June 2012 - all aboard the Jubilee Line, next stop babies

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Tea Glad you're settling in at home and have managed a few trips out. I'm sure its all a little overwhelming right now but things will settle down Good idea to see about counselling, you've been on quite a rollercoaster. Just take one day at a time. We're all here any time you need to chat or moan! Hope tonight brings more sleep x

The nice weather was perfect timing for baby tea coming home and it sounds like you've made the most of it I agree that counselling sounds like a good idea, you've been through so much! You need to take care of you as well as baby tea. I hope you got some sleep last night x

Going to The Mall @ Cribbs Causeway in Bristol this morning with some friends... have just booked use of a four-wheel mobility scooter so I can keep up with everyone without being in horrendous pain. Should be fun interesting!!

Tea so pleased to hear you're back at home with mini-tea. I'm not surprised you're a bit shell-shocked though. I'm sure things will get easier but counselling sounds like a really good idea. And what a shame it's raining again.

Fanbelt very very I love going to Cribbs Causeway when we're down there.

I've just got home after doing school run. It's a mile each way and my hips feel like they're falling apart. I'm also getting pretty strong contractions. Hopefully they're just braxton hicks so I'm going to get in the bath and see if they stop.

Owwww

Morning all

small hope you are ok and get out tonight.

kveta hope the ear infection better! That's all you need.

tea I'm sorry you're feeling a bit down. I think that's supposed to happen with a normal birth as it's so overwhelming but you have been through so much..you're bound to be mentally exhausted and haven't enjoyed any relaxation time in the lead up to the birth. Counselling would be good for you. Hope you got a better night's sleep and things will get easier.

I'm fed up being pregnant. Def think baby dropped after my pains and dizzy spells last week and it's now sore to walk. Feel a real pressure on my groin? I'm wondering if head is engaged now but I guess I'll find out at my appointment on Wed.

I'm working from home thankfully but not feeling too good. Just really tired and emotional..roll on 2 weeks when I have finished work. These last few weeks are going to be hard I reckon :(

Put my pram together yesterday as caught the dog with the maxi cosy adapter in her mouth and it's all chewed. Thank god it still works or I would have gone mad! Need to remember to keep things out of her reach from now on!!

fan hope you enjoyed the shopping mall, and the mobility scooter!

A quick one to say Rhi good luck for the scan today - hope it goes well,as well as the travelling to get there etc

Tea as others have said - it is a lot to process,we anticipate a straight forward experience and when it doesn't happen there is no time to deal with it as you are "in it",only as things start to normalise do you realise that you have been through so much and any normal person needs time to process that.So I think your wanting to get counselling is good, as having someone to break it down with is really helpful a long spell in hospital does tend to disempower you a bit as there is always someone watching or around to call. It will get better especially as he get bigger!!!

small hope all is ok and you get discharged this evening as planned.

Off to visit my friend and her 3 month old,can't wait!

Have a good day all!!!

Hope you have a brilliant time today fanbelt and lots of fun in the scooter - fabulous idea!

McKayz I don't envy you that walk, your poor hips :( I've just taken my dog out for her walk before it rains (now very cloudy here) and my back is sore. Thanksfully I am working from home for a few days, so I can rest if I need to. I think a nice warm bath is def the best idea...and hope they ARE just Braxton Hicks! Do let us know....

Warlin I keep feeling a lot of pressure in my groin too. It feels like someone's popped a brick or two in there...it really feels like LO is just inches from emerging sometimes . I keep getting stabbing pains 'down there', and it just feels like all the weight is bearing down...I keep expecting an arm or leg to slip out! The braxton hicks have gone though, only had them for a few days a couple of weeks ago.

Good luck Rhi hope all goes well for you today :)

Small I hope they let you out soon and that everything is okay x

Right back to work I suppose....god my motivation has really gone and I have so much to do ready to handover my work in the next few weeks...running out of time!!

Happy Monday everyone, may your day be relatively ache, pain and stress free as possible...right just tome for a before I crack on methinks.

Forgot to say ffnorm I am very of your visit to a ickle 3 months old itmakes me want to go and start faffing about in the nursery again...pointlessly folding and refolding baby gros!

Well it's all stopped so it looks like they were just strong braxton hicks.

There is a toy making a racket in the boys room. But it stops when I get up there. It's driving me nuts. Maybe the house is haunted

Hope everything is ok with you small Rhi, hope u have a good journey to Bristol and that it all goes well.

