Due in May 07 - w/c 05.03.07

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Just thought I'd start the ball rolling. Can't quite believe I'm the first on today
Everyone talked out?

DD was 8lb 5, which the nurses told me was pretty big for a shorta'se like me. However, she was just really long and skinny. Not a big fat-headed baby.

So if you're tall and your DH is tall and they say, "OOOH, looks like a 10-pounder" then they're just scaring you for nothing. Could be a long skinny 10-pounder.

The only time I've ever heard someone say they were having an elective c-section for a big baby and I actually believed that it might be the best option is a woman at work who is 4ft 7 and her husband is 6ft 5.

They say nature never gives you a baby that doesn't fit your pelvis (unless you've damaged it of course), but in that case I thought, "Hmm. Not sure about this one!".

You've got the right idea I think SKY. There's fark all you can do about it now. That baby is definitely coming out - whatever size it is.

noooooooooo TYG, it's staying in there forever...........

Yes, that's right. You won't ever have to push him out.

Ooh it's all go with TYG. Was getting such strong BH and baby was so bizarrely active that my friend convinced me I could be about to go into labour and that I should at least go home and rest. Posted on the childbirth forum saying "surely not" and of course was told to ring midwife. Why didn't I think of that? Duh.

She's told me to drink a litre of water to rule out dehydration and to go to the hospital if the BH develop a regular pattern - just in case.

So am sitting at work with my phone's stopwatch on the go.

Am supposed to go home and rest, but I have soemoene interviewing for my maternity cover at 5.30 so think I'll stick it out til then. DH is on amber-alert and is coming home early to run round after me whilst I loll on the sofa.

He's just called to say I have to IM him every time I get one so he can time them. Hehe.

Oh I lost my appetite too. That's probably the most weird thing of all! That happened when I went into labour on DD. If it weren't for that, I'd probably still be pooh-poohing the idea.

Ooh TYG. Are you there? Everything okay? Baby in situ still?

ohmigod TYG......whats going on now? Where the hell is everyone today? Are we all alone??????

Bet you are busy now, will email you, best you come on later and tell me later.

Have excuse, dd needed to got o see the doc about her finger, sat in surgery for an hour with 6 kids (1 extra not mine home for tea had cancelled this morn but changed mind at pick up) Only got home at 5.

Oh TYG )))))hugs(((((( hope you are ok xxxxx

Where have you been....is your work all up to date now?

Need to check on toad in hole and potatoes and carrots

I'm lurking, OMG, TYG whats going on, tell tell tell,

Hey SOH, hows it going? Can't wait till you lovely ladies give up work, if we are supposed to be resting the last few weeks does that mean we can sit and chat all day on here?

lg&t, I'm sorry you are going to have a wait about the lump, if they were really worried they would have done something straight away though, not told you to wait a couple of weeks. What did the Dr say about P's finger?

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Only just had chance to log on today. Busy busy busy (and worrying about TYG now!). Saw my lovely physio lady today who yet again insisted that I lie on my stomach while she pounded my back to smithereens. Very uncomfortable at the time, but worth it as my back is feeling so much better. Then went to see the phlebotomist as my midwife couldn't get any blood last week. Well wasn't she just the most miserable and unsociable person in the world? She said two words to me- "clench" (pointing at my hand) and "scratch" as she jabbed at me. I carried on chatting regardless, smiled, laughed etc. Nothing. I think my local hospital is employing cyborgs.

Poor little boy who was in before me had Down's Syndrome and he screamed the place down. Me being the hormonal wreck that I am couldn't stop sobbing. He kept shouting 'noooooo' at the cyborgs and his Mum had tears running down her face. Horrible to see your child that upset. How do you non first-timers cope with things like that?

LG&T- my goodness you don't do things by halves?! In terms of the cyst/lump I agree with others, it's unlikely to be anything serious and if they are happy to say come back in 3 or 4 weeks then they aren't concerned. How's little Phin and her even littler finger? I also agree that children are very good at adapting and yours always sound so strong I'm sure they'll slot right in. They have each other and you describe them as such little personalities that I bet they'll be bringing half the class home with them. Have activated my gingerbread email address so that it works now. Doh!

Just made an appointment to have my hair cut on Thursday- haven't had it done for months. I am, however supposed to be in an antenatal class at the same time. Having been to the first one last week I can safely say I won't be going back. When the strange midwife started in a sing-song voice with 'now who knows what a contraction is?' I knew it was going to be 2 hours of torture. I thought it might be simplistic and patronising for everybody but then the woman next to me started asking questions. Oh dear oh dear:

Woman with scary hair: I want a homebirth when will I know if I have to have a hospital birth?

Midwife: Do you mean before labour? In terms of whether they'll recommend a hospital delivery?

