for all us chatty girls due in dec '05!!

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were all safely in the third trimester now and all startin or due to start our mat leave!!
scarey thought for you all its only 67 days til xmas so not long to go before our babies are all hear and makin themselves at home!!! yikes!!

Morning all!

Yet another sleepless night and sore hips! This is so not like me up at this time and i have the day off..
Had brekie going to have my shower and spruce myself up, only to want to sit all day and eat!

EI, DP does shock me when he say you sit and i'll make dinner!

How are you all after you wkend?

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A bank holiday Minnie, lucky you - I think have about 17days work left, just not sure what days off I'm taking between now and 25/11
Feel like we got a bit done this weekend, and managed to spend some nice time with dd as well, doing puzzles. This morning after putting a load of washing on & us having b'fast together, I left her making a b'day card for her poppy in Australia - amazing what you can arrange between 6.15 and 6.45am before leaving to catch the train

morning all
just sitting watching adam causing a mountain of destruction with a bowl of water and his aqua draw mat..lol everything is soaking
Not a lot been going on here apart from a ton of cleaning. Bought a couple of baby things this weekend..mainly from people selling on mn..lol WE have got a highchair for baby[well adam and baby can use adams wooden one as it has a tray] which actually worked out cheaper than buying a booster seat for him. It is one of those ones that can be a chair to but you adjustthe height as they get older.
Have a ton of stuff to do as usual and no motivation to do it. Am completely shattered as even with cushions now i cant get comfy in bed.

Morning all
had the most bizzare dream last night, well i had a few but this one was the strangest.... i was waling down the stret and saw a friend of mines. As we walked toward each other my bump extentended and this hand pushed my belly ooutwards, it didt break the skin but yu coould see the hand and the fingers and nails, ( bit like when you strtch a balloon over your hand) then the fingers opened and she grabbed my friends hand .... then off we went walkig down the street with her holding my babys hand, through my belly skin!!!! very strange, anyone ese having weird dreams?
Not much to do today, DH and i did a fair it of tidying and cleaning yesterday, so today i can rest and watch telly!After dropping off the DH on Wednesday ( silly oclock in the morning to Heathrow ) Am going to go on up to Nottingham ( visiting mum and family and friends) should be nice to get some pampering from her!
Whats everyone else up to ?
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i think we need to change the thread... we dont seem to be as 'chatty' as we were a few weeks ago...where is everyone??????

Just had a coffee with dh, he has an interview at 12pm, v close to my work. going to meet afterwards to tell me how it went. Fingers crossed!
Had another look at a baby name site this morning, still not really inspired by anything

hi all
scully funnily enough dh has now decided he doesnt like our names we picked..sigh

Another one here with sore hips, they are so painful, make me walk like a woman of 95! Don't know what to do with them in bed in the mornings and just got up from my chair at work and Owwwwwwwwww!

Had a very teary evening yesterday. Just felt a bit daunted by everything we have left to do. Spent the whole weekend clearing D's records and decks etc from the nursery-to-be and it's still not done.

There is a massive pile of things that can't go in the loft as he needs access to them. So decks and lots of records have to go in the front room which is going to make it look so cramped. The only space for them is where Lotties little house full of toys lives, so that has to have a new home and not sure where to put it really. There's now a small unit full of records on my landing and D dared to say he thinks the apple mac will have to stay in the nursery, that was when I started to cry! Just overwhelmed with the mess and work still to do and hormonal, you know how it is!

Shame tb, I hear you
Awful when you feel overwhelmed by it all. I spent August and September feeling like that but in the last month dh has been unemployed so has redeemed himself (to put it bluntly, pulled his finger out ) and got on with finishing a lot of the diy, so I'm feeling a lot calmer now. Just took a couple of months of me getting rather cross to get some regular help!
Will the baby be in your room or the nursery for the first few months? Our pc and sofa bed is staying in the spare room (nursery), as we will have the baby in our room for the first 3-4 mths like dd and by then we will hopefully have sold the house (she says, so looking forward to all of that hassle sometime between Jan-April next year )

Hiya New baby will be in with is in Moses basket for a while, and then in his/her own room. We put Lottie in her own room quite early on, certainly less than 3 months. I'm just that sort of person who is slightly anal about things in their place! I hate things being messy and untidy and esp with regard to new baby I want it to be alllovely and ready and .... you know how it is. I cleared out the bathromm cabinet this morning and am going to tidy our sock drawers tonight to make myself feel better!!!!!!!!! Have promnised myself a cupboard / drawer a night to make me feel calmer about the chaos that is the nursery / record situation

Thombat - I completely understand how you're feeling about the house. I was hoping we'd be a lot further on. The nursery is cleared and plastered but not painted, and until that's done we can't carpet it. And I don't know when it'll get done, I'm working, DH has a new job starting today so I don't want to put pressure on him, but I just can't cope with the chaos. I want it done and ready!

