40+ Yummy Mummies :-)

[mrsboogie]

mornin' ladies

and the conversation continues...

mrsb I'm also too fat to party I'm just going off to console myself with a piece of parkin I found at the back of the bread bin.

Tee I love new quilts! Knock yourself and buy one for me as well

I'm after some nice egyptian cotton bedding. Dorma have nice stuff but I'm waiting for the sale and M&S don't have the stuff I want to buy in it's marked down form. I'll keep hanging on in hope that one of them will succumb discounting it.

I think the shops are warring against themselves now. I'm betting that 1 week before christmas, the gloves will be off and they'll be practically giving it away.

My DS#1's g/f works in House of Fraser and she told me they're open until 9pm on xmas eve and back open again on boxing day. Open until 10pm on new years eve!!!!!!!! Madness.

I'm in complete agreement with Tee - buy a party frock and wear it around the house. Make jellies and cocktails, buy some M&S canapees and invite all K's soft toys for an afternoon soiree

Poor Iris and her teeth - had hysterics again last night, even Medised couldn't sort it

Fancy a quiet day in watching movies and internet shopping....MMMmmm, what do ya reckon the chances of that are eh?

Ooooo tee really? Half price quilts - we're looking for one for Iris - cheers, yer a star!!

Morning all and happy thanksgiving Tee
Still not up to reading all missed posts but hope all ladies and babies are well and happy (and not spending too much on internet sales, which is a theme I've noticed in this thread)...
I am recovering from an infected abcess in my root canal which has been foul - extremely painful, antibiotics and painkillers which I'd rather not take but had little choice, AND constant morning sickness as usual. Have to take pills 3 tms per day and sit up in bed with jaw firmly closed for 2 hrs before allowing self a puke. Dizzy, wibbly and generally feeling sh*ite. Poor dh having to do school runs, meals and shopping as well as work. House a mess. 3 more days of antibiotics to go and then extraction to look forward to. Boo And still don't have my scan date despite being v nearly 11 weeks.
Next week has GOT to be better.

oh ermintrude you poor love - that sounds awful, poor you What a bugger for that to hit when you are pregnant.
Wouldn't you just love to be knocked on the head and wake up when its all over?

mrsb, that's exactly what I said to DH. I'd love to be sedated until just before Christmas - assuming the m/s will have gone by then. I'm so pleased to be pg but the idea of going through this for any more weeeks or months is a bit depressing. I know that with my other pregs I was feeling fine by the time the bumps were big enough for all to see so am hoping it will be the same this time around. I carried on throwing up with DC1 though, til almost the very end. But that's not as bad as the nausea.
Anyway, can't complain, mustn't grumble, help yourself to another piece of apple crumble, as one of eighties pop's finest lyrics advised

mmmm.. apple crumble

oh but you can complain as much as you like ermintrude - that's what we're here for

Advice please ladies! I have my 21 wk scan next week and my 10 yr old DS is desperate to come. Half of me would love him to come as he is taking such a great interest in it all, but the other half of me is afraid in case I get worrying or bad news. What do you think? Has anyone else taken kids to their scans?

Oh ermintrude you poor thing! I hope you feel better soon!

JW bought a king sized duvet, and a new cover, for...ready?...£60!!! For both! The duvet is normally £60!

I must confess I have a slight duvet cover addiction. This makes 3 for our bed. I would have more, but they can be so expensive!

Thanks all. I'll try to smile through it

Tee, my mum always says one should have 3 sets of bedlinen - one on the bed, one in the airing cupboard and one in the wash. I do love my airing cupboard!

Sarahmum, hard to know what to advise. I can imagine my 10yr old dd loving coming to the scan, but not sure I'd want her there because it's a distraction however well-behaved she would be. Is your scan in school hours? I'd promise to show the photo and give a full report but not sure I'd actually take her with me. But I can't see anything innately wrong with it!

oh sarahmum that would be lovely - are you feeling movement yet? if yes then at least you know things are ok in that regard. If you brought him and there was a problem I'm sure the staff would handle it sensitively. And if, god forbid, there was any kind of problem then he would have to know about it anyway wouldn't he? I would definitely do this if I was you.

eeeek - exploding bottom alert - one nappy two poos - one green and one yellow!!

Yikes mrsB!!!

Gee, so much to look forward to!

ermintrude, I wish I had an airing cupboard! Live in a flat, lucky I have closets of any kind!

On the question of taking a sibling to a scan I'd say no..but only for personal reasons. Mainly being if there were (god forbid) anything they had to tell me I wouldn't want a youngster there nor a youngster having to watch it's mummy all the way home being upset. I know I sound negative there but I like to think I'm being practical. Also I think scans are very tender moments and I always blub - which could also be confusing for a child. Plus, I wouldn't want any distractions from seeing my baby properly for the 1st time. But hey, that's just my two penneth.

I'd also check you that can actually have them there with you as I know my hospital had a sign up saying only birth partners or life partners allowed in (I think this might have been due to space restrictions but not sure).

ermintrude have you checked that it's ok to have the anaesthetic for your tooth whilst you are pregnant? I know that some are a no-no.

