November 06 - oooh the suspense.

[Hattie05]

Babies born:-
Welshgal - girl, Maddy born 16th October weighing 5lb 12oz
MeAndMyBoy(s)! - boy, Sam George born 21st Oct, 6lbs 4 1/2oz
CattyB - girl, Katherine Rose(?) born 26th Oct, 9lb 2oz.

Babies due:-
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
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
Emom due 7th Nov #1
Novis due 7th Nov #1
Rarrie due 7th Nov #2 has DD
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
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

Ahh mummy2toby that sounds lovely! congratulations.

bcsnowpea i think you may be onto something i shall push dp behind the fridge when he gets home

Ooops got clicky happy there.

I'm still in agony today with (i think) sciatica, difficulty weight bearing on my legs. I feel like crying cos there is so much i want to do - housework ironing etc but i can't do it i just have to stay sitting .

m2t you make it all sound so relaxed and refined - so hope it can be like this for all of us.

Huge Congrats M2T
Sounds wonderful and all very positive.

It has only just dawned on me this morning that as & when me, DH, DD & LO all want to go out we have no way of doing it.
We sold our car about 5 weeks ago and I haven't been too fussed about getting a new one sorted out as DH has his van for work and I thought it would encourage me to do lots more walking, which it has - but now realised we are buggered when LO arrives .

Guess that's something I better get on to eh !

No sex last night - DH and I had a row so there was no way ~I was going there even if it was for my benefit

morning all congrats m2t am now 40+1 so clearly was right to start on this thread.........Halloween baby? bonfire night baby or please no not remembrance day baby...just too far away

big congrats to Mummy2Toby and family - are you going to change your Mumsnet name now!!??

morning all,
Charlee - i know you aimed the Q at NJ but i thought i would answer! - I have bled right the way through after sex and only the last time have escaped! was the blood bright or dull red? if it was just a few spots it should be fine but mention it to mw just to be safe. if you get any more bleeding call the ward to get it checked out, they told me it was to be expected at this stage but if i had any extra bleeding they would do an internal to check it out.

As for haloween names we've had them all (my family and friends like to be cruel!) you could have Damien, Elvira, Draco, Casper....... i won't go on!

Thanks Delia - It was jsut a sew small spots of bright red blood last night but nothing this moring, i was just wondering as they say if your anti-d you may need an anti-d injection if you have a bleed.
I figure it may be just where my cervix is gearing up for things apparently the blood vessles can burst a little when it starts to move forward? I don't know i think i will just see how things go.

Mummy2toby you will have to change you mumsnet now to Mummy2TobyandFreya! Lovley birth story i hope i get time for a Maccy D's

Purpleluce! Your a full 40 weeks so deffo anytime for you i should think how exciting! maybe you will be next?

Hattie hugs to you i know how you feel when there is so much to do and your in pain, just rest as much as you can and do the bare essentials. Is there anyone that can help you out with housework?

Still not sure what to do with the haloween thing MIL wont go out as apparently that would embarass BIL and SIL! but what ever happens im not giving in, i don't want DS out in the dark with kids looking after him.

Morning all!

Congratullations to M2T&F (see I have given you a new name already!)
Glad to hear another baby has made its way into the world. Saw my midwife yesterday as she dropped the homebirth pack off and she said my period pains were a good sign that my pelvis is getting all nice and relaxed for the Big Event. APart from chronic indigestion and hands and feet so swollen they hurt to move, I am doing fine. I am so excited now and have made loads of plans for my matenity leave so that Iam not fixating on my due date. Also, two of my friends had their babies at the weekend! Very good news all round.
My tens machine arrived this weekend but it doesnt work! Grrrrr - I need a new set of leads as only one set seem to work.