Worse, I can't see when it's going to be done, DH won't let me get someone in, and he works every second weekend so only 3 non working weekends left before the baby is due arrrghhhh! I have to force myself to stay calm and not get hysterical about it. Deep down, I know it'll be done, even if I do it once on maternity leave.

I can't understand what it's like caring for a Downs baby, but I do know I go through stages of not being ready for another child. Don't get me wrong, I'm delighted and touch wood luck to be pregnant again, but it's coming up so quick and my DD (16 months) is so delightful, I'm scared of rocking the boat. I'm also worried that we can't really prepare her - she just doesn't understand yet. But I'm an optimist on this, after the sleep deprived first few months, I think everything will work itself out (hopefully!).

DQ sorry to hear about the car crash - very frightening, and Bonkerz, glad to hear your mums funeral went well (excluding the lodgers of course).

I had a 4D scan on the weekend - it was fab to see baby again (and we resisted finding out the sex - no idea although DH is still convinced it's a boy), but I was surprised to find out it's breech. I can't use a birthing ball (I did last pregnancy and it made my pelvic pain worse), so it looks like I'll be scrubbing the floors for the next few weeks...They also mentioned it "wasn't a small baby". Since DD was 9lb 2 (10 days overdue), can I insist on a sizing scan on the NHS?

Also, with a breech baby, if s/he doesn't turn do I get rescan, and if so when? And how likely is a caesarean? When would they do a c section for a breech baby? At 38 weeks?

Lots of questions and a long post - sorry! Hope all are well.

Hi babygibbon, what are we like aye. do you think anyone just gets pregant, clamly decorates a room inplenty of time and frets over nothing??!! We'll get there in the end aye

Re the breech part of your post. As I understand it from my active birth teacher and my 1to1 midwife there isn't anyone, at least round the Middlesex are that will deliver a breech baby vaginally. Not for any other reason that there is a skilltoit and a skill that people these days don't seem to pocess so they give you a cesarena instead. Thjere was a baby born on the active birth unit locally recently who was breech, mum did it without pain relief or any real intervention soit can be done, people just don't like it to be done. This womnans was born before anyone could do anything about it so.....

Get scrubbing those floors, lots of hands and knee action, creat a little hammock for him or her and give them pleanty of room to turn.

i also heard shining a light, using a torch, at the bottom of your bump causes baby to turn. As does trying to do a handstand in your local swimming pool, LOL!

Its all such a hassle isnt it. I mean i think that i have everything sorted then i suddenly realise theat no i need to be buying someting else, or i read a post about something that i dont know and start panicing! and Ladies, i am so with you when you say about having everything in the 'right' place and 'neat and tidy' i like to be as oranised as possible am quite lucky though as DH is lke that too, so if i mention something it does tend to get done there and then. However it can have its downsides as, if i need something doing and hes not around then i get fraustated about it!! Still it WILL get done in the end and it WILL all be ok! So if it take a bit longer than you want it to , its just not worth stressing your selves about!
We have a crib next to the bed for the first few months, but then i am hoping i will be able to put her into the nursery and her cot bed. Mind you i stil need to get a new mattress for that yet!
As for the breech some facts for you,
At 32 weeks as many as 25% of bubs are breech but this drops to 4% by 38 weeksso there is time for the turn around to happen. I would imagine if you told your MW Baby, then she would arrange another scan for you, but as for the caesarean i think youd have to have a chat with MW or the hospital to find out their policy. I also heard of the light shining thing, not sure i would be able to manage the handstand in the swimmng pool.. but it bought a smile to my face thinking of it!!

Hey all,

Had my maternity cover in again this morning - only 1 more session with her and thats it - the job won't be mine anymore

I've got 8.5 days left in the office and then I'm on leave - I'm not quite sure what I'll do with myself, hopefully I'll have the energy left to sort the house out.

We've got the tillers in today so god only knows what chaous I'll be going home to tonight - still, it will be nice to get our bathroom finished 2 years after it was started!

Hi everyone, can't remember when I last posted, seems so long ago!! Who said I'd be on here more with leaving work???
SH, I haven't stopped since leaving work so I don't think you will struggle to keep yourself busy.
I've been so busy over the weekend & this is the first chance I've had to be on here today. I promise I will have a proper catch up!

Well, we went shopping on Sat & have pretty much everything I think (a few bits left but they are on order). Our dining room is completely packed with lovely new baby things, I have more furniture coming next week and the paint is bought for the nursery. Totally wore myself out though so spent yesterday in a bit of a grump feeling very sorry for myself.

