Hello Mudduh Hello Fadduh: ILX Rolling Parenting Thread

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Wow, it's Flexi Sex in a digipack - the first Trunk digipack ever! And what an album, total and utter filth from start to finish. To cut a long story short, this is a collection of all the Flexi Discs issued by those naughty top shelf titles "Rustler" and "Whitehouse" in the late seventies and early eighties. There are nine treats in all on the CD - including the bonus lavatory festival that is Mary Millington. Also included are Tantalising Tina, Rosey and Nobby, Sonias Sex Diary, Folky Fenella from Dorset whose real name is Eydie and so much more besides. Each dirty girls has a 5 to 6 minute filthy monologue, the like of which you may well have never heard before. The idea was the reader would buy his mag, take it home, then play the flexi disc while ogling the dirty pictures. Truly a magical experience then, and an even more magical one now.

I could not find Fuzzy Felt Folk, so I got Gather In The Mushrooms instead. I am not entirely convinced of its suitability as a children's album.

Teacher = not amused. Rest of class = in hysterics.

I wonder how Michael and Pam are doing.

Perhaps Mike will tell us.

Last meeting with senior consultant and her fancy high-end ultrasonograph was very encouraging - contrary to all previous indications, she didn't think the pyelectasis was any cause for concern, she thought the bloodflow was fine and, though the baby is small, she didn't think required intervention either. Yay!

So, Pam's going to see the doc today and having another Big Scan next Thursday, but it looks like she may be able to carry to term after all! No more daily hospital monitoring either.

(At 33 weeks, Foetus Part Deux: The Carnage Continues is 3lb 5oz [1500g], which is just below the 10th percentile; its body size is quite a bit smaller than that though. Looks like a birth weight very similar to Ava's).

Still don't know the sex.

I have another scan in two weeks, just a final look at what is going on with baby's cleft lip, although we're not expecting to learn anything new really. But it's nice to be given another chance to say hello to her :)

Buh buh but how did you MAKE the baby? Oh right, you mean gender. ;-))))) Anyway, I am so happy to hear everything is better than expected. YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!

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Obligatory picture. She knew how to crawl for a week or two.

How are you feeling btw?

I do wonder when Ava's babbling will end and she'll talk to pick out particular words like her local comtemporaries ("Man! Sit!" instructed 20-month-old Harry the other day when I saw him; "Milk time?" asks 19-month-old Luke).

She woke us up at 3:30 this morning (I think she was cold - finally time to put the heating on, I suppose) and launched into the most extraordinary burst of inflected chatter when I picked her up. I know it's not unusual for kids of her age to do this, but it's like she's been doing it for so long now (the babbling shifted from canonical to conversational around 11 months) she's really honed it and you'd swear she was presenting a very persuasive legal argument or explaining the precise operation of a piece of equipment to a co-worker, so refined and actorly is the performance. It's just that none of the words are real! She can only really manage "nose", "meow" and "shoes" reliably.

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bonding with lucy!

And Ava is so big and toothy now! Gorgeous.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Do any of y'all's kids get this look in their eyes that screams "I am about to do something really horrible because I find it hilarious?". My son has NEVER given me such a look...my nephew on the other hand (3 yrs), ONLY ever has this look in his eyes. When he gets mad, he gets naked, and screams A LOT. I am really glad he's not mine, because, from afar, he is the funniest thing I've ever seen.

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Another scan this afternoon - wish us luck!

Good luck with the scan!!!! Let us know how it was.

As for me, I've been in hospital since Monday night :(
Back home now and fine - just a bit of a scare with bleeding and slight contractions but swiftly sorted and established as NOT early labour. They still kept me in as a precaution though, which was a very boring experience.

Although it did mean I got to watch telly for a change, including Britain's Youngest Mums and Dads, which was scary, sweet and entertaining by turns. Most of the teenage parents seem to be doing incredibly well, which was quite humbling really. I'm at least 10 years older than the oldest of them but I'm still terrified of fucking up this parenting thing :/

Scan went well - all those Taste the Difference brownies are obviously paying off cos #2 is now up to 1989g (how can they be so accurate? I think she was reading it off a chart), no kidney probs, placental fluid good, sys/dia blood flow ratio good. Doesn't have to go back until 2/11! 80% sure it's a girl!

That movie above was from July - she can't fit in that flowery blouse any more. If you click on my username on YouTube you can see a few more Ava movies - most of 'em are quite old. None of them are very interesting outside of the Berry-Jones house. None of them have the nice saturated colours that the clip above has (I think it was a Sony).

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Back home now and fine - just a bit of a scare with bleeding and slight contractions but swiftly sorted and established as NOT early labour. They still kept me in as a precaution though, which was a very boring experience.

Ah, I had this as well. First just slight spotting but then I had a full on bleeding scare. I still remember waiting for my dad to pick us up to go to the hospital and I was just crying and crying... and crying thinking it was all going so horribly wrong. Apparently I had a tendency to *tear* the inside passage skin (?!?) quite easily.

Yay for Michael's good news!

Hopefully it will make her do this more often!
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Ophelia now has three CDs. I especially like the Raymond Scott CD!

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(It's actually the first volume, but isn't that cover GRR34T!)

I hope they caught it early. The survival rates have increased massively over the last 20-30 years. I guess it's ALL, at that age; most kids with ALL are cured thesedays. (Comfort in statistics).

^_^

Ophelia doing a Jane Fonda!