Due in August Thread... Part 6!

[ishopthereforeiam]

Hello ladies, come on in grab a , and/or ... rest those puffy cankles, sore bumps and aching backs and let's hope this thread sees the arrival of some babies!

hamncheese I started getting the runs today . Ive had the odd dodgy tum on and off over last few weeks but today was horrible.

With last two PG I started getting this 2/3 weeks before my waters broke they were both 3.1 weeks early. Im 33.2 today..............Help!

I want bump to know this is unacceptable. We move in 2 weeks into rented for another two weeks then we move into our new house and DS starts school. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE stay in there. As much as Im hating every little minute and PG is making me ill, Im/we are far too busy and stressed for an early arrival OK.

Urgh, just want a break from exhaustion so I can at least get the baby's things ready. DH as usual, has left EVERYTHING to the last minute so there is nobody to help me with my two DC's and im struggling with them, never mind all the stuff we have to do before the big move.

paperbag moment<

Once it was safe to be outwith 20 yards of a toilet today, I took DS into town for the rest of his school stuff. This was pretty late in the day so we ran out of time but got most of it.

He is small for his age so he looks sooooo tiny in his very serious black trousers!

I had bought all the tops/jackets etc from the school PTA and I haven't tried it on him yet, just against him but today I went to john Lewis and put the trousers on him and obviously had shoes fitted etc.

OMG, he stood there in his age 4 trousers, still long, looking up at me with his big blue eyes and I just wanted to cry!! He's too small, he's still my baby! Once he goes to school that's it, he will start to slowly loose his innocent little face and just start telling me to shut up and such like!

He was so cute with his Spiderman lunch box he wouldn't let go.
He is very chatty and just marched up to a male sales assistant who was about 6'7 and getting neck strain looking down on him.

"Im a big boy now and im going to school, this is my spiderman lunch box

launches lunchbox upwards towards giant man<
, do you like it"? "My mummy is going to put my sandwich in it and I can eat it at school with my friends instead of having lunch with my mummy"..........

Can you imagine how hard it was not to weep at that stage (this stage of PG)>

OK, maybe lots of you who are just about to have your first are thinking, what a boring fud she is, that is not worthy of typing out but seriously, you have no idea how quickly this has all come around. Pre PG hormones Id have just thought, aww cute but it nearly broke me .

Just checking in, read every day but fall asleep often before post!!

36wks today... reeling wishing time would fly by!! have last growth scan on wed so will post how big then.

really unsure if to ask to c section if he's as they expect 8Ib ish!! last scan they expected big baby and were still saying happy for me to go 10 days over so potential 6 weeks more growth when possibly 8Ib now arrrrrhhhhhh!!! scared!!!

Those who have c section before, how long before you can drive get about etc... fella only has one week off so will be on own when home.

no braxton hicks for me yet think my little one is on the relaxed side typical boy!!!

frilly yes I have been having period pains too for the past week or so. Feels very unusual and I didnt get them with my first pregnancy but I guess its just baby moving into position.

quickchat aww that is so sweet I think I would have blubbed. My DS will be starting pre-school in September just 2 mornings a week but I am dreading it. He has been for a trial run and I left him there for an hour. They assured me he was fine and I watched him through the window when I came back and he was playing happily. But he looked way too grown up, the past 3 years have flown by!

Quickchat that's so lovely. DD is in year 1 now but I remember her first day in reception like it was yesterday, its such an emotional moment - good luck to him. What are you going to put in his first sandwich?

Glad to hear pram got sorted frilly - was really emotional putting mine together made me realise baby really is coming. I've just been washing little sheets ready for pram and moses basket - underlines how tiny babies are when you fold their sheets

My SIL has given me a karrime siling but i've no idea how to use it. I'd like to sometimes as bus can be crowded with prams in morning doing school run. I've looked at instructions on their website but still feel horribly overwhelmed - worried I'll either never get it on or never get it off again.

today and yesterday were far better days. I only shouted at DD once (for leaving satsuma peel all over sofa yet again) and have been mainly IMHO nice to know.

