sleeplessness, toothache, hip pain - the joys of being due August 2007 !!

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Now that's all out of the way in the thread title we've all got to head down the "things can and will only get better now" ok?? All ailments stop and nothing but good things will befall us all.

Right.

me too bananbump - although think it had more to do with being totally knackered from bad sleeps other nights - and also no visitors for one night at least (they come back tonight).

its our wedding anniversary too, so dh and i had a nice breakfast together in the peace and quiet while it lasts.

tried raspberry leaf tea last night - thought i'd just have a cup a day for maybe a week and then have more from next week. left the tea bag in for a good 10 -15 mins to let it stew properly, and i thought it was quite nice but then i like fruit tea normally so suppose it might not be nice if you werent used to that sort of tea.

Hello everyone - nice shiney new thread!

Got the packer in for the move today - moving tomorrow! Didn't sleep at all last night as kept thinking of things I need to do - have a list by my bed to write it all on!

Have had to quickly get on computer before it's packed to check the address of holiday cottage for Saturday - all I know is that it's near lands end!

Was dd 4th birthday on sunday - had a small party. DH had one job - to get her present (which he forgot to do!) so spent morning of birthday trying to find a red scooter as requested!

Seem to have had a huge growth spurt in bump - Kite you're the same date as me - have you had one too?

Well better get back to cleaning bathroom - my biggest challenge today is to get into the shower to clean the door - it's a real squeeze!

Took me ages to work through messages. Thanks to bananabump and kiteflying for advice about SPD. Went to see Muse at Wembley on Sat and involved lots of walking for the tube etc. Seems to have made SPD worse but I'm just going to have to keep going. I might go and see my chiropractor or see if she has any advice or can recommend an osteopath.

It was nice when people gave up their seats on the underground though - reafirmed my faith in grumpy londoners!

Hi Everyone,

Well I indulged in the cheesecake on the weekend which cheered me up and I am working from home all this week which is making things alot easier.

Bananabump - I know what you mean about the dentist I have an appointment in a few weeks time and I'm taking DS1 with me so need to put on a brave face but it took me upto nearly a year after DS1 was born to sort out a filing that I needed - In the end I managed to tell myself if I'd survived childbirth, the tear and stitching I could manage a small filing !!!!!

Conkertree - congrats on your wedding anniversary - my friend gave birth to thier first child on thier first wedding anniversary on Saturday not bad timing - her waters broke 10 mins after finishing work on Friday

Jem so sorry to hear that very sad news

Hi All

I like the new thread, and have to agree with the ailments

Can I ad- Swollen legs and ankles, back pain and lack of room between bump and bra causing major bra uncomfort.

Not very positive is it, so I'll ad
setting up nursery, buying cute pants, and putting away all the little wondersuits and singlets.

Just need to think about that bag now.

loler- good luck with the move, can be stressful to say the least, but holiday sounds well timed.

bananabump LOL at birth plan, but sadly sounds about right, my last was like that and now can't imagine a natural, painfree and procedure less labour

Jem that's very sad news, even if you don't 'know' her hard not to affect you

Well, I was going to work from home today - sent DS into nursery with a couple of midgy bites - they've sent him home saying he has chicken pox!

So I spent 3/4hr on worlds least comfy seats waiting to see Doc. Saw Nurse who doesn't think its the pox, but wasn't sure.

then spent 1/2 hr in chemis waiting for canesten prescription. At one point the pharmacist shouted at me "what are you waiting for?" Lucky it wasn't viagra really?!!

At least the weather is nice, so my washing is on the line, boy in bed asleep (refused pasta and sauce for lunch) can chill abit. if it is the pox the i won't be back in work b4 mat leave starts!!!! hurrah!

Oh growing....anothing smashing day eh love?

Mine's going marvellously too. In the middle of trying to book christmas and summer parties for 250 and get the budget signed off by the CEO, organise God only knows how many hundreds of people to Polo in Windsor on Sunday, now and again trying to get some of my actual real work done whilst being soooo uncomfortable due to Peanut's virtuoso Patrick Moore impression of playing my ribs as a xylophone at the same time as playing basketball with my bladder....

Am a fat bird - get me out of here.

