Babies due in May 2014 - is this the Definitelies final countdown?

[ClearlyMoo]

WELCOME! This thread is for all Mums-to-be expecting Maybies babies in (and around) May 2014! Please come and join the fun.

Put your feet up, get yourself a (decaf?) cuppa and settle in to hear the aches and pains, trials and tribulations, shopping excitement and hospital bag woes of those in their third trimester.

Hopefully you'll find a listening ear and a wealth of knowledge. Everyone welcome, especially if you're new to MN and are just peeking in as you start your maternity leave.

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My next door neighbour has a new born! She's crying right now the baby that is!

I really want to start with a positive this morning but struggling immensely. I'm back at the hospital to see diabetic consultant today - I feel sick with nerves, and have an upset tummy. He gave me a week to get my blood sugars under control with diet - they've been great all week - I test this morning and my fasting level is 5.8 (should be under 5).

Baby seems really quiet but I can't decide if it actually is or if it's paranoia kicking in, the fact I have (had, as don't really know now) anterior placenta or just that I'm fat. Think I might ask to chat to a midwife whilst I'm up at the hospital.

I suppose my positive is that my lovely sister is coming to look after dd so she doesn't have miss her playgroup again and she's on standby to collect ds from school too if things end up running late at the hospital.

My fasting this morning waa8.7!!8
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To yesterdayif they don't settle by Friday I'm being admitted!!!

Today's task is getting bad ready for admission

Starting with a positive, my iron levels are fine! For someone who has been borderline anaemic all their life I'm pretty amazed! Must be all that steak I keep eating!

Oh squiffie, hope it's all ok at the hospital today! Def ask midwife about movements as she can feel how he's lying now and maybe it's in an awkward way so that's muffling movements?

Hugs to those of you with GD, sounds scary and difficult having to be so careful and testing. Hope you're all able to stay out of hospital as much as possible!

Nanny - totally agree! Fed up with being skint the most. Will be better off when MA starts so looking forward to that!

I'm not feeling too huge yet. I know I'm big but I don't feel massive, I think it's because I'm lucky and have somehow avoided the pregnancy waddle. Baby is all high and up front right now, which is nice and easy, and still head down! Please stay there, good baby!

Good luck to everyone with hospital appointments.

How can you tell which way round the baby is? I just get kicks in different places all the time!

Feeling a bit stressed and tired today. Mega busy at work and not sleeping that well. Feels like there's so much to think about and do at the moment. Think lovely dh is feeling a bit neglected too and that everything is a bit too baby focused at the moment. He's having a night out with a mate tonight so I hope that he can let off steam a bit.

Hez only way I've been able to tell is when midwife tells me thankfully according to consultant yesterday, baby is head down still, so it's been that way now for 6 weeks, hopefully it won't turn now! :)

Sorry to hear you're feeling stressed

moomin - great news about the flat! Fingers crossed for your iron levels.

rushy So glad you and bubs are OK. Must have been terrifying.

Dobe I would be a little nervous about being that far from a hospital, but I think it depends on how you feel in yourself. I would say that, if you do go, make sure you take a small cushion/pillow to jam under your bum. Apparently making sure your hips stay above your knees on car journeys etc reduces the chance of the baby turning BTB/breech.

moobaloo My monster is also head down, all pushed out front (her bum I think) and still quite high (though the bump has started to drop). Does mean that I get punched in the cervix whilst being kicked in the ribs!

Got the living room painted yesterday. Feels like we are actually getting somewhere with the house now. After today, I only have 4 shifts at work before we have two weeks off. Then when I come back, I only have 12 shifts and then I go on maternity leave. Woo!

Trying to resist the urge to eat chocolate. The biggest draw back of having already been at work for 7 hours is that I just want to eat junk.

Also first time mum to be here, 25,due on the 29th may eeeek, expecting a girl so all pink pink pink .
Sorted most bits but nursery isn't sorted at all as only been in new house 5 months or so.
Only finish work 1st may, cutting it fine but it's the joys of being a nurse :)
Becky xXx

Welcome beckie!

Well I regret getting out of bed today already because I got a fucking parking ticket! Rawr.

Bloody traffic wardens.

hez If one side of your bump is quite hard and solid that will be the back and generally other side abit more squidgy and where the poking movemetns are as opposed to rolling movements are the limbs. My baby has its back on the front right, same as DS was.
Have day off today and been to a toddler group for first time in 3 weeks and loads of people just told me they hadn't realised I was pregnant! Am a bit confused due to the massive bump! 6 weeks till due date. It seems to be going so fast now. Although DPs boss still hasn't sorted any cover at work for him. He is useless!

Kitchen and bathroom rescrubbed again!

Living room and bedroom next after a bit of come dine with me and a session of mini me of kicking my insides!!!

All in preparation of my potential hospital admission!!!

Does anyone else notice..... When you go for a wee u wee think your finished, stand and still desperate to wee??

bornin A friend who is on her third pregnancy told me that, when weeing, I should sit with my torso as parallel to the ground as possible (so looking between my knees, keeping my back straight) as it helps the bladder empty. No idea how much truth there is in it, but I do seem to have good wees!

