Jue in June 2011....... labour here we come!!!!!

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New thread. Should last us a week.

have quickly read all posts so am jumping in - apologies for leaving anyone out or mixing up names and stories!

confessions I totally understand your dilema - home birth sounds like a lovely, less hassle option if you can eliminate health concerns, a relaxed mum has to equal a more relaxed labour or maybe I am just kidding myself right?

Joanne I was convinced LO was head down, even midwife confirmed it last visit, but now there is some suspicious sideways wriggling I have decided it is not worth worrying about - the wriggling is what is important at this stage!

millie would you recommend buying a ball then, should we be bouncing now, or is it just for labour. Sounds like an expensive thing to carry around labour ward!

Well off to find my morning - loving this sunshine! Can't believe I have to go back to work for another 4 weeks after these Easter holidays

Ah right confessions - didn't know about those hospital changes. I know in Glasgow lots of services are being shunted round different hospitals just now too (DH works in the Royal).

Good stuff Merlion - come on other naughty breech babies - hurry up and start turning! Thanks for the link - will check it out.

Supersunnyday that's great if the head is actually descending already

OMG confessions and milliemuffin YES about the swelling. I was actually going to post about it yesterday but was a little concerned and wanted to check it out with a mirror first (haven't done that yet though). It is so odd - can sometimes even feel it when walking . I kept thinking I had some wierd condition so very relieved that others have this too.

Joanne I will have one of those , as I am still in the breech club. Let's put our feet up and relax before we have to start contorting ourselves into all sorts of bum-in-the-air positions in a couple of weeks to coax them the right way up! I have a midwife appt this afternoon so I am going to ask them to have a feel and see if they can find out if she is feet down or bum down. Supersunny I think that you get a late scan if your baby is still breech at about 36 weeks to determine the position.

Curiouselle I bought a pilates ball for about £15 on Amazon - they are exactly the same as a birthing ball. Check with your midwife / hospital; many delivery wards will provide them as well, so you won't need to take yours in, but I think they are most use in the early stages of labour and the weeks leading up, to strengthen your pelvic area.

Sorry Supersunny X-posted. I think anything up to 35 weeks is reasonable, and hopefully your DH's bosses will think that is reasonable too. Is there anyone you can ask to come and stay with you, like your Mum, sister or a friend, for the week your DH is away, just to set your mind at rest?

Sasamaxx re the raspberry tea - I was waiting for you to answer as I wanted to copy someone too . Thanks for clearing that up, Nurse. I think Im going to start this week. I've read somewhere it cant induce labour, just make things a little easier when the time comes (and logically that makes sense cos imo, nothing can induce labour, I tried everything when overdue with dd (yes, even the sex!) and nothing worked).

Joanne, meant to get pics up last night but spent whole evening cleaning house and completely forgot. Will definately post tonight.

Nurse no, its just "Kate". This was going to be ds's name if he were a dd and it still hasnt went off us so must be a good sign. Really glad to hear your on the mend, am sure antibiotics are working wonders.

Thank you Knackered . It is very tempting, isnt it? although, I wouldnt have found out either if I was on my own.

Confessions re home birth - sounds good but I was going to ask the same as Mother regarding the little one needing blood test. If you had a HB would you and baby still have to transferred to hospital anyway to have blood test carried out? and would you have to stay? i.e. what would the waiting time for the results be? I think your decision will probably be based on this.

Millie swollen bits! me!! its sore to walk alot of the time and I honestly feel like somethings the baby is just going to fall out on the floor - like its bulging - is that similiar to you? I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact we're both expecting number 3.

Im very impressed at the organisation of some of the birth plans on here! Im an absolute disaster, mine is: "get baby out. Have tea and toast".

Daisy, delighted to hear your tutor made such a sensible decision regarding the exam. Bet you feel like a huge weight has been lifted? it would have been madness..

Hope everyone is well. Im 34 weeks today .

Including today, 20 days until Im offically off
Because of all the bank hols/ Easter, "only" 7 working days left.

2 exams.
About 5 days/ nights of study.
Cant wait.
I should take myself off to netmums and get a ticker signature, shouldnt I

Morning all...

SuperSunny I think before 35 weeks sounds reasonable. I think something like 92% of babies arrive within 2 weeks of due date so you should be fairly safe then! My DH is thinking of going away for a weekend to see his daughter (who lives in another country) 2 weeks before baby is born - I am not too happy about it but can't really say no!

Is anyone else still struggling wiht names? we have a girls name sorted but cannot find a boy's name we really like - am thinking we should have sorted this by now!

Oh yes, I wish I hadn't gone to yoga last night in the end. Did lots of exercises which involved head being low which gave me really bad heartburn and reflux and I had to sit out most of it and then went home to bed later as felt so ill - rubbish!

