"hey Mummy! Ready or not, here I come! ;-)" - July 2014 thread

[ZingWhale]

Some of us has weeks to go, some just days and of course another massive Congratulations to all who have already given birth!

pack your pads, tiaras, nappies & Vaseline -HERE WE GO!!!

Officially overdue now and I feel terrible for being kind of happy about it!

Had a terrible day yesterday, planned a busy day to forget about the fact it was baby's due date and he's showing no signs of moving. Day turned into a complete disaster with my dog collapsing while I had her out for a walk and her back end completely going, she's

Oops, stupid accidental post! Anyway, I was on my own and managed to get DH to come and get her. She's much better now (vets tomorrow but she's walking again) but I got myself into a total state with worry and now I'm feeling terrible for getting all stressed and potentially stressing out baby!

Feel like this post has no relevance but I just feel like a hormonal pregnant lady rant

We are all entitled to pregnancy rants. As you all know I have them regularly (have I mentioned the IM training?!?!). Hope your dog is doing ok. They are such special family members themselves so do hope that he/she is ok. My 2 are currently sprawled on the sofa keeping me company watching Wimbledon. I spend more time with them than any other living thing!

And DTD in this condition is not sexy. I reckon it must have been a man who came up with the "fact" that sex can bring on labour.

Serious LOL at feeling sexy to Dtd at the moment :)

Sat on the sofa enjoying watching the Tour de France/Yorkshire but feeling guilty I'm sat in such a bad slouched position and should really be sat on my ball. Bump just achey and I'm tired!

collie hope your dog ok.

Just had a text from a friend, we'd tentatively agreed to meet tomorrow depending how I feel. She has a 6mo and is very strict about his routine so won't be able to come to me so I will need to go to her-about a 20-30min drive. Just not sure whether I want to be going that far on my own at this stage yet know I do need to plan to do things when DS at the childminders otherwise I will just get bored, lonely and more fed up! Hmmmm... Just not sure what to do!

fifi Exciting!

Collie Hope your dog's better and all goes well tomorrow with the vet.

As a moderately blessed woman, I do enjoy the larger breasts that come with pregnancy, but totally agree about not feeling sexy with a massive bump. Especially when baby starts moving vigorously during proceedings...

Baby is SUPER active today. Feeling rather uncomfortable because of it, but loving it at the same time.

Frustrating day. Decided I should prioritise getting a load of old clothes on ebay, so spent morning ironing them all ready to photograph. Cannot for the life of me find the charger for the compact, so thought it would be good to dust off the DSLR. Which it turns out is completely DEAD - turns on but won't take photos. So annoyed - really really want a DSLR for newborn photos. Trip to camera shop tomorrow and hope it is fixable.

And I now have a house full of ironed clothes waiting to go on ebay and no means of photographing them.

And wasted so much time faffing that I didn't make it to Primark to buy last things for hospital bag

And can't pack hospital bag anyway because bag is in loft and I can't get up there and DH is out cycling all day

I feel your pain plate. I really do. I followed DH the other day on his bike and the concept of just giving him a little accidental (!) push that would just do enough damage to prevent him from training did cross my mind. Obviously I didn't. But it was a little tempting!!

Blue see how you feel tomorrow. When are you due and is this your first (sorry can't remember!)

plate so v frustrating! Sounds about how some of my days have been recently! So sorry! What a pain! Though trying to throw a small positive on it at least you've discovered the camera issues now and not as/after baby arriving.

fifi exciting for tomorrow!

I'm just grumpy this evening and DH keeps moaning he's not getting any time to himself at the moment which is winding me up. Think half the problem is that I have Mon/Tues to myself as DS with childminder to give me a rest (which I need) but I don't have anything to distract me from looming (but not starting) labour so am not too positive about them. He however would love those days to himself and is quite of me which think is making things worse. Not much I can do about it and know that once baby arrives his 'me' time will be almost non existent so I'm not feeling v sympathetic.

Also starting to think panic slightly about the paternity leave period. DS will still go to the childminder 1 day each week but will be with us the rest of the time. Those having DC2+ ( Inca, kiwi, zing, Nancy etc ) have you got a list of activities planned for the older DC that your DH will do with them? When DS was born we took life v slowly for the first few days, had visitors and went out a few times. This time it will obviously be very different with a very active 25Mo to entertain too! Any thoughts/ideas v welcome!

Inca x post. Now 39+2 due next sat with DC2. DS was 3 days early though hence my massive impatience wondering if this one will do the same or even be earlier.

blue well I was hoping my DM would help with entertaining DD1 but we may need a new plan there . We have membership to our local kids museum and zoo so hoping DH will take her there. He often takes her out on his own at weekends anyway. Also bike rides (she has a seat on his bike), playing at local park and swimming. May send him out with my friends too.

Blue - men!!!! Grrrr. On a whole the majority have no idea. Don't you dare feel sorry or guilty about having some 'me' time as it won't be for long. With regards to DS. This is all rather rubbish timing. I try and do something every morning with him as otherwise e gets a bit bored and cranky and it just makes life easier. Afternoons are far easier. What with summer holidays fast approaching these are soon going to disappear. Soft play cafés, playgrounds, friends with similar age children are all helpful and grandparents as well if you have some near. We are also lucky we have the beach near by. Am hoping paternity leave will happen here and not end up being a great excuse for training...

