Due March 2007 No2

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I thought I would start a new thread as I came to this thread late and am not sure who is and isn't around.

I'll start

2dd's
due 30 Mar
living in Australia

Well Annie I'm always about 17 days late. I'm due on the 21st so am not expecting anything to shift before tht 7th or 8th April.
Actually I really, really enjoyed my last few weeks of preg with last one. Even when she was so overdue I felt no hurry for her to arrive. It felt really comfy, perhaps because it was just before xmas , all the decorations were up and it was well christmasy and toasty warm in the house. Everyone was being nice to me and I didn't have to do any work and I think I didn't want that to stop. I knew once she was out I would get about 2 days grace and then would have to get back in the saddle again (ouch!)
I had her at home which was also really fab and had the birth filmed which was also really fab. So altogether it was.... really fab

Looking forward to the getting looked after stage at christmas too. I expect MILs to be on top form and address my every whim
DP will prob need a break by then, noticed he tends to volunteer himself for stuff which means he gets out of the house at the mo...very strange..

Hiya everyone
Had the nuchal scan, everything tickety boo, ,7mm so really good result.
femur length fine, lovely nasal bone, all brain structures look great - now astonishingly...
DATES!
With ds and dd I was put back 6 days
this time I am bang on dates!
Freaky!
Anyway I'm made up

hello ladies
What a day was hoping to check in earlier - alas !
Lots going on, plenty to chuckle at and lots of oh-mi-gawd thats happening to me...so thanks!

Firstly, Nova - I missed your comment earlier about needing painkillers AFTER the freaking birth... you mean the PAIN DOES NOT GO AWAY once the babe has landed!? This is not good. As you are all now clearly aware I am not good with pain... blimey. This does suck.

Penny, Boo - Spot on - thats also how I feel, but have not been able to articulate. I have not felt particularly low, but I just have not been myself. I have found this more than anything the hardest thing I struggle with.

Kitty - Heeehaw... Maggot that's a stayer, my DH will LOVE that.

Fatfox - thanks for joining me in cramping sympathy... sorry...

Piffle - YAAAAY

Was thinking about the MS and feeling low and want to share my midwife advise who tends towards alternative therapy. Obviously prozac will sort you out, but for those of us teetering on the edge, she suggests Evening Primrose and Starflower to help rampant hormones. I take a supplement called Well Woman by Vitabonics (?) which give full protection as pregger vitamins with these two added. I think it has a minor effect, and probably does help to balance (along with masses of Ginger Tablets and Nova's choclate therapy)

Long message, sorry - but needed to catch up ! Am in Madrid tomorrow with Sales team (urg) me against 7 men - in another life it would have been bliss, but I am frankly dreading it! Speak to you all on Friday.

Piffle - that's fab news - now you can relaxed and enjoy the rest of your pregnancy (LOL)

Onilly - I have an awayday in two weeks, overnight with about 8 men. Its fine to have PG dreams about such matters () but in reality I'm dreading it - having to sit in the bar with eight men - yuk!!!! Must remind myself to take a good book.

Will you get a chance to look around Madrid/do
some shopping, or will it all be work, work, work?

Kittywits - I envy you the home birth - are you going for that again this time?

Penny - I think we'll all have to treat ourselves to a little (or large) drink at Christmas won't we? How else can we get through Christmas with the relatives?

piffle,glad ur scan went well and all is good.

fatfox-u feel like that today too?i knew it was going to be one of those days as soon as i got up and it hasnt let me down.i've sworn at an old man,moaned at an old woman,and various other things.i swear im still getting pmt even though i havent had a period since june.

i got really bad stretching and cramping pains for most of my 3rd pregnancy,i dont know why.it was like things were being stretched more than the first 2 times and i kept getting weird stitch-like pains down the sides of my womb!it was only with number 3 though.

hey, does anyone remember me, or indeed has anyone even missed me!!!!

I moved house last friday, and have been sooooo busy what with one thing and another,so i thought id just stop by and say i was still here.....

Shall read up as much as i can, hopefully i will be around in the not too distant future!

Hope everyone is ok

Welcome back Jay
I think we have all got crap preg heads on so can't remember much really. Course we remember you!
how did the move go? are you pleased with your new abode?

Piffle really glad the scan went well

fatfox I shall be planning another home birth, nothing like crawling back into your own bed and drinking a yummy cuppa in your fav mug. Are you going to have one?

Kittywits, I am thinking about homebirth but

a) what do you do with your other kids

b) did you feel inhibited about making a noise etc, I'm sure our neighbours would hear and it puts me off!

c) I had a section with dd2 so couldn't (apparently) have a homebirth, but since had a vbac with dd3 so does that cancel out the section IYSWIM??

d) did you have to go into hospital later for checks on hips, hearing etc??

