Anyone due end of may/beginning of june???

[charlotte121]

how are you all feeling??? what are your stretch marks looking like? tell all!!!

[Neenzandhertwinbeans]

I am due May 29 with twins (but they might come earlier as twins often do). I am feeling pretty good now I have given up work - the last few weeks working were tough cos sitting on my chair made the tops of the back of my legs ache and my crotch really sore. I look full-term but no stretch marks at all. However, i probably will grow even more so there's still time.

[Neenzandhertwinbeans]

How are you feeling???

[charlotte121]

im feeling haggered... absoloutly pooped. im trying to keep going. got lots of decorating to get done before the bump is here not forgetting my uni assignments. I have really bad stretch marks but after using bio oil for just a few days i think theyre actually getting better! well done tho, especially with twin on the way. Is this your first pg? are you excited about the birth etc. char x

[TheDuchessOfNorksBride]

Are you on/have you seen the May Antenatal Club thread? Title is something about 'Floodgates are open'. Loads on there who are due in the next month. Mostly we feel crap.

[PearTart]

I'm due mid- June with DC2. Feeling really big and cumbersome and I'm so grumpy. Don't want to bend down so wearing clogs a lot. Constantly on DH's case as we have sooo much to do before DC2. Don't know if this is nestng or panicking...

[charlotte121]

lol well im panicking if its any concellation. Only 5 weeks till im due to pop and i have wayyyyyy to much to do. Its really mad!!! I think im about to go crazy! I thought this was supposesed to be the bit where u rest but im busier than ever!

[debinaustria]

Come and join us on the june thread, look for the chattiest antenatal group, we have a thing about creme eggs!!

I'm due on 7th June and this is my 3rd boy.

I haven't got any new red stretch marks just old silvery ones which are getting bigger.

I feel OK, but getting a bit fed up when I can't always do what I want to do, we also have loads to do before this baby comes!!

[Neenzandhertwinbeans]

I definitely recommend sitting on your arse from now till the baby arrives - get your DH to do everything else!

[PearTart]

May see you soon on June thread...

Main focus of panic nesting involves:-

1. Have lost spare bed under mountain of stuff that we were going e-bay or put in loft, much of which is too small for DD1 but too big for DD2, however loft not ready. Need to find space for baby-sitter when DD2 comes along...
2. Was totally unprepared for impact of DD1 on our lives (moved house when she was weeks old) determined not to be so hectic this time.
3. Where is the baby car seat...?
4. Still haven't finished DD1's First Year Book , although printed out some great pix this weekend.
5. Currently waiting for deliveries from Ikea, ELC, John lewis and Mamas and Papas- is this really going to help...!

Would really love to curl up on sofa all day but DD1 wouldn't let me, and DH working crazy hours.
Argghh

[Becky77]

I'm due on 7th of June... Doing well. No stretch marks thankfully! I've been suffering with heartburn a lot in the last couple of weeks and I'm finally pretty massive! I've had loads of trouble with inflammed gums as well recently and had to make a horrible trip to the dentist last week

[charlotte121]

isnt being preggers mad. have just realised people are going to be popping over for cups of tea and to see the baby when she's here so im franticly running around with a pot of paint trying to make the place look respectable before she decides to arrive this is whilst trying to get uni assignments and revision done... poor little ds is having a rather crappy boring time of it atm.

[newbishad]

Hello all,

I am 36 weeks now and would love to join the thread! Hope your all hanging in there. I have been on the May group but have never felt certain if I should also be in the June one as well.

I am due 29th May but it will probably be earlier because I need to be induced. At 30 weeks they discovered I had a DVT and my meds have to be regulated. Counting the days and minutes. I'm very uncomfortable (as we all are, I'm sure) but really excited. This was an IVF conception after years of infertility and 2 ectopics so it's a much wanted baby. We had a scan at 30 weeks and they told us we were having a girl. Anyone else know the flavour?

Lots of love,

NS XXXX

[gingerwench]

I'm due 29th May too. feeling v crap - particularly cos i have a stomach bug at the moment and spent the night vomiting and with the runs (sorry TMI!). Very puffy feet and hands, feel cumbersome and getting tired of the relentless kicking which is SO painful now. Thankfujlly i finish work next week. All i want to do is sleep. No idea which flavour - just happy and healthy will do fine. I had loads of stretchmarks from my teenage years and I;ve only added a few small ones above my hip bones so daily application of bio-oil to try and reduce the chances of any more.

[PregnantPenguin]

Don't want to talk stretch marks [grumpy emoticon], I was doing fine until a couple of weeks ago and now I seem to get a new one daily (or a current one gets bigger)!

Bizzarely I've managed to get a (very small) stretch mark just above my belly button....

Don't want to think about how much I've spent on oils and creams to avoid this, boots, palmers, clarins, sanctuary mums to be, mama mio, bio-oil. Oh well, at least I've smelt yummy - and imagine what they'd be like if I hadn't!!!

I'm 34 weeks and due 12 June - come and join the June thread, as long as you like cream eggs!

[Becky77]

We're expecting a girl

My blood pressure was slightly up yesterday so now I have to have it taken every week... I think they're just being over cautious but I guess it's for the best!

