Due in July- The Winners Enclosure!!

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Caroline- took your title to follow on the horsey theme!!

No idea what I'm having. Wanted to find out but DH didn't and as it meant we'd have had to pay for a private scan we didn't bother.
What about you?

Groveregg - Sorry to hear about your DS and now your contractions. Lets hope this is the start of something nice and quick and easy for you!

Tiggsy - My Mum comes to my appts with me but I dont mind. She tends to remember things that I forget (which happens more and more often these days!)
sorry to hear LO is cramped but excellent news that you now know your babies birthday!

Jennster - glad you found it!

Dumbledorf - Good luck with the sweep! Keeping it all crossed for you.

Typhoonsmum - Like your theory on the kettle!
The HD isnt worth it yet, the only decent thing they show on it is football and how decent can that be!?

Well my day turned out okay. Saw my cousin (who I havent seen for nearly 9 years!) But my dog managed to squeeze himself through a hole in the fence while chasing a fox and we had trouble getting him back...picture me, almost 39 weeks pregnant on my hands on knees under some thick bushes with my head through a fence trying to entice the dog back! not a pretty sight! When he did come back he was so covered in mud I had to shower him again...thats two showers for him so far this week!

Going for a sit down now, I think I deserve it!

OK I'm bored of being pregnant now and have decided that whether the house is ready or not, I AM ready!!! Just don't want to go down the whole sweep thing (booked for Mon) or, worse, induction!!!

Think my woes sound small compared to groveregg.

Tiggsy - congratulations if that's the right word (!) How nice it must be to know for sure that LO will be on a certain day and not having to push your insides out!

Went for quick visit to shops and park this morning with dd who decided on having a complete strop, resulting in me carrying her, bags, her toy buggy and with her screaming, kicking adn snotty nosed!! Seemed to have a few symapathetic glances from other shoppers. Can't wait till her dad is on paternity leave. A newborn baby is looking like a breeze when compared to a short tempered 2 and a half year old!!

I'm getting to the stage where I would be prepared to squeeze this baby out of my left nostril if it meant I could have it today!

Anyone else feel like that?

Keiralou - Sorry to hear your DD had a strop! Sounds like you coped okay though, well done!

myfairone, totally agree with you. This is the pits!! Congraulations all you girls who've had lo by now. Well done. There can't be many of us left now! I've been avoiding everyone, sorry. Just getting so down about the waiting. Cried for ages in bed last night. DH very supportive and understanding. It's not that I'm desperate to meet the baby and for the excitement of sleepless nights, it's number three for goodness sake, i'm just so sore and tired a big and i can't look after my dd and ds properly because i can hardly walk the length of my self. I can't take them out, i can't drive (too dizzy), can't walk far (symphasis pubis) and ds has a plaster on for a broken arm! Feeling guilty that they are having a crappy time and feeling guilty that I'm not more excited about the baby. WOuldn't say this to anyone else. DOes anyone else understand? I've just had enough.
It's taking the joy out of the lo arriving. not that that seems imminent! i feel like it's never coming!
sorry. such a depresing post amonghst all this happy news.
xB

well another one bites the dust!!

at not being pregnant anymore
{sad] at being a fat lump now and having 2 weddings to go to in 2 weeks time!!

Well, last Saturday I woke up with a wet sensation and kept going to the toilet - I thought my blasdder had totally given up the ghost. Slowly, it dawned on me that my waters might have broken. Phoned the hospital who said I should come in and if it was my waters I had to stay. Well, still hadnt packed!! Then dh and I had to decide how to organise childcare - it was 4am - my mum lives an hour away and his mum couldnt lift DS out of his bed so as I had no contractions I drove myself to the hospital and then Dh came later. Turned out it was my waters only next time they had turned yellow and then green, which meant that by whatever means the baby had to come out that day. The consultant checked me internally and I was very unfavourable but he was really laid back and knew I really wanted a vbac so he put me on the drip for three hours and siad hed be back and if there was no change then the baby would be out by lunchtime. I couldnt believe it - after yapping about wanting the baby I couldnt really believe I was going to really meet her!! Three hours later and no change so it had to be a section. I was deadly disappointed but the fluid was still bright green so out she had to come!! 2 hours later, out she came - my beautiful little girl - 8lb 5oz and a teeny tiny (compared to my other 2) 48 cm. We're calling her Clare Rachel. I asked the dr if my husband could watch her coming out and he offered to let him cut the cord, which he did. He said it was exactly like watching a cow being operated on (he's a farmer!!) O yes, she was born on teh 14th July, 9 days early.

So now we're home and she's bfing well, waking every 3 hours or so, and such a wee dote.

