can't sleep won't sleep 3

[KittyAndTheFontanelles]

over hear night owls . Unless we are somewhere else

ds2 way too fast labour and birth, #3 was the easiest and no damage at all 'nuff said

Oh kinda slowing you down coaching!!

I had my last baby by the bluebell woods in Camberwick Green! So easy!

I had my last baby in a carpark rubbish midwife when it comes to oneself

Midwife99 - Amazing!!! Tell us why!!!

Hello all, hoping to be only here a few mins, seem to be having a bit of an anxiety attack but hoping sominex will shut my stupid brain/body up quickly.

kitten - what's wrong?

Health worries, job worries and an overwhelming feeling that I've bitten off far more than I can chew. I'm fine in the day by keeping super busy but past two nights palpitations going bonkers.

kitten Would it help to go through it step-by-step?

< Tell us about your health worries (there are professionals on here!)

< Next, what is upsetting you about your job? Why do you think that you have bitten off more than you can chew?

< How bad are the palpitations?

That is so kind of you :)

I won't start typing it out tonight as I'm feeling calmer now. Am going to switch off for tonight.

kitten - Hope that you have a very peaceful slumber; g'night!

Grrr! Am I the only one up now? Wanted to ask you all if you had any experience of the Liverpool Care Pathway? Am asking on behalf of someone else.

*cough splutter ... silences self on the Liverpool Care Pathway for should I say anything I shall be shot in some woods

waves to all

(not really, jynier, ask away.. but I am spoonfed bias and may need to go to Bedfordshire lest I stay up all night again so I might go a bit quiet)

kitty DON'T PUSH

(no, I am really not joking...am appalling)

I was told not to push, too mrsshrek I am also a pedant - so is that, MrsShrek?

themidwife amazed by your carpark delivery!! why when who ?

*summerdad, go fetch a marsbar...

kitten you are welcome here any time if you can brave the midnight madness hope you get some sleep

Well that's me punished for being away from home for 2 nights! DD2 wouldn't go to bed without a fight & just woke up at 2am. Came into bedroom switched lamp on, delirious DH said "take your nappy off & get in if you like" (!!), Spider the cat thundered in & started trying to suck my nightie strap & DH put a pillow over his head & went back to sleep!
Careful negotiations & DD is back in bed with new nappy & milkies & cat sent downstairs for being rude.
Am now awake!!

Hi Jynier! No experience of Liverpool Care Pathway as I've never worked in end of life care or had close relatives terminally ill. A bit worried about the targets thing though!!

my goodness themidwife!

We still don't know why midwife had baby in car park!

Am awake too. Lumpiness has broken out. Only in a small pressure area though, well I was at desk most if day yesterday.

That sounds like the beginning of a joke. Why did the midwife have her baby in a carpark? Cos she.......
Answers on a postcard.

I know a couple whose 4th daughter was conceived in a car park (the dad used to boast about it!).

mini is allergic to desks!!

jynier -- words fail me

circle of willis, I have fondled a few of those - and the tearing though that's something I haven't even really covered, awful. My favourite (not birth related) = the pterion, which is very thin part of the skull and directly underneath it is the middle meningeal artery. oft called god's little joke, it's why you can fall over and be fine and then die horribly.

you've probably heard this one

a hospital posted a notice in the midwives station saying: "Remember, the first five minutes of a human being's life are the most dangerous." Underneath, a midwife had written: "The last five are pretty risky, too."

I had a super speedy labour themidwife, with DC1 it was.... 2cm to 10cm in LESS THAN 30 MINS does that mean my ladybits were actually, really really lazy? I like to think it's my super abdominal muscle tone [scoffs cake]
but I did have pre eclampsia and ridiculously self discharged. I also had undiagnosed at the time obstetric cholestasis. I also remember asking for a gun to shoot myself with, as the pain, I just could not see the end. was like a very very sharp very very large wardrobe was trying to exit

who here is planning more babies? kitty - do hurry up please and then you can make it a matching bonnet

Morning all

Introducing the all-New KittyAndTheFontanelles

Littlekitty slept for 9 straight hours last night.

Phew

Yes cafe we are planning another and we must get a wriggle on as I'm hurtling towards 40

Anyone else?

I was also told not to push but don't you find it impossible not to? It's like telling someone nit to be sick, the autonomic nervous system takes over