November 2014 Thread 8 - Bottoms up, we're heading for the big push!

[TwigletFiend]

Afternoon, ladies. Hop, flop or otherwise clamber aboard!

Same here Lady and Work, BH now have a shooting pain and back ache with them.
My mum has informed me it's normal, (and she would definitely know!) as did the doctor yesterday on labour ward. Didn't have it with my first, so it's a bit of a surprise :)

Vicky definitely with you about the hot weather, I am ALWAYS hot anyway, let alone carrying all of this extra bump, I'm praying for snow at the moment

Just had my 34 week midwife appointment, she confirmed my stomach muscles have separated, I suspected as much, feel like there's a big gap, she told me to do 'pelvic tilts'. Going to have to research what to do after baby arrives.
She's on holiday for my 36 weeks so have made a 37 week appointment instead, fingers crossed no issues before then!

I know they have to separate a bit but this doesn't feel the same as last time...

hi

realised I got my dd wrong, it's actually 10th Nov so there are 4 of us due on the same day! I'll update tomorrow when on my laptop.

sorry to hear quite a few people suffering. I'm absolutely exhausted today after no sleep last night. hips hurt, feeling sick and really itchy. have my 34 week appt tomorrow so will check with her it's nothing to worry about.
pink - I finish on 10th oct too. cannot come soon enough!

nct class tonight if i can stay awake. we had a mammoth session ob labour last week, think it's about first few days with baby today - never changed a nappy in my life so hope we learn how to do that.

is anyone's baby having hiccups ALL the time? my little one seems to get them every few hours!

Yes starfish the hiccups! Dunno what thats about.

I've NC'd ladies after finding out it's not MN cool to have a real name as part of your username. So updating the list too (I'm Vicky!)
WeeOnion 25th October DC2 Ssssh it's a secret (DD born at 40 + 3)
Kantha - 30th October, DC3 surprise. (DS1 40+17 EMCS, DS2 39+3 VBAC)
Annarose2014 - 1st November, DC1, supposedly a boy but unconfirmed.
Bunny-kitten - 3rd November, DC1, boy
WinterLover - 4th November DC2 surprise (DS born 36 weeks)
Hopeful83 - 4th November, DC1, girl
Ladydolly - 6th November DC1, girl
ToniWol - 7th November DC1, suprise
Petal26 - 9th November, DC2, Boy (DD1 born at 41+6)
Amy83firsttimer - 10th November, DC1, surprise
KarmaViolet - 10th November, DC1, surprise
Mumonabroom - 10th November but C Section 4th Nov scheduled, DC3, girl
Starfish99 - 11th November, DC1, surprise
WorkFreeWannabe - 13th November, DC1, Boy
Pinkgirlythoughts- 14th November, DC2, surprise (DS born 41 weeks)
MrsY87- 14th November, DC1, surprise
Excitedforbaba - 15th November, DC1, surprise
Moggle - 17th November, DC1, surprise
TwigletFiend - 17th November, DC1,
Utopian99 - 18th November dc2 surprise (DS born 42 weeks)
Haventgotaclue1 - 18th November, DC1, surprise
FTMK - 19th Nov, DC1, surprise. May be induced from Nov 5th due to GD
Blamber - 19th November, DC1, boy
Getyourflipflopson- 21st November, dc3, boy (third boy!)
Strawberryfield - 23th November DC1, girl!
hotfuzzra - 24th November, DC1, surprise
Thehedgehogsong - 27th Nov, DC2, surprise

I thought about NCing too but think I'll do it once baby arrives. New era and all that. Work crap again today but only 3 more days to go and they're spread out too which is good. I'll be done by the end of saturday. I'll only be 34+5 but sooooo ready. Baby has a foot under my right ribs pretty much permanently and it's actually hurting me now so leaning over etc is very very difficult.
Anyone else having sore ribs?

Amy not sore ribs but a bruised patch on the left of my stomach where feet were until Saturday!
A word of warning, spinning babies exercises can work really fast, baby is now head way way waaaaay down, bouncing about trying to find the exit!

