Kitty, that sounds like a rather disgusting wake up! How awful to keep on ignoring the problem when it's affecting anyone like that, let alone such a pregnant lady! I hope you get it sorted very soon!
mathsmummy, I look forward to your tutorial Will it be text only, or live video streaming?
Ginger, so sorry about your friend. Was it very unexpected? How awful
BB, I wouldn't dare start a war with you after your terrible cervical bullying! & nor would I want to. I'm rather fond of you, even if you do leave your dildos lying around to embarrass the cleaners at Boff's uni
No nookie?! Whyever not? I was quite excited for you last night! That sentence doesn't need the porn music that seems fitting, honestly - I just already resent my ban & was glad that you'd be getting some! I take it DH is being a big pansy about hurting the baby?
I bought my RLT online, but it shall be remaining on the shelf a couple of weeks longer than I'd intended, I think! My uterus appears to be toned enough. Last night wasn't too bad. I woke up the usual 4 times to wee & each time triggered a few 'tightenings', during & afterwards. But they weren't too painful & I was able to go back to sleep. I've only just got up at about 12.45 or so (I was really tired, leave me alone ) & having a much-needed shower hasn't really helped. Bedrest really does seem to mean exactly that with no exceptions at the moment. I think I'd need catheterising for the desired effect at this point.
I'm not really worried about LO, to be honest. I know that 34 weeks isn't ideal, but I've had the steroid injections & every day he stays in there is another big step forward anyway. I doubt he's going anywhere any time soon, but if he did he'd be fine. The hardest bit would be trying to get breastfeeding established, I think. & whilst that'd be a huge nuisance, it's such a massive leap from where we'd have been 10 weeks ago!
Sorry you're in pain, BB. Sounds really quite bad Just think, though - you'll have your baby soon (before me or Kitty, or anyone but Barbarelly & maybe OddEyes, we promise )
Just read what surprisenumber3 said about her 34 weeker - things like that are really reassuring Of course I can see that it's not the best plan, but I'm still a bit amazed at how far we've come from very real fears of MC, never mind anything else - 34 weeks does feel safe in comparison. Ooh, & purplemonkey SO good to hear that your friend & LO are doing so well xx
Helloooo to Juwesm Ooooh, BB, she really is an early April lady - I hope you're not getting too worried Frey/ja & Hugo are lovely names It's exciting having another baby to look forward to! I love new people & I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S TRIPLET DAY TOMORROW! Just think of the beautiful photographs of the 3 of them! Ohhhhh, make it be triplet time already!
Haha, I'm pleased to see how helpful I've been in providing a good distraction from work for people I'm all about the public service
BB, who cares if chocolate brings on labour? It makes the waiting so much easier! Especially Easter egg chocolate. Mmm. I've promised myself nothing Eastery (apart from Mini Eggs - I'm only human!) until I reach 37 weeks, as a final milestone. I'm practically dying every time I walk past Creme Eggs.
I don't like the implication that I somehow have something to do with Nutty's smuttiness! Unfounded, I tells ya! I am pleased that we appear to have a new Filth Meister amongst us, though Excellent thread discovery, Juwesm
Boffin, don't steal all of the electrician jokes in one go! I really shouldn't have to engage my imagination so much to join in - & I'm trying really hard to resist, but I just know that I'm going to keep reading & you & Smutts will have carried on, which'll draw me in
... I'll let you off, because the cucumber conversation is clearly taking over
Good to see that Bleu's okay - poo for hospital, though Here's hoping you have a speedy recovery & shake off that cold! & take it as a warning to slow yourself down a bit, woman!
Nutty, you do have a great knack for summing up the tones of our threads in great titles. It's a real skill! You should work in advertising or something.
Perineal massage - maybe we should ask mathsmummy for a tutorial on that, too?
Nutty - I've read Pullman's HDM & really liked them (they're the sort of books that work on loads of levels - I started reading them because they were relevant to my studies on William Blake, but they're actually just really good stories!) & read Northern Lights before the film came out. The film peed me off a little bit (although nowhere near as much as the book of the film of the originally excellent book!!) because it is a bit different, but mostly because it totally trashed the literary references. In terms of the story, I don't think you can go too wrong with skipping the first book, really. Everything you need to know will be there from the film. Except for they call the 'golden compass' an 'alethiometer', which could potentially get confusing (I'm not sure if you've found that in the book yet )
As a quick defence of the childish writing style, that's part of the point. If you've ever read any of Blake's poetry (which you probably have, even if you don't know about it), a lot of it is very simplistic & based in nursery rhyme forms. He wrote an anthology of sorts, called Songs of Innocence & Experience. The 'innocence' part is all very basic & childlike, where as the 'experience' part is in many ways a mirror of it, but with a bit more complexity. A great deal of the point of the books is Lyra's (& her peers') moves into 'experience'. In simple, non-literary / philosophical terms & without ruining the books, this pretty much means going through puberty & becoming self-aware (as Adam & Eve did after munching on the apple & deciding they needed to cover their nakedness, etc). The books are really clever, & having read both Rowling & Pullman, I truly believe that he is a far superior author (although I do like the Potter books!), but that it's easy to misunderstand a lot of what is genuine technique as shoddy penmanship if you've not done the vast quantities of background research into ye olde poets (& Lyra herself is named after Blake's 'Little Girl Lost', Lyca, as another connection ) I said that'd be a quick defence & I really tried, but I got a bit carried away Sorry.
Hahaha, BB, I'm not quite so desperate to sort out my cervix that I'm going to stick a pointy / nobbly cucumber up there! Yet, at least. I'm happy to wait & see what mathsmummy has to say on the issue
& ooh, the BBC Pride & Prejudice! God yes!