Due Jan 06 - the one where we get to have our babies!!!

[sweetkitty]

New thread ladies!!

Thanks found them both! You next then SK.

Hunker has gone into hospital very exciting can't wait for the announcement! Best of luck and best wishes Hunker x

Hello all,

Blimey so much posting been going on i can't keep up!

Firstly hello Tickle glad to see your home & ok and loving the name Theo

Hunker- Goodluck to you all seems so exciting can not wait to hear the announcement.

Sweetkitty - Was expecting some news from you! I am sure your little girl is going to be here any time soon, i will not jinx any day as she seems to like proving us all wrong, so lets just say your not going to have a baby for another week at least now lets see if that works!

Wonder how Rach & Iris are getting on no news is good news i hope

Well nothing happening here, feels like baby has moved down alot more though, i have midwife tomorrow so am sure she will tell me, its my official due date tomorrow yippppe can not believe i am there already, i am excited but also very very scared as in know anything can happen now & its just a matter of when !! eeek!

I am just relaxing today been out this morning doing odd jobs, am waiting for my shopping delivery form sainsburys they are coming between 2-4pm so thats about the most exciting news here lol.

I recieved 2 goregous baby blankets today from Rickman i am so so pleased they are just gorgeous, they are the white shawl types lovely and thick & warm now all i need is my baby to put in them (note to baby "hurry up girl stop being stubburn like your mummy)

Anyway still waiting for my sister to fly home i am sure its tomorrrow but she just wont tell us, can not wait to see here

I will be popping on & off today i will also try add some more pics to yahoo as i am on pc not laptop so i can download pics form camera etc.

Take care all xxx

So glad to hear from Tickle. Don't worry about trying to catch up on everything here - that's nearly impossible after two days already. I'm glad you are back home now. I used to have a major crush on a boy named Theo when I was about 6. HE was one of a set of twins. The other was not called Ingo, though. I've never heard the name Ingo - is it a common name in Scandinavia? I do like the sound of it!

Great news about Hunker going into hospital. I'm sure you're next, SK!

I just went on a mammoth walk (well, 2 hours of waddling) and felt quite sorry for myself when I was at the library and realised I had to walk all the way back. I considered ringing DH to come and pluck me but decided walking was better. I'm quite sore in my lower regions now but nothing like cramps or contractions. Maybe tonight?

I have a MW appt tomorrow and will ask for a sweep. Maybe a bit early not being overdue yet (due tomorrow or Friday, depending on who you ask) but I do have that section booked for next Friday and it would be great not to have to have it.

Right, I'd better have a little snooze before DH comes home. I don't like being asleep when he walks in the door, makes me feel a bit bad as I'm also in bed when he leaves in the morning. He must think I sleep all day

Have a good evening!

hi M2OAB - Most of the posts are from me moaning about how this baby isn't coming out. Fingers crossed you will have a due date baby then.

Eshay - good you can sleep loads I often have an afternoon nap when Abbie goes down for hers, think it's the broken nights I'm getting just now although I'm about to get a whole load more. Just hope this one is like her sister Abbie was great at night, up fed nappy changed and back down in about 15 minutes flat, no messing around for her and she was sleeping for 7 hours straight at 7 weeks. Think this one will be different though! I've thought about asking for a sweep but don't like the idea of it though keep thinking the baby will come when she's ready to come.

So we are still waiting on news from Rach, Iris and Hunker, Rach must definately have had her babe by now though!

Had a hosp appt today - and now got a revised date of Jan 29th from Feb 1st - so will be 'straddling' this thread and the Feb thread like I was at the beginning.

hotmama - hope you do have a January baby now

I see Hunker has had her baby she's keeping the details quiet though, I'm not happy we had a pact and mine has not appeared.

