Due November 06 - the home waddle

[mygirllolipop]

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Morning all - NJ that receptionist sounds like she went to the same charm school as my MW!
Its not the receptionists job to diagnose - she has no medical training!
Welshgal - am so glad someone else is exchanging/completing on their new house on or around their due date - I always swore I wouldnt do it yet here we are....we are moving twice though, once to my Mums for the home birth and then again when the house is ready - as we are going to have it rewired and get the new carpets down before we attempt to move the LO in. Am itching to do the nursery up! One of the girls on my antenatal course had her baby on Sat moring (12.14am) and she is due on the 10th! Put it all into perspective for me that babies come when they are ready and them alone.....Just have sooo much to do between now and birth though!

morning all,
thanks for the new thread.
Welcome to the newbies - philomena great to see you've joined us.
NJ glad your seeing someone, as you say it will probably be fine but its better to be safe and sure.
I went to a friends dd's christining yesterday and she said to me that if my waters were about to go i needed to make it to her living room so she could get a new carpet on the insurance! lol.
Just getting over a cold hence not posting for a while as have felt really rough but strangley have been enjoying drinking hot water with honey and lemon (can't usually force it down my neck!)

morning everyone!

welcome to newbies (and oldies) philomena, snap im due 13th and having a boy!!!

well have been getting contractiosn about 3hrs apart for the past 2 days, but with dd i had all that for over 2 weeks before labour started properly so im not that bothered, just a bit of a pain when trying to do anything. esp. in shops when the checkout boys look at you as if you're some sort of alien about to give birth right in front of them!

iv got my double buggy, its fab!!!! dd has agreed to share it with the new baby (lets see how long that lasts). have also moved her behind the passenger seat in the car now and will be putting the babies car seat in behind the drivers (so i can get to it if i need to (as i dotn drive and dh very rarely takes dd out on his own now and wont even think about taking both of them for a very long time!

well cleaning is getting done slowly but surely, dh has finally got the hint and now does the washing up as im doing everything else! am loving my new tumble dryer, have nice dry soft clothes! lol, a bugger on the electric bill but i just cant handle clothes taking 3-4 days to dry!!!

should be getting my wedding photos back in the next few days so will try and get one onto here somewhere for you all, cant wait to see them all!!!

right am gunna go and do........well god knows what, got docs this afternoon so will get him to check the position of the baby fingers crossed hes not breech. 4 weeks to go today, still convinced he'll be born on 5th nov, dont ask why! lol hope everyone else is ok!

Morning Stacey - when did you get married? Congratulations. I am with you on the 5th November thing - I cant hep but think all these fireworks are going to help some of these babies come early!
I dont know why but I think my LO will make an appearance on Nov 20th, 3 days late. Very jealous of the new tumble dryer - have been house sitting at my Uncles 9 bed house since April and has its own laundry and so prepapring for the rude awakening that is upon me that I wont have one for a while. Its on the top of my list though !!!!

Morning all!

Had a really bad night's sleep. DH had to leave at 4am this morning to get a flight to Germany (just for the day) and I couldn't get back to sleep because I kept feeling itchy in different places.

In the end, - convinced that there was an insect in the bed I put on the light to find a spider in the bed ! I was so annoyed and angry with it I grabbed my gaviscon bottle and attacked it and then flicked it on the floor.

Of course, I couldn't get to sleep after that at all. Guilt for killing the spider, anger that it was in my bed, the knowledge that there was a dead spider on the carpet and worry that there might be another one somewhere lurking!

Of course, this is nothing like having to put up with the discomforts and contractions that some of you are now getting, so please forgive this moan, - but I am annoyed as I have such a busy week at work this week and need to be alert!

26th of august! was brill! hehe, still seems odd tho (especially as im only 19 and dh only 21, feels very odd!!)

well got my lovely parents to buy the tumble for us for xmas! lol but we got it now, mum agreed we really need it before lo puts in an appearance. we did get a washer tumble when we moved into our flat but the tumble on it is worse than useless so needed a seperate one!

when i decided lo was gunna be born on 5th nov i never even realised it was fireworks night, tho dh did point it out to me a couple of weeks ago, not sure why i got that date but its still stuck in my head! lol

right dd is shouting mum from her bed (shes only 2 fgs!!) must go sort her out!

