January 2012 - Will any of us deliver before Father Christmas? The race is on!

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Hope you don't mind the slight tweaking of the thread title :) I was feeling creative! Not that it matters, at this rate it won't last more than a week...!

Just marking my place. I have nothing constructive to add!!

Ah, Milly, you pose the eternal question... is any of this constructive? ;)

good morning ladies

i was just musing about how much more comfortable it is being this heavily pregnant at this time of year as opposed to the height of summer. even though i can't do my coat up, get my shoes and socks on and worry about the snow, it is nothing to the swelling and sweatiness of DS......

There! I found something to be cheery about

(worrying about ECV and possible CS due to breech baby)

morning girls, new thread yay. :)

I just read through the last bit of the last thread. I am having the injection if I do birth naturally and vit K-really not bothered about either. In terms of needles, babies have to have the heel jab and all sorts done to them anyway. It's juts one thing i'm not worrying about.

The stuff with DD is really getting to me. It's such a conundrum-shes telling me she doesn't want anything to do with this boy at school and he keep spitting on her and upsetting her and that why she's so angrry but school are telling me she has a temper tantrum when they try and get her to work with other people. They are going to do some observations today to see whats going on. I know she was trying really hard to avoid him today in the playground. I think i may pst a thread to the wider audience and see what opinions I get.

I am hormonal anyway, just want to cry and cry and seem to be doing so. :( The rib flare is worse than ever, I am so knackered from the pain of it.

Roll on christmas.

Wow, that has to be a record fast thread we just put away! Sorry, not much to add but just marking my place - oh and welcome to MissRee

Good Morning.

Well the last thread lasted a long time didn't it Wonder if this one will get us to Christmas Eve?

Good news - after 5 replacement parts I finally have a changer top on the unit :) The poor bloke in the shop had had enough and lifted the top off the display model and handed it over.

Is anyone planning on doing anything today? I have no energy or inclination now dd is at nursery. Need to get dh's pressies wrapped just in case but that's the only plan.

well some of us are still in work, unfortunately! but - only 4 more days to go after today, wooooooo! Tuesday is my last day, and I can't frickin wait!

Sorry I tend to forget we have a wide range of due dates - I'm in my own little 19 days to go bubble

Morning ladies, nice new thread cakes.
37 weeks today. Seeing mw later, she will be booking me in for a final scan to check baby's position, so they know if we are in good shape for homebirth or not.

supadupa I had an ecv with DS. Whilst not exactly a pleasant experience, it was successful, and he stayed head down afterwards. So was definitely worth it in our case, try not to worry.

My dh realised last night (due to no sex rule from the consultant) were probably not going to have sex again until April, possibly later as we will have 2 babies interupting! he was not impressed, I found it very funny

Another one just marking my place :) but I think we may have lost ghost on the other thread

Found you! Thanks for setting up the thread cakes. I'm still in work - today and tomorrow then mon-wed next week and I'm free!!

Is it really sad that I just got a bit emotional about magpies? Since we moved house 8 weeks ago a magpie has been turning up on the fence on it's own. I always feel a bit sad when I see one on it's own as they mate for life. Anyway today there were two hopping along together. In my hormonal state this made me ridiculously happy. For a magpie!! I need to get out.

If it wasn't for my shifting my leave and lieu I'd be working 'til 21st...so very glad I did.

I thought about the vit-K drops, but having thought about it, if baby's at all sick in the hour after the drops are given then they're probably redundant, but they cannot re-give them, or give the injection after...so I'm opting for the injection.

fish You'll get to the bottom of what's going on with DD.

Parsley I worked for 6 weeks in London, commuting from Bromley to the BBC doughnut every day. 2000 I thnk. I remember all the tubes closing due to a potential bomb-threat and panicking I'd never get 'home' (I do wonder...seemed very odd at the time). Swore I'd never, ever work in London after for exactly the reasons you described. Tubes/trains are hell...and I wasn't pregnant.

So, back in to town I go. I'm hugely paranoid I don't have enough mat. pads packed after SIL told me she got through 30 in one day! Oh, and I forgot chorizo and milk yesterday.

