Due in dec 2012 - things that go BUMP in the night!

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New thread here ladies!

Wow! Congratulations, hope you and little Honey are both OK!!
Yup hospital bag packed... And list of friends who can have DS1 is also being written and passed out soon too!

I went to the hospital this morning for another growth scan, last time at 38 weeks he was on the 9th percentile... Today he is on the 25th,
Which means they are no longer thinking of inducing me... :-((
I am now feeling very very peeved as I really don't want to be going over my due date.
Also while laying down having the scan I nearly fainted, not my best morning! :-(

Oh Alison hopefully you won't go over! I can't lay on my back without feeling faint, when I was pregnant with dd I went to the dentist and halfway through I felt really faint and proceeded to be sick with the dentist holding back my hair!

Wow Honey congratulations! Hope you're getting a chance to relax and bond with your new LO.. Dying to know details... Xxx (off to wash baby clothes at once.)

Wow, congratulations honey can't wait to know more.

Can anyone help me?

I don't want to breat feed for various reasons, (tried with DS1and HATED how it felt, (maybe I'm a freek)

but am interested in giving colostrum, to the baby once he is born,

I think one of you mentioned hand expressing?

"How" do I hand express?
what should i store it in and where, if i can express?
When do I start? (I am not leaking anything at the moment, but I never leaked with DS1 either)
Can I mix it in with Formula once baby is born or am I best giving it separately?

Sorry if these seem like really stupid dumb ass questions!
X

Argh! Honey!! Congrats!!!!!!!!!! Our first one! Like everyone, dying to know more but hope moreover that you are both doing well!

Alison, annoying that you might go over, but better to know they aren't so worried about him?

Spotty, scary re WC at work. They don't give it to pregnant women where I am. I think they offer it in hospital though (just what I'll feel like after giving birth!).

Alison I'm at work at the moment but I can pm you some details later if you like? I've got a fair bit of info on it at home

Thanks Spotty, that would be great!

Walnut, you mention WC, that's the reason i want to try to express the colostrum, I live in the Netherlands, so over here they are not immunising pregnant women against it as they don't feel the need.
my mum is a Health Visitor in the UK, and she said that as I already had WC as a child I'll have natural immunity to it, some of these antibodies will pass through the placenta to baby, and if I could give just the colostrum (she knows how BF affected me last time and has told me not to even try this time)
Then that would also help pass the antibodies to him...

Don't get on here much but I do try and read the thread when I can. Massive congratulations to you Honey!! xx

Wow, honey, congratulations! Like everyone else I'm off to check the state of my hospital bag... think everything else is in order. Hope everything's going well.

From the annoying girl at work today:

I thought bonfire was spelt bomb fire, that's how you say it.

Is that how twins are made then? In response to me saying it is possible to have two 'twins' by two different dads if you've released two eggs

spotty at least you have entertainment!
After coming back from the nursery I slept for hours and still feel like I could sleep. I just wish I could trade places with DP for a few days, I'd happily go do his job while he can stay here being achey, tired and pregnant with a million things to do.

spotty I had the twins convo with a friend recently but in a 'well it could happen with non identicals but not with identicals' kind of way lol.

Your work mate sounds thick tbh!

She definitely struggles with basic concepts of things! I told her I'm going to start a book of classics for all the funny things she says!

I keep asking dp to give me a back massage but apparently his hurts more than mine meany

I used to work with someone who said really stupid things and started every sentence with "oh em gee". I once went to get a coffee from the machine to find her totally confused that it wasn't working because when she put her money in she was pressing coin release straight after. Luckily she was amazing at her job so I didn't have to spend you much time with her.

My brothers ex was the the most ditsy person I have ever

They threw a Eurovision party,, and they were representing Germany, she went to the shops & came back with Brussels Pâté,
My brother looked confused and asked why?
And she said cos it was the capital of Germany,

Another time she was talking about the Irish Sea,
and she thought we where joking and had made the name up,

Oh and the 1st football game my brother took her to, she asked him how they would be able to hear the commentary above all the singing cheering etc!

ooh i have a ditsy friend - thought blackberries were unripe wild raspberries and that rice was just a different shape of pasta . seems i can only remember her food related clangers but she's always got something astoundingly

My husband thought babies were born with their eyes still shut (like kittens). it also hadn't occurred to him that there was more than 1 size of nappy.

at like kittens I love your husband seconds

My DP thought Jamaica was somewhere around Africa. His geography only extends to places with fairly well known football teams.
Although I can't really talk, when I was 16 my friends dad took us to a show at the NEC and when he took he south turning onto the motorway rather than north I got really worried he didn't know where he was going because Birmingham is obviously right next to Newcastle! Luckily I didn't say anything and just worried to myself until I saw Birmingham start to appear on road signs.

Have messaged you Alison

MyDaydream my geography can be pretty poor I got confused reading that as Birmingham is oop north to me

My geography is shocking DH finds it highly embarrasing amusing.

Just having my first pregnancy bath. Only now cos dh ran it for me. Although his version of hot is different to mine. I like to get out and be red.

ooooooh I'd love to have a bath, unfortunately we only have a shower and its not quite the same, I think it may be a man thing, my DH showers are what I call cold, he complains that I turn the entire bathroom into a sauna!
I come out all red and tingly, (not that I've been able to do that while preg)

That's another thing I'm looking forward to once baby is born!! :-)

I spend on average 2hrs a day in the bath! Lol water is my friend.