Due November No3

[Twinkie]

Hi All - sorry hope you don't mind me starting a new thread but my laptop won;t let me put a message on the other one - I think cause it is so long!!

Anyway glad you are all ok - Pandabear - think it is quite common for you not to feel baby if you are active all day - if I have a really busy day I get worried and then I sit and relax and he goes into overdrive - its grosse sometimes like I have an alien inside my belly!!

Have midwife appointment today just routine but am going to ask if she thinks baby will be huge - everyone on hols acted like I was ready to give birth and were stunned when I told them I had 14 weeks left but then again the BA lady asked if I were pregnant when we checked in and all the mumsnetters I saw at last meet up did not tthink I was huge!! I haven't put on anything other than my big bump and inflated boobs though so thats a relief so far!!

Sam if you still have the UTI try to drink as much as you can - cranberry juice or flat lemonade are supposed to work well.

Tonic water is still keeping the reflux under control to an extent and other than clicky hips and being sooooo bloody hot all is ok inthe Twinkie Pregnancy so far.

Bunny I keep have srong BH too. Sunday night they actually made me feel sick which was nice!

Feeling ok apart from that - baby still breech. Wasn't moving much at the weekend so rang the hospital, after which he perked up a bit! Think he is just lazy!

DD was born at 36 weeks so keep thinking perhaps not long now, but it will be sods law that I go 2 weeks over!!

Am off to ikea later to pick up a chest of drawers for the babys nursery. Can put all his bits and pieces away then!!

x

Strong BHs here too, same as with ds and I went overdue with him bunny so don't worry about baby coming early, it doesn't necessarily mean anything. I tend to find I get them much worse if I am tired out, so I think it's my body's way of trying to tell me to slow down (or so I tell dh anyway).

Yes I've been getting braxton hicks too, normally when I'm tired (like now, just home from work) or when I've had to be moving patients a lot at work. Worries me though!

Saw my midwife yesterday, had sugar in my urine, but I'd had sugar on my cereal so she'll check again next time. I didn't mention (confession time!) that I'd eaten a whole box of cherry bakewells , which may very well explain it's presence! Oops!

Baby is still lying in the same position, head down. The heartbeat is still in the same position too. So now (Of course, after I left the midwife) thats it's not normal for the baby to still be in the same place, although I know it is the 'right' position atm. Can he move properly and things? I feel him kicking and shuffling and doing whatever he feels needs to be done... But...! What am I like?!!

how are we all??? finished antenatal classes - next two are on breastfeeding and parenting - well didn't bf with dd and not sure I will with this one... and figure that we are already parenting and while I am sure we might get some hints - too much trying to get dd looked after etc.

So now - just waiting for the hospital tour in a couple of weeks and last class - physio again.

The midwife was brilliant - she answered all my questions and gave me some pointers - esp demanding to see a consultant after my experience with the registrar and the fact that I will be trying for a VBAC.

Hi everyone

Its gone a bit quiet on here again eh?

Well, had antenatel last wed and baby is still breech and back to back. As I am worried about going early and having a quick birth (DD took 2 and a half hrs, born at 36 weeks), mw said she may refer me at 36 instead of 37 weeks to have a scan and confirm babys position, at which point they will talk through my options with me.

If he is still breech at 36 weeks I may ring an acupuncturist. Apparently they have an 80% success rate if turning baby using these moxa stick things, burnt near your toe, which is a pathway to the uterus! Will try anything. Really do not want a section

People keep telling me how neat I look but when I weighed myself I had put on nearly 3 stone! Found out later my mums scales were incorrect (digital ones, rubbish!) and I have only put on nearly 2 stone so am really pleased.

Keep getting horrid heartburn. Not nice but I can ignore it.

My brother who lives in New York rang earlier to say he will be visiting in November to meet the baby so I am really pleased! He works really hard over there and so it will be nice for him to have a break away from work, and to see us all!

Hope you are all keeping well,
x

hope your 36 week check shows the baby in the right position. C-sections aren't that bad and if not for the recovery - I would probably have another. Just can't afford the six week recovery time of not driving or lifting heavy things - dd is not walking and has a number of appointments that we need to attend. Lucky you mum2ela - I keep getting asked if I am due any time - no - 6 weeks to go and then people ask if it is just the one. Too scared to weigh myself!! Although it seems to be all bump and all out the front!!

Finally finished decorating dd's room and moved her in - I think she likes it - spends a lot of time in there reading books and playing.

