Due October 2007 ~porkers can't keep their snouts out of the feeding troughs!

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Sorry inzi think i knew that I had daily montioring with Tanisha. I would suggest a good book, they take a while and you have to stay in one position if possible because they lose the trace if you move. Make sure you have a drink handy too I hope it sets your mind at rest. Good luck

Lisa

oh and make sure you go to loo before they start, normally on there between 30-60mins
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Floria ? I?ve just resent it and got a confirmation this time so hopefully it should be with you now! Let me know if there's any problem....

Nellie ? sorry to hear you?ve had a crap day and a fight with your dh. Hopefully you?ve managed to sort it out and will get a bit more sleep tonight?

Ejt ? hope the decorating goes well!

Lisa ? glad to hear all went well with the injection practice and I?m sure it will get easier for you!

Inzi ? we?re off to stay with my Mum and Dad who live in Herefordshire. They?ve only just moved there so not seen their house yet so looking forward to it. They are really easy going to be with and look after ds too so will have a lovely relaxing time! Plus the best bit ? dh and I have a couple of nights away in a hotel without ds! Much as I love him I can?t wait! We?ve splashed out (not going to happen again for ages!) and are staying in the Hotel du Vin in Cheltneham ? can?t wait for the huge comfy beds for lots of sleep and big baths!
I can second Lisa on taking a book ? it takes at least 20 mins to do the trace (had one a few weeks ago when I thought lo hadn?t moved much for 24 hours)

Well I found out tonight that my most significant ex who is now a really good friend has got engaged! Really really pleased for him and she?s a lovely girl so he?s done good! Funnily enough dh and I have only just been together as long as him and I and we are married with ds and another on the way! I guess when you know you know?.

Hope you all sleep well tonight x

just popped back on before i go to bed, forgot to tell you, i dreampt last night that LO was born looking like this but she had ginger hair and was a bit more baby like!

inzi-good luck for tommorrow x

Inzi; I had one reply to the Murphy question but I'm not sure about the quality of the advise...basically she suggested a BARF diet...ie. bones and raw food....she thinks that such a diet will cure both anal gland problems (which I can believe) and epilepsy (which I have trouble believing) but if the fits were caused by the gland problem I suppose it would stop them too! There is an internet site that tells you all about it if you want to investigate it...and many people who have their dogs on a barf diet swear it is the cure of all known ills, but I must say that when I tried Thane on it it caused him to be horribly flatulent . If more mainstream advice comes in I'll pass it on.
Hope all goes well with the trace .

Gd Morning!

Inzi; there was a site i had in mind but it's not on my list anymore, sorry..just google it..you're bound to find something.I found it difficult to feed because of having defrosting and raw food around...Thane isnt a clear my bowl instantly type of dog, he likes to leave some for "later". Personally I've now got Thane on the cheapest dry food from Costco..about £11 a 15kg sack (which lasts him a month-6 weeks)..called Autarky..it is organic and has a lot of herbs in it that were in a (no longer available) food recommended to a friend whose dog had an enzyme deficiency...and it is the only food that stops him flatulence (Bouviers are notorious for it!) and keeps his coat really thick and healthy. I can't believe your vet wanted to put Mac down for a minor heart murmur! Most vets want to keep them going on expensive meds for as long as possible!(My last Dobie, Cindy, developed Dobermann dilated cardiomyopathy and cost me £125 every 25 days for the last 15 months of her life!..worth every penny though)Good luck with the search.Hope you find something that works for Murphy.
And hope the trace goes well today for you.

Hi everyone,

Alicet - we are very close! Actually we lived in Gosforth until 2 years ago, but couldn't afford to buy there, hence moving to KP.

Nellie - I think rows are par for the course at the moment because we're so hormonally up and down! I find myself obsessing about teeny things and unusually chilled about big things...

Lisa - you're so brave! well done. I'd be terrified and utterly useless.

Inzi - good luck with the anti-D jab! Mine is 2 weeks today, so let me know how it goes. Oh and I'm a bit of a chocolate-eater at the moment too...

EJT - good luck with decorating! I guess that's fun, too.

Floria, I'm not weighing myself either!!!

All fine here today - got mega bruise from bloods taken at midwife on Wednesday; she brutalized me this time! Spent yesterday at the beach with some friends and their two little sons, who keep saying impatiently 'why isnt the baby here yet?' 'will it come today?' and 'can we give it a name?' Funny.

