Feb 2016 babies: Welcome to the 3rd trimester - the final stretch! (in more ways than one)

[haquoi123]

New thread! Stats in next post

mawsy what fab news congratulations! When was your due date? Sounds like a nice healthy weight! Were you anyway booked for a c-section? Sorry for the nosey questions sure your tired and having a good rest no rush for more details I'll go wash skme baby clothes or something while I wait

YAY!!! Congratulations Mawsy I hope you are enjoying lots of snuggles!

Can't believe we're starting to have actual BABIES ladies, it is terrifying and awesome!

I'm now on mat leave countdown. M minus 18 days and counting!

Oh! mawsy that's amazing! Congratulations x

birdbrain: oo i've been washing baby clothes. So much left to do here!

sighing & birdbrain - oh my, the washing has begun here. I've been washing for two days and still have loads more to do. I spent half an hour trying to match tiny socks today after washing a load we were given. That's the last time ever, life is too short. Tights from now on!

Enjoy your first evening mawsy, so excited for you x

Late to the party but congratulations mawsy and welcome babymawsy!! (Depending entirely on whether you want to share) can't wait to hear all about it.

Two down ladies, who's next...?

Congrats mawsy Would love to see pics.

Now I'm scared, baby Rufus you stay in there until your scheduled c-section date.

2! Who did I miss (hastily tries to catch up since Christmas). I really ought to keep up with the thread (and stop ironing cute baby things).

I have been searching for this thread for ages! couldn't find it on the app though. I'm pretty late to the party I know! I don't think I ever added my stats.. I'm 24, dh 28, this is our first. A little girl due in Feb! I'm 33+1 today!

I don't know about everyone else but the next few weeks can't pass quickly enough

sighing Brummie and Mawsy

Welcome midnightrun - not too late to join in

my darling child has positioned him/herself even higher in my abdomen and all I have done today is sit around in pain - every twitch actively hurts. Not even BH, just the pain of my liver having no where to go, plus the reflux and waterbrash of a headbutted stomach.

Have done the all fours stuff & the gym ball - tomorrow I am going to lie face first down the stairs if this doesn't improve.

Cockwomble of a DH not making things any better by deciding to "talk" to bubs but managing to irritate me intensely with various rubbing/ prodding/ squeezing manoeuvres. Have had to remind him twice it is still my belly.

I am clearly in a very bad mood today - and think a lot of it is anticipation of getting no sleep tonight either. I have no idea how I will get ready for baby if I am sitting around feeling sorry for myself. Starting to feel real panic now that real babies are coming along, and I have stuff to do but don't feel physically up to it.

I am itchy and twitchy and feel like I have super-sensitive nerve endings all over my body, face and head. I get this feeling before my period sometimes, it's annoying.

Still waiting for my double buggy which I ordered in October I took the old bugaboo out from under the stairs as in going to keep it in the kitchen as a place for the baby to have daytime sleeps. I also took the car seat which I thought would be fine but... isn't. It's really faded and stained and having taken all the fabric off to wash before using it for DS I know there's a limit to how much it can be spruced up. Anyway I've now ordered a new one Got a good deal in the sales though- a new Cabriofix for €115. A bit wasteful but the other car seat has already done two babies so it's served its time.
< justifies self >

Congrats mawsy how very exciting!!!! Hope your first few days go well! What lovely news!

Vv = vice versa

Maisiedotes I too am suffering from being itchy all over these past few days.. And irritable. Boy am I irritable! Back to work tomorrow after the Christmas break and I'm a moody cow! I'm only back for the month then I finish up!

Started the great wash today! Persuaded dh that we absolutely needed a tumble dryer for baby's arrival so in excited to wash, dry and iron fold everything away.

Has anyone been to any ante-natal classes yet? We have one this evening, a physio class, but so far everyone has told us it's not been worth their time. It's 2 hours long so surely I have to learn atleast one thing from it! Surely?

midnight I'm starting to wish we had a tumble dryer, but no space (grumble grumble). Have fun! :) Actually we don't even have a freezer, that's something we desperately need to sort!... We did hypnobirthing classes last year with an NHS midwife, which covered quite a lot and were incredibly useful, but our maternity unit also runs three antenatal sessions. We skipped the labour one, went to 'life with baby' (all fun and games until "DON'T SHAKE THE BABY", wuh?) and Wed is our final one, breastfeeding.

Yesterday was an expensive day. We realised we didn't have half the stuff we needed, so ordered the car seat, pram adapters, cot bed mattress, liner, hose and pump for birthing pool. Still need a number of other things, plus said freezer... Argh! Baby on a budget, my arse.

Life with baby would be far more useful! Mentally I'm ready for the whirlwind and unknown labour.. It's life once baby is here that I'm more interested in being prepared for

The tumble dryer was out Xmas present to each other so not overly interesting but the first tumble dried bath towel will be the best present ever haha! Better than that we used tesco club card vouchers and boosted them so spent next to nothing to get the dryer! Worth doing if you have tesco clubcard vouchers!

