|
Source: (consider it)
|
Thread: At the cabbage patch
|
Jack the Lass
Ship's airhead
# 3415
|
Posted
Congratulations to the whole Intrepid family, what lovely news! (although, maybe I'm being thick but what is wrong with the name Reuben? It's not a name in our family so I'm not offended, just curious!)
--------------------
"My body is a temple - it's big and doesn't move." (Jo Brand)
wiblog blipfoto blog
Posts: 5767 | From: the land of the deep-fried Mars Bar | Registered: Oct 2002
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
# 10422
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Jack the Lass:
Congratulations to the whole Intrepid family, what lovely news! (although, maybe I'm being thick but what is wrong with the name Reuben? It's not a name in our family so I'm not offended, just curious!)
Taunting nickname - Rube
--------------------
Even more so than I was before
Posts: 20466 | From: No longer where I was | Registered: Sep 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
The Intrepid Mrs S
Shipmate
# 17002
|
Posted
Or Ruby! It just doesn't appeal, somehow. I put the kibosh on Nathan, also, as the nephew of one of my dear friends is called Nathan and is in the nick (at 16 ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) ) for attempted murder, or GBH, or something undesirable anyway, and I just couldn't handle the associations ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
All home safely and Sebastian is still gorgeous ;o) ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif)
The Doting Mrs. S
--------------------
Don't get your knickers in a twist over your advancing age. It achieves nothing and makes you walk funny.
Prayer should be our first recourse, not our last resort
'Lord, please give us patience. NOW!'
Posts: 1464 | From: Neither here nor there | Registered: Mar 2012
| IP: Logged
|
|
Mrs Shrew
Ship's Mother
# 8635
|
Posted
Mr Shrew and I are expecting, due at the end of July. Currently baby is referred to as" the Balrog " ( I have been suffering from truly horrible pregnancy sickness- thought have managed not to set fire to any of the well meaning individuals who have suggested that ginger biscuits might work better than two separate kinds of prescribed medicines at helping me keep food and fluids in situ)
--------------------
"The goal of life is not to make other people in your own image, it is to understand that they, too, are in God's image" (Orfeo)
Was "mummyfrances".
Posts: 703 | From: York, England | Registered: Oct 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
Jack the Lass
Ship's airhead
# 3415
|
Posted
Congratulations Mr & Mrs Shrew, what lovely news! I hope that the urge to chunder disappears soon and you can enjoy at least some of your pregnancy! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
--------------------
"My body is a temple - it's big and doesn't move." (Jo Brand)
wiblog blipfoto blog
Posts: 5767 | From: the land of the deep-fried Mars Bar | Registered: Oct 2002
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
Dafyd
Shipmate
# 5549
|
Posted
Congratulations and best wishes to the Shrews.
[ 15. January 2016, 21:02: Message edited by: Dafyd ]
--------------------
we remain, thanks to original sin, much in love with talking about, rather than with, one another. Rowan Williams
Posts: 10567 | From: Edinburgh | Registered: Feb 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
Piglet
Islander
# 11803
|
Posted
Congratulations to the Shrews, and I hope you feel better soon. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
--------------------
I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
# 10424
|
Posted
Best wishes from here, too.
--------------------
I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
Curiosity killed ...
Ship's Mug
# 11770
|
Posted
Congratulations Mrs Shrew. I was morning sick for 6 months, so have a lot of sympathy and there was someone in my prenatal exercise class who was really ill with it. It's not much fun.
Congratulations to the Intrepid family. Apologies for being so slow.
A Boxing Day birthday isn't much fun, particularly as a child. Lots of groaning adults and left over Christmas food, because no-one wants to cook something special for that birthday or party again on Boxing Day. The other wrinkle is that Christmas born children theoretically get "bigger presents" across the two days, but if they have siblings comparison just shows that this ain't necessarily so.
(I spent my birthdays as a child sitting on the bank of a sailing club as my parents went sailing to work off some of their overindulgence over Christmas. Nobody wanted birthday cake and no, I really didn't want turkey curry followed by left over mince pies and Stilton for my birthday meal.)
--------------------
Mugs - Keep the Ship afloat
Posts: 13794 | From: outiside the outer ring road | Registered: Aug 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Brenda Clough
Shipmate
# 18061
|
Posted
My daugher reports that she is expecting! It is a boy and is due in late June. This will be my first grand! I can't think what to do yet. Perhaps I should knit a very elaborate baby hat.
--------------------
Science fiction and fantasy writer with a Patreon page
Posts: 6378 | From: Washington DC | Registered: Mar 2014
| IP: Logged
|
|
Sioni Sais
Shipmate
# 5713
|
Posted
It's raining babies. After our first grandchildren in the last six months two of my nieces are expecting in the summer!
