Due Oct 05 - The Homeward Stretch

[Lexie100]

Here we go, hopefully for the last time

Alterego I don't know what you are supposed to do if they are not happy with the trace. What choice do you really have about EFM in that circumstance? I don't want constant monitoring this time but if they aren't happy then what can you say? You just want a live baby at the end of the day and I don't see how I can argue with it. You never know what might happen and you have to trust them to know when constant monitoring is required I suppose. I had constant monitoring the first time and in the end had to have an episiotomy because mine and baby's heartbeat was dropping too much during contractions - without constant monitoring I don't know how they would know that things were getting to that stage. I don't know what the answer is, but I'm glad that you have a lovely baby!

Now you need a nickname for your baby.... what about id to go with your ego??

Think I've taken J&BM's fed up position today.

Feeling absolutely miserable. Cried to no reason last night, just everything getting on top of me I think. Things that are upsetting me at the moment:

1. Not being able to do things like I usually would be able to, such as pick things up off the floor without hurting myself
2. Constant back ache and stabbing pains low down near the bump
3. I'm frightened about going in for the section, this time next week I should have had Boo (depends on any emergency sections that need doing) and the last time I had an op I was about nine and though I'm excited about meeting Boo, I'm frightened of going into theatre.
4. I want my mum to be there, but she goes in for her op on Tuesday, so I'm worried about her (she doesn't respond well to generals) and sad that I wont be able to see her for ages and show off Boo.
5. I'm fed up of sitting in the house all day. I've been told to try total rest and it's bloody boring. Tomorrow I'm going to go shopping and buy myself a new purse (not that I'll ever have any money to put in it when Boo arrives!) and try to get my eyes tested (they stopped sending my lenses, but dont mind taking the money out of my account!!).

Somebody tell me something to cheer me up... please??

And J&BM, so glad you're back, I was worried about you yesterday!

Elf... chin up honey.... i know its not what you want to hear because i am there too.... although feeling better today, still not myself.

Was up half the night screaming at DH and crying - he got up at 3am to make me a hot chocolate to calm me down!

Ack.. exhausted... walked to park... phew... and now DS is staaarving lol...

Elf you have every right to be pissed off!

I'm surprisingly chirpy today for no reason lol (JM's being quiet!)

I just wish this bowling ball between my legs would budge one way or another... I want to last till 38 weeks (and probably will) but it's bloody uncomfy!

Cervix bounces ahoy.. youch..

Hope you all get a little hormone rush and feel better!

Hi! Thought it might cheer you up to know I am very jealous of you girls -my tiny baby born in June seems like a big girl already! I Want to do it again! (Forgotten endless uncomfortable days at 41 weeks+ already...!)

Jessicaandbumpsmummy can't belive you're due already it seems five minutes since I was rooting for you with your early scan. SO glad all is well :-)

Will shamelessly add that I have just listed loads of Ruby's lovely but outgrown clothes on the For Sale thread if anyone still needs anything!

Good luck all and loads of magic sprinkles for easy births

FA - im still here hun, just takign the chance to sleep and mince it as DH home!

Feel slightly better, but with you on the bowling ball feeling!

Hi girls. Sorry I can't think of anything to cheer you up either..

I am just back from the consultant where I got scanned. He confirmed that the baby was indeed lying exactly the way I thought he was, so at least it is not just my imagination! I go back in around a fortnight for a growth scan and for them to check the placenta isn't in a funny place (he couldn't see it on the scan today as it was behind the baby). After that, I will go for ECV on 21st October. If that doesn't work then they will section me there and then. If it does work then they will send me home to wait for labour. In the meantime, there is of course the possibility that baby will turn of his own accord or also the possibilty that I might go into labour anyway and have to have an emergency section.

So, no further forward really. Still no idea if the wee bugger is going to turn or not. On the plus side, there is apparently plenty fluid in there and the bum hasn't engaged in my pelvis. I also told him that I had been adopting the leaning forward position (which is what everyone tells you to do) and he said it made no difference whatsoever!! It is entirely up to the baby as to whether it wants to turn or not.

Sorry for the long post.

MB

Aww MB, anything could happen! Waiting around not knowing for weeks while your hormones go insane isn't the best way to spend the last days of pregnancy though!

My DH is poorly, silly man... told him not to go to work at all, 'no no I'm fiiine cough splutter cough'...then on the way home he falls asleep on the bus and ends up in Kirby and for some reason he's walking back, most odd. Hope I don't get landed with him being pathetic

JM I apologise for my obviously rude comments about squirty cream on another thread

Hi Ladies, just a quick post while Joey is sleeping. Thank you all for your congratulations.

We're both doing fine...he's breast feeding well. I'm finding it a little uncomfortable today as my milk's come in (woke up with a pair of comedy boobs a la Jordan this morning, much to DP's delight), but we're getting there. He's a gorgeous little man, so calm and chilled (unlike his Mummy...!) - i'll get DP to put a link up to a photo later, if anyones interested? Too complicated for me. I have posted a bit about the birth on the new stats thread too.

Congratulations Alterego. I knew someone else would pip me to the post! Good luck in the coming days and weeks for everyone else. I'll be thinking of you, and watching the thread with baited breath...

