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May be Babies - The Third Trimester

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SirCharles · 16/03/2012 14:19

A new thread as the other one was ready to burst!
Thanks *Mikocat" for the new name.

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LimeFlower · 05/05/2012 11:08

LittleSarah I hope DS1 will accept his little brother when he comes

Bodeccia if asked again when are you due now you'll be able to say "any minute" :o

Spoke to DH last night in bed about the wee one coming-it's our first so we're both a bit...excited,scared,afraid and I don't know what else.It was sooo lovely to cuddle up talking with our little one hiccuping in the middle :)

About the other May thread-what about if we pop to say hello?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/1409563-May-2012-Bambinos-Expanding-until-we-contract

Wrigglebum · 05/05/2012 11:09

SES- your Saturdays sound a bit like ours! DS goes to LittleKickers (football) with DH then they go to a cafe for cake and a babycino Smile.

LittleSarah- feeding mostly pain free. Got a bit bruised in the first few days due to tongue tie but nipples feel mostly ok. Used lansinoh for first couple of days but don't seem to need it now. Adam does click his tongue on my right boob as it has faster flow (and leaks a lot more) but it's not painful really. Let down hurt a lot last time but doesn't seem to hurt this time so far. Funny how it can be so different with each child! So pleased bf going well, I'm far too lazy to do bottles Grin. I fed DS for 9 months and hoping to go to a year this time.

Adam still has a tiny bit of jaundice so trying to get him in the small amount of sunshine coming in through the window! It will clear as he's feeding well, he just gets a bit sleepy.

cupcakefairy · 05/05/2012 11:21

Morning ladies..can't believe we don't have a May baby yet..come on little ones!
ses a little trip to Starbucks sounds lush. I love Saturdays with my boys. (i kind of hope this one is a boy so I can still say 'my boys' Grin

wriggle Adam sounds like a dream baby, so glad feeding going well. I fed ds for about 11 months, supplementing a bit with bottles towards the end but i too am too lazy for bottles right from the start so hoping this one feeds well!

We're off to a 2nd birthday party today then dh & I have our final date night tonight.. dinner then The Avengers, v excited :)

LimeFlower · 05/05/2012 11:41

mythical congrats on managing the pedicure

wriggle lucky you having your wee one already.i just can't wait to meet mine :)

cupcake i never noticed that we haven't got any May baby yet!

about the stares given by people-i noticed that when i waddle walk and caught a few of them most were smiling at my bump :)

so...i went to the other thread and made an offer of post natal merge - hope you don't mind?

Newtothisstuff · 05/05/2012 12:23

Mythical.. Wow on the pedi.. How can you reach your feet ??? And can you do mine haha

Wriggle... Very jealous of baby Adam, glad he's feeding ok, hope your getting enough sleep, that's the bit I'm dreading the most DD1 didn't sleep for about 3 years !!

Come on May babies.. It's the 5th and we haven't had one yet.. I was up the hospital for my tracing yesterday and the midwife mentioned the full moon and said it causes a surge of babies so we might have a few this weekend.

Trace was rubbish as usual, she seems to know when it's happening and decides not to move, an hour and half again trying to make her move, a chocolate bar and 6 biscuits later she moved !! This morning she hasn't stopped !

Seem to have lost a bit more of my plug this morning (sort tmi for the morning) and was up last night pacing with pains, seems to have settled again now.. Only 10 days until my section so I'm pleased, not that I wouldn't like her this weekend I'm totally fed up now !!

What's everyone up to this weekend, it's raining in Hampshire again DD1 wants to go to the park, she doesn't seem to grasp that there's no way I'm going in the rain haha

Take care everyone.. Grin

Bodeccia · 05/05/2012 13:30

Lime I agree about merging the two threads, thanks for initiating it. I wrote a wee hello message.

new: it seems like things are moving along nicely for you, regardless of the CS! If you were to go into labour now, you would still get your CS, right? Even though it hasn't been "booked in"? Best of luck with it, I'm thinking of you :)

I would love to have my LO sooner rather than later. Can't say that I'll be the first May baby on the thread, LO seems far too comfy. And I'm sick of eating pineapple.

Laters, I'm off for a brew Brew

SESthebrave · 05/05/2012 13:35

Post natal merge of the 2 threads sounds like a great plan :)

Morning was good but we got back from Starbucks and DH is now fast asleep in bed! He didn't even tell me he was going for a nap! He was rhe one who had the lie in this mirning til 9am too, whereas I was up to DS at 6.50am. When's my nap then? Hhhaarruummmppphhhhh!!!!!
Feeling a bit sorry for myself anyway as I've just fought conjunctivitis in one eye and it's appeared in the other over night. I had to bathe my eye this morning before I could get it open due to the crusty pus (sorry, hope no one's having lunch!)
I'm definitely having a lie in tomorrow!