--------------------
"He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"
(Paul Sinha, BBC)
Posts: 24276 | From: Newport, Wales | Registered: Apr 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
# 10192
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
It's raining babies...
Our church is having a baby boom of grandchildren. Maybe it's global warming or something.
--------------------
"...that is generally a matter for Pigwidgeon, several other consenting adults, a bottle of cheap Gin and the odd giraffe."
~Tortuf
Posts: 9835 | From: Hogwarts | Registered: Aug 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
Piglet
Islander
# 11803
|
Posted
A couple of years ago, the whole island of Newfoundland had a power cut that lasted a whole weekend. According to a report on Facebook, the local hospital had to open an extension to the maternity ward nine months later ... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
--------------------
I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Lothlorien
Ship's Grandma
# 4927
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
It's raining babies...
Our church is having a baby boom of grandchildren. Maybe it's global warming or something.
Must be something in the water, as the saying goes.
--------------------
Buy a bale. Help our Aussie rural communities and farmers. Another great cause needing support The High Country Patrol.
Posts: 9745 | From: girt by sea | Registered: Aug 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
The Intrepid Mrs S
Shipmate
# 17002
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
Congratulations to the Intrepid family. Apologies for being so slow.
A Boxing Day birthday isn't much fun, particularly as a child. Lots of groaning adults and left over Christmas food, because no-one wants to cook something special for that birthday or party again on Boxing Day. The other wrinkle is that Christmas born children theoretically get "bigger presents" across the two days, but if they have siblings comparison just shows that this ain't necessarily so.
(I spent my birthdays as a child sitting on the bank of a sailing club as my parents went sailing to work off some of their overindulgence over Christmas. Nobody wanted birthday cake and no, I really didn't want turkey curry followed by left over mince pies and Stilton for my birthday meal.)
Thank you CK, and no indeed - I think the plan is to have a half-birthday in June!
TFMissS is now paying for her remarkably easy pregnancy by having a baby who - like her, and me - doesn't like milk. He falls asleep during his feed, they wind him and put him in his cot. 30 minutes later - I'm hungry, where's my next meal? Or, alternatively, he cries and cries, pulling his little knees up and giving them sad, blue-lipped, windy smiles ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
Mrs. S, sympathetic - we've all been there.
PS and congratulations, Brenda!
--------------------
Don't get your knickers in a twist over your advancing age. It achieves nothing and makes you walk funny.
Prayer should be our first recourse, not our last resort
'Lord, please give us patience. NOW!'
Posts: 1464 | From: Neither here nor there | Registered: Mar 2012
| IP: Logged
|
|
Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
# 10192
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by The Intrepid Mrs S:
Thank you CK, and no indeed - I think the plan is to have a half-birthday in June!
My best friend when I was a young child had been born on December 25. Her family basically ignored her December birthday and celebrated it on June 25. They had a large backyard, the weather was usually nice, school had just gotten out -- it was a great time for a party.
--------------------
"...that is generally a matter for Pigwidgeon, several other consenting adults, a bottle of cheap Gin and the odd giraffe."
~Tortuf
Posts: 9835 | From: Hogwarts | Registered: Aug 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
Curiosity killed ...
Ship's Mug
# 11770
|
Posted
Half birthdays are a well-known phenomenon around here too, sadly subsumed under clergy Petertide ordinations for the last 10 years. Significant birthdays celebrated on a half birthday are a bit odd too.
--------------------
Mugs - Keep the Ship afloat
Posts: 13794 | From: outiside the outer ring road | Registered: Aug 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Sioni Sais
Shipmate
# 5713
|
Posted
Younger grandson, B, was two months old on Wednesday. He was 6lb 6oz at birth, went down to 6lb but is now 13ib 1oz!
I know smaller babies gain a bit faster, and breast-fed babies too, but little B is piling it on and apart from that time in the early evening, when most pre-teen's (and possibly most people, period) get awkward, he's a happy boy, as is our first grandson, S.
--------------------
"He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"
(Paul Sinha, BBC)
Posts: 24276 | From: Newport, Wales | Registered: Apr 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
Mrs Shrew
Ship's Mother
# 8635
|
Posted
It's ten weeks to go, here at Chez Shrew. I finish work for maternity leave next Friday, but have been off all week with some kind of virus that has left me totally wiped out and exhausted- no energy to do anything at all.
