I'm so sorry Claire
I added you now hon.
Congrats and welcome, Jackster
do you have a due date (worked out from last period, or, a rough guess) so I can put you on the front page?
Kwarbee... Massively keeping my fingers crossed for you. Please update us when you can
I thought it'd be nice to see when everyone's due to head to Tri 2, so we know who's going when, and so we know when we're out of the "danger zone".
Trimester start/end dates are always a little fuzzy. With pregnancy going from 38-42 weeks, trying to divide that by three... It can all be a little bit of a guess.
The front page dates are the kinda, most common ones I could find (as in most websites agreed they were about right). So, if your Tri 2 date is Jan 3rd, then your last day in Tri 1 is Jan 2, so at midnight between the two, you're "officially" (as official as google tells us, anyway) a Tri 2 mummy
I'll probably pop over to Tri 2 about a week early and start up the Tri 2 July Mummies thread, so it's there ready and waiting as we start to hop over. Also, it's never a bad idea to start hanging out over there a little early anyway, just to see what sort of things are coming up.
I remember last time, I was in Tri 1, and I fell into the Tri 3 section by mistake... Full of ladies talking about labour threads, and birthing techniques, and mucus plugs, and raspberry tea... I was freakin scared
I had NO idea what they were on about.
By the time I got part way through Tri 3 myself, I got it. I could "speak the language", lol.
I'm sure, you first-timers, if you're the kind of clueless person I was, you're probably a but wary of all the stuff still to learn. I can promise you. As scary as it may seem; you'll be just fine.
You'll start hearing a lot of "trust your instincts", and wonder how on earth you can trust instincts that have no experience, but I promise you, as much as you won't believe me... Your body's in control.
If you start craving chalk or tarmac... Roll with it.
Sparingly.
(Google... I'm serious).
In other news.
I have had the WORLDS worst toothache.
It started hurting last week, and I ended up going the emergency dentist last Sat morning. (After hours on the phone to 111), for her to spend exactly two seconds looking in my mouth, and saying "yeah, you've an abscess under your tooth, it's killed your tooth, you need to see a dentist kaythnxbaii".
I'm all... Huh? I thought you WERE a dentist...??
Whatever.
Anyway.
So, pain last night got so bad, my boss happened to call into work and saw the state of me. She ended up driving me up A&E at like, 8pm last night (I am SO lucky the hospital is so close. Like, 5 minutes close).
Two hours later, finally get seen.
By a doctor cause they don't have dentists on site.
She gives me two paracetamol and a codine and tells me to call 111, tell them it's 10/10 pain, swollen, I can't eat, pregnant, sick/headache with the pain etc and I need to see a dentist NOW.
So I do all that. Phone 111 from A&E (which seems a little... Cannibalistic?).
"Oh, emergency dentists all close at 9pm (an hour ago by now), we'll pass you on to the out-of-hours GP, they'll call you at some point within the next 12 hours, byeeee".
Oh right... Thanks...?
OOH GP calls. Well. Receptionist-y assistant person, anyways.
"All I can do is book you to come see the doctor at 11:30pm, is that okay?"
Well... No. Not really. I'm sat IN A&E... The doctor here told me to call 111 who passed my info to you, is there ANY point to wasting everybody's time going to see another doctor?
"I'll get the doctor to give you a call, okaybye"
...?
"Hi, so you've a toothache? Yeah... You really need a dentist.
The doctor at A&E gave you pain meds? Okay good luck tonight, call a dentist first thing, feel better".
Why, thanks, I guess...???
So, now it's three minutes to nine, I'm about to duck outta here and start ringing every dentist in town until someone gets me in an pulls this damn tooth.
I swear... I've said before about how everyone says you forget the pain of labour, and how that's absolute crap, cause labour really does hurt, it's just... Yeah, you end up with a baby so you don't care... That's the difference.
Labour hurts.
Any of you ever had toothache, and worried about labour?
Yeah, you'll be fine. Labour's a walk in the park compared to toothache.
Ooh, 9am!!!
YES dentist at 9:45!!!
Result!
I swear they wanna get this tooth out of my head before I take a freakin hammer to it.
We could save SO much money, you know. Instead of sending people to prison, just lop half their tooth off.
Easy peasy cheap an cheerful.
They'd never break the law again, that's for sure.
Anyhoo, Ima stop "blogging" now and go the dentist!!
!!!
Just remember... In terms of pain... Toothache>labour.
Take care ladies
BonzE, I'll catch up with you soon hon xx
xxxxx
so chuffed!!!!
