October 2010 Ready or Not, Here We Come

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Hello everyone sorry I'm very late to this 37 plus 2 today feeling very bored at home even though I realise I should be making the most of it with DS. Going for reflexology today first time thoguht I'd give it a go congrats to all who have already had their Oct babs how exciting Im due 24th Oct

Hope your pre-op goes well nymph!

Bionic, sorry your good sleeping lions sleeper was not playing the sleeping lions game last night! Hope tonight is better for you.

Floozie, glad BFing is going so well, despite the lack of professional support. Just sorry to hear about the fleas. NOT what you need. I'd be freaked.

ILGH and Meansbeans, loving the fact you have four. I'd love to have three or four, will need to get cracking as I am 36 and only on my first, so lucky yous. Mb, glad your new one is feeding well, and don't worry about not being online at all - I think I will be in my own little world once ours arrives.
ILGH, can't believe you didn't save me a ginger biscuit!

Ooh, Hermya, maybe it's soon for you then! Thinking of you! Good luck!

nymph, good luck with the pre-op. That expression always makes me think of transsexuals though! :)

moon, hope it works out better than hoped with the ILs. You never know, they might be a blessing when the time comes. Totally understand that you want your precious time your DS now, but I am sure things will work out fine.

BackAgain, good luck with getting your back to back baby the best way round.

sam12, moving, how exciting! Hope you get settled in really quickly, what a lovely way to start your new lives.

Hello, sassie, enjoy the reflexology! I've had it, and it is lush! Amazing what she can tell! The last few weeks, my baby has been on my right hand side. Friday morning, mw had a feel, said baby is more in the middle (hopefully going towards the left!). That afternoon, the reflexologist did my feet, and said she thought the baby was in the middle! I was gobsmacked!

No news from me! I am still here.
40+1. :)

Good luck with the pre-op Nymph, so exciting that your baby is arriving on Thursday!

Hermya Good luck with your scan, I'm sure it'll all be fine though :)

floozie Glad you're back home and feeding is going well. All those nappies sounds like a good thing

Moonstorm Yikes about your ils. Perhaps your dh can have a gentle firm discussion with his mother about being supportive. Alternatively, maybe if you ask her to be "in charge" of ds she'll leave you alone to get on with it.

Meansbeans glad all is going so well for you also!

ILGH of your biscuits - maybe I'll try out my new short bread recipe this afternoon.

Bionic I sympathise, I've been in twice for a non-moving baby, and always feel a bit of a numpty when they tell me he's fine! Still, they were really nice to me yesterday (most recent incident) and told me to go back if he does it again.

Thank you for your support! Hopefully it will be better than I think. Dh is actually really good at saying things - I think what stresses me most is the having to say things and be on guard all of the time. I would actually relax more and let them get on with more if they would also relax and back off slightly. If that makes sense! I find the intenseness hard to deal with.

Anyway - I am not going to moan anymore!!!

Hope everyone is having a good day. Babies today??? Off for my meal in 10 minutes!!!

moony as hard as it is sometimes you just have to tell people how it is. Being pregnant is emotional and stressful as it is. As much as people say "oh they have good intentions" I am sure they do but when emotional blackmail is attached then it's not on. Can your DP/DH have a word if you are nt comfortable saying something yourself ?

Have cleaned the hob and all the work surfaces this morning and taken the furry out. Now I am shattered and my tum tells me it's food time!!!!

Hope y'all are having a good day.

38+1

Hello Everyone,

Fingon I?m glad to hear that your baby is ok having been quiet. This happened to me on Saturday and I spent the evening in hospital being monitored and she was fine. I was really worried though. I think that you can still go into labour at 2/5, some babies don?t engage until the last minute. Someone told me to walk sideways up the stairs, one step at a time, to help baby?s positioning ? you could give that a go although I found it really odd and arkward!

Nymph Sorry to hear you are battling with DD1. I think that our children are the same age and we battle all the time. School uniform, homework, untidy rooms, dirty laundry...the list is endless and DD1 will argue about anything and everything. I am hoping a new baby will settle her down . I hope that the pre-op has gone well and that you got the answers to your questions.

