Due May 07 - W/C 27th Feb

[Mrsjaffabiffa]

Morning.....

Good morning

I am so jealous of you all finishing work, I have six and a half weeks to go, finish on 11th May and due on 23rd May. But I work from home 2 days a week so its a little easier for me. I've also agreed with my manager that I won't be driving anywhere far from the middle of April as I cover the whole North of the country.

On an exciting note, dh has agreed to buy me a new diamond ring for my 30th in June / a present fro squeezing out his child. I am going to pick it on Friday. Can't wait!

Anyone else noticed their LO starting to slow down a bit. Mine seems to have a couple of mad days and then she is a bit dozy for a couple of days. Like her mother. I don't want to keep prodding her though, seems a bit mean. I burnt my bump with the iron on Sunday. I hope this isn't an indication of my parenting skills. Hide the wire coat hangers!

And I've definitely decided on Natasha as her name. After someone told me Liberty Taylor sounded like a lapdancer.

Morning All

LGT welcome back, glad all is ok

I have grown out of all my bras this week grrrr - off to mcare tomorrow me thinks

Got John Lewis coming to exchange micralight today, hopefully they will throw in raincover that will be result, just waiting for lady to send crib now - then I have pretty much everything "i think"

I was nearly crying in bed last night, my hand are so sore now, along with my pelvis which seems to be having alot of discomfort at night, I was in pain and fed up, going to try and get a dr's appt for tomorrow and get refered to physio - cant take much more of this, still I suppose I could not have that long to go dd was 5 weeks early, maybe I will have that again, not ready for it just yet but few more weeks would be ok - oh and am breathless, sorry for moaning this early

Right have to go and attempt to spread butter on dd's sarnies even tho I cant grip the knife {hmmmmm}

Have a good day all, enjoy the sunshine

Lupins you poor thing. I think its safe to say nights are no fun at the moment. I had a big tantrum and threw the remote control at the wall the other night because it got in my tossing and turning way. DH looked petrified.

I have four pillows next to my bed, a soft one, a squishy one, a hairy one and a smooth one, and I try various combinations before I attempt to fall asleep.

And on the breathless front, my mum had me in stitches laughing at something on Sunday and I couldn't catch my breath at all.

For those who have babas already, how much of the puffiness in your fingers is down to fluid retention and how much down to weight gain? Weird question I know, but I'm wondering whether I need to get my wedding ring sized.

Its all bloody cheerful stuff.

Morning all

Poor you Lupins - I am sleeping in DD2s bed so I don't disturb anyone and end up reading for at least part of the night. It backfired this morning though as DD1s alarm went off at 7 and 7.10 then she switched it off. Mine went off at 7.20 and I went back to sleep! Next thing we knew it was 7.50 - whoops! Just about got them to school on time.

Its really foggy here and I nearly ran into the back of some stupid women who set off to go then changed her mind and stopped! Luckily I noticed just in time - then she went anyway as nothing was coming after all.

Morning all

Sorry to hear you haven't been sleeping well Lupins and PinkJenny. Everything is so much harder when you are tired isn't it? I can't seem to get enough sleep and changing the clocks on the weekend totally messed me up. I finally fell asleep at 3am on Sunday night and still feeling crappy. 5 weeks of work to go and so much to do in that time

Lupins sorry to read that you are in so much pain with hands and pelvis at the mo.

Pink, i hope it will be a sizable rock that dh buys you. Afterall 30th b'day and squeezing a sizable baby out has to be worth a fairly big rock!!

Am popping into work today for an hour to finish month/year end at work and then will be returning home to the delights of a mountain of washing that needs putting away and another slightly smaller mountain of washing that needs doing. Then i can pack for our trip to Wales tomorrow and hopefully finish my hospital bag. Although i am sure that if i am anything like last time that i will re-pack it several hundred times between now and when i actually need it!

Ds is at nursery and it is soooo lovely and quiet!

Morning all.

Glad to see everybody's feeling as crap as I am. Have had about 5 hours sleep in 3 days, braxton hicks are my nemesis. I cannot sleep although I'm exhausted.

