Feb '06 - thread one billion and something...

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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.
T, Birthdate late Jan, Due 18th Feb, Weight 6lbs 13.5oz, Born to ChasingSquirrels, Baby no 2, Lives Cambridgeshire, Unassisted homebirth with no pain relief.
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,

I just put a fiver on Phoenix

Macca - I just had to go back and look for the dummy, i never noticed it the first time probably cos Lewis has always got his in

csws - how did dd manage to get out of her sleeping bag??

I can't remember anything else

I did go to the counselling, and ds was fine, sat nicely in his buggy for almost the whole hour. I'm going back in two weeks and it is a non toddler group day, so I will leave him with my friend this time.

Lunch was good. It was good to have a moan and listen to the others (some of their problems make me realise that however much I moan about dp, he really is a Good Thing in my life)

Thanks for asking

DG is bugging me too, but no idea why he is there, I'm trying not to look.

DG?

Glad you decided to go out int he end. I think we all need to hear others moan as it usually makes us feel much better about our own circumstances

DG - David Gest

DG is bloody irritating

Doh! It sums up my day, not even remembering what I wrote.

I was going Dearest Girlfriend, Dearest Girl,

There is bu**er all on tv tonight. I wish dh was out so I could watch the Apprentice and ER. He's off to watch the footie on Sunday (yawn) so I'll have all afternoon and night to watch it

CSWS dd2 has started wiggling out of one side of her bag, but can only get the one arm out at the mo, I have no idea how she does it!

Chloe, don't worry running is alien to me to, but Macca and MRM are right, one day it does suddenly get easier MRM don't forget one day,when you think you've lost nothing, you find it all suddely drops off and you find yourself wondering why it took so long? make sense?

OK Macca are you ready then???
Exercise one: sit on a bench with a weight of your choice in one hand (hand facing inwards, weight dangling to floor) life arm up in front of you to shoulder height, hold for one and take down again. Repeat 3 x 12

Exercise two: Sit on bench, this time with two weights at your side, lift arms out to side, at same time, hold for one and lower, Repeat 3 x 12

Exercise 3: Sit on bench, weights on floor, lean forwards, chest on knees, pick up both weights and lift to shoulder height, Repeat 3 x 12

Exercise 4: Kneel on bench with left leg, right leg on floor, use left hand to steady you, right hand holds weight, start with arm at full stretch and lift to chest and lower 3 x 12.

Does any of that make sense?

Jel, glad councilling was ok

Macca forgot to say, suit was cruel

Oooh and my cousin I can now happily say is 14 weeks preggers

Oh Yay!!!!!!!!

You probably don't remember, but this sort of time last year one of the workers at preschool lost her baby (edwards syndrome)... she had her final day today before maternity leave I am sooo pleased for her.

I do remember that Flame, so big yay for her too

Friz, got ya. thought they were for bat wings not love handles. I'll make sure I do them tomorrow Tomorrow I will officially be a member of the local gym, making me £7.00 better off each week (direct debit is linked to dh's a/c although he doesn't know that shhh)

He loved the suit. He wanted to be the Crocodile once that one had come off but someone beat him to it!

at what time do I need to get on here tomorrow Flame to get the Big Announcement?

Yay for pregnant people!

PG - I put her in an 18-36 month bag last night, as her others are getting a bit short, and I wondered if it was contributing to her troubled sleep recently. She undid the poppers on one shoulder, and then presumably wriggled out of the resulting hole!

Glad counselling went well.

No David Guest here. I have an adblocker installed.

Oh cr*p... erm.. evening?

Not done any of the set up and about to go off for the night

Ah, but Frizbe, this time it wont drop off. I've punished my body too much with 2 babies Csws and Jas will confirm that I still look the same old shit as ever, as they've seen me recently.

