Labour on

Advantages: You get a baby
Disadvantages: it hurts

...on each contraction, those that had a 'bad' experience seemed to just yell and shout at people to help but not help themselves. So, with this in mine my due date approached... and went, and another day passed by, and another. Then 5 days after my due date I had a thing called a show, which in the nicest way of describing it was like a lump of jelly falling out of me... I know not nice! Then the next day (so, 6 days after my due date) I woke up at 4am with contractions. THE BIRTH So, i'm awake and feeling mild period pains in my stomach which disappear then return, I know im in labour and it's not those false labour pains called braxton hicks. I wait for about half and hour before I wake up my husband who jumps out of bed and yells 'lets go to hospital', I calm him down and ask him to make me a cup of hot chocolate- after all the info...

glitter-fairy 10.06.2007 · Read review
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Build a Friend!

Advantages: Good choices, nice assistants, good for kids
Disadvantages: Bit boring for young children, expensive

...When Harry turned 3 in March, we didn't want to spoil him with too many gifts, but we also wanted to get something a little bit special for him. He has 2 Hamley's bears that he has in bed with him every night, and he loves them to bits and they are what gave me the idea for his birthday present. We decided that after taking him to the local soft play, we would go to the Build-a-Bear workshop and let him build his very own bear, completely of his own choosing. We didn't tell him about it, so when we turned up outside the shop, he was shocked and amazed that he was going in, let alone buying his own bear! I wasn't really aware the Build-a-Bear franchise until recently as I have no need to go into one of their stores! I knew of the idea of making something as when my fiance and I went to New York in 2005, we each went to a doll...

mummy2harry 03.07.2009 · Read review
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labour of love

Advantages: you have a baby at the end
Disadvantages: it can be painful, there may be complications

...over to the nurse who said that perhaps it was time to consider pain relief, she had a quick look below and looked up rather surprised, telling me that I was already 7 cm dilated. I was moved to the delivery suite and given gas and air. The gas and air made me slightly drunk (rather amusing to my husband as I am not one to drink and so he has only ever seen me drunk once in four years.) After a while the effectiveness of the gas and air seemed to be fading and it just made me sick, everywhere. (be warned labour is not at all dignified.) The doctor suggested an epidural and I welcomed it with relief, relief I may add that was short lived. By now I had been dilated 7 cm for hours and I was desperate to see my little girl. The doctors gave me an epidural which only worked one side, they then had to top it up ten minutes later to try...

dizzymonkey 28.05.2007 (13.03.2008) · Read review
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My experience of labour

Advantages: My baby Mia
Disadvantages: The pain, the midwives attitude

...I decided I wanted to use the local NHS birthing centre while pregnant with my first child. The main reasons for this were that it was very close, a five min drive if that. It was relatively new, with the hospital being only a few years old. The rooms were comfortable and not clinical, more like a travelodge or something similar. Another major reason was the fact that my partner could stay with me during the labour and when our new baby was born for as long as we were in hospital. This was extremely important to me. Birthing centres are managed by a staff consisting of midwives only. There are no doctors available and this can be a worry. They are a sort of halfway house between a hospital birth and a home birth. A lot of people choose birthing centres when they have an aversion to hospital environments. In my particular...

miasmum82 11.07.2008 · Read review
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Build a Bear Workshop

Advantages: The game is so user friendly and perfect for children
Disadvantages: The eggs not cracking in the one game

...My review is for the game Build a bear workshop for the Nintendo Ds Console. What is Build a bear? ------------------------------ Well this is basically a company which sells you bears which you need to make and create yourself. They are located across the country and they are teddy bears without the fillings inside and you get to choose which sort of bear you want. This could be an animal design or a basic teddy. You get to stuff the bear yourself and buy the bear clothes and treat it like a real companion. They are definitely worthwhile visiting if you are someone with a little daughter as they seem more interested than the boys would be. The Game -------------- I got this game for my niece who plays the Nintendo Ds console and because I am a huge softy I decided to play on it as well and was actually impressed...

languagetimothy 11.11.2009 · Read review
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Its called labour for a good reason (graphic)

Advantages: My gorgeous son, my pride at having birthed him myself
Disadvantages: my incontience, depression and loss of confidence

