due in august - part 7

[janeggybee]

hello bellies!!!

oooh sounds lovely bighotmamma my family are organising a baby shower for me too when my eldest daughter gets back from thailand in about 3 weeks

Eeny - I would try not to worry about what happened with the midwife, I have always measured small & am still measuring small even though I have had a scan which shows it's normal size. The position of the baby has a lot to do with how big the baby feels & is not necessarily accurate. Also regarding the head engaging I have read that most first babies engage from 36 weeks onwards.

it depends on the baby some dont engage until you are in labour so try not to worry

eeny, don't let the horrible midwife upset you, you wouldn't believe the amount of people i know who were told their baby was big/small by mw's who've turned out to be completely wrong. alot of it's guesswork and babies size doesn't indidcate when he'll be born anyway, the range in size at 40 weeks gestation is massive.

feel for you with the heartburn too sweetie, had it really bad with dd, especially right at the end.

having an ice lol break decluttering house taking a lot longer than imagined
so much junk and paperwork everywhere

lol, dd and i just had a toast and honey & ice lolly picnic on the couch!

our car is fixed so relieved as i'm feeling really crampy and on edge, don't want to get my hopes up but definitely feeling quite imminent

oooohhh how exciting pink I think it must be this heat everyone going early hope I do too but not yet. At least you have your car back now well lots of nipple stimmulation tonight then for you

fell asleep playing with them last night

LOL Pink!!! haha that will be me in 2 weeks and 3 days. I have to not go into labor before then or I cant have my waterbirth. that is 37 weeks. ooh I am so excited for you!!! You must keep us informed when anything happens!! Glad your car is back.

Thanks very much everyone for cheering me up about the MW. I know they cant tell when the baby will come and hey - she doesnt know how determined I am to get him out early!!! Well cross your fingers for me!

BHM that is SO LOVELY about your shower!! I Remember when you were going out for that meal and I thought it sounded lovely as it was but it was improved upon!!! I'm so happy for you! Do you have a fav. present?

I can't possibly keep track of you all. Congratulations to you new mummies, hope you're enjoying your little ones. Will Talia be home soon, micku?

I may be a lone voice of dissent - so feel free to ignore me - but it might be nice for those with earlier babies to start on the post-natal board alongside this one. We can go over there and find out how the babies are doing, and they can come back here and tell us that the wait will be worth it in the end! The older babies could easily be 2 months old by the time they make it to a post-natal thread otherwise!!!

I'm trying to track down my birthing pool. Last week i rang the hospital to arrange to collect it and was met with the phone equivalent of a blank look. My MW followed it up and assured me they did know about me, and the pool would probably be free this week. I rang today and was told that their book said I already had a pool. I don't. They gave me the phone number of the last lady to have the pool so i could ring her to arrange to collect it. So i ring the number to be told that they didn't actually borrow a pool in the end, they bought their own. So I ring the hospital back and they say, Could you ring tomorrow morning instead, please? It's as well I'm a chilled out 3rd time mum expecting to go to 42 weeks insn't it?! LOL

Have started on the raspberry leaf tea though.

purple that is awful I would have been furious well done for staying so calm especially in this heat

The thing is, the sooner I collect the thing, the longer it's going to kick around my little house making it look untidy. And I really haven't got my head round this baby coming before about the 25th August, so there's just no rush for it!

I was a bit embarassed about hassling a couple of new parents who'd never even had the pool.

Last aquanatal in the morning before the session closes for the summer hols.

well i deffo had too much sun yesterday have felt woozy and dreadful all day but im going back out there tomoroow

hope everyone is ok

nipple stimulaion how much and how long come on tell me

i've done acupressure points, i've done nipple twiddling, i've done clary sage oil, i've coerced dp into sex. if this baby doesn't come out after all of this i'm giving up!

booby, as far as i can remember it's supposed to be for at least 20 mins but preferably as long as you can bear.

awww micku and pf2 - CONGRATS!!!!!!!! How exciting. Well done pf2 on your natural birth, and my hearts with you micku with little talia. I hope she makes a speedy recovery.

Aussiemama - hoping no news is good news! Can't wait to hear about your arrival.

Booby - glad you are feeling better hun xx

mojomummy - west berks? Are you local?

eeny - I'm so sorry your apt was horrid. I keep seeing a mix of the practice midwives, and the one who's supposed to be 'mine' told me they're all on holiday the last week in August. I'm so pleased with that, there may actually be noone here to deliver my baby anyways argh.

purpleturtle - well done for keeping calm! I'd have gone through the roof!

YF - why have you changed your birthplan? I'm thinking of a waterbirth now just to stay cool!!!