DS was really cute this morning though. I showed him that I'd completely emptied and cleared 2 drawers in his chest of drawers of clothes he'd grown out of and told him we could use one for his clothes. I asked him whose clothes could go in the other one and he immediately said "the baby" :)

Did manage a final "date" with DH (probably for a few months) last night. He out of the blue said he now wasn't so sure about our boy's name that we agreed on in November! (Peter was what we'd agreed on). If he can come up with another that we both like, fair enough, but no joy so far!

Sorry I now sound like a real grump this afternoon!

Cewafwb · 05/05/2012 14:55

Hi, am from the other side! Still reeling that no one has manage to get a May baby despite us all being due! My EDD is 24th but am having a Elective Csection on 17th. Still struggling to come to terms with the fact I am actually pregnant, so NO idea how I am going to cope when they hand me the baby!!! This is number 4 so really should know how it all works. I find pregnancy horribly easy and uneventful and know that life is a lot easier with it inside than when it comes out. All three boys have had severe, and I mean severe not just a little bit of a sicky baby, reflux and been the last one added on being seriously allergic to dairy and soya, so the chances of this being the same, statistically I guess, are quite huge! Hope everyone is well? x

LimeFlower · 05/05/2012 15:25

Right then,who's going to pop first?Here or there?Any bets :o ? --i'm not volunteering

Hello cewafwb nice to see you here,any more "other side" lurkers ?

saggybaps · 05/05/2012 16:18

Hi Cewafwb The reflux sounds awful + allergies to soya & dairy, this is my 2nd, my 1st was really refluxy & colicy. She used to hiccup in my tummy all the time. This one however rarely hiccups so I'm seeing that as a good sign?! Although have a stack of muslins, mam anti-colic bottles & a reflux wedgey cushion at the ready!

My due date has now been & gone (yesterday 4th) I had a reflexology induction session yesterday - by god it hurt! I'm sure the reflexologist developed a blood blister by the end of it! Although I've heard the Maternity Unit is pandemonium & it really wouldn't be a good idea to have a baby today. Must be the Bank Hols + Full Moon. Feeling exhausted & would much rather this baby out than in!

Harecare hope wedding has gone well.

Come along babies!

LittleSarah · 05/05/2012 16:23

Hello all

People seem to think I might go early but I doubt it will be this early sadly (just 38 weeks today).

Hello to cewafwb! Kinda mad that nobody has officially had the first 'May' baby yet, hopefully we'll get a whole load next week. oltob from our thread has been induced so I think there is a good chance she is cuddling a little bundle right now!

Glad to hear feeding going smoothly wriggle!

Not much going on here today, went shopping this morning and managed some re-potting this afternoon. Seem to have run out of nesting energy for the moment.

Oh think I spoke too fast about possibly getting some kind of gift from workmates, spoke to my friend today and she said it was mentioned at the meeting, like oh we should do this, not actually organised! At least the thought was there, if briefly.

tostaky · 05/05/2012 17:22

Quick update - had some bleeding, went to hosp to be monitored - baby is ok maybe it is a show, stil waiting for doc to do examination... I'm 37 weeks... Let's wait and see!!

Newtothisstuff · 05/05/2012 18:09

Hope you are ok xx

dreamingofanallotment · 05/05/2012 18:13

Hope all is okay tostaky :)

SESthebrave · 05/05/2012 18:54

tostaky - hope you don't have to wait too long for Dr. Take care!

Yorky · 05/05/2012 20:23

Hope all is well tostaky, you could be the 1st May baby!

Catsycat · 05/05/2012 20:41

Wriggle and SES I also send DH out on saturday mornings - to DD1's ballet and freestyle classes, with DD2 in tow usually. Then they often go to Costa and bring me take-out coffee.

Deviated from the usual saturday today with a lovely family trip to the hospital for monitoring, as had had reduced movements (the odd flutter, not the usual beating) from yesterday evening. Everything was fine, think it might be the anterior placenta getting in the way again, though the mw said she couldn't move the head (it was free on monday), so maybe it has engaged a bit and that has made a difference. Have felt as if the head has been trying to come down for a few days, not sure it hasn't been popping in and out a bit! I had problems with both DDs heads staying high, even in labour with DD2, which seems to be partly why I had 2 x EMCS (not enough pressure on the cervix to open it much). We ended up going to Strada in Stratford-U-A for lunch, which was nice, though wrecked my plans for DH and the lawnmower - it was raining by the time we got home. Had a nice lie down myself though Grin as was exhausted from all the worrying!

