October 2013 - may our labours move as fast as our threads!

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New thread!

Found you! (Thanks cuillier)
Thanks for the laughs on the last thread. I'll leave the labour-inducing activities to you guys and await the results of your research!

SC 35+4 (snap spark )

Big sympathetic hugs to the sleep-deprived. After policing 25+ kids at DS' birthday party yesterday I slept pretty soundly. Wouldn't recommend it as a daily activity though...(how do you teachers cope?!!!?!?!)

Does anyone else wake up sometimes and forget they're pg? til you try to move and all the whale related sensations come back

heffa, fainting and now nausea sounds like it might be worth a call to the midwives? Hope you feel better soon.

This maternity leave lark is new to me but does anyone else feel like they have to do things in order to justify their existence or am I just sick in the head?! Can't seem to just relax.

no it's not just you soup! I'm exactly the same. I feel guilty for being idle (not much experience of doing nothing in life) so trying to fund things to do to feel better. stupid stupid stupid...

find not fund obviously

Glad I'm not alone! It's totally self imposed too. DH is not the type to ask "what I've done all day" more likely to be annoyed at me for overdoing it.

I'm still in bed watching homes under the hammer, I feel bone idle

ha, flyer my dp says these days that too many of my sentences start with "today on homes under the hammer" apparently I'm obsessed!!

Homes Under the Hammer rocks. And is totally addictive.

Has anyone seen my motivation to work? I seem to have misplaced it somewhere....

I'm glad you are all beginning to join lazy me. :P

Thanks, p.buttons. Did you have a nice weekend?

I've been getting regular BH all morning - any ideas? I had similar for a couple of hours on Friday too. I guess it's just false labour and I don't need to do anything until painful as term now??

Morning morning. Marking place!

Yup - seem to be bf ing two ok. Vally is needing top ups from a sippy cup as she's little so gets tired after about 5-10 mins of sucking, but I am just expressing and giving her that.

More babies please!!!!

SC at 35 + 1... just checking in really.

35 weeks today and marking place on thread

Has anyone else been trying the raspberry leaf tea and evening primrose oil to help things along? I've been taking the oil for the last few days to help soften the ole cervix, and have doc appointment this afternoon where my fanjo gets checked out! excited!

Just had a plate FULL of sausages and bacon. So full right now and can't move. Lol

Trying to book Harrods Xmas grotto. But have to wait for dh to wake as I can't find his work diary
Mustn't forget.
Harrods is actually reasonably priced.well actually it's free. But £10booking which you get back on the day to spend! Hamilies is very expensive. From what I remember £40! And there is also west fields which is very cheap. Not many other places in town do it any more.
When they are very little all you want is a pic. Then when they are older you can take them to out door places where you meet rain-dear etc.
can't wait for Xmas! Very exciting this year as DS1 will be more interested. However need to think of a toddler proof place to put the tree!

Was miserable last night. Just getting fed up of not being able to sleep comfortably.
Hope it's not long to wait.

Cheers for new thread .

Karma I have been thinking about evenjng primrose oil as I have some but not done anything about it yet. Are you taking it orally or internally?

Pushchair just arrived!!
Told DP I would wait until he gets home to open the boxes though. And he's going to the gym after work, how will I cope?!

Bought this for baby yesterday. Can't believe how excited I am about things like this, hopefully he/she will like it!

Legally I will be coming to you with any bf questions, you seem to have it sussed.

I'm reading "The womanly art of breastfeeding" which is really good for info but makes me in places. It advocates a whole way of parenting (think polar opposite to Gina Ford) which I don't totally oppose, just trying to take bits from it rather than think I can follow it to the t. E.g. keeping baby skin to skin with you for the first few HOURS from the moment they are born. Meaning getting midwives to do all checks while baby is on you (except weighing or resuscitation etc) and not letting anyone else hold baby for those first few hours. Don't think that would go down too well with DP!

I want to try out my new breast pump. Is that weird? I can hand express about a teaspoon fairly easily from one side (a guess, I did not measure!) so I'm curious. But the MW at our antenatal classes said expressing is one way to try to hurry along labour so DP is worried the baby might fall out if I use the pump

at mat leave buddies. I have been up since 7. Don't ask what I've done, couldn't tell you. Haven't even been watching TV. Just pottering around I think. Will get dressed and formulate a plan for the day. Still have reports to write for work but my laptop is slow and can't do it on the iPad. Decisions...

SC 36 weeks today...

Hello, found the thread! SC @ exactly 38 weeks today.

