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

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Good luck fanbelt! Can't wait to see june baby number 2!

Dairy - fingers crossed for your MIL from me too.

Fanbelt - ooh exciting, good luck for today!

I have a check up with the doc today, pretty sure I didn't get one at 36 weeks last time but I'm quite keen to have a listen as my movements have changed a bit again.
Bit of a headache too - think its just dehydration because of the sudden weather change despite drinking heaps of water!

fanbelt how exciting! Good luck for today, can't wait to see a pic!

blondie I bet you are traumatised! That sounds awful, I'm glad you are feeling ok now though.

Dairy v sorry to hear about your mil. At least they can get a treatment plan sorted for her now they know what is wrong. It must be very sad and worrying for you all. Am v about your hairdresser, fancy saying that to a pregnant woman? Some people have no filter between brain and mouth....

Warlin glad your awful week is over, can you start to wind things down a bit now? Hope the dog is on the mend too, poor thing.

kveta hope you're enjoying mat leave!

tdw fab news about your dh - bet you're over the moon :)

mckayz how are you feeling? Hope you are hanging in there.

Sorry to everyone I haven't commented on, my head is like a sieve!

Not much to report here apart from sore ribs! No sign of bump dropping as yet. Baby still measuring big but midwife says 'not to worry' as could be growth spurt ans to see how it goes over the next couple of weeks

I have terrified myself by googling birth stories about large babies and reading about injuries/complications - do not do this - I have banned myself from doing this now but its all in my head :( someone tell me it will be ok! An awful first time birth isn't inevitable is it? I think it doesn't help that I've had a relatively easy pregnancy and feel as though my luck must be running out...

Feel a bit better for just typing that out! Have a good day everyone.

fanbelt very excited for you this morning! I think you and Tea will need to get the post natal thread up and running :)
emblosion I think it's only natural but definitely agree with your own advice, do not resort to Dr Google.
I was reading my MN posts back from in 2005 when I was 40weeks + with DS1 and I was asking very similar questions to the already mothers on the group. Reading my birth story almost seven years later was quite something. Must get all those posts together and store them away -- you don't realise it at the time but it's an online journal! I had been told baby was big and was made to worry, but he was a lovely 7lbs 10 :) Please don't fret.
McK I've come to accept now that this is the way it will be until I have the baby, it has never been any different with the others at this stage but its just so damn frustrating to be so tired that you could keel over but not actually be able to sleep. Is that how it is with you?
I dozed off at 6am properly but DS3 woke me rubbing my arm at 7am asking why I was sleeping with my head against the wall and was it time for breakfast now. Fortunately he is great at napping and will just cuddle me and fall asleep whenever i'm ready to retire, which inevitably is on the cards around lunchtime.
Cathfin Hope all is well at the Dr.
ffnorm happy napping!
Surfmamaand Kveta wave!

Morning all

Fan ahhh, that's so exciting...nearly cried when I read that. Can't wait to see the pics of your baby girl. Good luck, will be thinking of you!

blondie that sounds horrific. Your little girl is playing games with you..she obviously wants out but your body won't let her! I'm sure you just want to get it all over with.

dairy so sorry to hear about your MIL and at such an awful time. Thye can do so much no with cancer so stay positive and maybe the focus of a new LO will help keep her spirits up.

I really struggled getting into work this morning. Walked the dog and had to sit on a bench half way through! my bump really hurts...time seems to have stopped moving and I really just want to get to Friday. I was checking through the emails of the girl I sacked last week and it seems the staff have organised a surprised lunch and present for me on Friday....very sweet but I hate that sort of thing . I hate being the centre of attention and would rather just slip off quietly :)

Has anyone else noticed any blood? I had a few spots last night and was secretly pleased...taking it as sign that my body is preparing for something (prob just wishful thinking!!)

Elly thanks the advice re invites. I agree..DH's friends wanted us out for dinner on Sat night so turned that down too...why can't people understand that I don't feel very sociable at the minute!! Could think of nothing worse and just want the next 2/3 weeks to be about relaxing and me time

kveta my induction date is 3 weeks tomorrow so you will either be the week before me or around the same time if you're late.

Oh, all I can think about is Fan having her section....my concentration in work is def gone now....

Oh and gwennie glad you'll get your half term pay and it's good that the maternity cover has arrived so early.....time to start winding down now that she's arrived

Small yeah I feel so tired and I honestly don't understand how I can sit watching tv and my eyes are closing but once I get into bed I can't sleep. It doesn't make any sense. 10 to 5 I was awake this morning. Just so tired. I keep thinking that when I get woken up by Baby there is actually a reason for it.

It's too hot for me. It was pretty unbearable on the way to school this morning.

I've got a physio appointment this afternoon to try and help my SPD.

Hope you are all well and that Fanbelt is cuddling her baby!!

Thanks small I feel a bit better just for getting it off my chest! Am now dreaming of a lovely 7lb 10 baby :) I'm trying to rein in the worrying, I know what will be will be and am just gonna have to get on with it!

Hope physio goes well today mckayz

Can someone send sun our way? Chilly and misty here in Downpatrick :(

emblosion I have an average baby and my ribs are in excruciating pain from time to time (less so now, wonder if the baby has "dropped"). Physio told me it is 'normal'

Small I've just gone on the hunt for DS2's birth announcement thread. Here it's so strange reading that now.

McK See! Brings it all home doesn't it? Actually sounds like a lovely birth, impressed at homebirth and baby's weight, well done you, hopefully we'll be reading similar natured story very soon!

