Due April 2009 - Episode 14: Fanjo Warriors attempt to be "clean" during this thread?? NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN!!!

[PuzzleRocks]

And so it continues...

Mar
29 Mar : WhatFreshHell, DS 2.4 born on Easter Sunday
30 Mar : BabyBolat: 1st timer

Apr
01 Apr : Rachelinscotland: DD 3 years, and DS 2 years in March
01 Apr : Chickenbalti: DS 4 years DD 17 months
02 Apr : BoffinMum: BOY! dd(21) ds(10) ds(7)
02 Apr : MathsMummy27: GIRL! DD 3 years
03 Apr : skiingone: DC1
03 Apr : purlease: 1 m/c, 1 DD 3 years
03 Apr : Kalikaroo: SURPRISE! (28), 1st timer, lives in Scandinavia (but too shy to say where!)
04 Apr : Bleuravin
04 Apr : Bumpalump
04 Apr : babypringle: 1 DS 2yrs 1 month
06 Apr : ToastnHoney: first timer
06 Apr : Mummyontherun: DD 22 months
07 Apr : Picklelala
08 Apr : LuLuBai: 1 DD born 02 Apr 07
09 Apr : Oddeyes (30): GIRL! DS 17 mths, 1 mc. London
09 Apr : Barbarella: 1st timer, TRIPLETS
10 Apr : hopeful1
11 Apr : mrsfossil: 1 DS 6.5
11 Apr : Bubbaluv: 1 DS 1yo
11 Apr : SpringySunshine: BOY! 1st timer.
12 Apr : Brettgirl, 1st timer
12 Apr : Mumblemumhome4lunch (37, Swindon): DS will be 4 on 11th April, DD 2yrs and 1month
13 Apr : Dungungirl(30): BOY! 1 m/c, DS 4 years
14 Apr : AuldAlliance: DS3.8 BOY!
15 Apr : claireykitten: GIRL! DS 12 months
15 Apr : electra
15 Apr : Sarahmum: DS 10yrs
16 Apr : tristaleejac(25): 1 ds, 3 years
17 Apr : Surprisenumber3(32): DS1 9 DSS 9 DS2 5 GIRL!
18 Apr : gingersarah: 1st baby
18 Apr : salbysea: (28) 1st timer
19 Apr : Kittycatisgettingfat (29) 1st timer
21 Apr : B52s: DS will be 2 and a quarter
21 Apr : Staryeyed
21 Apr : Schulte
22 Apr : PuzzleRocks: DD 21mths GIRL!
22 Apr : soon2befamilyof4 DD 13 months.
24 Apr : conkertree (27): DS 17 months
24 Apr : Bronze (Gawain) - 4th DC
24 Apr : Frekkles
25 Apr : Swaliswan: DD 17 months
27 Apr : Bicnod
27 Apr : Carameli
27 Apr : ilovesummer 3rd dc
27 Apr : purplemonkeydishwasher DS 3yo
30 Apr : Nutty Taff (27) DD nearly 5 GIRL!

Conker - I haven't been doing aquanatal but I have been taking DD to the mums & toddlers session at the local pool a couple of times a week. She is absolutely loving it and I'm sure I get some exercise too, plus I like feeling buoyant and a bit lighter rather than my usual waddling gait on dry land .

the best exercises IMO -

1. slow smooth breaststroke with one of those long floats under your boobs
2. Russian dance type bounces where one foot goes out and then the other (in shallow bit!)
3. toes on the wall, legs apart and holding onto the side, gentle pelvic rotations
4. holding on to side, bounce feet off the wall (legs wider than hands) then onto floor, then out behind you (bit like a frog)

feels lovely. I also like the general pregnancy chat!

pil tend to take ds swimming on a monday when they look after him so I havent taken him for ages as he has bad skin and so i have tried not to have him in the water more than once a week - but one of the many benefits of being on mat leave will be that i can take him instead - although still to discuss with pil what will be happening now. not looking forward to that as mondays are much easier for me to be with ds cause of dh's work.

wouldnt stop them seeing ds etc but just quite inconvenient on a monday. but at the same time, they've helped us out since last april having him so dont want to cut them out totally now.

"has been told to 'complete her family' before they start work on 'reconstruction'...." is me too am afraid but still it was all wonderful in my memory, afterward was hard though.

sweeps - had two - 1st painless, 2nd ouch -but worked. also prepared me for 10+ people having a go down there during labour!

conker - what a lovely way to start mat leave - enjoy the rest

WhatFreshHell - thanks for the reminder, always get bored or distracted by 5 though and so not remembering enough.

nutty

barbarella - yay for babies still inside, cs date, for getting organised and your amazing figure!

names - arrhh, here is our current list, but still being added to and changed and this is just first names:
Eve
Ruth
Beatrice
Eleanor
Isobel
Bethan
Elisabeth
Esme
Ella

Love the short names but don't like that there isn't much one can do with them to make pet names. dh favours Isobel me thinks although he not saying, but was his name from his list which was cut down as i couldn't say or spell most of the scottish ones.

