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

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

morning all. those babies are really flying out on the october thread - eek!!!

amy - thanks for that - karma rings a bell!!

Winter - i think there may be different approaches across the country for the red book. we will still get it from our HV in scotland apparently!

i have been having lonnnnnnnnggggggg days at work on feet presenting / public speaking. During a speech to a large audience yesterday - i had a massive braxton hicks that really made me gasp and have to stop to breath through it. thankfully the assembled crowd saw the funny side but there were quite a few worrried faces as i sprockled down from the stage at the end. I am sure some thought baby was going to arrive before the end of the day.

38 weeks tomorrow. Another homebirth midwife appt today. i think babyonion is still transverse but lets be positive and wait and see.....

i thought this was a fascinating read...... www.sciencenews.org/blog/growth-curve/timeline-baby%E2%80%99s-first-hour

With dd - there is no way i got 1 hr skin to skin - maybe 20 minutes before they had me bustled into the bath to get cleaned up. I pushed her along the corridor in her glass bubble cot to the postnatal wards and was settled into my cubicle within 1.5 hrs of giving birth. I now wonder if this was somehow linked to some of our problems in breastfeeding.

it will be alot different this time round!

Could well be weeonion I got no skin to skin with DS being early, he didnt breath straight away so once they sorted him out and weighed him he was dressed and wrapped in a million and one blankets then passed to me for a first feed. Think it was about 30min before I got a hold

That newborn pic in weeonion's link is so cute! It makes me realise that I have been thinking only in terms of how hard having DC2 is going to be and have been forgetting to realise that there will be so much cuteness.

Time went so differently around the birth last time, it's hard to estimate timelines for anything, but I think we probably did get almost an hour skin to skin? She did that little scooting onto my boob thing anyway which really surprised me as I had no clue what to expect and didn't know it this was a 'thing'.

Really hoping that things will turn out well for you weeonion. Glad you made it through your presentation, fair play to you!

Any more pains there winter?

nope greenstone although if they hold off this afternoon id be happy because MIL is coming.

Surprisingly calm about it all. HV said yesterday that if this one arrived between now and Tuesday the hospital wouldn't be too concerned and unless there was a problem id be allowed out on the 6 hour discharge. So basically I can treat myself as 'term' and labour at home as long as I want.

I don't think these are contraction pains but just really strong Braxton hicks...Although i have no idea what contraction pains are like as DS was back to back so all pains were in my back.

Morning all...my Dad is ok but will he in hospital for at least a week for investigations. I am flying here there and everywhere taking care of various people at the moment.

Its fine, I feel fairly strong and am currently able to do it.....but am starting to get really irritable with other peoples opinions. It seems like every single person I interact with at the moment adopt a and tell me how much I should be doing. According to the world I may as well be disabled!

"Ooooh are you sure you should be driving so much? Will you be safe?" "Ooooh, I'm sure your Dad doesn't need you to visit him...you should be at home with your feet up!" Everyone keeps shooing me and bossing me & its getting me down.

I just exploded at my (very well meaning) sister because I was going to do my Dads laundry and she head tilted at me in concern. I retorted that apparently everybody in the world knows my body better than I do! I'm incapable of tossing some boxers into a washing machine now?? Seriously???

Yes, the family is under pressure right now but I'm perfectly healthy and have been all along. Its actually other peoples unwanted opinions that are stressing me out more than the stuff i have to do, which is fine!

Sorry, that was a bit of a floodgates open type of thing.....is anyone else getting smothered by well meaningness?

Glad to hear your Dad's okay Anna.

Winter - hope that baby doesn't stage an escape bid today.

Anna - I must admit DH is being a little overprotective. I just point out that I'm a sensible adult who knows my own body. Have washed the Muslins this morning and painted the woodwork in the nursery (apart from the batten above the window - am only 5' 3" after all ). My Mum's just brought round her steam cleaner so we can give the carpet a clean once the dust sheet is up then we can start assembling the furniture.

Just put the TV on and Doctors was on. Hope my baby comes out smaller than the 'newborn' they had on today's episode.

she's gone it can escape now

Thats really crappy, did any of those head tilters offer to help?

