Due in March 07 - Numbers starting to dwindle now - will anyone outlast this thread?

[LunarSea]

Yet another new thread, because just like all the remaining posters the old one is about to go pop.

Lunar, toblerones make me think of Alan Partridge. "And not a small toblerone. A medium toblerone."

Muppet I do take my mobile with me when I walk the dogs, they only get about fifteen / twenty minutes a day now, but they don't seem to mind, especially as now they have someone in the house all the time!

Looking forward to getting some of my strength back though, it does freak me out a bit how little I can walk without getting tired!

X posts Runningal, I was told by the mw that babies move less the nearer you get towards labour...

... but was having a chat with my neighbour this morning who said her ds was kicking and wriggling right up until he was born!

I just had a little nap but was disturbed by the baby that was going bonkers, kicking and squirming for ovr an hour.
I then start to imagine all sorts of probs like maybe the cord is round his neck or something.

We worry whatever eh?

Runnigal my doula was here this morning, she went to 4 weeks over with both her babies. She last the last one was back to back until 43 weeks and then turned round.

I'm not sure what position mine is in, sometimes I feel kness, elbows and other pointy bits and at other times it's all smooth back and bum. I know he's so nowhere near engaged or even heading that way so I guess he's just bouncing around as the mood takes him.

I'm ready for this baby now, I think, all jobs have been done .

Kitty, thanks for the DVD. Watched it earlier - it all looked so calm - you were amazingly so after she was born! Hope this one is just the same.

Labour vibes to you all...

Thanks Callie, I was just relieved that it was all over!!

...she does look calm doesn't she?

Kitty - I had intended to emulate you during my labour this time, but instead I completely lost it and screamed the place down

Muppet LOL re dynamite

Mossy - I have started to watch kids programmes now just to get a glimps of DT

Lunar - have you stopped working now or are you keeping going until you get some labour signs?

Foxy

fox - I'm trying to avoid it, which means actually keeping out of the house as much as possible during the day. I've been checking up on them at the end of each day and answering their email/phone queries though. Gets a bit annoying when they keep making the same mistakes though, and I end up clearing up after them every night. There are things today which they've obviously just left hoping that I'll do them overnight .... but I'm not falling for it so they're still going to be there waiting for them in the morning.

still here then?

rnningal-Elsie was lop fron 32-36 weeks then turned...then at 9.30pm on the evening i had her the night staff came in to examine me as the last 2 contractions had been painful,and i was told i was only 6cm dilated i asked why the hell it hurt then and was told the baby had turned LOP during labour and the contractions were trying to turn her back into the right position!i only had one more painful contraction after that then all hell broke loose.i dont know if this is your second baby?but only first babies tend to stay LOP during labour and birth.when your body has done it before they usually turn the right way round before the birth.

mossie-i dont have anybody who can babysit atall whatsoever.the problem to me is not the time he spends on the pc,he does stuff around the house and ive stopped trying to be superwoman and started speaking out when i want him to do stuff.its the thing with the chatting to women and whether he's still chatting to that woman,as he said if anybody flirted with him he'd tell them to eff off and block them from talking to him again.but he sees flirting ina different light to me i think.to me,even if hes chatting about the game,if its in an over-friendly having a laugh way then to me thats flirting.i tried explaining this to him many times but he put it down to pregnancy paranoia and said i was being totally unreasonable.i need to know i can trust him 100% not to flirt,but how can i when he doesnt think hes flirting and i do?!

sorry,didnt read your last post properly runningal.my first labour was a back labour,its highly unlikely you will have to go throught he same thing again.

fox-the only time i screamed this time was when i turned onto my hands and knees cos i really wasnt prepared to feel a baby's head coming out at that point.before that i never had the g+a out of my gob long enough to make any noise.one of the support staff said i was a very calm lady.ha ha-shes never heard me in the mornings before school,ladies dont use language like that.

I'm on my second stubby beer, very nice it is too

kitty-does having a home birth allow you to use alcohol as pain relief?

ive totally gone off wine.i keep wanting gin for some reason.

Yum yum Kitty sounds tasty I had two bottles of Sol tonight with lime in them. Naughty naughty but very nice. Oh and Asda Extra Special profiteroles (sp?) with hot runny chocolate... how lovely!!! It's no wonder he doesn't want to come out, that amniotic fluid must be delicious and intoxicating!!

Lunar they sound such a useless bunch your work!! How are they going to cope without you for six months?

Diva I think everyone has a different idea of what flirting entails, perhaps? I am very friendly and with my constant double entendres (honestly, I laugh like Sid James and I talk like a Carry On film, I probably should grow up given I'm 30 in two days) I know I cross the boundary into flirting on many occasions. But I would never in a million years act on it; I am sure your dp is the same, from what you have said about him, anyway.

Is it the actual act of flirting that you don't like, or is it the worry that he will take it further, iyswim?

Foxy this thing with DT, well, it's turning into an obsession isn't it? You know the first step to overcoming this problem is admitting it's a problem.

