November Mummies - Are We There Yet???!!!!

[choudru]

Here is the shiny new November thread. All clean and ready for our babies.

Here is a link to the last one for reference last thread

And here is the roll-call:

ChocolateHobnob - due 31 Oct, SURPRISE
FCH - due 1 Nov, SURPRISE
Choudru - due 2nd Nov, LITTLE GIRL
Seabiscuit - due 2nd Nov, LITTLE BOY
Dawn2820 - due 3rd Nov, SURPRISE
GeekInPigtails - due 4th Nov, SURPRISE
pinklady 82 - due Nov 4th, LITTLE BOY
Muppetgirl- due 5th Nov, LITTLE BOY
iris66 - due 5 Nov, SURPRISE
Annainnz - due 6th Nov, LITTLE GIRL
Tonysmum - due 6 Nov, SURPRISE
LizzieO - due Nov 7th, SURPRISE
Silkcushion - due 7th Nov, LITTLE GIRL
Mrsj- Ddue 7th Nov, LITLLE GIRL
Pixiefish- due 8th Nov, SECRET
Sparklygothkat-due 8th Nov, LITTLE BOY (next growth scan on the 5th sept)
TheHun - due 8th Nov, SURPRISE
GermanGal - due 9th Nov, scan 27th June
NYKate-due 9th Nov, LITTLE BOY
Aikigypsy -- due 11th Nov, probably-a-girl
Easywriter - due 11th Nov, LITTLE GIRL
Jetgirl - due Nov 11th, SURPRISE
Mimi - due 11 Nov, SECRET
GoodGollyMissMolly - due 12 Nov, SURPRISE
HollygoHeavily - due 14th Nov, SURPRISE
Revelyell- due 15th Nov, LITTLE BOY
ZoKe - due 15th Nov, LITTLE GIRL
Daisy310575 - due 16th Nov, SURPRISE
Mrss2006 - due 17th Nov, scanned 14 May (no more scans)
Muckers - due 19th Now, LITTLE BOY
Sarahloumadam - due 20th Nov, LITTLE BOY
Bearus - due 21st Nov, LITTLE BOY
Kekouan - due 21st Nov, SURPRISE
Fingerbobs - due 22nd Nov, SURPRISE, next scan?? they say 34 wks owing to placenta previa but will be making enormous fuss to get one a bit sooner
Jossiejump-due 23rd Nov, SECRET
Ara - due 24th Nov, SURPRISE
Floanna - due 24th Nov, SURPRISE
JARM - due 26th Nove, LITTLE BOY!!!
RGPargy - due 27 Nov, LITTLE GIRL
Superloopy - due 27th Nov, LITTLE BOY
Nasr - due 27th Nov, SURPRISE
TeaDr1nker - due 28th Nov, SURPRISE
bunnybaby - due 28th Nov - SURPRISE
Nicolatabb - due 28th Nov - LITTLE BOY
Littleoldme - due Nov 28th - LITTLE BOY
Loopymumsy - due 30th Nov, LITTLE GIRL
Absofruitly - due 30th Nov, SURPRISE

lol Lisa.

The obs reg was a very up herself middle aged woman who has started wittering on about a transfusion (the Haematology consultant who I see is 'happy' with my blood atm as it's fairly ok for me although it's very ery low for anybody else)

She's also insisting on fortnightly scans and weekly midwife visits- This is when the obs consultant is happy with the schedule and also the haematologist is happy with the way things are.

I honestly don't know what she expects the midwife to do- thing is i know what the symptoms are if I get worse and tbh I could just hae a chat on the phone with the midwife without wasting everybody's time

Aha, men cooking, Loopsy! 'Cooking', rather.

Pixie, you're so right: what can the midwife do? And if yours is anything like mine, she has madly busy surgeries anyway!

I didn't manage to cook tonight. DH got back - he's been away for a couple of days with work - and we have just had a Chinese. It was yummy.

Tomorrow I have a 6 hour antenatal class and then guests for dinner, so I felt I needed to chill a bit tonight.

Thanks for the info on the waterbirth, Loopsy - that does make sense!

Fiona, sorry you've not been well too.

Silk - how was it today? Been thinking of you.

Hello All - thanks for the messages.