Is anyone getting stabbing pains in left hand side of their stomach? I seem to be getting quite a few of them. They're really painful, usually happen when I'm walking about and go on for 10-15 minutes. I've got a hospital appointment tomorrow so will mention them then. Hopefully nothing important

Going in to hospital to be induced on 25th so only 10 days left.

Oh and Poppy swaddling worked for us with dd too. Tiny babies seem to like the security of it.

Oh quick chat that is just so adorable. How cute...

ok im now sounding like a total hypochondriac - yes im getting the stabbing pains too ontheedge.

Im ok about it though as I remember getting them with my other two. Mine are mainly on the right and it really is sore at times.

I just imagine it's stretching ligaments or ovary twangs . Maybe even where the baby like to dig heels in, I have no idea but sometimes if, say I stand up quickly I feel like I have literally been stabbed and am bent over.

Panpipe hope you had a fab birthday?

Thanks all - well we had lunch (near where we live!) all very civilised and pleasant now DH and I very confused as such odd behaviour from mum over last month and all of a sudden it's like nothing has ever happened. Although this happens every 6 months to year or so and dh said she would be completely normal and act as if nothing's happened so he knows! Oh well, no head space to deal with it all right now .

Thanks ham def going to try piriton for some zzzzs

ps those period like pains sound like Braxton Hicks / contractions to me? Wonder if we''ll have some more thread babies this week ?

Happy week to all

ishop she is definitely a fruity one> Is there any chance she is going through 'the change' and it has sent her battier than usual?

It sounds like she gets stuff all twisted in her own head and exaggerated then after preforming like a loon she starts to wind down a bit and even realise she 'may' have went too far?

Yes, zzzzzzzzz away and leave her to her own madness. You will learn what not to do with your kids and be a brilliant mum x

hope the piriton helped ishop

I didn't sleep very well for several reasons. DH had a dream (no idea what about) and I woke up to him like thrashing about and turning over 8 times like a maniac and when I woke him he said something about flight paths and runways. So after pretending to be a jumbo jet and waking me up I was kept up by these new tenants upstairs who have just moved in and like to rearrange their bedroom furniture at 2am... WTF?! So DH stirs too and I say "do you think it is time to get the broom and knock the ceiling to shut them up?" and he says yes and then turns over and goes back to sleep. I'm not climbing on the bed with a broom at 36weeks so I have to wait up awake til the morons shut up grrr. THEN DH wakes me up at 6am to look at a rash on his neck

Also my body is still clearing out seriously every few hours and it is a bit looser than usual but not like when you are ill, if you get me. Trying hard not to see it as a sign things are getting closer as it's too exciting! (Pregnancy... the only time that bowel movements are considered exciting )

I've been having bowel movements like that for weeks mainly during the night the pain wakes me up and then I'm sat on the loo at 2am in serious pain, cold and shaking debating wether this it or not!
I'm having serious hip pain now sometimes I go to walk and it gives way and I end up limping and wanting to cry cant even manage school runs without dreading it or it taking me ages, baby is so low down he's hurting my pelvis and I know it sounds really bad but I feel like a crap mum!, I feel like I'm either doing nothing with my other 2 or shouting at them and I cant excited about ths baby :(
I'm tired and so frustrated that I cant do the things that I want to and when I'm normally so organised this is killing me!
I know I should be taking it alittle easy especially after being in hospital and I get my test results today to but if someone offered me a cs today I would seriously consider it just so I can move again! :(

Oh miaboo that sounds so awful I feel so bad for you it's so tough just now because it's so close but not close enough. I remember being about 25 weeks thinking wow I can't wait til I'm full term then it'll be so close and easy as it won't be long to go but now we are there and they days are just dragging in! I'm sure you are not being a bad mum, and it's not for long until the baby is here and all the crappy pregnancy stuff will be over. Do you have any other family or friends who could help entertain your other DCs while you rest? :(

