October 2014 - thread 8 - more growing tums, shopping & pubic topiary

[Kirstipops]

Hi folks, new thread!

Anyone else find the term 'irritable uterus' amusing? Conjures up imagines of moody lady parts!

mum2kiss why would you be refused pain relief! :-O
Thanks Yellow!
I'll be finished my Natal Hypno book tonight and my

Arghh flipping sausage fingers, meant to say my Food of Love bf book hasn't arrived in the post yet, harrumph....

Me! I had it last time and thought it well suited the irritable rest of me.

I'm flying solo tonight as DH is working down in London. It turns out that a day nap avoiding and toddling after his big cousins playing water fights in the garden = hysterics at bath time and asleep in my arms mid story at 7.20. This never happens in our house. Please don't wake at 5am!

yellow I think my ds has had a nap today as he's singing away in his cot instead of sleeping!

I'm feeling rather like an irritable uterus at the moment - thank god the builders hadn't made any new unwanted holes in our walls!

I've got a really painful lower bump today - around the areas where I inject my heparin, but not on the 'surface' where the bruises are, but right underneath. Hurts when I stand up, on both sides - does this sound like ligament pain? Just coincidental about the location? Any movement of my stomach muscles really hurts too, and the whole area sort of feels heavy over my pubic bone. Urgh.

Meanwhile, no car has reappeared in the opposite neighbours drive yet...

Could the baby have turned head down goats?

Always feels heavy down there when this one buries it's head in my pelvis!

kirsti I was refused epidural because they said it was too late. Gas and air did nothing for me. ..so I had nothing! I did ask for a general anaesthetic but they didn't take me Seriously!

Oh the goats I had something very similar to that last week.My bump suddenly got loads more tight,heavy and painful especially at the bottom and I've been struggling to walk since.Midwife and doctor said baby has moved to a head down position which can be more uncomfortable and they thought I'm having braxton hicks too.I'm still struggling to walk..but slowly adapting to the new heaviness!

Yipes mum2kiss no wonder you're going for the Natal Hypno!

Lol fedup I'm now envisioning my ladybits scowling!!

This week I'm hopefully booking my 7 day intensive driving course for this month! DH,bless him, is saying to use it as an opportunity to just enjoy learning to drive, rather than putting too much pressure on myself to pass at the end, but truth is I REALLY want to get my licence in good time ahead of bump becoming baby!

kirsti kirsti we can be driving buddies!! I passed my test in 2007 but never really drove since (living in London so combo of excellent public transport on my doorstep plus very impatient fellow drivers put me off). I am having refresher lessons starting in the next week.
Fingers crossed for both of us! Are you going for manual or automatic?

ohthegoats I have exactly the same. When I stand up, if I sit down suddenly, under my bump feels very bruised and sore. When I had my scan at 25 weeks the baby had her head right next to my cervix so maybe that's why, or stretching pains (arghh fear at the thought of yet more stretching).

Went to see my friend on Sunday who is 37 weeks. Lordie. I kept looking at her bump and thinking Ye gods that is going to happen to ME! It was just so big and protruding and heavy looking!!

I agree with the others - that's how it feels when my babies have turned head down Goats.

I only had the choice of gas and air or diamorphine on the island - they would have given me a general had I needed a CS as they couldn't do epidurals. They sent all horse riders south to Aberdeen as standard because of the limited pain relief options (apparently having very tight horse riders glutes / tight pelvic floor can be a real bugger).

Luckily I found both gas and air and diamorphine got me suitably off my tits.

kirsti tak1ng - I passed my test in 1995, but only drove rather haphazardly for around 6 months, then completely stopped driving until about 15 months ago for similar reasons to tak1ng. Driving again was one of my self-imposed conditions for having DC3 and it has actually been ok, the first few months weren't brilliant but I kept at it and now I'm (fairly) happy heading out locally.

The thing is to keep making yourself go out in the car rather than building it up as a thing in your head, I made myself drive (even if just to the supermarket or to pick up from preschool) twice a week and the practise did me loads of good.

Aaaaah, that would make sense - thanks. There has been a lot of what I would call 'baby body slamming' going on the last few days. My whole bump shifting around instead of the normal kicking feeling low down. It did it so obviously this afternoon in class that one of the kids said 'woah...' where he was obviously watching it. Other than the body slamming feeling, things have got less squirmy, which again would make sense with an anterior placenta. Cool.. I was convinced it was going to be breech and I'd be arguing about turning it/not turning it really late on.

I've got a growth scan on Thursday, so I guess I'll find out for sure.

Thanks taking and magic, I'm going for the manual . DH took me out in our car on Sunday for about an hour and a half to an empty car park in an industrial estate. Having short legs and a belly is going to be interesting with the pedals I think!! Hopefully will get a few more hours practice in before the course, if DH can fit me in between the World Cup, band practice and pre-season training

Bugger yep I'm regularly slugging gaviscon out of the bottle these days. I was the same with j and he came out with a beautiful head of curls.

Goats they can and usually do turn every which way for another month or two don't worry about positioning yet.

bugger - yes, mine started around 18 weeks, I swear I had one day of feeling fully human again after morning sickness for the indigestion to start the next bloody day.

To be fair, mine isn't horrendous yet - I've not had any night's where I need to sleep propped up yet. Chewing minty gum calms mine down, I can't take indigestion remedies as I'm on medication you can't take with them and my indigestion is worse in the evenings.

I'm on the orange Rennies - have been for about a week. Also find that cleaning my teeth helps, and eating icecream for pudding after every meal including breakfast sometimes helps.

Yeah I'm not massively worried about position - I know that it'll spin around a bit more between now and when it needs to sort itself out (and I've got stuff to start doing to help it), but apart from some clear somersaults, it's been head up under my right ribs (I can see the lopsided lump), and feet kicking left hand side of bladder/cervix pretty much the whole time I've been able to feel it. Also always breech at scans. Ridiculous I Know, but I was dithering about the doula payment because it gives no refund on a C-section need, yet I wouldn't know about that and breech-ness until too late to pay in full, even though she wouldn't do anything. I paid today though, so...

In bed and back hurts, bump hurts, got heart burn and leg cramps. 25 weeks. What will I be like at 35 weeks?!

I was pretty psychotic.

jellybean another large mum here. BMI of god knows what but I've only been weighed at my booking appointment

Got my GTT tomorrow, what fun. I'll roll into the office tomorrow lunchtime resembling a pincushion!

Fedup that sucks :(
Well I felt really inexplicably uncomfy earlier having a quick go of Pilates dvd but couldn't really place it, until I was doing some squats and realised.....trapped wind....thank god I was in an empty house

Rarrrrrrr! I hate iTunes! Just spent the last 3.5 hrs trying to put the Maggie Howell VBAC CD's from my computer iTunes account to my phone. I screamed at my husband & was on verge of throwing computer across living room during the trial! I now have frigging duplicates of old music I don't want anymore & messed up playlists.
I tried to get DD to go to the loo during this ordeal & the wee munchkin would not wake up! She sat on the loo fast asleep & hugged me! So no pee success tonight :(

Oh shit CJ did you get the Itunes sorted on your phone? DH did it for me (it's his laptop so could prob envision me likewise launching it across the room if I was having trouble!) If you didn't, I'll ask him how he did it!

Ugh why is it you spend all day being exhausted, then spend half the night trying to get to sleep because you're so uncomfortable and then the alarm goes so so sleepy.