Due March 2007 - No. 3

[novadandypowder]

Ahem - allow me....

talk about jelly head, i did a course a few weeks ago and last 2 days have been trying to do an online test i have to pass for it. Pass rate is 65%, so far I have managed 27%, 60%, 40% and 47 , got a feeling I'm going to be here a long tme with this one!!!!

Yeah its not fair I was a jelly enough head before pregnancy. I think its natures way of making us daft so we only want to gurgle at babies and feed ourselves and feed the baby and are too dizzy to be distracted from the task of procreating!

Yeh - dh home. Went and picked him up at the airport - quite funny. I thought the dds would be excited, squealing etc - they just sort of stood there - don't think they believed it was daddy.

That soon disappeared as they shouted at poor dh all the way home to get his attention, tlak to him, sing to him.

Dd2 took him into the room to show him her big girls bed and dd1 went in and shut me out. WHen dh went to have a rest on the bed - the dds went in to talk to him and when I went to see where they were - dd1 told me NO! and shut me out!!!!

YEs - I did get a gorgeous handbag - shantung silk and embroidered flowers - sounds tacky but it is gorgeous..... and some gorgeous earings that are almost a match for the handbag. Dh has such good taste.

so nice to have him home though.

15 weeks today

Eids - glad DH is home, and yes you do deserve that lovely handbag - you're "worth it"! LOL at DD shutting you out so she could have Daddy all to herself

Onilly - well done on your good results: if it were me (as it was a few weeks ago) I didn't go for the amnio. If the risk of miscarriage from amnio is higher than the risk of a serious defect, I'd rather not take he MC/amnio risk - but that's just me. If you're really worried - then maybe go ahead with the amnio, to put your mind at risk - I'm 43 and have a 1:559 risk and didn't have the amnio.

sorry, not very helpful am I ?

Jaysecond - new house sounds exiting and glad you are settling in now. You lucky thing to have a new kitchen planned. We really need one

Nova - how old is noo? I agree with you its better in the long run - she's make loads of friends and will look forward to going each day. Its really good prep for school as well. She probably stops crying once you leave, so try not to worry. My DD started nursery in Sept. She was fine for the first few weeks but now cries when I drop her off (she's fine when our childminder drops her off though). She always has a really good time their though - made a princess crown yesterday

Laidback - ooo I love Cornwall too, tell us what you get up to there. I also love Cornish Pasties

Kitty - sorry to hear about your tooth - and the thrush you poor thing. How horrible. Has the tooth started to settle now?

Diva - you were perfecly right to leave abusive relationships - specially for the children, as well as for your own sanity. I think your family have made you feel overly guilty. Would they prefer you to stay in such a relationship - and what affect would that have had on your LOs? Your DS's challenging behaviour is not down to your relationships, please don't blame yourself. I just wish the person you saw had been more helpful and less intrusive.

Morocco - course we haven't forgotten you! In fact I was thinking of you this week, as our plane tickets for Morocco arrived. We are going at half term. Its really good to hear from you

Sponge - I am really hormonally emotional too. Almost burst into ears several times a day. Really embarassing at work

Whoowhoo - Hi spooky I hate public transport when I'm PG. A guy the other week stole my reserved seat (2 hour jpurney to Birmingha,) and refused to let me have it although I'd reserved it and told him I am PG. So I sat in 1st class instead (you can if you're PG and can't find a 2nd class seat). If I can't get a seat I announce loudly "hellooooo, I'm ** weeks PG and really need a seat - please can someone be kind enough to let me sit down please". An embarrassed person usually obliges

Hi to everyone else

ps NHS saga continues:

My GP surgery spent all afternoon on the phone/fax to Queen Charlotes yesterday. My GPs referral for me to see a conulant at QC was blocked by ante-natal reception yesterday, who have told him I'm under 20 weeks and so cannot see a consultant, as that is their "policy". GP has managed, after several calls, to find out name of my consulant now and has faxed him direct, thus bypassing ante-natal reception.

I have made a complaint. Deputy Director of Maernity Services called me last night and I told her I'd been to casualty several times and had been sent home with an infection, unexplained bleeding etc. Infection could have been anything (i.e. could have been dangerous etc) bt was not picked up on any of my visits. Also my GPs referral has been blocked.

Have got them in my sticky fingers and will not let them go now....

That's the way to go fatfox, you're getting the hang of this lark now aren't you?

actually i'm not convinced i have a tooth/mouth infection. i had a very nasty wisdom tooth extractiona a good couple of years ago and to cut a long story short it left me with TMJ ( where the jaw joints are damaged and can cause all sort of refered pain. I think since my hip have started to click a bit, i.e. are losening up with the effects of relaxin, then my jaw joints are doing the same. TMJ can cause all sorts of pain you would attribute to something else like an absess of horrfic ear aches, jaw clicking and popping when you eat. Dp was pleased last night as the pain was so bad I had to keep my mouth closed to give my jaw a rest. It meant I couldn't talk and he got some peace

Kitty

Wow Fatfox you are being so assertive! (awe and admiration) And if I couldn't get a seat on a train I'd never have the nerve to ask! Then you probably have to be assertive in London. I always find it a bit scarey there. If you are walking against the crowd on a path its really hard not to get knocked over! I'm like a big aukward country bumkin when I'm there. So I have an image of you in my mind as a totally sophisticated city girl!

I had an awful detailed and drawn out NIGHTMARE which is still really vivid in my mind involving someone stealing my purse etc ,car and kidnapping my babies!! I finally got them back in the dream but I'm emotionally EXHAUSTED.
Will have to rest ALL day after that!

