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

Hi all, I just wanted to say I just experienced the clicking noise, I was sitting on sofa comtemplating lunch, all was quiet and suddenly there was a clickky pop sort of noise from my belly. Very weird!!

NatalieJane hope the contractions ease off soon,
40 weeks do you get the opportunity to see other midwives, yours sounds awful, unless she was just having an off day.

On my house moving front, I heard from the estate agent yesterday that hopfully we can tie together the sale of ours and our purchase and a date that was sounding hopeful was Novemnber 6th.
Hmmm Baby due on 8th, starting to panic about it all now, but at least it looks more unlikely that we will have to move twice so thats something. Enjoy your Saturdays ladies

oh nj, your really going through it aren't you!! why don't you go and see your madwife?? now i know you really really really don't want to.. but!! i think you need a bit of reassurance.. just because you go now does'nt mean you have to go back.. but just this once? please?? phone on monday and make an appointment! pretty please?? with sugar and cherries on the top!!

so after spending all day yesterday sitting on the toilet i then spent all night with my head down it!! very pretty.. but i feel humanish today and i've managed to eat and drink something!!

the boys are upstairs working away in the spare room.. coving went up yesterday and today their papering the walls.. tomorrow should be electrics and painting and it should all be done!! just gotta get some money for the finishing touches, curtains and shelves and a headboard!!

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hi everyone!!

NJ please please please at least phone and speak to a mw, you say you're not worried but you sound it!

well i want this baby out now am 36 weeks on mon and i dont care, i want him out. my boobs hurt so much like their blocked but can hand express milk so arent blocked at all, i can't sleep at night (it feelsl ike my ankles and wrists are swollen (which they arent) and my pulse goes funny, think i might have to up the iron tablets, that might help i suppose

didnt manage to get into town yesterday but dh gotta go in to get a train so he can take a workmate to heathrow (he then gets to keep the brand new company car shes just been delivered, so we dont have to pay for petrol for 2 weeks!!) so will be walking in with him and me and dd will do shopping, which is much less stressful without him there (he moans when i look at xmas stuff!)

right must be off, gotta get dd up before we leave for town, lazy cow asleep again! lol

Gosh SarahLou sounds like things aren't good with your digestive system! Do you think you ate something dodgy or do you reckon its the body getting ready for labour?

i think it's neither... dp had the same thing earlier on in the week.. so i think he gave me the lurgy!! i just forced a cake down, so i think it's ok now!! just feeling very drained, i had 2 hour sleep when ds had his nap earlier and i could go back to sleep again now! gotta make the workmen dinner though.. but wallpaper is all up!

nj how are you today?

Good evening

I have decided to not do anything about it all just yet, I think if the show was going to be the start of labour something else would have happened by now. As I said the contractions stayed all night, and this morning, but started to fizzle out a bit by lunch, they have started again now, but it is evening and that seems to be when they start. Besides nothing can happen tonight, I have X Factor and Ant and Dec lined up on Sky+ so I can watch it in peace after DS has gone to bed, and there is nothing, not even labour, that could come between me and them!!!

I know I have already said it, but the thought of this sort of thing happening for the next 6+ weeks is very depressing, and likewise, everytime it does happen, I can't be running off to the doctors or hospital, so it is just wait and see what happens, and as soon as anything does happen for real then I will go into panic mode!!

Sara, I hope you are feeling better in the morning

Hi there

Don't know if anyone is about.... Had a bit of a crappy day - and got nothing done other than cook breakfast and load the dishwasher first thing this morning.

Have had really sore crampy sharp pains down the right hand side of my tummy to the extent that I've had to lie still and walking is almost out the question. Was hoping that this was positional and baby was starting to make plans to turn head down but no joy as yet. Anyone else had pains like this now or before?

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Hi there, I am a student at Birkbeck College (Uni of London) studying an MSc Human Development, and part of my course requires me to take part in Infant Observations. While this sounds daunting (and maybe uninteresting for some...) it is not as clinical as you may think! It simply means that one hour a week, for about 18 months (probably no more), a warm and open mother will allow me into her home to 'observe' her (or her husbands/other family members) interaction with the new born. I will literally be a fly on the wall, I will not judge, speak or talk to the baby or the mother. I shall not be making notes (this is the clinical part I am afriad people will think), in fact you are not even suppose to notice me. The hour that you will allow me to visit will depend wholly upon the mother's wishes, though hopefully an hour when the baby isnt sleeping... As a mother with a new infant, I expect that some people will be thinking that this is the last thing they will want- an intruder/ and outsider. This is the last thing I would want to feel like too. I would like the mothers to know that this is completely confidential. Names will be changed etc. And if teh mother is interested- at the end of my course (June 2008) I have to submit a paper based on my observations, the motehrs are entirely entitled to read them too. As this is a requirement for my course, I have taken the necessary police/Crimincal Records Bureau Checks, and come from a background in child (and adult) related volunteer work as my CV will testify. If there are any expecting mothers who may be interested to hear more about this, but not necessarily make a commitment to allowing me their time, please contact me on [email protected]. My name is Neda, and I would also like to note that I think it would be in both of our interests if I could meet the mother during the end of her pregnancy to see if we are both comfortable with each other and ask any other questions beforehand. This will take the pressure off both of us!

I am looking for mothers who are expecting to give birth in November or December, or even January, preferably in Central London. I am based in Kensington.

Thank you so much and I really apppreciate your taking the time to read this!