Has anybody this far on had no signs or twinges or symptoms at all? Is it a sign I will be in this until 42 weeks? Not sure how I can hang on that long :-( I have the obgyn on Thursday and I think I might try begging for a sweep!

GT I really want to book a santa thing for the baby so I can get his first photo with FC but so many of them require an "experience" beforehand and as the baby won't have the foggiest what's going on I'd feel really silly. I was thinking Kew Gardens as I can go there with my gardening mad MIL and pop in on Santa, anyone been?

soup I also feel I have to do things, I am a rubbish relaxer, but I am restricted by a sudden onset of fear to leave the flat. So far I have done a LOT of batch cooking, decorated the nursery, blogged about it, made a Christmas star garland out of clay, washed everything a lot, epilated, set up the bugaboo, loads of cleaning, done a lot of Internet shopping, packed and replaced hospital bags, colour coordinated my wardrobe, then DHS (and this is really sad but I've also made him a list of outfits he can wear he hasn't worn before because despite having loads of clothes he wears the same jeans and 3 shirts every day!) and today I think I will make a cushion cover. I'm running out of ideas and can't keep it up for another 4 weeks!!

legallyblonde my thoughts exactly please let one be mine!!!

pinkforboys well done on the hostessing at this late stage! Especially for such a big party, you are a heroine!

Good luck at your appointment clapham I find them really dull too, but nice to hear the heartbeat! Good idea going for a tour, anyone else doing this? Our local hospital doesn't do it but I did make sure I found the right entrance so I'm not wondering round outside for hours looking for the best door!

Hope you're feeling better soon heffa take good advantage of that sofa.

My BP has been an average of 145/85 for almost the whole pregnancy but no1 here gives a shit. Probably connected to how fat I am (doctors answer to everything!) I really, really miss the NHS! I really hope yours lower a bit pseudo and tarlia but agree re Disney and feet up. Anyone seen tangled? I don't know whether to buy or rent it... (I suffer from pregnancy induced iTunes addiction!)

I'm finally resting after crazy cleaning before parents arrived home from Canada - they've brought maple syrup candy so I'm very happy!

X-post feminist I tried my manual breast pump this morning in hope of inducing labour and one side nothing happened but I got a load of clear liquid out of the other side and got really freaked out! Don't know how I'll handle the real thing!!

feminist I've explained to dp how important I feel it is that baby stays skin to skin with me until first feed is done. If all goes to plan I'm hoping that won't be too long but at least the first hour! then he can have all the cuddles he wants!!

Closet 'homes under the hammer' fan here too. Always smile to myself when they match cheesy songs to whatever is being discussed on screen. So naff! I have a few chores and things to do today but feeling idle. Have scheduled them for after lunch. Important task of watching 'street patrol uk' for now...and mumsnetting

Karma I've been drinking the tea- a up a day, going to up it to 2 a day. Not sure it works but no harm trying I guess. Had a go at perineum massage/stretching. Obviously couldn't see what I was doing (probably a good thing) and it felt very weird. Not sure I will be doing that again.

I'm a bit upset I missed homes under the hammer now. Roofio my sentences seem to all start with "on the mumsnet thread..." lol

Being off work isn't all it's cracked up to be when you're home alone... What do people do without mumsnet??! Thank you all for keeping me sane!!

Found You!

I am SC - 37 weeks today, so good to go! and allowed to stay at home if anything starts to happen from today

Very tired as we had a very long day at a calf show yesterday. want to do nothing, but the house is a tip, and have 3 birthday presents for various neices and nephews whose birthdays are today/tomorrow to deliver.

Legally, you sound like you are doing great!

hope everyone else is as ok as can be expected.

Racheld - my ds1 used to suffer regularly from croup - it's nasty but at least they do grow out of it eventually! xx

Umlauf mine is clear too, with the odd bit of yellow. Looks pretty grim, think its normal for colostrum though. I'm sure baby won't mind!

Roofio that sounds like a really good idea. If I end up in the MLU like I want to be ten it should work as there's a normal double bed and DP can stay. Then at least he can get into bed with me and baby and not feel pushed out...

Just checking in ...

SC at 35+5 here - twingy bump, lots of Brixton hicks, and I finish work tomorrow!

Did I see that someone is being induced/having a CS today?

Haha Feminist lots of my sentences start with "On the Board...." Or dp will say "What you doing? You on the board"

I'm going to mama fit (some exercise thing) on Wednesday with some NCT ladies then meeting them on Friday for lunch trying to fill the days and off to see a friend who has had a baby 2 weeks ago tomorrow, but it is a bit boring isn't it all this time off.