D'ya ever wonder who passed the responsibility for starting a new d'ya ever wonder thread...

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It was ruby... she passed it to the newbie!

Tomster brought his PS2 downstairs onto our living room telly. He did it in the Summer holidays and it all worked out well.

He is on playing on Guitar Hero!! I love all music except heavy metal....my ears are bleeding...I hate Black Sabbath!! He keeps shouting 'Mum, Muuuuuuuuuuuuuum watch the screen I have hit 500 notes perfectly and I win 'stuff' for doing it!!!

Im fighting the urge to tell him its not real...

lol, tell him... My bro thinks his g/f is really sad for being obsessed with the Twilight series and just won't have it that his Xbox obsession is just as sad! He thinks it is superior because the games are "well good" lol... He is 18, he should know better!

LOL - the funniest thing last night was my DS1 (27yrs) playing the same game against Tom!!! He had a major strop and sulk because Tom beat him. They were almost at 'punch up' level and Lew sat on my knee looking at them as if they were mad!! Lew had a face like this

Lads - dont you just love them

Awww shite poo Tom is now playing 'The Devil went down to Georgia!!' He has to go very fast and is managing to do it - although I have noticed beads of sweat on his bum fluff ever appearing moustache

Wonder if there is any Tamla Motown on this game?

Aww! love the bum fluff tache! Lovely!

DH's friends 32 and 31 take every tuesday off work to play Xbox. They sit in a darkened room facing away from each other, each with their own TV and couch and spend about 18 hours smoking, drinking beer and playing XBox. One is in a new relationship but one is married and will soon have a baby, I don't fancy being his wife, trying to extricate him from that situation! lol

Can I ask you how many weeks you were when you delivered. I was told I may not make it as far as the 37 weeks I was originally told, and that delivery might end being way before. Am desperately trying not to think along any road leading to a length of time in scbu, but it's hard you know. Even coughing or sneezing makes me cross my legs really tight.

OK Rubester - ta!!

Thanks Celia, it's good to hear positive stories

We're waiting for ds to be brought home, H has 15 minutes left before he gets the wrath of my dad

Wrath of your Dad LOL - thats great!!

Come on Man City whoooo hooooo beating Arsenal 4-2 Come on you Bllllllllllllllues!!

Well fuck me, he's here

Glad the contact is going OK dizzy. You sound a lot more confident now.

PMSL Dizzy - I hope you said that in a posh voice - its even funnier when people swear poshly (I have a strong feeling that is not a word but - what the hell )

Hi

I ate too much.

love fg

estar, i have really bad spd, and find my3 pronged belt great. But i have only had it a week, previously i had just a one layer thing, i think they do it on the size of your mump and the level of support you need?I refered myself to the womens health physio at my local hospital and went on to the poor receptionist how much i was suffering and needed an appointment, and got one with in a week. They should be able to fit you with a belt and check you out. I have the crutches too, but as im pretty housebound atm, they are not getting much use!! i hope it improves for you, and u get the support u need

lol mump.

**bump!!

Shabs we love guitar hero type games, I'm useless but dh is quite competitive. We love love love rock/metal/goth/industrial. Watching all 5 dcs headbanging around the living room makes my day. Send Tomster here for a while.

FG I know the feeling well, I'm here when you need me.

Advice I'm due to meet a mum (or dad) at dd's reception class party tomorrow who recently had prem b/g dts, heartbreakingly the girl hasn't made it and the boy twin is currently in SCBU touch and go. I'd really like to help but not sure how to since I don't actually know the family as yet, dh has been doing the school run. I spoke to her on the phone this morning and and spent the next half hour sobbing. I'm not sure if she knows me as "the mum with all the children" from the nursery and will my having b/g twins mean I should actually try to shield her from them? Is there anything practical outsiders can do when someone has a baby in SCBU? Dh immediately asked if she's a MNer (I have no idea) and suggested if not I should of course point her here for advice/support.

Pixi, I'm not really 'qualified' to give advice on that..........but I'd guess......don't hide anything, you can't feel embarrassed about having your children. Its just the toss of the cards. And speak straight. Shoot from the hip. If you feel uncomfortable and like you just don't know what to say, just say that. IMHO, its the silences people have a problem with.

She is a mum of twins. She always will be. It must be bittersweet right now. So raw.

I wouldn't hide your twins......you can always ask. When I had my DTs, I was put on a ward with another mum of DTs. Hers were in SCBU and the nurses asked her in advance if she'd mind me being there. She didn't. Not a bit. Different I know....but......just say what you mean.

You can always cook something. Food never goes wrong.

How awful. Difficult situ.

Yeah pixi, I think you should point her in this direction, and to all the other threads she might be able to get support from. You'll know better what kind of support she might need when you meet her, it's difficult to tell beforehand. Gosh how difficult for you and how kind of you. I can't imagine how terrible she must be feeling, what an awful, awful situation.

Thanks FG I usually do find the straight talking approach the best and did ask her some questions outright. In my mind it must be harder for parents with another child/ren to look after as well. I guess whomever they are spending time with they have guilt. I have no idea if they have family to help etc. If they do make it tomorrow I will try to find out if there is anything I can do. It means so much, being a fellow twin mum, esp as they are g/b same as mine, I can't help thinking just how lucky I am. There were extra hugs all round in my house today.

Dh has foot in mouth syndrome so I'll be holding my breath wondering which parents he'll offend. He once told one of my best friends that someone on the news should swallow a bullet, this same friend had just lost her dad a few months earlier when his gun met his mouth. Dh honestly doesn't do it with malice, later when I point it out he'll be really upset and fret. I sit and cringe.

thanks too curiosity. I just really don't like seeing people unhappy so try to do what I can to help where and when I can. I'm also forever making dh to stop and help people with their cars and so on, otherwise they play on my mind for hours after. I think it's probably because I spent so much time feeling sad and lonely when I was a child I need to spread a bit of love now. I probably try to do too much, but feel I should be doing more. I think studying psychology could be very very good for me .

Ooo, I'd be same as you in that situation Pixi, I hate saying the wrong thing so if I know in advance it's likely to happen, I stress about it loads. I've been in a situation twice where I've been chatting away to people then later discovered that they lost twins prem or conceived twins and lost one before 12 weeks. In one of the situations I had been moaning about how hard twins were; in the other I had been gushing about how wonderful they were. Neither seemed to have offended or upset them so I'm not sure which approach was better! They were both valuable learning opportunities tho...

Hope it goes ok and that you can offer some kind of support. Just the fact that you care and are aware means you'll probably do okay with it.

lucya, I will make sure I do plenty of moaning to the hospital and see what I can get (thanks for the link curiosity). I just had the single belt thing before. DH can't believe that's all available and is determined to fashion me some kind of industrially elasticated nappy that holds the pelvis together from every angle. He also thinks it's ridiculous there's no medication that can be given to reduce the production of relaxin until the end of the pregnancy.

Life is very simple in DH's mind. If something doesn't work, you find a black and white solution and fix it. Apparently if he ran the world, nothing would ever go wrong.