?

I have just cried, laughed and been generally astounded at the beauty of Life Of Pi. Ang Lee is a fucking genius

Can't flipping wait for I'm A Celebrity tonight. TV class.

supermuddle
I've only gotten a pram sorted because family on both sides seem determined to take me out to look at them. I can only hope I never have to go again any time soon!!

I also have an anterior placenta (and am 22 weeks tomorrow oddly too) so I don't get to feel much movement. Bit sad as it would be nice for DP to feel baby move too when I feel movement at all that is. Stupid placenta.

I think my DP will be wearing a sling and wearing sandles, I think if anyone said he was gay he would play up to it and take the piss somewhat.

Evening!!! Just marking my place. Had a crap weekend. Am knackered and in pain. Seeing the mw tomorrow. Hoping she'll tell me to go off sick. I need someone to make the decision for me!!

Pantomine, if your husband wears sandals in March he is stupid as well as gay.

Lumpy sounds miserable! Really hope mw signs you off tomorrow.

I have been taking a break from my work for the last 20 mins or so (i.e. procrastinating) and have just put in 32 and 36 week milestones into my calendar. This pregnancy is going so fast - blink and it will be Christmas, then we'll be on the home straight. Really getting excited now.

So names - I think my 2 favourite are Caleb and Micah at the moment. Don't think DH particularly likes either (but he generally dislikes my name suggestions and fails to contribute any alternatives, so I'm ignoring that fact right now). Any preferences?

Caleb and Micah are lovely and I love bible names. Would Micah get shortened to Mike? That would be a rubbish shame.

coolhand
Love the names, though I don't think Micah would be shortened to mike, the Micah I know certainly isn't a mike. Choosing names is hard!

cookiemonster I think the sandles may come out as soon as the weather warms up. Will have to hide them, I am not their biggest fan. His feet are a wee bit on the hairy side (hobbit feet!).

Lumpy if you need someone to take the decision for you, done.

Take a few days off, lovely. Look. After. Yourself. Work can go stuff themselves. There you go, sorted.

Super I'm nearly 23 weeks and only really felt movement yesterday - I'd been getting worried but I'm sure you'll start feeling it any time in the next couple of weeks (I've got an anterior placenta too). It was wriggling around enough for my DP to feel a kick for the first time too. That was lovely. Nothing today though.

Lumpy hope you're feeling a bit better and that you get to leave work!

Cookie Life of Pi is brilliant. Just as good as the book, I reckon. I went to see Gravity on Saturday and it was astonishing.

Liking the sling talk but may have to ask you to go over it again around February. If I got a sling from a sling library, do you think they'd object to me practising with the cat?

I'm want a sling just so Mil can't grab at baby so easily and I will have both hands free to slap her away! Do any come with padlocks? Haha! I'm safe from man flip flops too as DH can't walk in them, he has massive flipper feet, no one wants to see those!

Well over the weekend I had my first taste of the effect of asthma :( DH had an attack in the middle of the night after 20 years of no issues :(

I had no idea what to do! He has no inhaler and refused to go to the hospital as it wasn't 'that bad'. - I managed to find out that coffee is a natural lung stimulant and that has helped him breath better, and I'm nagging him to go to a walk in centre to try to get an inhaler or something.

I really really hope baby has my immune system :( and I'm going to roll her in dust and mud when she is small so she can get a resistance built up! I'm convinced it is MIL's fault DH has a pap immue system as he was never allowed to play outside and wrapped in cotton wool.

Does anyone know the likley hood that this is true (to an extent, I know allergies aren't anyone's fault but do think ones like this are made worse by not being exposed to stuff as a child)? And surely if baby is sharing my blood system she will have my anti bodies and stuff right?

Hope everyone else's weekend went well! :) apart from DH not breathing my weekend was taken up by mainly sleep (again), which is a weekend well spent I think.

Also - owch! Leg cramps! Had about 10 in one night on Friday night and my leg still hurts from it!

Block how scary, I hope your dh is feeling better today, and your legs too!

lumpy take time that you need.

I guess I should make a gp appointment about the pain in my bump when I'm walking. It feels like a really bad stitch and makes me want to stop and cry. But I can't stop because I have to keep up with the kids.

Thanks mummy!

And YES bump pain =GP (or at least MW) appointment, even if it's nothing, there is no point being in pain when they may be able to help, especially when you have other children to run around after.

Block how scary!! My DH has asthma (has inhalers to control it) and its awful when he has an attack. DS doesn't have it so just because one parent suffers, doesn't mean baby will. Breastfeed if you can, loads better for antibodies and immune system!

Lumpy take some time off, you need it at the moment.

Mummypig definitely go the dr, even if its as simple as needing a bump support it'll make a difference.

Currently having the two hour GTT fasting test...anyone else been for it? I am feeling so ill from it and just know it will trigger a massive migraine later :(

On slings vs prams, I am personally for having both but thought my husband was being a bit optomistic thinking we would both cope with just a sling. I think he will look just fine with the sling - we live in a very 'dads with slings' type place so he will fit in with all the other 'crunchy' dads!

Blockette, I am not sure about allergies being worse if you are wrapped in cotton wool as a child. I was brought up in quite an...unsanitary environment, and I have a long history with developing random allergies, both as a child and an adult, as well as a poor immune system. I think being exposed to germs as a baby helps develop the immune system but I think some issues\allergies can be likely to occur whatever happens.