September 2013- We've managed to hold them in!

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Hi all! Providing the ladies who are currently in hospital don't give birth before the last 20 posts in our old thread, we've made it to a new one with babies all still staying put for now!

Here's the stats thread www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/a1694946-September-2013-STATS-THREAD

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Must bes day for stress, kitten, flo I hope you'd are feeling better. Had a major melt down in work today, I normally work out on site, but due to the pregnancy thing I'm stuck in the office, and I've never been as stressed. Eventually lost it when some Pillock kept ringing me, burst in to uncontrollable tears.feel crap now as I work in an engineering company and the men didn't know what to do!!

Managed to organise I meeting for the morning to discuss but feel totally mortified over gurning in the office. Stupid hormones.

Kips hope your putting your feet up now!

Thanks for letting me have a rant! Last night was topped off with a little bit of spotting in my discharge. Spent ages googling before bed and can't work out if u should be worried? I don't think it was a show/mucous plug, unless it was just a little bit of it and I feel fine otherwise.... I'm 34+2 any ideas?

You should call your MW or the hospital, to see what they reckon. I think if its 'mucussy' it could be from your plug but best to check.

Whatever it is its your body telling you to slow down ;)

Sorry to hear about yr stresses kitten and flo, really not what you need at the moment. Hope you can get some rest and look after yourselves.

blankets we have just had the nursery plastered, which feels like an achievement, but still have much painting to do, carpet and blind to get, and then furniture to sort out. All the baby stuff is either in boxes in the living room or packed in various draws around the house and the study is full of spare furniture. The electrician asked if we had just moved in ...nope been here 2 years!

No idea about discharge Flo, maybe see if there is a little more this morning and if so call the mw?

can I ask how you are all feeling generally? I'm feeling absolutely exhausted, accidentally slept for three hours yesterday afternoon, seem to constantly feel a little bit nauseous. I alternate between really bad nights sleep, usually being awake between 2.30-5 and sleeping through, or waking up crying from awful dreams. I can't work out what is normal anymore. Should I be feeling like this? I'm only 34+4, and luckily sort of on mat leave. I cant imagine having to work, im managing about 3 hours work a day at the moment, at the most.

At my 34 week check up yesterday bump hadn't grown, but was a different mw ... Wondering if feeling odd like this is connected? Baby is still hyperactive and wriggling a lot ...

Sorry for the long, I seem to have lost the ability to think for myself

Sorry flo and bear that you're feeling rubbish and stressed. I hope you're better soon to get a few nice chilled weeks pre baby.
DH is going through a mega stressful period at work just now and I really just wish that they would get everything sorted as I don't think his life is about to get any easier in the next couple of months! He said yesterday that he literally has no clue what he would do if the baby came early! That's my wishful thinking of him taking a few days off before the baby comes out the window!

Aww fl0 that does indeed sound like a crappy day. Hope you got some decent sleep last night and feel a bit better today. No helpful ideas on the spotting but agree a call to the mw is best, even if just to put your mind at ease a bit.

runningbear I hear you re the exhaustion and nausea. I'm sleeping terribly at the moment too - 6 times I jumped out of bed with cramp last night. Well I say jumped - flailed like a wood louse on its back until the screaming woke DH enough to roll me over so I could get up is probably closer to the truth . It sounds like you've got loads going on even though you're not working too much, maybe you need to be stricter with yourself about scheduling time to literally just sit for an hour or so each day?

and to everyone else who had a rubbish day yesterday - hope everyone's a bit chirpier all round!

jammy babykitten is also laying at an awkward angle - the midwife recorded it as "cephalic oblique", basically the head is down but pointing at my left hip, with the bum up under my ribs on the right hand side...I'm getting some quite uncomfortable pokes in the right hip from what assume is little feet!

ION I'm 35 weeks today and finish work tomorrow, thankfully. SOOO looking forward to ditching the commute!

Hope everyone who has had a rubbish few days have better ones today!

I'm exhausted too running...33+3 today. Baby had me awake from 2.30-5 this morning. Wriggling, hiccupping, more wriggling etc etc. Unfortunately I'm not on mat leave & today I've got a customer meeting 3hrs away :-( So tired....fortunately this is my last full week at work...but I still have 5 more weeks part time!

Oh dear, I just woke up . This is ridiculous. Gosh ready I feel for you, I literally am useless at the moment. thanks kitten I actually feel like I do nothing but sit or sleep at the moment, and get a bit worried at the things thru could be doing! Your woodlouse description made me laugh though, sorry!