Oh yes bike rides and dog walks are also a firm favourite here.

Blue Haven't got any particular plans. Will just take each day as it comes, really. Hopefully the weather is nice enough for them to go to the park. And DH needs to practice the bagpipes for his sister's wedding in mid August so I'm going to get him to take DD with him to the cemetery where he practises.

DD will be 29 months (I think) so same issues re needing distraction. And she doesn't nap very often anymore!

Inca if your DH so much as suggests using his paternity leave for I'm training he will have a whole bunch of angry MNers to deal with on top of your 'hormonal just given birth but still fully justifiable angry response' :)

Thanks for the ideas re paternity leave. I also try and get DS out every morning to wear him out so he will nap in the afternoon. We've got membership for local toddler world soft play but as soon as summer holidays start it will be manic in there which is annoying!

DH is a superstar really, just has moments of 'not getting it' like the rest of the guys!

hot indian for dinner,hoping it encourages baby. no sign of nesting, does everyone get the nesting urge before baby tho?

came across this on facebook, cant decide if its weird or nice to have: www.momsownmilk.com/about

Mummy - I didn't get the nesting urge. I had thoughts about needing to clean the kitchen /bathroom /etc but never really got past that. Thankfully my mum seemed to get it post baby when she visited (even to the extent of ironing his baby grows!)

thinking tomoro would be a good date for babies to be born 7/7/14 :)

Said to DP I need to do some last minute packing before bed.... Just double checking everything is there. He said what now? What have you been doing all day?

I wish to submit this as evidence as to why DP didn't live to see his son born....

Gosh am scared to go to sleep tonight, having a total panic about going into labour and being alone. Feel very different tonight, baby is so so low, haven't felt this before. My lady bits are aching and iv been weeing every 5-10 mins. Iv been putting off going to bed as I really am not ready for baby tonight. My mum is far away until the morning, DP is back @ work and we are mid argument, I havnt washed up or cleared away dinner things so kitchen is a bomb & today I discovered my birthing pool tap adapters don't fit on any mixer taps in my house only a single tap so need to get different adapters first thing tomorrow morning. I need 2 more days at the very least. Feeling really anxious about everything.
Havnt been worried about being alone when labour starts until now and I'm all of a sudden petrified & literally asking God not to make it happen night
Hoping to get a but if sleep, will catch up on today's post at 4am

mummytobe I think the milk things are a bit odd tbh!

fifi I know I wouldn't be able to sleep and would be up checking everything the night before too. Your DP isn't personally about to go through the physical test that you have to come-has he got his bag all sorted though?!

Hayley try and stay calm if you can. I felt like that a few days before labour started with DS so hopefully you still have time. However, despite mid argument, is it worth giving DP the heads up how you're feeling and that the tap adapters need sorting ASAP just in case? Hope you get some sleep! The other thing to remember is that you won't be alone totally as the MW will come out to you.

Still awake! Hard to sleep when I've got a big day ahead and DP is snoring like a gruffalo

I've never worried about operations before, I've had a couple to do with my heart and didn't bat an eyelid but I'm suddenly filled with fear of something going wrong and leaving DS behind. I blame the hormones.

Alarm is set for 6.15..... In 5 hours I'll be getting up ready for the hospital. if I ever get to sleep crazy stuff. I swear this pregnancy lasted years and now I'm like shit! It's time!

Good luck fifi wishing you all the luck in the world. Iv had the same thoughts about something going wrong and leaving DS etc and I'm not even having a c section - as far as I'm aware. It's normal to be nervous, but I have no doubts you will be absolutely fine and will be all cuddled up with your newborn in a few hours

Thanks Blue, am going to hopefully get tap adapters first thing tomorrow. Hoping I can get them from homebase otherwise I have absolutely no idea where to go. Am slightly calmer now, think I'm just getting nervous as I know it could really be any time now, & I'm dying to feel ready & organised which for me equals calm when things do kick off. Have a final growth scan this week, but by the way I'm feeling think baby may just be here by Wednesday/Thursday.

On the positive side got all my shelves up today and have managed to empty 8 large boxes of books. Going to try & clear all the remaining boxes in the next 2days but feeling much better about my birth space now, & if I do have to look at boxes In the room it will only be a couple not a whole corner piled up to the ceiling which I think I can just about live with.

Going to try and sleep again now- will probably be back here in a few hours

Fifi best of luck tomorrow! I was the same, cool as a cucumber because it was only another surgery but then I remembered the baby bit and freaked. You'll be fine though [unmumsnetty hug]

Hayley The tap thing is annoying but probably easy to fix tomorrow - if it was me it would also be stressing me out as it's Sunday night and impossible to fix right now.

I appear to be vaguely improving. Still have milk despite managing only about 1-1200 cals per day, but the routine now is rightie -> leftie -> formula. If only boobs came wlth a quantity consumed indicator!