May mummies we are here!!!!!!

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Morning all, new thread for today.

Juicy - I've still got 5 weeks to go too!

It seems like forever away.

My LO has really slowed down over the last few days. Can't decide whether or not to panic.

Wow! Another baby. I wonder if some of those poor mummies from the April thread are still hanging on!

No response to the text I sent SOH. Didn't like to start calling as well. It's a tad stalkerish. I hope she's not having a baby somewhere...

Welcome Oops.

I wouldn't be surprised if she wa TYG, she said her family have a history of not making the 37 week mark and she was sure nesting before she went away.

I am going to do something with a few bits for a bag this afternoon, even start piling them together will do. I must get into the loft and find some newborn vests for washing they were what we forgot when we got everything alse out a few weeks ago. Doh

OK I decided that I would panic. I have to go in at half one to be monitored for a while. She is moving a tiny bit, only very vaguely though. So I figure its best to get it checked out.

I'm terrified though. Tears are hitting the keys as I type.

I have hoovered the house, put the washing on, cleaned the kitchen floor and wiped down the cupboards. Polished the front room and put a mountain of washing away, oh it feels sooooo gooooood. Stop laughing at me all of you.

You have no idea the frustration at having to just look at it all pile up around you, it is enough to send me insane. Sure MIL will be either 1) thrilled her house is clean and shiny 2) go ballistick along with dh that i have done it all 3) be horrified that i have felt the need to clean her house quite so vigorously

Am going out to a friends this avo, she has a huge garden so am hoping to lose the children in it for a couple of hours.

TYG phone her, she wont mind. It would be a shame to miss each other. I fully intend to stalk you properly the first opportunity i have. Im thinking the children away with their dad and dh away at work, i may catch a train to London and stay with you Baby too obviously. Perhaps S can babysit and we can go out and get trolleyed......

Right, lunch to do now. It's like feeding the 5 thousand, catering styleee

Oh PinkJenny please dont worry. Im sure the LO is fine, they do slow down the bigger they get and even my crazy (almost definately hyperactive) LO has quiet days. Im sure it's just catching up on some growing time and sleeping peacefully. Getting checked is always a good thing to do though, you will get to sit on the CTG and listen to the strong heart beat for an hour or so. Babies often choose that moment to wake up and go nuts too. Keep us posted and please, please try keep calm.

Email me your mobile number and i will harrass you later if you dont get back to us, we will all panic otherwise xxxx

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A quick post, as I supposed to be working!
DrK - please do get in touch - Katzg has my contact details, but if not, I can post an email address here. Would be good to meet up once our babies are here.

Birthplan - hmm, mine never left the bag first time around. I have half heartedly made one this time around, but to be honest, with a possible c-section due to breech baby, or all the endless possibilities with a VBAC, I think 'Go with the flow' will be all that is written on mine.

Congratulations to aprilmeadow, I hope her little girl is doing well and that she is recovering from an early start!

May looms ever nearer. (Gulp)

Thanks LG & T - I've emailed you my mobile number. I'm trying not to freak out.

Pinkjenny let us know how it goes, I'm sure everything will be fine. My lo has slowed down quite a bit too recently, it still has it's moments but doesn't move half as much as it did.

Good luck PinkJenny, keeping our fingers crossed. x

Good luck for this afternoon PinkJenny, I'm sure it will be fine. Mine too has very quiet days at the moment. Wish it had quiet nights though to be honest. Let us know how you get on. Don't panic, but FWIW, I think you are doing the right thing to put your mind at rest.

How often are you ladies seeing your midwifes now? Mine doesn't want to see me again until 39 weeks. I saw her at 33+3. Thats 6 weeks until my next appointment. Does that seem along time away?

Hope all goes well Pinkjenny, will be thinking of you.

Congratulations AM!

