October 2012 - where we all bury our heads in the sand

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Hey all,

Congrats on finishing work to those whose have finished! enjoy some relaxing time!

I'm a teeny bit but after my deadline on tues the pressure will be off and I'll be working 4 days/wk til 27 sept have to work tomorrow though..

No leaky boobs here but definitely discharge at the other end...

And not sleeping great either. Thankfully no heartburn but I get hungry in the early hours, even if I squeeze in a decent evening meal. Anyone else needing nighttime snacks? I've been putting a healthy cereal bar on the bedside to nibble on!

34wks tomorrow- which means 3 weeks and I'll have finished work

Beeble - I have, in the early days, enlisted the help of MIL - but I feel a bit odd about it because, y'know, if push really came to shove she'd be on his side of course. It won't come to that but I can't be forever whinging to her about her beloved son, even though she's quite reasonable (she'd just end up thinking I'm some kind of harpy!) My own mum died 5 years ago and all my family is in the UK so no help from this side.

Bubble, I've offered DH to share the pain with him - oddly, he's not keen...

goodsense - I have to eat late at night so I can get through the next morning until gone 11am, which is the only way to avoid the heartburn starting. If I eat even so much as a crumb off DS's toast, or a sliver of cheese from his sandwich, the acid kicks off within a couple of minutes before 11; after 11/11:30 I'm ok. Am starting to really want some toast though - bread products, even ones I can eat normally, are instant acid-producers. :(

hi ladies. I am due my third baby on the 15th October. I am normally on bounty but its so slow on there at the minute :(
everyone seems to be on Facebook (I font have a Facebook I think they cause trouble in relationships)
anyway my name is Maria & I have a boy of 5 & a girl of 3, due another boy and its my last baby! never again lol

Hi beesnees my baby is also due 15th October :)

I feel like I've been having leaky boobs, or just my left boob, but can't see anything, but it sometimes feels a bit moist... lol! Heartburn is driving me mad so have stocked up on gaviscon.

Since being in hospital, everytime baby moves, I feel him more. It really hurts sometimes :( He's pushing a lot against my ribs so I am breathless a lot of the time. Went to Tesco earlier to pick up 5 items and it took me over an hour... I felt so ridiculous but I really struggled walking around and had to keep stopping to catch my breath. Shall be hiding away at home until baby comes. I can't see how I'm suppose to manage another 6+ weeks like this :(

DP's having a stressful time. What with me being how I have been, but also his mum is in hospital with a lung infection. He also broke his phone yesterday so had to buy a cheap phone that's probably about 10 years old until his is fixed. He needs to make up two days worth of work as well for the time he had off whilst I was in hospital.

Just looking forward to a few week's time so baby can come out, be healthy and happy, and I can be happy with him out!

Sounds a bit everything at once Bear not easy, hope everything calms down between now and baby arriving.

Have put a new bump pic up

I am on my last legs with 6 weeks left still!! Hoping I have more energy next week because my 5 & 3 year old are thankfully back in school :)
hope your feeling better after your hospital stay. I was admitted for fluids at 25 weeks and my poor hubby is also self employed so got behind with me being out of action for a few days.

Hi girls.
Welcome bees. I'm on my 3rd too and this is my last.
bear hope things get easier

I spent the day at my cousins little boys birthday party. 2 hr drive each way and then running around after 20 kids with my cousin. So much for taking it easy!
Finally home and fallen into bed.

Suppose to be visiting the in laws tomorrow and thats a 2 hr drive in the other direction! Oh the joy

Hoping the Gaviscon kicks in soon. I'm knackered.

Welcome Beesnees.

Nice bump shot Cakes .

Bear sorry to hear things are tough for you and your DH now. We've got a lot of stuff on our plates at the moment too and are finding life rather stressful but I figure that it's best to get the stress over with now and things will hopefully have settled down in a month's time when they really need to.

Thumbwitch I have a pretty lazy DH who is superb at delegating household chores but he was really good while my DS was a newborn and I bet yours will be too. I think I read that fatherhood depletes a man's testosterone levels temporarily so they become more caring and family-oriented in the first few months so we may all be pleasantly surprised by our DHs.

I am so pleased it's September so I can say "next month" when random people ask me when baby is due. Up until now, October has seemed so far away that people have always seemed very shocked at my bump size when I've said I'm not due until October . On the other hand, I'm terrified that I only have a month left and really hoping this month slows down as the last eight have gone by at breakneck speed and I really want to savour this last month of pregnancy.

I hope so MissPolly :). I also expect that MIL will kick him a bit harder if he doesn't! Plus I expect to see her most days as well (she stayed with us in the UK for 8w, 2w before DS was born - because he was 2w overdue - and 6w after) so she'll probably pick up some slack too, although I don't want her doing too much or DH will just not bother!

