October 2012- once we pop we can't stop!!!

[elvislives2012]

Latest list:

Babies

Babybrain - William James - 5/9/12 - 11.45pm - 5lb 11
Heymicky - Eliza Dorothy Gardner - 16/9/12 - 22.57 - 5lb 2
Pinpan - Nina - 23/9/12 - afternoon - 8lb 7
Winnie81 - Girl - 25/9/12 - 12.15am 6lb 4
MissPollysTrolleyed - Lucy - 26/09/12 - 6pm

Impatient mums to be

Rnb dc4 edd 23 sept - boy
MakeTeaNotWar dc2 edd 26 sept - Surprise
Pezzina dc2 edd 26 sept
ST82 dc1 edd 27 sept - boy
MsInterpret dc2 28sept - girl
Captainhetty dc4 edd 1 oct - girl
Newtonupontheheath dc 2 1 oct - surprise
Emiedarling dc1 edd 3oct - boy
Welliesandpyjamas dc3 edd 4 Oct
MissPollysTrolleyed dc2 edd 4 Oct
Littleplasticpeople dc3 edd 5 oct
WeeSooty dc1 edd 5th October - surprise
Gizzyboo dc4 edd 5 oct
Cakes82 dc1 edd 5 oct- suprise
Shopgal9 dc1 edd 5 oct
Bubblebell dc3 edd 6 oct - girl
FluffyJawsOfDoom dc1 6 oct - surprise
MissPenteuth edd 6 oct - girl
KPT083 dc1 edd 8 oct - surprise
DameFlatYouLent dc2 edd 9 oct
Thunderboltkid dc1 edd 10 oct - boy
Isheisnthe dc4 edd 10 oct
Thumbwitch dc2 edd 14 October - surprise
Bear1984 dc2 edd 15 oct - boy
RunningOutOfIdeas dc2 edd 15 oct - girl
Guccigirl79 dc1 edd 16 oct - boy
Elvislives2012 edd 18 oct - surprise
Kelbells dc 1 edd 18 oct - boy
ShellWeDance dc1 edd 19th Oct, surprise.
Goodsenseofdirection dc1 20 oct - surprise
Beeblebear dc1 20 oct - boy
MissRedIndie dc2 20 Oct
Pheebs24 dc1 21 Oct
Susurrant dc1 21 Oct
Doodlekitty DC1 edd 26th Oct - boy
Loopyla dc1 edd 28 Oct - surprise
TartyMcFarty dc2

Enjoy!! :)

Mmm 4 breakfasts

I'm having a little wander round. I'm perfectly happy as I know something is going on (at last!!) but my first labour was nothing like this so I'm just a bit bored I'd planned for a quick one!

Glad I put ds to bed... Will ship him off to mums tomorrow and call the mw at a reasonable hour. Poor woman... I hope she went to bed and didn't wait for me to call!

I am so jealous! How far are you? Am 38+4 and can't bear the thought of having to wait potentially another 4 weeks!
Are u having a home birth?

I'm up! Feeding DS ow ow ow! I really hoped I would find b'feeding easier than last time but unfort not & my nipples are in a right state again, bloody agony.

Good luck Newton!

41 weeks today so well cooked and ready! Ds was a few days early... I woke up at midnight with a "pop" of waters and he was born before 6 (at home)

Yeah home birth... Have my own personal mw on call (well mw on call gave me her direct number)

Living room currently looks like used towel warehouse

DH and I went to bed at 10 and he's sleeping like a baby (ironic really) Feeling nice and refreshed and can feel things moving again now I'm up and about.

More bloody show Won't be long (as in many more days!) now...

Are you trying to get things going?

Hi maketea

Hopefully I'll be up bfing mine tomorrow night

Newton sending you happy speedy baby thoughs.

Definately did too much cleaning with mom today. Getting strong bh every time I sit down. Goes rock hard for like 10 minutes solid. Are bh supposed to last that long? No back ache or anything else. Might stop for twenty min then abother ine will come. Annoying.

Oh and these bh make me breathless, like tight in the chest can't get a full breath.

Hi maketea!! Have some for sore nipples.
Love the sound of your first birth newton and would like one luge that, please! Haven't started to help things along. Any tips?

Checking in!

Also up for a feed and hoping you will be too tomorrow eve.

MakeTea -sorry to hear you're finding the BFing hard. Have you had any advice this time round? I had the MW st hospital slagging off my latch & I was outwardly accepting but inwardly gutted as I did it before. But she was right & just a few hrs of bad latch had torn up my left nipple! Lansinoh'd it and been v determined about latch over last 3 days or so & now it's healed and much easier.

Sorry - this is really for a postnatal thread. Isn't it?

Hopefully once everyone's given birth we can all sync the babies & meet every night!

Elvis im probably not the best person to ask! I've tried everything and a sweep from the mw today is what set me off.

Tried:

Pineapple (just gave me mouth ulcers!)
Sex
Hand expression
Walking
Hot curry (just gave me wind!)

With ds, we queued for some Xbox game at asda a few days before he was born (game wasn't for me, by the way!) it was about 2hours of standing/walking around with a few brief sit downs. I really think this helped the most. Although I've been running round after a toddler this time, I've not done nearly as much walking.

