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Due March 2008 - for our early arrivals and the loooooong 3rd trimesters

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merryberry · 10/01/2008 08:16

Hello all.

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HolidaysQueen · 29/01/2008 08:16

weeamoomoo / marchmum - not sure how to combine the legs together at all times with the fact that i'm actually really enjoying sex at the moment...

Definitely less pain in bed last night as didn't go to help at Brownies and instead spent evening on sofa with feet up. I'll probably mention it to doctor at my 32 week check this week, but if it's SPD it's not as bad as my friend had it (she was pretty much housebound by the end!) so i think lots of rest is the way forward for now. Only 11 more working days to go (they were organising my leaving lunch yesterday so it's getting very real!) so I'll soon be able to put my feet up full time

marchmum - great news on the doula!

doup76 · 29/01/2008 08:36

I have my first appointment with the indie midwife today and really looking forward to it. No tube journey, no 3 hour wait, no smelly people in the waiting area, just a nice cup of tea in the comfort of my own home......

I was on target for a big baby too (95-97% on quite a few measurements), but last scan showed his growth had calmed down a bit
and looking a bit more normal - phew!
I know I have had quite a few growth spurts during my pregnancy so I think the timing of your scan can make things a bit skewed one way or another.

On the subject of sex ....I think dh is a bit scared......I've told him placenta is not over the cervix anymore but he still doesn't seem to get himself upstairs for an "early night".....and let's face it I'm good for nothing past 10pm!

MumOfBillyTheKid · 29/01/2008 09:18

I'll join in on the enjoying sex conversation - think like you doup, he was a bit scared at first, but soon got in the swing of it!! Suggested he try the back massage on me that the relaxation class physio recommended - that encouraged an early night!

Weird dreams - my dp was pushing baby in a wheelbarrow along a lane which had snakes all crossing it going back to their field! Very werid!!

Good news Marchmum on your doula! I'm starting to get a bit scared about birth now - especially after watching that Blackpool hospital programme and seeing a woman in labour who had had an epidural still moaning and using gas and air!

Shall just try and focus on the present (heartburn and swollen hands/feet) and bury head in sand about it for now. (la la la la)

e14mum · 29/01/2008 10:07

Morning!
HQ- there's a leaflet about Pelvic Girdle Pain on this physio website which may have some advice for you. We throw the term "SPD" around a lot, and what you are describing sounds more like a third-trimester-carrying-heavy-baby-around symptom. I'm not a professional though...

Marchmum- I know what you mean... I've told pg women they look great before too and I was probably lying. But if it's any consolation, you looked good last tmie I saw you!
I have to confess- a friend of mine back home is due in Feb and is HUGE... she posts a lot of bump pics on facebook and I console myself that at least I'm not as big as her- isn't that awful!? Please someone else tell me they've done the same!??

gingercat12 · 29/01/2008 12:29

Marchmum I am so glad you said that, my legs are always wide apart when sitting and feel a bit exposed .

e14 I do not even have the consolation of seeing other people being huge, as I am probably bigger...

On the sex subject I am looking forward to reaching week 36 when we'll try to be a bit more energetic. Since getting to hospital with bleeding at week 29, we have been very careful . I could just cuddle my DH all the time, but I try not to freak him out completely...

feedmenow · 29/01/2008 12:54

Glad I could be of help Merry!

MumofBilly, is this your first? I seem to remember being a bit head-in-sand with my first. And although I haven't ever managed to actually push a baby out of my fanjo, I have actually found that I am not really nervous about the birth this time. Definately more excited than nervous. However, I am getting really nervous about the afterwards as I am remembering all the sleepless nights, baby blues, saggy belly, etc, etc, etc. Anyway, what I'm getting at is that I think everyone should try and look on labour as a positive experience cos you'll get your LO at the end

As for the sex conversation, I seem to have rather saucy dreams but when I am awake I am too damn tired, plus have horrific piles and heartburn so can't possibly imagine a position that would work!

