May 2011 - The Home Stretch!

[sesamesmith]

Old thread here: The Rosy Glow Before the Storm

Stats thread here: Due May 2011

Hi all, just realised that the long message I typed last night hasn't registered - stupid phone! I've had a bad few days of it tho so might not have saved properly to be honest

Have had really bad back ache so that I can't get comfy or concentrate whichever position i'm in. Physio yesterday told me to miss work as I was obviously in pain. Worse still have had extra bad back ache bursts combined with tummy cramps/period type pains at night so I've been waking up with them and am shattered. Wasn't sure if they were Braxton Hicks so rang up the hospital early this morning and they insisted I went in today. After spending all morning there they've decided: baby's great, bump is v big and growth spurt is irritating SPD combined with Braxton Hicks. Blood pressure is up but not too bad.They're also checking for a water infection. Feel like a neurotic first timer - I KNEW it wouldn't be anything much... Apparently I have to rest, not easy when I have to move house on Monday and finish work a week tom! Sorry for big moan .

Hi everyone,

hope Tinwe and everyone else with back pain gets some relief soon. Good luck with the house move.

I was given anti-nausea tablets by my GP last week to help with my gastro-enteritis which helped, and I'[m fully recovered now. Slightly worrying about the trace of protein he measured in my urine, and slightly raised bloood pressure. It was only 125/89 but up until now I';ve been 110/60 at each midwife appointment. I've got another midwife appointment tomorrow morning so hope news is good. Also all of a sudden my ankles have swollen enormously. hope this isn't the start of pre-eclampsia.......

Loopy - I don't have any faith in the MW tape measurements either. It's so inaccurate, depending on who does the measurement, shape of bump, phase of the moon... I can't believe that they still do this.

I think I might have developed SPD... It started last week with a slight pain, sometimes stabbing, which I thought was baby pushing downwards, but it's a lot stronger now and getting very uncomfortable. Especially when I walk or try to get out of bed! Dr Google says it's SPD, will talk to my midwife when I see her on Monday. Really annoyed, as this will make any exercise I try to do even more difficult. Went to the gym yesterday for some very gentle walking on the cross-trainer and the treadmill, and I only managed 30 minutes before I had to stop, grrrr.
And I have been doing my pelvic floor exercises, so what else can I do?! Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Morning - just checking in for the first time, i forgot about the antenatal thread, again!
31 weeks and I'm due 30th May with 2nd baby, DD is 18 months and just learning how much fun walking is, whcih is not necessarily the case for her penguin mummy.
Have been told that i'm having a giant of a baby, measured 36 weeks at 28, so here's hoping they have it completely wrong as usual!
DD was breech elcs, and am going for VBAC this time round, i've been tellign my dh that we are having a home birth! He's petrified. Ha ha, i'll be in the hospital quick as a flash.
I'm exhausted as i'm sure youi all are, so i hope you get to lounge in some capacity in the sun today and good luck everyone.
Labella77xx

Brillo: I had fun with mine and got some lush purple dr martens and very unwork like so totally in love with them! Get shopping as I didn't give it credit how tiring shopping now is!

Pistachio: we are trying to as well in RL but not easy. BIL is the only one that knows as he won't be here. Everyone wants to know and has an opinion so easier not telling.

Tinwe: rest when you can and I bet your looking forward to the next weeks being done so you can relax into your new house. It all mounts up and when I was reading the common pregnancy things I think I have had 98% so far so waiting for the next ones.

Loopy: glad she is in the right direction!

Trying to enjoy the sun but so far had appointments with Dr, Nurse for swine flu jab now going to the hospital for my anesistist review so still abit confused why and what they are going to do so will report later x

loopy the measurement thing is so weird. My midwife measures from top to bottom, but when I saw the consultant a few weeks ago, she measured from the pubic bone to top of bump .

DS (3) has been horrible last few days. Kicking, biting, hitting, throwing food. I know that suddenly turning 3 doesn't mean a leap from the 'terrible twos' but he has gotten so much worse lately.

Am looking at various ways for the DCs to be looked after when I'm having the baby. A good friend very kindly offered to have both DCs at her house when I'm in labor, however have been thinking that it would be better if they could stay at home, or rather DH looks after them until the actual birth. A nanny agency quoted something like £8.00 an hour (fine) up until they go to sleep and then £30.00 for the remainder of the night (fine) but them a £52.00 agency fee

Anyone else having pain in groin muscles? The insomnia goes without saying, I suppose, and am sure my stomach is now around my throat!

Hello. I haven't posted on here since I the early days, but things are winding down at work now, so I thought I'd have a look to see how everybody was.

I'm due on 11.05.11 with my first baby, and due to finish one of my 2 jobs next week, as I have lots of leave to use for the coming year that I will lose if I don't. I have another 4 weeks left of my other job.

The looming birth is starting to seem very real now, especially as my midwife told me that the baby is currently back to back (although the right way up!) which can make labour more awkward if it doesn't turn around, although there is time yet, am only 33 +1. Scarily, people keep telling me that they had their babies at 33 weeks - hope it stays in there a bit longer as I'm not quite ready yet!!

Noticed that a few of you are thinking about TENS machines and I am also wondering whether to get one. The Lloyds one looks the best value, and I'm assuming they are all of a similar quaility, although I've heard a lot of good things about the Babycare Elle too. Think I'd rather buy one though, as I can't imagine being organised enough after the birth to send it back!

Nearly there shopping-wise (only little things to get now), just need to get motivated to have a huge clearout and clean of the house before sorting the nursery, which I'm sure will be a bigger job than I have anticipated.

Pistatio- my bump also seems to hav dropped this wk

Hiii I'm a lurker - used to be katnkankles .
I'm pregnant with my 5th, due on the 6th May with my fourth girlie :) dd3 will be 1 on the 18 th may so a very small age gap.