Minnie, noticed you are having pains too. I get them right across the front of my pelvis, quite low down and it really catches me if I move too quickly or try to sit crossed legged. DP is calling me a pregnant dinosaur now as I move so slowly!!

Hope everyone is OK. Not long to go now for those of you still brave enough to be working.

Babygibbon, you should get scanned by the NHS at around 36wks if they suspect your baby is still breech. If it is, then they will want to schedule you in for a c-section at around 39wks, to try and avoid you going into labour first. Once admitted for the c-section, before surgery they should also scan you, just to double check it hasn't moved, and they aren't operating un-necessarily. This is how it worked for me 3yrs ago anyway. As you can't use a ball, definitely try hands and knees, and if possible, reflexology and/or accupuncture. Even if the reflexology doesn't work, it's very relaxing
As my dd was breech, I have a scan at 36wks to see what this baby is doing. It's currently head down but you never know.
As TB said, it's not that it's not possible to deliver a breech baby vaginally, it's finding a midwife/consultant who has the skills.
Jay, you've just reminded me, I need to buy a new cot mattress and moses basket mattress still
Because we haven't got them back from our friends yet, I keep forgetting......just those and a bouncer to buy I think. Know which bouncer I want, just need to find one on Ebay that's close by so I can save on postage

Pregnant dinosaur, how rude George
sh, I'm sure you'll find lots to do, and at least once you're off, you can potter around and do things slowly rather than trying to rush and fit everything around working hours...... That's what I'm looking forward to, in 4wks time
Just had lunch with dh, after his interview. He thought it went ok, but was his first one in 5yrs, so he was a bit nervous. So nice to have a meal, just the two of us. Everyone who is having their first baby, please make sure you go the movies and out for dinner or to the pub at least once more before the baby arrives, these are the things we miss that you just can't do (well as easily anyway) with a small person

Scully, I'd love to out for dinner but I can't find anywhere that serves food that I want to eat (ie, cottage cheese sandwiches or jacket potato & beans!!)
Hope your DH's interview is sucessful for him.

Hi Ladies,

need some help/advice if possible.

Any of you who have read my posts over the weekend will know that I have been having really bad tummy pains since Sat evening, well I still have them today and have been for a pooh twice and both times there has been blood in my poo and when I wiped . Really really not sure what this is or if I should be worried/call anyone. Does anyone have any ideas?

I am slightly embarrased discussing my toilet habits with the whole world but what the heck I'm pregnant I have no dignity anyway

I wouldn't take any chances & get an appointment to see your GP as soon as you can.
Might be nothing but better to be safe.

the blood could be from piles, but better to check.

afternoon ladies!! happy halloween anyone doin anythin special for the "occaision"? i suppose those of you with kids will prob be doin stuff! me an dp are havin a scary film night on the couch- after the soaps have finished of course!!
flutter, you hav prob got piles hun, thats how i noticed mine dont be embarrassed hun its a common thing in pg! send your dp/h to the chemist for some cream for it if youf bottoms hurting/itching. about the pains, do i remember you sayin you were on iron tablets?? cos if you did it cud be constipation so drink loadsa water an someone suggested apple juice to me and that really helped to clear the pipes for me!! if your worried ring your m/w or doctor for some advice.
how is everyone??

Thanks you lot it probably is piles then, oh how lovely and sexy I feel. I'm not on iron tablets but could just be a bit bunged up anyway so I shall keep an eye on it all and try to flush the system out.

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ACK flutter, have to say that i have had the same thing a few weeks back now but a couple of times when i went it happened. Luckily it hasnt since and i have been drinking lots of water, and i took some syrup of figs for a cpl of days, good luck babes its just another one og 'those ' things
DH and i have just done out pumpkin and put it outside along with a whole heap of 'cobweb' stuff... have put some pics up on yahoo. Have had a few round already and they have been great, all dressed up and cute looking!! DH has some bag that you pop and they bang and throw confetti everywhere, hehehehehe makes them jump i tell you!!!
Thing is tho, the bowl of sweets are by the front door, which i have to walk by when i go to the kitchen....need i say more!!!!!

TRICK OR TREAT

Just done dd up to go to a haloween party in a min. Does it seem wrong that she looks so cute with black under her eyes and really dark lipstick on!

She is loving Halloween and I had great fun doing her make-up. I was making up for the fact I couldn't get a pumpkin yesterday for her to carve!

I know what you mean about the sweets - we brough ours last week and when I got the pot out tonight they were nearly all gone. I've only helped myself to one or two honest!