Evening folks! Big calm out to all who are suffering. Its not easy trying to get going when the tiredness, aches and general meh set in!
36 weeks & 2 days. Have spent about 300 quid since last week and transverse news with 2 acupuncture appts, a chiropractor apt, hynotherapy and reflexology. Spending all my free time doing spinning babies. problem is I can't tell if baby has moved - really can't feel where it is. Totally disheartened.
When I think of having to be hospitalized and c section - I feel ill. If this is the way it is to be - am thinking I want a general anaesthetic and not even be awake for it , that's how crap I feel about it. :-(

Booooo. Don't get stressed yet - most turn on their own. You doing bouncy ball as your chair for the evening? I find mine goes head down if I sit on ball and can't really tell which way if on sofa. Sorry if I'm telling you something blindingly obvious btw.

Weeonion I didn't realise it was a problem to be transverse with a second baby? I thought they swooshed around a fair bit until labour began?

bouncy balls are now my dining chair, evening chair and office chair too!
perfecting how to work on a laptop whilst in a knee chest position- if i have to fininsh so much earlier than i was expecting to - have to get everything crammed in before i could be admitted to hospital o the 10th / 11th.

hedgehog - breech wouldnt be such an issue but transvere apparently is due to risk of cord collpase. protocol here is to admit from 36 weeks but i managed through a combo of tears and stress to stretch it out to 37 + 5 days to give me a chance, especially as i SO SO SO wanted my homebirth and once they get me in there - i wont get that option even if it moves. If it moves when i am in hospital then they will rush to induce me asap- which again makes me feel ill.

I cant feel positive about it at all. i honestly have been crying on / off for past 5 days. it really seems ot have triggered my antenatal depression and i am feeling very distant from this baby (alot of what was planned with homebirth was done deliberately with midwifes and perinatal mental health team to help me feel connected to baby).

anyhow - enough of a thread downer.....

Oh onion how awful for you. I am really protective over my choice to home birth too. It's horrible to feel like it's out of your hands. Keep bouncing! I have everything crossed for you. Have you been offered any form of manipulation from the midwife to get baby to turn? X

ta hedgehog. They cant do an ECV as i have an anterior placenta plus even if they could - apparently its been left too late now...

I think its such bad form them putting the frighteners up you. There's no reason to have you to theatre at 37 weeks if your 1st was overdue! And there's no reason you'll have cord collapse if you've no history of it.

They're basically telling you they want to do a section at 37 weeks if the head isn't engaged? I think thats absurd! How many women don't have the head engaged at 37 weeks??!

And why should you be induced at all? They're already treating this birth like an emergency and I can't see the clinical rationale based on what you've said.

Maybe if you post in the main Pregnancy section you'll get advice? It smells like medical bullying to me, tbh. There was a thread on here this week with someone else (in dublin I think) who was being dreadfully bullied to have sweeps and inductions and things and she was so stressed.

Actually it was in the Childbirth section:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/childbirth/a2188015-Upsetting-hospital-visit-at-38-weeks

Weeonion I'm so sorry to hear it. Hope your LO behaves and turns the right way and stays there!

We have just about recovered from sickness bug, what a horrid weekend! I measured small before, now have no appetite and a MW appointment next Tuesday. I'll have to get eating today.

You guys have made me want to buy a star wrap! Baby is supposedly huge and so am tempted to get 4month one? She will have a Phil and Teds cocoon to start with, for the double buggy, so may get a blanket wrap for that?

Also debating a footmuff, as all my current ones are blue/have cars on...

Any other yummy purchases you guys have made? I'm in the mood for some indulgent nesting, not that I can really afford it, but as it is our last... Haha.

Last day at work next Friday the 10th. Not that I'm counting. Much!

Morning Ladies

Weeonion thats rubbish, so sorry things arent going the way you wanted.

Im 35 weeks today and feel like sticking 2 fingers up at the midwife who I saw 2 weeks ago when she sarcastically said 'i'll book you in at 35 weeks but i'll see you on the delivery ward first'. Midwives this afternoon, DP and I are pretty sure head is engaged but will see what she says later.

Getting really bad period pains, worse than ever and bad braxton hicks. Only 7 days to when I had my DS so im guessing baby could come at any point now. THe realisation that Im going to have to give birth again has hit me this week!

winter well done for crossing your legs and keeping LO in for this long! (I may have chuckled that you're just coming to the realisation you have to give birth again!!)

Midwife said baby doesn't feel 'particularly' back to back, I think this is because she wriggles about so much sometimes she is, sometimes she isn't. She also said head isn't engaged - although sometimes the pressure down there tells me otherwise. DP relieved after thinking the baby might come early!

