Third trimester here we come! Better start shopping 'cos in February we're popping! Feb 2012 Baby Bus

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5th thread? I'm lost off with all the chat! Lovely to have a nosy at everyone on facebook, if you haven't been added yet, get yourself on there!

Old thread is here, as you were ladies

i am strong denial. apart from LO kicking and not being able to put my socks on properly i really couldnt give a fig atm. i am knackered after a horrendous train journey down to london yesterday for a big work do in the Abbey and didnt get back till 930 last night. they gave us today off but i am truly shattered. not sleeping much as everytime i lie on my side it pokes some arms or legs out the otherside which bloody hurts.

am really pissed off with this whole pregnancy thing tonight and really just want to have a full nights sleep and wake up refreshed and ready to go. DH was supposed to have this weekend off as DD1 is going to a concert tomorrow night at LG Arena and we have pony club and i am working in the pub tomorrow afternoon for the shoot dinners. sunday is also pony club. i was a bit cross when he came home last week and said he was working. Me and DD2 are going to drop DD1 and her friend at Birm international station tomorrow night and then we are catching train into the bullring for the german market.

i am planning on a gas and air birth. i did it last time through no choice and felt fab afterwards. might change though and i will have everything going.

oh and DH has just well and truly fucked up tea. went shopping with him today and bought lamb chops. instead of grilling them he has put them in a pan on the hob. even more pissed off as he then said one piece of steak we had was lamb and i said no that steak and yes i was bloody right!

Esme thank you for the reassurance regarding c-sections. I think you're right, and people are scaremongering to try to put women off choosing them as an "easy" option - it just got to me!

I'm worried because I'm not scared about the birth (yet) but seeing as though I'm not alone I feel a bit better! at Louby's fanjo...I'm bypassing mine totally by using magic to get Bert out. Still working on the actual spell though. Definitely thanks Esme for the CS reassurance - makes my back-up plan much more palatable (if the magic spell and gas and air waterbirth delivery both fall through).

Am feeling lots of kicking - and if I wake during the night and Bert is having a riverdance I can't get back to sleep either. Fortunately we have no snoring issues because DH is sleeping in the naughty bed still, so both of us get as much sleep as we can! In my case though that's not necessarily as much as I'd like!

Starting to get annoyed at the constant feeling of needing a wee and then getting to the bathroom and finding that there is no wee there. And I have had a very supportive evening with my mother and my sister taking turns in expressing their disbelief at how huge I am, and then trying to get me to tell them the names we've shortlisted. I've told them our "official" name selections (Conan, Wulf or Wheyne for a boy, Merlot or Whitney-Britney for a girl) and told them a couple that have been vetoed but that's it.

OMG I have literally JUST read the previous page of posts and had loads to say but have completely forgotten what was written. So I shall express sympathy for those who are feeling rubbish, fearful or generally uncomfortable/in pain and sink back into my cloud of "wtf is actually going on, please?"...

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28 weeks today!

As a second timer, I'm not worried about the birth, yes, it hurts UNBELIEVABLY, but 5 seconds after it's born you won't remember a thing, and you'll have a baby! I'm not worried about something being wrong with it. I'm just not worried.

Apart from, I'm worried about DD...Our families are hundreds of miles away, and so i need to make a sort of rota of people who can come over for a short time (better for her than being shifted around people's houses I think), or preferably whole days, and it is stressing me out massively. If i'm induced that's another matter, my mum and dad will come, but they can't just get in the car and drive here with ten minutes notice - it's a 5 hour drive at the best of times.

I don't know what to do...

On a more positive note, i got on with making DD's birthday present today (she is 2 in february, so need to get it sorted...), a farmyard, made of wood, with felt grass, shiney pond, gravelly tracks across the fields (spray on stone-effect paint!). It's SO fun to have a nice crafty thing to make for her to take mind off everything else. I recommend it if you have time and inclination!! (which given how crap most pf us feel, probably not much inclination!!) Already bought a load of the schmetz animals from m'care to go with it. I'm so excited!! (sorry, just indulge the overexcitement, given how swollen my bits are, how sporadic sleep is and how muchmy pelvis hurts, i think it may just be hormonal hysteria)

30 + 3

hermione, have you tried tilting yourself side to side and back to front while on the loo? Sometimes you'll find that helps to get the wee out!! I can't imagine what shape our bladders must become with the babies sitting on them, so that tilting our bodies releases wee!!

