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Due in September 2006......nearly there ladies!!

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Coriander73 · 02/08/2006 09:15

New thread...

Cori x

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liquidclocks · 07/09/2006 12:48

Oh and also I found this really good site about labour etc, it's very detailed with lots of links to extra info if you want it.

puppy · 07/09/2006 13:29

I also thought that with 2+ pregnancies the head doesn't engage, my lo has been engaged for 3 weeks now 2/5 for the last fortnight. I agree it does hurt when they push with their head.

Yep liquid I was thikig the thread was getting long too, will check out your link later. I got this link from another thread contraction timer thought it might be useful.

I havn't noticed pol post since yesterday hope shes ok and labour has got going.

1Baby1Bump · 07/09/2006 13:44

two really good links there ladies.
the contraction one will be a life saver!

if i ever need it!

mabel1973 · 07/09/2006 15:20

my pelvis is soooo sore! I can't believe this baby could possibly get any lower without actually popping out!
I didn't know about the head engaging in 2nd pregnancies, my midwife wrote on my notes 4 weeks ago 2/5 palpable and when I asked what it meant at the next visit, she said it meant 3/5 engaged.
If anyone remembers our other recent trauma (not the BIL one, but our close friends splitting up) well things have flared up again with him sending threatening e-mails to her new boyfriend - could really do without all this drama at the moment!

mabel1973 · 07/09/2006 15:23

good link liquid - but made me remember about doing my pelvic floor excercises! oopps - do you think it's too late to tone things up???

liquidclocks · 07/09/2006 15:39

Hi mabel - never too late!

Re your friend - This is what I would do: I'd just get her new boyfriend to block his email address and send the ex an email saying he's done this so not to bother trying to send anymore. Block any emails he gets after that if the ex sets up new addressestoo. Start keeping a log of everything he does that is threatening and tell him that if it carries on you'll have no choice but to apply for a restraining order - this should cover telephone calls/mail etc as well. Hopefully the threat should be enough but if not, be prepared to follow through - it's been going on long enough now for you to be sure there's a real problem and your friend needs a very clear line drawn for him.

How crappy for you to e dealing with all this at what's supposed to be a really happy and special time - hope it gets sorted.

Gizmo · 07/09/2006 17:29

Oh yes, pelvic floor exercises, I knew there was something.... My yoga teacher is very into them, fortunately, so at least I've been diligent once a week, but I'm not sure that that's really sufficient. She is also very keen on the exercises that relax the pelvic floor, so I've probably now got the most chilled perineum in Cambridgeshire.

In fact, if I were to follow her list of daily care I'd have no time for anything else:

  1. Perineal massage
  2. Hands and knees for at least 30 minutes (for optimal feotal positioning)
  3. Affirmations. No, really. Do you think they work when you can't take them seriously? There's something about chanting: 'I- will-have-a-calm-and-pain-free-labour' that just doesn't convince me.
  4. Visualisation and breathing exercises

To this you have to add my personal hippy list of listening to a hypnobirthing tape, working on various relaxation techniques and raspberry leaf tea.

When I have my emergency C-section I give you all full permission to laugh at me .

Congratulations to Marls and IGW. Liking Eoin, although can't pinch it as I'm a bit shy of using Celtic names when I don't have a drop of Celtic blood. Since Marls has used my DS's name I shall just congratulate her on her excellent taste.

DS started school today. Like a lot of other people's DC, he has been a bit funny for weeks, but luckily has had a good first day, so hopefully he will be able to adjust quickly to being a schoolboy before he has to adjust to being a big brother. I think this time of year is often a bit tricky for preschoolers as well, as older kids at nursery/daycare move on and the pecking order gets redefined.

1Baby1Bump · 07/09/2006 17:55

much to my dismay, my bump has reappeared and lo has obviously moved back out of pelvis....
rats!

JayJep · 07/09/2006 18:10

Hi Everyone - new to this. Expecting bsby number 3 on the 13th never had shows before but I think I might have just had one.
I have a really stupid question to ask but here it goes - can a show be mistaken for semen? I finally dragged DH into the sack last night for a fumble in the hope that things would get going. The "show" was yellowish and about 2 inches long.