Oh no don't say that! We've been marking off a list everything we think we need but no doubt we have missed a whole bunch of things! You'll feel great knowing your ready for baby now though! Time to relax before baby makes an appearance!

We have a washer dryer arriving on Monday - hurrah! (Our kitchen is too small for a separate tumble dryer)
And we had our first antenatal class yesterday - it was mostly about natural birth and next week's is going to be about assisted birth and breast feeding. It didn't cover loads I don't know and as I'm likely having a cesaerian probably not that useful but next week's should be useful and it encouraged me and my boyfriend to have a chat about a few things. Plus it added onto the everything getting a bit real feeling!

Had my 1st scan today, baby has some fat but measurements on belly were still 32 weeks! So no growth based on that! Going to wait for the specialist scan tomorrow and his opinion. Baby is fully engaged at 35 weeks Cervix has shortened by 1cm, so although Dr doesn't think I'm imminently going into labour she would be surprised if I last the 4 weeks to my section date! I really don't want to go into labour!!! I'm a hours drive from the hospital and DH works a hour away so I would have to get a cab to drive me . DH is officially now on no alcohol, I just need to break it to him!

Had a chat about premature labour and Dr said provided it is baby that has started things and not lifting that had accidentally ruptured waters then baby should be ready and breathing should be fine!

Also spoke about the solar plexus pain and apparently getting someone to massage your back opposite the pain can help relieve it. The pain is a combination of abdominal muscles splitting and cartilage of ribs. Also apparently can get much worse after baby is here due to bad posture when breast feeding and changing nappies.

I've done the 4 antenatal classes offered by NHS. Preparing for baby arriving, birth and pain management, feeding and HV's going over play time, health and safety, bathing, etc. I enjoyed the classes with the midwife, HV didn't find too informative.
I was quite surprised there wasn't anything on breathing exercises or that. My OH came to all the classes with me and he enjoyed them. Maybe too much - now thinks labour is mind over matter and breastfeeding will be a breeze. Hmmmmm....

haquoi have you seen the heated dryer rails that Lakeland do. I've just got one for baby stuff as I managed to buy the most useless tumble dryer in the world and Ao.com and Samsung are both refusing to refund it. Why on earth I thought Samsung would make good laundry equipment, I don't know, baby brain must have kicked in.
My rail folds up to only a few inches wide so can easily be hidden away. Dry Soon Range
www.lakeland.co.uk

Hi all and thanks for the congratulations! We're getting on great here - I managed to get some short bursts of rest last night but little man has upped the feeding today (typical day 2 behaviour) so I'm expecting a rough night! For those that were asking I was due on 25th and scheduled for a section the week before (baby was breech) so he is here 2 weeks earlier than planned. He's doing great - no issues at all so far.

Rufus try not to worry about going into labour it wasn't too bad! I didn't start getting pains until 1-2 hours after my waters went and they were very manageable. I had to wait for a slot in theatre but they kept telling me that if it looked like labour was going to progress they would get me in there faster.

So lovely to hear how you're doing mawsy! Glad it's all going well.

Perhaps you will be next rufus! Gosh it's all starting to feel real now!

That looks really interesting rufus, thanks!

mawsy, wonderful that you're both doing so well!

It's the waiting game now isn't it?! :)

Oh god I just need to SEETHE here if that's ok, I am so fucking fucked off.

Today was the first full day my DS had at preschool. He has been going for mornings only for about 10 months and now he has his funded hours we decided to top up the 15 hours with an extra 3 self funded so he was going two mornings and two full days and I would be able to spend that time with the new baby and go to activities etc, like I did with DS when he was a baby.

So, we pick up DS, the invoice is in the drawer, my DP takes one look at the amount and has a fit. There was nothing unexpected there, it was all agreed and the hours worked out and now he has made me feel like total shit and I've had to email the treasurer to ask if we can drop his hours down as I just can't deal with this shit every half term.

We had had a really lovely day just us both, had lunch, walked by the river hand in hand and then he has to do his normal and fucking freak out about money at the end. I will now cover the invoice myself and hopefully I can just drop the hours back down and he can do mornings only. I won't be able to go anywhere with the baby but I figured I wouldn't feel like I could do anything with the baby anyway as those swimming and massage classes are actually quite costly.

What a shit way to start the New Year. He has a terrible cold and I'm so angry I can't talk to him as once again he has moved the goal posts after agreeing to something and I feel totally vulnerable as I'm a SAHM and can't suddenly rush out to find s job with s couple of weeks before I pop 😡😡

whoknew nothing to say but you have my sympathies, seems totally unreasonable of your DP...

great to hear from you mawsy glad it's going well!

so i ended up in MAU today because at my routine MW appointment babies heartbeat was 180 and so was tachycardic. Came down after about 10 mins on the monitor and settled to 130ish, but it's now got me really paranoid. They couldn't explain why it happened and i've got to now get checked out next week and the week after to keep an eye on it. They said it might be baby was moving a lot. I'm not an anxious person but this has got me worried now!

I think I lost a chunk of plug today.... 32+5. Slightly concerned, combined with sporadic pains.