Woman with scary hair: Yes and in labour, when will I know if I can have the baby at home?

Midwife: Er... well obviously certain conditions can mean that we don't want you to deliver at home- if you show signs of pre-eclampsia for example or if your waters break before 37 weeks or if you are overdue and need inducing. In that case we will recommend a hospital delivery. During labour certain situations might arise that require transfer- failure to progress, exhaustion etc

Woman with scary hair: So when will I be told?

Midwife: Er... when a situation arises.

Woman with scary hair: So will I be allowed to try pushing before I have to go to hospital?

By this point I had chewed off most of my right arm.

About half an hour later woman with scary hair's husband, man with tight trousers had started making jokes. Now we all politely tittered at the 'does the delivery suite have a minibar?' question but after variations on 'does it have air con?' and 'is there room service?' I had also lost most of my left arm and my teeth were itching in frustration.

So I won't be going back. I'm going for a hair chop instead.

TYG, where are you. Very worried about you...

Ooh people. I thought you'd all run off and started a secret May07 thread.

I'm due to finish work on April 20th and can chat to my heart's content then. Might have to make plans for the baby's arrival too, but interrupted MNing. Ooh...

Definitely liking the idea of a big meet-up! Pre and post babies. A picture of all the May 07 babies would be lovely. We'll put Mathilda The Tank at the end. She's going to be 15lb I reckon and finish me off for good. At what point in pg do their feet get the heck off your rib cage?

Work nowhere near finished but colleagues are all in a lecture and I'm skiving off for a while...

Hello, hello. About to leave work now. Interviewed a dud for my maternity cover. Should have gone home earlier.

DH was timing my "contractions" via AOL. Roughly every 7 to 8 mins for over an hour before my candidate arrived. Obv couldn't time when I was interviewing though. Am still getting them. I'm sure it's just a silly false labour thing. It's not painful, just damn uncomfortable, like someone keeps clenching my abdomen in their fist. Baby has been going bonkers since 6am and pounding me as well, which I'm sure is not helping.

Anyway, am getting a taxi home and going to go to bed to be waited on. Shall demand wireless laptop privileges so you're not all worrying about me. Feel the love, man!

Will go and get checked out if they get closer together or more painful or anything.

SOH, I would have been crying during the antenatal class, never mind the poor child today. My stepfather's nephew has Down's and HATES hospital tests. Gets SO upset. Just can't understand it I think.

How is Phin's finger? I assume since you're not in casualty, that it's not broken?

Oops. Midwife just called to check on me. Said to go to hosp just in case.

Going home to get an overnight bag. Will let you know what happens later. No doubt I shall be back at laptop later feeling sheepish.

TYG- glad you're not giving birth as I type. Will check periodically for updates.

Stay put baby TYG! Close friend had similar false labours from 28 weeks, went 9 days over eventually. Hoping it's the same for you. Well, not the overdue bit. You know what I mean.

Evening all

TYG, hope you get back on here soon to tell us what is going on, {hugs}

So far ive caught up on this weeks thread but will scan through the end of last weeks later in case i missed anything exciting.

Im sat here on my new excercise ball, bought it today, only £2.24 from tesco and it has knobs on. Its supposed to massage you while you excercise but they seem a bit hard to me. It actually looks a bit like a torture device but sat on it at the moment it feels quite comfy!!

Well after sitting with my nose tot he window all day Friday and most of Saturday watching the police next door, life has gone back to being boring round here. It turned out that there was quite a big drug den next door, on Saturday the police emptied the house and the amount of things they brought out was shocking. There were flouresent lights, plants, drug making gear etc, there was so much it filled the front garden. The police were there until about 3pm and even now they keep driving past as if to check if anyone has been in there. I did my bit and made the poor policeman posted on the door sinc 7.30am Saturday a cup of coffee, poor thing must have been frozen and he wasnt allowed to leave until everyone else did at 3pm (dont even think he used the loo once while he was there either lol)

I have had a very uncomfortable day today, baby has been juming on my bladder and at one point i felt a strange pop and thought my waters were about to break, not sure what it was but it felt v.strange. Ive also had backache as well as braxton hicks but luckily nowhere near as bad as TYG. I think this LO just wants to make sure i dont forgethe/she is in there.

Poor ds2 has been off pre-school this week, he had a very rough night Sunday, waking every hour, and has had a bit of temperature and the shakes, similar to how he was over Christmas but not as bad thank god. Hes had a cough too but today he seems much better. Yesterday he was very dopey and kept sleeping (not like him at all) but today hes been up and about causing mayhem. Hopefully he will be able to go tomorrow as I have Midwife at 1.30 to do my bloods (oh joy!!)and last time he went with me to have a blood tests he told the nurse off for hurting his mummy Also dh is now off work with what only can be described as Man Flu. It has been going round his work and i must admit he does look rough but with men you never can tell lol. He keeps saying he hopes i dont get it but we all know that if i did i would have to carry on and wouldnt get the chance to lay about and take it easy like he is, us woman are made of tougher stuff

TYG - are you ok? Where are you?? Is everything alright? Fingers crossed here for you, missus.