Just need to get no2's room done - hopefully that will be next weekend and then my friend will bring over the furniture and we might finally be ready

Mind you - I am so ready now - getting very hot and humid here at the moment. I tell you if I could walk around in bra and undies I would - but then I would have to shut the windows and draw the curtains - wouldn't want to frighten the neighbourhood

Not much else happening here - just have our hospital visit and last antenatal class - physio - in two weeks.

Hope you are all keeping well.

M2E, hope your baby turns soon - do you know optimal fetal positioning? I think there is a thread on it.

My bump has suddenly got huge and I am so uncomfortable, cant wait for it to be over now. Tomorrow a freind is taking me to Southampton for a mega shop and I am going to get as much stuff as I can, waddling around the shops is becoming very hard work.

Hope everyone is well.

hi everyone
I'm really big now and getting very tired and uncomfortable - but only 6 weeks to go!!! Is it just me or has the time just wizzed by? It struck me the other day that I'm going to be giving birth again before very long and I admit the thought has scared me a little. But not as much as the thought of having a new baby and a toddler to cope with. I saw Twinkie's thread about wanting the baby out, and I do completely understand how she feels, but right now I'm feeling very nervous about the future and would stay being pg for a while yet if I could.
Also, I have a steaming cold and a really irritating cough which is more than my pelvic floor can stand. I wish I'd done more excercises now.....
Hope you're all okay.

I said for the first time today that I wish I wasnt PG anymore ie for the baby to be born. I am all baby and dont look PG from the back. I have only put on 16lbs which is great and I hope I can lose it afterwards.

I will be honest that I am DREADING labour. Knowing that there are no pain relief options is terrifying and what if I cant cope? What if it goes on for hours and hours? I have started dreaming about it now and woke DH up the other night shouting, 'I dont want to wear BIG KNICKERS!!' I had been debating that day whether or not to buy disposable knicker as they were very necessary last time.......poor DH doesnt know what to do.

I read the thread about natural CB and everyone said that they got by on gas and air but that isnt available here either. My friend was in labour in Feb and at 7cm was screaming for pain relief and they told her to go and have a cigarette!!!!! She doesnt even smoke!!

Sorry to go on. Have I freaked you all out? Sorry

Hi people
I havnt been around much. The new house is sorted except for the new babies room which still need a complete revamp. Poor boy will probably still be in a lilac room with horrible pink carpet when hes 16.
Very jealous about people only putting on 16lbs (not aiming that at any one) and am also dreading that time when you all start to pop and I still have to wait being due at the end of the month.
Could we have an update on everyones due dates cos i cant be bothered to look back on the first thread. Pretty please

Collision if it makes you feel better I set out last time just wanting gas and air and then discovered it made me violently sick so had to do without it.

Hope everyone stays good (/coping)

Bron

Hi eveyone

Glad everyone seems ok (ish).

Bunny2 - I had a look at optimum foetal positioning - thanks. I had been spending a lot of time on all fours already but it was giving me a lot of backache as baby is also back to back. I have been swimming but read on one of the links on the thread that breaststroke makes baby descend even further into the pelvis, so the opposite effect really of what I thought it would do!

Collision - I don't think there is anything I can say that can make your situation better! I was ok with DD on just gas and air and tbh it didn't 'releive' the pain, just halped me remember how to breathe! What happens if you neede a c-section? Do they not do it with an epidural?

Bronze - my edd is 5th November.

I am really sick of being pregnant now (can you tell I have had a bad day?!). Am being really snappy with DD all the time and everything she does is annoying me, which is fuelling her even more. I am getting more and more worked up about the possibility of having a c-section due to breech baby and the thought makes me feel sick. I have been near tears all day and everytime I think about it I want to cry. DH doesn't understand. Hes a bloke, wouldn't expect him to. My mum popped over earlier and has taken DD to hers for a couple of hours. I know it sounds awful, but I just have no patience for her at all atm. Feel sad.

M2E, so sorry you ware feeling so low. I have been pretty snappy too today. The sheer effort involved in everyday tasks is exhausting and I feel so uncomfortable all the time all I want to do is lie down.

I bought some huge cheap knickers today in Tescos - they are size 18 waist-high ones - verrry sexy! At 2 for 80p I thought they were marginally better than paper ones and will fit for the last few weeks and first post-partum days. I had the paper ones after having ds and they were truly awful.

