Due March 2007 - No. 3

[novadandypowder]

Ahem - allow me....

Gosh what a weekend
Sick ds12 sick dd3 sick me.
All got the flu and I have sinusitis and the kids have tonsilitis. I have antibiotics...
Feel ragged
But
Had m/w appt today and heard heartbeat! Way cool
BP and all other bits fine.
Had a bit of a about my homebirth - apparently as I had a laparotomy (bit like c section but worse) with my ectopic in novemeber 04, I need to speak to consultant about wiseness of a natural birth
am now terrified that not only will homebirth disappear that they might not let me have natural birth
Am off to research on ectopic trust website now
Arrgh

Erm..... a bizarre request but the web throws up no advice....so felt the wiser Mners would know.

Have grown the largest blind pimple on my chin. Its huge. I think it could be a boil. Its the size of a 5p coin... and has been lingering for days. Spot ointment not working. Plaster with spot ointment not working overnight. Pharmacist all but laughed in my face when I asked her for a remedy. (Witch!)

Anyone got an idea on how to draw it out ? It has no head and is just bloody sore.....

Fatfox I simply cannot comment.

Annie and Nova - will look out for these feelings in my swelly belly...

Kitty - Try talking to mum, if not talk, a bloody good yelling session sometimes works The irony of it all is as they get older, we are suddenly the care givers, and dont know about you but am encountering yet another guilt complex about not wanting the entire responsibility of having to care for mum and dad in their old age... The joys of being an only child....

Onilly: tonight steam your face, clean, put on tcp, leave to dry, put on toothpaste then go to bed.

hth

Whoo - thanks... erm... toothpaste? Help me on this one... the stuff I brush my gob with?

I can vouch for toothpaste, it dries the spot out. Also gets rid of lovebites

Hey, when this thread hits 1000 posts can we start part 4 please??

The toothpaste has been used many a times on my chin!

Really - blimey ? Feel like I have clearly been spending too much money on Clinque!!

Any ideas on boils - I swear you would NOT call this a blind pimple... it looks like a boil? Its taking over my face.... DH tries not to laugh when he looks at me and all day have been watching people look at it in fascination as I talk and it gathers its own little momentum.

It has its own heartbeat.... It may as well be a lighthouse becknoning in lost ships at sea.

I have big plans for that toothpaste tube tonight...

Onilly - I think magnesium sulphate paste works for boils but you need a plaster to keep it in place, so not sure you'd want that option. Plus I'd check its suitable for use while pregnant.

Surprised your pharmacist didn't mention it. My Mum was a nurse and she used to use put it on me if I had a nast boil type thing.

Hello y'all! Hope everyone is well. I have missed so much and have only been away for 4 days. Move was sodding awful but at least it's over now! No internet at home though til the weekend so I can only snatch a few minutes at work.

I haven't read everyone's posts since last week yet but hope everyone is blooming, not sick and being lovingly tended to by DHs and DPs. I'll try to post more on Wed.

Booboo - are we still going to Mimosa on Thurs pm? Can we meet at around 4 ish? How will we recognise each other? I will have DD with me who will be sitting in her pushchair singing to herself and saying "mummy read" every 2 minutes in all likelihood! She may be enjoying an illegal bag of raisins or heaven help us, a CAKE to buy me some quiet chatting time. Anyway, let me know if you are still free. If anyone else is in the area (Herne Hill - SE24, about 5 mins off the S circular) please do join us.

Looking forward to catching up with everyone's news soon. Take care everyone and big hugs XXXXX

Dolly P - glad you're move went well - phew!!

Onilly - could it be another head growing?

Sorry, that was really childish

Annie - love bites eh? ....aye, those were the days.....

Piffle - Hi - glad everything is going well Did you see the live birth prog last night? There was a woman with the most amazing ringlets. Oh and she happened to have identical quadruplets on TV as well.

Can you guess I'm in a good mood?

