May Mummies, w/c 23th April 07 1 week till May- Woohayy!

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Morning............

gosh its quiet on here this morning! anyone around???

Hello All

Belated happy birthday Pebble. My dad was 60 yesterday... Went down to his local pub on Sat night wiht some helium balloons and a cake and he seemed pleased enough. I would have liked to organise a party for him, but I just couldn't face it.

Sitting here waiting for the midwife, but I don't think she's coming. DH informed me at 6.30 last night, after my 50th reminder over the last two weeks about the homebirth visit today, that he had forgotten about it and organised 4 really important meetings today. Was really, really, really annoyed. Phoned midwife, but got a colleague from the service. Was SO embarrassed to even have to say I was trying to change an appt for 9am the next day. It's just rude. They said they'd try to get a message to her and then I felt bad about her being bothered. Anyway, I didn't hear anything and assumed she'd be here, but now... Well perhaps not. Will have to phone later and see what she says. She specifically gave me the first appt of the day to suit DH. As of Saturday, I'm allowed to have a home birth so it's not as though I have much time to sort things out. Plus I have a cousin visiting on Thurs afternoon and grandparents here all day on Friday. I really don't want to have to have hte midwife arriving as well. Bloody disorganised DH.

Mum visit is going fine, although I am quite grumpy due to lack of sleep. Still waking at 1.20 am every night. It's like a sort of sick joke. DH has not gotten around to painting the nursery so can't get the curtain pole up or furniture in. Going to get some sewing done today though. Oh I'm so grumpy. I feel sorry for anyone having to speak to me today. Am quite tearful too. Kind of glad it looks like hte m/w got the message about hte the appt as I was almost crying just thinking about having to tell her that DH had gone to work.

Lupins, I'm delighed that Arlen is coming home. You must be so pleased. Well done for holding it all together for the last couple of weeks. It must have been really tough.

Hello everyone else. SOH I was really laughing reading your posts from late last week. How did your bumps and babes go, Scooter?

Off to buy a new presserfoot for the sewing machine. Ooh, the glamour.

I am also sitting here waiting for the mw TYG.. sorry about your dh, sometimes they just don't have the capacity to remember the things we do

Sleep, sleep, its for the weak.. It hurts my pubic bones, every time I turn over so I wake up and am fed up of this stuffy nose business, not long to go now. I have just washed the car seat as it was filthy with African dust, but I couldn't get the cover off, maybe I am just being stupid but I swear it wouldn't come off. Anyone else with a bebe confort?

Lupins, how exciting that Arlen might be home by the weekend!

Good lord forgot to say Happy Birthday to you Pebble, hope you managed to get soem sleep in the end. You will be shattered by 4 pm today!

Scooter how was the bumps and babes thing?

Lupins im sooo glad you will get Arlen home this week. I know exactly what you mean about not feeling like you have had a baby. I felt the same, i was very limited as to what i could do for them in special care, my only useful task was to sit on the bloody milking machine. I grew to hate it, still it was easier in the long run. I could feed both at once and had a huge amount of milk stocked up in the freezer. Lots of mums were not breastfeeding on SCBU, it is so stressful. Well done for keeping it up, it must be even harder for you as you have DD too to look after. I only had myself and them to think of.

TYG you sound a bit like me, a wailing session may be in order. I know (rationally) it is the hormones, but just feel sort of rubbish, unable to cope and anxious. I am despairing at little things i normally power ahead and do, like town yesterday. Have had it now really, but dont want any surprises so must wait till the 11th!!!

Hugo has just been pouring juice in to his shoe.....nice

Where is everyone this morning?

Morning Cam, i had a bebeconfort creatis car seat for dd. Im pretty sure the cover didnt come off, i remember selling it with the massive pram that matched it and getting annoyed cos i couldnt strip it and wash it. I loved the pram but it was sooo big and when i changed my car i wouldnt go in the boot, i used to have a buggy board on it and one of those really old fashioned seats that go over the pram for one of the twins. It was beastly to push Very good for working of pregnancy pounds i found, i had plenty to lose after dd

Morning all - I'm sitting at home with cat sprawled across laptop, in my PJ's trying to put together a Business Case and failing miserably. All i want to do is sleep, day dream, sort out nursery, sleep some more...

