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Her we are ladies!

LOL, your poor dh. After you told him did he still think it was horrible?

Oooh no, v.keen now . He asked me where I'd heard it from and when I said mumsnet he raised his eyes to ceiling and asked 'is that the fanjo place'??

PMSL!!!
When dh comes home from work and I'm on the laptop he says are you on MN?
I'm so sad I've just been and bought a pg magazine. You'd think after doing it once I dont need to read them.

LOL DH is quite used to me coming out with MN acronyms, I once texted him asking "Can you bring DS1 home a treat, he's had a bad day" Got a reply along the along the lines of who the fuck is DS1 LOL I have mentioned norks, fanjo, even EWCM, he just gives me the sort of look and tuts at MN for influencing my vocab!

GJ agree with Diege, take no notice of the nusre, it is solely for dating purposes (i.e. not medical). Besides, that is what dating scans are for, and IME even if you 100% on your dates they only take notice of the dating scan dates anyway.

Yeah they just use the dating scan anyway. I know I got like 500 million due dates over 2 months.

Lol Nat - I've also sent e-mails and used 'dds', 'dh' etc, and was quite surprised that people are confused!
Kay, I think pregnancy mags are par for the course, however many times you've been through it! Which one did you get then ?

With dd I came of the pill and never had a period as I got pregnant straight away (dp says he has super sperm) more like persistent buggers.

I wonder if that is a fluke.....

I got the Prima Baby and Pregnancy one. It came with a free Celeb Mum's Reveal Special oooh!!

Why cant I type a simple message today??

Of cause that was meant to say: I wonder if that WAS a fluke

LL I did exactly the same with ds and the doctors told me it was impossible and I was given about 8 due dates that were 2 months apart.

I'm hoping the same will happen this time except the due dates. 1 will do ta!!

LL, it's well documented that fertility goes up in SOME women after stopping the pill, so maybe not a fluke at all?? .
Kay, know those mags well (my sister who's a midwife was in Prima baby recently ). Did it have the regular 'Find out what labour REALLY feels like!!!' on the front cover?

Its a 'how to get the birth you want' in this issue!!

Ahh, close enough! You've made me want to go and get one now . Also want to get cable so that I can watch the live births on Discovery. I'm obsessed!

I watch like Portland Babies and stuff.
I know exactly how to get the birth I want, DH can give birth!!

That would be good wouldn't it! Have to say I don't 'get' the whole joysome birth thing, esp early stages, but having said that I still have this vision of how birth COULD be..it's just that it goes out of the window when it starts to HURT . I have told dh I don't want to have an epidural this time, but even I can't blame him for laughing . If I do go down the home birht route, at least I won't have the choice of an epidural!!

I couldn't have an epidural, I'm terrified of needles. I dont know how I managed to have pethedine!!
I want one of those births you hear about that they have like half an hour of contractions, push twice and there you go one baby!!

You mean a TV birth Kay? (a la Violet off Corrie ). Have to say, an epidural does work well (with 2 of 3 of my births - with dd2 it didn't 'take' so just had gas and air)but the needle is a little scary looking and it's v.hard sitting still while they find the right spot. You also feel a bit of a shock when/if they hit a nerve, but then blissssss

Yeah a TV birth. It would be marvellous!! I'm really paranoid that when I'm pg with #2 I'll waddle like Violet. I'm sure I didnt with ds.

Its the sitting still during contractions I dont think I could do.

Oh I don't think I'll ever forget that waddle. Twas quite pleased that people were always surprised when I turned round when I was pregnant as I didn't look like I was from the back. Thinking about it, I think you waddle more AFTER the birth what with the pillow of a sanitory towel and the general 'discomfort' shall we say

Yeah I know. I hated those bloody things. My MW broke her ankle a week before I gave birth so I had 4 different mw's come and see me after I gave birth and I moaned about the towels. Then 1 of them said that I could use normal towels just the ultra ones and I could've kissed her.

Yeah, by dd3 they were recommending 'Always Nighttime' - much better! In fact I still have a few packets after dh stock-piled them! Also some of those disposable knickers in fetching pastel shades. Think I'll just buy cheap cotton ones next time. The rustling noise when sitting down isn;t great

LOL

I've got bucket loads of breast pads. I didnt need them in the end as I couldn't breast feed due to stupid nurses and MW's

Ladies, as always it has been a pleasure. I am now going to try and convince my dp that the time is now....

Speak on Monday

You go for it LL!!

Evening laydees

Oh the joys of a play pen and Nick Jr.

My last labour/birth was pretty much a tv birth but with a lot more shouting screaming and mooing. just less than 2 hours contractions and 4 minutes pushing, on a couple of puffs of G&A, which I wasn't even doing right apparently....!

Have a good time LL And everyone else have a lovely weekend xxx