Saw my dishy consultant. Felt slightly sheepish about demanding he examine my holiest of holies. Anyway the outcome is that he says I deffo have cervical erosion, so can expect a bleed now and then and can happily enjoy my pregnancy, without having a nervous breakdown each time a spot of blood appears. Was also desperate for a fart but managed to contain myself while he examined me

Will raise the induction issue when I see him at the end of the month - didn't want to spoil a good day Mentioned it to the sister though, and she reckons I can hold them off until 40 weeks if I get really arsey about it DS and DD both born at 39+5, so that should hopefully be OK.

That's good news Fatfox, you can relax now ?
39+5 eh? lucky thing. You must have a sort of speedy microwave type womb that cooks 'em fine and quick. Mine it appears is a very, very slow crockpot

I'm a fellow crockpot, kittywits, I think it's our age, dear.

Fatfox - glad you had a good erm.. examination and held back from farting in your dishy consultants face.... Delighted at your upholding of the March MN thread delicate reputation.

I will not lower myself to rebutt your remark about my new head..... which will be smothered in Colgate tonight.... after being steamed to death and smeared with TCP and probably if I can get my hands on that sulphate thingy stuff will have a go at that too.... if all else fails off to the A&E tomorrow

Aime - thanks - Pharmacist was a witch....did not help with DH and q behind me pissing themselves laughing...

Yayyy - DollyP - you survived ! Happy new home.

Onilly -

Microwaved? I like to think of my childen as delicately char grilled, with touch of olive oil and rocket salad, rather than micro-waved, thank you very much

Seriously, did you both go over your EDD's?

DD1 & 3, yes I went over my EDD by 21 days and 7 days. DD2 slightly different situation as I had to have section 2/52 early due to placenta praevia and they don't like you getting anywhere near labour with that.

21 days? How did you stop the NHS intervening? Did you go into hiding or something?

Onilly - good luck with the toothpaste. I swear by it meself. Clinique? Pah!

Dolly: Thursday would be lovely - and 4pm is fine.

I'll attempt to be organised and let you know which top I'll be wearing on Wednesday

Looking forward to meeting you and your DD.

That's cheered me up, as DH and I had something of a falling-out yesterday, and I was pompously informed by him on the phone this lunchtime that we should have a 'discussion' this evening. (He's prone to pomposity when threatened).

I'm planning to lean heavily on the 'pregnant women should not^ be upset' angle. [sigh]

I am stubborn. I am a nurse so knew the sorts of things to say that would push the right buttons. I have to say they did use some fairly outrageous emotive comments, but I dug my heels in. What did it for me was "it is hospital policy that we don't let you go more than 10 days over...."

If I lived in a mud hut in the middle of nowhere, the natural process I was experiencing would not be subject to 'policy' so I just kept saying 'no' every time induction was mentioned.

I got them to tell me what to look out for in terms of reduced movements etc and I had a 'kick chart' to record movement.

With dd3 I just stayed at home until she was on the way!!

Whoowhoo - good luck with the "discussion"

I used to use Clinique eye cream - cost £22 for a teeny pot. Then I met this woman in Sainsbury's who was 72 and had the most lovely skin. She swears by Diprobase, so I have been using that for about 3 months and people keep saying I look really well and when I meet people they say "you can't be 43!!"

I'm serious here..

I was 3 weeks over with dd1 and dd3, dd2 was only 13 over. Annie i'm so glad there is another slow cooker on here. We'll need to keep each other going at the end. How did i keep the hounds at bay? I think I just told them politely that i wanted to wait. Because I'd already had 2 sections that couldn't induce me anyway. But I wouldn't let them induce as I prefer the babies to come out when they are cooked enough.

Thanks Fatfox

Have you made any decisions as to how you'll handle Queen Charlotte's? I saw on your other thread that they'll 'allow' you to go to 40 weeks.

Hmm, will keep talking to you two in Feb/March then, when the pressue is on. The idea of dragging a baby out before its cooked is so unnatural, apart from the risk of complications from the induction.

DD was induced at 39+5, but my waters had broken 36 hours before and I'd started to have conractions anyway. TBH it was OK as she was clearly ready and the drugs just helped it along a bit.

But 38 weeks? No way Jose!!

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