October 2013 - swollen hands, puffy feet and we all need a decent sleep

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Time to start thread #17!

Spreadsheet here

Who had bad stabby pains in their lady bits earlier on in this thread? What did the midwife say caused it? It feels tonight like my baby is trying to claw it's way out, tightenings followed by stabbing pains. Have read through thread but can't find anything on the above but I do remember reading it

Welcome back cherry. Eek big baby! ELCS certainly sounds like a good plan! Good luck with it.

serious I am feeling super overwhelmed today. Have cried at least 6 times, and every time DH tries his best to comfort me and narrow it down to something specific (I don't think he gets the whole 'generally overwhelmed' thing).

Welcome back cherry41! Pleased to hear you're doing well, even if your pregnancy has been difficult this time round.

chickieno1 and diege I have added you both to the spread sheet x

Welcome back, cherry.

Sorry you've had an emotional day, rox. The last few weeks really are a roller coaster, I'd forgotten this bit from last time.

Cheers Rox

cherry my ELCS is booked for the 24th Sep, so our babies will have very close birthdays it is coming up VERY soon now, starting to panic when I think about it too much...

Diege be prepared for an internal scan if placenta is still looking low and baby is head down - I had a scan a couple of weeks ago to check placenta and although it had moved a bit, it was still low and they need to do an internal to get the precise measurement if baby's head is blocking their view! I thought my dildo-cam days were over so hadn't bothered to shave legs/tidy anything up, so was probably like a gorilla

I'm looking very amusing now, like I've shoved a beachball up my top. Lots of chatty friendly people on my waddle walk in town today, and people now say, "How long have you got left?" rather than "How many months are you?" Much easier to answer as I get confused with months rather than weeks [stupid].

We'e proper due date buddies chickie Like you my due date is 17th October but c-section on the 4th.

caz and diege Have you both been experiencing sympathetic comments about the fact you are expecting again. When people I barely know (mainly elderly neighbours) realise I'm expecting again I get comments like "Oh no what a shame. Just when you got the last one of to school again". Especially annoying as baby number 5 is the only one that was actually planned.

Yes mon I was thinking out little ones will have the same birthday all going to plan!! I'm still in denial about date and part of me still wants to try for a vbac so you never know..........

Welcome Bach cherry ! I was thinking about you esp after he scare with the runny eggs :(. I had forgotten you'll have two close together! It is all getting close now.

Thanks a mill roxvox for putting me on spreadsheet. It is an emotional time what with all the hormones and the physical changes or bodies are going through. The babies will be here soon and our instincts to look after them will kick in. Normal to be overwhelmed though

That coat looks lovely. Have to sort all the winter gear for ds out now before no 2 arrives yikes!

tarlia how many weeks will you be when baby arrives?

Yes clapham I'm trying to breathe :). Today is day 11 in the big brother house. 9 more days till eviction......

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Oh dear I've been an emotional wreck this afternoon/evening too. DP talked over me with a bit if an attitude so I told him to fuck the fuck off. So he didn't speak to me for ages and I got all stupid, needy and sobby (as I wasn't that rude right? :o).
Then DS was absolutely sobbing for me as DP put him to bed and I lay on my bed and sobbed too :(
Better now though!

Textbook - I get this from people too. Except when they say "ooh, another on the way - how long do you have left?" and I reply "it's twins actually, and they're coming in 5/4/3 days" they back away nervously.......

By the way - you know I tried to post my photo on my profile because I don't do Facebook.... It's working for me now if I click my name... Can someone try it? I'll take the photo down tomorrow probably!

good luck with your scan diege! I had an external only like orange as my placenta has moved. We are due date buddies by the way - I'm also due on 22nd with no 2 (so way behind you on the numbers front :-)

rox sorry you are feeling overwhelmed today. Completely normal. Hope a good night sleep will fix it. x

cherry welcome back! A lot of us here have found the second pregnancy much tougher than the first one.

tarlia excited is a big understatement... I feel like I'm about to be released from prison. Sounds a bit dramatic and over the top I know, but can't express it otherwise. I'm so happy but also really scared at the same time. I've never not worked in my life and I'm so scared to let my nice salary go...

DP is watching a film about zombies... help me... I think I'm going to sleep and leave him to it. He also had a fair amount of red wine tonight so I'm expecting major snoring. Ear plugs ready!

We are getting all our windows cleaned outside and inside tomorrow morning - my nesting instinct demanded it! So excited. I'm sad I know

oh chickie do you also seem to have a 10 days limit?

pseudo sorry but your post made me laugh so much. Have had so many nights like this here! Read like deja vu. And you weren't rude of course - as my VP likes to say very often "sometimes you just have to tell some people to fuck off"

legally I can see your pic and you are right, although u have a good sized bump its hard to believe u are carrying double what us lot are!! Eeek I can't wait to see what combination of gender u have, do u have any gut feelings a out what they r likely to be? And is your section date this Tuesday?

pseudo I think men are always arrogant we just notice it more when were pregnsnt, hope your feeling better after a good cry xx

falcon good luck at tommorows ctg for willow hopefully it will be a little smoother than the one from the other day x

Wow cherry that is big my scan at 34+2 estimated my baby's weight at 6lb, u obviously have a good growing environment lol also Harrison is on our short list :-)

I wonder who will have the most over due baby? And the biggest and smallest babies

Atchly ignore that as josie is bound to win the smallest baby already :-)

where would we be without men?? Dh just had to capture a tarantula sized spider off the ceiling above my bed!! Evil things!!!

