June 2012 - This is the final stop on the Jubilee line, could all passengers please disembark in a timely (and pain free) manner.

[Kveta]

hopefully this will be our final ante-natal thread, and the one in which we meet our babies!

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and stats so far!

ARRIVED:
25th April: TeaandHobnobs DS 4 lbs 11.5 oz
2?th May: Fanbelt DD
27th May: Warlin DS

DUE (AND GETTING A LITTLE IMPATIENT NOW):
5th June: Kveta DC2 (predicted to be a girl)
6th June: DairyNips DC3 (Boy)
6th June:Pinkpanther27 DC2
7th June: MammaInTheMaking DC1 (Surprise)
9th June: Novmama DC2 (surprise)
11th June: thedogwalker (boy)
12th June: Rachyroodle (Surprise)
13th June: TheLittleMe DC2 (girl)
15th June Ffnorm DC2 (ptb a girl)
= ceeej DC1 (girl)
= Miniangel DC1 (ptb a girl)
16th June: BlondieDollface DC1 (girl)
= Crackersncheese DC1 (predicted boy)
= Fireflies DC1 (surprise)
= Flufffymitchell DC2 (predicted girl)
17th June: Surfmama DC1 (surprise)
= Rhihaf DC1 (predicted boy)
19th June: SeriouslyStrongCheddar DC1 (boy)
20th June: CathFin DC3 (don't know but I'm guessing a girl!)
= rhibutterfly DC2(predicted to be girl)
21st June: ChateauMargot DC1 (predicted to be a girl)
= McKayz DC3 (girl)
= Florin dc1 (boy)
22nd June: bemybebe DC2 (girl)
23rd June: AmethystMoon DC1 (predicted to be a girl)
= SpecialJK (surprise, but convinced it's a boy
= ellybett DC2 (ptb a girl)
= shellywellybaby1
= Emblosion DC1
29th June: Gwenniebee DC1 (Surprise but I think boy!)

IN MEMORY:
Merryn, beloved daughter of Greengoose

It is a lovely day, I have so much to be thankful for, I have the loveliest DH I could ever have wished for and all I can do is cry.

Another spell in the hospital, severe oedema, severe headache, stabbing pain all down my right hand side, more contractions, LO heartrate down to 110-120, UTI, sickness, low iron levels and raised BP. All bloods normal and drs have this time put it down to the heat.. I mean seriously? They have given me dihydro-codeine which has knocked the headache sideways but other than that I feel shite (excuse my swearing but I just had to).

We managed to get home at 2am, and I feel so guilty as it is DH's first day in his new job and he had to leave at 630 on practically no sleep, I got up and made his breakfast and lunch whilst he showered but I feel so awful. I'd hate to start a new job on just over 4 hours sleep and he was so worried about me last night he wouldn't nap at the hospital. Plus I've gotten used to having him around for the last couple of weeks and miss him horribly already. The thing that tops it all though is that I am a 37 week pregnant whale with fat hands, feet and face, hormones are raging round my body like there's no tomorrow and I have had enough.

I feel rotten just posting to moan, but I truly do feel like crap and I've been trying so hard to stay positive and keep on top of it all. Sorry to dampen down the thread, just needed to let it out and I know it'll fall on kind ears.

I hope everybody else's day is somewhat better and you're all topped up with ice cream/vit D/rest. Xx

Oh Blondie I really think the doctors should be doing more for you.

I have had the morning from hell. There are roadworks in town and the stupid idiots have managed to hit a gas pipe and closed part of the road and put up those little traffic lights.

It is only a small town so of course it is in chaos. We have 1 set of normal traffic lights. We pressed the button and waited for the green man and set off. Some bloody woman drove through a red light and nearly hit DS1. I then swore very loudly like a fishwife at this woman. I probably would have hit her if I could. Cue BHs.

Carry on to school drop of DS1. Went to DS2's playschool and there are about 6 steps to the door where most of the children sit waiting for it to open. Well one kid was mucking about with the door and swung it shut and it hit DS2 and rolled down the stairs. Cue screaming and I out of instinct picked him up. Loads of kicks and movement from baby and now bump hurts like hell.

To top it all of some arsewipe bloke shouted "You look a bit hot love, lose some weight fatso" at me.

I am now going to bed to cry and cry.

McKayz I think we need tissues for our issues and an industrial sized vat of Ben & Jerry's. That dick needs to get a life and a subscription for 'Idiots Guide to Tactfulness', woman almost hitting DS, well she deserves a right slap! Hope bump is ok and your day gets better.. Xx

You're welcome cheese

Oh blondie what a time you're having. I really hope you go in to labour soon and finally get your body back. Won't be long now, hang in there..

