Is there a Due in August 2007 Thread?

[londonlou]

I have finally got that positive after 6 years of TTC. I checked on a site that calculates due dates for IVF cycles and it gave me the due date of August 3rd. Is there not a thread created yet for August 2007?

Lou

I was feeling quite good this morning and not very sick but I'm starting to feel pretty bad now. Only 4 hours and 20 minutes til I can go home (

Work is difficult at the moment with being so tired but not as exhausting as staying home to look after dd. I much prefer sitting all day in front of the PC. That way I can keep up with everybody here.

Sounds like you'll have fun working out your hours hormonalwreck. It sounds like you and your dh will be like ships that pass in the night when you go back to work. It's good that your MIL is willing to help though.

I hated working in my first trimester with my first. I think employers should allow pregnant woman an afternoon nap. Its what made me quit so early.

I'm working 'earlies' - it does mean I have to drag myself out of bed at 6.00 to be at work for 7.30, but winter mornings are so rubbish (even without the nausea) that nothing could make them any worse, and it means I'm home by 4pm for that vital nap...

and of course the other advantage is that my Notoriously Demanding Boss is currently working lates (from 10 till 6) so the chance of her meeting me in the corridor and suddenly dumping her ill-thought-out projects on me is correspondingly reduced...

Hello, everyone
Hope you all had a good Christmas and new year
Sorry I haven?t posted for ages been really bizzy, every thing is back to normal routine now
Sort of skimmed through what iv missed, congratulations and welcome to all those who have joined us,
I am so sorry to hear you news smellymelly, londonlou and missingmywine, hope you are back on the Ante-natal threads soon

Iv still been getting really bad ms, tiredness and headaches, im sick about 3 times a day but I keep telling my self it should all ease off in a few weeks, I had my booking appointment with the mw last week but I am still waiting for my scan appointment to come through the post

We are thinking of having a home birth this time as I was in labour less than 4 hours last time and I was sent home the same day. Has anyone here had a home birth? Anyone else thinking of having one?

I had one Breesha- sounds like you might not get a choice next time anyway if baby comes any faster you won't make it!!

My second baby came so fast I am glad I was at home.

It was lovely.

Also the website
www.hombirth.org.uk (I think!!) is very very helpful regarding homebirths!

I'm sure lots of you will totally disagree with me, but I really just dont fancy a home birth at all. The last thing i think i'd want is to feel i should really be making cups of tea for everyone cause they were at my house, rather than just concentrating on the birth.

But I know some people really dislike hospitals. My Dad's a doctor, so I've never disliked them as much as most people, and I think i'd like the peace of mind of knowing that all the help is right there if something goes wrong - but again that's maybe cause the few people I know with wee children have all had pretty hard times of it during the births.

I'm with you conkertree, I went natural the first time around, but this time I want drugs

I'm with you conkertree! My mw is dead keen on the idea of home births and keeps trying to persuade me but like you say, I would feel like I have to host people, not to mention trying to keep the place tidy when I should be bonding with wee babby!!!

I have no probs with hospitals and apparently Cambridge has one of the best Maternity units in the country. They also have a Midwife Led Birthing Unit which is in the hospital but a couple of floors below the main maternity ward. They have normal beds and baths so it's a bit like a home from home. I'd like to get in there but you can't prebook, they're first come first served!

Go for it Bresha! I had an unplanned one with DS and I would have loved a planned one this time round but it now looks like I wont be able to after all because of the heparin I'll have to take Ds came in less than 4 hours from very first twinge and would have been quicker had I not been too scared to push. Just getting there in time is the scariest part of a hospital birth for me. And previously midwife had been quite encouraging about a home birth she actually said she felt it would be safer given the likely speed. Ideally I'd be at home with a birthing pool, sleeping in my own bed with my family around me. There's a really active home birth team down here i've been told 1 in 8 births are at home in Brighton. I had a retained placenta last time so I have first hand experience of getting to hospital really fast should anything go wrong. If you haven't already done some I'd thouroughly recommend Active birth classes. Think they're helpful whatever birth you're planning or eventually have. I was one of the few women there who'd planned a hospital birth and ironically one of the few that had a home one! But the classes really helped prepare me mentally for all eventualities.

lol- each to their own- everyone is different. So much depends on local facilities and services provided- Paula I would have loved that kind of set up but alas not avail here!!

in fact it was not the labour I had issues with it was the postnatal ward with ds 1- was horrid, dirty, dark and dingy... that and I ended up on IV antibiotics after getting some sort of infection..... having had a very managed and difficult labour (for which I am grateful to the labour unit staff) I wasn't allowed home for 4 days.

If I could guarantee I 'd be home within hours I'd do hossie- but the best way ime to do that is to stay at home in the first place

having said all that- ds1's birth never for a moment out me off having more babies- I must be MAD!!!

ak not Paula- Hormonal wreck..... was refering to the home from home mw led unit!

My dh was a nervous wreck at the hopsital. He looked like a rabbit in headlights. Good job my mum was there. I think he would really panic if I had a home birth (he'd be more useful playing his computer games). I guess a home birth is a possibility considering the 1st one was only 5 hours. The midwives kept trying to persuade me to stay at home longer. I'm glad I ignored them because the baby was born less than 2 hours after I got to the hospital and we left just before rush hour.

If you had it at home, (those of you that already have kids) would you let the kids watch?

no i wouldn?t let my kids watch, my 2 are only young, the only people i would have present are dp and 2 mw,
both my dds were born in the night and dp was sent home and I hated that, just wonted to be at home with him, and have all my things, and to be in my own bed,
I wouldn?t let visitors in, not till the day after

Hi all,
So sorry to have lost more people
also welcome to new pg ladies - august is rather popular! Both my others were born in Aug - so busy month for us!

