MSE Parents Club Part 11

My_Fathers_Daughter

tiamai_d wrote: »

Oh MFD, sorry I kept meaning to reply about your job situation. Do you have any idea what you will do afterwards?

I will wait a couple of weeks to see if I have a job after the end of April. If not I will exploit my contacts to their full advantage and see what is around. I have been headhunted a couple of times in the past year or so (unfortunately when the economic climate was a bit easier) so I at least have some companies who may be interested in my skills.

It's all very uncertain and a bit stressful but I am trying to keep my chins up and see it through. Luckily my mum instilled a good sense of 'what will be will be' in me and that is keeping me going.

SusanC_2

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Not that I remember - I don't suppose they have to in a 'real-life' programme?

I haven't watched any of OBEM but I guess if they lost a baby they would show it with parental consent?

tiamai_d wrote: »

Not to be insensitive... but I don't think it's a good thing for them to only show the good outcomes. Too many babies die and not a lot of people have any idea just how many pregnancies and births don't go well.

I still wouldn't watch it though.

I don't think it would be wrong to show as long as it is done in a sensitive way and with consent. I do however think that it is wrong to show without any warning so viewers can make an informed decision about whether to watch.

tiamai_d

SusanC wrote: »

I don't think it would be wrong to show as long as it is done in a sensitive way and with consent. I do however think that it is wrong to show without any warning so viewers can make an informed decision about whether to watch.

I agree. I would like some warning before, so I could decide to watch or not.

On another forum they were discussing this amongst some other topics, basically the assumption that your pregnancy will go well and so will the birth and at the end of it all you will have a lovely little baby. And how shocking it is when that doesn't happen. Women shouldn't be terrified all the way through their pregnancies, but should be aware that all the risks don't end at 12 weeks.

Dunno, touchy subject for me, I'll shush up before I get upset and upset others and start a big fight. *waits for her jam tarts to cool*

Sami_Bee

ooh have you noticed the little orange men up there ^^^

searching_me

right .. cottage pie in the oven .. jayden fed (early night for him i think as hes rubbing his eyes) ... bottle made ... phone played with and liked very much .. pots done ... just need to sort out the washing philip said he'd do tomorrow since hes just in with jayden tomorrow (he said he'd do a big load as well .. very happy), sort out for work tomorrow, dish up dinner and have a long hot bath x

My_Fathers_Daughter

tiamai_d wrote: »

Dunno, touchy subject for me, I'll shush up before I get upset and upset others and start a big fight. *waits for her jam tarts to cool*

Is that a euphemism


Maybe I should just cool my jam tarts too :cool:




I have a question:
Are my boobies going to get all big and hurty and then turn out to be as perky as they were pre-pregnancy now I am an ex-BF'er?

tiamai_d

Mine kinda stayed the same, then got MASSIVELY painful before af arrived then shrunk a bit and drag on the floor a bit more...

Nah, I really am waiting for my jam tarts to cool

SusanC_2

tiamai_d wrote: »

On another forum they were discussing this amongst some other topics, basically the assumption that your pregnancy will go well and so will the birth and at the end of it all you will have a lovely little baby. And how shocking it is when that doesn't happen. Women shouldn't be terrified all the way through their pregnancies, but should be aware that all the risks don't end at 12 weeks.

I'm fully aware that not all pregnancy/birth outcomes are ideal but I'm sure it would still be a shock if something did happen because like everyone else I still think it won't happen to me. I know it could but my mind has to either assume that it will or it won't and so I go for won't. Does that make any sense? I was actually quite shocked that I got pregnant as soon as we started TTC because I had mentally prepared myself for the possibility of it taking ages and potentially years (just because it can - there was no particular reason) and had never thought about the opposite possibility. (Maybe I'm just completely weird.)

SugarSpun

He doesn't look orange to me MFD - is it the settings on your computer maybe?

I hope the job situation turns out ok, it does sound like you're in demand and won't be waiting too long.

Jealous of those jam tarts, we're on a post-holiday diet now and OH has just gone off to buy chicken, fish and veg

That girl who had a forceps baby last night is still massive - I wasn't that size the day afterwards, was I lucky or is that normal?

Sami_Bee

SM are you still handwashing?

Like the new avvy mfd, the orangey one looked like it was taken in the 70's to me