Blood tests have shown that in addition to the virus I have low iron levels. Can anyone offer helpful things I can eat to increase iron levels ( at the moment they don't want to put me on supplements), and/or encouragement that I will get some energy back between now and baby's arrival?
--------------------
"The goal of life is not to make other people in your own image, it is to understand that they, too, are in God's image" (Orfeo)
Was "mummyfrances".
Posts: 703 | From: York, England | Registered: Oct 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
Ferijen
Shipmate
# 4719
|
Posted
Are you taking spatone? Recommended by midwives around here as a way of improving iron without the consequences ... Ahem... of prescribed iron.
Posts: 3259 | From: UK | Registered: Jul 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
Moo
Ship's tough old bird
# 107
|
Posted
Here is a list of iron-rich foods.
Moo
--------------------
Kerygmania host
---------------------
See you later, alligator.
Posts: 20365 | From: Alleghany Mountains of Virginia | Registered: May 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
Piglet
Islander
# 11803
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Mrs Shrew:
... Can anyone offer helpful things I can eat to increase iron levels ...?
I'm not a dietician or doctor, but the most appealing iron-rich food I can think of would be a nice juicy steak, served with eggs (for brunch), a spinach salad with strawberries and nuts or stir-fried broccoli.
Hope you feel better soon. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
--------------------
I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
# 10424
|
Posted
Wholewheat Toast and Marmite™!
--------------------
I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
Mrs Shrew
Ship's Mother
# 8635
|
Posted
Thank you all- will try the foods and ask midwife about spatone when I see her next week
--------------------
"The goal of life is not to make other people in your own image, it is to understand that they, too, are in God's image" (Orfeo)
Was "mummyfrances".
Posts: 703 | From: York, England | Registered: Oct 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
# 273
|
Posted
Make sure you are getting plenty of vitamin C as well as your body needs it to absorb iron.
Jengie
--------------------
"To violate a persons ability to distinguish fact from fantasy is the epistemological equivalent of rape." Noretta Koertge
Back to my blog
Posts: 20894 | From: city of steel, butterflies and rainbows | Registered: May 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
Piglet
Islander
# 11803
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Wholewheat Toast and Marmite™!
She wants to feel better ... ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
--------------------
I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Lamb Chopped
Ship's kebab
# 5528
|
Posted
Raisins for iron. That's what the Red Cross puts me on when I m too low to donate. Also any tomato based soup, sauce or stew cooked in an iron pot.
--------------------
Er, this is what I've been up to (book).
Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down!
Posts: 20059 | From: off in left field somewhere | Registered: Feb 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
Huia
Shipmate
# 3473
|
Posted
Mrs Shrew, this isn't a serious suggestion (as Piglet said you want to feel better) but when my Grandma had low iron levels, around 80+ years ago she had to eat raw liver sandwiches. Just the thought of them makes me want to ![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif)
Fortunately some of the other suggestions sound more palatable.
Huia
--------------------
Charity gives food from the table, Justice gives a place at the table.
Posts: 10382 | From: Te Wai Pounamu | Registered: Oct 2002
| IP: Logged
|
|
Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
# 10192
|
Posted
My grandmother also ate liver for iron, but she cooked it. The house stank for hours (my sister and I would go outside and play when possible), but our dog thought it was the greatest smell ever.
--------------------
"...that is generally a matter for Pigwidgeon, several other consenting adults, a bottle of cheap Gin and the odd giraffe."
~Tortuf
Posts: 9835 | From: Hogwarts | Registered: Aug 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
Curiosity killed ...
Ship's Mug
# 11770
|
Posted
I ate (cooked) liver at least once a week through pregnancy to try and keep my iron levels up - and when I've been anaemic at other times. There are ways of making it edible - variations of devils on horseback, little chunks wrapped in bacon and grilled on a skewer - alternating with prunes so it's not all liver, served with rice and salad isn't too much liver. Also calves liver with sage. I'd much rather eat spinach, but we're better at absorbing iron from animal sources. Definitely eat/drink something high in vitamin C to help your body absorb the iron whether it's dietary iron or tablets. Tea and coffee reduce absorption
(I have been badly anaemic a few times and have been lectured on how to make sure I get enough in my diet - then put on iron tablets. I had two years or more of the iron tablets last time.)
--------------------
Mugs - Keep the Ship afloat
Posts: 13794 | From: outiside the outer ring road | Registered: Aug 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Piglet
Islander
# 11803
|
Posted
Do chicken livers work if you turn them into a pâté?
This recipe from the blessèd Delia is a breeze to make if you've got a food processor, and delicious on toast or crackers.
--------------------
I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Mrs Shrew
Ship's Mother
# 8635
|
Posted
Very pleased to say that baby Arthur joined us on Saturday morning at 1.43.