I had my last MW app at 34 +2 and I see the doctor this week at 36 +3. I thought it was supposed to be more often the closer you got to d-day.

firstly huge congrats to AM and lupins! great news!!
at work today after enjoying easter break doing very little. starting to realise i have to slow down now. even had afternoon sleep on saturday. back aches when on feet too much (baby really starting to feel heavy....im only 5ft 2 and look like a weeble or something at moment)
also can't help waking up at 5am every day. which isnt so much of an issue when im working at i get up just after 5.30 anyway but when you off its really annoying. hubby tired and stressed so end up going downstairs so i dont disturb him.
bit fed up really tho. hubby been very down and stressed out/worrying about things (mainly his 3 kids from previous marriage) they seemed fine initially about baby but now coming out with things like "you wont want to know us when you got new family" etc etc. i can almost here his ex wife's voice when i hear some of the things that have been said. been strong for him but im starting to crumble myself now. in tears this morning which is unlike me. i dont want to upset baby so feel really guilty now for having a cry.

Wow - what a surprise that must have been! Congrats April on the birth of Ella and Lupins - love the piccies of Arlen.

I'm really ready but nothing seems to be happening in the Sky household. Had a really long beach walk yesterday and was knackered and felt sick so was hoping - but nothing!

Good luck for later PJ and MadeinDevon - its ok to cry - I am doing it lots - I think it upsets my DDs more than it does the baby (mainly because it is usually something they have said or done!).

I dont know I have a weekend away from MNet and miss all the excitement.

Congratulations April, cant believe your LO is here already

And Lupins your LO is so gorgeous

Hope all is well Pink, keep us informed

LG&T when i read your cross post about Am my first thought was that it was your dh posting about you, dont do that to me

Well i still have 6wks to go but knowing my luck i will be the last one on here waiting, all the rest of you will be popping babies out and i'll still be sat here waiting in June lol.

This pregnancy hasnt been as enjoyable as my other two, especially the past couple of days. Everytime LO moves it seems to hurt, no more enjoyable little kicks ( i expect its because she is breech but whatever it is , 'i dont like it' lol), ive been getting strange stretchy aches down below, lots of braxton hicks and lower back pain. I know nothing is about to happen so im not worried but im just getting fed up with it now, i want to enjoy the last few weeks of the pregnancy.

I too keep crying, nearly burst into tears just now when dh went out to buy some chips and didnt take me even though he knew i needed to go to the bank. Normally it wouldnt bother me but today i just really took it to heart, calmed down now though luckily as i dont think he would fully understand and we would probably have ended up arguing.

I bet the April ladies (and the March ones if there are still any floating about) are getting fed up with us May lot jumping the queue. Perhaps we should lay bets on who is next, its got to be either LG&T or SOH i reckon

Congrats April!!

Thanks for saying I'm organized, but I'm just paranoid. I have a doctor that has spoken for me for a total of 10 minutes in the 8 months I've been pregnant. If I don't write it down for her, I'm afraid she and the other three doctors (each of whom I've met only once) will never really get me and what I want. I have no idea which one will show up to deliver the baby, so if I have a birth plan in my file it gives them a little insight in how to approach me.

I didn't really think about it too much. All my lists come off the internet. I just click the boxes and go.

Well, I just looked at my calendar and I have 46 more days until my EDD.

I purpose that if there is someone who would want to switch due dates with me I would really appreciate it. I don't want to be pregnant any more, and if someone wanted to be pregnant longer, maybe we cold switch

Hello all! I seemed to have missed it all again! Congrats AM, that was a quick one! Looking forward to the photos & story....

MKG - I'm due the same day as you so know where you are coming from. Some days I love being pregnant, but increasingly the niggly pains, lack of sleep & being so very heavy are beginning to get me down....11 more work days as am only doing three day weeks this month..bliss.

Just spent 4 lovely days in Brussels, doing around 5 miles walking a day, so hopefully a bit fitter than when I went (offset by copious amounts of waffle with strawberries, cream & chocolate sauce...mmmmm) think I may be buying myself a waffle maker to go with my new cappucino machine..may never leave home again!

