Feb 2011-Final,final stretch!!

[Grannyapple]

Hi ladies-thought I would be adventurous & set up the new thread for the final leg of our journey

X post! Ooo yes Debka I would watch OBEM! Don't allow yourself to get freaked out but get teary with those new born moments! I'm a bit of a wreck when I watch it, must be hormones! I think it will be perfect to get you in the mood for meeting your baby, not long now!!

Debka Good luck tomorrow, I read your other thread and really hope things are more positive for you now x

40weeks I am 36w today and totally agree 3/4 weeks seems forever :)

debka I've brought a multipack of wispas help yourself . If I were you I wouldn't watch OBEM tonight, but, that's just me - I can't watch it EVER - even the last series when I wasn't pg! Earlgrey might be right that you should watch it - suppose it depends how good you usually find it IYKWIM.

Good luck for tomorrow girls x congrats need to xjust waiting to see if we can go home will check in tomorrow x

Hi! Many congratulations Needtosleep! hope you're enjoying your beautiful boy! Looking forward to hearing your birth story .

Hope Breastmilk is getting on ok too. Hopefully she will be cuddling up to her new baby by now!

Good luck for tomorrow Debka and Tallulahbelly!

Hope you're able to go home tomorrow Ledkr and that your baby girl is doing well with her new bottles!

Nothing to report from this end, just thought I'd pop in and check for updates!

Tomorrow is our month girls!

Oh and I would definitely watch OBEM and get all excited! I keep watching it thinking, "eeep, that'll be me doing that in a few weeks!"

Ladies, please excuse me but I have an odd question to ask...

IF I am dilated at all (no idea if I am) and DH and I have sex would this be dangerous for the baby at all? I know my cervix is quite low compared to others as I have a prolapse from my first delivery so not sure if this would make a difference or not?!

If anyone knows I'd be grateful

i dont know medically but i would give it a miss purely on discomfort???

ouchy!
x

Watched it, shed a little tear! Singing woman annoyed the PANTS off me though, wanted to fast forward through her! How refreshing to see bfing at last, well done Amelia, she did great. Hope I do as well as her TOMORROW!!!!

Cheerio folks, will be back in a few days with News, unless my mate pipsicles lets slip first.

Good luck and best wishes to everyone else xxx

PS DH has pulled himself together and is being Nice- can hardly believe it! But am v relieved.

All the best tomorrow talulla and debka!!! glad dh got it together!

am so so pleased Debka as long as he keeps it up....what a relief!! Now good luck and enjoy your brand new bundle of joy!!

Good luck talulla too.....can't wait to hear all the fabby news.

Ledkr try to stay strong but remember you are allowed to get emotional!! Glad they have sorted this out early and things will be on the mend. Enjoy your beautiful baby...no name

Hope everyone else is doing well???

I have a sleeping question; I CANNOT sleep on my side. I have a dreamgenie pillow but i still feel uncomfortable. I wake up in akward positions and then get terrible backache and bump ache....sleeping on my back is so much nicer for me, but it is bad right? I am worried i am doing damage, but i cannot help it, i sometimes just wake up on my back.....any advice ladies? I am too scared to sleep now!!!

pinkie somebody at my antenatal classes asked the same thing and the lady said that you'd feel it if you were actually stopping the blood going through before it actually did any damage, although not exactly sure how that'd work, and she believes homeopathy to be effective pain relief, so i would not trust her very much.

Wanted to share this with you guys:
thestir.cafemom.com/baby/115335/lesson_ten_you_shouldnt_even

sorry thestir.cafemom.com/baby/115335/lesson_ten_you_shouldnt_even

PDR my instinct is that it's probably OK if you don't think you're especially dilated, but that's not based on very much. I remember them talking about it on OBEM last series and I think they said you couldn't have sex after your waters break (probably won't want to anyway!) but you can before they break, I think. Though obviously it probably helps if DH is gentle. But this is all based on my own guesswork.

How nauseating were the singing couple!??!

PDR what Zero said!

I think it's only dangerous if your waters have gone as it can cause infection or if you're at risk of going into premature labour. I would imagine at this time it might help to get things going.

