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

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New thread...

Cori x

yes - agree about the box at the bottom of the page - all seems v. bizarre! particularly when there are lots of supporters of hers on here!

LiquidClocks - whereabouts do you live? We live in Kent but I would love to move up North to be closer to my family. Unfortunately dh doesn't want to move and the hassle of new jobs etc makes me lazy about nagging him!!
Agree it is a shame about the lack of freedom of speech on here now
Well I am very glad it was pouring with rain when I woke up this morning. Even though stuck inside with ds I'd rather it was wet!! Don't really feel like doing much today anyway - can see the next 6/8 weeks being very lazy!!

Agree about the box at the bottom. I have seen hundreds of both positive and negative comments on here about said person's methods. But I don't recall very many (if any) negative comments about her personally. I don't see how MN can be held legally responsible for the views of thousands of members of the public.

I'm LOL at the thought of losing access to this thread just before we hit September leaving us all wondering!

Mabel, how wonderful! Sounds like you had a lovely, family weekend.

Compo, we used to live in Manchester and I loved it! It's a fantastic city which is easily accessible and offers everything you need. I'd move back in a second but DH needs to be near London for work now.

South Manchester can be very expensive (200k plus for small 2bed terrace) but you do get cheaper areas which aren't nasty IYKWIM.

Just to say that I won't be about much now as not working apart from 1-2 days so won't be on-line but Good Luck to everyone & I'll keep you posted with my news (due 1/9/06).

Good luck MIAQ! Hope to hear good news from you in due time!

Just back from seeing midwife. I asked about a home birth again as I can't stop thinking it's the right thing for us. She told me I could request it but I was unlikely to get it as they have such a shortage of midwives and two are needed for a home birth. She told me the shortage is even worse at this time of year because so many mws are on holiday. I would need a bag packed in case they had to notify me at the last minute that my homebirth had been cancelled.

Tell me truthfully ladies, am I being too sensitive about this? I just want to feel calm and in control. Dh is very supportive and I had no complications last time.

May start a thread in pregnancy asking if this is common.

Good luck MIAQ - look forward to hearing your good news.

Homemama - No i don't think you are being over sensitive at all, giving birth is such a major event you want it to be as calm, comfortable and feel as in control as you possibly can.
Unfortunately I think it is a sad fact of the NHS that there is such a shortage of midwives, and I guess they just can't guarantee they'd have the recourse for you. Very sad, especially as in some areas (round here for example) they are positively encouraging home births if you had a straightforward birth last time.

Thanks, mabel!

I've started a thread in the childbirth section as I don't want to hog the ante-natal thread with my whinging!

We, well I had a three bed terrace in Derbyshire before DP and I got together, we sold last July and covered mortgage removals etc... and had a little saving which as everyone knows gets whittled away. We moved because DD was a baby and DP worked in London and so only came home late on Friday nights and went back on Sunday afternoon. The train fairs were expensive too and always late on Fridays that i'd be keeping DD up to go and fetch him and it became a nightmare. Also I missed him and he missed me and of course DD. I only really am close to my middle sister and my mum and dad aren't alive so it made sense that I moved my life. And I had been a nanny all over before DD was born so the house was only a weekend thing anyhow. We moved near to his parents (was I mad?!!!) sister and two brothers who have four children between them. DP's career has progessed much quicker down here than it ever would of if we had stayed where we were. So moving back isn't an option. I would tomorrow to be near my sister and her children and just for the fact that when I met DP he hadn't ever seen a cow in 'real' life or knew a boy duck was the one with a green head I don't want DD to be a city kid... (ha ha)

But financially and emotionally for DP we do need to stay around here or at least a decent amount commutable. I know how much I miss my mum sometimes and time is precious with our parents, as much as they annoy us. He needs time with his mum and dad (even tho to me they are pains) as you never know how much longer they'll be around.

sorry this is totally off the antenatal thread

Am seeing the mw on Wednesday after our big bust up- going to see how she is and then decide on whether to tell her I want a different mw as we can't get over our differences or not...

hey everyone

sorry it's been ages since i posted and so much has happened - a new thread for one!

and glad to see my frantic rain dancing has paid off

well, the other great news is that we were staying at the hospital from two thursdays ago till last thursday to estblish breastfeeding and........despite being only three weeks old, baby jacob was released from the unit on friday evening! so he's home! and currently slumbering on his lambskin in the lounge

it's our first day on our own together and so far so good, but we'll see! and the community midwife has just been round and is really pleased, and he's putting on weight - he's now 1.72kg which in real money is 3lb13 so he's getting there!

hope you are all ok and feeling happier than earlier last week - dh is being very good about not coming near me as although i managed to "keep him happy"!!!! while i was pg i've totally gone off it now!