I have a friend and the childrens uncle that can do the school runs for me but I just feel guilty that I cant always do it especially as this is his first year and it's coming to an end, I went to his assembley the other day which was really difficult as I had to take ds2 with me who is 20 months and they made me take him out the pushchair and carry him round to the hall so I had to then struggle with him trying to get him to sit on a chair or my knee the entire time whuch is hard with a massive bump and pgp! grrr!!
Ds 2 goes to nursery on a wednesday so thats my rest day as such!
Just want to get things sorted in the house and tidy incase I have to go into hospital early (bit ocd and really dont like people in my house if I'm not there!)
Ds2 seems abit of daddys boy and I think I'm feeling like I've missed out because I was pregnant just after he turned 1 so I cant do the running around and the silly games that he can - dam hormones make you overthink so much!!
feel cheated I missed my hols by being in hospital and then missing my 30th birthday and having to spend the money I saved for a birthday meal on the food shopping as hubby missed out on wages having to spend the an extra week away to!
Just a tired, in pain, hormonal grump at the minute!! :)

Morning all!

I have appt with community midwife this afternoon. Going to get her to examine my scar from last labour, as I'm still a bit scared (actually totally bricking it!) about how it might be effected if I tear again this time. I had spoken to the hospital Dr about it at 31 weeks, but I may as well have been asking a wall, as she was most certainly nice-but-dim... I really trust my Comm MW, had her as well back in 2009-2010 when I had DS.

Thankfully my mum has agreed to mind DS for an hour so I don't have to take him with me. I usually don't mind taking him to appts, but not when I'm getting examined, as I don't think it's right for him and I wouldn't be able to relax.

eighties are you worried about having an 8lb baby? Or are the medics worried about it? My first was 8lb 6oz and was born at 39 weeks. Good healthy weight, and he's been tall and stocky ever since. DH and I are both average heights and average weights. At my last growth scan with him they predicted he would be 8lb 5oz, so they were only 1oz wrong..... or do you mean the baby is measuring 8lbs now??? In that case, ignore what I just said

Can't remember who was saying about braxton hicks, but I'm getting them too. Quite a lot actually, especially after sex. Will be mentioning it to Comm MW this afternoon.

ham you have my sympathy about not sleeping well. Last night DS woke up and just wouldn't settle. He ended up in my place in bed with DH, and I slept in his toddler bed. My legs were either dangling off the end, or curled up. Woke up this morning and pretty much had to click all my limbs back into place Hope he doesn't make this a regular occurrence...

(34+2)

Quick I'm sat here in floods of tears reading your description of your little man in his school uniform! I'm sure it will only feel like five mins until I'm doing all that!
First proper day of maternity leave today. Was lovely to roll over (easier said than done) and go back to sleep when DH got up at 6:45! Up and dressed waiting for the man to come and fix our front door now. Going to make myself a cuppa and watch some rubbish day time tv for a bit! So good not to be at work! 2 weeks and 3 days to go!

needles I totally feel like that with all the clicking back into place. I am assuming it's the hormone that makes all your bits more flexible happening at the moment but everything feels wonky and things are cracking all the time like elbows and knees and especially my toes! My toes click with every step I take... feel like I'm falling apart and I'm not even having to sleep in a toddler bed!!

Thanks quick - she's been like that for at least 17-18 years, I think it's because she loved us (children) all a bit too much and then as we've grown up and fled the nest her own life has become a bit empty so she just finds dramas and fights to start for entertainment (sorry a bit deep!).

Ham - sorry I did chuckle a little bit abour your DH's dream! My dream was that I was told my double chin (something am v sensitive about at the mo as it's just appeared in pg and referenced yest by DM as "you're face has got fuller" and "hello fatty"!) was because I had throat cancer (!?). Hope you manage to squeeze some extra zzzs in soon! The bowel movements sound like freeing the body up too...

Mia that sounds really painful. My hips/ bits where thighs join torso have started getting q painful lately. Just make sure you rest as much as you can.

