Due November 08 - A clove of garlic to cure Strep B...but where do I put it? Oh dear, Oh me ;0)

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I kept it pretty clean; too chicken for anything else

Thanks Lacks I was starting to think there may be something wrong.

Yikes to your itchy problem.

Well the glamour of my pregancy at the moment has reached its limits. I am flaking from top to bottom. Mmmmm... i spread myself in coco butter every morning and night (still haven't any stretch marks alas i look like an old trout!)

I'm back! No baby yet, tho. Will catch up properly in a bit but Lacks, I have the same thing - I was wondering whether to start using conditioner down there...

Just going to get a cuppa and read today's posts, then will be back to get my arse kicked at Scrabble again for anyone who fancies it.

Pinkali, nope i hadnt leaked. DH was wprried saying what if there is nothing for the baby as we'd not seen a drop! he reckoned he was gonna taste it when it came. well, pump evidently did the job and i asked if he wanted a taste and he was revolted ha ha..all mouth and no trousers, put then it did look a bit like pus so i can see his point!

lacks glad you said its not for the fainthearted, it was quite an experience!! bet i do it again though as its reasssuring when you see stuff come out and having doused myself in lansinoh overnight im all soothed again!

your hairy problem sounds very odd! i shaved all mine off with a trimmer and a mirror on the floor but then i burst into tears and called the midwife as i was horrified to see the state of my bits. like someone had taken an axe to a lilo! maybe try trimming them and see what your left with!!

phew; glad it's not just me then.

I had a romantic notion that it was my body tidying itself up so that the nuclear fall out afterwards will be less messy to clear up......and to save me money on a waxing

Although I did google and it mentioned dermatitis and vulval hair loss.

Just seen an advert for Sainsbury's; they are doing a third off all baby stuff at the minute, including little baby clothes.......fill your trolleys ladies.

"an axe to a lilo" PMSL.....

a big purple lilo at that no doubt

DH is terrified of my fanjo now since I described what it looked like.....he refuses to go anywhere near it and is suggesting a turkey baster for the required doses of natural prostaglandins. I actually found myself in the homewares aisle in Sainsbos looking for them the other day

right I need a shower and to get on with the day. We are having a trip to tesco....

Think one of the scariest things I have done this pregnancy is try and shave down there blindly - nicked myself as well

Tried using a mirror the other day and was horrified, trimmed and vowed to take up waxing once recovered from birth.

Its bloody freezing here, glad going out otherwise heating would be on full!

DH excited as got two day shifts, two night shifts and then off and not back til after paternity leave, I am a bit wary that he is working 45 minutes away and has to pass the hospital to come home and get me if anything kicks off.

Going for lunch now. X

I used DH's electric shaver to get a close but not totally naked look DOWN THERE, however ended up with go faster stripes as couldn't see what i was doing, and a mirror was just too obvious a thing to use!

@ go faster stripes

Warning - massive post arriving imminently...

Hi all,

I have just caught up and immediately mostly forgotten everything I have just read but generally hugs to everyone and Lacks I am SO pleased for your poor jangling pelvis (and also a bit but it gives the rest of us hope, eh?)

Yay for Pinky - that's ace news! Now all she needs to do is get some photos of Imogen on Facebook.

Dozy - eek at labour ward but glad everything is okay!

Missdee - am v at your hairy DD as I want a little monkey baby of my own!

Vbab, your poor DS. I am always amazed at ear infections making kids go both ends ? I wonder why this is? Hope he?s feeling better soon and that your cold gets better.

Hey Tostaky, you know what you?ve got to do to get that baby moving?

Scary fanjos - I had a look with a mirror the other day ? AFTER the waxing ? and to tell you the truth I think I?ve blanked what I saw as I have no clear memory of it at all.

BH contractions have not been as bad today but Baby Saurus is now not moving very much ? I?m not worried as I have counted 4 separate movements this morning, but I am starting to get a feeling about this. Plus, LOADS of mucus this morning when I went to the loo. Pleasepleasepleaseplease let this be the start...

My friend in America is a week overdue and last night her DH snapped at her and said "Don't you think you're getting a bit obsessed with this pregnancy/baby/birth stuff? And I'm bored of you being tired all the time". He has been a bit denialy all the way through on and off (although of course I only get the edited highlights when he's being a tosser!). I am now trying not to have my baby before she gets induced on Thursday afternoon GMT out of solidarity (and the fact that we are still sleeping in the spare room).

