Due December 2012 - feeling those kicks now

[gilsbubbles]

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I'm joining you all on the sobbing sofa, first cry I've had in months but dd just head butted me in the cheek bone and it really, really hurt and dp has buggered off to football (he was only home from work for ten minutes). I need to bath myself and dd and get her to bed, which is still taking up to an hour of her running out and having to be put back on and I just don't have the energy, it makes me dizzy and sick and getting up constantly. I also have to hang the washing up, fold the dry washing and start packing for friday. I have work tomorrow so have to sort all of mine and dd's things out because we all leave before 7. Sorry for self indulgent moan, feel a bit better now, still have one giant oatmeal and raisin cookie left if anyone wants to share?!

Sorry to hear about your news pidj hopefully will turn out to be nothing to worry about.

I'm with you bubbless i barely managed enough for yesterday's wee sample after weeing all over myself first! At my surgery the midwives give you nice big pots with wide openings and they decant. Whereas the doctors give you tiny little universal containers that hold a thimble full!

I'll be starting mat leave at 39+1 with 2 weeks holiday before that, unless I really can't cope with the commute (80 miles per day) which is very likely!

The asda shop is calling me but I hate doing it on my own. Last 3 times I've tried I almost fainted in there. I have to take a bag of haribo in to keep up my blood sugar.

Hope everyone on the sofa feels better soon, bloody roller coaster hormones!

I'm another one who's planning to start ML on my due date (well, actual last day in work will be 3 days before due to weekend and not working Mondays as p/t).

With DS, I saved 2 weeks leave to use before due date but as he was 2 weeks late had 4 weeks at home which got rather tedious in the end! I know this LO could well surprise me and put in an early appearance, but just not as stressed this time about getting everything absolutely perfect(I ironed baby vests last time - why?!) and have a bit more time to sort the stuff that actually needs doing given that I'm part time now anyway. Also, because I've taken on a different role since returning from ML last time there wouldn't be nearly so many 'handover' issues if I suddenly couldn't come in one day.

Should say my job is largely desk based too - think I'd want to finish earlier if I was on my feet all day.

pmgkt - congrats on scan (still catching up from yesterday!)

clarella and pidj - sorry to hear about your difficult days. Hope you are both feeling better soon.

i may have a brief sit on the sofa tonight too, i dont need tissues or cake (ate a whole big bag of haribo earlier and feel sick) but i have had a hard day. DS1 has been really difficult and then that has stressed me which has had the knock on of making him worse.

Have made it to the gym for first time since the house/builders work started! So happy...

bella thanks, that info helps no end with knowing what i have to think about. Have a few months yet before travel system becomes too pressing, and have car seat sorted (hurrah! Second baby item) so at least we can bring him home now..

Have heard a v good friend of dh's and his wife are pregnant today. His friend is lovely, and I'm really happy for them, but the wife is the Most Competitive person i know. When we got engaged she threw a fit for months until he proposed, then copied our wedding colours, copied our honeymoon EXACTLY and was most put out when it turned out i bought my dress from a different shop to her. Then when we moved from a flat to a house they did the same months later again, and she spent more months slagging off the area we live in because theirs is more 'new money'. I'm dreading her turning this into another competition. I always try and make out that i think she's doing better/I'm impressed by all their cash etc anyway, so i don't see why she keeps on at it? It makes me really tense and is one of the reasons I'm looking forward to moving once the Crumb's born, which is sad because i really like dh's friend and under any other circumstance would be really happy a friend of ours was having their dc at the same-ish time.

Sorry, rant over. maybe I'm the difficult one..

Pidj, Clarella, Spotty - its a lovely comfy
Sofa that you can all lie on with your feet up, chocolate biscuits and cadburys new chocolate popcorn things are to your left. Big hugs (don't care theyre unmumsnetty).

Just on ectopic heartbeat was with a dentist and doctor couple at the weekend, dentist has ectopic heartbeat and they're not worried in the slightest.

Pobble and I are fine, recorded his heartbeat for DH as he hasn't heard it yet. He loved it.

Hope your collective weeks get better.

Xposted earlier - Spotty, pmgkt and anyone else on the sofa hope you're feeling better soon too.

Thanks guys but its just me that's not great baby should be fine now thankfully, so sorry to hear about your news pidg. Don't know much about it but sounds like they are in the ball with it. Big hugs and chocolate cake xx

Id feel the same utopian - but, in the throes of early baby dom I imagine she'll be too knackered. Sounds like potential for some deffo competitive pram/ equipment etc stuff, esp before birth gets more 'real' then maybe which one walks first etc but at the end of the day as we are beginning to find being a mum is bloody hard so she'll prob run out of steam or even turn to you for support! At least you know that stuff isn't important and maybe eventually she'll discover that too.

Chocs and tissues for you too utopia, pmg and spotty xx

Dp left to play football, five minutes down the road, at half five and still isn't back ffs. I wouldn't normally care but there's still loads to do before tomorrow it's not like I've been sat here watching the midwives for the past hour

Anyone else completely repulsed by birth programmes at the mo? I am really struggling to watch any births on telly, wot a weirdo

I'm finding them quite reassuring ie she can do it so can I

I watched the midwives last week and it just made me scared! I hadn't really thought much about the baby coming out. I'd just been thinking about all the cute stuff

Back from holiday, and looks like I have a lot of reading to do! Left my phone at home by mistake so wasn't able to follow the threads.

