December 2011 - She Canna Take Much More, Cap'n...

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Betwee 8 and 12 weeks to go...and we're giving it all we've got!

Thanks Tyelperion! I used to have racy dreams at the beginning/mid pregnancy but no more. Last night I dreamt that I gave birth to a 3 month old baby. It was great from a caring perspective but when I woke up I couldn't help but think about what the delivery must have been like.

I had SPD with my first and after the birth it went almost stright way. I also BF my son uptil 2 months ago when he was 2.6yo. So no its not true.

Oh thank god, thanks for setting my mind at rest cheep. BF till 2.6, that's fab - doubt I'll be able to keep that up as I'm supposed to go back to work next July but I would dearly love to.

Girding my SPD ridden loins to walk from the City to Waterloo station because I forgot my wallet today with my oyster card and all my debit cards [hangry] Maybe I can scrape together £2.20 for the bus from the shrapnel in my purse, but it makes me sick to pay that much just because I've forgotten my Oyster.

Technically some relaxing is produced while bfing, but I have never encountered someone who found it a problem. Sometimes women find that their hips feel 'tired' faster, but as far as actual pain goes it shouldn't be an issue.

Forest school is outdoor sessions where kids get to do dangerous fun stuff like whittling and lighting fires. Nature stuff too.

Bloody phone relaxin

Tyel beg, borrow and appropriate from petty cash. Don't walk!

cheep I'm on the 250, and have salbutamol too. And a nebuliser under my bed in case of emergencies. Been diagnosed 22 years now:( Got to say that the dual action of the seretide has made all the difference. The long acting reliever combined with the steroids makes for mostly happy lungs! Apart from when the humidity is at three million percent!

anewstart Welcome aboard. All tales of inappropriate dreams and geekishness welcome. Oh, and don't forget to SQUEEZE those pelvic floor muscles.

That goes for the rest of you lot too

Right. Pregnancy symptom they don't like to tell you about #40000012:

Haemorrhoids! Owowowowow! Stupid body[hblush] Have procured industrial strength ointment and will be gingerly visiting the bathroom later to go into battle. After a nice bath.

lalababy, that labrador dream was hilarious! I actually laughed out loud (and am not an LOL sort of person - more a PMSL person - )

cheeptrick, your artifacts dreams sound very cool. You are evidently seeking your satisfaction in more highbrow places than some of us. The academic side of Indiana Jones (not his tarty side), if you like!

I dreamt the other night that DD was talking like DS, and progressed to being like a 4yo in line with him - meaning I had two children behaving developmentally the same: twins four years apart! Horrors! And a bit sad for DD, too, as no-one would accept a freaky baby/toddler! Bloody maternal guilt and insecurity...

Hi, anewstart! Are you on the December stats list yet?

Welcome anewstart

Tyel a) don't worry about trainee, they won't lose respect for you - you are pregnant! It is normal to slow down a little. b) have been having crazy dreams, some strangers, some my husband, but all v. shocking [hshock] - but I say let's not be embarrassed but see it as a little bonus of pregnancy, esp. as the action in reality has slowed down a little bit!! [hwink]

LMF - sounds like you have it worse than me. I got it at 14 yo when i started with hayfever and i'm 30 yo next year. My Xbrother had it from a baby and was in hospital one week out of every four with it. Most of my family have it and they live in a small village close to each other so we have two machines that everyone uses when needed. As i'm now 90 miles away if i have an attack its A&E or the Walkin centre as i refuse to pay £70.00 for one when i only have one attack every two or three years. The purple inhaler really has helped.

Mrsbuggy - i like the idea of Forest school sounds fun and cool

Msbuggy sorry

I had several illnesses as a baby that thoroughly buggered my lungs up. It's fine for the most part now though. I just need to keep taking the steroid inhaler [hgrin]

I was lucky to have been given the nebuliser. It rarely gets used, but as I don't drive and am single I am infinitely glad that it lurks under my bed attacking my toes ever now and again.

In a related note. Any fellow asthmatics notice that the breathing techniques you learn as an aid to avoiding hyperventilation mean you get massive benefit from gas and air in labour? Having my son was a breeze, partly because I used my "I refuse to admit my lungs hurt and I will breathe, expand, hold, count and release like an automaton" which meant that all I could concentrate on was the numbers 1-4 and the notion of in and out. I was almost completely out of it[hgrin] Belting stuff that gas and air.

Thanks for your advice re: nighties aethel, I'm primarni bound this weekend...

Loving all the weird dreams, keep em coming!

I have no weird dreams to declare --except the one about Johhny Depp and the egg whisk-

I'm being pummelled like crazy tonight. Thanks, Junior...