MEMEMEMEMEMEME rant coming up, avert your eyes, it's not pretty. Last night, DH had the face on and wouldn't tell me why and then wouldn't say goodnight last night before going to sleep, then woke me up an hour later with marital urges. I got really upset because it made me feel like a cross between a beached whale and a blow-up doll - like it didn't matter what was there in the bed next to him as long as it was warm and vaguely female. I just felt like a thing so after a bit told him to fuck off and leave me alone. Got the cold shoulder for a while this morning but then he apologised, but still, really. I just feel like everyone gets to muck around with my body - DH, the baby, doctors, midwives, bra fitting ladies in M&S, bikini wax lady (yeah, I booked the last two myself but so what) - and I'm just this blob that has stuff done to it. So I have cancelled my haircut and rebooked for just before Xmas when DH is on holiday and can look after sproglet for an hour (or even sit in the hairdressers with him/her) as I just cannot stand the idea of one more person touching me this week... I have relatives coming round tomorrow and I am going to grit my teeth when they do that bump feeling thing as its not their fault and they are lovely really, and coming all the way from Leeds with a family heirloom crib that they are lending me.

Sorry for crap rant, anyone else getting this "leave my poor body alone" feeling? . I was even nearly rude to the Tesco delivery man this morning when he said ?Still not had it yet, love?? and again, not his fault and he doesn?t know that every bugger that I see regularly has said the same thing for the last 4 weeks. So I didn?t say ?Nope, and I see you?re still bald ? hair not grown back yet, eh??.

I am a total cow today.

rutho it gets like that towards the end. I also feel a bit anti being touched when I'm BFing as well, as you kind of cease to be a person and just a source of food and nourishment. Your DH needs to get with the programme and be a wee bit more sensitive about it.

Am at your friend's DH, what an insensitive sounding oaf

And the general grouchiness could be a sign oif things starting as well rutho......G'wan girl; we need more babies to start arriving.

I've had a shower and spent ages in there as the water felt soooooooo nice, but am ow feeling slightly faint and shaky. Don't know whether to call anyone or not as all my obs were just fine yesterday.

right my DS is mithering at me to make stovies for lunch so I'd better get on with it. I'm showing him how to make them as an important part of his cultural heritage (the scottish contingent will know what I'm talking about )

OMG! I am ROFL at purple lilo's and go faster stripes. I have to admit to using a mirror for safety reason's but trying not to look too closely, it's far too scary to see varicos veins that size in that position

I am due tomorrow and still very much here. I do think, however, that I am finally starting to lose little bits of my plug. Not a bloody show, which I would prefer, but plug is better than nothing I guess. I can really only describe it as snot like or as my friend so eloquently puts it....ectoplasm! I guess the EPO may actually be working...or it is just the right time, hard to say. I am getting a fair few BH's, nothing timeable as yet, not that I have actually tried. I even take myself by surprise with my laid-backness. Maybe my jumping around the kitchen and living room this morning (had some good news!) will have helped things along a little.

Hi Heartmum, I'm getting the "snot" as well, can you just not see why DH would be pestering me for sex?

I can't be arsed timing BH contractions as they seem to go on for ages! If they start arriving regularly I will start taking them seriusly, otherwise I am refusing to take them seriously. Deny, deny, deny...

Lacks grouchiness could be a good sign, however, it'll be hard to tell from my existing status as a fully qualified grumpy bastard anyway!

don't get too obsessive about timing them anyway rutho if they do pick up....tis worrying about stuff like that that can slow things down again.

I was snotty last week, but nothing doing this week, although I had some pinkish stuff yesterday on my pad but nothing when I wiped.

I really want to have a huge show or have my waters go spectacularly so ther can be no doubt; all this "is it, isn't it, what the f was that? is irritating to the nth degree.

Not 'alf, chick. Conversely, I also want to get the laundry done and finish all my craft projects. There is no pleasing me.

I'm not due until the 12th but I just have this weird feeling I'm not going to see 39 weeks. I've had this for ages but I don't know why.

the laundry is sooooo low on my list of priorities; now DH knows that the detergent doesn't go in the fabric conditioner bit and which buttons to press to do a quick wash he is pretty handy with the washing machine

oops, still not made the stovies.

liking the sound of your doula hanaflower.....

ahhh Rutho i know exactly what you mean about being touched. Thats why i declined swabs and attempt at sweep as this week i just dont want it. ive been advised to get an acupuncturist and reflexologist to get things moving and i just cant face it. even midwife said, are you not at that stage where you want to live in your nightie yet?
I said yes, but i knew you were coming! so i got dressed, she said oh for gods sake im gonna see everything you've got love, stay in your nightie! oh i could have wept with joy! she said its when you greet me three days after the birth with a full face of makeup that i start to worry!!

I can't not get dressed yet, that would be admitting I'm going to have a baby soon. V conflicted at the mo'...

How do Braxton Hicks contractions KNOW that you're trying to eat your lunch? Ow ow ow ow ow. Bastard. Sorry for language