Oh TT - it can only get better. boy refused to sleep - had a few mouthfuls of cold pasta, and asked for a wee. then refused rest of pasta and is back in bed!

up side - my V Veins are finally improving - I did see a thread a while ago which said they get beter around 34 weeks.... my bump now sits on the top of my thighs when I am sitting down -a wierd sensation and allI can feel of the LO is a big bony lump right at the top of the bump - which i can only presume is her backside!!

Hello everyone - lovely, shiny new thread. Sorry there is so much misery about. Are we really getting to the fed up stage already? Growingbagpuss, I hope your boy is not poorly. Last thing you need right now.

Loler, yes, I think I am going through a growth spurt stage with bubby. Am very tired and have lost weight AGAIN even though I am noticeably bigger. I seem to be losing a kilo a week. And really I do eat, and have upped all my dairy foods in the last few weeks (I never ate dairy before getting pregnant but calcium tablets make me heave).

Jem, that is such sad news, but please don't let it turn into an anxiety attack for you. It is hard not to be scared by SIDS stories but you have to believe in your own little baby.

Agree we should put down our hospitals in our stats thread. Has anyone done this yet? I was starting to regret my choice but then the MRSA headlines came out again yesterday to remind me why my DP and I were so freaked out by the ancientness of the maternity wards (especially the Whittington) we saw before we chose the Royal Free.

Funbun glad you have taken some action on your SPD. Would have been great to see Muse and I hear Wembley is a fab venue now.

Conker - congrats on your wedding anniversary. Looking forward to having one of those some day

I had a scary moment or five yesterday when my application to use up some annual leave in August ahead of my departure date was refused. Because too many senior people were out of the office at the time so no more leave to be approved etc etc. I pointed out tactfully that as I would be on the brink of going on maternity leave (i.e 37 and 38 weeks pregnant!) I was hardly going to be stepping up to take over someone else's workload at that point so my absence was unlikely to make the smallest difference. It took ALL DAY for the powers that be to get back to me with a grudging approval.

Needless to say I was shattered by the time I got home. Unwelcome levels of stress coursing through my system ready to have to fight.

Hi all! Nice to come back to a new thread. Took yesterday off as a holiday which was nice but seem to be having similar problems to the rest of you with being unable to sleep and feeling a bit over-emotional (which is probably due to lack of sleep). DH and I went to a large shopping centre on Saturday morning and it was as busy as it gets at Christmas - probably due to the terrible weather. I have to admit I nearly lost the will to live and broke down in tears as soon as we got back to the car .

On a better note, I took myself off for a nice swim yesterday which made me feel tonnes better and I felt I was doing something positive for LO.

We went shopping for baby stuff at the weekend too which was really nice, so we've got pretty much everything now. (I'm sure I'll still find loads of things I "need" to buy though!!)

How are you doing today Jem? It's very difficult hearing news like that at this stage. I hope you're feeling a bit better and focusing on your own little kicker!

Kite at your work for putting you through that stress yesterday. Glad it's sorted now though.

Hi all,

Jem what a sad story. I burst into tears when I read it , i do that all the time now if i read something in the paper about someone losing a pregnancy or other sad story. I think it just hits home more now. I think what others have said about focusing on the positive is good advice.

Also when I feel really fed up I remind myself how lucky I am to be in this position and that every extra week in the womb is just giving the LO the best possible start in life. I worked on a project about premature babies a couple of years ago and a friend of mine had a little girl at 23 weeks which was really tough. When you're feeling really crap just imagine those tiny lungs getting stronger every day and the skin getting tougher etc etc. We're all actually at a really good stage just now in terms of baby's health.

Hope I don't seem too preachy. I don't really enjoy being pregnant at all ( i think this whole glowing thing is an urban myth) but I find it helps to think of the good things to put things in perspective.

Babyloves, thanks. I just think to myself when this sort of caper goes on...in ten weeks time I will have a little baby and none of this will matter to me.

Hello ladies - found you on the new thread.

Had a lovely weekend in Spain with my Mum - weather was very hot 32-34 degrees in the shade, so we spend most of the afternoons in the pool which is still nice and cool.

had midwife appt this morning and everything fine although I don't think bump appreciates being proded and poked and measured as it now aches quite uncomfortably.

On returning to the office this lunchtime I found that all our chairs have been switched around thanks to the dickheads who cleaned the carpets and now I have lost my lovely chair set exactly as I like it - been trying to get this new one the same but after trying for 15 mins I got so upset and frustrated that i sat and cried at my desk - preganancy hormones have so much to answer for. But now an hour later I have backache and I feel like killing someone.

