Feb '06 Chatterboxes

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Too brain dead to come up with an imaginative title!

CAMERON, Birthdate 6th Jan, Due 28th Jan, Weight 5lbs 13oz, Born to Teuch, Baby no 1, Lives Inner Hebridean Island, Gas & air and morphine
PEYIA, Birthdate 23rd Jan, Due 4th Feb, Weight 6lbs 12.5oz, Born to TicTac, Baby no 1, Lives Horwich, Lancs, Gas & air only
ALEXANDER, Birthdate 24th Jan, Due 4th Feb, Weight ??, Born to Yeahbut, Baby no 3, Lives Holland, Elective c-section
CAITLIN ERIN MONICA, Birthdate 25th Jan, Due 10th Feb, Weight 8lbs 10.5oz, Born to Womba1, Baby no 3 (1 stillborn), Lives Eastbourne, Elective c-section
MAISIE, Birthdate 26th Jan, Due 7th Feb, Weight 8lbs 5.5oz, Born to ellenrose, Baby no 3, Lives Bristol, Induction due to SPD
JESSICA HELEN, Birthdate 30th Jan, Due 9th Feb, Weight 5lbs 11oz, Born to JuA, Baby no 2, Lives Chorley, Lancs, Elective c-section. Twin 1.
EMILY ROSE, Birthdate 30th Jan, Due 9th Feb, Weight 6lbs, Born to JuA, Baby no 2, Lives Chorley, Lancs, Elective c-section. Twin 2.
ELIZABETH GRACE, Birthdate 3rd Feb, Due 3rd Feb, Weight 8lbs 5oz, Born to Kando, Baby no 3, Lives Holland,
PETER, Birthdate 6th Feb, Due 12th Feb, Weight 7lbs 9oz, Born to popmum, Baby no 2, Lives Herts,
LAUREN EMMA, Birthdate 6th Feb, Due 22nd Feb, Weight 6lbs 14oz, Born to Morgan, Baby no 2, Lives Dubai,
PHILIPPA ROSE, Birthdate 8th Feb, Due 2nd Feb, Weight 9lbs, Born to CSWS (Tabs), Baby no 1, Lives North Herts, TENS and gas & air
LEWIS JAMES, Birthdate 9th Feb, Due 31st Jan, Weight 9lbs 2oz, Born to PhoenixGirl (Cuffyj1/lewsmummy), Baby no 1, Lives Barnsley, emerg c-section
SETH PETER, Birthdate 9th Feb, Due 1st March, Weight 7lbs, Born to angedemarche (Jangus), Baby no 2, Lives NI, Elective c-secion
EVIE HARRIET, Birthdate 10th Feb, Due 29th Jan, Weight 9lbs, Born to Hotmama, Baby no 2, Lives Nottingham, emerg c-section
RHUARIDH GEORGE, Birthdate 11th Feb, Due 20th Feb, Weight ??, Born to MrsDoolittle, Baby no 2, Lives Newbury, Water birth
BEN, Birthdate 12th Feb, Due 2nd Feb, Weight 8lbs 4oz, Born to 3K, Baby no 1, Lives Gravesend, Kent, c-sec after failure to dilate sufficiently
OSCAR, Birthdate 12th Feb, Due 13th Feb, Weight 9lbs 10oz, Born to Chloe55, Baby no 1, Lives West Yorkshire, Pethidine, epi & lots of stitches!
LUTHER, Birthdate 14th Feb, Due 6th Feb, Weight 8lbs 8oz, Born to NotAnOtter (4blue1pink), Baby no 5, Lives ??,
ANYA OLIVE CATRIONA, Birthdate 20th Feb, Due 8th Feb, Weight 7lbs 9oz, Born to Popadopalis, Baby no 1, Lives Bedford,
BRAM THOMAS, Birthdate 21st Feb, Due 11th Feb, Weight 9lbs 15oz, Born to mustrunmore (Ixel), Baby no 2, Lives N London, c-sec
LUCA, Birthdate 21st Feb, Due 18th Feb, Weight 8lbs 3oz, Born to 2boysmacca, Baby no 2, Lives N Essex, Home birth
IMOGEN ROSAMOND, Birthdate 23rd Feb, Due 2nd March, Weight 7lbs 9oz, Born to Ags, Baby no 2, Lives Kent, Elective c-section
EMRYS JOHN, Birthdate 24th Feb, Due 24th Feb, Weight 8lbs 5oz, Born to Flamesparrow, Baby no 2, Lives Bournemouth, Home birth
ISABEL ERIKA, Birthdate 24th Feb, Due 3rd March, Weight 7lbs 5.5oz, Born to Amiable, Baby no 1, Lives North London, Gas & air and epidural. DH German
RORY JOHN, Birthdate 25th Feb, Due 23rd Feb, Weight 10lb 2oz, Born to dewmeadow, Baby no 2, Lives County Tyrone, Ireland, emerg c-section
LEON JASON, Birthdate 26th Feb, Due 18th Feb, Weight 7lbs 13oz, Born to Jelley (Jasnem), Baby no 3, Lives Waltham Abbey, Rapid labour, ventouse and episiotomy
SALLY ANIELA, Birthdate 28th Feb, Due 28th Feb, Weight 8lbs 13oz, Born to Thell, Baby no 1, Lives London, Water birth at home
NEVE, Birthdate 4th March, Due 27th Feb, Weight 8lbs 11oz, Born to Frizbe, Baby no 2, Lives Ripley, Derbyshire, Water birth
ALFRED WILLIAM, Birthdate 4th March, Due 27th Feb, Weight 9lbs 15oz, Born to damewashalot (Helen38), Baby no 3, Lives Warwickshire,

