Due Oct 2007 - This little Piggy had a section, this little piggy stayed at home!

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Ok... this is scary.... never started a thread in ante-natal before! Please come and join me ladies, it's lonely here!

Good Evening Ladies!

I havent actually posted on this edition of the 'Due October' thread yet, but have continued to lurk avidly... as usual.

Just a quick post to say that I HAD MY BABY BOY THIS MORNING at 09:54. In labour for an hour and a half, though very quickly progressed from "oooh" to "OUCH!" and baby weighed 7lbs and 3ozs. He is truly a joyful edition to our family. DD cut the cord and was over the moon and very protective of her new 'big sister' status.

Want to wish everyone here all the very, very best for the remainder of your pregancies and beyond.

So I guess i'll officially have to start lurking on the born Sept post-natal threads from now on. Best wishes and hugs to you all. x

congrats mona wow another baby already. Lucky you with such a quick birth. Glad your all well.
L

wow Mona! congratulations, thats great news!! glad all is well

hi all, not posted today as i don't feel great(for a change!) and didn't want to moan.

if any of you are bored, you could maybe help me out with this

love and hugs to everyone

I really can't keep up with the comings and goings, ups and downs on this thread... floria and buffy hope you are both ok.. and anyone else having a rough time.

...Big congratulations Monalisa! October babies seem to be coming fast and furious in September.

Am going to attempt to sleep in a bit - but my sleep patterns are crazy at the minute,this weekend I have been having heavy sleeps during day (when dh takes over) and been wide awake at night... ho hum.

Anyone on here doing hypnobirthing, and recommend any tapes/cd's - just wondering if it may help me relax a bit more?

speak anon xx

Monalisa, congratulations!!! How exciting. Have you decided on a name?

Hope you get home soon, Floria - must be horrid in hospital. Have they decided to induce you early, by the way?

Well, another crap night's sleep for me! I do fine until I need to get up for the loo and then that seems to be it - I just can't get back to sleep. In 'What to expect when you're expecting' it says don't drink after 6 pm to avoid that. But I'd never manage on no fluid after 6 pm!

Speaking of bumps, I don't realize that mine's getting bigger and bigger - I keep nearly banging it into things!!! The mirror is a bit scary too.

Hope the rest of you are actually asleep!!

Well I can't sleep either - not since I got up for a wee at 4am. Off to try and sleep again bvut just had to say CONGRATULATIONS to monalisa!!!! Fantastic news! Enjoy spending time with your family over the next few days and look after yourself x

Can't remember what everyone else has said (brain not at its best at 5am!!) but thinking of all of you x

Congratulations mona; what lovely news to wake up to - I say wake up to, I've actually been up since 5.20 courtesy of DS. It was the first day of DH's new job and he was up at 4.45 and then DS decided that he'd had enough of bed too! Hoping this isn't a taste of things to come.

had quite uncomfortable cramps yesterday and they're back again this morning but am pretty sure it's just everything stretching in preperation again. certainly no pattern to them. suddenly getting very real for everyone though isn't it?

hope everyone else is ok - esp those in hospital/uncomfortable/feeling crap. thinking of you all - have a good day.

Good morning again Ladies. Is it morning already? I dont where last night went.

Thank you for all your good wishes. Have decided to name baby Moran, inspired by the American artist, and taken to mean a work of art. And he really is - even if I do say so myself. Am I allowed to brag a little in such circumstances?

Baby is doing really well, Im still so tired and cant sleep as I darent take my eyes off him DP having no such anxieties though and snored as healthily as ever through the night. Now THERE'S a surprise!

Hope you all manage to catch up on sleep and really allow your bodies to rest well. Im still on auto pilot at the moment and will continue to lurk, im still excited to hear how the remaining line up will fare.

Good luck all.
x

Congrats mona! Wow oct ladies are really queue jumping the sept crowd! Hope everyone else is doing ok - sorry have not had chance to read thread.

Just thought I would post to give update on recovery post cs. I am off pain relief totally now, had cut back massively the last few days. I am still feeling tired, energy levels are noehere near normal - but currently have my mum to help and then DH takes off his paternity leave, so will have support til LO is 3 weeks old, by then, will hopefully have more energy.

