Due September - Thread 15 - Babies being born thick and fast! Yay!

[KiwiKate]

Time for a new thread.

Hope the title will encourage the "reluctant" babes into the world.

Good luck to all who are due now/overdue

CONGRATULATIONS to LadyL, LordL and little Elise!
Was beginning to think there been some dreadful curse put on the september thread and we were all going to have to hold on to our bumps FOREVER!
Sorry to hear that you're a bit down PC. You're probably finding it difficult at the moment because you've got a great big ball strapped to your front and DS knows that you're frazzled and is playing up a bit. Hope all seems rosier once bump arrives.
And Cabe - can't believe your DH is 100 miles away - but I suppose he has no choice if it's work. Luckily, DH put his foot down for working away from home when I hit 37 weeks, otherwise he'd be 300 odd miles away and I would be calling him everytime I had indigestion to get hime to come home.
To the sticky discharge group - hope the stickiness persists and turns in to a baby some time soon x

Just had plumber round who has pronounced our 18mth old shower dead!!
Have had vague smell of gas in kitchen for a couple of months and kept putting off doing anything about it. He's insisted that we call Transco, so now have emergency engineer coming in the next hour! What a wild life I lead! All I need now is for waters to break, and life will be complete! Still crampy, but can't think that this baby will ever arrive - thanks for all the encouragement though. Maybe I'll go and do a bit of bouncing....
Hope all those in the gunky discharge club will produce soon!...

Congatulations LadyL. Elise is a very lovely name and unusual too.

Hope everyone else is feeling ok

Hope u r ok PC. You are giving your child a sibling and a friend and companion for life- I used to get down when i was on my own with 2 kids under 2, but they are pretty good mates and get into loads of trouble together! When they get older they actualy entertain each other. So hang on in there it will work out well in the end

another mummyhill moan

Had a run in with the inlaws last night, they made me feel terrible, just what I need at the moment. We were getting ready to come home so I asked DD to tidy up her toys. She decided to kick over the toy box and start throwing the toys around so I picked her up and took her into the hall, sat her on the bottom step and told her that when she could be nice and help tidy up then she could come back into the other room. She then decided to turn on the waterworks and start kicking and screaming. So I walked away. Next thing I know MIL has tidied up all the toys and FIL is giving DD a hug and telling her it's ok not to worry, He bought her back into the living room and offered her sweets and was quite upset when I told her that she couldn't have them. FFS it was 7.30pm and she was due to go to bed in 1/2 an hour why would I want her filled with sugar especially after she had been naughty. Did I over react? I creid most of the way home with DH telling me that everything was ok I did the right thing but why do his parents have to make me feel stressed and mean at this late stage in my pregnancy?

Well lets see now I have got that off my chest what am I doing today?

Unload and reload dishwasher, washing machine and tumble dryer.

DD is at nursery 12.45 - 15.15 so thats an hours walk at the moment to drop her off and an hours walk to fetch her so I think that after dropping her off I may go to bed till it's time to fetch her.

Need to go up to GP's to collect prescriptions another 1/2 hour round trip.

DH is training tonight so may go to mums for tea and some help with DD cause she is driving me crazy at the moment.

Andif - plumber sounds promising - sods law is that you will go into labour now . about your shower though - should imagine it should last a long way past 18 months!

I have another midwife appointment this afternoon. Fingers crossed that my blood pressure is down on Monday - am starting to worry that they might drag me in there and section me (although that would mean the end of the waiting ). My doula was here last night, and she said that a German midwife has found that drinking a glass of salty water about an hour before getting blood pressure taken when pregnant and bp is high (but not due to pre-eclampsia) can actually bring bp down. Apparently it only works in pregnancy. Am thinking I should give it a go...

Also, a woman in my yoga class is using the same doula as me - she went into labour yesterday morning, having been to yoga the night before (doula was off to her place after she saw me last night) - think I might have to step up the number of classes I'm doing!!

Sorry mummyhill. I think grandparents cannot stand to hear their grandchildren crying can they? I'm sure they didn't intend to undermine you but that is what they did, so you have every reason to be annoyed.

All that walking to and from nursery should be doing something for you!

