Due in November 2006 Part 3

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

Congrats to the ladies that have had their scans, I will get myself organised over the weekend and add flavours on the stats list - if someone else hasn't done it by then of course lol.

GD can cause problems once the baby is born as their increased supply of sugar is suddenly removed and just sometimes they may need treatment to deal with it, so I would say that it isn't necessarily a test that needs to be done earlier. Don't think it's a routine test DB is an insulin dependant diabetic and I haven't had any GD tests done or even suggested.

How would you describe labour? umm it hurts - for me a lot. I did laugh when I went to see a friend in hospital the afternoon her DD was born one of the things she said to us was - why didn't you tell me it hurts?

This is my experience Do you get period pains? if you do contractions may well feel like that starting off gently and building up not in pain but in intesity over time, I spent the first 3 hours of my labour at home in the bath with DH pouring water over my tummy - was very nice. The sensations changed completely once I got to the pushing point and didn't need pain relief at all for that bit - but boy did I shout when he crowned - it's call the ring of fire for good reason - think cystitis type stinging, but when you get there you know that you're almost done and the second your baby is born all the pain stops instantly.

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hi everyone!!! not been able to get at computer since fri and have been suffering withdrawal symptoms from mn!! tried to catch up but i'm lost so congrats to everyone who's had a scan and know the flavour!! glad your all doing well!!

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had the scan today... all is well... its a big baby apparent;y, at the top end for my date! could explain why i am so big. We werent gonna find out the sex but i saw it, so we tossed a coin to decide whether to ask... its a girl! So thats 2 girls for us.... which is great, I didnt mind having either.

Placenta is now in the right place too.

One problem though... dd is convinced its a boy and really want it to be... so we havent told her... she says she wants to wait till it arrives to find out... very odd for a 2 yr old not to want to know! I can't really believe it another girl!

podglet... you scan was today? how'd it go?

Wow spinach, so pleased for you, a little girl!! Glad everything was ok too.

I'm ok, the weeks are just passing so quickly.

Mower...how funny, you've got 2 boys, I got 2 girls!.. all but 2 people that i know have 2 children of the same sex...and mainly its 2 girls... apparently you are more likely to have the same as last time... is that makes sense. Glad you're okay mower... time is going quickly isnt it!

Hi all,

Well, all's ok, the sonographer was really happy and the baby is measuring fine, a bit on the big side (measurements came up at an average of 21 weeks when by my dates I'm 20 + 4) so pleased with that although I might not be by NOvember! So relieved that everything is ok. DP thought it was bril (his first scan) that he could see everything - although they were very careful about not showing us the "tell tale" areas

As for the birth, as a first timer am not sure what to expect apart from quite a lot of pain and quite possibly a big baby! DP has now decided he does want to be there for it so I will have him and my best friend with me. I will have to go in as soon as labour starts as I have strep B and so will have to be hooked up to antibiotics for most of it...

Must stop rambling, congrats on your little girl spinach, am very curious about mine but now have to wait about another 20 weeks to find out!

just wanted to move myself to the right place with the due date

CattyB due 27th Oct #4 has DS1, DS2, DS3
Mummy2Toby due 30th Oct #2 has DS having a girl
Tinasan due 31st Oct #1 having a girl
Dpind due 1 november #2
MeAndMyBoy due 2 Nov #2 has DS (3) 3rd scan 19/08 flavour not known
TwoCatsOnTheBed due 4 Nov #1 Missed M/c last year
Eeyoreuk due 4th Nov #1
Debz99 due 5th Nov #1
PinkMagic1 due 5 Nov #2 has DS, having a girl
Zink due 5 Nov #1
Delia due 5 Nov #1
HopingCat due 6 Nov #1
AussieInLondon due 6 Nov #2 has DD
Emom due 7th Nov #1
Novis due 7th Nov #1
Rarrie due 7th Nov #2 has DD
AwayFromHome due 9 Nov #2 has DD
Spinach due 10th Nov (but will have cs weeek earlier) #2 has DD
Staceym11 due 11th Nov #2 has dd 16mth, having a boy
Velcrobott due 11th Nov #3 has DS and DD
Mower due 11 Nov #2 has DS having a boy
Mygirllolipop due 13 Nov #4 (a girl) has DD1 (7), DD2 (5), DD3 (1) homebirth, having a(nother) girl
Tamula due 14 Nov #2 has DD (age 13.5mths)
Kif due 15th Nov #2 has DD aged 2
Sighkotika, due 17 nov #1 having a boy.
Fatbetty due 18th Nov #3 has DS1 & DS2 (age 3 and 21 months)
Flowers1 due 19th November
Podglet due 18th November #1, m/c Nov 05
Joules1234 due 20th November
Foghornleghorn due 21st November has DD aged 23 months
Littlemermaid due 22nd Nov #2 has DS
Hattie 05 due 22 Nov #2 have dd aged 3
Harrogatemum due 24 Nov #3, has DTs aged 18 months
Frangosa due 24 Nov #2, has DD aged 18 months
Calsworld due 24 Nov #1
NatalieJane due 25 Nov #2 has DS age 4
MommyUpNorth due 25 Nov #4 has DD (5), DS (3), DS (1)
saralou100 due 29 nov #2 has ds age 14 months
amyjade due 30 November #3 Have 2 Dds
LadyAnne1sttimemum due 27 November #1
Debbsy 1st time mum due 27th Nov scan/birthday 11th July

Morning all, congratulations on all the scans it's all getting very exiting on here at the moment.
My sister and friend have been telling me about the birth as this is my first and i have really mixed feelings part of me is petrified and part of me is looking forward to it, it's very odd. They both had very different experiences!
I've been bumped up to 3 sessions of therapy a week now as i am walking slower every day! fingers crossed this works!