Lovely pic Legally. Strangely you don't look much biggger than some of us. It confirms that much of my baby weight is chocolate related.

Thanks, it all got a bit ridiculous!

Pseudo I often find that after an outburst and a good cry I feel so much better!

I think there can't be many on this thread who haven't had a day like that Pseudo.

Hi all. Thanks tarlia for asking about me. All ok here,just fed up,deeply uncomfortable,impatient,fed up,want her out,fed up,in pain from pgp. Am fighting with payroll/hr because they failed to acknowledge my maternity notice letter until 3 days prior to my planned mat leave start date & even then only did so because of the pressure I & my manager put them under. I am not entitled to smp as didn't earn enough,but should get mat allowance (at this stage I wouldn't be surprised to discover that I'm not). However they didn't send the form I needed & asked for in my letter dated 26/6,then when they sent it 3 days before mat leave started,it was full of spelling mistakes (how hard to copy my address?) and they had written the wrong date for the beginning of my maternity pay period. So it took another few days to receive the corrected form. Now they are refusing to pay me for my outstanding accrued annual leave until the end of mat leave,stating that I should have taken it prior to mat leave starting. I know that that is the way it is meant to be,but,BUT my letter asks them to let me know what annual leave I have outstanding & indicating my desire to take it in front of mat leave. So they are penalising me for their ineptitude & very late response to me informing them of my pregnancy. How was I supposed to take my holiday entitlement when they didn't let me know what I had or acknowledge I had written to them?

Sorry for being incoherent,but I am furious. I don't need this stress. They owe me the money. It is not my fault they didn't fulfil their legal obligation to me (by responding to my letter within 28 days,not that there seems to be any come back if they don't,ACAS seem unable to suggest anything other than starting a grievance/conciliation process which I do not want to do).

it ha been escalated to head of hr & I am waiting til Monday to see what happens. If it isn't in my favour I will be writing to the CEO,going to CAB & contacting ACAS again.

Sorry,again. This is why i have been laying low. I've been reading but knew that if i started moaning the flood gates would be opened & i would go on for ages about something that affects nobody but my family. I had to take the last three weeks before mat leave as sick leave & we could really do with the three weeks holiday pay that it turns out i am owed. Not that payroll have told me that,my asst manager has worked it out for me. They haven't even acknowledged the self cert & doctors sick note i sent them to cover my time off sick. Am so disappointed that this large company can't get their act together.

On another note,ds had a great time away with daddy last weekend. I survived quite nicely after the initial upset. Unfortunately he has a badly behaved older cousin there & came home with some less than desirable new behaviour. And a stinking cold. Guess who's had to deal with that all week?!

Right i will stop whinging just now.

Sorry for those of you experiencing stressful circumstances. Yay for moved placentas (mine did too),fingers crossed for those still waiting to find out. Hope the lady in slow labour (sorry my brain has given up) is coping & managing to get some rest.

I quit for now. Too tired!

Just checking in! 34 weeks yesterday (Saturday). Had to go to the out of hours doctors in absolute agony with earache! Feels strange having something to moan about that's nothing to do with pregnancy related issues haha! So I'm up now in pain can't sleep but sooooo tired! 4 weeks to go till I'm induced! Get my date in 8 days!

Goodness ladies these threads move ever so quickly! I finally have my hospital bags packed - I have no idea how long I'll be in there for. Last surprise birth at 34+4 ended up as a week stay for me and 2 week NICU stay for my DS. This time being induced at 36+6 - could be there for 24 -48 hours and end up having a c section - so packed for all eventualities.

Anyone else had steroids? I had my two doses last week and I cannot believe just how painful they were. It actually made me quite anxious with regards to birth because if I couldn't handle two injections how am I going to manage labour again without pain relief? Scary.

I thought long and hard a birth plan - my choices were based on my last delivery. I had a show during our first antenatal class and then the pain slowly progressed from there till I delivered three hours later. I didn't have time for pain relief and gas and air made me feel awful. So this time round I thought - I could handle the pain because I have done before and so no epidural (also don't want to slow down labour), and maybe gas and air for the moments when I feel that I can't do it anymore......but now I'm wavering...I want all the drugs and then some. I feel like a wimp - I guess things aren't being helped my my insomnia and bad nighttime Braxton Hicks.

Enough me me me. Going to try and have a reasonable night of sleep tonight.

Skullbabe I was in hospital last week in early labour due to a uti... And I had the steroid injections. Never ever had a injection so painful in my life I was expecting just a little prick like normal ones but its so much worse isn't it !!

tucking I'm furious on your behalf ! I don't know how they can be so unscrupulous! I really hope it gets sorted without too much more stress x