November 2012 - lots of babies that can't wait for November

[StuntNun]

Previous ante-natal thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1584066-November-2012-babies-arriving-early-and-impatient-mummies-to-be

Post-natal thread for the graduates: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1579907-November-2012-babies-are-here-at-last

I put my foot down on him buying lunch everyday a while ago, he now takes a packed lunch. (It only took 4 months of nagging)

Bet Aldi are cheaper though, you're not an Aldi girl 69p for a lovely fresh pineapple. Is the core the bit you're supposed to eat? It's like concrete.

detective might a reflexology session help get the aby off the bone, it just sound so painful. I was going pretty much weekly and was helping ith back problems and that was wheni was LOA, she went away, but I am starting again next week, so let's hope things pick up.

I have three angels tonight who are all snoring their heads off so I am snuggling down with my book for good nights sleep. Till at least 4 anyway.
Xx

I told DP that normal service will not be resumed until the baby has arrived, and I feel 'recovered'.

He accepts that this means he will have to carry on doing the majority of housework for the foreseeable future. I think I was about 31-32 weeks when this major shift happened due to me having a mega strop about working FT to 37 weeks and doing absolutely everything in the house and I can't see it altering much until he returns to work when the baby is 4 weeks old. And even then, it depends! DS was a whingerclinger! If I get one of those again, it will be a year!!

Oo, big fat congrats to liitle and nervous

This baby feels like it's going to rip out of my stomach in a minute, how can there be any more room in there for it to move?

I couldn't cope with him throwing things into cupboards doing housework. I would just like to be appreciated for the amount of effort I put into it!

See you at 4 Sophia stupid body clocks huh?!

I hadn't thought of reflexology. To be fair, I don't know anywhere that even does a massage in this area, let alone anything more complicated! I'll try and google though...

And yes Shelly it is the 7 cores you need

Bollocks. That's the bit that I didn't eat and threw away. I feel really cheated now!

I've had to give very strict instructions on all aspects of cleaning/tidying! He doesn't get it right all the time but it is easier to fix the bits he has missed than do it all myself!

He's learning...slowly!

Hahahahaha!!!!

Sorry!

My pineapples are Aldi. I bought a new one which I am determined won't go yucky. It is the core which apparently makes the difference.

I suppose contractions will make the head engage will they? How long is it likely to take to go from being at the brim to being fully engaged?

Tomorrow I think I will do bouncing while eating pineapple.

Laminated cupboard maps and postit notes on the steam cleaner don't even help my waste of space darling other half do it properly!

No wonder it didn't work for the last 3 then!

I'll leave Detective to answer the labour question :)

No, but a huge hissy fit and locking him out the house might

Pass I forget, is it your first baby? I can't remember waaaaaaaah!!

Now there's an idea detective...!

But yes, if the head isn't engaged before labour, then it will engage in labour. It would be highly unusual for this not to happen - if this happened it would either be because of severe malpresentation of the head (at a very strange angle!), or geniune CPD (head to big to fit through pelvis) but true CPD is rare. And can't be easily judged!

MM I'd never let the hormones get the better of me and do such a thing

First for meeee!

Another question actually. When I was at the midwife she oil ages over the Doppler saying that the heartbeat was too high. She asked if he had been moving about but not that I had noticed. Eventually it settled to 140-150 having been 160-170. When she was palpating me she grabbed baby's head REALLY hard - it made me wince. Could that have raised the heartbeat? If I was baby I reckon I would be pretty shocked to find someone grabbing at my head

And sorry! Thank you for answering my last question. I have a lot today. I might save some for tomorrow.

Um, sorry for TMI.

I just went to the loo and there was a blob in my pants. Very dark blackish red, jelly stuff. There were a few loose bits as well. I don't know if that was a show. I was about to have a bath, the doc said not to bathe if my waters have broken, which they haven't so I guess I'll still have the bath. But I can't remember if I am meant to do anything or just keep waiting to see what happens. I had read up so much about inductions I haven't really looked at normal labours.

I've been having mild brief BH all day and some brown discharge but as it hadn't progressed I thought it was just old blood dislodged from the sweep.

(I thought the blob was another pea at first, but it definitely isn't)

Yes it can Pass! It is normal for the heart rate to be increased at times - any activity can induce this! What you want to hear is it return to a baseline rate. Which it sounds like it did!

I've got some things here which are free to a good home if anyone wants them! I have 2 Ikea fitted cot sheets - which I discovered today do not fit my cot bed! Duuuuuh! They are for a regular cot they are the fitted blue sheets on this set.

I also have a Maxi Cosi car seat cosy toes in red, which I bought on eBay when I was like 6 weeks pregnant lol, but never got a Maxi Cosi car seat in the end! I just haven't got round to selling it, and now I can't be arsed . It is like new - seriously! Even though I got it on eBay, it pretty much hasn't been used! It is this exact one.

Also, if anyone wants it - for those who are due later in November - I bought a bottle of Clary Sage oil today, and it's 9 bloody quid a bottle! And I'm not going to get through 10mls of it! Once I've used what I need - I'm happy to pass it on to someone else who wants it!

That's all folks

It's a show Blonder you may have more to come yet too!

I don't need to ring anyone unless I'm having proper 3m contractions though right?

Sorry for being such a div.