Tee I'm jealous! Wow what a bargain. However, had to curtail all spending today as Bank of Mum has swung into full operation. DS#1's rent is due and pay days cross etc so having to sub him You know the rest......

We had our airing cupboard taken out when we had the wet room put in.

mrsb can Darragh poo a rainbow?

Okay, how sick am I that I am now singing to myself 'I can poo a rainbow, poo a rainbow, poo a rainbow too.'

I do hope that song is known in the UK, or I look even more whacky than I am!

haha cheers tee now that tune is going round and round my head

Glad I could help, mrsb!! And don't blame only me, JW put it in my head!

JW - the dentist knows I'm pg and I've checked out that most local anaesthesia is fine provided you don't normally have a reaction to it - better than general and no known side-effects to foetus. Antibiotics likewise. It's the ibuprofen that bothered me - a no-no after 30 wks and some tiny suggestion it might be implicated in miscarriage in 1st or 2nd trimester - but the choice was to OD on paracetamol or alternate para/ibu in the smallest amounts I could manage. I have a v high pain threshold - years of endometriosis prepared me for labour brilliantly! - but the feeling that my gum was going to explode was agony.

Your point about blubbing during scan and potentially confusing 10 yr old sibling struck a chord - that's just what I'm like.

Tee - fortunately most Brits will know the rainbow song. They'll also (certainly if they're our age) think of Jeffrey, Zippy and Bungle who I think you will have avoided in the US.

mrsb can you get Darragh to paint with his colourful poo? that'd be worth a fortune.

Ermintrude loads of sympathy coming your way, but no cake until you are feeling better

Sarah I took my dd to both of my scans, she was 4 at one and 7 at the other. She really loved it, I never thought of the pitfalls that have been pointed out on here . Infact the radiographer printed her a photo, with "To my big sister with love from the baby xxx" typed on it

This morning I went to do a lecture at aone of our local hospitals, was late and parked right near a sign that warned me against parking on the grass in wet weather as my car would get stuck.

Can you guess ?

Lilibet, I've asked DH to bring me cake tonight, whether I'm better or not. Couldn't keep down my tuna mayo on toasetd granary this lunchtime but will hang on to a slab of madeira if it kills me.

Did you have to get a nice man to push your car out while your wheels spun around and spattered him with mud? ? Oopsie.

Meant to say earlier, JW,parkin - mmmm, my favourite. Home-made? It's best left for a week or two to get all treacly and dense, but rarely lasts 2 days here. Can't wait to feel in the mood for baking again, and parkin will be the first thing I do.

I did, yes and my beautiful cream mac is now very mud splattered, but I have no idea how it happened.

I fancy making a Christams cake, I have a very easy fool proof recipie which uses a tin of crushed pineapple and then you steep it in rum

ermintrude it's been in the bread bin for a fortnight and no one likes it apart from me...I'd say it's well ripe by now

Fraid it's not homemade. I rarely get to bake these days. I'm trying to work when K allows me to so usually catching up straight after tea/dinner/supper and in the run up to bed. Just not enough hours in the day.

lilibet how awful getting your car stuck. Did you feign 'simple female' to a passing man? I always do and let them do the donkey work. he he.

Luckily, he was someone who I knew. I was very grateful!

Just had school on the phone. Ds2 had ;hit his head' at lunchtime but wanted to stay at school so he could go to football after. They were ringing to ask my permission, spoke to ds2, who told me that someone had hit him! The teacher then told me that there had been an 'incident' with a ball and they were investigating it and the Deputy Head would contact me as soon as he had the full story. The thing is, from bitter experience with his big brother I know that if anyone tries to push ds2 to see how far he will go, he will certainly give as good as he gets, if not better! Oh dear, I feel a detention coming on. Or I could be maligning my poor ds2

Poor lilibet, try not to be too , we've all done it, haven't we ladies?

ermintrude, give me childbirth over toothache anytime. You must be made of stern stuff to be coping with that on top of the throwing-up. Can I recommend you take some lactobacillus acidopholus to help counteract the effects of the antibiotics?

We took Elizabeth for an assessment yesterday with 2 senior speech therapists and an occupational therapist. They are recommending something called Auditory Verbal Therapy. We have got to go right back to basics, almost using baby talk as she has missed out on every stage of speech and also use lots of repetition. They said that with her little bit of hearing she will have been able to hear the rhythm of speech but not individual words.

Woke up this morning feeling completely overwhelmed by everything that's being timetabled in. Also that feeling of not being sure where we fit in - the deaf world or the hearing world.

Consequently I have been a weepy mess and got sent home from work at 11.30 as I couldn't stop blubbing. Silly things are getting to me. We were going to buy a Phil and Ted's but now we can't as Elizabeth needs to be facing me so she can see me/hear me/lip read/see me signing. Only rear-facing double buggies I've seen are mammoth things that look like they're aimed at twins. Any ideas?

I'm doing that thing of thinking that it's not like she's got an illness so what have I got to cry about? She's still the same child that she was before the diagnosis, it's just that she can't hear properly and has to wear hearing aids. But I just want to cuddle her up and buy her lots of toys!

Sorry to ramble on. By the way, I look gorgeous - all red and puffy and blotchy from crying loads!