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Due Fab Feb 2009: the Curry and Cake Club

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onwardandupward · 03/10/2008 10:01

Here is our new thread!

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dinkystinky · 07/10/2008 15:25

Ooh, this is like Cluedo Herbgarden. Was it MissPlum in the study with the lead pipe? Which one are you - K or V (must know as DH is driving me crazy emailing me to ask every hour or so - you can tell its quiet in the city at present!)?

herbgarden · 07/10/2008 16:02

ok ok, I'll finally put you out of your misery !! Its the K - yes we were together in the Property department with Mr Hill (Stuart will def remember that! ) - it was deathly quiet no talking all day and I swiftly removed myself from there when I had the chance as I thought the silence might drive me bonkers !!.....I then left in 2004 and went off to S.America before settling here in Berkshire !....so there you go. All revealed !

swampster · 07/10/2008 16:57

Herb, I am not one (though most of my close relatives are). But I do know of one other on the thread which means three out how many of us? That's got to be quite a high percentage. And I thought you guys worked hard all day!

mumoverseas · 07/10/2008 17:04

spooky! I'm a lawyer too! maybe we skive a bit in May/June! makes up for working really hard at end of March/beginning of April to boost our figures before end of tax year?

herbgarden · 07/10/2008 17:05

It's a myth which we like to perpetuate !!

MarkStretch · 07/10/2008 18:06

Oh my head.

I have had a headache all day.

Just taken some paracetamol as couldn't take it any longer.

DH is on nights so I am going to bed when dd does!

mrsy · 07/10/2008 20:24

mslucy - jamie oliver has said in a few interviews that he knows it's people in every town accross the country that eat bad, but he wanted to target one town so they coulod see the progression after his various projects.

ms - we can have co-codomol in second trimester esp at night to help you sleep. hope you feel better soon - when will dd nod off?

was planning on being on here most of the afternoon, then rather annoyingly got sucked back into work - grrr!

pluto · 07/10/2008 20:50

Had the 20 week scan today. All well. baby has enormous tum: it's literaly off the little bar scale thing that the sonographer prints out - but she can't find any sinister reasons. So -I either have a very greedy or windy child. Don't know the sex - want a surprise but I've got such a strong feeling it's boy now! Surely a girl would be more petite around the middle

Also saw a consultant to have the go ahead on VBAC. He said that I would need to be continuously monitored during labour - so will have to wear the belt thing but the hospital has an 80% success rate for VBAC. Mind you, I'll probably be giving birth in the car: A new hospital is being built on the same site where the maternity services are based in our town. Negotiating the car around the building site and finding parking is a day out in itself.

mrsy · 07/10/2008 21:00

pluto - great news about the vbac! yay!

Um - - embarrassing topic alert, but I've noted the extra lady-mucus, and I'm worried my bits are a bit pungent - has anyone else had this problem?

thehouseofmirth · 07/10/2008 21:47

Mrsy this is just the beginning of embarassment. Soon you will feel no shame about anything at all. I am also very, very moist but I don't think there's much you can do about it. Do be careful about washing though as you are much more prone to thrush when PG.

Talking of embarassment that reminds me of the nadir of my last pregnancy when I was at the GPs getting him to take a swab for my private Group B Strep test and I farted in his (very young and good-looking) face... Anyone else care to outdo me on the mortification front or do I win?

chilledmama · 07/10/2008 22:05

creeps into the room after tracking down our 4th thread

Just had an antenatal check...everything fine but bizarre urine result...have pH of 5

Anyone know what that may indicate...not particularly concerned as feel fine...just curious really????

Pluto-good news about your scan.

swampster · 07/10/2008 22:05

nice one, thehouseofmoist!

chilledmama · 07/10/2008 22:08

that wasn't meant to be underlined ...it was meant to look like an emoticon...not a demand

swampster · 07/10/2008 22:33

I thought it was a link to somewhere exciting. Imagine my disappointment.

I am still feeling cheated.

I will probably not sleep tonight .

swampster · 07/10/2008 22:34

But good to see you again, chilled.

chilledmama · 07/10/2008 22:46

sorry to disappoint...I'll do better next time

is this better

swampster · 07/10/2008 22:54

Ta - a few sharks wouldn't have gone amiss though.

mumoverseas · 08/10/2008 07:48

thehouseofmirth - definitely think you win that one! i'd have died of shame!

dinkystinky · 08/10/2008 09:45

Ahh, nice to put a name to the nickname Herbgarden. Stuart was reminiscing last night about the silent times in Mr Hill's room....

THOM - that made me laugh. Am sure it happens all the time!

MrsY - increased mucus... while rather ick, is very normal. If it changes in texture or colour or becomes smelly let your doctor/midwife know. Otherwise, sadly, its just one of those pregnancy things they never tell you about before you get pregnant...

ChilledMama - PH of 5 means your urine is neutral (neither acidic nor alkali). Think urine is normally one or the other depending on what you've been eating, so you clearly have an extremely ph balanced diet.

MS - hope your headache has passed. I too had a corker yesterday - think its the pregnancy related insomnia making it worse. Ho hum.

mrsy · 08/10/2008 12:25

chilledmama - are you organising a fab feb trip to Montego Bay? yeah, baby!

THOM - have done that a couple of times when having reflexology sessions with my mother-in-law (eeck) but always pretended I was asleep anyway, so not too much of a red-face moment!

MarkStretch · 08/10/2008 12:30

THOM THAT IS HILARIOUS HAHAHAHA!

I am skiving working in my office today. It is hot in here and I ate too much meringue and now I have a twitchy leg from the sugar.

My baby is squirming really low down and its quite uncomfortable.

mslucy · 08/10/2008 13:09

Thom - fart story is a cracker (in every sense).
Love it.
I've found this pregnancy has made me even more flatulent than normal and I'm bad enough to start off with

(parp).

chilledmama · 08/10/2008 14:17

Dinky-pH 7 is neutral, pH5 is 100 times more acidic than pH 7 as pH scale is logorothic (very roughly speaking).

Most of us are very slightly acidic usually but rather than being pH7 we're pH 6.75 iykwim.

It could just be that its 'normal' for me but I definately wasn't acidic last time??????[curiosity killing the cat emoticon]
I feel fine, I am fine, and bump seems fine too...just biazarre really...and SSSOOOO curious.

thehouseofmirth · 08/10/2008 14:29

So glad I have lived up to my name and made you all laugh!

On a serious note, will anyone else be having a private Group B Strep test this time?

McDreamy · 08/10/2008 14:34

i have a headache today and to top it I am a little worried as I haven't felt the baby move today . I usually get my movements when I sit down and rest ......but nothing so far.