Due in November - Part 6 - The Ring of Fire is approaching !

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Here you go girls - somewhere new you for us to discuss our burning bits

HC - apparently you can get raspberry leaf tablets from health shops, they are more concentrated than the tea, and I think there is a max you can take, but I am sure you can find all of that out on MN! I think I might try them when I am a bit further, don't really want to do anything to actively encourage anything at the moment!

I have seen the midwife twice, once to book in and once after the earlier mentioned little scare, I am hoping I will only see them once before I go into labour, maybe I am hoping for too much?

I am back from town by the way!! I went into Woolworths and they were selling off those micro scooter things, you know the metal ones with the tiny wheels? Well they had a Scooby Doo one (DS's hero!!) for £15, so I have had to lug it all back from town, am shattered now LOL So that is it, christmas shopping officially started.

Does anyone remember a few weeks ago me saying that the baby went mad dancing about everytime I put any Eminem song on? One has just come on the radio and he has started going mad again...very strange!!

Oh meant to say as well, does anyone actually carry their notes round with them?

Great list NJ, will be printing that out for my records and may start to get myself sorted this weekend!!

For records Schmizaj due 16 Nov - #1, flavour unknown.

Debz - I've had a few of those short sharp 'vag' pains but haven't thought about or looked into it. They happen only every so often then I forget about it. I really must ask MW about it though. I sympathise and hope that they don't persist.

Hello ! Back from scan, everything is ok baby within "normal" range I eould not consider that at 36 weeks LO weighing 7lb 5 is normal ! Sonographer says baby grows approx half a pound a week so if I go full term I'm giving birth to an elephant !!!!!!! Now I'm scared !

No note carrying! 1) they weigh a ton, 2) I know what they say off by heart and so does my DH - there is nothing really useful in them anyway!

I have to say I take my notes with me if I'm going anywhere by myself or any distance from my local hospital. This is mainly because every mw has drummed it in to me, and DH checks I've got them now before we go out.

Just been to mw and LO is 'on the brim' apparently. She said it doesn't count as engaged but it means LO is unlikely to move from being head down now. She also told me my stomach muscles had split, so the only thing holding my intestines in is flesh. Not sure I wanted to know this! I've been given little tummy exercises to do which may prevent it getting worse. She also thinks I'm going to have a long baby, given what he or she feels like and shape of bump, so LO may be heavy apparently but isn't fat!

Maybe midwives can sometimes make you worry unnecessarily and seeing them less is perhaps a good thing, as lots of you have been saying.

Debz - glad all is ok. Did you want to know weight of baby or did they just decide to tell you (or warn you?!)

I did take my notes with us down to mums the other weekend, but didn't actually take them out with us when we left her house, and I have never taken them out of our house except when we're going to an appointment.

With DS, we had a single sheet of paper and everything was listed on it, this time we have a great big book thing with space to stick the scan details and blood results in and everything, it wouldn't fit in my bag, and to carry it everywhere, I would either loose it, or it would be ruined in the rain or whatever.

HC - Sonographer just told me baby weighs approx 7lb 5 I said F*ck Opps sorry, she laughed and said it's quite within normal range my dear !

I'm going up North for the weekend and didn't realise I will have to take Mat Notes, baby seat and hosiptal bag just in case ! Thats before I pack for me and DP !

Debz you wait till LO is here, then you will know what packing for a weekend away really is!! LOL I will never forget when we lived down south, DS was about 3 months, coming up to see MIL with a fully packed out suitcase, plus about 3 other bags, then the buggy, car seat, travel cot, my God you name it, we had it!! And that was only for one weekend!

Blimey HC, I wouldn't want to know all that!

Hope you're not worrying too much......we all want things to go as well as possible and little things can really make you worry, and they probably aren't a big problem at all, it's just that the amount of time you really get with the m/w isn't long enough to get the whole story!

Did she sound concerned, or like it's just something that sometimes happens and will sort itself out after the birth?

I only take my notes with me if I am going away for a weekend or night. They are a bit too cumbersome to be carrying up to the shops etc!!