So sorry to ask this of you all but what doyou think?

puppy · 07/09/2006 18:17

Jayjep welcome , sorry I can't help you with your question as I didn't have a show with DS.

Its unusual that pol26 hasn't posted today, I hope in right in saying she is pob in hosp this time.

Just realised that calvemjoe hasn't posted since the 28th August hope all is well with her.

Your link was good liquid thanks for that.

puppy · 07/09/2006 18:21

posted before finishing typing lol

Gizmo glad your DS had a good first day and hope he settles well into school life. My DS started this week also and has settled in easy, he goes for a full morning from tomorrow then fulltime after xmas.

Awww 1b1b you are having a time of it arn't you, really were hoping things would properly get going for you.

JayJep · 07/09/2006 18:25

Hi Puppy,

Thanks for replying, hopefully someone else might know (wink)

Gizmo · 07/09/2006 18:57

Hmmm,

Never being one to shy away from revealing revolting personal information my last show was a lot more jelly like/solid than the aftermath of sex, IYSWIM.

So if it looks like what you'd expect after sex, then it probably isn't a show. Is my guess

liquidclocks · 07/09/2006 19:42

Since my DH has not had any sort of reprieve in my voracious appetite I can confidently say I've had nothing like what you mention following our intimate encounters Jayjep - whether that rules it out though I don't know - tend not to come into contact with other men's semen

Hope calvemjoe's ok too,I suppose we're at that stage now though where if people disappear for a few days we're all going to think they're off having their LOs!

mabel1973 · 07/09/2006 20:02

jayjep - I had a show after I had a sweep with DS. It was in the shower, so I can't say exactly what it was like, but like gizmo I remember it being jelly like with a little bit of blood on it.

liquidclocks · 07/09/2006 20:48

OMG - you ladies all remember my early labour scares? Of course you do! Anyway,I just posted a picture of a mystery weed that's been growing in my garden and it turns out it's a purgative (yes, like cod liver oil) so could well be the culprit! Go and have a look at the piccy - it's in member profiles - and avoid it!!! (it's called sun spurge)

apwd · 07/09/2006 21:17

1Baby1Bump - apwd is just my DP's initials. Hate spending ages trying to think of a user name and thought that it was unlikely anyone would have that.

As for the semen question - I think they are different- semen is more slippy and wet whereas I think losing your mucous plug is like more snotty and green? maybe with blood? I have been losing some green snotty like gluey stuff for a few days not sure if that is the mucous plug or what but it is definately different to semen!

The contraction timer looks ace! I can't wait to use it!

JayJep · 07/09/2006 21:53

Hi Apwd,

Well you ahve described it right down THE NITTY GRITY!! It was exactly like that. Thanks

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Coriander73 · 07/09/2006 21:59

Time for new thread? We're nearly 1000 msgs in & it's taking a while to open?? What to you think??

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1Baby1Bump · 07/09/2006 22:00

apwd- glad im not the only one producing green stuff!
will agree semen (sounds so posh but i wont use the other word!!) is much thinner and horrible!
i had a show with ds and it was pink/clear, like jelly, not thin or runny, with little red flecks in it.
lovely!!
what i wouldnt give for a show right now!!

lots of cervix pains earlier and the trots but as usual, nothing now!!

1Baby1Bump · 07/09/2006 22:00

i thoughti had a rubbish pc but it all opens in about 2 secs on mine!

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Coriander73 · 07/09/2006 22:05

It doesn't take long just that it seems much easier if we keep on refreshing now & then as we have done since we started the thread back in Jan!

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Gizmo · 07/09/2006 22:10

Y'see, this thread is one of the reasons why I don't tell my husband my mumsnet pseudonym - I'm just not sure how he would react to the revelation that I've been discussing the consistency of other men's sperm on t'interweb

BTW, if I disappear at this stage it's much more likely that I have had to go into hiding, having killed a builder/sparky/tiler/other contractor. Labour is currently last thing on my mind, sadly.

1Baby1Bump · 07/09/2006 22:10

oh sorry!

liquidclocks · 07/09/2006 22:14

What should the new thread title be Cori?

"Due in September 2006.....The stork has landed!"?

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