Feb 2011 - The home stretch! Let's see more of those babies :-)

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A shiny new thread for a shiny new year.

good luck varicose meant to say my ds 2 was born at 29 wks due to waters breaking and he was great=5lb 1 oz and breathed unaided.He is now 23 with size 13 feet!!

Oooh I wonder how she is getting on!

PDR I'm due 16 Feb, I thought you were slightly ahead of me. Thinking of varicose this morning.

Am off out this morning to look at flowers for my sisters wedding, still silently seething that she thought it was a great idea to bring her wedding forward to 6 weeks after my due date!!! Could she not have buggered off and got married like a normal person

But on a plus point Mr Wiggles spent most of yesterday nosying at booking our summer holiday. Think we're going to head off mid June.

wiggles do you think sis did it on purpose to steal your thunder?My sis has just told me she is ttc and as the fav younger sis the announcement if she is pg soon should nicely coincide with this baby being born/newborn.

I am feeling so weird today again.The pressure and heavyness in my groin/pelvis is unbelievable,i cant walk comfortably at all and have period pains.Is that how it feels when they engage?Mine have never engaged.This one was 4/5 the other day.Anyone else? I DONT WANT THIS BABY YET.

Hi all,

Am eagerly awaiting the new baby news and think its fab that Jack's babies are home!

Angels - I tested positive for gbs with my first pregnancy and had quite a long labour so there was plenty of time to get the anti bs into me. After speaking to friends, their second labours have all been less than 3 hours! My hospital's policy is that if you have tested positive for GBS once, they will treat you as if you are positive now. Which I am pleased about to be honest, as I would feel better knowing I had the anti bs.

You need 2 lots, 4 hours apart and I saw the comsultant yesterday and asked what would happen if it all went too fast she said that they would monitor the baby much more closely and maybe test for colonization.

I had been having 'wetness' so the midwife took some swabs and the results were back and all is well and even better, the GBS colonization has moved somewhere else in my body! So I am not actually testing positive in the birth canal at the mo - yippee! So that reduces the chances even further!

I had been told that I couldn't have a waterbirth due to cannula for anti bs which really dissapointed me as I was hoping for a different experience to my first (epidural, syntocinon, forceps, episiotomy, back to back, 39 hours!) labour and the midwife said no but the lovely consultant said there was no reason why I couldn't have a different type of drip for the anti bs and still get into the pool

All I'm really concerned about though is getting enough anti bs. I wish I had a crystal ball that would tell me when it was all going to happen!

No I don't think she did it on purpose but I don't think she properly thought out the ramifications of changing the date. There is only the two of us and my mum obviously is worried about me and the baby, trying to help her out with wedding stuff but my mum is the worlds worst multi-tasker so she's getting distracted and annoying both of us I'm really happy for her, she's a great career but has been really lonely over the past few years, but now it seems that she's changed her mind about what she wants and has decided that she wants to get married, have a baby and she wants it NOW (foot stamping) Typical younger sister

ahhh varicose good luck. Lots of positive thoughts your way and am very excited for you. I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed now - I can barely believe there is a baby in that big tum of mine, let alone that I'll be giving birth in a few weeks!

with you ledkr on feeling lucky and thinking of those that left us over the months - I was only thinking of some of those that arn't on the thread anymore yesterday and counting my blessings. Also I had that heaviness last night again ledkr just like you describe. I've had it the past 2 evenings but not so bad during the day. It could be engagement (??) - I've read that they can pop in and out of being engaged though so try not to panic that it means you'll go into labour soon (although I did dream last night that you had posted that your waters broke and you were off to hospital for cs!). It makes it really hard to take even small steps doesn't it?

wiggles glad scan went well :) DO you know where you're off on hol?

snowangels Yup, off to Ibiza but don't tell Ledkr or she'll be hiding in my suitcase

snowangels there are a couple of epidural threads in childbirth, they are reassuring, if you fancy a nosy.