Have a good day everyone.

CH.

Morning all ...

My brain is mush, and I feel soooooo ranty!!

MIL phoned in a panic this morning as she'd phoned last night and left a message and we hadn't got back to her ... fair enough - I then had a chat with her to calm her down, and she asked me if my sciatica was better - so I told her that it's not sciatica, and then I told her in full, gory detail, all about the spd pain and about the coccydinia, and that no, it's not just a case of the baby moving off a nerve! Told dh just now and he was livid ... she obviously hasn't listened to a word he's said - honestly, she works as a receptionist in a doctor's surgery - and seems to think that that makes her medically qualified!! ... actually no, could just SCREAM ...

Sorry, feel better now!

I've had an email from my doula this morning too, she can't be my doula is basically the upshot ... she's passed my details on to the person who was going to be my doula with my pgs last year, who is in the middle of midwife training, who apparently is going to try to wangle it with college to be my doula ... I feel happy about it in one respect, as in the lady who was going to be my doula last year is much more my sort of person, but on the other hand, I just feel like going WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

I finally psoke to the midwife who is supposed to be looking after me in terms of delivering in the MLU yesterday - she was supposed to have sorted me out with seeing the obstetric anaesthetist 3 weeks ago, but went on leave & passed it on to somebody else, who basically did nothing about it ... it now means that there's no appointments with their clinic until 5th September ... and the cocodamol (I have dispersable ones) make me really sick, dizzy, and dopey, so I don't like taking them during the day - which means that I'm still a whingy mess by the evening! And yes, fettle, it is getting more painful to turn over! Thank God the end is in sight!

I have to admit that it feels like I'm constantly fighting to get what I know is best for me - part of me just wants to sat "sod it!" - and set a date for an elective!

And, to top it all, I had a dream last night that the baby died.... ... poor dh has been mopping me up this morning!

Sorry, another very me, me, me post ... will try to be more upbeat later!

love to all - have a lovely weekend!

Morning everyone.

I have been up since 7am and done loads. Done a bit of tidying in my beroom, tidied and cleaned the kitchen and ironed all the baby's bedding. I also put on 1 load of washing at 9am and it is now hanging up outside awith the second load in the machine now. Got to put away the bedding that I ironed.

Also going to clean the toilets (all 4 of them) and clean the bathroom and our shower room, hoover 1st & 2nd floors (ground floor is tiles ot wood so does not need hoovering)

Then, hopefully I will finally get time to list all my stuff on ebay.

I therefore won't be about much today.

I hope everyone has agood day.

Afternoon all

everyone sounds fairly breezey today maybe hormones are on a break

I have Tanisha at home today but she has been wonderful and we are off to meet some friends in town later this afternoon for tea and cake hmmm chocolate cake.

I did my own injection today, im very proud of myself LOL still took about 10 mintutes though hoping it will get easier.

has anyone got an idea of what they will pack in babies bag for hosptail? Im not sure whether to pack the prem/tiny baby clothes we used last time or just hope this one is bigger than Tanisha.

To those of you that are self injecting an question? Are you allowed to breast feed? Does your impact on birthing? I have been told if i go inot natural labour I cant have epidural, which was the only way i was going to be able to manage with the SPD, but if i need a emgerency C section i will have to have General. Im still hoping for a planned section, so not too concerned. Wanted to book it all in on weds this week but it wasnt my consultant, it was his registar and he refused to talk to me about it. Im sure its okay he has issues with my religion, as he made it clear last time 9with DD) that he didnt agree. So have to wait another 2 weeks till my consultant comes back from holiday.

Hope your all having a good day.

Hi Lisa,
Well done for doing your injection, it will get easier and you'll get alot quicker at it. I usually remember to do mine as i'm going out the door to take DC to school so end up running back upstairs to do it quickly!!!
Yes, you're fine to breastfeed. I did with DS2 last time and i was on clexane for 6 wks after he was born.
The cons. induced me a week early due to risk of haemmorage at birth due to clexane.

Hope you enjoyed your tea and chocolate cake(yummy!)

Hi
Lisa; Well done on doing your injection I told you it would be a doddle once you got used to it! I have been told to stop taking the junior asprin and heparin as soon as I feel I might be going into labour....it limits options if surgery is needed apparently and could mean I can't have an epidural but it has no impact as far as I am aware on bf.Though how I'm supposed to predict when I'm going into labour heaven alone knows!

