Due November 06 - the home waddle

[mygirllolipop]

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I've been lurking not posting for ages!

Hope all goes OK NatalieJane.

I'm OK - but my blood pressure is on the up. It's generally measured at around 130/85 - but I've been getting headaches and an upper arm monitor shows that when i have headaches it spikes up to 90-95 on the bottom figure. Been incredibly lethargic too - sleeping for hours during the day. Good job I;ve basically gone on mat leave! I even find it hard to concentrate on Mumsnet!

Guess all will be OK...Seeing Mw tomorrow ... but feel another induction is intevitable (mw said 'no chance' of going to mw unit with high bp - grumble). Just hoping to stay out of hospital as long as possible.

Today Dh has rung to say he's coming home early with suspected 'flu. I guess that means I'll have to be sympathetic to him for a change! He's been doing lions share of everything (partic. Dd recently)

nj how did you go on?
well i decided to take everyones advice and commence mat leave earlier due to the exhaustion instead of finishing on the 8th im finishing on the 1st feel soooo much better just knowing ive only got 2 weeks to go wahay!!!

Hi Kif,

Sorry to hear about your bp and not being able to go to m/w led! This pregnancy thing is a mindfield of decisions and worries and 'rights' and I think we should all be awarded with a degree at the end of it the amount of research and studying it seems to require!

It's amazing to think we really are waddling home now.............. and I expect in 4-8 weeks time we'll all be starting a new degree in the decisions, worries, rights and research that will be required for having a newborn!!!???

Not sure I ever realised this was gonna be such hard work!!

Debbsy,

What weird week do you work? My mat leave begins on 6th Nov (a Monday)!

bethbe i have hols to take too, 7 days to be exact so thats why its mid week my offcial mat leave from work starts on the 13th before that its hols.Ive just brought it forward by a week.

Oh I see, - and I'm so jealous !

Anyone out there wanna do my job for a couple of weeks at the end of Oct to cover me?

It's a general officy chasing-things processing-things and general pretending like your in control of things kind of job! You can probably work from home, so no-one ever need know you're not me! !

Evening all

Debbsy good news about the maternity leave

I have had more of my show come out, and had about 40 minutes worth of strong contractions every 3-4 minutes apart but only lasting about 45 seconds each time, was just about to throw in the towel and get down to the hospital, and they eased off a bit, now coming every 8-10 minutes but still quite strong, my legs go all weak and tingly when they are at their strongest, I am really starting to hope that at some point fairly soon it just turns into proper labour so I can get it over with. I hate this not bloody knowing, and the constant yes this is it and no it isn't it, and then I think of the tiny baby led there, probably in special care and feel like the most selfish woman alive.

Moan moan moan, sorry everyone!

I know I am here all alone again, but I am so bored now, MN really draws to a halt at night!

I got a text from my mum (who is on holiday with two of my sisters, my sisters boyfriend, and my mums foster son) saying 'Just checking on you (!!! - Mothers intuition?!!) hotel and food awful, weather is lovely, can't wait to get home' I feel really shitty for her, she has had this holdiay booked since the beginning of last year, her foster son has been up to allsorts and very nearly had the whole thing cancelled by his social worker literally the day before they flew out, and she is going to be v.angry when she gets back and hears that my reply wasn't strictly true! (Went something along the lines of 'Oh no! Can the rep do anything to help? Everything fine here, hope week 2 turns around for you all' There is no way I could have told her what is going on here, not with her already wanting to come home.

You know all the books you have all read that say things like, when you have contractions that are further apart than 5 minutes, you should relax and go to sleep, you need to conserve energy for the tough bit of labour? It is absolute bollocks!! There is no way anyone can sleep through contractions!

I will probably be back before the night is through!

oh nj no not again poor you you must be goingout of your mind
((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))))

Well if nothing else, these last few days of barely no sleep, have taught me that I have a foul mouth!! LOL Sorry girls, I don't really swear very much in real life, bit of "bloody hell
"-ing and "oh bugger" at most, but when you are writing it is sometimes the easiest way to get across just how bad you feel!!

I really did think last night was going to be it, have even got up this morning (I think I got perhaps an hour and a half in all!) and felt anticipation creeping in, don't know if this is just me getting wound up over having to see the midwife though!

I cannnot wait for this to be over - Christmas is looking so so so very appealing, I know by Christmas it will all be over, if only by a couple of weeks, but he will be here and I will be getting more sleep - even with a newborn to feed!

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Thanks Mygirl.

Can you set the girls some work to do and try and catch up on a bit of rest for a bit? Even if you don't actually sleep, just lying down helps to relax you a bit. Is DD3 ill? Or just restless night?

Morning all

I am hearing you on the heartburn MyGirl. Its a nightmare - I cant seem to buy enough antacids at the moment. Havent been sick though, poor you. Looks like none os us had a good night last night. 3 more weeks at work and just soooo tired.....

Good luck NJ! Hope the mw gives you some sort of good report! Im seeing mine tommorrow.

Still the same here so i totally feel for you! Poor dp is out of his mind with me having contractions then just as were about to phone the labour ward they die off. I know what you mean about your knees going weak at the peak of them i often sink into the chair or bed but sitting is alos quite uncomfortable with them so its kind of an amusing squat!

I haven't had any type of show though so i feel NJ may beat me to it! I do wish it were all over though my ds if bearing the brunt of it, im so uncomfortable i can't bear to be touched and all he wants to do is cuddle up to me where he's confused as to whats going on, my temper just seems to be so quick these last few weeks i bet he'll be glad when his normal cheerfull mummy is back!

