Right, I think I've sorted out the gist of this weekend!
Lots of BHs, pains, niggles, excitement... and then nothing - same in this house!
Sleepless nights all weekend for various reasons... Yup same here!
Knackered the next day but can't sleep... exactly!
Count - I'm fed up of the questions most of the time. It depends on who is asking really. I HATE total strangers just turning and feeling they have the right to be so bloody nosey. And how can they be so sure I am actually pregnant anyway? I could have a tumour or I could have just pinched a turkey from the supermarket! I don't mind people I don't really know but encounter regularly asking, like the lovely man that runs the corner shop or the really nice road sweep I sometimes chat to, so long as the questions are kept to a minimum. I loose my temper when it's the people I'm supposed to be close to who ask because it's nearly every time I talk to them so is starting to feel like they never actually listen and so don't actually give a damn about my answers. I really dislike the assuptions and comments
"oh you must be relly tired now!" - Thanks, does that mean I look like shit on a stick?
"Oh god you're big aren't you!" - Again, Thanks a bundle, so I look like whale, fan bloody tastic!
"You must be getting close now!"(started 3 months ago!) - Oh is this a reaction to my size or the way I waddle? F off!
You get my gist!
Sally - I started to be a totally crap driver just as soon as I got pg! At the start it was the nausia and I was totally distracted by the basic fact that I was pg and trying to get my head round it. Now, steering pulls on my stomach and takes my breath away so I'm knackered after a short distance and very unsure of myself. I'm also dead nervous of having an accident so I've become a little more hesitent than I'm happy with. DP can't drive though so I still have to do it (although I try not to drive very often or any further than I need to and I always try to have someone come with me for and extra set of eyes).
I started to become exhaused at about 35 weeks too. Now it just comes and goes!
Last night DP started on at me about filling my MP3 player with music for the delivery! Yes I would like some music, I think anyway, but I think that when it actually comes down to it, figuring out how my MP3 player works is going to be the last thing on my mind! I told him that he knows what I like, if he feels it's going to be an important thing he can fill the player up with tunes and when we get to the hospital he can be the one to sort it out but he's not to be surprised if I tell him where he can shove the thing at some point during the proceedings!
Lolo - I was all excited and happy about the cotbed too! It seems Toys R Us have sold out of the one I wanted! Boo, Hiss! They still have time to get it back in stock though, so I'm not fretting yet!
Sarah - How rude of your MW to say she's coming but not give an estimate as to when! Are you really supposed to stay in and awake all day waiting for her!
Let us know how your 24 hour test goes and how your BP is today. I hope you don't have to miss Harry's birthday.
Only fresh raw pineapple is supposed to work. Cooked, juiced and tinned have all lost the bit that's supposed to start things off!
I'm waiting very impatiently for news of a new arrival, so get scrubbing those floors and walking up and down the stairs
Blue - Glad you got that iron infusion. Do you feel better for it lass? Also glad to hear that the MWs were nice and have made you feel more comfortable about going in when your time comes.
Sorry about the Cankles! I think I told someone else the other day, swollen ankles are supposedly partly connected to dehydration (there are other factors too!) so maybe you could try drinking more council pop and see if your cankles start to look a little bit more like ankles!
Mutha - I've started getting stupidly emotional over stuff on the TV too. I doesn't seem to matter what it is really!
Scared of the labour? Me too! I'm terrified! It doesn't help that my mom keeps telling me about her horrible experience giving birth to me and about my grandma and great aunt's still births and how all are connected to ineffective contractions - bit of a family trait, apparently - and how I'd probably go into labour but still have to have the induction drip and it'll probably still end in an emergency c-section etc. How evil is she? There's keeping me informed of family history and then there's a birth story written by Stephen King! I've decided to take the view that EVERY birth is different AND EVERY woman is different so I have just as much chance of birthing as though shelling peas and it could all be wonderful!
Miserable news about the girl you trained turning tail and leaving you with the prospect of training another but I think you did the right thing in being the one to call the shots as to how and when you do it! Full support for this mornings decision!
You woke Your DH up for sex! Its gotta be the tiredness affecting your hormones or something! I've wanted to feel that DP still finds me sexy but I don't actually want his bits anywhere near me and haven't for months. Poor man must be ready to burst but it's just tough s**t really!
Bowled over by the exams and interviews for your DS. He's only 6 isn't he? Is he going to a Public school or a 'gifted school' or something like that? Don't mean to pry, just seems like a bit much for one so young and I don't have any children so I don't know what the schooling system is like these days.
Ginger - sorryto hear you've got a damned infection. May it clear quickly!
Egg - I hope your doula works out and helps to make your day easier.
Poblet - fingers crossed for your BP.