Due March 2010 - we're halfway there!

[annamama]

... this is a new thread following on from the last one, welcome oldies & newbies ...

sorry when I said don't worry about the anti D I didn't mean don't have it I meant don't worry about having the injection, but still do it if you need it. I would definitely have it again if I knew DH was Rh positive. Imagine your heartbreak if you wanted to have more babies and your body kept rejecting them all because of one (maybe two) injections.
Pacific love the festive name change and I think you outed yourself in one of our earlier threads re nationality!

Quick question - I'm into acrylic painting, and would like to paint a few of my own paintings for the nursery. I might even do a mural on one wall. For example, I've spotted on the web a lovely painting of a train full of farmyard animals, which would look great stretched out onto a wall.

But if I were to copy this painting onto the nursery wall, this would be naughty, non? I think I'd be breaking copyright. There's also the issue that print outs from the web are not as good as the image I see on the screen - perhaps not detailed enough to copy.

I wish I could have original ideas myself, but I can't, so I will have to copy something.

Shroomer Copy what you want ! Who is ever going to know?
I'm supposed to be doing some accounts while DD sleeps but I'm so bored I can't keep off MN this afternoon!

Donttry congrats on the wedding! It's a lovely step, and a great excuse for a party in Cork next summer. I got married in the States and planned on having a party back in Cork but never got around to it (didn't have the £££ really). But, as I'm sure you'll agree, Cork in the summer is so gorgeous that I bet you have a great party with baby donttry in tow . I'm also a big Gaskin fan. For me I've liked having some positive stories in my head facing into my first labour and it helped me make a decision on planning a home birth.

Evitas that gap stuff is lovely! Hope you can track some down. And I'm also definitely taking my pillow to Cork at Christmas but am planning to use something like this vacuum storage bag. I swear by them for storing winter clothes etc so am hoping they'll make my bulky pillow a bit more suitcase friendly

Pacific firstly, LOVE the festive name . Would love to think it was merely a love of primary coloured children's clothing that alerted me to your nationality but it was mentioned ages ago and I remembered...I also left Ireland a while ago (nearly 16 years ago now) and, while I'd never change my nationality and am glad my child will also have an Irish passport, I can't ever see myself and my husband settling there. Though I do have a fantasy life where we retire to make cheese or open a pottery or similar in West Cork...granted, my DH has no idea about these daydreams

Smac poor you and the accounting! Hope you manage to finish this afternoon.

Sarah busy week ahead for you - I can see exactly why you wanted your decorations up and sorted before all this hecticness kicks off

EmLouT well done on the potty training - sounds like excellent progress (though I hope your DS's cough clears soon).

Arcadie I must say I was PMSL when the midwife gave us the 30 shags = one pessary equation. She was trying to reassure us that sex in late pregnancy is safe and instead had a circle of adults fnar fnaring about it (the men even looked a bit scared). But it's not info I can really say to anyone in RL so was actually glad of an excuse to share it on here .

Shroomer I actually work with copyright and intellectual property so will look the other way and whistle if you want to download anything off t'internet. As Smac says, who'd know? While it technically probably would be copyright infringement, it's non-commercial and for personal use so pretty much fine in my book!

Interesting reading about the anti-d debate, as it's not something i have to consider. From what I know about it I'd have the injections though, mainly for the sake of future children, but of course it's a personal decision .

Thanks everyone for the congrats and the anti-d advice. Will see what the doc says. I sent the OH off down to donate bllod today to find out his blood type but it could take 8 weeks! Plus he shot blood out all over the place the poor thing.

Am also getting the Celvaplan swine flu vaccine on 16 Dec(finally...) so will be like a pin cushion!

Shroomer I wouldn't even hesitate to copy the drawing...feck it. I saw fab paintings of (friendly) ice-cream eating monsters last summer, took photos, and OH is going to paint them for the bab's room.

Caitni I've already invited everyone to the party down in West Cork so there's no way out now!

Told OH about the 30 jumps required pre-birth. He actually sighed despairingly! I knew married life would kill the sex life

OMG so many posts, can't believe it! I've only been away about 24 hours... The gig I went to was awesome. But why oh why when there is so much info about so many things on here, why did no one tell me the Blackwall Tunnel was closed! Journey that should take 1 1/2 hours took 4 1/2 hours! And now you must be all wondering if I had a wee-wee in a nappy again....................... well I'm afraid I have to disappoint you! For some miraculous reason I wasn't too desperate so managed to wait!

Just a quickie... Anti-D - I thought this is non debatable, you just have to have it, unless you're sure you never want anymore kids, like Pacific says, it's to protect future babies. I was told the blood product they use comes from USA so that the risk for CJD is minimised (despite of course being tested too). Don't Try - my midwife referred DH last time for a blood test at the GPs, got it done quickly. (Was positive so I too have to have Anti-D as I'm Rh negative.)

Annamama the couple who got married before me yesterday apparently got caught in the tunnel and nearly didn't make the ceremony!

