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

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New thread :)

Just checking to see if we have any baby news but nothing by the look of it. Nerve racking!

tarlia so sorry to hear you've been admitted. Thinking of you xx

and pseudo hope your blood pressure starts to behave a bit... xx

MoN sorry to hear about your DP's job. It sucks.

notsoold I have a friend who also didn't want her DH present at birth as, in her own words, "he was useless and would only annoy her". So she had a doula instead! She was really happy and never regretted not having him there.

ruby I also have a lot of itching... have had two days of mad scratching... May have to go and check it out too if it doesn't get better tomorrow. A bit scary as I'm only 34 weeks today. Trying not to worry but it's been unbearable tonight.

Sorry if I've missed someone's news - these last few days are crazy at work. Bring on Friday!

I love the idea of a christening over Christmas period!!!
We will have your lo baptised but have to organize slowly to allow my dad to come from Brazil so see the baptism...

Pink... My nightmares are all about having the baby at home without towels and electricity and always rains in my dreams!!!

Thanks everyone for not judging us . I remember the other times that as soon as we were vack to the bedroom dh was there with a tremendous amount of chocolate for the staff and warm food for me! But he doesn't cope even with the vet let alone hospitals!!! :)

Ruby I has OC (I can never remember the actual name lol) last pregnancy. I was induced at 38weeks. At your monitoring tomorrow check you have been referred to a DR. I first got itching at 37 weeks.

This time I've had some itching (but I think im imagining it) bloods are coming back normal. So I have been having weekly monitoring and blood tests for 4weeks now. as I madly scratch my wrists

And where are these babies??? Ooohh I want some news before bed!!!

Did anyone watch Midwives? The last lady with the heart problems was so amazing I am very emotional right now!!

I watched it. Also got emotional watching the heart condition lady. Must say had some mixed feelings about the baby that inherited dwarfism...

Omg the suspense is killing me I'm gunna have to check the thread at every wee break tonight. That's dedication for u!! falcon is a fairly regular poster so something must have definately happened for her at her consultant appt this afternoon

tArlia we r gunna stick with the new stuff
Mothercare are sending as its actually upgrading us it works out we will have paid £132 for £285 worth of car seat and isofix base.

When will this cold and stuffiness and chestiness end, I hate winter bugs and its only September already!

Sorry for anything else I missed I reading speedily hoping to get to a birth announcement lol

I will second those feelings about the lady and baby with dwarfism clapham x

I thought the mother took it amazingly well when the midwife gave her her the news. DH got teary at the baby with the stomach problem, he never gets teary! I think nearing the end is taking its emotional toll on us all!

Dp got watery eyed watching it too. The woman with the heart condition made us emotional as we know that Eliana will go through all the same things if she decides to have a baby.

Definitely! I'm seeing a big change in DP too. And agree - she took it really well! I bet he was heartbroken though... I know the baby was healthy etc. but I keep thinking that she will have a hard life.

I was responding to umlauf's comment by the way, taking about the baby with dwarfism.

having a warm bath now hoping it will help with the itching and painful back. Keep refreshing furiously for baby news...

My DP just sat here next to me on his laptop so much for him getting emotional.

Nothing wrong with wanting to have your child christened because of the school. It's what things have come to these days. If we stay in liverpool our child will most likely go to public school, although the live in a good area we border toxteth and other not so nice areas, so the comps tend to be not the best and friends and neighbours all seem to have put their children in private schools.

We need baby news ASAP

I just texted dh (hes downstairs im upstairs) complaining there was no baby news and I got a bunt response of 'they r probly enjoying their babies' so I just replied saying 'errr priorities' lol

Dh and I r looking to move to a 3 bed house very soon and will only move to certain roads for certain schools etc its sad really that its come to ppl deciding things in their life around getting their children into the best schools. Its terrible that the government let so many schools just fail in deprived areas . And I'm not ashamed to admit I would get as christened if it got her into a decent school despite not being religious. I would also if I absolutely had to use a relatives address on an application too. But I'm hoping it won't come to anything drastic for us lol

flyer you know what to do - laptop out of the window

Clapham it was bad enough when the iPad went out. If I dared touch the beloved Mac book my life wouldn't be worth living

haha Natalie I thought I was the only one texting DP from upstairs! Just can't be bothered to do the stairs and can't shout and wake up DS. (does it qualify as a first world problem? )

I have a strange relationship with religion... with my dad being a fanatic catholic, catholic priest uncle, and my mum and her family being atheists, my mum now obsessed with Buddhism. (I told you before my family was "special"... in so many ways... hmmm...). I christened DS when he was 10 months old so he is catholic on paper. I can't even explain why... We also used to live near a really good catholic school and I was thinking of sending him there but couldn't face going to church every Sunday. After all, we managed to get DS into an excellent state school but it was very painful... and very expensive. You end up paying for the house if you don't pay for the school as good schools send house prices crazy...

By the way, talking about religion - DS asked today at dinner "who created us?", and "who created the planet"? (his suggestions were - Harry Potter, then Leonardo da Vinci). DP bravely explained two theories - creation and evolution and asked DS to choose one. He preferred creation! The monkey connection totally threw him!

Tried to post this earlier but didn't work for some reason.

Oh no mon - hope dp's boss sees sense and allows him the second week off.

Had my mw app this morning and baby is 2/5ths engaged and lying on my left hand side. Hb good and all seems well. If I didn't have the stinging ribs and piles, everything would be perfect! Have some new cream to try and will let others know how affective it is.