Bear - it's tough, I'm having a lot of pelvic pain so walking at snails' pace and puffing and blowing a fair bit around the supermarket too - I have to have a big trolley, because the shallow trolleys all have coin-slots and there's no guarantee there'll be one down in the carpark to retrieve my $2 coin. Daft! Need one of those keyring fakey counter things, I feel.
Hope your MIL gets better soon - sounds like your family are all up against it at the mo.

I'm torn between "can't wait for baby to be out so the pain/acid stops" and "OMG there's so little time left and we've still got to dig out all the baby clothes from the garage etc." - need to stop procrastinating!! And do the hospital bag...

Going back to a point a few posts ago, I've really started leaking down there in the last couple of days - I thought it was (sorry, TMI) wee to start with, but no. Thank goodness for liners...

Welcome Beesknees!

Anyone read the thread In
Childbirth about the woman who gave birth in a bell tent at a folk festival??

I have officially had enough of being pregnant now. I've got to a point where I'm dreading going to bed because I can't.fucking.move. It is so goddamn painful I nearly cried this morning. Feels like someone's trying to pull me in half and no painkiller even touches it...

I read that, babybrain. Can't think of anything more horrendous than giving birth in a tent, personally. Plus I would've thought it'd be quite cold? When I was looking at home birth there was a whole bit in the book about making sure the house was warm enough when baby arrived, perhaps the advice I read was outdated!

Hey everyone

Back from York! Had a lovely time! Walked far too much and I?m paying for it now but really enjoyed it! Feel nice and relaxed and ready for 2 weeks more of work before I finish up!!

Just a few wee name checks as running out to an ante natal class soon.

Newton Hope you enjoy the baby show today!

maketea How did you get on with your midwife appointment?

Beesknees Hello :)

bear Sounds like you have so much on just now, if it helps yesterday I also took an hour to get 5 things from the shop? Feel like everyone must be staring at the slow waddling woman!

babybrain I read that too? Good for the woman I guess but I don?t do camping nevermind giving birth in a tent!!!

Ooh look at all the fun symptoms I?ve missed discussing lol Yes to the yucky discharge, started wearing liners just to feel cleaner! Yes Yes to the horrible breathlessness and horrible acid! Gaviscon is my best friend! No to the leaky boobs though, although I think I?ll be needed a new bra soon, best bit of pregnancy for me, gone from tiny boobs to not so tiny!

I have an odd question? Baby is head down just now and has been for a while but not engaged (well as far as I know) the past few days I will suddenly get a massive urge to pee, like I have to go right that second or I feel I might pee myself! Mostly its only a trickle (tmi sorry) but feels like the baby is bouncing on my bladder. Could that be the baby starting to engage??

Right off to ante natal labour ward tour!!!

Hello beesnees!

Definitely don't want to give birth in a tent! 37 weeks now - it's pretty cool, people in shops have all started asking when I'm due, and then looking very faintly scared when I say "3 weeks" in case I don't make it out of the shop. It's going to be great not going to work tomorrow! DH and I did lots of nesting today - mostly because the landlady is coming to inspect this week rather than a hormonal urge. I've put a new bump photo on my profile. It feels enormous - and I like the slight squareness of the top, which is her sticking her butt out as far as possible.

WeeSooty, I've got the same, occasional sudden urge to run to the loo, and it's rare that there's much to show for it when I get there. I think it probably is the baby head-butting my bladder and beginning to descend.

Sympathies, CaptainHetty - my hips are getting pretty sore at night, but sounds like you're suffering even more. I've been having a heap more crampy feelings and (TMI) a rather active bowel too, I think it's just my body gearing up rather than anything imminent, but it's not much fun!

I've got the occasional urge to run to toilet too keep saying baby is doing a head spin on my bladder, thankfully given the bottom wiggling that I could feel last night there isn't any actual spinning happening and bottom is exactly where it should be.

Just out of interest have any of you had any pg dreams about childbirth or feeding? Everything I've read said you get dreams about the childbirth aspect cause its like your inner 'fears' so why was my dream about feeding?

Hope everyone is having a good weekend.

I haven't had any actual birthing dreams, but I've had two or three where I can suddenly see features like the baby's face or feet complete with toes pushing out through the bump, and then (in that weird dreamy way) I'm suddenly holding her on the outside, having magically morphed her out through my skin. No pain though, so weirdness aside, I guess it wouldn't be so bad a way for it to happen.

Oh pinpan, that sounds like a great way to have a baby! I'd go for that, so long as my bod is left intact after!

