Due November 2008 - hang on a minute, that's NEXT MONTH! Yikes!

[ruthosaurus]

Not that it'll even BE November by the time we run out of space on this thread...

Hope things are better with you all Daisy. MonkeyM, thank you kindly for book offers. Send them all !!! Will Facebook you.
And re conception, age gaps, MonkeyM, well, as others have said, there are pro's and con's to all. Plus, anyone ever come up with a scientific rule to conception ? No , thought not
I wonder if we did a survey on Mn, I wanted to fall pg in the March following the birth of... and I did. I wonder how many people that would happen to. Few , I think.
We all have stories of trying, losing, falling pg accidentally (loving all the Bf talk- didn't realise that anyone still believed that nonsense), but I certainly look forward to hearing lots of lovely stories, from you first timers - and there are quite a few of you - Choc, Monkey, Cricri etc etc, I eagerly await news of further DELIGHTS, in the years to come, if that is what you so wish.
My time is done. I have everything I ever wanted. But I take great joy in any further news, from others.

Morning ladies. Sorry to be signing in so very late but my maternity leave has now STAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRTEEEEEEEEDDDDDD!!!!! Not glad about that at all, obv.

Okay, I'm going back to last night here, so bear with me...

Lacks, PREGNANT BY THE SIX WEEK CHECK???????!!!!!!! DH'll be lucky if we're still on speaking terms, depending of course on how the infant Saurus sleeps and how many stitches I have to have. Also, nice one with both the vet and the text buddies. And commiserations with all the vomit, sounds awful and hugs to DS, poor thing, and to you for all the lost sleep and worry.

Sparkle, the mind boggles about the hanging on to the edge of the bed. I have a visual imagination, and that was nearly enough to make me spit porridge all over my keyboard.

Ceebee, mine is totally the same. It?s like living with 2 people, one of whom is a normal adult human who is capable of taking the bins out, holding down a job and driving a car, and the other one of whom is a sex pest who would shag the furniture if he thought you wouldn?t notice, and generally at inconvenient times, like any time you happen to kneel down, bend over etc.

Vbab, missed you, hon, VERY nice one on the pushchair but gutted to miss your car seat ? we just got one as a pressie from my dad ? sorry, pa! I dunno, it?s as well to have one in the house at this late stage, eh? Re the two middle names thing ? DH?s family ALWAYS have 2 middle names so my son would be Finlay Benjamin Richard, and my daughter would be Phoebe Rowena Jill (oo ? I just said ?son? and ?daughter??goosebumps!). Yeah, it?s a lot of names for a little splodge but it gives it options if it doesn?t like the first name . [Stephen Fry moment coming up] There was a first world war captain who had the name Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache ? or Leone Sextus Tollemache for short ? so I don?t think you?re in the nutter camp yet!

Hi to everyone else and sorry if I missed any other major news bits ? I had 5 pages to catch up on! Chatty lot, aren?t we?

Right, I?m going to pop my sandals on (they are the only things that fit and I?m buggered if I?m buying fat shoes at this late stage in the game) and pop to town for fabric-buying, then I?m going to visit the Step-MIL in hospital, get some grapes into her, kinda thing.

I have a CT scan tomorrow to see if my crappy pelvis, broken in a car accident as a child, will hack childbirth. I may or may not be in the ECS club, then. I only have one question - what the hell is a CT scan - is it the one where you go into a big white tube? Or is that MRI? Feel strangely unworried about this for some reason, most unlike me.

Hang on a second.
What have I just typed.
We are all discussing further pregnancies, at the stage of just about giving birth to these ones.
Someone PLEASE tow us into line.
We have all gone MAD

Lacks hope DS is ok. Blimey I just read really briefly and saw about something coming every half and hour and I got all excited thinking we had our 2nd baby on teh way!!

p.s. thank you for sorting text buddies out.

Indeed Oblamov. Rules of conception? In my case it would be 'expect nothing and you shall receive!'

Except the rules are there are no rules!

thats better news daisy hope DS is on the mend, lots of flat lemonade/coke and ice lollies, he will be thinking its his birthday!

obs if you facebook me your address (ooh, or text me! )i too have quite a few books i can send your merry way!
i have 2 tess gerritson ones i have just finished that were good!?

all this talk of the number of children you have/want....ideally i'd like 2, and with about a 2 year age difference (if only things were that easy!)
however, having had my friends 2yr 4month old this weekend, i dont know how you ladies do it!
i think i may be waiting until this little one is at school!!!!

Will be nailing my knees together, not that that would actually help...

rutho, just a quick one before I go off for a nap......sorry to hear about your accident, and I think you go in a machine for a CT, but it isn't the noisy claustrophobic one, that's MRI. chocolate gal will be able to tell you

And for a bit of reassurance; one of the ladies on my PN thread managed to give birth naturally inspite of suffering massive pelvic injuries in a horse riding accident a few years ago (horse fell on her and then rolled over her a few times for good measure) and being full of metal.

She had a couple of threads about it at the time iirc......try doing a search under poster name "dontknowmyarsefrommyelbow" and broken pelvis as the topic and see what it brings up.

Hi Ladies

Daisy sorry to hear about DS, I hate it when people are sick and feel really paranoid, DD sleeps with a barbie bucket in her bed permanently, sad but almost like a phobia

Obs good idea sorting out books for hospital. I thought I was quite organised but keep remembering things! Oh on that note went into town with DH and Always pads are on offer in Superdrug for 95p both the green and blue night-time ones. Also Pampers wipes 95p.