Hope everyone else is well - keep 'em in for now...its been freaking me out how close we all are. Even Ina May and Marie Mongan haven't convinced me just yet of a pain free labour, but will keep reading!
xxx

Glad you had a good time in Brussels Befnal..lovely food over there..of the not so healthy variety but to be honest I am past caring..

Im only seeing my midwife every 3 weeks still Mrs JB-but she isnt much use anyway as she doesnt seem very interested in anything I have to say so cant say im bothered re seeing her more than that..

You are funny largegandt.I would be joyful if I came home to find you had been round my gaff with your mop and broom...

Stuck in West London now as one of the customers with dementia went missing yesterday and im the only manager not on leave...gutted as was looking forward to seeing TYG and maybe SOH..looking forward to seeing you at least TYG on Thurs..
Got hankering for Starbucks brownie so hope that suits?

Feel as sick as a pike this afternoon-very upset tummy.Havent been able to eat a thing, so I really must feel ill!
Stuck here till Cops turn up hopefully with errant customer and then have to go and get dd and go to Tescos as we've nothing in the house after being away for the weekend..Dont think my stomach is liking that plan and all I want to do really is get into bed and go to sleep!DH at college tonight as well so hope dd is in co operative humour...
speak to you all tomorrow...no more babies till then please!

Starbucks is great with me Scoot. I've been thinking about frappucinos today as it happens... Can meet you there, rather than the tube, if you like. Just let me know if you mean the one down on Islington High Street nr the Tube, the one in Borders, the one beside the Lloyds TSB/ Oasis, or the one opposite Islington Green. I never realised how many there were in Islington until just now!

Hope your tummy feels better soon and it doesn't take too long to get home.

Madeindevon, I suspect your DH's kids are feeling nervous and it may very well be true that the ex-wife is feeding it to them. Don't worry about crying - I'm at it all the time. Is it possible for DH's kids to come and spend some extra time with you both at the weekend so you can talk about it with them? Obv I don't know your situation, but would it be possible to plan some sort of outing with them (don't know the ages...) after the baby is born. Maybe something for when they break up from school in July? That way they'd have something to look forward to and it will be after the baby comes so it would be "all inclusive".

Hi ladies

Back from the hospital. Took absolutely ages to get a decent trace as the baby kept moving away from the monitor. In the end I had to lie propped on my side. They managed to get a trace in the end, and said her heartbeat is fine, and that the monitor was registering lots of movements that I couldn't feel.

They seem to think that she has changed positions into one where I can't feel her movements, and to come back again if I am worried. I'm glad she seems to be OK, but not sure how I'm supposed to know if she is if I can't feel her.

I know I'm complaining, and I don't mean to, but with your first pregnancy its so hard to know what is normal.

And they still can't tell what lump is what. The general consensus today was breech. Again.

Thanks for all your kind thoughts, you are all wonderful.

xx

PinkJenny,

Don't worry about not being able to feel much. I was the same way in my first pregnancy. The hooked me up to all sorts of machines and even though he was moving, I didn't feel a thing.

This pregnancy is different though. I think it has to do with muscles being more lax in subsequent pregnancies, I could be wrong though.

If it makes you feel better ds was a great sleeper from day 1, and slept through at 2.5 months. Hopefully she'll be the same way.

Am also trying to allow myself to be convinced my Ina and Marie...Especially as all I get at home is Gas and Air!

I think I need to read more...

21 working days left
36 days until I actually leave
49 until Pod arrives.

Flippin' eck. He better not come early

Thanks MKG - that is really encouraging and I will remember that every time my inner neurosis threatens to take over.

Juicy - I have 22 days left in work and 47 til she arrives. I'll be the only one left, and go into labour on my 30th birthday - 1 June. Its inevitable.

I was surrounded by all these really slim mummies to be at the hospital, all thin legs and neat bumps. My arse and bingo wings stood out like a sore thumb. (Sorry to get back onto the weight thing)

Anyone heard anything from SOH?

Pink Jenny - glad all is ok. Know it's easy to worry. I would be the same if the kicks stopped.

Yummm...frites and mayo...Belgian stylie. Followed by waffles. Fab.