October 2017 #5!

[GimbleInTheWabe]

Hope no one minds me setting up a new thread- we were getting full up on the other one!

Here is the link to the deets sheet, feel free to add or edit your details as you please:
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Bring on the third trimester aches, midwife appointments and birth plan chat!

Thanks for the kind words, Tippety - I was getting very itchy so I had my suspicions but it still came as a big shock! Going into work for 2 hours tomorrow to do my handover then that's me. Honestly, I was worrying about how I would fill my time finishing up at 37 weeks!

Hope all is going well with you

Hope everything’s okay @Cineraria, glad you’ve got stuff to keep you occupied! Had the induction gone ahead?

I had quite a lot of discharge last night (soz for tmi) so thought that may be a sign that things were on the change but, other than having a nap at 11am for 2 hours I’ve felt fine today and definitely haven’t had a baby yet!

How are people doing with names? I think DP and I have come to a decision but got to see his little face first. It’s all anyone asks us about though!

I've had some lower back pains on and off for the last 24 hours but it comes and goes and I suspect it's nothing exciting! 🙈 My mum and MiL are starting to go nuts with the waiting and I'm only 38+1, I'm definitely more impatient than either of them though. Come onnnnnn Bubbabean! Hope your induction goes ok Agent, so exciting that you'll have your little one with you soon 😊

We've had to come up with girls and boys names, we can't seem to feel the same about any! There's a girls name that DH loves and whilst I prefer other names I'd feel ok to 'settle' with that name to be honest. Boys names are a real tricky one- DH suggested a name 2 months ago that I've literally fallen head over heels with, can't imagine them being anything other than that name. DH meanwhile despite coming up with the name has since gone off it a bit, and I feel like the more I love it the more he dislikes it! In that sense I'm almost hoping we have a girl just so we don't have the issue of trying to fix on a boys name as despite really trying to find another name no others are coming close for me on that front 😩😩 Glad you think you've got one Gimble, hang onto it!

No names here either, and we need to come up with both boys and girls names - eeeek! People keep asking and seem horrified when I say we have none! (Not that I'd tell them if we did, but we honestly don't!)

Feeling shattered after a bit of a stressful weekend, and DH has just left for a week long work trip to Belgium so I'm home alone, definitely been a bit tearful! Time to put my feet up and catch up with Strictly I think!

Oh yeah I forgot about having to think of two names! DP and I both wrote a secret list of names we liked (over the past 7 months) and then after the 36w scan we swapped lists and ticked names we liked from each and whittled it down that way to one main list of about 6 names. Then we’ve just been toying between them since then. We haven’t told a sole though as I’ve learnt from Mumsnet that there’s no good to come from telling friends and family the name early haha

I’ve never been so jealous about back pain @mummabubs!! I just feel totally normal and boring despite sitting on my ball/doing yoga/eating curry/going for long walks. Think I’m def gunna go overdue at this rate.

How far along are you @mrsbumblebees? Is DH prepared to come home early if things kick off? My dad was in an aeroplane back from a work trip to Germany when I was born! But then again I was the 4th kid so I think he was over the excitement by then haha

36+3 - He is under strict instructions to have his phone on him at all times! And find the quickest route home should things kick off! No signs of anything imminent happening here yet though...

Oh this is so exciting! So many babies! I'm bouncing for you all!

I thought we were mostly set on a name and then today DH suggested a totally different one completely out the blue. No idea what is happening now!

We've picked our name now, as we know it's a girl, and we've started to use it round the house a bit to see if it sounds right! Won't be telling anyone else until she arrives though...

We've picked our name and need to stick to it as I've bought and put up bunting in his nursery!! I've told a few people, find it really odd when they use it to refer to him though!!

We've had the first name since before I was pregnant! And ds announces it to everyone so no chance of keeping it a secret :)

Oooo jealous of those who have settled on a name! Well done all of you!

And definitely no need to feel jealous @GimbleInTheWabe! 😂 Nothing is happening at all, I get the odd twinge once every 4 hours which is more likely to be a response to all my walking, yoga ball bouncing and psychosomatic desperation for something to happen! Every time I get a fanny dagger pain and say "ow" DH's ears prick up and he optimistically hollers "labour?" Definitely not 🙈🙈

Yep; we have a name - am sure we have settled on a middle name too but DH has vetoed his own name as a middle name and it's given me the pout a wee bit.

I'm just so ready for this baby now. I'm tired beyond tired and want my waistline back. Plus I'm tired of wondering when I'll get my CS date - I'm 37 weeks on Tuesday, sick of having the same bolllocks discussions about "wanting" a CS.

I don't fucking want one. I need one.

Tossers.

Hey all, wow! Babies already! Congratulations!! Only 36 + 1 for me, so have more waiting to do. The breathlessness and the constant baby kicking have been driving me CRAZY, sending me to bed at 8pm just to be rid of both sensations. Also feeling very heavy and uncomfortable in the stomach area, so really slowed down over lately. Still, it's my last week at work next week - yay!

Names - where I live, you have 3 months to name the baby, so although we have a long list of names, we're just going to wait and see what suits. Although I will be sad not to be able to call the baby by its pet name that it's had for the last 8 or so months :( We've called them "Bulle", which means bun or roll in Swedish. Very fitting, but a bit ridiculous to keep it when the baby is here, sadly.

We don't have a name either. DH and I can't find one we both like so we have a couple of compromise names that we both think are okay, but I keep hoping the perfect one will arrive in a flash of inspiration! I had one I really liked and was already calling the baby by it in my head, but it turns out it was the name of the weird kid in DHs class at school

Cute pet name kitkat!

