MSE Parents Club Part 12

SugarSpun

I can probably be there by 10:30-11.

Zara looks massive and easy to find, how about there, on the side that faces Chavasse Park at 11?

SugarSpun

NMS, I'm so sorry, I missed your post altogether. :eek: at your run of luck, hopefully it's over now and you can get the good stuff you're due.

Buttonmoons

How do you check your boobs for lumps? I've been asked a few times at doctors etc if I check and I always say yes but I don't, when you poke around your boobs you can feel muscle and general lumpyness from the tissue?

My aunt went to the doctors t'other day cause she found a lump near her breast/armpit and he said it might just be stress and then he felt her breasts and found lumps in them

HOW DO YOU KNOW?

jillie1974

i check in the shower. i lather up and stretch one arm up in the air and just feel all around and then do the other. i found doing it everytime in the shower means i get to know how my breasts feel normally so anything not normal would be found. our breasts can feel different at different times of the month so its good to know how they feel.

there is a chart on the NHS website and some others, i will go and get a link

http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dh7nHml2mgaA video of how to do it


http://www.channel4embarrassingillnesses.com/video/how-to-check-yourself/how-to-check-your-breasts/

http://www.eurohealth.ie/cancom/bse1.htm

Glamazon

Buttons - you should see your nurse who can show you how to check. We had them show us at Tiny Stars once and they had some fake boobs to play with, basically you take two fingers and press quite hard all over your boob and under your arm. You may feel some small lumps which IIRC are mammary glands. You should check monthly and at the same time each month but not around your period as you can get lumpy boobs when AF is around. I think they advise to do it whilst in the shower.

NMS - what !!!!!! news! You should definitely come next week as should Dora!

GUTTED I will be missing SS on Monday (can't you miss your flight home and be stuck here til Wednesday) and SB on Thursday!
If I was still on Mat Leave I could make all these meets

OH may be joining us Wednesday if that's OK! He needs to get car MOT'd and it might be Wednesday so I said we could go to a lovely park in Manchester He'll probably b00ger off for a run or something.

3 - hope you get the SW kicked into touch

redstararnie76

BeenieCat wrote: »

Redstar - Freddie is a big boy for 11 weeks! I can't remember Amber's weight then but i do know it was nowhere near that!!

Beenie - thanks for your comment - I have no perspective on his weight as DD was huge!!
Seriously, she was in the 98th percentile for her height, (the midwife refused to believe that the hospital had measured her corrently until she measured her height too and went strangely silent :rotfl:) and her weight, though a little small propotionally, was still a lot heavier than him. She was 8lb 12oz at birth, he was 7lb 4oz and they were a bit concerned as he dropped more than they thought he would, and took longer than anticipated to start putting weight back on - he only reached his birth weight at 6 weeks!!! So I'm really pleased that he's been piling the weight on since.

SugarSpun

Ladies, I'm going to be leaving the internet in twenty minutes or so and can't guarantee that I'll be back online. But assuming I'm not, I will be loitering outside the Chavasse Park side of Zara at 11am on Monday morning. FB people will recognise my adorable baby

tiamai_d

My iphone app says I am now on a 24 day cycle! How very annoying, I used to be 33 days. And I've had very bad cramps worse than I have ever felt, like a knife being twisted in there.

Today I need to sort out the washing and tidy the kids room a bit. Wish me luck.

Night off from building work though, hoorayyyy!!!!!!

redstararnie76

NMS - Sorry to hear about your run of bad luck.
CAFC - I had an epidural with my daughter, and I don't remember getting any pains as a result of it - please speak to your GP, as you can't be too careful with your spine.

redmel1621

Glam my hubby will be coming wednesday too. I hope no-one minds!

CAFC - I had an epidural with ds1 and suffered a bit of mild/moderate backache, but no pains as such. I do think you are best phoning someone.