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the rat smacking, no argument brooking, pom pom waving, goody baking, baby visualising, just fertilising, being pregnant and staying pregnant thread of exceptionally good luck

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NinjaChipmunk · 25/08/2011 21:06

So here is our new home, hope you all like it!

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Wants3 · 26/08/2011 20:43

Hi, on the epidural front, I was offered one for my 1st as I was needing ventouse(spelling?) it failed and I was just numb from my feet to the top of my legs so absolutely no use!
Other news, I have just been asked to be a birthing partner in 6 weeks time- EEK!!!

jaggythistle · 26/08/2011 20:53

maybe. i am with you on the science, cooking/baking and stationery (mmm, nice pens) but never got the hang of knitting. :(

did you see the geek baby gift thread? i spent ages on thinkgeek.com today...i quite liked the periodic table building blocks.

dreamfeeder · 26/08/2011 21:03

bartlet, I'm not Scottish. DH is 35 (and I'm 28- I like to point out that when I was at primary school, he was doing his A-levels). He has a scottish mum but grew up in england, and studied at St Andrews/ Manchester starting in 1995. I wonder if you have some friends/acquaintances in common... A guy he works with trained sl later than that in Dundee, as did a couple of his friends. He loves Scotland, we have many, many holidays there. In Pre-DD days, all about the Monro-bagging/ trekking around in the cold/mist/rain/sleet/snow seeing nothing but ticking a list. Grin Scotland is gorgeous, but i'm currently not missing the monro's- last done when i was pg. St Andrews will be much more civilised

Oh, lovely jaggy, will pop in. I'm very into salt and vinegar crisps at the minute (nom nom) so I advise you to hide any you have in the house.

Thanks maybe, just popped my folic acid after reading your post. Have had to stop taking it in the morning and it makes me retch. You will have had a major part to play in baby nightmare not having neural tube defects. I'll watch out for your smoke signals. Failing that, I will try very hard to get wifi-ed up.

Not sure i'm looking forward to holiday- our last attempt at a first trimester holiday was our honeymoon and it was a bit of a disaster. I was determined to do everything we'd planned, really struggled after getting caught in a blizzard up a mountain combined with fairly persistant puking (dh confessed to being worried and having visions of having to physically carry me down) and couldn't face the hotel evening meals. Cyclizine helped. This won't be so bad, as cottaging Wink but with DD who will fight any nap not in her cot I think it'll be exhasting!!

dreamfeeder · 26/08/2011 21:07

argh!!!!!!!!!! just had an email from the cottage lady who says there's NO INTERNET!!!! it's really happening. Nearly 2 weeks without you all. If I can even find your next thread

jaggythistle · 26/08/2011 21:11

bound to be wi-fi somewhere in St Andrews for the 1,387,568,466 (approx) students! Grin

good food and cocktails and maybe wi-fi in west port bar. also high chair and crayons and scribbly on menu provided.

jaggythistle · 26/08/2011 21:13

Eek. really no internet! Shock

dreamfeeder · 26/08/2011 21:18

yes, jaggy, no internet, no smart phone, never going to get dh to agree to let me go to an internet cafe to MN (see previous comments on dh and mn). Sad

jaggythistle · 26/08/2011 21:22

mine's not a smart phone but i can do limited internet stuff on it with an ordinary mobile signal.

i was bereft staying at my folk's house where they are somehow in a signal blackspot!

pretty much the same as my DH's opinion. there's a regular cry of 'are you on that website again??' in our house.

CakePigeon · 26/08/2011 22:28

These epidural stories are a tad scary Hmm

Good luck on your holiday dream hope you survive! I will be a bit sad on the plane for 18hrs without mn hope there is wifi in Indonesia!

Dog has been vomiting all eve Envy(in a vom kind of way) lovely Friday night. I have such a rock and roll lifestyle Grin

NinjaChipmunk · 27/08/2011 00:22

Evening, just a brief one from me as going to bed.
Dream I have a huggababy ring sling which ds loved but will go for one with a bit less padding next time. I also have a toddler patapum but didn't really use that much.
All this talk of bali is making me want to go. Somewhere warm
Bartlet hope you feel better soon
Night.