Supersunny X posts - I agree, 35 weeks sounds reasonable. Let us know what they say, wont you?

Moog we were really really struggling with boy's names. In fact, I think Im famous on the baby name board . I find generally girls names are so much easier (and now that we know its a girl I've relaxed) so really dont envy you...

Moog and Barbie same with the names! Why are boys so hard! We have 3 that we like of each now (well 4 in my case but DH doesn't know that) We have:

Girls - Imogen (immy) - Emmaline (Em/Emmie) - Merryn - Isabelle (izzy)
Boys - Vincent (vinnie/Vince) - Elliot - Nathan (Nate) - Spencer (Spence)

I'm hoping when it comes out it looks like one of them!

And also YES on the inapropriate swelling! It isn't painful for me (yet) just odd. I'm hoping that even though i'm at work today it will be a good day...i'm meeting my friends in the park for a birthday picnic (not my birthday) at lunch time and my parents are coming up for the easter weekend. I'm excited as I haven't seen them since Christmas! My brother is getting married two weeks after my due date gulp and I need to help my mum find an outfit...I'm hoping she might by me some shoes to go with my bridesmaid's dress too...which will hopefully definatly fit. Do you think if explain to MW about the wedding dilema she will give me a sweep on my due date?

I went from my antenatal class last night to the hospital just to drop Dp's mobile phone off for him and they let me stay till he came back up to the ward.

Got to see him and he was very groggy but he was ok! Apprently the kidney was really badly damaged so its the best thing they could have done for him (why they didnt do it earlier is a wonder!)

The nurse said that he might be able to come home in 5 days so fingers crossed he will be back home next week!

Thats such a big stress off my mind!

So on the subject of breech babies - my bump has always been really hard at the top - does that mean thats where her head is????

I?ve got very swollen bits too ? DH says he can?t see the difference which I find bizarre as they are huge!

Joanne we have also been considering Elliot. I also like Toby and Seth ? but don?t LOVE any of them so really not sure. Girls names are easy for us in comparison ? lots of those that I like :). I think your option of Emmaline is particularly lovely btw!

Curiouselle I got my swiss(/gym/birthing/really big bouncy ball) at argos for about £10. I'm supposed to be using it for my SPD, but will segue it into labour quite nicely I think (just have to go from rocking to bouncing. Sounds fun! ).

I finally have juice and mini eggs. Yes I caved. Think I prefer the juice though (today's craving).

Barbie, really, you've got to be a bit more detailed than that! What do you want on your toast?

Joanne lovely names :)

Crazy glad you got to see your DH. Here's hoping he makes a very swift recovery and is home in no time. RE hard bit of bump, it could be her head or her bottom. Where do you feel most/the hardest kicks?

Really glad I went to that homebirth meeting last night. Got to hear some homebirth stories and swapped numbers with another woman who's pregnant and lives in my area so will hopefully go for coffee and things with her and have another friend with a teeny baby :)

I think that should have been Emmeline...maybe we should give it a miss if i can't spell it!

Nurse I'm looking forward to starting NCT classes next week so I can meet some mummy friends too. :)

I just had lunch in the sunshine with two of my friends in the park, it was lovely and could only have been improved by an ice cream really. :o

Crazy it sounds like good news on your DP - Have you told him no more football yet?

Joanne I'd love one of those biccies :) as I'm still well and truly with the upside down brigade :) Have been googling breech positions and probably worrying myself unnecessarily, does it mean the baby is more uncomfortable in that position? I really really hope not :(

Love your birth plan Barbie. Pretty much well change the tea for juice and that's what mine looks likes. And Nurse I'll take the toast white with NZ marmite on it please.

Moog last time we picked a girls name finally when I was a few days over due. I had my show that night and DS was born 2 days later. He wasn't named until 3 days after that. I get the feeling that something similar will happen this time around. There are several boys and girls names we like, but until we actually have to settle on a name I think bump will just have to stay it Currant Bun.

Joanne!!! Ice cream. That's what I didn't get at the supermarket this morning. I fully intended to, but by the time I got to that end I'd completely forgotten.

Crazy goods news that all went well for DP and that you got to see him. Fingers crossed he is indeed home with you in a few short days.

joannezipan those are all lovely names :) Of course Isabelle is my favourite since our LO is (going to be) called Isobel, but I LOVE Imogen and it would have been a big rival for Isobel if a good friend of mine hadn't had a baby Imogen at Christmas. I still think if we have a second daughter we may well use Imogen. My dad is called Vincent so we may use it as a middle name if we ever have a son, but my favourite from your boy's list is Nathan.

barbie I've been meaning to say for ages I feel guilty because I went on your baby name thread and said I liked Gabrielle/Gabriella more than Kate, but (not that it matters what I think!) I really think Kate is a stunning name - so classic and elegant :)

On the baby names front ours is Isobel Edith (Edith after DH's grandma though we both really like the name anyway) but this really weird thing keeps happening. DH's dad was trying to guess the name (along with the whole of DH's family, who are taking bets ) and guessed Maud, much to the amusement of the rest of the family (who hate the name).

