Fruity Bitches at your Cervix - 10/10 thread, all welcome

[TooTicky]

For anyone who wants a boost to their general health. The suggested goals are:

EAT 10 PORTIONS OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES EVERY DAY - if you don't usually eat much fruit and veg I would build up gradually or you could upset your digestion.

DO (AT LEAST) 10 MINUTES OF EXERCISE EVERY DAY - can be yoga, stretching or something more energetic. The plan is that the idea of doing 10 minutes is not too daunting, and having started you may well find you want to do more.

There are no restrictions on what you eat so long as you get your 10 fruit and veg as well. The focus is not on weight loss but on improving our energy levels and hopefully our general mood and well-being. Sign up below and post here to tell us how you're getting on and how you are feeling.

Basic guidance on what constitutes a portion of fruit and veg herehere and you can download more detailed information by following the link at the very bottom of the page

Don't worry PSW, I won't stalk you if you don't want to be my friend. I'll understand..[strangled sob]

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veg

(thank you chaps I certainly don't deserve compliments but thank you for kind words anyway)

broccoli - 2 portions
corn
salad starter thing at Pizza express - was nice but small - tomatoes, spinach, yellow peppers

did i say I went to the gym yesterday? I don;t think I did so I am going to say now and try to get a sticker from Pink
I did 45 mins gentle stuff

hi all

no baby yet?

my orodigal son has just been in

apparently he has a job starting tomorrow chasing payments for some friend of his who has an advertising company

he is applying for a shotgun licence

and going back to the rac in october not plumbing

i have been to the gym and swim today

and i shall claim climbing and walking/running there and back for last night..about 5 miles altogether

oh and saw bf yesterday too as he still had flu and was off work so he came to see me

i am trying tpo get back on the exercise properly

UR i forgot to ask ds if he still had the plane ticket, but i am supposedly seeing him tomorrow if he doesnt disappear again

that was wicked to see pics of you FMV - Finally a face to the excellent chick and her name

Good luck to Franny is sounds well about to blow baby out into the big wide world.

I had a muffin, bacon, avocado, tomato, alfalfa sprouts and cream cheese... norty and nice... thats me!!

now off to a birthday boy (3) bash

Gosh Franny you know you'd be a bit of an anomaly if you didn't have a wobble really. As I think i said to you before, I found the end of pg far harder than the new baby stuff - especially the second time. I had a total wobble with dd at the end, the poor thing had watched the same funtime factory video for what felt like weeks, over and over - so when she kicked off and went mad it was quite understandable, and I was so tired I cried into my dinner and decided to not bother having the baby at all as it was too late now and obviously not coming etc etc

You're doing very well and the baby will be here by next week. Some are very late, but nearly all are here by around the 42 week mark.

DD is sleeping but she's breathing very fast.
NHS direct are fine but with breathing things they always get very cautious and want you to see GP - I just think I don't have good instincts with this anymore, I can't tell if it's really really bad or actually not too bad. This seems worse than the pneumonia, but doc said not infection, just asthma - I don't understand the difference and what is actually happening.

Pink we've been friends for ages on FB

I am having my own personal wobble, I sent a friend request to someone and they haven't accepted it. Do they hate me or have they just not logged on? Ah, serves me right, I should have pulled the plug on it months ago. Brings out the worst playground angst ever.

Boco I hope DD2 is OK tonight.

I have been sort of offered a different job at work and I'm wondering if I can get a payrise out of it. Job will no doubt be as dull as current one but more money for just as dull job would be good, just at the moment.

I too was wondering about the induction thing. Can;t remember what you said, Franny, although I see you say you've not committed at this stage.

Franny YES I have been having LOTS of those moments recently, including bursting into tears in front of ds and feeling generally incapable. I know I am in a bit of a weird situation atm, but Franny, you are just about to have a baby... it is totally understandable and you are a wonderful parent. I really mean that.

Boco I hope dd2 is ok too and that you can get a decent sleep

Good evening.

Earlier post was ds2's, not mine.

I have had my hair cutted. It is not quite right. I should have waited and gone with OB and she would have held my hand and shouted when things started to go wrong.
My face looks fat and my forehead bulgy so there will be No Pictures from me.
Still, it will grow.

Ds2 unhappy with school atm, keeps lying down and clinging onto me and making sad faces. Seems okay after I go though. I am only able to leave him like that because his teacher is so lovely and sympathetic.

Dd2 fell over and now has grazed knee, scratched knee and an arm full of stings. She was all wobbly afterwards.

There, those are my woes.

Boco, from my own experience of having asthma, the worrying bit is when you can't talk properly, because that in itself makes you panic and breathe worse.

Fmv, how is ds?

Franny, have a hug and a basket of fruit, you strong, beautiful hippo.

Oh dear TooT you do sound full of woe

Are you ok?

hairdressers = spawn of the cloven footed one.

I told you, grow dreads. No probs on the nasty breeds of shampoo then.

I am trying to talk DH into growing his back. I'm not getting very far. Poop. Still, I shall be a grubby student for 3 years...... Hmmm......

evening.

oh Franny, I was dissolving into sobs all the time in the immediate run-up to ds2. I was a doubty mess. I have never had a high opinion of my parenting and I was quite frankly panicking about what I saw as an inability to cope that would lead us all into disaster. We are all still here, and my boys are lovely despite me.

