Due in August Thread... Part Five!

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Congratulations again to poppy, here's to the rest of us still with increasingly big bumps or of your choice!

Bring on the final trimester in all it's glory!

Sweet dreams frilly. Hopefully you get a lie in tomorrow too!

Ah ha ha! We did it at the same time!!

Ok assume we are using this one. Feeling a bit better frilly you misunderstood I mean't my dad is doing fish food. He buys all his stuff direct from china cheap and sells it on for a profit. May try for bed in a mo thanksa guys for keeping me company as I am normally one of those annoying people that sleep!

Oh yeah, just tea it back. Hey, what can I say, it's 3.30 am!! I had a dog on my lap and totally misread your post!! Duh

Great minds think alike ...

Sweet dreams Susie I may also try and sleep but hungry now ...

I can recommend cereal... Ok, must sleep!!

Lol can totally understand the misread at this time of night! Still glad for the company tho. Hope you get some sleep ladies!

Just wondering if this might help with sleeping bargain body pillow although with pg1 I just used a regular pillow under the bump.

Ok ladies I'm off, night night x

I really feel for you with insomnia. I'm sleeping through at the moment but know I could be back with you any day. Hope you all got to sleep again and are sleeping in late this morning!

So the new thread has arrived! Will any more of us join Poppy on the other side before the end? I'm 31 weeks now...

It is all getting very exciting!
I just can't wait to meet this little one.
Just 64 days until my due date !

Think I will finish up work next week and start getting a little more organised.

you guys have been busy through the night ;) hope you at least managed to sleep in this morning.
I stupidly slept on my right side instead of my left all night and for some reason have a dead leg on the entire right hand side which wont go away! I feel like when I get up or get out of bed I look like a pensioner :)
anyway - happy monday everyone and hope you are feeling better poppy and can get in to see mini pop...

xx

I'm awake!! Managed to eventually get back to sleep

Ishop, I have a pillow like that but mine is from Mothercare. Rather than one long pillow (althought essentially that's what it is) it is divided in to 3 sections that are joined together. Longest bit for between the legs, shorter not so puffy bit to go under the bump and then a a it of a longer puffy bit for your head (although I still use my pillow but wrap my arms round that bit). It's really comfy and can be used to aid breast feeding after

Was up at nine this morn felt fine, had breakfast then felt nauseous again a little while ago! Now starting to feel hungry again but tired what's going on??

I'm with you all on the weird sleeping patterns, some nights are ok and others are just horrible and I get so tired during the morning day. Fell asleep at about 2 last night and was woken up at 7.30 by bubs kicking me in the ribs! and then bless the heartburn for not letting me fall back asleep... Anyone else suffering badly from heartburn at the moment? I've been having it since mid pregnancy but in the last week or 2 it's gotten much much worse...

I hope you feel better soon susie, nausea is really horrible.

west I'm also 31 weeks now :o , time is really flying by...

poppi, how's minipop doing? and how are you recovering?

Hope you all have a lovely monday, under this beautiful grey and wet weather!!

Yay I found the new thread!! Was starting to panic haha don't know what I'd do if I didn't get to read all the posts everyday (might actually have to do some work instead! that would be a shock to the system!) Hope you're all doing well and for those of you struggling to sleep I hope you manage to get some proper rest soon! x

Was just looking for the link to send you alison :)

I was up at ten... Not too bad I guess, six hours sleep (altho woke up at half five, eight and nine too)!

I might give it a go frilly - I bought a round shaped body cushion with pg1 but it wasn't very useful for pg (altho good for sitting on post labour and as a bf cushion).

Happy mondays all x

Hi, only just found MN a week or so ago but this is first post. DC1 due on 6th August so been following this thread. Glad to see I'm not the only one awake at silly o'clock during the night! x

Welcome Nel, I'm due the day after you on the 7th. It's starting to get really close now. Eek!

Hello all on part five! Amazing journey so far, no?!

So, MIL ruby wedding stuff went ok if epic as expected and a lot of talking/driving about all over Lake District. And my fab baking hardly got eatne, so not clear why I bothered/was asked to make things... Never mind, tis done now and feel my duty has been met for a bit. I hope.

