January 2012 - The one with the heartburn, kick counting and bump-gropers losing their hands...

[shonnomanom]

There we go, a nice new thread.

The BIG Question??? Will the first baby arrive during this thread???????

Morning all,

I am like a cat on a hot tin roof today-the possibilty of OFSTED coming to me today and one of my oldest friends being in labour yesterday and having not heard anything yet! I am hopping! Her waters went yesterday morning and I have not heard anything since noon yesterday. GAH!

Sleeping like shit at mo-toss turn toss turn, up for a wee, sleep a bit, toss turn some more. Rib flare is bad, sciatica seems to be back as well, i'm grateful for the few weeks I have had without it but I knew it would be back. AND my shoulder/neck seems to be hurting now too-my neck is so stiff I can't turn it properly to one side. Does anyone else simply feel like thier body is falling to bits? I do thats for sure.

well have a good day-sorry for the self centred post. Don't have time to read and comment this morning but will later! xx

Oh dear, poor old fish. Best of luck today, hope you don't get OFSTED-ed and that you hear from your friend really soon.
x

Morning all, I have a mw appointment this morning and a consultant appointment on thursday, I'm hoping she'll tell me what position bump is in, i think shes head down partly engaged but possibly back to back!

Fish i also feel like I'm falling apart! We should organise a get together, everyone else is doing it. Have you got your confirmation through for mat allowance? mine came through yesterday, just have to send it off once I'm on maternity now :)

I need to get dd dressed and harvest some urine fun times!

Sorry fish that was 3 diffrent unrelated thought trains in 1 paragraph!
Good luck today.

Had an uncomfortable day yesterday I seem to get breathless really easy. Everything is just a struggle the house has slid into ultimate dump look. No body picks up I am sure they are all wondering where the cleaning fairy has gone. The fatigue is returning to.

Like every one else worrying which way up baby is as I seem to get lots of kicks on the underside of bump and bladder.

Sproglet was definitely shifting round all over the place last night - he's obviously still got lots of room to manoeuvre for now, so I'm not going to worry just yet.

Gah. My brain hurts.

Glad I'm not the only person suffering with the breathlessness!

Fish, for what it's worth, I also feel as if I'm falling apart - sleeping badly is a large part of it I think. Speaking of which...

Sorry if this is impertinent (!) but can I have feedback on the number of trips to the loo everyone is making during an average night? I seem to go all the time - five or six times a night. Am I cracking up?

I don't really go during the night, but then I drink loads and loads of water in the mornings and try and not have anything after 6pm because I hate doing loo trips in the middle of the night!

fish you're having a tough time of it! Hope you don't get a visit from OFSTED and still sending good vibes for your friend.

fryn and redhead I'm pretty envious of your pizza

addicted hope you get good news about the little one's positioning, though as cakes said there's loads of time for bubs to move, especially if she's a wriggler. One of the girls at my yoga class is at 36 weeks so is having a scan today because her little one is transverse and like mine seems to like it that way! The poor girl had an induction with her first child as she went over ten days overdue, but she managed an active birth with no pain relief in the end so her plans weren't too scuppered (except for the waterbirth bit).

capy I'm usually only going once or twice a night - I go absolutely last thing when I'm just about to drop off, then usually wake around 4am, unless something wakes me earlier. Like cakes I habitually drink a lot of water anyway so it's not been much of a change for me throughout the pregnancy. But then again, pamplemousse isn't head/bum down so there's not as much pressure on my bladder. I have had a few daytime moments when I've been convinced I need to wee desperately and then nothing comes out, so that must be the baby getting in the way.

GAH!!! I mean GAH!!! Words just can't describe how pissed-off I am. Feel free to skip.