An egg-whisk doesn't sound a very sexy shape! What on earth could he be doing with an egg whisk? Unless it's something for his hair: he can look bloody scruffy!

Hey, if you met Johnny Depp in a park armed with a giant pot of Nutella and an egg whisk (and NOTHING else) I guarantee your attention would not be on his hair!!!!

I hardly ever remember my dreams, and the ones I do remember are still the explicit ones featuring ex-boyfriends that make you wake up feeling horrible.

I've had a mega busy couple of days. MW went well yesterday, my blood pressure is low and no protein in my wee, great news as it was starting to go wrong at this point last time. She did say though that my bump is measuring 28 weeks rather than 30, she didn't seem too worried though and my scan a couple of weeks ago was fine.

I like the highs and lows idea, I think if I don't make an effort to find something positive everyday I'll spend the rest of pregnancy moaning about how tired I am. From now on the word tired is banned, it's an obvious one and it's only going to get worse!

Today's highs - DS has finally mastered pooing on the potty!
I finally used loads of the tomatoes by making autumn tomato chutney, the whole house smells amazing.

Low - DH cooked roast beef for tea but my food aversions are back and I couldn't eat it.

High: Came home to find a note saying to get in touch with the surveyor to organise an appointment to do some home improvements.

Low: As posted about earlier, pregnancy symptom #4000012[hblush]

Had my flu jab today. They offered it free at work, so popping downstairs in my building was far more convenient than arranging it with GP. Feeling fine now other than a slightly sore arm. Bloody knackered, but think that's due to a busy week at work and very little sleep for the last 2 nights.

Stupid question of the day: If you have a water birth, what do you wear? Nothing? A bikini top? An old T-Shirt? If labour and birth goes more normally this time, I'd like to give the pool at hospital a whirl and was just wondering what on earth to pack in my hospital bag

lmf and cheep thanks about the antibiotic advice, I hate going to the doctors, last time I had a chest infection I refused to go until my cough hadn't cleared up on its own in 3 months.... then had some silly super strength ones ment for pneumonia Ooops! I tried my peak flow... got it to about 200 :(

I want a purple inhaler! It's my fav colour lol

kate I get them free from work too, need to wait until they are doing it in Manchester though, this week is just London, my gps has a stupid waiting list, I'll have given birth before I get it from them lol

Purple is what you get when the brown ones, then the red ones stop working like they ought. No idea what's next. I'll ask the asthma nurse. There should be an inhaler rainbow[hgrin]

Please do see a doctor soon though. Chest infections are evil. I average between three and five a year >_< If I were an apple product my release name would be iBroken [hwink]

I've only had red and brown, never purple, which is obvs a good thing, right? As it means I never got very bad. Have had hardly had to use my inhaler for ages either, only when exercising, which to be fair hasn't happened much since preg :)

kate -what to wear in a birthpool. I plan to take a bikini top with me to feel a little less exposed, and then whip it off when Junior pops up. honey posted this fab link of a homebirth/hypnobirth - she wears nothing. The midwives check with a mirror on a stick to see the baby's head appearing - interesting!
LMF Germaloids. I got haemeroids once after a festival-full Summer, and I think i've been prone ever since. They've been threatening me for a few weeks now, but a regular germaloiding have stopped them making a reappearance. (I've found Germaloids better than the other brand I tried first.) Good luck!

32 weeks today and little fella is booting me non stop. Went to yoga last night and noticed my feet and ankles have really swollen then this morning my right wrist is aching my left one has hurt everyday for months with fluid retention don't want to think it's starting in my right hand too. anyone know anything I can do about fluid?

Finishing work in 6 weeks woo!!!!!

Have laboured in water twice, not managed a birth though as I changed my mind. Anyway, I wore nothing each time, you are quite cocooned in a pool, it feels very private and tbh by that point I needed the pool so much getting changed would have taken too long!

Highs from yesterday - erm, the DDs let me read a book, DD2 went to bed early, had a great chat with DP.

Lows - was knackered, forgot to do hypno, DD1 didn't go to sleep til 10pm.

Okay, I'll boldly cover your blushes about the Germoloids, LittleMissFlustered and OiMissus, and say I'm adding Germoloids to my list, too. Yesterday, I had a horrible moment of thinking I was beginning a womb bleed (big drop in the loo bowl). Imagine my somewhat tempered relief to discover it was my bottom instead! hahaha.

figgygal, I had horrible fluid retention in my ankles, postpartum, but circling my feet was astonishingly effective; it's a really physical shove to the blood and lymph (ugh). Could you do the same with your wrists and ankles? Apologies if you are already windmilling/ egg-whisking ( just for you, aethelfleda) your extremities.