Home stretch for Februray babies! Thread 7

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Hi All

Here's what may or may not be our final thread!!

Viper can removal of a stitch move you straight into labour? Hope all goes well today!

mini I'm still working full time got another two weeks after this week then I will finish at 37+3 wks. Can't wait, its getting harder each day. Everything feels like a huge effort. Sleep pattern is up the creek, I'm ready for deep heavy sleep at 6:30am just as alarm starts going off. It's rough! My job is half desk half lab work and I should be tailing off being in the lab this month but my boss is off with kidney stones so I'm having to pick up the slack
Luckily we are not too busy at the mo but everything I do takes me twice as long and I have to sit down a lot!

Getting pressure down low too, got a constant full bladder feeling when walking. Is that what baby being engaged feels like ????

Oooh low down pressure - how do I get that?! I had it from weeks 32-34, but apparently the little tinker has bobbed back up again and I'm feeling him twerk on my stomach... Quite happy to encourage him to head back down!

My last bobbed in and out, according to my midwife, but I didn't even notice. This time it is more noticeable. But i have no clue why or any tips on getting it to happen. Not sure it is a particularly good thing; they say it has little effect on when you will go into labour and I'm not enjoying the pressure. If I had had much heartburn I might be feeling grateful now though.

No idea how it happens! I figure its just gravity! Only feel it when I stand up. I'm optimistically hoping that it means my pelvis is so wide that baby will just shoot out when the time is right ! Haha wishful thinking probably!

I feel like he is so low he could just poke his hand out and high five me.....clearly won't feel like that when pushing him out though

So not having a good day. Of all the days to sleep so soundly that I go right through the alarm! Yep. Mad dash to get car to garage, through rush hour traffic with no breakfast etc.. Stress levels not good. Dealer did manage to plug car into the computer and switch off the engine warning light but are of course saying it's nothing to do with them having had the car and playing with the electrics for the last month! Dropped car off for MOT, guessing it hasn't failed cos I haven't heard anything :-/

Once I got home I managed to drop the f word whilst on the phone to the church secretary :-O She'd called because she was about to print the monthly church mag and noticed the youth club dates in there were different to the ones I'd emailed to her the other day. At which point I may have come out with several expletives with regard to the mag editor who received the same email as her. Last month he managed to publish two different sets of dates. Aagh.

And now hubby delayed getting home. He works on the trains, leaves his car at local station when he can then gets train to work. Except he's now at totally different station because of problems on the line. I was like, I'll come and get you and take you to your car. He was like - "have you got the car back?" I'm like "DOH!"

Sorry for the huge whinge. Hope your day is getting better Memphis and good luck with the stitch today viper. To those of you still working I take my hat off to you. Just being pregnant is knackering enough.

Well I think I have felt a wee foot under my ribs a few times today, so fingers crossed he's turned!
My muscles round my bump are really sore and my legs feel like I've done loads of exercise (definitely haven't) also finding it very difficult to sit for any length of time these last few days.

Thanks for your advice re funeral. I will plan on going even if it is by myself.

I'm still working and yes my motivation has gone out the window, although I have a day off today. I have been doing more painting and now looking at chests of drawers on Argos. Had a better night's sleep last night, but think I'll have another nap in a bit.

Good luck Viper and Jen.

Grinning my motivation has gone also and I've got another 4/5 weeks to work - I keep finding things to distract me away from what I should be doing - mn/fb/twitter seem to be the favourable distractions lol

Honey - risk with stitch removal is waters break during, which they didn't. On average it's about 2 weeks from removal for labour to start naturally.

As I'm GD and don't want to be induced I'm starting to excercise again tmrw, I'm going to swim/float daily, walk, and do pregnancy yoga. I'm 36+4 so almost good to go :-)

Thanks for kind wishes all, I was super relaxed this morning, it was a long 15 week slog but we made it! :-D

Being up since 4.30 has finally caught up on me. I'm still working I've got 5 days left. Giving up at 38+4.
Managed to get doctors this morning and have a course of antibiotics for my cyst. Because my pelvis and fanjo aren't sore and swollen already.
I have resorted to baggy trousers which I wouldn't normally leave the house in and oh' boxer shorts. I'm thinking of keeping the pants as they are rather comfy.
36 week midwife app tomorrow even though I'll be 37+1.