EJT; have a ((((BIG HUG)))) it sounds like you need it...silly MIL...rubbish mws assistant...and stupid subconcious giving you nightmares like that. But the doula change sounds like it will be for the best, it is just everything else that is tainting it for you. I do hope the day and your mood has improved after such a rotten start....come and rant some more if not...it always helps to get it off your chest....and blame the hormones, I had a weepy day on Wednesday...my mind kept harking back to past upsets (as if the present ones aren't enough!)..all I can think is that we are at a stage when we need everything to be "just so" but haven't the energy/ability to do it for ourselves...take heart we are on the home stretch.

Winnie; you put me to shame. I've managed to scrub the bathrooms (only 2 here) and tidy the spare room and make the bed for my brother who is coming to keep dh company in the pub tonight and I'm exhausted!...I'm not going to join them at the pub anymore after weighing myself yesterday, because they do the most luscious massive hot chocolate smothered in whipped cream there and I can't allow myself to indulge in that sort of decadence anymore...and I couldn't resist and stick to water if I went with them .

Alice; have a lovely weekend away...I'm afraid the link didnt turn up but never mind...I'll ask you for it another time. Hope the visit and the hotel are just perfect! Enjoy!

HELLO EVERYONE - I'm Home

Blimey, I have had a quick scan through a weeks posts but no chance of catching up individually

Well we had a fab time in Cornwall, I highly recommend the place we went to, very child friendly and a really nice place, great food and friendly staff, its called the Sands Resort - Porth, they do have a website. Had a few awful nights sleep though, a mixture of horrendous heartburn, a tickly cough and being far too hot. I had about two nights of barely 3 hours sleep and my cold has only just started to clear up so have been really tired, but it has been nice having DH around all day. The car journeys weren't too bad considering, it took us 5 hours back today.

My bump has exploded over the past two weeks, it has now become very uncomfortable to sit upright, just measured it after reading the posts further down... the widest part is 45 inches My clothes are all maternity ones so am still in a size 14 which is my usual size but some of the trousers under the bump ones are getting a bit tight round the waistband, they are ok when standing up, but very uncomfortable when sitting down in them, but its not worth buying a bigger size now as they will be too big everywhere else

I just want this baby out NOW, getting very fed up and uncomfortable and now we have this hot weather to contend with too. Oh well 7 weeks left to go, I'm hoping it will go quickly. LO is very active kicking me very often which is really uncomfortable, am also getting lots of BH's which isn't nice now baby is so big. I really can't imagine that my tummy can get any bigger, not sure if its bigger than last time as can't find my old diary where I wrote everything down it definitely seems lower down this time though.

Well thats all from me at the mo I think

Ejt - will email you my details shortly, I think it is a great idea

Hello everyone

Sorry I haven't been around for ages but its been manic here. I've been keeping an eye on you all so I least know no-ones popped yet

Here I am first time back in ages and I'm afraid I need a good winge. DH has swanned off to France for 4 days to work on his uncles barn, which isn't really a problem except that I'm having a major hormone surge and am crying almost constantly and I've had the worst day ever at work today. I freelance so work for lots of different people who all think they own me and have priority over my time and the snap of their fingers. Anyway to cut a long story short, one woman has had me in tears 3 times to day because she's so stupid and doesn't seem to understand anything and even when I put it in writing still denies all knowledge, she made me late to pick DS up from nursery and I then had to let him sleep til 4.30 cos I had to do a whole list of urgent jobs for her that she should have sent through days ago. Now I've missed most of the afternoon with DS, I had loads of us time planned, but he's such a zombie when he wakes up late that all he can manage is to watch Cbeebies. I miss DH so much it hurts today, I have painful piles, my hips hurt, my ribs hurt, my pelvis is agony, I'm hot and I have to go back to work tonight

So come on girls gather round and slap some sense into me!!

hmm, anyone reckon I might be pregnant ???

Oh pheebe!!!

I know we're on the home straight but that doesn't help with the ever increasing hormone surges, the uncomfortableness, the lack of sleep (already!!) the aches, the pains and the fact we still have to deal with other bl**dy people !!

sending you lots of >

Oh pheebe, i dont think a slap would help, have a hug instead ((((hugs))))

Lisa

{{HUGS}} winging their way to you Pheebe

...I've just noticed I've spelt hugs wrong!

OMG what is wrong with me?