Sloths, slugs and heffalump bumps-july13

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I'm back! Congratulations on the new arrivals, there are some lovely baby names on this thread.

getting little bit fed up now, seems to be one thing after another at the moment. Had little bump in car on way to school on Monday, thankfully no one hurt but just a hassle with insurers and very rude lady (her car came off worse). Then spent day rushing about trying to get things/shopping done, on phone to insurers etc.

Topped off the day by having midwife appointment (with my most trusted midwife who has been here years h to discuss birth plan and her sending me in to hospital for five hours . My blood pressure was too high and my bump is measuring small. Think they were / are worried about pre eclampsia, but thankfully wee is all clear of protein. So I'm on strict rest now (as much as you can with 2 dcs) and need to see someone today for a check. Then back on Friday to check growth and how the ok oligo is going. still not sleeping and can't rid myself of this cold which isn't helping matters I know. Just feeling very, very anxious about things and worrying that there may be a problem with the baby. And if one more person says how tiny I am for 38 weeks I will scream .

In other news, after extensive eating research, krispy kreme doughnuts have decided that I'm having a boy .

Hope everyone else is having a more relaxing time of it!

Shelley - you're having abit of a rubbish time at the moment so here are some to cheer you up. Glad your wee is clear of protein - try to chill if/where you can (CBeebies for the kids on 24/7, picnic lunch/dinner on the floor while you lie on the sofa if need be!) and try and forget the prang and rude lady/insurers. Your baby is and will be fine - we all carry differently so ignore the silly people saying you look tiny - you're just carrying it efficiently!

Shelly you rest up! Glad they are looking after you and not long now :)

Shelly It's no wonder you're a bit fed up. Grrrr to rude lady and insurers. I hope you manage to find some way to rest. I agree with Dinky. Cbeebies and finger food on the floor sound like a good plan. Maybe some more Krispy Kreme research is required too I carried small with DS too, was always at least 4cm under and had to have 2 growth scans but he was a healthy 7lbs 9oz.

Dinky, lovely to hear you get on with your PIL. I get on well with mine as well, just my DM driving me insane in the only way mums know how

God all of these stories of PIL, I'm lucky mine only live a 5 minute drive away and so we've arranged that they can come over the first day I'm home for half an hour so long as they don't expect any looking after while they're here :)

Shelley Hope everything starts looking up for you soon!

I'm sure I cannot physically stay pregnant for another 4 and a half weeks! I'll be shocked if I go overdue, but I'm sure since I'm not expecting it, I'll go way over now :(

35+4

Marie - my mum and I have a bit of an up and down relationship too - we're very different personalities (she's a worrier, I'm not) and just cant quite connect on the same level, but I know she loves me and my boys (including DH) and she knows I love her and dad and that's the important thing.

Blimey - I see from FB that Schro's waters have gone (at 35 weeks). What is it with all these babies being so eager to arrive early???

Hello hello! Just catching up with the thread (so many eager babies!) - hope all the early birds are continuing to do well.

Sympathy to those with PIL issues especially those who think they have a say in the birth! Evelyn I agree that 4 weeks is a reasonable time (especially if they are staying with you) and your DH needs to make it clear that they are there to help you and not be hosted by you! My DH's parents both died in the last few years, so although I am grateful that I don't have that extra stress to contend with, it's so sad to think that they never got the chance to meet their first grandchild. Dinky, I too have a slightly difficult relationship with my mum... it's not that we don't get on, just that she likes to provide and look after me and I think has had a little difficulty adjusting to the fact that I am now pretty independent. I think that her new role as a grandparent might be just what she needs...

Shelley, what a crappy day - hope that you are managing to rest and that today is better for you.

I am gradually settling in to maternity leave. Breakfast in the garden today eating home grown strawberries - bliss . I'm trying to keep focussed by writing a list every day, and am working on my Ten Commandments of Maternity Leave (watch this space!).

Had my whooping cough vaccine today and off to meet a re-useable nappy 'consultant' later today. I seem to have filled my social calendar so have a busy time of it over the next few days!

I still have a bit of pregnancy rage - find myself snapping at poor DH (who is generally marvellous). This week I shouted at him with the immortal line "you keep coming to me with problems and not solutions!" thus making myself sound like some jumped up second rate Apprentice candidate . And with that, Lord Sugar, I am off to casually hang out in the road as there are some men laying tarmac and I can't get enough of the smell.

36+6 - eeek!

at the thought of a big pregnant Panda hanging out by the men at work to get all the fumes!

Sorry everything seems to be going to shit at the moment, shelley. I hope you manage to get some rest.

Sounds like you're settling in nicely to mat leave Slouching. Lol at pregnancy turning you into Alan Sugar! Can you imagine the apprentice with a whole load of hormonal heavily pregnant women doing the deciding? They could just sit on hapless candidates instead of firing them and arrange tasks around their latest cravings :-) Am having a super lazy day today - have tidied up personal email account in boxes and now lolling around waiting on a burglar alarm engineer and the head from the boys new school to call.

Ha! If I ruled The Apprentice I would have them racing around suburbia to source the most reasonably priced pickled gherkins, ice pops, roast chicken crisps and the bottled scent of creosote (sp?) all before I fell asleep at 8.30pm!

Wow good luck Schro if you're reading this thread still. Thanks Dinky for the update.

Finally, some sunshine so that I can sit out in the garden in the mottled shade, pondering whether these intermittent stomach aches are down to gravity making bump very uncomfortable or the start of something exciting (again!, how many false alarms have I had?) would quite like babe to make an appearance on Sunday as 1. Last day of my 30's [sh

Silly phone!
and 2. Me and DD both born on Sunday and I read too much into that old wives rhyme.

