April and March 2015 miscarriage survivors. nearly there! and already there for some

[TinyTear]

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I think that's a pretty common feeling once you hit your due date smiling You just feel like you're waiting for something to happen after that.

Nice to hear from you tanny and babiecakes how are you getting on?

And you LIG ?

Smiling I felt just the same way! The waiting before your EDD is bad enough, but after it each day seems to last for ten! Fingers crossed it doesn't go on for too much longer...

Bertie is already full of character and just a sweetie pie. I am totally in love. It is knackering, feeding every two hours at the moment, and my anxiety about Bertie surviving is still high.

Can't wait to hear about the next babies on the thread

congrats, LIG!

Congratulations LIG!

The stitch is out, Dr had trouble getting it out but I managed with just the G&A. Everything is fine so I'm back home.
Dr couldn't say for certain how long he thinks I will last but since my cervix is soft likely in the next week but then again I wasn't suppose to make it this long so who knows.

I spoke to midwife about the birth it seems the hospital still class me as high risk and it is sounding like a rather medically managed birth is in order.
At the very least they want to monitor me throughout the labour.
I might also be on anti-biotic 'just in case' because of being ill with DD.
And they want to do a medically managed 3rd stage because I retained my placenta with DS. Despite the fact its pretty common to retin your placenta during such an early delivery.
I understand why they feel these interventions are neccessary but its not how I wanted it to be.
I'm fine with the monitoring, DD going quiet in utero a few times has worried me a little so if anything it might actually relax me.
The anti-biotics and the managed 3rd stage is something I will decide on at the time.

Countdown is on Little !!

My money's on your DD coming before my DS, I swear he's planning on staying in there till he's 21

smiling when is your due date?

little my due date is today.

babiecakes I find a cool shower and washing my hair sometimes helps a headache or if I have a migraine and have left it to late for the painkillers to have any effect then a cool compress on my forehead relieves it a bit.

I also find a cool compress on the base of my skull helps but make sure it's cool and not cold.

Hope you feel better soon

babies that sounds awful! For a migraine most say a dark cool room helps.

smiking hopefully it won't be long now you've had a the 'signs'.

Yuk on the headache front babies. If it persists I would seek medical advice in case it is still an after effect of the spinal. Last thing you need...

Little and smiling we await news with baited breath

Any overnight news?

Yesterday had some Braxton Hicks and was talking to DH saying, hope newbie hasn't missed the memo that eviction is a week today and I need to call you in a rush to look after DD if it's in the night... And he says "well... I actually have been there before so if I had to miss it... "
Gah!!! Silly man! I know he will be there with me, but I guess that is the issue with family away...
He has said also he might not want to look when/if they lower the curtain for me...

Nothing to report here if anything my body feels all relaxed. And I organised everything I don't actually have an reason to get out of bed! talk about Sod's law.

Tiny oh I would have given DH both barrels if he'd come out with a 'been there done that' attitude!
Is he stressed and busy? I find when my DH is he becomes a little bit disengaged because he's on auto pilot but really he is excited.

No news here either, I feel crampy still but have for days so that's not new.

DP and I had a discussion about what will happen if Beanie doesn't arrive till DSC are with us for the easter hols, I suggested he might have to take them to stay in a hotel since they won't want to be around whilst I'm in Labour, he was horrified at the thought of missing the birth.

I'm starting to get a bit stressed about how close it is till dsc are here, we've got them for the 2nd week of the hols Beanie would be 2 weeks late by then so chances are I will have been induced but I'm worried I will either go into labour while they are here or that I'll have a days old baby and then have to cope with an 11 and 16 yr old, plus DP has to pick them up from the other side of the country so will be 170 miles away

I knew this was a possibility but was hoping beanie would be on time so would be a couple of weeks old and I'd be in some kind of routine before factoring in 2 more children, now he's late and it's getting closer I feel a bit panicky.

little yes, he is a bit stressed, and the big bosses from abroad are in town this week so he will be out for dinner tomorrow...

oh smiling yes the logistics of things are terrible... i hope your beanie gets a move on...

smiling could they go to a hotel with MIL? Or at the very least stay in her part of the house?

I would be making it clear you will not be responsible for DSC if the baby arrives that's your DPs and MILs job.
I know you are combining families but the early weeks should be all about you and the baby and no matter how helpful and mature they are you are still going to end up taking care of them too.

Well I made up a list of all the little bits and pieces I want to get done in the house before baby arrive and I've managed to come up with a list of 18 tasks hopefully that will keep me occupied for a few days.

Tiny DH is in a similar situation this would be the worst week to have the baby as loads of important meetings and DH is mobbed with work.
Partly because they were stupid to move offices during this busy faze and being that they are all men none of them realised they would have to organise telephone and Internet access in advance.

I did say that if he's really worried that after the birth he can focus on work for a few more days or however much time he needs then take his paternity leave when its less manic. But he doesn't want to do that so I'm just going to cross my legs fir a few days.

The problem is that mil's side of the house is pretty much uninhabitable, she still refuses to unpack anything in the lounge so it is full of boxes (don't ask I have no idea why) and the same in her kitchen. There are at least 40 boxes in the lounge and her log cabin is also full of boxes (at least 50) she didn't downsize at all when moving and I think is so overwhelmed now and can't face it. She is basically living in her bedroom and still sharing our kitchen so doesn't have anywhere for dsc to go.

For my own sanity I've had to stop trying to sort it for now but once Beanie is here I will be telling her that it needs sorted or we will be selling up because I can't live like it anymore, especially since there is no need it's just her being difficult.

maybe that could be something the dsc can help with , unpack and sort and take things to charity shop?

I can understand why you don't want to take her on the boxes I was in a similar position with my DH and it took two years to sort out. We didn't down size just didn't think about the amount if stuff we had in storage that then had to go somewhere.
I would make it your DP problem, he needs to work out the logistics of where the kids are going to go if they are present when you are in labour so he best make plans. Is your MIL going to leave for it too?