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Fab Feb 2009: holy shit, this is it

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chilledmama · 10/01/2009 22:09

Cause Swampster has a dirty mouth
Wouldn't hear me speaking that way...much
How do we delete threads????

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dinkystinky · 16/01/2009 12:09

You know, I think you all hide when I come on to the board... I could understand if I was scary like Swampster with her big stick, but am not, just a little lurgied, honest....

swampster · 16/01/2009 12:11

Yoo hoo dinky!!!

swampster · 16/01/2009 12:11

duck!

MarkStretch · 16/01/2009 12:23

Pssssssttttt...

Is Dinky here? I'm hiding....

dinkystinky · 16/01/2009 12:24

Phew, just ducked in time Swampster. You must be feeling better!

swampster · 16/01/2009 12:33

Just lurking quietly... Have to try haul my arse up the road to see a friend in a minute - actually, about an hour but time moves very differently at the moment.

MarkStretch · 16/01/2009 12:34

Is it me? Is it? Is it?

swampster · 16/01/2009 12:37

I am knocking on your door as we speak, MS.

MarkStretch · 16/01/2009 12:44

I have made Beef and Ale stew and Lasange!

swampster · 16/01/2009 12:45

I just ate it when you weren't looking - back in the kitchen with you and make some more!

[burp]

swampster · 16/01/2009 12:46

AND STOP SHOWING OFF !!!

MarkStretch · 16/01/2009 12:52

Showing off? Moi?

swampster · 16/01/2009 12:54

[Sods off to Ffoldies where ALL the other Fab Febbers aside from dinky and MS hang out cause they weren't invited]

herbgarden · 16/01/2009 12:59

morning all....
Not sure what to do but think all is ok. Had crampy pains early morning (4.30am ish) but this isn't unusual for me - they tend to subside during the day whilst I'm moving around. I then had a little "leakage" - usually have that too but it was pale brown in colour. Really not very much. I've been shopping in town with DS and got back and have had a little more. I called the DAU this morning and explained the situation but they said to call back if it turned pink and it might just be a small burst vessel in the cervix which is common at my 36.5 weeks stage....

Anyway, am hoping it's nothing. I don't have any other symptoms other than feeling very tired and feeling like I have a stitch most of the time at the base of my bump.

Have the NCT girls coming round this pm with their kids so at least if anything did happen one of them could stay with DS. Hope not as elective not for 2 weeks - my waters broke with DS 3 weeks early and he was born 3 days later so don't particularly want a repeat performance !

laidback giggled at the vision of you in your bra.
dinky dh has been in the spare room for about 2 weeks now - I am snoring like a pig so we've given up with the middle of the night move in the hope that we'll all get as much sleep as possible pre arrival.
MS - I felt a bit like that yesterday in the hairdressers when she was highlighting the front of my hair with my head tipped forward - it was all a bit hot and I felt all a bit squashed up. I had to stand up for a few minutes in the end...I can faint quite easily and didn't want to tip over from the chair onto my bump !

MamaGoose · 16/01/2009 13:02

Morning all,

laidback - fantastic story!!! I roared with laughter when I read it.

Am trying to keep up with everyone - all so busy. I am finding it hard to move up off sofa today and brain is definitely on go slow. I wonder how many more days to go....

dinkystinky · 16/01/2009 13:17

Are you fully recovered from your food poisoning now Mamagoose? Hope so.

Herbgarden - hope all is ok with you and hope you're giving that baby a good talking to about having to stay put until C-Day. Have a lovely time with your NCT friends.

Markstretch -can I come and live with you please? You always seem to be making such yummy food...

PinkTulips · 16/01/2009 13:30

morning all... have read through but musgy brain can't remember any of it apart for laidbacks incident

at least the delivery guy is going to have a good story to tell.. bet the poor guy didn't know where to look!

think i've overdone it again today, have been to smyths, a furniture shop, aldi and tescos already a half hours drive away with ds in tow (although bless him he was very good about being dragged in and out of the car in the lashing rain) and still have to go into town to pay for the oil and go to health shop. and i've got a chicken defrosted in the fridge that has to be used today really so will have a roast dinner to cookm when i stumble back in.

on the plus side i picked up a high back booster on sale for dd which i'm delighted about as i wasn't happy with her being in the car on just a booster cushion. when we were in the car a long time she was really uncomfortable... she'd keep dozing off and jerking awake when she fell sideways

my poor fanjo feels like i've already given birth though it's so sore when i walk now.

idbi.... that sucks about your dh not getting paternity. when dd was born dp was told when he asked by his supervisor that he was entitled to one week paid and one unpaid.... he only took one week off as we couldn't afford to go without the money and they refused to pay him for it it totally screwed us money wise at the time.

