Due April 2009: Episode 23 -There's no business like show business!!!

[SmuttyNuttyTaff]

Here we go

Show business may be good business but can we get on with some birthing business now please!!

Trista - google erotic literature, theres loads

Trista - I am sure I read something quite good recently but brain is mush. I'll let you know when I remember.

Got to go and sort out some food for DH as he's should be home in the next 10 mins.

V quick hijack ladies. MathsMummy, can I ask you two quick maths education questions???

1. I have been getting DS1 to do some KS2 maths past papers I downloaded for him. (He is prepared to go along with this if I shamelessly pay him 10p per completed sheet - I reckon that's cheaper than getting a tutor in to sit there and nag him). When he does his arithmetic, he does that chunking thing where the sum is done horizontally and mostly in his head. He then usually gets the answer wrong. I suggested he learn how to do sums the old fashioned way in columns so he can see his working out better, and be more reliable, and he is happy to go along with this, but do you think this confuses children, knowing two ways of doing things?

1. Second question is am I right in thinking level 4 and level 5 in KS2 SATS involve sitting the same paper, but to get level 6 you have to sit a different paper? Like GCSE lower and upper levels?

Sorry for hijack - as you were with the porn, ladies.

Boffin - not a hijack at all you loon you cant hijac a thread that you are 3rd prolific poster on

I was being polite!!!

Boffin tis why we love you

Erm, the advice Schulte was 'just don't give birth yet'! Basically, if you have had chickenpox then baby is in the best place possible whilst it is inside you. As soon as it is born, the risks are considerable if it is exposed to CP within the first four weeks of life. If that does happen, then you need to tell your GP straightaway. It's also worth telling the midwife that when you deliver if there is a strong possibility of coming into contact with CP within the first four weeks of life. I know that they give the baby anti-viral drugs to help protect them but I'm not sure if they will give a CP vaccine as well in this country.

I know that this sounds very scary so if it is any consolation, my dad exposed my brother to CP at birth and my brother ended up with CP at 3 weeks old. Back then it was thought that BFing a baby would give sufficient protection so they wouldn't believe my mum when she said that my brother had CP. This meant that he had no extra care and couldn't even have calpol. He survived with nothing more to show for it than a tiny scar on his face where he scratched one of his spots when it was still healing.

Right I'm off. Off to watch the great sperm race on channel 4, looks like fun!
Might be on later, if not I'll catch you tomorrow.
Hope someone goes into labour tonight! Good luck if you do!
xxx

Swali thanks. If CP keeps going around at nursery, maybe I should keep DD at home for the last couple of weeks before my due date? Or do you all think that's a bit OTT?

Night Trista xx

Trista - I'm seriously impressed with your accomplishments.
I'm not great with my hands.
Except maybe pool. DH loves it that I can thrash any man at pool. He has seen me hustle before.

Nutty - BIL is actually a surgeon so he could possibly remove for you with his grapescissors.

Schulte - Fingers crossed for you that DD doesn't get CP.

Bronze - Thank heavens he is ok. Sorry you had all that worry.

Puzzle - fab !! grape scissors ahoy

Puzzle - ooooohhhhh another pool hustler!!! we must play!!!

Boff -

he he he strong !!!

Bah, why do I always miss the porn.
Mathsmummy - You are bloody fascinating.

Puzzle - I thank you, but I assure you that is not the case.
I am presently making dimples in my enormous tankles and timing how long it takes for them to go away (32 mins is a record..). I am SURE DH would seriously disagree with you...

MM - Nonsense. at Tankles

Nuts - You're on.

Right, I need to eat and there is a skyplussed Mastermind beckoning. I may not be back on tonight as I am cream crackered so I will say goodnight just in case.

Schulte, I think that you should talk to nursery and let them know your concerns. We wouldn't have sent DD to nursery the day that she was well and truly exposed to it if we had known that children had been going down with it all week. Our DD only goes to nursery on a friday morning, but she got it from children who go all week and were exposed to it a few weeks before on a day when DD wasn't there. I guess that you have to weigh up the risks and make your own decision as to how far you want to go to avoid DD getting CP at this particular point in time. Unfortunately, if CP is going round your nursery, it will also be going around the locality generally so she is likely to be exposed to it at some point soon.

I guess the only other thing you could look into is getting your DD vaccinated against CP very soon. Apparently, if you are vaccinated after exposure it will at least lessen the degree to which you get CP if not stop you from getting it. I don't know what the risks would be to the baby if you are handling nappies post-vaccination for example, but it may be worth discussing it with your GP. You could try saying that it is at least going to be extremely stressful for you at this late stage of pg if DD gets CP even if she doesn't pass it on to the baby.

Puzzle - lol at cream crackered... me too! See you all in the am... sleep tight!

Ta MM, I will teach him the old fashioned sums then so he can check his answers.

I've only got so far as mathsmummy's 'I've participated in the industry' & I'm suddenly really pleased that I decided to mention it on here I'm so intrigued.

Actually, I totally agree with you - good porn is fine by me. & I don't feel threatened by Nuts or anything like that. I just find it totally ridiculous & am a bit disappointed, if I'm honest, that DH would be interested in it. Not because it's other women's breasts, but because it's just so tacky.

I wouldn't object to watching good porn together or anything like that, but I think I'd have to choose it - the naff stuff that seems to appeal most to men is such a turn off.

I'm with LuLu - erotic literature is generally way hotter than 'I have a huge penis & I'm going to see how hard I can batter her cervix with it.'

Maybe that's cervix porn?

Oh, now I'm thinking about sex & warm chocolate fudge cake. Well done Hahaha, I see that I'm not the only one to be troubled by such desire

LuLu, how exciting that you're moving back at the weekend! A long time coming! (Which can also be said for a lot of porn...)

I just properly LOLed my head off at 'are you doing some chocolate fudge cake porn script there?'

Am very relieved that Puzzle's BIL has the necessary skills with which to use his grapescissors

Boff, it may have changed, but when I did KS2 SATS (which wasn't THAT long ago ), level 6 was a separate paper, yes.

I'm currently contracting again (although not painfully) & feel like I'm going to vomit EVERY time. So far I haven't (since this morning ) but it's not fun

Springy and MM, interestingly enough I have a PhD in Education, and have read the entire QCA website in search of this info, and basically was none the wiser.

They don't make it easy for people!!!

It's always impossible to find information from exam boards. They're useless.

But yes - when I did them, there was a paper that everyone took for levels 4 & 5, & then an extra paper that a few of us took for a go at the level 6. Like the Exceptional Performance papers you can take at A Level.