May 2014 - the Maybies get even closer to Definitely!!

[ClearlyMoo]

I've been brave and started a new thread. Hope the name is ok....

Morning! I've now perfected the middle of the night bathroom trip involving crawling/leaning on Swiss ball and hoisting self onto loo! Very smooth. Whoop!

Oh Bush your holiday sounds AMAZING!

Moomin hope you get appt!

To the GD and OC ladies hope things are plain sailing.

To the PGP ladies I feel your pain LITERALLY!

Amazingly got self up at 6am to shower so DH could help me dress (I can't do shoes and socks so have been living in Birkenstocks/flip flops for a week). Managed to make pack lunch and bundle self into car for 7am and motorway was clear (thank you Lord) and so at work just after 8am. Had to accost a relative stranger in car park to carry my bag in for me but I'm here! Whoop! First time I've been anywhere alone (except doctors appt) in a week!

Big day of meetings ahead but feeling ok!

Have good days everyone!

Xxx

PS I love all the "unmumsnetty" hugs going on. Why is MN so anti hugs and kisses anyway?

Barely just gone 9am and I've already had two cries!

First because I can feel my back click like bicycle gears! And shooting pains in thought

Seconds it's dawned on me if my back carries on like this I won't be back at work until after baby comes

Well done on completing "mission get to work" clearly!!!! Hope you get through the big day of meetings!

hugs *bornin, more pain killers?

Just been for pre-holiday deforestation of lady-garden....WEEPING FANJOS! if I can't cope with a wax how will I manage childbirth?!!!

E gads samba I've just had to settle for a trim with scissors haha! Last wax I had was at about 12/15wks, can't remember exactly. It wasn't too bad but the REGROWTH was a BITCH. Itched/burned like I'd been rubbing my flaps on nettles. Sooooooo no more waxing until Bean makes an appearance. The increased blood flow down there is making even day-to-day stuff horrible
Maybe next time I get pregnant I can have hypnotherapy to convince me that nothing hurts down there? That'd be good. DH does hypnosis a bit, reckons I'd be a good subject

Hang on I meant bush oh my days I'm sorry I got you mixed up!

Dobe I think your DH is deluded if he thinks it is life as normal and the baby will fit in with his schedule. But don't take it all on yourself. He is a parent as much as you. Yes, the feedings are all on you if you are breastfeeding, but he can do ALL the bathings. Nappy changes in the night, especially those first few days when you are recovering, then it would be all day nappies too.

I liked that when we were leaving the hospital with our first, the nurses taught DH how to bathe the baby. I just looked on from behind him and he did them all after that.

Not coming home steaming drunk is not a bonus feature. Shame on him for thinking that. His bar is very low if that is all he is aiming for.

Can you tell that I am very angry on your behalf? But you sound like a woman who won't stand for that shit so good on you.

MrsFoo I feel like my fanjo is going to hit my knees soon. And I have to sit down ever so carefully too.

Bush Green with envy for your babymoon. Hope you have a wonderful time.
I'm off to town without the children on Saturday and very excited. I know with my PGP, it will mean I'll be crocked on Sunday but dinner out and a bit of shopping child free will be as much of a babymoon as I will get.

Just had a call and I have Gestational Diabetes. I was kind of expecting it but feel pretty devastated and have had a good cry.
I have an appt with the diabetes nurse tomorrow morning

Do you think if I slapped some veet on my bits the regrowth from that would hurt? Or would the veet sting? I have some for sensitive skin but I'm scared. Down there looks like I need at it with a chain saw.

masterflea dh always says this - "I'm at the gym, not out cheating or getting pissed!" OH WELL FUCKING DONE, I AM SO LUCKY, YOU'RE SUCH A CATCH! Moron.

I'm hoping the antenatal classes put the fear of god into him regarding how much his life is going to change. I'm also going to make sure he's here for a health visitor visit because she's very much of the opinion that he has to take over EVERYTHING house and baby related when he gets home from work. Maybe when he hears it from all directions, it will sink in.

Cross post.

Oh Hobb I'm sorry. There's a couple more on here who have just found out the same thing - forget who now (can't scroll up) but hopefully you'll all be able to help and advise each other. And all the others of us on here are obviously here to listen to moans, whinges, emotional breakdowns and anything else xxx

Oh men are useless! Apart from obviously the newly debushed bushprincess who is off to MAURITIUS!!! am incredibly envious, have a brilliant time!! :) your baby is going to have clocked up some air miles by the time it pops out :)

My dp's vice is gambling but we managed to sort out a way to manage it a long time ago! I think they all have some kind of issue, whether it be drinking or cars or other women (grr)

hobb hope your feeling ok, it's a bit of a shock to the system. How bad/ what level do you have ? I think I'm going to ring the surgery to check if they have more details of mine :(

I don't have any details at all, the nurse said not to worry and that it can most likely be managed by diet but that I'll need to take blood readings to monitor sugar levels which means stabbing my finger multiple times a day doesn't it?