Just popping in to wish debka and tallulah good luck and speedy deliveries for today! Wont be long till you both have babies to snuggle!

Morning all and Happy February!! We're finally there (actually suddenly it feels like it's gone pretty fast...!)
Pinkie I have the same problem and my MW also said it was no problem and that sleeping is the most important thing to do now. I tend to agree.
Good luck for the babies coming today debka and tallulah can't wait to hear more news

P.S, knitta thanks for the link - I hope we would be friends anyway, but I'd love some of those cards!

Good luck to both debka and tallulah today!!! Hope all goes well ladies xxx

I cant believe its finally February....feels like we've all been preg for years!

pinkie I have something similar and often wake up on my back . I think it's OK to sleep on your back so long as you're propped up with quite a few pillows (it's being flat on your back that might not be theoretically great). I've given up completely on the whole 'you must sleep on your left hand side' too - I'm sleeping however I can get vaguely comfy. Btw I also have dream genii pillow but sometimes sleep better without it just by sort of using excess duvet to support my bump by tucking it around my tummy/between my legs, but then, DH has been banished to the spare room to allow me enough space to do this .

Really MUST finish hospital bag today!

Thinking loads of those being induced.

Hi all, had a very quick flick through, congrats to those of you who have dropped now! I seem to have missed almost 2 whole threads!!! Girls feed every 3 hours ad it takes 1.5 hours to get both done, so not had a lot of time to much else tbh! Hope everyone is doing well and I will keep an eye out for the next thread! (Can I still be a Feb thread member even though I only made it to December?) PLEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSEE!

pinkie I also can't sleep on my side, and like angels am sleeping on my back but quite propped up, and with further pillows under my knees. I saw a diagram of how you're not supposed to sleep on your back, and it was basically only a problem if you were flat and there was a risk of baby's weight sliding up towards your chest, rather than down towards groin. As long as you are propped up or have a pillow under your shoulders you will be fine. I tend to think if chest is higher than bum then I'm in the clear! Baby weight and pressure for me is always down when I lie like I have been doing.

Also as angels said you would feel dizzy and unwell if there was a blood supply problem, before baby had any issues at all.

Thinking of Debka and Tallulah today, exciting times!

3 days left at work for me, not including today!

Dx

Jackfrost - lovely to hear you are getting on well, you sound very busy indeed!!

I agree sex is prob fine unless waters have gone, they always rec. It don't they and loads of people could be 2 or 3 cms dilated without knowing. That's my reasoning anyway!

Had my scan and baby def. Head down but not engaged - woohoo! so relieved. When can we start helping things along? From 37 or 38 weeks? Am impatient to meet the little guy now!

roundthehouses my MW said helping along from 37 weeks is fine, but that it's all apparently a load of cr@p anyway as nothing will make baby come until it's ready! I still think sometimes it's worth a go though as most of the helping along tactics are supposedly to help things along if baby is ready but you're not quite ready yet, so it can't hurt, if it's a case of eating specific things or herbal things or exercises or whatever.

My baby is head down but not engaged too, I want him/her to get serious about the journey ahead!

To those who've done this before, apart from the things I know about (like possible diaorrhea, and obviously pains, a show, or waters going), did you 'feel like' you were close last time, or did the above things happen without you necessarily expecting it right then? I'm not explaining very clearly what I mean - I guess what I'm saying is that I don't feel that different to how I did 2 weeks ago (am 37+3 now), and I know I'm still 2+ weeks away from DD, but did people get a 'feeling' that things were imminent before any of the obvious signs? Or were the obvious signs the only/first ones?

Dx

jack good to hear your update - and of course you can stay with us Feb ladies

delia I can't help with that one, as was induced last time, but I suppose that things were obviously warming up for me in the form of increased BH etc on the days leading up to my induction (it was on my due date). Wish I'd had the diarrhoea though, as it may have meant that I would have shamed myself less during the pushing stage

My parents are back in the country tomorrow and mum is flying up to me on Friday, so I can start to relax now about who is going to look after DD when I'm in labour.

Thinking about debka and tallulah today, although I remember the first few hours after being given the first dose as really quite uneventful. Mild pains only started for me mid afternoon and things only hotted up at about 8pm.