Have you tried one of those birthing/excercise ball? Not sure how practical they are for you at the mo but they are really comfy

good luck for the madwife NJ and about your bad night. I would agree that no one should be able to sleep through contractions but I have a friend who did with her 1st!!!! Woke up realised she was having contractions, had a bath and then went back to bed not a hope I could have slept through mine when then started.

Mygirl sending you hugs {{}} after a bad night for you. Hope you get a chance to get some rest today.

Debbsy such good news you are finishing earlier hun - I feel so good not having to go to work and I just sit behind a desk lol.

I think that's part of the reason that I have only just this week started to get the horrible uncomfortable niggly stuff that everyone else is suffering with and I'm 37 weeks - so not bad going.

Hope everyone else is doing ok. I'm off up to my Mums tonight (not that she's there lol) and then back tomorrow after seeing my dad and his girlfriend.

Charlee, it was Friday I was sure about the show, but I think I did loose a tiny bit of it on Wednesday which I actually put down to the erm... the result of 'activity' DH and I had gotten up to the night before but realise now it was probably the start of it, so here I am nearly a whole week after, I don't think it means anything is definitely going to happen! I can't move once the contraction gets going, if I am sat down it is 100 times worse than stood up, if I am stood up I kind of rock my hips from side to side and that helps a bit, but I have an awful feeling that my legs are going to give way, and if I am standing somewhere where there is nothing to hold on to, I do panic a bit!

The baby is still being very quiet, he did have a bit of shuffty about last night, for about half an hour, and then has gone quiet again, but he is still getting hiccups so I am sure he is OK, just running out of room, and probably just as shattered as I am.

My mind is in such a bloody state now, I know this sounds absolutely awful, and I don't even know how these thoughts are entering my head, but there is a tiny tiny tiny bit of me that is almost hoping that there is something mildly wrong, enough for them to induce me but not enough to put the baby in any danger! I know how bad that sounds, but I am just so desparate for some answers now, and I really don't know what I am going to do if she checks my wee and blood pressure and then just tells me they are BH and to get over it, but then I don't even know what she can do other than that, or if I would want her to do anything else!! LOL

DH isn't very pleased with me, he looked so relieved last night when the contractions started every 3-4 minutes, and I was finally coming round to the idea of going to the hospital, and then when they started easing off he looked really worried again, I think he is imagining alsorts and not being able to be here in the day is killing him.

I spoke to my sister yesterday afternoon, she did exactly what I said she would, completely flew off the handle and has already rang me 4 times since, she knows if anything happens I, or DH, would ring her, and I am ashamed to say that when I saw her name come up for the forth time I didn't answer I am only just about holding my own bloody worries and guilt and all of the rest of it together, with out having to hold hers as well!

LOL I have done it again, great big long post, I don't know how you all put up with me going on for so long, at least today I do have an excuse, I am shit scared of of sitting here with nothing else to do until I have to leave for the m/w!

Meant to say 40weeks, I bought a birthing ball that had a football type pump thing with it (you know with a pin thing?) ages ago, I broke the pin thing bit of it, and the ball has never been blown up because I haven't got round to buying another pin thing, so I was in Argos at the weekend getting some shelves and things for the babies room, and I thought I would get another ball thinking that the chances are it would be a different sort of pump that it would need, got it home and it needs a bloody pin thing as well, so I have two brang new never been blown up gym balls, with no way of ever blowing them up!

OH NJ did it not come with one of its own with the new ball? Thats no good. How annoying. How about taking some paracetamol to take the edge of the pains? My midwife (the nice one) told me to have some handy for the early stages anbd said they were highly underrated in labour - people think they wont be strong enough but if they help woth period pains and are okay to take, then why not? How are you getting to the midwife BTW?

I don't really 'do' paracetamol, pregnant or not, I tend to just get on with it unless it (whatever 'it' may be!) gets much worse then I will take stronger pain killers. I am kind of in the camp of paracetamol will only help those who believe in it, IYKWIM?!

I am getting a taxi down there, depending on how energentic I am feeling I might walk back to town and get the bus home, at the moment I couldn't think of anything worse to do than walk anywhere, but once I am out I might wake up a bit! Having said that if I do have to go for a trace, I have know idea what will happen, there is no way I can go to the next town, with out knowing exactly how long I would be there for, and with no one lined up to pick DS up! Besides, I can't get there with out DH, so he would be coming home... sorry I am warbling again! LOL

Actually I suppose I had better ring the taxi - if I suddenly dissapear, it is because it has turned up early!

I will obviously let you all know whats going on when I can

Are there other painkillers you can take when pg then? I thought paracetamol was the only one recommended - did you know anything stronger was safe - tell me there is?!?

Well good luck NJ! Your mw may do an examination to see if the contractions have begun dilating you at all and id your cervix is getting ripe, thats what they did to me when i was in hospital but nothing had happened.

I know what you mean about the inducing thing i feel exactly the same although i hate to admit it! I did with ds aswell and practically begged to be induced with him on my due date so there was no fear of having to go overdue.

I have a real nesting insting today and am just sitting down in between scrubbing my house frm top to bottom! lol

No I haven't taken anything stronger in the pregnancy, although at the beginning I did ring a chemist to ask if I was OK to take Migrleave(sp?) he said I could if I couldn't stand the migrain any more, I just shut the curtains told everyone to shut up and burried myself in my bed for a couple of days!

I think you can cocodamol - or something like that - brain freeze! But the only time I have ever taken that it left me with horrible side effects and that wasn't during a pregnancy! Never again will I go near that stuff!!

i have some painkillers but they are strictly prescription only, theyre the ones the consultant gave me the other day, they take the pain away but make me very sick and giddy which i hate so i dont take them. Im a firm beliver that paracetamol do absolutley nothing!