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Hullo London! Congratulations to you - what lovely news! Your bump is indeed looking beautiful. I will keep my Top Tips short and sweet;
1. DO NOT listen to any birth horror stories. It's different for everyone and the biggest obstacle you can face in childbirth is fear. We're currently considering going for number four - if it was that horrific an experience, we wouldn't have got past number one.
2. To prepare for the birth, look into Hypnobirthing. Seriously - I swear by it. There is an excellent book (with CD) available by Marie Mongan. There are also classes/courses you can attend (you'll be spolit for choice if you can attend them in London).
3. To prepare for breast-feeding, read What to Expect When You're Breast-feeding and What if You Can't... This is a really, really useful and informative book. I can loan you my copy if you want, just let me know.
In fact, drop me a line any time you want if you want to talk about anything pregnancy, childbirth or baby related.
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4. Clarins Body Treatment Oil - wonderful stuff. Massage it into your bump. It's lovely on the skin and smells really nice.
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Thanks everyone! I may well take you up on your offers of advice - we're all friends on Facebook right, so I can mail you there? The main thing I'm trying to do right now is, as Astro says, not ruin the rest of the pregnancy by freaking out about the birth. I mean I guess it's going to happen whether or not I worry about it isn't it, so what's the point?
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It is somewhat inevitable, yes! I think that hypnobirthing will really help you. Even if you just read up on it and understand the principles behind it. That's all that I did (as I live in the arse-end of nowhere, there are no such frivolities as hypnobirthing classes to be found nearby) and what could have easily been a distressing delivery turned out to be awesome. Yes, that's right. AWESOME. Two puffs of gas and air, two concentrated deep pushes and there he was; all wide-eyed and flailing and gurgling and beautiful.
You can reach me via Facebook, yes. Any time you want to chat or ask about stuff. Seriously - I've got advice and book recommendations coming out of my goddamn ears.
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All my bras are fucking killing me. I have new ones and I bought a 'bra extender' which is this sexy little thing that makes them bigger and still they don't fit. But I swear my tits are not THAT much bigger. I think my RIBS are expanding? Is this normal? It hurts so much!
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The only way to tell for sure is before&after pictures London.
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Is it true that they turn the epidural back down for the pushing part? And that that is ridiculous painful, since your body hasn't been building up the endorphin response it would have done had you been birthing naturally? Is there any way you can request that they not do that? Surely if you have a moving epidural (as I will be) then it isn't necessary?
Yeah hi I totally still haven't gone into labour can you tell.
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Ampus, my other pregnant friend went into labour on jimmy's dvd date! Shes still in labour. I didnt even know thats possible, but apparently so. I think she's just been at home going 'ohh... OHHH... OH FUCK... FUUUUGNGNNHUUUCCKK... FUUU... fuh... oh? oh. okay. fine. Whatevs. Shall we watch holby city?'
edit: re- reading this post i realise that it comes off all, 'oh hello, im not pregnant, heres a horror story to freak you out, arent i kind, no need to thank me!' so i will make it clear that my friend says that it has been tiring and painful, yes, but having her sister there to make her laugh has made it all bearable.
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i'm told nipple twiddling is very helpful. i'm wondering if it would be of any use if the forum twiddled their own nipples in solidarity with you. Would that make a difference, do you suppose? Cos i've got a pretty quiet day ahead of me- I've got to buy a fridge and stuff, but you know- and could easily commit to a half an hour or so of dreamily experimental kneading in a good cause. I'm sure everyone else would agree. I can just picture thorn in the disabled loos at work, tweaking away.
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My new office doesn't have a disabled loos. It's just a cupboard under the stairs. Makes taking a shit quite disconcerting because you're sort of aware that maybe everyone else can hear you, howling and straining, blasting thick waste into the porcelain.
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My colleague broke 'the code' recently by striking up a conversation with me in the toilet. Suprisingly it gave me the bravo I needed to sputter one out and was complimented and the fact it sounded like a pile of dried leaves being shove around with a can of shaving foam. Homerotic, yet fun.
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If someone tries to talk to you in the toilet you're not only allowed, but actively encouraged to drown them out with anus song
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I just went to the toilet. Nobody was in there. It would've been quite peaceful, were it not for the sound of cackling hags in the ladies' toilet downstairs. I could hear pretty much every word of their inane conversation about theckth and the fucking thity. Apparently one of them knows someone who went to the see the film in New York! The other replied "Oooooh, the Big Apple!"...
I shat with deliberate vigour, imagining the waste pipe to be open to the storey beneath.
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To be fair, I don't get the impression Misc likes anything. Nothing seems to make him happy, except maybe sitting in his loft tinkering with objects.
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I'm very excited as I've managed to book the day off work tomorrow to go fishing at some lake I've 'found' in Macclesfield - in the middle of the woods, probably with nobody else there. I've not been for a very long time and I can't stop tapping my feet in anticipation. I'm oozing with early-teen-years excitement. I doubt I'll be getting much sleep tonight. I've even bought a snazzy new camera off Ebay last night and am picking it up after work, in order that I can take lots of lovely pictures, hopefully of big fat carp.
quote:Originally posted by Zygote: Beat that for sad as fuck.
That actually sounds like an excellent way to spend a day. I used to do a lot of fishing (i.e. drinking and smoking pot) in my youth. I'm envious. I expect pictures dammit.
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