Graduated elderberries - 30+ and looking forward to DC1! (Thread 5)

[Alexandra6]

Hi everyone, hope you had good wkends, I'm looking forward to my holiday next Saturday (although won't be the usual sunbathing with wine flowing!), still can't wait just to relax especially as I'm feeling a bit rough and sick today! Work are piling on the pressure ahead of my hols but who cares, in one week I will be off for two weeks woop!

Just wondered when the really preggers people started to get lightning crotch/cervix pangs? So I can be prepared and not go into cervix panic!

Sorry, nothing that exciting, back home after a staggering four hours in hospital (most of it waiting to see various people, rather than actually being seen).

So elcs was approved on maternal request alone and is going ahead tomorrow. I asked if I should be worried it was before 39 weeks as I'd heard that was best for baby's breathing, and they said good point, and sent me for a steroid injection. Glad i asked! Have to go back for another at midnight tonight . Then as I was leaving they said they wanted to just check baby's heartbeat, and the consultant used a small ultrasound to do it rather than a Doppler. Anyway turns out baby is breech!! So I would have had to have a cs anyway - elcs if anyone had noticed, or I guess emcs after hours of failed labour if they hadn't. Anyway feel weirdly happy that it's out of my hands now as I kept wondering if I was doing the right thing or not. Now I don't have a choice (she didn't even suggest ecv and I would refuse it anyway).

Have to be in at 7am tomorrow, elcs start from 9am onwards but obv emcs take priority. But hopefully this time tomorrow I will have met him/her - eeek!!

Feeling very guilty for constantly moaning over the last week about baby's feet killing my right ribs, and pushing them back in - was actually the baby's head I was trying to shove out of the way!!

Wow Janey how exciting! And what a relief that everything is as it should be and that you definitely made the right decision. Really wouldn't feel guilty about the feet/faceplant thing - I would totally have done the same

How are you feeling about it all? Excited for you!

Janey how exciting!! It's all really happening isn't it? And how strange nobody has noticed breech until now. Have they been feeling baby's position at checks or not bothering due to probable elcs?

I really hope you're not too out of it tomorrow to get on MN and tell us the crucial info!

And I am sooo jealous that your pregnancy misery is about to come to an end.

No they have been - said I was 4/5 engaged last time. So it's either moved or they just got it wrong - guess bums and heads feel similar? Mind you at 35 week scan was def head down.

Feeling strangely calm. Just doesn't feel real. Also bit guilty for jumping the queue - I feel uncomfortable enough at 38+2 let alone at a week overdue I'm hoping that somehow my new arrival triggers a load more?!

Oh and Alex just sent me a text. She's lying by the pool whilst her DH makes her lunch, then going to a lovely restaurant in the mountains she took me to once before. Very bloody jealous!

Me three for holiday jealousy, not helped by emails from the holiday company we booked with this time last year, plus my mum texting me from Glastonbury (our holiday of two years ago - in the mud) and my sis Facebooking pictures of how amazing the weather is!

Heads and bums do feel similar, tho apparently mine has 'a very hard head' according to one midwife who seemed rather tickled by this. Have now realised of course that it could be a bony bum like it's pre-pregnant mother so who knows fingers crossed 'a very hard head' isn't sadistic code for 'ouch that's going to hurt on the way out!

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and of course now worried mine is in breech too. there's something quite round under my ribs that I've thought is a butt, but not sure now. well guess they'll check tomorrow.

Oh how exciting Janey, it must be so strange knowing you're having a baby tomorrow for definite!
Now who fancies going into labour tonight/in the morning and giving her a race?

Me! I have booked cinema tickets for tonight - the most expensive VIP seats like armchairs ones in the hope it starts labour off. No signs so far but I have had a definite increase in cervical stabbing pains which I am hoping is further dilation.

Ooh good plan Cavort - which film?

Man of Steel - please don't tell me it's crap if you've seen it! DH wants to see it and keeps going on about how it might be our last chance for a while. I wish! I will be partaking of the biggest ice cream they sell at the Ben & Jerrys Bar

If you don't enjoy it, take comfort in the fact that Henry Cavill is pretty damn hot... I enjoyed it, but it could have done with being half an hour shorter. Won't say more than that til you've seen it, but defo a good plan with the VIP seats (me and DP were both sooo uncomfy we could hardly sit still)!