I guess I'll find out at my appt tomorrow morning.

I really wish I had got myself fitter before I fell pregnant. And I've told DP that this is the only baby we will be having, I never truly realised how shit being pregnant is

I'm starting to get sick of being pregnant too hobb. Fucking pregnancy. UGH.

Totally off topic and boring, but I sent a guy for an interview (I do recruitment UGH) and he totally got me in the shit with a client, saying I gave him no details of the job, I just told him to "google it" and the client called up raging at me!

Thankfully I have email records of EVERYTHING so I forwarded him the proof that this guy is full of shit and it's all okay now. But this guy has been to interviews at two other of my clients - so now I have to call them and make sure he didn't bad mouth me to them too!

He's on my black list. Why would you shit on someone who's helping you find a job? I bent over backwards to get this guy interviews because he's getting married soon and was made redundant. This is what being nice to people gets you!

If anyone needs me, I'll be in a corner, sticking pins into voodoo dolls of various wankbadgers people.

Morning all! Wow bush Mauritius looks amazing. You deserve it!

I think DH picked up on how low I was yesterday and is now organising a mini babymoon for us, just a weekend as I can't get time off, but it's a gorgeous little hotel in the mountains and will be lovely to get away.

GD must be much more common than I realised, so many of you have been affected

So yesterday I met with a different OB. Found out that they don't have gas & air in this country It's basically epidural or nothing. We got out of the appointment, I turned to DH and said "even in Zimbabwe they have gas & air 70% of the time!!"

What no gas and air at all?!? Bloody hell samba :(

Can you bring your own?

Can we buy it on eBay and send it to u

Snap Samba. They don't have it in Finland either. I don't know why though. Must get DH to google that.
My choices of drugs were Pethidine or epidural. At least it was the walking epi which my friend couldn't get in Ireland. But I'll be going the drug free route, hopefully, as I don't react well with either.

I'm with you in the hating Pregnancy group , Hobb. Never again.

Struggling to function today! Tears are just falling :-(

bornin what's up?

masterflea I just assumed it was the very basic, safest form of pain relief, hence why I didn't even ask before if it was available. I too would like to go all natural, but i consider myself a bit of a wimp with pain so I'm not sure if that's very realistic.

Apparently if you get the right anaesthetist you can get a mobile epidural. That seems to be pot luck too.

Perhaps I will look into buying it myself, is that legal?

The mobile epidural is pot luck here in Kent as well, so I'd best hope my labour is either short and painless (HA HA HA) or I happen to pop when the appropriate anaesthetist is on duty/on call. Mobile seems like the best option if you don't want to be dopey and out-of-it on pethidine - and apparently my mum said gas and air did sod all for her so I reckon it'd be the same for me, my constitution's way stronger than hers so I might just not bother with gas and air...

Samba (and anyone else who is interested) I thoroughly recommend the Natal Hypnotherapy series if you want something to try to help you cope with labour. I have been listening to the "preparation for hospital/birthing centre" and I can't begin to explain how much calmer it had made me feel about labour and coping with the pain.

So apparently the dose of iron I am on has some interesting digestive side effects....

bornin - we're all here if you need a rant. or some virtual and

MrsFoo - sorry if I am being too nosey (or have asked before) are you going to the William Harvey?

kally I have a natal hypnotherapy book by Maggie Howell which I loved reading, and a cd that goes with it (it's for home birth as it was my sister's but I imagine the techniques are similar) so I'm looking forward to trying it.

Has anyone tried using hypnotherapy in a previous birth?

samba that's the one I have! Start listening now - I listen at least once a day (you don't even have to be actively listening all the time) and it is amazing the effect it has. I use the relaxation techniques to fall asleep as well.

Nothing to rant,
Nothing to say

is the way forward, Bornin! I've had a few days like that but they do pass and some semblance of normality will return. Until then, just take it easy and let the tears fall as they will. Consider it a type of emotional detox, better to get it all out. :)

Sorry to hear things are being challenging at the moment, dobedobedo. Just scratch the job seeking guy from your books and don't bother helping him again.

As for your DH, offer to simulate pregnancy for him by stuffing a 16lb bowling ball into an appropriate orifice then smacking him in delicate areas repeatedly and constantly with a baseball bat. Make it clear he then won't be able to take anything other than 2 paracetamol for the pain and is not permitted more than 4 hours of sleep at a time to recover. Oh, but he's still expected to go to work as normal, fulfil all household duties and provide childcare. No sympathy will be provided, just comments about how he's slow/fat/dull/grumpy/etc.

Feels like DD2 just had a bout of hiccups here. Very cute. :) I remember DD1 having lots of hiccups too, she still gets them if she laughs too much!

Not so cute is the way DD2 is now having a good stretch. She's managing to apply pressure to my bladder and cervix, while at the same time jamming her feet into my ribs. Damn tall DH and his tall genetics producing very long children!