DUE OCT 07 - .....this little piggy got intimate with a pineapple until all the lo's got home !!!!!!!!!!!

[MrsFish]

For want of a better title, I'll go with Inzi's

Well then, today has all been a bit of a blur for me so far. Dropped ds off at nursery, then went to see mw at 10.30, she did a sweep (wasn't that uncomfortable by the way) and then pronounced that she thought he might still be breech so sent me off straight to hospital for a scan. Got there at 11.30, had scan.... and he is breech because she did me a sweep they don;t want to leave me over the weekend, so I am going in for a cs tomorrow morning 8am my mind is all a whirl, thought I would let you all know, and then I am going to repack my bags now I know what's happening. Will probably be in hospital till monday/tues if there are no problems. So much to sort out and do this afternoon now, must get on, will catch up with you all later, hopefully you will find this thread ok

Hi All

I'm definitely empathising with those of you wishing their LO's would hurry up and come! I've still got a week to go before my due date but I just want it to happen NOW. The thought of going over fills me with dread - not least because the risk of LO arriving on my 30th will be increasing. I'm so selfish!

My DH is also wonderful - he is working long hours, doing and OU course when he gets home and still finding time to do all the chores that I can't manage anymore!

xx

Thanks alice,
will email you then.

The problem with swimming is that it's nice when I am inside the water. But when I get out I feel completely unable to walk for around 10 minutes! I guess it's the contrast between the weightlessness inside and the huge weight I have to carry outside (I confess, I've put on an extraordinary amount of weight).

My legs feel really heavy, even more than they normally do. So that's why I've stopped doing it. It's also possible that being inactive is now making everything worse. I don't know what the solution is. I guess giving birth is the only option!!

How's everyone?

Hi ladies, I'm sneaking on again for a mo. Hope everyone is ok, those with bumps are as comfortable as possible and those with babies are settling into their various routines and enjoying the lo's.
Got to go into hospital tomorrow for clerking (ready for my section on wednesday). It all feels so weird at the moment, can't believe I'll have another baby by this time wednesday! Feeling quite scared about it all as last pg was an emergency section and I was so drugged up I remember nothing about it.
x

Hi all,
Good luck for Wednesday Honormatopoeia - tis my due date but don't know if anything will happen - am living in hope.
Unfortunately I have suddenly developed a cold and feel really cr@p. Haven't had a cold for absolutely ages either *** typical!

How's everyone else holding up?

Let's hope it's soon for us all?

Hi all

Inzi, hello! Poor you. I hope something happens soon, other than headaches (if it helps I'm now getting those too. And I never, ever get headaches).

Muppet, LOL at you not being able to see your feet. I worry about my balance now too. Good luck for tomorrow - sending good vibes.

Honor, enjoy your last pregnant day!! How exciting. Looking forward to hearing the news.

Gemmamc, sorry you've been having a hard time. Fingers crossed lo comes very soon! And hope Alicet will be able to update us.

Dalrymps, I've been lucky too - I'm not due till the end of the month but I still seem to be able to do everything. Well, I did. Yesterday I conked out, came home from work early and just lay on the bed headachey and exhausted and feeling sick. Couldnt sleep at all again last night so suspect today will have a similar outcome. But I hope it doesn't!

Unicorn - maybe your lo WILL come on the due date! Fingers crossed.

Nice to hear from Floria, J20, Alicet! Looking forward to joining you in the postnatal thread.

I have another few days of work. Today am skiving off late morning to meet some people for coffee in town. Tomorrow is midwife again. I'm just tidying up odds and ends, writing references, etc; it isnt hard work. Which is good as I've suddenly become exhausted!
Alicet, I'd love to meet you for coffee next week - and meet Adam!!!

OK, wish me lots of luck in getting through today better than yesterday. And hugs to all of you!

Hi choclate
Glad it's not just me waiting for a bit longer! I can't believe you are still working!!!

I'm still very tired adn will be going back to sleep asap after I dropped Ollie off at nursery He was up at 6am this morning playing in the living room -right next to our bedroom - he's aloud to get up and play as I was an early riser when i was little so I don;t mind BUT he has to stay in his room which is the thing he just won't bloody do!

Anyway, Inzi I hope you are having an easier day today

Honnor - I am so jealous you are going to meet your lo. I want mine nowwwwwwwww. Good luck with the clarking today.

Have a good day all
x

Hello all

Well after being lulled into a false sense of security over the past 10 days, Ben has finally found his lungs and is using them to full effect, I'd forgotten how draining the crying is on your senses and well being Last night was crap as far as sleep went. I stayed awake till his 11.30 feed, but it then took an hour to settle him. At that point ds1 woke up, he has a cold so he was upset and wanted mummy cuddles. Finally got to bed about 1.30am. Was woken by Ben at 2.50am for another feed but it took till 5am before he finally went to sleep and he was awake again at 6.30... I am sooo knackered. Luckily Sam is at nursery this morning

The upheaval is finally telling on him though, he has got so clingy, wants me to do everything for him and he has become quite boisterous and noisy and we are having to use the naughty spot with him quite alot too as he keeps ignoring us whenever we ask him to do something. Also last night for the first time ever after putting him to bed and coming downstairs to do dinner, he got out of bed and followed me down. I am just feeling so guilty that I can't pick him up and I just feel like I am telling him off all the while, so no wonder he is playing up.

