Due Oct 05 - The Homeward Stretch

[Lexie100]

Here we go, hopefully for the last time

Lol alterego I've been wiggling around on the sofa the last few nights... DH gets the funniest goofy smile on his face... men are so cute lol... DS is ruining the house, I'm too sore and too braindead to do anything about it! Thank god it's Friday!

im with you all on the house looking like a tip! Jess seems to have caused HAVOC this afternoon and im just too sore to get down and tidy it up - there are Cheerios all over my living room carpet and i just dont care! Roll on 5.30pm when DH home - he can tidy up!

Dh working this weekend, so my dad is coming over tomorrow for some company!

I WANT THIS BABY OUT!!!

Me tooooooo she's hurting my risb so so so much I just want to scream and undo a magic zip! There are cream cheese sandwhiches and bits of pear all over my living room... and he's wrecked 2 pairs of homemade earrings in the space of a few hours...

dont you just love toddlers!!!

my pains are all really low down, bit like contractions but not - assuming its just baby moving into "engaged" - well i bloody hope so because i dont think i can handle another 4 weeks of this!!!

Elf ? agree with everything you said about peoples? comments, you put it so eloquenty out . So sad to ehat they can?t change the dates.

Danishmummy ? welcome to you to hear about your prbs, are you near your family now?

Jockey ? I?m due 12 as well, please please please can I got first?..

Mbroon pml at your dream?..how aquarobing go?

Fastasleep ? you sound better?.

I had my mw appointment yesterday at 3pm , ended up home at 9.30pm!!!!

Decided they weren?t happy about the movements, sent me to local hospital for that thing that goes on your tummy, with the wavy lines. Local hospital not happy either sent me to big maternity hospital. Baby decided she wasn?t going to move for an hour, had a hot cup of tee (me not baby). WOW see those lines wiggle, she went mental??.so now they?ve got me doing a kick chart. But I think she was just having a lazy day?like her mum?

J&Bmummy ? have got off my lazy ass and went shopping today and now have all my bibs and bobs for my hospital bag, except baby vests. Do I need to pack anything to eat, I don?t remember eating anything in hospital.

glad all was ok RTL - scary when they do that to you! I remember having to be monitored with Jess.... she hadnt moved for nearly 24 hours and as soon as we got to the hospital at 1am.... she went crazy!!!

snacks for during labour if you fancy it hun, i packed snacks last time and just wasnt interested though. DH ended up in the canteen for a "meal" becausle things were taknig so long!

I got toast and orange juice for breakfast but refused lunch as was adament i was getting home - didnt get home til 3pm but dad cooked me up the best bacon roll when i got home - bacon had made me sick throughout my pg with jess!

all i want this time is a tub of coleslaw - its the only thing i cant face!

Yeh same as me, desperate to get home. Had ds2, had bath then waited in reception to go home?wanted out ASAP. Was supposed to be home birth but ended up induced. Had fight to leave......

i just told them i was going and to get my notes ready!

had jess at 2.49am, let the wpidural wear off, had a bath, jess had a bath and we went home at 3pm!

Same as you 2.40am ? baby born, had bath, got dressed, kicked up fuss, signed the ?I?m a completely useless mother, and have decided to leave early, even though I?ve been told not to? Form. Left at 9.00am. But it was a fight.

i was only as long as that because the post natal ward was HEAVING and it was a saturday and EVERYONE wanted out!

Oooh same here - problem was the epidural didn't really work as pain relief but DID work as a paralysing agent - I couldn't feel anything or more from the waist down - SO frustrating!

Next time I am OUTTA there pronto even if I'm trailing blood with my vagina knocking around my knees...

MP - im with you there hun..... the sooner im out the better - i honestly believe that you recover better at home in your own bed and own surroundings!

My worst nightmare would be a c/section - 3-5 days in hospital - I DONT THINK SO!

Mp ? you make me laugh?..vagina knocking around my knees.
It?s mad that you have to fight to go home though eh?

With DS 1 (born at 11 pm) there was no cot for him (so he had to sleep on the resuscitation unit) and no bed for me on the labour ward (so I had to stay in the delivery suite - which sounds good until you realise you can hear everyone else screaming, and the mws' comments e.g "well she is really making a meal of it" cos I was just outside the mw station....I escaped as soon as could find a doctor to sign me out - 10 am the next day.

lolol at "making a meal of it"!!!

i'd have shouted back at the mums in labour "Have an epidural woman!" but i do that at the telly now!!!

dreading it if i dont get one this time...... cant imagine REAL labour!

Don't lets talk about labour anymore, I'm getting the heebie jeebies just thinking about it. CAn you believe it's my 3rd and I'm Sh*** myself.....it feels worse than my first.

Pleeeeeeeeeeeese remind me that millions of women do it every day....

Is it 'cos it's so close?

RTL.... im scared too, mainly because i was induced with Jess so i knew when i was going in and that i would leave with a baby - this time round im panicking over every little twinge!!!

Yes add me to the terror list because I had an epidural and it didn't work. THERE'S NOTHING ELSE! FECK! I'm hoping it'll just sliiiiiide out....

anyone else hoping for the "oooh i need a wee" and a baby appears?!

Between that and joking with DH that im off to town tomorrow for a crochet hook to break my own waters!!

Soooooooo scared too... I was induced with DD1 too, as well as her being back to back and taken with ventouse...

Am confident though, that accupuncture will help me. Also will try and use visualisation - although last time even the breathing went out the window!

Redtartanlass - what a scary time with no movement!! Glad everything was fine. Thanks for your sympathy. Yes, I am only 10 miles from my parents and have other friends and family very close by. Good to know they are there, but I am still terrified by the thought of managing day-to-day as a single mum of 2. I suppose I will find the strengh. Pretty hard and tiring though, to deal with the extra emotional stress at this time! (Feeling sorry for myself again...)

Dmum ? glad you?ve got support near by. Will your mum be staying with you when you get out?

And I?m soooooooo glad that I?m not the only scaredy cat!!

Going to watch Corrie, then Scrubs, have a nice bath, do my roots, pack my hospital bag. And bub can then come tonight, ?cos I don?t want to go back to work next week! If only life was that simple

can some people try to think before they post please