Bronze, Im not due till 22 NOv - that is so long away . I am fed up and want the baby born NOW

I saw the dr today with dh and ds. She was a bit cross that we hadnt seen her for so long but I had checked things with my own dr and all was well so I didnt think it was so important. Am anaemic and need iron tablets. Need to go to the hosp for a bacteria check for the baby with a tampon swab. BP is fine.

She told me (in Italian of course) to sit behind the screen and remove my trousers. I thought she just wanted to feel my tummy for the baby but NO! she wanted to give me an internal!! Lovely!! There I am with my hairy front bottom in the air with my legs in stirrups and her hand feeling around everywhere when ds pops his head round the screen and says 'What u doin' Mummy? U ok?? whats the lady doing? Why u not talking Mummy??' So funny but highly embarrassing!!

Anyway she doesnt know where its head is and wants me to go back and maybe have another scan! They do go on a lot over here about such things but I suppose that is better than doing nothing. There is no aftercare at all here.

Going to IKEA tomorrow to buy some bits and pieces and so spending money will cheer me up.

Hope you like my funny story!!!!!

Hi all. Am also getting fed up, and am feeling really low (mainly due to tiredness, I just can't get a decent sleep at night). DH doesn't know what to make of it all. He is quite low himself due to work probs, and I just snap at him constantly. Feel bad, but I need to get it all out...

Did a STUPID, STUPID thing on Monday night. I was away with work for a meeting and had lemon meringue pie (hello , raw eggs!!). Was then up all night on the toilet. For once my heartburn was not there as everything, and I mean everything was going south at that point. Strange thing was that I didn't even click that it was the pie until the middle of the night - how dim is that. Was absolutely cream crackered yesterday at my all day meeting . And to top it, I had to starve myself since midnight for my bloomin glucose test thing this morning. Good news is the baby is still VERY active, so no harm done, and the heartburn is back (despite still having a jippy stomach) which strangely enough I am seeing as a good sign. And have had a lovely evening with DH tonight, so all is looking rosy in the potpourri house at this minute in time.

Can't wait til we get our little baby. I am starting to get to grips with the whole labour thing. Still terrified, but there was a good thread on here today about coping strategies, and I pretty much have decided to be flexible and open minded. If I need to get induced, will get an epidural. A good friend of my sister said that is her biggest advice, she was given that advice but didn't take it til it was quite late in the proceedings and she regretted it.

Sounds like we are all struggling now. It must be a last trimester thing! My due date Bronze is 1 December, so I will potentially still be sitting here until mid Dec before they induce me if I am late. Finish work in 6 weeks, so it is all in sight now at least.

Am due same day as Mum2Ela - 5 Nov.... I have been wondering today which one of us - from all the thread will be first - It can't be me .....still have things to go and get sorted. bought a new buggy yesterday - one that lies flat so I can put no2 in it when dd is at therapy or playgroup or whatever....A nice 3 wheeler on sale no less!!! Just need a new matress for the moses basket we are borrowing... but haven't seen the size of it yet so am holding off on that.

Am getting fed up to with being pregnant - being big ( all out the fron t- from behind don't look pregnant) and was definitely not like this with dd - have the new set of stretch marks to prove it.

And it is getting so hot here - however am thankful that it will all be over soon - unlike a friend who is due Jan/Feb and that is usually the hottest time here.

Nervous about the VBAC and what the outcome there might be.

Dd is still being rather cute - rubbing my tummy and saying AHHHHHH, although this morning she tried to stick her fingers in my belly button and then gave the baby a sloppy kiss... what a way to be woken up! ( me not the baby)!!

collision - better you than me - I can't stand having smears let alone an internal!! In fact I have never had one!! SO that should be an experience come birth time.

Anyone got their hospital bags packed - I have the baby's packed and have started on mine and dh - got the snacks and drinks nipple pads and maternity pads and pjs and that is it... need to get sorted soon. ALso have to pack a bag for dd to go to grandma's with.

HOpefully not long now for most of us..... sorry you still have so long to go PP.

mum2e just saw your post on the childbrith topic... really I am a big wuss when it comes to pain and needles and so on BUT I was surprised how well I coped having my caesar with dd.

IF you are having a straightforward caesar in that you did not have the epidural for labour and then it is topped up - you will not have a catheter - it will just be injected in. They then made very sure all was numb before anything proceded. They sprayed me with icy water - on my arm first so I knew what it felt like and then on my legs up to my chest... as I was uncertain at one stage - they checked again.