Mw came yesterday hoping to discharge me, but apparently they can't until the umbilical cord has dropped off baby. 12 days in and its still firmly attached to Ben. Got him weighed and he is now 9lbs 6oz, he has put on 11ozs in 11 days

Right gotta go, he's awake again....

Hi Mrs Fish...

Sorry to hear that Ben has found his lungs. People without children just don't understand how mummies are tuned to that 'pitch' of their baby's cry. It can drive you to distraction.

Try to rest this morning whilst Sam is at nursery....

morning - hope you're all ok and some of these lo's are coming! HMP, good luck today and tmrw - hope it all goes well. My turn on Fri and I'm a mixture of excitement and terror! It'll be good for this horrible swelling to start going though, totally sympathise with all who have that. Hope everyone has a good afternoon and that those with babies are managing to get some rest.

Hey everyone!
Well it's my due date and already i'm fed up and stressed out, the midwife was supposed to call me last week to say whether the consultant had any suggestions about my baby being small but i'd heard nothing so assumed it was fine and then she turned up at my door this morning when i was in my dressing gown! said she'd tried to call but couldn't leave an answerphone message due to confidentiality, I had had a few mised calls from a witheald number but just ignored them cause I didn't know who it was. Anyway the consultant wants me to see his registrar tomorrow morning to discuss the last growth scan and then I have to go back in the aft for my 2nd growth scan and discuss it again and 'make a plan' with them. This is just stressing me out, i'm already travelling an hour to the hospital to give birth incase he gets distressed by the birth but they won't say what else could happen that they're wanting to plan for??? I just wish they'd leave me alone but then it's for the best they are looking after me if they think there will be a problem with the baby, I just want to know what they're anticipating!!!
I guess i'll just have to try not to worry until i've spoken to the registrar tomorrow. It's kind of made me not want to go in to labour today though cause now i'm thinking there will be all these problems I won't know about if it happens today!
Anyway will let you all know what happens, sorry to be so me me me, hope everyone else is ok/not too fed up

Poor Mrs Fish..
I always remember that honeymoon period with newborns when they seem to be perfect babies that sleep and don't make a peep... and then, they wake up and realise where they are. Can be a real shock to the system (yours and theirs) It will get better.

Dalrymps.. sympathies, me tomorrow, and I know exactly how you are feeling.
I have been having lots of growth scans, which caused me lots of worry - until finally one consultant last week said there had been too many scans and to go away and stop worrying!
As long as you are feeling movements and everything else is in order hopefully you should be ok.
Will keep fingers xxx for all of us due now, and hope these lo's will perform!

hi everyone!!

have just posted on the post natal thread but thought i would post on here aswell!!

scarlette was discharged from alder hey yesterday so we are finally home!!

she was born on the 16th sept (emergency section after she her heart rate went flat),she was taken straight to scbu,and on the monday (the 17th) they had done an x-ray and found she had a blocked bowel,so she was transferred straight to alder hey.

i came home on the 19th and wasnt sure about going to alder hey,totally tore me apart as i wanted to be with her but i had teh other 5 kids to think about.anyway,she had her operation on the 19th,the removed part of her bowel that had twisted and died.i went to there the next morning and i took alyssa with me.

scarlette weighed 5lb 11oz at birth and dropped to 5lb 2oz after teh op.

they kept her off feeds for a week,but i had to keep expressing so that there would be milk for her when she was finally allowed to feed.

she was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis the week after her op.and its been the c.f team that have kept us in alder hey as she was on t.p.n and they have had to monitor her weight closely.

she weighed 3.095kg (havent a clue what that is in pounds and ounces!!) and is getting weighed again tomorrow.

im still expressing but its a bit of a struggle now,as its taking an hour to express enough for one feed!so shes being topped up with pepti junior (which she really doesnt like!)

anyway,hv is coming tomorrow and is going to help me out with what to do over the bf (she falls asleep when i try to feed her so she doesnt get enough feed,then i stress out as im worried taht she'll start losing weight!!

anyway,thats it really!!had a horrendous cs (the spinal didnt work and i could feel it everything but i refused to let them put me to sleep until she ahd been born!!!)but apart from everything taht ahs gone on,both myself and my beautiful little brave girl are fine!!

