October 2010 Ready or Not, Here We Come

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Morning guys!

Good luck today Nymph!!

Ooo Seashells - How exciting! Hope it's progressing nicely and you aren't in too much discomfort.

Go SeaShells! Hopefully it won't be too long now! Glad to hear the G&A is working! :)

Samantha I have cramps this morning as well - I have everything crossed that it progresses. But I'm not having contractions so maybe not!

Exciting morning for a few of you! Bring on the babies!

ILGH AbFabT my baking will be of the cheating variety as I am no chef by any stretch. So I am starting off with those "bake by numbers" goodies and then I wi progress to making stuff from scratch! That's the plan! Ran out of time yday so will have to make time today. The eggs I have say use by today - does that mean they are no good or can I use them today?

They'll be fine today. I use my eggs long past their date. As long as they don't smell off I assume they're fine - and I've never poisoned anyone.

I think I might do some cookies today, maybe some shortbread

Oooo Seashells, Sam and Nymph this is so so exciting, I can't wait to hear all your news.

I have to stop watching the news, it makes me irrationally angry.

Hermya, probably just plain vanilla, though I am very fond of carrot cake too. Depends how much like grating I feel like on the day.
LOL @ 'dancing like a club rep'! Like that one!

Good luck again to Sea and Nymph, and anyone else.

I've been having crampy pains what feels like all night, I don't think it's quite contractions as they were not regular regular, though I didn't time anything. Going to try and sleep a bit more, and see what happens, but I don't think it's quite happening just yet - but who knows!!!

Abfab Oooooo could be you next!! Sleep, rest and take a nice relaxing bath. If nothing else, if it is your day then you'll be well set up to tackle your labour.

Nymph, Seashells* AbFab and anyone else who is in labour or thinks they might be - good luck!!!! Me and Zazie are cheering from the sidelines (in a calm and non-annoying way,of course).

Please can all the cake bakers send some my way??? I'm trying to figure out if it"s possible to get it drip fed because I'm sooooo hungry all the time. I was disappointed when dp returned from shopping yesterday without any despite spending over £100.

HV was actually much nicer than i anticipated. But the best news is DD has GAINED weight just on my breast milk!!!! Not a lot, but after two days she was up from 2.29 to 2.32. that'll do me. Of course I'm still very much on a knife edge with it in my mind AND last nightg after feeding from about 9.30 till 11.30 non-stop, then again from 12.30, hour sleep maybe then again at 2, we both slept through till 7.30 as i didnt set an alarm to wakeup. feel bad now cos so conscious that she needs regular feeding.

Just been toilet, tmi alert but I think that's my mucous plug gone! Just Googled it though and it says it does NOT mean labour is imminent. Not quite feeling it will happen today anyway, but you just don't know! I am in bed now, and will try and sleep. Have dull ache in my lower back, and the occasional twinge in my abdomen, but could be nothing major. DH has gone to work now, so do hope we made the right call re that.

Great news re Zazie's weight gain, ft. Woo hoo! And thanks for the cheers (even if it turns out not to be my turn today!).

Hermya, have you ordered your Moby sling yet? I just found it on Amazon for a bit cheaper than Big Mama, £32, if you haven't. Every little helps! I joined Amazon Prime to get it sent express for tomorrow for free, so I have to remember to cancel that within a month... Hmm, remembering....

Wow, this is a busy morning!

AbFab I have a dull ache and dull periody pain today too. Mucas plug still in tact though. With DD1 the plug fell at about 3pm and she was born at 930am (in fact almost exactly 12 years ago - it's her birthday today!). I just feel that my body is getting ready at the moment. Lots of contractions but not painful. Lots of pressure in the groin area. I hope this is it for you, with the plug gone I'm pretty sure you are on your way!

Fingon How are you getting on? Cramps changed at all? I'm bouncing away on my ball in vain hope...

SeaShells Hope you're bearing up. Won't be long now!

Floozie Well done, weight gain is weight gain and that's just fab! Don't worry about sleeping for a little while - you had already filled her up and besides, you need time to make more milk. It sounds like you are doing brilliantly.

Hermya Don't get me started on the bloody news. Really annoyed with David Cameron at the moment. He is going to stop our child benefit based on my husbands income. My husband isn't even the children's father. He has no legal obligation to provide for them financially, he just does because he is lovely. The money is supposed to be for the children, has everyone forgotten that part??? I'm ranting now, I'll stop , sorry.

Looking forward to hearing loads of good news later!

38+1 weeks

SamB thanks for the wise words. Also, rant away, if I wasn't so caught up with feeding focus, I'd be storming the barricades too. F**king bunch of privileged tossers in charge spells disaster for ordinary people. They don't have a CLUE.

Ooh AbFab exciting!!!!!!

Seashells hope you're high on GandA and having a fantastic birth. So wishing all you ladies a straightforward normal delivery, and obviously Nymph hope the section is as good as possible. (ie, better than mine!).

