May 2011 - The Home Stretch!

[sesamesmith]

Old thread here: The Rosy Glow Before the Storm

Stats thread here: Due May 2011

Wow you guys chat too much lol

Been a hectic few days here.
Wednesday was spent with dh and kids had to take new car back to garage. New car has now cost us over £700 in repairs. Thursday I made a stand and took car to trader and overtook his office with my 3 kids and after 2 hours he agreed to fit new gearbox and do few other bits like abs brake fault! We really did buy a dodgy car! Lesson learnt
Midwife Thursday afternoon was not great. bP high as expected. Had to beg not to be sent hospital. Have had to promise to rest ;0) and then she even rang my sister and told her I needed to rest :0

Not far from Liverpool at all...I'm in Stockport...
I didn't mean to spend so much...I never do! I just wanted to spoil DS a bit before his sister arrives and my niece would get nothing if it was left up to her waste of space mother...but that's a whole other thread!
It was a great show though!
Wales next weekend and so excited...just hope the weather stays nice!

didnt think my last post actually worked as was still in bed and posted via my phone! oh well i will continue!

So car is a nightmare, waiting for a call Tuesday now to get all these last bits fixed under warrenty although garage did start saying that they felt gearbox etc was huge fault and may not be able to fix it at which point i told them it would cost them the £1600 we paid for the car plus the £700 we paid in repairs to buy us out of car! so fingers crossed i will get a call tuesday and car will be fixed by end of next week.....stress i really dont need TBH.

Friday saw me dropping car at another garage for more repairs and then i walked to my sisters (about a mile) and was absolutely in agony by the time i got there and she shouted at me LOL. Spent the day at hers sat on a garden bench with pillows and feet up and just chilling. Was a lovely day and i had a sneaky 1/2 of cider over ice which i made last 3 hours and it was delicious!
Friday night saw the return of the dreaded hicks and i felt sick and had D&V (refuse to believe it was the cider!) but it stopped at midnight!
Yesterday i had visitors all day and spent it sat in front of a fan doing not very much and today I have just got out of bed and am watching hubby make a yummy roast lamb dinner!

Hope everyone is doing great and keeping cool in this heat. 16 days left of pregnancy for me !

I am 37 weeks today. Still feels like such a long way to go! Everybody keeps asking me whether I'm fed up yet. Hmmm. Not fed up as such, but getting frustrated at not being able to find one comfortable position. Baby isn't back to back but is very far over on one side most of the time, I can feel his back when I touch down my right hand side. Consequently, my right ribs are really painful. Slightly less painful than when pregnant with DD as she was in the same position, but she was breech, so her head was stuck under my ribs. Have told DH that if we ever decide to be crazy enough to have a third, I want some ribs removing first
Have two more weeks at work, but they shouldn't be too terrible, given the number of bank holidays, its only actually 7 working days to get through. Going out for dinner with work people on my last day (6th May), am looking forward to it, but do have visions that I'll switch off my computer, tell everybody to get a wriggle on so we can go to the restaurant, and my waters will break. Ideally, I'd love to go into labour on Sat 7th May! Would have finished work, would maximise my maternity leave, DH would be on paternity leave the following week which is when the childminder is on holiday too (so I'm going to be doing the school run if not!), and I'd probably be back on my feet etc to take delivery of my car which is due around the 15th... oh, if only women were in control of when they went into labour .

Elf i like your plan u never know the baby may comply lol

linzi. Thonk im otha direvtion to liverpool than u im on the wirral

bonkers wot a nitemare u r having with the car they prob get away with bein so rubbish with sum people

pistatio do u like the rasperry tea i cudnt stand it

well i like linzi am having the urge to keep spoiling with dd and buyin her things im starting to feel very guilty that at just 24 months she will no longer hav my full attention im even debating buying her 99 pound playhouse for the garden even tho i really dont hav money dp does not feel this way at all stupid mothers guilt

GotArt No your presumptions where correct as DH came good in the end even if I did have to use the bump advantage to get thenlast pack of rolls in Asda! Ended up having a really good night.I do still enjoy trying to be sociable as long as I don't have to work far and got a comfy seat.

Brillo hope you had a good birthday and Tesco didn't keep you waiting to long!

MummyW that's so exciting to be so close and I am trying not to be [buenvy]

loopy Our car seat is a strap in every time but it is ok to get in DHs car as 5 door but can't imagine it is going to be so easy in mine but will try that when I can bend more!

jbells you are the same age as me and I still take a while to realise that being teenage was a long time ago! The last few years have flown by so will be super quick once the baby arrives.

elf we share a due date and I could have written that! Can't be sure if it's hormones or frustration but I seam to cry a lot!

