September mums-to-be - the bumps get bigger and we all get more excited!

[HettySunshine]

Here we are ladies. A shiny new thread for us all. Let the chatting continue!

Delayed cord cutting wasn't an option for me with DD as the cord was too short to lift her up & put her on my chest! Had to cut it as I wanted skin to skin contact on my chest and that wouldn't have been possible for a while if we'd waited for the cord to stop pulsing/natural placenta delivery etc.
Not too fussed about delayed cord clamping, I'm fairly pragmatic about most stuff so will just see how things go on the day.

Quick poll: is anyone hoping for a home birth?

I have no idea why I'm up so late, I'm bloody shattered (struggled to get a seat on a busy train out of Clapham today!)

I have created a mumsnet group for Sept 2013 on facebook

It's here: www.facebook.com/groups/162292377284543/members/
(no idea if this will work!)

Or alternatively if you search for the group:
September 2013 babies- Mumsnet

The only member is me (picture of my wedding day making funny faces is my profile pic) and the banner image is my fat bump in a pretty dress! Sorry it's all about me, the more we add, the more we can do! :)

I can't get it to work Can only see you as the admin, but not the group. And search isn't showing anything either.

I am trying on my phone, though, so might be the problem.

Ah, it works if you take off the 'view members' bit

www.facebook.com/groups/162292377284543

I've been 'off the grid' almost a week but thanks to pg insomnia have caught up! FB group sounds like a great plan, I've clicked join.

Days ago there was talk if post-birth food and I'm definitely thinking of funny eggs, rare steak and Brie :)

Some of you mentioned shellfish and sushi but I thought they were fine as long as shellfish is cooked and sushi fish is frozen (which is usual I think) so if you're craving these do double check, especially as they're really healthy!

ION my aches and pains have arrived: had to keep standing in meeting yesterday as hips/ bum hurt so much. Time to start carrying my cushion around I think...

Funny eggs!

I've clicked to join too. What a great idea. I did wonder what would happen once we had all had out littleys. Lovely that we will be able to stay on touch

Good point Joskar, I've got a while to dither for a bit longer anyway!

Bleurgh placenta eating and dangling. With both of my other babies I couldn't get over the sheer size of the thing, it's massive, don't know what I was expecting, but it would feed all of us for a week!

Ohhhhh I was woken by the most hideous cramp in my right calf at 5.30 this morning - I knew as I stretched that it was going to happen too....poor DH got the shock of his life when I shot up scream/cry/laughing, the cats went flying everywhere! Ouch!

jenni thanks for the food tips - I love sushi and it was one of the first things I researched (priorities!)....sushi from supermarkets and most chains like Pret a Manger is fine as its all been frozen. Itsu freeze their tuna, but not their salmon (boo), and as you go up the sushi chain to nicer places/Japanese restaurants etc, the less likely they are to have frozen their fish (it's considered better quality as it's obviously fresher). I'm a sushi snob and would rather have no sushi than rubbish sushi, so have DH lined up to ship me in a shed load of salmon sashimi once baby pops out...mmmmmm

Right, sushi lecture over - I'm off to join the fb page!

I've asked to join too, as said previously I don't have Facebook so set up one to be solely used for our group which is why I have no friends

I've had a couple of cramping episodes but not for a week or so, did wake up with an achy bump this morning though!

I've asked to join too.

I signed up on the FB page too.

It's awful Kitten but like you say funny too. My DH suggested doing what footballers (typical) do and lie back and raise my leg, then flex foot back and forth, it really works!!!!

Mmmm sushi, can't wait to eat really good sushi!

Hi all,
juniper thanks for posting the link- sorry about that!
www.facebook.com/groups/162292377284543
Should work. Got a few members! Please feel free to add cute bump pictures or anything else that takes you fancy!

I went to my first pregnancy yoga last night and it was great. I've bloody missed yoga. Not a hard class, but lots of contraction visualisation/ positions as well as normal yoga. There was one other lady at 25 weeks and the rest were past 30 weeks. Some of the ladies were a similar age to me and really nice (and also upfront about looking for nice mummy friends), and I think I've made a friend! Yay!

I can eat sushi?! no time to pick any up tonight but I can tomorrow!

Hooray, I have joined shiny new FB group. I must be the easiest person to match up with my mumsnet name as, duh, it's my initials... imaginative, non? Anyway, feel free to dona friend request and have a nose at my hundreds of photos.

Just got in from doctors appointment; couldn't get in to see midwife so got doctor instead and she was lovely! Was just back from mat leave herself so was really chatty and interested, yay! Gave me my whooping cough jab which I hadn't expected but was fine. It's the same one they give babies at 8 weeks so I felt like I could probably cope with the scary injection!

I've clicked to join!

Random question-what on earth do you wear in labour? I tend to wear v little in bed but would prefer something longish ie-covering my bum for hospital? And obv def not sexy, but can't seem to find anything appropriate....any ideas?

Fozzie, maybe a maternity nightie? That's what I'm planning on. I'll see if I can post a link to the one I have bought. Or if they don't float your boat, maybe just a big t shirt?

Here we go: m.mamasandpapas.com/products.php?category=maternity-clothes/shop-by-product/nightwear-loungewear#product-S0009893

Probably won't work but hi ho!

Oh well, I knew it wouldn't work (on my phone!) but mamas and papas have a few different ones and they are on sale at the more.

Mine is the purple one with the matching dressing gown a bit further up the list.

Thanks for the tip Hettie, I'll take a look :-)

Thanks for the fb group Fl0!

I posted a pic of our little bubba's new wardrobe :-)

I've bought a couple of (huge) nighties from Tesco. Didn't want to spend much incase they need to go in the bin post birth. My DH bless him asked if I wanted a onesie for hospital, had to explain the access issue!!

sigh... need to head out to preggy yoga in ten mins but I really can't be bothered. Been out every night this week so far and just want to chill.... but next week we're on holiday so I should really go (and it's already paid for).

You know it's bad when you can't be bothered going to the most relaxing yoga class in the world

I bought a maternity nightdress last time and in the end just wore a really long maternity t-shirt from H&M that covered my bum - most likely because I went in to be induced at about noon so felt like a bit of a fraud putting the nightdress on at only 3cm dilated! After things sped up there wasn't really time (or inclination) to get changed!

ION, my arm is now really throbbing after my whooping cough jab. Bummer. Hope that's normal...!