Hi Lunarvix, I am near junction 11, M4...any good ?

evening all!

well good news, we had our last parentcraft class tonight at the birth centre I am delivering at and I asked the NICE MW there to examine me again as I was in pain and although I am not ENGAGED his head is fixed into the top of my pelvis, so basically on the way. It cheered me up a bit.

Purple I am sorry about the hassle with your pool!! I think they should have phoned that couple for you, anyway should they just be giving out their phone number? Not very good if you ask me. Good luck for getting it sorted.

AS for the mums here going on postnatal threads, obviously everyone can do what they want!! But as a group it would be nice to stay together and have a postnatal thread of our own to be in, as well as the 'born in july' etc. threads!

evening all!

well good news, we had our last parentcraft class tonight at the birth centre I am delivering at and I asked the NICE MW there to examine me again as I was in pain and although I am not ENGAGED his head is fixed into the top of my pelvis, so basically on the way. It cheered me up a bit.

Purple I am sorry about the hassle with your pool!! I think they should have phoned that couple for you, anyway should they just be giving out their phone number? Not very good if you ask me. Good luck for getting it sorted.

AS for the mums here going on postnatal threads, obviously everyone can do what they want!! But as a group it would be nice to stay together and have a postnatal thread of our own to be in, as well as the 'born in july' etc. threads!

evening all!

well good news, we had our last parentcraft class tonight at the birth centre I am delivering at and I asked the NICE MW there to examine me again as I was in pain and although I am not ENGAGED his head is fixed into the top of my pelvis, so basically on the way. It cheered me up a bit.

Purple I am sorry about the hassle with your pool!! I think they should have phoned that couple for you, anyway should they just be giving out their phone number? Not very good if you ask me. Good luck for getting it sorted.

AS for the mums here going on postnatal threads, obviously everyone can do what they want!! But as a group it would be nice to stay together and have a postnatal thread of our own to be in, as well as the 'born in july' etc. threads!

oops I dont know what happened there - sorry!

sitting at open window with just a pair of knickers on trying to cool down this really is getting unbearable hope all you first time mums havent got the impression its always as bad as this its this bloody heat when is it going to rain I feel like baby dropped a bit last night as had a lot of really strong braxton hicks and head sending electric shock type pains to my bladder I have been woken by the baby hiccupping and kicking at same time heartburn feeling hot and sticky and sick. eeny are you asleep??

poor dreamy can really sympathise with you had my fan going all night and a bed to myself but still too warm ended up with cold flannels on my bump and forehead

my dh worked til three yesterday and bless him had to go back to work at n9ine and bless worked throught til 6 this morning he was shattered

my friend who is supposed to be having a section on thursday went into labour last night so im dead excited

ive also got a house full of kids today so my poor dh probably isnt gonna get much sleep

good morning everyone No rest for those of us with 6 kids lol dd reminded me she has toddler group at 9 15 and boys have their holiday playschemes too. Im hoping the pool will be open again today so we can go for a swim this afternoon otherwise its off to sit in a stuffy cinema with them Im trying to persuade my 15 yr old daughter to join in but kevin as we call her is having none of it

anyway hope you all have a good day hope all goes well for your friend booby and you havent strangled any kids by lunchtime lol catch up with everyone later

Hi

Micku , hows it going hun?. Thinking healing & loving thoughts for you and the little Talia.

sorry if I dont mention everyone this morning, Im feeling quite sorry for myself.

I cant stop crying this morning, not sure if its the heat (which is driving me mental in bad way), hormones or tiredness . Cant sleep properly at all. Im soo iratable (sp?), and dreading days at home with dd. My mums collecting us on the days she can to take us to her flat as its MUCH MUCH cooler there. DH tried to get more fans yeseterday but none left anywere. Apologies for moaning , but Im just so fed up with this heat , I cant face anything. I just want to cry again , I feel like such a misery and my middle sister hates it when Im like this, she avoids me like the plague.

ok some good things before I wallow into permamnent cry mode, although I will be clearly showing my unbalanced hormonal nuts mind. Nearly finished bags , got hold of sleevless vests and cotton pram flat sheets for swaddling all washed but need ironing but cant face it. The new car seat arrived yesterday too which was nice, its so cool. A friend lent me hers to save expense, but its straps were covered in mildew which Ive tried over and over to remove, Im just not happy putting that near the babs. Our Jane carry cot for the car just doesnt fit with dd's big car seat , so we got the nearest thing to a lie flat which is the bebe confort creatis and ill just transfer babs to the carry cot when going out, by leaving it in the boot of the car with the chassis. Id love to have bought the bebe loola one to show off my creatis, but enoughs enough.Unless can find the loola frame only online.