Due in June 2006 - Part Two!

[Laura032004]

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mrsbabookaloo - excellent thread thank you, i keep getting more and more ideas from all these threads, gonna need a bigger bag soon. have just remembered that my towesl aren't packed. and i need LARGE ones to go round me, thats my bag filled. Hmm feel better for being organised though

Hi All,

I've just discovered Mumsnet and have been reading the June thread for a few days now. I'm due on 1st June so can I join you all. We know we are having a boy which is exciting as we already have a DD who is 3 in May.

DD has chicken pox at the moment so we are housebound. She keeps wanting to be picked up and carried and can't really understand that i find her too heavy.

I am a bit worried that everyone seems so organised for the arrival of their baby. We've still got to get everything out of the loft and there's no bags packed at all. I should be better organised as DD was 2 weeks early and arrived the day after I finished work. I had nothing packed and ended up at completely the wrong hospital as I'd decided to visit my parents (thinking babies were always late) and went into labour there!

I must organise myself over the Easter weekend...

Welcome SuperSaint .

Welcome Supersaint. Don't worry, we're not ALL that organised! I haven't bought anything yet: partly because I'm a bit superstitous and partly because there's no room in our current place: we've still got to move house before this baby arrives - due 4th June! I'm just counting on her being late. I'm a mad list maker, though, so I've got a lot of lists!

welcome supersaint - i'm a list maker too, got loads of them, i am a little organised though mainyl because i'm paranoid that i won't be ready, and the last thing i want to waste my energy on when in labour is packing my bag.

Hello1 Just found this thread.

I'm due on 13th June (although they keep changing my dates, so it could be a week earlier).

I will try to read this thread properly when I can sit still for long enough (bump very uncomfortable now) to get to know you all a bit.

This'll be our first baby, and we're expecting a girl. It's so reassuring to know there's loads of other women feeling like I do at exactly the same time as me! Feeling a bit daunted about the big day, but nice to know there's a place here to chat things over with.

welcome to supersaint and blobsmummy

havent posted for a while as i have been falling asleep by the time dh has put ds to bed at 7.30. I am so uncomfortable on a night i carnt sleep and i am just falling asleep on sofa through the day and earley eve. I have also been given a suport belt by the hospital cause they say the pain in my pelvis is symphysis pubis, and i also have exersices to try and strenthen the muscles surrounding the joint.

Hello to new members. Have moved into new house now and back on the internet at last. New house is lovely and my parents and parents in law have been working like troopers to do our decorating for us (the joys of retirement). Get worried when they go up ladders though, keep pointing out that they'll be off baby sitting duty for some time if they break a hip. Have nearly finished on the baby's room which is exciting, makes it look more real! It's helpful to hear other people say that they've been feeling a bit emotional lately. Stress of moving and baby was just too much last week and had a few days when I just felt overwhelmed and wanted to cry. Much better now though .

welcome supersaint & blobsmummy!

carmenh, glad the move went well! :)

i'm not sleeping too well either lately. DP keeps coming to bed at 5am too (works nights) and i'm wide awake when he steps into the bedroom. must be my body practising for nighttime feeds etc.
i think the baby has finally turned from lying across (or trans as the midwife put on my notes) to either head or bottom down. i am a lot more comfy now.
i can't believe how little time there is left. just over 7 weeks till my due date!

btw, do you think we should start a new thread?

morning ladies - where have you all gone, very quiet on here over easter.

Lilacbump - yeh start a new one.

I'm feeling emotional too, the slightest thing sets me off, even if its not worth sobbing over.
Feel like i have the weight of the world on my shoulders, I'm not worried about the birth etc, just so uncomfortable at the moment and easily worn out, but theres so much to do, i seem to be not stopping at all. I'm working up until 38 weeks, and i'm 32 weeks now, so another 6 weeks of trying to find time to rest.
Anyone else feeling the strain now?

diddle - I feel exactly the same. However my DH does nothing to help my state of mind or heart. At the time when I need him the most he has become self-centred, moody and a general pain in the arse . He can't blame it on the stuff going on with his job either.

vbab - well i wasn't going to comment on the men in our lives, but mine is being just as annoying, and after a relaxing eatsr weekend he has been even worse, so can't blame it on work either.
Getting me very very down. Need to pick myself back up soon or i'm gonna be in trouble.

I'm also starting to feel the strain Diddle. Less than 3 weeks left at work - but it feels as though it might as well be 3 years. Back aches, belly itches, ankles hurt and sleep - ha ha ha! When i do finally drop off, I'm having very vivid dreams about giving birth.

Just been to midwife this morning and she said my fundal height is measuring 26 weeks, not the 32 weeks that I am - so off to have yet another scan in the next few days to chack on baby's progress (my 5th scan of the pregnancy). Every time I have a scan they say the baby is actually measuring big for the number of weeks - so i don't know whether I'm coming or going! Still, I've got a lovely set of scan photos at regular intervals now - must make a scrapbook of them!

my ankles ache too, very odd, was strange driving today, found it quite painful.

