Due in July - Expanding by the day

[kbaby]

Thought I would start the thread.

HC Sorry that our MIL is like that. I guess theres not much you can do apart from telling DH to stick up fo you. My Mil is ok but has her odd ways. She was against me bfing and was determined with DD that she would be dressed in pink frilly dresses. Soon put a stop to all that and I just used to ignore her comments.

The kicks argetting a lot stronger now. They are still fairly low down and sometimes in my bladder.

Im glad im not the only one breaking wind like a trooper. Im almost afraid to bend over in work

Im hoping to go back to work 3 1/2 possibly 4 days a week. Im going to put DD in nursery 2/3 mornings but mil will have both the rest of the time. Id love to do less but when I work out how much id lose its shocking and weve just extended our morgage for the extension. The other option ive got is to work in the call centre and do shifts but I dont fancy the weekend shifts. Im too frightened to tell my mnagaer yet.

Evening ladies and bumps - I have been reading all your postings with interest! I'm glad that you are (mainly) all well. Puddytat, your midwife team sound really unsupportive, so what if they have to fill in a few forms - it is their job to support pregnant women after all! I really feel for you. This time round I am with a midwife team who specialise in home births as I can't face going to hospital and being made to lie flat on a bed again. If you think you want a home birth then insist - you are the one who will be birthing this baby and you are entitled to try for the birth you want. Sorry for rant, but I find it really upsetting when pregnant women aren't supported in their choices. Don't let them get you down (hugs). x

Thanks everyone for all the messages about unsupporting mws and homebirths. It's just been driving me crazy never meeting one more than once, so they don't know who I am or anything about me. DH is not too comfortable about home birth but says he'll support me whatever I decide to do. And the hospital is only a 5 minute drive away (can see it from our house). Just don't want to feel I have to have a home birth because I'm being ignored about my hospital fears, etc.

Hope you're all having a great weekend and enjoying this beautiful sunshine. As DH is at work and DS has a friend visiting, I'm going to eat lunch in the garden (if I don't blow away ). Take care of yourselves.

Beautiful day here - sun is out, going to make a cake this afternoon (prob have a bit of a nap first tho). Have been having what I presume to be Braxton Hicks for a few weeks now - not painful but bump goes all rigid. Feels a bit odd though.

Puddytat - I haven't seen the same MW twice yet either, and they keep saying they are restructuring the MW team but nothing happens. At my 2nd appt, all the MW was interested in was getting all the paperwork straight, as she was handing my notes over. She wasn't very open to questions or as full of information as I had hoped. No mention of ante-natal classes yet. My 3rd appt is in 2 weeks, so I hope to get more information then, but since this is my first, I have no clue about planning the labour, and not enough information to decide things like homebirths v. hospital.

Bless the NHS!

Hi all

I feel very lucky with my mw.I have seen her each time and she was the one who suggested a homebirth.There are 4 mw's in the practice and i will have at least 1 of them if my homebirth goes ahead.My mw has said that shes going to try to make sure she can be the one to come out when i go in to labour.

She has said she will also do a home visit to see me and dp as he's not that keen on the idea.She will try to lay his fears at rest and tell us all the info we need.We are also 5 mins from the local hosp so i feel confident that if there was a problem we are close to the hosp.

It's awful that some of you are not seeing the same mw and fighting to get the birth you want.

That sounds like the ideal situation Agalch. You are lucky

Chat2Ali - You need to bring the topic up as from experience my mw never even asked me if I had completed the birth plan or even thought about my choices. I found it best to decide what I wanted from books/mumsnet and then ask her if it was possible.

I had a lovely birth with dd. My contractions started at 10am and I just wandered about the house watering the garden and doing washing in between, then at 12.30ish DH came home from work and I had a bath and beans on toast and then we put the tens machine on. At 2ish we left for the hospital. When I got there I was 9cms and had DD 40 mins after. A really lovely experience which im hoping to repeat.