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BabySade · 27/08/2011 08:46

Morning

Really quick post from me as we are at a friends. Have just got bloody AF. That is it I have clearly not been brooking enough. This will be MY month, and EVERYONE ELSE'S TOO!!!!!

Sorry have not read any messages, will catch up later on

BartletForAmerica · 27/08/2011 09:03

Baby, sorry about AF, but remember that's the last time you are going to see her for 9 months now. This is the month!

Imps7 · 27/08/2011 09:19

Arrrg I would try to catch up on the thread but I just spotted mention of epidurals so do you mind if I don't?? The thought of it freaks me out.

Sorry that that stupid cowbag showed up Baby. Now that you're on day 1 of your pregnancy it's time to start brooking like you've never brooked before.

All this talk of holidays is making me muchos jealous - my next week of work is to do decorating! Booo. We are going to Northumberland in January though which I am already very excited about - I love winter walking/pubbing holidays.

Not sure that I could do 2 weeks without the internet - not sure how people survived back in the day before it was invented.

Hope your dog's better Cake - dog vom - bleurgh.

What's everyone's weekend plans? I'll be spending a lovely day in the kitchen - got the in laws round for lunch tomorrow so will be cooking pretty much day. Love cooking days!!

jenfraggle · 27/08/2011 10:16

No tips for muffin making I'm afraid as I've only ever made virtual ones, not RL ones

ScreamIfYouWantToGoFaster · 27/08/2011 10:29

Morning everyone! This is just a super quick one because today I will be burying myself in my revision, and not checking MN every five minutes!

Cake eeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww to dog vom! That image has just put me off my morning porridge (to be fair it doesn't take much to put me off the porridge - ew porridge! Grin )

Baby I'm really sorry to hear the evil witch showed up, how frustrating, Congratulations on the first day of your pregnancy though! In 4 weeks' time you'll be sitting in a doctor's office and they'll be asking you for the date of your last period and you'll give them today's date Grin

The scary epidural stories freaked me out too! Need to resume head-in-sand position re the birth!

Finally - I thought there was at least one person waiting for the bank hol weekend to test? Is that still the case or is everyone holding out until Sept now?

maybebabyR · 27/08/2011 10:44

Morning!

Baby So sorry she got you, but you are totally right. This month is your month

Oh my God Jaggy Baby geek you say? That is where I shall be spending the afternoon Grin

No internet at all Dream? Not even if you stand on one leg and wave your phone about? Hmm

Poor doggy Cake Do you want to swap for two very annoying house rabbits?

Day in the kitchen sounds lovely Imps What are you rustling up?

Well, last night, I kept biting DH's head off (not very like me) went to bed at 10 cos was knackered, then didn't really get to sleep till about 3, when I had crazy baby dreams. Am consequently v. tired. But at least it isn't raining Smile

Good luck with the revising Scream

ScreamIfYouWantToGoFaster · 27/08/2011 10:52

(Revision is about to start - honest!)

I just have to say: Maybe could you be more pg!?! I am literally on tenterhooks waiting for your confirmation! At this point you simply have so many symptoms that I'm expecting you to be carrying twins!!

Ahem, I have control of myself again now. Naturally we're all happy to wait until you feel ready to test test now test now test now go oooooooonnnnn I don't want to rush you in any way. do it do it do it do it NOW Waiting a few more days is a very sensible approach. the suspense is killing me!! Just so you know though, it couldn't be more in the bag if you did actually have wee that turned pink when you get pg!

maybebabyR · 27/08/2011 11:00

Oh Scream that really did make me laugh a lot, which given how I feel this morning is a real achievement Grin

I am not getting my hopes up though, and I am still on a mini-shagathon (couldn't manage it the last two night, been too tired) but am going to keep it up for the next few days at least.