We are lucky in some ways because DD has narrow feet, but the high instep makes the width bigger iyswim, so although she ends up about a G in total rather than already being a G and then the instep making it that much bigger.

We always end up with startrite for "sensible shoes" CR (or are you CS now?) - hence the only buying em once or twice a year at most with g/dad money!!! Luckily boots fit clarks, sandals were startrite (more down to prettiness ) and they were only about £3 more than the clarks.

Far too much thinking about shoes - sorry!!

How you doin today Macca?

Morning. Sorry about my little outburst last night.

Does anyone else have the problem of changing nappies? Ds usually ends up, on his tummy, while I'm desperately trying to clean him before there is a poo trail along the floor. I am exhausted by the time I finish.

Both boys have Geox trainers. I love 'em

I got a visitor in bed at about 11 last night. Ds climbed in and said he wanted a cuddle. After about 5 mins, I realised his night nappy was soaked through and so was I and the bed! Quick change for him and he was back in bed. Not sure what happened as he went to the loo as usual before bed.

Another load of washing to go out on the line, then a trip into town to post some letters. Got a note through the door at some point yesterday (which I only found last night), a friend is back from Dubai and staying around the corner so I will hopefully meet up with her and hers before they jet back home.

Morning,

We're rich Our loan money has gone in today, shame its nearly all for work on the house. We'll get a few treats out of it tho i'm sure. I've been looking for a cottage in Cornwall for a week in September.

Ooo, 3 weeks til I go to Cornwall Without kids

Thanks for that link to the for sales

I did a run for an hour last night Very slow (only did 8.5km in that time ), but at least it was non stop. There's light at the end of the tunnel!

Can I ask a question for the unknowing? With these mooncups, why do they make them with a bit that you have to cut off? Are they a bad design, or why dont they just make them without in the first place? I think I'm the only mnetter who doesnt have a clue about them now!

I dont have a ds1 today, I have a garlic apparently (ie a dalek)

I have always assumed it is there in the making process and it saves money for them to have people cut it off themselves that have to trim and finish it iyswim. This way they can just take it out of the mould/mold?? and be done.

Yes macca, changing dirty nappies is a nightmare here too.

mooncupit is a cup bit with a "stalk" at the base. The stalk is optional. Apparently some women use it to help remove it.I can't imagine how huge your fanjo must be to need to leave the whole stalk on to be able to find the thing though. They aren't that small that you could lose them!

You really should just buy one and give it a try.

for running, holiday, and money (You do know you have to pay the money back though)

I had the dds hair cut last night. No battle to get it in bunches/plaits any more

Would it dislodge when I was runnnig?
They're so expensive ( I know I'd get the cost of all the tampax back in the long run blah blah, but if I dont like it, I can hardly ebay it afterwards )

Oh my god! Just read that bit... hair cut short??

Morning,

PG - I didn't get paid when ds was poorly in my old job either - not sure about this job but I bet it will be the same - sucks doesn't it?

