MSE Pregnancy Club XIII

Glamazon

With MCFlurries its the risk of listeria - it's soft whip ice cream and soemthing to do with the machines not being cleaned properly.

I could eat ice-cream now even if I wanted to, although I did have apple strudel last night which was very sweet!

I've had runny eggs, alcohol and pink steak (well actually it was rare but cooked longer than everyone elses!) but all after 6 months. I posted the other day and IMO the risk is in the first 12 weeks when foetus is developing.

I really can't concentrate in work today - I just want the next 5 weeks to be over so I can finish work!

Should I be naughty and finish a week earlier or not?

lou66_2

Good Morning ladies
Just been trying to catch up but sure i will miss out someone or something, so just want to say hello to the newbies :beer:. Also congrats to pinkpig and BIG LABOUR VIBES to tara if she still needs them. Had a killer headache yesterday. Also i am sure i can feel bumper moving around more and more. We went out for a meal to gourmet burger kitchen saturday night and i was nearly sick !!! Had the lamb burgers as really fancied something diffrent and they put raisins on the top of the burger which they dont say on the menu. I really really do not like raisins. I am now in my maternity trousers and bra and feel so comfortable in them. Right off to catch up if i can

Nicki

My 9 year old son announced on the way to school this morning that he was tired with the pregnancy now and wished that it would be soon over! Know the feeling, mate. This was triggered I think by his disappointment yesterday that mum was "too lazy" to cook a full roast dinner for Sunday lunch. I can't believe I am so shattered though at only 29 weeks, and things are only going to get worse as the kids break up from school at the end of the week!

We spent the whole weekend doing housework as we've had builders in recently (just doing some odd jobs here and there) and the house had got quite dusty and out of our normal routine of cleaning. I did find though that I was absolutely shattered and it took me two days, with lots of rest, to thoroughly clean one room, while my DH did most of the rest of it! To be fair that was the room with all the paperwork which had been building up for 4 months and needed filing. The upside of this, woohoo, is that DH has agreed that we can get a cleaner for a few hours a week from now until a few months after the birth, to ease the load a bit (and I suspect once we have one, we won't go back to going without unless something grim happens with our finances). So just waiting for the company I've emailed this morning to get back to me to say they can find someone for me asap!

Nicki

Glamazon wrote: »

Should I be naughty and finish a week earlier or not?

Or should you be naughty and think "Stuff it, I'm not coming back to work with these people after my maternity leave finishes, so will take things easier at work than I really need to, and save my paid maternity leave for when baby is born". Aside from your own sense of pride, what is the absolute worst that could happen if a report wasn't done in time or a piece of work finished to your normal standard, in the last few weeks of your job? This btw is speaking as one who worked her socks off and right up until the day before her first child was born because her boss begged her to (because she had booked a holiday abroad after she knew I was pregnant assuming that I wouldn't mind staying to my due date), and was then attempted to be let go during maternity leave when it was discovered I was pregnant again and would be taking two maternity leaves virtually back to back :mad:

lou66_2

Glam
Finish work a week earlier why not, if u work in close contact with the public like i do i am sure u will need the break !!!! Just had a patient call up to make an appt they are in so much pain but can't make the time i have given them as they are busy meeting a friend to go shopping ???????? But need to be seen today as the pain is too much !!!

Glamazon

Nicki wrote: »

Or should you be naughty and think "Stuff it, I'm not coming back to work with these people after my maternity leave finishes, so will take things easier at work than I really need to, and save my paid maternity leave for when baby is born". Aside from your own sense of pride, what is the absolute worst that could happen if a report wasn't done in time or a piece of work finished to your normal standard, in the last few weeks of your job? This btw is speaking as one who worked her socks off and right up until the day before her first child was born because her boss begged her to (because she had booked a holiday abroad after she knew I was pregnant assuming that I wouldn't mind staying to my due date), and was then attempted to be let go during maternity leave when it was discovered I was pregnant again and would be taking two maternity leaves virtually back to back :mad:

This is how I am working at the moment - taking it slow and steady, well slow and steady for me which probably means I'm working at the same pace as everyone else! I do want as much time off as possible so think I'll stick with the 5 week wait - if I didn't have to deal with staff or patients I'd be fine! They all drive me up the wall, the chemist has made a mistake and of course it's our fault so he's stood in reception shouting at a pg lady in front of loads of pts! Dcikhead! :mad: Wish I'd never walked into reception! Staff are asking me a million and one stupid questions and I have work to do that HAS to be done by Thursday as we have an important Visit Friday but my manager has put me down to work at another surgery for 2 days training someone else!!! :mad::mad:

lou66 wrote: »

Glam
Finish work a week earlier why not, if u work in close contact with the public like i do i am sure u will need the break !!!! Just had a patient call up to make an appt they are in so much pain but can't make the time i have given them as they are busy meeting a friend to go shopping ???????? But need to be seen today as the pain is too much !!!

Don't they irritate the fluck out of you! I can't even find a dentist to register with! Good job I've got good teeth - no fillings or work done!

aless02

Nicki wrote: »

My 9 year old son announced on the way to school this morning that he was tired with the pregnancy now and wished that it would be soon over! Know the feeling, mate.

:rotfl:lol, out of the mouth of babes!

jillie1974

finish early glam!!

they will have to cope anyway once you have gone.

a stressed mum mean a stressed baby and i dont think anyone should be stressed.

i have bid on ebay (first time) for 2 lots of bundles of baby clothes... wish me luck
i've never bid on anything on ebay in my life!! i dont even know how it all works lol!!

SugarSpun

ML I posted the article yesterday - it's not his stance on MW care that upsets me so much as comments like this:

"Pain in labour is a purposeful, useful thing, which has quite a number of benefits, such as preparing a mother for the responsibility of nurturing a newborn baby."

I'm all in favour of opting for pain relief if you need it rather than being loaded up with it as soon as you turn up on the ward, but claiming that labour pain is a rite of passage that makes a mother better than one who opts for pain relief is dangerous, short sighted and flagrantly disgusting. We have enough to worry about when people tell us we're eating the wrong things, not exercising enough, exercising too much, putting on too much or not enough weight, opting for a C-section after a previous one rather than risk rupturing ourselves ...

Labour is painful because we have to push a relatively large thing through a relatively narrow passage and a relatively small hole. It has nothing to do with the bonding process and highlighting pain as good once again undermines the role fathers play in labour and baby care. Are fathers less attached to their babies because they didn't suffer the pain of birthing them? I don't think so.

jillie1974

only 15 mins to go and i will know if i've been successful.
i'm very excited....