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30s TTC: Back to school at BESHory Towers. For spiffing gels who've been TTC since before rationing ended and find conception harder than Double Latin, chiz . What ho!

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Scorpette · 28/08/2010 23:53

Come along, we haven't got all day. Pop off your blazers and straw boaters for a mo and listen up. As Head Girl, I think you ought to know that my dear chum Darrell Rivers tells me that we're really letting the side down with our lack of baybee-winning. To that end, instead of prep and lacrosse, we'll be TTC. I know some of us are losing hope that we'll ever win the Motherhood Cup for our house, but chins up and think of England! We don't won't to end up like the bitter, childless, dried-up old spinsters running this place, do w... oh, hello Matron! Yes, yes, we're going now...

Super! We've been given the attic dorm - bagsy the bed by the window, what! We won't be disturbed when we're enjoying midnight feasts, unbridled lesbianism, pillow fights and sneaking in fellows from the nearby boy's school for some ghastly dreadfulness.

So let's pop some Joyce Grenfell on the gramophone and crack open the tuck boxes! Mater's made me a huge ginger cake and oooh, I see someone's brought pontefract cakes! Yummo! Humbugs, sherbet, elderflower fizz, eccles cakes, a whole slab of choccy - what a simply smashing haul! Hmmm, this ginger beer smells suspiciously gin-like...

Oh yes

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laurielou · 01/09/2010 15:24

scorps I have no further advice to offer. I just hope that you can feel better soon one way or the other. You are too lovely to be so sad.

muse, orchid fanks for your thoughts on homebirth. orchid the idea of cuddling up with the baybee & fella on same day as baybee arrives sounds wonderful. Tears of joy ahoy here. Certainly sommat to scare the boyf rigid think about. As I said, bit ahead of myself anyway.

head I'm very, very proud of you for joining Slimming World. I too have been to that class more times than I've had fattening hot dinners. I've also lost nearly 3 stone on the diet - like you I love, love, love the fact you can eat your own body weight in pasta & still lose weight. However, some of you may recall I left last summer having argued with the class leader about the number of weeks I'd had off (I'd broken my wrist, couldn't drive & couldn't always get a lift to class. Other weeks I weighed with my fucking arm in plaster - how's that for commitment?). So I right royally flounced & can't really go back. That class leader seems to have the monopoly on classes in my area. But I've come to the conclusion that my weight MUST be a factor in my barrenness. God knows I've done everything else. No medical people have mentioned my weight, but according to the Wii I've a BMI of just under 30. That's if I'm nekkid, breathe out every ounce of air, shave my armpits & stand on 1 leg. So yes, I need to lose weight too.

HopOnLegolas · 01/09/2010 15:25

Who's Plop?

So how does it work, SmashyBeshy? You go to meetingz for SW? Does it include exorcise?

Pette this me! The one that people try to climb, or hop onto, and you know, what specie is Legolas?

Ariesgirl · 01/09/2010 15:26

Plop. You know, Plop. PLOP THE BABY BARN OWL. The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark. First book I ever read on my own

HopOnLegolas · 01/09/2010 15:28

Oooooohhhwwwwwl. I see.

BarbiesBeaver · 01/09/2010 15:30

Gosh chaps, sorry I?m late, Matron caught me smuggling in gin rolled up in my gym slip and has been giving me detention. Gave me a jolly good thwacking! Bet all the best beds have gone and I have to bunk with old ?Fish Lips? Cass now don?t I? Beautiful thread anyway Miss Scorps.

Sorry to hear all the Lyra I was glad to hear about your referral for IVF. How do you feel about it all (apart from being completely bastarding fucked off with being at that point obviously ?stupid question)?

Nice to see you back HoponLegless! Ok I?m in I want to lose about a stone so will crack open my -?thieved?- kindly lent Slimming World book and get cracking. Will also get back into running twice a week again. No not Stinky this is me now, or SkippersClunge as Scorps I think beautifully put it. I think it was BunofYellow Wink that was Owlshoes? I love Plop it?s sweet. He was afraid of the dark yes?

