Due in November - Part 5 - 3rd Trimester here we come.

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Morning Girls,

Thought I would start a new thread as someone suggested further down the last one.

Come and join.

Debbsy, how are things today ? Hope you are feeling better.
Tummy Button is starting to poke out a bit, sort of half in and half out, looks very odd.
We brought our buggy yesterday - we have gone for this one , being delivered a week Friday. Can't wait to get it home and have a push.

Not even thought about hospital bag yet. When I was pregnant with DD, I'm sure I already had it packed by now. We had one for labour and one for afterwards which worked quite well, think we will do the same this time.
Carseat - I had to stay in after having DD so DH brought the carseat up to the hospital the next day with him. I think we will put it in the car ready this time though as hoping to be in and out in a flash

Morning all!

We had a lovely weekend lazing around in the sun, but I am just so exhausted all the time am worried what I'll be like next month (am due Nov. 4th.) Glad to hear everyone else had a good weekend.

I feel like the countdown to labour is really starting! We have 2 classes over the next two Saturdays, then a hospital tour in October .. then I'll be on leave! Anyone else getting anxious?

morning all!!! i have just 2 shifts left to work, i really really can't wait!! friday is my last day!! spent the whole weekend stuck in that place, it's funny that i only work part-time, but the patients think i'm always there, a few asked if i ever have time off!! i've got so much planned to do and i can finally order the cot and pushchair!! although i may have a problem their... my downstairs toilet is broken, it's a very simple problem to fix but the people who owned this house before us boxed in the cistern behind a wall without leaving any access to it, so in order to fix this simple problem we have to rip out the wall and then repair it... i may have to use the money ive saved so hard for the pushchair (mum's buying the cot) to do this!!! or i can just keep pooring buckets of water down it and get the pushchair anyway!! priorities!!!

Camgirl - I am getting definitely getting anxious! I'm due 6th Nov, and as you said I am counting down now. 4 weeks of work, then 3 weeks to due date. I am looking forward to it and do have days when I'm impatient and want my baby now, but then I have other days when the nerves get the better of me and I think of how much labour must hurt. My hospital tour last week made it feel very real, and I think my parentcraft classes in October will make it feel even closer.

Camgirl - I have really,really started to worry about the birth now, although part of me thinks 7 weeks is a long time and i just want to get it over with now another part of me is so scared to think that its going to happen and there is absolutley nothing i can do about it also not knowing when it will happen doesnt help!

Saralou - I have a suggeston, get the loo fixed and get a trolley from Tescos for a substitute pram, the most it will cost is £1 . Obvousily i am joking just hoped to make you smile x

oooh, good idea lebe!

Hi all,

I'm glad you mentioned being anxious Camgirl I am trying not to concentrate on the birth yet, but it's the something being wrong anxious that I am going through at the moment....definitely too much Eastenders I think. I just wish I was more of an optomist, DH says my worring is obsessive which means I am now worrying about worrying too much!

I have another 5 weeks at work so getting jealous of those who are nearly finished!

Camgirl - anxious NO - scared to bloody death - YES !!!!! LOL

Went for my first ante-natal class on Saturday, that was enlightening, discussed on set of labour, pain relief and what to take in hospital with you !

I had a go on the gas and air, wow ... that stuff will be good when your in agony ! also showed us how a tens machine works and that was good too. We have to either hire then or buy them the hospital does not supply them! Apparently to hire them it costs between £22.50 and £27.00 but someone said that LLoyds Pharmacy are selling them for a tenner so may take a trip !!!

Found out something else too I can still have an epidural if need be even though I have SPD someone on here said it was unlikely I could but yipppeee I do have the option of being pain free if the need arises !

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Jamcrumpet - Im glad someone has mentioned Eastenders, i was given a highrisk (1:150) for downs syndrome and turned down the amnio but i have spoken to some really lovely women on here who have children with ds and they have helped me so much, and as soon as that storyline started i asked them if it was realistic and they mostly said no, Eastenders over-dramatise things to get the viewers. I think its normal to worry tho.

Debz - im so jealous you got to try gas and air, did it make you feel sick, thats my main worry about it cos i hate feeling or being sick - not that i will probably care. Someone at our classes said Lloyds sold tens machines for a tenner but it was wrong so im not sure, but having looked around ive decided Toys 'r' us is the best and Boots was rubbish!! The only thing that worries me is you cant have them until 38 weeks so what if the baby is early.

Mygirl - No word yet about the chair, i am feeling a bit down i guess, im a natural worrier and things have been worrying me and i didnt want to tell anyone because i thought it was stupidthings so i have kept it all to myself, it all kind of came out on sat tho so feeling a bit better.

