May mummies we are here!!!!!!

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Morning all, new thread for today.

morning all!
and many congrats april meadow! sounds like a dream birth!! only hope mine is as swift and stitchless! Im 34 + 1 today. only time i didnt want to go into labour was last night as hubby and sister both hundreds of miles away. but all good! baby still in place! my 26yr old male cousin was visiting from devon (eternally single) and scared him to death by saying hes the 3rd reserve birthing partner if i go into labour in the night!! hahah cruel woman that i am!!
scootermum. yes like the idea of meeting up somewhere middlish? where would that be?! (as i said only been in st albans 6 months and im either there, working in london or at our other place in devon so quite ignorant of the area. only ventured to watford shopping for the 1st time last week!) im working full time in london tho until 4th may. but maybe after that? how long you got to go?
all this primark shopping making me want to get a nightie for birth/hospital. i literally don't own one. not even a very old one. i was gonna pinch one of hubby's RL polo shirts when he wasn't looking (no joke hes got 40-50 so i reckon i can get away with having one!)
i did buy a mat dress last week from M and P as im going to an industry black tie ball in london next week (i must be mad....but though it was good opp. to say bye bye for a while to lots of work people at once) and also my grandma/'s "boyfriends" 90th (!!) bday bash the following week. NO MORE mat wear shopping for me now tho.

Morning all - had a great night. Was dreading it but was fabby. Milk fairy has arrived and Ella is gulping away. Lets hope the oz's start piling on

I have a lovely bottle of raspberry leaf tablets sat here if anyone would like them. I think i used 10 out of 100. No more babies in the AM household so have no need for them. email [email protected]

Off to mothercare today to get some clothes for my little bundle. Everything that looked sooo small is just huge.

So who is going to be next..... will any abies actually arrive in May??

*babies - one handed typing not a speciality of mine

Had a crap nights sleep. Dreamt I won 350K on the lottery and then woke up to reality
20 more work days...

PJ - I have the poo panic too. Trying to focus on the other bits (like finishing the flipping Hypnobirthing book). Find this helps me put it to the back of my mind.

Morning everyone, dejags sorry to hear you're feeling down. I fully sympathise with the long days and I only had one lo to contend with. I have finished now though and I'm finding it almost as hard keeping him entertained 24/7.
I am well and truly stranded today. D(?)h has gone out with no phone and taken my keys with him!! I can't even get out of the house let alone go anywhere! I have a load of washing on the line (left from yesterday) that needs to come in and another load in the machine ready to go out. Ds will go mad if he's cooped up here all day - he's already staring longingly into the garden! He's out delivering leaflets for work so can't even ring him on a work phone, I'm praying he'll come back for lunch as I'll go berserk if I have to saty in all day when the weather is so lovely.
Well, went to see my lovely mw yesterday only to find that she has been trnasferred to the hospital. New one was ok but just don't feel as though I know her that well. Baby is still head down (hurray) despite my reservations but still measuring a bit big. She said she reckons it will be over 8 lbs. That's probably not a lot to some of you but ds was only 6lb 7 and that was hard enough! Asked about the painful kicks and she said it's nothing to worry about (don't they always), I've just got an active baby! She said it's definitely on it's way down but couldn't tell exactly how engaged it is. If I go into labour this morning I'm in trouble aren't I? I can just see me climbing out of the window to get into friends very low sports car to get to hosiptal with ds in tow!!

H'llo all,

What a busy week! Congratulations AM. Must be so nice to be in baby mode rather than pregnancy mode.

These early babies must be making usall think we are going to go early. I had a dream that I went into labour at exactly 38 weeks ( so I could have the baby at home), the only problem was that my mum and dad were visiting and had decided that all our cupboards needed sorting out and had taken everything in them out. The whole flat was a complete tip and I was trying to get the pool inflated.... woke up before I had the baby.

I bought a BPIAB mini on ebay for £55, brand new with all the bits. I decided to go for that one because I was worried that I wouldn't have time to fill a full sized pool. My labour was quite short last time and we have an ancient boiler. We are also in a third floor flat and hired a rigid pool last time which was about twice the capacity of the BPIAB. The literature with that said it was the equivilent of 11 people standing in a bunch. No problem!