PIL still here. exhausted me today with big walk along thames and lunch at tate m, but lovely as ds entertained them in tate leaving me to sit in cafe and recuperate.

had car valeted today - like new
they asked dh if someone had been sick in front was actually my milk squirtting everywhere when feeding ds in car.

had to disappear and cook dinner for guests just after posted... omigod, this talk of reconstruction is not filling me with joy

in the video aaaaaaaages was about 5 minutes between the head coming out and the body coming out - is that about normal? isn't that weird, sitting/lying/whatever there with a head coming out of you?

eeek. feeling a leetle bit freaked out at this point.

ok, so our bodies are designed to do this so it will be ok.

It doesn't feel like a head coming out. You are just aware that something big is down there and things are stretching like mad to accommodate it.

Plus you lose all sense of time. It could be ten seconds or two hours - you have no idea.

I have had three heads go through mine and it's a pretty good shape. The only difference is that after I have a bath I have to go to the loo and make sure all the bath water has drained out properly or I get damp pants. I do use an Aquaflex to keep it in shape though.

That included one, a nine pounder, with his hand by his head.

Where have you all gone??
Have I killed the thread???

It was the damp pants wot dunnit, wasn't it?

losing all sense of time sounds good...

ok. going to stop being freaked out by NCT birthing videos and go and have a bath.

thanks boffinmum

x

If you think NCT ones are bad you should see the Mongan hypnobirthing ones!!

oh shit, don't say that - i was thinking about doing a mongan hypnobirthing course... not a good idea then?!!!

right. i've killed the thread. off to bed x

Hi all just to update, then I'll come in tomorrow to catch up properly [Very tired emoticon]
Firstly, thanks for your support the other day when I was having my rant about DP. I phoned him that evening and was surprised and very happy to hear that he was on the same wavelength as me, agreeing that he needs to come up every weekend as of now and after baby comes. Am very chuffed about that.
Poor DS still has diarrhoea. He's been off nusery all week and will probably stay off the rest of the week. Hope the sample comes back saying it's nothing major. His appointment is Friday morning, fingers crossed for him being ok.
Well I had such a scare yeaterday, I'm actually just out of hospital since tea time.
Yesterday morning I woke up feeling very sick. Wasn't sure if it was just morning hunger type sick but decided to play it safe and just nibble on rich tea biscuits and water. Sure enough it all came back up. For the rest of the day any food or water I had came back up, meaning I'd had nothing to eat or drink since Monday.
Mum got worried for me and the baby as I was just getting more weak and exhausted as it came into evening. Anyway while on phone to NHS 24 I started having contractions, fecking sore ones every 3 mins apart. They told me just hang up and phone MW, so I did and was told come in straight away.
Once in, at 9.30pm, they did urine checks which showed ++++ketones (that's how they've put it in my notes). Supposedly the body produces ketones as emergency energy from your muscles in situations when you are in starvation process or dehydrated. So anyway they gave me an injection to stop the vomiting (what a beautiful invention that is) and started me on drip to get fliuds into me. They did CTG monitoring and could see contractions were building in intensity. Thankfully after checking my cervix they confirmed it wasn't labour and was caused by me being so sick and dehydrated. God I really do ramble on, sorry!
Anyway they gave me a steroid injection to mature baby's lungs just in case it did progress to labour. Had to have 1 again today 12 hours after 1st. They were saying that it was just a precaution and it wouldn't harm the baby either way.
So after a night of fluids via drip, and the vomiting being kept at bay, thankfully I felt better today and the contractions had died away to just BH. Took til mid afternoon and a few more drip bags but ketones are much lower so they let me out at just after 5.
So so tired now, am just going to hit the scatcher now and have a good night's sleep. Didn't get any last night it's so hard trying to sleep in hospitals.
Anyway thanks for yet again allowing me to offload, I'll catch up tomorrow and hopefully get some decent chatting time with you guys.
Nutty I got your e-mail about my buddy thankyou very much.
Goodnight all x

Sorry to hear about your hospital visit, Trista, but it sounds like you are on the mend now, hopefully.

No the course is great but the videos are fat US women giving birth almost silently in a somewhat cheesy fashion. Not what I am used to.

Boffin i have to do the toilet thing cos of damp pants too and i have only had one head emerge eek i officially feel like a bucket now! lol

Conker - yay for mat leave and a free evening

OddEyes - all beautiful names

Just to reassure the first timers that its not all tears and reconstruction and scary stuff..... i was very lucky and had no tears/scrapes, hands up fanjo etc so there is hope for you!

Trista ((hugs)) poor you xx hope you and ds feel better soon and hooray for your dp

Puzzle yep spot on xx

Springy come back sweety >

Fanjo solidarity Nutty.

I did see a fanjo physio lady about mine and got it sorted out quite well, not quite able to shoot ping pong balls out, but really fairly toned down there now. But I think the bath water issue will always be there, and is the main sacrifice I have made as a mother. Not much really, considering.

Apparently the fanjo physio ladies are woefully underutilised in this country whereas in France women break doors down to see them. I have heard.

TMI alert

Nutty, does your - ahem - post bath water fluid smell like a mix of very dilute wee and bath water, by any chance?

I have never had the chance to ask another woman this, strangely enough ...