April 2009 - Episode 13 - 'I've been looking for the exit for months!'

[Schulte]

Fanjo Warriors, here we are

Swali I had a big bleed at fourteen weeks with DS2, was apparently a blood vessel on my cervix. Hope things are okxx

Surprise - I am breastfeeding. Notice I didn't say "still"
Who has been negative? I seem to have been fortunate in that have never had any comments and I nursed Ellen until she was 2.5yrs.

Oh and bloody go on you re applying to be a BFC.

Oh that's good news Swali, you must be feeling relieved.

I sometimes wish I was still bf. I can't imagine why anyone would feel they have the right to make a negative comment. I hope you don't listen x

Hazel had an ultrasound of her bladder and kidney today - so far it all looks fine. She was so good, lying still for the sonographer. I can't believe how much she's grown up. Even DH now sometimes pines for a tiny baby

Oh and Bicnod, no news on the house. We think it may all be off. Or in any case, if the dilly dallying goes on much longer then we'll just pull out. We were so looking forward to having a proper garden for summer and now summer is pretty much over so we may as well stay in our little cottage and enjoy our open fires over winter.

But I am a little bit bitter about it all.

my friends comment 'she looks funny BF at that size' and had a few frowns whilst out and about. She is very long and probably looks older than she is? She is still a baby and she is so fractious if I don't feed her. Even my mum asked when I'll be stopping, then spent a day with us out and about when it was difficult to stop and feed and couldn't believe how her mood changed when she wanted feeding and then again when I had fed her and then my mum concluded she is definitely not ready to stop!

Is Hazel ok Schulte? Sorry I missed why she hhad to have an ultrasound? Totally different, but my dad had an ultrasound of his kidney today they found a 7 cm cyst, not sure what that means for him?

My sis is on the labour ward now....woohoo!!!

Fingers crossed for your sister, hope it all goes well. Hazel had a UTI back in April or May and they like to check that everything is as it should be anatomically when babies get UTIs just to rule out underlying causes.

ah, at least the scan hasn't shown anything. Fingers crossed for no more UTI's.

Schulte, I posted on the other thread and said I did not think they were shouting at you. They are just a bunch of silly English women getting as excised as a bunch of Victorians over it all. I just saw them getting their knickers in a twist, not actually shouting.

LOL at tearoom lampshade! I had the temerity to suggest one of the devices looked like a pop up tent and that was like agitating a wasps' nest, thread-wise. they accused me of making fun of them. I wasn't - it really did!

Glad scan was OK.

Swali, how do they know it's not placenta praevia? I forget where you are but have you considered popping down to the fetal medicine centre in London for a private scan? They're very thorough.

my sis has been sent home! I am really confused as her DP sent a text saying 'we are on way home, labour is progressing well so they don't think she will have to be induced but we will go back tomorrow if nothing happens overnight'. I don't really get that, if labout is progressing well why would they 'think' she won't have to be induced? I know they are probably sending her home as her original plan was a homebirth
but she is 15 days over tomorrow and been having contractions (although bearable) since 7 pm yesterday and not got anywhere dilatation wise.

I do hope she gets the birth she wants but part of me wish she'd stayed in.

Boff I see they are getting upset about what you said too. I agree with you but I will not post on that thread again. Apparently I am a narrow minded, militant member of the breastfeeding mafia.

Surprise, maybe she's just contracting without dilating? It may well pick up overnight. I bet they have told her to go back in tomorrow morning if nothing happens. How exciting!

When I stood in the hospital car park this morning I looked up at the windows of the delivery suite and thought of the two birth experiences I had there. I still can't get over how DH told me while I was in labour that it was fine to stand in front of the window naked because they were mirror glass and people from outside wouldn't be able to see anything. Well, they are so NOT mirror glass!

Ahem. I should have read your post properly Surprise since I have only just repeated what you said. Oooops. Sorry!

Me too, Schulte.

That's why Felix gets Hipp formula.

I reckon they should all be forced into a German sauna for a while. That would show them how to behave.

Right, that lot really got on my tits (almost literally). After insulting all the more rabid posters, more richly and extensively than Schulte ever did, I now appear to have flounced.

Only I am not sure if that means you just flounce from the thread, or whether you have to flounce dramatically from the whole of MN. Yikes!

I am breastfeeding. In fact since he has 8 teeth coming through at once at the moment I seem to have gone back to the breastfeeding levels of a 3 month old.

Breastfeeding Moo also. Think she may be getting her second set of molars in actually too...grouchy sleepless baby.

Oooh Boff I saw that. I applaud you. Apparently there is a thread about that thread. I wonder where?

Any news Surprise?

Bronze, evie too has gone back to feeding like a three-month old.

My sis had her baby, a girl, yesterday 9lb 2 in the birthing pool with only gas and air and didn't even know she was out! Wish I had had a water birth then! She is adorable, have been to see her twice already

Congrats to your sister! Birthing pools are ace IMO.

I think the thread about the thread is my flouncing thread.

Anyway, stopped bothering about those silly women as DH took me to Jules Holland and Alison Moyet at Audley End House last night. Very nice date (even if Felix in our absence apparently thought he'd been orphaned and cried himself to sleep!)

Holly is the same, but by jove is she growing so I guess that's why??

Surprise - Congrats to your sister. Does Evie seem huge to you now? My friend had a little boy recently and my children seemed enormous.

I was also surprised how nervous I was holding him.

I think you're always more nervous holding someone else's newborn... because you KNOW they are going to be watching you like hawks to make sure you don't drop the precious baby

And congratulations to your sister, Surprise.

I want a water birth!

Congratulations Surprise! One of my best friends down the road has a newborn. It's all I can do not to be down there every day .