I thought there were no issues with anti-d either but now I'm not so sure. It used be the norm to have it after the birth if the baby is rhesus positive, rather than getting it "just in case" before the birth. I haven't had any bleeding or traumas and I can't find any info on whether the blood affects babies in-utero. I'm caught between thinking if it ain't broken why fix it/potential effects on this baby on the one hand and worries about the effects on any future baby on the other ....decisions decisions...

Sorry, don't mean to hijack the thread with my anti-d obsessing.

evening all
had to add my pennys worth on the old Anti-d debate...also didn't know it was actually an option, i just had it last pg and didn't bat an eyelid...and it definitely didn't hurt even HALF as much as the MW said it would . This time round though I'm more informed, I'm taking part in a study for rhesus neg mums for them to work out what the baby's blood type is in utero...potentially the idea is that they will be able to work out every baby's blood type first....then they only need to give the at risk mums the Anti-D shot....
Yes the blood comes from the U.S. (because of the CJD risk here) and as a result each shot costs £55. (apparently). because it comes from the USA it's apparently screened a lot harder than it would here anyway, so the risks are v low...Have to side with caitni et al though, it's for the sake of future babies, surely? My brother had to have a full blood transfusion when he was born, and was in SCBU for yonks..that was in the days when rhesus neg was much more of an issue, in fairness, but he's definitely the frailer one of us two....

crikey. bit of a rant. Sorry x

congrats donttry on the nuptials!! I can't remember if you fall into the NoSex or the Randy category of us pg lot but hope the consummating was fun and frolicsome! (god i sound like a right dirty nosy old cow!!!)

shroomer go for it on the copying thing. Can't see how anyone would even notice even if it was illegal?? (and not certain it is? though will bow to more informed mortals)

can't remember what else i was going to write. slowly getting better here. mum came up today to take the Elk out so that was nice, gave me some feet up time. hope all well - sorry for not posting everyone's stuff

I wore a brazen red dress that clung to my bump. But I only had one glass of wine. "Pissed pregnant bride" is never a good look

The more art I see/music I hear the more I realise they all rip each other off inspire each other anyway, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. Shroomer you'll be in good company!

Oh and no sex I'm afraid...making me feel a bit "burny" at the mo...Determined to get back in the saddle though, especially to gear up for the 30 sessions required in week 40 . Well you did ask!!

Oh please tell me I can avoid pink... i just couldn't bear it!

Hi all, DONT TRY- congratulations! PIXIE- clarins was 70m of lovely relaxing all over body massage and facial. Vv nice x

hey mummyelk I too am Rhesus Negative. Interested to hear that you are taking part in a study into this. Would I be too late to join this?

ARRRGH! So blody frustrated. So let e vent before I try to semi-ctch up with all the posts.

My consultant appointment today was a complete disaster. It was for 1.30pm. I left home at 12.50, and I hadn't had lunch as I had a sandwich in lieu of breakfast about 10.30...

I was kinda expecting not to go in on time - I fiur maybe in by 2.30 at latest, then I could get a late lunch at 3-ish.

So anyway, arrive at the hospital and I'm not kidding, there is a queue out the door just to get to the reception desk . I join the queue. I note the signs everywhere stating things are running particularly lsowly thanks to a new booking/computer system thingy. Okaaaay. These things happen. Granted, always to me... but still. I suck it up and wait. And wait. I eventually get to the reception desk at 1.50pm. I'm aready primed to say that I've been standing in the line for soooooo long and was infact early, not late, but I don't need to say a word. becase when I say 'I have an appointment with Miss * at 1.30pm' the receptionist looks a bit confused, then says 'Oh, her clinic is at Queen Mary's today.' She then confirms this with a colleague. I'm quietly wishing the midwife who, upon making the appointment as I was discharged last week, confirmed 'Yes, it's downstairs' when I asked, dead. Maybe not dead. But, like, maybe a really sore blister from being rushed off her feet

She tries to get through to the other hospital (which is a 10 minute drive from my home one way... the hospital I was at was a 20+ min drive the OTHER way from home...) but it's engaged. And engaged. Annnd, still engaged. She advises me to just go along anyway, I can see her mentally shooing me away because the queue behind me isn't getting any shorter.

So I get there at 2.25pm, flustered and concerned that I'm now part of the problem causing appointments to run late rather than just a victim... but I needn't have fretted. The same signs are up there and when I'm eventually called through at 4.45 I'm half expecting BP to be through the roof from stressing out but it's at an all time low (98/57 - MW: Oooh, that's low!). Ok, so now I'm going to be able to sort out my worries over labour and get some answers re: anemia devoping/supplementing.

I go in and it's not my consultant. No biggy. I don't catch his name as he has a very heavy accent, so I ask him to repeat and I still don't catch it. I let it drop...

Him: So you saw someone at 23weeks?

Him: Well, no.

Me: So doesn't it make more sense to be safe rather than sorry and start the antibiotics before induction?

Me: so... there's enough ti- I'm allergic to penicillin!