Belly has got massive (proper big growth spurt) and he is so active, his kicks move my whole belly and visible.

Time to try to catch up on what you have all been up to!

I hope there are a lot less on the sofa today? pidj no to google and if they don't seem worried don't be worried. I hope you are ok. I didn't have my normal midwife y'day she was on hols. I made her measure me and measuring 26 weeks at 24 and she was getting a pounding whilst trying to do the heartbeat-little one did not want to co-operate.
Oh and I love watching any midwife prog, doesn't scare me at all, I'm just nosey I think!
Oh and bubbless

It's not my first it's my second, I left work at 30/31 weeks I think last time, I worked full time then and was going to be made redundant so wanted to get away from it all. TBH I'm having such a crappy time at work at the mo I can see it being similar-I don't think it's worth making yourself stay at work longer if it's making you miserable? See how you feel- I had three weeks off and now the last two weeks have been tough- its brought on my back problems and it is worse than before I was off- my body has clearly changed a lot in those weeks! So just be careful when you do go back.

clarella thanks for the chocs/tissues - feeling less anxious now, dh has said if she starts going off on one telling us how her child when it arrives is superior to The Crumb I should just ask her to keep her opinions to herself. I honestly don't care about the 'stuff' issue, as they have more disposable income than us, and a different attitude to what's important in life, I just wish she wouldn't keep telling me to my face how she thinks she's superior, as it makes it hard to be polite.

mwahmwah - YES! tried to watch 'the midwives' with dh the other day as St Marys will be our hospital, and got through the first minute of intro clips and couldn't keep going.. if i'm horrified by it now, i dread to think what it'll be like when it's happenning to me...

Crumb was going mental on the kicking/partying front yesterday and today - is this normal?

Utopian, people who do that usually don't feel it inside hence the need to say it to make them feel better. A bit harsh but you could remind her we never know what life is going to throw at us (or just think that to make you feel better.)

Somedays blueberry goes nuts, other days I feel very little - I think its the way they lie? I'm watching my belly actually heave and bounce at moment but otherdays nothing happens!

Attempting to pull myself together today. I was signed off work last night and there's been lots of tears but I know its for the best.

Looking forward to possibly having a functional cooker next week at least for the odd pizza and getting a washing machine, Hoorah no more smelly expensive service washes and handwashing jeans is bloody hard!

The first thing I will bake is banana bread cos i can't stop thinking about how good it would be with nutella on!

Morning! Hope the sofa isn't needed today and you all feel a little bit brighter. Went to the antenatal aqua fit class last night - I did enjoy it (it's funny being in a class with so many pregnant women!) but I think at the moment I probably get more out of swimming as I am still pretty mobile. I definitely think it'll be good a little later on. I am going to keep going but maybe do it on alternate weeks. Starting pregnancy yoga in September too.

Willyou That's pretty much exactly what I will me taking off (time wise) before baby arrives - I have 1 week's annual leave at 37 weeks and then ML kicks in the following week at 38. (Except you have a week's more holiday than me.) Works out the same though - three weeks off beforehand.

utopian I'm getting lots more kicks too. I am starting to see a pattern now too which is cool. Every night when I get into bed! DH can feel pretty much all of them now, which he loves and on Tuesday night he saw one from the outside and just said "Wow!" I wonder when we'll start to be able to identify arms/feet/hands/bums. I think that'll be funny - but exciting!

acj I am sort of making myself watch The Midwives - I am half scared and half okay with it :)

Does anyone else just want it to be autumn already? I feel that things will feel much closer when autumn comes! (Or maybe I'm just weird?!) Autumn is also probably my favourite season...followed by winter

Morning!
Hope those who were on the sofa yesterday feel better today.
WeeJo I wish it was autumn, my fave season too apart from the shorter days. Just means we'll be closer to meeting our LO's getting out of work, sorry this place is draining me at the moment - whooo!

I wish it was autumn too, I love the run up to Christmas at the best of times but it's even more exciting this year! I think September is still summer really so roll on October and I'm going to see Michael McIntyre beginning of October

Morning all, Utopian I suggest you just smile and nod - the less you react the more infuriated she'll become and the more you can translate the internal giggle fit to an even smugger smirk

I'm distracting myself by washing nappies and baking up sweet potato and carrot falafel. I'm off out this afternoon and want something quick to reheat for dinner. I say bake, i mean stick the grill on and put on a low shelf; the element went weeks ago, my dad has bought a new one and swears blind he's going to come and fix it any day now

I'm back to calm now, worried obviously but really can't be doing with histrionics :)

clarella hope the tears are better now, and sending hugs..
pidj - picking up on your washing nappies comment, do you use reusables? Am v keen to go with them rather than disposables, but no idea of best types, although have been looking at MN reviews. Can you use them from birth?

All this talk of banana bread and sweet potatoes is making me hungry. The creepy technician in our office just made his umpteenth unwanted comment about my body, this one being "that beer belly's getting out of hand isn't it?" Nice. If it was a comment from a friend I'd laugh, but from him it makes me want to hurl.

I will be, as this is my first i don't know how it'll go! I've picked up some bargains preloved, mainly prefolds and plain white wraps with a smattering of various brands of fitted. Until you know what shape baby is, there's no point spending a lot of money! I'm in a couple of fb groups and just skim reading has taught me loads :)

"Beer belly's getting out of hand" "Yeah, nearly as big as yours"