Ello mrs.bump xx

Karma Baby waved at us today on scan

One bad labour doesn't necessarily mean the same next time....my sister had 23 hour labpour for the first and half hour and being delivered by the new husband for the 2nd (he was talked though over the phone by the ambulance people though).

I think I can hear B's screams of terror from here

First one - 24hrs in labour. 11 stitches. East peasy

Second one - pre eclampsia (sp?), near dead placenta, emergency c section, 4 pints of blood, died twice & the little bas/turd was nearly delivered naturally & he decided he liked it where he was, half way down the birth canal.

Third one - I WAS FARKIN PETRIFIED not as easy as the first but no stitches that time

AND THATS IT - NO MORE

I am so glad I didn't watch this programme when I was pregnant  Now she's four and a half months old, I can enjoy it

think that  is what it is with me  mines 16 this year and she says she would die of embarrasment if i got pregnant

  Hi Aimee How you doing?

good thanks, hope you are to  she thinks i'm an old biddy

 At that age, everyone over 20 is an old biddy.... except if they are male I'm good thanks.

Karma, I have to ask.... if you were still having monthlies, how did you find out you were pregnant? What made you take a test?

I think it's quite common to still have monthlies especially in the early weeks.

I terrified my cousin who is a complete career woman to her very soul when I told her I got pregnant while using TWO forms of ocntraception

She quickly added another to her two

you scared me too Arwen And all this monthlies stuff isn't helping either

I think thats more likely if you are on the mini pill...

I tried those, but they kept falling out.

Like throwing a sausage in the Blackwall Tunnel

Ahh this is the question!

It was cos I ordered a chinese that I normally loved and couldn't stand the taste of chicken and I just knew. (As you know I had miscarriages before K so can tell the symptoms pretty quickly), and when I done the test it was no surprise, it was when I found out how far gone I was though and saw this shape of a little person on the screen! (I've still got the scan pics, will have to try and get them up on FB or summat)

Thing is, when you fall pregnant, no matter how sure you are about it before you do the test the first thing you think when you get that positive result is 'Oh shit'

I do want another one now though, and after seeing Alex Reid on the telly earlier want to get wed now too! (I know someone who knows him well - watch my FB ) Have regrets that I didn't get wed when I had the chance before really, but the good news is there are still (divorced and totally available) men out there who still want the package

ok, I'll watch out for strange food cravings/avoidance then I'm gonna write being hungry all the time off to the fact I'm a greedy b*stard though

Croc had a craving for mud when she was preggers!

Karma, you watched that Big Fat Gypsie Wedding thing, didn't you?

I did....why? What have I missed?

You just wanted to get married to wear one of those dresses!

yeah... twas like that when I found out I was having the boy (my second)....  I'd bought some shell on prawns which I normally love.. and they were really fresh but I could smell them... throughout the house.  I binned them thinking everyone was lying about them being ok.   then later we got a chinese and the smell made me feel sick and again... seemed to linger everywhere I went.

also... pert boobs     I was deceiving myself into thinking that was normal... 

when I did the test it didn't go blue... it went black.   Screaming 'PREGNANT OF COURSE YOU STUPID BIRD!'

Wasn't an 'oh shit' moment though... I suppose having my daughter under the circumstances I did, nothing could be more of an 'oh shit' than that.   I was surprisingly calm & happy about it (that could have been the hormones).

Avoidance in the beginning.   Cravings later on (for me)... and craving doesn't quite cover it.   I was like a hardcore milk junkie when I had the boy... I used to run (quite a sight at 7 months pregnant) to the milk counter at the back of the supermarket & grab a 4 pint bottle of milk, and chug it as I stood there... it pouring down the sides of my face.   

Proper insanity it was!

Ditty!

I crave a cigarette when I'm pregnant. Tis the only time I can stand the smell

that knocks the "you crave what the baby needs" theory on the head then!

unlucky Abo!  I don't think I'd have had the strength to deny my milk craving

I had a milk craving too Ditty I was drinking minimum 4 pints a day (sometimes 8), Ive never met anyone who had the same cravings as me! Oooh  blimey!

& you had a boy too!

my son was a greedy little sod... even when he was inside me - he took everything from me... I ended up a malnourished shell of a person!  

he was born... 10lbs but not especially long - he had rolls of fat even on his feet!!  

when I was having him his head got stuck... they forcep'd that free... then his shoulder got stuck - again they yanked him through... then his torso (basically his gut) got stuck - & out came the midwifes james herriot full length plastic glove!

Bloody hell Ditty

I'm off to tie my Fallopian tubes in a firm knot

lol!

on the plus side... it was quick... only 8 hours in labour with the boy!

Ditty!!!

Think i need to steer clear of this thread and the tv programme too lol

And I gave into it as well and licked the dirt of potatoes or licked my finger and stuck it in my potted planets...that was only first frst three though..I had no cravings with the last one...porbably on account of beng sick for 9 months!

eek!  Sorry Jen!

 I'm only messing I've done it twice already although 1st was 4lb4oz and born in 20mins!

Mine was a 9 pounder but was also 57 cms long. With me, I had carried him breach for most of the pregnancy but then he turned and  his head was engaged at 40 weeks and all was set for a natural birth (I was cacking myself) and it was only when I went in to be induced and they were just about to start me off that they discovered he had disengaged himself and gone back to breach, so I was saved from hours of labour (and probably saved a few lives too).Even the ceasar didn't go smoothly, he didn't want to bleedin come out of my tummy and it took them about 40 minutes with a forceps delivery in the end cos it was starting to go wrong. And then when he was born they held him up, turned him round to look at me and the minute I smiled and said hello he started screaming. He looked proper pissed off  (and not much has changed since )

I was hoping this would be bumped by someone other than me, and I could coast along without  slating off the completely annoying midwife that felt she had to enunciate every single instruction, and fact she had ever learned at midwifery school.

It's a wonderful job to have, and I had fantastic midwives, but she would have done my nut in  

and the husband, telling the wife it was her own fault, she should have opted for a section and moaning about the time it was taking. How she never told him to eff off, I'll never know.The woman must be a saint to put up with that prat. Between him moaning and the midwife's *soft face soft face soft face gentle gentle soft face* the poor bliddy woman mist have felt ready to kill them both!