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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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

...cope with it. I'm pretty sure nature makes pregnancy so long partly so mothers overcome their fear of the actual birth, so desperate is the need to see their feet again and stop peeing ten times an hour! The Labour With my due date approaching rapidly, despite a few evenings with quite nasty back pain, no sign of regular contractions, and my due date came and went. A few days past my due date, I woke at 3.30am with the need to go to the toilet, or so I thought. My partner, being an insomniac, was still awake from the night before. As I stood up I had a strange sensation and guessed my waters were breaking. I managed to run to the bathroom and stand in the bath before they whooshed everywhere. (Thank god we didn't have to clean that up!). I was quite excited now, but not really suffering major pains. I rang my birthing centre to...

miasmum82 11.07.2008 · 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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Starter for ten

Advantages: Funny
Disadvantages: None

...Starter for ten was a DVD that my Wife bought and it had been sat on our shelf whilst we waited for our new DVD player to arrive, as we couldn't get any of our DVD's to play at all on our old one. I have to admit I wasn't that bothered if I saw it or not and was actually slightly grateful that I was managing to hold off on this one for a while! However, as soon as the new DVD player arrived my Wife insisted that we watch this as she has been wanting to for quite some time - since it was on in the cinema in fact but she hadn't managed to go and see it. She was so desperate to see it because she has the book and really wanted to see the film! So one evening we sat down to watch it with me not expecting much but I have to say I was pleasantly surprised and overall glad that I had actually ended up watching this film!! The story...

peteandcesca 26.03.2008 (20.03.2008) · 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

...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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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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My Top ten

Advantages: good things to look at
Disadvantages: none so far

...I love to browse around the net and when I find a good site I pop it into my favorites, where it is saved for easy access to look at again and again and here are my top ten websites just for you. 1. www.virtualroses.co.uk Have you every forgotten that it's someone's birthday and need a little time to go out and get them a present? I have done a few times and used this site, where you can send a virtual rose free of charge. I know it's not the real thing but it can be used to make someone smile, especially on birthdays and valentines day. They can be sent 24 hours a day and can be anonymous if you fancy someone but don't want to say. There are some lovely choices of roses to choose from, click on the rose of your choice, you can click on the picture of it to enlarge it and get a better look at the rose, then click the next...

Sunnysmiles 08.11.2006 (10.06.2009) · Read review
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Ten of my best on the Net

Advantages: A bit of variety
Disadvantages: Won't appeal to everyone

...TOP TEN WEBSITES This might not actually be the ten websites that I visit most frequently, but alongside the BBC, Amazon, Dooyoo and Ciao I have tried to include two or three lesser known websites that might be of interest to certain people. Some a little arty that won't appeal to everyone, and one that is basically for students of English. Apologies for quite a long review, but you can just pick and choose the sites you would like to read about. JACQUIE LAWSON E-CARDS http://www.jacquielawson.com/ I originally found out about this website through a review on Ciao a couple of years ago. I do occasionally send e-cards but had been lamenting the quality of the ones that were available free of charge. The Jacquie Lawson website currently charges £6.25 for one year's membership or £9.50 for two years, and during the course of your...

denella 15.11.2008 · Read review
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