Absolutely nothing to report here other than DS and I pottering around. DC1 and 2 are at the beach with their grandparents having a wonderful time, this makes me feel very happy as I'm about as much fun as ... well, not fun at all.

Hope you are all enjoying the sunshine again :)

Emblosion hope the sun has come out for you now, it's roasting here. Far too hot to be trapped in a stifling office. And stop goggling. My baby is measuring bigger than average but my consultant says that a 10lb is as easy to deliver as a 6lb, it's the head size that causes problems. I'm sure yours won't grow too big in the next few weeks.

A girl in work just popped in with her 2 week old,a wee girl who is 8lbs....found it totally bizarre to think my LO is prob not much smaller and stuck inside me..no wonder we are all shattered!!

I just can't be doing with it anymore...I need LO out!!!

Keep wondering how fanbelt is getting along...

Warlin my 10lb+ DS2 was easier than 7lb DS1. I imagine that him being number 2 has something to do with it though.

Physio was rubbish. I have 2 exercises to do. She said there was no point in me having the crutches they set aside for me as I won't stop walking to the school. I don't actually have any choice in the matter!!

Thanks Warlin sun came out for a bit there but has clouded over again now, its warmed up a good bit tho, which is something.

Interesting that your consultant said that, my midwife pretty much said that too- that its more about positioning and head size than weight. I did feel a bit reassured by that (but then consulted doctor google ). I was chatting to my gran before - veteran of 6 births - and she reassured me too, my aunty was 10lb 12 and a home birth with no complications (a bit like mckayz's ds2 :) )

mckayz sorry physio was rubbish. Not very helpful of them to suggest you stop walking to school-its not like you can just not pick the kids up hope you're ok.

The heat is making me feel ill, what is wrong with me?!?
I put on what I thought was a flattering mat/nursing vest and was horrified to the point of tears at my shape, I seem to have just filled out everywhere and I look so bleugh... I just want to cry -- up and down again :( I honestly cannot even get the dishes out of the bottom part of dishwasher with ease, or much else involving bending, seems to just get bad all of a sudden. Any ideas for huge, overheated, uncomfy, irritable mother? Aghhhhhh

mck can't get my head around that one. Surely the crutches are going to provide you with the support necessary for those trips u could still get some if u needed them though, think its the red cross that lend them out. Did the physio spend time on u? It helped me, the exercises didn't help that much.

No Small my hour long appt lasted about 9 minutes because she couldn't do anything.

Hmmm that was a let down and waste of time then! I don't understand why she didn't spend at least 10 mins on some manipulation. Sorry to hear that

Come on Fanbelt, the suspense is killing me! Hope everything is going ok for you and your little one. Hope you have a speedy recovery.

Bloody baby brain... can't find my euro millions ticket that I bought yesterday I might be a millionaire and not know it.

Panic averted,ticket found - not a millionaire,not even a £3aire.

Emblosion in my 1st pg,dh and best friend banned me from google... And Warlin is right,it's the presentation,so position of the head that's most important. I have a friend who had a really terrible tear with her 1st and her lo was only 2.7 kg (5lb9) other's like McK have had no problem with large babies .

McK is must be really surreal and lovely all at the same time,to read back on DS's pg and birth.Wish I had known about MN last time. And sorry to hear physio was a waste of time.

Small I have discovered DS loves to unpack the dishwasher so it takes much longer but I don't have to bend over love child labour thanks for the good nap vibes,we had a lovely 2 hours.

McKayz - rubbish! How annoying!

Small - me too. Cannot physically face tidying anything at ground level and feeling rather sick which I think is because of the heat.

BP etc all fine though so nothing to worry about.

I also did too much yesterday, playdate for morning and lunch, then another for tea and then I went out for dinner with some girlfriends. The chair in the restaurant was obviously designed to torture pregnant women - felt crippled when I stood up, at home I eat cross legged on the floor or sitting on my exercise ball but that's not ideal in a gastropub!

How is Blondie today???

Blondie Are we getting 2 June babies today?

I hate to moan about the weather but I am too hot. I really really want some lovely weather like this after the baby comes and during the school summer holidays but I would love it to bugger off until Baby arrives. Please!!

Hi all, had a bit of a nightmare day again. Tea I'm wishing they had just taken me in and delivered now...

Had MW appt today and she was very unhappy as babyblondie isn't moving much and heart rate was just under 130 but has been at 150-160 all pg, my hands, feet and face are all still swollen but no sign of pre-eclampsia apparently. I have put on 9lb's in water since my last appt having only put on 1st 10lb before that in total and my bump hasn't gotten any bigger since last appt at all! She doesn't know why they let me home, so I'm being admitted for monitoring at MW request so they can keep an eye on me.

Just really fed up of feeling so awful for no apparent reason and unable to do anything about it. It's amazing how big an effect a little bit of worry can have too, but am trying my super best to stay positive.

Hope you're all well, and getting the rest/sleep/naps you all need... And that the heat isn't melting you all like it is doing to me!

McKayz My physio refused me crutches and wouldn't manipulate either just gave me exercises.. Completely crap!!

Once I'm admitted I don't know how I'll let you all know what's going on because I don't have a phone that does MN and I've no idea how to work fb on it (complete technophobe), maybe DH will let me use his fancy phone?

Fan Enjoy your lovely newborn cuddles and when you're ready give us all a lovely update :)

Blondie You need to make sure your DH will come and update us or we'll be worrying!!! Will be thinking about you!!