December 2012 - Christmas is coming and we're all getting fat

[WillYouDoTheFandango]

New thread people, can't link as we ran out of room

Happy Friday everyone! Hope sleep/GD/scan problems are a bit better today. I slept better following a combination of Gaviscon, paracetamol & Deep Heat before bedtime. Today is my last day in work, so really didn't want it to be any more hassle-y from tiredness!

Got okay from midwife yesterday that we can do the birth centre! Yay! Was really pleased, though when I came out of the appointment I had texts and missed calls from one of my tenants saying she had locked herself out of the flat. Grrrr! It was all sorted relatively quickly but it sort of took the shine off the birth centre green light...so I was quite grumpy for a few hours.

Stacey I will keep everything crossed that you get a scan sorted today. Hope you're okay.

COD Hope the tightenings ease a bit and you get a bit more comfortable.

Spotty What do you make your scrub from?

Stacks Think it's your last day too - hope it goes well (and quickly!!)

Hmm Cookies I reckon you won't go far over!

Stacey I would ring them and be 'that annoying patient' as they're being useless!

WeeJo that's really good news. I'm doing vanilla scrub this time so 1 cup of sugar to 1/3 cup of oil (can use olive, sunflower, almond, coconut) then 1tsp of vanilla essence. Trying to do it as cheaply as possibly

Queen they are practically tying their own shoe laces at two weeks, right?

DH and FIL are Christmas obsessed, like a couple of five year olds, I however am more like the Grinch (I tried to ban Christmas last year :( ). So any future plans of having a quiet us only Christmas will be stamped on very heavily, and I will be packed into the car and dragged to in laws :(

Cookie I keep hoping my plug has gone, but it's just more snot, how much snot can I have up there?

Have rung and now waiting for a call back. Mightily fucked off with all this! Anyone fancy paying for me to go private?! Lol

Morning Everyone,

Stacey Hope they ring you soon it's so annoying sitting waiting for the phone to ring.

Cod Hope everything is ok.

Cookies Have got to sort out an appointment with the mw for a sweep she will be doing it, consultant just wrote start of Dec on my notes.
What is your due date? I will be 42 weeks on christmas eve and was really worried about been induced at christmas the consultant told me yesterday that if I agreed to go in sometime that week they would not force me to go in over christmas.

Everyone finishing for maternity leave today enjoy your last day.

Well now that I know baby is the right way round I am on my first cup of raspberry leaf going to pop to the shops in a bit for some evening primrose. I am more than ready to meet this baby.

Can somebody provide me with a recap on the evening primrose oil application please?

Stacy - give them a call and chase them up? I hope they get your scan sorted today!

We're meant to be spending Christmas Day as MILs and then Boxing Day at my parents.... No idea if this is manageable as it is our first but just going to see how things are at the time. Really hoping I am early so we are more settled!

Sorry to read lots of you had a bad sleep - I've woken up the last 3 nights with bad period pains - but no water/plug so guess its nothing to worry about?

Congrats weejo on birth centre!

Also Alison just read the tips for inducing labor and castor oil is on there-I spoke to my sister at the weekend who swears by it but also said she thought It was banned now? Is it safe to use?

Brooke I cannot remember where I read about castor oil (maybe NCT?) but I think the idea is that you drink it & it makes you throw up, which is of course a sign of going into labour.

However... Think it's abit discredited now because first of all it makes you feel like rubbish (haven't we all done enough throwing up by now?!) & secondly I don't think throwing up actually makes labour start, it's just a symptom.
Otherwise with this D&V bug going round honey would probably have more company on post natal thread by now

How did your sis use it?

stacey on yr behalf...

WeeJo,
Have a look at the link I posted on the last page,
It's an article i found on naturally inducing labour,

I have just come back from midwife,
Good news is: she says baby is head down although not yet engaged,

Bad news is: She thinks I have the start of SPD, really pissed off, this is the last thing I needed on top of how crappy other things have been in this preg,
She has suggested I get physio for it, hoping now my health insurance will cover at least some of it!

On top of that I got very upset and emotional talking about the labour, being made to go over my due date, and everything else and she suggested I might benifit from talking to someone! So now I feel like a total nut job too! :-((((

Oh and my mum who is now visiting us for 5 days has a tummy bug and is currently in bed throwing up! (So much for extra help)
Crap crap crap!!

Sorry for ranting! Just feeling very sorry for myself :-(((

Morning all,
Sorry to hear about bad night sleeps for you and dc's. I've not been part of the 4am club for maybe two nights now. I seem to be getting up for two pees and then falling back to sleep.
Off to see the mw in a bit to discuss birthplan. Not done anything baby related either for a couple of days. But, I leave work two weeks from today - Yay! Have started a planner for those first few weeks of December, trying to arrange deliveries for all my last little bits that I need.
No idea what I'm going to do about christmas. LO due on 23rd, hoping he/she will arrive a little before then. Its my first christmas in my new flat so quite fancy it at home but might go to my DM on Christmas day and maybe DP's DM on Boxing Day.
Was speaking to DP last night about making going to panto on LO's birthday a tradition. It could be fun as we could go to all different ones across the country as they get older.. I'm a big panto fan recent convert especially the ones at Hackney Empire and Nottingham Playhouse.

