November 2012 - but that starts on Thursday

[StuntNun]

Previous ante-natal thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1593492-November-2012-babies-arriving-thick-and-fast

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

gtbaby that sounds really nice! It's great to celebrate the arrival of your baby as much as possible!!

shelly your ichiness sounds awful, really rotten luck, is it the same thing that gt had though? I've seen black tar soap mentioned, it releives the itchiness, i read it on a thread on mn somewhere.

I've just had breakfast and put a load in the wash. I bought new sheets, but have got two fitted sheets and no flat ones, whoops. I'll have a look online to see if i can order some, you need flat sheets to sleep under over here. I am going to order a few christmas pressies for dd today, and must get a birthday pressie for my nephew ordered.

Horsey Glad you are both OK after that awful experience, you must have been so frightened!

Detective I had 2 very quiet days and today was the third - until tonight and baby has gone mad! I didn't worry though because although it was very, very slow, there was movement, but no kicking. Lots of kicking tonight and plenty of pressure pain. Hope everything is alright with you and baby.

Right, I'm off to look at my arse then [hgrin]

Pasties I don't think it is, the doctor doesn't seem worried so I'm just staying slathered in Sudocreme - my bloods all came back clear.

oh good - shelly :) well apart from the itchiness which must be a bitch.

Bollocks. Been admitted. CTG wasn't great. Have movements now, better than I was having but CTG was crap. Heart rate is 160-170. Am now on the ward, CTG being repeated in 2 hours. BH's regular and were showing up on trace.

Concerned about growth again, so having a scan in the morning (hopefully) and another CTG. Can go home if CTG becomes normal.

Basically, there could be something going on. Or could be nothing.

Had a VE, cervix favourable multips os, for anyone who doesn't know what that is, basically a baggy sack lmao! It's opened and shorter because I've had a baby before. If needed my waters could be broken. So I'm taking that as good. Except head is high still so not so good.

Oh and DP forgot to change the bulb in his headlight so he is now fannying around trying to get home and back here with stuff for overnight. Maybe now he will learn his lesson and not leave things

And now baby Detective is back to his usual cervix grabby, bum shoving, hip crushing self. And has been for the last 30 minutes.

You little devil child!

I think he thinks he is being funny.....!!

Forgot to say we found a babysitter in the end as I was being a wimp and didn't want to go in on my own!

Good job really!

Oh lord the shame! DP brought my stuff shoved in to an asda carrier bag.

We have lots of fucking bags! What is wrong with him!!!

No contact lenses, no toothbrush or toothpaste, no towel, no deodorant.

Note to self: pack a hospital bag just in case.... Grrrr!

Detective, phew I am glad he is wriggling again. Big relief. Will you be able to get any sleep, hope so.

Thanks pasties! Ive just had the repeat CTG, and it was text book! Baseline now 120-130! Lovely accelerations, good variability, no decelerations! Naughty baby indeed!

BHs still regular and a little twingy at times... Hmmmm. If anything happens I'll be running out of here back home! Quite the opposite to what most other people would be doing!!!!

more good news!! awesome!

Glad to hear everything's okay with you and baby Detective. I hope you get home before the lady in the next bed complains about your lack of toothpaste/deodorant lol. Maybe we should add pen and paper to our hospital bag lists for writing down important bits of info for OHs. My big worry is that I'll have to stay in hospital longer than planned and if my DH has to bring in more clothes I'll end up with nothing wearable and no knickers.

