UK SMOG Wannabes - November (moved from PL)

[Inglewood]

i must try hot water as i am struggling with liquid of any type - hence ice lollies!! Bless you babymad - i am also on a cheese bread diet - but has to be toast with a sliced (from a pre sliced pack....!!) piece of cheese in the middle. Although tonight i just managed an egg sarnie...no butter....no mayo just egg and bread!

Hope the op goes well x x huge hugss x

Charlie, a friend of mine also told me to try really fizzy lemonade, not diet. Also helps u go to the loo?? apparently?? I drank that hot too!! She has 5 kids and is sick for 9mths solid!! So any advice she gave me helped. The hot water really made a difference too, wouldn't normally drink it but go back to it even now when feeling sicky.

[pinga]

Petal - good to hear from you! Enjoy this lovely cuddly newborn stage... makes me feel excited to hold my own new little baby...

Deaks - fx you caught that egg!!!

Inglewood - wow - it won't be long til you find out the sex! With all those scans you'll definitely see something soon!!!!!! Very exciting...

I was watching One Born Every Minute last night - the US series. We've only had the UK series so far so this was really interesting!!!! They said they have an epidural rate of 90%! I was amazed! Also they seemed to offer drugs a lot more readily. It was fascinating to see the differences! Oh and all the women had their babies lying on the bed with legs in stirrups!! I would NOT like that. I'm going for the same as last time, if there are no complications, which is kneeling on the floor next to the bed! Worked wonderfully! I want gravity on my side.

Had my blood test this morning for my 12 week scan Combined Screening test. DS1 was up right close watching the needle and blood coming out. :P I can't look at it!!!!

Anyhews - hope everyone is travelling well...

[Kell]

Baby mad hope ds's op goes well Hun!

Pinga, I've watched obem USA and didn't really like it as much as the uk one, I think it's because of all the epi's you barely even know most of them are in labour!

Is it weird that I like to experience the pain? With ds1 I went into hospital when my waters was only 1cm and they wanted to send me home, I ended up being sick so was kept in given paracetamol and sleeping tablets as they were adamant I wasn't having him, 4 hours later alone and half asleep I very nearly gave birth in a lift and his dad only just made it to the birth as they sent him home!
I barely remember details and felt gutted about how things went! Ds2 birth was amazing! I felt every contraction, didn't feel cheated out of labour and want exactly the same thing this time if possible!
I don't have a problem with epi's at all! But I do think it's far to over used in the us. Rant over lol!

Deaks hope your sway gives u a bfp!! When is af due?
I'm feeling much better now, the cramps carried on for a few hours but have settled down now, still feeling very normal to be honest!

[charlieispy]

Going to go and get some licorice today too x blah i feel pant in pain from not going for so long

Babymad - hope all goes well x

Kell - glad the cramps have stopped sounds like beanie was burrowing in x

and....8wks today slowly getting there

[deaks66]

Going to go and get some licorice today too x blah i feel pant in pain from not going for so long

Babymad - hope all goes well x

Kell - glad the cramps have stopped sounds like beanie was burrowing in x

and....8wks today slowly getting there

Oh Charlie, you poor thing! Trying to think of that medicine you can take for constipation but can't for the life of me remember the name. Wander if you can take it when pg??

Kell, so glad your cramps have settled. Take it easy as possible today Hun.

Indigo, any symptoms yet?

[Sunset]

Babymad ~ good luck today! i hope your sons op goes well! but like the others have said, he's in good hands! keep us posted, i'll be thinking of you!

[Sunset]

I've loved reading through all your posts this morning and I found it very interesting that so many of you don't like milk I Love milk!! at the moment, I alone, go through about 4-5 pints of milk a day.. it's scary! and the boys love their milk as well so in total we go through about 7 pints a day! I think it would be cheaper for us to just buy a cow and have in the garden lol

Home&health have lots of american birth programs, but i always prefer the english birth shows much better simply because like you all say, you can hardly think the american women are in labour lol I've done natural hippy births twice and i really, really want an epi this time, but i know it's not gonna happen because my labours are so quick and the midwifes are so freaking stubborn "just try a little while longer and see how it goes" "but you're doing so well" "just work through another few contractions and see how you cope" Bla bla bla bla...

[Sunset]

Deaks ~ i don't think you need to worry! you did a great attempt and it seems like you timed it perfectly too! you should definitely feel happy with your attempt

Charliespy ~ yay for 8 weeks! it'll fly by i promise and soon you'll be 30+ weeks and wonder where the time went

[chocolate]

Babymad, hope its all quick for today xx. Charlie, I had fibregel in pregnancy for constipation, and I also took some sweet liquid stuff from the chemist that worked as a laxative, def. See your doctor and ask at the chemist as iended up with piles and it was horrendous. I had cold sweats from the pain of it after giving birth to DS1, but with DS2 I only had it mildy and didn't need to take anything. They prescribed me anusol cream and suppositries too, lovely lol!

[Kell]

Sunset lmao at the midwife's you defiantly did do well! I only had paracetamol with ds1 not through choice I can tell ya! But with ds2 I had morphine it was amazing stuff lol!
In thinking maybe a water birth this time! That way when I am a mw I can talk from experience about it!

Wow Charlie 8 weeks already! Cooking nicely now!!