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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* Slave For You *

Advantages: Catchy , Funky Beat
Disadvantages: No Personality!

...cheated on her and filmed it so she could see it. Britney married Jason Allen Alexander who was one of her life long friends.Their marriage lasted just over 50 hours. Britney then married dance Kevin Federline , who she has now divorced.Together they have two children : two year old Sean Preston and one year old Jayden James.Kevin currently has custody of the two children. Britney has sold an estimated eighty three million records worldwide and she was once named the most powerful popstar. I'm a Slave For You was Britney's tenth single. It was released in the United Kingdom on October 8th 2001. The song comes under the Dance pop and bubble gum pop genres. The length of the song is three minutes and twenty four seconds. It reached number four in the British single charts. Slave For You is taken off Britney's third album 'Britney.# When...

xdonzx 15.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of I'm a Slave 4 u (Single) - Britney Spears

The slaves are revolting! New war part II

Advantages: Entertaining and thought provoking read.
Disadvantages: Some will be put off by the Science fiction label

.... As both are shy, private, retiring (!) persons who have not had their pictures in the media it should be relatively easy. Two young females let loose on an unsuspecting galaxy or at least parts of it. But all does not go as planned. There are others in the mix. An ambitious Solarian governor and military delegation, the Republic of Haven's most capable agent-Victor Cachat. Add religious fanatics and a nearby planet controlled by the galactic slave masters, Manpower, and the galaxy's most notorious killers of slave masters, Jeremy X and the Audubon Ballroom organisation, and you have a recipe for a disaster. This is a story set in the 'Honorverse' and is not as heavy with space combat as some of the other stories have been. There is more of the political intrigue in evidence. And there are some parts that are humorous. More...

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Review of Crown of Slaves - David Weber

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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Nobody's Slaves

Advantages: Great music
Disadvantages: None for me!

...the headliners took the stage, the crowd were still chanting ?Skid Row.? Such success put a lot of pressure on the band when they released their follow up album on June 11th 1991. Musically, ?Slave To The Grind? glanced once at the debut album then kicked its scrawny ass! Unfortunately, commercially, this album did not do as well as its predecessor, despite going straight to number one on the billboard charts. THE SONGS MONKEY BUSINESS The album opens with a gentle piece of music and Seb singing softly over the top of it. Don?t be fooled, seconds later the gentleness becomes a snarling scream of metal mayhem as the lyrics are spat out and the guitars scream. ?Blind man in the vox that will probably die The village kids laugh as they walk by A psycho is on the edge of this human garbage dump And the vultures in the sewers are...

HighPriestess 20.06.2004 (26.06.2004) · Read review
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Review of Slave To The Grind [PA] - Skid Row

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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Review of Labour Of Love Vol.1 - UB40

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

...When I was expecting my child I read. I read anything I could get my hands on, subscribed to all the mother and baby magazines, bought the self-help books, I just devoured every single piece of information I could to help me understand what giving birth would be like. I would say now that I possibly knew too much, and at the same time not nearly enough! I thought by preparing myself I would enable myself to make labour as 'sweet' as possible. Hardy har har. It turns out Labour is called labour for a reason! And not one of the Mother and Baby magazines prepared me for a labour which wasn't text-book. I had never expected it to be easy, nor had I expected it to traumatise me the way it had so I feel now that if I were to have another child I would be prepared in a way that only a second time mother can be. There are no rose tinted...

lulu2004 14.12.2007 · 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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Review of Labour Of Love Vol.3 - UB40

Slaves to destiny

Advantages: complex characters; interesting city; interesting ideas
Disadvantages: events slightly too signposted in advance

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brokenangelkisses 26.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Slaves of the Mastery - William Nicholson