The Fruits of our Labour? 10/10 thread, all fruitmunchers welcome......

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What did she mean, about nothing doing up there? And not surprising in second pg? Did she talk about texture and things? I remember from sweeps, the vivid descriptions of cervical status.

Yes, it was all about thickness and thinness wasn't it. It was years ago though. I was also two weeks late with ds2. I can't remember that sweep though.

I remember both vividly. I always imagined a rubbery squeak. I did imagine that didn't I?

Hope FMF's DS is ok.

What's going on with Idris? Is she alright?

Sorry nothing doing Franny.

Off to beach.

That's guad's ds Avi, for once I am rash free.

Are you? Has your rash gone?

I am packing for three days on a dairy farm. Only I'm not packing. I am thinking. We have to eat on a bar-b-q apparently, which is nice if it doesn't rain. Which it will. It's going to be very muddy this trip I think. I am feeling tired at the prospect, but that is silly because it will be fine when we get there and we can walk about and um, look at cows.

Kind of gone - more being held at bay by steroid creams. I didn't particularly approve of medication either, but after a year of this rash, having found one that is working I'm using it, and sleeping at night.

It'll be fun 100. I'm feeling much the same about sleeping in a tent in the rain, but it'll be an adventure!

This was the conversation ds2 and I had last night. I know I have taxed your patience enough about it but it is a fitting finale to how stupid my life is.

He said 'I think we should put all of today behind us now' with a beaming smile. 'Let's just forget about it. But i have some money in my bank account and I'm going to buy Dad a new picture as he was very nice about the one I broke.'

And I said 'that's very kind. Yes, we should forget about it. But there are a couple of things we should remember too I think, otherwise the whole thing might happen again if we totally wipe our memories'

'Ah' he said nodding. 'Yes.'

'What are the things we should keep do you think?'

'Like how to do stuff? Like that ice lolly sort of thing?'

'NO. LIKE WHAT IS THE MORAL OF THIS TALE TYPE STUFF'

'Oh yeah. Okay, but we also need to remember like how to go to the loo and things.'

'FORGET THE MEMORY WIPE THING DS2.'

'I'm forgetting to wipe my memory?' much laughter, from him.

Me: preachy voice: What did we say about how this has to work like a team? How you have to do things you don't want to, and you can't freak out about it?'

'Yeah, yeah. Night then Mum. Will we remember who we are in the morning if we've wiped our memories? It'll be weird won't it?'

'Goodnight ds2'

Franny, glad it went, well, well. I got so used to transfanjonal scans for various pgs and mcs and internals due to shortened cervix with dses that I didn't feel violated by it - it was all sort of routine - wghich is possibly ? I don't know. I do remember with ds2 my gynae actually predicted his appearance very accurately. I was 2 weeks early with ds1 so convinced I would be early again, and got very jumpy when week after week she said 'not yet' and was right. Then when I was 40-and-a-bit weeks she said 'oh, you might well have this baby at the weekend'. And was right. At 40+8. Am glad I did as they were keen to induce me at 40+10 and made an enormous and unnecessary deal of minuscule spots of grit (or 'chalk', as he Germans charmingly call it) on the placenta.

My day has dissolved in a bath of bureaucracy. But still fab salad for lunch - mixed leaves, carrot, red and yellow pepper, homegrown mangetout and broad beans and basil, and sunflower seeds.

100. dh is exactly like that. He almost compulsively takes things to what he deems to be their logical conclusion. I think it's the way he thinks, rather than to annoy me.

Hello again .

I had worries before as DH was incommunicado and his work called asking where he was. As he had been a bit migrainy this morning I was worried that he had crashed the car or something.

When I finally spoke to him it turned out he is being a magistrate today and so wasn't answering his phone. Have been eating poorly due to feeling stressed .

Franny your sweep sounds like the one I had. I wanted to lie down for the rest of he day.

Idris glad dh is safe and sound

I have been eating VERY BADLY. No reason other than general crapness.

1112000x, he sounds delightful but exhausting.

100x I mean. My finger went mad.
There are people screaming behind me and I am being a Bad Mother.

Toot - I think you should make two sandwiches or whatever then when she runs off with it you can whip out the other one. There is something about the thought of you sitting there hungry that makes me feel very frustrated.

Franny - glad she was thorough!! It'll be tonight, I bet my island.

Avi - thanks, I do use the AB cream if necessary. People keep asking if he has chicken pox, it does look a bit like that now. He HATES having the cream on though, it goes all over the place.

Oh 100x, he does sound lovely. If a little trying at times. But you sound like you deal with it so well

Blueberries
Banana
big herby salad
Spinach (but only a tiny bit in ravioli)
Pineapple

Oh bloody hell, you are vegan aren't you

lol, Guad. I'll have the cheese toastie - sounds yum. Unless it was cheeze, in which case, that's ok for vegans!

Had lovely morning on the beach. I buried DS again. But now there is sand everywhere. I hate sand.

oh Idris I am glad dh is ok

Avi sorry it must have sounded strange
we just found it amusing as you are not really city finance type person and dp was convinced from your post that you had been a financial advisor, as he was, and it nearly killed him with stress, so I think he was sort of half amazed half horrified
he works for the financial ombudsman now so is still pleased to recognise a fellow erm, well, a fellow

well she didn't describe it Boco because it was so absolutely depressingly shut
but in my notes it says
uneffaced
posterior
CLOSED

mine was uneffaced, posterior and closed for ages with ds2, Franny, even though I was in labour, and then suddenly it was 4-5 cms. Closed one second, open the next. Funny things cervixes.

Oh dear, shame about your uneffaced cervix, what would that be..defaced? How many days over are you?

Guad your post has given me a huge craving for a cheese toasted sandwich with mango chutney. I want one of those toasted sandwich makers so much, I had one, and dp threw it away because he hated it, but I LOVED it and 8 years later I still haven't forgiven him. I must get one.