Mixed news - ctg heart tracing of the baby was normal - they have no idea why it was strange yesterday and will now monitor it a bit more frequently.

My BP is still high but apparently not really worringly so yet, the mw is coming to see me at home on Sunday to check again and then I'm seeing her on Tuesday for another check. Urine sample had protein in it this morning and they think I have a urinary tract infection (yet nothing was picked up in yesterday's sample). Wee is being sent away for further tests which will come back on Monday.

I've got 5 days left in work and have left my boss a message saying I will work from local offices but am not doing any travelling as I need to rest more. Think he will be fine with that.

Went from hospital to NCT all day class. Was very good and interesting. DH said he learnt alot (despite having 2 children already). We're both exhausted and look dreadful - he admitted this evening he hadn't slept last night either as he was so worried. Poor DH he's driving down to Devon now to pick his kids up for the weekend. Won't get home til about 10pm and will be shattered.

Am going to be extra specially nice to him for the next 2 days

Also forgot to say Lisa and SGK - fab photos and montage. Don't need much of an excuse to cry and had tears rolling down my cheeks.

Wow! SO much has happenend during my latest 'sorting out the house' induced absence!

SGK - Congratulations sweetie! What a beautiful boy you have. Well done.

I don't really have anything to say, I just wanted to show my face, say hi to everyone and hello to all the newer posters.

Choudru - Can I have a doughnut too please? I'm very interested in the girdle, I think I may invest!

Nearly missed my MW appointment yesterday, she called me as I was in the bank saying 'Hi Easy, it's 10 o'clock!' I was like 'Great, and you're telling me because...?'. Luckily, I wasn't more than a few mintues from home.
All is well but I am in the foulest of moods with DP (who is probably totally innocent, I can't decide). Never before has one man been in so much trouble! Nothing he does is right. I'm taking his 'crimes' with a pinch of salt as I think it may all be related to my hormones!! And to be fair just over an hour ago he got out of bed to make me a cup of tea and a raspberry leaf tea as he noticed I was awake - normal behaviour for him during this pregnancy. It's me being a bad'un isn't it?

Anyway, hope we all continue to hang in there a little longer.
Later ladies!

Morning. I'm complaining again- have started being sick before I go to bed- very odd. I'm fine all day until just before I go to bed or just as I'm lying in bed and then it's throw up city.

Thanks for the advice about what to bring to hospital . I would be so lost without this group!

SLMadam- The rhythmic clicking is prob hiccups. I never put it together until I was monitored with DD1 and a nurse pointed it out. It's funny how often it happens!

Pixiefish- sorry to hear you're feeling ill again. I also have some bouts of nausea now(usually after waking) and it just doesn't seem fair! Hope it's just the baby's position and it changes for the better soon

Oh my!! I have just managed to get over the blubbing from SGK's Montage! Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous.

Please - can anyone tell me the music?

pixie- I have had nausea the past few nights as well just when i get into bed. I have thrown up but have had to sit up and have some deep breaths.

sorry that was meant to say haven't thrown up

Lovely montage Sparkly; showed it to my DD and she was very taken with Callum.

Haven't packed anything for hospital yet, keep thinking I should but just don't seem to get around to it!

Pixie - I'm getting nausea too. Really irritatingly I get it worst when I am on my habds and knees trying to persuade baby to turn around: currently breech and keeps headbutting my ribs!

easy - I think my Dh would sypathise with yours at the mo. I refused to make him his lunch yesterday as he hadn't washed up the night before . he learnt his lesson though and washed up yesterday!

have a good day all x

Hello everyone

CONGRATULATIONS SGK!!! I can't believe it! Well done. Callum's a lovely name - and what a gorgeous family you have.

I have been away scraping and sanding for a couple of weeks in our new house (berrybliss - how are you getting on with yours - sounds like you have a lot to do too! we also have artex everywhere but trying to get a nice plasterer to do us a homer)

Silkcushion - at your story of Mon 24th!! Poor thing - i don't know what i would feel about that---not great really!

TheLady - how funny, I am from Maxton! Live in Edinburgh now though - for another month while we get our new house ready fingers crossed for me everyone!