hope evryone else is ok,and that babies are popping out all over!!!xxx

Hello - just a quick one to say welcome home Buffy and Scarlette - what a time you have had of it. The CS certainly sounds fun! Wasn't that extremely painful??? But hopefully now that you're out of hospital, you'll be able to relax and rest a bit more etc thinking of you

PMSL at your title thread - good luck all you lovely ladies xx

Thanks unicorn, nice to know someone else has had to have these growth scans too, hopefully the registrar will put my mind at rest tomorrow! Fingers crossed for you tomorrow! I suppose at least if we go overdue, the longer we have to wait the higher the chances become of giving birth soon, if you know what I mean . Off to watch bringing up baby now, wonder what wil happen thins week!
Hope everyone who's popped already are settling nicely with their lo's and hope everyone who hasn't popped yet pop soon

I just wanted to let you know that ketchupkisses (ruthydd) was having regular contractions last night. I hope she doesn't mind me posting that but I guess she will have other things on her mind at the moment!

Fingers crossed her baby is already here or on the way really soon.
I should of checked birth announcements first actually incase she beat me to it

Thank you all for your well wishes
Welcome home Buffy and Scarlette
I hope ketchupkisses is ok and soon meets her lo!

Well, to say I'm panicking is a mild understatement. Clerking went well - injection in my stomach threw me though, had no idea about that!
Got to be in tomorrow by 7:30am then it is just a waiting game till my slot arrives. Felt really tearful when putting Dd1 to bed tonight, not sure why. I feel a bit awful that I will probably have to leave tomorrow before she is fully awake too.
OMG OMG OMG
Sorry...I'll stop now!

HMP - hope you're ok. I can empathise as I have been having the same worries about putting DS to bed on Thursday (section Fri)It's a big step and I think the fact that we know it's coming (as opposed to the surprise of labour) means there is more time to dwell on it all; so I just wanted to say I'm thinking of you and really hope it all goes brilliantly well tomorrow. Enjoy it!

morning all...
D DAY here... but nothing to suggest anything will happen sometimes wish we didn't have an EDD... just a general - 'you're due in October sometime' comment!

good luck HM,babe with you very soon.
Anything Dalrymps?

Buffy, hope things are ok, sounds like a very stressy time for you all.

positive vibes all round.

xx

Hi all

Buffy, glad Scarlett is home now! Your c/section sounds horrendous. But I'm so glad that Scarlett is doing well and you're both fine.

Dalrymps and Unicorn, good luck with your los deciding to come soon! I'm sure it'll happen.

And Nellie and Honor, I can imagine it must be scary to actually know when you're going to meet your los - exciting too - good luck today Honor!

I'm 38 weeks today - mw apptment later this morning. I feel completely normal, so don't think there's any chance of an early arrival. Well normal apart from the usual lack of sleep, which is really annoying. Nature should allow us some rest before los come along!

Inzi, hope you're doing okay, and Kitcoffey, etc etc.

Muppet - GOOD LUCK FOR TODAY! It is today, isnt it, that you see the consultant? Thinking of you.

Hi All

I didn't post anything yesterday cos I was too busy reading the thread about first time labours. By the time I'd finished I'd worked myself into such a panic that I couldn't bring myself to add anything!

I feel a bit better today though after a decent night's sleep.

My D-Day isn't till Monday but I'm still waking up everyday thinking that this could be the one and then disappointed at the end when it's not! I can't believe how many people are already contacting me to ask if I've popped yet - God know's what it'll by like when I actually get to the due date!

Choc - I can't believe how late you've worked till - don't know how you've managed! Bet you can't wait to finish now? Is Friday your last day?

GOOD LUCK TO HONOR! I'll be thinking about you today. xx

Hi Colly!

I'm a bit like that atm in that I keep working myself up into panics. It's my second time but I was induced first time and are worried I won't cope with 'real' labour. (I didn't cope with the induced labour either ) I also have Ollie to 'file' somewhere when I go into labour and......

I'll stop now or I'll get us both started!

With the everyone contacting you -I didn;t answer the phone unless it was dh as I was 11 days late with Ollie so people rang and rang.....I alsmost felt like saying 'yes, we had him last week. Oh, god, did we forget to tell you?!?!?!?'

Honor -thinking of you today, hope it all goes well and I am still VERY jealous x

Choc - don't work to hard!

Thanks Muppet - I like the idea of not answering the phone!

I've heard that induced labour is worse than normal labour anyway cos everything happens faster and your body has less time to cope...won't it lovely for that bit to be over with though? I just want to have my LO back home and to start with the good part

morning everyone

Geat idea Muppet about not answering the phone my god that would panic my MIL and Mum though. I am only 3 days over at the moment and they are already phoning all the time. That's what's so funny, they know we would tell them if something was happening. Good luck with seeing you consultant today.

Hope everything is going well for HMP and glad to hear that Buffy and Scarlette are home.

Hi to everyone else waiting for something to happen lets hope these babies decide to come out and play soon.