Due in March 07 - Gettin' ready to Pop.

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This must be our 100th thread.

Possibly.

Oh, by the way, hello to the new people, and thanks for your messages too!

hey callie, click on your own name and follow instructions to create a profile , adding a picture is part of it. As long as you have some that arent too big already on your pc you can upload them direct to your profile!

So glad for you, re everything, its lovely to hear that all is going well!

after you click on your name, look to the left hand side and click on 'my mumsnet' theres a link there to 'create my profile' then go for your life!

AmieR - you can take babies swimming anytime, they don't need to have any jabs first
But they get cold quick when they are small so mini wetsuits are a good plan like these splashabout

Thanks for the help and info :D

dd2 liked being swaddled at first but she came to prefer the grobag. Dd1 was a nightmare from the start. Even when still in scbu egg box - they would wrap her tightly and she would just squirm until she had her hands out and then kick until she did the blankets loose enough to poke her feet out.

Even now my two hate covers on.

off to see the consultant today to discuss c-section and decide on a date. Then it will be just the countdown with checks at the GP. Be glad to know when it will be all over. Getting very hot and muggy here at the moment - a week of over 30 degrees with high humidity is not pleasant.

Callie - lovely to hear all is going well with Jordi.

Eidsvold good luck with the appointment today!

Callie, don't worry about your milk supply, once Jordi is sucking your milk supply will adjust to what he needs. You are doing fantastically with the expressing!
Mine always prefer the left side too, wonder if it's because they can hear your heart beat better at that side? I remember trying to kid ds2 he was on the left by positioning him under my arm sort of thing!

A friend of mine just ended up giving up and only feeding from one side and she had one huge milky boob and one little one for about a year

Diva when the babies are here you can be all smug saying you are leaving dp to feed baby while you pop off shopping for new sexy clothes and all the breast feeders will be complaining of cracked nipples and engorgement pains

well back from my appt - looks like my c-section will be between 16 and 26th Mar. I put in my preferred dates and they will try and make it then - thankfully as I am being booked in so early I should have no problem getting dates that work better for us.

Everything else is fine with the babe.

forgot to add - blown away moment. Whilst checking in at the reception for my appt - this very pregnant young lady walks over and asks me if I am XXXXX and it turns out I taught her many moons ago - also taught two of her sisters. had not seen her since she graduated in 1990!!!! she is now having her third child like me - lovely to chat and catch up on all the news from her family. One of her sisters emails me every now and then and keeps me in touch with what is happening. BUT wow!!

Morning all,

Will catch up properly when I'm in work. "But msmoss, aren't you normally half way to work on a train by now?"

That's right, but because I'm picking up a prescription and the Doctor's doesn't open until half eight, I got a bit of a lie in this morning!! Isn't it a coincidence that the day I'm due to pick up the prescription (only Gaviscon btw) is the day of what's normally eight thirty 'til eight? Hmm.... it's almost like someone arranged it like that

However the pets aren't impressed, they're used to being fed an hour ago so I had better go and give them some food; the dogs are staging a peaceful protest by being especially cute and nudging my knee with their heads, but the cat is crying at me angrily!

Sazzy - my lo has been consistently breech since day one - I can feel his skull just under my ribs at all times bobbing about - have posted a thread on pregnancy about it and the upshot was
hands and knees for 15 mins every 2 hours but with head/shoulders touching floor
put frozen peas on top of the bump - apparantly they hate that (the cold - hopefully not the vegetables) and turn away
come down the stairs backwards on hands and knees

There were also more adventurous things such as diving down at the deep end of the swimming pool and doing a handstand... but I wont be trying that in a public place!

Reflexology/ acupuncture were other ideas.

Take your pick... but the hands and knees thing has so far done bugger all for me!
My mw is booking me in for a scan in 2 weeks and if he hasn't turned by then it's onto the c-section list!

Incidentally - I've noticed with this pg that i just feel like a huge balloon of water - can actually feel it swoshing around when i prod my bump - wonder if i've got slightly too much fluid too....?

33+4

Morning all

19 working days until lift off...

Worked from 8am - 9.30pm last night with no lunch break!! Am feeling fab and full of energy....very odd

Had five squares of cadbury's dairy milk for brekkie

morning all. will try to keep this short. hope you all had a good weekend.
was at hospital yesterday about my glucose levels so have to check my blood sugar about four times a day, my midwife saiys i will most likely be induced due to increased risk of stillbirth in babies born after due date in diabetic mothers so i may be induced on 1 March! getting a scan next week (35 weeks) to see size of baby though midwife thinks he is normal size.
Muppet - yes it can be a squash on the bed as even though it is king size they have to sleep so they are touching me so we all sleep on one side!
Diva - i would go on the depression thread but i would go on and on! i have suffered from depression and the hormones make me cry for no reason! when the midwife asks if i am ok i say yes even though i am holding back the tears!
in response to someone talking about bleeding - i bled from 6 weeks to 15 continuously and after a scan almost every week as sometimes it was very heavy it turned out i had a heammorage. it was alwful everytiem i wiped after the loo there was blood, especially after having suffered two previous miscarriages. there is hardly any mention if any of these heammoraghes in the literature.
ooh got to do a blood check on five....

Bethoo, you are doing brilliantly, you have been having a difficult pregnancy. My birthday is 1st march and Diva too!

Bethoo you poor thing you are having a tough time. Are they monitoring your closely.

Will you be 39 weeks on 1 March?

