August 2011 differs.......eating, puking and weeing our way into the 2nd trimester

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New home for us ladies!!

Aw nickstermum I love Moulin Rouge and Ewan McGregor come to that... have had a love for him since I saw Flatliners years and years and years ago!!

God I'm starving tonight!! And trying so hard to be good... my love of cherry coke is kind on making that hard, but limiting myself to one can a day

I hear you nickstermum home birth does not feel for me at all!! I have quite a good pain threshold but like the idea of pain relief should I wish to take it. I will have an epidural if the pain gets that bad for me... tried the gas - that werent for me either

I'd like a waterbirth, and was a bit childishly annoyed that they showed such a lovely waterbirth on OBEM because now everyone will want one and knowing me, the pool will be busy when I get there. I was even offered the pool last time and I turned it down. Wish I hadn't

I'm not big on luck MrsC so bet its busy when I get there too.

Off for a cup a soup... see if that sorts out this hunger

bellamysbride sri lanka is lovely, i think would be nice holiday for little ones. not taken mine yet but dh is sri lankan so have been few times before we had them, would have been going this yr in june or july but cancelled that idea now, bit much with being due in august i cant be bothered to fly that far while heavily pregnant, but it is a really nice place for holidays

mrsC hope you get your water birth, i don't think everyone will be tempted by obem. even though it looked nice i just dont fancy being in water myself, it's probably one of those things you either really want it or you dont.

i wouldn't go for home birth either, much comfier in hosp just in case, and at home i would probably feel like have to get up and clean the house immediately afterwards, atleast going into hosp or birth centre would feel like your definitely "off duty" if that makes sense, even if just in for one day. so many of my friends having their 3rds are all opting for home birth though, seems v popular

MrsC -
I'm hoping for a water birth myself too, but I'm sure the ward will be very busy, considering it's at Bristol and that's a pretty large city.
Hopefully you'll get the birth you want, I hope I will be able to as well. I'm just worried the birth will turn out to be complicated then I can't use one. :(

hi ladies. Regarding water birth i tried to get one with my dd but the pool was full and my hospital had quite a few. I have also been told to have a home birth as dd was quick but no way. My dp is a clean freak, he does it all himself so i don.t mind but it would be horrible. Also i agree with wanting to feel off duty. Although now i'm worried that i wont get to the hospital in time! I can.t believe only one more week to my scan. Anyone else quite emotional? I was listening to my dp read my dd a bed time story on the monitor last night and was a crying wreck lol

Oh my god!!!! I did not sleep at all last night and feel sick at a dog today. I have 1.5 pints of water/juice to drink before 12.30pm (without having a wee) and just dont think I can do it - arrrrrgh!!

I have done the school run now home and trying to keep busy until I set off for my scan, but for some reason I'm having kitten's about it. Think it maybe because so much has been said about me being an 'OAP mum', all these extra tests etc you know?? Even though I am/was probably the fittest and healthiest I had been for years before I got pregnant... I'm worried!!

Did anyone else feel like this?? x

Hello everyone. I'm definitely NOT having a waterbirth - I've always been strangely grossed out by them. The idea of floaty bits in the bath eeeeeuuuuuugggggghhhhh! There is no way I'm going to be in watert that someone has to fish bits out of with a sieve

beaut how old are you?

OAP!!!

I am 34!

Im 30 nicksermum but I just fell that there is alot of extra stuff because I am not officailly an older mum. I'm in joint care with my health centre and the hospital all throughout so should probably... maybe feel thrilled about it but I dont. I know I'm not particularly old, and I certainly dont feel (or act) it. Also I am still slightly over weight - have been going to slimming world and lost nearly 2stone before getting pregnant but that seems to be a huge problem too. Did tell all this to my midwife yesterday, and she told me I was being a silly narna and everything was just routine. Cant help how I feel though can I?? x

Hi LittleBeau. I really wouldn't worry about it too much. I'm 34, over weight (think BMI was 31), had complications with my first delivery (shoulder dystocia)but normal second delivery and am planning a home birth. I have declined shared-care, because frankly I can't be bothered to go to the hospital appointments where I always saw the registrar not the consultant, and they didn't do much more than the mws do. Of course you cannot help how you feel, but try not to read to much into it. The most important things are that you are fit and healthy.

Isn't the average national age for a first baby 29 anyway?

little beaut i wouldn't worry too much nearly everyone seems to be 30 these days even for their first, by saying oap mum i was thinking you must be 45 or something! hopefully everything will be fine, and will be lovely to see your baby

bellamysbride I would totally go back to Sri Lanka with the little one when he/she comes along. Really great place to take kids on holiday. And considering most baby and kids clothes are manufactured there (Baby Gap etc) and available at a fraction of the price, it's a good place to stock up!