MarchMum · 29/01/2008 13:01

found this today on an American site and it made me laugh:

Useful comebacks to rude pregnancy comments
• "At least I made somebody's heart and brain today. What did you do?"
• "You're huge too — and you don't have the excuse of another person living inside you."
• "Go ahead, but I'm not touching yours."

On sex - so ironic that 3rd trimester for me is going well - the first I was too sick and the second was just awkward for some reason. 3rd is a dream - better than before pg. ok, tmi.

e14 - i confess too - although i have never taken any joy in how other people look but I have noticed pg women on the street and said a little thanks that i didn't look 'as bad' as them.

this is not particularly helpful to the big babies convo but i am remembering talking with a midwife friend in the US and she was saying there's a bit of chat in the 'field' about how babies are getting bigger - a 7lb baby now completely normal if not on the smaller side. she says with the new attention to health in pg, vitamins, exercise, babies, and in particular heads are getting noticeably bigger. obviously a good thing but there is some concern about how to deal with them. she said some believe the big heads may be directly linked to vitamins so lay off the pregnacare and have a g and t. JK!

prisci i had a nose bleed on the weekend and thought of you (on the eurostar). in any other context that would be a strange thing to say but different rules on MN!

Last day of work in the office - gotta make it productive....

tori32 · 29/01/2008 13:37

LOL at everyone with sex on the brain. My DH has been told only to ask on a Saturday! (can have a lie in that day )

I had the pelvic ache thing last time but it didn't hurt all the time, just depended what position baby was lying in.

I have a MW appt tomorrow as I haven't seen her for ages I thought I should show my face. So nobody has guestimated the size of this baby Anyway, if gravity is meant to help baby move down then a heavier baby should be easier to get out?

I know what you mean about head in the sand about the labour. I really need to come up for air soon and to smell the coffee . NCT class next week should wake me up a bit.

On the weight front I have been told I am 'huge' and 'tiny' in the same week by 2 seperate people. Both have children. Bizzarely the very slim lady said 'tiny' and the me type build lady said 'huge'. I did explain that my baby, working on the putting on .5lb per week from 32wks theory that dd would have been 6lb at this stage, so this baby is possibly similar weight, near most peoples birth weight. This shut her up!

HolidaysQueen · 29/01/2008 14:01

I've been called both huge and tiny in the last week or two, but DH thinks I look really neat and have a nice bump so I'm happy I'm a fairly big lass - size 16, child-bearing hips, big bum etc. and I expected to just spread everywhere but my bump is a very front on one but not of the weird football variety. Still 8 more weeks for me to get humungous though!

preggersagain · 29/01/2008 14:03

i still have a bump but its only little now!!

tori32 · 29/01/2008 14:17

HQ I have the football variety!LOL. I think it depends on whether people see me sitting or standing sideways or front on. From the front and back I haven't put much on but sideways on I look like Mrs Greedy from Mr Men!!

HolidaysQueen · 29/01/2008 14:26

tori - feel bad now that i said 'weird'! Ooops...

It's because DH and I saw the weirdest bump ever a few weeks ago in John Lewis nursery section which has become our yardstick for weird bumps, and it was a very prominent football-shaped one! The lady was about 6 ft tall and about a size 8 - really slim and leggy with a long torso. She had this enormous bump (she must have been days away from giving birth) that looked like it wasn't part of her body but was a big football that had been stuck on to her flat tummy! And because she had a long body it only took up about 1/4 of the length of her torso so there was a huge gap between it and her boobs! I felt very neat and compact in comparison - which is not my usual reaction when stood next to a leggy, slim blonde

feedmenow · 29/01/2008 14:37

I think I would cry if I stood next to a tall leggy blonde I am only 5' tall and the second a pregnancy starts showing it is already right under my boobs. Infact, I feel like a weeble!

MumOfBillyTheKid · 29/01/2008 15:08

feedmenow yep, it is my first, so bury head in the sand is good (for now) - as you say, am sure it'll be ok as end result is my LO! Will worry about the rest (saggy belly etc. after!)

On the size front - I was called huge last time I was in the office and small the same week by my hairdresser! My dp currently thinks I look like I have a comedy football up my top - it is all bump! From behind you can't tell I'm pregnant! Heavy enough to have to wear a nice support band around it though when out walking (not that i'm doing much of that - oh no!)

