Due April 2009: Episode 15 - Barbarellys Babies Break free & BB waits paitiently (LOL not!!)

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Sorry BB Love you really xxxx

look boff if you continue to read that thread i will have to ocme up there and cuff you to me to restrain you!!

i will transcribe for this thread though.

HIDE THE THREAD!! STOP READING IT WOMAN!!!

Boff BEHAVE!

Nutty send Springy our love, must be very frustrating but I reckon things WILL start opening up soon, ie next few days.

Time to go to the supermarket methinks, catch you later girlies

Surely it must start opening soon and also HOW can they possibly tell that she will need to be induced at 40 weeks?

how do they know she wont go before??

i'm feeling a bit grrr towards her hospital tbh.

I am drawn like a moth to the flame!
No am I not. I can do this.

i think they are just putting her off cos she's 34 weeks maybe?

see now i know you just wanna be cuffed to me lol

Ah but in Springy's hospital in their last assessment 99% of women using maternity services understood what was being told to them.

That means 68 women left Sheffield Hospital that year wondering WTF was going on.

Perhaps this is one of those times.

Boffin - do NOT read the thread. Instead focus on changing the world and write something that is well informed AND entertaining for the majority (because for reading in free time I think this is important - but then I'm not an intellectual ).

I don't understand the springy medical stuff - surely at some point the contractions will MAKE the cervix move??? But then I didn't really know what a cervix was until about 6 months ago

I have to say I like reading Frank Furedi's work because he does exactly that, and I sort of nerd worship him.

what have I missed what have I missed, off to catch up

Hello

I shall read up from my last post and see if anything exciting has happened in the night. I hope everyone is well today. I must have come out in sympathy for our Springy, last night I had the most uncomfortable and frequent BH's so far.

Ooh, so the midwife is a bitch.

You might get in trouble for texting too much but it's nonsense, there is no evidence at all that mobiles interfere wth hosptital equipment. After having DD I had my phone glued to my ear and none of the staff batted an eyelid. (While I was still in the delivery room, mind. I wouldn't be so Vicky Pollard as to do that on the postnatal ward.)

Grr, mean old midwife. I bet she would like some sex!! Major risk, how bloody nasty of her.

Boff - I must put some soft furnishings in our bathroom, it would save me stuffing half a loo roll down the pan before I go. Our house is so tiny, it's a real worry when you need the loo with guests round.

Hi Northern - (who I realise is no doubt long gone). It's nice to have you pop in, all welcome here. Well perhaps not all . Lulubai and I have April 07 toddlers too. This baby is due the day before DD's second birthday.

This one is truly inspired as an article. I was quite moved.

Exactly, unfortunately one dimensional shite written by 'celebrities' tends to be both more accessible, easier to read and marketed better. We are willing to help with editing

As far as I know if the cervix isn't ready then contractions won't do anything to it. It must be awful having pointless contractions but it did sound to me from Springy's text like they were becoming less frequent, and hopefully less painful, and I guess once she's home and having a good rest she'll be completely fine. I really hope so. Little George should wait for some nice spring weather before he makes an appearance

Boff STAY AWAY from that thread!

I want a posh box. DD has a plain old Ikea one.

Brettgirl, I have to say you have a point there. I am aware from book reviews that people like my writing style (I was a p/t journo for 10 years after all, so took that away with me from it) but the marketing for my academic books has been truly terrible. They seemed to make no effort at all. It's really heartbreaking when you spend 4-5 years researching something you think is terribly important (in my case the future of the teaching profession and education in general) and then it gets one flyer at a conference and that's it. I would have even made the style of the book more colloquial if that would have helped sales, but the publisher didn't really want me to. So while writing the book helped me get my next job, it now spends its time languishing on planet academe instead of really getting out there. The only books my colleagues write that get marketed properly seem to be "How To" books for trainee teachers.

The article is good, of course the other thing which is good for the environment is global recession......

I did suggest to the publisher that we got it bundled with x-boxes for Christmas, or put out a rumour that David Blunkett sired my third child in the House of Commons car park, as a way of raising public interest levels, but strangely enough she didn't want to go with that.

There must be a way round it, somehow. Unfortunately though being famous makes it easier to get what YOU want published Right ladies - if anyone on this thread IS famous we need you to come out!

I laughed at that to start with, but unfortunately this is the problem with our society. If we could get you in the sun for shagging ronaldo or something then it would be easy to get a proactive publisher.

Boff - I lke the watch idea. My younger brother had a flik flak many moons ago. Am wondering what to get DD now.
That extended mnetting thread made me laugh. Although as an extended mumsnetter myself I prefer to call it natural term mumsnetting.

Maths - I was present during one of my middle sister's delveries, but check her cervix? Not for all the tea in china.

Ah well.

I was actually thinking of switching publishers (had a conversation with a better one last September before I got ill) and next time writing something about the way children struggle to find a healthy identity as individuals in the British school system. The thing that inspired this was the foundation stage curriculum, when poor little mites have to fulfil something like 147 different random targets at set times in order to be considered 'normal'. It's all linked to the idea of education increasingly becoming more of an economic commodity than a personal development activity. Do you think mums would be interested in reading something like this? I think it explains why some of us feel uneasy about Reception classrooms, for example.

Only had to read 5 pages of you lot and then I refresh and theres yet another page