***January Jellybeans***~ 35 BABY GIRLS & 23 BABY BOYS BORN ~***

[jms895]

Lovely Lisa!

LittleMrs - yes I get HB really bad at night in bed

 

[hodbert]

Disney - sorry my fb has crashed!!!!

 

[millward329]

Lisa you have been busy and it all looks great.↲↲Leanne dont you be going in and sharing your germs with the munchkins make sure you stay it bed! They will cope without you and Im sure the delightful manager gets paid to take the slack

 

[Disneydancr]

lol I just came on here to tell you the same thing, hodbert! I thought it was my computer!

 

[Disneydancr]

Working again now though!

 

[Mom 2B]

good stuff Laura thats great! Don't you get help with quitting smoking in canada? I'm not sure if you can even take it in pregnancy but we have a 6 week course of tablets here called Champix which are apparently amazing! They totally remove the want of a cigarette for 6 weeks to help give the will power a kick start - all free on the good old NHS too.

Regardless sounds like your doing a great job solo anyway hun, well done! x

We dont get coverage for any quitting smoking aids. Its all over the counter here. There is the patch (12 week program) adn nicorrette gum oh there is a prescription pill too that is not covered....but i can't take any of it while pregnant. I already looked into it. but i think im doing ok. Up to 8 now and its 7pm. Plan to keep busy once little one is in bed so im not sitting on the computer wanting to smoke. I have to finish her curtains for her room and im working on the blanket and hats and booties for my boy.

-The nursery looks absolutly adorable.

-I hope your feeling better real soon. Oh is just starting to get over his cold...its been 5 days of him moaning and feeling like poo

-Hope the blood pressure evens out and you and baby are ok adn home soon

 

[Disneydancr]

mom 2be, you can use the patches. It's suggested that you quit cold-turkey, but if that doesn't work, the patches are better than smoking! Give it a try! If you want, I have left-over patches I might be able to send you, although I don't know how much postage would be.

 

[lovealittle1]

Hi jj's I am really struggling to keep up lately. With the time diff by time I log on there is pages and pages to read so sorry if anyone thinks I am a slacker or antisocial i promise I'm not. to all the jj's that are not feeling well.

Hope Sam's bp goes down and she feels better soon

Laura-good job on day 1 of cutting down

Hodbert - loving the nursery

A friend of mine had her baby the other day 9lb baby boy. He is so sweet. It made me so excited to get to hold a newborn. Only 3 days left at work for me now can hardly wait!

 

[Mom 2B]

My Dr told me im not allowed to use anything to help with quitting smoking. and he also said not to quit cold turkey, it would be to stressful on the baby when im this far along. he said if i could have quit before 12 weeks that cold turkey was the way to do it but after 12 weeks cold turkey is not recomended....especially if baby is already showing signs of being small. The smaller they are the harder they deal with things.

 

[iprettii]

so I found out today that I got approved to take my leave from work!!! so in exactly 30 days I am DONE with work and I'll be able to collect unemployment. I am so excited. I'll be just over 36 wks at that point.

 

[smiffy85]

Hi Laura! It's just before 6am in uk and Im up lol! Been awake since 5 cos of how much coughing hurts grrrr! How goes the cold turkey??

 

[smiffy85]

Well I have taken the decision to try and look after myself, bean and crucially my voice lol and have had to text into school to let them know I won't be in today. I've also said I probably won't be in tomorrow as I think if I rest my throat and get some antibiotics (fingers crossed) later at the doctors I might be ok to do my last day with the class on friday!! I am really sad I am missing my time with the children - how dedicated am I. I'm a soft one really.

Just had a text back from one of the 2 people I text and they wished me to get better soon which has made me feel better. Maybe there are some people at work who do genuinely care.

xxxxx

 

[hodbert]

Hey Smiffy, glad you relented and have taken some time off. Get lots of fluids and rest!

 

[Jolene]

Leanne, hope you feel better soon.

Sam, hope the rest in hospital helps bring your BP down and you're back with us soon!

I've realised that sitting back and relaxing just doesn't work for us. Mackenzie wedges her little feet into my ribs So the only time I seem to be comfortable is when I'm up and that gets exhausting. Anyone else having that problem?

 

[smiffy85]

Jolene I'm the same. On monday I had had a hard and long day at work and I still carried on with cooking tea, clearing and washing up, washing and folding the ironing etc when I got home cos whenever I did sit down, bean didn't seem to like it. Was the same last night even now I'm ill. Just can't get comfy. xxxxxx

 

[jms895]

Thats goiod Smiffy!

We are snowed in here eeeeekkk!

 

[jojo-m]

Lisa your nursery is gorgeous!

Jms I'm pretty sure I've never seen as much snow in this country ever which means my selfish husband is leaving me for the 3rd day with our 4 year old to go snowboarding! Anyone would think he'd not booked a week away in France when I'm 36 weeks grrr!

Oh well I'm only jealous but I have a cold and not feeling so great so I'm grumpy. Not sure I can bend to do a snowman but gonna give it a try! X

 

[jojo-m]

Ah just noticed my ticker picture has flipped my baby over head down! X

 

[LittleMrs]

Will click when get near PC naomi, as I'm on my mobile at the moment.