For the first time today (which I am amazed took so long in some ways) MIL really made me feel upset about the up coming birth. We where guessing the weight and birth date and she told me I had my head in the clouds over it, no way would baby be any bigger then 7lbs and not possible I was having contractions earlier in the week or that the head may not engage til labour! Even told me I was carrying wrong! Like I made it all up or something and just because she was fine having DH and they didn't treat her any different!
I was so glad DH was as annoyed as me as I just didn't know what to say! He told her to keep her old wives tales to herself, we will take our information from medical opinions and if she is going to upset me we won't go again until we have LO as we are being positive and don't need her being like that!

cowboy I can't believe your MIL! You did well not to say anything!! Very nice of your DH to say something instead

Bonkerz what a Pita your new car is being. That's the last thing you need - not surprised your BP was high after that

That's as far back as I can read on my phone sorry!

I felt very stupid yesterday. I went to M&S to get nursing bras fitted and the woman (who was really nice otherwise) looked at me in disbelief and told me it would be better to wait until the baby dropped. I told her it already had and that I was 3/5 engaged and 38 weeks but she really looked like she didn't believe me. I have a small bump which everyone says has dropped but i guess it doesnt look the same as some people's bumps. What am I supposed to do - wait til the baby is fully engaged and then trek into Oxford St on the tube, battling the crowds, to get fitted and hope my waters dont break or I start getting contractions?! I'm feeling a bit paranoid now that the baby is going to be tiny and wish I'd gone for a private scan a few weeks ago to check. But it doesn't seem much point if he could come any day now. I really wish I knew when the baby was going to be born! It might be any day or it might be in 3.5 weeks. Patience is not one of my virtues

kiwigirl I agree with wanting to know when - it's the not knowing that's so frustrating! I was saying to my mum only earlier that wondering every day if today is the day is what does your head in, if someone could just tell me she'll definitely come next Saturday (say), that week would be SO much easier! I'm not very good at going with the flow....

Cowboy good for your DH! How annoying of your MIL.

Linzi and Jbells I'm doing the same with DS i.e. keep buying him little treats, it's so hard not to when you know you're about to turn their world upside down. I keep telling myself not to be stupid and waste money etc but somehow I can't resist.

Bonkerz next time I need to be assertive about the service I'm getting, I'm getting lessons from you!

kiwi What is it about bra fitters? Went to John Lewis a few days ago to get measured and she asked how pregnant I was. Fair enough. She said they like to wait until 38 weeks. I pointed out that my midwife was of the opinion that at 36 + 3, it should be OK, especially as it was my 3rd. She then asked what sort of bra I wanted. I asked whether this was relevant for measuring purposes. She said that she needed to know what to bring into the changing room. In other words, 'please don't come here, get measured and then go on line to buy it...'

Anyway, how does engaged mean a bigger bra? Unless the head is around your rib cage, which is very very unlikely as you are 3/5th engaged already, it isn't make a difference to the measurements.

My mother very kindly has offered to get me a ton of Bravado Bras, and took cazzr advice re: Body Silk. Tried one on in John Lewis and very comfortable.

Anyone take their DCs to the consultant appt? I am seeing the consultant on Wednesday and DH has offered to take the day off work, but seems silly as would rather he doesn't waste annual leave days for the sake of a couple of hours. Need to get a scan and then see consultant to decide on delivery options.

Ilove. I know loopy has gone to consultant with hwr dc's altho i know mt dd wud lose patience and b a nitemare if i gad to wait an hr like last time b4 goinf in. Do u know wot delivery u want

kiwi. Im sure all bra fitters hate there jobs there always so moody

cowboy. Gud for your dh my dp never stands up to his parents when they say things out of order and it then leaves me fuming for ages

rollercoasters how old is your lil one? My dd doesnt understand that there is a baby ob the way

Loopy xpoat. Which zoo r u going to? Hope u have a fab day

Ilove I have taken DS to a consultant appointment and it was a nightmare, even though DH was also there to entertain him - we'd had to wait for 1h30 before we even got in, so he was seriously bored, we were out of snacks and it was really hard to concentrate - I would recommend going without if you possibly can. Good advice from loopy otherwise about keeping something in reserve if not!

Jbells my DS is 2 1/2 tomorrow - he definitely does understand, we've had long talks about the baby in my tummy, he's felt her kick, he knows he'll be the big brother, he talks about how the food I eat goes to the baby and how she'll come out of mummy's vagina and will drink lots of milk from mummy's boobies ! But understanding all of that is a very long way away from understanding the implications for him in terms of attention and having to share his parents for the rest of his life, when he's used to being the star of the show...

Loopy I would readily admit to being a control freak at the best of times - this being out of control malarkey doesn't suit me at all!