Sorry Bethbe, can't help with iron question. Mine are a diff type, and I have stopped taking them now as they made me feel sick and bloated... just trying to get more iron by eating red meat etc

I just didn't think about taking car seat and hospital bag with me just said oh mustn't forget to take my notes with me, just in case LOL !

My notes stay under the coffee table unless I have an appointment don't take them anywhere !

Bethbe - I've just had a look on the internet and apparently about a third of women get split abdominal muscles. There are exercises I can do after birth, and mw said a physio would be able to help if the muscles don't go back to normal by themselves. There is nothing I can do about it now so there's no point worrying. I'll just have to try harder not to strain those muscles when I'm turning in bed or getting out of the bath.

HC That sounds painful ! how have you managed to do that to your muscles ?

Good Afternoon, I have just been for a short walk along the high street where I live and puffed and panted so much, I hate being this unfit.

Debz, I have been experiencing the exact same pain I reckon, I described it to DP as a sharp shooting pain in vaginal area like someone was poking up there with a sharp stick. (Sorry if TMI) I am wondering if babys head is beginning to engage as some weird stretching feelings too and heavier in groin area. I have a GP appointment tomorrow instead of midwife (36 weeks) so will ask her.

Now I am going to make some phone calls about removals firms and storage places..

It seems I'm not alone in the Vag pain stakes ! Mine has eased off now, however babies head was still not in the slightest engaged this morning !

my computers gone mad i think..

anyway dp has been to his meeting and we still know nothing.. all they did was 'confirm' his position would be made redundent on the 18th december... how much redundancy will he get, still to be confirmed.. how much is he getting paid in the meantime, still to be confirmed... aaarrrgggghhhh!!! it's a real pain!! and again they make him drive all the way to croydon, 3 hrs away to tell him this.. wtf!!

lol debz, it's true what nj says, wait until lo is here and what you have to pack to go away for a couple of days.. i was thinking this at the weekend.. remember when going away involved throwing a few bits in a bag!! now theirs a travel cot, big bag of clothes for ds, bag for us.. bag of toys.. packet of nappies.. bottles/food.. my boot was filled!! didn't take my notes though.. forgot them amongst everything else!! it should be interesting with a second child (i'll get that experience at christmas!!)

I daren't even think about going away when LO is here, it's too much to think about at the moment LOL ! I'm still reeling at the fact the little sod is gonna be over 9lbs if I get to full term !!!!!!

Sara - I am for you, it is one thing when they turn peoples lives upside down by making them redundant in the first place, but when they can't, or won't, even give you the answers you need to work out what you can do, I can only imagine how pissed off you both are, not what you need right now!

Debz, try not to worry too much about the size of the baby, firstly the growth scans have been proved over and over to be very wrong in a lot of cases, and secondly, even if the baby is a bit of a bruiser, I am sorry to say, it is going to hurt no matter how big he is!

NJ - I know its gonna hurt but it must hurt even more if he is a bruiser LOL !!!!!!!! I am trying not to stress about it but at the moment it's not working

Sarah - that is so cr*p for you both keep a note of the milage and charge them for it.

Debz don't worry about the size, some say birthing a larger baby is supposed to be easier?

NJ you asked why I thought I'd bleed again this time. I am just guessing so could be completely wrong, but whenever I have had teeth out or cut myself the wound seems to take ages to stop bleeding and I always end up with really big blood clots. So I am guessing that the same thing will happen this time. I didn't have the syntometrin last time and the consultant told me that 1 in 10 bleed if you have a natural placenta delivery so not really suprising.

Right off to cook tea and try and stop my heartburn!

h x

I don't know actually Debz, my old boss had two babies both over 11lb (one was nearly 12lb but I can't remember the exact weights now), no pain relief, one of them she didn't even tear! But then my cousin-in-law (do you have them? Anyway DH's cousin!!) had a 5lb and a half baby girl, and she had major tearing and really suffered after. And, did you hear that thing last week about supposedly teenage mums-to-be smoking throughout pregnancy to try and make sure the baby was small so it didn't hurt as much, a number of experts came forward and said the pain wouldn't be any better, if it doesn't make it easier to have a smaller baby, surely it can't be harder to have a bigger baby?