Cheekymonkey Sorry to hear that you are having rib problems. I can?t really sit on chairs so well and haven?t been able to for months. Mine are particularly sore today . I find the birthing ball helps which I use instead of the sofa. Not so soft though!

Hermya Hope your scan has gone well today. Your post this morning sounds very promising ? any news?

AbFab I?m still reeling from the pig semen thing. Is that true? How utterly gross.

Roo Congratulations on reaching maternity leave! I?ve done nothing but laundry since Thursday when mine started. I don?t know where it all comes from!

Tiredfeet Sorry that you are so uncomfortable. I get the baby elephant sensation. I don?t think I can get any bigger without exploding.

BionicEar Sorry you have had a quiet baby too ? nice to have a scan though. I wonder why babies have particularly quiet days. Although the hospital went to great lengths to reassure me, what I felt on Saturday wasn?t usual for me at all. Something was different somewhere. Sleeping lions seems like a great game .

ILGH Sickness does come back towards labour and the end doesn?t it? Maybe you are imminent (sp?). Saying that I?ve been feeling sick for a while now. The lady who sold me raspberry leaf tea said that I needed to graze more and that nausea meant the baby has consumed all that I have eaten and that I?m not eating enough (I wonder how this is possible but anyway!).

Floozie I am so glad that you are at home and that you are succeeding with breast-feeding. Well done! Sorry above the fleas though ? yuk.

Moonstorm A month is quite a long time. I hope that it works out having your IL?s nearby for so long. Can you think of things that you can ask them to do that would be useful rather than leaving them to make the choices? You might feel in more control?

Shieldbug Hope you get the results from your tests soon. The rash sounds terrible. I probably would call the midwife today but I don?t really know what it can mean so I might be giving bad advice (sorry). Have you tried bathing in E45 bath and using the lotion? I don?t know if it will make a difference but might be worth a go.

I really should post more often then it would take so much less time!

Feeling a bit sad and sorry here today for one reason and another. I am sleeping quite badly and have been awake between 3am and 5am for nights and nights now. The trouble is that the alarm goes off at 6am so I fall into a deep sleep at 5am and get woken up. That in itself is making me low I think. I also went out for coffee with some mums from my ante-natal group but I came away feeling like I didn't really fit in terribly well and I just want to cry about it. It was ok and conversation was light-hearted and amiable. But...I don't know...I just felt that I was a different sort of person to everyone else. I'm really family orientated and somehow it felt like that was wrong. I'm explaining badly, sorry.

Hope everyone else is having good days, SB x
37+6

Thanks all, I've just got back from my scan. He is most definately head down and once again is a 'he'. So we're all systems go!!

Hermya Congratulations! Won't be long now - how exciting!

floozie at the fleas. Weird thing , I can only see that part of your post if I click on it.Whats that about?

sam12 Good luck with the move!

sassie welcome to the thread , joining at the exciting time!

moonstorm enjoy lunch!

samB yes our dds were about the same age (9&10) dd1 was better last night and I had a chat to her teacher as she has been keeping baby a secret at school and it will affect her Thurs/Fri me being in hospital. ANyway teacher knew because of dd2 telling everyone and has been pushing dd1 to talk if she is worried.
Think the feeling low is normal, once work finished you have less to distract you. Are the ante-natal mums all first timers? I struggle to find much in common with a lot of them as they feel very uninformed (obviously those on the thread aren't because you are here but hope YKWIM!)

hermya congrats on your boy still being a boy

Had my pre-op. BP etc taken, 3 tubes of blood and they didn't need my hand which I was worried wouldn't recover before Thurs & canuler.They really struggled to find the heart beat but we could all see baby moving and the heart beat turned out to be much lower than they expected. Said baby is very engaged but only have 2 days to stop them escaping!
She answered most of my questions without asking which was good. I HAVE to stay in a 4 bed ward for first 24 hours but have insisted I can't cope longer than that. Have agreed to pay & highlighted the further I have to walk the longer I will struggle so hopefully its sank in this time. I've told enough people yet they all miss it in my notes
She said I'm second (assuiming the otehr lady lasts til Thurs!) and will be in about 10:30, they will hold up the baby so we see boy/girl.