McKayz that school run sounds like a nightmare! Poor you! What an arsehole that man was you should have told him to f-off!! Hope you are resting a bit now.

Super hot today, lovely but I feel uncomfortable already and woke up about a thousand times last night. Am quite glad the weather is supposed to get cooler again..

Oh Blondie what an awful time you are having :( apart from anything else its stress you don't need at this stage. Hope you can keep cool and get lots of rest today. Am sending a hug (()).

McKayz school run sounds horrific. That stupid woman going through a red light! And that man sounds like a right tosser, it should be legal to carry a cattle prod or similar to dispense pregnancy related justice to stupid-comment-making fools! I think you deserve an icecream as payback for all the trauma.

Just marking my place on the shiny new thread.

Blondie and McKayz what horrible starts to the day. Hope you get to chill out a bit for the rest of the day.

Just spent 2 hours sorting out car insurance so feel quite productive for a change. Time for an ice lolly and a lie down I think

Mckayz and blonde sorry you're both having such crap days, hope you get some rest today and icecream. There are some right idiots out there.
Dairy hope you manage to cool down a bit and get some sleep x

hi all.

mckayz don't listen to that arsewipe guy, bet he was very ugly (they always are)

marking my place for a monday moan

1. boiler FU'd again. Has to bring a new part on Thursday
2. had some stomach pain during the night and lots of movement. now woken up to broken veins and stretch marks!!!! also now have pain down my back on right hand side. I think baby has dropped, didn't think breech babies could drop???

bloody stretch marks, was hoping I was going to get lucky in that dept.

mckayz that is really shit, but the aw man is not worth paying attention to. some people are just unspeakably rude to make themselves feel better - let their own karma bite their arse one day

blondie I really really feel for you. can you not insist on second opinion, even elcs (if it makes sense and if you wish)? i would really want to have this baby out, it is full term, so no risks of early delivery there, whilst your wellbeing is an important consideration... on the other hand the weather was pretty horrendous on us pregnant women in the past few days. i had massive swollen ankles and i never get swollen ankles, i don't sleep, my body hurts even to turn in bed, let alone get up and go... today i've woken up with massive sore throat and a mild temperature - where did this come from in +29c heat???? drinking hot milk as i type. so, maybe your body is also "just playing up"? massive hugs.

also joining "elly" to convey my massive congratulations to warlin on the birth and what a cute baby she has now!!! that makes me unbelievably broody... i also shocked at how much love i have at the moment, i am ready to burst - who needs any delivery "love hormones" i have them in litres already pumping through my body instead of blood. weird.

Morning all

Blondie - if you can't moan here then where can you moan - so moan as much as you want,we are here to share the ups and downs of pregnancy!!! Your DH is a star,hope he has a really good day at his new job.And hope you are feeling a bit better today

McK how shitty...

Special Maybe stubborn baby has moved and dropped... I think last minute stretch marks are just cruel.

SSC good luck for the scan today!!

Kveta thanks for the new thread!!! Any news from your friend? Hope she has lots of support over in the US.

I'm off to my "work friends" baby shower,should be a lovely day! I like the heat but it has definately contributed to more foot and hand swelling!

Morning all
blondie have a huge hug. Last night sounds horrendous, let's all cheer on little blondie to make an appearance very soon to let mummy blondie get back to being her old self (well as much as we ever will) x
mckayz what a wanker ('scuse language) but seriously I'd have wanted to have a swipe at him and red light woman. Am very on your behalf, have a big hug too. I'm with emblosion we should be issued with cattle prods
Just taken my dog for a walk primarily to post a birthday card and my strep B samples. Got within 100 yards of home to realise I had walked straight past the post box duh! So dog now thinks I am mad as we had to turn around and go back to the post box then come back again
Feet still swollen here and I managed to achieve my worst night's sleep yet! Thank god I am working from home this week as I cannot even imagine the commute in this state.
Have a good day everyone x

Tens has arrived, hubby printing off birth plan, think I can happily miss the last 3 weeks of pregnancy and go into labour now - please!

Blondie you poor thing - it's really not fair to have all the stuff thrown at you at once! Hope you are managing to get some rest at home now, and I hope BabyBlondie relieves you of this misery very soon! Keep hold of the fact that there really isn't long to go now - you can do it! Big hugs

McKayz what an utterly crap morning - I am spitting with rage on your behalf at the driver and the twat of a man! Grrrrrr Hope you've had a good cry and are now putting your feet up and chilling out.

bemybebe hope your throat feels better soon, what utter rubbish to get that in this weather!