Currently on 10DPO but no WOOFLing here. I think a final win before IUI starts is too much to hope for at this point. The wedding was a nice distraction and lots of people said I looked nice so there. Twas a bit stressful though so glad its done before the real mentalling begins. Picking up my goodies drucks on Friday. EEk!

Glad I missed the religion talk, I was always bottom of the class at RE. Anyone want to let off Chinese Crackers in the Quad outside Matron?s office? That?ll teach her!

Ariesgirl · 01/09/2010 15:30

www.amazon.co.uk/Owl-Who-Was-Afraid-Dark/dp/1405210931

I love it. And it's actually very funny.

BarbiesBeaver · 01/09/2010 15:32

Bah. Ten minutes behind everyone again I see. Please to hurl ginger beer bottles and fish paste sandwiches at my face.

TwinkleToes76 · 01/09/2010 15:33

Big smooch to Scorpy. I am sorry you've been feeling so down.

Lorry - I also had a HB with my daughter - nowhere I'd rather be giving birth than in the comfort and privacy of my own home. Will definitely try to have another when (if) I manage to get and stay diffed. There was very little mess, two midwives to yourself, no clock watching to make sure you were dilating quickly enough,no bright lights and noisy wards, all very relaxed and calm. Would highly recommend it.

Ariesgirl · 01/09/2010 15:42

It sounds perfect. I tend to panic when I'm ill or in pain but that's if I'm on my own. If there was a nice, calm midwife with me, reassuming that everything was normal and ok, then I think I would prefer it.

However it's very likely I would need a section so it's irrelevant Grin. Unless they've started doing home visits for C-sections? Anyone?

owlshoes · 01/09/2010 15:51

I think I shall accept the Plop label as I also remember the owl that was afraid of the dark and will try not to make scatological associations (yeah yeah, you all did it).

I have met a lot of home birth mums and they all had very postitive things to say (not least that they'd dodged the hideous Meat Pie and other hospital food delights). Having said that, I think if I ever get BaybeeWin I would like to go to the local maternity unit and then go home very soon afterwards for Chinese takeaway. Hospitals are dirty. And doctors don't wash their hands unless you tell them to (please, do tell them to).

Ooo, drucks, Sindysminge , good stuff.

Am well impressed with all of those doing dieting things

Scorpette · 01/09/2010 16:53

As Queen of Menkul I am determined to go strrrrrrraight to hospital once I get to 6 months and camp out there until Teh Baybee is born. I am so fucking paranoid and anxious (I like to hide it well, ahem), that I'd have to know that if the teeniest thing went wrong then medical peeps could get straight on it [NHS Delusion Face] I also have a weird fear that something would go wrong after birth and I'd be safer in a hospital. This is because my Gran reads crap like Take A Break and Chat and I get them 3rd hand off my Mum and they're full of scare stories about women who give birth completely normally at home and then 3 hours later their womb explodes and they die horribly on top of the cat, with their traumatised older children watching in horror and they could've been saved if they were in hospital. And there's plenty of stories about freak shit happening to kill the mothers in hospital too. I am a tad neurotic, I realise that. Basically, I should just live in an isolation chamber and be let out to go to TopShop now and again Grin

Oh yeah, I am totally suitable for the mothering lark. Did I ever mention I go mental if I hear rattling noises and other small repetitive noises. My kids will never make any of those. Hmm

RieRie, why would you need a CS? I think you've told before but I can't remember (sorry). Hope you don't mind telling why.

Glad to see you back, Sindy'sMinge! At least Matron never spotted the bottle of brandy you hid under your straw hat

PS I'm wondering now about Slimming World. how can you eat buckets of yummy and still lose weight? I will go check out its website...

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Scorpette · 01/09/2010 16:57

Have just seen cost of Slimming World membership. My instant reaction? 'Get tae fuck!' (and I'm not even Scottish).

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Ariesgirl · 01/09/2010 17:14

Wonky spine and misshapen pelvis, Scorps. I'm deformed I am Don't fancy labouring for three days only for them shove some metal implements up me or slicing my belly open anyways. Nah, far better to plan it in advance.