Thanks for the Red Book link Winter - I'd never heard of it.....

Facebook decamp plus MN shutdown appears to have killed the thread!!!

Sooooo, watchya doing?

It's been a very long last week of work, but I'm finally done with work for a whole year! The builder is due to finish on Monday so I can start cleaning, tidying, nesting and washing mountains of baby stuff!

Also need to pack my maternity bag and assemble the cot bed. I'm 36+5 today!

Still got a few other bits and bobs to do around the house, curtain poles, varnishing etc but if that doesn't happen before baby arrives I'm not too bothered. I've just come to accept that the house doesn't need to be in perfect condition for the baby's arrival!

Yay that sounds like lots of progress. I'm reaching the end of first week off and am 35+5 - had dinner out last night with all the other assistant managers from work and they'd got me some mamas and papas vouchers. Any suggestions of.good stuff to buy? £45 in vouchers plus I could top up of course.

Hi :D I've been visiting my family all day, just got home, and straight into bed. Super shattered!
I am picking up first bits for baby tomorrow, just the usual labour things like maternity pad and nipple cream, cotton wool for cleaning tiny bums :)
We are hopeful out house move might still be before baby arrives so I am reluctant to sort anything else out!

Hope your dad's OK, Anna

Just been visiting my sister in hospital, her baby was born 1 week late on Friday evening. He's so cute! Was difficult holding him though, had to either balance him above the bump, or lean right forward and put him on my knee :)

Heard earlier on that a lady from work also had her baby yesterday, 2 weeks late (although on a different ward). It's babies everywhere around here, and there's me thinking I've got ages left, haven't even packed my hospital bag- I'm 35+1 today!

We've been at NCT most of today and now we're at the 'after party' for a 3 yr old's birthday party, marvelling at how many toys one small person can accumulate! Tomorrow hopefully DH will get most of the nursery painted... And ooh the pushchair/pram came yesterday!! Not even slightly superstitious so we got it set up and pushed it around the house a bit :-) feeling real now...

Evening everyone . Anyone else feeling like their bump is really being stretched now? Everything feels very taut and most of the time bump is rock solid....I guess because it's full of Bean?

Like moggle, also spent most of the day at NCT - got home and fell straight asleep

DH has done the last of the woodwork in the nursery and been to pick up the furniture. Tomorrow we take up the dust sheets and take off the masking tape, then shampoo the carpet, and Monday we can start assembling the furniture.

Also been watching our Essential Baby DVDs.

Turns out that Blueberry likes Daddy's singing as well. DH had a rehearsal for a concert next week and I went along, lots of wriggles during all of his pieces.

evening all!!

i feel kinda sorry for mumsnet. they have set up this fab thing which means we can link in with other women in the same situation as ourselves and then once everyone gets to know each other - 3/4 of them head off to facebook. now - i like facebook in many ways (hate it in many more) but it seems like good ole MN does all the hard work. i feel a loyalty to it after 8 years i guess. plus my facebook is something i like to keep seperate from MN.
ah well, the thread might get busier as we head towards labour and births before we all head post natal?

bit of a hectic day. spent morning at swimming pool with dd - she was having her exams to move up levels. i got to spend a few hours in pool. must confess my heart nearly stopped when i swam underwater to watch her complete her dive tests to the bottom of the deep end. strange to see my wee 7 yr old managing to do it.

headed into work to clear my desk and files for mat leave. 8 black bin bags of paper later (i decided there was no need to keep noes form meetings from 4 years ago!

haventgot - this bump get so solid that i find it hard to move my torso. i sound like an ole person so much of the time.......

whats everyones sunday plans??

Weeonion I feel a bit sad for MN too, I'm sure they must be terribly put out by people meeting here then disappearing off to another social network.
I'm also nervous that you will all head over to post natal and I'll be the last preggo standing, as my due date is last!
I am suffering from a spinning baby today, head up head left head down bum out bum backwards knees out elbows splayed... I blame the half a glass of coke earlier!

Hi all, seems like you are all progressing well towards D day.