Arnica and raspberry leaf. My midwife recommends raspberry leaf from 28 weeks you start with 1 cup per day and increase to 2 cups at 32 weeks then 3 cups at 36 weeks. Arnica should be at the 200c dose. She also recommends a evening primrose oil and omega 3 supplement from 36 weeks but it's as much as I can do to remember to take the raspberry leaf and floradix.

Morning all

AM im so of you holding your LO already, I want one lol. Are the Raspberry leaf tablets nicer than the actual tea? I tried the tea with ds2 but only managed to have a couple of mugs before throwing the rest out.

I wrote a long post last night before bed catching up on everyones news and having a bit of a moan but then the internet decided to go offline just as i pressed the button to post it, bloody computers!!

The gist of it, without too much of the moaning is that this baby is still breech and i have to see a consultant in 2wks to discuss manually turning her. I spent most of the evening on all fours with bum in the air hoping to encourage her myself but apart from slight fidgeting she decided to stay put. I now plan to spend as much time in that position as i possibly can, dont like the idea of her being turned by the consultant, its supposed to be a bit painful. Only problem is i will have to do it when dh is out of the way otherwise he may get funny ideas when he see me in the doggy position

Dejags i too feel huge and uncomfortable. this pregnancy has been by far the worst, everytime the baby moves it hurts, Im having trouble sleeping so I feel constantly tired and as the weeks drag by im gettign really ratty too.

DS2 has 'adopted' his friends baby doll, we have had to look after it like a real baby for the past two nights. When he first bought it home it had no clothes so i had to dig out something for it to wear because ds2 was worried it would get cold, then we had to bathe it get it dressed and cuddle it before putting it to bed, then in the morning ds2 pretended to feed it and spent the day making sure it was ok. We've been changing nappies, washing it, cuddling it etc and ds2 has been so gentle everytime he has been near it. Hes never been around babies so to see him acting like this is quite sweet although obviously the reality of having a baby in the house that cries, poos and needs a lot of attention will be a lot more different than than having the doll but im hoping that he will be able to cope quite well with it all.

Morning all,
Just a qucikie today as DH is working from home and is hovering about moaning that he wants to use the laptop to do work-his priorities are all wrong..

Went in last night and all ok-took them ages and lots of total panic tears from me to get a response from the baby on the monitor but they did and all well-scamp lying somewhere I cant feel her obviously..
Have felt a few kicks this morn so feel alot better..thanks so much for all your thoughts..
Am still hwoever feeling quite sick-the only thing I have kept down since Tuesday is one slice of toast-so I feel half starved as well as incredibly queasy..
TYG-We have been scuppered again!But am around next week if you are and then can alsways have a drive into London if not, when im off provided you dont mind DD tearing around too..
Will be back on this eve as DH about to lose it!

Another big CONGRATS to April and hello to Ella!!

xx

Message for largeg&t!!!!

AFTERPAINS AFTER NO. 6

Well, after no. 5 I was told by midwife that I MUST, MUST, MUST do the following and it made a huge difference to the pains i.e., they were easily managable

As soon as baby is born take 2 paracetamol, 2 hours later take 2 ibuprofen, 2 hours later take 2 paracetamol etc. etc. Do not wait for pains, just take them , regular as clockwork.

This works, I promise

You must have been so worried Scoot, you poor thing.

Hope your tummy feels better soon. Don't worry - Starbucks will still be there.

My mum is arriving on here on Tuesday for the rest of the week. Could do Monday though. If you're not at work, then I can hop on a train to Welwyn Garden City... That's up your way isn't it? Can drop in on SIL as well whilst I'm there. Likewise madeindevon - I don't think WGC is too far from St Albans?

Mum around the following week as well. You're very welcome to call in if you're passing though! Not sure which day she's coming up. After that, it's May! I'd love to meet your LO so we'll make other plans, don't worry.

Concentrate on getting better. x

Thank you Kitty, i will follow your advice to the letter. Have posted on you birth announcement thread. Nice to know im not the only one having 6!

Scooter im very glad all is well with the baby. It must have been so scary for you. I think these babies are misbehaving the most, hope it doesnt continue when they come out.

