Due Feb 06 - Our coats won't do up!

[Bewitched]

Here it is then ladies - our shiny new thread, named without reference to jumpers, sweaters or cardis!!

Stats to begin - hope they're all up to date!

Teuch, Due 28th Jan, Baby # 1, Age 27, Lives West Lothian (Inner Hebridean Island from Jan), Surprise flavour, mm/c previously
Hotmama1, Due 1st Feb, Baby # 2, Age 38 (DP40), Lives Nottingham, Girl flavour,
3K, Due 2nd Feb, Baby # 1, Age 28, Lives Gravesend, Kent, Boy flavour, IVF conception
Tabs, Due 2nd Feb, Baby # 1, Age 32 (DH40), Lives N Herts, Couldn't see flavour, mm/c Oct 04
Kando, Due 3rd Feb, Baby # 3, Age 32 (DH35), Lives Holland, Girl flavour, DVT last time. Heparin injections.
Lulu68, Due 3rd Feb, Baby # 4, Age 37 (DH40), Lives ???, ?? flavour,
Yeahbut, Due 4th Feb, Baby # 3, Age 30, Lives Holland, Girl flavour, IUGR in previous pregnancies
Mimi5, Due 6th Feb, Baby # 5, Age 37, Lives ???, Boy flavour, mm/c previously
Popadopolis, Due 8th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 26 (DH30), Lives Bedford, Girl flavour, hyperemesis early on - tablets to control
JuA, Due 9th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 31, Lives Chorley, Lancs, Both Girl flavour, 1 m/c prior to DD. Expecting twins!!
SmallHouseDragon, Due 9th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 39 (DH 37), Lives Devon, ?? flavour, induction then emerg c-sec with dd
Womba1, Due 10th Feb, Baby # 3, Age 30, Lives Eastbourne, Girl flavour, Baby 1 stillborn
TicTac, Due 11th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 29 (DH 42), Lives Horwich, Lancs, Girl flavour,
Ixel , Due 11th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 31 (DH 42), Lives North London, Hospital won't tell flavour,
Spacecadet, Due 11th Feb, Baby # 5, Age 33 (DH 37), Lives Cambs, Girl flavour, m/c in March, underactive thyroid, dvt after delivery of last dd
Popmum, Due 12th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 32 (DH 40), Lives Broxbourne, Herts/Essex border, Secret flavour,
RachelRog, Due 12th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 33, Lives Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Surprise flavour, mm/c in March
Chloe55, Due 13th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 24 (DH 27), Lives West Yorkshire, Boy flavour, 2 previous m/cs
Jasnem, Due 18th Feb, Baby # 3, Age , Lives , Surprise flavour, 5 and 6 yo girls already
MrsDoolittle, Due 21st Feb, Baby # 2, Age 32, Lives Oxford, but soon to be Newbury, Boy flavour,
Morgan, Due 22nd Feb, Baby # 2, Age 37, Lives Hitchin, Dubai from Jan, Surprise flavour, Ectopic Jan 05. Heparin injections
Flamesparrow, Due 24th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 24, Lives Bournemouth, Surprise flavour, Waterbirth for no 1. Hoping for homebirth.
mum22soon, Due 24th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 26, Lives Eltham, South London, ?? flavour,
Frizbe, Due 28th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 30 (DH40), Lives Ripley, Derbyshire, Girl flavour,
Thell, Due 28th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 26, Lives London, Girl flavour,
angedemarche (Jangus), Due 1st March (c-sec 14th Feb), Baby # 2, Age 27, Lives NI, ?? flavour,
poppyh, Due 3rd March (c-sec earlier), Baby # 3, Age ??, Lives South East London, Girl flavour,
Scotsbird, Due ???, Baby # 2, Age ???, Lives ???, ?? flavour,

(The preview of this message is looking very odd and spaced, but hoping it looks ok when posted!!

Nice 3K!! Think maybe the breast shells would be a good idea for you. Have heard lots of recommendations for them for collecting milk that otherwise gets wasted after the birth.
There's you getting up at 1am, and I was only just going to bed then!

at flame staying in pjs all day.

Flame - I have the Avent Isis breast pump, let me know if you want a copy of the instructions. I can photocopy and send them to you if you like!

3K - It must be hard when you don't get paid to be off, I would certainly be in the office now if that was the case but at the same time, even though it is only 10:30 I know it is doing me the world of good!!
I think the babies slow down while they have a growth spurt and move up. I have had lots of activity today right out front and higher then usual. My previous kicks have all been very low down and to the left. This morning, after a couple of quiet days they are above belly button and out front! One this morning even made my boob shift!!!

hi girls - all good here. midwife appt on tuesday and everything was well, still measuring slightly big for dates but not excessively! very restless nights which are making me dozy and grumpy during the day as well! My next appt is 3wks then I think I go down to fortnightly! And start my antenatal class late this month (finally decided to go since there are only 5 of us and we are all first-timers in our twenties) so seems like the countdown is really on.

If anyone has time, can you pop over to this thread - which links to this young woman's website where she is gathering support against her fathers reduced sentence. It is not too depressing, although very emotive...a very positive story!

Anyway, i'm off to Brighton for the weekend for a girly time with sis and mum. Any suggestions of things to do there?

Teuch...spa day!! It doesn't get much more girly and you can all have a really good relax!

My cot doesn't fit where I wanted it too!!

Never been to Brighton. How about making sandcastles on the beach .

TicTac - what happened to all that 'I don't need to measure because my dad can sort it' stuff? Can you find a different place to put it and then your dad just has to build around a new plan?

