Due late Jan 2011 - come and join us in the countdown...

[BubbaAndBump]

New trimester, new thread. Here's to us becoming grumpy, impatient, fat and uncomfy while counting down the days... :o [hhmm] :o

Fantastic news flora congratulations on the safe arrival of little man flora. Was only thinking the other day we hadn't heard from you in the melay of comments whilst we have all been on mat leave. It's a bit crap about mat ward care, it seems like a lot of places can get labour ward sorted but not mat ward (and it's always useful when you know the person you're complaining too) But you are at home with your beautiful son and fantastic dp so enjoy every moment with them both

Happy birthday bubba hope you are enjoying your breakfast and have a lovely day.

massive and huge, ginormous, milk-filled-breast sized CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

very, very exciting and wonderful new arrival.

Huge congratulations Flora, wonderful news and a big warm welcome to your DS.
Happy birthday Bubba hope you get spoiled all day.

Huge congratulations Flora, wonderful news and a big warm welcome to your DS.
Happy birthday Bubba hope you get spoiled all day.

Wow Flora, congratulations! Sorry your maternity care was bad enough to complain about, but well done for staying so upbeat and calm!

Happy birthday Bubba, have a lovely day being spoiled.

Congratulations Flora Sounds like you and lo are doing great. 10/10 on the apgar scale is pretty impressive.

Happy birthday bubba hope you enjoyed your breakfast in bed and have a nice stress free day.
shanster why can't you eat deli meat? Meat is one of the things i've gone off in this pregnancy but have had cravings for citrus fruit. Trying to eat lots of pineapple at the minute as someone said it could bring on labour and the earlier the better as i'm barely getting any sleep atm.

Ooh flora I was so excited when I read you'd had your lo. I wonder who will be next.... cupcakes where are you this morning??

What a WONDEFFUL selection of Sunday news! I'm here - just had mammoth phone call with friend who's in Kuala Lumpar (and 6 months pg) and then washed my hair (ha ha - turning into a habit!) and peeled veggies and stuff...

flora big big kisses to you and darling DS and your DP. And BOOOOOOOOOO to crappy maternity care. So pleased your DS is here safely after all the trauma - and very impressed with your last vomit bearing in mind nothing in your stomach And let us know how your son gets on with the Paed. And have fun getting bras.... [shudder emoticon] - i'm dreading that side of it all!

And lady bubba (always be a lady to me) very VERY happy birthday - hope you eat loads of cake!

Nice to see you back shanster was wondering where you were. And very restrained not to throw your turkey and spinach wrap at the cashier! Most of us in the UK have been living off chocolate oranges since christmas - although we're down to our last one

I managed to sleep properly-ish last night - but would have LOVED for DH to be there at 3am when i woke with throbbing swollen feet and wanted a massage and then couldn't get comfy and needed someone to shove a pillow under my arse, but no matter how hard i tried i couldn't get the angle right - this is when I miss DH most!

PS. Bottle drying rack - do i need one? I have no dishwasher back in syria - and no draining board either (ha ha - handy!) but planning to use a microwave steriliser. my mum says i'm wasting my money - opinions???

cupcake i've never had one - I found my bottles were never out of use long enough to warrant one!

I've been trying to get some last minute bits sorted today and have found i've lost my moses basket stand AND my crib is broken grr.

Off to get screws to fix it - and wall hooks for the pictures which is a bit nicer - i'm glad i didn't leave it until the last minute!!
My Nursery is almost finished - i will post pics ASAP!

Next job is to try and work out how the car seat goes in

No idea about the bottle rack I'm afraid but I tend not to buy purpose-made items when a draining rack will do. I haven't even bought bottles yet. I'm hoping to breast-feed so figured I'd buy some later if I need them along with a breast pump.

Sounds like I'm not the only one not getting much sleep. After a bad night, I half think about electing for a c-section and getting it over and done with!

Crap about your crib ladybuzz - very annoying.

Love the plan to have a c-section gallic - i've been lucky my friend gave me her breast pump and LOADS of bottles... but figure even when b-feeding i'm still planning to express os Dh can do at least one feed!

On the draining rack front- i haven't got one i have towels and leave platers, etc, on the side and leave everything drying on the towels... so was thinking the bottles wouldn't stand up?