I had better be next (storms off in pregnant woman waddle indiced huff!! )

Seriously though I have so much pressure down below and the SPD/SI pain is killing me, also if I get one more e-mail/text/phonecall asking me if theres any news I will go mad!

ok, so im thoroughly fed up today. tired and... emotional? no just tired. and maybe a bit hormonal.

have absolutely no right to be, as im not even overdue yet, but baby's head is well engaged and am uncomfortable as hell. ds's 1 and 2 are starting to feel the tension a little i think and are getting a bit clingy.

spent the day talking to boring blokes about, admittedly very exciting building plans, but sooooo not in the mood. saw MW this morn, who said my BP is up a bit (not a worry as it is usually so rock bottom its a wonder i can stand up!!) which she said meant i was prob going into labour soon... and i lost another v little bit of the plug a coupla hours ago. (the whole plug is enormous so i know these are only little bits)

just seems like i keep getting all these signs, but nothing happens!! agh!!

and ive ranted at you lot without even reading up on the posts ive missed coz i'm a selfish cow

so if ive missed something, sorry. really. hope you are all ok toady, and SK in partic, hope you are well.

bugger it, im off to bed.

hello all

i'm sorry you are feeling a bit SK and notacow, hope your babies come soon.

we have had a bit of a sh few days, what with me having mastitis and both of my older kids off school with high temps and general coldy / fluey symptoms. ds has gone to stay overnight with my mum today, so that eases the pressure a bit. last night when i got up with lo, ds1 needed some support too, his temp was way up and he felt rubbish. thankfully dh saw to him, while i sorted out alex. now dd is ill too, it would just be too much, so i'm glad ds is with nana now.

hope all you pg jan women get a decent nite's sleep tonite, and hope i do too!

laters xxx

oh Lyra

hope all get better soon... its bloody hard work being mum when everyone else gets ill and relies on you to fix it all... who's gonna take care of you, eh??

think i'll take to the bottle today.

Morning all 40+5 weeks, no signs of anything!

Notacow - can I join you in the bottle and feeling like rubbish today?

Well sitting here in floods of tears don't know why really. Had bad night firstly DD didn't settle until after 11 poor wee thing can't breathe at night and is refusing to take any Calpol or Medised. Then I had a really bad nights sleep with the cough/cold/SPD/general pregnancy ailments so we've been up since 6.30am. Today is a bad day to have a baby anyway, DP has gone to his HQ near Edinburgh today so he's over an hour away if anything were to happen and SIL has gone to Ireland on business (she DD's carer). Keep thinking this baby is bever going to come out and I'll be in for an induction and if SIL can't come up and look after DD, DP will miss the birth. Think it's the cold on top of everything else just getting to me, sure I'll be ok in a bit.

My discharge had a pinkish tinge to it this morning, don't know if I'm making it up or not. Pubic bone very sore especially when I cough.

So that's me today so sorry about the moan although there are less and less to moan about each day which I suppose is a good thing means babies are being born.

Looking forward to the announcements from Hunker, Rach and Iris soon as well. Hope everyone else who's still got a bump is doing well.

oh SK -
if only you were nearby, i'd bring a bottle round now! you need it more than i, too, and now feel stupid for moaning when i clearly have nothing to moan about! would happily take care of your poor sick DD and MAKE you sit still (thereby not hurting pelvis any more than nec) and drink with me! maybe being drunk will get the babies out!!

without wanting to offer false hope (the last thing either of us need right now!) if the SPD is hurting more today, maybe its coz baby is pushing down more, and pinkish tinge sounds promising... if cervix is ripening, that would account for it. course, sods law says it'll come today coz its bloody inconvenient!!

have you read the really stupid mushroom peeling thread on the homepage yet? it cheered me up for about 10 minutes yesterday, and some light relief might be welcome...

sending you deeply sympathetic and sisterly vibes...

Thanks notacow, I feel bad for moaning too as I'm onoy 5 days overdue and the baby is fine but sometimes it just all gets too much. I think one drink would get me drunk these days haven't been drunk since Nov 2003 (just before I found out about DD1).

