Due in June - Prostaglandin Smoothie Anyone??!!

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New thread!!

Yay Foxy and the snickers BOGOF!

I just got an email from my sister...I PMSL literally, I think a bit of wee came out...

Here is what she said:

"we have run out of toilet paper but this morning i really needed a shit so...i just grabbed the phone book , thats got thin papaer i thought......so i flicked to the pages i knew i would never ever need....
and i wiped my ass on the churches.
am i going to hell?"

TA - glad this was your sister & not you. PMSL at the thought of you having to explain to maternity unit staff why you had name & address of local church 'tattooed' on your backside....

ROFL!!

Foxy - when am I not calm and serene ?

Hee hee TA!

PMSL at your sister TA!

Loving the sound of your dr foxy! Good job he wasn't seeing you for your 6 week check or anything! How embarrasing would that be?

SFL how exciting, but also scary at the same time! Hope it all goes well and you don't need the drip or a cs! Just think by this time tomorrow you will prob have a little baby!! HOORAY!!

Tip for labour bag- Take in some actual food. Sandwiches, pasta salad, something along those lines, not just crap. I had my dd at 8.25 and missed dinner and didn't get fed til 7.30 the next morning. I was soooo hungry and all I had with me was crisps and biscuits. All I wanted was some real food. Also take a bottle of squash to add to the gross tap water they give you. Cannot believe some hosps won't let you eat in labour! Mine was all for it. I was eating fruit salad through mine. Yummy bits of juicy melon and mango to suck on is just what you need!

Brilliant! Tell your sis she's made grown women all over the country piss their pants!

Am off to get lash tint & eyebrow wax. Think will book manicure & pedicure for tomorrow. Can't remember who suggested but probably good idea to have lots of things lined up for next few days to stop the hanging around waiting & wallowing. Catch up with everyone later. Must remember to buy some bog roll - LOL T/A.

Good thread on inductions here if anyone needs reassurance.

Still had to ask him for thrush pesseries though

God, post labour food - you literally have to beg, don't you? I like those little pots of cereal that come with milk personally. And plenty of coke (a-cola, obviously) and ribena.

The real reason I'm going for a homebirth is so I can have a decent cup of tea in my own mug and crusty white toast with marmalade straight afterwards. Really, it is!!

Enjoy your treatments Tallulahbelle. Am very of you!

That's one of my reasons for a home birth too foxy! Ribena throughout labour and a real cup of tea afterwards, not tea flavoured milkshake..ewww!!

Lol at the thrush pesseries! Did your face actually look like this !!

I am taking notes on all this - take real food!!

I am not sure if my hospital allows eating in labour, but DH has a tendency to pass out if he doesn't eat every few minutes (well it seems that way) so it will do for him if I'm not allowed it!

No, because I couldn't look the handsome devil in the eye

Are these seriously your reasons for a home birth?
Tea and toast?

If so I will laugh, a lot, and feel a bit confused but I will of course bow down to the greater birth wisdom out there

In hospital when I was in the full throws of labour some divvy bird bought in my dinner! Yes thank you love, but I'm not really in the mood for veg curry right now! DP ate it. Two hours later I would have killed for a cold veg curry!

I don't get it. Well, I do, obviously its incase you have to have an emergency c-section or something, but if you are in agony for 12 hours before even needing to find the strength to push for another 3, WTF are you meant to do?

Take whatever you want in, and say its for DP.

Am meant to be writing my birth plan now.

Oh, and I've left it too late to order my TENS machine from Boots. Bugger. Anyone would think I hadn't done this before!!!

ok point taken, sandwiches it is then

Yes really TA, those are very strong reasons! Also being able to have a bath in your own bath, not some scrotty dirty one (mine is prob dirty, but it's my dirt)! Oh and sleeping in my own bed afterwards!

Erm, it actually does have quite a lot to do with it, speaking for myself

Home comforts (like a nice cup of PG) and avoiding the post-labour ward TBH are the 2 main reasons.

Not much to do with actually having the baby at home, I'd quite happily shit myself in the corridors of St Georges, or in the comfort of my own living room when the time comes.

Oh and I want a water birth and the only way to guarantee I get one is to have my own pool at home.

My home is relatively MRSA free too, I think. We do have mice, though.

Somewhere lower down the list after PG Tips is the fact that you get 2 experienced midwives all to yourself and they don't change shift or leave you to go and attend to someone else. That should probably come in to it!

well that all makes good sense!

I would actually really like one but I feel a bit 'safer' having 1st in a hospital - I think by number 2 the potential risks with you as an individual are more of a known quantity.

My SIL had a home birth in a pool and my brother said that his job was draining the pool in the garden and it made him feel a bit sick.
Not sure I'd put DH through that

oooowwww! Is it too late to change??! I want one now

I guess so actually I am over a week overdue and am being induced this week. Hmmm ok too late