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

[PseudoBadger]

New thread!

Very little, if I have my way. But seriously, I will do whatever I need to re feeding. Her views have made me more determined to succeed at it, which has upsides but two obvious downsides: first, I am at risk of crucifying myself trying to make it work to prove a point and second, I can foresee lots of "don't you think the baby needs some real food now?" type comments.

I may struggle to bite my tongue. And, you've guessed it, DH isn't great at managing his mother. Sigh. He often says that he doesn't need to stand up for me because I can stand up for myself. That's not really the point...

My exes mum used to talk constantly about death, illness and hospitals.

We used to walk into her house and we'd set the timer on one of our phones (either ex dp or me) and see how long it would take for her to mention death, doctors, pills or hospitals...it became a running joke between us

Thanks Flyer. That's one of my biggest problems with going to visit them - her wine glasses are too small

Don't get me wrong, my mother is a loony in her own special way, but MIL takes the biscuit.

You'll do great MrsH whatever happens :)
Right I'm about to sleep I think but I can hear DS stirring :( Goodnight!

Good Night Pseudo....I'm also going to try and nod off.... Night all x

Goodness pseudo, flyer and mrsHN what are you doing awake?? And super chatty too!

Flyer I second the heartburn. Do you have any yoghurt? Works for me.

Mrs crap when dh comes up late and wakes you up then you can't settle. I've had that a few nights recently. And then he complains that he's tired in the morning......

Pseudo good you're home and on labetalol. How many weeks are you now? Did you have carpal tunnel with your ds? Did it go away quickly postpartum?

Morning! Been having pains since 1am but now I've come downstairs and am sitting on my ball they've subsided. Will catch up on the last few hours chat and will try to get back to sleep.
Sending you all zzzzzzz vibes....

Ok I've caught up......

tarlia I ll be thinking of you the next few days. Hope induction goes quickly for you and you have a fast labour. You've done so well keeping your little on safe til now. You'll be having newborn cuddles very soon xx

ruby I hope you're ok with the OC. Good luck with induction on Saturday. It's a pity about the baby shower but don't feel bad as couldn't be helped. Hope you have an easy induction too.

roofio I'm sure baby will be fine and its good the mw picked up the ectopics when she examined you. Now they can check baby well when arrives. Try not to worry too much.

rox sorry about your family dog. Must be very emotional as didn't know how sick she was. Hope your dh there for support this weekend?

slippy glad baby well and active today. We all try not to worry too much.

bronze and spark good both your work stress coming to an end soon.

clapham your ds must be a sensitive soul. The poor thing. I would have been in tears too. Good idea to check the books out before you read them x

pinkforboys your yoga session sounded fab. I do miss it but now have just two weeks to CS so not much point. Might look into mother and baby yoga. Also your slippers were cute. I've been thinking of getting sheepskin ones for winter. Will be handy for night feeds. And yay for head down baby!

Thanks for listening to my rant soup, clapham and tarlia. Dh was very apologetic the next morning. I think he was a bit down about his parents leaving and just didn't want to admit it. He's also a bit stressed about being here and I think his parents esp fil make him feel guilty for not being closer but then at the same time say but it's your life . Oh well will see how things go in the next year or so.

Glad ctg was good in the end soup

legally great to hear bf is going well with the twins. And you're up and about post CS. When is your dd three? And was it your dh that was going to be away soon after babies arrived? Were you asking about whether you'd need help from your mum with morning/evening routine? I might have mixed that up.

Ok after mega posts I'm going to bed now!

Congrats to kelly and welcome baby Aya! I hope you're both getting on well and still on target for discharge on Friday

Finally catch up with his thread....it would be amazing if labour did move as fast.
Congrats to all the new mums! I am 39 weeks, official due date s next Wednesday and no twinges, no show, baby is about 3/5ths engaged though. Really hope to not go overdue, but need to feel more like he's bout to come out as I seem o have more energy now. I would have thought you get real tired at the end......

36 weeks today. Or 36+5 by my own dates which I prefer to go on especially when I'm having little niggles and showing signs of dilation. The closer to 37 the better.

notsoold there's only 3 months between my first 2 pregnancies then a gap of 6 months between my next 2.

Oh Pseudo poor you having to deal with MIL. I've not even met mine yet and never met the last one either as she lived in Iraq and didn't speak English so didn't even ha e to converse with her.
I never had much contact with my first Mil after she came to the maternity ward after I had ds and my brother was up visiting too. She kept staring at him, then when he left she said "I suppose it's not your fault your brother is black".

Good luck today Tarlia. It sounds like it is for the best, your BP has been troublesome a lot recently. I Will try very hard to refrain from asking "any news yet?!"

Ruby sorry the OC is worse. I would definitely stop work now so that you have some maternity leave before the early induction. Shame about the baby shower. I wonder if they could rearrange for tomorrow night. Or there is no reason why you can't have it after the baby is here and the baby attend its own baby shower, just postpone it for a little while. Maybe ask DH to suggest to his sister.

Hope all is well roofio. Obviously you are going to worry now, who wouldn't, but it seems a great sign that the hospital don't seem too worried about it and that usually is heals itself.

MrsH I don't think car seats existed when we were babies, my MIL suggested putting the carry cot on the back seat too. When DH was born a prom with detachable carry cot was apparently the new modern thing! Maybe when we have grandchildren they will be shocked at our reckless ways that we think are the best thing now.

I was interested that lots of people were concerned about interfering in laws and managing visitors at nct course last night as well as here. I was glad that it wasn't me that bought it up so DH could see it is not just me being difficult about his mum.

