MSE Pregnancy Club VIII

feelinggood_2

elle_gee wrote: »

feelie, isn't that what "active labour" means - the whole being able to move about not being stuck on a bed and how it helps move things along? Or is the bouncing on a birthing ball just a gravity thing?

How's your OH? Got himself out of bed now?

Yup, he is out of bed and has been very helpful. He read the 'birthing' chapter of one of my books and is now an expert - he asked if the contractions are lasting more than 45 seconds!

Would be amusing if this is early labour - he insisted I cut his hair so he'd look smart in the pictures with the new baby!

elle_gee

Night night Glam xx

money_maker_3

tarajayne wrote: »

Phew, paperwork done, well almost but need to call them. Does anyone else find mortgage stuff scary, it's such large sums of money.

I do them for a living, and yes they are scary :eek::rotfl:

MrsTinks

chickpea wrote: »

Mrs T - lucky you, you get pregnant easily, so you have your own perspective.

Most people who conceive without difficulty would agree with you - but your perspective would change if you had spent years trying and failing to conceive.

When your heart is literally breaking because you want a child more than life itself, it's as much a health crisis as anything else.

And the choice isn't exactly cancern treatment v. IVF, is it?

After all, the NHS funds bunion operations, ear pinning, varicose veins - hardly life or death either?

Yes I have my own point of view - and honest? I don't particularly think bunion operations are life saving either...
But do I think that IVF should be paid for by an already struggling health service? No.
I didn't struggle to fall pregnant no - I know plenty of people who did (and all of whom incidently paid for their own IVF treatment) so I know from the sidelines the want they had for children of their own.
Long before DH and I were trying to get pregnant we had a discussion about IVF and what we'd do if we couldn't concieve naturally... not knowing if we could or not - and we decided then that if the only option would be IVF then we'd adopt instead. That was a choice made BEFORE we knew we could have our own (and yes there are reasons why we have that conversation - both through the female lines in my family and reasons on DHs side that I shan't bore you with).

I still stand by my views that those already born should surely take presedence over attempting to create new life - I also recognise that that view isn't shared by everyone, but when you have seen things too often from the "sorry there is a medication available but we can't afford it here" side then you probably invariably develop the view that people wanting should come after people needing.

Not having a child is probably devastating - you're right, I wouldn't know - but it is not lifethreatening.

searching_me

my eyes sting i just woke up from a 2 hr nap... didnt mean to sleep but its the power of cuggles x

tarajayne

Cool, I just realised that my last post was no.1000.

Krystaltips

I used to do mortgages too... It's amazing the figures involved in some!

And FG, what a story to tell the baby when he's older! (and all the Mum's at toddler group!)

money_maker_3

Did you get your 3rd star at 1000 or did you already have it ????

Congrats by the way

tarajayne

money_maker wrote: »

Did you get your 3rd star at 1000 or did you already have it ????

Congrats by the way

Already had it, it's amazing what sort of things I get chuffed at. X

Been reading tonight but things were getting a bit heated so I didn't comment. Not being rude just sometimes don't really have a concrete opinion so a rare occasion to shut my mouth!!! :rotfl:

elle_gee

feelinggood wrote: »

.. Would be amusing if this is early labour - he insisted I cut his hair so he'd look smart in the pictures with the new baby!

Good job you did it now.. imagine if things stepped up a gear and you'd got a bit too close and taken a chunk out of his head during a particularly surprising contraction! :eek: