Jue in June - But we're already well on our way!

[NurseSunshine]

Yet another thread! Going to need to start moving to post natal soon... Eeep!

Can't bloomin sleep for the grumbling uterus (great choice of word MOSP)
Have given up and come downstairs for a cup of tea and 2 paracetamol - will try to get back to sleep in a bit.

Oh sasa hope things get started again soon.

Waiting impatiently for more news.

NMH glad everything going well. I also had a blub yesterday staring at dd.

A much better night here last night. My milk has come in properly now so dd seems much more settled. I would even say I had a better night than dh as ds was very unsettled. He got bitten by a mosquito right at the corner of his eye and it has swollen quite badly so he looks a bit like elephant man!

Oh no merlion your poor ds - do you have any piriton in the house?

I hope things get going again soon too - it's very frustrating.

Can't sleep, just did a night feed. Evie is going through massive hunger phase as well as water soaked nappy phase.... Argh! I've never done so much washing.

For those with boozy DPs I offer some hope: mine was enjoying mucho wine at home or drinks out in the final weeks, but has quickly realised now that getting drunk is neither practical nor all that enjoyable during these early days. Half a guinness & he's asleep! He's even canceled wetting the baby's head tomorrow as he said it wouldn't be fair on me.

Poor DP had a fairly comic baby minding night. We'd agreed I go to bed at 10 to grab as much sleep as possible, & he minds bubs & does feeds/changes til around 2:30. At handover he turned up wild-eyed and stressed - he'd managed to tip a badly sealed bottle all over DD (that may have been my fault, oooops), we'd run out of ready made F so he had to spend 30 mins making up powdered with a grizzly baby. She soaked her clothes (again) then sprayed poo everywhere while he was changing her etc etc. :) I admit I was secretly quite glad I missed all of that. And while he is bumbling a bit, he is trying really hard and I love him for that.

Hi all, had my little boy on Tues 24 may by ELCS, all went well and he's sooo much more chilled out than DD!
Good luck everyone!
stargirl x

Congrats stargirl, first boy. But you know that by saying he's chilled out you've gone and jinxed it now, right?

Can I just ask everyone, am I the only idiot still working? I know I was cutting it fine anyway, and my due date is late June, but I was sure there were some others who would still be working at the start of the month. I ask because I'm sitting here, at stupid o'clock in the morning, on a Bank Holiday, facing a day of work at home in preparation for my cover starting tomorrow, and I'm ever so slightly peed off about the situation. It's entirely self inflicted - I'm just not ready for the handover. And in fact, I'm going to blame you ladies a little too, because I keep procrastinating at work by checking in here to see if there are any new developments! Two more weeks of work.......I feel very hard done by this morning.

Congratulations stargirl :) hope you are both well, you are officially the 1st baby boys mummy on the thread too!

Hope things are moving on this morning sasa & mosp I think grumbling uterus is a very apt term & it is a PITA too. I've been awake since about 5:30 but only got up to make a coffee to bring back to bed. I plan on staying put in the bed & catching up on coronation st repeats.

nomoreheels sounds like baby is making her presence felt ;) glad you are getting some rest though & having a sense of humour about the little dramas they bring is definately my way of coping too!

Your poor LOs eye sounds very painful merlion hope it clears up soon.

Morning Lisa I am self employed & only set up on my own during pg so am not v busy & can choose my own appt times etc so although yes, I have been working (last appt was day before due date) but have used recent weeks for admin type jobs instead of actual client work for fear of arranging work that I can't complete.

Hope they aren't working you too hard :(

Just a quick one to say a huge congratulations to star our first boy!! Do you have a name yet? Hope recovery after c section is going well, that your not in too much pain and that you've plenty of help.

Off to get dd ready for school...

Congratulations Star . Hope the recovery is going well and you and your little man get home soon :)

NMH I love those moments, especially when they don't happen to me Glad to hear you are managing some sort of resting routine. I think dh and I are going to do something similarish with him taking the baby from when he gets home until around midnight and me doing the night shift . . . .at least that's the plan :)

Merlion Oh your poor ds, how miserable for him :(

Sasa and MOSP Hope your grumbling turns into something more productive today :)

I've been being woken up with these bloody annoying cramps which turn into nothing and then disappear. All they seem to want to do is ensure I don't get a good nights sleep and make me think about going into labour. I'm going to be even more exhausted if they go on like this until the baby arrives . . . . probably in 3 weeks. Never had this with the other 2, think my body may finally be giving up the fight with it's ability to cope with carrying babies!

Happy bank holidays those who have them :)

Congratulations star - look forward to hearing more about your little boy when you're ready :)

lisa I don't officially start maternity leave till the 7th but work in a school so have half term. I have to say I'm soooo pleased for the half term as I was getting less productive at work. I'd even stopped wearing my ID badge as it had a dodgy clasp and trying to pick it up when it fell off is Not fun! I am in next monday and am considering attending in my dressing gown

congratulations to Stargirl a little boy! hope you are recovering well?

any one any tried and tested ideas for wriggly back to back babies, am following the suggested positions, but almost punched dh in night when he tried to put me back on my aching left side suggesting 'being a bit uncomfortable now is better than a lot later' grrrr

Also friend due in july has obstertic cholestasis (possibly spelt wrong) I have read pregnancy info but does anyone have real life knowledge??

Congratulations stargirl
Still grumbling here with you knackered and thornykate but did manage a couple more hours sleep. Im sending dh to work as there is more chance of things picking up if I ek that.
Hope you are getting somewhere MOSP
Hang in there nomoreheels - love your description of dh being wild eyed and stressed - so true! Lol

Well after an afternoon of very painful BH's I discovered I have lost the Argos card. After I reserved a big order to pick up today (including the moses basket and stand). Where the fecking feck have I put it? And why do I suspect it went away in last weeks rubbish/recycling? When this child does arrive it'll find itself sleeping in a cardboard box! (cause without argos card can't upgrade DS to a bigger bed, freeing up the cot/bed for DC2).

Seriously feeling like is just one disaster after another at the minute. As one thing starts to improve something else happens. I'm to fat/hormonal/emotional/self absorbed pregnant for this sh!t. At least I had a great night sleep last night.

Sounds exciting Sasa fingers crossed you LO hurries along

Ohh, didn't realise I'd missed a whole second page of posts. Congratulations on your wee boy (our first one!) Stargirl

Oh that's so rubbish confessions
One time a few years ago DH lost my argos £35 gift card and it still annoys me now.

Congrats Stargirl - hope you are recovering nicely.

I'm now getting (self indulgently)worried that by the time I produce, there wont be anyone left with time to congratulate me here..you'll all have your LOs and wont be interested in yet another arrival Ha ha, I'm so self centred!

Lisa technically I'm not on ML until 5th because I cant be bothered to work out the proportion of SMP on my accounts so I've just done it from my usual pay date. That doesnt mean I'm actually working though (scuttles back to sofa with some Tangfastics)

I have a question for those of you with DC already. I have a friend with a DD who has not been vaccinated against measles mumps or rubella, either as an MMR or separately. Putting aside the reasons and judgement on this for a moment...she will be over here all the time to see DS once he arrives and I'm worried. Is this a risk or am I being over protective? At what stage would my LO be safe if her DD does contract any of these?

jasmine I would guess your DC will be safe once you've gone through all the necessary jabs yourself. Until then, you have to hope she's honest with you if she suspects her DD might be coming down with something. But that said, I guess we're always reliant on other parents to own up when something's wrong, be that nits, or chicken pox, or even just a tummy bug, so we can make our own judgements about whether to expose our own DCs.

Nurse I forgot to say thank you, that link you had on the other thread was brilliant. Definitely saving up the responses to co-sleeping and is the baby on a schedule

CO - how was DH's hangover? I hope you were stepping around him quietly in very heavy shoes while trying and failing from keeping the DCs from running up and downstairs

Jasmine - I'm joining you in the club. Though I suspect our sleep deprived mamas will be thinking that we are looped

Joannezipan - there is no shame in resorting to the Tena Lady

Sassamax woohoo, sending you some labour vibes!!

Barbie - sending some to you as well!! I forgot you were in NI for a min, was wondering why you were sending your DD to school on a BH!!

Daisyfields hope your niece had a lovely birthday... and a lovely cake

Knackered76 do your assignment you norty girl, you are bound to bring labour on while proof reading it Sympathies on the cramps, they are bloody annoying!

Thorny glad you found the visit useful! Part of the reason why I don't want to be in hospital is because of how ludicrously hot they keep them. When I went for my presentation scan, I was in the waiting room for the ultrasound (just down the corridor from the MLU) and it was even stupidly hot in there, made me feel sick!

Millie - oh, yes was going spare with no internet, and getting frustrated with my phone, not the best for internet browsing. All I've been thinking about is who is next!

Couriselle - I read your post BTW my number 1 tip for back-to-back babies is get yourself on your hands and knees as much as possible, especially during labour.

Merlion oh your poor DS! Can he take some oral anti-histimine? I wouldn't have thought you would be able to put anything on topically with it being so close to his eye. Glad to hear feeding is going well, do you have boobs like barrage balloons

NMH - keep repeating, "this soon will pass". I know it is mean but ROFL at your DH's baby antics

Stargirl - woohoo, what wonderful news! And I think that is the first boy as well!!