I am up having breakfast as had been laying awake since 4 and pgp was sore and the temptation to wake DH for a warm, comforting cuddle and a chat was getting too strong! I try to avoid whipping out the iPad too early in case it keeps me more awake but I see I would have been in good company!

I got a bit faint and dizzy again at the nct course last night. I felt really hot but DH said I looked very pale. Better after some water and opened a window. Hope it is not something that is going to happen a lot now.

Morning all! I've been up half the night too

thought I'd share a bit of a scary story with you........ done my shopping in local morrisons yesterday and whilst there I decided to grab 2 small cartons of cow & gate ready mixed formula to keep in the cupboard in case of any middle of the night breast feeding melt downs. I got them home and went to put them away, which was when I luckily noticed the use by date.......one went out of date on 6th September. ......the other went out of date on 6th April FIVE MONTHS AGO!!!!!
Needless to say I went back to the store and the manager felt the wrath of my pregnancy hormones!

so ladies, please please check dates on formula coz I dread to think how Ill that could have made a newborn!!

good luck for those that need it and hugs for those who are feeling crappy

Morning Ladies,

Good luck for induction tarlia I will be thinking of you! xxxxxx

I was up so much last night, heartburn and sore legs and then I went to the loo to get even more show seriously how much of that stuff is there?? I don't even let myself get excited that she might be coming because if she is not engaged its just won't as much as my cervix is ready!

away to watch bad breakfast telly

Wow ladies what a busy night! Havent caught up yet but just wanted to wish tarlia Good Luck this morning. very jealous that your going to have your baby very soon due date buddy. Youve done so well to get to this point when feeling so awful, I really hope you have an easy labour and induction is nice and quick for you xx

Sorry to see so much chat at 2 am off to catch up.now

Ooh postman just delivered some face paints and tattoos I won in a prima baby competition I don't even remember entering.

No use to me at all for 5 years or so, but will make good niece/nephew presents.

favellio that is shocking! I've bought a couple of cartons of ready made as well, just in case, so I'm off to check them.

to all with sleepless nights - sounds like me, Pseudo and Flyer weren't the only ones, just the chatty ones :)

Re the car seat/Moses basket, MIL seemed to have it in her head that the car seat would be some sort of high backed booster seat which would obviously be inappropriate. I can't believe that she hasn't seen prams around town with babies in the at seat part and I know she's met DH's cousin's baby, who would have been in a car seat, so I've no idea where she gets her ideas from. But then she also said that she disapproves of long journeys with babies I'm reserving judgment at the moment whether this is a ploy for endless invitations to stay with us. At the moment, I've said to DH no overnight guests unilateral after Christmas, unless we feel up to it. Baby will only be 12 weeks old max then, so I don't think that's unreasonable. PIL live less than 90 minutes away!

Thinking of Tarlia!!

Good morning all. Up at 3.30 but too tired to crack open the Internet.

Really struggling with clothes, no point buying new ones with a month to go. I'm going for the very pot bellied tramp look.

Don't start me on MILs, I could (and do) go on for hours!

Fav - that is appalling. I will go check the two little cartons I put in my hospital bag!

Good luck tarlia and ruby. ruby, hope you manage to get a day of mat leave!

My FIL also thinks the carrycot goes in the car and that we all survived without car seats so why bother.... I thought he was being his normal bonkers self, it hadn't occurred to me that it used to be like that

When I was stressing about visitors earlier in the week, it's actually only fil I'm stressed about, other visitors I'm more relaxed about but I'm very conscious of not favouring my family.

DH always comes to bed after me too. At the moment it's working well, as I wake up when he comes to bed and if I get up to go to the toilet then, I'm managing to sleep through until morning. I just need to make sure I drop off before he does. If I'm asleep before the snoring, I'll usually sleep through it, if not, that's me awake for the rest of the night.

SC at 36+3

Morning everyone! 38+1 and SC.

Thank you everyone for your messages re Poppy the dog. I've been giving the other dog that's left behind lots of cuddles and attention.

Hope all goes well today tarlia! Will be thinking of you.

Favellio I was considering doing the same (getting some formula back up just in case). I will be sure to check the use by date on my purchases though!

legally so glad things are going well with your babies!

pseudo, flyer and mrsHN I enjoyed your early morning chat ... Gran was saying the other day that when she left the hospital with 2 babies (my Mum is a twin), she had to hold them both whilst my Grandfather drove. Apparently if they went anywhere then that's what they would do as that's what everyone did back then! Scary to imagine now.

I woke up in the night with a severe stomach pain low down, but it didn't last long and wasn't repeated, so am guessing it was just baby trying to get more engaged. I need baby to stay put until DH is here next week, otherwise I will just be worrying about DH racing down here more than I will be focusing on the labour.

Soup its shocking when you look at footage of Prince William being taken home from hospital in Diana's arms and I don't think even she was wearing a seatbelt!

And yes, my anxiety about visitors is primarily related to the ILs but I am trying very hard to be fair. I know theyre excited, but I think it's only natural that at what will probably by the time in my adult life when I feel most vulnerable, I would be happier with my parents around, rather than the ILs. My parents come with their own issues, but they are my parents and if I have to get my boobs out in front of my mum, so be it. MIL not so much.

Morning everyone SC at 38+3.

Think caught same bug my DC had as I was up last night throwing up while some of you were discussing heartburn. Biggest nightmare was my pelvic floor muscles failing me slightly mid spew cue a midnight jammy change. Did I get sympathy from DH? Did I heck he slept through the whole thing

Good luck with induction today Tarlia

Sorry for double post, bloomin phones