June 2015 - the one where we impatiently count down to baby's arrival

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Shiny new thread for us all

Some pics if baby Austin (tin-tin) x

croon massive congrats on baby Austin, sorry to hear it was a rather traumatic week but the end result is beautiful, hope you both are home soon together, fit and well

Congratulations on your beautiful baby croon. Sorry to hear it was traumatic and so much of a whirlwind, but as others have said the end result is simply magnificent. 5 lbs is a good weight and I am glad to hear that Austin didn't need too much assistance post-birth.

Obviously I hope that the other babies will stay put at least until they are 37 weeks, but it is very exciting to have a Junebaby!

I don't know if there is a stats document still circulating, but my stats are:
zahaziland, 35, DC#1 (2 previous MCs), EDD 25.06.15

PS: Jama, best wishes to your daughter and granddaughter.
Here's hoping you can crack open that champagne soon!

Aw congrats croon. What a story though!! Hope you on the mend and baby is making great strides.

Well I ended up in MAU last night
I'd notice movement was different, not as sharp bit like bubbles like first movements I ever notices. Anyway I'd been for afternoon tea yesterday. Had real tea, lots of cake, not much movement, did the cold water thingy. Not really much movement.

Phoned them up all sensible like, told if wanted reassurance to come in but overall weren't worried

I was (obviously! Ftm alert) baby was fine but wasn't until we'd been there for almost an hour before it started going to town movement wise.

I reckon it had moved position and that's why I could feel the same kind of movements aa before. Glad I went though!! Hopefully no more drama til baby is on the way!!

Thanks all for the lovely welcomes, and I'm sorry it's taken me a few days to get back here. We had a bit of drama the other day, decline in fetal movement which resulted in a pre-dawn trip to hospital for monitoring for a couple of hours. Thankfully baby is fine and was just being mischievous, or something!

We're having regular appointments with the fetal cardiologist at the moment, we have one this coming week actually and I'm hoping that we'll be given a decision on where I'll be having the baby - at the moment it's all up in the air but at 32 weeks almost I'm starting to get a bit anxious about it! We do know that the baby will need open heart surgery at around 6 months old.

I'll try to catch up properly very soon - and thank you bubalou for your kind offer of a chat

Catypillar thanks for the link. Now it's the weekend I finally have time to look up more interesting things to eat, meat or fish with salad gets a bit boring. I'm just being impatient, I have an appointment with a new midwifery team next Friday so hopefully I'll know about when/ where I can give birth then but I like to know everything now! Have you been on insulin since you were diagnosed or has it got worse as the pregnancy has progressed? Theyvall sorry to hear you have GD too. How many weeks are you now?

Jamak like bubalou I have a sister born prematurely. She was born at 24 weeks in 1986. I remember her development being a little slower when she was tiny, she didn't walk until she was about 18 months old whereas my other sisters and I had all been quite early, but she had caught up by the time she went to school. Got everything crossed for your grandaughter.

Thanks comeagain From what I can gather, it just means that there's too much pressure, and therefore resistance, of blood going through the umbilical cord, and it can lead to IUGR. I'm not worried at the moment as everything is on the 50th centile, but glad they're keeping an eye. Glad everything was OK re: movements.

Congrats croon! Hope that you're recovering well, and glad baby is doing well. Fingers crossed you get to go home soon.

Sorry for mammoth post, the last few days have been very busy with work and appointments. Hope you all have nice plans for the long weekend.

Hi firefly.

Glad the foetal movements are ok now.

Let me know if you mind obviously / if you want to tell us more about baby firefly.

Our little boy was diagnosed with TGA after his 20 week appointment. TGA = transversion of the great arteries, his pulmonary artery and aorta are the wrong way round.

Will cut a long story short and a load of specialist scans, tests etc and 15 weeks later...here we are.

I'm over 35 weeks now and were due to go in for our last scans etc on the 13th may where we will find out what day I will be induced. They expect me to have him that week between 37-38 weeks.

Another load of medical information I will leave out...but long and short is little man will be taken away as soon as he is born to the royal Brompton where he will be stabilised and after 4-5 days he will undergo open heart surgery to correct the transversion.

It has been an extremely terrifying and scary roller coaster and we obviously have no idea how things will work out but we are so ready now for him to get here so we can get all the awfulness out the way and get him healthy and home.

Hi, Yes there is still a stats list and I have tried to keep it as upto date as I possibly can.
za, I have added your stats and all of the other .newbees. that are on this thread I have added your names but if you could just either inbox me the details to add or post them onto this thread I will update yours.
There is a FB version for those on the FB group which has a lot more detail on it but this is never posted onto this thread.
Here is the link to the MN version if you fancy a nosey!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/187-SzT22h7P7Foe5S0_Ba3TwU-HnDohALFohx9_AoFI/edit?pli=1#gid=0

Just marking my place! I'm new here and due 24th June but looking to have ELCS, I'll catch up with the thread and find out where everyone's up to

Welcome and congrats pixie

Welcome Pixie! With all this talk of early arrivals and May born June Bugs I'm glad to have someone else towards the back of the bus - I'm due 23rd June. There'll be a few of us keeping each other company at the end I think

Morning all!

I'm feeling quite refreshed this morning.
I'm not sure if this is related but OH slept on sofa last night.... I have no idea why. (Silly man)

But I slept through with only ONE pee break.

