October 2013 - High Five! The babies are coming!!

[PseudoBadger]

New thread :)

Glad you're on way home pseudo

Woke up with pains, hoping this is it now!

Good luck falcon any progress?

Ps great new pseudo badger.

Glad you made it home pseudo and hoping you get a bit of sleep before your 10am.

Falcon, omg, hope you are doing okay! go go go! So exciting!

Woke up at 4am today...managed to lie awake with eyes closed for 2 hrs, then cracked and got the iPad out...

Still getting pains and just had more mucus come away but I won't be convinced its labour till I want to scream it just like strong period pains right now... Hoping though xx

Sounds good! How far along are you?

37+5 :)

Exciting!

How exciting falcon! Fingers crossed for you.

Good luck falcon. Fingers crossed it progresses for you this time. Keep moving! Come on Willow! Will be thinking of you today.

Pseudo sorry you had to go in but glad it was ok.

I finish on 4th October, 37+5, if I make it that long. I have to start slacking at work. Not sure it is possible...

I slept pretty much through the night though from 11.30ish until 5.30 with only one wake up I think (though I think my body could get up and go to the loo by itself it is so used to it by now!). Still exhausted and sore but hopefully I will feel a bit more human today.

If anyone else fancies doing the Red Cross first aid course use the voucher code gurgle for £5 off, though it actually took £12 off for us for some reason.

Glad everything was ok pseudo hope this mornings blood results r good too xxx

jelly was it I having reduced movements? Have they picked up a little now?

falcon I did say u could be the one with the Friday the 13th baby, not sure if that's a good thing (cos she'll be oily) or bad (as some ppl get funny about the 13th lol) either way I hope thinks progress as u would have hoped keep us as updated as u can :-)

Exciting! Another baby on the way!
DH and I aren't speaking. He moaned last night about going to antenatal class and when he was there paid no attention and just looked at his phone. It was embarrassing and I felt really let down. Had the "how do I know I can rely on you when I go into labour" chat to which he told me I was speaking through his tv programme so I went to bed and we haven't spoken since. He's off to work now and we have friends coming round tonight but thinking of cancelling as don't have the energy to pretend everything is ok in front of them when I know I'll still be angry with him. Am I being irrational? All I need from him right now is just for him to be there for me and be supportive. Right now I think I'll be better off labouring on my own.
Anyway, had to get that off my chest. Too embarrassed to share with my mum and close friends how rubbish my husband is at times!
34 + 2 SC. Ditto thoughts of those due later in October. Still a long way to go.

on your behalf MrsO. I'd not take kindly to that at all, and I'd make up an excuse to cancel the dinner and thrash it out with OH.

MrsO....I am so sorry that happened to you regarding your dh. It can be very difficult to face the unknown ( have babies even if not your first) and feel without support. I totally understand not wanting others in RL to see the faults and flaws on our spouses...
And as an oldie and forever married I sometimes wonder how to sort this kind of problems... But I hope you have the opportunity to put things right , and please feel free to vent here!!!!

Pseudo....I am glad you made back home without having to stay too long

Falcon ....how is it progressing???

Jelly how are the baby movements today??

Hotsoup...I have to put my phone in another room in order to not keep in the internet ( mumsnet) :)

pseudo bummer that you had to go in last night, but glad to hear they let you home and bump was active. Hope the results come back okay today x

falcon fx that it steps up into gear today. 13th is a great date to be born- makes it a lucky number! (I'm December )

MrsO DH sounds rubbish Is he in denial about DC coming? Hope you get to have a reassuring chat with him soon

Good luck Falcon!

I'm so tired, slept fitfully between 3.30 and when DS woke up at 5.15 :(
My hands and ankles are really swollen and sore.
Ds is complaining about one of his ears (not pain, saying he can't hear?) but I can't take him to the doc as it would clash with my monitoring.

Morning all.

Fx for things progressing, Falcon

Orange - can you talk to someone about bringing your ML forward? I'm 35+5 with a week to go and certainly beginning to find it tougher being in school.