...and the thought of a babykitten, even tinier than a normal kitten eek super sweeet! Nearly had a little cry at the tiny socks I washed and pit on the line yesterday- literally the most productive thing I managed yesterday.

:) thanks all for cheering me up (as usual)- esp the mental image of a tiny baby weeny kitten!
runningbear- I accidentally bought premature baby size socks (THEY WERE IN THE SALE AND HAD GIRAFFES ON) so I'm desperately stretching them as husband is a size 10 and I'm a size 8.... no way they;ll fit! The foot that's been kicking me in the ribs is massive too!

Also knackered but 2 weeks left at work (and weddings both the weekends) and bump has also changed shape rather than grown! More square and lumpy rather than round! Baby is still very busy, thought they were supposed to slow down?!

My bladder has help up well (I don't need night time toilet trips (sorry ladies!!)) but baby has started to punch me in the bladder which is quite alarming!

I am also feeling sickier again (boo).

And I fell up the stairs at the station today because I am a tit.

Will call MW at lunch to double check but no more spotting today. discharge is a bit yellowy almost pink colour though.......

I bet the socks will be fine. DD has big feet but is still wearing some socks that are 18-24 m at the mo, although I bought fairy socks in the mothercare sale with my baby boy giraffe ones, so should be able to get rid of some of the smallest ones!

36 weeks today and I've started feeling really pregnant this week.

So sorry to hear about the stresses, worrying symptoms and tiredness some of you have been having.

I am aware I've been incredibly lucky with this pregnancy but now have a big issue with nausea/heartburn... the boy is pushing up inside my ribcage and down into my pelvis/bladder in a horrible way - sitting down is quite uncomfortable at times - I have to try to pack pillows into the small of my back so I'm almost sitting in a backbend to make more space between my pelvis and ribs.

I'm still working (till 38+1) but work mainly from home. I've been out this morning and I have two half-day meetings next week and then an hour meeting in the final week and the rest is all at home desk work. I've had to take a couple of afternoon naps this week which I haven't done for months!

Cycling and walking are both uncomfortable now too :( I can still do both when I need to get from A to B but neither are enjoyable to do for fun/fresh-air/sunshine - but then again, neither is sitting enjoyable.

Having said that, I'm determined not to cave in to impatience. I want a pool birth if possible, though I am aware that there are MANY reasons that might not be possible, and 99.9% of them are out of my control but one that I can control is not accepting an induction before 42 weeks. If all is well with me and him there's no reason to be induced before 42 weeks as you're not officially 'post-term' till after 42, but it tends to first be offered between 41 and 42 and will be very tempting but I will do all I can to resist the temptation.

Totally in agreement on the holding out for a pool birth and refusing induction but at 37+3 and suffering from heartburn, SPD etc I'm not sure if ill be able to if I get past 41 weeks. I think I'm likely to have this baby next week or the week after though, given DD was early...

Sounds like you'll be fine then jenni and have a nice spontaneous labour without having to wait till the last possible moment - fingers crossed for you :)

Hi all. I'm down at the farm this week (living dangerously, away from home at 37 weeks!!) and have had a very grumpy couple of days not being able to get to sleep in a different bed with all the wrong pillows. My preferred bed was occupied by my brother until he left yesterday, so now I've claimed it (and three pillows All To Myself) and I had a better night's sleep last night. DS has whimpered in the middle of the night a couple of times (normal night time stirring, but he gets disorientated because it's so pitch black dark here compared to home in the suburbs) so DH has had broken sleep too, going to see to him.

I've finally washed the newborn clothes, so they are on the rack drying in my parents' utility room. My mum has whole fields available for washing lines and yet uses the tumble drier even on sunny days which I think is criminal... I've taken the drying rack things out to the yard before and been told off because 'everything gets dusty from farm dirt'. Well the utility room isn't exactly pristine as it's where the dogs sleep!! It's a bit windy today so the racks would blow over unless I take the right out into the field and get some guy ropes on them... which I don't quite have the energy to do.

Birth pool for home has so far cost me £68... £38 for the pool (ebay) and £30 for a new liner (nct shop). Still need a thermometer, as I expect my jam thermometer doesn't measure down in the 30s of degrees C! Could have paid £3.95 for delivery from NCT but got a couple of feeding bras and bra extenders at the same time which took me over £50 for free delivery. So, I'm really hoping the home birth plan works out, as it's all going to be a bit of a waste if I end up in hosp!! (or pop early, down here).