Can't believe how many babies have already popped on the October thread. I'm due 1st Nov so it should be getting real for me....but it's not!

After struggling around the supermarket today I have finally given in to the strain and stopped the gym classes...I just have to hope my emotional state doesn't deteriorate as quickly as my bowels have.

What is everyone else doing to stay positive and focused? Exercise has literally kept me sane and now I'm
Worried I will get really down and depressed without it. I know I can still do gentle exercise but it's not the same as working up a sweat :(

I like the anonymity of MN so will be staying firmly put here.

Anyone taking raspberry leaf capsules? I started today, and not expecting anything but wondering if anyone has any experiences?

Hello everyone. Had relaxing week of wedding anniversary but actually not feeling great. Anyone else got an upset stomach? I'm 34 weeks on wed... Have also felt bit dizzy and very hot all the time. My inlaws have made me elevate my feet a lot. I just don't feel myself and I'm convinced the baby is going to come early! Have booked on a hypnobirthing course for the 1st nov as heard very good things. Started my nct classes this week and really enjoyed them.

crazies I'm due the same day as you and nope, not remotely real. Even when people ask me how long more and I say three weeks (!) it doesn't really register with me.

God I'm going to get an awful shock when I get a contraction!

I am actually finding that all the accidental distraction with my Dad going into hospital has been quite beneficial mentally. I'm not sitting around obsessing about counting movements and the birth. DH said to me today that we've barely talked about the baby in days! Perhaps its no harm. So my advice is keep distracted!

As a matter of interest, how many people actually did go over to the FB group? Is it loads and loads?

Loaf that could be your blood pressure. No harm to get it checked by your GP in case its going high.

Crazies - would swimming give you enough of an exercise buzz but be gentle enough on stretched prey ligaments ?? I really miss my "proper" swimming - used to do it about 4/5 times a week but still love my zoned out pool sessions.

I am the raspberry leaf tea at the mo', capsules start tomorrow now I am 38 weeks. I still take og vitamins - anyone else doing that too? Apparently dont take yr RLT capsules at the same time - give it a few hours because or iron absorption??? Ii am also on the high dose of evening primrose oil.

Not sure how many headed over to fb - I think quite alot. Certainly some of the more prolific posters like random.

Loaf - hope you had a nice anniversary week.
Anna - I know what you mean about distraction. It can be good to have other things going on (but of course no-one would wish a poorly relative!). My midwifes advise is to keep life as normal as possible for as long as possible.

A full nights sleep seems a thing of the past. I am now lucky to get a couple of hours early on and then its awake from 3am. The last time with DD, by this stage I was on mat leave and could make up for lack of sleep with day time nap. Sadly not this time! Any other 2nd or 3rd timers finding this pg more tiring!? I am hoping this bean is not gonna come on due date but give me a couple of extra weeks to chill. Please stay put!

Ok - its now nearly dayrise. I think I will have a bath and then head out to local car boot sale to pass some time til dp and dd surface!

Morning. Another night of sleeping in 2-3 hour bursts. ..not ideal, but guess Bean is warming me up for when it makes an appearance. Doesn't help that I had the flu jab yesterday and now one arm aches so I can't lie on that side. Ended up eating toast at 3.50am as SO hungry

Morning haven't weeonion! Also done sleeping in fits and starts for the night!
Lovely day yesterday, lunch in town with my best friends visting for the last time baby free. Home for an afternoon of tea and monopoly followed by snacks and x factor. Today we're headed to my gym for a makeshift spa day, no dressing gowns or treatments but lots of lounging by the pool and jacuzzi (for them) and swimming (for me).

crazies I miss running the same way, I can often be found with my nose pushed up against the window watching them run past my window. Swimming daily has definitely kept me sane.

I started rlt capsules at 35 weeks and have taken pg vitamins the whole way through.

I'm quite pleased some have decamped to fb, there's a lovely group here on mn and it might be hard to keep up with lots more ladies. You've all been fabulous support. ?

I cannot imagine being pregnant AND having a lo to take care of, you 2nd timers are my heroes!!