Due Jan 2008 - A New Year and we're ready to pop!

[Susiemj]

Hello!

It started off with some idiot plumbers that put a new radiator in the bathroom ( above the kitchen). Didnt fix it properly and we came down the next morning to find the ceiling all bowed under the weight of the water. Plumbers denied all responsibility so we had to go through our home insurance which took its time. Finally get it sorted and some people come out to repair and find all the joists(sp?) are naff so got to be replaced... and there we go.....a minor problem turned into a big one!

Anyway, have taken FS to Doc's, got to go pick up his medicine from pharmacy then DH is going to take us away from this mess and to lunch. On a plus side, the kitchen is so chaotic I wont be able to do any cooking in there all week, so I guess every cloud has a silver lining!

morning.

hope lucky's absence means good news

i slept appallingly last night, went to bed early after bath, but up from about 2.30 feeling terrible, kept trying to decide if it was labour related, until 7am when i was violently ill, and decided it was something i ate feel better now tho v weak.
dh has taken ds to hosp checkup on his own and i've been lying down, again.
wish i had just got on with being sick at 2.30 then had some decent sleep!

spoke to midwives and they couldn't be less concerned, so on biscuits and water today, now would be a bad time to go into labour...

makingnosense - aarrgghhh!! hope you have a nice lunch out to take your mind off it.

madmouse - thought you might have been otherwise occupied today ah well. more waiting for all of us then.

angechica - well done on house hunting, hope yours sells quickly now.

off to find more plain food for delicate stomach....

Hope you feel better now Katyt1. These interuppted nights sleep are the pits aren't they, but will stand us in good stead for when our LO's arrive I suppose.
Had a lovely lunch and now DH is in the kitchen trying to sort out some of the dust and chaos left by the builders ( nice of them to only work a half day isn't it?!) .
Plan on plonking myself in front of telly and watch some slushy movie and have lots of chocolate to compensate for my crappy start to the week. Any excuse eh?

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Dear all

well today is the first day on maternity leave when i actually have nothing to do really - apart from waddle round to the post office at some point.

Anyway was very tired yesterday after over doing it friday and saturday

baby is still kicking like a mad thing and also getting this slightly stranging pulsing sensation down in the fanjo area - my mum says its the baby's head bashing.

Have midwife appointment tomorrow which i am actually looking forward to as have not see anyone for 4 weeks and am interested to know what the little mite is doing and whether the head is engaged etc.

Anyway fingers crossed for all you with labour symptoms - me happy to hang on a bit longer
xx

Hi to all. It's my due date today but no signs so I shall try to stay patient and busy! Sleeping is a nightmare with most of it taking place in the morning between 8 - 11 (I'm awake most of the night which could drive me insane)

Good Luck to all with impending births

x

still feeling pretty awful really. knackered, weak, tired & FED UP
dh out later so will have to do bedtime on my own (tho he has taken pity on me and taken ds out now instead of working from home), then i am soo looking forward to getting to bed early again, and tues & wed are ds nursery days, whooppeeeeee

madmouse - you can have the spd back for a bit thanks

mns - hope the afternoon better for you.

nicky - been to the PO yet? don't you find, or you might as time goes on, the less you have to do the longer it takes? if i have a massive list i get loads done (well not so much when 39wks pg!), but just one job and it can take days!

right, speaking of jobs, need to do some sitting down ones or i'll feel the day is wasted.

must be lots of us popping atm as it's so quiet on here.....

Well I am not popping, in fact I have decided that it was all false alarm. Quite content to bide my time knowing my body is gearing up so strongly, although of course a little disappointed.

Nicky it does sound like the head is engaging or at least getting there.

KT, shall we share the SPD, burden shared and all that .

Ladies, just to let you know I noticed ASDA are having a Baby Event from today til 27 Jan, with loads of things on offer. (PS I swear I'm not working for them!)

I hate asda but I guess it might be worth a visit

Having said that, I have just bought about 6 months supply of nappies from Sainsbury's

I had that leaflet through and a code for free delivery over £50. Its got a Tommy Tippee breast pump on offer stair gates/ highchairs, so looks quite good.

No baby,

Apparently head is the wrong way... (should be resting on it's chest but its lifted in the air) The pain i'm getting is under my bump really sharp period pains that hurt like hell and keep coming in mountains but according to Midwife it's not labour.

Got to go for a monitoring tomorrow at 2pm. Got a feeling i'm going to end up in hospital anyway.

When have you got apt for induction Lucky ? Sorry the news wasn't more positive. You really feel your going mad don't you ? As you can guess still no news here cx on and off all day today but not getting any stronger think i am pretty resigned to induction too now

Induction set for Wednesday (gotta go in for 9pm)

Oh come on babies ! Am going to try and get second sweep tom then maybe sound them out for getting another weekend before induction.What does that take you to then 40+ 13? Been following your other thread it's a nightmare isn't it not quite what we had planned eh ?

I'm going for a bath now and then tomorrow I'm going swimming and need to go for a monitoring session at 2pm.

I'll be 40+13 on Wednesday which they're not happy about (wanted me to go in on Sunday cos they were booked up ) Oh well!! haha

Baby is fine in there, booting the crap outta me.

