Due DECEMBER 2008 - just over a hundred shopping days to Baby

[LadyThompson]

New thread, people, unless someone else has started one...

same here, zj - on the hairiness stakes. Leg hair also seems to have slowed down. Unfortunately still getting come dark hairs round nipples and on chin. Minging! If I wasn't pregnant, I might think I was a man! But have always been a bit of a hairy monster. My DH is too, so hoping we don't give birth to an ape!

I don't have a linea nigra and am slightly jealous of all the photos in mags etc of people who do!

oops, that should be "some dark hairs", not "come dark hairs", which sounds very dodgy!

Beans/ZJ are youfinding that waxing hurts more now you're pregnant. My trip to the beautician was really painful the other day, worse than when you go just before a period starts.

beans mine will be a bit of a hairy monster too - I have more body hair than DH (almost), but he has a monobrow - poor baby zj will be covered in the stuff!

Last time I got waxed, my waxing lady suggested I book in for a brazilian the week before I'm due - never had a brazilian in my life (just a monthly 'tidy up') and don't really want to start now, but I'm worried now the docs/mws in hospital will judge me! So much planning to do for just one little person ...

Surely the docs/mws will have seen it all before, from hairy forests to full on waxes? I'm sure they won't care?

That's what I'd hoped - and I also think that'll be the last thing on my mind at that moment! Think my waxing lady was looking for more business (or she hates me and wants to inflict more pain).

GBB - god yes, they really hurt! Hence the full pant moustache as have been too chicken to book myself in!!!

I have heard of people waxing themselves to within an inch of their lives for the birth, but frankly, if there's poo coming out of my bottom as I push, I'm unlikely to care if there are stray pubes on display! I am still trimming for benefit of DH, but as soon as I can't see it any more, that will cease!

I'm very much of the school of thought (being so short sighted) that if I can't see it, no one else can! And that is whether I haven't got my lenses in/specs on or my tummy's too big to see my bits!!!

I seem to have become more hairy as im pg, especially on the belly, very fine blond hair.. dont really mind it'll keep me warmer in the winter!
But I will be booking myself in for my nether-regions to be waxed before I give birth though as it can get out of control.. also lovely Dp has kind of insisted on it.. wish I could just poke him in the eye sometimes

My tummy is quite hairy too. It was a bit pre-pg, but now is a bit more. I like to think of it as fur!

DH refers to his body hair as his pelt, which makes me laugh! He hasn't got a hairy back yet, but his shoulders are definitely getting there! I don't mind it at all, in fact I quite like it!

purple I'd just suggest he gets waxed too ...

beans forgot to say I wish I had a linea nigra too, but thought I was odd for wanting that!

My friend still has her linea nigra and her baby was born in February!

So glad someone else feels the same too! We probably are odd!

Beans/ZJ Im a bit dense sometimes but what is linea nigra?

Does everyone get one of these linea nigra things at some point?
I haven't got one yet either..

It's a dark line from your lady garden up to your boobies, basically. It's where your stomach wall/muscles part ever so slightly and a dark line appears. I don't know if everyone gets one, but apparently people with darker skin are more likely to. which is probably why I haven't got one yet!

Quite often they don't come until the end of the pregnancy as well. Or they can come any time from 14 weeks...

Oooooh thats what it is, thanks, I have a very very faint one its only up to my belly button. Im wishing its not going to get any/much darker though...

ZJ re waxing.. I have suggested that DP gets the alpha male special - crack, back & sack

Wish I could see he face when you mention that!!!

Arvo everyone another busy day i see.

Ok so have had a quick scroll down and see brazillians linea nigra and epidurals.

You all do cover some set of topics throughout the day.

I will be having a full on braz this wkend in preperation for my holiday you will prob hear the howling from where you are sitting. Thankfully I have seen the same lady throughout both my pregnancy's and she is fab just laughs at me and my swearing also not sure if you have noticed but all the undercarriage sort of expands during pregnacy and you get way more sweaty. So always better to find a waxer who has had children and who you are comfortable seeing the whole shebang!

No linea nigra for me yet didnt happen last time round till the last month or so.

Go with what you are comfortable for with birth pain I didnt want anything last time and ended up with everything. This time round am hoping to be calmer by using hypnobirthing but no way will I rule out taking drugs if need be.

Congrat on all the good scanning etc.

Hope the fire alarm doesnt go off tonight.

Must keep up with you all better.

Beans Lady garden that is so cute i have never heard that term before.

