Babies due June 05 Thread 2

[welshmum]

Here's a new one for us chatty ones

hello all!
have been away for a few days because siting at a computer has been making me feel awful. Had parents evening at school twice last week, therefore had to stay till about 9pm - The head said I was in no fir state to be at school or even drive on Wednesday so I got driven home!
Went to bed at 8pm last night and feel much better! I am sure feeling pukey is related to my level of tiredness at the mo!

My due date is June 14th - but I bet they change it at my scan in 2 weeks!

Morning all!!

MrsW - Thank you so much for the list! That is superb!

Maybe we could set up one of those yahoo type sites with a calendar and piccies? I'll have a look and see what I can find, unless someone already knows how to do it??

NQWWW - Thanks for the reassurance. I was beginning to think I was destined to a life of destitution!!

Saw my midwife on Wed night and she was ever so nice. She told me that the sicker you feel the better as you tend to have a healthier pregnancy as it signifies higher levels of hormones!! Cool....

Am having my scan in approx 3 weeks. And I get my blood and urine done at the same time.

She also aked if I'd thought about a home birth. Are any of you doing that? From the books, it sounds all lovely, but dp (not sure if I'm using the correct abbreviation) is worried about that idea.

Also, is anyone else with a community midwife? The whole system seems so relaxed it's stressing me out!!

Sophmum - How are you doing? Are you feeling any diferent one way or the other? Only a couple of days now til you can have another scan. Fingers crossed.

New list:

Uwila 29th May
Berolina 1st June
Mirage 2nd
Teabelly 2nd
Lua 3rd
Welshmum 4th
Miss Tuesday 4th
Cobweb 5th
Lummox 6th
Scraggyaggy 8th
Muddaofsuburbia 10th
Sophmum 10th
Bubbaloo 11th
JennyWren 11th
Katzguk 11th
PinkArjuna 12th
Happymum 13th
Mrs W 13th
Megi 14th
MrsFlowerpot 15th
NQWWW 15th
Charleypops 16th
Lollienoodles 18th
Jezebel 22nd
Lipstickmum 23rd
Tessiebear 23rd
Sweetheart 30th
Pandagirl03 15th July

morning all - a little bit sick this morning but think it cause i over did it yesterday, met up with some other mumsnetters at the local Spa for pampering evening,so i now have pretty nails.

My due date has changed to the 7th of June just to up date the list.

i had a nice suprise this morning opening my post i've won a prize fore my PhD thesis which is really cool.

yahoo group thing sounds great i have done one before and it quite useful

Katz - Congratulations on the prize! What was your thesis about?

(P.S. Am glad your due date has changed as I was starting to feel a bit lonely on the 8th!)

Hello all, sorry to start the new thread and then bugger off for a couple of days. I've been ill - curled up in bed for most of yesterday in fact. Just picked up some sort of bug, could have 'soldiered on' but thought hell, go to bed woman. It feels like a dodgy time of the pregnancy to me and I don't want to blame myself if anything goes wrong. Saw Dh and dd off to nursery (not him obviously - he goes on to work - I think) and crawled back to bed. Got up later to watch a video of 'Bodies' - anyone else see it? It's completely the wrong thing to watch if you're up the duff but now I'm hooked.
I feel much better today so am in work.
Thanks for doing the roll call MrsW - really handy.
Thanks for wondering where I was Lipstick and I don't mind being called Welshie!
Welcome to Jezebel and Lua - this is a lovely thread.
Teabelly and Scraggy I think I can make the 23rd but depends on the time - I usually do the dd pick up unless I can persuade dh instead. Can either of you do lunch?

uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/mumsnetjune/

This is it!

Will get everyone's due dates on the calendar by tomorrow - just working out how it all works!!

scraggy - i did my thesis on a medical grade cement for mending bones.

have joined and added my due date!!

me too

Katz - congratulations on your prize! Sounds very interesting topic! and useful, unlike mine...! No wonder I didn't get a prize with my thesis !
Scraggy - I am thinking about a home birth! My DD was born in the US, so I am sure diff from here, but I spent most of my labour fighting withthe nurses whom wanted to keep me hooked to a monitor machine! My husband still laughs when he remembers I just got up and lock myself in the bathroom! My main worry is whether I will traumatize my DD with all expletives that are sure to get out of my mouth during pushing... There are some good threads about in the childbirth section... it is getting me really rilled up for it!
LM - Have a good holliday! I want one too !!
sophmum - Hope things are ok with you! Let us know!

lua what did you do your on?

Lua, can you arrange to have your DD1 removed from the house when labor starts? A neighbor or relative, perhaps?

No change here, thanks very much for all your thoughts and best wishes.

I seem to switch from feeling it's all over to having glimmers of hope. Yesterday I didn't feel nauseous hardly at all, although breasts still sore, so I thought it must be all over.

Today however, I'm having one of my most nauseous days so far, dry retching all over the place (I was only actually sick twice during my whole pg with dd - retching seems to be what I do!).