Lupins - crossing everything that Arlen comes home on Friday. Whoo hoooo!

Sorry some of you ladies are feeling meh! I was like that all last week and desperately trying not to let the hormone tidal wave take over again this week as it renders me completely useless.

My brother and his wife (who live with us) have gone to Morocco for 10 days so it's just DH, me and the cats which is rather lovely but very quiet I guess not for long

I've just updated the London meetup thread for 30 April add your name if you can make it and we'll book a table!

Morning all (again!!)

I did manage to go to bed at about 3am only to wake up an hour later feeling like poo. Id been feeling a bit strange all day, hard to describe but i had just felt yucky. I put it down to tiredness but im not so sure now. Considering i didnt get much sleep i actually feel quite lively and full of energy,although i still dont feel 100% right. Im sure i will prove LG&T right and by 4pm be falling asleep on my feet lol

Dh has just gone off to golf for a couple of hours and im supposed to be doing the housework but i cant be bothered, trying to make the most of the peace before he comes back

TYG sometimes men are useless arent they? Sorry your Dh let you down today, sometimes i think they suffer with pregnancy brain as well.

My dh informed me last night that he is going to be staying away from the pub for the next 5-6wks, he said its so he can save money but i think deep down he has finally realised that this LO could arrive anytime from now onwards. With ds2 i dont think he had fully grasped what being pg and going through labour was like but this time around he is a lot more caring, the slightest wince from me has him checking im ok and i think the possibility of me having a cs has freaked him out a bit too. Hes a big tough man whose had more operations than everyone else i know yet the thought of watching me have a cs sends him to jelly lol. I actually like this more caring side to Dh normally he keeps his feelings hidden or turns everything into a joke!!

Lupins Great news about Arlen

Good morning.

Aah, lots of faces this morning. Not chez SOH though, I'm annoyingly happy today for several reasons. Mainly Tescos deliver food this evening. See, simple things, simple minds. I like having food in the cupboard! Ordered lots and lots of fresh fruit- my current craving and am going to make smoothies and fruit salad with glee. Might make icecream. Have also ordered the stuff I think I want for my homebirth- lots of lucozade sport and straws for me and herbal teas for midwives. Going to choose some cakes to bake for early labour too and stock up on ingredients tomorrow. Pool arrives tomorrow on the day I am finally allowed a homebirth. Only tiny gripe today is that I can only sleep on my left hand side. On my back the baby crushes my spine, on my right hand side I lose all feeling in my right leg and get cramp. Farking annoying at 3am.

So who wants to hear about my dream from last night? I dreamt that me and Scoot both went into labour, didn't want to do it alone so met up on a beach halfway between here and there. Our DH's entered a sandcastle competition, became extremely competitive and Scoot's dd ate lots of sand. After a while we decided not to give birth, bought icecreams and paddled in the sea. So, my lovelies it has finally happened. I have taken that final irreversible leap off my proverbial rocker.

Cut DH's hair for him this morning (we don't have hairdressers in Norfolk, you have to go to the sheep shearing place and ask the farmer to oblige) and was tempted to shave something rude in the back of his head like 'I'm a big numpty'. Some twonk at his place of work has told him that there is prostaglandin in semen and if ingested can kick start labour. If he even dares suggest that he's 'only thinking of me' I'm going to impede his ability to partake in the creation of our second offspring. I suppose I should be grateful that he still finds my swollen, cracked, stretched, aching body remotely attractive. However, I'm not grateful. He can go and sleep in the cat basket and I'm getting a room with my beautiful, lovely, satisfying but enormous and hard, ever-ready bottle of Gaviscon.