Morning ladies, welcome to the newbies I've added you both to the stats list - hope I have got your details right feel free to amend them if needs be.

Well just to really turn up the heat we have 11 days until our first due date arrives.

Been talking to my DH's boss this morning and she was joking with me that I have to be on time - not early not late only allowed to give birth on my due date they have project managed my birth lol. Think she is actually a little bit concerned about how they are going to sort things out when I do go into labour.

We've actually started doing stuff for the baby now, bought a new chest of drawers for DS on Friday and he and DH put them up on sunday so the baby changer is now in the spare room again, washed all the newborn clothes (all 2 sleep suits and 10 vests I have) will need to go and get some more, we keep passing stuff round the group and it hasn't found it's way back yet. It feels really nice to have baby stuff back in the spare room again.

Babies born:-
None yet but it can't be far off now!

Babies due:-
CattyB due 27th Oct #4 has DS1, DS2, DS3, having a baby, Spott, East Lothian. Prediction 9lb 14oz born on 5th Nov
Youngmum21 due 29th Oct #1
Mummy2Toby due 30th Oct #2 has DS having a girl - Romford, Essex
Tinasan due 31st Oct #1 having a girl
Dpind due 1 november #2
MeAndMyBoy due 2 Nov #2 has DS (3) 3rd scan 19/08 flavour not known. Warwickshire
Chubley due #3 on 3 November flavour unknown, DS (3) DD (16 months). West Yorkshire
Berthablatherwick due 4 Nov #2 Has DS 22m Flavour not known
TwoCatsOnTheBed due 4 Nov #1 Missed M/c last year
Eeyoreuk due 4th Nov #1 Leicester
Camgirl due 4th Nov #1
Debz99 due 5th Nov #1 having a boy
PinkMagic1 due 5 Nov #2 has DS, having a girl
Zink due 5 Nov #1
Delia due 5 Nov #1 flavour not known. Birmingham.
HopingCat due 6 Nov #1 flavour not known, Preston Lancs. Prediction born 4th Nov, 7lb 12oz
Lebe due 6th Nov #1 having a boy
AussieInLondon due 6 Nov #2 has DD
Crocoonimper due 6th Nov #3 has 4yo twin boys
Emom due 7th Nov #1
Novis due 7th Nov #1
Rarrie due 7th Nov #2 has DD
Welshgal due 8th Nov #1
AwayFromHome due 9 Nov #2 has DD
Spinach due 10th Nov (but will have cs weeek earlier) #2 has DD, having a girl
Jodypops due 10th Nov #2 has DD
Staceym11 due 11th Nov #2 has dd 16mth, having a boy Surrey
Velcrobott due 11th Nov #3 has DS and DD
Mower due 11 Nov #2 has DS having a boy
Jamcrumpet due 12 Nov #1
Mygirllolipop due 13 Nov #4 (a girl) has DD1 (7), DD2 (5), DD3 (1) homebirth, predict 9th just under 9lb
Philomena due 13th Nov #1 having a boy
Tamula due 14 Nov #2, a girl, has DD (age 13.5mths)
Kif due 15th Nov #2 has DD aged 2, having a boy
Schmizaj due 16th Nov
Sighkotika, due 17 nov #1 having a boy.
Fatbetty due 18th Nov #3 has DS1 & DS2 (age 3 and 21 months)
Podglet due 18th November #1, m/c Nov 05, flavour not known, Colchester - Essex. Prediction born
20th Nov 9lb 4oz
Kaybee7777 due 19th November #1 having a boy
Flowers1 due 19th November
Bethbe due 19th November #1 unknown, h/b 140, prediction: 2nd Dec @ 8lb 12oz, Herts/London
m0m due 20th Nov #2
Joules1234 due 20th November
Foghornleghorn due 21st November has DD aged 23 months
CharleeSunnysunsun due 21st November #2 has DS 22 aged months, scan says having a boy
Littlemermaid due 22nd Nov #2 has DS
Hattie 05 due 22 Nov #2, a girl, have dd aged 3
Harrogatemum due 24 Nov #3, has DTs aged 18 months. Harrogate (!)
Frangosa due 24 Nov #2, has DD aged 18 months
saralou100 due 24 Nov #2 has ds 17months flavour unknown Bournemouth, dorset.. predicts born on 30th weighing 8lb 4oz
NatalieJane due 25 Nov #2 has DS age 4, Accrington, having a boy. Predicting: D.O.B. 2nd December, weighing 8lb 9oz.
MommyUpNorth due 25 Nov #4 has DD (5), DS (3), DS (1)
Martinemorris due 25 Nov
amyjade due 30 November #3 Have 2 Dds. Having elective C section at 38 weeks(Flavour unknown)
LadyAnne1sttimemum due 27 November #1 flavour not known, Plymouth, Devon prediction - baby born early and very long in length.
Debbsy 1st time mum due 27th Nov a boy. Staffordshire
Calsworld due 1st Dec #1

