10/10 ... 9, 8, 7, 6 - It's The Final Countdown!

[AbFabT]

Last chat thread for October 2010 babies until we head into POST-natal.

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Ooh I'm high up the list now!

Just sobbed at dh after struggling to get parked and then the walk was a bit far for the end of the day. Moved up the painkillers now :(

Surely I can't be the only one predicting a sept baby!!

It's going to be late, isn't it?!! I feel fit to bust and nesting like mad though, my poor dh I can't keep this upfor 5 weeks he'll go mad!

Nymph- bag sounds good :) don't forget music though to block out everyone else in ward and sneak some decent food esp prunes/fruit!

Hi ladies! 37+5 weeks for me.....scary stuff! The boys are back in school, yay! Peace is resumed in my house, just the toddler at home now lol! How has everyone been?

I'm ok, my bp is playing up a bit and my consultant is planning induction for me at term...yikes, that's 16 days away!

Have we had any early babies yet?

SeaShells: EDD 02/10/10, prediction 23/09/10 Weight 7lb 10oz
Hermya321: EDD 25/10/10, prediction 05/10/10 Weight 7lb 4oz
Jennimoo: EDD 05/10/10, prediction 07/10/10 Weight 7lbs 10oz
Nymph: PDD 07/10/10, Weight: 7lb 12oz
AbFab: EDD 04/10/10, prediction 10/10/10 or 22/09/10. Weight 7lb 7oz
Tyson86: EDD 08/10/10, prediction - 10/10/10 Weight: 7lb 1oz
Shieldbug: EDD 16/10/10, prediction 10/10/10 (or 29/09/10!)
Elsa123: EDD 14/10/10, prediction 11/10/10 Weight 6lb 10oz
ILGH: EDD 30/10/10, prediction 17/10/10 Weight 7lb exactly
Tiredfeet: EDD 09/10/10, prediction 20/10/10 Weight 9lb
Moonstorm: EDD 14/10/10, prediction 21/10/10 Weight 8 lb 10oz
Floozie: EDD 29/10/10, prediction 29/10/10 Weight 8lb 7oz
Roobear: EED 23/10/10, prediction 31/10/10 Weight 7lb 10oz
Meanbeansmum:EDD 24/09/10 prediction 28/09/10 weight 8lb 4oz

I just realised that my original edd which the mw calculated is tomorrow! The scan obviously put it back. Let's hope she wasn't right- though it would ease my boredom!

seashells visiting times have meal breaks in them. Dh is under orders to source me proper food in that time!

A cunning plan nymph!

Crap trying to start breastfeeding on the nutritional content of hosp food- you need cake and lots of it!!

Nymph A cunning plan indeed, I've been in the cafe of the hospital you're going to. It didn't look the best in the world. Get your DH to score you quality cake, breastfeeding and recovery from a c-section demands it.

As for me, I'm back home and am going to start tackling washing all the baby stuff tomorrow. It's going to be fun, I can tell.

I'm vegetarian which basically means starve in hospital terms!

Oh crumbs, I never thought of that Nymph they'll have you on pasta and bread and water won't they. I'm not veggie, but I tend to stay away from meat the majority of the time as I don't really like the taste.

Argh- boiled to a pulp veg with shed loads of carbs - I hope the ward sister turns a blind eye to your dp rocking up with lots of srumminess instead!!

I quite enjoyed the hospital food Nymph hope they do you some decent food x

Well 35 weeks today and counting... Nervous now!! Got my hair cut today, last time I didn't make the appointment as had given birth...

We have builders in for 2 days next week, I think that was rubbish timing!!! I'll be avoiding them for fear of my waters going!!!

I bought some lovely Thorntons chocolates today for time after the birth for staying on the ward... Looking forward to eating them.

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Im hoping there is a microwave as I've loads of lasagne & cottage pie type stuff in freezer & dh could just bring one a day & some sandwiches & some junk! I know it was 9 years ago but I still remember the takeaway van delivering to maternity!!!!

They did pudding with custard every day...

Puddings are like school dinners aren't they , hope they have rice pudding, that always tastes better when mass produced and sat around a bit! Ooh and syrup sponge & custard, and chocolate cake & chocolate custard.mmmmmm

Yum yum

erm... 35 weeks tomorrow and counting... I had my 35 week appointment today and keep thinking I'm a day ahead!!!

I like the cups of tea as well...

But then I quite like the communal spirit of the maternity ward (even though the noise could be annoying). I enjoyed sitting on the bed discussing babies and drinking tea and eating... (I was in for a week).

I don't drink hot drinks either , in fact I'm wondering if they will supply ice in my size quantities. A bag from co op lasts 2 days tops...

