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April 2004 babies part the fourth!

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Yorkiegirl · 10/10/2004 14:57

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Fennel · 13/10/2004 10:45

hi Hunkermonker, welcome to april babies! my dd3 was 10 days late too (born 22 april but due on 12). not fun.

we're all now desperate for more details, lunavix

LucyJones · 13/10/2004 10:45

Oh I see. Perhaps forget the exercises then

hunkermunker · 13/10/2004 10:45

Blimey - trust me to post in the midst of a 'downstairs' issue... If it helps, I'm having similar probs - have an appointment to go to hospital to see if I need to be cut and restitched in Nov. What a way to say hi!

Plus AF visited for the first time since getting pg yesterday - and I go back to work this afternoon - the timing's impeccable, as usual!

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Fennel · 13/10/2004 10:45

is that just since having a baby? was it a vaginal birth?

LucyJones · 13/10/2004 10:46

Good luck with work this afternoon HM

hunkermunker · 13/10/2004 10:47

Thanks Lucy - not looking forward to it. Have a fridge and freezer full of milk (well, as full as several bags of frozen breastmilk and a bottle of fresh) so feel a little better about it, but don't want to leave my baby!

HM

lunavix · 13/10/2004 10:51

hi hunkermunker! I'm new too but i'm already sharing my vagina stories!

maybe i should get restitched... it might be good for dp but its a pain at the moment

fennel - okay i'll say it clearly! If its the dreaded time of the month and i have to do a number two (or is it a number one - i never remember!) i can push way too hard!
it must be a vaginal delivery thing, i was just wondering if it happened to anyone else and if it was a nuisance to them too!

hunkermunker · 13/10/2004 10:55

Hope we're not grossing too many people out here LV! Still, if you've given birth, there's not much that's private any more...!

HM x x

lunavix · 13/10/2004 11:00

Yes I apologise to anyone who still has their dignity and decorum. and i admire it!
I remember about an hour after I had give birth i was there still in stirrups and these two elderly women came in and gave me basially a bed bath head to toe! I was so embarrassed but thankful as I realised shortly after that my legs weren't working! I think that was the exact moment my last ounce of dignity went out the window!

Fennel · 13/10/2004 11:02

Hmm. sounds like things are still recovering from the vaginal delivery. it can take a while. personally I would not go for stitching/restitching so soon after a birth. 6 months on I'm still sore from dd3's delivery (which had no tearing or stitches but I noticed this week, when my periods came back too, how sore i still am)

the correct official mumsnet answer, of course, is to use a MOONCUP. (see various threads on this. Mrs D I hope you are listening )

hunkermunker · 13/10/2004 11:08

OK, without wishing to further gross people out, there's no way a mooncup would work for me - I'm not averse to them at all, just know I'd never be able to put it in the right place, if you get my drift... It's only just OK to use a tampon - sex hasn't happened yet and isn't likely to until I'm 'fixed'! OMG - really need to remember to keep some things private!!

HM x x

Fennel · 13/10/2004 11:13

HM - all of mumsnet is private and anonymous! it is weird that you'd probably recognise someone's vagina before their face if you met them isn't it?

lunavix · 13/10/2004 11:16

Yeah - yet if i mentioned any of this to DP he'd go white and run away....

hunkermunker · 13/10/2004 11:19

LOL! I told DH about AF prob last night and he told me it was TMI and shook his head in disgust. I'd been on the net talking to women for too long - must remember he's 'a bloke' and therefore won't talk of AF and related yuckiness!

I do talk of other things though - don't fret!

HM x x

Chuffed · 13/10/2004 11:21

Sorry didn't mean to disappear, just trying to enter stuff into MN without people behind me seeing what I'm doing so have to jump off now and again.
lunavix it sounds terribly awkward, am going to be a bit graffic now. When doing your pelvic floor exercises can you think squeeze and up as when doing them I can do squeeze and down or squeeze and up. (c-sec so pelvic floor not hurt). Try to concetrate on pulling up towards your stomach.
I'm finding it so hard to leave dd now. When I dropped her off this morning she was the first there and looking at me sitting all alone as I walked out the door. I really dont' want to be here can you tell? At her nursery we bring in all the food until the baby is 1 year old. Part of it is for allergy purposes as they say that the child has to have eaten something twice before you bring it in and hopefully by 1 they have had most foods so you know if there are allergies before they start on school meals.

Welcome hunkermunker I'm piggybacking on this part of the site as dd was actually born end of March but as I was the only one early I feel very at home here on the April site as we did the 'due April' thing together first.

lunavix · 13/10/2004 11:21

Yes same - since haveing DS I have many weaning, nappy, toy, and health topics I can discuss!
I'm sure before I had him there were other things i talked about it but I can't seem to recall them...

Fennel · 13/10/2004 12:19

how come, even with new recruits and very juicy topics we can't keep up with the chatterboxes in May babies?

My theory is it's cos we don't have as many gina ford babies - gina mums have to have endless discussion about how to work the routines. what do you think?

MrsDoolittle · 13/10/2004 12:25

Filling in time before a meeting.
Chuffed - your post reminds me of leaving dd this morning. I think I have been really good leaving her but today I really struggled.
I think it's because yesterday when I went to pick her up , her nursery nurse was giving her her bottle. As she finished she sat her up sharply and started patting her furiously. "oooh, you don't usually burp until after I've finished do you?" Obviously for my benefit. I just wanted to moan, "But I never pat her. I just sit her up straight and she burps away, no problem!"
This really buged me all evening last night. So taking the bull by the horns I said to the nursery nrse to try burping her without patting her. I felt such a heel pointing out something so silly The nursery nurse was okay. Her response being to dd "You're a very complicated child aren't you?"
Has anyone else noticed that? this nursery nurse often talks to me by saying things to my poor little dd who has no idea what she is saying.
I know I am moaning and the nursery are really good. I need to book some annual leave, I think.
It's definately not all roses leaving your lo, lunavix!!

hunkermunker · 13/10/2004 12:29

Not a nursery Mrs D, but my mother in law does the talking to DS but actually talking to me thing - it irritates the hell out of me! Grr!

Hugs!

HM x x

Chuffed · 13/10/2004 12:41

Mentioned to dh how difficult it was to leave dd this morning. He is on am gym sessions this week while I'm doing pm's so he didn't see dd this morning.
His reply to me was well there is only one solution - any way of speeding this up? His solution doesn't involve me resigning...
Any thoughts on speeding things along?

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Yorkiegirl · 13/10/2004 12:43

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Chuffed · 13/10/2004 12:49

Have you got one of those sucker things that can suck the snot out. dd hates it when I have to do it but it does clear out the nose a bit. I picked it up at the local chemist...doesn't look quite as snazzy as the one in the php catalogue but does the trick.

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Yorkiegirl · 13/10/2004 12:51

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LucyJones · 13/10/2004 12:55

Chuffed do you mean speeding things along to have another baby !!

Chuffed · 13/10/2004 12:56

It is called a nasal aspirator and looks a bit like the one here