October 2004 - Moose massive, part 3

[beansprout]

Does anyone want to come and play here? There's loads of space!

Also, where can I get a knitted uterus? I quite fancy that - instead of stretching mine anymore, I could just pop baby in knitted one and unpick a few stitched every week until baby is ready to come out and then I could painlessly undo the whole thing to let baby out...

Good for you in your heels Bibi.

Turtle - spend that steam wisely if it's in short supply. Sorry to sound like a drone, but are you swigging floradix? I do think it can keep the anaemia at bay, although it tastes like liquid rust.

Turtle - I've run out of steam too. This evening was going to be the start of my daily walk up the very long steep hill at the top of our lane but I've sat on my (increasingly large) bum watching soaps instead. Oh well, maybe tomorrow.

Ohmigod - it's 9.30. Way past my bedtime! Night all.

What is floradix? if it's gonna give me some more energy then great. I feel like my bump is streching when I go walking? I also seem to get a sore back pretty quickly which is frightening for 24 weeks!! must start doing the pilates again

Time for sleeps for me too

When we went to parentcraft ante-natal classes before DD1 was born, we didn't see any knitted uteruses (uteri??) but there was a plastic pelvis which the midwife rammed a doll through. I think they did a similar sketch on Ab Fab last year! We all had to pick an item out of a bag and describe it to the rest of the group. Poor DH got the breast pump, which just made him more shy.

Turtle35 - thoroughly recommend Floradix for a pick-me-up, though it has got an acquired taste and is also not available on prescription and costs about £8 in the healthfood shops. I have taken it before and after the DDs were born (I don't eat meat and my iron levels are always borderline) and it has really helped.

I of course, have a partially emroidered uterus, rather than a knitted one, having had a c-section.

Steam? Yeah. Used to have steam. Must dig out gym contract and see if being pg means I can temporarily stop payment. Although somehow I doubt it.

Bought a pg exercise tape from chazza shop, but think it's a bit bouncy in a jane fonda hangover early nineties kind of a way. dd and I did the first five mins yesterday which was a laugh though.

Bean, sleep any better last night?

Have had something approaching a normal night of sleep so almost feel human today!!! Hurrah!

Dp made me drink Floradix once, the packaging looks like weedkiller and yep, that's the taste too.

When I go to yoga there is a plastic pelvis and "baby" on the side. The baby has a big plastic head and its body looks like it is made out of stuffed tights, which, even to my untrained eye, leads me to figure that the head is the shocker bit and the rest just follows....

(Points to head) up here for thinking, (points to feet) down here for dancing....

Hi all
was off hoime with a bad cold yesterday and did lots of sleeping so feel a bit better today.

I can also recommend the Floradix (magic potion) and it is even better if you take it mixed in with some orange juice - takes away the metallic taste.
Florence - our DS started potty training yesterday in creche. Poor lamb got little sleep on Sunday (can a 2-year-old get excited?) and as a result was very teary going in yesterday. He did OK though, especially last night when we got home. Seeing him in his big boy vest and pants made me realise how very quickly he has grown. Sniff - how will I be when DB (last instalment in the trilogy) reaches that milestone and all my babies will be growing up???

Got some maternity bargains in Benetton at the weekend so the wearable wardrobe is a bit better. Still feel like a total moose though, and am focusing on fruit this week rather than chocolate!

Talk later.

Beansprout - yes, the head is the slightly painful bit! My theory with all unpleasant things is not to think about them until they happen. I am not thinking about the birth at all - I have had one emergency c/s (so my uterus is partially embroidered like Toots' ) and one very speedy normal delivery with no pain relief . So I have no idea what will happen with this baby and am not even bothering to write a birth plan.
I'm just focussing on the nice bit, when they give you your new baby and you can't stop smiling.

Class was good, although sadly lacking in the knitted uterus demo department this time. toots, LOL at the partially embroidered uterus! I suppose I've got one of those too like you, cerys. BTW I'm taking lots of comfort in your second speedy delivery thing going on there.

As expected, DH was rather quiet on journey home from the class. By George, I think he's got it!

Although must share amusing DS story! Last night good friend of mine babysat for us, so I explained to DS that Mummy and Daddy would be going out and that he was to be good for friend. Once we leave he's all tucked up in bed, nice and quiet, bar the chatting to himself (which is normal) until about half an hour after we've gone he starts whinging, and then starts crying. Friends goes up to see what the matter is and he's only sitting up in bed, with a pot of sudocrem (thick white nappy cream) plastered all over his face!! His crying is because he's managed to rub some in his eyes, so bless dear friend for coping with face-masked toddler and cleaned him up in the bath. She said she now knows how those people that rescue seabirds from oil slicks feel, as that stuff is a nightmare to remove!! Hilarious, but what a monkey!