Everything calmed down with my previous and indignance at poor DP. Turns out he thought i wanted him and him alone to deliver the baby! I laughed out loud at that one - no thanks!! I want someone who knows what they're doing thank you very much!

We had a lovely MW round on Monday who gave me my first anti-d injection (i did it!) and then chatted to us about HB. She thought i was a great candidate and was v encouraging/reassuring and supportive which was great. I finish work at the end of next week -not a moment too soon- and she's going to arrange classes which should calm his shattered nerves a bit!

I have two tiny stretchmarks appearing - one on each side of my belly. truth be told they are just extensions of old ones i already had from when i was a teenager! Been slapping on the bio-oil (ouch expensive) like there's no tomorrow and they seem to have stayed the same for nearly three weeks now.

I have been having nasty heartburn - not great when you're spening a lot of time crouched over sanding the corners of rooms, boo hoo!

Question - is anyone getting leg cramps?? For the first time last night i woke up in complete agony!! Made me cry out this morning! I've never had cramp before but it was like stabbing shooting pains all around my calf muscles - agonising! So assuming that's what it was. Hope that's not going to happen every night, I couldn't stand it - I've only just remedied my v sore bedtime backaches with a massive new pillow two nights ago and along comes something else to disturb my beauty sleep. grr.

Right, must feed the cat and make cup of tea.

Morning all!

Silk - Glad to hear are ok. Just try and relax - you deserve it!

I've finished work - yay!!

LOL Ara - poor DP, no wonder he was kicking off! Glad everything is sorted now, I bet he wouldn't miss it for the world. My DH has also requested that he is not at the "business end" Also cramps are the worst thing ever but try not to point your toes when stretching in bed/bath and when it happens, grab your foot and flex it towards you. This has worked for me so far. I woke DH up one night gasping in pain and he thought I had gone into labour .

LisaD - gorgeous photos!

RG - what a pain re work. Can't you compromise and just work one more week? I was working from home yesterday (didn't get much done to be honest ) and it was bliss not having to get out of bed and do the commute to work, I feel so much better today.

TMI alert - have had my lady garden seen to today! Was v.painful partly because I think you are more sensitive when pregnant and partly because it has been a long time since I have been brave enough to go. The lady (also preggers!) asked me if the final results were ok and I had to say "i have no idea - I can't see over the bump!" Also going ahead with hair cut later but remembering everyone's wise words about still being able to tie it back. Maybe this is my version of nesting?!

Silk - v.frustrating for you, sure everything is fine and they are being over cautious.

Floanna and NYKate re the clicking noise - don't think it is hiccups because I sometimes feel them. This is a distinct one-off click. Maybe its a rogue hiccup!

Hi all, Callum is doing really well. He is tolarating his feeds and is now on 150ml a day. He is still on a heat pad as his temperture is up and down a bit. But he is doing well

Fab news Sparkly - any idea when he will be allowed to come home or is it too early to say (excuse my ignorance)?

Sparkly - great news that Callum is doing so well.

Have got a stinking cold and the pharmacist says I can't have decongesant. The aromatherapy man say I can't use my usual oil - any one got any ideas

Sara LOL at your lady garden story.

Ara - yup sounds like cramp I'm afraid. Try drinking lots of milk as it's often c'os of a lack of calcium.

Easy - LOL at you and your DP. I'm a bit like that with mine at the mo and it is completely undeserved.

Hi all - just finished a serious 4 hour cooking binge for the freezer (I was going to do your cookies Jetgirl but I've flaked so they'll have to wait until tomorrow - which has taken a little something away from my satisfaction I have to say )

re: leg cramps - not sufering myself thankfully - just get twitchy legs which is irritating but not painful. bananas & milk can sometimes help (extra potassium & calcium)

bizarre! - when I posted the last post was 1255! (somnething up with my PC I think - unless anyone else is finding it's taking hours to load MN!)

the doctor said today that he has to be taking at least 50% of his feeds from the breast, before they will allow him home, with a tube in place. But she said a week or so

Well yesterday was horrible, my breasts felt like footballs, am still sore 'down there' due to grazing, was very very tearful and couldn't go and see Callum in the evening as was tired. Feel better today, but breasts are very engorged still, am expressing but there is so much milk.