We live on the main road and we've just watched a lorry slide down the road from the bedroom window. I honestly can't remember last time we had snow this deep- think it was my 15th birthday. So 1996.

Smiffy/leanne hope Sam/faff is ok and sorry you feel poorly.

Anyone else feeling the burn? I'm going thru packs and packs of rennie chewy like they're going out of fashion. I can't even lie on my right side without searing heartburn, which is a shame because I'm more comfortable on that side.

Aww thanks hun.

Blimey that sounds scary. We are getting more snow here, it is actually quite thick now and really slippery down our road. My husband took three and a half hours to get 15 miles down the road today! It's mad.

Yes and I bloody hate it! Every evening I am getting heart burn and have to take Gaviscon as thats the only thing that seems to work for me but, it seems to be getting worse every day!

Gaviscon makes me gag - I hear it works better than the chewy Rennie but just can't stomach it.

Wow loving your work Lisa! Its all so pink and gorgeous. I must admit I get slightly jealous of the ladies with pink jellybeans sometimes. Especially when I see all the gorgeous dresses and things in the shops! Lol silly me. I love my blue bean tho lots!!!

Since my last post I have started with a high temp. So since I have only the one flannel and that is in my hospital bag, I am laying on the bed with a cold wet sock on my head hehe! Texted my foundation stage leader to tell her no voice and now a temp and she said 'know how you feel. hope you get a good nights sleep'. In other words 'don't you dare go off sick!' a little feel better wouldn't hav gone amiss.....

grrrrr xxxx

We only have one flannel too. How typical of midde leaders in school - mine is exactly the same, really mardy whenever you're off ill and when you come back is all fake sympathy and 'oooh, are you sure you should be back?' hmmm - like she hadn't spent the entire time asking when you were back.

Also, I really like the boys clothes - much cooler than the girls clothes. Look in next, they have some REALLY cool boys clothes, especially animal themed.

Well I have taken the decision to try and look after myself, bean and crucially my voice lol and have had to text into school to let them know I won't be in today. I've also said I probably won't be in tomorrow as I think if I rest my throat and get some antibiotics (fingers crossed) later at the doctors I might be ok to do my last day with the class on friday!! I am really sad I am missing my time with the children - how dedicated am I. I'm a soft one really.

Just had a text back from one of the 2 people I text and they wished me to get better soon which has made me feel better. Maybe there are some people at work who do genuinely care.

xxxxx

I feel exactly the same - after last week I swore I would get myself signed off but I want to see my classes for the last week of term so I can say goodbye, plus I've got a week of lessons for the entire dept to plan and PowerPoint and a report on the progress of the SEN cohort to prepare, plus someone else would have to take my classes. Why do we do this, again? Oh yeah, coz kids are lovely and they always say things that make you smile and remind you how lovely humans can be. Sigh. Sad but true.

Leanne, hope you feel better soon.

Sam, hope the rest in hospital helps bring your BP down and you're back with us soon!

I've realised that sitting back and relaxing just doesn't work for us. Mackenzie wedges her little feet into my ribs So the only time I seem to be comfortable is when I'm up and that gets exhausting. Anyone else having that problem?

I can feel a head in my pelvis and a bum under my ribs and I swear she's just spinning between the axis. Feel like I should spend all my time laid splayed out or stood up but it's too tiring.

Also, lovely nursery, Lisa. I might spend my snow day knitting.

 

[emilyp83]

Morning everyone. Thank goodness I seem to have had some sleep!! Went to bed at about 8.30 and slept til 2.30 then I actually managed to get straight back to sleep and slept til 6! Feel so much better for it. I really noticed that I didn't get my afternoon nap yesterday from being in the hospital. I was dead on my feet by 6pm and ended up in tears I felt so ill.

I hope everyone who is feeling poorly gets better soon. Play the pregnancy card for all its worth I say, we've only got a few weeks left to use it!

The snow just gets worse and worse here, we've had another couple of inches overnight. On the bright side I might get stranded and when I go into labour they could send some hunky firemen to rescue me????

OH decided to try to apologise yesterday in the end but somehow its still my fault he was cross! I've told him if he doesn't want to be here then he doesn't need to find a reason to make it my fault to leave and he should just go. He said he doesn't want to leave and he loves me. I can't let him keep doing this though and making me feel so small and useless.

My trip down to the triage unit was a waste of time as expected. They think I am losing my plug but my cervix is still pretty closed and has a bit of length to it so no sign of baby bump making an appearance just yet. I'm still getting the pains though but they didn't seem too concerned and I'm grateful to have been let home again.

The downside is that triage is the first place you go if you go into labour during the daytime so there were 2 labouring women in there. One seemed to be coping and got to 4cm while I was there and was moved to labour ward. The other seemed to be having a panic attack every time she had a contraction and the poor midwife was really struggling to calm her down. You could hear that it was just making her worse every time she hyperventilated and then that made her dizzy which panicked her even more. Because she was only 2-3cm they couldn't really do much for her and were trying to find her a bed in the antenatal ward. It scared me a bit to think that could be me!!

Anyhow, not got much planned for today. Might try and get the house tidied up a bit and I really seriously need to do something about the forest growing on my legs and not to mention everywhere else, it was a tad embarrasing at the hospital yesterday!!!

Have a good day everyone xxx