Tough night, Pseudo and more today - thinking of you x

Sympathies, MrsO

And finally (apologies for anyone I've missed) but...Clapham!! Freedom beckons

Yay Clapham the relief of maternity leave is overwhelming

Good luck to Falcon and sorry to hear DH is being an arse MrsO

I have decided that Cinderella shall go to the ball - it's our big annual staff party tonight and I was determined to make it, then I buggered my ankle, but I'm going to go for a couple of hours and just sit down a lot. DH works with me so he's be going anyway. I think he was looking for an excuse not to go, but I am making him

He was great earlier on in the pregnancy, just recently I feel like he's lost interest or something. I know it's unrealistic for him to enjoy the antenatal classes etc. but don't think it's too much to ask for him to at least try and appear interested like everyone's else's partners. It's very selfish.
Anyway, enough of my moaning! Lots of happy news coming our way on the thread!

Last day of school today. Eeeek!

Oops. Posted that first before looking back and seeing that people are struggling with work. Sorry. Hope you all feel better soon.

SC here at 37 + 4

Good luck Falcon hope things progressing well

Nat baby movements picked up last night about 10pm and by 11pm I thought I might be in early labour. Baby trying to crawl its way out meaning real shooting pains through my lady bits and lots of mucus coming away but all calmed down in early hours. New symptom noticed today is a gorgeous looking yuck varicose vein on my perineum. Not sure how that will affect delivery but will mention to mw when I next see her

SC here and 35 weeks today. Going to start taking raspberry leaf capsules as soon as I remember how many I'm supposed to take...

Oh, sorry you had to go in pseudo but glad everything is ok! Your taxi driver must have seen the bump and thought he needed to get you in quickly!

Yay, falcon! sounds promising! Fingers crossed for you!

Tarlia I'm in NI and warlin is too Thank you, I will be forever grateful to you if I'm picked! drools over chocolate I filled the survey in and saw this question "If you buy chocolate how much time would you expect to have to consume the product between the date of purchase and the best before date on the product?" I'm baffled, this has never been an issue in my house

MrsO totally understand you wanting to cancel, I would too. Could you put the frighteners on him by saying you're not sure you want him at the birth anymore since you can't rely on him and you're considering asking someone else? That could backfire but you know him best...

OrangeBlossom2 thank you for that code! I was looking into doing that course so glad you though it was good.

Morning ladies,
Sorry to hear you had an eventful night pseudo hope BP is still down this morning and bloods are ok. Also hope your DS is feeling a bit better.

falcon hope things are still progressing for you! Exciting to hear some more lively baby news.

mrsO sorry to hear about DH. I think you have every right to be angry at him but just to reassure you that hes not the only one acting like that. Mine goes from not being interested at all to being very overly affectionate and caring. I think part of him is scared of having another baby and he reverts to being selfish and an arse but it doesnt mean they dont care. I hope he comes home today very contrite and all is ok.

yey for last days at work too! Congratulations ladies

Also I missed it yesterday but wanted to say nat Im feel ing exactly the same about changing DS' life by having another baby, and think thats what all my anxiety dreams are about. I also worry how can I possibly love this baby as much as DS but I remember not understanding how much love I could feel at all until he was born. Thankyou for sharing though ladies. its the sort of thing I feel I cant discuss in RL for fear of sounding like an awful mother.

Also thankyou for reassurance re: my scan ladies. I know Im very lucky that she is a good size and that giving birth at the MLU is a possibility at all. Scares me more at the prospect of having her in SCBU but we will cross that bridge if we come to it.

Happy Friday Everyone

orange thanks for the code - I'm hoping to do the course although not sure if we're going to ever find a time...

MrsO - big hugs. That really does suck.

Not comparable, but I had a similar humiliation in our active birth class when all the men were kneading away at their baby-mammas with intense looks of concentration, and my DP was looking really bored, yawning and half-heartedly pressing my back (mostly because he was really tired and thinks he's a supertalented God's own gift when it comes to backrubs, hence doesn't need instruction). Cue lots of hissed 'you're supposed to be rubbing my sacrum'! etc etc.