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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Jammy - I think it's just that there's no right answers, the only way to be certain is to see if a baby pops out!

DD is coldy again today and just crying as she feels poorly so its cbeebies on the sofa for now...

Blimey, all of this baby watch is making everything seem very real! Good luck Kips and Weebarra. From the panic of a few days ago I had happily retreated into denial about the imminent arrival of an actual baby, stopped reading baby books, and been working like a lunatic.
Feeling a lot calmer, perhaps denial is the way forward. Wonder how long though labour I'll be able to continue it for....

On the tiredness front mrspaddy I had been feeling absolutely knackered for a while - not up to anything except for lying on the sofa, and everything felt like a massive effort. Then suddenly got normal energy levels back a couple of days ago and it's wonderful (am 37+6) - maybe this is coming your way too?

Jenni your steak and brie has started me off writing a shopping list for DH to action before I get back from hospital. It's getting quite long...

I realised on my trip to the library yesterday that I could order any book from them for 50p. 50p!!! I see that this will not be news to many people, but I was so astounded that I immediately went home and ordered my entire amazon wish-list. Will now add Capital to the list, and maybe Wolf Hall (have always been put off by the sheer size - I tried A Place of Greater Safety once and only made it about a 10th of the way through). Having to be a bit careful with book choices at present as the smallest thing makes me cry, so am sticking to spy/thriller type things. Just finished A Foreign Country by Charles Cumming, which was pretty good.

Mooster, sounds like you have a well stocked library! The last few times I've been to public libraries they did not have a single thing I was looking for, and it's not as if I was after, I don't know, obscure Uzbek literature. They didn't have books from the BBC's Big Read top 100!

I am waiting for the day when an all-electronic lending library becomes available, without geographical limitations.

I am also doing better with the tiredness, but that is doubtless due to the fact that I am now off work (yippee) and able to nap when I need to. I often wake up during the night as well and sit around reading for a bit, but I can then catch up during the day.

Had an ultrasound check-up yesterday. My baby seems to hate them, it can't just be a statistical fluke that he turns his back every time and won't budge! :) I had a talk with him in the morning before the scan, but nope, he was firmly lodged with his back towards the prying eyes. No cute thumb-sucking pictures for us! :)

His femur measured in the bottom 10th percentile but the doctor wasn't fussed. His abdomen and head measurements are close to the average. So it seems that he just inherited my husband's short legs. I am taller than him and long slender legs would have been the best part of my genetical heritage to contribute... boo :)

Peregrin, no, no, my actual library is a bit shit, but they will order in books for you if you ask them. This is why I was so amazed!

hurrah, finally a book unrelated to babies that doesn't start with death! The Brownlee brothers book starts with Alistair saying how he used to keep his mum awake during pregnancy :D im hoping for an Olympian too!

LOL! I really enjoyed the brownlee bros book... but it made me want to run, and cycle... i'm having such bad running/cycling envy right now... it's going to be so cold and dark by the time I am recovered enough from the birth

badguider I have resigned myself to a few months of long daytime walks with the little bear to regain fitness, and have been assured by sports physiologist bil/dh that this will be far more beneficial than starting to run again at 6 weeks, and much easier to do during the day with a baby. Having said that, we are planning a hols in Dorset for next summer with parents so dh and i can go riding and running together again, and im pondering entering the Coniston half marathon in July as something to aim for! can't wait to get back on my beautiful bike - it has actual dust on

I'm considering buying a present for my librarians. They knew I was pregnant before anyone else and have kept me supplied with great books all through SPD hell. We're just hoping that they don't shut down the mobile library service next month. That would be a serious blow once the baba arrives and driving 20 miles to the library becomes less appealing.

I like the idea of the shopping list for post birth. I've been eating steak (rare at that!) for months because of the chronically low iron levels but I really miss the cheese from the deli. Also we made rhubarb gin this summer and I'm desperate to try it!

I still haven't packed my bag. I feel like if I pack it I'll tempt fate and the baby will be really late just to teach me. Is this ridiculous and am I simply making excuses for being lazy?!

Joskar - Pack that bag! I'm one of those people who puts off completing a job, but is always one of the first to start it and I think my bags are actually totally packed... I'm not sure they were yet last time around as I was convinced I'd be over, and planned a home birth!

Ooh, rhubarb gin, sounds interesting! FIL just made some summer berry vodka which went down very well with everyone last weekend.
As someone said recently though I just think alcohol = heartburn at the moment so have no desire to drink!

Good luck everyone on baby watch this week, wow it's getting real! A lady from my NCT group had her twins on Monday, thing is she'd joined an earlier group in the hope she wouldn't be first and then still was! Only 32 weeks!!! The rest of us are at least 35+ very scary!

Just been for growth scan....baby is pretty smack on average I think, sonographer said about 5lb2 at the mo. that's normalish right? He's head down, his back on my left and very wriggly.

runningbear - I want to start a couch-2-5k after 6-8 weeks. Mainly for the 20-30mins out of the house without the baby :)
C25k is such a gentle programme (if you're used to running) and builds so slowly it'll be weeks after I start before I'm jogging for any more than a minute or two at a time anyway.

With the baby I will be walking and planning to go to a mw and physio-led post-natal exercise class in my local church hall (with babies) which is open to mums as soon as they've mostly stopped bleeding in the early days then 'buggy boot camp' in my local park (also with babies) which is open to mums after the six week check if all is healing well.

I'm not going to be entering any halfs anytime soon though - going to stick to short distance so I can fit runs inbetween feeds for six months or so and try to become a regular at my local parkrun (dh will come down to the park with ds for a walk while I run).

I've been really relaxed on what I ate (basically had anything but within reason), but have said definite no to shellfish, so I'm really looking forward to oysters and mussels! Not sure what the chances are of a platter of oysters appearing in front of me post baby though

Oh YY to buggy boot camp! I'm so keen to try that! They do it at my local park too.

Runningbear Too late, I've just read The lady cyclists guide to kashgar!!

Oh dorita is it worth continuing with once you get past the first few pages!? I can't handle more dead mums, or that little baby.

Jammy - I've been (more or less..) following the what to eat but have been eating (cooked!) mussels, they're ok aren't they?

For those of you dreaming of the good cheese:

www.seriouseats.com/2013/04/cheese-delice-de-bourgogne.html

DH has been informed that this cheese must be waiting for me when we get home from the hospital. Seriously the best cheese ever.

Is there really no one else who still has to pack their bag?

No bags packed in the frog house

My bag's not packed either...

My bag stuff is all in a pile, but packed isn't quite the word I'd use!
Jammy - my DD was back to back when I went in to labour and my contractions were definitely all in my lower back throughout the night until she turned in the morning.
Very excited to start hearing all about these babies - reckon we'll have at least 4 by this time next week!!

No bag here either and no stuff to put in it either!

Oh dear, just cried at dh tonight

He keeps joking about how the baby won't stop him going out on his bike and doing other stuff. Tonight as he went out to ride he said something about me practising "being ok" with him going...
He WAS only joking, he wouldn't screw me over like that, but I think I've been on mn too much as I just couldn't stop thinking of all those women out there who do look after the baby all day, then all evening as their husbands do hobbies, then all night as the men have to work in the morning
For the first time in my adult life I'm now truly reliant on somebody else who could utterly shaft me if he wanted to. It's really scary.
Anyway, had a cry when he got back and asked him never to joke about it again. He says he won't but actually I think he's now a bit hurt that I got upset as to him it was so obviously a joke he can't believe I'd ever think he would shaft me.

Arggghhhhh - it's soooo hard!!!!