Had m/w this morning I am 38 weeks on monday and measuring 36 don't seem to be growing much now although I accept its not accurate. Also urine had protein and sugar in so been sent away, don't know what this means either. M/W had really good prod and feel all achey now

Hips really achey and slept awful last night, might have a nap today!

DD just turned 6 and I really regret having big age gap, I would love another one but scared of SPD as body needs to recover. DH will not entertain the snip and I don't want to go on the pill again so we will do battle!!

likewise here obs.....email me your address and I'll get some books out to you over the weekend

any other CS ladies need some reading material?

coolkat, I think that when the baby drops into your pelvis the measurement can change dramatically. My MW never uses a tape measure as she says it's a pretty inaccurate way of assessing the size of the baby anyway.

right, I'm off to nap via my book of knitting patterns. We are doing secret santa on my PN thread and due to financial constraints have set our budget for lovely home-made gifts at £5.00. I have oodles of wool, so it will be a knitted gift from me

Ruthy MRI is the big noisy machine that uses a magnet (I know, I have been in one plenty times!).

CT is the smaller (usually white) arc like machine that takes lots of simultaneous x-rays.

You go into both but u r right about CT being the big white tube.

rutho maty leave is FAB isnt it! ive spent all morning watching portland babies!!
the ct scan is a machine similiar to the MRI one, no reason to get worried about it unless you are really claustriphobic!!???
it shouldnt take long tho...

coolkat thank you for the tips on the superdrug bargains, i'll be heading there tmw!
question......will the always ultra pads be enough??
or are we going to need the huge industrial strength ones.....humour me im a 1st timer!!

boots do slimline maternity pads that are nice. Well as nice as these things can be; what I actually mean is not at all house brick like.

although I couldn't really see much difference between those and always nightime pads. I always go for the nightime pads as they have extra length and seem a bit more secure.

CS ladies bear in mind that your bleeding probably won't be too bad after the first two days. Mine certainly wasn't with my sections.

Thanks ladies - I am not claustrophobic but hospitals do wig me out a bit, so I am v glad that DH is coming with me - now, how shall I reward him for his kindness? What does he really, really want right now? I already got him a light saber for his birthday (such a grownup), and he's not that bothered about chocolate. Nope, mind's a blank...

I'm not worried about the c-section option, as if they say I've got to have one and the decision is then taken out of my hands. I think I'd be more concerned about a non-elective one.

Sauraus Good luck with the appointment !!!!

p.s. I am of all you women on maternity leave.... I had planned to take it from yesterday but as previously mentioned at this rate i willbe giving birth in the office! Have just had another lovely raspberry tea...

nope rutho nothing springs to mind to me either as a reward! hmm, funny that!! lol!
goodluck and let us know how you get on!

pinkali i dont want to put you off your rasp tea but our MW's feel so strongly about it here that if we have been taking it they wont let us have our babies at the MW led hosp and send everyone up to the "big" hospital......BUT that is just a few MW's opinions and i still know plenty of folk taking it!

FACEBOOK ladies.
You need to go onto the 'who are you' bit and tell me who you are.
chocolategal, misdee
(although she is quite obvious)
laura, jennifer,miriam, toni,- can you do this please. I can't work out who is who.

will go do that now obs

Choc, nightime (blue pack?) ones to begin with when heavier and then the green ones when things slow. I did get some maternity ones for perhaps the first day but they seem to be like bricks! IMO anyhow.

Howdy ladies. Just caught up. Supposed to be preparing for our weekly forecast meeting at work. It's a struggle at the moment! Still, finish a week tomorrow - yipee!
Saurus good luck with CT scan and hope you find some (free of charge) way of rewarding your DH - there is a global economic crisis going on you know!
Chocgal have accepted FB friend request - are you a Scrabble fan?!
I just got my letter from HR outlining my payment schedule for next 9 months. It is so, so wrong!!! She even got my going back to work date totally wrong too.
Have just had to explain this to stoopid inexperienced HR lady. Grr.
What does HR stand for again? was it humanremains? (Apologies to any HR folk).

Hello everyone,
I've just come back from the midwife and she has very happily signed off my birth plan, although she does want me to go back to the consultant next week and get him to agree to a date for anelective if I don't go into labour which will hopefully be November 10th.
The rest which was pretty much what I posted yesterday she agreed with and said it seems to be fine and straightforward enough and there would be no reason for them to say no.
So for the third Wednesday in a row I will be at the hospital waiting for some confirmed answers, they will be sick of the sight of me
I am alot happier though knowing that at the worst case cenario I will have my baby in 3 1/2 weeks - How exciting!

I have just lugged my enormous saurian carcass all the way up to the hospital to visit my poor ailing StepMIL and bring her some lovely grapes, only to find that she was discharged yesterday - yesterday! - and has gone home. Okay, so I'm pleased for her that her gammy leg is much so better but OOOHH! .

Maybe I should have phoned first, though, but FIL told us she'd be in tl Saturday... These are the people who think that 7:30am is a normal time of day to ring for a chat, though, so I don't know why I am so surprised. They are lovely really, just a bit weird.

X-post - Yay Ladybuzz, that sounds a lot more positive and Monkey, I just bet DH can think of an inexpensive reward that doesn't even involve getting up off the bed after the scan!