@ nymph

Nymph You'll have to take a cool box in wih you . In fact make it a Carlsberg one, that should get some looks.

SeaShells, I've put 22nd Sept as a possible date for me, as DH and I were both 22nds, but I'm aiming for 10/10/10! Might change my mind in a few weeks when I am feeling more fit to burst, but still feeling pretty comfortable right now, so doing ok!

I am really hoping not to have to stay overnight, for several reasons, mainly being that unless you get lucky enough to get a room, your DH can't stay too, and I think that is awful. And I just like my own home, my lovely bed, my own shower, etc. As for food, well, I'm vegan, and I have zero expectations of them catering decently to me, if at all! Already lined up my favourite Indian curry house to delivery should we be stuck there, it's out of their zone but we are very regular customers and they said they'd do it! :)
I'll start cooking when my contractions start so I have some food ready too, so DH can bring it in if we are really stuck!
And I'll make cake ready too! Ooh, and the CoOp have just started doing VEGAN doughnuts (custard or jam), and there's one on the way to the hospital, so I am sorted there!

Lol hermya!

Hermya, I would love it if Nymph did that!

abfab that sounds like a great system, I bet you'd have everyone else ordering too!

went shopping with DH today, he was buying some more shirts for wearing out to various dinners he's got to go to, I was buying big granny pants and some tracksuit bottoms for after the birth. his life seems a lot more glamourous than mine at the minute! I did draw his attention to the contrast quite pointedly though, so I think he knows I'm owed some treats when we're all settled in with the baby

moonstorm thank you for your cheery posts about being in hospital. I do understand people worrying but its nice to hear some positives too. Your description of the communal spirit reminded me that my childhood best friend and I met for the first time on the post-natal ward, aged a few hours old!

abfab you have less chance than me of food then as vegan!

Long, depressing post coming, sorry.

I had some awful news this evening. A good friend of mine who just announced she was pregnant with her first child last month has been told she almost certainly has multiple sclerosis. She is 33. She has already had major health issues with her blood for the past six years after developing a DVT because it's too thick, and is on a lifetime of medication for it, and has to inject herself in the stomach twice a day now while pregnant so it's not exactly your straightforward pregnancy. I am just devastated for her. Life is so, so unfair to some people, and she is absolutely lovely, the life and soul and a very caring, generous person. She's lost two close members of her family recently too. I just think, why at least couldn't she have had the baby before this happened, so she could have had the pregnancy without this hanging over her. There's never a good time for bad news, but it seems even crueller now. She will need more tests after the baby's born, so there is a slim chance it's not MS but she said it was pretty conclusive from what had happened.

This morning, another friend confided that she's just found out she's pregnant, totally unplanned, and doesn't think she can keep it. She already has two children under four, has just moved house and is 41 or 42 and had GD in her last pregnancy so would be high-risk. The sad thing is she had said not long ago in an ideal world she would have liked another as she was still broody but just not practical. Then this happens. She said they haven't totally made up their minds but she's seeing a nurse about the options on Friday.

And, although this has been put into perspective by my first friend's dreadful news, I pretty definitely do have SPD. Yesterday I was thinking, oh it was probably just a pulled muscle - today, I took DS out in the pram to the midwife and back, and after lunch my left hip/pelvis/thigh were killing me, and it's continued the rest of the day. We went to the supermarket and I was hobbling along - it seems quite ironic now me saying how sorry I was for the rest of you with it, and not knowing how you coped. I am quite scared actually, because at the moment it's just affecting one side, but I don't know what I'll do if it moves to both. It's a serious issue with DS as he needs to be lifted in and out of the car, pram, needs help walking, or getting his walker down, around the house, up the stairs... I was feeling quite depressed about it before this evening. If it's bad, I don't know how I'll leave the house with him.

Hope everyone else has had a better day. It's a month today till I will be classed as full-term. 30-day countdown now. I'm finding it quite useful when other people put how how far along they are so I'm doing it too. We used to do that as a matter of course when I was on my last MN ante-natal thread.

32+5

Floozie- I had the first incidence of MS just before I got pregnant. The good news for you friend is that because pg causes a degree of immunosuppression many women feel better. There is however a higher risk of relapse after the birth due to stress and tiredness. My consultant can't tell me for definate if I will have more incidences, it's just a horrid waiting game.
There are lots of positive ms sufferers out there, Inc on mn so it's worth having a look. The ms society wesite is also good, especially in explaining the range of severity, as my first thought was ms=wheelchair :( and that is not necessarily the case.

I really hope your Spd settles- you have lots of good company on this thread from fellow suffers :)