I just felt a little foot (i assume) through my belly, with my hand, right at top of uterus!! My placenta was at front last time and i don't ever remember getting these types of properly sticking out limbs!! It's LOVELY!!! And also a bit weird and freaky, but mostly lovely!

I'm officially in the third trimester as of today!

Oh and woowa that birthday present sounds amazing! Can I have one please???

Morning all

Havent posted for awhile but have been lurking. Hope all those who have been rubbish are feeling better now.

I am not scared - still in denial I think. I have so much to do at work before mat leave, have dd's bday in 2 weeks and then Christmas so have not really thought about it tbh.

woowa that present sounds fab. Unfortunately I am not that arty so dd is getting a sit on fire engine for her bday.

Not me in the doctors bill, I was at the spa yesterday enjoying a lovely mum to be package . Not sure we at the same place anyway, i am not at the docs on the front street, the mw clinic at my surgery is a wednesday.

Having pram stress so going to see if I can sort that out.

Sigh...ok, am scared now. Got my GTT test results back this morning and have diabetes. Going to see a consultant on Thursday. Will need to read up on the effects and treatments and stuff before then. Feeling very sorry for myself this morning!

Hello
I have been MIA for a while just soo busy!
Have had 28 wk mw appointment,, anti d and my consultant appointment this week. All appears to be well but i'm another with a secret fear something is wrong :(

Keep waking in night as dodgy hips, numbness due to pins and needles and needing a weeeeee oh and 3 kids who only want mummy grrr

Feeling very lethargic these days but need to get my arse into gear as its ages away yet!

Not scared of birth here. Having had 2 difficult biryhs and one wonderful one I would say the only thing you can have about labour is a go with the flow attitude. Planning on water/tens and gas and air this time. For those of you worried about induction my 2 induced births progressed no differently to my naturally occuring one. And seriously when you hold your baby for the first time the feeling is euphoric second to none :)

I am starting to worrry about going back to the baby stage especially with 3 other kids!
After selling that pram the other day I am going to try my friends quinny buzz in my car so fingers crossed it fits!
28+3

Oh no Esme x
Hope its all ok

woowa your DD's birthday present sounds ace! I don't have one artistic bone in my entire body so I'm terribly impressed! I've tried the rocking thing but to no avail - I think it's just that Bert is sitting on my bladder and it makes me think I need to go when actually I don't.

I can't even begin to imagine what the pain must feel like. I don't recall ever having severe pain in my life - possibly the worst thing was after having my wisdom teeth out and I was on soup and ibuprofen for a week and even that was about a million years ago so I don't remeber that. I'm possibly a tad worried about not being prepared for the pain, and having been reading the Pregnancy Bible this morning am beginning to worry that I'm not "emotionally prepared" enough - apparently being emotionally unprepared for the pain can slow down labour. But then the book also says I shouldn't eat nuts or stilton so maybe it's not right and I can go back to my emotionally unpreparedness in comfort...

Supposed to be painiting the spare room today but both DH and I are in our pyjamas still. And it's lunch time. Well, nearly. So I'm going to have my lunch and then get dressed, and then start with the painting. So at least we will have some of it done by the time we have to go to the pub at 7 this evening.

28+1

Esme I'm really sorry about your GTT result :( hope you can get some decent advice from your consultant to help you to manage it ok. My dad has type 2 diabetes and I've found a whole lot of really useful stuff on the diabetes uk website - and they have some on GD as well here. I'm sure there's also a support thread on MN which I've seen.

esme I have a positive story about a woman who had GD. Her baby was growing bigger than normally BUT the little chap was born by C-Section 3 weeks early and he was perfect, the mother had no complications at all after. She was told to follow a low GI diet, lots of high fibre carbs, lean proteins, healthy fats and veg, there was some fruit she had to avoid but I can't remember which ones. I have a low GI recipe book, its Anthony Worrall Thompson and its specifically for diabetics, if you want I can send it to you on Monday, the food looks scrummy.
I hope everyone is having a nice weekend :)

sorry to hear that esme :( hope your consulatant appointment leaves your feeling more positive. My GTT test is on Monday it's very worrying. There's lots you can do to help though and you and baby will be just fine.

28 weeks, hello third trimester!