I'm going for my bath and gonna have words with the baby (when I told DP that out loud baby booted me...lol)

Speak to you all tomorrow sometime. Probably in the afternoon. Hope your LO gets moving soon too.

Hello, hello, hello - so desperate to talk to you all and hear what is going on, my days seem to fly now that I am on mat leave and before I know it it is bed time and I haven't had a chance to log on! well, tomorrow is my EDD and I have a sneaky feeling that my baby doesn't plan to arrive tomorrow or for a while, hey ho! let's hope I am wrong. Sending you all happy and positive vibes whilst I catch up

Hi Mrs Mc nice to have you back - all fine here no signs of anything really apart from lots of tightening and a bit of period pain but still 2 weeks off due date and quite happy to wait.

My mum says all 4 of us were overdue so if thats anyhting to go by my mystic prediction of 2nd feb may be right.

ANyway - have quite a few friends popping in over the next few days which is rather nice .

It does seem very weird not having loads to do - I did get to PO but not il 3.30!! but did get all other jobs done although at this rate there is a slim chance that we may by fluke actually be ready for the bun bin by the time it arrives!!!

Hope the quiet thread means lots of little ones are on their way will let you know what midwife says tomorrow.

Now, listen, Luckybump and Lilyloobump, stop giving your mummies such grief and get your lovely little buttocks out of that nice warm spot you dug yourselves into. Induction is not fun, you just get squeezed harder on the way out so you may as well come now. Understood, or does auntie Madmouse need to come and spank your little bottoms!! (hormonal, me?).

Lucky, I feel all , I was so sure you would have your little one by now! Lilyloo you sound resigned to it. I will still say a prayer that miracles happen and babies arrive this night. Peckers up, babies soon!

Cheers MM

No baby and no sleep AGAIN!

I'm going swimming today then monitoring at 2pm. I've kinda resigned myself to the fact i'm going to end up being induced. I'm going to make a nice little list of questions though.

I want to be out ASAP and I don't want to be left alone (They're saying they'll give me the pessary (sp) and then DP will have to go home that's really scary.

hi all

i'm almost as impatient as you all must be for news. am sending labour vibes your way.

wishing the best of births to those of you going fir induction. i was induced and the once labour kicked off the whole thing only took 3 hours! wishing you the same

p.p cannot believe sabela is 2 weeks today! hooray for babies - however they come!

Lucky - most hospitals like to start the inductions in the evenings as it can sometimes take more than 1 batch of prostin gel (12 hours apart) to get things going. I didn't want to stay in alone overnight either (and was theoretically already 1cm dilated, according to a sweep, altho in retrospect I think the MW was completely wrong about that!), so convinced my hospital to let me come in at 8am for my induction (ie in time for what would have been the 2nd batch of gel). Given that my waters broke on their own about an hour later and I then went into labour pretty quickly (altho it still took 27 hours!), I was really glad I wasn't dealing with it on my own all night long...so maybe worth a go? I had to ask very very very nicely...

Good luck! Oh, and remember, as nice as it would have been to have the sort of birth you wanted, the most important thing is to end up with a healthy mum and a healthy baby at the end of it all...and nothing else really matters....!

Nothing to report on here...DH and I still have the lurgy, so have both spent the last couple of days in bed...very romantic (not!)- we're sitting typing away on our respective laptops side by side whilst sniffing/coughing/grumbling. Only real difference is that he can take lots of cold/sinusitis rememedies whilst I'm stuck with paracetamol and Olbas oil No sign of any impending arrival, but not a bad thing until we start feeling a bit less like we've been clobbered over the head with something large and brick like!

Hugs to all...xx

happy 2 weeks sabela

lucky - wishing you all the best, hope monitoring goes ok, they let you out and you go into spontaneous labour at home.
tho fingers crossed for an easy induction if that is was happens....
i can't believe i'm still here, 39 wks now. going to be having the same conversations with my mws soon i think, hope they will let me hang on for a while too, will be back to you for tips on dealing with them, tho the ones here are pro-home birth but the hosp it still in overall charge.

lilyloo - labour vibes for you too

madmouse - one dodgy hip each?!!

i had a much better nights sleep, the illness must have been a bug or something i ate. and ds slept a little later too (6.45, inching our way back towards the magical 7 when i suddenly feel like it's ok to get up).
dh even asked me today, do i have to go to work today?! sorry but yes, no signs...

ds at nursery, been to PO, bank, library and a friend's for a cuppa, now need to get some photos ordered online and get on with crossing stuff off list!
(anyone else do a job, realise it wasn't on list, write it on list just to cross it off? or just me )!

fluffy - xposted. we were like that a few weeks ago, tho less of the lying around with ds about.
i was soo jealous that dh could take stuff. i had absolutely NO sympathy for him .

liked the olbas oil tho.

Blimey, takes me awhile to catch up sometimes

Am on a countdown for tomorrow when I go in for my section (find it weird still to KNOW that tomorrow I should have a baby in my arms at some point.. and the dreams I keep having about the op, can't wait until they stop!)

Take care,