Hope you're having snuggles now, legally. Thanks for popping in for the update.

nat - I wouldn't be able to wait either. As long as you don't lose anything a sneaky peek won't hurt will it?

Been really emotional recently with quite a few tears shed. Everything feels somewhat overwhelming. Had a lovely day with dd yesterday - took her to a wetlands place but then she was a pickle when I had to go to the docs and after that. Dp came home and have her a bath and I collapsed on the bed crying :(
Feel a bit better today after a nap and dd is still napping now so hopefully she'll wake in a good mood and we'll make pizza later.

Dp and I have plans to go to the cinema tomorrow afternoon (after I've had my hair done) and I'm meeting a pg friend for lunch on thurs - should cheer me up a bit. Very scared about pnd. Didn't get it last time though so will hopefully be ok and it's just that I'm knackered at the mo.

Good luck to nelly and skull too and I hope you have some more news soon, feminist.

What? No baby news?! Haha. I do hope we have mummies cuddling amazingly squishy gorgeous little babies. I totally understand the lack of updates :).

Just wanted to let you all know that I have finally had a massive result on the annual leave/maternity leave front. I wrote an email to the head of hr (who has ignored all my calls yesterday & today) & copied in the MD & CEO late this afternoon. Within an hour I had the Head of Retail HR (the boss of the lady it was passed to last Thursday) on the phone apologising to me & "taking ownership",promised me an answer tomorrow. Then less than an hour after that the Head of Payroll called me to apologise & put forward a solution. I am now not starting maternity leave until 19th Sept & he has arranged payment of all 5 weeks of annual leave that I have accrued & will accrue over maternity leave,to be paid to me in three instalments. What a result! Thank god because one of DP's customers is dragging his feet on paying him & we had £18 left in our overdraft with a £225 council tax bill due in a few days,bare cupboards & major concerns about money. I also need petrol in my car in case I need to get to the hospital! We are waiting for several hundred pounds from this customer which will sort us out but it was getting a bit close to the wire really.

I felt a bit ridiculous escalating it as high as I went but it had the desired effect & I was told not to feel uncomfortable about doing it as it should have been sorted out months ago.

So,my lesson learned today is - don't be fobbed off & fight for what you are owed.

Now just have to rely on my baby not to put in an appearance before 19th Sept... She is welcome from the 23rd onwards!

tarlia I'm sorry that you have been admitted but I'm glad they are looking after you (or at least you are in the right place for them to do so when they get round to it

Sorry also to hear about those of you worrying about OC,I have occasional itchy skin on bump & along c section scar but I am sure that's normal. I can't imagine how much worse incessant itching would be.

My DS has joined the ranks of naughty toddlers on the thread. It is most unlike him,I mean he is always on the go & highly physical but now he is just plain naughty & rubber-earring me. It is extremely annoying & has reduced me to a shouter & a weepy mess on occasion. When he's good,he's very very good. When he's bad,grrr...

Sorry I have not caught up on the thread. I have been in hospital since my consultant appointment I took a turn and my blood pressure went through the roof, cue being surrounded by doctors. My blood pressure got meds to bring it down but it is still high for me. in tears I can't take anymore had blurred vision and headaches but just got a doctor tell me im not in labour, nothings wrong or connected an bp is not high enough to be a worry. I lost it as at the time my vision and heaeaches were so bad I could not see a thing. I said why the fuck am I here then if you think nothing is wrong I demanded to go home but another doctor said please stay until morning. My whole ptegnancy is ruined now its been bad enough but I just can't cope 1 second more I really cant .

So im a downgrade to SC with a pinch of feeling like shit and had enough

Tucking bump itching is fine. OC itching is more in hands and feet but does vary.

However I'm fucking itching everywhere. Boobs tummy. Badly veeted bikini line. Back. Don't think it's all OC related. Just I'm an itchy person. Lol

Religious wise. First place this baby will go is the temple. Then home. On his first bday he will have a blessing at temple.
Ds1 1st bday blessing is all up in the air ATM. As we can't book anything until bump arrives. And we recently found out fil is having a heart by pass. Around about my EDD.

Tbh fil by pass is stressing me out. They are in India ATM. But will be bk this weekend. On Monday he has a pre off appointment. When we finds out op date.
We live with PIL. So a new baby. A newly crawling baby and me in a house with recently operated on elderly man will be a bit much.
Add to this the "do nothing for 5weeks rule" and it will be more stress for mil. Which makes her difficult to be around.
Going to try and escape to my mums ASAP.
Enough of my random ranting.

I'm very put out by lack of baby news

Oh falcon how shit for you. You sound so upset,I wish I could give you a bolstering hug.

Remind me - how many weeks are you now? Are you under a consultant? Could you speak to him/her or your midwife tomorrow (later today) about a sweep or possible induction??

So many questions,I do apologise! Just trying to think of ways you might be able to bring your worrisome & uncomfortable pregnancy to an end.

I am sorry,I really feel for you. I know how pissed off & sore & fed up I am & I have had a mere fraction of difficulties to cope with compared to you. Big sympathy & if you need someone to research induction etc for you to discuss with consultant,I'd be pleased to try & help.

Falcon I can't begin to think how you must be feeling. I'm so sorry you've had such a stressful time of it. The doctors obviously want to keep you in just to keep an eye on you - take that as a positive that you're not being abandoned by them.

Big hugs coming your way x

Checking in! Get my induction date this Monday ( 16th ) !!!!! Yay