Stacey - Sorry you are still hanging on, I realy thought the silence meant it had happened for you.
M2T - I hope the sleeping routine carries on like that! Freya sounds adorable - Well done!!!!
Charlee - my midwife actually told me on my booking in visit that any slight bleeding after sex was to be expected with second time mums, but Saturday night was the first time I had actually bled. It was such a little bit I really wasn't concerned. I did have a few small very light bleeds around the middle of the pregnancy, again I didn't panic because I knew I had been over doing it. I don't think it has anything to do with labour being lose, I think we just erm.... made up for lost time a bit too well!! LOL

Speaking of names (I quite like Casper BTW!) We are down to 2 choices, George Harry, or George Patrick, surname is Oliver, is GPO as initials taking the micky a bit?

Charlee - i totally agree with you and if mil wont compromise then it is her tough luck.

Delia - as for halloween names my dh nickname is Fester as in uncle fester from the adams family so when people have been asking me about names for the baby i have been winding them up by replying Mortica for a girl and Gomez for a boy.

40 wks my hands are not really swollen but my feet are sore where the skin is so stretched.

But on a brighter note the pain has gone from my hip. am off to do some more sorting of the bedroom cupboards speak later eeyoreuk

Everyone seems to be doing the 'nesting' I even cleared out the cupboards at my Mums over the weekend! Poor Mum - we have completely taken over her house! AND she bought me a nice top that isnt maternity but stretches over my bump and will do me for afterwards as well. Plus I have all her wardrobe to borrow! DH cooked us lovely roast dinner last night so am getting thoroughly spoilt

My ankles are swollen like baloons i look quite a sight because my feet are normal size its just my ankles that are fat!
The sex wasn't really vigerous last night more of a relaxed thing, but in regards to the bleeding it has developed into nothing i was just interested because of my anti-d, my midwife never answers her pager anyway so i don't think i wil bother at the moment unless something else happens.

There are loads of people on our list who haven't posted for ages i hope everything is going ok for them! We may have more babies born and not know about it!

tmi here but my bits appear to have swollen up to about 3 times it's natural size (maybe bigger, i can't see).. so painful to touch aswell. i've just had enough now.. i don't mind being pregnant, but why does it have to hurt so much.. i can't roll over in bed without being in agony, i can't get off the sofa on my own, i can't get out of the bath on my own, i can't run round and play with ds... yup, today i am mostly feeling sorry for myself!! 4 more weeks of pain pain pain, and thats as long as lo is born on due date.. i could have 6 weeks of this! i'm definitely coming back in my next life as a bloke!!

right thats enough moaning!!

charlee, stand your ground, if you don't want ds going out with them alone don't let him! i wouldn't let ds out tbh.. good suggestion to have an adult going too!

eeyore, your welcome for the energy! glad you used it wisely! i'm gonna try and take it easy from now on and resist my cleaning urges as i'm sure it's not helping down their (although cleaning always sparks of bh)

nj, we just bought the most basic digital monitor.. with ds it was nice to have the reassurance (spent many evenings with monitor to ear listening to him breath) but after a while i relaxed and barely used it! have just bought the digital one as the old one wasn't and really crackly (probably why i didn't use it much) so the only thing i would reccomend is that you go digital!

Mummy2Toby.. what a lovely birth story.. you make it sound so calm and relaxed! love all the tea drinking! pleased for you freya's doing nicely.

Charlee - I know what you mean about the feet looking odd but I only have one pair of shoes that fit me now and my Mum picked up some boots for me that I wanted from Nine West that were reduced - I cant even get them over my feet let alone done up my leg!

Re baby monitor, we got a video one but only because it was on sale - someone had returned it to John Lewis and it wasnt in the box so we got it for £40 instead of over £100 - DH was so proud at himself for spotting sauch a bargain and it was the same price as all the others (which we were overwhelmed with as so much choice) but I dont have any recommendations about brands or anything.

Sorry you are feeling crap SarahLou - it doesnt sound like much fun

Sorry your feeling bad saralou, lol soon we will all be moaning about sleepless nights, leaky boobs and sore post labour bits!

For what it's worth though i have been feeling quite swollen and sore 'down below' for about a week now i think it's probably just the pressure from a big bubby pushing down!