Yay we've made it on to the most active page!!!

Cupcakes a bottle rack does sound like they have taken a normal draining rack added the word baby and bottle, trippled the price and then thought we'll find someone to buy it! I'd get a normal draining rack too.

gallic are you my twin? I am having horrendous sleeping at the moment, 1 good night 1 god damn awful night, currently sleeping top to toe with dh using a quilt as my pillow cause i just can't get comfy and it's bizarre if i'm the worng way round in bed I seem to sleep better (although not last night !) Also haven't bought bottles as planning on breast feeding, which brings me on to random question 999 for a first time mother ...

My boobs are not hurting or leaking or anything, will I have problems feeding or will the hormones kick in once pfb is here and I need not worry?

pootle no don't worry I haven't leaked with any of my pgs and had no problems!

oooh - good question pootle - was wondering the same thing the other night....

And i've been a nightmare sleeper since i was little (used to sleepwalk!) and I often swap to top and tail with Dh if i can't sleep - crazy but just putting my head in diff position seems to work - although not sure what he thinks when he wakes up to my big toes next to his head!!!

I cannot wait til my sunday dinner tonight.... i'm starving (again!) My dad had to go and buy more peas and was muttering about me "eating devon out of peas" when he came back with another 2 bags of frozen peas....

I think the hormones from birth kick off all the milk if I remember correctly from antenatal class.

Huge sorry to flora as I forgot to congratulate her on the birth of babyflora. I hope everything goes well for you all.

Footy has just finished so I think the DP and I are going for a short walk seeing as the weather is so good today. Will be good to work up an appetite for the humongous chicken that's currently roasting in the oven. Poor thing has a lemon stuffed up its backside.

On the bottle front I found my microwave steriliser a godsend. We introduced one bottle when DD was about 2 and a half months then she decided she didn't want to be breast fed anymore about 4 months. I used to leave the bottles in there until I needed them, never bothered with drying rack.
Just got back from a very large and long Sunday lunch with friends and need to lie down now. I'm hardly sleeping either but hey due date a week tomorrow so even at the outside I've got 2 weeks and 8 days left (assuming they won't want ne going more than 2 weeks over).
Hope you manage to get the crib sorted Ladybuzz.
Hang on in there ladies the end is in sight!

everyone sounds like they're having a lovely sunday, except for the horrible sleep deprivation!

don't have a bottle drying thingumy... sounds like i poss don't need it. do need a breast pump though, but will prob buy when bump arrives. any recommendations of good ones?

I have got leaky boobs. bloody annoying. my mum said she didn't even need a breast pump with me, as hers were just gushing! so, hoping the same will be true (to a point) with me. though i don't fancy having fountains on my chest!

i have finally managed to put up the furniture! hurrah! hurrah! so now just fiddling around with where it goes and stuff.

i've got either 11 or 17 days to go, depending on which due date is more accurate - one from LMP or the scan one... so hoping that i don't go over as it will feel like such a waste of my very short paid mat leave (only get 6 weeks )

Another one here with no leaking from boobs yet, I am presuming birth will kick all that off for me.

Is anyone else weeing every hour or so at night? It's really starting to depress me as I can't ever get a decent run of sleep at all. I can't go more than 30 minutes in a car without the urge to pee (the 4 hr trip back from my parents was a NIGHTMARE).

Is this normal? Or do have to be worried that I have gestational diabetes? I had a tiny bit of glucose in my urine the other day and mw told me to cut down on sugar before my next appt in 2 weeks to see if that made any difference.

I don't have any other symptoms of GD apart from the frequent peeing. I am soooo tired because of this that I am not functioning terribly well. I don't remember being this bad with dd.

My sunday dinner is 15 mins away - and i can't wait.....mmmm.... agree- sounds liek everyone is having lovely sundays!

yes rock weeing lots in night too - apprently normal - or so said my midwife - to do with the way baby is sitting on bladder in my case. Plus they check your urine every midwife trip - so i'm sure they would have flagged it if there's a problem with gest. diabetes. I can't even remember the last time i had a huge sleep - I manage 2 hours last night and woke up with a terribly dry mouth and this awful "have to go to the loo right now" sensation and almost pulled another muscles hurrying out of bed to make it in time!