So if anyone on this thread needs csection due to breech/ whatever just wanted to let you know that there is my positive (plus tons of others) csection stories from the sept thread....

love the name mona, its really nice
try and nap when he does, ooo so excited for you

well, i kept half waking last night thinking my waters had brokrn, but was just sweating a lot! has anyone got a mattress protector on their bed? i think thats whats making me sweat, and if it isn't then does it usually all go on my matress through my normal sheet? eugh!!

anyway, off to take my friend to the vet, well, not her, her cat, then going to stock up on cat litter and long life milk so i don't have to worry about having it in.

have a nice day all

hi Dal

you rest as much as possible too, anyone got any pics of their new arrivals yet?

LES - love the new name, Zach was one on our shortlist before we settled on Ben

FT - Hope you can come home soon and get some REST

Inzidoodle - thanks for comments about my bump I will be joining you on a weight loss thread after this is all over Hope you and DH get everything sorted at home in time

Lisa - hope you managed to get some sleep in the end.

Monalisa - congratulations on the birth of your baby boy and of course you are allowed to brag

Chocolate and alicet - hope you got back to sleep, I finally went to sleep about midnight after being bombarded by mosquitoes and flies in the bedroom, I don't know where they are all coming from, sprayed the rooms with killer stuff but it then took another 20 mins for them to do their last dance of death and I kept getting dive bombed by crazy flies. I also woke up about 6-7 times between midnight and 7am this morning but luckily managed to get back to sleep pretty quickly in between. Had some crazy dreams too, involving lemon drizzle cake and monkeys no less

J20n - hope you have a better day today

Morning everyone,

Congratulation to Mona on the safe arrive of baby Moran.

I am getting to the stage now that I just want to get this little girl out. She is getting so heavy now. I have told DP that rather than just the town, he has to let me know exactly where he is working this week as,if things do start happening I will need to let him know. His parents are in Devon until Thursday/Friday so will be calling on friends and neighbours for DD if I do go into labout this week.

I hope everyone has had a better night last night and you all have a good day.

Morning all.
I had another bad night, i think i must have fallen asleep some time after 2am :9 but kept waking in pain. Got up at 8am
Im feeling "odd" today, just cant put my finger on it. Thing is my hubby pointed out the night our DD was born, I had said i wasnt feeling right .

Im having a friend over for coffee, but my house looks like a bomb site, I have given up cating now, im just too shattered.

I have blocked ear, horrible feeling, so will have to try and get to docs tomorrow

Hope your all well.

L

Morning all

Congratulations Mona!

Big hugs to everyone suffering from late pregnancy - that's everyone then !

I've got to crack on with work this week - suddenly realised that I don't have much time left and need to finish one or two things. Spent weekend largely nesting, which was nice. Dreamt I was in labour, but that's as far as it went.

Nothing exciting to report - just the usual, heartburn, sickness, tired out, aches and pains - I'm feeling a real crock.

Off to buy sandwich to stave off sickness - then must crack on with work.

Before I go - Should I buy one of those healing silver breast pads on the assumption my nipples will split like they did last time or should I save my pennies and wait and see? What d'ya reckon??

Later x

I'd wait and see, but buy some nipple guards from Mothercare at the fraction of the price, at the first sign of your nips hurting start using them

Hi all,
Congratulations Mona!!

Having another emotional day. Ollie was really badly behaved yesterday whilst dh was playing tennis. Kept teling everyone waiting 'I want to go home' then started crying through the presentations of prizes (dh and is lovely partner came last!) He then rufused to eat his dinner and then proceeded to cry/moan for the rest of the time we were there demanding to go home. Everyone was very understanding and we tried our best to ignore Ollie as I though if we went then any time he flet like having a paddy he would expect the same.

I think this all started from when we bought the car seat for Henry on Sat, we also bought a new one for Ollie as his straps on his have broken. I thought this would be a good idea to do both at the same time but now not so sure!

This morning he refused to talk to me but did dh. I really think he is upset I can't so things with his atm, we used to be very active -bike rides, football, dog walks etc and now I can't do those things he seems to really resent it. It's awful as dh and I were talking last night and he thinks that mums kind of separate from no1 child even before no2 is born. I never realised this and are finding it hard.