I was actually vaguely looking forward to my parents visiting. They've been here 17 bloody hours and Mum's felt it appropriate to tell me that my house is a mess and that the health visitor might report me to social services because of it. My house is CLEAN, yes, and no thanks to DH hurting his shoulder we did as little hoovering as we could, so yes, the rug could do with hoovering, but WTF. As it is I have little respect for health visitors (I've worked with a few and, whilst I'm willing to give them a go, frankly, well...). I also didn't get time to do the beds/was feeling pretty fecking shoocking yesterday. Unfortuatly the boys got on to her bed and ther's now fur on the sheet. BUT they said they were and DID bring sleeping bags with them, so what's the issue? They're the ones that leave the doors open so the boys CAN get on the beds.
Abi's room isn't sorted. OK, but they've failed to bring the furniture (my furniture, not theirs) with them the last 3 times they've visited - so where exactly did they WANT me to put the bin bags of baby gros etc?

She kicked this off by commenting that the scraps from dinner were left out overnight. OK, so we had a 2h antenatal class lastnight 7-9. I was in no mood to clear away scraps when I got back. They were here...couldn't she deal with that if she was so worried?
Then commented that there was 'stuff allover the surfaces'. Oh, so a bloody great hole in the celing, meaning I've had to empty cupboards to dry them out...that doesn't matter. And why isn't it fixed yet? Try, we have no money, it IS being fixed, but just can't get it done that quickly.
Then came the general comments about messiness. It's just not good. Why? Well, it looks bad, a health visitor isn't going to like it....well fuck them frankly. If a messy house is a good enough reason to be arsey with me they can fuck off out of my house and I'll be complaining.

Yes, the place needs a good tidy, but that's what I was planning on spending some of my maternity leave sorting. I only agreed to them coming up as they were being very persistent about "never seeing me" and wanting to see us more often because "Abi will miss out" (again, the use of Abi when it suits). No she bloody won't, not if she has to deal with a Mummy that's crumbling and having to re-build, every visit because she's made to feel like a complete fucking failiure constantly.

Oh gods. They're here 'til Thursday...

God Oeisha, sounds like your mum is behaving really badly! What is it with mothers? Mine is also given to occasional fits of madness. Try not to take it personally, and good luck :(

Oeisha - big hugs. So sorry you're getting all stressed out - parents should be helpful if they're going to visit.

ghost - you're going to hate me, but I watched the first 2 eps of the new Grey's Anatomy and they're really good :D

Ooh - my groceries are coming today and I ordered 2 tubes of Smarties for myself as a treat :) Who wants to bet that they won't last the day? Will be very glad to get fresh milk, too. This UHT isn't too bad, but I really prefer the fresh stuff.

oeisha, what an awful thing for your mum to say! Don't worry about it too much - after all the most important thing is to grow your little girl!

I would turn around with some cleaning cloths and the vacuum and tell her to get cracking - if it bothers her so much then she should feel free to pitch in!

FWIW I'll never have my gran at my house as she's weirdly compulsive about cleaning - when she lived in a one-bed bungalow with five rooms she had a rota to clean one of the rooms every day and it used to take her hours. She's adamant that dust causes her headaches, but has never once considered that it might be the aerosols, cleaning products, squirty smelly things causing her issues. We're not nearly clean enough for her standards - in her eyes it's a crime to leave clean dishes on the drying rack overnight, as if drip drying isn't more hygenic than tea towels!

Can you point her to an article like this which summarises all the evidence that excessive cleaning causes allergies and intolerances in the developed world?

cakes it's totally awesome isn't it? Which season are you watching (or what's going on?) I have seen every ep of GA so far so you won't be spoiling me

It's the brand new series from the States on Sky - the fall out from Meredith arsing around with the Alzheimers trial...

Series 8 I think...?

ah yes! s8 is a tiny bit slow to start with but I watched ep 8 last night and it was SO AWESOME. I am hooked on the crazy drama eps now and ep 8 is a cliffhanger . I cried a bit

ok, so I just had another BP check and some bloods taken, and thankfully the nurse was running on time and was very efficient. My BP is still a bit high, but not alarm-bells high, so they're not going to do anything for now, and I've to wait to hear about the blood test results.