Hello all!
Back from diabetic clinic!
Apart from taking FRICKIN AGES for all the various people to see me (I arrived at 11am, didn't leave until nearly 2pm) everything is fine and dandy - not enjoying the finger pricks but they're manageable considering I'm controlling by diet for the time being. I'm just chuffed they didn't shove me straight on insulin! My fasting glucose was 6.8, but after the gloopy drink it was 10.8 so that's too high, apparently the cutoff point for the after-drink result is only 7ish

Anyways, gave my request letter for the lancets and the test strips to the GP, should be ready to collect by 4pm tomorrow which is handy as they only give you 10 lancets and 10 test strips in your monitor set-up! Not sure how quickly they think you can get your GP moving but mine is usually really bloody slow! Just lucky this time I guess. Sharing my dad's sharps box for now as apparently I have to request one of them directly from Serco? Go to their offices, request a sharps box, they give me a letter for my GP to sign, I take that to GP, it gets signed, I take it back to Serco - it's all very Vogon, a la Hitchhiker's Guide!

Poor DH is now home early for a dr's appt, he had experience of a (type 1) diabetic girlfriend back in the day so his only associations with diabetes are her being rubbish with her insulin/sugar levels and regularly conking out in a hypo and him finding her when he got home from work. Understandably this is all freaking him out a bit!

Got to dash and do my First Home Glucose Level Check (owwy finger prick and boring boring boring blah blah)

Bornin I get that constantly. I find that if I find babies head and sort of push back and upwards that normally does it!

Bornin I know exactly what you mean. Baby obviously leans on my bladder as I frequently think I'm dying for the loo, get there struggle to squeeze the tiniest bit out, and as soon as I stand up my bladder feels like its full again.

Thanks for the tip about leaning forward Kally. I will give it a go.

Hope everyone is feeling well, congrats on the flat Moomin. How exciting.

Glad all went well for you MrsFoo! I've got another week being diet controlled! Yay :-)

I've just sent OH out for packing tape, chocolate and an ice cream with raspberry sauce. I doubt I'll get the last one though

I doubt I'll get the second one either. Keep showing up glucose in wee so he's being strict on me!

Off in search of cucumber.

Hope everyone's having a good day today :)

Hello everyone!

I'd been thinking that I was alone with the ridiculous wee situation this thread is such a comfort.

Need loo.
Do tiny wee.
Wipe.
Do micro-wee.
Wipe.
Stand up.
Need loo again!

Will try the Kally-lean trick, less convinced about pushing baby's head up I don't want it to get ideas of shifting out of my pelvis I want it to stay there!!!

My wee issue also is worse when I'm on bed, as my bedroom is two paces from the toilet haha

Kally I do it slightly differently,

I sit up and as I wee slowly lean forward till I'm in that position, it squeezes the bladder and helps to empty it. Sometimes if you sit back up again and slowly lean forward there is more!!

I you are finding your bladder isn't emptying or you are desperate for a wee and yet are only doing a dribble call the midwife. The bladder may be blocked as it's really dangerous (it happened in my last pregnancy and I ended up having regular catheters put in) the lean slowly forward is what the ward midwives told me to do as I hates the catheters but they couldn't let me go until I was weeing properly!

I know I'm weeing loads because I have bad retention in my arms and hands

Bornin I'm another one with the same wee situation! I seem to spend most of my free time sat on the toilet these days! Not tried the leaning over tip yet though.

Hope everyone is having a nice week. I'm totally bogged down with writing reports at school - will be so glad when I start my mat leave!

Hello Everyone I'm Back!!!

Had an absolutely amazing time, spent most of the time lazing like a little hippo in the warm water and eating ice-cream - hurrah!

Can't belive how chatty you lot are - away for 10 days and it's just taken me 2 days to catch up on you all!

Welcome all newbies/returnees! clearly clearly succeed in luring you into our web!

moomin great news re flat and about being induced at due date so you don't go over! but sorry you're finding things so hard at the moment with pain/iron etc

Big hugs to all the GD/PGP/OC crew - hope everyones coping ok today... and just think, the finish line is in sight!

rushy how horrid about the car accident, glad you and bean are ok, super scary for you

Laughing at the wee situation - but another here in the same boat - will be trying the lean technique!

Happy today as Drs appointment this morning confirmed baby is head down and in correct position - now dont' move for 8 week little one!!

better do my biog re-cap.... 33 yrs old, married to DH (44) since sept '12. Currently living in Zimbabwe but bushbaby will be born in cornwall which is 'proper home'.... fly back in 3 weeks time so he'd better not decide to arrive before I enter the 'drop zone'! (clearly I love that term - though my brain has now turned it into 'danger zone' and I keep singing 'highway to the danger zone' from top gun to myself !). Umm... so it's DC1, team blue... nervous and excited in equal measures!

hope you get your chocolate and icecream moomin sounds like a good evening!

night all (9pm here so definately bedtime for me!) xx

Welcome back bush :-)