MUST remember to ring the doctors today (see if they can give me a repeat script for the stuff the consultant prescribed, don't want to run out half way through xmas) and ring nurseries for brochures...

addicted my DH took one look at my new Primark floral pyjamas last night and said "what the hell are those?" at which point I sighed with relief and thought, brilliant no jiggy for at least another 4/5 months! I sort of feel mean, but not really!

fish poor you on the DD front. Luckily mine's only 2 1/2 so we're not having the friend nightmare, but she's really pushing my buttons at the moment and I keep descending into evil shouting bitch mother, and absolutely hate myself for it. It's all a bit hard work, isn't it?

On the jabs front, I'll probably have the placenta one (whatever it's called) and defo the vit k one - I read up loads on it last time and the pros outweighted the cons (can't remember what any of them are now!) Red I would say take some of the stuff you get from NCT with a pinch of salt - they do have their own agenda, which on the whole is great and positive, but they do have some funny ideas - my friend was told that if you have pethidine your child is far far more likely to turn into a drug addict later in life! Erm, I suspect there are probably a few other factors which play a part in that, but nope, according to her NCT lady it was absolutely the main one!

Can I ask if anyone else shares my slightly gross odd condition? At pilates last night we had to do a 'roll down' which consists of sitting up with slightly bent legs (on the floor) and rolling back a bit, as if going to lie down, to engage stomach muscles. MY BUMP WENT ALL SUPER POINTY!!! It looked really really odd. Is this just where my abs are week over the diastasis recti or is this something sinister? It defs wasn't ppm shaped and was squishy rather than hard. Instructor was a bit freaked out as she finds pregnancy just a little bit weird

Sorry, should add, obviously the vit k one is absolutely up to each person's individual preference! And in a BBC-esque disclaimer, I have no doubt that the NCT doesn't necessarily share the views of some of its NCT leaders. Ahem.

Fryn that's brilliant advice from the NCT apparently it's not pethidine that they offer now but a newer drug - something like metformin? - which is less invasive. I'll be keen to avoid it but frankly it's not so bad if it's not given too close to birth. I guess it depends how long labour is and how much you need to sleep!

I wonder if there's even more than one tiny study which backs up the pethidine/addiction link - I would have been tempted to ask to see the evidence

It's meptid that they offer now at our hospital as it's less likely to affect baby's breathing than pethidine. I didn't have it though. I want to avoid it as I have a history of being sick from painkillers!

ghost i too have the superpointy bump if I roll like that. It usually does it for me when i get out of the bath. Makes me giggle :) Reminds me of the that Dan Akroyd ( if memory serves) film The Coneheads :)

sometimes i feel I have got to ugh ugh run away........ :)

I know i'm just being hormonally oversensitive with DD. I couldnt control myself last night and she was so upset. Still it's in the past now. Onwards and upwards.

On a happier note I am experimenting with a new meal tonight: Slow-Cooked Cinnamon Pork Loin With Parsnips . It smells utterly utterly divine in my kitchen right now. Best of all the meast was free. My dad does tiling work on the side sometimes and he's just finished a clean room for an organic pig farm, but they have paid a proportion of thier bill in meat. We have a freezer full of 2 pork loins, 12 pork chops, 24 sausages and they are beautiful. Yum yum. I even have some trotters in the freezer but i'm dubious about those (blee..may leave them there til after baby is born and then see If I am brave enough to attempt to cook with them)

Mum and dad have half a pig, pork steaks, bacon, sausages loins, livers and some roasting joints. It's about £150 quids worth of pig!

Are we gonna have one hell of a bbq in may :)

ghost yes I had that in pilates. Stop doing it - it means you've gone too far if your bump "domes". it happens to me even if I use my abs rather than arms to go from lying to sitting. I believe it is because your stomach muscles divide and open out later in pregnancy and it domes because you are putting them under stress. The pilates teacher told me you should only go as far down before the bump domes and just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Not sure what happens other than addition pressure on the back. I think it also means that it is more difficult for your stomach muscles to move back across afterwards.

PS: my pilates lady has had 3 children and is super tuned to pregnancy stuff

Oh an just reading the posts that have come in since I was posting. I didn't have pethidine the first time because of the NCT advice but i would rather have that this time over an above an epidural ever again. Last time I avoided pethidine and went straight for epidural but I hated not being able to be active in labouring.

Meptid, that's the one! Thanks milly.