Him: We can give you

Me: But we still need that at least four hours before birth?

Him: Yes, so if you are getting tightening then make your way to the hospital...

Me: Oh, lets hope that doesn't happen in rush hour - I doubt I'll make it in time as it's easily an hour to the hospital then

I realise I'm just NOT being heard so move on...

Me: There was something else Iwanted to ask about. My iron levels are falling and although I was prescibed iron twice per day in the hospital last week they didn't give me any so I've bouht a supplement of my own. But my mother has haemacromatosis and I've not been tested for it so I'm wondering if I really ought to take a supplement without checking other levels in my blood first.

Him: Your level isn't very low. I wouldn't take more than one tablet a day for this. I wouldn't check your ferritin unless it was lower

Me: But... the thing is, I've been taking a supplement every day since I fell pregnant, and I know my levels are falling right now as I had another blood test two weeks prior to this last one.

Him: But your levels aren't very low. You only need to take one pill.

Me: I'm already taking one pill. Since I found out I was pregnant. I know they're not VERY low, but they're falling and I'm in a quandry as to what to do and my status. Plus, I feel like crap most of th etime and don't know if that's where I keep getting ill or boarderline anemia?

Him: Well I would suggest you take just one pill...

Me: Fine.

He then listens to the baby and tells me to come back after my 34 week scan to check.

I mean... this is virtually verbatim. Would you feel fobbed off or am I being sensitive/hormonal old cow after waiting 3 1/2 hours to be seen and going to the wrong hospital first?

I have a headache. That was despite taking myself off to Pizza Express on the way home.

But! Congrats to Dont and Mr Don't! throws confetti

Nativity was good... but in a 'was good to watch but doesn't really have much rewatch value' way. I won't be buying the dvd and watching every christmas the way I do Love Actually.

Doc: Well I would suggest you take just one pill...

Manda: I heard you the first time but you're not listening to me!

... Manda is never caught & convicted of murder as she runs off and because of hospitals computers not working, no one knows who the last patient was ...

accepts a piece of hecklephones chocolate orange thank you very much
oh manda hope you feel a wee bit better getting all that off your chest - officially your longest post ever! Sounds incredibly frustrating though - like banging your head against a brick wall - more than once.
pixie the elephant thing I've seen that I like is from B&Q they don't do toddler size but Granny Mac is going to butcher it and make me toddler size downie cover from it cos she's clever good at sewing. elephants they don't do curtains but DD has plain blue curtains right now and they have some stickers and canvas type pictures things to accessorize and maybe some storage boxes I forget, they don't show them all online but I saw them in one of the mega big B&Qs.
Getting close to the 1000 posts ladies. . . .

Manda, please accept my apologies on behalf of the medical profession.

Beautiful illustration why >90% of complaints against doctors are due to crap communication skills

How do you get on with your GP? Surely they can to your iron metabolism stuff? I know we do that kind of thing regularly - for pregnant and non-pregnat people; at times even for men !!

Gah, I am battling with Photoshop and am very close to taking a large bore shotgun to the computer!

Or might just toddle off for an early night...

Pacific Wunderschnitzel! Du (and I hope you don't mind the informality) bist Deutscherin! Ich hatte keine Ahnung! Wie komme ich am Besten zum Bahnhof bitte?

Being booted off computer so will catch up properly later.,

How come everybody learning German asks for the frigging train station? Learn something useful, like: "Ein grosses Bier, bitte!" .

That's about as much German DH has mastered..

DSs are not truly bilinual but understand a lot and speak a little, more so if we are in Germany.

I like Wunderschnitzel, hmm

Come on folks, help me out with this chocolate orange. I've now eaten so much the baby is doing somersaults - it feels like that scene in Alien is about to be recreated!!

Pacific you can't change your nickname yet-the Christmas one is too good!

Chocolate this way please!
I really can't believe how much weight I have put on.

We're trying to stay positive and thinkw e may get abnother buyer -it took us 4 m to get this one though. I can cope with the delay just really don't want to lose the house

Ikea are quite good for nursery / children's stuff in bright colours.

Emlou we're also in the midst of potty training. He's using it for swetie rewards but yet to recognise when he needs it and voluntarily. Now the house is back on the market we're reluctant to go cold turkey and remove the nappy!

Manda rant and a half!! Sounds very frustrating. You need a second opinion from your GP.

Wish I could accessorise my name with a Christmas angle, but can't think of anything interesting.

You are all a bunch of wanton crims regarding copying paintings! (with the exception of [doffs cap] our resident copyright expert - what a coincidence that you should be in this group. There seems to be a real mix of occupations on this forum. I strongly suspect that if I needed to know how to give birth in space, one of you would come forward as an astronaut.

Yes Shroomer, anything in particular you would like to know? Obviously the positioning for birth can be more creative due to the lack of gravity so that's one tip for you.

I guess we have to start a new thread then. How did it go again?

"Due March 2010 - I'm pregnant at Christmas but NOT a taxi driver!"

???

Will write more in a minute...