December- The Final Countdown!!!!

[Calmriver]

HI Guys, I am still confused, so please join me on this one.

Castles,what a mare. hope it's not actual sewage.
Magnolia,sorry to hear about your bad night.

I went out for a curry for DH's b'day. It was sooooo yummy even though my Bean prevented me from fitting much in IYKWIM. I kept trying to poke him to get him to move so I could sit comfortabley and eat some more,but no luck.
Then I had an awful nights sleep with heartburn. Worth it though as you said.

PM hope the trip to ILs is OK.

DH and I had "the" chat about post birth visits. He got quite cranky when I was expressing my point. Apparantly I've told him a hundred times.(News to me!) He said we'll have to see what the ILs(ieMIL) is expecting. But that's kinda the point. We need to go to them with what WE're expecting. He was really sweet though. He did say he just wants whatever I want(Correct answer DH) My ILs are really sweet but totally oblivious to how inappropriate it was to appear in my delivery suite half an hour after DS1 was born and stay 7 hours,not allowing me even a moment to speak to DH on his own (or just sit there staring at new DS1 and generally being smug about how clever we were to produce him!) I don't want to upset them,but it would help if MIL had half a clue about what's appropriate(is that even the correct word?) Especially considering they're prob going to be looking after DS1 while I'm in hospital. I don't want to ban them totally or anything. All I want is for DS1 to be the first person after DH and I to meet DS2,for my two sons to have a little ammount of time getting used to one another(like 45mins or so) before everyone ciomes to make a fuss of DS2 and for everyone to go away and leave me to cuddle DS2 in peace. I also don't want any comments about my breastfeeding,DS2 crying or anything that sounds judgemental to my frazled brain!!!!! I feel a birth plan writing session coming on!!!
the end

whoops

the end of rant

Well, I'm happy to say that my neck got sorted out in time and the party was great! Lots of really terrific costumes. I think mine turned out well, too Dh took a picture, now I just have to figure out how to upload it to MN - posting pictures has always given me problems

As far as heartburn goes, not a whole lot with ds as I recall and he was quite bald. In fact, the poor little thing just had his first hair cut at 3.2!!! Dh was quite concerned, but I told him I was the same way. He still didn't seem reassured though...

WB, just noticed we crossed posts on the anemia thing. Hope the iron kicks in soon! No personal experience here, though.

castles, so sorry to hear you are still feeling faint. This is probably a stupid question, but is BP okay? The water thing sounds awful Hope you get it figured out soon!

Eliboo, I know what you mean about overdoing it. I noticed some definite ankle swelling when I got home last night. It's better this morning but I am sooo paranoid as I had an enormous amount of swelling at the end with ds.

AQ, I don't know about the whole hormone/bfing/PND thing. It does sound reasonable. I know that I was reluctant to stop b/c I felt that, as I had been able to do so little with ds that year (as far as bonding and just general care goes) that I wanted to continue with the only thing that made me special as his mommy, IYKWIM. So it was rather depressing to stop. But, since ds had very bad nipple confusion, I had been exclusively expressing for almost a year and in other ways wanted to stop to get my life back and get away from the breast pump. It was a very confusing time.

CR - curry sounds lovely. I actually dreamed about lemon pie last night

magnolia, hope your dd is better. It's awful to be pg and feeling icky plus sleep deprived. Ds went through a stage of lots of night waking recently and I felt like walking death.

lucy5 - good tip about the magnesium and b6, will keep it in mind. Sorry you didn't enjoy the party.

PM - ROFL at your sarcastic smiles!

spina, I think you are being totally reasonable about the IL's. Can't imagine anyone except dh being around me for 7 hours after the birth What were they thinking?! Could you have them bring up your ds around lunchtime and then shoo them off for a bite to eat? Of course, you'd have to suggest it beforehand to make sure they didn't eat before they came.

QUESTION:

Have you all been blood tested for Diabetes? Even in your second pregnancies? I haven't had bloods done since 12 weeks.(just the routine ones)

I feel quite nauxious this afternoon, feel like I just need to sleep this whole evening! Infact I think i will!

Hi everyone, just thought I would pop in and see how you're all doing. Huge congratulations to maroon and bewilderbeast, wow! Two babies already! Welcome to Joseph and Francesca. Hope all are doing well! Not long now for the rest of us! IMxxx

Hi Calmriver, no, I haven't had bloods done since booking appt (which actually I didn't have until 20 weeks - long story!). Having them done again at 36 weeks. Have a lovely sleep!

The race is on!

Due dates:
Calmriver 1st Dec CS
Magnolia 1st Dec CS ?
Annaspanner 1st Dec
SH27 1st or 2nd Dec
Jabberwocky 4th Dec
Lucy5 5th Dec
Castlesintheair 6th Dec CS
Eliboo 8th Dec maybe earlier?
Indiemummy 9th Dec
Judemum 15th Dec
Accessorizequeen 16th Dec
Carameli 17th Dec
Cupcakes 21st Dec
Lollipopz 23rd Dec
Catkins1000 25th Dec
Spinamum 25th Dec
Weirdbird 26th Dec
Gloria42 26th Dec
Babypowder 26th Dec
Summerlovebaby 26th Dec
Olihan 26th Dec
Loulou1000 26th Dec
Stokeymonkey 28th Dec
p555nat 9th Jan

Babies born:
Maroon35, Francesca Eleanor born 19.10.06
Bewilderbeast, Joseph Robert born 22.10.06

Sorry for those I got wrong or missed out! (Thought it was time someone took the register!)