Had a very odd dream about breastfeeding, dreamt my nipples had a little pull off cap like the kids drinking bottles do. how strange and baby didn't like it at all.

Aching ankles are plaguing me too. Have got some support tights to wear for work. Haven't dared to take them out of the packet yet to assess for hideousness. Plus can't work out if I'll be more uncomfortable by wearing support tights under trousers than if I just let my ankles puff up. I suppose the threat of varicose veins is something to consider...

Constructed the cotbed over the weekend. My immediate thought was that I didn't like it but have now decided that it looks quite nice. Love the moses basket and rocking stand that we've got. Have also had the glasgow pram centre on the phone telling me what bits of stuff I've ordered are still awaited so I'm starting to feel quite excited and organised.

My dp made me burst into tears yesterday morning when I asked him to do the dishes and he pointedly said that he had already told me three times that he would. Apologised to me later and think that I'm just being a bit fragile but still just want hugs all the time. He has also apparently decided that we shouldn't have sex anymore in cae he "starts something off early". Have pointed out that this is nonsense and we may not havesex for goodness knows how long after the baby is born but he seems unpersuadeable. I'm sure it's not that he doesn't fancy me as a pregnant woman but I do feel sad and really miss the physical closeness.

What a long long post for me!

carmen, i really sympathise. DP has told me he's put off by sex at the moment because the baby kicks so much etc and it's a little weird (he never had this when i was pregnant with DD though). i've burst into tears a few times now over it as i feel so huge and unattractive anyway. DP has quite a low sexdrive in general as it was wrecked by anti-depressants a few years ago and never came back fully. he keeps telling me he still finds me attractive and such, but it's hard for me. i am hoping it'll all get back to normal when this baby's born.

Ooooooooh - can't even bear the thought of having sex anymore. Tried it last week and was in such agony afterwards that I'm just sticking to sideways hugs and pecks on the cheek!

I have had the bursting into tears thing though - feel gigantic and very unattractive. DH not really getting the hints that I need my confidence boosting and it would help if he told me that I still look nice when going out (maybe he's just trying not to be honest with me!!)

Very glad that the weather's getting warmer as now I can go around in flip flops and slip-on sandals, and not spend 5 minutes huffing and puffing like a steam train just trying to put a pair of socks on. Must be a sight - me wildly waving socks in the general direction of my feet in the vain hope that they'll go on. Any tips for tying up shoe laces? (apart from getting DH to do it!)

Sex, what's that! Since we found out I was pregnant me and my DH just haven't. I would have liked to, I think in the early days even DH wanted to but it just didn't seem to happen. SAD arent we.

I would even give it a try now (dream about it quite often ) but DH says if I go overdue no chance of having sex to "set labour off" so I guess that's a no then. I do miss the closeness and something just about us as everything of course is about baby.

hi everyone sorry i have not been a regular poster, i will try harder to keep up.
i am the one who had the cervical stitch a while ago, and baby and me are still here so alls going well:)
its comforting to hear that other dp's are misrable *s too
on the sex subject i am dying for some but it is forbidden with a stitch pregnancy. i know i won't feel like it after the birth.

Well at least I know that I'm not the only one who's not getting any!
Tried support tights under trousers for work today. Felt uncomfortable, hot and legs still like puddings!
Anyone got names picked already? We know that the baby is a girl but still can't settle on anything for more than a day at a time. We both like Rachel but I once knew a Rachel who was a bit of a psychopath so slightly put off by that...

carmen, we're still going with Ethan Thomas. DD choose it at the 21 week scan when we found out it was a boy.

slinkstah! glad you're doing well! :) do you have to have the stitch removed or can you go into labour normally?

blobsmummy - with my trainer laces, i have done them up before i put them on and worn them a little looser than normal, so my feet just slip in and out of them.

Slink - good to see you on here matey

Hi people, I've got three and a bit more weeks left at work too, but I've just counted the days and with time off for antenatal classes and the bank holiday, it's only 14 days!

I haven't been dreaming about the baby, which makes me feel worried: like I'm not focussing enough on her: too busy dreaming about signing paperwork for our new place, and choosing wardrobe doors...?!

Can't comment on the sex thing, as I think my mum reads this thread!

mrsbabookaloo - woohoo 14 days thats not long at all.
I have a countdown xmas decoration that you can change the number of days left until xmas on it, but i've done it for my due date and hung it on the wall. only 49 days to go!!!!!!

fancy your mom reading this thread, you better not comment on the sex.

Hi all x Hope everyone is doing well x im finished at work now and bored already!! its still 9 weeks tomorrow till im due but im a betting shop manager and they have just started night racing so 12 hour shifts!! plus the shop i work in has had 2 break ins in 3 months so I dont fancy sitting there till nearly 10pm with thousands of pounds!!
We have nearly bought everything now so im feeling more relaxed and just waiting for the new arrival x