Thanks for your advice kbaby, I will definately go along to my next appointment armed with 100s of questions. It is actually very helpful to read the discussions on mn because of the different issues that are constantly being raised. Thanks again

BTW, your experience with your first baby does sound ideal. Fingers crossed for the same again, and for everyone else here too!

Ali

Evening girls,

Cor loads to catch up on... Debating taking photo of boobs.. but already they have grown soooo much and my nipples are enormous now that i think I've lost the moment!!!

Does anyone else feel really uncomfy just under their boobs after eating... in the middle bit?

What do braxton hicks feel like? My tummy sometimes goes rock hard and everything feels like its pushing down for a few minutes, but sometimes i think its just because i need a wee!

Kbaby.. your birth last time sounds fab... I think i'll be like a headless chicken when it happens!

HC.. have had lots of snot clusters (sorry!), with blood (again sorry!) and the odd nose bleed. Have never been so bunged up before.

On a happy little note.. started buying bits and bobs yesterday... things for a hospital bag and cute little baby grows! Need to settle on a theme for baby room now!

Hope everyones week goes nice a quickly! xx

Morning ladies, hope you all had a good weekend. Went to the coast on saturday to sort out the sale of our static caravan there. didn't get what we wanted but at least it is done with now, one less thing to pay for .

Went up in the loft yesterday to find the wraps for deblaca and straightforward and also dug out all DS's newborn baby clothes! Was he ever that small !

Sorted out what we can reuse and put them in the wash last night. I don't think we need any more sleepsuits!!

Having a sort out (as always) we must be very big hoarders! Does anyone want a bottle warmer as we have 2 and DS didn't like warm milk, just room temperature.

Feeling much better today as my cold is on its way out as well and slept last night! ISn't is amazing what a good nights sleep can do .

Speak to you all later.

Jersey Girl, we too are hoarders. Need to get in the loft and sort all our baby clothes out, really looking forward to it. We went up their lsat week to get all our books and ornaments etc out from them being up there since we moved in 2 years ago! Now the living room and dining room are finished it's so nice to have all my things around me at last. I am going to have to take some pictures so that I can remember what my biscuit coloured carpet and my cream curtain looked like, because in 18 months time when two kids have tracked mud through it and there is marmite halfway the curtains I may have forgotten....must be mad.

had a very busy weekend shopping for finishing touches etc, DS is a challenge to say the least at the moment, I'm hoping it's teeth cos otherwise we have a right little minx on our hands!!

Feeling fab, going swimming today, week off next week hurrah!

xx

Hi Everyone

Hope you all had a good weekend. The sun is shining here again this morning and it feels lovely. DH brought me breakfast in bed over the weekend before he went to work, bless him!!! More hoarders here. But we've been really good just lately and been having a major clear out. It's the only way to fit the baby in the house or someone will have to move into the garden shed.

Bumpy - That's just how my nose feels, not nice!!! As for Braxton's, it sounds like you've been having some.

Algach - Can I come and see your mws? Our 2 local hospitals have just mearged into one, so everything is being restructed. The hospital mws say speak to community mws and they say speak to hospital ones. Have told DH it might all be down to him the way things are going, so he'd better start to read up .

Hi all from a grey, dismal and pi**ing with rain Glasgow!
Not been on for a few days and my brain can't process all the info and news!
LOL at boobs. Mine are a 32FF when I'm not pregnant! I was in an H cup after dd's birth and have no idea what will happen this time but it's all a bit scary!
Also very bloody snot here. Not helped by being so congested that I'm having to really blow my nose hard every few minutes.
Hoping to decorate the nursery over the Easter weekend when DH is off. Chosen a colour and a "theme" just need to find fabric and bits and pieces to make it all hang together. Boys' rooms are more of a challenge than girls' rooms , I think!
Only 8 weeks more of work! It's all getting very real, isn't it????
Hope you're all having a fab day.

Hi everyone - wow you're a chatty lot!!!

Did the loo roll test and I'm 9.5 OMG!!!! Wasn't really the smallest of peeps before though, so not too worried, seem to have more determination to get fit after baby though, so hope it lasts.