MeconiumHappens · 27/08/2011 11:13

lol@ maybe looking forward to not having to swi anymore, i am feeling that! me and hubby are like phewwwww. When is af not due? I think waiting to test is very sensible, a killer for us spectators though ha!

baby welcome to the first day of your pregnancy, it will be fab. Perhaps sneak in some stinky cheese pate and vino quickly. I was dieting this month and am gutted that didnt get a final bottle of crabbies....sigh....will have one around the 26th April...(note to the universe: MUCH prefer being upduffed, dont take this the wrong way!)

maybebabyR · 27/08/2011 11:18

Grin Meconium Not entirely sure about AF. With the exception of last month (AF was 7 days late) I have been having 35 day ish cycles, so on that basis, 5th September. But I also think I may have ovulated a little earlier too, but who knows? Grin

I don't chart or use OPKs, but have SWI most days since CD9 [exhausted]

How are you feeling now? Hope the tears and heartburn have calmed down

dreamfeeder · 27/08/2011 11:27

My phone can't do mn.... it's from the Dark Ages... AND its got some kind of filter on and thinks the mn chat pages are adult content and denies access?!?! Rural scotland? Good signal on one leg with some phone waving? I doubt it. my phone has BIG signal ishoos anyway... Smoke signal me maybe!! ALso can't wait to hear your confirmation.

scream I also know people who said their decision to have an epidural was their best ever. I don't regret mine- there is no way I could have done it without. It was too long and too hard for me! Though it was so hard to site the epidural the doctors wouldn't take it out to put a spinal in to do my op afterwards to fix my whopping tear so just topped up my epidural, and hence I had patchy cover and did get some pain with the op towards the end... Ouch. Enough said. I will just hope for this baby if nothing goes wrong in these next few weeks to be able to stay at home as long as possible and cope by moving round, hot baths etc and avoid the epidural!! I think head in sand works- my step sister attended NO ante-natal anything (apart from her m/w appointments/scans of course) and had her baby 5 weeks early, no problems. No epidural. No stitches!!!! She specifically wanted to know nothing about birth before she actually did it, and avoided all stories, info, everything. I took the opposite approach. Entirely different scenarios, but look who did better!! Hypnotherapy type CD, i'm telling you, it's great!! Plus you get to lie on your bed for an hour and relax and do it every day from 30 weeks on.

Hope your dog's recovered cake, poor thing. I have great sypathy for all vomming creatures now.

baby, bloody af! But yes, note down the date for your last period date for your gp/ m/w. This will be the last, so put up with it. This month you will definitely convince a pesky pee stick and ward the evil witch off

Incidentally I'm meant to be making the most of DD's nap to pack but I feel too rough. My symptoms- Ongoing upset tummy, a full week of the runs now (dh says this is common!!), nausea and vomming, tiredness, ratty with dh, holiday dread! (i'm calling that a symptom as it wouldn't be happening if I weren't pg and feeling ill). Repeats as a mantra- This too shall pass. It will be so worth it. This too shall pass. It will be so worth it.

Solars · 27/08/2011 12:04

Hello Rat Smackers!

All this talk of epidurals is scaring the bejesus out of me!

So sorry to hear that yucky af has got you Baby but YAY for PG day 1. This will be your month!

Cake hope the dog is feeling better today. Could be sympathy vomiting?

Dream oh no! No internet for two weeks!! How will we cope! However, Scotland sounds like a lovely holiday. I especially love the west coast, hope you manage to enjoy it when you're out there! We're going to San Francisco in a couple of weeks so really looking forward to that, have never been keen on the states but have heard nothing but good things about SF!

Jaggy, Maybe i too will be checking out the geek baby website, I'm a structural engineer and love cooking too, so what are you cooking for lunch tmrw Imps? We're having a lazy bank holiday weekend, the last few weekends have been frantic with hubby preparing for his job interview (which he got by the way!). Off to the cinema to watch the ape movie this afternoon and meeting up with hubbys family for lunch on monday. That's all from me so far!

Oh yes Maybe those crazy dreams you've been having is another sure sign you are so PG, hope you test sooooooooooooooooooooooooon

maybebabyR · 27/08/2011 12:05

Oh Dream, that sounds rubbish, poor you. I hope the vomming stops soon. Do you find you get more sympathy, or less, seen as DH is a Doc?!

In the Maybe household, is chores a-go-go. Hoovering. Done. Rabbits cleaned. Done. Now for the ironing......

maybebabyR · 27/08/2011 12:07

Sounds a lovely weekend Solars And wohoo for MrSolars for his job Smile

V. jealous of SF, I haven't ever been to the states either, but have always heard good things!

Solars · 27/08/2011 12:13

Thanks Maybe, they do peanut butter M&Ms there?? will definitely bring some back for you By the way you have been busy this morning!