Its been hard work since dd3 has slept through the night about 4 times in her life so I feel like I'm just dozing off and she is awake. But she is very gorgeous and I am totally in love with her so she gets away with it :o she sleeps in her own cot in her room but we co slept for a few months when she was tiny. She was never settled and once we put her in her own room she zeemed to go longer and has settled into a pattern of waking twice in the night. I'm really hoping for a sleepy one this time!

It's just dawning on me that I will have another baby in 6 weeks.... An actual real baby... I feel like I just had one! Its very weird. This is definitely our last though and DH is not going anywhere near me until he has had his little operation done!

So I need to buy a double buggy and a crib but other than that I pretty much have everything. Dd3 had loads of clothes so I need nothing on that front (not that its stopped me buying some things).

I'm seeing the mw tomorrow, I feel like the baby is transverse. I've never had this before but it feels like the head is on the right at the top and bum is bottom left... I am probably totally wrong but I can't feel anything like a head where it should be. My kicks are all at the sides. All my births have been natural and the last 2 very quick so I'm not sure what they'll do if she is wonky.

I'll try to update more regularly from now I promise!

cowboylover ha I did indeed have a look at some shoes- at the moment I am living in O.L.D. Birkenstocks (it's so hot my office!) & thought I might get another pair of sandals... but the curse of swollen ankles/'fat feet' struck!! nothing either fitted, or looked okay. However I would love some 14-eye DMs

runningmonkey I'm doing well thanks.
Just had a call from my midwife to say that my homebirth is all approved following a 'clinical discussion meeting' she had this morning...
I had mentioned at my gtt with her on monday that the whole thing was worrying me/stressing me out (was on verge of tears just saying this) so she called me after the meeting to put my mind at rest.. It has.
She did mention she'd have to sit down with DH and i to explain risks etc and write a detailed birth plan tho, I assume this is normal?? That said, I'm not sure currently if the baby is lying transverse/oblique again and she mentioned I'd go for a scan at 36/37 weeks to confirm presentation.. I didn't have any of this with my pregnancy with DS, I was weighed once at 16 weeks and had the normal 12/20 week scans, that was it...

Been looking online at birth pools and i'm wondering about aquaborn pool which comes with a cover etc too and says it's the deepest pool available, if only by an inch/cm... Flitting between this and a large bpiab.. MW seemed concerned that I get a big enough pool for my long legs but I don't imagine i'm going to be lying there floating on my back throughout....

Really think i'm going to have to start getting stuff down from the loft and start washing/sorting. We bought a new miele washing machine the other week and I am in love with it, it's sooo quiet, I didn't realise how noisy our old one was (bearings finally went and were a b*tch to replace, DH tried his best)..
Got a day to myself tomorrow as DH is taking DS to a country park to practice his cycling (clever boy can go without stabilisers now), so think baby clothes fest will begin then. :)

Been super lazy the past few days, just felt the need. Apart from the washing and running the hoover round I've been 'enjoying' the tv.. :)
Been sleeping ok with my new memory foam topper/pillow combo so can't really blame that.

Been getting really gushy/proud/in awe of my DS recently and wondering how the new addition will change our family dynamics.
He's been very loving recently and talks about the baby a lot and even had me chuckling the other day because he was talking into my mouth 'to' the baby! I told him my belly button was a better way to get the baby to hear but then end up with a very slobbery raspberry being blown on it!! ick!

I really hope he doesn't end up feeling pushed out when DS2 arrives, he can be a bit sensitive sometimes so will need to make sure we give him extra love and reassurance when it all happens.
Got a little fantasy in my head that I'll labour at home during the day whilst DS is at school and then DS2 will arrive in time to clean up and rest before DS comes home to meet his little bro.. Hmm I spose I should start planning incase the fantasy doesn't happen...

Pants. Bought stuff from Mothercare, only to get home and find voucher for 10% off!

Sesame I did that this week too - ordered lots of bedding online only to have the voucher arrive the following morning

Up at 6 am again... they say it's nature preparing us for the baby...

Gonna head to muslin square land today and start Getting Things Ready. Using that list that I think it was Loopy posted on the old thread.

Also.... we have our 1st session of hypnobirth teaching this afternoon... DON'T LAUGH!! I thought it would help stop me panicking before we go into hospital on D Day. It doesn't mean I'm ruling out the trunkful of drugs option!! Any opinions? It's our 1st baby.

Linziluv - my fellow morning waker... what did you find out about home birthing? Is it your 1st baby? Did your neighbours sound supportive?

xx

Pootros anything that helps you relax in the first stage of labour is worth trying! Let us know how you get on.

Been having some very weird dreams the past couple of nights. Last night's was that the baby's head was engaged at my next appointment. Only 31 weeks so that's wishful thinking. Probably following on from thinking I was feeling movement in some odd places yesterday, ie both hips at the same time. Even second time round I still struggle sometimes to work out where this baby is!

Ive also bin up at half 6 most morning half down to dd waking earluer lately and partly that im awake more or less anyway. Quick post as im on phone and cant c wot im typing will catch up properly later

I think I must be doing it the wrong way around as was still awake in bed at 5.30 trying to go to sleep so gave in and got up only to fall asleep on the sofa til 1pm so now all messed up on my pattern.

I wish I could drink now as I know a bottle of wine would sort me out!

Started organising the baby clothes and realised I don't have many little things so unless she comes out huge I need some newborn or 0 - 3 as well

Is anyone else starting to feel really miserable and sorry for themselves cant believe how big snd uncomfortable i am and only 32 weeks feels like forever to go. I dont remember feelin this way till about 36 wks last time atleast then i had mat leave to look forward to. Sorry for rant feeling really down today :(