Maybe I am too chicken after all!

Annie
A) My mum came and looked after the others during the birth but it was really nice because they could come and see her within minutes of her being born and it has had such a positive effect on their relationship with her.

B) I didn't worry about noise. As I mentioned I was having it filmed for one of those home birth progs so really knowing a large number of women would be seeing me in all my grunting glory I didn't care who was hearing me at home!!!!

C)DD3 was my third vbac after 2 sections so I had a pretty good idea before hand that I could manage natural births ok. Of course the hospital tried to put me off but I just said I was having her at home and that was that. My midwife was incredibly supportive of home births and managed to attend the birth so that was fab.
They never stop going on about vbac homebirths though, even this time when I said I wanted another home birth a ( new) midwife said " oh it goes against protiocol" I wanted to tell her to shut up and leave Me alone. I just said I was having a home birth.
If you want one you have the right to have one and they have to support you in this. It is the law, they have to, no matter what they say. But be prepared to stand your ground.

D) The doctor came round later that day and checked baby over. I didn't go to the hospital at any point.

It's really worth considering IMO. It's so different to being in hospital. I remember lying in bed with baby next to me fast asleep watching carry on Henry ( the same day she was born). Then later the same day going downstairs to a wonderful homecooked meal and a glass of red wine and being with all my family. There's nothing to beat that!

Mull it over. You have plenty of time to think about things. You can change you mind about where you would like to have your baby at any time. Just because you say you're going to hospital it doesn't mean you have to.

I'm sure you're not chicken Annie but you have to be quite bloody minded to take on the system.

I have to say that I've noticed that my thighs have spread horribly already. It's so bloody depressing. I've got saddlebag thighs. I'd only just got the weight off from the last one. I can't do this preg stuuf again. I want my body back I'm gonna get so fat, I know I am,!!!!!

kitty-i keep getting told off by dp for saying im getting/going to get fat.he just doesnt understand!i was so chuffed when dd2 got to 5 months and i was back to my pre-preg weight,then i decide i wan to pile it all back on..i think thighs just look fat when ur sitting at a pc,cos of the shape of the chair and the light etc.yes,thats what it is.
i want my jeans back

My thighs look fat when I stand up. I now can't pull my pre preg trousers past my hips . I bet it's going to be another girl I always get fat with girls.

Hello !

You ladies talk !! Hust a quick catch up - Welcome back jaysecond - hope you are settling in your new home.

Have had a made few days socialising and met up with my sister in law who is 11 weeks pregnant after losing a baby last year. Am off to Stanstead in 2 hours to fly to a wedding in Sicily. Managed to squeeze into a dress I bought last year - my stomach looks kind of pregnant - but am in that in betweeny stage. Peoplpe will probably think I've eaten too many pies.

Saw great midwife yesterday ...despite this being my 3rd, I had worked my dates out wrong and am apparently due 12/3 now. Hopefully will get scan appointment next week

Been having very rude dreams...one involving a ruler...but won't go into the details as will probably be excommunicated from the March thread.

Hope you all have a good few days

14 + 1

PMSL @ you Asia!!!
I had one involving a job interview, lusting after interviewer and just managing to say no barely and struggle home to dp

Woke up with look of total shock and horror on my face- I rarely dream

Kittywits I'm having a homebirth or at least planning one! Both of my labours have been fast and "easy", midwives and consultant have approved so fingers grossed no bizarre compication arises to stop it.
Where I live now I doubt I'd get to hospital on time tbh...

My dd is poorly today, she appears to have threadworms it has given her a very irritated girly bits so she is still asleep - chamomile tea wash helped.
Am waiting for her to wake so I can get some treatment. Roll on 6 weeks of daily shett washing, daily hoovering and early morning showers as I being up the duff have to rely on hygiene alone.
grim... poor little dd though she's not well at all...

Piffle - sorry to hear about DD and her itchy bits, poor little thing

Laidback - how much have your dates moved (sorry I've lost the plot here)?

Jaysecond - welcome back to your "real" home - MN - its chaos when you move isn't it. We last moved Feb 2005, and I lost my make-up case for two days - meant I couldn't do the school run - actually it meant I had to go and buy new make up which really annoyed me at the time.

Kittywits/annie/piffle - I'd really like a home birth, but feeling all pathetic about pushing it, patrly because I feel so tired at the moment and can't be bothered to do anything much. I've had two normal V births, so no health reasons obstructing me.

