January 2012-Close encounters of the third trimester kind.... Too much nesting not enough resting!

[fishandlilacs]

Here we go ladies. A shiney new thread.

Count your blessings girls, thats all I can say. Sounds glib on the face of it, but I for one am grateful for my family and my growing healthy baby. My back might hurt and I have indigestion but at least i'm not facing anything like my poor friend.

Anyway i'm off to have a glass of milk with a gaviscon chaser and rest my poor pelvis.

Oh fish how awful, I really feel for your friend. So devastating. She's the same age as me, which makes it resonate more somehow. I've been thinking of her since you told us - wishing her and her partner all the best. Such a difficult time :(

Sorry - welcome easilybored :)

Nanny01 I think I've managed to change his mind - he's even coming hypnobirthing with me.

fish - I know it doesn't mean much, but do tell your friend we're all thinking of her. What a horrible situation, I hope she is OK and that she and her other half will be surrounded by loving family at this terrible time.

Anyone else hugging their belly right now?

Oh fish, your poor friend. It's horrible enough tobe in such a situation once, but twice is just ... Silver lining being she has a healthy boy at home who I bet is full of cuddles and will light up her day when times are tough.

fish- I was hopeing for better news for your friend. It sounds like she saw the people that know. Still so sad to get to that stage and have to make such a difficult decision. Please don't stop talking to your friend she will value your friendship through these times.

fish that's so very sad. I know what you mean about feeling grateful, I have heard a few very sad stories recently and it totally puts things into perspective.

redhead I have just ordered that book! I had a very bad time with DSs birth, so am looking to find some different guidance, particularly if. Go ahead with homebirth plans.

Thanks all, I keep crying for her. I'm just so sad about it. I wont stop talking to her nanny I just meant that I have no words to describe what i'm feeling for her.

I was so looking fwd to us having our wee ones together, my dd and her boy are 10 months apart and these ones would have only been 5-6 months apart. I know she was too but hadn't let herself get excited. After all of this last year she had already given up on ttc again, she even gave me all her baby stuff 3 days before she found out she was pregnant again.

ah well.

Just makes me grateful. Thats all I keep thinking.

How far along is your dear friend? Will she be able to be put to sleep while they ..... I don't want to say it. Bless her my heart goes out to her x

worm She was 11.5 weeks, so should be straight forward in terms of that. They hurried all the tests this time becasue of her history. She's grateful for that-her overwhelming feeling is one of thankfulness that she hasn't gone full term then had a still birth or a later miscarriage. It appears that would have been a very likely outcome-in many ways so much worse than what she is facing right now.

Evening all!

Welcome easily! Though I am confused by your due date...probably just my poor brain struggling to count or, maybe I'm having an alien baby (yet more amunition for the theory-gun). I'm haivng to wait until end Nov for my mat leave. Right now that feels like a billion years away.

mia What a day! What an arse of a boss!

Oh fish. I'm so sorry about your friend. .

red boo to the sickness! At least I'm expecting to vomit when I do!

shonno it's quite common for 'natural' cough drops to have echinacea, so could it be that the guy in the health food shop objected too? All the searchign I did found manuka was fine, but with the usual caution of it not being studied closely etc.

Still really bloody tired. Swimming was an epic fail. after 20 rather lazy lengths I felt terrible, so came home (via getting some heston salted caramel popcorn and some chocolate and rosemary icecreams - which taste great, but I didn't fancy more than a taste). Had a 3h nap this afternoon, but still feel soo tired it's not funny. Anyway. Off to bed. Cleaning the bathroom will have to wait 'til tomorrow.

NN my lovelies!

Oeisha - I'm not leaving working till December sometime, but I've got a huge project to wrap up before I leave and I just don't have the time or energy for it at the minute - hopefully if my replacement can take over my day to day work then I will have time to get that done.

Fish - so sorry for your friend.

Fish sorry for your friend. I haven't read everyone's comments (childminding hunting - sorry, so a quick call). Has she had an amnio or CVS? 1 in 2 is scary but look on the other side - 1 in 2 it isn't! Hope everything goes well.

Childminder question:

I contacted FISH today in the East Riding for a list of childminders in my village. There are 7. Two of them are no good due to wrong hours, Four apparently say this:
Offers Early Learning and Childcare Places: No

Does that mean that they do not have any places available for the under 5s?

Should I check regardless as am not needing one until September 2012?

I have no idea how this works. We are looking at day nurseries too but prefer a childminder in the village for practicality purposes (i.e. school in 5 years!)

mum2be I would contact them regardless, you dont know how up to date the info is and as you say, your looking for care next year not just now.

I would contact them regardless, it doesnt hurt to ask!

Last night I thought I was having BH. I woke up this morning to find most of my clothes dont fit! More like a growth spurt rather BH.

Hope everyone is having a good day and feeling well x

my stomach was jumping around the other night in a really weird way - DH and I diagnosed foetal hiccups and couldn;t stop giggling at the poor little Sproglet hiccuping away in there

Oh yes - and last night I needed no less than four pillows wedged in around me in order to sleep, as well as the two I used for my head. When they said 'nesting' I didn't realise they meant it literally...

speaking of last night - I had to get up and wee 4 times!

It's amazing what sleep can do. I feel sooo mych more human for now and maths has started to make sense again easily!

DH woke me again lastnight. Random athsma attack may not have been so random. He's now coughing up gunk...joy joy! OK, ok, so fine, but then Abi took this as a que to dance about. 30 odd this time over about 90mins. BUT I think combined with a long nap yesterday (ok, ok a 3h sleep in the afternoon) I feel not qite so terrible.

cakes How did the hiccups feel? And how long did they last? Don't think Abi's had them, but she is occasionally very rhythmical for a couple of mintes and I've wondered if that's hiccups?!

they felt like regularly spaced little jumps - quite different from kicks or punches.

Cool. Don't think so then, as she's usually doing other stuff in between the rhythmic bits (like punching me as well as nerfing my cervix). Though I could quite understand the desire to punch whilst hiccuping. I used to hiccup for anything up to 36h (usually only 8-9h) at a time as a teen.

do you get that weird thing where they're quite obviously doing something like drumming their heels against you because you get a constant pattering sensation? That's the only thing I can think it is!

Yeah, only this feels like her hands...doesn't feel strong enough to be feet, and there are def. larger (what I'm assuming are feet) feet movements up by my ribs or on my right if she's goen transverse.

Interestingly though, I have noticed fewer movements up by my ribs than down my my bladder. Maybe she's head-up after all and a very strong straight-up puncher???

Gizwizzard's beeing a whiney furbaby today. I don't want to be cross with him, but he keeps getting kicked becasue I can't see him. Now I feel like I'm being a terrible human Mummy as he's sulked out into the rain without me saying a proper sorry.

My clingy cat is being especially clingy atm too - I blame the cooler weather.

I can't identify half the movements I get inside, I just refer to all of them as kicks - they're all over my belly and into my insides with no pattern of positioning. I can only assume it moves around a lot and likes to keep us on our toes. The somersaults are particularly disconcerting as my whole belly feels like it's being turned inside out!