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BabyBolat · 27/01/2009 22:06

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NuttyTaff · 31/01/2009 11:05

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Bleuravin · 31/01/2009 11:06

GP looked at it, said it was preggy related so there was not a whole lot to do with it...Probably the baby pressing on a nerve... BUT if it continues until Wednesday (which would be a week and a bit) I'm going to start making a fuss and go back into the GP as going up and down the stairs really aggrevates it and sometimes I need to sit on them and have a little cry before I can get up and move on...

BoffinMum · 31/01/2009 11:09

If you get a stethoscope for kids, it works great if you put it on your belly rather than your heart as they hear much better gurglings and biological action.

That is a great website I came across this morning. I am trying not to buy loads of useful things. I am perpetually obsessed with having a well stocked first aid cabinet, to the point at which DS1's mates do special pit stops at our house when they come off their bikes for me to strap them up !

BoffinMum · 31/01/2009 11:11

Bleu, can you describe exactly where the pain is?

I go up the stairs on all fours, if that's any help, and down on my bottom (believe it or not, I get back pain too but it's a drop in the ocean compared to my other problems!)

BoffinMum · 31/01/2009 11:14

BTW ladies, I wanted to ask what you thought. DH has announced he is thinking of having the snip after this one arrives. Now I find that a bit creepy and I pointed out if I died he might want to find some delectable girlie and have more children, and he would have taken that possibility away with such a drastic step. Also even though I don't think I want any more children (unsurprisingly) I don't like the idea of not having a choice, IYSWIM. So what do you all think about vasectomies??

NuttyTaff · 31/01/2009 11:16

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Bleuravin · 31/01/2009 11:22

The pain is actually located mostly in my left butt cheek (sharp- like someone is sticking a pencil in there...) If you look at the picture it hurts the most where the 'a' in sciatic nerve is. The pain then moves up into the lower back becoming sharp in the sacrum? joint area and just above...

I've been crawling up the stairs quite a bit too...and sometimes I need to go up on my bum too if I'm trying to 'carry' something up with me.

Bleuravin · 31/01/2009 11:26

Isn't a vasectomy reversable?

NuttyTaff · 31/01/2009 11:29

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Schulte · 31/01/2009 11:31

Morning! Boff, I understand what you mean, I wouldn't want DH to have the snip - neither would I want an operation myself, somehow it feels like messing with nature IYKWIM? Not sure what I am going to do though... taking the pill for another 10 years doesn't sound all that appealing either. Might just settle for a life without sex

Yes where is Frekkles gone... I have been wondering?

Springy how are you feeling today, any better?

BoffinMum · 31/01/2009 11:33

Bleu, it does sound like a baby pressing on nerve thing then. Our secretary had twins and she experienced this. Poor Bleu. I think it will have to be a chocolate cure for you.

I think if you do want to go shopping it would not be inreasonable to hire a shopmobility wagon type thing from the mall. Nutty is right, it's a bit daft to knacker your back even more. Even if it is OK at the time, you might pay the price later. Plus you can have all the fun of driving over people's feet like an old lady.

Nutty, forget the Tesla, let's go out with Bleu in shopmobility wagons like a bunch of Valkyries!!

I think the idea of having tubes tied is equally scary, all that fiddling about inside you and closing off your options. I couldn't do that to myself.

NuttyTaff · 31/01/2009 11:35

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BoffinMum · 31/01/2009 11:35

I am not sure what people do about contraception in their 40s once they have finished having kids. I wish there was a male pill.

BoffinMum · 31/01/2009 11:36

I think strangely it would put me off sex if a man fired blanks. I don't know why this would be.

NuttyTaff · 31/01/2009 11:38

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BoffinMum · 31/01/2009 11:40

I am coming over to Brissul right now Nutty!!!! Actually I really fancy going shopping and for coffee with you today. You are very inconsiderate living over there in the middle of nowhere instead of centre of the known universe, East Anglia.

Anne Summers would have to be our first stop, definitely (strangely it's located next to the Early Learning Centre in Cambridge, which has always made me laugh).

BoffinMum · 31/01/2009 11:42

Now I have my nice NHS wheelchair I think we might go into town later anyway. I want DH to take me out to lunch.

NuttyTaff · 31/01/2009 11:42

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BoffinMum · 31/01/2009 11:43

BTW has anyone got one of these, and are they any good?

www.bumpbag.co.uk/

BoffinMum · 31/01/2009 11:44

Yeah, Nutty, sex psychology is a really funny thing. We must all be very hard wired at a deep level to keep producing the buggers.

AuldAlliance · 31/01/2009 11:47

Yay, viewers all gone!!

Have to confess to having hoovered and washed the kitchen floor, which was so sticky (DS sprayed apple juice everywhere through a straw when my back was turned) I thought people might become imprisoned on it and have to leave their shoes behind.

Am now officially going to rest... well, apart from working on the sports in Madagascar thing from time to time.

Boffin, it's a very nice thing for your husband to offer to undergo, and your untimely demise and his subsequent shacking up with a younger woman clearly didn't cross his mind. Which is kind of nice, too, somehow.

I do agree that it seems a bit radical, but then many birth control methods muck about with nature in drastic ways, and the snip may be a less worse option than years of the pill, for instance. Maybe you could discuss the matter again once you are over all this pregnancy pain and trauma and things have settled down a bit? I do agree it's a joint decision and you both need to be sure.

Bleu, I sympathise entirely because - as you can maybe tell - I'm not very good at not doing things and just resting, but I'd go with the other posters who are telling you to take it easy. You need to save as much energy as possible for the birth and those twilight weeks afterwards. If you have a DH who's willing and able to share the load, take maximum advantage of that. If nothing else, it sets a good precedent for when the baby's here...! But avoiding any more damage to your back is vital.

AuldAlliance · 31/01/2009 11:49

God, the thread moved on there...!

I ain't got no bump bag, Boffin.

Looks like quite a good idea, though I don't think I could lower myself into it, far less clamber out again without assistance, with this gammy leg.

NuttyTaff · 31/01/2009 11:50

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AuldAlliance · 31/01/2009 11:53

P.S. : if you want confirmation of what a self-centred, dictatorial Napoleon the delightful M. Sarkozy is, check this out:

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/officials-sacked-after-sarkozy-hears-jeers-1521692.html

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