Being 5ft 2in though and a size 12/14, it wasn't me you saw in John Lewis HQ - I don't have much of a gap between boobs and tumy!

JFly · 29/01/2008 15:26

feedmenow - classic comment about the weeble!

I just said the other day I'm like a weeble: weebles wobble but they don't fall down!

fitnforty · 29/01/2008 15:42

Lol at the mixed reactions! I got told in work twice yesterday that i was waddling now. I explained that i was actually hobbling due to the pain when i stand up from being at my desk for too long.
Then as i was going home was told i looked knackered.
Then saw a friend who hadn't seen me for about a month and was told i wasn't as huge as she was expecting me to be! (To be fair, when her sister was preggers, she was enormous and only 5' or maybe 4' 11").

Someone has just asked me if i feel excited yet, but to be honest, i don't think i really am yet. Looking forward to it, yes, but i think the excitement won't start until either i leave work or labour starts

MarchMum · 29/01/2008 21:01

fitnforty what's the status of the lodger? a red arse i hope!!

i think i am the football variety but sitting high as it is right up against my boobs. more room underneath as it were. (although i still sit legs wide open as disucssed. in fact i notice i bend over with them open as well which i observed today freaks out the people in my office!)

fitnforty · 29/01/2008 22:43

lodger is due to move out by wednesday next week - he has new lodgings but the landlady is on hol until the weekend so he'll start moving stuff over from monday (i hope!!!).
Being a bit nicer to him now as he won't need to fill the fridge and freezer since he's moving, and he bought me some Annabel Karmel books from my amazon wish list for my birthday ...i haven't opened them yet but i sneaked a look to see what had been purchased!

Just treated myself to a new mini suitcase from asda, even if i'm having a home birth, need to pack for hossie just in case and it keeps everything together PAcked a separate bag for the baby last week but dragging my heels on my own stuff. We finished putting the stickers up on the wall in the nursery so it's as good as finished once i can get some curtain rods for the things i can't remember the name of which are net/guaze type thingies, anyone help my memory?

timmyinatizzy · 30/01/2008 09:55

Is it a voile you're thinking of fitnforty?

e14mum · 30/01/2008 10:05

hooray fnf, lodger is almost gone!

ok, so I caught a glimpse of myself on my way home last night- I AM huge!! I'm a round sticky-out bump type, not right under my boobs, but not low down either. There's a fair amount of torso for it to occupy though.

Has anyone heard of a link between babies that have hiccups a lot in the womb and colic? My gp mentioned it in passing yesterday and now I'm all worried as this one gets them at least once, usually twice a day!

doup76 · 30/01/2008 10:32

I just unpacked my delivery from john lewis.....I am surrounded by baby stuff and loving it!

fitnforty · 30/01/2008 10:53

voile!!! That's the word
Happy now...

timmyinatizzy · 30/01/2008 10:58

Glad to be of assistance

HolidaysQueen · 30/01/2008 11:08

doup - i'm jealous! i'm still sat at home waiting for my JL delivery when i actually want to be outside enjoying the sunshine!!!

derah · 30/01/2008 11:10

Soooooooooo bored at work! Just started my last week (YAY!) and boss won't give me anything useful to do. It's been like this for weeks. I'm extra glad to be going on Mat leave just cos I have nothing to do here and the day just draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaags.

I found out this morning that both dd's key workers at nursery are leaving next month so I'm actually quite glad to be taking her out. I think it would be a huge change for her and better that she's missing it. I'm sorry she won't see her friends any more though....

e14mum - haven't heard that one before, but most of these 'this links to that' ideas are really just nonsense. Like the indigestion and hairy babies one. I'm sure your little one will be fine! Goodness, we have enough to worry about without stressing about potential colic too!!

Doup - That'll be me next week when I get everything out of the loft. All the tiny baby things to be washed and put away in the girls' room.

Right, back to sorting through paperwork to see what needs binning and what may one day be useful to someone after I've left....