Barman! A pint of your finest Gaviscon with a ferrous sulphate chaser if you please! On the February 2012 Baby Bus.

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Right then my lovelies, this thread is going sloooooowly now we have our little secret facebook group

But we need to keep posting here for people who haven't joined our other group, so keep on going!

If anyone wants to join the facebook group, can they ask someone cleverer than me and they will set it up for you!

Old thread is here

Rage! Window cleaner woke up DD. she's a bugger to settle. Bang goes my lunch nap.

Booo Ships... throw a shammy at them!!

foot update (cos clearly veryone is interested )

I have worn trainers today, and have adjusted my footrest higher, in the hope that it will promote circulation in my legs... and it appears to have helped a little. whoop whoop!

I can feel they are only mildly puffy as opposed to quite quite puffy!!

Hello, if it's not too late to join you guys - may I? I wandered in several threads ago, but life got in the way after the 12 week mark. I already have a 4 year old DD and the new one (surprise gender) is due around 3rd Feb - but that's totally up for grabs, as we all know. So I'm 37-ish weeks.

Pregnancy has been ok and fairly uneventful so far, although latter stages bit more knackering than I remember last time round. I am a Londoner, I don't Facebook. That covers the essentials probably for now. I think I'll appreciate some kindred spirits when the new one arrives, with the attendant craziness and general nocturnal haze.

Hi enraha and welcome :) Lovely, uneventful pregnancies sound like the best

Monkey my feet are really swollen and I noticed my legs are also a lot fatter than they used to be, my wrists are really big and my fingers are like sausages

hermione my hands were so tingly then numb last night I woke up, its a horrible feeling but not painful, that is carpal tunnel right?

Ships boo to the window cleaner

Ships I feel your pain, they are doing works in the flat above mine. Drilling started at 8am this morning, DD didn't nap today either.

Am so exhausted as DH had anaemic attack in the night with chest pains, dizziness and breathlessness so had very little sleep as was tending to him (if he hadn't improved after high iron dose I would have had to call ambulance).

Roll on bed time.

Wow you lot are chatty!
Nothing to add really. Grr for the confusion woowa. Hope you go into labour before then.
Yes cervix at back

at everyone including enraha - welcome! :)

Pam could be CTS - I get pain as well but the tingling/pins and needles/numbness sounds familiar. I also get pain in my elbows (right hand side of my left arm and vice versa for the right arm iyswim). Massage (in an elbow-wards direction) helps as does passive extension/flexion and active finger wiggling. If it gets any worse you might find that wrist splints help - I'm wearing them at night and when I'm resting and it has improved things somewhat. Our NHS apparently no longer provides them free but I bought mine for £13 each from a chemist (not Boots though as they didn't have any). Worth mentioning to MW at next appointment. No treatment during pregnancy as it will just come back but afterwards you can get long wave ultrasound which is apparently quite successful (if it doesn't go away by itself, which it may of course do within the first month!).

Going to bed now for the 2nd time today - had about an hour of zzzs at 6pm ish and hoping I can get a couple more tonight!

Ok im over being awake at this hour EVERY DAY... harumph

bored now... at work early, and still have tons to do.... but SOOOOO bored.. oll on Feb 8th! (7th is LAST DAY)

Oh and DP can fuck off "I have to do everything around here".... my reply at 7am "OK" - he doesnt like it when I will not be drawn into a row conversation

Gah... early at work is POO... usually only dragging my ass to the shower about now!!

Well done MonkeyBix for not getting sucked into an argument! Just bide your time and then leave him with the baby one morning on his own without having made it easier for him; then he'll understand the meaning of doing everything! Mwah ha ha ha haaa. And if that doesn't work, let him run out of clean pants one week.

He's forever running out of pants and socks... and it is usually my fault in his tiny mind

However I have now purchased TWO washing baskets (one of which has mysteriously disappeared) and he's started piling his clothes in to the other one this morning. Looks like we'll be adopting the washng basket approach from here on in!!

I managed to work on him for the toothpaste middle squeeze, and the one sheet left on the loo roll effectively... mainly by leaving said one sheet and taking my own private stash in for a week... this led to "you always leave one sheet on here... cant you change a bloody loo roll"... my reply " oh well you do, and I always change the loo roll, so I thought I'd see how long it took for you to mention" Heeheehee!! He didn't like me testing him, so now we both change loo rolls (amazing!)

The toothpaste, I just moaned EVERY DAY... that stopped, but took longer.