The effect of my chilled weekend has already gone completely out of the window.

Hi Hersetta - welcome back. Maybe for fun you should get everyone in your office to play musical chairs with you until your own chair coms back? Might at least lift your mood to have some fun with a crap situation.
I am bringing my ball in later in the week. Hate sitting at this chair and cannot keep finding excuses to leave my office for a walk every half hour to ease the pain.

Very envious of your lazing in the pool in lovely weather.

I couldn't work out how to add hospitals to our stats thread without wrecking it [stupid sheepish face]

That's what we normally do Kite but they were cleaned over the weekend so everyone did that on Monday morning and so I am now stuck with this chair as everyone either has their own chairs back or have altered the ones they now have to their specification. Why they couldn't leave my cardigan that I had on the back of my chair alone instead of throwing it on my desk I don't know.

JSer - I think that's a valid point - even with all our aches and pains, our little peanuts, LO's whatever are gettting better and better cooked - I have a work colleague who had a 25weeker, and I thanked my lucky stars each time we past another milestone of weeks.

Afternoon everyone- I am feeling better this afternoon thanks. Sounds awful but have tried not to think about my sister's friend too much. Have also decided not to use the baby clothes she gave me (only a week before it happened), because it feels a bit wrong, for her sake I mean, not because I am superstitious. It's just all been a bit much as my grandfather and uncle died in April and then one of DH's best friends in a hospice on his last legs as well.
Anyway- onwards and upwards...
Got a good nights sleep last night after a good deal of wriggling around from the LO. DH was very excited and started reciting welsh poetry to it . Work has also eased off after a hellish week or so so hopefully I can spend the next 3 weeks handing over, winding down etc.
Next week I will start to get organised as will be 32 weeks and start my NCT classes. At 32 weeks I think I should be starting my 'massaging' and switching from the 'pregnancy relaxation' CD to the 'birth preparation' eek! Better look into this raspberry leaf tea as well. TT- I will reread your advice..
Off to the South of France for a long weekend for a wedding this weekend so that will be nice.
Talking of which (and apologies for this rambling thread), we have been invited to a wedding when I am 37 weeks. It will entail a 5+ hour drive so I've decided i'm not going to go even though it looks lovely. Not many people I know will be there so don't feel I'm missing out, but do you think I should be worried that DH is going so far 3 weeks before my due date. It's a good friend of ours so I want him to go but I'm sure he wouldn't if I asked him not too.

i was just saying to purplerabbit earlier that i might bring my ball in to work kiteflying - but really dont know what my bosses would say - i am in my own office so they might not notice for a bit, but they are older men, so dont think they'd really get it.

but then i wouldnt have it at home, so not sure if i will or not.

watched the rest of the birthing dvd last night - it really is priceless - the midwife is full of these little tips for life - one being to drop your shoulders as the first thing in all stressful situations - so maybe we should all do that just now.

sorry jem - posts crossed. sounds like you are doing the most sensible thing as it wont help anyone to get too upset about things - i think i'd be the same with the clothes too.

hope your wee holiday is relaxing and cheers you up.

Good advice - it does help!

Jem -oh bugger, forgotten what i was going to say.........

Jem -I remembered..!! - Its a tough call on the wedding thing. My DH is going to Holland on the 29th June - 4 and a bit weeks b4 my due date - not hugely impressed, but the compromise is that he's more likley to back out of "regular" commitments (like rowing and the pub) when I get nearer the due date.

Do you have other people around you can use as support if you did go into labour? chances are he'd get back ok (unless you are really darn lucky and have an ultra ultra fast labour ?!?) - perhaps you could politely suggest that he doesn't drink?!

Hey all, so sorry to hear your news Jem but glad you're thinking about the good things happening for you a bit more today.
Am miserable and grumpy today and feckin' uncomfortable so think I might not stay 'til too late today.
Gotta tell you this though - hippobirthing last night. Covered perineal massage..... "Blah blah and then men, you want to be using your index and second fingers, up to the second knuckle inside and then pressing on the muscles around blah blah"
Yes, OK !!! It's all in the book, we've read it, it doesn't need you going on and on about it OK ???

Hippobirthing sounds fun - probably quite apt right now aswell - I am wondering what I am giving birth to......