Floozie great news about the weight gain! You must be so thrilled.

Hermya I have abandoned watching the news, and I'm trying to work out how quickly dh and I can emigrate!

Samantha I'm also on my ball, I really hope this bouncing works! Midwife told me to take long walks, rofl if I could walk more than 10 steps without being in agony I might consider it. Good luck with your bouncing!

AbFab great news about the plug - wish mine would go!

Good luck everyone! :o

Oh, apparently a really weepy film is good as well, as it releases all the gushy hormones! Wish I had Toy Story 3 here, I cried like a baby in the cinema!

Floozie You are doing really well and have overcome a lot to get to where you are with breastfeeding. You should be really pleased with yourself!

Fingon Don't you wish your plug would go too? Like a proper symptom!

Right, DD#1 birthday today, off to make lasagne for dinner (her choice). Think I might make cakes too. And clean out the freezer which has stray peas in every orrifice. 'Maternity leave'? I was less busy at school.

Ten minutes and Nymph will be underway!

Oh my goodness, so much exciting news!

nymph hope all is going smoothly.

Seashells thinking of you and hoping everything is straightforward and not too painful. Hope you will be cuddling your LO soon.

AbFab with the pains as well as losing the plug, surely it can't be long now. Good luck! Hope you manage to get some sleep to be as ready as possible.

Floozie so pleased to hear Zazie is gaining weight. Remember, you need to look after yourself as well as her, so if you need to sleep, she'll be fine for a while. Besides, if she was desperate for a feed, I'm sure she'd let you know! Sounds like you are doing a great job to me.

Fingon and SamB it seems a bit weird to be wishing that someone would have a show, but I hope you both have it soon! Only in pg land would something like that be seen as good news.

Lizkin any news?

Hermya any progress?

I woke up with pain this morning, but unfortunately I think it's just my fibroids reacting to the scan yesterday, so no action here yet. Dh went to get me my prescription this morning, even though it means he will be late for work and have to stay late. He's just being so lovely and supportive at the moment, even though I keep waking him up with my night-time wanderings and he would be justified in being grumpy. Anyway, hopefully that will do the trick with my rash and my sanity may just be preserved!

Forgot again! 38+5

It's all go here! Sorry I haven't been around, things have been a bit rubbish so I've been reading not posting.

Hoping lizkin and seashells are doing great. And that Nymph is holding her LO by now!

AbFab and Heryma how are you doing?

Floozie that's great news about the weight gain (and the poos!) but very sorry about the nits - ugh! I got them all the time as a kid - long, thick, curly hair...

Shieldbug glad you finally got some cream for your rash, PUPP should have been a heck of a lot easier/quicker to diagnose than that!

Xav sorry about the cat fleas - they give me the horrors too...

Ok so, bit of a moan coming - remember how I ended up getting monitored last Friday and this Monday for high BP? And it turned out I was a bit anaemic? Well yesterday I went for my birth centre asssessment only to find that my BP was up again, protein in urine, bloods from last week not great (liver and kidneys)...blah blah... so up I went AGAIN to maternity day unit for more monitoring. BP came down to within acceptable limits and after a few glasses of water, protein was down too but I am wfh today and back in the maternity day unit tomorrow. Tomorrow is last day at work, and I am now only allowed to do half the day as the mw wants me back on those monitors by lunchtime. Sorry to be a wuss, I really do know it could be so much worse (they could have admitted and induced me!) but I'm feeling quite I had been so healthy up to now (apart from swollen feet & ankles and SPD which after all didn't hurt LO or me in any permanent way...). Baby Toby is fine, I suppose I may end up having a scan to see what is happening with the placenta... I just wanted my lovely natural birth and now I feel scared of the dreaded medical intervention...Tobes is only 4/5 engaged, fundal height is 36cm (and I'm 38 weeks), he's still zooming about and I don't think birth is imminent at all ... I'm just being a coward really, scared of the eeevil pig sperm and the pain of an induced labour...where has my courage gone, eh?

Sorry for the moan, reading your posts has cheered me up no end, first time I've felt a bit calm since yesterday!

xxx
38 weeks today!

Sam They're also going after peoples pensions as well, it makes me so bloody mad!! Nurses, teachers and fire fighters do such a good job and it is thankless a lot of the time. The least they can flipping do is to give them a pension at the end of it. They've already frozen their pay as well. I was talking to my midwife the other day, they've all had to reapply for their jobs because the trust decided they were two expensive. I know a lot of people moan about public sector pensions, and I must admit there are some schemes where people get a lot of benefits for not putting a lot in. But for those who are already putting in 10% at the moment. It seems a bit of a cheek to ask them to put more in especially when they've just frozen their pay. Sorry that was a bit soap boxish wasn't it.

Abfab How you feeling?

Dilly You really have had it rough haven't you, I hope that you get sorted soon.

Floozie I got mine from 'Just for Babies', it came to £35 including postage which I thought was ok. I did have a look on ebay and the like before I did, but they didn't have the colour I wanted . Great news about the weight gain.

