Due in June yet most of us are still here! <<taps fingers impatiently>>

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That sneaked up on us out of nowhere! Thought i'd better start a new one!

Bumper I am no expert, hell I can't even give birth let alone have much of a valid opinion on what to do once it's out, but I think if this is something you might find useful then why the hell not?
I am aware of that sort of training, also hand signing, from what I gather kids do pick up these things very quickly and readily.

I guess it depends on your time constraints and how much effort you want to invest in something that is of quite short term benefit.

Me personally? I don't think I'll be teaching it... but my DH is keen to try signing. I figure I'll leave him to him, I am going to be a bit busy changing nappies

Glad you aren't in nasty pain anymore TA, hope it all picks up again.

Sorry I've missed so much - A BIG CONGRATS TO ALL THE NEW BABIES and such lovely names too. (sorry for not being specific - I have been trying to catch up since 8.30 last and have only just managed it).

We had an evil thunder storm and power cut at 8.30 (which came with a massive pain in my pelvic area). DS2 then didn't settle on his own for more than 10 minutes all night, except when DH came in from work and let him get up to cuddle on the sofa and he said "it was only a little bit of thunder daddy". PAH.

Dh gutted I'm not in labour yet...

MW just been, not protein, BP normal, so that's good. No appointment now 'til my overdue appt with the consultant. Just have to ring hospital if concerned. She recommended passionate night, nipple stim, clitoral stim(?), and a curry. Ounds like the night from hell.

Must go and see my Dad with gifts as the boys have been there since 12.15 for lunch. Hope they've left me something...
Good luck with your afternoons, hope some serious stuff happens!

See ya later. Rx

FFS my typing is awful. Hope you ca work out what I meant with all my cryptic mistakes.

I think you were trying to say you have been kidnapped by inhabitants from the planet Zorg, by a spaceship that looks like a curried birthing ball, and you are going for some nipple stim in a storm for fathers day.

Was I close?

LOL re your night from hell Ria! You are funny!

Bumper, I think its a load of old cock (to coin a phrase). Although saying that, I haven't read it through properly to my shame.

IMHO the trigger for going to the toilet should come from a physical need, not an external trigger. Who wees cos someone else wants them too? Children need to recognise that their bladder is full and need to go.

I can imagine in the classroom, when a notes being passed around discreetly

"psst"
"oh fuck".

Didn't read about pooing.

"plop"? perhaps?

A roll of kitchen paper, some antibac spray, a warm weekend and a bit of patience will do the job.

Sorry!!!

was that a bit strong?

Come back Bumper! I'm sorry - I didn't mean to offend anyone!

I'm just tired and being a bit short. I'll get my coat...

Come back everyone

I'm back! Just been eating lunch and polishing off my ice cream - straight from the tub!

Sorry Bumper, just typed my immediate thoughts to it!

Don't worry - I'm not offended! I'm a bit myself. Just wondered what other people thought, what the benefits are and whether people are secretly all doing this. You are right though, it does seem a bit pavlovian.

I think people do it, but not most normal people.

I would have said that no-one does it but I have actually recently met people like in Meet The Fockers who do actually do all that stuff.

But I won't be.

But hey, to each their own.

Honestly, I wasn't advocating it! Just have no frame of reference as to whether it is really out there or just semi weird? I am trying to be less judgemental though, now I am becoming a parent myself. DH and I have to tell ourselves off sometimes because we are so judgemental and smug sometimes! Especially in the supermarket (we won't be dragging our children round the shops bawling, look at what's in their trolley...) god we are such snobs!

ha ha! we all do that! It falls by the wayside, and by the time you get to number 2, its like the good intentions never existed!

At least you have good intentions - there are some parents who don't even start with them

That's kind of what I think, I like to start with a plan, even if that plan later just becomes - get up, get showered and try not to lose or damage the baby!

If you can do thost things, you've cracked it!

(more than I managed - left Em at the yogurts in Waitrose once )

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