...feel that they aren't having the bonding feelings they think they should be having. Things look up though girls! +++++++++++++++++++++ I came out of labour having torn right to my bottom. It was stitched up well and I healed, but I didn't heal completely and so ended up with Incontinence. This took a further 6 months of physiotherapy to build up the strength of my bottom muscles. I felt humiliated, lost my confidence and was depressed before I got to the end of my journey. But it did get fixed and for me life is good! I would go through labour again in a shot as my son is the joy of my life. Its not as bad as it sounds ++++++++++++++++++ Ive made labour sound horrific, but its not! It was never intended to be easy and it is worth every single second. I was terrified of needed an episiotomy beforehand, but when I got one...

lulu2004 14.12.2007 · Read review
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Loves Labours Lost

Advantages: Excellent covers of some old reggae standrads
Disadvantages: Sometimes a bit too slick

...The creation of entire albums of music from other artists is nothing new. It has been done to great effect by David Bowie, Bryan Ferry and many more. When UB40 followed up their first 2 albums which contained their own material with an album drawn from favourite reggae songs from their youth. Having established themselves as the conscience of 80s youth with their socially aware lyrics about unemployment and social injustice it could have been seen a s a commercial sell-out and perhaps ultimately it was. It was also, however, a very fine album. That it must have been a labour of love can be heard in the loving way the songs are crafted and every track reproduces the excellence of the original. As a lover of real reggae I do have to make one minor criticism and that is that the album is too good. There is far more added production...

polydeuces 24.09.2001 · Read review
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When All else failed Build-Up Helped.

Advantages: A good way to temp back a flagging appetite
Disadvantages: None

.... The District Nurse suggested that I try some Nestle Build-up, at that time I had heard of them but that was as much as I knew. The chemist stocked them in strawberry, vanilla, chocolate and banana flavour, I chose the strawberry flavour knowing that Mum enjoyed that fresh taste. I fully understood that as much as Mum wanted to be able to enjoy some `real food` at that point in time she just wasn't able to cope with it. Nestle Build-Up was a good way forward, at least the fruity milk shakes were easy to drink and simple to digest and they made me feel secure in the knowledge that I was at least trying to help the situation along. There are four separate sachets of Nestle Build-Up in each box and I paid somewhere in the region of £2.50 for the box at our local pharmacy. The milk shake is easy to make, just pour the contents of the sachet into...

Sarahjh1 20.05.2009 · Read review
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A labour to listen to.

Advantages: None for me.
Disadvantages: Poor arrangement and no real direction to the album!

...I have always considered myself to be a bit of a UB40 fan but after buying the Labour of Love volume 3 album I started to look further into my enjoyment of UB40 and soon realised that apart from maybe 10 songs there is actually very little the band has done that I enjoy. I think the fact that the original Labour of Love album was so good made me believe that this was a band I enjoyed, I bought volume 2 also and yes I played it but very rarely. When I first played this album (volume 3) I couldn't believe that I was listening to the same band that had created the marvellous Labour of love volume 1 because instead of a whole album full of great tracks I was greeted by an album of very similar sounding tracks none of which appealed to me at all. The tracks. ~~~~~~~~ 1. Holly Holy 2. It's My Delight 3. Come Back Darling 4. Never...

lynseyb 03.02.2008 · Read review
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LABOUR SAVING DEVICES .... NOT!

Advantages: The bundle of fun at the end.
Disadvantages: The pain!

...becoming too desirable to hold back and I had to make a dash for the loo! I managed to use the loo a bit , and I felt comfortable sat on there. The desire to use my bowel remained though and became much stronger through out the labour. So on the loo I remained, I didn't care if I got a ring of confidence around my cheeks from the loo seat! At this point I was offered Gas and Air, which I took in abundance. I did get ever so slightly high, well I had to have a perk! Ten o clock came and the midwife did an internal examination, she said I was fully dilated, then she changed her mind. She noticed that a small lip of my cervix was blocking the way for the babys head. This meant although I was pushing naturally, couldnt help it, I had to move onto my left side on a bed and pant until the cervix had corrected itself! At eleven o clock she checked...

Harryslarry 19.11.2003 (01.04.2004) · Read review
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