Due in Dec 2007. Enough already, bring on the babies!

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hellloooooo?

Claraq - I have a terrible time aiming my wee into those stupid pots. I try to do it at home and use a plastic cup and then transfer it over to a sample pot. Had to do it at the hospital today and bump is so big I can't tell if its going in the pot or not unless I wee all over my hands .

Just had my check up with the doctor. Iron levels have dropped though not too bad, about 10 from 12 (whatever that means). Otherwise I'm fine and midwife appointments only now until after due date if baby doesn't arrive on time. Was the consensus that Spatone was the best iron supplement? I turned down the prescription iron tablets as even the doctor said they were chalky and crap. Thought I'd rather buy something better.

Good luck Neuro. Hope you get your time off and your iron levels are on he up.

Fifi, hope your transfusion thingy works.

blackcatwizzska - yes think spatone is the best and worth taking if your iron count is 10 - you can disolve it in some orange juice with brekkie - tastes quite nice!

claireybee - you poor thing - sounds like your DH is being unreasonable. Me and DH said very early on that looking after DD is MUCH harder work than 'work' IYKWIM and we've always remembered that which means whoever gets up in the night is usually the one going to 'proper work' the next day. Now add that you're nearly 8 months pg into the equation... you need to rest and he has to realise this.

Does he spend anytime on his own with her (e.g. at weekends) - does he realise how much hard work is involved? Could you go away for a day/night/weekend and leave him to it and see if he bucks up his ideas? Especially after last time when he didn't take paternity leave and you rushed around and lost all that weight - if there's anything that can persuade him that he needs to help out more before no.2 is born, it will make you life so much easier (as if you needed me to tell you that!)

Really really feel for you. Hope you manage to get through to him (((hugs)))

Way hey, Ive finally got my consultant to book me an appointment for an MRI scan, and my central heating is all fitted, so the house is warm and builder free!!!
Its a major relief, these things have really been upsetting me for weeks and now they've both sorted themselves out on the same day.
So now I can start worrying about all the other things
dh is now unemployed again (his job lasted all of six days), and Im long term sick with depression, so theres not much money coming in, but its lovely to be able to spend so much time together. I have an afternoon nap every day, I have so much admiration for all of you who are still working or have little ones, I dont know how you do that.

Loucee:
when my brother was born I was 7 and my sister 5. We each got matinee sets, nappies, etc for our 'first love dolls' and an aunt made carrycots for them too. We were very involved with the baby (I can still remember how to fold terry nappies!) but also had our own babies to play with while mum was with the wee one.

Poppy10:
I've been looking at the Calin Bleu carriers as well as the Coorie pouch (mainly for DH as it's quick and easy). The nearest slingmeet is Edinburgh though, so I'm hoping to manage a trip up there before I get too big to fit behind the steering wheel.

Thanks for the tip on Spatone too - I'll be hunting some out as I'm getting very breathless and quickly tired. Hb results next week, I hope, so I'll know if that's what's causing it.

claireybee:
Your DH sounds like he just doesn't get it at all. I hope you can have the conversation properly before the wee one arrives and you're even more stretched. I'm sure I've mentioned it before, but Dh and I are reading through "babyproofing your marriage" in anticipation of a rough first few months.

Add me to the list of folk who are throwing up. Just once, and oddly enough I didn't feel sick before, during or after. I thought food poisoning, as the place we went for dinner sent me out a part-cooked burger (eeew) but the GP said it could just be pressure from the sproglet. Either way, it meant I got yesterday evening off as you're not allowed to work with food within 24h of sickness.

However, the good news is that my blood glucose results were completely normal over the last week. The diabetes consultant had somehow got the impression that I was only 30 weeks when I'm actually 34, hence her freakout at my size, and the whole long lecture on insulin, induction and all the rest. I've still got to keep poking pins in my fingers, but if things continue as they are then she's happy to keep a watching brief, with weekly visits to her clinic just to be sure.

Obs. consultant is next Tuesday with another growth scan and again, if that's not showing anything out of the ordinary then we should be on track for a reasonably 'normal' birth albeit with a big baby at the end of it. Probably lots of scans between now and then, but at least it's looking more hopeful for the holiday.

Hello ladies!

My MW seems to be okay, saw her yesterday, she checked my blood pressure, asked if I'd had any headaches, asked about my hands (she noticed I wasn't waearing my wedding ring). However she didn't give me a sample pot so no urine sample! Oh and I forgot my maternity record .
She had a careful feel of my tummy and confirmed that baby was indeed head down, and has had a growth spurt - she reckons s/he is about 3lb now. Plus I measured at 34 weeks instead of 31 (32 on Sunday).
Did you know btw only 3% of babies are born on their EDD?
Hope everyone is well and thank goodness it's Friday! . I'm off to a Ceiledh tonight!

Hello all!
Thanks, slept OK, bit of tossing and turning in the middle but can't blame DD who had a much better sleep and seemed OK today so packed her off to school and kept my fingers crossed.
I actually rang my GP last night because I was worried about her falling asleep on the floor - so unusual for her. She had also complained about her eyes hurting so of course the first thing you think is Meningitis...anyway so lovely they rang back today to check she was OK.
Went to work drinks tonight (monthly in our boardroom) which turned out to be a bad idea - standing up for over an hour is not to be recommended. But thought would probably be my last chance!
Hope you are all well and have a lovely weekend.

Morning all

Had a good night sleep too - but in the spare room and slept like a log! Feeling refreshed today.

