THREAD 13 Jan 2014 - Grab those bags, we're nearing the top of that rollercoaster!

[Toothfairy78]

OK I caved. Here's thread 13!

Just catching up, woohoo on the hospital bags being packed, I gave up looking for a dressing gown, that was light, cotton and didn't cost a bomb so just going without....I'm not really a dressing gown kinda gal!

choco hope u start to feel a bit better now you're home!

frying eek.. So your baby could be here pretty soon, how exciting!

Just a question about your birth plan....does your midwife go through it with you or do you just do it on your own? I have no idea where to start!

The amount I didn't know at the NHS ante-natal class last night was laughable, think I'm still living with the notion that the baby just pops out of your belly button!

I'm of to google labour, educate myself a bit! Might even psych myself up to watch some One Born Every Minute! :)

enormouse your 'tree' sounds awesome! Reminds me of when I was at Uni & we couldn't afford a tree so we cut a tree shape out of cardboard, covered it in green & white striped j-cloths & hung kinder egg toys on it. It looked awful but it was seriously my favourite Christmas tree ever

spacefrog I think we did something similar at uni, got some branches and hung poundland decorations off them.

Oh and the 'tree' is a peace lily. Which I'm inwardly giggling at.

We don't have space to put the tree up because of our ridiculous Silver cross Kensington taking up about a third of the living room! Might not bother with a tree this year now

Ooohhhhhhh frying please keep us updated when ypu can. Maybe my prediction will be right and you will be the one to have baby 2moro eeeeeeeek x

Hi!

so ive been hooked up to a monitor, baby is fine but a dr needs to come and check me.

if it is my waters they may just let me go into labour, or they may wait two weeks. Apparently im on the borderline so it isn't clear what they would do. Everyone is really nice. The pinky blood, they reckon, is a capillary in the sac. So it's more a sign of waters going.

my tooth still hurts

Ooh frying it does sound very promising either way. I'm now going to be glued to the thread awaiting more news of you and mini-pan.

felix tinsel and fairy lights around the pram and presents in it? Could be the latest thing in Christmas trees?

Babymouse is currently kicking me under the ribs and it bloody hurts.

Good luck frying

Good luck frying how exciting!!

I also don't have a tree as need to do flooring in living room so tree would be in way and walls need decorating so no point in putting decorations up. Won't be at home over Christmas but still feels a bit miserable

Joining the hospital crew - had a 12 hour palpitation attack that started at 2am. Was in hospital 9-12 being monitored and having bloods done. They gave me a beta blocker which seems to have helped but now I feel wrecked as I had a whole two hours sleep last night. It's DD's third birthday today, and we had a whole day of fun planned. Not that she knows any different, bless her. She's had a ball opening presents and dressing up all afternoon. We're having a party tomorrow and I haven't even made the cake yet. Urgh.

Frying glad everything is ok!

Enormouse that's a good idea actually!! Might dig out the fairy lights this afternoon. OH will reckon I've lost it when he gets back from work

frying good luck and keep us updated when you can tries desperately not to think that I predicted you would pop soon

sarahl that's disappointing, I can imagine - but as you say, having the baby safely is the main achievement.

choco I wish I could come and give you a massive (gentle) hug, it sounds so miserable.

Today I am making Yule Log as a trial for Christmas Day - gotta see if I can actually do it before I promise it to DH for Christmas pudding substitute.

After a two hour wait the dr came. Doesn't know why I'm bleeding but said doesn't think it's my water.

genuinely gutted

Oh gosh purple that sounds awful! Hope your daughter is enjoying her birthday and presents. Take it easy and send someone out to buy a cake if you need to!

Frying that's so disappointing are they going to try and work out what the bleeding is all about then?

Apparently not. I'm waiting for them to finish with my notes so i can go home.

it's just crap

purple bless ya! Glad you are ok and home again despite being knackered!

frying ekkkk! Definitely keep us posted!

Loving the decorate the pram idea!

My mate has just been round with her toddler and it was a massive eye opener into the future! I didn't think our house was that hazardous, but everything he picked up gave me palpitations! I had left a receipt with a paperclip on it on the table and that is what he chose to put in his mouth! Pot pourri was the next.... He then proceeded to turn on the Dvd player, tv and sky box and try sticking pens into the dvd player. He was then reaching for our glasses of drink and managed to find a badge with a pin on it! Then he started playing with a coaster - which is heavy slate. Finally he settled with the sky remote. I thought that was quite safe until through random button pressing he found the adult channels (thankfully we aren't subscribed so nothing appeared on the screen)! Lastly I saw a message come up saying "are you sure you want to change your password?" On his way out he picked up a bottle of antifreeze I had left on the floor in the hall ready to put in my car!

All this time I have been thinking about all the sharp corners in the house, when all along I should have been thinking about the actual contents of the house!

This was all in one room!!! How do you ladies who have toddlers manage firstly in your own houses and secondly when visiting other people?

What so they are just sending you home with no explanation?! What the hell

frying wtf?

Poor you frying, I hope the notes say something useful.

Could you buy a cake purple? Sounds like you could do with a rest! Did they say why you had palpitations? Sounds scary, glad you're okay now.

I'm just waiting for a taxi home now. I asked about the bleeding and she said something like "it's probably a burst capillary from your cervix moving". Nothing about dilation or anything.

there was a fair amount of blood on the speculum too.

Question... just tried to book my 34 week midwife appointment for a week on Friday, only to be told that the midwife is 'fully booked', she's 'not working again until after Christmas' and when I asked if there were any other options open to me he just said 'no, she's fully booked'. Great.

Am going to try phoning the hospital where we're having the baby - it's where I had my initial antenatal appointments so am hoping they can help me.

Or am I overreacting? Just really don't want to miss this 34 week one - if I don't have another appointment until 3 January that would mean I hadn't had a check up in over a month, and this late on it feels really really wrong not to be getting regularly checked...

My health centre has been pretty useless from the start :(

frying oh you poor thing - that sucks not to have an explanation. I hope it doesn't recur and that you feel okay.

purple palpitations sound awful, you poor thing. Hope your DD has a great birthday.

angel I didn't have a 34 week check at all - mw said it wasn't necessary.