Feb Babies - Come on Down!

[tyaca]

'ere we go, guys!

wow look at the size of that hatched list!!!

congrats to everyone who has recently sprogged.

slacker - love ds' name, my eldest is called Felix! excellent choice!

Seth doing well, feeding like a maniac!!

Love to everyone x

Hi everyone, have tried to catch up on all the posts but will need more time!!

Fab to see so many new hatchlings, congratulations to everyone and hope babies and mums are doing well (and all other family of course!!). Hope ladies in waiting aren't getting too frustrated, just hang in there and take advantage of early easter treats!!

I read my post of last week with fondness and had to chuckle, oh how things change in just a few days!! Honestly it seems like a lifetime ago since I last posted!! Ds2 has had horrendous wind - at night - so has been really unsettled and not sleeping, it was only a matter of time!! I have a feeling that he hasn't reacted well to tomatoes or onions that I've eaten so have cut them out. He's calming down now but it was touch and go by monday on my sanity levels!! Weirdly though he'd be an angel in the day and then terrible at night. Dp rang me on monday just as I was trying to sterelise the breast pump while get ready to feed ds2 and placate ds1 who;d decided ds2 was having far too many cuddles that day!! Needless to say that his voice just tipped me over the edge and I went quiet and just stood over the sink in tears crying about the fact I'd given birth to someone with a split personality, that ds1 obviously hated me and how on earth was I supposed to express if ds2 never stopped feeding Needless to say after a few hours sleep life seemed so much brighter!!! I think we're reaching a point where we've got to start getting him into a vague routine as the on demand shedule is just too all over the place!! We did give him infacol last week but then he started throwing up everywhere so we cut that out. I do have to laugh though cause he still doesn't really cry - more a squeak so he sounds like some kind of duck which is a blessing really!!! On the other hand ds1 is just being great although wanting lots more cuddles which I'm chuffed about as now he likes me again!!! Is anyone else still struggling with hormones a few weeks later or is it just the tiredness? I just want to make sure that I'm not the only one feeling a bit on the edge and it's not a bigger problem!!!

Oh and gill - we've started using a dummy on occasion to placate ds2 when he needs comfort as opposed to feed. We're using the tomme tippe closer to nature ones - they make his mouth look like a cats bum!!!

And we;ve finally got a middle name so ds2 is Jack Harrison - just got to get him registered now!!! And there;s more photos.

Also, does anyone else feel a bit guilty about their older children going off places while you catch up on sleep/chores etc. I just feel like I'm sending ds1 away and that he'll feel like I don't want him around anymore

And I am still in some maternity clothes - can't remember who it was that was a bit disappointed about it. Ds2 is 3 wks today and although some of my maternity stuff is too big I haven't got a hope in hells chance of getting into my normal clothes this side of easter - especially as I keep eating creme eggs he he he he he

Anyway - gonna stop blabbering on and hope everyone's ok!!

Is it too late to join? Have found reading some of the posts really useful. Am 41+5, with SPD and booked for an induction I don't really want on Friday. Will ask about delaying further, but also having (probably imaginary) guilt trips about delaying my mother coming down (5 hrs away) until I'm settled at home with a baby. She's great, but I couldn't stand the fussing or the certain panic she would spread if I actually managed to go into labour.
I'm sure this is just a diatribe , sorry, but being stuck at home looking and feeling like something Friends of the Earth would help re-float from a beach, with a 5 yr old on half term and 2 dogs who want a long walk is doing my head in (partner at work).
Have tried a sweep (2 days ago - unfavourable??) and other things, but not very mobile because of the SPD. You all seem to be pretty together and rational, but I feel like I'm on an emotional (and thoroughly crap) roller coaster! DH thinks I'm going loopy and can't wait to get to work every morning .
Lots of aches, pains and hardening, but have had that stuff well over 10 days now, so am ignoring it all.
Anyone else overdue and borderline psychotic?

BTW, I sound like a total cow having re-read my post , but I forgot to say congrats to all of you who've managed it so far, I do find it great to read how you're all doing.
I said I was possibly loopy......