I wish the walking would do something. I have been going for nice long walks since a week before my due date and bub still reamins at 2/5 engagement. Just waiting round for hospital to ring me and call me in early (hands held in prayer emoticon) otherwise I am stuck till wednesday as it seems very unlikeley that I am going to go into spontaneous labour this time round, I am further overdue than I was with DD, DH has decided that this means that this one is a boy ohh well will have to wait and see.

Congratulations LadyL and welcome to little Elise. Hope you and dh are having fun with her. They are so precious arent they?

Girls are definately outnumbering boys in the London 'pedicure' bunch!

I am thinking about buying an Amby baby hammock. has any one ever used one, just that I had trouble with the other two sleeping and they seem to be ok, dont know whether it is hype or not.
But are they really worth £150

Oh Mummyhill - I hate it when my mum undermines me but I know it's only because she likes to spoil DD. Doesn't make our job any easier, though.
Kiwifruit - LOL at "drag me in there and section me". Would that be under the mental health act? That's how I feel at the moment.
Trying to figure out who hasn't posted yet today and who might possibly be in labour...

nikinoo - I bought on on ebay. Our dd is only a week old so probably to early to tell. See my post yesterday. Katts has one too.

I don't mind them spoiling her and have no objection to them dealing with her behaviour in their own way when I am not there. However, if i see fit to correct her when we are all together they should back me up regardless of their feelings and tell me quietly latter that they don't approve, not in front of DD. And they certainley should no better than to offer treats/rewards after a child has been told off.

Jessysmummy - at this stage it will be under the mental health act !!

Morning morning.

Being a bit down and tetchy seems to be the norm for bumps left on this thread. I woke up in the night, not with Braxton Hicks, but with period-like pain. Completely gone away now, having deprived me of half a night's slumber. Feel really sick though, pelvis is killing me and (sorry - TMI) am dripping like a tap. Peanut still lively and seems to have smuggled a pin in there which it's using to poke my cervix.

If it weren't for the dog, I'd really not have bothered to get out of bed this morning.

Cabe: I can't get enough ice. I have bags of it in the freezer, plus two trays. I've had a thing for fruit lollies most of the pregnancy, but these no longer suffice. I have this theory that ice encourages the peanut to move down and engage, to get away from a frosty stomach. I have no evidence for this, obviously...

Congratulations LL!

Congratulations LadyL

hope it's not much longer for the rest of you.

Mummyhill, the sweetie thing is maddening, why do the older generation regards sweets with such little regards, fancy giving her sweets just before bedtime. It is irritating to the extreme.

Mummyhill: shame about your outlaws. It's the sort of thing my mother's mother would have done, just to create trouble (she was that sort of woman) - but you'd think they'd know better, particularly when you're extremely pregnant.

Obviously they should have kept their views and sweets to themselves, but maybe they're feeling conscious of her soon-to-be-ousted only child status and want to compensate...?

To be honest though I think that I would normally just ignore them when they are being like this but am feeling depressed, fat and irritable at the moment which didn't help the situation IYSWIM.

CONGRATS LADYL - Glad all went well in the end.

I know what you mean about being irritable, over past few weeks I have been like a bitch on heat, however now i am on the opposite end of the pole and my friend commented that i am like a serene little buddah at the mo( hope thats not entirely dedicated to my belly but you never know)

Dumbest "haven't you had it yet comment" - can anyone top this ...

MIL to my DH : "Hasn't she had it yet [like we'd forget to tell her, especially as she is looking after DS when I go into labour!!]. Well, when is it coming? It is MOST INCONVENIENT not knowing when this baby is going to arrive"
Hhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmpppppppphhhhhhh!!
[like I'm overdue just to p* my MIL off]

I feel like that too. I feel like I am inconveniencing everyone and winding them up purposely by 'choosing' not to have had the baby yet.

Mummyhill - I'm astounded at your PILs. I'd have been p**d off with them too. No you did not over-react. Hope things improve

Oohh Kate I am getting the same here but from my own mum who will be looking after DD. All I can tell her is that I am booked in to be induced on Wednesday (seems ages away) but that I may get a call between now and then telling me that they have a spare bed and to get myself into hospital. Wednesday/ Thursday at the latest for me then cause if the induction fails I will end up with the section I have been fighting against for the last 4 months.

Beatie, it is bad enough when I feel like I'm incvonveniencing others - I don't need others to rub salt in it!