Thanks for all the well wishes about my back & neck, thankfully today it seems a lot better, I don't have to psyche myself up to move anymore.
Now for a TMI alert, all yesterday and more so today I've felt like I've been leaking. It's not a huge amount and I've put a pad on but it doesn't smell of anything. I can't decide whether it's my waters, or whether because of my chair acrobatics my pelvic floor muscle has decided to give up completely. My stomach is very sore, so I could have strained something... or it could be the start. I've not had any contractions though. I suspect it's my pelvic floor that's given up the ghost.

Today is my due date so maybe I'll be the first one to give birth on the day they were supposed to.

Dumbledorf - I'm having those irrational thoughts too All this talk of tummy tightening, and BH, and I've not had any. I keep thinking, "am I really pregnant"... Then I notice the huge belly, which moves of it's own accord.

oops... just read whompingwillowinthedewmeadow post about how you labour started with you thinking your bladder had given up the ghost... hmmm what to do...

Thanks girls. virtual hugs to all. xxxx can't be long now.x
congrats womping!! lovely name. well done

Evening all. Hope all the leaking stops and babies start appearing soon. Big hugs to all especially those with stroppy toddlers. Luckily dd has been at nursery the last couple of days and been a little angel for the few hours I see her before bed. Not looking forward to Monday and Tuesday if still pregnant though.....

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Congrats to you and your family dewmeadow. Hope everything continues to go well for you....

Bilblio - do you have any more news on your, ahem, body fluids??!

Well am up early again (2nd time this week) as dd decided to wake up at 3.15. I ended up getting in to bed with her to get her off to sleep then couldn't sleep myself (hungry, thinking about what to write in my birth plan etc) so have been awake since then... Have arranged that mil will have dd for the day today - I'm exhausted, swollen, achy and need some time to myself. Being pg is completely different 2nd time round...

Sorry, feel like I'm always moaning

oohh... good luck kyte & hubbie! congrats whomping
feels a bit eerie here this morning, swear i just saw a tumbleweed go across the screen...

Beyonceen - No-one ever said that you had to be upbeat and full of the joys of pregnancy the entire time. You have every right to feel what you feel. It cant be easy looking after other children while pregnant.I am finding it hard enough and all I'm doing it looking after a dog! All will be well in the end. Don't be so hard on yourself...okay?

Willow - Sorry you had to have a c-section but at least you got your little one out safely! I am so happy for you and she sounds adorable. Congratulations and at driving yourself to hospital!

Mr Kyte - Well done for making the post amongst all the scary pregnant women!
Keeping it all crossed for Kyte and sending over huge 'good labour' vibes...how exciting!!!!

Tiggsy - I hear that! Weather here is nasty today and I have very little to do. Dh has asked if I can pop it out today! I feel like its never going to happen now! Get tons of BH late at night but in the day just feel heavy and uncomfortable and oh, not forgetting fat and tired!!!!

Actually feel very upbeat today for some bizarre reason. I think hysteria is setting in! I mean, its not like I had sleep last night!

Stupid Question Time

Can you not realise your waters had broken? Hypothetically now.

What if you have a small bump that was mainly baby and not a lot of water. There would never be a gush just a trickle. What if you get small leaks of fluid that you presume are you bladder slowly giving up and ignore it and it actually is your waters and then say you don't get contractions. Can that happen?

Or am I just being irrational and pregnant!

ooh great news Kyte, will watch with interest!

Well yesterday we thought was The Day - I started getting contractions very low down in my groin rather than round my bump, coupled with back "pressure" (I won't say pain, but then I'm one of those bizarre people who don't feel much pain ) - just how labour started with ds. Contractions coming every 20 mins from about 7pm ... then it all stopped! This is exactly what happened when I went into labour with ds, almost exactly two years ago - in the end I had five evenings/nights of this before I went into labour properly! So it may not be long, but then again ... Argh I hate this bit!!

typhoonsmum, my waters tend to go right at the end of the second stage (just before the baby's head is delivered) so I'm afraid I can't answer your question!

typhoon- not a stupid question, not sure i'd know to be honest unless it was niagra like! scroll back down and whomping didn't realise. you must ring mw if you're worried

Not really worried just wondering if it could happen. I'm not happy unless I have something to panicn over.

Kyte - I am soooo excited for you! And love that we have another live birth thread here. Glad to hear that they are not too painful at the moment and thanks for the tip on the leaking fluid/mucous. What are you doing with yourself? I imagine this is a hard time to concentrate on just about anything!

Typhoonsmum - Bizarrely I think I can answer your question (first timer here but heard this on a baby program)....it told the story of a lady who didnt realise her waters had broken. For a couple of days she was just getting a constant but very light trickle (thinking that she was just peeing herself occasionally)...coupled with what she thought were BH (but not too painful) she was actually going through early stages of labour without realising. So when the strong contractions actually started she thought that she was just one of the lucky ones who didnt have to worry about all the long waiting, but had infact been in labour for a lot longer than she realised.

When she got to later stages the hind waters just burst out but were initially prevented from breaking like that because of the bub!

Hope that wasnt too long winded...sorry!