Due in November 2006 Part 3

[spinach]

seeing as the ;ast thread has over 1000 posts i thought it was time for a new one!

good luck for tomo spinach!

ladyanne, great news on the scan. did you want to know the sex?

i got the lady to write it down and put it in an envelope so that me and dp could open it together as he couldnt make it today! im really excited now!

Stacey - congrats on your baby boy! one of each for you as well then Maybe we could do a clothes swap .... I have loads of little boy stuff ad now need girls things - and I think we are in the same money situation as you Hello to everyone else, sorry, just had a quick read through - thank you for updating the stats with my details - speak soon

Congrats on your little boy Stacey

Congrats to LadyAnne for a great scan too, sounds like your baby was very obliging unlike my little monkey lol.

Spinach have my fingers crossed for you tomorrow hope everything goes well.

hi all

congrats on your scan stacey and ladyanne.
good luck spinach

well i work in an office and can get the bus from outside my house when i get to big to drive and husband will collect me so i think i am ging for two weeks b4 due date.
see you all later eeyoreuk

i had my scan yesterday and it was briliant even though he kept trying to run away from the scan lol i was actually shocked at how much he was moving, cos i can still barely feel a thing. and yes, i'm saying he, because its a boy roll on november 17th i say lol

Hi and big congrats to Stacey & sighkotika on your little boys!

Spinach - have got my scan today as well and am really nervous as the Dr said on Monday that he couldn't hear a strong heartbeat. Howeverm he also said that the baby might have turned and be facing inwards (?) so that might be why but it doesn't stop me worrying that something is wrong. Really pleased DP is able to come with me for this one!

morning everyone, sighkotika congrats on your little man too!

mummy to toby i might think about it, gotta go to my mums and sort it all out, in all iv got about 5 black sacks from birth to 18 month! lol, my daughter had too many clothes!

podglet, im sure everything will be fine, keep positive, babies just wriggle out of the way sometimes!

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Hello everyone Congrats on all the great scans, we are a healthy bunch aren't we?!! - Thank God!!

I had my triple test results this morning, I can't read the hand writing though, not sure if it is 1 in 41000, or 1 in 4,000 but they got carried away with the comma and made it look like a 1 instead!! But either way it is low risk so good news!!

Also got an appointment through for an oral glucose tolerance test, but it isn't until September, I wouldn't have thought it was worth testing for only a couple of months before the baby is due, I'd have thought that if diabetes was suspected it should be tested for earlier than this? Anyway, I don't suppose it will hurt to know for sure one way or t'other!

I had some new clothes delivered this morning, at the beginning of the summer, I went and bought some cropped trousers and vest tops, but I was so fed up of wearing the same thing but in different colours, so I ordered some skirts and pretty tops, it feels so nice to have something different on, I feel a bit more like me instead of just a belly!!

Anyway, hope everyone is doing OK

Hi all,

I love reading about everyone's scans, and it must be so exciting knowing whether its a boy or girl. I've been calling mine he for a couple of months now, and most people think I have a boy bump, but we don't know for certain. We went to Babys R Us sale yesterday and bought lots of neutral coloured bedding, blankets etc. Can't believe how much the 'essentials' seem to cost.

I work in an office and am planning on cutting down to 4 day weeks using my annual leave through some of September and starting mat leave 2 weeks before due date.

Has anyone got their MAT 1B form yet to hand to their employer? Does this come from midwife?

NJ - One of my friends had a blood test for diabetes at about 28 weeks. She was tested because she was apparently overweight before she got pregnant according to her midwife. Maybe tests for diabetes are done at different times depending on the reason for doing them? It's never been mentioned to me, even though my grandparents had diabetes.

I had my scan last thursday, but havn't had the chance to update you all yet.

I'm having a little girl! I'm so excited as that will mean one of each. I feel so lucky. I felt I was having a girl this time, so have guessed right on both occasions. Can't wait to start buying all the pretty pink clothes!

Baby is moving but I'm still not getting really strong movements. Have been told the placenta is anterior (growing on the outside wall of the womb) which means you don't feel things so much.

As for names we can't decide between Yasmin and Ayesha.

oh pinkmagic thats brill news, congrats on your little girl!

anyone else worried about the birth already?

I think I've always been worried about the idea of giving birth! It's an odd feeling - part of me wants to go through it, the other part thinks I'd rather not. Is it better second time round, or is it worse because you already know how painful it is?! As a first timer I feel like I've not got a clue what to expect, and nobody I've talked to seems able to really describe what it's like.

Hopecat, I don't know if this is a routine test or if it is because my sister had gestational diabetes, the test had never been mentioned to me either, and it is at a hospital which I never even thought I'd have to go to for any thing during the pregnancy. It says not to eat or drink anything from 10 o'clock the night before, the appointment is at 8.45 in the morning, it says they will take a blood sample when I go in, then they will give me a drink with a known amount of sugar in, then they will take more blood two hours later and compare the two lots of bloods to see how my body reacts to the suagr, it also says to take a urine sample from the morning. It just seems so strange to leave it so long before testing, whether it is a routine test or not really. Having said that apart from it leading to a bigger baby, I don't know if gestational diabetes can harm the baby in anyway so perhaps it isn't essential to know until the birth is iminant?

And yes Stacey, after last time, I am bricking it about the birth! Though really trying not to think about it.

Sorry getting mixed up now!! HopingCat not Hopecat!! LOL

"nobody I've talked to seems able to really describe what it's like."

That is basically because unless you have been through it, you can never understand!!! I know that sounds really arrogant and condesending, it isn't meant to, it really is the truth!

Despite having an horrendous labour and birth with DS I am not worried about the birth and am actually looking forward to the challenge! I feel more relaxed about everything, I will know this time when I need to go to the hospital and at what stage I really need pain relief.

That test for diabetes is exactly the same as the one my friend had. I haven't read anything about what effect diabetes has on the baby, so maybe you are right that it is only close to due date that it would be something the midwife would want to be aware of.

And I think you are right, people have generally not been able to say much to me about giving birth because it truely is indescribable, and that it is different for each person and each baby.

The only thing I can say about the birth, is that I believe it hurts everyone, but that some people are just better at dealing with it, and I think although the pain is likely to be quite similar from person to person, I think the intensity of it is what makes the difference. I was induced and I went from having very light niggly pains to having contraction one after the other in a very short time, there wasn't more than a minute and sometimes much less between them for most of the labour, so although it didn't really hurt me anymore than it did the woman in the next delivery room, she had much more of a relaxing (and notable quieter) time of it than I did, therefore having the more prefered birth!

I think although I am scared of the pain especially the crowning, I am looking forward to having a more 'normal' labour (if possible!) and actually having more control of certain things, if not, I suppose I will just scream, shout and swear like a trooper like last time, it got me through it then!!

if anyone sees my thread in 'feeling depressed' they may understand a little better why im bricking it so badly. not the birth/pain so much as i know that they go away and are all worth it in the end, but more the examinations etc, dont htink i can deal with all that again!

had my scan yesterday ladies - all is well, baby has all the right bits! Confirmed that my dates are right, still due 24th Nov.

You all seem to have lots and lots more tests and stuff than I get in Harrogate - we dont get the triple test, and supposedly they have started doing a dating scan here (normally only get 20 week one), although I got nothing through at all, yet was asked yesterday if i had had one! My BF is also pregnant and she asked at her docs appointment if she would get one adn they told her they dont do them in Harrogate - left hand doesnt seem to know what right hand is doing!

Anyway enough from me.

Stacey I had a quick look for your thread, but couldn't find it. I hope you are OK?

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