Beans I am the opposite, I really don't want a c section but if this baby doesn't do a headstand soon I might have to have one. Which totally terrifies me as I have a severe phobia of surgery. If anyone has any tips for turning a breech baby then please share!

Pingu - DS was bum down at 36 weeks! I hated the idea of a doctor attempting manual turning (ECV), so I was to be booked in for a CS.

I was pointed towards spinningbabies.com and spent a week doing the exercises to encourage turning lots of sticking my arse in the air much to DH's amusement, but never felt any big shifts.

The day I went in to do all the documentation for the section, I although I hadn't felt him turn I asked if they'd do a quick ultrasound just to check. Despite the midwife saying there was 'no way' he could have turned without my noticing, she indulged me, and lo and behold he had, and the 45mins worth of CS booking has been totally pointless! I was too elated to care

So yes, very much recommend the spinning babies site, have a read of the 'Flip a Breech' page. Fingers crossed for you!

NB. It was week 38 when he flipped, so hopefully you have time yet!

Mine flipped at 37 weeks Pingu and I also didn't feel any grand movement so was convinced that they were still in breech. I had a glance at the spinning babies website and most of it is what my pregnancy yoga teacher had already suggested, but it's a good resource! (My "stretchy womb" means technically they could still flip and like you I am not a fan of surgery to put it mildly so I've been pretty much living on a yoga ball for the last week and have become very aware of keeping my knees below hip height and not sitting with my legs crossed... lord knows if it actually makes a difference!! Good luck with your positioning, will be thinking lots of flippy thoughts for you! X

I love your nickname, Kitkat. It looks even cuter in Swedish.

Thanks to those who sent good wishes. There were no beds yesterday morning but were in the afternoon so they started induction last night. I get the Propess pessary for 24 hours twice and then the oxytocin drip, so it could be ages yet and I don't know if I feel any different. Does your hospital have the same procedure, Agent? Wishing you luck when it happens.

I have to have a cannula in due to high risk of bleeding and have quite severe needle phobia. After lots of CBT I can now manage to have injections but this is something else. I got a disposable thermometer cover to bite on as usual (the phobia makes me bite somehow) but dropped it and bit DH's finger instead for a moment and my shoulder too. Now they have covered it with a giant swab and I'm just pretending my left arm isn't my own. I'm doing fairly well at that, which is weird as it's cuddling up to my bump and I can feel it there but can't feel with it.

Good luck to get the breech baby turning over, Pingu and for the doctors to arrange your ceasarean section, Beans.

I'm waiting at the beast clinic to have my boob looked at. the Dr got me an urgent referral as I'm being induced Thursday and she wanted it checked out before baby's here and obviously in case something's wrong for breastfeeding
I'm smiling and being positive to OH but inside deep down I know the symptoms aren't good

Sending love and wishing you well, Greentrees. When I had something like that after my first (unsuccessful) pregnancy and the pregnancy that resulted in my son, it turned out to be a big water filled cyst that they drained then and there with an injection (outjection?). They couldn't explain exactly why it happened but said maybe when I asked if it was possible that pregnancy and growing out of my bras faster than I could replace them might have helped cause it.

Keeping fingers crossed that you have a similar experience and that you'll leave the clinic today feeling relieved if slightly squished and pummelled.

Wow can't believe there is a baby here already! Congratulations !

I'm in agony today- my hips and pubic bone have been sore on and off but the last few days I really fee like I can fee my pubic bone being pulled apart it's making me dread labour even more than I am! I have a section booked for term plus 10 as I do not want to be induced at all based on last experience and now I'm just wishing I'd said I wanted a section and not labour at all . Lack of sleep is not help in getting, I feel like emotionally I'm teetering on the edge' 😂my poor husband!

Good luck greentrees got you in my thoughts today.

Positive thoughts your way @greentreeseverywhere  don’t be too strong for everyone else, it’s okay to be nervous about this stuff

Also like the Swedish Nn @KitKatSplat! Maybe Belle as an alternative?!

Baby is so very very low today that even sitting on the sofa is uncomfortable, is this the horrid bit that people always talk about?! Felt really lightheaded/woozy last night and getting back ache today. Keep telling myself nothing will happen as I’m convinced I’m going to go overdue but it’s so hard to not get hooked on every little feeling!

Good luck today greentrees x

I think I need to appeal to the thread as I cant work out if I'm having some kind of stress reaction or if I'm having just normal pregnancy hormone tears...

I'm away to massively out myself but

• this pregnancy follows a mc so NERVEWRACKING
• we moved Country at 20 weeks
• it all blew up in our stupid faces and we came back at week 33
• I had a CS agreed abroad: date fixed for 39w
• my NHS trust are being fuckawful about giving me an ELCS and are still not giving me confirmation I've been accepted for a CS
• my husband has been out of work for 6 months
• we thought he'd walk back into a job in the UK...three failed interviews later says otherwise
• the job that he's likely to get will involve actual travel (UK)
• my lovely little DD is now a bona fide toddler; we were told off at library tidal as she was tearing pages out of books, it was fucking mortifying and exhausting
• I still have colossal energy dips and they floor me without warning; DD has dropped her nap at lunch now meaning I'm "on" all the way from 6-6
• this pregnancy is physically rougher than the last. Baby is just consistently whamming my cervix and I'm grateful to avoid SPD etc but physically I feel wrecked
• Finally, with every fucking moment he has free DH is trying to make our home "perfect" and "baby ready" and I wish he'd stop. It's not major DIY but perpetual and constant rearranging of things.

I just want to cry all the time the moment I get a minute to myself.

Normal?