Due in June - Prostaglandin Smoothie Anyone??!!

[hollyandalice]

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Yep wc! I am getting more and more fed up everyday. I think mainly because I haven't got the energy to play with my poor dd properly! She has spent the past week watching cbeebies!

I am getting rather fed up too.

Whilst I am pleased that I am clearly very comfortable, I want it out now

WOW! WELL DONE DERLOR!!!! THAT IS FANTASTIC!!! AND HELLO ABBIE!!!

Good news Trace and good luck for Monday, will be thinking of you while I am having my sweep on mon in prep for my induction on Thu. You mentioned lack of water Trace, that was something they threw into my ever stressful mix yesterday, they said my waters were pretty low with a max pool depth of 3.4cm, 3cm being the 'normal' limit.

Happy 37 weeks to us Foxy!!! Very of your homebirth!

Congratulations derlor and welcome Abbie! And a labour worth waiting for too (I want one of those... shall we give derlor the award for shortest labour now?)

I am fed up too. Have even given in and done the deed - not baby yet. How long does it take to have an effect?! Am waiting for MW to check my Bp and it feels like one of those days I could really embrace resting wholeheartedly (except for next-doors dog whining).
I managed to get all the toys put away last night and the little buggers have trashed the place already (in an hour before school) before I even had chance to hoover. Bloody kids!

Just popping over from the due july thread..

A huge congratulations to all those who have had their darling babies.. and lots of positive labour vibes for thosed of you still to go..

I am getting really impatient now.. can imagine how some of you are feeling..

( I was a Oct 96 mummy and a June 04 mummy too..)

Lots of positive vibes..xxxxxxx and good luck..xxxxx

do you think babies are like moths? perhaps I can shine a torch up there.

40+5 sucks

Come out baby, be guided by the light!! Maybe express some milk and wave that around, that might tempt the norty little blighter out!

Glad you are well SFL and it's brilliant you have been able to go to term. Fingers crossed you will go into labour on your own before being induced xxx

I'm going mad, it's official! I just put my pjs in the kitchen cupboard instead of the washing machine! Doh!

LOL Holly! That is a bit daft! Still, we are all extremely capable of being the same with our hormones raging!!!

I am extremely fed up now, apart from the obvious stress of constantly at the hospital I can't take the lack of sleep and uncomfortableness anymore!!!! I am so fed up of waking up virtually every 45 mins through the night!!! gahhhh!!!!

Morning everyone!

WELL DONE DELOR

How brill is that? 1 hr? I sooo want one like that!
I don't care if I don't get th the hospital in time - I'm gettin so desp now - I'll happily deliver it myself! Just me - now - in my office - with the dog!! COME ON BABY!!!!

I'm not even 40 weeks yet - so I shouldn't be making such a fuss.
Those of you who are 40+ weeks you must be vv fed up. If I was a rl friend (not a virtual one) I would come round and make you some lunch, look after your kids (if you have any) tidy your house, give you a back rub, pedicure etc etc - and gererally try and make you feel a bit better! So I'm sending all those vibes now!!!!

We are all nearly there now tho! And we seem to be getting some baby action quite regularly now - so thats good - lets keep it coming!

Aw thankyou DKMA
I live hours away from friends and family, all I have is the bloody dog and all he does is insist on getting covered in mud and trampling it through the house, some TLC even if only virtual is much appreciated!
Holly, at least your PJ's will be 'lemon fresh'

oops you said kitchen cupboard, going mad, I thought you said dishwasher! O well!

I've just cried for 15 minutes because DH kindly pointed out that I finally have stretch marks on my belly. Now having a complete existential crisis about how I am 26 and never going to look the same again. Boobs are ruined, stretchmarks on my belly, which will never be flat again, hell, even my damn fanjo is never going to be the same again. V upset. Irrationally I know, and there are more important things to worry about, but I just feel like I have passed my physical peak and will never be the same again. It's not like I was that fantastic in the first place, but I wish I had appreciated my body a bit more.

Did the rest of you get this the first time around? Or am I the only vain bint?

What a lovely thought DKMA! Aren't you a sweetie?

A friend of mine turned up with a cottage pie and offered to change my bedding after DD was born. Never forgotten it, very thoughtful of her.