God, it really sounds like he's a total pleb and I hate him... I don't, he's my favourite but he can be a pleb when he wants to be!!!

monkey the toothpaste thing annoys me too! And the loo roll!! Men!

Well DD went to my mums last night for a sleepover, so after many hints and huffing and puffing DP got off his xbox and we actually spent some time together, had a romantic bath, nice meal and watched films in bed :D Hes at work today though and DD isnt home til dinner time ish so im going to finish tidying up then go for a nap i think! :) Probably the last time i will have time to myself before baby :O

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Aww hope you've had a fab day carmen

Crikey, where does the time fly - how come I always end disappearing for ages...

Finally started to tackle all the re-arranging required to make room for baby. Memo to self: invent time machine and do it BEFORE 8 months pregnant and unable to bend over anymore...

Just realised I'm not drinking RLT, doing pelvic exercises or perineal massages. It's like I WANT it to be really hard.

Very exciting indeed if babies are starting to arrive - hopefully in due time and not too early!

oh - can anyone recommend a good TENS machine to hire? Had a look at the Boots website - the Boots own brand seems very good but also only available to buy rather than rent....

I bought a labour tens from Lloyds. Was same cost as hiring. Seemed to do the job.

Thanks, Ships

I have a Babycare tens, millions on ebay, or to hire on their own webiste. Seemed to do the job last labour.

Spent afternoon in hospital being monitored forhigh BP. BP now back to normal,. but MW coming round to check it on sunday, then another growth scan on wednesday. I'm so bored of seeing HCPs now, and would like to see my baby instead. SIgh, whinge. I'm really grateful for good health, i really am, i just feel like ...i dunno...

watching telly.

this week's OBEM had me in FLOODS of tears. Come on BABY!

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Wow babies arriving and people at term. Very jealous!

I have had enough. I slept well for a change last night. Then needed a nap at 1. Then fell asleep whilst dh putting kids to bed. Just exhausted constantly.
Another part of me still hardly believes i'm pregnant, even now my bags are packed crib up and I can't see my foof or my feet!

Seeing mw on mon need to talk to her about my currently non existant birth plan. It exists in my head and dh is aware. May just leave it at that. Wwyd?

Sorry 35+2 33 days till d day

Woowa hope you're feeling ok - not long to go now!

Fee I know what you mean about the "had enough" vs "lack of belief in preg" - I'm feeling the same. I'm getting low grade nausea a lot of the time as well as the tiredness and the last few weeks feel as though they are passing as slowly as the first few weeks up until the magic 12 - and with some of the same symptoms as well.

It's probably psychosomatic, but since MW on Tuesday when she told me I have divarification (?) or separation of the abdominal muscles my tummy is feeling sore along the vertical midline when it's touched and it feels as though Bert is trying to push his way out through my belly button. I've got a physio appointment on Monday to have a look at it and tbh I'm a bit worried.

Going to watch tv today and do the ironing, and at some point finish packing the hospital bag including a copy of my birth plan and fit the car seat. Might even be able to get dh to take more than a passing interest. He's doing my head in at the moment, especially since he told me the other day that he doesn't find pregnant women sexy in comparison to not pregnant women :( I think he meant that he didn't find them MORE attractive...I hope so :(

glowfrog, I hired mine from Boots the last time - have a look online.

Plodding on through the ongoing nausea - not too long to go now!

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I hated the TENS machine! It went on and I shouted 'get it off me! Now!' in the most un-lady-like way!

I'm just like you, queenfee - exhausted. I had a lovely, grown-up day on Thursday - showed a friend our new house, long pub lunch and no school pick up, but I still spent from about 5pm until I went to bed at 10pm with my eyes half shut.

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I'm not bothering with the TENS this time either. I think it's good if you have a long, slow-burn kind of labour, which is exactly what I expected the last time as I was a first-timer and DD was OP. But I had exactly the opposite. And at one point I think one of the pads became detached and I thought I was being electrocuted and just ROARED . The midwife took it off pretty smartish after that.

Ive been electrocuted so there is no way il be using a tens! Pretty sure it would just annoy me and im hoping (if i have time this time!) to use the bath as much as possible in the early stages.

Me and DD have been making flowers out of coloured tissue paper and pipe cleaners, reading stories, doing puzzles and we made cakes. Im exhausted now! I am really starting to get fed up being pregnant too. Im ready for the baby now and just want to meet her! I have zero patience.

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