Foxy pmsl at you leaving your poor candidate waiting. I'm sure she will have understood. It really isn't that bad, I once did something much worse, and this was before I was pg so had no excuse!

I once had a late appointment; someone else showed her into the room and he swears he told me she was there, but I am convinced he didn't. Anyway I left for home without going to see her. As did everyone else. Apparently the poor girl waited for an hour before realising no one was coming. Anyway by that time the whole building was locked up and all the lights were turned off apart from the interview room. It was pitch black, and she phoned her boyf in a panic; he drove all the way into Liverpool from Huyton and managed to alert the building manager who let her out.

I only found this out the next day on an email from her, which I have to say was very, very restrained (if it had been me I would have been screaming blue murder).

I can honestly say I don't think I've ever felt more in my entire life.

I paid for hers and her fella's petrol / car parking, and thankfully the company offered to stump up £30 for some M&S vouchers to say sorry. If memory serves she was only about 20 years old as well; poor girl must have been terrified!!

Actually we did change our procedure for candidate interviews as a result and tighten up our interview diary and the like, so I suppose some good came out of it!

Mossy - you terrible woman!!!

That poor girl!

AmieR nice to hear from you, it's horrible when your internet dies on you, you feel like you're back in the days of carrier pigeons and fax machines!

Kitty would the person you bought it from on ebay take pity on you and agree not to sell it? Or could you put it back on ebay yourself (and even make a profit)?

Booboo I'd be annoyed if someone stood on my flowers, good on ya for giving them what for!!

Sazzybee sounds like it never rains but it pours. I think Rosy is right I have seen threads about turning a breech baby.

Foxy glad you got that guy into trouble over the desk. What a petty waste of space he sounds!

Diva I posted on your thread this am but I'm not sure if I'm much help! I didn't know they did baby sleeping bags in Asda, I haven't seen them in our local one, might go the big Walmart one in Huyton and have a look.

Jay my tea last night was delicious but this am dh got a cob on about something, not sure what, he's a sulky bugger, so I'm more than happy to loan him out today! I think that Arctic Monkeys song "mardy bum" was written about him. Your photos are cute btw but now I'm I'm still learning to drive at nearly 30!

Callie I'm so glad everything's going well for you and little Jordi, I hope when he is old enough to understand he realises what a star his Mum is!!

Eids glad everything is okay with your appt.

Morning all

Nippy isn't it? But lovely and sunny. And I didn't bake on the tube like normal so it's actually a relief!

muppetisacat - thanks for the tips - I'll give them a go although I think I might give the handstand in the pool one a miss - I'd probably cause a tidal wave. I've grown from 34 weeks to 38 weeks in under a week so I'm absolutely enormous! I get the impression he's bobbing around in so much fluid it would be very hard for him to stay head down but it's worth a try

bethoo - that's not very nice - how worrying for you. And I know what you mean about bleeding - it seems to be so common and yet none of the books give you any hope at all. I suppose they don't want to raise your hopes unnecessarily but it seems they could be a bit more balanced.

Muppet doing a handstand?! Good grief, even if you weren't pg that'd be a bit of an ask! I wonder, does that mean that gymnasts never have breech babies?

Bethoo sorry to hear you're having a crappy time, I suppose at least you're near the end now, not that that's loads of comfort I know, I hope your scan appt goes okay.

Sazzybee it's colder up here too and it's such a relief! I might even nip down the Albert Dock at lunchtime and take in some rays!

I'm really enjoying the cold! Pregnancy is making me super-heat, so it's a real relief. (Sorry eidsvold ).

Bethoo: sorry you're having such a rotten time. I suppose, on the upside, you have a pretty clear idea of when baby's going to arrive. You sound like you're handling it really well.

Thanks for sending Callie's card, Kitty! Callie: you sound like you're getting the hang of this mummy thing very quickly. I am impatient to meet my litle boy, but I do want him to keep cooking as long as he needs to.

He's been head down for ages, but I think he's moved - maybe to transverse. I've been lounging around too much. Must get on my hands and knees and scrub the floor.

Moss & Fox: lol at your interviewee intimidation techniques.

More mad ante-baby classes tonight. I wouldn't be surprised if she made us whop our norks out and practice breastfeeding on our DHs. She's a bit odd...

EDD 3/3
34+2
Boy

Booboo that made me laugh
When I had ds1 my mum gave me an ancient breastfeeding manual and it said when you go away for the weekend with your husband and without the baby, your husband should keep your milk supply going

Moss - Its nice to be back. Faxes are the most evil things in the world.. infact the whole family of machines involving paper in, ink, paper out are... why did I go into printing and reprographic type work?

Have bought my gro bag egg thermometer into work today, have already pointed out that its glowing red already.. so its far too hot for me, just got some funny looks as I flung open the windows while claiming "If you're cold.. put an axtra layer on, I'll be gone after friday".

I have piles

yes it is all fun and games!
Foxy - i will be 39 weeks and 6 days, at my first dating scan they put me at 1 March 07 even though it was a day out and since then they have stuck to that. i go by when my period was which puts me at 2 March 07. Either way it means i will not waste maternity leave waiting around! cant believe only 5.5 weeks to go!!!
AmieR- I to have piles! lovely! i feel so darned attractive these days with piles and blotchy itchy tummy!

Booboo, "whipping our norks out" lol I wanna go to your classes they sound hilarious!! Rosy would your dh ever agree to doing that to keep the supply going? I think mine would keel over in horror! He is very prim & proper.

AmieR what's the grobag egg?