SOH - nice to see you again. I know what you mean about ante natal classes. We had a very similar experience at classes when I was expecting DS; there was one man who kept making jokes about putting his feet up with a few beers while in the delivery suite. After a few more jokes like this, he started asking whether the class would be finished in time for him to get to the pub before closing time. We also had a scary woman who kept questioning absolutely everything and wouldn't really listen or let anyone else speak. Then there was the snobby woman who kept making snide remarks about the teenaged couple also in the group. I ended up diplomatically rebuffing her opinions about them during the coffee break. The best bit was when the midwife produced a plastic pelvis with a huge knitted sleeve hanging off the end of it - she used this to demonstrate the baby's passage down the birth canal. It didn't help that the knitted sleeve was obviously taken from some massive cardigan or jumper - it was knitted in brightly coloured stripes and still had the cuff attached. Needless to say, we didn't go back either.

Thinking of you TYG - hope you are ok.

Well had appointment and baby definitely not a midget BUT can't have scan until 27 March and now have to have a glucose tolerance test FFS. There was nothing wrong with my urine so WHY!! Bit of a pain if you ask me.

LG&T - DD1 was 6 10 and DD2 8 5 so neither particulary big. DP was apparently 9 6 and I am not small.

Consultant was very jovial and said it could just be water or me but it was definitely no midget (his words not mine). Think they will just keep an eye on it from now on. I don't think there is much they can do if babies do get big other than induce early.

Hope everyone else is ok, I'm still coughing and am convinced I will cough the baby out if it keeps going much longer.

Oh Creena, we had that delightful doll pushed through plastic pelvis and sleeve demonstration complete with knitted umbilical cord. I might go back for one more session, wear my hippiest clothes and talk about eating the placenta in a midnight ritual. Just for fun.

SkyTV I think I've said this before on here but my Mum was told I was 'definitely big, at least 9lb'. 5lb I was, the rest was water!

Best we have a meetup soon, get Pebble out of the danger area she lives in. Can picture you curtain twitching as it went on. Nothing so exciting happens here except when the OAPs next door start getting frisky with each other and shout all sorts of rude things at the top of their lungs. They make the mirror on our shared wall shake. Dirty old buggers.

Oh and I'm with you on the coughing SkyTV. Poor baby must be fed up with it.

Meet up sounds good! I should finish work at the beginning of April, providing that my employers get around to signing off my maternity leave request. Depending on where it is, I would like to come along.

Sky - glad that consultant was reassuring. It's a nuisance that you have to go back for the scan. Any weight/measurements they give you can only be guesses anyway. If it helps, I'm 5'5", DH is just short of 6' and our babies weighed as follows; DD (born 12 days late) 7lb 12oz; DS (born 5 days early) 8lb 3oz.

SOH - the funny thing is its quite quiet where i live, we are on a small green and we all know each other, theres a pub round the corner but we dont even get drunks from there causing trouble. I guess that was why they chose the house they did, no reason for regular police activity.

I was very discreet with my curtain twitching but managed to embarass my neighbour and ds1. They were hiding in my bedroom which faced the path down which all the police were walking, they were having a good nose and trying to earwig so I switched the light on and shouted 'what are you lot looking at' The police heard and looked right at them, Ive never seen two people duck so quick

Love the idea of a big meet up though, especially gettign a photo of all the gorgeous May babies once they all make their appearances (not too early though TYG!!)

On the subject of size DS1 was 8lb 5oz and very long (was only in newborn clothes for a week) but his dad was 6ft 2in so that may explain it (im only 5ft 2 by the way) Ds2 was 7lb 2oz and tiny (his little bum fitted in the palm of my hand and i had to tie a knot in the legs of his sleepsuits where they were too big) but dh is a short ass, only about 5ft 8ish.

Hello SOH glad you are ok. I dont blame you for leaving the classes! I quite fancied it at one point but couldnt get over the fact i used to take them, just wanted to meet people really. Quite glad i didnt now, LOL, by the way i never used a knitted birth canal but did (do) have a plastic pelvis and scary baby

Skytv hope the baby is not too massive, sounds unlikely if the other 2 were under 9lb. Im only concerened this time as im 5'3 and dh is 6' and has the widest shoulders i have ever seen....

TYG how are you....>

Oh and DD finger is ok, it is all bruised but no break the doc thinks. It was the same one i saw this morning for the ahem, lump. I had to troop 6 children in to the little room, would have preferred to be anywhere but there at that point......