Jan 2014 THREAD 14 -- This will be the lucky one!

[TobyLerone]

We got Thread 13 out of the way without too many mishaps. Phew!

Now it's time to sit on our arses eating entire Chocolate Oranges really get to work on getting some more of these babies out.

Massive luck and good wishes for another and felix for tomorrow.

Hope anyone who wants baby to make a move makes progress and anyone who wants baby to stay put, i hope baby does as its told.

I want baby to stay put for a few days. Tomorrow i am officially 37 weeks and as they consider that full term it means if baby arrives i can go to the MLU...yay! But the family come up tomorrow until sunday so would rather baby didn't arrive while they were here.

I now have a toilet again! Dh and FIL have done a good job but still not quite finished. Its finished enough for the house to be back to normal though. Pity when they put the sink back they put the water the wrong way round so the hot side is now the cold.....lol

altered i would be pretty annoyed too. There is no way she should arrive home is someone elses pants if she has spares and i wont even start on the poo!

Good luck for tomorrow felix :)

How are you feeling sarah, did baby shift to a more comfortable position?

frizz glad you now have a toilet, hope they finish the rest of the work soon.

altered that is very poor. Definitely speak with whoever is in charge, there is no way she should be left with poo on her.

Nil by mouth from midnight so now scoffing cakes and fruit to build up my strength

If I disappear for a few days do not worry as there is likely to be no signal on the high dependency unit and not sure DH will be up to updating for me.

Thanks for the well wishes everyone. Good luck to you too Another!! So exciting!

Never thought of signal in the hospital. I know downstairs I can't get 3G but hoping on the delivery suite/postnatal ward I can get decent signal or I'll be so bored if I have to stay in! Just doing last minute preparations then going to have a bath and early night hopefully. Hoping when I ring up tomorrow at 8am they aren't busy and try and put it off until another day or I'll be gutted. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I'm so excited/nervous!!!

Yay Frizz for a toilet again! Really hope you don't get confused with the taps!

another good plan on munching cakes for energy before tomorrow....am so excited for you!!! Bet its feeling a tad surreal...

Felix really hope you get some sleep tonight in preparation for tomorrow.

One of my NCT group is also being induced tomorrow, so its clearly gonna be an awesome day to have a baby! Woop woop!

another This morning I felt loads more comfortable so baby has definitely moved.
After the baby being really low the other day it has now disengaged according to midwife at hospital so it's clearly bobbing in and out at the moment.

The hospital down here has free wifi so hopefully yours will all have it too . Hospitals are sooo boring otherwise.

Doctors for BP check again tomorrow. I relly hope they don't send me into hospital again, I've been in 3 times already and dh has gone away today so I'd be on my own big baby.

Talking of baby sizes earlier, 3 different doctors have felt my bump now and said if they do have to induce me for whatever reason, not to worry because the baby feels on the larger side anyway.

Wow pop out for a day and everything happens

another and felix will be thinking of you both tomorrow. Hope everything goes well. Sounds like a great weight another.

Good luck for tomorrow you two!

sultana - rubbish!

we went out with mil to get a new hoover and microwave. Then the car would start so i took ds to Asda. The car still wont start so we had to walk the three miles home with ds and we didn't have a pushchair. The whole way home was having bloody bhs.

tonight is the full moon. Apparently this can affect waters going. Ds was born the day after a full moon so... Fingers crossed! Either way, not long now

Oh blimey frying! What bad luck with the car! Glad you made it home ok. Good job it wasn't last night when it was blowing a gale!!!

another and felix it's going to be BABY FRIDAY!!!! How exciting!

quacko and felix DH's are pains aren't they - mine hasn't been too bad, but we have had to have SERIOUS words about not being shitfaced/stinking hungover whilst being a birth partner.

frying you are actually a Mormon - that's so cool! You're right that the BoM is probably a bit... erm... challenging. I said afterwards, I was surprised that the show hadn't been sued...
Bad luck on the car though - bloody machines.
Re the full moon - there is one the day before my EDD! Hope that works.

frizz peeing in a bowl is beyond the pale. FFS. You are a saint to have put up with it.

band I haven't put on more than about 6kg (1 stone ish) this pregnancy - lost 5kg in the first trimester, and was well upholstered to begin with, so I will probably still aim to lose about 10-12 kg afterwards anyway. Unless you had a BMI under 20 to begin with, I doubt they'd worry.

nature I waited for an hour and a quarter for my mw appt today - the receptionist hadn't actually marked me as arrived

altered I'd be livid. POO on your child??? Don't they have wipes/loo roll, FFS?

sultana you might be up next after Felix and Another!

book I did get that for a while, I think it was c tunnel related, as I was starting to get that, but it eased off when I left work.

toby, how's the burn healing?