HopOnLegolas · 01/09/2010 17:22

I have a stoopid question, but there ain't nofink BESHies do not know:

What is average touch typing speed? I am just doing my CV and wondering whether to include my touch typing skills or if they are embarrassing. Mind you, this is really not a skill needed for any jobs I would be applying to. More of a boast really as no one in my industry can touch type!

HopOnLegolas · 01/09/2010 17:23

A friend recently had a 75 hour birth. Summat to do with pelvis. I think I'd be screaming for a CS at that point.

Ariesgirl · 01/09/2010 17:32

Oh holy Jesus. Maybe I'll adopt.

HopOnLegolas · 01/09/2010 17:37

Naah, ELCS. Even I am considering one, and I have a family history of wide pelvises! Or is it pelvisi?

You know, me mum is one of those sneezed and out comes a baby kinda ladies. She is a lot shorter but we are both big bummed. Maybe I take after her? Though I have better legs. I wonder if that has influence over birth experience.

Ariesgirl · 01/09/2010 17:42

My touch typing speed is about 25 words per minute with errors. So I'm inclined not to put that on my CV

HopOnLegolas · 01/09/2010 17:49

He, he. Mine is 60. And a friend just told me 80 is ok, above 100 is impressive. So I might leave it out.

Scorpette · 01/09/2010 17:49

Christ, I hope a massive arse ensures a speedy, painless birth! 'Bout time it was good for summat (not. inc. pooing Wink). I don't even have perky big arse, it looks flat, I'm not pear-shaped and yet it's enormo. 'Tis the family curse!

I still love you, RietaFairclough, my own little Raggy Doll. Wise choice to plan the CS and have done. The thought of a CS really freaks me out - but it's so brilliant they can be done so readily for those who know they need them... or need them in am emergency.

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Casserole · 01/09/2010 17:50

About 55wpm here, or at least it was when I used to do useful work. But I wouldn't put it on if you're not going for an admin post; you don't want them hiring you because they want to dump all their typing on you!

Ariesgirl · 01/09/2010 17:54

Aw, thanks Scorps.

HopOnLegolas · 01/09/2010 17:58

Well, as it is, I prefer typing to CAD work, and there really is not that much typing in my industry. Actually, it is annoying, as I am that sort of in-betweeny age and experience where they could hire me for my skills OR for my seniority (management...), but really I do not have enough senior experience to demand a senior job, so it really depends how much faith they put into me. (Have just started doing senior jobs in previous employment.) But I loathe physical work. As in drawing or whateva'. Sounds bad, I know, it's just that I feel I have already put my time in! And I know I am good with client management, all my bosses have said so. But I am not sure how to emphasize that particular skill. It's not something you put on a CV, is it?

Sorry, feel free to ignore, I am a bit preoccupied with the CV at the mo. Most of all 'cause I want to get it done ASAP.

owlshoes · 01/09/2010 18:27

Unless you are actually going for a typing job I would put something suitably vague like "excellent up-to-date word processing skills".

Or skillz maybe?

Is it not foot size that determines ease of baybee-exit? I'm sure someone told me it was footsize. I have massive feet; I've been relying on that Confused . Having said that my arse is also fairly substantial so maybe it's all good whichever is right.

Rie a fine choice; ElCS much bettah than EmCS due to choice of lovely epidural being inserted at leisurely pace as opposed to emergency knockout gas.

My main concern is that I have a very short body and I am wondering where exactly the baybee would fit leaving room for breathing and eating. Answers on postcard pliz.

HopOnLegolas · 01/09/2010 18:36

The afore mentioned mother is very short. To the point that she akshooly, and I am not kidding, has a squashed heart. A harmless condition that happens if people have a short waist. Her diaphragm (sp?) pushes against her heart. And as previously mentioned, wonders all the time what all the screaming is about in the delivery suite. She had a pleasant chat with the consultant, than you very much, and the baby popped out.

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