Hopefully the weather will stay nice for u loopy

Rollercoaster. I kinda wish my dd understood more shes only just turned 2 in april so altho understands day to day things doesnt really understand anything complex plus her speech isnf as developed as sum other 24 month olds

Hey jbells i'm Wirral way too :)

Loopy thanks for advice re: consultant appt. DD (4) will be OK with coloring, so it's just DS (3) who is a nightmare a bit tricky. He has this habit of taking his clothes off in public , so maybe if I put him in the buggy and just feed him chocolate, it will all be OK?

jbells Not sure. The midwife said that either the baby is totally engaged or breech , and that if I wasn't already going for a scan, she would have requested that I have one. She thinks it's engaged, but isn't entirely sure. The heart beat is stronger at the bottom of the bump, which would point to head down, but not necessarily. If breech, then the decision will almost certainly be a c section the next week. If not, then planned induction.

cowboy Good for your DH standing up to his mom. How rude of her to comment anyway on something that is so private. I just stopped discussing things with MIL as she wasn't entitled to an opinion! She keeps on fishing for information and gets vague answers. For instance she asked about the due date, and DH said something like, 'Spring sometime, I think?' . I tend to be of the view that my reproductive tract has nothing to do with her, but that's just me

Pissovski. Where abouts mayb all us local to each otha cud meet up :)

cowboy - don't you just love comments from helpful older people? I remember being pg with DD and having loads of comments "dont put your arms above your head, its bad for the baby..." was my favourite. DH's family insist that I will be going into labour early because MIL had all three of hers early. They seem to have forgotten that DD was 6 days early and that is because then went in and got her out, she wasn't even engaged, and I think I would have been overdue if they hadn't planned to get her out by section. Not that I'm disputing that I will be early/late etc, but just because MIL had nice early and small babies, doesn't mean I will!

kiwi - re bra fitting... when I had dd, I just got myself one/two cheap(ish) bras from mothercare when pregnant, and then went to get measured a week or so after DD had arrived, when my milk had come in and settled down a little. Though at no stage did I ever find any of the fitting people nice!

what you all dont realise is im a sucker for a fight|!! LOL im stubborn and i also believe in doing the research and talking the talk even if i dont understand what i am saying LOL It seems to impress people and they give in. I guess being so heavily pregnant also gives me the sympathy factor too LOL

Am in agony. I dont know what to do. Spent the last few days feeling off colour but not ill. Last night i was sick and this morning i have had diarrheoa. i spent night tossing and turning and getting cramp and pins and needles and this morning since about 8:30am i have had constant backache and tummy pains for last hour which wash in and wash out but are not regular. Have also been sick again.
When the tummy pains start it really hurts enough to make me cry and ive had to take my leggings off as anything on my tummy hurts. Have rang my sister and she is on her way down to me but im such a wimp i dont want to go hospital as think its just me being stupid. Im 37+1 today. no discharge but have a very heavy feeling down there when tummy pain comes and cant sit upright and am sort of slouching. Am now sat on gym ball but back still hurts!

Bonkerz - have you rung your hospital, or the midwife numbers? I find they're quite helpful.

I am trying not to do much today; DH is doing a stall today, and DD has been picked up by my mum, so I can chilling out. Plan to surf mumsnet for a bit, then catch up on my sky plus (House, CSI) and then a few films (featuring the lovely Robert Pattinson...) and thats about it. I plan to only move for the loo, and food . Given this will probably be my only "me" day for the next several years, I plan to make the most of it!

May have to crack open the box of Thorntons my sister got me & DH for Easter [busmile]

oh gosh bonkerz do you think that this could be it ??xx

MW home-visited me today- BP & urine fine, but bump doesn't seem to have grown since last week, hmm. Got a load of new leaflets off her to read thru. I saw her last week for an appointment at the Medical centre, then she gave the Parent Education class in the evening- it's nice to finally see the same MW more than once !

Tesco delivery turned up at 3pm-ish... there's a standard charge of £5 for delivery, DH looked on their site & if I'd paid £6.85 that's when I would have been given a 2-hr 'slot' rather than a 12-hour time frame, doh! Baby-related items delivered included a Baba Sling, and a gym ball which just doesn't seem to want to inflate those last few centimetres... or are they better having a bit of squish to them ?

DH has been back in work today, mwahahahahahah

loopy I think that's why DH stepped in as when I start back at her it never ends well! Think he's as frustrated as I was because he knows how nervous I am and trying so hard to help me be positive he doesn't want his hard work wasted!

It's not like we discuss anything with her, we try do the total opposite but she just pushes so hard!

Elf That's crazy! I have never heard of the arms above the head one. My lovely SIL is there with her again today and just text me to say she's still spouting off that my bump is so much smaller than a neighbours due 2 weeks later. So now she is comparing size 22 cowboy who has lost weight in pregnancy to size 8 stick insect who has put on 3 stone!

Bonkerz I agree with Elf, might be worth a phone call with your sister for back up to have a chat with a MW. Did you have pains a while ago as well?

Brillo yes think they usually have some squish so they can give around you when you got on it.

Today in the lovely weather with loads going on I think I might just stay on the sofa and have a lazy day with DH.