As for me, I've been in bed for the past few hours. I was sat in the living room and just felt so tired so I went and slept for a bit. I'm now running myself a bath. I just feel a bit achey, nothing too promising. I think my body is just teasing me. Ah well.

Wow! Good luck Nymph - meant to post yesterday in advance but yesterday i was in a sleepwalking haze due to a severely bad night's sleep. Just couldn't do ANYTHING. Feel a lot better today!

And good luck AbFab - guess you might be in the middle of baking cupcakes now (!!!) or in the pool already? Cross fingers all goes as per your birth plan!

And woo hoo good luck too to Seashells (I'm loving the 'real time' updates! More please!) and Lizkin!

I'm starting to feel a bit fed up - I shouldn't, but having been through the whole 'late baby' thing before (sweep, blah, induction, blah, ECS) I was hoping to experience something wholly different. 39+6 today and I haven't had a 'show' either & although I've had a few firm and painful BH contractions here and there it doesn't come to anything. Constantly feel like my body's so-called 'clearing itself out' & then it just lets me fill it right up again (just now - digestive biscuits with peanut butter on - so wrong huh!).

Just seen the midwife - 2/5 engaged, baby heartbeat good, spine on side but a little to the back so she said I better get on with cleaning the floors on my hands and knees (HI will be pleased, I had kinda delegated the floors to him but I guess I better sort it out now!)

She took my blood for iron levels as I've been feeling soooooo exhausted of late (think it's just my DD though, she's going through such a 'change' in her life - school & her mum having a big belly which will become a baby imminently that she's waking at all hours and tantruming more than usual during the day).

Pilates class next. Think my pilates instructor will at least give me some good exercises to try bring on labour - and may even think about booking acupuncture or something - would really like something to HAPPEN. Guess impatience isn't the right frame of mind for things to happen though :)

Oh and floozie - sounds like you're doing brilliantly. Gah - you needed that sleep & baby needs to rest too.

As said, 39+6...

Dilly Sorry you are having a lousy time. On the up side it's really good that you are being so well cared for. You are so nearly there, even if your baby isn't fully engaged it is only a matter of time now. If it comes to it and you need to be induced, all may not be lost. It may be that at the very beginning your labour needs to be kick started but once your body takes over it can be as natural as you like. It won't necessarily be more painful, it's just that people only tell the bad bits and not the good bits. In honesty, labour is painful either way. It's also really normal to lose confidence and start to feel more worried towards the end of pregnancy too. I've had some awful collapses this week (I don't want to do labour...what if I can't do it...You won't get annoyed with me will you...what if the baby gets stuck...). My poor DH. It might be worth trying the birthing ball, some raspberry leaf tea and a bit of jiggling up and down. At least you'll feel like your doing something positive. Keep smiling...

Cheers Hermya! (o and have carpal tunnel also, I seem to be having some kind of competition with myself to have every pg related symptom there is!!!)

On a lighter(ish) note, I was SO furious with David Cameron yesterday as I walked to the bus stop that I was marching up the road, ranting in my head - of course, can't do that anymore at 38 weeks pg so ground to a halt after about 5 minutes!! Must learn that I can be angry at DC and still walk slowly!

Here's hoping labour kicks in jesse Apparently acupuncture and reflexology can help....

Sorry Hermya x posted. I am a bloody teacher. The pay is crap, I have to work 'til I'm 109 and then the pension will be rubbish. Having lost my child benefit I won't be able to afford to pay more towards the bloody pension. Hmmmph. And. And, I live somewhere really expensive. Hmmph again! I'll stop now, sorry.

You sound a bit like me sympton wise. I just feel like I'm 'getting ready'. There has been quite a lot of getting ready over here though...

Hi all, I have been here just reading and too tired to post. Today is the first day I feel even slightly awake. had my bloods done last week and see the midwife tomorrow so should get the results then - I am already on 400 mg a day!

good luck to Nymph, seashells and Lizkin hope all is going well.

my dc started a new school this mornin so I am really worried but the school phoned and said they'd settled in ok. so feelin a bit sad especially as ds was crying as dh left him. I didnt take them as I am far too hormonal.

No sign of labour here either. baby is really far down so it hurts to walk because of the spd. also have slight carpal tunnel because of my swollen hands and my feet are enormous. bizarrely I have been told I dont look pregnant from the back but people are horrified by the size of my bump from the front. I was asked if i was having a baby whale the other day! :)

glad to hear your doing well floozie

hoping to hear about more babies sooon everyone who is nearly there!

37+4 (induced in 4 days eek!)

sorry x posted

I too am really cross with David Cameron! we will lose nearly £4000 a year by losing cb and ctc! I am going to have to get a weekend or evening job to make up the money we'll be losing. I was hoping to go to uni but it is now looking really unlikely :(

glad I am not the only one collecting pregnancy related conditions!