IMxxx

Hi Indiemummy

Can you add me back in? EDD 19th Dec - I am still here and reading everyone's posts, just not had much to say lately.

We moved out of our office yesterday - as both me and my business partner are due within 5 weeks of each other (her at end of Jan) and I had really had enough of hour's drive each way) so we're working from home now. It all feels very real now (about time really!) especially with the two babies born already - congratulations and hope they are both doing well.

Had a lovely day today of relaxing on the sofa with DH, watching Back to the Future and eating home made rice pudding - just what I needed!

Bye for now
DG
x

Here you go, Devongirl!!

After the last epic of updating the duedates list I saved it and have added to it as newbies/babies have turned up .

Congratulations to Maroon and bewilderbeast, hope your little babies are gaining strength and will be home with you soon.

Everyone else, I was at PILs last week and haven't managed to catch up with this thread yet - when I left there were about 200 messages, now there's about 600. You lot have to stop talking!!!

Annaspanner 1/12
bewilderbeast 1/12 Boy BORN 22/10 Joseph Robert
SH27 2/12
Contentmum 3/12
Softymum 4/12 (earlier?)
Bubblylion 4/12
castlesintheair 5/12 (c/s 6/12)
beepbeep 6/12
maroon35 7/12 BORN 23/10 Francesca Eleanor 2lbs 11oz
diamondsareforever 7/12 Boy
Lucy5 8/12
choccybickie 8/12
Elibean 8/12 Girl
morningnewspaper now aka Baretoes 9/12
VanillaMilkshake 9/12
indiemummy 9/12
dublindee 10/12
Calmriver 12/12 (c/s 1/12) Girl
Rubystar77 12/12
Baconbaps 14/12
jabberwocky 15/12 (c/s 4/12) Boy
lubella 15/12 Girl
judemum 15/12 Boy
accessorizequeen16/12
Carameli 17/12 Boy
Devongirl 19/12
cupcakes 21/12
Magnolia1 22/12 Boy
Thalia 24/12
spinamum 25/12 Boy
catkins1000 25/12 Boy
lennied 26/12
Olihan 26/12
Loulou000 26/12 Girl
Weirdbird 26/12
Gloria42 26/12
summerlovebaby 26/12
babypowder 26/12
pedilia 27/12
Indith 28/12
stokeymonkey 28/12

Sorry, Lollipopz, told you I hadn't managed to plough through all that I missed, have added you now . (Great EDD btw, it's my b'day too!)

Annaspanner 1/12
bewilderbeast 1/12 BORN 22/10 Joseph Robert
SH27 2/12
Contentmum 3/12
Softymum 4/12 (earlier?)
Bubblylion 4/12
castlesintheair 5/12 (c/s 6/12)
beepbeep 6/12
maroon35 7/12 BORN 23/10 Francesca Eleanor 2lbs 11oz
diamondsareforever 7/12 Boy
Lucy5 8/12
choccybickie 8/12
Elibean 8/12 Girl
morningnewspaper now aka Baretoes 9/12
VanillaMilkshake 9/12
indiemummy 9/12
dublindee 10/12
Calmriver 12/12 (c/s 1/12) Girl
Rubystar77 12/12
Baconbaps 14/12
jabberwocky 15/12 (c/s 4/12) Boy
lubella 15/12 Girl
judemum 15/12 Boy
accessorizequeen16/12
Carameli 17/12 Boy
Devongirl 19/12
cupcakes 21/12
Magnolia1 22/12 Boy
Lollipopz 23/12
Thalia 24/12
spinamum 25/12 Boy
catkins1000 25/12 Boy
lennied 26/12
Olihan 26/12
Loulou000 26/12 Girl
Weirdbird 26/12
Gloria42 26/12
summerlovebaby 26/12
babypowder 26/12
pedilia 27/12
Indith 28/12
stokeymonkey 28/12

CR, I had my diabetes check about 4 - 6 weeks ago. Maybe you could ask at your next appt. Over here they do standard strep B testing too. I think I have that at 36 weeks.

Another baby! wow! welcome to Joseph.

I have been away with 22 student Scouts and Guides for the weekend where much fun was had but the token pregnant one had to retire from the camp fire early due to back pain, general tiredness and having clearly not consumed enough alcohol to find the dirty verses of Yogi Bear quite as funny as everyone else........

CR- bloods at booking appointment and again at 28 weeks but not to test for diabetes as far as I know that is just the glucose in the pee test each visit and a trip to the hospital for the GTT if needed.