Been off for a while - we've all had the most terrible flu bug - so that combined with ms has made for a pretty ,miserable xmas and ny. Luckily i work from home, so am pretty flexible work-wise.
The only good thing has been that dp didn't get it so has been looking after myself, dd1 and dd2. He's been pretty good - but I have to say, it's been a good experience for him to realise just how much looking after our dd's need - learning curve for no3. i think!!
Re: homebirths - if all goes right, they seem fantastic. We tried for a homebirth with dd1 - every obstacle that could get in our way did and I ended up in hosp. with an emergency c-section. No. 2 was also a section, and so now no3. will be too - which means I may sneak into July for giving birth (help! sounds awful soon). I seem to remember that elective sections are at 37 weeks in Glasgow. Does anyone know anything about this? Seems awful early to me?

No, I wouldn't let mine watch either - too young too, but do have a friend who had a section recently and her dd (2.5) waited outside with Dad and came in as soon as baby was born. - all seemed fine, but i think it was more out of necessity rather than they really wanted her there.

I think I'd have played it by ear about DS watching a home birth because he seems strangely fascinated by the whole process. he'll be 4 when this one is due. I've got good mates nearby so if he or I were distressed about it he could always have gone there. I've heard quite a few stories of babies being born at home at night with other little ones blissfully asleep upstairs throughout the screams.

I just ask my my cousin let her daughter 3 watch and apparently her dd loved it. I don't think I would. I'd be afraid she'd be upset by me being in pain and the sight of any blood.

Afternoon Ladies!
Went to my first MW app yesterday, Im now "booked", My MW asked how I was I told her I wasn't enjoying a moment of it, she asked why I said it was due to the alday sickness and tiredness, she asked if I had been to see a Doctor about it, I told her about my doctor saying they cant do anything about it and she didn't look impressed and checked my noted the doctor said nothing regarding seeing me in floods of tears telling her how awlfull I was feeling, nothing, so MW phoned her and asked her some questions regarding the whole thing, the doctor in the end said well she'll have to see a doctor about it but I'm busy, my MW got me an app with another Doctor which he was very helpfull (When I first saw the doctor I said Please say you can do something for me other wise your just going to have to put me down!) and give me some tablets that dissolve between your gum and the sides of your mouth so you don't need to swallow them very useful, seeing as anything I eat at the moment has a return ticket, but the doctors sent me for 2 blood test (thighroids and kidney function) which was on top of the 4 blood test the MW did at my booking app only an hour and a half before so feeling very battered and bruised, but I have my 10 week scan booked as we have a 10 week and not a 12 week scan here but I will be 11 weeks, oh well it booked and DH coming too, one thing that really did tick me off everyone a spoke to yesterday regarding MS they said I will be fine at 16 weeks, 16WEEKS I cant wait that long!
Today I got up got the boys ready for school, then I was sick, tuck the boys to school, and was sick again when I got back ,so I went back to bad at half 9 and DH woke me up at 10 past 2 feel loads better tho!
Babymadxxx

re watching the HB- So far the boys were born in the middle of the night so it was not an issue.

Next time- will probably be the same but if not we will have a close family friend here for the boys the playroom is next to the room I will labour in and I think within a little guidance we will let them choose what they want to do- I think if we tried to keep them away when they wanted to see me it might be more traumtic (iykwim) if I wanted them away they'd have to go play at a friends. tbh I have every confidence that thomas the tank engine will be more of an attraction than me anyway... but would like them to meet baby asap... as soon as born if possible.

my toddler is very communicative and understands quite a lot- we are reading to him lots and lots about it using some fab books and he has seen mummy in extreme pain a few times and coped well and tries to help make me feel better with a kiss and his magic medicine from his play drs kit.

sometimes I think that maybe I wouldn't want them there b/c I would worry about them when I needed to focus on what I am doing .... they would be easily distracted if I did feel like that... Thomas is a very useful engine!! LOL

poor you, sorry you are having a rough time

I spoke to my MW about where I would like to have my baby, I've asked for a home birth which my MW is all for it, and she said why don't you have a "home water birth" But I said I really didn't have the room for a pool she said well it'll be august why not have the birth pool outside in your back garden, really thinking about it now, we'll see. MW also said I could were a bikini! Hot sun or warm night sky, Bikini, water pool, poeple on tap to get me this and that, also "gas & air" on tap what could be better! I've always wanted to get on with the neighbours, do you think it's a good why to start!

One of my friends said that she watched her mum give birth and she never looked it her mum the same way again she was 13 at the time, her younger sister who was 10 had nightmares for week afterwards, to let your DC watch needs careful thinking before hand because once its done it's done!

now that's an idea babymad- in the garden!!

not in the night tho !!

I would have been traunmatised at 13 too!!

I think age/child's personality, the particular labour, speed of delivery... if dh can get home from work fast enough etc etc, how dh/dp would cope, how your mw feels... lots of things affect the decision.

Now I however can't stop thinking about birth pool in the garden with moonlight, elderflower cordial and ice cubes and a lucious strawberry and Melon salad for post birth.

oh heavenly!!

What if it rains?

Could always have a gazebo over the top of the pool. Good idea, my neighbours are a bit too close for my liking tho. We got a pool for ds but ended up in hospital, would like to try again but the only space we have is living room which is small and ds's main play area. Just don't think I could do outside with the amount of noise I made last time.