Due April 2009: Episode 21 - RLT officials have stern words with the April mums after stocks plummet!!

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Thanks to Nutty for all the thread suggestions including this one. I hope no one minds but I picked this one in honour of the brilliant race commentary we had from Nuts and Frekkles the other night. Hopefully we will get some more.

Well, I had early bleeding and was told not to. This went on till about 12 weeks. I started riding again at 13 weeks I think (although obviously very carefully). Then at 21 weeks I got bad back/sciatica pain so had to stop because it made it worse. I haven't ridden since then.

I can't wait to start again though lol!

Nutty, how horrible to lose your mother so young - sorry I missed that.

Nutty, sorry about your mum. No wonder you go to so much trouble being an ace mum to your little girl. xx

Brettgirl, I have never been on a horse without a helmet but interestingly enough I do cycle all the time without a helmet (not at the moment, obviously). This is because in Cambridge 25% or more of journeys are done by bike, so people expect to see you on one. Also I find cars are much more careful of me if I have normal clothes on and no helmet, plus I find helmets hot and disorientating. I looked up the accident stats once to make sure I was being sensible and they corresponded with what I thought, i.e. that it's mainly limb fractures around here for adults. I don't let the kids on their bikes EVER without helmets on - if they lose or forget it, then we push the bike home. It's a lot riskier for them.

Hi all, Just wanted to pop on and say thanks for all the well-wishes from when I had Ruby.

was all a bit hectic and a shock as it was 8wks early, but she's home and well now, weighs 4lb 7.5oz as of sunday when she was last weighed, have a couple of pics on my profile if anyone wants to see her.

Hope the rest of you are holding onto them till term though- wouldn't wish a premmy on anyone for all the worring!!

tis ok, it's been a long time (and we sort of knew it was going to happen at the time, she was ill for a few years, doesn't make it any easier mind) but its something you just never quite get over. There are times when nothing but your mum will do for whatever reason (mainly special times weddings/birth/ christmas and hard times when you just want a hug), and then it really hits home.

Dealing with that amount of greif is hard enough for anyone but for children and teenagers it's well its just quite a mammouth thing to do.

Nutty, the mistake I made with hydro was doing resistance exercises, and I have since had a formal apology from the physio department for making me do them. Could you dose yourself up with painkillers an hour before going in, and then just work on core stability and relaxing the glutes very gently perhaps??

Boffin, I suspect you have a different cycling 'style' to my DH!!!

Hi Glaskam - just going to have a look at the baby pics.

That's so sad, Nutty, but it does emphasise what an important job motherhood is and how valuable we all are.

I am a very elegant cyclist, if I say so myself, and I really have been doing it so long now I know many insider tricks to stay balanced and moving.

Glaskam - oooohhh shes so tiny and gorgeous glad you are both doing well xx

Glaskam - she's absolutely gorgeous and I love the one with the tiny little pink hat.

It's brilliant news that she's now home.

Going to stick the tens on for an hour beforehand and take paraceteamol, so will see if that helps.

And I suspect Boffin that you've never had little mishaps like riding into the back of a car full of Russian tourists at 30mph?

He tried to lie about this, and tell me that the bruises were from playing football. I put 2 and 2 together when I saw the bike.

Brettgirl and yowch!!

LOL Brettgirl! Shouldn't laugh really.

At least he had the decency to be embarrassed enough to lie.

No, I have had two mishaps. A close shave with a lorry in the countryside, and a dozy bint of a woman in a Volvo estate full of kids and dogs pulling out from a side road and not seeing me ON THE BIKE PATH WITH DS2 ON THE BACK OF THE BIKE AS WELL AND A CHUFFING GREAT FLAG THING ON THE TOP OF HIS SEAT. I remonstrated with her and to be fair she did look somewhat sheepish.

Oh Glaskham - she is gorgeous. Many many congratulations (gaaaaaaaaaaaah I can't look at any more baby photos I am SO broody!)

Brettgirl - my DH got rear-ended by a taxi - bike crumpled. He tried not to tell me what happened too.

Boff - tch - you really ought to wear a helmet. However canny you are on two wheels you are not the only person on the road and you just don't know what could happen.

Main occupational hazards for cyclists around here are old ladies trying to attack you by flinging car doors open as you cycle past, and fanjo damage from a lack of dropped kerbs where they are required.

You may be right Lulu.
There is a certain hypocrisy in not wearing one but policing the rest of the family.

Blimey Ruby is 100% cute. My babies often look like small primates compared to that.

Yup Boffin. I had a very hard time persuading DD to wear a helmet when riding on the back of my bike. Ended up with DH and I wearing our own cycling helmets all the time (e.g. for breakfast) to persuade her that they were v.v. desirable things.

Worked a bit too well. Nowadays if she sees an unguarded cycle helmet in a playground she swipes it and runs off wearing it.

Glad she wears it though - I came off my bike with her on the back. She was well shielded by the seat but I had had to swerve suddenly to avoid a particularly ditsy jogger.

Brettgirl - I also came off a horse while pg with DD. Luckily all I did was break my thumbnail but I didn't ride at all in this pregnancy.

He lied, not because he was embarrassed but because he knew that I would be with him for riding his bike like a lunatic. Surely if you must ride your bike that fast you should be aware of the stopping distances or it is just plain dangerous

LOL - aaaw Boffin - small primates!

DD looked like a baby sumo wrestler for the first couple of days.

Even more he mentioned at the weekend getting a baby seat for the back. I was like NEVER!!!

I wonder what my baby will look like

When writing does anyone else keep putting in [groin] as a typo?

I think I need to instigate a 'helmets at all times' policy. DD just trampolined off the sofa, over its arm and landed on her head on the floor. Luckily no harm done. But what a duffus!

I must get her out of the house to burn off some excess energy asap. She's trying to play football with a melon she swiped out of the fridge now. Apparently the cat is goalie (he doesn't look like he's enjoying the game much )

Have a lovely morning ladies.

Brettgirl lol i do that all the time i must have it on the brain constantly i keep doing {groin] too which looks a bit like a condom /willy outline

Have fun LuLu xx