Ooooh, good work, Olihan et al! I will update my due date after next OB visit, during which I'll be given a section date if bump is still tranny...

CR, I had diabetes test done as standard at about 26 weeks, I think. Not sure if strep b is done automatically at my hospital - will ask.

Jabber, so glad you made it to party - am equally bad at uploading photos, but am still going to pester you for yours

Hi all, just a quickie, my due date is now the 5th, hoping for earlier though!

lucy, if you're still online - let me know if there's anything you want/need posted other than the magazine, and will send it off either tomorrow or Tues am. (draws the line at entire pumpkins)

just checking in on you all wow babies already!
hope they are both doing well.
good luck everyone we have had 2 babies on the nov thread too and just under 4 weeks left for me

welcome baby Joseph!! Hope you're both fine & doing well.

I'm the last one on the list with still 9 weeks to go! is there no-one out there due on new year's eve???

This weekend's 'doh!' moment - parking at Sainsbury's and then discovering I had parked too close to the car next to me so it was impossible to open the door wide enough for me + bump to get out!

I'm right there with you Stokey! Bringing up the rear end together.

Hi Eli, the magazine is just fine, don't go to any trouble. Thanks

hi there, can i come and play? My due date is 13th december. Dont know if it is boy/girl and it will be my 2nd.

Hi and welcome, batinshoes

Lucy, you got it - though as I now have a nice new much stronger heartburn buster, its no trouble to chuck in some leftover Zantac! Would only bin it otherwise, you can always chuck it if you don't want it, doesn't weigh anything eihter. Don't think the cheese and crackers we have in the larder would make it intact, sadly

Sweet dreams all, or at least some decent kip....

Wow, what a great list Olihan, thank you

Glad you enjoyed the halloween party Jabber. Yes, photos, pur-lease!

Magnolia, hope your DD is better. I was thinking about you with your FOUR DDs - it must be so hard to be pg as well. I find it hard enough with only TWO. Do you ever get any rest??

Had a really bad night (it is getting towards the end isn't it?) so might be on here a bit today

Eli & others interested: yes, agnus castus is good for regulating hormones. Magnesium (as Lucy says) great for depression (in studies people suffering clinical depression deficient in it). False Unicorn Root (Chamaelirium Luteum) for PND - quite hard to get hold of 'cos rare but I can help you out if necessary. Pulsatilla (homepathic) for weepy depression. Sepia (homeopathic) for angry depression - usually comes later!! Also, Bach Flower Remedy: Olive good for overwhelming feelings associated with motherhood especially good for 1st time mums. More if interested Oh yes, and Vit B6s for tiredness which contributes enormously to feeling down. Also, Urtica Urens (homeopathic) good for milk production/difficulties in b'feeding.

Hey All,

Back from IL's, still in tact and family all still on speaking terms - well except MIL and FIL who as usual had a little spat! Makes me so uncomfortable, but she does give dirty looks and he has to announce his anger/frustration at this for anyone in a 5 mile radius to hear!

Spina, If you are in hospital and are expecting in-laws, get a friendly nurse or midwife on side before they visit and ask them to come in and shoo them out after half an hour or whatever saying policies have changed or you need rest etc etc. Who's MIL was it that actually took new DC out of room for a while so the mum could be stitched - ooh so not standing for that!

CR, I had blood sugar level checked at 32 week specialist apt. it's a scratch on the finger, they say doesnt hurt...yeah right aches more than a jab or blood being taken by needle . Dont eat anything for about 30 minutes before they do it for a more correct reading.

Magnolia, how is DD?

Just realised this is a very angry post. So time for a smile. Have just been given DD's first pre-school photo's...ahhh, my baby is a little girl . Can't quite manage a grin as it makes me sad she's growing up so quickly, although it's not a sad moment.

Me too on the bad night last night, up every 5 minutes, needing to pee or generally being uncomfy. Keep waking on my back or with terrific muscle pain. Never mind 6 weeks to go.

And finally (for now) I am off the MW this afternoon for my last anti-D until after bump arrives.

Morning everyone- massive congratulations to Bewilder. Hope everything going ok. Just a quick update- had massive blow out with DH 5 mins after he got up on sat morning and by sunday evening, all the jobs that needed doing were done and he cooked me a lovely paella and he's been wonderful ever since. .
Had wierd thing last night though- woke up at abou 1.30am, half asleep and passed hand over tummy (was lying on my back- know you're not supposed to be seem to roll onto back accidentally sometimes) anyway, no baby. Stomach was flat as a pancake. It was REALLY WIERD. Woke up fully in a complete flap and after a few minutes baby reappeared from somewhere and has been a big hard bump as usual ever since. Freaked me out big style...
Also, is anyone else on the "low risk" category, so basically is never seen by a m/w- my last visit was 29/09 and my next one is 10/11. I did have that bout in hospital in the middle but it just makes me feel a bit abandonned frankly.

Just ate 3/4's packet of choclate biscuits because they were there, oh dear

DD is at pre-school, DH at work and I am listening to my Elton John CD, nice and loud!