Due April 2006 - new thread for the April Shower!

[colditz]

Ok, I did it!

Now shall we get our stats down again? I think we have had some joiners since we last did it.
Copy/paste the list and add yourself to it.

Colditz - due 06/04/06, aged 25, DP aged 32, 1 DS aged 2.9, having a baby boy! Very scared of needles....

meant to say on co sleeping, I think it takes a certain sort of bed, a certain sort of baby and a certain sort of chilled-outness to achieve it! I never could relax with DD in bed beside me, mainly because finding a sleeping position was so restricted. Def worse than pregnancy. We only have regular double bed, mind you.

Just call me retentive rabbit! welcome petunia...
honestly - I have done something other than MN today!

MrsQ - due 30/3/06 aged 34, DH 33, DS 2.7. Expecting 2nd boy.

FirstTimer40 - due 01/04/06 (yes really) Aged 40 DH age 47, first baby,its a boy.

Colditz - due 06/04/06, aged 25, DP aged 32, 1 DS aged 2.9, having a baby boy!

Ponka - due 06/04/06 (yes, another one) age 28 DH 36 DS19 mnths. It's a boy!

Spots - due 06/04/06, aged 31, DH39, DD 20 months.

MrsEvs - due 8/4/06, aged 31, DH 33, DD 18 months, having a girl.

Homsa - due 12/4/06, aged 34, DH 39, DS 2.7, expecting a girl.

Pepperrabbit - due 12/4/06, aged 37, DH 37, DS 20 months. don't know the sex.

allyco - due 14/04/06 age (41 - shush) DH 44 dd19 dd13 dd8 and dd16 months. Expecting a BOY!!

Icklesmudge - due 14/04/06 aged 21, dh aged 24. Having a little boy!

TonTon - due 20/4/06 aged 35, dh 33, dd aged 5. Having a girl.

Debithescot- due 22/04/06 Age 24 DH 25. 1st baby, don't know sex.

Emma7 - due 22/04/06 aged 28, dh 29, first baby.

Secreteater - 23/04/06 age 30, finace 31, first baby dont know sex

Pacinofan - due 24/4/06, aged 38, dh 46. We are having a girl!

jifda - due 24/04/06 age 30 DH 32,DD 7, DS 5 & DS 3. We knopw we are having a boy this time & he will be called Ellis Owen (we think!)

Curzybabies - due 25/4/06 (my birthday!!) Age 27 DH 31. Already have DS age 3.

Petunia - 28/4/06 have 2 DDs (aged 6 1/2 and 3).

Enid - due 30/04/06 Age 39. dd1 (6) and dd2(3)

Thank you for your welcomes! Spots- no, not enjoyed this pregnancy at all! Last one ended at 11wks so went on for quite a while before the mc. I'm trying to enjoy it now but its hard not to worry about every ache and pain, especially in the early weeks.

Evening all.

Hope everyone is feeling good. Have just realised that the dh is more interested in me telling him about the score in the Arsenal game rather than explain in detail how my first ante-natel class was!!! Typical male!! It;s ok though as next week he is back in Germany with me so he has to come along to this meeting! I think we are doing birthing posistions so that will be fun for him!!!

Question to those who have already had a baby: How good was gas and air to you?? Just asking as i have found out today that they dont offer gas and air here!!??

Evening all, and welcome to the newbies!

After reading your posts, I ended up writing a to do list (which included stuff like "potty-train DS before baby arrives" - yeah right) and have actually crossed off a few items already! I feel so much more in control now...

I've managed not to think too much about the birth, so still feel quite chilled about it. Hoping to keep it that way for a little while longer! Being in denial is great

Baby will sleep next to our bed in a moses basket for the first few weeks. Then we either transfer DS to a junior bed and put the baby into his cotbed (still keeping her in our room for 6 months or so), or maybe I'll buy a bedside cot - haven't decided yet. I wish I had tackled stuff like potty training DS and putting him into a big bed earlier - now I'm scared to rock the boat!

Re the gas and air, it did help a bit but I found it hard to get the timing right, and ended up taking big gulps of it all the time, which made me feel totally drunk and out of it! I remember saying stuff like "well as long as you can say that this couldn't get any worse it still can, because if you can say that, then you're not dead yet", which scared the sh*t out of DH!!!

I thought gas and air was pretty good tbh and hope to get through with it this time, together with a tens machine.