Yes yes to waking up early (today 0530) or earlier due to acid reflux/crazy thoughts/uncomfy. Am currently chilling out catching up on Jubilee stuff that I sadly missed at the weekend due to trip.

Ham, this is exactly what I worry about too, esp MIL being like she is. I ONLY want DH and DMum there, and want PIL to arrive much later on once I've showered, rested, had some time with BabyMiggins etc. DH can get very sensitive about his parents and I don't want to upset him, much but I do feel that I've got right of way on this!! I don't want to feel bombarded by them, but understand too that they want to see their new grandson. It needs to be handled with a lot of diplomacy, tact and a rod of iron

Bought a couple more bits and bobs for hospital bag today and will get packing later this week I think so I can tick something else off the list. Want also to make some further inroads into nursery.

Feeling big, heavy and fat with vast cankles all the time. But oddly love seeing my bump, though I do often still do a double-take when I pass myself in a shop window, as it's still a surprise!!

Sorry for long post, but it is nice to be home again and online! Happy holiday all x

Just marking my place on part 5!! Dont have time to catch up on everyone's goings on now as I'm working but I'll have a read later.

Hope your all doing well!

Just got back from B&Q with paint for the nursery! Woohoo...!

Thanks for the advice re: telling in-laws when in labour all. Talked to DH last night and we have agreed that he will let his mum and dad know when we are going to hospital, i.e. when labour is progressing/contractions regular. That way we don't need to tell them when it will still be ages to go and have to constantly update, but they get the heads up when it is near time. I also said about wanting time just me and him with baby before others are there. So that's all good, I think generally I was pre-empting over-sensitivity on his part re: his parents but he wasn't like that so yay!

Only problem now is my Mum said today that she wants my dad on hand so that he can come in and see the baby asap after birth. I didn't say anything yet but I had just told her about the whole inlaw thing! Argh, honestly though am I right in assuming that apart from birth partners no-one is getting in until visiting hours once on the ward anyway? It's not that I don't want my dad in at all, it's that I would like Mum there for labour but once baby is out and she has seen it she can pop out and then come back at visiting with dad and me and DH can meet the baby properly! AH families!! Part of me sometimes wishes I'd not said anything and that DH and I could agree just not to let ANYONE know until baby was born. Like just a call saying he/she is here end of story!! I would want a second birth partner and DH said last night he imagined his mum and dad would be very put out if they were kept in the dark and just told it's here. Irks me a bit because it's like I actually don't care about the feelings of parents, either side, at the moment. But no point getting wound up it won't change anything now so I think that hopefully this is a good compromise. Oh and I will be demanding that DH's phone is not answered during labour so continual updates will not be an issue! What do you all think??

Crazy we are on the fifth thread already, will there be lots more babies here before we reach the end of this?! hehe!

Really sorry to all suffering from insomnia. I've managed to sleep recently though and found the only way to do it is to make myself properly physically tired enough for it. Like do a lot of walking or swimming or housework and after dinner I tend to zonk. Sleeping isn't much fun anymore though is it? I'm flopping like a catch of the day and up to pee all the time blah blah blah.

Mantra of the moment: ONLY 9 WEEKS TO GO! (please don't mention the word overdue to me at all thanks)

Ham, I don't think they will let your Dad or PIL's in till visiting time. Check out the times in advance so that your DH can let them know. Also I reckon there will be a max visitors rule as the postnatal wards aren't normally individual ones. I guess also that the nurses/Midwifes are pretty non plussed about offending people if you are looking tired! As a teenager I spent a week in hospital and was only allowed visitors who asked in advance (including parents) the nurses were fabulous at implementing this so I have high hopes that maternity hospitals will be just as good if not better!

Grabs loads of [biscuits] and settles in scoffs self

ham in the front of my notes it tells you all the visiting times for different people on the post natal ward and says in big letters no visiting on the labour ward! Birth partners only! So I am sure your father won't be allowed in until you are on a ward and its visiting time so I wouldn't worry! Still feeling not myself must have something I guess but only slightly hopefully it will pass with lots of rest thank god for the bank holiday or would have struggled to work today!