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

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FoghornLeghorn · 29/08/2006 09:29

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

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Bethbe · 19/09/2006 12:24

Hiya,

Thanks so much for your comforting words about a back-to-back lying baby. I'm still a bit worried, but it sounds like I'll get info and help over the next few weeks and if that doesn't work it may still not cause problems. I am only 31 weeks!

NJ: That hip pain thing at night - I get it too, - what is is? - I've been hoping that it's my hips widening now very slowly to make the birth easier and less painful. Is this wishful thinking?

SL: LOL, - sorry for being so dense about the shoe thing! It did make a funny picture, - the doctor trying to enter the room and you screaming for him to remove his shoes!!! Are you really having your LO at the hospital where you work?

staceym11 · 19/09/2006 12:34

lol, when i went back to my school (i was 17 when i had dd and many of my friends were at 6th form) with my brand new baby the girls used to ask me what giving birth was like and id say:

'its really really really painful, and you think you can imagine that, well you cant what you're imagining is probably 1/100 of what its really like'

not trying to scare you, i was trying to scare them, and as yet my teachers all told me i was the best form of contraception they've had in years!

all i can say is it is really painful, but it builds so isnt such a shock, and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it, you jsut have to work with it and work through it. and remember that you get a beautiful baby afterwards. (i nearly didnt with dd, made a deal with the midwife she could have the baby if she took the pain away! you say very silly things when in labour! lol)

staceym11 · 19/09/2006 12:39

right am off to make lunch, wish i had soem nethusiasm for anything! damn cant type, you know what i mean!

mygirllolipop · 19/09/2006 12:55

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saralou100 · 19/09/2006 13:08

bethbe, yup, i really am having baby at hospital where i work, i work on the gynae ward so i work with all the dr's and i know quite a few of the madwives too!! it's weird but comforting too... i trust them all and their opinions, but it is kind of embarassing that they saw me like a crazy woman (and saw me poo!!) i remeber my first day back at work from mat leave after having ds, was in the treatment room and a dr came in, half way through conversation she says 'have we met before?' i told her no, i'd just come back from mat leave, to which she replied 'we have met, i learnt to stitch up on you' which she did!! so embarassed!! i still can't look the consultant in the eye that actually delivered ds, but i'm in love him any way!!

saralou100 · 19/09/2006 13:12

i posted that before i was finished....

on the subject of pg brain, the other day i put my name down for work christmas party on the 2nd december, completely forgetting i'm due on the 24th november!! soi'll either be breast feeidng my newborn or overdue and pissed off!!!

i've dropped off ds at nursery.. don't know what to do with myself now.. i've already cleaned everything and i don't collect him for 3 hrs!!

staceym11 · 19/09/2006 13:47

mygirllollipop, probably not odd, it is a very subtle movement and you really have to concentrate on it to feel it, the babies whole body jumps its really funny. dunno how i first realised it was hiccups but it definately is.

saralou100 · 19/09/2006 13:51

dp just been made redundant.. why now this is so unfair can't stop crying

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FoghornLeghorn · 19/09/2006 13:53

Oh Sarah
It wont be any confort to you at the minute but the day I started my maternity leave with DD (2 weeks before her due date), DH got let go at work as they didn't have enough work on to keep him going. I sat and sobbed and sobbed and cried like a mad woman on the phone to our mortgage company but it all worked out in the end.

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saralou100 · 19/09/2006 13:58

he's just waiting to go into a meeting to find out about pay off and stuff.. fucking arseholes!!

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FoghornLeghorn · 19/09/2006 14:03

How long has he been employed there ?

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saralou100 · 19/09/2006 14:07

3 years.. he nearly left last year, had another job lined up and they convinced him to stay by promising him a promotion.. they said the compan would be going through lots of changes with lots of opportunities blah blah bollocks

Debz99 · 19/09/2006 14:07

sarahlou - my DP lost his job too last week, he is frantically signing up with temping agencies and the like just to get some money in, so fingers crossed we will be up and in the black soon. Hope things work out for you too.

Bethbe · 19/09/2006 14:15

SL: I'm so sorry! Men really should be protected like women when there's a little one on the way! What is the reason? Can he claim discrimination or would that make things worse/not work?

I hope it works out for you eventually!!!!

staceym11 · 19/09/2006 14:15

oh sarahlou and debz hugs to both of you.

i dread to think how you feel, iv been panicking about not getting this sure start grant but if dh lost his job we'd be buggered. i really hope things get sorted out soon!

and sarahlou, try and relax, i know its upsetting but there is nothing you can do and crying is just going to upset you and your poor little bump, eat some chocolate, that will make you feel a bit better at least!

saralou100 · 19/09/2006 14:20

debz, sorry for you tooo then... it just feels like shit timing.... and selfish pg moment, when i had ds i went through so much shit with family and stuff that it tainted my happy time, so i wanted everything to be perfect and happy and nice, with memories that i can look back and smile about rather than feeling sad.

and i can't afford my pushchair now!!!! and there was me worried that fixing the toilet woulkd eat into that money, i can't do that either!!!

saralou100 · 19/09/2006 14:22

oh stacey that made me laugh... are you getting paid commission on chocolate or something, it's your solution to everything.... shame i've gone off chocolate in this pg!!

staceym11 · 19/09/2006 14:25

chocolate is the answer for everything! lol wish i did get commision from it, id make some of my money back, i eat so much! lol

glad to have put a smile (however momentarily) on your face!

saralou100 · 19/09/2006 14:28

bethbe - dp worked for ntl and they've just laid off the whole sales team, i think throughout the country but i haven't spoken to him properly yet

and now i've just realised we'll lose our discount on broadband.. we get everything, phone/tv/internet really cheap!!

LeBe · 19/09/2006 14:29

Debz - hugs to you too, hope everything works out.

Saralou - I am so gutted for you honey xxx seriously though im sure something will get sorted out, and i find aswell as chocolate sleep also helps and as hard as it is try not to get too worked up cos its not gonna help lo. Im sure you will have lots of good memories aswell as this sad one. xx

LeBe · 19/09/2006 14:30

Saralou - also if they are laying him off then surely they must offer him some dort of settlement, do they know that aa lo is on the way cos you might be able to get other help too??

mygirllolipop · 19/09/2006 14:41

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HopingCat · 19/09/2006 15:09

I'm so sorry! What rubbish timing. I really hope things work out for you.

I don't want to be insensitive, but on a more positive note my best friend has finally had her baby! Despite quite a few people thinking it was a girl, he is definitely a boy. I don't know any details except he's called Luke James and he weighs 7lb 4oz (which is good considering he's been in there for 42 weeks). I'm so excited for her and can't wait to ask her a million questions about what birth and motherhood are like.

Debz99 · 19/09/2006 15:10

Thanks Ladies, In one respect we are quite lucky as we are living with my parents at the moment so we don't have to worry too much about rent/mortgage etc, but we still have loans and credit cards to pay on just my wage ! which is ok for the next couple of months before my money drops through the floor ! Although I cried on the night it happend and am still a bit concerned it's not really bothering me too much and I don't know why!

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