Tea I remember how hopeless and useless I felt with my first baby, took me a while to get my head round it. Take up any offers of support u can, you're doin great :)
Well Im feeling well rough today. Managed to batch cook some veg chilli and cheese sauce today ut kept dropping things everywhere so I've banned myself from the kitchen now as I'm too clumsy! Gonna have a nap before I pick up dh and ds and go to hypnobirthing.

hey all.

tea so glad you are home - the first few days/weeks will always be tough, so do take it easy. I had the laptop set up so I could sit on the sofa feeding/cuddling DS, and MN read improving articles online at the same time. Ha, as if, I spent the 1st year on facebook :o

pinkpanther I am mega clumsy just now - and my fingers are like sausages! they didn't swell at all with DS! so annoying. I have now stocked the freezer with at least 14 meals (some are bases of cottage pie or vats of spag bol sauce, so may do 2 meals each, so potentially 18 meals all in all), and have room for at least another couple of things. So hoping no cooking is needed for at least a fortnight after baby is born. have fun at hypnobirthing :)

rhi hope all goes well today.

Mckayz toy sounds scary! hope BHs disappear - I have had some really breath taking ones a few times after long walks/running after DS. They are no fun. I have Had Words with my uterus on the subject, and hope it listens and doesn't contract again until after june 2nd.

waves at everyone else - severe pg brain is hindering my actions at the moment I'm afraid!

DS appears a lot better - as someone said upthread, the bursting of the eardrum brought a lot of relief, but the poor boy must have been so uncomfotable with it last week, no wonder his sleep was shit. he is not enjoying the antibiotics, but it's tough. He went to nursery this morning wearing a band on his wrist that he got at the police open day - it says '100% hangover free' on it, so had fun explaining that one to his key worker!! :o

I have now decided to finish work next wednesday, so only 5.5 days left (am off T/F due to CM being away) - eek! I am not coping well with the commute.

we managed a bbq yesterday, it was lovely (as DH did the cooking!), and so so nice to get outside and OD on Vitamin D! sadly it is pishing it down again here today.

no sleep for 2 nights now due to trapped wind, I am not impressed. May have to stop eating such large quantities of yoghurt and see if that helps. But between the trapped wind and the heartburn, there's not much left I can eat. I will be surviving on rice pudding and bananas by the end of this pg!!

37 weeks tomorrow, so anytime you're ready baby!

Hello everyone, how crap that it's raining again today!!

Rhi Safe trip to Bristol today, and good luck with the scan.

Small Hope all is still well with you, that you've managed some rest and are home as soon as you can be.

Tea I think you are wonderful and have coped with BabyT being born almost 9 weeks early extraordinarily well! Remember to take a few minutes each day for yourself, have a nice soothing bath while your DH takes charge and congratulate yourself on how spectacularly you've done and what a super mummy you are! Counselling sounds fab to me, someone to just talk through everything with and come to terms with just how far you've come already :) Take it steady and as Dairy said, we're all here whenever you need a chat or a moan!

Fan Enjoy Cribbs and your mobility scooter! Sounds like a fab idea to me, the thought of waddling walking from M&S to John Lewis would fill me with dread...

Amethyst Don't know how you do it! My motivation ran out before I left work at 29 weeks, no idea how I'd even engage my brain now, let alone engage it fully enough to function in my job role.. A cuppa sounds lovely, and good that you're working from home :)

McKayz Glad it was just BH, but take it easy!

I'm currently in rather a lot of pain and have been either having BH or contractions for the past couple of hours, hot water bottle soothed it to a point, then I got in the bath and that was also nice, but I just can't get rid of this dull ache radiating out from the base of my spine. I feel as though I've got a rubber band around my pelvis and that every so often it gets tighter and then lets go a bit. Don't really want to go to hospital again for nothing so going to try and stay at home and just keep moving and see if it fades off like it has done the last couple of times...

Everything is in the car just in case, and I'm just putting the finishing touches to my birth plan before printing it off. Feeling very lucky that DH is off work now, he decided to take 2 weeks between finishing his old and starting his new job, so he's at home until the 28th May now, it'll be so lovely to spend a last little bit of time just us before LO arrives. And have him here to drive me to the hospital if needs be!

Take care everyone and I hope the sun comes out for you all

Xx

mckayz glad the BH have stopped....they sound sore. I think I've only had them once of twice.

amethyst I was out dog walking this morning too but the rain hasn't arrived here yet...so the dog hasn't given me a minute all morning as she wants me outside to play....grrrrr that's the last thing I want to do!

kveta yay on the 5.5 days of work. Very , I'm still going for next Friday but the commute kills me too so not sure how realistic that is. Working from home today but got to go in tomorrow and sack that woman...not looking forward to that, I feel bad for her as she has no idea :( Just want to be on wind down.