AM very pleased you are home and posting. It must be so lovely to have a little girlie bundle

Hugo attempting to break down the newly installed stair gate, worrying thing is i fear he may succeed. He is like a bloody veloceraptor...checking the house for signs of weakness and then going back to them over and over again till they break

LG&T Hugo sounds just like ds2. By 15months he was able to undo the stairgate (even though us adults always had trouble) and we used to joke that nothing was Ethan-proof. We thought about renting him out to manufacturers to test their products on and if he was unable to break them then they were obviously onto a winner. Hes calmed down a bit now thankfully except he still thinks hes spiderman, climbing up everything no matter how high or wobbly

I think that between Ethan and his little friend next door they are determined to scare me into early labour. When they are playing outside they wait until im watching them and they race round the green on their bikes, scooters etc and end up going round the corners so fast they wobble and nearly crash into the walls and all the time they are watching me and laughing, when anyone else is watching they ride carefully Ive also caught them climbing on a high wall and jumping off as soon as our backs are turned and its always me that catches them in the act. They are only 3 yet they seem to be determined to turn me into a nervous wreck everyone else in the street thinks its hilarious

scootermum so glad yr baby's kicking again - had the same thing myself last week (it'd stopped moving, midwife admitted me to hospital and the minute the monitor was on the baby starts kicking like a donkey leaving me feeling like a total fraud). apparently if it goes quiet can be a sign that labour is near so maybe we'll be hearing from you soon??
oh and i will probably be accused of child abuse for this but if eating sthing sugary doesnt make it kick reassuringly, caffeine seems to work on mine...
pebblemum have you tried acupuncture for making breech baby move? apparently it works so well my hospital (UCH in london) has got a trained acupuncturist on staff....
anyone got any views on perineal massage? does it make any difference or is it a waste of perfectly good olive oil??

Glad your baby is behaving now Scoot. Must be a massive relief.

Mine has decided to go quiet today as he was kicking up a storm yesterday.

hi scootermum and TYG. would love to meet up. WGC isnt far from st albans but im working still unfortunatly. roll on 4th may!!
glad all seems well tho scootermum. im dreading same happening to me soon as LO is so active all the time. reckon i feel 10 movements before 7am at moment. when baby slows down i know im gonna find it hard to cope with the "is everything ok" feelings despite knowing that things are bound to slow down the closer i get.

Scoot so glad things are ok.

pebble......; grr at that baby I know how you feel though, Common little shinyweepebble TURN!!

Djags, I'm sorry you are feeling soooooooo bad. You rant away on here, we love a good rant.

LG&T, Well, success!!!!!! I spoke to a lovely young lady called Keeley at the post office, who obviously enjoys her job and was VERY helpful. I think it needed to be woman to woman, you obviously experienced a complete LOSER NUMPTY MUPPET of a boy yesterday.
I told her the situation and gave her every detail I could about the parcel, shape, size, writting, stamps etc..... she didn't even need a delivery date and said that it was NO problem she would be able to find the parcel from my descripition. She is not able to send it anywhere else or back to me as I could be anyone... BUT she will take it off the shelf and put a big sticker on it to hold until you are home. She said that you will need the calling card for it and can then either arrange another delivery or you can collect it with ID. I explained that you were not back for about another 6 or so weeks and she said that was fine.
She also said, good luck to both of us for our new arrivals. How sweet.

Any news on SOH?

AM, I WANT ONE*

fantastically funny link

DH on lunch break..

Right TYG-Monday it ruddy well is and nothing will stop me getting to Starbucks this time..3pm ok-Islington High rd one?

Madeindevon-was going to say Welwyn Garden City..think thats probably bang in middle, or Hatfield-but thats not as nice and we can always have a shufty round John Lewis baby department in Welwyn-we can plan for after 4th May assuming no newborns by then!And you can come too TYG natch..(and anyone else of course!)

lovely post office lady Mrs JB..i think my parcel must have gone amiss, (or else my person just didnt like me much and didnt want to send! .Never mind-the joy is in the giving-I do mean that sincerely)

lol at Hugs largegandt-dd is getting to be the same and can now open any door despite having to reach up way above her head to the handles..bit worrying as current front door opens onto small front yard, then onto street..also she has taken to growling like a dog..making strangers who hear her believe she is feral..

