Due in March 07 - Gettin' ready to Pop.

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This must be our 100th thread.

Possibly.

fantastic callie welcome to little Jordi, so glad he is thriving, sounds like a really strong little guy!!

Callie what a mad tale, so pleased Jordi is making such good progress, glad that you have taken to motherhood in such a big way, dying to see a pic of your little chap.
Rest up, take care and really well done for coping like a superstar. I hope he goes from strength to strength and is out of hospital soon and home where he belongs.

Names...
I've got a Max and an Emilia (we call her Emmy)
I think this guy will be a Finn or a Seamus/Shay
But you never can tell what they'll look like when they are born!
Max was due to be called Jack and Ems was due to be called Siofra (gaelic for little elf in hindisght would have suited her but we love her name)

hiya callie - glad to hear everything is going so well. My dd1 was in ICU/SCBU for three weeks - so can empathise with you. It is a very foreign and yet strangely comforting place. Dd1 was only 10 days early but born with a congenital heart defect. Has jordi got an ng tube - does it go in his nose and down to his stomach? Dd1 had one of those until after her cardiac surgery at 8 weeks old. After our amazing experience with the NHS - like you I would do anything for them. Both of mine had jaundice. In fact 'discovery' of the effectiveness of phototherapy on jaundice babes was done at the hospital where dd1 was born.

There was a tony dot of a babe in when dd1 was born and it was just amazing to see what can be done for premmie babes.

ANother one for cheap big knickers - then you can just chuck them when you are finished - why have horrid paper when you can get them so cheap.

I used maternity pads for the first couple of days if that and then went onto the super pads - just as effective and cheaper cause they don't have that work maternity.

Arnica tablets for bruising. Fabulous for c-section recovery.

Another vote for socks from Pumpkin patch - only ones that would stay on dds' feet. Friend sent them from Aus and then I discovered the website.

As to birthplan - I would put down everything you can think of and include what you want to happen just in case you have to have a c-section. I know 1st time round my c-section was an emergency and I had nothing with me - just a handbag and very little time to say what I wanted. 2nd time I did two birthplans - vbac and c-section. In our antenatal notes they have a page where you can do tick a box and then add what you want - helps with getting ideas together.

BTW - making nappies - no big deal If you can sew straight and zigzag an edge - done!! Just sew soaker pad to one side, zig zag back and front together, pop on some elastic and velcro, done.

Whew what a long msg.

ALmost 30 weeks yeh!!!

names - we have a boy's name which was left over from dd2, still discussing girl's names but most of the ones I have suggested have been vetoed by dh.

Shakespeare names - Beatrice, Viola, Olivia, Rosalind.

There is a website where you can look up shakespeare names.

here

Callie - many congrats!

Eidsvold - good reminder on the arnica

kitty - wrong! But it is on Eidsvold's site.

Callie - good to hear that Jordi is progressing well. Look on the bright side - at least you're probably not getting woken in the middle of the night!

laos a big bottle of witchhazel to put on cotton wool pads to soothe your nethers post birth esp top if you have a graze or stitches.
Also chamomile tea excellent for irritation as well.

Hi All,

Sorry, but I have just caught up on all your posts and now can't remember a thing I've just read

I hope you are all ok, good to hear from you Callie, congratulations and welcome to little Jordi

Piffle good to hear that your GTT has come back normal, that's one less worry to have

I have been up to the hospital for a growth scan today, and apparently baby is at the upper end of 'normal' sized and is anticipated to be around 8.5lb that's 1/2 lb smaller than DD1 - will be interesting to see how big she really is!

Am still managing to keep gd under control through diet, so have re-asserted my intention to have a home birth, which no-one directly challenged or looked horrified at so fingers crossed all continues as it is at the moment.

Will do my best to catch up properly with everyone tomorrow, am too tired to make sense of all the posts tonight

31+6 (girl)

Great to hear from you Callie - Jordi sounds fantastic - well done on all that expressing - it must be bloody hard on top of everything else ! Hope he comes home with you soon.

Lunar I was joking
I'm sending myself off to bed now. Always moaning about being tired but always going to bed too late

Hi everyone, just popping in B4 I get ready for work..

Laidback - welcome back to England. Sorry the weather's so crap BTW but great to have you closer now

Callie - thanks so much for updating us, we were all thinking about you and wondering how your LO is. Glad he's progressing so well; it must have been very nerve wracking for you. Jordi is a lovely name BTW

Right, off to finish DS and DD's pack lunches....

33+3 (boy)

Morning all,

Will catch up properly when I'm in work you do clock up an obscene amount of messages in a short space of time

Just wanted to say, hi Callie, I'm so glad everything's okay, you must be feeling tired and emotional (literally, I mean, not in the Gorbachev way!) but glad that little Jordi is okay. Congratulations!!!!!

