Due April 2009: Episode 9 - April Mums with Guns: Rise of the Fanjo Warriors?

[BabyBolat]

Here we go again....

What makes me laugh is that they are releasing these books about real mums and they put adds like that on the site - IF they knew anything about real mums-to-be they would NEVER subject us to images like that knowing our state of mind and general annoyance!!

I know Nutty, I had to try and stop myself smirking in the meeting - was held by a very twee old physio lady who was lovely but also thought the whole world was lovely!!!

BB, I will not dignify that b**x with a reaction. However some factual corrections for the record:

1. It affects 1 in 4 women to some degree, around 7% very badly.
2. Pelvic floor exercises and core stabilty exercises are very important, but people who have this condition to any degree also need realignment or manipulation from a professional on an ongoing basis.
3. Where the ** did they get the coccyx thing from????
4. Belts don't work for 25% of people according to a Dutch study (probably because the original research was done on cadavers and not live women walking around - unless the Thriller video crew were involved in some way).
5. Really I think they should have said something about how to tell when it had got bad enough to need more extensive medical consultation and intervention.

Auld, he is a medical doctor and I am most emphatically not ... but from what I read the other day, I reckon it would take more than 5 days at high doses to really do damage at 30 weeks, even though it's not an ideal situation. If I was sure a medic had really checked it out then I would consider taking the stuff (as indeed I am doing with the codeine phosphate).

BTW I am now laughing at my own post and the thought of Nutty and me starring as zombies in an SPD version of the Thriller video full of pg people!

She did have a lovely pelvis model tho and held it together with paperclips to show how it would move - but did make what you say yesterday about people not having enough information and blindly going by what people tell them seem very real as this one woman was having slight pain and all the woman said was monitor it and in labour do a certain position (I later told her to go to her doctor and get it checked out before it got too serious!)

I have been playing a game with DD today - top 5 most unsuitable jobs. For her:

1. Au pair
2. Cleaner
3. Driving instructor
4. Nursery nurse
5. Scientist

For me:

1. Customer services representative
2. Lap dancer
3. Rally driver
4. Navigator
5. Hairdresser

Wondering what yours are???

Sadly most Drs know sweet FA about it as well BB.

I find those groups really hard when people start talking rubbish. I almost have to sit on my hands and force myself to shut up because otherwise I come out with quite aggressive pertinent questions and the women leading said group is likely to look a bit upset and got at, and then fob me off.

So presumably the lap dancing is on your list as well then Nutty, after that??

Bleu's most unsuitable jobs

1.Accountant
2.Spell checker
3.Tour Guide
4.Phelbotomist
5.PE Instructor

Most unsuitable jobs for me:

1. Personal Assistant (I hate being ordered around)
2. Customer Service Representative
3. Police officer
4. Bank worker (the ones behind the cash desk thing)
5. POst office worker

Basically anything you need patience for...

Can we do the jobs we would secretly love to do also:

Mine are:

1. Surgeon
2. Personal trainer
3. Florist
4. Sculptor
5. Event planner

OK, here's my dream jobs (excluding current job).

1. Ballerina
2. International opera star
3. Television presenter
4. Interior designer
5. Olympic athlete

I seem to be some way from achieving these.

Bleu's secret love to do jobs:

1.Botonist
2.Singer
3.Painter
4.Astronomer
5.Librarian/ Book shop Owner

Are you not tempted to be a cosmetic tester, BB??

When I was little I thought the best job in the world would be to be a ballerina/dance intsructor... I told everyone I wanted to teach ballet.

nooooo!! never - I love that I am a qualified beautician but would hate to do it full time, it's more of a hobby for me really, I also think if you have access to all these products they stop being special!!

One of my very close friends tachers ballet and dance and she loves it but the pay / hours are AWFUL! you have to be so passionate about it to want to do it full time I think!

Auld, I am proud to announce I had to do email in French this afternoon! We are thinking of doing a project with a French colleague so had to make an effort. And they appeared to understand me!! Miracles will never cease.

Bleu - Hooray for the cotbed. Of course once it arrives you will spend hours staring at it wishing there was a little person in there already, I did.
I use Bio-oil, directly on the skin and a few drops in the bath, as well as Palmers regular (not the strecth mark one) and I have yet to get any. Didn't get any with DD when I did the same, although BB's comment about getting them AFTER has freaked me out a bit. You would think you were out of the woods then. Bio-oil is supposed to be great for fading existing ones too.

Purplemonkey - Your DS sounds fun. DD has taken to holding her dolly up to my boobs so I can feed her.

Nutty - All DH is entitled to is two weeks statutory which would mean a huge drop in his wages that month which i'm not sure we can swallow at the moment so he will probably have to take it as holiday. It pisses me off that they make a hooha about paternity rights for all fathers only to discover that it's actually affordable for very few people to claim those rights.

I would have considered dance teaching if the pay was better. It's down there with nursery nursing for pay, I think.

Pass the fudge Auld or I may have to get off my backside and make some.

Magpies are hiding scraps of food in my flower pots! The little beasts!

Yeah pretty much, my mum is a nursery teacher which she loves but the money is rubbish! Although she was a nurse before and says it's not massively reduced!

Puzzle we're exactly the same, I have told DH not to take time off immediately but a couple of weeks after when we are more settled and can enjoy the baby more!

Mom likes to tell how us girls would run around with our dolls under our shirts 'feeding them' while the neighbor kids had bottles to feed theirs...

Bleu - I have it on good authority that sweaty betty has halitosis and really hairy nipples

BB, the SPD section on MN is actually very good IMO. What do you think, Nutty?

www.mumsnet.com/pregnancy/spd