Kittywits - what happens with all the blood etc; do you have to cover the bed with something (old copies of the local newspaper or something ? LOL ) - seriously - its the thought of the logistics and the mess that slightly worries me.

ps. had a dream the other night I was trying to have sex with Roman Polanski, who was working as a Polish builder doing us a loft extension. Was all going well until I smothered the poor little chap with my huge (.)(.)s

Fatfox, I am curious about where all the mess goes, too! When I was born, the (Catholic) midwife told my Dad off as he bought her an old copy of 'The Universe' (Catholic newspaper) to wrap the placenta in!!

I think I am going to pluck the courage up to ask for a homebirth.

Kittywits, as an avid watcher of those home birth programmes, I may have seen your bits in glorious technicolour already!!

Annie - ROFL at the vision of your Dad frantically wrapping the placenta up in the Catholic Herald and then getting told off

As a good Catholic girl myself, I really appreciate that image!

morning(i think)
i find the idea of homebirths terrifying!i think you women who have had or are contemplating them are very brave.
when i was expecting dd2,i was talking to my mw about how was i going to manage with the kids etc when i had the baby and she said i should consider a home birth.i thought it was a strange thing to say seeing as i had been induced due to high blood pressure with my previous 3!
after having dd2 though,i can see why it would be nice to have a baby at home as it doesnt need to be the scary,painful experience alot of hospitals make it out to be.i was very relaxed and only swore once last time,the only things that spoilt it were being hooked to a drip and a fetal heart monitor(which i insisted they removed when i started pushing).

Hi girls

Good news about your nuchal piffle. Mine went well yesterday too - apparently I have a risk of 1:3381 which is good for an old bird like me. The sonographer commented on how poorly my C section scar had healed though which made me feel a bit self conscious! It's not that bad.

With the Group B strep etc, I couldnt have a home birth anyway, but think I may well be going for the old elective a
as the problems with DD are likely to recur. We'll have to see. Good luck to everyone wanting a home birth though - hope you don't have to fight too hard to get your way.

Good to hear all is well jaysecond.

Kitty, you have my undying admiration for having a birth filmed. I think I have done well if I let a trainee Dr take my BP! There would have been way too much swearing etc in my birth for anyone to have wanted to watch it.

Hope you are all having a good day.

XXXX

hi Ladies,

I hope you don't mind me joining in. Just so pleased to hear that other people are concerned about their thighs! Mine have gone hughe...most upset My boyfriend doesn't understand my concern, just keeps saying 'You're pregnant'. My dreams too are quite bizarre and very saucy!... After my DD 7 years ago my then midwife said that she'd suggest a homebirth next time as I was pretty quick. I quite like this idea, boyfriend doesn't (not father of DD) but he had bad birthing experience with his ex. (this is another story) I had a water birth last time and my ideal this time would be to have a birthing pool at home, I have yet to discuss this with my midwife yet though.
I'm now 16 weeks and have only seen her once, and that time she seemed intent on telling me how she was the midwife of my boyfriends ex!!! How she'd been in the house before and how different I had made it look!!....I was really upset at her beign so insensitive...do you think i'm being hormonal or normal?? Not looking forward to seeing her again to be honest in case she tries to bring up the subject again. She insisted that she had seen the ex in a nearby village quite recently, which seems quite unusual as she lives othe rend of country and boyfriend has alot of contact as they have a son together!

Sorry for going on, feeling a bit stressed out about it all!

Sassilils - how insensitive is that ?

Yeah, please do join in the fat maggots thread

Thanks Fatfox I thought she should have really talked about me and my pregnancy rather than go into details about my partners ex-wife's!

The maggot comments had me rolling

omg sassilils,if that'd been me i think i've smacked her one!i'd make a formal complaint and ask for a different m/w if that happened to me.
i am very hormonal though,thats just my opinion on what happened to you.

i keep seeing tiny babies today,and ppl standing around brand-new prams cooing over the contents!i think its a september thing,isnt it,christmas babies?i just keep feeling fed up at the thought that i have another 6 months before i have one of those.at the moment i just look like ive eaten too much and had a dodgey breast enlargement.

14wks

Divastrop, TBH I my partner mentioned making a complaint, he pointed out that he may not have been honest with me about his past, having a child etc. Which couldhave really caused problems! They live in Glasgow and we are in the midlands, so it would be easy for him to hide I suppose. All she did was say what a nasty person the ex was and how difficult she was etc. Turns out she made a complaint about midwife's collegue after birth as thought she should have been offered a c-section rather than forceps!! She evan had the audacity to sit in my lounge and comment on how they too had sat on the sofa together (not the sofa we have now, thank god).
Well I'm seeing her at 4pm today for my 16 week blood test so we'll see if she makes any mention of the ex. I'm getting myself wound up already!

Thanks for listening everyone! My Boyfriend think's I am depressed becuase I keep reacting badly to all things that concern the ex. I just feel like she taints everything, even my booking in appointment I am hormonal though

Sassi - how did your meet with the MW from hell go today?