(I can just imagine you all sitting at home thinking - god is there anything that woman doesn't have wrong with her?)

We have a Fisherprice baby monitor it was only £30 we haven't used it yet. But we have a cheapy £16 one for DS its a Tomy one it's crap we can hear him dry but not breathing or anything as its so crackly, its one that has to be plugged in both ends.

Dont worry Charlee, if you cant moan here then where can you?! Just sorry you aren't feeling tip top

Well mw just been bp 98 again so i am off to the hospital again now - this will be the 4th time in 8 days - i am 39+2 i just wish they would do something to start me off now instead of just keep saying lets keep an eye on things. speak later eeyoreuk

Oh god I am so bored at work - there is hardly anything to do and I just keep thinking that I could be getting baby's stuff ready if I were at home. I only have to work til Thurs but its frustrating knowing that I dont have much to do! I have most of baby's stuff ready but could still be at the shops instead of here, getting stuff ready for Christmas and all the family borthdays coming up - we must all be really randy in my family during Feb as have both sisters, one nephew and then both BIL at Christmas time - oh and you know I said I wanted to buy the baby a really lovely teddy for Christmas as a keepsake? Well apparently thats what my PIL are doing for Baby! Back to the drawing board.

We did buy a video monitor from Woolies, brought it home and it was absolute bobbins!! The picture was really grainy, wouldn't have been able to make a face out of it, the sound was very hit and miss, and it had a very quiet but noticable beep beep beep thing going on, so we took it back.

We had the classic walkabout Tomy ones for DS, they were great, never let us down once, but the ones I am really keen on have so much extra on them, it is the Tomy Platinum ones, they are digital for a start, but also has the temperature readings, remotely controlled night lights (wow wee!!!! ) a last feed timer (very useful for the night feeds where time seems to become way too much info to be able to handle!!) and loads more, just not sure if it is worth paying double for? £80 seems a lot of money to me for what is essentially a pretty basic bit of kit, but it is a basc bit of kit that would be fairly handy to have. The temperature thing would really be useful, the babies room is what used to be the spare room which was piled up with 'stuff' since we moved in, and so that room has never been used as part of the house IYSWIM? So we have no idea if it is a bit chilly at night in there, or if it holds all the heat being a smaller room etc.

Congratulations Mummy2Toby! Your little girl sounds lovely, and that birth story gives me hope! Some people really can have 'nice' births then.
I'm now 39+1 and not felt like much is happening, except that the bh happen a lot more often. They still don't hurt though so I think I'm lucky.

eeyoreuk i hope they do something at the hospital for you, with DS my bp went up once and they whipped me in there and then for an induction! But really i think after 4 times they should pull a finger out and do something!

Hopingcat it must be soon for you hun? I am going to go clinicaly insane if i go overdue i swear! but at least your not having any problems fingers crossed we hear about your lovley LO making an appearence soon!

I am spending alot of time on my birthing ball at the moment, the pressure and pain down below is getting unbarable it feels like i have already given birth as im really sore, i am having sporadic periods od contractions real painfull ones but never more than 4 before they die sown for an hour or two.

We had the washing machine engineer out again today the lovley man emptied my clean washing on the floor and thenused it to clean up all the dirty water he emptied on the floor from the machine! i have a bloomin good mind to complain, especially since he still didn't fix it!

I have started a thread on this, but wondered if those of you who have used a TENS machine before know if it is worth paying £60-ish for a branded name one, or if the ones they sell on eBay for £15 are as good? Is it all in the name, or is it a case of being better quality?

OMG Charlee - I would sooo complain about that. How dare he? Go mad, they will then see that its easier to give you a new one than keep trying to fix it.
Also, another note of the monitors - I think they sell them on Amazon and usually you can read a buyers review so might be worth looking on there at the different makes?
NJ - no idea about the Tens Machine - all I know is the one I hired doesnt work so am hoping the new one will arrive before labour starts!
Just had a double decker - oooooh I havent had one for ages and it was lovely