You are then tilted a little bit so it kinda makes it hard to try and see over the screen. I just concentrated on dh who was sitting on a stool next to me and we were face to face - in terms of level. The surgical staff were brilliant, I also had other staff there - paed and specialists due to dd's heart condition - neonatal nurse came and chatted. It was a little bizarre - here I am having surgery and we are all chatting about normal everyday stuff - before I knew it - 4 minutes from when they started dd was born - so the focus shifts to her and so on. Dh was able to have a cuddle, I was able to see her but she had to then go to ICU - normally you are then given your babe - once delivered and like I said you focus on them while they are stitching you up.

From someone who has never been in hospital before and never had anything very serious wrong with them - I really was surprised how well it went and how I coped with all the things I did not want. Especially after being told there was no reason why I could not have dd vaginally!!!

After stitching me up they gave me a painkiller pessary thingy and sent me off to recovery. Was wheeled down to see dd later in the afternoon and was up and about albeit a bit tender the next day. The scar is right down near your pubic bone - so no scar showing over bikini bottoms ( like I wear those ) They offer you all sorts of pain relief post surgery - take it if you need it. I did not have mich - just some at night to help me sleep... My tummy was tender but not painful... figured it was easier to listen to my body and not over do it.

I guess too for me - she had to be born that day and so I realised that no matter what I wanted in terms of delivery - I wanted to see my babe and what was best for her - whatever that may be.

If you want to ask me anything else - feel free to CAT me.

Hi everyone.

Well, I am feeling a lot happier today, and yesterday. I went out with a friend Wed night and had a chat with her which helped. She listens to what Ihave to say when I feel down, rather than DH who just says 'well, we all feel like that sometimes' - like that is going to help!

Collision - that is a funny story! I want to avoid as many internals as possible and I really hate them so prob wouldn't have let her.

Eidsvold - thanks for sharing your c-section story. It has made me feel better. I know if I need it I will just have to get on with it, but I kinda have to build it up in my head so that anything that happens isn't quite as bad as I imagined it to be iyswim! I am worried about afterwards tho - not being able to drive, pick DD up etc. It'll be really hard.

Off to Jo Jingles with DD now so hope you are all well.

x

Hi Bunny, glad you;re ok mate! Just like to cathc up with you now and again. I can;t wait to see your birth announcement! How weird it all is now after everything we've been through. Georgina is 8 weeks now and getting a little porker! She's a good girl and sleeps well at night but not much in the day so I don;t get much done but you can't have it all. Things are SO much better second time. It;s amazing how much patience you have too after all that's happened. I'm so grateful! Hxxx

Quacks, how good to hear from you, I am glad you are enjoying it so much second time around. Bxx

Well, I had a bit of a scare yesterday - never calm in the Bunny house for long. I woke up yesterday morning with really sore Braxton Hx and couldnt get back to sleep, then I was shopping in Sainsburys and the pain got so bad I doubled up. Things just didnt feel right and sure enough, I went for a pee and was bleeding - I screamed for dh and we rushed off to hospital with me sobbing. It was bloody awful. Anyway I got back home 7 hours later after lots of monitoring and an internal - yuk - I was still bleeding lightly but the doctor thought all was fine and prescribed a days bed rest. It really shook me and I am still a bit upset by it, it gave me a real scare. The sooner this baby comes out the better.

Hope all is going better for everyone else.

Bunny, how frightenening for you. I'm so sorry you have had yet another scarey day. It's just unbelievable how much you have got to go through. How are you feeling now? Has the bleeding stopped? I'll be thinking if you this last few weeks, I really will. Once I know you have delivered I'll be happy. I spent the last few weeks very aggitated, but sure enough she came through everything. Hugs{{{{}}}}

Bunny sorry to hear that - hope all is okay now? How long til babe is due?

Snuck in while dh has taken ds to school - I like this prescribed bed rest! All is fine now thanks Quacks and Eidsvold . I have 7 weeks to go but I think if I do bleed again I might ask to be induced sooner, I just dont trust my body to get this baby to full term.

Oh bunny. Thinking about you after your scare. Have a word with the midwife about the possibility of getting induced early, it would at least put your mind at rest that you have another option. You should wait til at least the last month tho - so you take care of yourself and try not to do too much.

Hugs to all, hope you are all doing ok

Bunny - sounds very scary. I really hope things go according to plan from now on. Makes me feel bad about whinging about the dull aches and pains I get.. you always forget there are people out there having a worse time than you!! Enjoy your rest - you deserve it!

bunny sos orry to hear about your scare, like the others said enjoy your rest, I really hope everything will be ok!