Lupins, I can't believe you haven't sorted a referral. Get to it lady. I felt about 60% better after physio- fixed my back and vastly improved the carpal tunnel. Please don't suffer unnecessarily. Don't make me come over there and sit on you.

Cinnamon- saw our neighbours as I left for work and they thrust a parcel in my direction. Felt distinctly CD shaped and was addressed to The Gingerbread Queen! Have left it on the coffee table, awaiting my return. Very exciting.

Trip to London is booked. We're arriving Easter Sunday- seeing a band at RAH on Sunday evening and staying in a hotel in South Kensington (wherever that may be). List of things to do includes Tower of London, Imperial War Museum, Greenwich market, observatory etc, meet May07ers for coffee (and drag Scoot round landmarks!) and DH is slowly beginning to understand that I am serious in my request to go to the zoo. Never been. Will there be monkeys? I think the hotel details said that we're near to Earls Court tube- does that sound right? Will I be able to get to where I want to go from there?

And grr at you lot on Mat Leave. I'm still here for 4 weeks (excluding brief trip to London).

Wonder if I could convince DH to buy me a pushing a baby out present. I don't own a watch, maybe I could hint...

I want some gingerbread! Seriously though, I can't stop eating.

I've changed my nickname back to what it used to be. The trapped wind isn't so bad anymore, and its too long to type.

I've just been onto the Due in March thread to satisfy myself that there is actually an end to pg. Its not that I haven't enjoyed it (!), it just seems endless.

I think we should all have pushing out presents. Its mandatory. After all, what do they have to do? Nothing!!! Apart from put up with a few 'minor' mood swings...

Hi all - can I join you? I did post briefly after getting my BFP but haven't really kept up since. I am expecting a boy due on 6th May and already have a DD aged 4yrs 3mths. I am due to finish my client project at work this Thurs (hurrah) and am then trying to do some 'business development' i.e. as little as possible for a few weeks before going on official mat leave on 27th April! That's if baby doesn't put in an appearance before then as DD was born at 38+2. Still having a dilemma between trial of labour and elective CS as DD was born by emergency CS after 7 hours pushing and failed ventouse and failed forceps attempts. Need to write my birth plan but just can't decide what to do. Just know I don't want to experience anything like last time! I will stop rambling now - hope all are well and babies are cooking nicely.

Welcome tyakit! Lovely to have you with us.

LOL at 'business development'. Is that the same as me only having one meeting this week on Friday, and the rest of the time doing 'admin' at home?

Welcome back Tyakit! Was there a reason for the failed ventouse/forceps with DD? Is it something you can prevent or plan for this time? Do you have any gut reaction to what you want to do- ie you really would like to have a go at vbac, knowing that a cs is there if necessary or does the idea of going through 7 hours () of pushing again put you off completely? Sorry to bombard with questions! You could go left of field and have a waterbirth/active birth- maybe try something different. Most importantly, what are you asking for as a pushing out present?

27th Feb? Don't tell me the clocks have been put BACK a month?

not counting a week's holiday at easter, I have 18 days left at work. Sad thing that I am, I have printed a calendar off from Microsoft Outlook and put down everything that I need to finish before I leave.

I am finding it more and more difficult to get comfortable at night, have resorted to several pillows surrounding me, with the result that DH has retreated to the spare bed! At least he is getting a full night's sleep now.

Ginger - you're not sad. I've put in my diary in bright pink pen a countdown of the days I have left in work, excluding weekends and bank holidays.

Maybe we're both sad.

And SOH, its also my 30th birthday present. Not sure the pushing out present excuse on its own would work with dh.

Who, might I add, bought himself a brand new car on Sunday.

Hi all, yes am hoping business development will involve plenty of 'thinking time' at home as I really don't want to be commuting into London for the next 4 weeks. My job is project based an you would usually expect toi have a few weeks a year 'on the bench' waiting for a project to come up. I haven't had a day's bench time in 2yrs and 7mths so I figure I am due a little down time. Insensitive oik of the month award goes to my manager who wanted to send me to Liverpool (I live in Essex) for the month of April to do some client based work. I pointed out this was not very practical and that I didn't fancy having a baby alone on the M6. He has backed off now..