Have been busy today with soft play in the morning and meeting IM in afternoon, she was lovely think i'm gonna go with her.

As far as c-section preparation just in case. We had to doa kind of rold play thing in my NCT class where our trainer lady assigned us each a role in the operating theatre, so the mum, dad several doctors nurses & midwive. It was actually really good because it gave us an idea of just how many people would be needed for something like that and therefore if the need arose we wouldn't be freaked out by how many people were in the room, which if they are all running around you may be i imagine. they went quite indepth into cesearean and what it entailed and it's not like it encouraged or caused any of us to have a c-section as the only girl in our group which did was one that actually couldn't attend the session because she had to have her baby prematurely via c-section. I' sure if the rest of us had it would have really helped to know what we knew from the class. Also we learnt about epidurals but only 2 girls used them so again, informing about them doesn't nes mean encouraging or discouraging it just means informed.

I do hate the judgemental attitudes some have to how you have birth. A friend who went to prenatal yoga and was right into having a nice natural drug free birth ended up having an undiagnosed breech baby (was eventally diagnoses when the midwife noticed a bottom appearing from her 'Lady Garden'. so had to have an emergency c-section which saved her baby from certain injury as his arm was kind of above his head so may have broken his shoulder.

After the birth and when she had come to terms with not having the natural birth she wanted she wrote to her prenatal yoga teacher saying she would like to come and share her experience with her current class. The prenatal teacher refused her offer saying she should not have let the hospital perform the c-section and she had failed to give her child a good start in life!!!!!!!! Oh that makes me angry just writing that.

veggie that's awful , like you said its about being informed to be able to make a choice!

Interesting fact about linea nigra is that it apparently helps the baby find the breast! I didn't get one at all last time around though.

oh i had all intentions of having regular brazilians this time after some wild growth last time (i'm talkng merlin's beard) but haven't gotten around to it started at one place but they were a bit crap at doing them seemed almost embarrassed (maybe it was the swollen bit Jam) and grew back so quickly.

Also i have had the nose bleeds it due to extra blood in your system having to be pumped around usually just when i blow my nose it has blood on the tissue but occasionally full on nose bleed is a bit annoying buut normal.

Veggie, I get so about judgey attitudes to c-sections, PARTICULARLY from (so called) health professionals I don't think I should even join in the debate, as it will have a catastrophic debate on my blood pressure!

Keep women in the dark about ALL the possibilities that might arise during labour (this is NOT the same as scaring them) - yeah, that's like a REALLY good plan and not at all likely to be a surefire route to PND or anything. Grrrrr......

On a lighter note, I had another scan today at 24 wks to check the flow to the placenta, as I had a low level of PAPP-A in the first trimester. Anyway, it all looks ok now and DD was primly clasping her hands, and playing with her fingers - a great improvement on the 20 wk scan when she was playing with HERSELF.

I have to admit, I have never waxed . I always Immac!

lady T that is fab news.

Veggie disgusting cant believe someone would say that.

Is it wrong to be mumsnetting in the bathroom while DS is having his bath. Think its the only time I can guarentee he wont try and climb on the laptop. Today he figured out how to climb up the outside of his tripp trapp to try and get onto the table and the fruit bowl. You've gotta love his plan to get his 5 a day but I beg of you the boy is like spiderman.

Veggie I am with extra steam coming out of my ears. How dare anybody say that? Bloody hell things go wrong sometimes and quite frankly the way your child comes into the world has sod all to do with its "start in life".

Am keeping my legs firmly crossed at all this waxing talk. I waxed my legs once, had to get my sister to yank it off for me as I couldn't do it. Not thank you, not anywhere near my fanjo! Mind you dp used to laugh at me last time as my trimming went in all sorts of funny directions when I could no longer see what I was doing.....

Am glad that Jam mentioned the expanding fanjo thing though, TMI mine has been very erm, swollen since very early on, all huge and increased bloodflow making everything extra sensitive and not in a particularly good way The worst part is that if we do get down to business I feel all bruised for days after as though we've had one of those "we've just started shagging and have no kids" marathon sessions Poor dp

As for pain avoidance etc, def go with what you are comfortable with. If you want it all on hand then why the hell not? Doesn't mean you have to have it all. You can have pethidine at a homebirth, which def made me more comfortable about doing the whole painful thing I had never done before at home. I picked up the prescription when I got to 37 weeks and it lived in the cupboard at home and after the birth went back to the chemist for disposal. Didn't need it but knowing it was there was nice.

Ooops also meant to say great news LadyT