Ooooh crystylline only 6 weeks of mat leave left - wow! That's short isn't it? Are you going back to work full time?

On the breast pump front - i investigated lots and the best i've heard is the medala one.... luckily that's the one my friend gave me too! Beggars can't be chooser though!

fuzzy Down this way, they only let you go 12 days past your EDD and then start the induction process... so whichever way - i'll be having this baby by 11th Feb - well - unless i have one of those horrid 60 hour labours!!!!

37 weeks for me today.... and baby is squirming but still not going back to hip - good boy . Still nto very good at walking today but i think that's the swollen feet and i think i need to get my hip joint working again...

right - need to go - need to lay table..mmm.. roast beef!

Hmm, making me wonder about GD now rocklover. I am having exactly the same problems. Weeing mainly at night but not so bad during the day for some reason. Thing is I wake up, don't necessarily feel a strong urge to pee but because I'm restless and uncomfortable I go anyway to make myself feel better. Always manage something anyway. Rolling over is also virtually impossible now and bump transforms into random and new shapes when I do. I spent most of this afternoon wallowing in the bath.
I have now reached the point where I am point blank refusing to go anywhere beyond my local area as too worried about suddenly going into labour. Went to Westfields yesterday for 4 hours and had a nice time but that was okay as close to my hospital. Tomorrow I'm off shopping for nursing bras - bravissimo here I come. Currently a 32H so should be interesting to see what i can get if anything. My back size has stayed the same throughout so that's good but boobies are bigger than ever and i've always been well endowed in that department to start with. Tbh i'm worried post birth as without my bump to give them some support I think they will just hit the floor

rock and salt

yes, i can't sleep more than 2 hours without having to get up and go to the loo. also have that horrible dry mouth feeling cupcakes was describing.

I think i'm prob just as bad during the day as well though.

Not sure it sounds like GD - have either of you had a test? if you're worried, you could phone the hospital and arrange to go have one.

alternatively, advice seems to be don't drink much in the evenings, especially no diuretics - e.g coffee, coke, mint tea.

i think we're prob stuck with it though, as baby is only going to sit heavier and heavier on our respective bladders!

You could well be weeing more as baby's lower in your abdomen and more pressure on(and less room in) your bladder.

No leaky boobs here either, although I did with one of the previous pregnancies and not with the other. Fed easily both times so I think some bodies just get ready earlier. Weirdly though I don't think they've got much bigger yet, though maybe they never really went down from before? Can't really remember!! I'm just bunging them in whatever can carry them without extra bulges happening :o

Thanks for all the birthday wishes ladies - have had a lovely, lazy day and just woken up from a post-birthday-lunch snooze. Girls have sung me happy birthday about a zillion times and I can't tire of hearing them! >>soppy emoticon

Good advice crystylline and I think if I had GD they would probably have picked it up in one of my many wee samples. However, I am often very thirsty but I figure that is because I have to replenish amniotic fluid every 3 hours? Sure I read that somewhere...

quick question for those on dc number 2. With the first dc did you notice yourself 'drop'? My bump still looks quite high up and was wondering if you notice visually/ or feel physically what the mw described as the lightning drop? Something like that. If you noticed a drop how long after till you went into labour and did anyone go into labour still looking quite high? Hope i've made some sense...

I've already told my mw that I don't want to be induced, so if I go 12 days over I will hopefully get booked for a c-section. I think because I had a previous c-section as well that the hospital would be happy to do that, the consultant actually recommended that option for me, so who am I to argue :).

I wasn't even thinking about GD salt, but mw started querying if I'd had any other symptoms as I have had glucose in my urine a few times. However, at my previous appt there was no sugar in my urine at all, so it is not all the time and is not getting worse. But I do eat an awful lot of sugar at the moment, hence mw asking me to cut down.

My bra size has stayed the same throughout pregnancy (apart from a month or so at the beginning when boobs were HUGE) and I'm still measuring 40dd now, but have bought nursing bras with an F cup as recomended by M & S. They better bloody fit is all I can say, otherwise I'll have to force myself out of the house fairly soon post birth to get measured again. Don't like the idea of that.