Don't get me even started on the inlaws!!

sunday sunshine. i was trying to work out the other day just which day would be best to be born on according to that rhyme. i am, quite obviously, a weds child (only just mind). i think sundays must be the best arent they?! so you have another special day coming up next week too?

good luck schro. so many early arrivals. i dont think i am going to make it to july either. i suppose thats the nature of having babies!

I'm a Thursday child. Ds1 is a Tuesday child - as is ds2 and they're both fair of face but definitely not full of grace :-)

shelley sorry you're having a shit time. I hope things improve soon. In the meantime I suggest lots of chocolate.

slouching your post made me giggle. I don't have any wierd smell cravings but love the thought of you hanging out by the tarmac!

If you're reading schro good luck. These July babies just don't want to wait do they? Unfortunately I suspect some of us will be very overdue in order to balance things out.

I have no idea which day of the week I was born. How do you know this stuff? A weekend would be good for chip to come out, because I won't have to call DH back from work!

The receptionist in specsavers just made my day by asking if I was expecting, not when. This has perked me right up, as it's obvious I'm pregnant. Then she just wished me luck and sympathised with the hot weather. Why isn't everyone like that?

38 weeks today. Whenever you're ready baby , whenever you're ready...

sunday my labour w ds started with a stomach upset, so now I think Im going into labour everytime I have slightest twinge. Today included... Twinges probably more likely due to newly acquired cupcake addiction.
38 weeks today and very fed up in the heat and humidity. Also suffering quite a lot with hayfever. I keep being told by pharmacists that we cant take anything while pregnant, but nhs website says different. No gp apptmts available for a while so am thinking just to put up with it. Anyone have any more info?
Speaking of inlaws, am having my PILs plus two BILs plus families over on saturday for ds birthday. Dont know what I was thhinking. I cant even drink!

Persuasion - my mum told me the day and time I was born (3.45 - just in time for kids TV:-) ). That receptionist sounds lovely!

Esme - I have had a super chilled day due to the heat and humidity. Lots of fluids/ice cream or ice lollies and lolling about is the way to go! Don't know about hay fever but bet if you post on the pregnancy board someone could advise. You are one brave lady with those birthday plans!!

Wow it's hot today! Just got up from my afternoon nap and there's a feeling of thunder in the air I think! Hope you are all coping ok in the heat, especially those still working!

Good luck Schro if you're reading!!!

Persuasion, I suspect you're right - have visions of being left on the thread at the end of July/early August humming to myself and watching the tumble weed roll through . (though, on the other hand I have a feeling this baby is going to be early (a desperate hope?!?)

Vinegar - how was the mil swim session?? Hope not too painful?

Shelley and hope things improve.

Managed to find a cheaper hypnobirthing teacher who offered reduced rates and took pity on me when I cried on her on the phone and offered to start the course tonight for us at our house after dc1 is asleep. Hope I can stay awake and open minded enough for it to do me some good! She's a practising midwife too so I'm hoping her mix of skills will appeal to my rational, non-woo side too!!

I'm pretty sure I was born on a Monday, but I can't remember what Monday's child is meant to be.

I'd really like this baby to come on 12th July, which is my mum's birthday. I'll be 39+1 then, which would be good too. I don't know what Friday's child is either though.

Jealous of everyone outside enjoying the sunshine.

Just googled. Monday's child is fair of face. That's definitely not me! Fridays child is loving & giving - that would be nice.

Not sure if DD is a true Tuesday's child.... Maybe when she gets older.

I'm a Fridays child and my dh and ds3 are Saturday (works hard for am living) which is true I'd say for dh. Ds1 and ds2 are both Tuesday's boys (full of grace?) which I'm less sure of
This thread is deinitely getting busier again as people finish work
Good luck to schro and Shelley hope you are having a better day
might that sounds fantastic, I'm sure you'll get a lot from that course esp as she is a midwife too!

persuasion giggle were you not tempted to say 'should have gone to specsavers' ?! On the other hand maybe you are svelte and graceful unlike my massive self!

slouching sounds like you are settling right in to mat leave I'm eating loads of strawberries too, but not home grown ones!

I indulged myself today and went down to the beach to the ice cream shop and got the most delicious ice-cream ever. Two scoops, one of raspberry ripple and the other tablet, with wee chunks of tablet all the way through it.....bliss

Have just put huge pot of chilli in oven to cook and hoping I will get at least 4 or maybe 5 meals out of it, hence ticking the 'do some batch cooking' off my list!

38+1, feeling very contented indeed

thinkingof4 the beach? lucky you! i just smuggled an ice lolly out of the freezer but yours sounds much more delicious. its blinking hot and sticky today, so ice cream is definitely in order.

have not got many jobs ticked off my list today at all, just feel very tired. had MW check earlier and BP is still up and i'm measuring even smaller than i did on monday, and its not because the baby has shifted . will see what the weekend brings but the MW seems to think that the fluid has reduced further. will see how the placenta is functioning at the scan and take it from there i guess.

you can find out which day you were born on using google. or there used to be a formula that you could put into excel but ive long since forgotten that! DCs are sunday and friday and poem holds true for them. not so sure about DH being a mondays child though

Another Friday child here! Lovely sunny day here. Hormones up the creek - my baby sister got a first class honours degree, a crockery cupboard broke on me then I dropped a bottle of bleach down myself. Feeling glum. Oh and had the PIL here yesterday, always highly stressful. They are desperate for this baby to be a boy "so we don't have to have anymore children". Drives me insane.

schro thinking of you.

Apparently I was born on a Monday according to Google. Can't complain!

thinking I'm definitely not svelte. Wish I'd thought to day that now! And did you really have tablet ice cream?

Now because of you lot I need an ice lolly...