this time as he's only at his course for the 2 days a week he'll only be taking them off if baby is born on one of those days or the day before, his course tutor is just going to clock him in if he has to miss a day... in his words 'we'll just call it force majure sure you need the money with a new baby'

MamaGoose · 16/01/2009 13:32

I am thanks dinky. Couldn't quite believe it was all happening. Saw midwife yesterday who checked me over anyway - blood pressure perfect, baby position perfect, baby 3/5ths engaged, urine tests all great so looking like all go for a homebirth! Am v relieved. Now just the small logistical problem of what to do with my other two children when I go into labour....bugger.

PinkTulips · 16/01/2009 13:32

found the weird smell by btw...... it was wafting over from the fruit bowl where underneath the apples and bananas a mango had died a horrible death

PinkTulips · 16/01/2009 13:36

MG.... tv on nice and loud and buckets of snacks and dh running in to keep and eye on them?

or it might be night time and they'll be fast asleep.

mumoverseas · 16/01/2009 13:51

nice. Rotten fruit! Don't worry PT, you are not alone. When I returned to my UK house in mid November there was a very dubious smell in the kitchen which we tracked down to the fruit bowl. We had not been there since early September and can't be sure but we think what was in the fruit bowl was once some bananas which were in a plastic bag. Nice. Not!

Am just trying to remember if we definitely cleaned the fridge out before we left in December? Starting to have a nasty thought that maybe there was still some cheese in there and maybe a tiramasu. I'm not due back til June but DH is talking about popping back on a business trip in March and I might encourage it now so he can deal with any rotten food!

MamaGoose · 16/01/2009 14:04

PinkTulips - not sure I could do it if they're in the house. Know from having DS2 at home that I needed to know DS1 was safe and happy, and house was mine to do whatever I wanted. Contractions got much more intense literally as I closed front door and waved goodbye to DS1 with grandparents and sister who lived with us at time. Something in the brain could then let go.

thehouseofmirth · 16/01/2009 14:20

Afternoon everyone!

LB you did make me snigger but don't you just think he's probably seen far, far worse before? It's got to be better to answer the door with too many clothes than too few?!

Herbgarden hope you're Ok.

On the paternity pay front DH & I have decided any time he takes off when baby born will be as paid holiday rather than paternity leave. He was able to carry a week of his holiday allowance over from last year so that helps. In his company they only pay the statutory rate so even paid paternity leave means a big drop in money for two weeks which we just can't sustain. Gosh, things were so different when DS was born and I still had money coming in too. Is my DH unusual in only being entitled to the statutory the £117 a week?

Mamagoose I've adpted a strategy of never sitting down. As long as I keep going I'm OK but as soon as I stop I can't move again and the tiredness washes over me...

Had a really nice morning - a local NCT teacher offered to lend me some active birth books and have a chat to me as obviously my last minute change of delivery plans means I can't get on any courses for love nor money. She was soooo lovely and said my birth plan was great and was just so motherly and nice I think I'm going to ask her to come and live with me! As I drove away from her house I literally breathed a huge sigh of relief - I don't think I'd realised quite how worked up I was about it all but now hopefully, my head is now in just the right place. Let's hope the same can be said for Baby Father Christmas and all the others!

On the subject of the meet up. Shall we have a roll call on Sunday evening just to make sure we're all OK and up for it? If you think you'll come, email me and I'll give you my mobile number just in case you need it.

dinkystinky · 16/01/2009 14:22

MamaGoose - totally understand where you're coming from; its one of the reasons I'm going for a birth centre birth rather than a home birth (as just KNOW DS would want to be with me and his daddy if we were in rather than with grandparents etc.) Do you have any friends at your DC's school/nursery who could help out? Or a babysitter you've previously used?

fgpl · 16/01/2009 14:33

laidback, made my day with the bra episode.
herbgarden, hope it all settles down for you.
I've been to hospital this morning and been given 5th Feb as date for cs. I was convinced the doc would try and persuade me to go for vbac and was awake for most of night getting my rationale clear in my head, but he said I have looked at your notes from previous delivery and it was a really rough time and fetal distress from early on etc. This baby is really high as well so he tinks planned cs a really good idea.
Feel relieved and just hope waters don't go before 5th.
Have been getting really crampy period type pains since yesterday but it sound like a few of you have so not really concerned.
Feel shamed by you ladies that are cooking and being all homely. I have just
bought loads of M & S food in their dine in for £10 deal so this weekends culinary efforts will stretch me as far as putting the oven on then serving.
How lazy.

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