SOH back home today is she not?I hope she is alright-no reports on the news re babies being delivered at the Zoo however...

Baby kicking a bit more now, little blighter...(I feel a bit of a wolly for panicking now-thankyou again for all of your concern)plus have kept some more toast down so on the up and up...stressing about missing work as have alot to do before I leave next week but then probably needed this rest, (though could've done without the upchucking!)DH bought me a copy of that new BBC magazine that you get the period drama DVD's with this morning..not something would ever by myself as its a bit middle aged-but still so sweet of him.. am going to watch the whole Colin Firth Pride and P this aft-lovely..

tata for now..he is back from having his break and wants to do some spread sheets or somesuch..

What afterpains?! eh does it only happen when you've had 6-or can anyone get them?

I think anyone can get afterpains Scoot. Don't know if it makes a difference how many pg's you've had.

Anyone have difinitive info?

AM Congrats - sounds a bit scary to start with tho, glad your all home safe and well xx know the feeling about everything looking big, we went to mcare to get up to 5lb stuff and he had his 1st outfit on today whwn we arrived and it was huge - luckily managed to find 2 packs of sleepsuits in boots reduced to £1.25 for 3 and they are up tp 3lb but look like they will fit prefectly so going to take those in tnite

DEJAGS moan away, thats wat were here for, not long to go hun xx

I had really bad afterpains for a year with dd, hopefully they wont be too bad this time

MJB thankyou so much for you beautiful card

Little Arlen has had clothes on today, I have now changed 2 whole pooey nappies and have had 3 cuddles, am feeling more hands on - he has been moved to the nursery and is doing fantastic, hopefully not long till he is out of the incubator - he just needs to have 3 jaundice tests in a row that are below the level then his lights will be taken away,

Tummy is startin to turn yellow from the bruising and has gone floppy where its all shrinking down, pain and bleeding are soooo much better than with dd, yeyyy for elective sections!!

Hope everyone is enjoying the lovely sunshine

A year???!!!! How common are they?

I've never had afterpains either, or heard of them. What a horrible thought, just when you think you're safe. I've been trying to get things moving with some rather rigourous gardening this afternoon but no luck yet. We're clearing the bottom third of our garden which the old owners just fenced off and left - it seems such a waste. The garden is massive, really long, but we want to use all the space that's there! I've been digging, uprooting, chopping down, planting, weeding, turning over but all to no avail - just a very sore back!
Well, back to it. Probably won't get as much done now ds has woken up!

Afternoon all - I am back from Chester Zoo, where I have been with ds, his friend and his friend's lovely mum! Had a really nice day, and I do think that I managed well under the circumstances. The boys had a lovely play on the playpark which meant a nice sit down, and we used to monorail to get from one side to the other which was less tiring - I was flagging after five hours though! No signs of giving birth/waters breaking for me though, shame as a lifetime membership would have been very handy...

I went to the midwife yesterday, and it would seem that the baby is not breech and I am just an odd shape. Size is also perfect (34 cm for 34 weeks) so all that worry for nothing. She thinks they will want me to go for a natural birth rather than a c-section which is fine by me, I really hope that I don't have a repeat of last time (three inductions, 2 day labour, emergency c-section) though.

AM - lovely to read your birth story, sounds like an all round good experience. Lupins, great to hear that Arlen is doing so well, hopefully it won't be too long until he is home with you.

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, beware of the afterpains on second or more pregnancys. you don't realy get them with your 1st.

Scoot -Maddie was born at 2.25pm and at 3am the first morning whilst I was feeding her I thought I was about to have another baby. OMG, they were terrible. The midwife had come round about 8pm and asked me if I wanted any pain killers just paracetamol, at the time I said "NO, thank you I am fine" LOL, jesus this time I will be stocking up and saving all they offer me, I will be prepared. It is your uterous contracting back to size and although I knew about them before I didn't think about it at the time. take the drugs and all will be fine, I got some in the morning at breakfast and everything was fine after that. I needed them for about 2 days.