Congrats viper glad it went well!

Donkir my appointments are all over the place too, I haven't kept track but my next is also at 37+1. Probably my fault, I have rearranged a couple of times due to work.

So, so tired of hauling my ass into work every day and sitting in front of the screen.

I'm 36 weeks today but 3 more weeks at work, if I don't go into labour before that.

Glad all went well Viper, your bean did well to stay in so long and now a baby ready for the world!

Well nesting is a bloody amazing thing, things I have held onto for years in just binning, shoes, cheap costume jewelery, make up, its all going, my bed is covered in black bags for the tip! Dh just phoned I have said we are having takeaway tonight I just want to finish clearing my wardrobe, bath and chill out

Hi ladies, this thread moves mega fast! Hello to the new folk, and wb to those who've been AWOL for a while.

Crikey O'Riley I am knackered. 33+6 and I feel like I have eaten a watermelon, have the flu and something wedged in my fanny all at the same time. I have no idea how the hell I am going to last for another 4 weeks at work. Thankfully I am only teaching a full timetable for another 1.5 weeks, but I feel like a zombie. Plus my sugars went crazy today (tbh I felt like uber-crap) and I ended up far too high after breakfast and then I crashed badly from 9.2 - 4.1 in the space of two hours and ended up a shaking mess in the staffroom. Not good. That and waddling, carrying sets of marking, with the fanny wedge feeling is making my feet hurt (and they, and my hands, keep swelling in the morning.). I am sleeping but waking every hour.

Plus OH has been working in Ireland all bloody week. He's due home in about 4 hours.

I want this baby out. Now.

Furniture arrives next weekend! Will be very glad to be able to actually put all of the clothes and bits away properly, rather than them being in bag in the spare room. At a bloody wedding this weekend! UGH!

Sorry for the mega whinge, but sometimes I feel I could cry out of despair.

36w appointment tomorrow, have a list of questions for her, gulp!

I realised today that I'm fairly sure I haven't had any Braxton Hicks... Dr Google seems to think this is indication of an overdue baby... Sure hope not!

Hi ladies, I had my final growth scan today and all looking well. They are quite happy with my sugars (GD) and blood pressure. So will let me go to 39 weeks rather then induce at 38. So inducion booked for 25th eek ! My consultant is lovely and is on the delivery shift that week, he's very calm and gentle chap. Its nice to have a date now

Phew - car passed MOT without extra cost and only one advisory. However, I think the stressy day has taken its toll, indigestion is sooo bad. Lump in throat, feel sick and the pain. Gaviscon barely working. Just hope I feel better tomorrow.

frenetic step away from the Google! No BH here and whilst definitely don't want child to appear early (hubby won't qualify for PL if

That should be > 1 week early. Fat fingers on phone! Anyone else removed their rings to be on the safe side?

Hi ladies. Just wondered what your thoughts on this would be... So naughty baby has been breech since about 31 weeks (I'm now 36 weeks). I had a scan to check this the other day. I saw a consultant who had booked me in for a c section but not until I am 40+1 which seems odd as its passed my due date. I have an extra growth scan at the end of the month as they have said his current weight is estimated to be 8.8lbs! I also had a GTT test today to check for diabetes. Getting a bit worried.

Don't worry frenetic I had DD at 42+1 and had lots of Braxton Hicks so I'm not sure it always means that

Gosh being 2 weeks over was really crap...I really hope I don't go over again! I hope none of us do to that extent!

Just had a mini panic and frantically started packing my hospital bags, but realised I can't remember where I put the teenie-weenie clothes, and that my new post-birth button down Primarni nighties are on the airer drying... But now my bump is twinging and I need a sit down.

That's excellent news Soph and frenetic I'm sure a lot of people don't get BH. TBH I'm not sure if I've had them or not .

Becca I wouldn't worry, if they were massively worried about GD, then they'd have been monitoring you much earlier. And as for weight it is gestimate. My sonographer last week said that my bump weighed 4lb4 but that wasn't hugely exact and they can never tell 100%. Plus my MW then said that my baby was on the small side, even having metformin controlled GD.

Our pram turned up randomly today. With a big chunk of the hood snapped off.

I hate mothercare with rabid passion.