Ps Meant to say have got to 35 weeks with still quite a lot of vomiting, have mentioned it at every appt with midwife, to get told helpful platitudes like "well its to be expected" etc, mentioned it to the consultant yesterday who was so nice about it, put it in my notes which hadn't been done before and give me some advice. Bit late for me but you may be able to pass it on - she advised getting an antacid into you at regular intervals as soon as sickness starts even if you don't have heartburn/ indigestion.

Oh yes wiggles I remember it was Ibiza now. How big is your suitcase? Will be all squeeze in it?!

wiggles I'm STILL on anti nausea meds as feel sick very often still (not as bad as you now though I think). Also on gaviscon advance as sometimes it seems to be caused by general pg hormones type stuff (or doing too much etc) and other times it's caused by digestion type issues - it's a fine line working it all out! It's very annoying and lots of sympathies here. I can't wait until I can eat and feel normal again . I've read on mn that lots of people swear by taking gaviscon after every meal as a preventative and that works well, but for me, too much gaviscon regularly and I get alot of extra burps/gas which aggrevates the whole digestion problems

Hi ladies,

Glad to hear people are generally well. Thinking of varicose this morning - still feels very surreal and almost hard to believe that babies are arriving. Congrats Jack on bringing yours home!

I've also been having more BH the past few days, and my bump seems to be accumulating by a magnitude at the moment. When I came into work on Monday everybody thought I had expanded massively over the weekend!

Had my first Wednesday off yesterday, and honestly, I would rather have been at work. We're putting the house on the market, so it ended up being a really busy day. Workmen in the house fixing stuff, cleaner trying to clean around them, energy cert guy from estate agent, removal people coming to quote (bit early, but we're hoping this will happen quickly!), second viewing of new house, and in between I was packing stuff up in prep for estate agent photos this afternoon, so it wasn't a day off at all really, 'twas exhausting!

Have give DH orders that I get no 'jobs' on my next day off.

Had mw on Tuesday and all seems well. DH came to this one as he hadn't heard the heartbeat yet, and the big softy had very damp eyes! Baby seems fine, mw thinks it is still head down and possibly starting to engage, so fingers crossed all stays well.

Second (and last) AN class last night, all a bit overwhelming, I honestly don't feel 'ready' for what's going to to happen as such, but I guess nobody ever does really, I will have to be a 'play it by ear' kind of person!

Also humbled by how far we've come, and thinking of those that didn't make it. Am also though irrationally terrified of something still going wrong even at this stage. I know it's rare, but it doesn't stop me thinking about it.

Anyway, enough negative thoughts, no actual rational reason for them.

Have a lovely day all and fingers crossed for you all, especially varicose today!

Dx

wiggles pity we not there at same time could have met up,dd would entertain your little ones while we drink chat.
angels hope your dream wasnt a premonition.Does you bladder feel like its being prodded?
Having a rest day today.Just about to tuck into SAUSAGE AND EGG SANDWHICH mmmmmmmm

ledkr sausage and egg sandwich sounds lush [drools]!

D

twas tres lush D but i am completely unsatisfied,i need something else.Im so hungry in the daytime,not so much at night tho.Craving fruit at the mo i need
cherries,strawberries,red grapes and nectarine,that would beall the expensive fruit then

Ah yes, January not being a particularly lavish month for cherries & strawberries!

your S&E buuty made me toooo drooly so imn absence of anything similar, I have just had two crumpets drowned in an unreasonably generous quantity of butter. Yum!

D

I just ate 6 Nice biscuits in a row No wonder I am carrying a whopper !!!

Wiggles I was due on 14th according to my dates but scan put me back to 18th so we are almost the same! I bought some pain white babygros in 0-3 today just in case my newborn stuff doesn't fit him! I am really feeling the hunger now and can't stop eating!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh no PDR you have just reminded me, I need to fess up that the past few days I have been going mad for the freshly baked double choc chic cookes from Sainsbury's (the ones they bake in store, where there are 5 in a little paper bag, for £1). I Have eaten, since Saturday morning, 15 of them (and they're...ahem...not small). This is really the first totally unhealthy and even the first really sweet stuff I have craved so far! I'm really quite ashamed of myself...