Popping in to say hello. Been feeling pants but much better today after some much needed sleep.
Sugar csection really isn't that bad, this will be my 3rd & after a bad bout of thrush I have realised I have real issues about sore bits & I'm glad they will be remaining intact. Mentally I seem more able to handle pain anywhere other than my bits.
Esme sorry to hear you have gd, I'm waiting for my results & am feeling nervous. Hope all goes well with consultant & they put your mind at ease.
Woowa your daughters prezzie sounds fab.
Everyone else hello & hope your all good, fuzzy brain & being on my phone I can't remember anything else

Well im in a bad mood today. Im sore, constantly tired and sick of clearing up after a grown man who has had 3 days off work and just sits on his xbox. Grr! Hes gone to work now so hopefully i will calm down :) But seriously is it SO HARD to put toilet roll back in the bathroom when you use the last of it? Or take your dirty glasses downstairs to be washed? Or rinse a bloody plate? Ok rant over.

Getting fed up with feeling so uncomfortable and not being able to lean forward to pick something up or reach my feet etc. Tried wrapping presents earlier = not easy! As you can tell im very hormonal today!

Esme, Sorry to hear you have GD :( Im sure everything will be ok!

10 weeks left WOOHOO (as of tomorrow..)

Hello all - also been MIA with too much to do!

Esme - I'm having a GTT next Friday myself - gulp!

All else seems fine at the 28 week scan and not many niggles to complain about (apart from bad piles) but I'm bloody hormonal and in a terrible mood, feeling sorry for myself etc. Having a freak out about the birth and the whole idea of being a parent....

hermione, i'm not sure how you CAN be emotionally prepared for the pain, so i'm sure it won't make much difference. Even those of us who have been through that pain can't remember what it's like! Our lovely hormones make sure of that!! I remember that it hurt, but not what it felt like, and if you just try to go with the flow (scream if you want to, sit in water if you fancy it, ask for drugs if you can't bear it, inhale G and A constantly for 6 hours (rather than just during contractions!), you do that. It might mean throwing your strict birth plan out the window, but i can promise you that no-one else can tell you at any moment during your labour how you are feeling. I wouldn't let the maternity care assistant touch the taps of the bath, for example, you'll just know how you're doing at the time. Make sure your birth partner is on your wavelength and it'll be fine. I REALLY don't want a c-section, partly because DH is disabled and can't lift everything, so i don't want neither of us to be able to do what's needed with baby and DD, however, i'm sure that if they think baby is going to die i'll be signing on that line and having a c-section.
Ur, sorry, that was a load of waffle!!

Right, nobody got any sleep last night, so i should try. DD teething, me pregnant and uncomfortable, DH had flu jab in one arm and pneumonia jab in t'other, and since his arms are his "legs" (wheelchair user) he had very poorly arms. SO slept on back and snored. or tried on side and ached.

whinge whinge. DOn't you love being pregnant!?

30+4

woowa you're awesome!

Hello everyone,

Sugar I am in the same position as you re: low lying placenta and have a scan in Jan to see whether I can have vaginal birth this time around. I had EMCS last time and was walking next day, went to the park after 3 days in car and had short walk and a week later was getting on buses and travelling around London (5 weeks and me and DH resumed 'relations' ). So don't worry too much as I have heard that an elective cs has a better recovery time than EMCS.

Esme sorry to hear about Diabetes diagnosis. Try not to over worry and ask the doctors lots of questions about how to manage your sugar levels. There are many diabetic women who have healthy, happy babies.

Woowa I love all that stuff. My 7 year old niece has been staying with us lots recently whilst her mum does nightshifts and we had great fun building pirate ships for her and DD (2.5) out of cardboard boxes. They looked so funny in their paper pirate hats and beards!

Having fun at the moment as we are decorating our new flat from top to bottom, so chaos reigns. In addition I have been trying to stop DD and new 9 week old kitten from systematically destroying the one clean and tidy room in the house*//////////, and keep said kitten off keyboard whilst I am typing!!

Can you request a GTT? Just curious because lots of people having it due to their family history ....

But I have no family history being adopted

You can in my area, I'd imagine they'd rather be sure everything is ok for you and baby

kayano i expect you probably can - give your MW a ring and ask :)

woowa thanks ever so...i feel a bit better about my lack of preparedness for the pain! bit at a thread on here asking "why do people feel the need to give birth naked"...that's a bit of a weird question to ask, isn't it...? surely it's down to personal choice and how you feel at the time, the same as all the stuff woowa's talking about? maybe i'm overthinking it... :o

right i'm off to pick up the baby car seat now :o hopefully by the time i get back dh will have finished painting the nursery...!