MrsC Hope you get your waterbirth! I am quite intrigued with the idea. But it's my first and I read you can't have any pain medication (apart from gas and air) I might want to try it but also might want to shout GIVE ME THE DRUGS! when it comes to the crunch.

Firawla Did you go to the elephant orphanage?

Uhm...do you deliver your placenta in the water as well? (Sorry KTisPG!!)

I tend not to think about any of the grossness that might occur with a waterbirth, I'm not squeamish at all with blood or the like anyway, it's just like those plastic surgery live operations where you can see them chopping the skin up and showing off organs that makes me want to look away.

MrsVid-
I'm quite emotional, yes. I find random things make me want to go :( at random times, had a good cry the other day though so I felt better for that.

hi not been on for a few days, its hard to catch up on this thread, i had a water birth with dd it was amazing would highly recommend it, i had to get out to deliver placenta but i think its because it took a while, did it on one of those stools with a hole in it!!! but i think they would of let me stay in to deliver placenta. Was gutted i could have ds in water, was in the bath till last min but they made me get out as he was big and it was very different and more painful.

Im having a really emotional day today for no real reasons a few little thing adding together making me just want to cry, kid fighting and arguing this morn and i really shouted at dd then took her to school and forgot to wave at her through the window and i keep crying thinking about it, workmen not turned up to do cavitly wall insulation and loft and now not coming for another month! stuff all over the place! dp has to have hernia op again as its failed, and i is working away sat and sun in scotland, sorry for moaning, these are minor things compared to what others are dealing with, its my hormones im sure!!
hope everyone has a lovely if sober weekend!!
ooh ive been having becks blue made into shandy its non alcoholic but its different than cordial or fizzy so nice for a change, thats my tip of the day!!!

neverlookback Hey, if you are having a sh*tty day then it doesnt matter if it's cos you forgot to return a library book or your roofs just fallen in. Sometimes it feels like the end of the world whatever it is. But at least you got a place to vent!

aw thanks Rehune, managed to get a babysitter for tonight and booked a table at a really good chinese to cheer me up and spend some nice time with dp i have been a horrible person to live with last few weeks, god knows why he wanted another baby!! I meant to type he is working away this weekend not me!!

rehune yup have been there

neverlookback i am feeling a bit like that @ the moment too, i am just so exhausted because ds1 refusing to sleep in his room (he claims there is a dinosaur coming in through his window ) so every night wasting so much sleeping time dealing with trying to get him back in his bed, but in the end just giving up and sticking him in with us anyway, so whole thing is pointless. and im sure pregnancy making me more tired too so i am really moody and feeling a bit :( cos i feel myself getting annoyed with him and less patience, cant be bothered to play with them as much just feeling like i want to sleeeeep. i've not even gone out today, cos i just cant be bothered and normally i always take them out atleast for a couple of hours

i am going out for dinner tonight too so hopefully will cheer us both up. leaving my brother babysitting so just hope kids will behave and stay asleep as he has not babysat before and not going to be easy if ds1 gets up crying about dinosaurs and ds2 gets up crying too, might scare him off from babysitting again!

Ah, I had a very teary week last week, sheer and utter exhaustion and not enough sleep. Same, Ds waking and then I can't drop off again! Lots of hard work and late bedtimes as by the time I sit and relax I wake up!! Must go to bed earlier. Have also taken to falling asleep in a warm bath!!! Then crawling into bed :)

Shattered today, can't believe I start back ft on feb 1st!

((hugs) neverlookback
Rehune I think its up to you if you deliver the placenta in the pool or not. Sorry, just re-read my post - didn't mean to pout anyone off

I'm probably worrying over nothing but my appetite has vanished and my boobs don't hurt as much :( only 21 days till I see my baby again :(

Hmmm, don't remember any fishing out with a sieve in our waterbirth (not that it might not have happened mind you!). I didn't deliver the placenta in the water, so it was relatively 'clean'.

Also, if you are in hospital, you can still get out of the pool and have stronger pain relief if you need it (obv not at home!).

The mw clean up after you with a hb, (dh emptied the pool) so there isn't anything for you to do - I just had a nice shower and hopped into bed for the afternoon with ds... Lovely!

Mind you, I can see why both hb and waterbirth aren't for everyone! I'm not actually trying to convince people (though as I re-read this post it sounds a bit like it ), just explaining the way I experienced it!