Well done lysettes!!! I'm sure that you're over the moon that little Jacob is home and doing so well. Well done!!!

Yeah!!! Our first 'September' baby is at home!

Wonderful news, Lysettes!

Pol, don't worry about being off subject, we're here to listen. Oh and thanks for answering my other thread.

Excellent news Lysettes - they must be really happy with Jacob's progress. And so well done to you getting him putting on weight so quickly. Don't worry about DH - the thought of that so soon after a traumatic birth...!!! [Bleurgh emoticon]...!!!

Homemama, I don't think you're being over-sensitive, it's a sad state of affairs when they can't cover a home birth. 50 years ago, everyone had a home birth for their second child (or so my neighbour's mother told me yesterday..) - although my own grandmother talks about staying in a "rest home" for 2 weeks after birth, so who knows..?!)

Pol, I sympathise about not wanting your children to be city kids and not ever see a real cow/horse etc. Such a shame in a way you had to move, as Derbyshire is so lovely...

good luck MIAQ - let us know what happens...

Lots of people keep telling me the baby has "dropped", mind you some of them are people I don't even know, like the woman who fitted my feeding bras yesterday - not sure how she could tell. But the bump has become less of a table, and more of a slide, so they could be right.... ~Seeing the midwife Weds, so she'll tell me if he's engaged... yikes.

Congrats Lysettes, that's amazing news!!!!!
Little Katie is still in scbu but only a matter of time. We're waiting for her (as always with us women ) to drink consistently from either bottle or breast. She does brilliantly with myself (on breast, then tube top up) or dp but we're trying to persuade the nurses to bottle feed her instead of just resorting to tube feeding. The little piggy has now gained 5ozs & is 4lb 1ozs. Hopefully she'll be home within the week.

So glad the weather is cooler for you all. Still seems very bizarre that 2 of us have delivered our bundles already! can't wait for more birth announcements.

Love to you all.
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Aw, so nice to hear from Lysettes and Hellkat 'from the other side' as it were!!! You both sound like you're doing really well. I can't imagine having a lo so small - ds was 7lb3oz and when I look at the newborn photos I think he looks tiny!!

Wow - red box IS strange ... think that's all I can legally say ...

Congratulations Lysettes!! Brings home all the more that it's so close ... !

Dr. said bleeding wasn't from placenta (which would mean it was the bloody show) but probably from cervix thinning to 1/2 its width. Now I am 1 cm dilated. Said doesn't fault that we didn't have the bleeding checked out over wkend, as there were no contractions involved. Said having blood at all could signal an even earlier labor than the 5 days before due date for DS1, but still unsure of exactly when it might be - anywhere between the next few days(!) (oh please, no) ... and three weeks or so from today. He may not stay in there long enough for Mom to arrive on the 1st Sept., so we are formulating a "plan II" for DS1's care. Meanwhile I am going to lay even lower (which I HATE - but anything to keep him in there cooking). Dr.'s instructions at this point are to "take it easy" and keep drinking plenty of water. I have now gained 37 pounds!!

Wow - red box IS strange ... think that's all I can legally say ...

Congratulations Lysettes!! Brings home all the more that it's so close ... !