Thankfully I'm starting to feel a bit better....felt so rough this morning.

Why does everything happen at the worst possible time for me though....I have a house that I rent out and the tenant has been there for 3 years....he just rang to give me his notice......grrrrrrrrrr.....he wanted to move end of May but have told him he has to pay June. Nightmare, the thought of having to sort the house and advertise it etc in the next few weeks is awful...and I really need the money with getting such crap mat leave :(

rhi thinking of you...hope the scan goes ok

Blondie that is almost exactly how my MW with DS1 described labour. Hopefully it's not labour yet!!

oh and kveta your LO makes me laugh

has anyone else started looking at use by dates on stuff that needs to be stored in the fridge and noticed they are after our babies are due?

gave DS a yoghurt yesterday that was best before 8th of June and went 'AAAAAAARGH!' :o

Hey everybody! thought i would stop by and say hello! hope everyone is well! due 23rd June! exciting stuff :)

wow blondie that does sound like start of labour...how exciting!! Yet nerve wracking! My bets are on you to have the next June baby! Good luck if it is and try and stay calm. If it's not, hope the pain subsides.

kveta I'm the same with the best before dates....and also events being advertised that are on or after DD....scary! Yet so exciting, wish I could just get on with it and have LO.....

Quick hello from me. Penultimate day at work (at home sorting out files/Outlook) so easy peasy. Tried to catch up with all your posts but so tired. Tea pleased you are home and be kind to yourself - you are doing amazingly. Early days are hard enought let alone after your experience.

Really cheesed off with mw. Totally underwhelming appointment last week - doesn't want to see me again until I'm 38 weeks. No discussion re birth plan despite me being VBAC. Feel likes she can't wait to get rid of me.

Ended up in day assessment unit yesterday - 4 days of headache and worried about increase in bp. But all ok.

Oh well back to work

ooh blondie how exciting. Good luck, thinking of you

Blondie I hope you're ok!!

Oooh blondie let us how you are if you can? Thinking of you.
kveta ha ha yes I keep doing that. I opened a new pot of facial moisturiser the other day and a new tube of toothpaste and thought, hmmm they be the ones I am using when LO arrives! Glad not just me

They'll not they! Sorry dodgy typing

Hope all is ok blondie x

Blondie we're all thinking of you!!

Just read everyone's posts and it's all gone into a massive mishmash in my brain.

Tea - wow. I'm not surprised you're shell-shocked. A lovely firm-granny-style teacher at school who had come in to do cover today was telling me how I mustn't be surprised in the first few weeks when everyone was cooing over the baby and I felt like I "wanted to drown it"! (Her words, not mine!) She said it was totally normal but no-one ever talked about it, that I'd be exhausted and overwhelmed and feel completely useless. And that is assuming everything goes to plan, so after everything you've had to put up with I think you get to feel like that trebled! Counselling sounds like a great idea and well done you for being pro-active about seeking some.

Fanbelt hope you had a lovely day. Am extremely as I really miss Cribbs. I know the Milton Keynes shopping centre is supposed to be amazing but I can't get my head around it, hate that I have to pay for parking and find it really claustrophobic somehow. Even the John Lewis there is a bit rubbish, imho!!

Warlin poo to your tenant!! How flipping inconsiderate! Glad you are feeling better though.

Hello shelly!

Kveta your DS sounds hilarious! Have you had to explain hangovers to him??! Oh, and did you ever find out about the giraffe?!

Speaking of having to explain things to kiddies, I don't think I related my embarrassing/awkward story of last week when I was asked my my class "if you can choose whether or not to have a baby"..... and one of my seven year olds explained to everyone, including me as she clearly thought I can't know about this, that "if you don't want a baby you have to take these little sweetie things with your breakfast".

I was beginning to feel rather worried this afternoon with the intensity of the bhs, combined with some not horrific but new pain in my groin... however, since I've come home and relaxed they seem to have eased off and after reading warlin and amethyst's posts I'm wondering if actually LO is just settling down. I feel like I'm absolutely ready to get going with this whole giving birth thing now..... torn between knowing it needs to stay there rather longer and just wishing the next 6 or so weeks away! It better not go over its best before date, this baby, or there'll be trouble!!

Uh-oh. DH has got the drill out. This probably means I ought to go and pay some attention and watch uselessly while he does Important Man Things.