Right off to bath & get ready now...

Oh Dear

When I was getting DD ready for nursery this morning, she said, "Mummy, can you try not shouting today?"

Fox, I'm not shouting just neglecting, ds2 age 2 just brought me a hanky and said there you go...snot was hanging down to his chin
Must get them up and out...allergy clinic today, its sleeting here

Sexykitty - i find that no matter how often i go to the loo as soon as i lock the front door to go out i am desperate for the loo again and it does not help on a night as i only have a downstairs toilet so iask myslef if i can hold it in til my alarm goes off but i never can!
Congrats Callie and all the best.
i have chosen a name for my boy and that is Hayden though naturally it may be subject to change when he pops out!
all this talk about maternity pads is depressing! they are huge, it would be like wearing nappies again!
only 17 working days to go!
33+5

Yes the loo aspect of a night is very tiresome.
I am ploughing through toilet rolls...

Welcome home Laidback - lovely weather we're having isn't it!!

Callie - massive congrats to you and your dh. Love the name Jordi. Poor little mite - but sounds like he's doing very well and well done to you for all that expressing etc. He certainly sounds like he's coming on well if he's on 14mls already.

Lunar - I'm thinking it's Henry? Surely it wouldn't be Macbeth (shhh, turning round 3 times etc).

Oh - and the buggy - blimey - that's cheap on ebay!!! Why is it so much less!!! Did you put a cosy toes in yours?

My birth plan consists of running into the hospital and dragging the anaesthetist from bed/food/family/anaesthetising work and having an epidural. Then the mw will tell me when to push (the baby will by then have turned head down) and out he will come - no tears, no stitches, followed by placenta... Bobs your uncle . I will skip into the shower full of energy and Joaquin Phoenix will greet me on the ward with a big bunch of flowers, telling my dh what a lucky man he is... la la la...

32+4

sitting here with breast clamped to pump - sooo glamourous. thanks 4 all good wishes.

Lunar, still getting woken in night cos have to edxpress - try to followe a baby's natyral pattern as far as poss. one-handed typing here not correcting mistakes. its all about the milkm reight now. trying not to worry cos its nopt really increasing but v diff. would be so much easier just with him here - machine not same. wouldlove 2b woken by crying baby in night - hiow often do u hear mums say that????

eids was yr dd born in uk? think she was but noyt sure. did u express, how did u get on ifv so?
if theres any major updates since i was off can someone summarizr and put my name is caps so i see it easily. ta x

New name time.

muppet - no. Keep guessing, and I will let on if anyone gets it right.

what do braxton hicks feel like as i do not know if i have had any though i am sitting at my desk and having little twinges in my lower abdomen. my tummy feels hard though i presumed that was just the baby!

CALLIE - very impressed you're managing to get on here AND organise a name change

Is anyone elses brain still functioning well enough to give Callie an update? (she says pathetically)

Arrgh stop typing everyone now immediately I can't keep up!!!

Dolly what do you teach as? When do you officially start your maternity leave then?

If we were having a girl, we'd have called her Morag. But apart from dh and I, no one else liked it, so maybe not!

Diva where's your nearest Primark is it in Manchester? Liverpool only recently aquired one, before that I had to go Manchester or Wigan! Am still waiting for the day when they open one in St Helens... atm it's George @ Asda for me!

Laidback welcome back to the UK in all its miserable weathery glory!

Spongecake I felt teary this morning, I was sitting in the bath listening to the news on R4 and they were talking about people in a care home being abused, I had to get out and turn it off I was crying buckets. I do find myself getting emotional (more than usual I mean) especially at news stories.

Lunar it's not Harry / Harold is it? My nephew's called Harry it's a lovely name.

Rosy my grannies' names were both varients on Milly!

Callie forgot to say I think Jordi is a lovely name

1973magpie will keep my fingers crossed for you about your home birth!

Piffle / Bethoo / Kitty I've said it before, and I'll say it again - chamber pot

Muppet love the sound of your birth plan I might steal from that but with David Tennant instead. Whaddaya reckon he'll be available on the NHS???

Better go do some work now actually.

Moss - errr... pretty certain I read somewhere that David Tennant is indeed available on the NHS... but I imagine if he does show up you'll be wanting a private room!

Lunar - we're just going to have to work our way through that shakespeare name list aren't we!!!

My synopsis of the past couple of weeks would be...
David Tennant
Other TV boyfriends
All of us realising we're unprepared for childbirth
Some of us being ill
Some of us having children who are ill
Some of us having washing machines/boilers that are ill
Some of us (not me clearly) writing frankly ridiculous birth plans of which we haven't a hope achieving...

I think that pretty much sums it up