Dr. said bleeding wasn't from placenta (which would mean it was the bloody show) but probably from cervix thinning to 1/2 its width. Now I am 1 cm dilated. Said doesn't fault that we didn't have the bleeding checked out over wkend, as there were no contractions involved. Said having blood at all could signal an even earlier labor than the 5 days before due date for DS1, but still unsure of exactly when it might be - anywhere between the next few days(!) (oh please, no) ... and three weeks or so from today. He may not stay in there long enough for Mom to arrive on the 1st Sept., so we are formulating a "plan II" for DS1's care. Meanwhile I am going to lay even lower (which I HATE - but anything to keep him in there cooking). Dr.'s instructions at this point are to "take it easy" and keep drinking plenty of water. I have now gained 37 pounds!!

ooh - Lysettes and Hellkat are back - congratualtions both, it sounds like Jacob and Katie are doing really well (and thanks for the rain dancing!).

Compo (think it was you who asked) we live in Lancaster which is a lovely semi-rural university town in north lancashire near the lake district. It's fab as we're 3hrs from London, Glasgow and Edinburgh on the train and just an hour from Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool. But - as we're a uni 'old' town we have lovely old houses, a great arts/culture scene and lovely restaurants and pubs - you'd have to offer me a lot of money and a lifestyle to match to get me to move. Plus ALL our local primary schools get AAA or AAB on their ofsted reports so you can't really go wrong. Sorry, going on but just reminding myself why we stayed - DH's family are in Canterbury so moving there would be SO expensive. (and it's only 35 mins drive to windermere... - need I go on!)

Well, I'm currently sat here with my rasberry leaf tea (yum yum!) and very happy. I've sorted out my maternity leave today and will be finishing work on the 5th of September (my hip's even happier than me!). I also found a local nursery that gets a 'very good' from ofsted that has guaranteed me a place for both boys in January - and it'll be £64 a month cheaper than the one DS is at. It also has a 'sleep' room which is important as I'm going to use that routine you all know I used with DS and SO many nurseries I rang this time said 'Oh, we let the baby decide when to sleep, wherever they are' - might work for some but not for me!

Hope everyone's bumps are ok today!

Hey Hellkat- your news is good too!!! Little Katie sounds like she is a good girl.

Have sent DP off intothe kitchen to make rissotto, don't hold out muchhope though as it's the first time he's actually chopped an onion! (btw he's 30!)

Hey all - glad all is well in MN world .
Nice to hear the news from Hellkat and Lysettes - congrats.
Homemama thanks for the body shop wheat germ oil tip i'll be off to get some asap.

Marls - excitement! Baby might be here soon.

Any1 watch this driving mum and dad mad? The kids are scaring me Actually some of the parents are scaring me.

Has any1 had a mobile epidural? How mobile were you?

Just to make you all feel better last time i was fitted for a bra i was 1 34j! Every1 takes great delight in telling me how they'll get even bigger when my milk comes in

Anyway hope all stays well with you all

the driving mum and dad mad thing is making me nervous. do all kids get like this?

someone reassure me! i will have 2 14 months apart and if they end up like these i will commit suicide.

i had what could have been a mobile epidural as it was a top up system rather than a full tap, but i was there having a section so it was all rther academic! but being able to top it up afterwards for pain relief (well taking the edge off it) was gret.

HK at our NNU they cut one of his feeds by half to incentivise him and then as soon as he had a couple under his belt they took the tube out straight away - they were really reluctant to bottle feed him but we have to put him on fortifier powder for 100ml a day he's on a bottle as well.

HK you're not at queen charlotte's are you?

Hi all! I am so exhausted. Article in paper came out: How It Is Done, on exercising while pregnant, featuring me. Ha! How ironic that one week after the picture was taken I am feeling like I probably won't be back at the gym!!

Lysettes- No hun, We're with kettering General. Fab hospital, my ds2 was there as he was born at 34 weeks. Great idea about feeds, I'll mention that today. She's great if she's wide awake, always has to have something in here mouth lol. The old nurses are fab & will bottle feed as much as poss, it's the younger ones (heck of a lot quicker to tube feed). Hopefully they'll listen soon & get her on as much orally as poss so she can come home (that's all they're waiting on).

AAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!!! Not ante natal related, but DS is driving me nuts.... He refuses to put his clothes on every morning, and moans and groans. Any tips?? Might start a thread about it... Tried rewards like if you get dressed we'll go to the zoo - no result, just refusal to get dressed, and then we don't get the treat either... Any advice???

Sorry, haven't read all the posts since yesterday but will do later....