MrsV did you speak to work about the call?

I think that's everyone?

I had my 'booking in' at Lewisham today (with community midwife) - now feel much more relaxed that we have a hospital who might be expecting us (well, a birth centre) if things kick off... Apparently the MLU will call over the weekend to schedule a visit soon, and I have repeat bloods on Monday. Otherwise, bean is head down, not back-to-back (arse out? No idea what it's called), measuring exactly 38cm (38w tomorrow) and 'bobbing in and out of being engaged'.

MW did say that first ones are often late - I'd prefer to not be early, tbh, as I want to have Christmas first!

Went shopping afterwards, got the last of the Christmassy things - and whoever wanted a popping candy choc orange our WHSmith had some - I nearly picked one up for you, can go back on Sat if that helps, and then post?

Tomorrow is work christmas lunch, then drinks with friends. I might be taking a lot of cabs...

I have a weird question - I have a bit of sore fanjo, but it's very localised - like a graze, or rubbed bit maybe. It's right at the top, on both sides, sort of in an arch over the clitoris, on the 'outer' part. Only about 2cm in total, and a narrow strip. Is it because I'm not... ahem... getting much air to downstairs? It's def not thrush, or at least I don't think it is - not itchy, no discharge change, just sore. Any ideas?
Oh, and belated TMI warning...

Ah humpty i get that from time to time. Don't think it's anything serious, but it is annoying. Mine goes away after about three days

Good luck tomorrow another and Felix hope all goes smoothly

Frizz glad you got your toilet back.

sultana sounds like things may be starting up for you how exciting

Humpty that is really annoying she hadn't marked you in. I finally got seen. I always expect a wait as if emergencies come in then they get seen so appointment times are a bit of an indication but today took the mic!

Baby still growing well, head definitely well down as she pretty much had the scanner on my lady garden to take the head measurements. She has also written in today's report that gestation was 37+3. I'm only 36+1 35+5 by my dates!! So whether baby will turn up early who knows. She is leaning more toward a kidney problem now though and if she is right then it is very rare. Consultant is quite excited about it and wants us to let her know the diagnosis when baby is born as she wants to write a paper on it. That would be pretty cool for the baby to have when she is older and for me as I am a science geek

My day got much better. Went shopping and ate a lot of McDonald's which I blame you ladies for!! and got loads of things I'd been looking to buy for ages. Finally got my cot bedding and it was half price yay. Then had the viewing of my maternity photos this evening and there were some lovely ones. Order a set of one of me and dh holding bump which is lovely and ordered a large canvas of one of bump to go on nursery wall. We will be waiting till the end of the three photo shoots before ordering an album and more stuff for the walls. Downside is I'm properly full of cold and now have a cough.

humpty, have you got any Sudocrem? Try a bit of that on it.

I'm very that another & felix are having their babies tomorrow. I'm ready now. I know it's not going to happen and that I'll go overdue again, but it would be nice!

My leg is driving me insane. It's itching and I can't scratch it because (a) it's completely bandaged and (b) it's open blisters! I know that itching is usually a good sign, but it isn't stopping it from being the most annoying thing ever.
It does seem to hurt a bit less today, though, and I can move it more easily, which is nice. It's made it easier to get up and down the ladder :o

Oh I have a question. Does anyone know how being at the birth and paternity leave works? As I may be in hospital with the little one for a while we ideally want to wait till I'm home before dh takes paternity leave. I know that you can take it anytime within 56 days of the birth but once it's started it can't be stopped and restarted. So does being at the birth count as the start of paternity leave or do you get extra days to be at the birth?? I've tried to find info on the internet but it just keeps telling me what paternity you are entitled to and says it can start from the day after the birth. anyone any ideas? Dh is getting stressed as someone at his school has told him if he leaves to attend the birth then that automatically starts paternity leave, but this seems to go against the legal right to delay taking it. We are very confused! Just wondering if it counts as an exemption day (dh is a teacher) and you're entitled to that time like you are for a day to move house for example.