I did manage 9km today though in a very slow time, an hour

However, for what its worth Chloe, here's a couple of pointers off the top of my head:

1. You dont need an actual runnnig partner, just someone to compete against re times or distances or speeds. last week ofr example, i wrote what a friend had just run on a bit of paper and stuck it on the treadmill in front of me. Thought it looked impossible, bure because I felt the compulsion to equal it, I did (and slightly surpassed )

2.I choose ignore the first xxx minutes seeing it as a warm up. The nwhen you actually finish, you've done more than you think. Eg I used to ignore the first 5 when I was starting out, then up to the first 15 because it was a nice number, then 20 because thats where the benefits start to kick in. Now if I'm doing a longer run, I'll ignore the first half hour. This prob makes no sense to you! But for me, it works.

1. Vary your runs alot eg short and fast one day, then go for long and slow, then interval training (eg 2 mins as fast as you poss can, then 2 min fast walk, repeat). that way, you work diff muscles in a diff way.

1. Set your heart on a new tops or bottoms, and then set a goal with which you can reward yourself

1. Do lots of other types of things too, to help the runnnig; I'm currently starting back on the dreaded squats! I used to do alot eg 3 sets of 20 reps with 60kg on the smiths machine. Now I can only do half a dozen just in the house with no weight

1. To keep me going on longer runs, I do alot of maths in my head eg how far I've done at current pace, how many seconds I could knock off if I increasded by whatever speed etc etc. Sad, but it kills time and stops you thinknig too much about the pain or boredom or whatever the problem is.

7.Music really helps. I've run to Mika every day for 7 days now because I love every track on the cd, and I'm livid I didnt get tickets for the concert in Somerset House.

1. If you get stitch, run with your arm in the air. It'll go then.

1. If you want to stop, dont. But slow down. Just keep moving.

10. Think about how much better sex is the fitter you are.

11. Peppermint helps you run faster, so take some chewing gum, and promise it to yourself after a certain time or distance. I take a few for really long runs, and eeek then out along the time as they lose theor taste.

I'll try and think of more for you tooo. Maybe more useful ones.

Macca; definitely very very cute. But then aghain, you havent seen alot of the boys clothes Ds1 went to nursery today in his tartan trousers and a handknitted lemon colour Val Doonican jumper with crossover neck!

Csws; you'll just have to keep wondering about the ups and downs

will log on in evening too then Flame

I think they do both TBH Macca, although I did specifically request them for the old handles

CSWS so how is my dd getting out of hers then??? our sleeping bag has no poppers?

Ah csws Lewis is in 18-36 too has been for a while but they haven't got poppered shoulders just a zip up the front so i don't think he could get out of his.

Do I get the long posting cap now?

Is it a grobag csws? I thought the grobags were central zips after the intital 6 month one for that very reason. Well, mine have always had zips

I don't have david Guest, phew, got SOS children.

MRM it will, it's just taking a little longer than last time, positive thinking me dears, I know that's easier said than done, but trust me, it will suddenly decide to go!

Gona go and cuddle sleepy dh now, before he sulks off to bed, may catch you all later, may not!

MRM yes, you do, I handover my posting cap

MRM i like your pointers. My only issue with stitch (which I always get) is that running with your arms in the air only works ona treadmill, not out and about

I don't like the one about ignoring the first 5 mins, then 15 etc otherwise I'd be only running for 5 minutes . You can tell you're a real runner and not just playing at it. I think you're really harsh on yourself, speaking as someone who was fincredibly fit pre children. I know I'll never get that peak fitness back and I'd just make myself really unhappy if I believed I could. To be able to do what you are doing with 2 kids is pretty astounding. I manage just once a week! Pushing yourself is good, torturing yourself is not. I applaud you

Speech over!

Yes it's a grobag. 2 out of 3 of her 6-18 month ones had poppers too, with the third having the zip down the front.

Actually mrm, you're looking lots better now than when we first saw you after we all gave birth. It's me who looks worse - I've put on about a stone since then .

Chloe - is it you who loves eeyore? The name is up for grabs if you want it.

Maybe they are fakes

Wow thanks MRM, some really useful tips there - never knew about the peppermint. Unfortunately I have had one of the worst headaches ever today so my running trainers became redundant and I'm really pissed off coz didn't exercise yesterday either. Currently dosed up on painkillers and desperately hoping my headache passes for the weekend.

I don't get this name auction thing - what's it all about?