Anyone got any tips for dealing with no1 when they are starting to get upity about the arrival of no2? I am giving him a bit of slack but don't want to completely change our approach as although it's far from perfect, it's worked okay so far...

He knows he's upset me as he's doing lots of counting (!) and has got his magnetic numbers out and has arranged them 0-10 whilst naming them and counting the pictures accuratley. He knows he's good at numbers and that I love talking about them with him but he goes all silly if I suggets we play numbers together.

SOrry this is another me me me post. DH is coming home as Ollie did a poo (Yippee!) but trod it inot the ensuites carpet then down the stairs and sometimes it's the little things that reall tip you over...

Afternoon all ...

congratulations Mona!

Well, I've been a quiet (on the thread) as we had a majorly busy weekend ... we had the birthday lunch for Rhydian yesterday - he's 5 2 days after my edd, so we wanted to make sure that he got some fuss made of him - so we had his favourite dinner of roast potatoes, yorkshire pudding, roast beef, peas, green beans and orange potatoes (it's mashed root veg - turnip, swede, parnip, carrot, sweet potato - but he loves it - but would refuse it if he knew what was in it ).

We had to dinner my Ps, the PILs, my sister and her boyfriend. The main aim to to make damn sure that PILs knew that they were not invited to stay after the baby is born (they invited themselves to stay for a week after ds was born, and didn't let us get to know our baby!), so we made the following points:

• ds is our main priority after madam is born - we don't want his nose put out of joint any more than necessary.
• ds is to be the first person to visit the new baby ...
• we welcome visits - either in hospital or at home after baby is born - but keep them short, and we're not inviting anybody to stay.
• If we need help, we'll ask for it.

We decided that dh should do the talking as it was really aimed at his Ps - and it would make damn sure that she knew we had discussed this together!

I had prompted my mum (a bit) - she knows how much the PILs (specifically MIL) wind me up - so she and dad were really supportive of everything dh was saying.

Anyway, PILs listened in stony silence. MILs face looked like a slapped arse (sorry, can't think of any other description for it) ... but as my Ps were agreeing with the points dh was making, they obviously felt they couldn't say anything. However, MIL completely blanked me until they went home ... I'm obviously the bad guy in this!

Never mind - at least it's all out in the open now, and if PILs invite themselves to stay again, dh has told me that I'm allowed to tell them to f*&k off!

Hope everybody is coping with discomfort of late pg ... I have an appointment with the acupuncturist in 2 weeks to start me off if I haven't already gone on my own - I don't want to be pressured into even setting a date for an elCS!

Have a good afternoon all, I'm going to crack on with madam's quilt.

Mona - you certainly are allowed to brag about your new arrival! Great name too.

Dal ? great to hear you?re having such a good recovery

Muppet ? sorry you?re having a crap time with Ollie at the mo. If you?re anything like me at the mo the little things really tip you over the edge. Luckily for me Sam seems pretty oblivious to the fact we?re about to have another baby but I am finding it hard to do the things with him that I used to and that I?d like to.

Sorry to everyone else who is feeling generally rubbish ? I certainly am and it?s not fun. Don?t really want Adam to arrive before 2nd Oct but getting very fed up none the less!

muppetgirl - have now read your post properly - I've made sure that I've found things that I can do with ds ... we play snakes and ladders, or do crafty things, or cook. DS also really likes me reading stories to him, and loves cwtching up to me on the sofa.

I've been so immobile for such a long time that it's meant that I've had to come up with strategies early on to make sure that Rhydian doesn't feel left out. It also helps that dh has always been really hands on - and has just become more so.

I have had the question from DS: "Who do you love best, me or daddy?" ... my response (and boy, was I glad I'd read the siblings without rivalry book!): "I love you both in different ways - I especially love the way you give me lots of cuddles." It's not easy trying to balance the needs of the fb with the needs of the lo - and you!

cross posted ejt...

Nice one on stating everything so clearly to your pil's and making it look as though it was aimed at your parents too so they couldn't object!!! As you have put it all so clearly if they go against your wishes they are being totally out of order and wil probably know this too. nice one!