I had a meeting with one of the post birth counselling team at the Mat unit a while ago and went through my notes to try and find out what went wrong last time but it was utterly inconclusive. Sailed through 1st stage really, and was 9cm dilated on admission. Seems that DD was back-to-back (high OP) throughout labour and after all those hours of pushing they decided to try Ventouse - no luck, then forceps - bloody painful and still no luck then crash section as started baby started to get distressed. On CS delivery though, baby was found be to OA and not OP. Both MW reviewing notes and I were thoroughly confused. I can just remember that it felt like she was totally stuck. Initially, I thought that if last time was because DD was in naff position I would def go for VBAC but as the time gets nearer not so sure. Don't fancy CS recovery though with a 4 yr old and not driving will be difficult as we live in the sticks.

Haven't got much hope of a pushing out present - still making fun of DH for proudly bringing me a keyring with a light on it into hospital after birth of DD . He has said something about getting me an IPod before I go in which I would like but he is not fab at presents. He means well but usually forgets to organise stuff.

Sorry for long ramble. Is anyone else on here going for a VBAC?

Morning everyone, lovely day here. Am still sitting down...humph.

Lupins you poor thing, get some physio!

Pink glad the trapped wind is not so bad now

Tyakit i remember your name from before, glad to see you ar still with us. I had an emergency section with twins the first time round have since had 3 normal deliveries. Am a nutter though as my consultant will tell you I posted this on the multiples thread just now for Mars to read;

Morning everyone.....mmmmm, cake baking not for me, no kitchen at all for me in fact and i LOVE the kitchen >

Mars the consultant was a beast, he tried spouting statistics about breech babies having disastrous outcomes, then moved on to studies of pre term babies which even he had to admit in the end were inconclusive. My two most favourite parts of the conversation were him telling dh all about my other 3 pregnancies (after the twins EMLSCS) being high risk and benefitting greatly from hospital monitoring, and hadnt i been better off then listening to advice from the hospital....at which point i pointed out to him they had ALL been at home....... i nearly peed my pants alughing. He asked me how i felt about the increased risk of being a grandmultip (that makes me sound sooooo old), i smiled and said i would have syntometrine for the 3rd stage instead of a natural one like i normally do, more

I am contemplating a VBAC, Tyakit. I had a c-section last time with DD (also 4yrs old. My waters broke before labour started and eventually it was fetal distress and failure to progress that resulted in the c-section.
Last scan (30 weeks) baby was breech, so I am really hoping it turns ceph and OA soon!

Am i reckless???? Have just been reading about Mary Cronk as advised by Mars. She is very experienced in breech births, wish i had her as my midwife. This LO is most def breech again, he seems to flip for 24 hours at the most then go right back where he was. DH just say's smart baby, who would want to be upside down all day?! He said he is going to be very smart beacause of it

I want to do some baking.....

LGT, I have been reading Mary Cronk too. She says straight off, that a breech birth can either progress really well; and the MW just monitors and stays 'hands off', or if there are going to be problems, which are usually evident early on -that a section is the best option, as a 'managed' delivery for breech often has v poor outcome for the baby.

Step away from the wooden spoon, Nigella.

Is your DB still breech then GB?

I just can't tell - sometimes I think not i.e. lots of kicks (possibly head butts) in my ribs and then other times, lots of movement in my pelvic region.

I have another scan in two weeks time to review.

Oh the dilema......i wouldnt be so concerened about it if ds#4 had come out fine. It is just because he was shoulder dystocia and 9lb, if this baby is massive too then i may not have any problems till it's too late, like a little body out and head too big to follow. I so do not want another section.

I would be stranded in Plymouth for weeks too as i wont be able to drive back

Just a little baking.....some cup cakes perhaps? I promise no heavy icing action

Where is TYG??? I texted her last night and have heard nothing back, hope she is ok and not working too hard. TYG where art thee............?

Oi you LG&T. You bake so much as a florentine and I'm cutting you off from MN.

Harsh, but fair.

Now sit the feck down.