MSE Parents Club Part 12

SusanC_2

tiamai_d wrote: »

Hold on, is Susan pregnant?

boogellyboo wrote: »

Nope, she's mega organised in preparing TTC no2

I'm sure we had this conversation a couple of months ago too. I promise that you all will be the first to know (aside from OH obviously).

tiamai_d

Sorry Susan, I've just been missing a lot of hot gossip and my nose was itchin'me

I better go do some housework I suppose.

tiamai_d

someone was supposed to say 'oh just leave the housework tia and have another coffee'. You disappoint me guys

boogellyboo

tiamai_d wrote: »

Boogelly, I love that outfit! She would so clash with my zebra print cosy toe! lol!

Ambertronic would be needing this one then

SusanC_2

weezl74 wrote: »

susan another thought, bump size tends to be bigger with PG 2 (well it was for sami and me ) so possibly if you're thinking of using the same clothes as before, maybe get some things that are a bit bigger than the biggest things you wore last time.

I hadn't thought of that. Most of the stuff I had last time was borrowed (and I was five to six months pregnant when I started wearing it) but I've bought six size 12/14 maternity dresses on eBay and I'm 10/12 and have also got a coat I bought in a sale which isn't a maternity coat but it's a relatively large size and the right cut to accomodate a bump. If stuff did get too small, it wouldn't be too bad having to get bigger stuff as it would be nearer the end and I wasn't quite so bad later on.

weezl74 wrote: »

Also a belly band was v useful with PG 2 but I didn't need it at all with pg 1. You can use it to hold a hot waterbottle on your lower back.
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I have a belly band here and a vid of PG yoga if useful at any point . Also a labour tens machine.

Thanks - mental note made. (Should I admit that I've started doing some of the exercises from Janet Balaskas' book?)

weezl74 wrote: »

Also would it be worth getting any HB stuff ready or at least a list of what to assemble so you can just give it to OH if you're too shattered to think of it at the time?

That probably is a good idea - I did start looking into birth pools but should get a bit more organised.

weezl74 wrote: »

nope! I think you and me are normal and the other 6.9 billion people on the planet are crazy weirdos

:rotfl: *whispers* But I would say 6.9 milliard.

weezl74 wrote: »

Can I help with a homebirth kit list?

Yes please!

My_Fathers_Daughter

tiamai_d wrote: »

MFD, I know it doesn't feel like it, but your hubby does have the right idea. Treat them as very much a non event. They don't really mean anything, he's just at the brat age, they all go through it. Even the ones who say theirs don't, they will. It doesn't really get better, but you just get used to it and they don't seem such a big deal.

He sounds like he is getting them out of his system quickly, which is good.

Of course, when I'm on here in tears because Amber has hit her brat age, you do feel free to tell me to just shrug it off!

I know! Just a hangover from my childhood when dad sighing and looking pee'd off meant that things were going to go flying very soon. My dad had a nervous breakdown when I was a kid and as a family we tiptoed around him even after he was on the mend...we still do to a large extent.


You don't hear of nervous breakdowns these days...what do they call them now?

SugarSpun

We still call them nervous breakdowns, MFD - you hear less about them because fewer of them happen with better outreach programs, better medication and various other factors.

<geek hat>Mental illness has trends like anything else, and at the moment somatoform disorders are replacing nervous breakdowns as signs that something is seriously wrong - medically unexplained pain is the new nervous breakdown, if you like. That's a very simplistic way of putting it, but think historically, at the start of the 20th century everyone had hysteria and needed psychoanalysis, now people have chronic medically unexplainable pain and get extended time off work. What's also interesting is that in the UK backache is the most common expression of MUP whereas in continental Europe MUP tends to be abdominal.
</geek>

boogellyboo

I'm off to register at our swanky new library and find out what baby groups their running.

Bye x x

aless02

Hello! We're back from IKEA!



Me & Finn, Somnium & Tahlie, jennynoo & Erin, always29 & Thomas. The rest are on my FB. If any of you ladies don't like the photos, blame DH the photographer :rotfl:.

Massive apologies to Claire (lou66) as I forgot to get the camera out before she left .

Anyway, was nice to see everyone and play with babies (Tahlie is so ickle, it's adorable!), as well as nomnomnom IKEA meatballs . We will have to do it again sometime soon!!

weezl74

SusanC wrote: »

That probably is a good idea - I did start looking into birth pools but should get a bit more organised.


:rotfl: *whispers* But I would say 6.9 milliard.


Yes please!

will do Sami, Mel, SJ and searchie can chip in too

My fave homebirth birth story on MSE is searchies because Jeremy Kyle is on in the background and that really tickles me :rotfl:

pool-wise, the eco one from pool in a box was very fab, due to padded bottom, space for OH, easy to purchase liners, and great if you get a thermometer too. Oval shape is good too cos you can stretch out longways but there's still room for the MWs table (IYSWIM?)

I have just looked up milliard on wikipedia and now my brain has overheated and is no more :D