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PurpleLostPrincess · 24/07/2007 09:13

I did it (slightly adjusted the wording - is it OK?)!!! Now all we've got to do is a link from the old one to the new one - I'll leave that to somebody a bit more competent!

By the way, I just go laalalaalalaaa when you guys talk about epidurals/pain relief etc. I really didn't enjoy having one when I had DS but I had to as they had put me on a drip and all sorts and I had lots of complications. Ended up with even more severe migraines for years afterwards too. Didn't have one with DD1 and much preferred the whole experience. If I can get away with it this time, I'm going to try and avoid having one (obviously can't predict how things will go!). Gas & Air me up all the way!!!

PLP xxx

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MrsMar · 01/08/2007 11:28

Morning everyone...

oh dear, I'm watching Monday's Fight For Life programme I recorded and I've just blubbed my eyes out. There was a woman on the programme who had a serious heart condition and she was pregnant. She ended up having an emergency cs at 29 weeks. I blubbed my eyes out when the baby was born, tiny but ok. Damn these hormones! Still I had no idea we had 14 pints of blood in us at this stage of pregnancy. That's tons!!! waaaay more than an armful!

Vicx - spatone is an iron supplement, it's in water solutions which you buy a box of. I think they come in packs of 28 for about £6 or £7. I got some from boots, but I'm not taking it any more as I patently don't need it! You add a sachet of this watery stuff to a glass of orange juice, how many sachets depends on what your mw says. It's meant to be very good, but I didn't take it very long. I felt really tired at around 20 weeks so I took it then. I hope you can get your levels back up.

Well I had to eat some serious humble pie last night. I came home from work at about 11 and was just catching up on the day with dh. He made some cheeky comment about a bag of presents my grandmother had given me which I left lying on the sofa for a couple of days. I gave my smartarse reply "er I've got two words for you, suit.... cases!" He then pointed out not only had he taken up the cases to the loft, but also all the left over paint from the decorating, the cat carrier box and a few other things we had to go up there. I hadn't even noticed!! ooops!!! Bless him, he did laugh!

Phew, the baby in Fight For Life survived... she's tiny and in an incubator, but it's a happy story! Big sigh!!

Have a lovely day everyone, I'm an emotional hormonal wreck now, but I've got lots of lovely domestics to sort out!

xx

EdieMcredie · 01/08/2007 11:38

MrsMar

I too watched that programme, it made me feel good to think that mine would have such an excellent chance if born now at 34 weeks. The baby was lovely wasn't she, and the parents were very brave.

Glad to hear the stuff is now in the loft! And also that you didn't do it yourself. DP forgot to put the recycling box out this morning and so I had to do it and it was very heavy...i'll be giving him an earful tonight

It's my bday tomorrow, 26 years of age!!

LoopyLouLisa · 01/08/2007 11:40

Morning everyone,

nesting instinct has hit big time but i just don't have the energy to do anything?! my house is an absolute tip. every room looks like a bombsite and so much to do to prepare for lo. cant ever see it happening. and the longest i've got is now 4 weeks as section at end of this month (assuming i don't go into labour before). anyone else panicking yet? am having such a major wobble just about every day. aaaarrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhh

loobybump · 01/08/2007 11:45

Im Panicking My house is a F-in state!!!!! still waiting on kitchen to be fitted and tiled and flooring done. Waiting on the whole inside of the house to get painted and then to get everything carpeted and the sitting room needs laminate o and the washing machine needs to get plumbed into the conservatory!!!!! Its driving me crazy!

O and i still need to wash all the Clothes iv got and need to set up the flat packed nursary package set iv bought which still hasn't arrived!!!

But apart from all that its great!!! and exciting!

Vicx · 01/08/2007 12:26

Hello!

Cheers for the spatone info.

MrsMar glad your hubby got those suitcases into the loft! Am patiently waiting for my DP to put the old cot mattress into the loft. Been permently preg since we bought the house last july and can't fit through the loft hatch!

Am mass nesting as well. Keep ransacking the house with cleaning sprees at insane hours and attacking everything in sight with my new friend the dettol spray!

Fortunately (or not) as DD2 has only just turned one, don't have to do the whole clothes washing thing this time as haven't had a chance to pack them away from last time... all already sorted and in the cupboards.

LoopyLouLisa · 01/08/2007 12:28

Hi Looby,

glad to know that i'm not alone (even if it aint good news 4u). my mum's coming up later and gonna ask if i can borrow her for a day to help. dp is useless and just creates more mess. think i need a skip to get rid of all the crap thats here. no make that 10 skips. ds (17months) leaves me toys in every room and not just toys but like he takes kitchen stuff and leaves it in my bedroom, takes dirty washing out of the basket cos he likes playing with the labels as a comfort blanket thing, etc. it's driving me insane but all i wanna do is sleep.

don't wash everything yet... just enough to get you through the first week or so and try only to wash neutral stuff cos you never know if they got the sex right or not, and you cant take it back if it's been washed. i should be gettin on with it while he's asleep but i just can't be bothered. my bad xx

kinki · 01/08/2007 12:58

Looby, my boys both do that thing with the labels, even the 7yo, but not so much lately though. But when he does it, he usually twiddles the label on his boxers, so to everyone else he looks like he's scratching his bum! And talking of toys in every room, I've recently decreed my bedroom to be a toy free zone. Apparently that makes me the meanest mummy on earth, but I need a little sanctory somewhere. Besides, what with getting up in the night 20 times to go to the loo, all their toys were causing me a hazard and a few stubbed toes.