Homsa, we have just tackled potty training (dd turned 3 in January) and we were beginning to feel like the only parents of a 3 year old who still wore nappies. I can honestly say it's the one thing that really got to us - we never had any real issues with sleeping/b/feeding/switching to formula and cows milk/weaning etc but when it came to potty training, we just couldn't crack it. Anyway, good news is we have had some success and are doing ok. Which is a huge relief, especially when you calculate just how much you spend on newborn nappies! Was hoping to do cloth but no tumble dryer and aiming not to buy one until house move, so sticking with disposables for now.

Morning all,
Had a terrible night (is anyone else not sleeping very well?) Baby and I were wide awake from 2-5am. And then baby got hic-cups! Guess that was the best thing about being awake at that time!

Re gas and air. I found it pretty good and that's all I had for DD2. Homsa is right about the timing, especially when you're in Transition because contractions come so close together.
pacinofan- DD2 is 3.2 and I'm trying to potty train her. She's just not interested so I can see me having to do it at Easter, 2wks before I'm due. Not really what I'd planned!
Hope everyone else is OK.

The only thing that keeps me from sleeping is DH, who gets up at 5.30 am and makes one hell of a racket every morning! This morning, he ended up waking up DS as well, now that wasn't very funny. Little man will be grumpy all morning now.

pacinofan and petunia - yes I'm starting to feel like a bit of a failure too when it comes to potty training. But DS is just not interested! Won't sit on the potty, won't sit on the loo, has speech delay so would have problems telling you he needs to go, and is a bit dyspraxic so has trouble pulling his pants up and down. He's almost 2.9 years now, so I think I'll leave it for a bit longer. Just can't be dealing with all the hassle right now. Plus, even if I did manage to train him, he might end up regressing once the baby is born (I'm told that's quite common)... so why bother?

Neither gas and air nor Tens were any help to me last time, but maybe I was just too scared/distressed.
Expect they can be great if you are feeling in control and not frightened.
So lucky dd is nearly 6 so potty trained etc! A benefit of a big age gap - I knew there would be one somewhere!

hello to the new newbies!

G & A never really helped me. I think I have a very high tolerance for drugs and stuff. I remember having something done under sedation once and they were saying this'll work in a minute and you will goo off to sleep and I think I ended up with a dose normally reserved for big fat blokes or somehting before it worked .

I am still at work and really hating it now. I wish I had asked to give up sooner but now my pride's getting in the way and I'm too proud to say I'm not coping so well. Guess I don't want people thinking pregnant women want special attention or something. Mind you, there is no way I could teach until I was 38 weeks. That is sheer sheer madness

I found g & a very useful, but I couldn't say in the context of a normal labour, as I was induced. It kept me sane for about 3/4 hours though, before I begged for the epidural.

Part of me feels like a fraud for finishing work this week (34 weeks) as most of the time I feel fine. But then I know I would struggle to last till the Easter hols too.
I did feel guilty for a while that my GCSE groups would suffer but every time I teach them they show me that they don't appear to give a s**t and are not exactly working their butts off when I am here so I don't think it'll make that much difference to them.

Debithescot - you are not a fraud it will be much better for you to finish now. After this week at home it is going to be hard for me to go back next week but I will try to get to 36 weeks if I can. It is quite possible that I will not make it throough next week though and will end up finishing too! My school kiddies are 7-8 year olds and are lovely they have been so helpful and great throughout my pregnancy - lifting, carrying, asking if I am ok etc. I will miss them .

petunia - sorry you had a bad night - I did too but will catch up this afternoon hopefully. My baby has hiccups loads - is this normal? Am I eating things that disagree with him/her? Sometimes the hiccups last for 20 minutes or so at a time.

Good afternoon everyone.

i to had a bad night I am just glad that I finished work early (due to move to new country) that i was able to sleep late. I think i drifted off at about 2am and then was woken by dh calling at 11am (he got a few choice words). Thanks for the info bout gas and air, apparently they offer different pain relief so i will have to find out what that is next weds!

We are planning to have baby in the moses basket in our room for about 6 weeks and then transfer him into his own room in his cot as soon as possible!

Emma7- Mt baby has hiccups all the while I expect them now. I have askd the midwife and she said it is totally normal it just means they are swallowing quickly!!!

Good afternoon everyone.

i to had a bad night I am just glad that I finished work early (due to move to new country) that i was able to sleep late. I think i drifted off at about 2am and then was woken by dh calling at 11am (he got a few choice words). Thanks for the info bout gas and air, apparently they offer different pain relief so i will have to find out what that is next weds!