Boco, sorry dd2's unwell I know what you mean about the terrifyingness of breathing things - my instinct on this was shot to pieces after ds2 was admitted with quite alarming tachypnoea (but otherwise perfectly, perfectly well) at 3 weeks, spent 3 days on a monitor and IV ABs in case of pneumonia. Now I often find myself looking at his little chest and counting breaths. Do you have a peak flow meter for her? Bizarrely, the area between my chin and my throat itches when I get asthmatic. Might be something to watch out for?

Oh, TooT, I cannot imagine your face looking fat, nor your forehead bulgy. A new haircut can be a bit of a shock at first. I must pack your parcel. Stuff is waiting here. And email you. I am So Crap atm.

PSW, I am clearly not your friend I think I have put all the veggers onto my mates now. Bf photos are back up.

I am so tired I feel drunk, although I am stone cold sober. I feel overwhelmed with everything I have to do and how little I seem to get done, how new things keep cropping up all the time, and how rubbish I am at making time for people who care about me and just generally. Yesterday dh had the children a lot of he time while I was dealing with some horrid bureaucracy and afterwards he staggered around saying 'I don't know how you do it'. That was a boost, but there is a small but raging voice in me shouting You Are Crap. There always is. Nobody meeting me briefly would know it. Over here I have learned, of necessity, to project great competence and confidence.

Am off to bed. Night.

Oh Boco, she sounds so unwell . What did you do?

Franny, I often have moments like that. But they always pass and something lovely happens and reminds me that I can do this. But in the moment it can be very hard.

Zippi, let me know whenever you know. No rush.

Toot, you were quick with the hair cutting decision. Does it looka nything like the pics you asked about?

Bero, hope you feel better in the morning.

I wonder how stuffit is.

Banana & Mulberry smoothie
Pineapple
Mango (a whole one )
1/2 Orange
Juice
Redcurrants
Tomato & lettuce
Lentils
Corn
Dried Fruit

I reckon that should be 10. Yippee.

And I made Lemon Curd. I had no idea it was so easy. And I quite like it. I didn't think I liked Lemon Curd. I think I should have a point for that.

Nice new pics, PSW. I'm going to root around and see if I can find any nekkid lovely ones of me.

UR you definitely get a point for making lemon curd. pink might even give you a sticker

Avi I suspect my midwife is a slight renegade in her own way and she has kept me away from consultants. I am 40 + 12 today and here I am not being induced She says in a healthy pg with healthy baby and intelligent mother [preen] who can make her own judgement about how things are going there is no need to hurry things along
which is wonderful when she is there saying it and listening to the heartbeat etc but in between I wish she would come and stand in my sitting room and say it ALL the time

anyway
another midwife coming today for another rummage. Perhaps this one has longer hands or something. Sharper nails . Then I think I am going to ask for monitoring at the hosp on Fri when I will be 40+14. Which will be reassuring but also will undoubtedly put me into the hands of the consultants and hospital midwives. So the induction pressure begins.
just found out a friend of mine went to 43 weeks without being induced. I am going to ring her later

Also think I am going to have reflexology later today. I don't believe in it, does that mean it won't work? Everyone says it is very nice. Plus homeopathic stuff which I also don't believe in. I don't know how I am allowed on this thread really
anyway if I can't get it out by Friday I doubt very much they will let me labour at home. I know they can't actually refuse a midwife but I don't feel particularly like being radical and outlawish at the moment
birthing centre also won't take me over 40+14

come on baby

Boco I think with stuff like this it is too hard on yourself to expect to have the instincts to know when things are ok
I mean it is quite complicated isn't it
I am sorry NHS direct don't help more - I guess breathing things really need to be seen? I do hope she is better today

TooT there is no way on god's earth that a haircut could make your face look fat and your forehead bulgy. If by some means the hairdresser HAS managed to do this then she is probably some kind of wizard.

blueberries, melon, grapes, raisins, nectarine, orange juice: 5

and zippi STOP SAYING NO BABY YET

Franny I am homeopathy sceptic too.

Good luck for today.

Redcurrants blueberries peach. Juice of an orange. 4.

Am going to look at a CM for ds2 today for 3 mornings/week from the autumn. MIL will be coming 2 afternoons/week. (I will work 2.5 days). I never really thought much about the wages-for-SAHM argument but goodness I have now and I agree. But go back I must. It will be alright really, they are a great company to work for and were ridiculously good to me in the pregnancy.

ds1 is in tow and will be 'helping me to choose someone to look after ds2'. Then we are going for a well-earned roam in the boatnic garden.

boatnic garden. Sounds like a park with a big lake in which you can hire rowing boats stocked with picnic hampers.

morning

Orange Juice

I feel like I am swimming through cotton wool today just to stay awake. There is no reason for this that I can fathom, other than I am candida riddled again [sigh]. I ate a lot of cake and other rubbish over the last couple of weeks thanks to dd's birthday and all the refined sugar seems to have unbalanced my flora.

Best of luck with the rummage Franny. Fingers crossed (or are crossed fingers too closed-vibey?) that your cervix is effacing or whatever it is they do.

Sympathy Bero, going back to work when you don't want to is the hardest thing ever . Did I read you are going to train to be a doula?

Boco hope dd is better today.

Hello
I found reflexology didn't do much but it was very nice and relaxing Franny, which is a good thing, and felt all floaty afterwards. It was accupuncture that got things working for me - in my toes!

Bad night with dd, but didn't call dr. She's very wheezy still, but in a very chipper mood. The sound of wheezing is horrid.

Am making camping related lists all the same.