I should be happy, but knowing OH slept on sofa makes me feel I missed a huge opportunity to sleep in the middle of the bed starfish style

Anyways MAY THE FOURTH be with you all and you have a lovely bank holiday

Hello everyone,

I hope you are all enjoying the bank holiday weekend.

I had my third ultrasound. Everything is ok, even though baby's head is large (BP: 93th percentile), while the abdomen is small (AC: 28th percentile). Baby's weight is estimated at 2.125 kg at 33+4.
The ultrasound tech said that all the measurements were within the norm and I shouldn't be worried; baby is just slightly on the small side.
Now, I know I should just accept what she said and consider that everything is normal, but it keeps on niggling at me. Does anyone have any experience of this type of situation (ie big head but small tummy)???

Congratulations Croon! what a gorgeous baby he is :)

Alcoholics I'm 35 weeks now so not long to go, but I'm petrified of getting type 2 after the birth, the stats I read were quite high for this :( I worry about the side effects on the baby and on me too, as well as not wanting an IOL at 38 weeks! All a bit stressful, despite being quite common these days. I look at Kate coming out of hospital looking healthy as anything and wonder why I can't have a pregnancy that hasn't taken absolutely everything out of me!! (I know, I'd look good too if I had a team of stylists, and actually I feel more sorry for her than anything - its just the health side I was contemplating).

Zah try not to worry too much (duh what did I just say about me worrying?!). I think occasionally if there is a massive difference in HC and AC it could mean the placenta wasn't providing enough nutrients so the baby prioritises its main organs for them rather than putting on weight if you see what I mean? I'm not saying this is likely to be what is happening, especially if the US tech was quite happy - but did you have the scan reviewed with a Dr afterwards?

x

Hope uv all had a lovely bank holiday?

After finishing work on friday mine has consisted of getting all the 'baby' stuff out of the loft, washed, dried and set up ready for her arrival!

Crib has bedding on it at the foot of our bed, moses basket set up in living room, swingy chair has been tested out by 2 yr old dd's dollies!

Also have playmat, bath and carseat and base ready and waiting.... Thats all jobs ticked off the list just the last few bits to buy for my hospital bag... Who knew slippers were so hard to find! (Particular type i like)

Neways 36 weeks now and starting to resemble a baby whale... We are having north west meet up this saturday so the staff at the restaurant better be prepared for 13 heavily pregnant june bug mums!!! Lol

Just to update from my ultrasound. I discussed the results with my OB-GYN and she isn't concerned at all. She just said that the baby is slightly below average in weight and in abdominal circumference, but still well within the charts. She quite rightly reminded me that fetal growth is not exactly the same in all babies and the average is only just an "average"!
She didn't suggest that another growth scan would be necessary, and she noted that growth is satisfactory.
I supppose I was worrying for nothing, but for my previous scans I was always at the 50th centile, so bang in the middle, and I was a bit unnerved to be in the 30th centile for growth this time.

We're coming close to the date where the first babies on the bus will be term soon!

Zah, that's good news.

I had to have a growth scan last week because I was measuring small, and everything was fine if a little under average. As you say though, someone has to be under and someone has to be over otherwise average wouldn't be average!!

It's a subject close to my heart, as a teacher in the UK at the moment, where the government seems to think no child can be below average... Which is of course mathematically impossible... Anyway, that's another thread..!!

That's good zah.

pas that made me laugh - makes me wonder if our politicians ever attended their maths classes and learned how to calculate the average

My heartburn has ramped up another level. As has my spd. Feel miserable again. And as my mood has changed so much I'm now starting to fear that baby will make an earlier than expected appearance (irrational, feeling sorry for myself, thoughts)

Onto more fun things - does anyone have a recommendation for a website that sells funky pram liners? Like skull n x-bones or batman symbol as an example?

I'm finding all the currently available ones a bit meh. Pretty but meh.

I want character! Something that the old ladies will double take at. yes I'm that evil now wants a muppet themed pram liner

Comeagain have you tried Etsy and Folksy? That's just the kind of thing you'd find there.

Morning :) how is everyone today? No new posts since Tuesday - hope everyone is good!

My back is sore, and things feel 'lower' ... hopefully this is baby moving into the pelvis? Was only 4/5 engaged on tuesday ... maybe a bit more now ;)

Saw diabetic people and consultant etc. on tues, they were happy with sugars and can manage by diet for next 2 weeks at least, but baby measuring waaaay above 90th centile - so growth scan next week ?? IOL following 38 weeks if its massive. eek.

Zah thats fantastic news ... sorry for saying it might be other things, hope that didn't worry you too much xx

I'm similar Theyveallgone - since yesterday I suddenly feel very heavy and achey. Only 33 weeks so feel like there's a long time to get through feeling like this.

Glad they're letting you manage your diabetes through diet. I have a repeat growth scan in a couple of weeks due to an apparent ginormo-baby, which may the open up some scheduled sweeps to try get any out before term. Don't be worried about the prospect of a big baby. They're lovely, and no harder to get out than a toddler

I dreamt last night baby arrived on my first day of maternity leave. Eek! As I finish work tomorrow that's a bit alarming. I'd quite like this baby out sooner rather than later now (I'm 35+3 and think 38 weeks will be plenty thank you... Although dd was 40+12 so I'm not holding out much hope!!) but I would like a week or two of mat leave to get my head around having a 2nd baby! I feel it's been a little sidelined by work and toddler...

Oh, the other random thing about my dream was that the baby was dd. Not just looked like her, but was her. Like a little clone. Weird. And she was about 6mo before we thought to announce her birth.

Ah, pregnancy dreams....