Tabs - never said you don't need to measure...that is exactly the point..you do need to measure but you try to find furniture that fits exactly into the space you want it too...not easy! Nor have I said Dad was making the cot...
Anyway...I was being an idiot and it was the door stop preventing the cot from fitting, as soon as I lifted the cot to go over the stop...fits where I had planned..but only just.

only just is good enough!
I haven't dared even measure yet. Baby will be in our room for foreseeable future, and not sure howI will fit a cot in at all. DPs play station will definiterly have to go though...

pmsl @ the door stop! Its not just me that does things like that then!!! My best trick is to measure the gap, but from wall to wall, and not remember the skirting boards

I can't remember if the cot fits in the alcoves in DDs room or not... I hope so, or she loses quite a bit of play space.

I managed to find the pump instructions online, so I'll just print those out - thanks for the offer though!

Right, so its aquanatal tonight... will I make it? Who wants to take a vote?

Jasnem - have you broke the news to DP about his playstation?
We will be starting off with a moses basket in our room but I just didn't want to have anything to actually do when the baby gets here etc..I am sure there will be lots of other things that come up!

Oh flame I do that all the time with skirting boards!!
My vote is a resounding YES...you will go to aquanatal

TicTac - we're the same as you with having Chip in moses basket with us to start with, but likewise I want the nursery all set up ready anyway. Can put moses basket inside cot for naps then to try and get him used to it. Glad to hear that it was just the doorstop and the prob is now resolved.

Flame - I vote no for aquanatal, in the hope that it will give you an incentive to go just to prove me wrong .

Hi girls,

Forgot to say on Tuesday that I took yesterday off work with DH. We were gonna have a lovely day out in York, which started well but then I was in so much pain with my back, which then spread to my ass and front of my thigh that I literally struggled to walk so after an hour of arriving we were heading home .

I have woken up in the worst mood again today, work is busy and I just want to tell everyone to eff off, can't be arsed to be here but can't really go home either as not 'unwell' just pissed off. Managed to snap at DH already when he rang and my boss has overheard me speaking not so nicely about him (not slagging him off just kinda rude), he hasn't said anything though. Oh well, couldn't give two really - I'm feeling that way out!

Anyway, enough about me, I sympathise with your cramp Jasnem and hope you are feeling better.

TicTac - glad the cot fits! Would have been a disaster if it didn't!

Big hugs Chloe. I am sure you have read your email but you are not on your own at the minute }}hugs{{
Good idea about putting moses basket in the cot Tabs..I hadn't thought of that. I was going to move teh moses basket to the nursery for a while when we are all ready for baby to be out of our room (that'll be about 2 weeks then )

A definite yes for aquanatal from me. You need all the "me-time" you can get.

DP has a large tv, X box and PS in our small bedroom and its all got to go. I have told him, but he's in denial. There is no way my new baby is sleeping to the background noise of Manhunt (it is as bad as it sounds)!

I haven't actually got a room for the baby. If its a girl, she may go in with the other 2. A boy..... who knows. It'll stay with us for us to a year anyway,so I'm not too worried yet.

Could I not have me time in bed with a big bar of galaxy?

Go see here and be excited with me.

I did the basket in the cot thing with dd1, from very early on. She used to lift her legs up in the air and slam them down again, shaking the whole thing so nuch I thought she would tip it over!

Chloe - sorry you had such a crap day yesterday.

Go to aquanatal, the go to bed with a big bar of galaxy and a smug feeling.

We did the basket in the cot thing with dd as well, think it helped us, as no complaints when we just started putting her in the cot!

Chloe shame about York, as its lovely there....another time maybe?

FS was she in your bed? shame you had a bad night with her, but a good day for a PJ day!! hope you make aquanatal

Tabs, that's odd about your dead patch?!

3k, hope your day is going ok, your having a rough ride of things at the mo, but remember there must be a nice smooth patch coming up soon!

Jasnem, ouch re more cramp, do you think reflexology would help?

Tictac, lol at baby kicking boobs!

Nothing to report here today, just mooching along, dd happy as one of her friends is back from USA, so she's had an hour or so catching up (as have I!)

Is there anyone on this thread who suffered from SPD in a previous pregnancy? Have pain that arrived yesterday and is still here today, and the only thing that I can think of that it can be (unless just a general ache, which of course I'm hoping it is!) is the start of SPD, but not sure that I really know what that is supposed to feel like. Anyone know?

My best friend is a reflexologist, and I did call her earlier today for a bit of advice, but there wasn't much she can do over the phone. Bothfeet still hurt, so I am going to see her for a bit of treatment as often as I can. It won't be as regular as I'd like - she's newly pregnant, and not well, and I can't get to her and home again during the day, so its weekendd only 'til shes up to travelling.

She kept alternating between our bed and her own

I can't see aquanatal happening - the last few days have caught up on me, and even wearing my giant tubigrip isn't helping.

No experience of SPD before, but I'm starting to wonder if that is the problem now. It started off as low aching in my bump, but it is now more my pelvis - worse when I walk.

Oh dear flame . Just found this on i-village and have a horrible feeling that it sounds familiar. Does it describe your pain too?

I've read quite a few descriptions, and that is the one that sums me up best I'm gonna ask the midwife next time I see her.

Oh my God, that sounds like the pain I've been getting, only mine isn't in the middle of pelvis but more in the groin and bum area, I literally had to be helped into the car by DH yesterday - is it something that should be checked out? Can anything be done?