We are planning to have baby in the moses basket in our room for about 6 weeks and then transfer him into his own room in his cot as soon as possible!

Emma7- Mt baby has hiccups all the while I expect them now. I have askd the midwife and she said it is totally normal it just means they are swallowing quickly!!!

Wow - what a lot of activity on here yesterday - it's taken me ages to catch up!

As far as sleeping goes, babe will sleep in a bassinet next to our bed to begin with, prob for at least 6 weeks and maybe longer depending on how well she sleeps (she is then going to go in with dd so don't want her disturbed every five minutes). I have never really co-slept with dd - again not through conscious choice (there have been so many tired night wakings when I would have loved to just pull her into bed with me and go back to sleep!), dd just never liked it. She cried whenever I brought her in with us!! I'm sure that also has to do with the fact that dd would never latch at all so I didn't b/feed in the normal way. I pumped liked a lunatic for 41/2 months!

As for daytime naps, dd always slept in a moses basket/push chair/bouncy seat for daytime sleeps. On someone's (can't remember who) advice I only put her in the bassinet/cot at night so she would learn the difference between day sleeps and night time ones. Did seem to work as she slept through the night from 3 weeks - that may just have been her temperament though, who knows!

icklesmudge - they don't have gas and air here in the US either, so I just held on as long as I could and then went for the epidural

Emma7- having lots of hiccups is normal. Think they're overdosing on the amniotic fluid!

Oh, as far as names go, I think she will be either Sophia or Isobel with Scarlett as a 2nd name. I am still secretly hoping that dh will let me have Francesca at the last minute, but I don't think so now.

Having said that I was too tired to clean - the bleach came out last night! Just floors and surfaces but it's a start! Also packed most of my hosi bag. The list making has started here too now, I nearly drove my dh mad with them last time

This baby does get hiccups every now and then too, but dd had them almost permanently it seems. she gets them quite a bit still now. Apparently babies are just either hiccupy or they're not and it continues once they're born. Would love to have dd out of nappies for the new arrival, but she's only 19 months so I've got no chance really.

Oh and no sleep here either. Quite apart from dd being up from 12.20am-1.30am and then up at 6am, I got up twicw more myself to go to the loo and then couldn't get back to sleep - ughh, it really is rough at the end isn't it?!

Thanks for the hiccup advice - glad it's not just me!

Love the names MrsEVs - we like Sophie Grace for a girl or Daniel William for a boy.

I'm having some weird cravings today (didn't really get any early on):

Raw carrots (skin on).
Extra Strong Mints (it's the texture I think)
The smell of tomatoes before they are washed (that kind of greenhousey / chemical smell if you get me)I keep going to the fridge and sniffing them!!

I'm finally losing the plot!!

I've been lurking between March and April threads as I'm due on March 31st. Couldn't resist a mad craving post though! I have an obsession with my herbal (fennel flavoured) toothpaste - my teeth have been cleaned about 4 times a day for ages! Also english mustard and horseradish. Didn't have anything like this with number 1!

I haven't had any cravings :(
And baby doesn't seem to get hiccups either, just kicks me constantly!

Oooooooh, yes, we are decorating, and the emulsion we are using looks so creamy, and smells so appealing I could dip bread in it! I haven't though.

I had a lot of cravings in the 2nd trimester for stuff with spoons of mustard on it.

Hi Everyone. My goodness this is moving so fast now, I haven't had time to read through properly, although I keep popping in to skim over for any early births! We've just been on holiday with friends and had a lovely time.

Just a quick post to say I'm still here. Have got 3 minor signs of pre - eclampsia (protein, higher blood pressure and swolen ankles) and midwife is coming tomorrow to visit me. They've not said I've got it yet, just keeping an eye out. I am also making Pepperabbit type lists for my hospital bag but not acting on them much!

Welcome to everyone who is new and glad to see that those who are not new are still around!

Bring on the April Showers!

Last day at work. Its weird coz I'm sad that I'm leaving but happy (and scared) at the same time. Everyones been really generous and I've had £40 mothercare vouchers, a baby gym, chocolate, a toy and 2 hand knitted cardies.
Looking forward to not having to get up on Monday morning.

Nopt expecting any gifts from my coleeagues -they're astrange bunch! Last time (different company) I got a moses basket stuffed with babygrows, nappies, toys etc. Very kind.

How can you tell if baby has hiccups? Mine certaihnly wriggles massively, seems to be one side, then the next, all a bit weird this late.