I wrote the chap a fan letter ten years ago... he replied! I still have the signed photo and the letter, oh bless he wished me good luck in my A levels and everything!!! Now how's that for a long-standing obsession?!

mosie-i have a problem with flirting as i would see it as cheating BUT i dont know if thats cos i personally dont feel comforable around men(i grew up in an all-female household and have always felt awkward aroung the opposite sex unless they happen to be gay)and have only really been friendly with them if i fancied them iyswim.i suppose having that attitude coupled with having had a relationship with a man who regularly went on about the other women he fancied and the fact that i had my heart broken by a guy who finished with me for a woman he met in a chatroom a couple of years ago has left me a bit f*d up

i was really looking forward to having a heartburn-free drink but its just not happening for me

Diva I didn't know that about your x who met a woman in the chatroom, have you told your dp that? In those circumstances, even though it sounds like what your dp's doing is innocent, he should be understanding of why you are worried about it, and perhaps spend a bit more time away from chatting on the computer?

(I know, suggesting someone else spends "time away from chatting on the computer" is clearly hypocritical of me seeming as I can't seem to get away from this PC!!)

I still get heartburn... from everything! So I figure, might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb, and eat / drink pretty much what I like! Big swig of Gaviscon afterwards does the trick usually...

Right I really am going to bed now, was trying to download an audiobook for my ipod to give me something to listen to as I spend most of the night awake anyway, but it doesn't want to download so I give up!!!

i probably told him near the start of the relationship.he know my opinion of chatrooms but he says i cant compare an online game to a chatroom.plus i think i should have accepted that hes not any of my x's by now.

i dont get heartburn anymore but i just cant find a drink i like the taste of any more either...OMG im turning into my mother..im going to be teetotal soon!

Morning all , just clocking in for the day.

I slept very soundly last night, hmm I wonder if it had anything to do with the lager ?

When I woke up I COMPLETELY forgot that I was preg and it came as a shock .

These last few babies are lazy little ones aren't they?

Mossy, I think you're right, the taste of the fluid must be too good,well yours must certinly be....choc profiteroles and Sol, yum, yum.

Morning all. 11 days over and counting... but sods law says that he'll decide to arrive this afternoon/evening as I've arranged to go out to dinner with some friends tonight if he doesn't!

I've been pretty lucky so far really - no heartburn, no sickness, I can still walk reasonably comfartably, albeit a bit slower, and I can still eat/drink anything I used too (there I've admitted it - I haven't exactly been that strict about the guidelines on what I can and can't eat while pg) - so I guess in the overall scheme of things having to wait a bit longer at the end for him to actually arrive happen isn't such a bad deal.

Quick hijack, i'm on the due in April thread and would like to cheer you up, or not, by telling you that my due date was yesterday, so i'm now overdue too

Lunar, my labours always start in the wee small hours. I hope you manage to get out and enjoy yourself with your friends.

Eddas, it's so very tedious, the waiting, let's hope you don't go as long as me and Lunar

13 days over

Morning all,

Diva no! Don't go teetotal... oh no, picture it, it'll be Christmas Dinner and you'll say, "oh go on, I'll just have half a glass of bucks fizz then" and then, "okay, one more can't hurt," and then because your alcohol tolerance is so low you'll start trying to rope everyone into a singalong... before you know it you'll have a few more glasses and then be staggering around the streets of Cumbria wailing "you'....ll ne.... ve...r wa...lk a.... lo...ne" to anyone who'll listen.

Quick get on the beer now before that future happens!!

Kitty I slept better last night after the beer too. Awful isn't it, but I really think it does help. I'm sure two bottles at this late stage aren't doing anything bad ... oh I hope I'm not deluding myself!

Lunar wow, I hope you have a great night out tonight! I've turned into a bit of a hermit now!

Eddas... it's a pain isn't it? If you have a dp / dh I would recommend you start making them get the phone from now on to save you having to answer, "when were you due?" "How long before they induce you?" "Have you felt anything yet?" "Aren't you really fed up?" and so on and so forth.

I am today officially a week overdue... but I tell myself that if I was French, I'd be due today. Oh and I'd be tucking into a huge brie right now, too!

I fully expect to go 14 days overdue, that's how long they leave us now in my NHS area. Greta. With my dd I was induced at ten days overdue but they had a policy change!

I started getting 'those' texta and calls a few days ago, I fully expect them to pick up pace until this lo decides it wants out

My sister rang last night and i said god not you to so she said shall we change the subject, erm yes please!!!

Will be binning my phone before long and ignoring the home phone as we have caller display so i'll know if it's one of those calls!!!

I really hope those of you left on here have your babies very soon and can over being induced, I sooooo don't want that this time. GET OUT BABY

Mossie - the place we're going to is literally only about 5 minutes from the hospital, so it's not really taking any great chances!

Eddas I'm going in for a prod on Friday and I fully expect they'll try to scare me into letting them induce me. I'm not going to let them unless something is seriously wrong, and I want to hold out until 14 days. After that, I'll reconsider it, but even then I am not definitely going to agree to it.

I hope you manage to get the birth you want this time around.

Lunar I hope you have a good time tonight, I find myself shying away from anything too social at the moment, more because I know I'm going to have to "justify" why I'm still pg (iyswim).