Thankfully I'm seeing my MW a week early for my 34 week check so I only have to wait until next Friday to get checked out again. They keep asking if I feel ok, but I never really know what to say about that! I'm tired, but that's probably because I'm busy and, y'know, growing a person, and I'm a bit puffy, especially in the evenings, but that's a standard pregnancy thing, and I'm a bit short of breath, but I have a bit of a cough and that's another pregnancy thing. What's the appropriate answer to 'are you feeling ok?'???

Back to work it is then...

i just can not get over how huge she is, they recon she is 4.7 pound now and that she will be at least 9pound born!

I wouldn't place too much faith in it mz as scans are notoriously unreliable for birth weight.

Mw appointment was all good, had a student mw take my blood and I actually screamed in pain! it was then she admitted to not having done it before on a actual pregnant lady patient info I could have done with before I agreed to it!

Oeisha my sister lives in a 2 bed tiny flat, the 2nd bedroom is filled with crap so her 3yo dd cosleeps with them her living room is filled with crap stuff her dh has 'collected' to sell at carboot sales (most of it taken out of skips or bought at carboot sales) when her dc2 came along she is also in their bedroom (obviously!) So they have 2 adults 2 children in 1 bedroom a filthy kitchen and no room to swing a cat in the livingroom. Her hv didn't report her, so I'm sure you will be fine. Tell your mum to stick her comments.

Just been for my 28 wk midwife check at 29 wks. Apparently my 8.1 glucose results does put me in the GD category but only just - 7.9 is the cut off. I've been booked in for diabetes clinic on 8th Dec. It's ages away but she said not to worry as it's not very over and moderating my diet a bit should do the trick.

Other than that all is good - baby kicked the doppler off. She's oblique with feet down by my left side and head up by the right. They aren't worried at the moment about it. Apparently oblique makes the heart beat more tricky to find but we found it in the end - galloping away like a trooper :)

Try and let it wash over your head Oeisha either that or give her the cleaning stuff and let her get on with it!

Deep breaths until Thursday

I seriously cannot believe we are in the last 10 week countdown - some of you nearer 5 weeks!!

My PGP is back with a vengeance, just at the same time as DS stops eating and gets a spotty bum! He seems ok in himself, i think his mouth hurts but he just ate a bowl of rice pudding so we are now at least getting somewhere.

The christmas shopping is nearly done and I almost know what the remaining bits are.

DS's new room has been stripped back, the electric sockets are in and we awaiting the plasterer on the 26th. Very excited as it will be the first properly 'done' room in this gorgeous but ancient house of ours. Honestly, dated is NOT the word!! I just want it done so that we can settle him in his new room in his cot before the new arrival. Then DS can go into his bed freeing up the cot in a few months time without thinking the baby has nicked his room and his cot. Complicated innit?

The babies should start to arrive soon, that's gonna frighten the hell out of us all!

Made my hospital bag list, but not bought much of it to be honest i can't be bothered with that and christmas at the mo. Think I just need to allocate a 'day' with MIL and go out and just BUY the stuff.
Also can't be bothered to dig out all the stuff from the attic and sort through. But i need to because i don't really know what can be reused

I am officially Mrs. Lazy Bones at the minute But by the sounds of it I am not the only one!!

8 weeks (and a day or two) for me supa - I can't believe it either!

My mum gave me the sweetest present recently, a little 'grow your own' paperwhite narcissi. She knows I love bulbs and flowers, but she picked this one because it takes 8-10 weeks to blossom, so it will flower at about the same time as my baby arrives. Most unlike her to be so sentimental :) I love it and planted it up yesterday along with a load of my other bulbs leftover from last uear that don;t seem to have died! Hyacinths, tete a tetes and narcissi heaven here I come :)

Ugh I am tired today. DH just told me on the phone he would talk to me later when I was less tired and tetchy - is there anything in the world guaranteed to make you grumpy faster than someone telling you you're grumpy?