He is a wee slip of a thing, at 3.5kg (a week and a half overdue), and seems healthy and happy so far.
--------------------
"The goal of life is not to make other people in your own image, it is to understand that they, too, are in God's image" (Orfeo)
Was "mummyfrances".
Posts: 703 | From: York, England | Registered: Oct 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
MrsBeaky
Shipmate
# 17663
|
Posted
Youngest daughter had cancer six years ago and was told that as a result of the treatment it was highly unlikely she would ever conceive.
She and her lovely partner married last October with him saying "I'd love to have children but regardless of that it's you I want to spend my life with......"
They have just gone public with the news that they are expecting a baby in January. I remember holding her as she wept when the consultant told her there wasn't time to wait to harvest any eggs from her to save towards the future as her cancer was quite advanced and they needed to start treatment straightaway.
So this news comes as a complete surprise- they are stunned but thrilled as are we.
--------------------
"It is better to be kind than right."
http://davidandlizacooke.wordpress.com
Posts: 693 | From: UK/ Kenya | Registered: Apr 2013
| IP: Logged
|
|
Sarasa
Shipmate
# 12271
|
Posted
Congratulations on the arrival of Arthur, Mrs Shrew, great name.
Mrs Beaky, what exciting and lovely news for your daughter and her husband.
--------------------
'I guess things didn't go so well tonight, but I'm trying. Lord, I'm trying.' Charlie (Harvey Keitel) in Mean Streets.
Posts: 2035 | From: London | Registered: Jan 2007
| IP: Logged
|
|
Japes
Shipmate
# 5358
|
Posted
Congratulations to the Shrew family! Welcome to Arthur.
And congratulations to the Beaky family. That's fantastic news for you all.
--------------------
Blog may or may not be of any interest.
Posts: 2013 | From: Somewhere in the middle | Registered: Dec 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
Gee D
Shipmate
# 13815
|
Posted
Really great news, Mrs Beaky. Best wishes from us to all.
--------------------
Not every Anglican in Sydney is Sydney Anglican
Posts: 7028 | From: Warrawee NSW Australia | Registered: Jun 2008
| IP: Logged
|
|
Ethne Alba
Shipmate
# 5804
|
Posted
Spatone was enough to raise my daughter's iron to very acceptable levels
Posts: 3126 | Registered: Apr 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
Dafyd
Shipmate
# 5549
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Mrs Shrew:
Very pleased to say that baby Arthur joined us on Saturday morning at 1.43.
Congratulations.
--------------------
we remain, thanks to original sin, much in love with talking about, rather than with, one another. Rowan Williams
Posts: 10567 | From: Edinburgh | Registered: Feb 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
The Intrepid Mrs S
Shipmate
# 17002
|
Posted
So thrilled for everyone rejoicing here - especially Mrs Beaky and Mrs Shrew
The Intrepid Grandson, as foretold, is a different child now he's weaned and scoffing solid food as fast as he can - very happy and pleased with himself
The Doting Mrs S
--------------------
Don't get your knickers in a twist over your advancing age. It achieves nothing and makes you walk funny.
Prayer should be our first recourse, not our last resort
'Lord, please give us patience. NOW!'
Posts: 1464 | From: Neither here nor there | Registered: Mar 2012
| IP: Logged
|
|
Huia
Shipmate
# 3473
|
Posted
Welcome to the world Arthur.
Mrs Beaky, such good news lights up even a horrible winter day at this end of the world. ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
Huia
--------------------
Charity gives food from the table, Justice gives a place at the table.
Posts: 10382 | From: Te Wai Pounamu | Registered: Oct 2002
| IP: Logged
|
|
Piglet
Islander
# 11803
|
Posted
Congratulations to the Shrews and welcome Arthur!
Mrs. Beaky, that's wonderful news - for your daughter to have a happy, healthy pregnancy.
--------------------
I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
# 10424
|
Posted
I'm not sure that Themselves completely see it as good news when they have each been pacing the floor for a couple of hours with either a fractious son or a fractious daughter in their arms!
But mostly they are a complete delight.
--------------------
I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
Piglet
Islander
# 11803
|
Posted
**bumpity-bump**
Hostly Hoover avoidance tactics.
--------------------
I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
# 10424
|
Posted
Don't babies grow fast?
Ours aren't so much putting on weight as they are just getting longer - the cradles which dwarfed them a few short weeks ago seem to have shrunk as the kids have grown so much.
At least now we are starting to get real smiles from them.
--------------------
I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
Printer-friendly view