Then DH's grandmother (who isn't really on speaking terms about DH's dad) totally randomly said 'What's the baby's name? Maud??!' and was totally shocked to hear her son had said it too.

Obviously it's just a coincidence, but then I spoke to my grandmother, who has only met DH's family once (at our wedding nearly 7 years ago) and she said 'why don't you call the baby Maud?'!!!

We're not calling the baby Maud and it's not the sort of name that appeals to either of us (not being rude to anyone who likes it) but how weird is that? Now DH is saying it's an omen and we should add it to the middle names! (I'm not going to though... I really hate Maud).

crazychic my bump is rock hard all over - I hope that doesn't mean her head is gigantic

Nooooooooo! Someone has stolen my name! (Well ok, I don't OWN in or anything!) My very close family friend has a new girlfriend - my baby name :( Everyone will think we have been inspired by her won't they? :(

TTL maybe your bump is hard all over because yout baby is all head and bum (a bit like my good self!)

I'm ready to go home now please...oh an hour to go - boooooooooo! It's to sunny to be stuck in here!

Confessions bad luck about the ice cream :(

We've decided not to narrow the name choice down any further...just to see what it looks like when it comes out...one baby girl winston coming up then :o

Before Florence was born we were convinced that we were tapping her bottom and it was actually her knees from the scan lol, my bump was also rock solid all over and she doesn't have a gigantic head. For all those ladies who have breech positions, that could be a good thing as Flo had been head down for a while.....so maybe that's why she came early xx

Moomin - DD has been head down since before my last appointment at 28 weeks! I think she may be partially engaged now, will get MW to check on Saturday.
My feeling is baby will come early DH asked and "27th May" popped into my head

Will try and have a proper catch up later, just been made busy with DS having his eye op yesterday, very stressful but he is okay

Hello all, so I've just had about 15 pages to catch up on, having been a bit awol lately. My dad died a couple of weeks ago, the news came totally out of the blue (I actually found out by accident because the police had trouble finding me due to dad having old contact details written down and in the meantime another organisation, who thought I now knew, texted me to contact them regarding "the late ...helluva way to find out), and then almost straight away I had to get onto the business of organising a funeral and taking on the business of executor/probate, despite not having spoken to him in 4 years. DP keeps telling me to leave it for someone else, it shouldn't fall to me when I'm 7 months pg and still working full time, but it's actually a very cathertic process. I quite like sorting paperwork, and methodically arranging the last facets of his life into the kind of order I couldn't force on him when he was alive.

Anyway, that's obviously preoccupied me a bit, along with the recruitment process for my maternity cover. But I have now appointed someone, and he's accepted, and is going to start coming in one day a week to observe, before starting properly on 1st June, with the view to a 2 week handover (8 weeks to go, not that I'm counting the days, hours and minutes, or anything!).

So, I've taken a bit of a coffee break to have a catch up, and a couple of things jumped out at me....

TTL you mentioned parma ham being more dangerous than gloveless gardening...please explain! I love parma ham and regularly pick up a pack from the M&S shop at the garage on the drive home, and wolf down 8 slices while driving the remaining 3 miles home (unless I'm a nice mummy and allow DD one slice...how magnanimous am I!). Have I committed the ultimate pg sin?

Jasmine let's go to the cafe and fart together. I have been terrible, pretty much since day one of this pg. Don't know if this baby just releases more noxious fumes than the local power plant, but I regularly find myself giving a furtive glance around before releasing. I just abandoned all pride about bodily functions roughly 4 years ago during labour, and haven't regained it since! But you may have gone a bit awol yourself, now your DH's back home. Hope he's behaving himself.

Mother argh, let me know if something drastic happens, and one/two/three of the snort pigs needs collecting from school or keeping entertained for a few hours.

Hope everyone else is ticking along nicely. I have no idea if I'm in the breech club or not. Bump keeps moving, she still seems to have far too much space at her disposal in there.

And our name short list has been hacked down a little. I was leaning towards Phoebe, but DP thinks that our generation will forever think of Friends, and I think he might have a point.

Lisascat I'm with your DP about Pheobe, BUT having said that she was a pretty cool person so you could do worse than have a kid that reminds people of her IMO. At least you aren't going with DEAMON!