Pregnancy's Best Kept Secrets

ooobedoo

If I had gone through labour and my DH !!!!!!ed off home tired I would of chopped his bits off.

We had a bit of an argument and I told him I was going to put 'father unknown' on the birth certificate, I am a very evil person when I am pregnant.

When I had just had DS, DH was cooing over the baby and I just said to him 'you are going to make me toast, and you are going to make it NOW!!!'

Snaggles

Becles wrote:

I'm nibbling digestive biscuits to help keep the nausea away. You can get 400g packs for 25p in Lidl, so I've got them all over the house and in the car

Is it helping? I've tried nibbling digestives, rich tea biscuits, rice cakes, drinking/eating ginger, boiled sweets, peppermints, dry toast, rice pudding.......the list goes on.......:rolleyes:. I've been wearing sea sickness bands that help for a couple of hours but then the effects wear off.

I really want to enjoy the pregnancy (I hated my first pregnancy), but I'm struggling a bit. At least OH is being pretty good this time around - he's being really sweet, looking after me, making nice things to eat in the hope something might tempt me, not batting an eyelid at the disgraceful state of the house etc.....lol!!

Just remembered another irritating thing that happened at the birth - I was in full agonising contraction mode when this sort of middle-aged but hair/make-up like a teenager midwife bounded in and shouted 'Don't worry, I'm here, you're lucky to get me, I'm a very trendy midwife' and then promptly switched on some very loud, very rubbish music.......I was just about to threaten to shove the stereo up her !!!!!! when hubby thankfully stepped in and said 'I don't think my wife really likes Boyzone'!! I'm thinking I might request a scientology-stylee silent birth to prevent this kind of thing in future hahaha!!!:rotfl:

Snaggles

Snaggles wrote:

not batting an eyelid at the disgraceful state of the house

Just realised that made me sound like a 1950's housewife, scared what her husband will say if the dusting isn't done and the dinner is not on the table at 5.30pm prompt - didn't mean it like that, just meant he is not adding to the guilt I am already feeling lol!!:rolleyes:

Snaggles

ooobedoo wrote:

If I had gone through labour and my DH !!!!!!ed off home tired I would of chopped his bits off.

We had a bit of an argument and I told him I was going to put 'father unknown' on the birth certificate, I am a very evil person when I am pregnant.

When I had just had DS, DH was cooing over the baby and I just said to him 'you are going to make me toast, and you are going to make it NOW!!!'

Hahaha! Believe me, I still bring it up in arguments 6 years later . I think he's learned his lesson!

I distinctly remember hitting him at some point during the labour too, although he (very gentlemanly) swears he doesn't remember! :rotfl:

loopy_lass

I now remember my OH (now cleared off - thank goodness) said a week before DD was due he thought he had changed his mind and didnt think having a child was a good plan..... the morning i was in labour, he refused to get up until the last minute, once at the hospital he decided if "i was going to take much longer giving birth he was going to go check on the brakes of the car in the car park & i was to give him a shout if i needed him" .... *&6%$ ^&**^$ ((£" ....

he then went on to bring his new "friend" to the hospital to see me & DD... and then a week before DD was one he said he went to see a "freind" and never came back.... even had the cheek to bring his new "friend" to my DD 1st birthday....

MEN!!!!! well ok i take that back, SOME MEN.....

loops

Snaggles

loopy_lass wrote:

I now remember my OH (now cleared off - thank goodness) said a week before DD was due he thought he had changed his mind and didnt think having a child was a good plan..... the morning i was in labour, he refused to get up until the last minute, once at the hospital he decided if "i was going to take much longer giving birth he was going to go check on the brakes of the car in the car park & i was to give him a shout if i needed him" .... *&6%$ ^&**^$ ((£" ....

he then went on to bring his new "friend" to the hospital to see me & DD... and then a week before DD was one he said he went to see a "freind" and never came back.... even had the cheek to bring his new "friend" to my DD 1st birthday....

MEN!!!!! well ok i take that back, SOME MEN.....

loops

:eek: My god, that's terrible.....maybe I will go easier on my OH then hahaha!

Thriftylady

Snaggles wrote:

Just remembered another irritating thing that happened at the birth - I was in full agonising contraction mode when this sort of middle-aged but hair/make-up like a teenager midwife bounded in and shouted 'Don't worry, I'm here, you're lucky to get me, I'm a very trendy midwife' and then promptly switched on some very loud, very rubbish music.......I was just about to threaten to shove the stereo up her !!!!!! when hubby thankfully stepped in and said 'I don't think my wife really likes Boyzone'!! I'm thinking I might request a scientology-stylee silent birth to prevent this kind of thing in future hahaha!!!:rotfl:

when I was taken to the delivery suite in the morning the midwife put the radio on - it was some local station, loads of crappy music, not my taste at all, but I didn't mind it being on in the background. 12 hours later, no baby, no progress, and I was now crying for an epidural. In the evening the radio station changed from, ahem, pop, to yee-ha....country and western! The young, gorgeous anaesthetist walked in through the door, looked round the room and announced he wasn't surprised I needed an epidural, he would need one himself to ease the pain of listening to that crap......:rotfl: I was in too much pain to appreciate it at the time, but its given me a few laughs since.

Snaggles

Hahahaha, that made me laugh, thanks!

And why is it that you only ever meet gorgeous men in those kind of circumstances??? You never meet them when you're looking gorgeous and serene, only when you are sweating and panting lol! Not that I'm looking, but it's just s0ds law isn't it .

ooobedoo

My friend had a baby when she was 16, the doctor who stitched her up was the most attractive man in the world apparently....she said she was mortified

Js_Other_Half

Snaggles wrote:

Is it helping? I've tried nibbling digestives, rich tea biscuits, rice cakes, drinking/eating ginger, boiled sweets, peppermints, dry toast, rice pudding.......the list goes on.......:rolleyes:. I've been wearing sea sickness bands that help for a couple of hours but then the effects wear off.

Acupuncture is always worth a try - it took two sessions to stop any nausea I was feeling in the first trimester (with an acupuncturist I'd been going to for about a year - wasn't cheap though!). You can do a search for one in your area via the British Acupuncture council website:
http://www.acupuncture.org.uk/

I now have acupuncture carried out by a midwife in my local hospital - and all it costs me is the car parking...:money:

hth