I suppose one way or the other I will get rid of all of this by next weekend. And don't you worry about moaning and ranting either we are about to have babues we are allowed!!!

you are perfectly within your rights to moan! dont think i can bear another minute of being pregnant myself, let alone another few days/ possibly weeks!! agh!

and yes, i am indeed a very cheap date these days, haha! havnt had a drop of hard liquor, nor been 'drunk' since...um... august 2002? must be. in all honesty, i did get a little tipsy once or twice since then, but it only takes about 1.5 glasses of wine to get me there these days, so not sure that counts!!

and this from a bit of a former party girl... i did live on Ibiza (Eivissa to us locals and residents, dont you know) for two whole summers, once upon a time

Morning all & what a dull one it is

Well i am due today along with Eshay (are you still with us eshay?)
Really don't want baby to come today as it's 11 years today since my father died of a tragic accident so not the best of days for myself or obviously my family! Only good thing i can think of if baby does come is that it could turn an extremly sad day into a very happy exciting one

Well nothing been happening much here just the odd twinge this morning but more than certain it's the BH, I have the midwife at 3pm today so see what she has to say, oh actually i wanted to ask the only thing that has been happening to me is i have been have very hot flushes, i start to really clam up do you think this may be an infection or is this a sign ? Sorry never had it before so thought i would put it before the mumsnetters!

NotACow - When are you due? have you changed your name i can not see you on the list? (confused)

I see Hunker has had her baby & what a fast labour, hope mine is somewhere along those lines ( please god ) can not wait to here her story & what sex she has Congratulations Hunker if you see this & weldone xxxx

Anyway hope everyone is ok & also hope all those who have had there little babies are doing well, recovering & resting lots.

I will be back later to see if any news take care all xxxx

Good morning poor souls,

Every morning I log on and hope to find 50 posts from people to say they are feeling things or have rushed to H but today is another disappointing day. Although today that's positive for SK, with everyone being so far away. How dare people plan things like that? (although I'm sure at the time you thought you'd have a 4-week-old by today, SK).

I'm so sorry to hear about all the sick kiddies, it's hard enough caring for sick little ones when you're healthy and fine yourself but this week? Not good. Thomas woke up with a cough and snot all over his face this morning so something's happening here too. Hope it won't get any worse but even some of the nursery nurses were ill yesterday so that doesn't promise anything good.

I have alittle news but it's probably nothing. I have been having period like cramps this morning. I'm not sure what time they started, I just thought it was highly annoying as I was enjoying my sleep. Then at 6.30 I suddenly realised this might be the start of things so I got all excited but now that I'm actually up and dressed, they seem to have died away. I thought being up and moving was supposed to help things along? Or is it just that it's only very early days and I just can't feel anything when I'm not lying there concentrating on every niggle? That's probably it. I'm such a wimp - thinking it was painful before and not feeling anything now!

I have my MW check-up in 30 mins so I'd better go. Haven't even dried my hair or produced a sample yet... See ya later.

Yes, still here! Happy due date Mum2oneandBump!

Oh, I just read the rest of your post. Not that happy a day for you but as you say, maybe the sadness can be replaced by joy. To me that seems like today would be the best day for your baby to come but obviously I have no idea as I've not experienced anything tragic like you have. It would be nice to think that your dad has something to do with the arrival. xxx

hi again nice to see you Eshay and M2OAB, I've got MW coming around this afternoon too so will have a chat to her then too.

Sorry to hear today isn't a good day for you M2OAB.

Just had my Dad phone me up (stopped screening my calls) stupid questions like "so theres no news" no I would have phoned you if there was and "so nothing at all is happening" erm hang on I could check my cervix for you! Sorry but it is really getting annoying do people realise that when you are virtually housebound and sitting waiting for a baby to be born that the last thing you need is for them to be phoning up asking when the babies going to be born.

