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

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Good for you lumpy - I hope you can get some respite from your symptoms and have one less thing to stress you out.

Is that you off sick to the end now or do you think you'll go back before mat leave kicks in?

Good on you lumpy. I wasn't sure if you just meant you'd got a sick note for next week or for the duration now, but I see you mean for the rest of your preg so that's good.

Wow, mrsk you have a big group of friends. I only have 2 people left I would really count as proper friends and they are in Australia & The Canaries and show no signs of settling down any time soon.

Pain I've got the natal hypnotherapy CDs too. Do you have the full set or just the one for giving birth? I've been meaning to listen to the 'pregnancy relaxation' one for ages now.

PainAuxRaisins Yes we are all close together in the city we live and also close friends - out of the 8 or so pregnant girls I know, 5 of them are literally my besties. I couldn't be more blessed really. And you are right about us having out very own ready made little antenatal group - hence why i feel totally justified in not doing an NCT course.

In fact I think I will be more desperate for someone without a baby come next year!

Fox Yeah I'm lucky - I have a really large circle of friends, I had a joint hen do with my best friend as our weddings were a month apart and we had 36 people

I just got the Natal Hynotherapy CDs literally yesterday - I got the preggy relaxation and preparing for birth ones.

I just need to get them on my iphone but my macbook hasn't got a CD drive so this is proving to be a challenge!

Wow, where did you find all these people? Everyone I know is either from school or uni. I keep vaguely in touch with a couple from school but hardly ever see them since I left home and the ones from uni are the above mentioned in far flung destinations!

Accumulated friends over the years from social life really but my core group of friends is about 10 girls and we've all known each other since our all night clubbing days over 10 years ago. Our husbands and partners are all friends too.

What is this 'social life' you speak of?

The only people I've met since moving here 8 years ago are DH's friends' girlfriends who are inevitably a lot younger than me and then split up with their boyfriend after about a year anyway, so no lasting friendships.

I'm pretty lucky to have had a great social life over the last 15 years - loads of clubs, parties, travels, festivals, group holidays the lot. Big changes afoot! Although I hope life won't be over - we'll just have a baby to incorporate :)

I've not really missed it. I quite like just having DH for company. Maybe I an anti-social twat after all. I'm only just starting to think about it now because I will be at home on my own with a baby and I imagine that gets pretty lonely.

Totally no need to do NCT MrsK - the 8 of you should just turn up at the freebie NHS ones if you're all birthing at the same hospital! Or just not bother with antenatal classes at all (ask us lot instead!). I bet you the other 4 are pregnant by next year.

Fox I've got the birth prep, relaxing birth music and the post-natal ones. Might start reading the birth prep booklet to see what it says in there. I'm convinced that I'll go to all this trouble and then get rushed in for an EMCS for some reason. First two births were so straightforward I really just want this 3rd and final one to be peaceful and relaxing too.

There's a booklet?! I don't have a booklet

Foxy, it's bullshit that you will suddenly need friends when the baby comes. If you're happy with your own company now then you'll be happy post-birth. As long as you have help at hand from trusted family you'll be fine.

Love the tardis block can't wait till tomorrow.

Sounds like fun &mrsk* hope you rest up soon.

I've got a interactive Ghost buster night, any excuse to dress up. Doctor Who on sat, of course and Nickelback concert on Sunday.

Whats everyone else got for weekend?

Hi cookie how's the feet?

Thing is I spend all day at work now. Post-baby I will spend all day at home on my own. And babies aren't great conversationalists. I could always call on the mother-in-law, but it's not the same as having a friend.

OK, I'm having a moan now about it going dark, just to warn you all : It's going dark! My body is telling me to pack it in for the day and curl up on the sofa. The clock is telling me I have another 1.5h to go.

You people with your social lives, you're pissing me off! Don't you have housework to do or summat?

You're lucky you only have an hour and half to go! I'll definitely be here til at least 6 tonight.

Ugh, no way could I do a job with long hours. My brain doesn't cooperate before 10am or after 4pm.

This might go some way to explaining why I don't have a career though. That and the lack of drive or ambition. Or any good ideas.

Our core office hours are 10-6 so today I won't be here longer than 6 but most nights average leaving time would be about 7:45 I'd say.

but it's a relaxed atmosphere and there is a sofa I can sit on. plus the car is in underground parking just downstairs and the drive home is only 15 mins, so no long commuting. I can't complain! (apart from when clients threaten to leave and i lose sleep over sacking half the staff and myself!)

Foxy, I am cured, just like the lady who had been haemorrhaging for eighteen years who touched the hem of Jesus' garment and was healed instantly.

Flippin eck, if I left work at 7.45 I wouldn't be home until 8.30, by the time I got a shower and dinner it would be waaaay past bed time. Our office hours are 8-5. I go home at 5 . And I park down a spooky unlit road.

Cookie are you really cured? Or did you make it up to get famous like the haemorrhaging woman? Do you know that passage they read at Easter with the big about the man that streaks through the crowd? I bloody love that.

bit. I meant bit. Not big.

Just to butt in on the natal hypnotherapy CDs, which ones have you got? When I search for it on Amazon it says Maggie Howell?

Lumpy well done you for making that decision. It sounds like it's the right choice for you at the moment.

Also, if one more person at work tries to force another digestive down my throat while telling me that I'm 'eating for two' I'm going to throw my stapler at them