Due April 2008 -The one where SCORPIO GETS MARRIED!!(and we get virtually drunk)

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I was working out which bag to use the other day aswell, my DP was just laughing at the size of bag I was considering until I showed him 'the list' (one of many I might add).

Eva, I have boguht nothing, my first purchase was my sling on saturday, from ebay. I have absolutely nothing else.

Eva please don't panic, Everyone on here does sound very organised but I haven't bought 1 thing. I swear!

We're moving in a few weeks so I'm damned if I buy stuff just to have to move it!

If I had taken everything into hospital that the midwife at my antenatal classes last time suggested - I'd have needed 2 suitcases!

Need some help please. My colleague has just been told that her uterine arteries aren´t working properly & although the baby is fine for now there isn´t enough blood getting through. Has anyone heard of this? Will post to others as well as she is in desparate need of reassurance.

sorry to hear about hosp vs and knitter, i hope you are both well now.

huge congrats to scorpio on the wedding and looking forward to seeing pics.

had my 4d scan last fri which was amazing. i was very strong and didn't ask sex but i'm sure its a boy - about 99% pos! so now i really must think of a boy's name!

they also still say i am measuring the same as they first put me as when had my nt scan there many moons ago! that makes me due on 28TH MARCH! PRETTY SCARY!

i'm still going by my nhs date tho as i was so late last time its less likely to dishearten me!

also i have bought hardly anything but off to get my bugaboo, car seat etc on sat and am so very excited!!

Soph, same here.
It's whats wrong with me, basically she'll need regular scans to check that the baby is growing well and regular bloods to watch out for pre-eclampsia.
She has a higer chance than others of both P-E and IUGR but still only around 30%ish, LeigeandLeif knows the stats, so i'd expect she'll post if youre doing a thread.
She'll have baby at 38weeks induced or EL CS depending on previous pregnancies, unless like me she tells them to wait their bloody time

sorry soph, no experience at all but i'm sure someone on mn will help

Hi Soph

Basically what happened to me with ds1- did go to eclampsia there but wasn't picked up and also ther is a family history (MIL didnt tell us that until afterwards f course, and sisters had their babies after me so history was still to come if that makes sense in a bizarre way?)

Basically if the bllod flow fails it can be a danger to the placenta and cause the baby to develop IUGR as ds1 did (losta round a pound in utero, which put him at 5 lb 5 oz born, and he lost a pound or more afterwards as well). There's an onbvious risk if this isn't picked up earlya s ds1 was induced early, even then ds1 has SN which may or may not be related to the IUGR.

I don't know that exact stas and would emphasise that nobody knows the aetiology of eclampsia and rpe eclampsia for certain- I am on the committee of a pre-eclampsia suport group (pre eclampsia and toxaemia society, on the internet) and sometimes help edit their papers and nothing is certain; but there does seem to be a link there. But its a complex one- family histories, amternal age, etc alls eem to play a part too.

I haven't bought anything yet (except some clothes from eBay and some nappies from usednappies). I suppose this is DC2 for me but still, plenty of time yet. I don't plan to get anything for another month at least.

Hello all - congrats Scorpio! Can't wait to see the pictures.

TLSM, don't worry, I'll still be around (and lurking on the post-natal, naturally...) as I'm not due till 25th.

Quite amazed that I told work only eight weeks ago and yet now literally look like I'm about to give birth.

Just had lovely weekend in Paris for second wedding anniversary. SO good just to hang out and chat and relax and sleep in, but we missed DD like nothing else! It's great to be just as excited about coming home as you are about leaving, though...

What´s IUGR again?

intra uterine growth retardation

baby not growing properly in the uterus absically

I have bought quite a bit but only because I have mental issues to do with control and need to be freakishly organised when stressed! My room is full of stuff that I won't need for months but I get very excited looking at it and DP teases me cos he says I spend an hour rearranging it every night to make it all look pretty. He's right too

EllieG. That´s it - am going to write my list tonight & get cracking on the shopping once we´ve been paid of course!

Hello everyone . I've just caught up on all your news ... and had lots of inspirational things to add but now can't remember any of it.

Apart from ... hospital bags. Last time I had way too much and there is NOWHERE to keep anything once you're in there. I think I'm going to pack the bare minimum for the first night or two (just in case I have a long labour) and have piles of stuff looked out at home for DH to transfer back and fore for me if I need it.

Oooh I'm really excited about our babies today! Just reading the BF myths thread and getting excited about BFing again.

Oh, TMI, but my nipples are quite, erm, encrusted with colostrum. Picked/rubbed it all off in the shower (DH was worried I would get mastitis) and then they felt really sensitive - then I remembered it's supposed to be great antiseptic or something. What's the right answer?

The other thing they suggested at my antenatal classes was to have an "essentials" bag that you take in with you and a "back-up" bag that stays in the boot of the car and you can send your DH to get stuff from if you turn out to need it.

Scampmum - IKWYM, however, only one side leaks. I was exactly the same with DS1. I washed it/rubbed it off with DS1 & am doing the same at the mo. Didn´t realise it was/could be antiseptic. I´m sure someone will enlighten us in a mo

Me too, Soph! My 'good boob' for BF (left). I might have made it up about the antiseptic or that might be BM (I remember someone suggested putting it on something infected, maybe when DD had conjunctivitis?!).

My brain is working so little that I was about to ask Scorpio how BF was going as I forgot she had got married and not had her baby!

Whether or not you should pick it off (I vote for "not if it makes them sore", but I suppose you could do it a bit at a time), you aren't going to get mastitis from having colostrum on your nipples, that's just not how it works.

OK! Sometimes I just forget to process what he says (and I didn't even say 'obey' in my vows...). He has weird health paranoias which definitely need challenging.

Mastitis is more internal blockages, right? And it's the big red tender boobs not the bleeding nipples?

Yes -- I think the bleeding nipples are technically known as "bleeding nipples" (actually, there probably is some complicated Latin term for that, on the basis that there is for almost everything else, but I have no idea what it might be)

LOL at Scampmum. Funnily enough the one that leaks is the one that I can´t breastfeed with. Not that I breastfed DS1 but I did extract & neither boobs had that much in tbh. Am now getting bizarre images of you squirting BM in DD's eyes Must get out more!

I bf DS for nearly three years (well, technically I still am, but only once a week or so) and have never been able to express more than a diddy bit from either side.

nipplium sanguinorum?

(whispers) I was going to say 'nipplium sanguinorum infectium' but didn't want to frighten any of the BF virgins!