Eidsvold sounds like a lovely reunion. My kids do that to me too when dh arrives. Its great I get peace for a bit!

17wks 5

Well done fatfox

Happy Friday everyone

hi y'all hope everyone is ok today
fatfox- you are so good not to let them bully you- and your gp sounds pretty switched on. hope it sorts out for you.

so glad its friday, even though am not at work today! going mushrooming sunday so hope the weather stays nice.

17 weeks..

morning everybody.

fatfox-go girl!how can different hospitals have such different policies?!i routinely see my consultant at 12 weeks here,and if i have any problems after that then i see her at her clinic.
at least ur nearer to getting sorted.

i feel pretty awful today as dd2 had me up 5 times last night cos shes teething.then when she went to sleep at 6 am ds2 decided it was time to get up.

hope u all have a good day.

17+2

rain, rain go away

Morning All.. the rain is pouring here too!

Fatfox.. you keep stirring them up till you get some
replies and responses that you should be getting. We had to dig dseep to get our debarcle sorted and now we are looked after very well, I think the MW now fears DH!

Tena Lady's came in use already! LOL... keep doing those exercises.. hope to feel the benefit at some point!

Awful nights sleep last night.. Cramp in my calf was crippling and its still tight now! I hate cramp!

Glad DH is home Eidsvold.

its not raining here it must have moved south.the sun is trying to come out now.

Lucy you Diva!

Where in the country are you?

Fatfox, you go girl. May the force be with you !
thanks for your advice on the screening stuff - I agree with you. Also, as part of this ongoing issue my DH and mum are really against the amnio which is why I opted for the screening saga.... and took on the NHS (not quite like you )I just needed a second opinion. I feel I have got it the results are combined nuchal fold stats with my bloods and the risk was hugely minimised so I feel ok now.

Thanks for noting it and coming back to me !

Hi to everyone else Will catch up later, crazy crazy day

Its a beautiful day here, sunshine and bluesky, but cold! I think we have had our share of rain over the last few weeks though!

Fatfox - well done! I'm still feeling angry for you that you had such bad treatment from the emergency dept at the hospital. It brings back memories for me of the one time I went to a&e at the hospital near Euston (forget its name now and felt that the doctor who saw me was completely incompetent) and I didn't believe what she told me.

Ooh, Eidsvold - lucky you, first for having your dh home and secondly that he got you a present that you like! Hmmm, to get any present from my dh would be somekind of miracle! He is completely hopeless with these things!

Rosylily, I know the kind of nightmare you mean, horrible, when you wake up and it takes time to work out it was a dream and not reality. I'm making my own nightmares at the moment, struggling to go to sleep cos i'm worrying too much about everything... I just want this pregnancy to fly by so that I know my babies are born safely and healthily.

Diva - hope you are coping after your sleepless night!

Hello to everyone else!

i am in south cumbria...im not northern though i am an essex girl really.i moved up here 9 years ago and they wont let me leave!!!!now its gone all dark and about to pee down again cos i got all smug about it not raining

Amie - sorry meant to suggest that you take a magnesium supplement to ease the cramps in the legs.

Diva - Lovely part of the country! Reminds me of endless school trips to the lakes.

Thanks for the help Leo, I'll try and source some! Anything is better than having a slight stretch and PANG! cramp! I stuck my leg in the air towards DH and yelped! He did get the hint I needed him to flex my foot and mumbled and rolled over! TYPICAL!

Afternoon all.

Bit hacked off this morning as I had a terrible nights' sleep, and as a result have been sick 3 times this morning

Fell better now though.

It's chucking it down here too, but I found the heat over the summer combined with the MS so hard to deal with that I don't mind.

Fatfox - so glad your bleeding's stopped. Sometimes it feels as though we're just seen as getting in the way of the smooth running of their hospital. I've been known to be assertive on public transport - I've stood up and lectured the bus-drivers on speeding when in fear of my life several times - but 'round here you never know when you're going to spark off the latent rage in some nutter. Generally try to keep a low profile, as I've been attacked on a bus from Brixton before. I miss living in West London.

lol at Rosy's bumpkin self-image. It is true that when you get used to Central London you just get very single-minded and dog-eat-dog.

Right. Must do some work.

amie the lake district is nice but tucked away in the far corner of cumbria is this little **hole i live in.
honestly,there are days when i would just love to go on the london underground and get shoved or ignored by people who just dont care about anybody else whatsoever.
i really need to visit my mother.

i got really bad cramps in my legs when expecting dd1.i think i just used to push my foot back to ease it.

I had a friend who lived in Barrow, Diva. They said that was a little scary.

I'm off to London tomorrow. I like it for days out and nights out. But I like to retreat back to fairly small town life!

I was trying to flex them when i got niggles then it kicked in really bad and I didn't know whether to laugh or cry!

Can I ask a really silly question? Is it safe to have a bath? (amnio was Monday- obviously hole goes right through...) I forgot to ask.

hi everyone... I'm very tired today so I've had a quick flick through your posts. Really pleased for you Eids and Fatfox.

Don't stretch a cramp Amie... you are right - it makes it worse. I get them too, usually when I am sleeping. I haven't had so many since I haven't been having dairy in the evening. I don't know what the solution is though. Some suggest water (dehydration), some say increase your salt intake. I am having awful pain in my back atm. I think it may be sciatic (sp??) nerve? It comes on suddenly but it is crippling.

The weather is crazy! I hope that it makes for a lazy weekend for everyone