I think mine has gone head down in the last couple of days. Certainly everything feels a lot heavier down below now, especially after going to the loo. Although I would love to have a rather active bowel - mine has gone very sluggish again which is just awful and means I have a bit of fear of "going" now, because it is going to hurt (and does). I'm also quite worried that I'm heading for a rectocele - this isn't nice. I've lived with constipation for much of my life but it's so awful in pg. Am drinking the prune juice when I remember and have dried fruit, apples most days etc. but I suspect that the reason it's all gone a bit bad over the last couple of days is because I've been chomping on a few too many Tums.

Am also having the sudden urgent urge to wee and then not getting much out, I sort of assume it's because the baby is pressing on the bladder nerves.

No strange dreams this time so far, but I do remember having a really strange one last time around, that I'd lost the baby in the bed somewhere and woke up frantically patting around the bed, looking for it - then remembered I was still pg.

Thanks for the sympathy, I think I'm doing DP's head in nearly crying every morning because it hurts, it's nice to know I'm not the only one getting it. Not nice you're all in pain too, obviously, but at least I'm not alone lol.

I still can't figure out which way round mine is, and it's (probably unnecessarily) really bugging me. I'm totally aware she's moved downwards somewhat - I feel like I've got a concrete bowling ball in my pelvis, and I'm also getting the intense need-to-pee-before-I-wet-myself urges which amount to nothing when I go to the loo, so things are most definitely getting squished... but most of the big, strong jabbing movements from her are low down on the left hand side. I wish I could remember where I felt movements with the others.

Also rearranged my hospital bag for the fourth time this morning. I'm a bit obsessed, and now started worrying if there's too much girly stuff in there. What if they were wrong? It might be a boy and he'll have to wear girly hats and babygros... Considering getting some machine dye and dying some white stuff nice bright unisex colours. Just in case. I can avoid sorting out my wardrobe a bit longer if I'm busy doing other things...

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Damn, pressed post too soon -

offer to give your DP a taste of what you're going through if he's short on the sympathy, Hetty - that's what I do to DH. Soon shuts him up when I offer him the hammer-blow to the mons pubis. He seems to think the bowling ball on the lower belly wouldn't be much of an issue though..

Oh and re: dreams, I've had a few about her arriving, but I never seem to actually give birth in them. She always just seems to be there - the last one I went for a bath at my mums, came downstairs, and she was just there. It was all rather bizarre, it was like I'd given birth but totally forgotten about it and didn't feel it

If only labour were really like that...

I also wake up from them slightly disappointed that I'm still pregnant and haven't miraculously given birth in my sleep :o

hetty that sounds really painful sympathies from me too.

I hadn't read the tent thread but a friend of a friend gave birth in a yurt in her MiLs garden after deciding our local London mat services weren't for her.. Tent is Definitely not for me!!

Pinpan, that does sound a great way to give birth! If only

Am also getting a same urge to wee as everyone else... Head feels like it's really pressing on my bladder sometimes.

Weesooty, glad you enjoyed York!

Enjoy the rest of the weekend everyone :)

I had a dream the other night that I had the baby and managed to push it out with just two pushes and was a very easy birth... Here's hoping!!

I find that once it gets to early evening all I want is to lie in bed, to rest all my joints, but by morning I can't wait to get up, as they have started aching again. not much longer though now I guess.. Then we will all miss our bumps I bet!!

My bh are getting more painful now too, and bump is really kicking out, you can really see two little heels when it stretches out! Can't wait to meet my bump.

Have just dropped dc off at a party and come into town to pick up things for my hospital bag... Am just relaxing with a hot chocolate, checking lists to see if there is anything I have forgotten before I go and pick them up.

In other news, mum has now gone home, she was quite determined, despite not being able to weight bear, she wanted to manage herself. Have bought her some microwave meals and am making daily visits... Dd stayed over with her at the weekend to help. Am just hoping she actually does say if she needs more help.

Hello ladies, well am 37 weeks therefore full term today

How are you all feeling? Sorry for those of you suffering with SPD - it's hideous, isn't it. I made the mistake of pushing a bag of shopping further into my pushchair basket with my foot yesterday. Dear god the pain was excruciating . Literally felt like my pelvis was being ripped apart.

Off to a BBQ in a bit, then my job is to pack my hospital bag when I get back. Although I bet you all now I won't be one of the first to give birth. Am preparing myself for my third overdue baby!

what sort of birth is everyone hoping for? I had a water birth with my second baby so wanting to give it another go.
My hospital was on "the midwife's" last week and starting to feel nervous after watching it. Still in denial about a baby being in my tummy haha
Maria & blue bump 34 weeks xx

I wanted a nice water birth at home.

I'm now getting at best a natural labour under monitoring or at worst a c-section. Should find out which next week! I've gone from being bitterly disappointed to kind of... Oh well, whatever gets her here safely!

Was that the hospital with the separate rooms for all the women? I watched all the episodes in 2 days and can't remember which one was which lol. It looked very nice there though :)