Lisascat I think some of us did start ML quite early, but some started only a few days before their due date! I stopped at the end of April because my client list had reduced and there was no point in me being given more clients as I would have to hand them over to the other QAPFs before I had much a chance to develop a relationship with them (like Thorny I am S/E) and it got to the point where financially I was better off on MA.

Confessions - arrghh to losing your Argos card, hope it turns up soon!

Jasmine - that is a difficult one, especially as your baby won't have the MMR jab until 12-13 months, so no vaccination for measles before then. If you yourself have had measles, you will pass on immunity in your BM (if you are BFing) however I don't think this is 100% guaranteed, it is a massively reduced risk, and if you baby does contract it then it is likely to be a very mild case. On the flip side, there is no routine vaccination programme for Cpox but that can also be fatal to babies as well.
The problem with trusting the other parents' judgement, is that a lot of these diseases become infectious before any symptoms are even apparent, so a child could be infectious before the parent even realises that anything is wrong. But let's face it you can't keep your baby in an infection free bubble!

Very good point by Kara - bfing is probably the best protection before immunisations.
I didn't know cpox could be fatal to babies - am going to try not to think about that

Morning ladies, my midwife has just left. Baby's head is 'firmly settled' into my pelvis, she said it with a glint in her eye so I'm hoping that means baby will be here in a couple of weeks. Forms for the home birth all completed so now I can just look forward to my birthday on sunday, Peter Kay on the 7th and then any day after that is fine with me!!

The heartrate has ranged for 135 to 155 so I'm still completely 50/50 as to wether it's a boy or girl.

Congrats Stargirl! Has he got a name yet? xx

marking place.

Congrats stargirl!!!

Stargirl big congrats on new arrival! And NMH, too. Loving the story about your DP's interesting evening! Brings it home rather, what a handful we're all in for...

Can I be a bit me me me for a minute? I'm having a bit of a trauma re family visits after birth of little one... my ma lives around 4hrs away and is kind of elderly and not really very mobile (ie might just about manage to get milk from corner shop). Neither is she very 'motherly' in the traditional sense (she doesn't know how I take my tea, is really messy - I clean up after her when she stays - and I don't think she's ever helped with loading dishwasher, washing up or anything like that here, and when we're at hers it's just so chaotic it's untrue. Usually a 2-3 day visit is all I can take but since she lives so far away and comes down on the coach, I know she'd want to stay longer to make the most. She's not putting the pressure on as such, but I can tell she really wants to come as she keeps talking about old traditions of women in the family rallying round after the birth to help etc etc...

My older sister lives overseas and has two kids, but is really keen to come over as soon as poss when little one is born and help out for a week, just her. We've never been close really, we're chalk and cheese and she can be 'difficult' to have around, although I do think she would be very helpful from a practical point of view (unlike mum!).

My partner is very sceptical about either of them coming, saying he wants it to be just us, special time etc, and that he thinks he'd be pushed out if either of them came while he was on paternity leave (he'll have 3 weeks). It's very sweet, and I know he wants to feel really properly involved but I think he may be being a little naive as to the amount of work/tiredness involved with a newborn. What does everyone think? Tell sister to book a flight early/later or just see how we get on and let them come after he's gone back to work? Will we cope on our own for 3 weeks or is that crazy talk? Is a hopelessly undomesticated mother better than nothing at all? Help!!!

Sorry about the self-obsessed post, but it was keeping me awake last night. Due today by the way!!!

Congratulations Stargirl! Wishing you a speedy recovery :)

Confessions hope you find the card.

Nomoreheels LOL @ your poor DH. Sounds like he really is helping you out though which is great :) I can imagine being ready to give over life savings and all worldy possessions for the chance to sleep from 10-2.30!

Kara glad you liked it!

Sasa and MOSP hope things keep moving for you both

Jasmine that is worrying but as others have said, when baby is tiny you pass on your immunity through your BM if you are BFing. I guess you can't protect them from everything, can you :(

congrats stargirl yeah first boy!
sasa hope things move along for you, is it bad that I wouldn't know the difference between a 'real' contraction or otherwise, I'm guessing I will just know??!
I feel rubbish this morning, woke up with horrible sore throat / swollen tonsils - a standard symptom for me if I'm ever feeling bit run down / tired and it's made me really worried because I ache all over and just couldn't imagine having to find the reserves to go through labour so am panicking.
Thought I might go to docs tomorrow and see if they can give me anything, maybe a short dose of anti-biotics? Although given that I'm due on Friday not sure what best thing to do is? Just going to try and rest up today and hope it passes.
Bump keeps going really hard but I don't think it's anything of note, particularly as no back pain.
Pls send me get well vibes!
Enjoy the 'wet' bank holiday!