I want to try BF but not hung up about it, if it works then fine, if not, we'll go to bottles. Want to involve hubby as much as possible.

Bought a "travel system" but that's about it really, need to start investing in lots more stuff.

That's it really - at work so can't be long on here, finishing in 13 weeks (not that I'm counting) so can't wait.

BTW, just read through the list of people due in July, I'm 25 and don't know what sex baby is.

Hope you all had a good weekend and be good!!

TTFN

HI Kay

Reading your post I just had a thought is your travel system a Graco one as we have a car seat base hardly used in the loft, which I am trying to clear if you are interested?

Jersey

Hi Everyone
Hope you all had good weekends. I spent mine turning our little flat in to a show room so we can put it on the market. Have a load of estate agents coming round today to value it. Luckily DH is there to do the talking, while I'm at work sitting on my ever-expanding ass. Put an offer in on a flat we saw on Friday, so just waiting to hear about that one. Looks like our timing might be all off though, will I have popped before or after we move?! Assuming it all goes through.

I agree about the breastfeeding, give it a go, girls, but remember, it is hard, you just have to think, in about three weeks, it'll be fine, just get through those first three weeks (in my case), look past them, and it is lovely after that. And so handy. And so cheap! Also agree with kayzed, if you want to try bottles later on, don't wait til baby is too established on the boob, as he just won't take to the bottle at all. I bf for six months, then wanted to stop (preggers again - my body couldn't handle feeding three people) but ds just wouldn't take a bottle for me. Not a chance. Ended up just refusing breast (ouch) completely one day, and offering only formula, but he was having none of it. Ended up, after a few days of torture for everyone, adding some strawberry yoghurt to the formula and literally pouring it into him!! Then he loved it with the yoghurt but it was Very Messy!! Then one day, after about a month, he got a tooth, and decided to drink out of a beaker. Eventually weaned the yoghurt out of it too, so now he drinks just milk. So I have no experience at all of bottle feeding... But again, I don't blame anyone who gives up after a few days, cos it is very hard. Has anyone with two babies found it easier second time round?

Hi Jersey,

No it's a Mothercare Trenton deluxe - has anyone got one or heard anything about it? It's in the spare room at the mo, and I want to keep putting it up, just to push it round and look at all the cute things that come with it, but DH says no, coz it's him that has to put everything away when I get bored with it and it's a b**d to keep getting in and out of box!!!

Thanks for the offer though

Speak soon

Hi kayzed

I got maternity pads last time but found the nighttime thinner pads worked just as well and cheaper when bought on 3 for 2 deals. Helps a bit as everything gets so expensive.

Also my SIL has recommended Tesco newborn nappies as very good and they are a third of the price of pampers/huggies.

I have just bought some as we are trying to buy a couple of packs each month to spread the cost .

Hi, me again (bored at work!!)

Can you help with a naming problem:

I wanted Daniel but DH now says he prefers Ryan. Now I'm not 100% which do you prefer, the 2nd name is Colin after DH's dad.

Thanks

jersy - might be interested in the seat base. We have a Graco seat that originally came with a travel system...would it fit d o you think?

Names - don't ask me we still have no idea about a boys name. dh and I can't agree yet.

I have got really big over the last week or so. Hang on, I'll just go and do loo rooll test..... still only 7.5! Really strange as I look (and feel) so much bigger!

So jealous of your lovely weather. It has been okayish here, but then today it's been SNOWING! AGAIN! Sorry to shout, but I can't believe it - first day of school hols too :(

Hi Jersey - I too am very bored but I am bored at home in pain, and have half hour before DD comes home from nursery. I definitely prefer Daniel Colin (sorry Kayzed!) although Ryan is a nice name. We are rather partial to Daniel ourselves. It is just so hard to decide. With DD we called her one name throughout the entire pregnancy and then 2 weeks before I was due I had a complete change of heart and picked fell in love with a name that DH had wanted, but I had refused, 5 months previously. Hormones!