Anyway, hoovering to be done, laundry to be flung in the direction of the washing machine. Hey up, Mathilda's awake and doing the time warp...

Oh and meant to say fantastic news on Arlen coming home- hope that he does!

And LG&T, the "cinematic floodlight and VERY bright lightbulbs for his tripod" can only be for...er... home videos of the baby cooing and dribbling. Gor Blimey, you've got a swing haven't you? And a dungeon? Satin sheets? Does N have a 'tache? Does harpsichord music come on every time you enter the bedroom? I repeat I know nothing about porn. Did have to read that story of O book while studying as an undergrad and I think I refused to go to the seminar about it on account of it being such a load of misogynistic sh*te. I could write better porn with my foot.

Our babies must be time warping together SOh, Beau has just woken up too. I can hear Hugo doing awful things in the dinning room, he is wearing me out this morning. He just came in with nappy in hand, huge poo tipping out of it, vest still done up??? How on Earth he managed to get it off i may never know.

Food in the cupboards sounds good to me SOH, i too am eating loads of fruit recently. Not much baking going on though, not quite the same in someone elses house, unfamiliar baking equipment

Tis true about the semen being ingested though, have rarely had a friend that desperate for her baby to be born.

I have a couple of remedies tried and well tested for when you get fed up of waiting. They come with health warnings though! Caullophyllum is a homeopathic remedy, i have used it as have a couple of other friends. Although nothing happens straight away unless you are ready it can make your birth very quick. One friend was ready and had just had a clary sage bath, her dh came over the road for it and i gave him the caullohyllum too, she had the baby within an hour, ambulance and all. Never made it to the hospital, another took it and had the baby in the car park at the hospital So cautions all round for that......

I have been waiting for the courier to turn up and collect a parcel before doing my awful hair. He has just been so have to move now, Hugs was emptying the freezer BTW, knew he was up to no good. Am afraid to go upstairs and leave hime really, may bring the hair stuff down......

Just got back from my GP appointment and apparently my white blood cell count is raised, which may indicate an infection like Group B strep.

I have a hospital apt on Friday anyway re the breech thing, so I have to ask my consultant then what he wants to do about the white blood cells.

So after walking around Tesco in tears, I am generally feeling very sorry for myself.

Oh I don't know. It's better than castor oil.

I love Hugs, he's such a mischief maker. My youngest godson is just like that, he goes all quiet and disappears and you then find that he's been in the garden taking the fish for a walk.

What else do I need to get from the homeopath and health food place tomorrow? I'm getting arnica and raspberry leaf and like the sound of Caullophyllum. I desperately need something for my nipples too. Sorry for tmi but I'm dreading breastfeeding (determined to do it) as my nipples are already agony from being pregnant. They can reduce me to tears at times, especially if it's cold. I've tried Kamillosan, Lansinoh, Sudocrem etc. They all make it ten times worse. I'm allergic to everything it would seem. I'm allergic to E45 would you believe? Is there some natural substance that I can use? I think I've heard that chilled cabbage can help...

Any experts?

Pinkjenny, what was your white blood cell count? I know in late pregnancy it can be raised because of something called demargination- not serious, just one of those things and is not a threat. A friend had the same problem and it was just her body behaving differently because of pregnancy. A colleague also had a raised white blood cell count at 36 weeks and they found out it was just a urine infection, treated and a week later her count was down. Please don't panic just yet. It can even be raised by the common cold. Have you been well recently?

Poor you Pinkjenny, at least if they have an indicator for group strep you will get treated. Im seriously debating fabricating a discharge issue with the midwife on Thursday so she will swab me and check. They should do it routinely. A course of antibiotics when you go in to labour should do the trick, dont worry Cant believe all these breech babies, what is going on?

SOH chilled green cabbage is fab, i cut nipple holes in it though or the baby can be relauctant to latch on to cabbage smelling boobies!!! I would say the best thing is squeeze some breast milk out on to your nipples when you leak. Cant think of anythink more gentle than Kamillosan, other than maybe a chammomile tea bag over them? Not hot though, no scorched boobs. Sure it will all be fine.