Sympathies to all those with heartburn etc. I have taken topopping Rennies any time I've eaten something that might be burny.

fl0b0t if those socks don't fit feet, try them as scratch mitts? Or put them on a teddy bear.

2 work days to go!!

coooool socks flo! and yup, give the mw a ring about discharge to be sure.

guider if your locals start trying to induce before 42 weeks wave that recent paper about which says that anything from 37 - 42 is pretty normal. There was stuff in the news about it recently. Just highlighted the normal variation in gestation for women. I think its only after 42 weeks that the placenta starts to loose efficiency, but it is pretty unusual to go much past then.

rake agree, criminal use of a tumble drier. although also slightly alarmed to learn my uber greeny mum put my swimming cossie in the dryer at the weekend instead of just leaving it out in the garden!?

also, on the tiredness front. plucked up the courage to phone the mw to double check things. have suggested a full blood count to check for low iron levels, which I think it probably is. I have been eating spinach twice a day for weeks, and regularly take feroglobin iron supplement to top up. as we were away for four days eating random parental food, much of which didn't seem to involve much in the way of protein let alone iron, and I forgot to take the feroglobin I've probably dipped a little in my levels and suffering. I know a few people had low iron counts - were you feeling tired from it at all? my bloods at 28 weeks were fine. oh well. Will stuff myself with iron the next few days and see how things go.

hurrah frog enjoy!!!

Running....I've been knackered the whole time! Had slightly low iron at booking and even lower at 28 weeks...mw said to take 3/4 iron tabs daily but I don't purely because it makes me constipated, I do have a spatone sachet each day but I'd imagine my iron is still quite low. Mw would shout if she knew I don't take what I'm meant to

Oh my, I am feeling really overwhelmed and unprepared at the moment, I haven't bought any baby clothes yet, we have a buggy, car seat, cot and changing table in boxes, half done room and I haven't bought any of the essentials for me or baby such as big knickers, pads, nappies etc etc... I'm too scared to think abt hospital bag as I want a home birth so much.

Where do I start?

fl0 I wonder if jenni is right about about slowing down? My friend had a bleed at 34 weeks (very light) after an hour on the cross trainer at lunch and Pilates class the same day... For her, very normal activity, but there was obviously a point she had to slow down, perhaps you're at that point too?

Hi hoping I can join you. I've been lurking for a while and just finished work today so I should have more time to post. My due date is 6th Sept but due to being breech looks like I will be having elective cs before then. I already have a 2 1/2 yr old dd who is a big bundle of energy and is exhausting me.

I just had a peek at the Oct 13 thread, someone there had had a peek at the Nov 13 thread where someone has had their baby at 27 weeks - eek! Hope they are being looked after.

purple don't panic! I really recommend eBay for clothes. There are loads of budles which have vests, babygrows, hats etc for good prices, or you can buy smaller bundles of particular makes.

As for your own things for hospital/post birth do an online supermarket shop and get everything in one place. Ocado has a good range of cheapo to organic/natural nappies, breast pads, nappy bags etc. Many of the things on the hospital bag list you'll need if you have a home birth too.

frog I feel for you if you have been feeling this rough for 10 weeks! Def try two spatones a day if you can, it should make a huge difference. So far today I've had 4 spoons of feroglobin, spinach salad for lunch and spinach curry for dinner :D hoping for a miraculous recovery!

purple you might be right about slowing down. I find it really really hard to define what is slowing down- what is normal/ what is doing too much. I just don't have a sensor for it. I did a 2 day conference with travelling but didn't feel like I'd done too much until it was too late and I was tired. But I was mentally tired rather than physically. Will photograph the socks tomorrow!

so sick of feeling sick though. been feeling sick since the first week of February, how horrible is that!

Flo, I definitely think it is your body giving you a little nudge to slow down. When I had my bleed it was after I had had to rush some papers to court so had dashed there and back. As soon as I got back to the office I realised I was bleeding.

Ion, my lovely in laws have bought us a Moses basket which we took delivery of yesterday. How many sets of bedding do you all plan on getting for baby's first sleeping place? I'm guessing it'll need to be changed quite often due to sicky pooey messes etc etc. would three be enough do you think?

Pillow cases are great as spare Moses basket sheets. I always laid a muslin (all tucked in) round the head end too as DD was a sicky one, made for super fast night time changes!