Just work to deal with now, the mat leave handover is much harder than I expected, just finding the time and how much she actually needs me to give her and worst of all what an effing nightmare my assistant is being, it feels like she's my naughty child entering her terrible two's. She's ignoring my instructions, arguing processes that have been in place for years and forgetting everything I've taught her for the last 2 years. I feel really hard done by because I've invested so much time and energy in her only to have it all thrown back in my face.

Weeonion so sorry to hear that... :( I will keep my fingers crossed for your homebirth, you try to keep your spirits up (easy to say!).

So understand your feelings about CS or induction.... My baby is turning around like crazy, just last night I could palpate her head in 3 different places. How the hell she does it? I am 32 weeks and been told by MW we still have time till 36 weeks to turn right, but I am bit worried that come W 36 and she will still be spinning around. And then my dream of hypnobirth in the pool... unlikely. Started to spend some time on all four etc to spin the baby, but it feels like she does what she wants and doesn't take any notice of me hanging head down from the sofa. DH has also started to have a torch towards the lower abdomen in the dark room (they say babies move towards the light), will see...

Mumonabroom re cute purchases. Bought this one:

www.thewhitecompany.com/the-little-white-company/baby/newborn/polar-fleece-romper/

In the pics it looks like an ordinary romper, but in life it is very nice and cuddly, just holding it I can picture having our little girl inside that polar bear cub suit and hugging her to the loss of my mind.

My baby has a favourite position, head down and feet in my ribs. He gets the hiccups frequently, about 4 times a day, but the midwife said it is normal.

Shouldn't have watched this thing on this morning about stillbirths. It made me realise that even though I get frequent scans due to low papp-a, they never check the placenta flow. Low papp-a may cause issues with this. However, his growth has been fine so far so he obviously is getting enough nutrition. I might still mention it next time I see the midwife and consultant.

Good morning, ladies!

Having a reasonable day today, not feeling too uncomfortable apart from the ever-present rib flare. Even that is less sore than it has been recently though.

Has anyone else had appetite problems recently? The last three days I seem to go between feeling nauseous and bloated and feeling absolutely ravenous to the point of pain in my stomach about five times a day. Argh! Currently desperate for my lunch break to arrive as I am starving, but I know that as soon as it does I probably won't want to eat anything. Pfft!

Mum, I have been eying up this as a completely unnecessary buy. I am resisting so far because I'm having to be quite careful with the budget until Christmas time, but I love it!

Strawberry, I would have bought the polar fleece one in a second if they weren't sold out of all the smaller sizes. Lucky escape!

weeonion, keeping fingers crossed for you!

Winter, keeping legs crossed for you

amy, sore ribs are so irritating! It's my right lower ribs, where Bean currently has something wedged (presumably feet!), and the lower few rib attachments on that side which I assume are taking the strain of the constant pressure. So bloody sore! Like having stitch all the time, but in your actual ribs rather than the muscles. Gah!

starfish and Anna, Bean seems to have hiccups a couple of times a day, most noticeably first thing in the morning when I start to move around. Usually feel them in left lower abdomen when I'm lying down, but luckily they feel reasonably muffled for me and just make my belly twitch rather than shake.

Hello everyone, I have been AWOL for quite a long time, but have been lurking on and off! I'm now finished working/studying and am absolutely loving it. I was worried about going a bit crazy because I hate not being busy, but I have so much to do, dp has been commenting that I seem busier than ever.

I'm 32+4 now and spent the weekend organising stuff for baby with dp: building cot and trial running the birth pool (absolutely LOVED my morning floating about in it!). Then went for a 10 mile walk on Sunday which resulted in me having rather less energy the next day. I'm really delighted with the bedside cot setup, as I was a bit worried the cot and bed may not work together smoothly but it all looks great.

I can't believe we're getting near to seeing some babies from those due earlier in the month, exciting times. I'm preparing myself for an early December baby so will have to practice being patient when babies start appearing.

Weeonion - I'm so sorry things are not going as you planned, it sounds really tough, especially at this late stage in pregnancy when you have all your plans in place. I remember you had a doula - is she providing you with good support through this? It sounds like you're really struggling. But it sounds like you are without a doubt doing all of the right things to encourage your baby to turn!

I'm reading all of your tales of uncomfortable ribs and anticipating that is to to come for me shortly. I think I've got away lightly so far because I am tall but expect those little feet to be tickling my ribs soon!

Ladies what size birth ball do you have and is it comfy? Am I going for 65cm or 75cm?