It's our first wedding anniversary today - I want to go out and do something nice, but DH is being boooooooorrrrring

Oh poor you Blondie!

I ordered my TENS at last. Hope it hurries up!

McKayz, that man has problems. You'll lose a lot of your size when the baby is born but sadly he is stuck with that antisocial personality!

Afternoon all

Blondie - sorry you're having such a crap time of it. Try to rest up and maybe read a favourite book or listen to a bit of music to see if it helps you relax a little.

McKayz - my sympathies for the awful morning. I used to get some proper abuse shouted at me when I started running a few years ago - can be very hurtful. Helped on some of my training runs though - was plodding up a hill at a slow pace when a white van went past, driver had hand on horn and shouting some abuse. I felt inspired to improve my posture, raise both arms in front with middle fingers aloft and practically sprinted up the hill after the van. Must have been quite a spectacle for other drivers, but made me feel better.

So, scan proved that MiniCheddar is indeed breech. Sonographer was rather short with me and just kept commenting on how large he is (measuring 40 weeks and I'm 37 tomorrow). Despite all this, blood pressure was somehow okay afterward (90/70!) and the consultant was actually a lovely woman who I haven't seen before. Baby is 'top of normal range' (7lb 11oz at the moment - little bruiser!) and the size didn't seem to worry them. ECV booked for Wednesday at 10am (typical - exactly the morning I'm expecting delivery of the wardrobes I've been waiting 10 weeks for!) and if that fails I can then talk to the consultant about vaginal breech birth / CS options. Happy days [eye rolling emoticon].

Sending and hugs and to Blondie and Mckayz
Blondie, it's only natural you feel this way, look at what you've been through and are going through, don't feel bad for DH (i know it's inevitable), he'll be absolutely fine, it's all about you right now and he can catch up on some shut-eye once home. Hopefully he's had a stress free day and the two of you can just curl up and relax later on. I have no words of wisdom but do hope things happen quicker for you, please try to relax best you can in this heat.
Mck Hope you're back to your usual self now, there's always one (i.e bloke) -- probably as SM said, has self-esteem issues and the IQ of an ant. Fingers up eh. Can you pop over to your mums later for a rest or to drop the boys? Rest too please.
I'll catch up with everyone else later. Have promised three DC a DVD and they're getting ratty now, so off to enjoy falling asleep for an hour watching Wallace and Gromit x

Have been napping (knocked out by dihydro-codeine) on and off since about half ten, have been drinking lots of cool water with ice and have just read all your lovely posts. I am feeling much better and actually welled up at all the lovely things you have all said to reassure me...

What would I do without you all? You have been my saving grace today and reminded me that it's not that bad really and it'll very soon all be gone (the pregnant bit anyway).

DH gave me a call to let me know how his morning was at lunch and he seems fine, will just most likely need an early night tonight, my paranoia at him being so tired driving was something else!!

With regards to ELCS, DH and I actually spoke about that on the way home from the hospital last night. It very much goes against everything I believe in, until I became pregnant I wouldn't even take paracetamol unless something was really wrong - I just really can't stand not knowing exactly what chemicals I'm putting into my body (at this point I have given up all hope and will be necking the opiate based dh-c purely because it gives me some relief). Aside from that, being on my own for 12 hours a day with no support from the very beginning as DH can't take any PL, not within reasonable walking distance of any shop and unable to use the car just fills me with dread. I know I can get shopping delivered, and evenings and weekends DH will be there, but if I can avoid it at all I would rather not go down that route. Although I will say I am sorely tempted just to get this bit out of the way, I don't think for me personally it would be worth it in the long run.

Thank you all for your strength and support and I really am feeling so much more positive this afternoon. Xx

hello all. so tired today, going to try and get comfy in garden although not sure how!

blondie i really feel for you. glad you are feeling positive though - take it easy and make sure you drink lots water.
seriously there is a technique used in reflexology, although not before 40 weeks as it can bring on labour (hmmmm) of stimulation of bladder 67 point. If you go for moxa they treat this point, but you can also tape a grain of rice to the point. you can look it up on dr google. I guess also there can be some good reasons baby can't turn, could they see the cord position and everything in the scan?
hello everyone and can't remember anything else.