Saralou - Glad you liked my suggestion xx

hi everyone, cant really have a proper catch up as been gone for ages!

debz as for tens machine they are brill and i think its well worth buying one, when im uncomfortable in the evening i put it on and it eases the pain, if you hire them you only get them for a few weeks so if baby comes early they aint much use!

well iv been busy on and off and been in some discomfort. keep getting pain in my belly and low down in my bits a sharp pain that comes and goes. i dont think its contractions as doesnt feel like the ones i had with dd but its not very comfy! and iv been getting pain down one of my legs, think thats the baby laying on a nerve, again not very comfy.

well dont mean to complain we'r alright here really! had a few bad nights with dd as shes decided to be really clingy (knows the baby is well on the way i think) and spends all day sat on my lap and wouldnt go to bed at night (or for naps for that matter) but we'v sorted that one with a night light and gradual withdrawal (thank you tanya byron) and last night i just managed to leave without a fuss!hurrah!

right want to start a major discussion, who has packed their labour bag??? and if so whats in it???

i had mine packed at 20 weeks with dd and packed just about everything, but not really sure this time, what do people think??

oh and i brought my tens this time for about £30 from boots (check its one that can be used while pg, some cant dont know why) and to hire one when i had dd it was £27, i think buying is better! (you can always sell them on ebay if you dont want to keep them, but would prob good if you suffer period back pain too!)

yup, just had a big investigation of downstairs loo, cause i cant believe theirs no access either and their isn't any!! i think we might be able to do something from the top, cut a hole or something which doesn't involve tooo much work.. but gonna have to wait for my dad to come down and do it as dp is crap at diy!! hopefully that will work!!

i've actually started to write a birth plan.. i'm definitely not as anxious about labour as i was the 1st time, fear of the unknown i think makes it worse (but i'm also slightly in denial still that i have to do it again..) but i have weird things on mine like no sho's in the room if a dr needs to be called in... if i need an epidural i don't want side effects/ complications explained to me.. i don't want pethidine or an episiotomy.. i have 2 birthing partners and they are to be in the room at all times, no questions!! and best friend to cut the cord!! i think thats most of it!! a lot of my birth plan comes from what i experienced last time round... when i had ds the only birth plan i had was quick and painfree please!!!

i need to think about birth plan, as my problem is the internals, dont really knwo what to put tho.

no bag packed yet.. gonna do it when mat leave starts.. one of many things to do!!

as we all have i think! i just have no energy for constructive things these days. generally manage to tidy my dds bedroom (move furniture and stupid things like that) or sort a load of stuff that needs carbooting, but as for packing a bag or hoovering or the washing up i never manage it, dh just doesnt understand! lol

stacey, i'd discuss that one with your madwife. you could put something like you will only have internals that are necessary.. but i think it may be hard for the midwife caring for you to understand why you don't want the internals, or why your anxious about them if she doesn't know your reason, or to be able to say which internals are absolutely necessary.. am i making sense or should i shutup now??

you could also request females only if that would help??

no making perfect sense. i dont mind them knowing why i have a problem thats fine with me, and i can manage to have them if im allowed gas and air during the internal. last time had a horrible midwife at one point who wouldnt let me and it caused a lot of discomfort and upset, so this time will be firm, am 2 years older and wiser and have got a lot more self beliefe now!

Stacey as far as I know as this isn't your 1st baby you are not necessarily in need of an internal... many women don't have any when this isn't their first.

Why would you not be allowed gas and air during an internal... I thought that was routine!

that would be brill! lol, thanks you cheered me up, still could do with birth plan tho really couldnt i?!?! hum de hum, going back to resume my lazing on the sofa i think!

some midwives are just plain mean, thats why!! put that on your biirth plan then... you will only have internals under the influence of drugs!! and good ones at that!! i liked gas & air.. wanted to kill the midwife who gave me an empty cylinder when epidural was working in my legs but not my belly!!!

Someone (sorry cant remember who) put a list on the last thread so i used that as a rough guide nd also thought of other things i want, being my first time i dont know what i will need and same goes for my birth plan, i havent thought of writing one because i dont know what i want or what to expect. I still have things need doing but nothing that would be a problem if i went into labour early, this is only because my mum had me at 31 weeks and MIL had her first at 29 weeks so they have drummed it in to me about being ready. Idid have my first trial run with putting the car seat and base in the car yesterday, it was a nightmare!! Very hard to do when you have a big belly to contend with!

By the way i was talking about hospital bags at the beginning of that message, sorry not with it!
Plus im really scared about internals now, are they really bad??? What do they involve - sorry if im being naive. x

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