I ate a box of Walkers shortbread last Sunday night & DS was born v speedily in the wee hours of Sunday morning so you could try that ? Seriously I reckon getting that baby bouncing on your cervix by being upright & active is probably the best?

Had latching advice & watched videos etc so know how it's supposed to work but DS & his spiky jabby fingers don't cooperate & I don't always get it right. That & some mammoth feeding sessions have left me bloodied & blistered, miserable & there's no chance of healing in sleep as there's not much of that either!

Doh Monday I mean, born Monday so a week old today ahhhh

elvis I was awake for hours last night and probably should have got up but didn?t bother in the end. I also had sore, poorly tummy & heartburn (which actually isn?t one of my usual symptoms) so really suffered How are you feeling now?

Maketea how are you? Can?t imagine what the breast pain is like having never done it but really not looking forward to that side of things

Beeble also finding that I?m getting increasing BH and quite painful at times. Not sure whether it?s to do with the raspberry leaf capsules I started taking last week or just coincidence?.

First day of mat leave [37+1] & it?s a grey old day so seems perfect to just mooch around and stay in my jim jams!! Anyone fancy a & a or 3?

Beeble and Loopy me too!! 38+1 today and my BH over the last few days have definitely been lasting longer and more painful - I even took a paracetamol last night to help get to sleep because the pain was spreading to the top of my legs...

The effects of the fresh pineapple caught me by surprise Newton - DH accused me of having a particularly sensitive mouth when I started noticing the pink staining on the piece I was eating, it actually made my lips and tongue bleed!

Apparently its common in the Phillipines to put salt on fresh pineapple to prevent the soreness, but I a) don't fancy it and b) am often caught out as a gulllible fool by him

Pheebs my DH is Mauritian and they sell pineapple there with a little bag of chilli sauce.... It's a beach snack I can't stomach it myself!!! Oh and they do oranges with salt sprinkled on to "enhance" the flavour

Managed to get back to sleep eventually. What a literally shitty night. Urgh. Nice to see I'm not the on only one suffering . I think it's all round.
I'm tempted to try and start it off as I feel sooooo ready now but people keep saying "enjoy it while it lasts you'll never have this time again" and it makes me want to punch them in the back of their heads
Sore and torn nipples sounds vile!!
I think I'll join loopy on the sofa today....

MakeTea, good luck with the latch! The womble chomped one of my nipples in the first week, just once, but it took 3 or 4 days for it to get back to normal. I'm being very careful to take her off at the slightest hint of munching now! It's all very good in principle and sometimes she is an angel, but other times it's all fingers in mouth and stiff back and legs and utterly impossible to get her into the right place.

She slept for 4 hours just now. Amazing! DH made me wake her up to feed, coz he's on night shift of soothing when she screams, so I can get sleep in between feeding, and he reckoned that she was tanking up so she could stay awake all night again. I think she's on UK time!

Good luck all you nearly-in-labour ladies! Sleep while you can.

elvis it's so true though (please don't punch me!) Second mat leave isn't the same... You don't get the chance to put your feet up or nuffin! And once baby is here, well, it's here forever.

In saying that, I thinks it's obvious how impatient I have been lately.... So feel free to ignore

Budge up on that sofa Loopy I've been for a walk and now I'm in need of a little rest

Come on contractions you feckers

Cross post with pinpan

Don't worry newton you're exempt!! And it's why I'm not going to try and move things along... Just yet!!

MakeTea I'm also suffering with cracked, bruised and bleeding nipples. It's worse on one side and last night Eleanor brought up some milk with a lot of blood in it :( I phoned the mw to check that they agreed that it was definitely my blood and not hers. So I'm going to give that side a break for a bit by expressing instead and feed from the other side (which is also sore but not as damaged as the other side). I struggled with DD1 as well and it's disappointing to be having the same problems.

I found a really good info sheet about latching here; no. 31, "When Latching". It talks about how to cradle the baby in one arm, use the same hand to hold the baby's head and make sure you get the baby positioned on the boob correctly. I found I was trying to post my nipple into DD's mouth rather than move her head onto the boob, and it does make a difference. I wish they gave you such detailed information before leaving the hospital; starting out right would avoid a lot of pain and damage later on.

Why is it all so bloody difficult though? I was saying to DH last night; pregnancy is at best uncomfortable, childbirth is painful and difficult, and the majority of women seem to struggle at least a bit with BFing. Why can't it all be nice and straightforward, we're continuing the species FGS!

Joins loopy , newton and elvis on the sofa, grabs the remote to see what's on tv at 4am, and muncnes away at my bowl of cerial.

Wonder if I should download a contraction timer on my phone in case these braxton hicks decide to turn into something more fruitful painful. If this goes on for weeks still it will make me go mad!

Hello! Just a wee message from me, had a wee baby girl at 11.11am on Saturday, 7lbs 4. Had a rather crap birth ending in forceps but I'm trying very hard to stay positive about it all. Will post birth story later. Not sure how much detail to go into, don't wanna freak people out but I have a feeling it might actually help me to get it all out!

Will try to catch up properly later, brain not in gear yet!!

Good luck to everyone!

Wee sooty CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!

Please do share story soon, it will be very thereputic for you, and I think by this time there is liftle left that will scare us ladies.

Congratulations weesooty

Yes post if you can... Don't worry about scaring us