Buzzy - hope you're DD is ok? Maybe it's a phase she's going through with the sleeping on the floor??

All the best with yuor appointemnt fruitful

thelady how do you find out about sling meets? Not sure I'd go but I would like to see other slings in the flesh! Edinburgh is just over an hour from me but do-able.

Claireybee - I was in two minds whether to do go the bfing group this time round, found it helpful in one way with DD but in other ways found it quite depressing (due to the HV that takes it).
You're DH definitely needs to take more of the strain, you're a heavily pregnant woman who needs rest to help grow and carry the baby. My DH needs a lot of prompting and I often need to "ask" him to see to DD in the night etc but he will do it, and has taken over bathing and putting DD to bed.

Hello PDT - glad to hear your house is now nice and cosy, it's getting chilly up here and I fear for our next gas bill as I've had it up quite high (always seem to be so cold, think it's a side effect of underactive thyroid).

Yay it's Friday!!! Anyone upto anything nice? The inlaws are supposed to come to lunch on Sunday (for anyone who likes sticky toffee pudding I made this one last weekend to try out for this weekend and it was FANTASTIC however DH had words with his mum in the week so not sure if they're coming.

Morning all,

Glad most of the health problems seem to be sorting themselves out. I woke up at 4.45 again today and was not pleased to hear DH snoring AGAIN. I am sure he never used to snore like this.

Clairey- my DH (who is Asian) says silly things like that sometimes and even my mum and dad say it and it pees me right off. Hopefully he will see how much hard work two children actually are and pull his finger out. altho I musnt complain too much as he does do more than any or all of his mates put together. H hope you get it sorted.

Clareybee or is it Claraq - have you decided if you are moving to Pakistan then?

Good morning everyone. I am having an extra day "off" this week as dd has an additional day at the childminders.

Sorry to hear so many others are having problems with their midwives too. I was discussing with a friend yesterday and we felt that one of the main factors in so many cases of antenatal and postnatal depression is lack of support. Sometimes all you want is for someone to ask how you are and seem to care.

Skidd - thanks for the info about slings. We will probably use a Baby Bjorn as we are going to borrow it from a friend. But now I am having 2nd thoughts. Hmmm, food for thought...

Beckle, I 2nd what Skidd said about your post - it's so reassuring to hear someone talk so positively about the 2nd child coming along and NOT causing major distress! To be honest the two people I know best who have recently had 2nd babies have both coped brilliantly. And like you say, the new baby has just sort of slotted into their lives.

Blackcatwizzskas - I am very sad and have only just "got" your name. When you changed it from Mrswizz to Wizzska I thought it was some sort of reference to ska music! How about Wizzbang for 5 Nov?

Claireybee - agree with everyone else about your DH - sounds like he needs a big kick up the back side. Although I can see that he might think he is doing well as he is better than others from his "culture". I am lucky in that dd almost always sleeps right through the night now. I feel for you having to get up in the night and early in the morning and then look after her all day. It drives me MAD that people think looking after a child at home all day is the "easy" option.
And just because I can:

Amani - tis me - STILL no final decision. DH found out yesterday the move might mean a significant pay cut so he needs to sort that one out. And I think we have decided not to make a final final decision until the baby is born and we are happy that everything is ok with him/her and me.

Morning everyone,

thelady - glad you got good news re GD and all seems to be fine now

loucee - I put a link to the sling meet website yesterday (shouldn't be too far to scroll down if you can bothered - obviously I can't because otherwise I would re-link!!)

claraq - think we're going to borrow a babybjorn as well but I am thinking that will be more for walks and probably more for DH than me. The bit of material one will be for around the house so I can do stuff with dd while feeding or comfort the baby while busy with dd - that's the plan anyway...

good idea to hold off Pakistan decision until the baby arrives - and great that you have time - would be awful to be forced into a decision now

buzzy - it is strange that your dd has been sleeping on the floor - did she say why? Anyway glad she is OK

What do we all think of the new look? Preferred the old colours but then maybe I am just old and resistant to change

Skidd - I am obviously a fusty-dusty old technophobe as couldn't cope with the new look and have just changed it back to how it used to be. Got very confused as when I had posted, it took me back to the beginning of the thread - four pages back. So had to trawl through a whole load of pages to find my way back here.
Had just about worked out how to use the original look and then they went and changed it!

I still have the old one... was too much for brain to adapt to change.

And the link to my profile seems to have disappeared! I was very proud that I had managed to work out how to do that....

claraq - i was very tempted to click on the mumsnet classic button to do the same but then chided myself for being so resistant to change - i have however flipped all threads and changed the colour back - I wonder if the younger members of our group will be so set in their ways!!!

oh glad to hear it MM - you're still young and open to changes aren;t you?!

claraq - I can still go to your profile when I click on your name

Or it could be something to do with the fact that we are so far into our pregnancies, coping with anything new at the moment is just one step too far - if we go to mums due in June 08 they're probably all loving the new look!

Oh right ok - it used to be some sort of little icon on the right next to the envelope.....

claraq - have just checked the due in july thread and they haven't even mentioned it - probably too busy blooming

Didnt find the new way user friendly... all those pages... no thanks.

ooh, I'm confused.

Hello all, haven't been on for a while; nothing esp interesting to report except I have now done most of my shopping

Or fretting about every little cramp or bit of spotting. Oh how I DON'T miss those days, eh! It's good to be at a point where even if the baby came now, everything would almost certainly be fine.