Still have a feeling this baby might come soon, but what do i know?

thank you tea. I am not so bothered by the throat (damn painful as it is!!), but more by weakness and temperature, which is so difficult to tell in this weather. i have a thermometer next to me, so i am aware that it is 38c now and i have spoken to my consultant who said i must not allow it to go any higher and i must drink plenty of fluids (which i do), i just want to make sure that the bump is healthy and i am not causing any damage so close to the birth.

blondie i understand your position on elcs, frankly i went through the same considerations myself. my consultant was very persuasive advocate for it, but i am holding my ground. my dh is disabled, so despite him being in the house, i cannot rely on him caring for the baby once she is born and recovery from cs, no matter what they tell you these days will be harder for me than the recovery from hopefully a normal v delivery. so elcs for me will be for medical indication only... besides i am a secret granola lover and do want all the experience of "the journey"/"love hormones"/etc... but also realistic (hopefully) to accept that things can go off the plans v damn quickly

Blondie glad you are feeling a bit better.... you certainly are being put through the mill and I think it's amazing you've got this far without a major meltdown!! I think I'd have lost the plot by now...

McK what on earth did you do to deserve that morning? Flip! What a complete and utter arsehole that bloke is - as others have said, you will soon have a gorgeous baby, and he is stuck like that forever. Mwa ha ha ha ha....

I too have had a rubbish day! Not as rubbish as some, though, admittedly. This woman who is taking over from me was doing my head in by about 8.15am... not a good start. It's like having a flaming inspector in my classroom - I thought the idea of this week was for me to back off a bit and her to take over, but instead I just feel like I have to have everything even more organised than usual because otherwise she'll criticise. Made me really stressed today and I have come home exhausted, feeling dizzy and yucky and with horrific braxton hicks :(

On the other hand, a male colleague (after telling me how I'd be fine on gas and air.... what does he know??!!) told me "You look good. For a pregnant woman." You know what, I'll take that! That's good with me!

Hmm. Naughty minicheddar. Not content with being the wrong way up, he's clashing with the wardrobes!! Little monkey.

Tea happy wedding anniverary

special boo to the stretch marks.... I am so far so good on this front too, and don't wish to hear about them suddenly appearing!

Four more working days! Four more working days!

I need another cry!! It's too hot. I feel awful, a bit dizzy and very very thirsty no matter how much water I drink and my ankles are starting to swell up.

I'm seriously considering persuading DS1 he needs a day off tomorrow.

blondie poor you, sounds grim. can you refuse to leave the hospital until you've spoken to the most senior consultant on duty next time? just escalate it until someone takes you seriously?

have read all posts but can't respond as brain is mush. too too hot and humid here, no sleep last night, and too hot to nap after lunch. grr. DH had a couple of fillings today too, so is miserable and sore, so have done more than usual getting DS to bed etc.

8 days to Due Date (well, 7, it's next tuesday anyway).

need to do the washing up, then sit in front of some crap on TV I think.

Exhausted. Aren't we all?
DH working late, Have ballooned after cooking & running after DC. Have sent them upstairs for Spiderman to entertain before bed. Will be feet up in front of anything soon too, and must totally switch off to the mundanity that is housework increasing and invading my space!

Bemybebe -- both my close friend and I had the most natural birth plans in place, I also wanted the whole 'natural' experience that you describe but alas, 23 hours and more later I was rushed to theatre and unlike my friend, the trauma wouldn't allow me to even try VBAC with my second. I don't think I'd ever have opted for a section but for those reading who may have no choice in the matter, I'd just like to say that births 2 and 3 were absolutely amazing and my recovery quick enough. I was pushing a double pram and shopping by day 7 after a 5 day hospital stay. It can often be depressing knowing that you've been robbed of what you ultimately aimed for ie birth plan but I just want to reassure anyone for whom it might be on the cards that medical intervention is a wonderful thing, I thought DS wouldn't make it TBH and that it will be ok

I must relax now. Head is everywhere x

Hello to everyone
Warlin congratulations, so happy for you
Kveta sorry to hear about your sad news, sending lots of good vibes to you and your friend.
Starlight, glad your homebirth has now been approved.
Tea how wonderful for DH to get extra time off work, that is really nice of them, so pleased DaddyT gets to spend more time with babyT
Blondie so sorry to hear that you're having such hard time of it. Hope you feel better soon, sening you lots and lots of hugs xx
McKayz what an awful morning for you too, I'm not sure that man who made the rude comment would still be breathing unaided if he had said such things to me
I've been to the beach at Bournemouth today, got chatting to a woman who had a largish baby in a pram, thought he was a couple of weeks old, when I asked she said he was only 1 week old and weighed 10lb 6 oz at birth [ouch emoticon]. My DS1 loved the beach, its great to do family things again now that DH is home. I have now issued the eviction notice to LO, loving the weather but would enjoy it more if I wasn't so heavily pg.
Hope everyone is well, take care xx