We then went oiut for an impromtu italian as doubt that will happen for a while so now I have heartburn from the chillies (but so worth it) and stink of garlic

Nymph They are all first time mums, maybe that's the problem. Your pre-op sounds good and it's great that you have got answers to your questions. You are so nearly there now and I am so jealous...the not knowing when it will happen is very tiresome. Will you be able to update us from hospital or will we be left hanging on for the announcement until you get home?

Should be able to get online from hospital. Hoping so anyway. Have iphone do MN

AbFab actually, there's one left. And I made some pea soup (you can have the bit without bacon in lol!).

Nymph mmmmm, chillis.

Hermya, baby boys. Just scrummy.

Floozie, well done on the bf. This is the tough bit, right?

Silver, what's the furry? Have I missed something?

Hosting book group tonight and have ordered a mezze platter for everyone (them, not you lot, unless you can make to my house for 8pm?), hummus, mutabel, saffron rice, lamb curry, chicken tikka, arabic bread and lemon&mint juice. Yum yum yum.

Have been grazing (on pea soup and ginger biscuits) all day to stave off nausea. Seems okay so far.

ILGH count me in for mezze sounds lush !

The furry is the mutt.

Nymph No you can't have MN withdrawal, especially when you're in hospital.

ILGH OOooooo and your address is?????

Silver LOL!

Sam No real news I'm afraid, still a bit achey but nothing substantial, ahh well.

Mmmm food ( not at all obsessed this week!)

41 hours seems very soon how is dh are we supposed to get everything ready in that time!

Evening!

Big hug to all those feeling weepy and low today - these hormones are a pain aren't they?

Eventually fell back asleep about 6.30am but not into proper sleep if that makes sense. Went to town this morning with a mate - indulged in bacon butty and hot chocolate - mmmmh!

Slept much of afternoon away so that did me good, as was struggling to stay awake after my little venture into town.

ILGH - have ordered TENS machine from Nature gate - friend recommended them. Went for the Platuim one - the fancier one they had. Hopefully it will be good - didn't get round to getting one last time so decided to be a bit more organised and give it a whirl this time. Had to order over the phone as my net was playing up this afternoon - they were lovely and very helpful. Even gonna post to me 1st class for free seeing as I'm almost 37 weeks.

Right well I'm off as DH and I plan to tackle spare room - hopefully it means me ordering and him doing all the lifting etc!

Had yummy tea tonight, one of my lovely friends pop round last night with food for us to heat up today so I didn't have to cook tonight. Don't you just love friends like those?!

Good luck for thursday Nymph x

Good evening all,

Just a quick update - since my waters breaking on Sun night I've had some gentle contractions but things haven't really got going.

So tomorrow morning it's back to the hospital for an induction (with ewwwwww pig's semen - I'm just not going to think about that!)

If all goes well there should be a little Lizkin around by the end of tomorrow or possibly Thurs!

Bit nervous about the pain - have heard it's more intense with an induction. But the upside is I know what's coming.

Best wishes to everyone waiting, in pain or enjoying their newborns.
Cheekymonkey not to worry you but could the rib pain be a pre-eclampsia thing?
Shieldbug hope the rash clears up soon - don't scratch!
Floozie fleas are horrible. Don't mess about - throw all clothes into a hot wash (63C) and then do it again after a week to make sure all the eggs/larvae etc are killed. Used to live in a third-world country so speaking from personal experience! Btw are you sure they're fleas or are they head lice? In which case it's conditioner on everyone's hair and comb through with a lice comb. Fleas don't generally like being in hair. Anyway good luck!

Oooo Good luck Lizkin!

I've got my 36 weeks MW appointment tomorrow - not quite as exciting as you lot having babies!

Good luck Lizkin I hope it all goes smoothly.
How exciting! x

Good luck Lizkin!!

Good Luck Lizkin the end is near!

Good luck Lizkin

Good luck Lizkin hope all goes well