And a large B&J makes everything worth seeing

I'm counting down to Despicable Me 2 as I loved the first. Tomorrow, weeee!

...how can I trump a cinema trip so it's me...nope I got nothing, I played my ace last night with the car seat moment if genius thing and even that didn't bloody work. Off you go Cavort and leave their VIP seat in need of some serious cleaning

eating pineapple and googling reflexology to induce labour. Sigh.

my god Im in a bad mood. I got home only to find that OH had left a bag of plumbing spares, (pipe connectors etc) in the lounge which the dog had emptied everywhere, told him, only for him to get annoyed at the dog. Whereas is he had fed or walker her she wouldnt have had time to fet bored and be naughty. Then he says hes been waiting for me as we have to go to halfords to look at car radios, which we neither need (nor do I want to waste 80 quid on). All the while Im trying to arrange how I get to and from the coach which is takeing me and a mate to saturdays robbie williams gig, he was taking me but now cant as he is out on the lash (priorities you see). Get back and have to bully him into taking dog for a walk, while I make a cake for a woman at work whos bday I forgot (she bakes for everyone else so I felt I should make the effort). He finally goes out an says he'd put the dinner in the over before leaving, comes back saying the dog slipped her lead and ran into the main road, again, dogs fault, nothing mentioned about the fact eveytime anyone else walks her she wears her harness not just her collar....for that very reason! Check on dinner to dicover he put sausages an bacon in together, bacon is burnt beyond belief and nothing else is cooking, what on earth does he think we are eating? Grrrr so much for a relaxed evening. I know Im hormonal but god he is useless at times!

Wow mother is he actually trying to piss you off? Good job in this case.

Have fun at Robbie, I went to the gig in O2 arena, was great.

Gawd he sounds as useless as mine, no wonder you're cross with him Mother!

Afraid not Purple, this is just him being his usual self.

Im now slightly calmer but god he is such a usless child. What worries me is he finds is hard to cope with a fairly low maintenance dog, how will he cope with a high maintenance baby?

sorry that should have said afraid not hazel.....doh.

Oh and I should mention his idea of a dog walk is taking her around the block, that takes about 5 minutes (10 at a push) when I walk her we are out for 30-45 minutes, then he wonders why she is still energetic. Men huh, cant live with them cant legally kill them.

Now my mouth hurts from all the pineapple..

Mother, it all sounds depressingly familiar, mine left his shoes in the kitchen again this week, his dog ate them... Again. He NEVER LEARNS! I worry about his capability to look after a baby as well since he appears to be totally incompetent at so many basic tasks. It's worrying.

Hazle, I wimped on the pineapple for that very reason, makes my mouth all sore like I'm allergic to them and they reckon you need to eat 7 whole ones to make any difference anyway so I haven't got that desperate yet.

No joy at cinema starting labour.

Brave you are right about the Superman bloke - ding dong! Now I wouldn't mind waxing his chest!

Enjoy the gig Mother. I wish I wasn't far too pregnant to go to a Robbie Williams gig, or any gig for that matter. I haven't met many slebs but I did meet Robbie Williams years ago and he seemed like a thoroughly nice bloke and it seems like he always puts on a good show.

And there's nothing better than a good rant about men. They really are a different species sometimes. Mine is generally a good egg but I also do quite often find myself wondering why I am breeding with this man? He seems to keep all his common sense in his little finger

Ugh mine has been a grumpy bugger all week as he's dog tired from night shifts but also ended up going in yesterday during the day too. So instead of being sensible & catching up with sleep tmrw he's getting a few hours then playing in a cricket tournament!
Bet he won't be that willing to be tired if I ask him to do night feeds...

Enjoy the gig mother. I saw one of the Take That reunion ones he played at a few years ago & it was great.

Oh & Henry Cavill you so would. He's not good for a pg lady's blood pressure.