No wonder baby, who has been measuring exactly right for number of weeks, has suddenly sprinted ahead two weeks.

D

Actually, I know we're nearing the end now, but I am a bit p'd off with myself that I have given in with the eating thing. I have spent my whole pregnancy up to about 2 weeks ago eating really well - loads of fruit & veg, moderated carbs (as was worried about impending GTT for a while, which turned out to be fine), when I got hungrier, I just tried to uncrease the 'right' things, and then about 2 weeks ago I have fallen spectacularly off the wagon.

Everybody has been saying how 'well' I have looked, and while my bump has been growing nicely, I've actually been in better shape elsewhere, lost some weight off my face and arms, thighs and bum stayed the same, and I feel like I'm now messing it up in the last few weeks. But seriously, if I was driving along the road now and passed a Sainsburys, I would literally veer off the road to get my hands on some cookies.

D

I am going to post a new photo later to compare to the last one so you can all have a laugh!!!!

Just booked naming wotzit for Sat 30th April - a bit soon but would you believe the only Sat available between baby arriving and October!!!

Off out to find more food ;-)

Just got back online, with talktalk!!!, and read varicose news, how exciting, fingers crossed!

Hope everyone is doing well, I'm munching my way through the biggest bag of salt n vinegar chipsticks imaginable but cannot stop! My diet goes in cycles of being ultra healthy (big bowls of steamed veg, home made soup) to rubbish (crisps and chocolate) and right now I've given up the will to care, bet I will in a few weeks though when I'm left with a jelly belly

Had scan this morning and baby is estimated at 6lbs 6 now and the sonographer said she thinks he'll be about 8lb at birth. That's okay isn't it? Don't want a huge baby but he looks quite long (with a big tummy! ).

Feeling very uncomfortable today (more than usual) but might because couldn't sleep last night at all. Good practice though I suppose. In 1 weeks time I'll be 37 weeks and I can have my home birth so praying he doesn't come early!!!

Ahhh have just sat down to have a catch up on here and read your posts about food. Have a yum yum in my hand! How appropriately named. Glad I am in good company.

Needtosleep, glad scan went well, big bubs all round then!

Wiggles am envious of holiday plans. Dh doesn't want to book anything til we have had the quote for our extension (very small one) but I have found some great deals for France. We don't want to fly but do want some sun, so France it is!

Anyone else soooooooooo tired?!!!! I am 33 wks, and still working/teaching and wishing i could just stop now. Feeling sorry for myself today, just want to hibernate!!

NeedtoSleep how funny you are 6.6, angels is 6.8 and I am 6.9 already! I am hoping the consultant was being on the generous side as if I carry to 42 weeks I am going to end up giving birth to a small toddler!

40 was it you who said your midwife had not given an estimated weight? Or was that someone else? Anyway just wanted to say that even a weight based on a scan with the consultant is inaccurate then I would take a really big pinch of salt with what the midwife says!

PinkiePoo I am 34+5 and having completely hibernated due to exhaustion over the Christmas break (literally got up and then slept on sofa most of the day), I am now feeling fine being back at work, which is some kind of miracle.

I have booked a few days holiday though (just random days) so I am not doing whole 5 day weeks anymore now.

When do you finish? Can you start counting down the days?

D

Good luck to vericoseveined! I can't believe our babies are arriving already.

Pinkie - I don't think I'd be able to manage at work if I had to be on my feet all day. I get so exhausted standing and walking. Are you starting ML soon?

Is anyone else outgrowing their maternity clothing? I have a pair of under bump trousers that I haven't been able to button since about 33 weeks and now some tops that don't cover my bump completely. It feels too late to buy anything new (37 weeks tomorrow) so I'm coping with what I already have.

Right - new photo uploaded if you want a laugh