My back hurts >

Am off to do my hair and wee for the billionth time this morning.

Wee for the billionth time not do my hair for the billionth time.....

Pink, I had the same a week or so ago, they checked me for urine infection and nothing there so we put it down to a bit of a cold..probably nothing to worry about.

SOH you are on scarily good form this morning, I'm with LG&T on the nips front, cabbage leaves work a treat and breastmilk too, i didn't find the creams helped at all! The nips don't stay sore for too long, you've just got to work through it!

LG&T, glad its not me being thick on the babyseat front, have given it a scrub, that'll do! We also some humongous 3 wheeler it goes onto that is bigger than our whole house so dh has refused to let it out of storage. He's such a Maclaren fan

Hugs, now he is adorable, a boy after ds heart. I hate it when they go quiet, it does worry me, last week when I had a visitor she caught him in the bathroom washing his mouth with sugar all around his face and all over him, when asked what he was doing he replied 'I can't tell you its a secret', however the chair in the kitchen and the tipped over sugar bowl gave the game away

Anyone heard from LWatkins today? I just spotted this post...

here

Kamillosan has lanolin in it- always struggled with it, makes my skin burn.

My DH sounds a lot like your children. Goes in the kitchen all quiet and comes out with icecream all down his front and a spoon hanging out his mouth. They don't grown out of it obviously. In 25 years your DSs will be sent to the supermarket with a list by their pregnant wives and will come back with some Ben and Jerries, a bar of Galaxy and a frickin comic about the end of the world. When asked where the bread and milk is they will feign complete innocence and tell you how beautiful you look pregnant. Blighters.

Crikey I could have written that post several times in the last fortnight, down to the violently sick and pressure in bum bit. It's pre-labour and such a joy.

Looks like I posted 5 minutes too soon...

SOH glad u r chipper tjis morning lol at your dream, ice cream sounds much better than labour

Pink - sending you a big hug

Just got back from the hospital and Arlen is deffo home of THURSDAY - ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

The crib isnt here yet, I have no matteress, even when it does get here dh and i cant agree where to put it, I want us to swop sides of the bed so I dont have to walk round carrying little man in the semi dark fair point I think - he just says I should clear my s**t up then it wouldnt be a problem grrrr, oh god oh god I am panicking!!!!!! hellllp, and to top it off when I went to feed him today he wasnt interested in the breat but took the bottle no problem - we will soon put a stop to that young man, panick panick what if he doesnt want to bf again now he has been having bottles

Could all these breech babies turn around pls

Right off to try and organise stuff - OMG I have a baby

I wish the pre-labour would go away!!!!!!

Great news on Arlen, lups

TYG, sorry you are feeling grumps today, I'm with you.
The pain I'm in is beyond a joke now, I am a wuss I know, but the pain should be saved for when it actually means something like a baby in arms after a few hours. Grumble Grumble SORRY I really hoped yesterday was just a bad day and today would be good but it's no better.

lg&t, Beau didn't appear after seeing his car seat then? naughty monkey!

LW, hope you are OK.

SOH, I only used breastmilk to stop my nipples getting sore, with dd. The trick is to not let them dry out, you can also buy hard breast cups that keep your bra away from your nipple and collect any leaking milk, the fact that nothing is touching your nipple if very sore can be really good. I used them with H and the cold cabbage leaves, bliss!

Hope your blood cell thing turns out to be nothing PJ.

Woooooooooooooooop Wooooooooooooooop for Lupins and Arlen, that is fab news,

BUT

Breath, calm, count to ten!!!
You've done this before you can do it again, fingers crossed you can just slip into a beautiful routine once home. Re: the BF, he will do it if you want him too, it may be tough for a few days and you'll need alot of patience but I'm sure he'll get the hang of it.

So pleased for you. xxx