Glad the leg feels like it's healing toby. Just be careful on the ladder. I nearly toppled off mine the other day!

Given that you have to inform them in advance of the date you want your paternity leave to start and if you want to change it give 28 days notice I am not sure how that would work nature :)

Couldn't he just take emergency dependents leave unpaid for one day?

Another and Felix MASSIVE LUCK for tomorrow!! Can't wait to hear

Altered I would definitely complain. That is not ok.

Frizz glad you've got your toilet back!

I rang the clinic this morning for the official results of the urine stick test that scuppered the sweep on Tuesday and it's all normal! So I COULD have had a sweep. Bastards!!

Hope everyone gets reasonable night's sleep!

Just marking space :)

Having a bad night so far. Ds keeps waking up and wants reassurance. All he wants is for someone to go into his room and say "it's ok, go back to sleep" which isn't that tryng, but its been three times so far tonight. Three.

dh has cough which is pissing me off. Just as i get comfortable, I'm woken by this cough. Right now he's snoring. He also keeps migrating to my side of the bed in his sleep wanting a cuddle. The bastard! I want to be left alone!!

so between the two men in my household I'm not getting much sleep. I seemed to have gotten over the worst of the thrush, just need to get rid of the final bit of it to be really comfortable.

Hey frying I'm up too. My oh works nights so relief at the moment that he's not here as I sleep a lot better without him usually since I been pregnant. Hope ur asleep again now and ds has settled. I also have thrush thats almost gone but not quite.

Well tonight is awful. The pain in my bladder is bad again. There's my saying I can cope with it til they induce me on the 3rd. Well right now that seems like a lifetime away. Hoping its just a bad flare up that will calm down once painkillers kick in but right now thats not happening and and am down on my sofa trying to get comfy trying not to cry :( sorry for depressing post. I so wanna be ok over xmas...

Oh choco I wish there to be something more they can do for you. It doesn't seem right that you suffer in pain for this long.

frying I hope ds has finally settled down and you can get back to sleep.

Been awake since 3.30am, trying to sleep but a mixture of excitement and nervousness prevents me. Seems little point in sleeping now as they will be in to monitor me at 6am.

Thanks another its coz I dont have the pain in my kidneys. If the pain was there apparently theu would try do something about the stones. But because pain is in bladder and they cant find actual infection they wont do anymore than pain relief. Its obviously linked but they dont seem to rly care. I just need to have baby so the kidney docs will see me then hopefully someone will know what they're doing!!! Rraaghh rant over. Bet ur feeling sooo many mixed emotions right now. So excited for you. Will be checking on here constantly for updates. All the good news in here and people starting to have babies is keeping me going.

Choco that sounds so hard hope things look up soon.

Another you're prob being monitored now!! Not surprised you haven't slept much, too exciting

Frying my DS is the same. Wonder if they know something's going on! Mine has a cold and is really milking it. He's been up wanting reassurance intermittently all night and got up for the day about 45mins ago. I'm trying to ignore him. Ugh.

He's trying it on extra hard because of MIL being here - she's wonderful but spoils him absolutely rotten and undermines me non stop so he gets in a right state. Isn't doing my stress levels much good!

Hope everyone has good days!

Oh, loulou, you poor thing :( I hope the next 2 weeks fly past for you.

So many of you have had such difficult pregnancies. I was saying to DH yesterday that it's such a shame you didn't get to enjoy it more, those of you who have had complications of whatever kind. I think you're all fab!

Sorry you've had a crappy night, frying. Hope you can rest a bit today.

another & frizz, you ladies were the first thing I thought of when I woke up this morning. Good luck! Can't wait to hear all about it!

curly, how are you and James doing now?

I'm glad I'm awake early today. Ideally I'd like to get the painting finished today, although I don't think it'll happen. Also, DS is going to XH's after school until Boxing Day, so I'll make him some breakfast and give him a big cuddle before he goes to get his bus.

I have the same problem with my mum extra, she spoils my two and undermines me and DH and then we end up dealing with the behavioural fall out. It has been doing DH's head in I have been in hospital.

Just being monitored, have showered and been shaved down there going up to labour ward at 7am.

Good luck again to felix. I wonder if there will be any more babies by Christmas?

Oh bloody hell. I did it again. I said 'frizz' when I obviously meant felix
It seems I have some sort of mental block about this!

(Hope you're ok too, frizz :o )