Longer post later, when i'm not feeling so braindead. I really should update my nickname too, seing as Little Man's actually here! NM x

Hopefully my nickname is now more apt...

Awww congrats again NM Joey sounds lovely, enjoy your comedy boobs while they're still funny, mine stayed that way forever ... would love to see a photo and go all broody, does his head smell all sweet and you know, warm and fuzzy and new-babyish? I wanna sniff it! (I'm another weird baby sniffer, think triceratops said she was one too once, it's not just meee!)

Congrats NM.... all this talk of little babies..... awwwwww!

Im not a sniffer, im a squidger! I love to have lotso f cuddles with tiny ones..... smelling them just seems odd to me, but we all have our own little things!!!

Feet.... now thats another matter.... babies feet are just the best!!!

I'm a sniffer...just love the smell of baby sick!!!

Aww their feet feel so velvety soft so so so soft... and they're so squidgy and round and cute and you just wanna squeeeze them but they're so small you can't and... oh dear... not even seen photo yet lol... and they have ickle fluffy heads and it all sticks up like bedhair and little milky mouths...

You're missing out not being sniffers I tell you!

well done nm! he sounds gorgeous & hats off to you for thesuccess with b-feeding.

well seems to have been a common theme yesterday but i had an awful day. mil brought dd in and out of the blue dd began asking me questions about my mum who died when i was young: how, when, why, etc. explained as best i could (horse accident) but realised that dd is maybe thinking i might die too, or at least is anxious about being away from me . felt awful for rest of day then and spent nerly all of dh's visit crying . didn't get to sleep till 3.30 then so was crying early hrs as well.

just about ready to discharge myself this a.m. but managed to get a grip. dh's day off so he and dd came lunchtime and consultant let me out for lunch YES, IN THE REAL WORLD! they went home a little while ago. feel a bit better now but am missing them both like crazy. roll on oct 10th!

I'm off to lie in the bath eat mini cookies and stroke my little cutey to be... hope you're all doing ok, I wonder if any of the quiet ones have popped!

Aww Moomin, you're doing so well managing to stay in there... of course your DD's worried, but it'll fade away soon and turn into grumpyness because you disappeared and then reappeared with a horrible stinky screamy thing she'll be just fine! You're doing brill, Oct 10th isn't that far off now!

nervousmum - I'm so with you on the Jordan boobs - but there's no way I want them forever, they're just too bl**dy painful, and they rub together in the middle. Had to sleep on my back last night because they were so uncomfortable and poor alterid (is that an OK name for little one?) is having such difficulty latching on. And yes, my dh likes them too - well I'm NOT keeping them, so there!

Definitely a sniffer, but also love kissing and running my lips over his downy head. Could sit with him all day in my arms. Shame there's housework to do.

Re. leg pains - could it be sciatica? I had this in last few weeks before birth.

Alterego/Nervous mum: Those boobs are AWFUL aren't they? SO painful. Keep putting those lovely babies to them and they will soon sort themselves out though.

Moomin my dd (nearly 3) is becoming very worried about me too - it's the uncertainty of everything. Yesterday I had to explain the difference between a c-section and a vaginal birth because she keeps acting out stories with her toys where the mummy doll is sliced open by a nurse with a knife. I think she will be very relieved when baby is here.

I took Trice's example and bunked off work for a hour this morning and read the paper in a coffee shop with a massive chocolate cake. It was BLISS! Tomorrow I am bunking off for another couple of hours to get a pre-birth haircut and eyebrow shape. Well it's only 3 days to my 'official' due date so I should be allowed a few hours off!!!?!

Oh and - tip for J&BM - I've started building a bonfire in the garden so I hope baby doesn't arrive before I've finished it or all my visitors will think I'm a garden slut with loads of trash all over my manicured lawn.

One final thought - DH came home 20 minutes early today and found me stuffing myself with the last bar of chocolate from my 'hospital bag'. I was soooo embarassed!

Lol MP!

My DH is snoring so loudly in his pathetic attempt to stay up and watch House that I can't stand sitting with him anymore, he's not well though must not lose temper..

Alter, the latching on should improve when your boobs aren't so hard and huge, they do get softer promise - alterid sounds like something horrendous like Astrid

Im not really a gardening type so no bonfires here..... im a lot more chilled out now and this baby will come when its ready!

Just had a major coughing fit and embarrasingly wet myself.... luckily DH was really good and didnt take the mick.... must work on those pelvic floor exercises!

thankfully I only wet myself once with DS for company, I was in nappy changing position on the floor with my legs splayed apart... that sounds like I'm having my nappy changed that's not right! But you know what I mean...right? Lol! and he made me laugh so hard I made a puddle...

Oh Elf and moomin, sad to hear you both so down Can?t tell you anything to cheer you except that this time, next month you?ll have a beautiful wee bundle in your arms and all this crap will be a distant memory.

Maw 21 October eek, not that far away. NM can?t wait to see picture of bubs.

I?m a sniffer and a squidger, but mostly I?m a gobble all up kisser, those lovely chubby wee legs and arms and big fat tummies - lovely scrumptious!!!

Went for last appointment with consultant today (except if overdue, but nit talking about that eventuality!!!) and had a scan. Everything looks OK, whoopee, she?s growing nicely approx 7llbs. So all I can do now is wait.