Anyway, I've been a brave girlie today. I had to go to the dentist to have 2 fillings. (Anyone else having trouble with teeth while pregnant? Years ago I remember my mum warning me to look after them if I ever have babies because about half of hers crumbled when she was pregnant with me and my twin db.) She (dentist) asked if I was on any medication, so I told her I was pregnant and on all sorts so she says it would be safer to have a go without local anaesthetic, and that if it got too painful she'll give it to me. And waaheeyyy - I managed to get to the end without the la! I'm so proud of myself! Silly I know, but I think I achieved something there. The funny thing was I have an image that I use when things are stressful, that I tried to use today, and that is the memory of the time I was sailing off the coast of Jamaica in a catamaran, I'm laying on the rope netting slung between the hulls, and dolphins are swimming just inches beneath me, I can reach out to touch them. The thing is I couldn't make this imagary stick, every time the drill started, I had visions of Dustin Hoffman in the Marathon Man. Typical. But I got through it, so I'm really chuffed with myself.

Got to fly now, to pick up dses from their grandparents. Oh and why is it, since being 'diabetic' that my MIL gives me bucketfuls of chocolate for the boys everytime I see her? She says she gives it to me because she knows I probably won't buy it for them (she's right, I only let them buy sweets with their pocket money, once a week). And she doesn't want to give it straight to them, so she gives it to me to ration out. In 2 weeks, she's given them a 2kg box of quallity street, 2 huge packs of jelly babies, 2 big boxes of jaffa cakes and 16 (yes 16) packets of maltesers. She never did this before I had a problem with diabetes, so why stuff all this chocolate in my face now. You'd think she'd know better, she's f*cking diabetic herself!!!!!! Sorry, I shouldn't rant here, I should go to AIBU instead!

Anyway, hi to you all, and have a lovely day.

kinki · 01/08/2007 13:00

Whoops that should have said Loopy, who's also got lots of toys in every room. Think I've gone a bit loopylooby meself!

loobybump · 01/08/2007 13:29

Iv gone bloody loopyslooby today im so stressed out.:-) tempted to move back at my mums lol. Now thats desperate!

I'v never had braxton hicks or anything so not sure if its that but i have had a dull constant pain in my tum and lower left hand part of back today anyone know what it is!?

SeamonstEr · 01/08/2007 13:35

Its really common to have unexplained aches and pains, as long as they subside and don't come back worse regularly and there's no bleeding then you should be ok. I tend to get period pain like aches with my braxton hicks [which are really strong] in the evenings as I'm more tired then, but if I woke up with them and they continued all day with out stopping I would be thinking hmmmmmmmm

loobybump · 01/08/2007 13:54

Agh cool thank you. iv got mw tomorrow so its not to bad but its just annoying not knowing whats what. lol

EdieMcredie · 01/08/2007 17:07

Still nothing from HIWBB...

dal21 · 01/08/2007 17:19

PLP - your levels are very similar to mine and from today have increased my iron intake significantly. Think my MW doesnt want it to fall below the 11 mark and I think the last trimester is the worst for iron levels falling.
Of course down as Hb - haemaglobin test - doh!
MrsMars - it is exciting! I know. I have a long weekend (of which I am a little less excited as the damn decorators havent finished the bathroom as expected and will be at my house tomorrow morning at 7.30 to finish the job!). No lie in - feels as though I have totally wasted a day off! Hmph!

Really get moments of not wanting to be at work at all now - but only 8 days to go, so not long!

Hello everyone else - sorry, havent caught up with all the posts as am cheekily logging on whilst still at work. Hope your days have been good!

SeamonstEr · 01/08/2007 17:26

I know, hopefully she's just taking it easy. I've been here on and off all day hoping to hear she's ok

kinki · 01/08/2007 17:31

Was it today that she's got her growth scan?

SeamonstEr · 01/08/2007 17:44

yes you're right. I must be patient.

dal21 · 01/08/2007 18:26

what have i missed? is HIWBB ok?

dal21 · 01/08/2007 18:26

what have i missed? is HIWBB ok?

PurpleLostPrincess · 01/08/2007 18:40

She posted about bh in the pg thread... not sure how to do links!?

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SeamonstEr · 01/08/2007 18:44

I've just really hurt myself. I was picking something up off the floor and as I stood up got a massive pain across the front near the bottom of my stomach. I can't move my legs properly now, and am dreading the toilet, just in case there's something there.

I know if I'm worried to call the hospital, but I wanted to tell some-one and the monsters don't care as long as they get fed.

PurpleLostPrincess · 01/08/2007 18:47

Awww ((((((SeamonstEr) hope all is well? Let us know what happens...? I often pull muscles etc and get worried but it all turns out to be OK. I pulled a muscle on my bump a couple of days ago and it still hurts and I can't lift up my right leg (I think thats to do with my SPD though).

Is there anybody else you can call to help you with dinner?

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SeamonstEr · 01/08/2007 18:49

here

PurpleLostPrincess · 01/08/2007 18:56

Hope you're OK hun? xx

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dal21 · 01/08/2007 18:56

thanks seamonster. hoping all ok HIWBB. fingers and toes crossed!

SeamonstEr · 01/08/2007 19:02

its bed time and I can't climb the stairs... ds's ok but poor dd is only 20 mths.

I'm sure I'm fine, I'm more concerned about hopey tbh.