I think I may waddle over to the local shop and get some fresh air if my pelvis will hold out that long!

hi mum2one - am due on the 23rd (monday) - was called missC before, maybe am under that on the list.
re: the hot flushes - my mum (the MW) says that you should check your temperature - if its normal, dont worry about it. if high you may need to see mw/doc to make sure youre ok. she says its not usually a sign of impending labour, but everyone is different so it could be for you. having said that, i was getting them yesterday too, so i dont know what that means for either of us!
sorry to hear about sad anniversary. maybe new baby on this day can turn it around for you and family, that would be nice, eh? like its a present from your dad or something. sorry if i'm being insensitive, dont want to be. people are ever so afraid of talking about death arent they?

Eshay - good luck at the MW, and dont feel silly about getting excited. we're all doing it! personally, i get my hopes up every time i fart, in case it might be the start of things, now thats sad! hope Thomas feels better soon too, tho sounds like a cold is going round the nursery... theyre a bugger for that, nurseries, arent they?

SK - LOL at your dad. know what you mean, but i guess theyre only trying to show they care, annoying sods

hi sk - know what you mean about phone calls - my dad kept ringing every day (he doesn't usually get in contact much) and it did get very annoying.

But reading your post M2OAB - it makes me appreciate that even tho my dad is a bit of a waste of space, at least he is around to complain about. So sorry you miss yours so much

Pinkish tinge does sound promising sk, and my 2nd labour was a 2 hr job, so let's hope it all kicks off for you nice & quickly when dp is home from Edinburgh. Oh, and will dd take nurofen for children (it's orange flavour)? My dd1 was the only child I knew that wouldn't touch calpol... but nurofen was acceptable!?

M2OAB - in the few days running up to this baby I was getting v sweaty - feet & under arms, and I'm usually not a hot flush type of person. hope it's a symptom!

Have a good day everyone
T xx

Just back from the MW and had my sweep. Ouch! I'm sure it didn't hurt that much last time but then again, it never worked last time so maybe that MW was just not very good. She certainly wasn't very friendly. (My current MW is lovely.) No more twinges since I last wrote and the MW said that often happens - twinges at night and nothing when you get up because hormone levels are higher when you're sleeping. Maybe I should have even more naps!

Hope you can go for a little walk to the shops today SK. It's funny how something boring like the local shop can be the highlight of the day!

Thanks for all your lovely meassages

I am feeling ok about today i have got used to my dad not being around so this certain day is not to bad for me, i still miss him so so much as i was still quite young when i lost him, but i know he would be so so proud of me for where i am today & would be so happy for me for starting my family, he loved kids & would have adored his grandkids.

I don't mind talking about it i love talking about my dad, i feel quite strong today & rather happy, it's normally night time that can be quite bad as the accident happened at 11.30pm so memorys seem to come flooding back!

I don't really mind about baby coming today to be honest if she is going to comer i can not stop her, i have tried to look at it as a positive way like others have suggested & it really helps & works.

I am sorry you are all having a bad time with poorly kids it's the last thing you need right now isn't it?

Eshay - Feeling excited about your twinges, funny enough i have been having stomach cramps this morning but i am not gett9ing excited as it could be the BH, i will say what my Midwife says at 3pm!

NotACow - I can see your name on the list now it is under MissC thats where my confusion was, & i don't seem to have a functioning brain or memory either at the moment so thats not helping
In fact my brain seems to be frazzled, i told Ds he had to get up this morning as he had nursery & said him come on your pyjamas are on the table! Eh ?? to which he said Pj's?? What i ment was his breakfast of course!!

Anyway i am off to try the lucazade trick i saw on another thread for your sweetkitty to see if any of that works, i am honestly up for anything now i am getting very uncomfortable & i have terrible back ache!

Speak to you all in a bit x

Lucozade trick? What's that about? Drink 5 bottles?

hi all nothing to report here either, don't know about the Lucozade think it might be coincidence. My friend whos due on the 16th phoned me she's as fed up as the rest of us, she had a sweep yesterday and sex last night but nothing today.

Tickle - good to see you, how are you feeling? How's that little man of yours have you decided on a name yet?

Right am off to make lunch for DD.