It's so confusing. But - having said all that when I think about it logically I will inevitably still be feeling pregnant as my body hasn't yet recognised that I'm not. i.e. if it had I would have miscarried normally by now.

Anyway, only 3 1/2 days to go - longest week ever.

I won't join yahoo board until I know. Don't want to tempt fate even more. I was stupid enough to order a Junior Baby and Pregnancy magazine sub soon after I found out - I'll have the hassle of cancelling that next week.

Also, any advice please on telling my dd (28m) if I get bad news on Tues? She came to the initial scan but didn't really take anything in as she started kicking up and DH had to take her out before we'd been told anything. I've told her that the baby might not be growing properly and might not be in my tummy any more, but she's not really taken it in. It's heartbreaking as she likes to talk to the bump all the time, and I reply in baby voice. She told it last night all about her new sticker chart, and the baby toys in the roof etc.

I suppose she'll adapt fairly quickly - when I first mentioned it might not be all right she told me to make a new baby with paper and scissors!

I'm not taking her on Tues obviously - dh will have some time off work and stay at home with her. I've no idea how long it will all take - maybe they do a d + c straightaway?

Sorry to waffle on and to sound so glum.

God can't believe it ds is asleep and I can actually get on the home pc- hurrah!

Mrs W - great work on the due date list, and yeah I'm off for my scan this afternoon (3.45), so I won't add my details to the web page until I'be been - with ds I had my dates changed 3 times!

Welshmum, I could probably make a lunch...what about the idea of meeting on a weekend, would this be better for you/everyone. I was looking around on the net and besides the grottos (hamley's/selfridges/harrods) there's also a fair in leicester square during the run up to christmas, all of which I'm sure would keep lo's occupied...maybe we could meetup for a bite to eat, and then if they want people can go off in different directions to entertain their offspring (sorry ds's new favorite word since watching nemo 1000 times in the last week!)

Scraggy - definitely not having a home birth - I have a hole in the heart and insisted on an epidural last time, and it was fab...my big worry this time is that I won't have time to have another epidural - ds came in just under 5 hours, and they say that subsequent ones tend to be faster

Will try and come on later (ds allowing) and update on the scan situ. Take care, catch you all later.

Oh sophmum I wish I could say something to help. 3 1/2 days seems so long
I'm sure your dd will take it in her stride if she has to. Just try and rest if possible, and keep us posted big hug emoticon

Sophmum, you poor thing - I really do feel for you with the waiting. I know a little of what you're going through but I don't want to say much more as I'm hoping you get a better outcome than I did. I hope you mange to do something at the weekend which is fun for you and yours and makes the hours pass more quickly.
Teabelly - maybe the weekend is a better idea then - fine by me, will try to make which ever date suits everyone best.
Scraggy - I do admire you for thinking of homebirth. I'm not brave enough and had to have an elective c-section last time so they probably wouldn't let me anyway.

sophmum - big hugs to you

i couldn't image a homebirth, no thanks not for me. but this time i'm not going to stay in over night if i can aviod it, was in a room with three mums who's babies cried all night whilst mine slept!!

Sophmum, enormous hugs from me too. The waiting must be unbearable. Your situation sounds very different from mine in that you are still having so many symptoms - this MUST be a good sign, surely? I am thinking of you and sending lots of love.

Teabelly, good luck this afternoon! Hope you can come back later and update everyone. I'm also enjoying my DS having a nap - he didn't last week and it made for a very long day (he was exhausted and grumpy by tea time, and so was I).

Have joined the group - I've never done anything like that before, so have no idea how it works.

Right, off for a lie-down whilst everything is quiet...have got magazine to read and chocolate to eat too.

Welshmum & Teabelly - I can probably do lunch on Wed 17th. I have a meeting at 11, so 1ish would be good, if that's of any use to you? x

Just got back from my DD's 2 year b-day party at her daycare. Feel like she will never forgive me for moving her into a new country and not having any friends to have a decent party for her! She was very excited though to have cake for breakfast and get a bike, so maybe she will forgive me afterall !

Scraggy, thanks for setting up the yahoo site. I joined in, but as MrsW am a newbie to the whole thing...

Katzguk, my thesis was on "the effect of mating systems on plant- pathogen interactions", fascinating, uh? Being an academic can be very nice, specially with the very flexible schedule, but sometimes I only think: - who cares?! oh well, right now I don't... very hard to concentrate on anything!

((((Sophmum)))), hang in there... it is so difficult to sit and wait! I've been there too and know how difficult it can be, but do try to do something fun and take your mind off it. Good luck!

I'll spend a bit of time sussing it out - I've never set one up before, but have been on them with other groups.

It'll be good for the diary because we can keep track of scans and due dates for everyone.

Also, it'll be fun when the babies start arriving as we can put piccies up!!

I think that if you are online at the same time as someone else you can chat with them, which would be handy in the mornings, lunchtimes and evenings.... I can't tell though as I'm Billy Nomates a the moment!

Oh Sophmum, how horrible - big hug from me. Isn't waiting just awful. I really hope things turn out OK and you get good news in three days.