CSWS - Thanks for the advice re the bags, I really didn't think I'd have much luck on here but thought I'd give it a go before Ebay, one of them is Gucci don't you know And, I've kept another gorgeous one that she had! Problem is, most of them were very expensive - my Grandad would splash out on her when he was alive and half of them she has hardly used, seems such a shame to throw them away so thought I'd give it a go at trying to flog them, don't hold out much hope though.

Back to taking my diet seriously now, I have put on in the last 3 weeks (only 0.5lbs each time but still) So, running as often as I can and stopping eating crap.

Well done on the run MRM.

Not that short, just in a bob. DD1s was short enough to need a few stray hairs cut on her neck with a shaver. (DD1 and I would happily have hers really short but dp won't let her.)

mrm - do tampax fall out when you run? If not, then a mooncup def wouldn't

I'm baffled how women pull it out by the stalk without it hurting like hell - I need to break the suction a bit.

Photos of hair please

Chloe We will write "put the chocolate down!" every now and then to scare you

I didn't take any. I will do some later/tomorrow.

lol at put the choc down Chloe

I didn't take any. I will do some later/tomorrow.

lol at put the choc down Chloe

I can't decide whether it's warm or not out there.

Off tot he park in 10 minutes. I've put ds2 down for a very quick nap (20 mins) so I can make it back in time without him having a meltdown.

Just received £25 vouchers from Waitrose I found a piece of plastic in one of their pasta's. It'll go a short way towards next weeks groceries.

Well done on the run MRM - slow took me an hour and 20 minutes to run 10.8k and I was knackered so you're way ahead of me

Put the chocolate down Chloe - that goes for me too . . .

Who cares about timing girls, it's the actual exercise that counts. Our wobbly bits don't come off any faster if we tell them we are running faster

It was cold down the park. I had icicles on my nipples

I think the mooncup tails are intentional. I did find it useful having it there whilst I got used to using it, although I couldn't have left it all long term, as I could often feel it before I cut it. I do need some tail though. Apparently (according to smear nurse) I'm quite long down there .

Am tired of all this talk of running and diets - can't anyone just have no will power or motivation like me?!

Well no wakes in the end last night, and dd slept for 12 hours (well, bar a few mins, but let's not be picky!).

My bad news for the day is that I got a +ve OPK, but dh isn't back until tomorrow night, so no chance for this month again. No wonder it took us so many years to conceive the first time!!!

Hope the bags go better on ebay Chloe.

Right, off to prepare something for dd to chuck about for dinner tonight . She's only napping for an hour these days, so don't have long to mess about!

One woman with no motivation or enthusiasm standing up to be counted

Shame on you ladies

Dunce at the back shouts, what's an OPK?

Ovulation Prediction Kits. (You wouldn't believe how long it tookme to work out)

Ohhh!

You may still be lucky csws. Don't they show positive for a day or so anyway? If not, you'll be grateful it took you a while longer to conceive in a few months when they start to enter an even more demanding stage and you're trying to cope with them whilst totally exhausted and throwing up all the time

ds2 finally dropped off. He's been in his cot, humming for well over an hour.

Cheese and potato pie for tea over here. Ds loves it, and I might even throw in a fishcake for him too

I don't do morning sickness macca. Felt great throughout my pregnancy (apart from the SPD of course) . I'll console myself this month with the fact that I didn't really fancy a Christmas baby, but after 6 years of taking folic acid continuously bar the first 7 months of dd's life, I would really like it not to take too long this time around!! Besides which, dh is knocking on a bit you know .

You only have 12-24 hours after ov before the egg perishes btw, and normally ov within 12-36 hours of +OPK. It might have been +ve yesterday if I'd bothered to do one - my CM (cervical mucous before you ask for another translation ) is a really good indicator so I can time my testing to get the max number of months out of a pack of test strips .

We're having a chicken fricasse style casserole with brown rice and roasted squash and sweet potato. Cheese pie sounds yummy but forbidden!

Cold? Cold?! I have just had a little run with the dog and nearly perished in the heat!!!

I am slightly at all of you TTC. I won't be beginning to try until September - I have a holiday booked and it was awful when I was pg on my holiday in 2005. But, I feel really ready to try again now, not that are finances are though either so it makes sense to wait. I keep having to tell myself that!

Ovulation Mucous? What happened to plain old discharge

At 10am this morning, when the sun was not out and the park was under total cloud, it was cold!

Honestly, enjoy having just the one for the moment. You'll never ever be able to replace these precious one on one times. I'm still thinking of going for number 3