Going to hospital now, let's hope they actually scan me! Will report back!

Alison Yes, had a wee look at that and that's what triggered the question - when they say direct application to cervix...how does that work exactly? Do you break the capsule and put the liquid up...there??!

Good luck stacey be thinking f you.
eggs I've had a mixture of big jelly lumps and mahoosive globs of snotty mucus (sorry tmi!)! No redness, but I didn't get a 'bloody show' till I was examined at about 8cm last time! But then I really don't remember mucus prior to labour?!
Yes same cherry I think I'm about 42 weeks then, I asked my MW saying I really wanted to be done before then, and got a bit upset about missing Dds Christmas if I was in labour/booked in for induction. She was her usual unhelpful self and just told me she was in labour with one of her DDs on Xmas day. bitch
alison and weejo I inserted one as high to the cervix as my short fat fingers would let me. I also took one orally for good measure!
I've heard bad things about castor oil.. Someone said it might make the baby poo so could be a bit dangerous? Trust me I'm up for trying anything to get baby out but this is the one I'm very skeptical of and have never tried. QofS let me know if you go for it!
Alison sounds crappy hope things improve for you.

WeeJo, no you don't have to break the capsule it will dissolve up there (do it just before going to bed, and wear a liner in your pants or it may stain them)
I think I'm going to take 1 in the morning and insert the other before bed.

Thanks :) I'm glad I asked!

Good midwife appointment today, no glucose found so the GT panic is over, I'm going out for a big cake this afternoon to celebrate!!
Junior is 2/5 engaged already and in a good position, but she gave be a wee wobble saying that my next appointment will be in 2 weeks, unless she's been out visiting me and the baby before then!!!

All very very real

Gils The midwife said something similar to me yesterday! I think she said, "Well, we'll see you in another 2 weeks, unless the baby arrives before then, in which case, don't worry as your appointment will be cancelled automatically!" I think my face was half and half hopeful!

Alison I always cry when talking about dd's birth so don't feel silly!
Hmm I might try some EPO....

I don't know about how safe it is but I don't know anyone who's used It and not
gone into labor within that day.

Just been out to see my nan, she's 90 and used to be a midwife. They used to give it to people back then to induce labor. Apparently it does make you feel shitty and can make you have diahorea (sp) and sickness as it irritates your Bowles, because they are pushed down towards your cervix it triggers contractions.

You can take it on Its own but it tastes disgusting or mix it with juice Ribena...

Tbh i think thats the deal with a curry too....

Cross for you stacey, hope it gets sorted out.

Carpets booked to be fitted for literally 2 days before due date next saturday. Think thatll work better than a sweep ? Either that or my waters will break on the sat night and ill have a sneeze home birth and we'll have to get new ones

I'd put my money on your waters going all over your new carpets Clarella

Hi all, yay for Fridays!

Brooke, that's right. The reason they now don't advise it is because the vomiting and diahrroea (sp?) can dehydrate you and that's the last thing you need in labour.

Hope you got scanned Stacey, exatly the same thing happened to me, even down to the 4 hour wait at the hospital before they told me they couldn't fit me in and I was to come back 2 days later.

I'm still sticking fingers into ears about all the organisational stuff you've all done! Then again a few of you will probably have had your babies before I even finish work, so a bit of breathing space here yet metaphorically, haven't taken a deep breath for weeks now

weejo great news about the birth centre green light.
2blessed panto sounds like a great tradition. I'm a 23rd baby and through primary school I went to the panto with my mum as my gift and I loved it.
cherry and cookies I don't know how it'll work for you but when my mum was pregnant they happily induced her to avoid Christmas Day stay in hospital. She went in for induction on the 22nd I think. She would have been 42 on 25/12.
I slept funny last night and all movement seems to result in me creaking and cracking my joints. I'm having lots of dreams about escaping from places at the minute, wonder if baby is controlling them in preparation for his escape. Trying to get DP to agree to going out for dinner, since we put his computer up last week he's been hiding away working on a hobby project so think my only change of conversation is getting him out of the house.

I got my scan! Will report measurements later but they are estimating 6 1/2 lb atm. They are happy with it and haven't bothered booking another scan (am 35+5) so just diabetic mw and ob to see from now on. I'm a lot happier. Baby is in a good position (spine up my right, head nice and down, arms and legs on my left).

I'm now having a nap before I get the children from their after school clubs.

I hope others are having a good day too!