Wriggle glad everything is going well - Adam sounds lovely.

SES hope your eye gets better soon. Do you have anything for it? Goldeneye ointment (pharmacist) can be quite good, or get the GP / triage nurse to give you something with fusidic acid in it (I think) - I used to get Blephiritis all the time, and it isn't nice!

LittleSarah glad you had a lovely day and the mw went went. Sorry your work gift was of the "thought that counts" variety!

Dreaming & Mythical hope you don't have to wait much longer. Maybe your energy burst is a sign Mythical - well done on your toes. I can just reach mine by putting my foot on the toilet / bath, but the polish isn't very neat any more!!!!

Cewa, hello, nice to see you! Bad reflux is awful - my friends DD1 had it, projectile vom over a metre in distance - she had to take spare clothes for herself around as well as for the baby! My DD1 is allergic to milk, egg and some nuts (she has asthma and eczema too, which apparently is quite common to have together) so feeling sympathy on the allergy front too. Hopefully these babies (for you an me) will be allergy free, and reflux free for you too. Having found my previous 2 pgs really quite easy, this one has been quite stressful, so I'll be glad when my ELCS arrives on 21st.

Saggy Warwick hospital was lovely and calm today - seen pretty immediately on labour ward with very little waiting around - but it has been cloudy here, so maybe blocked out the full moon??? Hope you've recovered from your reflexology session (and that it helps!).

Hope all is well Tostaky!

mythical · 05/05/2012 21:13

Hello. Hope everything is okay, tostaky!
I'm feeling okay but a bit fed up!
Everyone keeps telling me things like "don't worry, I went 2 weeks over with my first" that doesn't make me feel any better!
on the plus side my friend came over with her 5 month old today and we had lOts of cuddles! She also brought some homemade flapjack (yummy!) intended for my labour bag but well.... About that... :o
Oh, as for the painting of the toenails.. It was partially toes too!! I have discovered that if I just haphazardly paint the nails it doesn't matter as the polish on the skin comes off in the shower, tadaa!

SirCharles · 05/05/2012 22:11

Evening all! No May babies yet?! Maybe they are waiting for after the bank holiday to maximise daddy's paternity leave?!

I have been lurking on both May threads. The other one started as a "late May" thread because this one was already quite full when we began. I think it would be a good idea to merge in a post natal thread once all the babies are here. In the meantime I am happy to hear baby talk on here (don't want to be the last one left waiting for LO whilst everyone catches up on a post natal thread!!!)

I am only 38 weeks so got AGES to go yet..... Fed up of strangers staring though. I am not that huge, although I am short & all out front so perhaps I do look a little odd Grin

Jealous of those who can give themselves a pedi.... I just cannot reach both feet so am looking for a mani & pedi this week close to home. I also have a wax & eye brow tidy booked for this Friday..... Cannot see certain parts & don't want to risk trying to sort it out! & am being lazy with the eye brows!!!

Hope those under the weather start to recover soon & those of you with niggles get to meet your LOs ASAP.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

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SirCharles · 05/05/2012 23:18

interesting read re things about having a new born which the OP wished she had been told ....
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/1464311-Things-I-wish-people-had-told-me-when-I-was-pregnant?watched=1

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tostaky · 06/05/2012 01:22

Hi, so I'm not going to be the first may baby! Who is then?!!!

Still in observation in hosp as they thought it was my placenta failing and at one point I was going for a csection... But no... Always question all the doctors and midwife!!! I'm 2 cm dilated and having the beginning of a show.

Going to catch some sleep now - labour ward is quite calm here in London despite the full moon. Smile

oltob · 06/05/2012 04:35

Hello ladies, our boy Toby was born at 7.30pm this evening, 8lb 4oz. Sorry yesterday 5/5.
He's currently having a little stretch but has been kipping since half eleven-ish after a great big feed. I've just had my BP done, all fine and will be hoping fir a bit more sleep too.
The birth was great, no more intervention after the ARM & drip and went really quickly. It's just starting to sink in that he's really here.
Will proper catch up tomorrow, lots of luck & patience to all. Full moon...

oltob · 06/05/2012 04:39

tostaky just saw yr post & completely agree. Question until you understand & are comfortable si can be relaxed & happy.
Hope it happens soon x

Newtothisstuff · 06/05/2012 05:07

Congrats oltob on baby Toby Grin lovely name and our first may baby Grin

dreamingofanallotment · 06/05/2012 05:57

Congratulations oltob! Glad to hear all went well. Enjoy the baby snuggles!

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