I just received a book on Hypnobirthing from Amazon... I'm hoping to be able to take the edge off the pain with some positive thinking and visualisation... WHo'd of thought I'd turn into a hippy!!

Roll on 7th June!

[Lazylou]

I'm due on May 30th, but got a feeling we'll be well into June by the time this one arrives. This is my second, a little brother for DD. Very excited although fighting against dissertation deadlines and assignments going in at uni.

I did join the June thread but tbh, never really felt like I fit in and I cuoldn't keep up with the convesations so tend not to post. I like the idea of this thread though, a bit in-betweeny!

No stretch marks yet, but I'm not holding my breath that they won't come

[Becky77]

The June thread intimidate me too I feel quite at home here

Lazylou - have you got your dissertation finished now?

[newbishad]

Hi all,

Great thread, I feel as though I belong here as well! Gingerwench: I've seen your name next to mine on the May thread. I guess we'll eventually end up having our babies on different days but it's nice to talk to someone who's due at the same time. Hope you are feeling better. There's nothing worse than being sick in late pregnancy. Can you not go on sick leave until the bug settles? Becky77 Hope the blood pressure is down next time. Better to be checked out though. I don't know how many times I've gone to get things checked.

[Becky77]

Thanks

I am so knackered today! I don't know if I can work up until 39 weeks now (as planned) especially as our office is so hot... I could just fall asleep here!

[charlotte121]

heya ladies. Hows everyone getting on???
like you lazylou im fighting assignment deadlines and im majorly behind schedual with my dissertation, i think im going to have to pull the pregnant card out and ask for an extension. What are you studying???
I have a little girl on the way due in 5 weeks time, this is baby number 2, i already have a ds who is adorable, but a 10 month old bundle of energy that doesnt sit still for more than a few seconds!!!
Becky77 ur mad working up untill 39 weeks!!! Take your maternitiy leave and run for the hills!!! I would if i could! Im a student and have exams the week the baby is due so im just kepping my fingers and my legs crossed that i can get through them. I managed it last year when i was expecting ds. Has everyone found their majorly busy??? i feel like i should be resting but instead im constantly doing something. theres never a moments peace and now my nights are just becoming a joke... pregnancy dreams are just getting too bizare they range from being chased and attacked by a giant poisonous spider to becoming a lesbian. Its frightening!!! anyone else got strange dreams? char x

[charlotte121]

maybe i need professon help as far as the dreams are concerned!!!

[Becky77]

I do feel really busy!! I thought now that everything is ready and I'm down to 4 day weeks that these last 5 weeks would be a relaxing slow end to the pregnancy... But now I'm having to make tonnes of Antenatal Appointments...

I just heard back that one of my blood tests was very slightly raised so I need to take it again next week. It's strange but I feel pretty sure that everything is OK and that the NHS are just being extra cautious!! Who would've thought it!!

Arghhh maybe they're right... But I just can't be doing with all the back and forth, seeing the midwife, seeing the GP, seeing the consultant... But perhaps our LO will be arriving sooner rather than later after all?? It's just funny how calm I am about it all... Pregnancy hormones as pretty strong eh!!

[newbishad]

Hi all,

Don't talk to me about dreams. I've had the mother of weird / bad dreams.

My partner has a sight difficulty. Today he went into a charity shop and had a close look at a buggy to see if it were sutible for us. It turned out to belong to a mother and there was a baby inside. He couldn't see the baby becasue of the rainproof cover. She asked "what are you doing with my baby?" She was really upset until he explained!

I hope all of you who are working finish soon and get that all important sleep. Charlotte121 I can't imagine how you can manage college and being heavily pregnant. I think you must have enormous stamina. I couldn't do it!

NS XXXXX

[charlotte121]

i feel very guilty, had a call from my midwife a moment ago, she told me off. I moved house in jan and once my gp's found out they said i would have to go to my local doctors... needless to say have been a bit pre-occupied with my son and uni and havent got round to it. she told me off as i have a problem with my liver from when i had glandular fever last year which is supposed to be monitered and also have very low iron which again is supposed to be monitered. I dont think i have seen her for at least 2 months but it just sorta slipped my mind. so i have been ordered to go out now and get enroled at my new gp's and make a midwife appointment. smack bottom for me. I think everything is ok. Baby is a black belt in kariate so theres no probs in that sense. just feel a bit naughty now. so i better get off now and sort it out.
as for uni i think its the only thing keep me sane at the moment. with everything else going on around me i think i would have gone made by now if i didnt have my adult days where i dont have discuss nappies and babies.
bless ur husband, i bet that was a bit of a knock to his confidence. I have friend who's dad is blind and he had a similar thing happen to him... he tried to walk off with the wrong child. its very difficult! hope hes ok char x

[Neenzandhertwinbeans]

Yes the due in June thread is really hard work cos we chat so much. Unless you can log on every day it is almost impossible! With so many people on MN we'd be better having week-by-week antenatal threads rather than by the month!

Re babies' flavour - I am having a boy and a girl. Please no one say 'you can stop now!' Everyone keeps saying it to me and I just don't get it. Is your life complete once you have a son and daughter? i want at least one maybe two more after these!!