Bean it's my turn to not sleep, it's been two days now of tossing and turning. I thought for sure I would sleep last night

I feel so - so tired I want to cry and getting into the office this morning was the most challenging thing I have done in a long time.

I am off to buy some of this floradix - don't care what it tastes like, I just need some energy.

This is how tired I am, I have actually started sending emails to myself by mistake instead of to my work colleagues. How on earth am I going to continue to do this for 10 weeks!!

Help I need encouragement.

Turtle, go home and get some rest. It's not worth dragging yourself into work. Your body/baby needs your strength. Tell work you're not feeling well enough to be there - because you're not. Seriously, GO HOME and try to have a nap.

Turtle - NNNOOOOOOOO!!!!

I'm so sorry to hear this, I know exactly how you feel. I really would go home - you won't get anything useful done today, will begin to feel anxious/self-doubtful and you absolutely, must rest, for both you and baby. If, like me, you feel odd about saying "I'm tired" as a reason to go home, just make something else up, people practically expect something to be wrong with preg. women. Say you will go to the Drs tonight, anything, but please get yourself home.

I felt awful yesterday, decided I couldn't cope (with anything, ever) and that I couldn't do any of it, not now and especially not come October.... today I feel tired and fat but nothing more sinister that.

Sorry to nag Turtle, but your body is screaming at you to stop. "Now is the time to be a goddess not a heroine". Here endeth the Bean lecture xxx

Thanks for that, you are so right, I am feeling very tired and rather emotional.

Will go home and sleep for a couple of hours.

Awww what would I do without my fellow Mooses.

OK still at the office, I will go home but, I just got a shooting pain across my ribs from one side to the other, it actually made me jump and took my breath away, it's happened twice now.

Does anyone know what that is? felt way to high for BH and it was a shooting pain.

It hasn't happened again in the last 10 mintues. I will finish my sandwich and go home.

Turtle - I hope you've gone home by now. You need to get some rest. Dr Piglit says so (I'm a doctor of strawberries and chocolate by the way). Feet up, magazine, bowl of strawberries (or bar of chocolate), big glass of some nice cold liquid, daytime tv and a snooze.

Turtle - hope you are at home and feeling a bit better. How is the pain? Has it stopped.

Have to recommend Dr Piglit's advice to all meece. I have heeded it before now and she is a v. wise Piglit. We will do well to follow her advice my friends.

Our advice is outstanding. It is without doubt the advice I mostly want to hear. In fact, without you even telling me to, I took today off and pottered.

Turtle. Mystery shooting pains are one of the joys of the last three months as I recall. Hopefully it was just two strikes across the bow and gone. Hope too that you made it home this arvo. Wishing you better sleep tonight.

I raise a spoon of floradix to you all. Actually, confession time. I swig it out of the bottle. Disgusting I know, but no-one else is going to drink it are they?

Telepathic Toots - now we know that you have heeded some damn good advice there, but, word to the wise, people get a bit funny if you tell them your invisible friends told you do to it, so maybe not mention us in social settings?

I can only drink Floradix if there is a nice chocolate or something nearby to take the taste away. Dp probably wants to hassle me to drink it at the moment but simply doesn't need the grief/fuss (and I don't blame him!)

I must try this Floradix - it sounds fab. Is it as good for you as chocolate and strawberries?

Depends what you mean by "good". It tastes like poo but has lots of nutrients in it. Chocolate and strawberries, on the other hand, are thoroughly enjoyable, and as every good moose knows - that counts for a lot!

I have a medicinal chocolate biscuit most days on the same basis.

I'll stick with the chocolate and srawberries then....

It boosts flagging iron levels. But is much kinder to the system than the iron tabs given out by Drs (ie doesn't bung you up). I was on the loo for hours last time I had to take iron supplements - they're buggers (used as constipated emoticon!). Floridix =

Had my 28wk midwife appt this afternoon and heard the little chuf-chuffing of a heartbeat. Brilliant!

damn those work calls that interrupt my posting on MN... sorry bean and piglit!

Aw that's fab Sooz, glad everything is ok.

Am I the only one not the the 'Dix then?! Better get some quick!

As we the third trimester is beckoning (estimates seem to vary from 25-28 weeks), is that a good thing/bad thing? I think I would like to stay in the second for a while and then skip straight to the birth (well, the bit immediately afterwards to be perfectly honest). October ladeez - ARE WE READY?!!!