Needles - what was your tear like last time if you don't mind me asking? Think we may've chatted about it b4 but as mine was a 3rd/4th they recommended a C/S for me. If that's what you would like - some tips ;-) ... when you see the mw later today ask to speak to a consultant and remind them how long it took you to recover (for me at least 6 months til back to normal), how traumatised you were (no joke - it was bloody awful for me!), how (hopefully) you've been lucky to escape incontinence free but are terrified of re tearing and suffering even worse injuries next time around, and how you are fortunate to have resumed (hopefullY!) a normal sex life but many with that degree of tearing are unable to.

Probably not the best time to do this but how about a game...complete the following: Pregnancy is ..."

OOps complete the following: pregnancy is...

Pregnancy is: about 3 weeks too long

(36+6 today)

pregnancy is falling in love with your body even if it feels like it is falling apart.

Haven't posted in ages. Just back from a summer hols and into maternity leave now- BLISS. Good to see some babies on the thread! I also need to join the stabbing pains in the groin club- frequent yelps have become the norm.

Pregnancy is: an amazing excuse to eat cake

37+3...beyond excited :)

Just home. Went to hospital this morning and spent well over an hour on the monitor as baby seemed to be fast asleep and refused to move for ages despite loads of iced water - naughty baby. However it shifted eventually and they let me go. Then went to town and got last few things for hospital bag and a couple of basically chick lit books as can't imagine I'll be concentrating that hard in early labour.

After all your talk of whether babies are engaged, I checked my notes at at 35 + 2 when I last saw community midwife it said 5/5 - hopefully its shifted a bit since then maybe 35 weeks was a bit early really.

Miaboo I've been struggling with school runs too. Not sleeping well and keep getting knee cramps which are horrible. One of my friends has taken pity on me and is doing the afternoon ones for me which has helped massively. Not long now until term ends so take heart and look forward to slightly more leisurely mornings at least until baby turns up.

I asked about the stabbing pains and midwife said what's been said above - just ligament pain and nothing to worry about so that's a relief.

Quick question. Do I need to buy something waterproof for the Moses basket and cot? Do little boy nappies leak often or will changing sheets be enough?
Pregnancy is ... nearly over! Going to miss my bump but can't wait to meet my baby!

Pregnancy is: a good way of remembering to appreciate the little things in life.....like bending, walking, sleeping and wine.

miaboo you are someone else, some where else, living my life!

All the things getting to you are getting to me too. Feel I do nothing with my two - except shout.

Feel so sad about missing out on DD (youngest) as the time DS was going to school was the time I was going to have just me and her. That time you have with your first that you don't have with the second - now a new baby will come along and she will get middle child syndrome - sorry, did you say something about thinking too much? !

I feel so sorry for her and I just want to catch my breath after having her to actually enjoy her but instead, I fell PG by accident.

Ive been very exhausted with other ailments too so I've done NOTHING with her. She is a real Daddy's girl and he takes her swimming etc.
On a Saturday morning DH takes both of them to a skate park with their scooters and on Sunday he takes them swimming. Im just the fat moaning lump in the house who is no fun during the week! Im lucky to have a great DH who enjoys his kids but at the same time, im at how good he is.

I remember feeling very sad about DS when I was PG with DD so it's just the same hormonal rubbish haunting us now. DS is a real mummies boy at time so he obviously has forgotten what a physco I was at the end of her PG then a bore for a year after!

Im sure my latest moaning will be ringing some bells with him!

Just back from midwife appointment and it seems my hunch was right! Baby appears to have turned round and is head down not bum down! Hoping she stays this way.

34 weeks now and apart from a complete intolerance to heat, heartburn and a constant desire to wee I feel fine.

Can someone explain all this 3/5/ 5/5 etc to me. I can't find anything about this in my notes.

pregnancy is shit *

*except for the getting a baby part of course

Just had to be brutally honest I've hated being pregnant like being ill in one way or another for 9 months. Been positive throughout (how else to get through) but just noting this for the future when that magical hormone comes to erase all the crap and I think "hmm, what about another?"