So if you make an appointment with a MW a month before when they only have 2 people to see then, how come you suddenly aren't important enough to be seen on the day you are expecting them? How do they prioritise? They offered me the home-visit, then tell me they can't stop and can only drop my bag in. Can I go to them? Having been up all night, no car, no double buggy (DS2 too ill to walk, plus its a 15 min walk to the surgery, heavily pg pushing a total of 6 stone of small children). No, quite frankly I can't. You can come to me.

Expecting them any time now

Bumper

I am so vain that I check myself thoroughly about 3 times a day for stretchmarks. But don't fret - you can get light therapy treatment which is supposed to be very good at fading them / getting rid of them if you feel you want to afterwards!

I would be reacting in exactly the same way as you - and am fully expecting it to happen over the next few days cos I feel like my skin just has no more give!

Don't worry.

Bumper - wear them as a badge of honour. Your body is doing something amazing, of course its never going to be the same. You're going to push a baby out through your pelvis. How weird is that???

Because you are so young, your body will probably bounce back first time and you'll get to something of a normal shape fairly quickly. They do fade.

As for us poor old dears on numbers 3 or 4 ...

Failing that, part of the Debenhams In-store Clarins promotion offers a stretch-mark cream and Bio-oil is good too!

Don't cry honey, its OK.

Alas I had my dd at 23! I have stretchmarks from the tops of the boobs to my knees. They are bright purple and never faded. I now have more on top of them. I have tried loads of creams and none of them work. I have tried fake tans and they just make them show up more strongly. I hate them with a passion and feel like an old woman! Dp calls them alice marks and says they are special coz alice made them, but that somehow doesn't make me feel better! At the end of the day though I'd rather have stretchmarks and my babies than nice skin and no babies!!

Sorry, that prob doesn't make anyone feel better, but I know what you are going through and it is awful! ((HUGS))

Hey Bumper,
I know how you feel. My body has gone to pot. My stretch marks are so bad I look like I have been whipped, they are on my boobs, belly, bum, thighs...
Plus early on in this PG I got a rash on my face that was caused by the hormone imbalance which took 4 months to heal and has left the area around my nose looking like I am a burns victim.

I was never a supermodel but I was ok. I don't think I can now ever wear a bikini again and for 4 months I refused to go out except to the doctors because of my face.

I am trying to be positive and reassure myself that in time it will all fade, and ok, my body will never be the same but neither will my life and I have something very special to show for it. You aren't alone, I promise you.

Fuck, fuck, fuck, something just happened to my left hip. It went crack and now I can't walk, AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEE!!! It hurts! Why can't this bloody baby come out, I want to stop aching!

If it helps bumper I have had stretchmarks since I was at school as I used to be stick thin, then had my tonsils taken out and rapidly became bigger! They used to be horrible massive purple ones on my thighs and hips, the baby ones by comparison are pale and almost bearable! They do fade to an odd shinyness too. But that's not abig consolation now I suppose!

I have to confess to having been on the slimming world thread this morning, to find somewhere else to pour out my woes when we are all PN and too busy to chat all the time. We will have a PN thread won't we? I'll be lonely without you!

CONGRATULATIONS DERLOR!! and welcome to the world Abbie!!
Wow!! Perhaps she o/d on raspberry leaf tea!!

Felt quite miserable this week and havent wanted to see any one (is it just me??) also cant be bothered to do ANYTHING - BTW whats nesting????!!

Am 37 weeks today also - cant quite believe it. Am I too late to say that I think I want a little tiny baby - but I don't want a child!!

TA, never a supermodel? you've a bloody headstart on me - just checked you out on your profile!

Of course we'll have a PN thread (as long as I don't desert you all for July, of course!). And I'll be on the slimming threads asap. Am determined not to do as I've done before and pile on the pounds AFTER pregnancy due to my remedy for exhaustion - cake!

JBM - I have given up nesting (I will give you all a short while to recover). I am also miserable and don't want to see anyone and wouldn't leave the house at all if it wasn't that my boys expect to see their GPs daily so someone is actually nice to them!

I am 38+ and DH has pointed out that the boys had both arrived by now. That does not help. I don't want to go into labour anywhere but home, preferably by myself so I can deal with it myself. How silly is that?

JBM, am too experiencing minimum effort in life this week, hence kids eating lunch infront of cbeebies right now

I'm a bit of the opposite - I am already looking forward to this baby being 2, when life reverts to something along the lines of 'normal'. I find babydom quite hard going, much as I love their tiny form, it just makes me feel yuk.