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

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Sorry BB Love you really xxxx

Juwesm no, babies are due spring summer so outside should be fine and by winter they should be using less so will be less washing and drying anyway (fingers crossed!!!!)

Oooh i hear banging from upstairs! Could that be a HAMMER I hear? could there be repairs going on? Tis a miracle!!!

Kitty - phone up and cry! lol failing that be very suggestive, put on husky voice and whisper that your pipework is leaking and you need something long and hard to plug the gap immediately and tell them you are not settling for a cucumber or a banana

OK - haven't actually started hoovering yet (have dusted, prepared snack for DD and hung out the laundry though, so not completely slatternly).

Must check out Dadsnet.

Juwesm - I survived the winter with washable nappies, no tumble drier and not even any central heating. They are best when line-dried anyway so if you have somewhere outside to hang them then that is ideal (although in iterests of speed you may need to bring them in and hand them over a radiator).

are they hammering hard????

Have checked back on cucumber thread. Huge big outloud belly laugh at concept at 'cucumber on a tuna butty' as a metaphor. I don't think the poor brave man got the advice on relationship expectations that he was looking for. It's still in the last 15 minutes section.

Also, links to another thread which sounds right up your street (pardon the pun) Nutty, though haven't read it yet. Will just try and work out how to link to other thread...

aha, try this

ROFFL OMG only just on the second page and am crying too funny

OMG!! I think I have laughed myself into labour! the tears are pouring down my face!!!

tried to look at link but it just logged me out of mumnset altogether. Harumph!

Methinks gremlins in the system are trying to tell me to stop MNing and get on with the housework.

BB, you do surprise me! Disgraceful! Your hormones are clearly playing funny games with your head

Ooh Juw, I do love Egg from This Life. He's lovely. & go to the NCT breastfeeding class - apart from anything else they'll give you the the teacher's home landline number so you can hassle her with any problems you have

Nutty, you really are complete filth

I just had a bit of a breakdown at DH, with tears & everything (I haven't actually cried in a very long time) about how I can't even go to the toilet without setting off a load of contractions & I can't sleep & it's all horrible & I just really need my body back & I'm scared of having to sit still for 8 weeks or be in & out of hospital before a botched induction & emergency CS. Only there were lots more swearwords than that. I'm feeling a bit calmer now, but it wasn't a good few minutes. I literally can't walk the 4 metre round trip to get a drink without causing myself to be in pain every 2 minutes for the next 20 minutes. Which is fine - DH can fetch my drinks. BUT I CAN'T EVEN GO FOR A PISS.

ohhhhhh am dying ....... do sheeep have beans ROFL cant breath lololololololo

Springy - are they giving you anything to keep labour at bay? I've almost no experience of obstetrics, but at my hospital they give women progesterone pessaries to hold things off for a while, though I'm not sure under what circumstances/ what protocol. I'm at home away from the useful books that would tell me. Is there an opposite to raspberry leaf tea you can use?

I strongly suggest you don't look at the Sexual Technics thread I posted, though it would cheer you up.

If sheep have banjos they probably have beans! And Baps!!

As for that 'technics' thread I'm sure I can imagine how she could be on her back whilst he's on his side? Is it really just me? Surely not...?

Welcome to Juwesm. I asked that question too about washable nappies and no drier, and was reassured. We can come back and beat them up if it is a crazy plan.

Electra, don't worry - your lo may just be growing in his / her own time.

Boffin, so glad about your AP. great news.

Thank you to everyone for the sympathy about the friend. He had cancer but it wasn't clear that it was all over till very suddenly.

LONG BORING MOAN ALERT

I went to the hospital this morning - what a mission. Being not great at walking (which was why I was going there in the first place) I took the car, although I expected the parking to cost a fortune - walking even to the bus stop destroys me for the day or more so I thought, just pay for the comfort and be done with it. Anyway the carpark was packed, with cars parked in all kinds of not-real spaces at odd diagonals and moving cars circling around them, backing each other into scary dead-ends and getting all irate etc. I was really getting the fear. No chance of parking there so I left and had a look round the area and finally found a parking meter - closest I could get was still a significant walk. I was hobbling along for what felt like hours, and of course had no idea how much money to put in the meter because had no idea how long I was going to be. All around the hospital in a 100 yard radius everyone was smoking like it was compulsory. Inside it was so dark and dirty, with no signs and no maps. I got there in the end and the surgical appliances man was a 90-year-old sweetie who seemed to be pulling things out of cupboards at random. He seemed to want me to choose the thing I should have as the referral wasn't clear, but what do I know? I just guessed. Walking back to the car took another painful 20 minutes or something and by the time I got home I was wiped out.

Don't know why I wrote all that, very boring but I suppose the upside is it leaves me very very very grateful that I am working from home and don't have to brave walking missions every day.

They've not given me anything, but that's hardly a surprise all things considered. In their minds, there's not really a problem - my cervix is perfectly intact & I'm only therefore experiencing 'tightenings' despite the much evidence to the contrary. I've just been told to come home, stay on bedrest until they stop (seems unlikely to ever happen at the moment) & then just take it really easy.

I have a seminar tomorrow morning, but don't see me being able to go to that - & I missed the one the week before last, too. At this rate I'm going to just have to drop out of uni for the semester now. I was intending to do at least another few weeks.

Ginger, how frustrating for you - they just left you to guess what you needed?! I thought our war against the NHS was over, but they're not doing themselves any favours just at the moment... Are you okay, lovely?

right ....sorry just had to go calm down baby not impressed with raucous laughter as i have just been firmly booted in the "banjo" ok

Gingersarah -((hugs)) sounds like a nightmare. what did he give you in the end?

Springy ((hugs)) xxx

Springy - is your Uni high-tech enough for you to video conf in from home somehow? Or Skype? They must have to make allowances for you.

Not really possible, Juw. I think it's just going to make the decision for me as to how I progress from here. I'm in my first year & have recently been trying to work out how to juggle everything. I was intending to go through as far as possible until the birth, then sit my exams late (in August) & carry on in the second year with my current year group in the autumn. As it is I'm looking at resits from last semester (I missed a lot of time with morning sickness) which I'll have to do in August, I can drop out now & pick up where I left off this time next year, I suppose. Not the end of the world, but it sets back all of my plans by a year & creates an extra year of student debt. Never mind, eh? Looks like this pregnancy was never going to let me stick to my very naive planning anyway. At least there are ways around it. It's really not worth getting stressed about at this point - I have lots of other things to moan about

Springy - ((huge hugs)) for the pain sorry i missed that part of the post. Have you taken the painkillers did they give you a script? xx are they helping at all?? xxx

Will you get some of your tuition fees back for dropping out at this stage?

afternoon april bunnies, i had to go hospital saturday night because of pains, they monitored me for 2hours i had to sit up back straight legs still, which wasnt easy cus they twitch all the time! then they did a smear test type thing to check up there, and omgggg:/ only bein 18 ive never had a smear how do people do that every 3 years, i know im a bit of a wuss but jeeez, then i had loads of blood after was scarrry