Afternoon

Do you know i wish these bloomin contractions would either do somethign usefull or naff off they're getting more painfull but over the space of weeks rather than days, i figure if its anything its only early labour my midwife said some women can be in early labour for weeks!

On another note, my boobs are streaming alot of the time now i have brought a ton of breast pads from tesco my leccy bill is going to go through the roof i have to get up in the night several times to change my nighty as the milk just comes through the pads. Anyone else?

Havent had the pleasure myself Charlee, but cant be fun for you. Can you double up on the breast pads or doesnt that make any difference?

Yes i do double up which seems ok in the day but at night time it doesn't, i never had much leakage with ds untill he was actually born im thinking of donating it to the local SCBU there always appealing for breast milk for the babies.

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Oooop should clarify - when I said laundry, I meant that it has a room with the laundering stuff in it - no one actually does it for me!! But just so nice to be able to have a dryer or close the foor on it all and not worry about drying clothes in the bedroom (of our regular abode, a one bed flat!) Have bought a house though and just trying to persuade DH that we really should have an outhouse built for laundry!
Charlee - I think the donating is an excellent idea, you can get those plastic breast pads things that collect leaked milk I think? Very noble

Hi all,

Wow - a whole new thread - I really can't keep up!
Hi to even more newbies

Charlee - sounds promising and if you can, the collection things sounds brill. Afraid I haven't had anything like this.

Stacey - also of your tumble dryer - we keep meaning to buy one but haven't got round to it yet - must bug DP some more!

NJ - at your silly Dr receptionist. I am very lucky that mine are lovely but your's sounds like a real trauma - perhaps you should ask her exactly how much medical training she's had?!

Hope everyone else is ok, sorry again if I have missed anyone. I'm not on often at the moment because I can't sit still that on, my back and hips start to set!

I am the same - cant get comfy at all! But at work so have to sit down. Have my feet resting on a box as ankles and hands are v.swollen and starting to hurt and itch now. DH is lovely and keeps telling me that I look great, but really I feel like the Nutty Professor when his hands starting bulging as the drugs wear off! If you have seen the fil you will know what I mean!

Afternoon all

I am starting to worry now, I know it is the tiredness letting paranoia set in, the babies movements have slowed down over the weekend, I was putting it down to him running out of room as per usual at this stage, but he has been extrememly quiet today, and no hiccups since last night. I have had a bit more of a show with some more blood today, a couple of BH but no real contractions, if I am awake again tonight all night with them I am going to be a nervous wreck by the morning. I have gone from worrying what will happen if I go into labour at 34 weeks, to now almost wanting to go into labour so he can be born, at least then they (and we) can deal with any problems, at the moment, all I have to go off is the slightest feeling of movements every hour or so, but at the same time, he is still moving, just not with as much gusto and energy, so I know if my mind was in the right frame, I wouldn't be half as OTT about it!

I promised myself I wasn't going to come on here and talk about me for the whole post again today, but I can't help it, I have no one else to vent to during the day, DH at work, mum on her hols still, DS at school (not that I can tell him everything that is going on, but he takes my mind off it a bit!) my sister (who is my best friend) I have avoided speaking to all week, because she goes into a mega meltdown whenever something isn't going 100% smoothly, but I can't really put off talking to her anymore so that will be the job for when I get back from getting DS, and TBH the last thing I need right now is to spend an hour assuring her that everything will be fine! I know that is selfish, but I just don't have the energy, which means if I don't make sure she is OK before I put the phone, she is going to be in panic mode as well.

GRRRRRRRRR, whose bloody idea was it to have another child?!!!!! OK, so it was mine... I will know better next time!!

