September 2014- will there be any babies yet??

[ilovemonstersInc]

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Will we get to meet any of these babies soon?

I have watched every episode of OBEM at least once and regularly go onto 4OD to watch. It is getting more and more real the closer I get to my own birth experience but I rarely get very emotional - I think I've desensitized myself to it - OBEM that is not the miracle of birth itself!

Inbl00m I feel exactly the same. I want to have our baby, feed him, bring him home and settle into being a family (just OH and me) before I even consider handing him over to anyone else even for a second. Realistically though I'm going to have to compromise, DM, MIL and SIL all want to be at the hospital/visit asap after birth if not during!!! I am really worrying about it all. I am so lucky to have so many loving relatives but I just can't imagine how it's going to work. Sure it will be ok =/

I've been avidly watching obem since getting pregnant. Don't normally cry at it but was proper blubbing today.

We've had a long chat about visitors, only my mum (inlaws live overseas) will visit in hospital & then family only while DP is on paternity leave. Will be a long queue of friends waiting to come round after that. Am most worried about DPs grandma visiting. She'll be coming to stay for a week & will be desperate to change nappies, hold the baby, bathe him etc but she is so frail that she won't be able to do any of that, it will be a case of putting a pillow on her lap and putting him on there like you would with a small child but I know that as soon as my back is turned she'll be trying to lift him out of the Moses basket etc.

We've got a shortlist of three names, one choice each & a spare in case he doesn't look like either. Middle name is David as it's a family name on both sides.

dinah beautiful name choice.

inbl00m it won't help with relatives but brilliant advice is when you're out carry baby in a wrap rather than using a pram. I discovered this with DD1, people are quick to stick their faces and grubby hands in a pram but they tend to hold back a lot more when it's my personal space they're invading. That sounds bad but I'm quite happy to stop and talk to the world and his uncle about my babies, I just don't want people touching them while they're asleep in the pram!

DH is a Scout leader. One of the young leaders (who is 18) is already going "is the baby here yet?" When told she has been told to put a sock in it, as its getting annoying she has replied "But I'm excited! I want to hold it".

My response has pretty much been 'Over my dead body!'. I don't trust the girl at the best of times because she is very immature and irresponsible. And I'm not getting the impression she wants to see it the moment its born. (Wouldn't surprise me if she asks to come to the hospital).

She will not be stepping foot in my house for sometime.

Rooooooaarrrrr!

Phew thanks ladies, glad it's not just me, so good to chat to people who understand.

DH has been amazing through pregnancy and smiles and nods when I explain the feeling but also looks as me like I'm going a bit crazy...!

Also Ella and OnlySeven visiting schedules and wraps are good tips, thanks.

Red - no way!

I have anticipated that I won't want any of DP's family round for at least the first few days and won't have any friends round probably for at least a couple of weeks - once DP goes back to work. My mum is probably the only person i'll allow almost immediately.

DP seems to think i'm concerned about having to host and is assuring me i'll just be able to stay in bed - but even now that gets my back up - I don't want my baby passed about while I am not there to supervise!

Ella, yes, my hormones are causing havoc with the GD. The diabetic team have said I could eat grass and drink water and I'd still be over my fasting limits in morning. Insulin is upped at least once a week. I was ok on one Metformin tablet but two did give me a bit of a runny tummy. Know someone who was on 4 a day with no bother though...
Lovely name choices everyone, we don't know what we're having, but have narrowed girl's down to 2 choices and boy's to about 5. Boy's are so much harder!
I'm home from hospital after the stingy steroids and can't wait for a good sleep in my bed tonight after the snorer on the ward meant no sleep for everyone else! Have a growth scan on Wednesday, then decisions on early induction from there.
In our hospital, they only allow 2 visitors plus your partner in the room at a time after birth. May be something to bear in mind for those of you with loads of people wanting to visit? With my first, we had a deluge of grannies, grandas, great nannies and aunts etc, who waited outside the ward and came in like tag teams for 10 minutes each!

Bet you're glad you're not in my shoes. We live away from all the family so have nobody over here to watch our boys when labour happens. So OHs mum is having to come over with her kids around the due date, she seems to think she's staying for a few weeks! It's just not happening. It's bad enough that my house is going to be manic with her & her kids here, and my own two plus our newborn, also we'll get no alone time or bonding time :( dreading it! Xx

Just realised I've already moaned about this before lol but it's really stressing me out x

We don't have much choice :( OH said she's staying for 10days at most, but when she was over she tried dropping it in that it's a few weeks :/ she went home on weds after 6days here, that was bloody long enough my house was a mad house x my mums wanting to come over too after the birth so we're gonna literally have no time together just me OH & kids :(

Great idea seven. I want to buy a sling and have a £20 Mothercare voucher to out towards it. What a brilliant way to embrace being so uptight I don't want not share my baby but appear to be incredibly laid back and earth motherish =)

I can't get back to sleep so have sorted some more baby laundry. Everyone has been so generous. I have a huge selection of gorgeous baby clothes that will see me through to 6 months without having to buy a thing. Spent hours organizing them into drawers by size etc. and even have little, blue, heart shaped post-its so DP can find his way around it all when I'm being hopeless and highly strung so he can fetch me a long sleeved vest without me bellowing and crying "but this is a sleepsuit!".

So nervous to be going to hospital tomorrow for my BP etc. check. It's so frightening to be questioning if my body is still a safe place for my LO to be. Going to lie here and feel him wriggle for a bit.

Cant sleep. Didnt sleep too well last night either! I should have taken the opportunity to sleep as im being induced today eeeekkk!

If im dilated rhey will hopefully just go ahead and break waters and last time I was 2-3cm.

Got headache too now.

Dh has been very cuddly all night too as hes worried wouldn't let go of my hand half the night.

Thinking of you ilove really hope this is it for you & you get to meet your LO very soon, & your DH!

Good luck today ilove and bug

Hope the appointment goes well Bug

Good luck with the induction Ilove. You could have a baby by the end of the day!!!!!

Good luck ILove and Bug - Hope all goes well for you both today

Good luck for today ladies.

Good luck for today ilove and bug

Thank you.

I cant eat much while im in labour but have plenty of food junk for while im waiting.

I will end up asking for the diamorphine so I can rest a bit. Love it!

Bug hope your appointment goes well x

good luck bug and ilove