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Congratulations to all those who have had just had their scans.

I'm finding that reading about all your views and experiences of birth is reassuring me. I feel a little bit more prepared now, although this 'ring of fire' thing isn't something I've heard of before and it sounds nasty!

Hi - congrats again to those who have had their scans and found out what they are having. Podglet sounds like your babe is right on que for being average sized - scans sizing is all + or - 5 days and since mums dates are often the most accurate the 3 day descrepancy doesn't mean anything!

With regards birthing I have got to say that I found it far better an experience than I had originally thought it would be. I trained (but never worked) as a MW and as part of that you have to catch 40 babies. (Although with the hosp being what it was I cared for many many more women who ended up having assisted deliveries or c-sections). Having experienced other women doing it I didn't go into it clueless but was pleasantly suprised. I actually quite enjoyed it esp 1st time round - maybe I'm madder than I thought

Read your thread Stacey and admire you greatly. Some good advice there - I have always had waterlabours/births and loved the fact I was able to be in my own space. Pls remember you can always say no to who ever wants to intervene. Last time round I even said no a couple of time when they wanted to listen into baby with the doppler as I didn't want to have to turn around and have them pressing into my tum. Hopefully this labour will be short and sweet and they'll be no need for anything other than a MW to catch!

Well its sunny at last here - thick mist for the last 3 days (typical start to school holidays) so going to get out and enjoy - might even go to the beach if I can get the house sorted this morning - got another viewer this evening and DH is still away.

I'm having a boy.

Very happy about it for lots of reasons. Not least - we were super convinced it was a boy from my pregnancy symptoms, so would have been like having to get to know bump all over again if it was a girl.

Also - recently lost my husbands father - so we'll name the baby after him.

First boy in this generation too - my Dd has 3 girl cousins and no boy cousins.

I went out to the Baby Gap sale to get a wee little body warmer. Excuse for more shopping now the hand-me-downs will generally be too girly.

Feelng much happier now I've seen that it's well and healthy. Also now getting lots of kicks. The sonographer even showed me a face picture which was completely adorable.

Kif you sound so happy, I'm thrilled for you.

What made you think you were having a boy? Was it any particular symptoms or just a general feeling?

Just wanted to add my own experience of birth for all the first-timers who are worried.

As I was having twins, I must admit that I was very carefully monitored but everyone always assumes I had a Caesarean which was not the case!

I was advised very early on in my pregnancy to have an epidural as the consultant so kindly put it, "once the first one is out, the second one can turn as it has a lot of space, and the doctor might have to get his hand in and pull it out by the leg". Nice. As I said to the consultant, you dont have to persuade me to have an epidural!

Anyway I had to be induced so had my waters broken and then on a drip. The anaesthetist put in the epidural but would not start the actual epidural fluid until I had experienced some contractions - once I had had about an hour of them they started to let me have the pain relief!!

It took another 8 hours before I was fully dilated and then I pushed for an hour - I can honestly say that that was the hardest work I have ever done, but not painful because of the epidural. I could feel the contractions around my middle but no sensation at all in the bits andpieces so no ring of fire!

In the end they had to use the ventouse as I had been pushing for over an hour and the first twin was not "turning the corner" so to speak. The first thing I said when it was all over was "oh, I would do that again".

I may say differently in Nov - am a bit scared myself as second babies (or third in this case) come quicker!!! Am worried I wont have time for an epidural!

Hoping Cat - the first cluse was that with my first I was so nauseous I ended up hospitalised twice. Only v. mild m. sickness this time. (Say girls worse than boys).

Second thing was a taste for salty and vinegarry - my nan says sweet for a a girl salty for a boy.

Thirdly, i keep bursting into tears - think it is different type of hormones - wasn't like that with the first.

mygirllolipop meant to follow up on your plan to home school. I think that is fantastic. I think the idea is great but know that I would never have the discipline to do lessons everyday esp with a baby around. I guess you can get alot done in a short amount of time and don't have to stick with the 9-3 day but even still. Well done you!

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Hello everyone

The babies furniture arrived today, it is even better in real life than in the picture!! Can't wait till next Friday now for the scan so we know if we should use the pink or blue handles!!

Just had a minor heart attack, checked my email and had an email from my bank who I use internet banking with, saying that my account had been signed into in a foreign country and would I just let them know if it was me accessing it on holiday or whatever, obviously logged straight into my account almost expecting to find either the current account empty or my credit card maxed out or something, but nothing had changed except a message to say there had been some dodgy emails going about.... PHEW!!!!

DH has just come in, so I am off, have a good evening everyone

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sorry NJ, the thread is summit like 'I've suddenly realised il have to go through this all again'

thank you cattyb, im feeling a bit better about it all now have talked to dp and think he understands more than i was giving him credit for. roll on nov. im ready and waiting (i think)

congrats to everyone on their scans and their happy babies!

morning everyone, right anyone who wants baby girls clothes i have a whole range from newborn-12 months equal to 3 black bags full, will be posting them in the for sale section at some point but will let you all know when they'll be up and if you want to do any swapping that'd be brill!

Jeez, got the momentum of a sloth today!! Thankful big boys are happy playing about with their lego, making dens with the sofa cushions and quilts and out on their bike (desp. need to get another big one as got a fab 16" on ebay to try and get them on to a 2 wheeler which worked a treat - only I'm a bike short now). Poor baby brother has been trailing around after them mucking up their games but seems fairly content today - he's getting his 3rd molar through which seems to be bothering him at night but not too much during the day.
Talking about pink and boy and swapping clothes has made my kind of wish I could take a look inside but am happy to wait and see when smidge arrives....

ps meant to say "well done that man" to MGL's hubby

can i join?!

Due November 4th. One DS aged 22 months.