Oh NJ you mustn't get yourself upset. Why dont you ring the labour ward at your hospital? Just call them up and ask them what you should do? And they may tell you that everything is fine and that this is perfectly normal. I am sure everything is just fine. In the meantime, why dont you gulp some water down, that always sets my LO off with the hiccups??

afternnon everyone!! welcome to our newest members!

busy morning so far, been to see consultant today, everything is fine with lo.. i have spd (no shit!) so i've been referred to physio.. lets see how long i hjave to wait for that appointment! but he's given me some codeine for the pain and get to see him again in 3 weeks time.. i preferred seeing him to midwife.. she's a miserable cynicle been doing the job too long seen it all before type, every ache and pain explained away with the joys of being pregnant line!

dp is upstairs right now painting away, then i just have to reorganise that room and our room before tomorrow and all is done up their.. i've been ordered by dp to feet up and rest, yeah right, who's gonna do the housework while i'm doing that?

nj, glad you've arranged to see someone!! i always refuse to discuss anything with receptionists.. she has no medical training whatsoever... saying that though mine are actually quite nice, but i've spoken to some horrid ones in the past!!

charlee will you be our 1st!! ?? i'm not having any leakage issues.. but after having ds i used to wake up soaked, i was having to express a couple of times a night to keep the pain at bay! i'd certainly ask about donating milk!

nj honey, where else is their to vent!! phone the hospital and talk to someone their.. just to set your mind at rest.. i don't like you sat their all alone and worrying when you can get some reassurance from somewhere and thats what you really need right now xx

NJ do phone the hospital just for some advice if anything they may beable to put your mind at ease if anything. Your baby and you are the most important thing so you need to be 100% sure your all ok.

OMG, I have just reread my last post and it does sound a bit down and pathetic doesn't it?!! LOL It is like I said, it is only the tiredness that is bringing me down now, nothing has really changed, most of my brain is still managing to be on the right track and knows things are fine, it is just how it is it going to be, there is only a tiny bit of brain that is going round in circles with the 'what if's...?' and the 'maybes...?'.

And, I can't ring the labour ward, I have no number for them, the one in my maternity notes just goes to an answerphone message that says no one is available to take the call, and that it isn't possible to leave a message. That is why I was really pissed off with the receptionist this morning, I wanted her to give me a number that I could contact someone - anyone - on, but the old fish face wouldn't, cowbag she is Tiredness, worry, hormones, and possible onset of early labour has turned me into a nasty horrible person!! LOL I don't mean any of it!!

NJ this is perfectly normal for you too feel like that - tiredness does that to you! Anyway, call the hospital switchboard (which should be in your local phone book) and ask to be put through to the labour ward. That should do it. Or their maybe a community midwife number in the phone book. I had this problem with a suspected bloodclot - the number in my notes doesnt get picked up by anyone! And if all else fails, call fishface again and dont give her your name just tell her you need an emergency number for a midwife and if she refuses ask for her name and to speak with a doctor and if she says No, ask her on what basis she is making her decision. It sounds like she is a jobsworth but she will soon realise that it would be in her best interests for her to help you as you arent going to take no for an answer! I mean why work at a doctors if you dont want to help someone who has a health concern! Evil old bag!
Once you have spoken with someone you will start to feel more reassured and thats got to be worth it.

Hey we have hiccups Phew!!! Perhaps it is just that he is running out of room, and then added to that me being knackered, he probably just wanted a rest!

I have rang the switch board before (I had a bit of a scare at 17 weeks) they firstly gave me a number to ring, it ended up being the number for the local college, and the woman who answered the phone thought it was hilarious that I had asked to speak to a midwife - can't blame her I suppose, but laughing at I didn't need! I rang the hospital switch back and asked to be put straight through, I then got passed round to about 8 different departments, before I managed to speak to someone that would help!

Been meaning to say, Charlee, my boobs have been leaking a lot over the past week or so, enough to have to wear pads, but not really enough to be able to express.

NJ maybe try NHS Direct in that case?

oh good, nj, that sounds more positive!!

Logging off soon but NJ dont forget to log on tomorrow and let us know how you get on at your appointment. Will be keeping my fingers crossed for you.
Enjoy your evening everyone xxx