What the hell kind of time is this? I can't sleep and don't even feel tired. I'm tempted to try and do some clearing up as DH and the kids have comprehensively wrecked the place over the weekend. I stayed up till 1 a.m. Friday night to get the place all spic and span, bathrooms cleaned, ironing all done etc. The reasoning being that if I did go into labour then everything would be ready here and there would be room for my mum's air bed. The kids have just made their usual mess but DH has brought loads of things down from the loft so there are bags and boxes and random bits like clothes and toys lying all over the study which my mum will need to use when she comes over when I go into labour. Somehow I can't see myself having the energy to tidy all that up while I'm having contractions. The worst thing is he brought down all this random stuff but he still couldn't find the cot bedding This baby is due in ten days and we still don't have ANY baby towels, gro-bags, sheets or blankets for him. I can't afford to buy new bedding when we already have a complete set just cos dickhead DH has left it to the last minute to look it (and even then only because I went up there myself to find it). I really thought by this stage I would be winding down and enjoying my last couple of weeks with my older boys before the baby arrives. Instead I'm stressed out an frantically trying to get everything sorted.

Oh stunt try not to stress too much about bedding and towels (although I completely sympathise with you, and totally understand how you feel about it). Don;t do too much on these last few days before the new one arrives!

I am sitting down now for a rest, I've not even done much today but my back kills.

Have such crap nights nowadays, up three or four times for a wee, bump really hurts if I try to turn over.

Sooo want this baby out now!

detective glad to hear your LO was just being a pickle!

I was up too everyone buti couldn't be bothered to reach down for my iPad. I wish I had now.

detective that is good news I bet you were feeling a tad stressed about it all.

Today is operation exhaust three children so I can get my feet up at some point so we are off collecting convers and pine cones.

Xx

Glad all is well detective.

I've worked out that lying on my right side is making me feel/be sick. Could it be the way junior's lying? My hips are now very crunchy and sore from being on my left all night :-(

The baby is doing some really good wriggling. I am trying to savor it! I know after DD was born sometimes I wish I could put her back inside!

I remember feeling like that too pasties

The weirdest thing about having a baby you still expect to feel kicks and obv there aren't any!

I sort of felt 'phantom' kicks for quite a while after! very strange!!

Glad everything has settled down Detective.

Can totally sympathise Stunt. Although I have had to bug DH to get things SORTED NOW and almost held a gun to his head at times, I do have the Moses basket & bedding sorted at least. If you do need to buy more bedding, can you go to Asda? The bedding is pretty good quality and not expensive. Having said that, I bought 2 John Lewis fitted sheets to fit the mattress for £12 (which I thought was a tad pricey) but they are lovely. However Asda ones did the job for DD!!

You should see our nursery though. Bare walls, no radiator, bare new plaster on the ceiling that needs special paint, bare skirting board where DH burnt back the old paint yesterday. Only a little further to go...

As for baby movements, although I've had lots of wriggling this morning, I get far fewer kicks now, its all stretches and twitches, sometimes hiccups. Far fewer definite kicks/taps. I do get a bit concerned because it seemed that baby was fidgety in the morning, quieter afternoon, then really active in the evening. Now it seems baby is very active first thing and just shuffling around throughout the day, and sometimes a bit more active in the evening (but then I also get BH in the evening, so maybe that disguises movement??). I guess there's just less room so kicks aren't as easy? If baby just respond after a cold drink, prodding, light, lying down etc then I'll worry...

DD and I are going to wander the 5mins,walk to the local little library this morning, just to get us both out of the house for some fresh air.

Sophia taking your kids to collect convers makes you sound like a regular Fagin

Chicken I have two Moses baskets sheets from John Lewis and they have stayed lovely and soft so maybe worth the price tag. The rest of the bedding I had have came from a market stall ten years ago and has done two children already.

Pasties thanks for putting it in perspective, it is a bit silly to be worrying about cot bedding. I think it's because the whole clearing out the loft argument has been going on for six years that it takes on an even greater significance, i.e. if we had only done it before now we wouldn't be in this literal mess. He has brought loads of stuff down and turned the immaculate house into a bomb site again. Now I have to fret about my mum having nowhere to sleep.

stunt I know I would be wound up in your situation, especially beacuse you didnt want the mess and un-organisation to happen, but try not to dwell on it! Men are such wierd creatures, its like they will do something we have asked but only in a crap-way or way after we wanted it done.