Never too late to join SireeDubs! Feel free to rant and vent - sounds like you have a lot to deal with. SPD is not fun. Sounds like you need a friend to come over and look after dogs and 5 yr old so you can relax in the bath!

hi sireedubs, yes yes yes, i am also borderline psychotic. welcome. also welcome to readytopop.
dh seems not to believe i am truly holding back and making massive efforts not to explode. i think he is really really loving his work...
the obstetrician told me i'd lost weight yesterday and that i needed to eat six meals a day and rest more-hurrah! bring on the cream eggs, must go and buy some count to 10 felt like the best news to be able to come home and tell dh. i should start hiring the 1 year old out to people who want to lose weight. it's just really hard to get enough to eat when looking after lo. those of you getting envious, relax, we're talking in terms of 1lb not stones! and i have to say on this subject-saskia are you insane, size 4!!(are you talking u.s. sizes?) you're going to make everybody else want to slit their wrists if you keep up the size 4 talk! don't panic the weight will come off-even if you have to hire my child for a day or 2
countto10-i got v tearful with lo when 3 weeks in. sleep deprivation and crying babies are v wearing and sounds entirely normal. make sure you get max support from everyone and keep an eye on how mis. you feel so that if it does get really bad it can be spotted asap.
must go and grab some sleep

hi sireedubs - oh rant away... its the sign of a true feb'er! i am 39ish weeks and going nuts, god knows what i'll be like when if i'm overdue.

i'm a first-timer, so dont know much about these things, but re inducing, i was reading some interesting threads in child birth in which people were saying they didnt want to be induced and that it was ok to wait and to go with your gut. one thing even medics put a bit of faith in is acupuncture - worth a shot? or shiatsu, which is a massage that i'm always going on about, basically acupuncture but massage not needles.

sorry to go on... if you're anything like me, you prob just want sympathy rather than half baked advice!!

mitford, lol at dh being a rubbish masseuse. mine too til really recently BUT been getting rubs off him all this week and i swear he's starting to get it a bit.

well, no baby, no sign of baby, no nothing here. dh and i keep thinking is that there's still some stuff to be done. thing is, there'll always be stuff to get done. maybe lo's just as lazy as her mum. i'm really herd to shift once i'm confortable.

the slight delay has given me a chance to start to show DH how to cook. he is v sweet and insists on doing everything himself while i give instructions from my chair! we have done two things so far and both have been typed up after so he has a recipe to refer to .... bless him, he also cleaned the oven which took the best part of the day. i love it when he's off work... cant believe he's back on monday....

ok, thats it. a big hello to everyone. no sign of bessie... or princessllama for a couple of days....

mymissus, i think you should just bite the bulllet and call digby digby. i used to live next door to the sweetest little boy called digby ... go on, go on, go on....

xposts princess. ho hum ... we'll be here til the end!

and sorry, meant to say welcome to readytopop

Welcome readytopop and sireedubs. Another febber here marching the tightrope of psychosis!

Counto10 - I know what you mean about feeling guilty for 'farming out' DS. Poor DS has been with all sorts of people, and my baby isn't even born yet! We should think ourselves lucky that we have so many willing helpers. It's only a short-term thing, and our DC will survive.

I have a more positive end to yesterday's saga. My own lovely midwife has been to visit me this morning (very apologetic for her colleague's error). My BP is slightly lower again - really great news. Head 1/5 engaged, so heading in the right direction (excuse the pun!), but not low enough for a sweep. MW arranged for me to go to the hospital tomorrow am to discuss delaying induction until 40+13/14 and make an action plan. All in all, I feel soooooo much better since she visited this morning. I have been having strong BH (or maybe real contractions which haven't got too painful yet?) every so often since soon ater she left. There really must be something to be said for getting rid of anxiety and it making the baby come (birth needs oxytocin, but adrenalin stops the oxytocin working - that's the science as I understand it anyhow ). I also had 'tightenings' which woke me up during the night for a couple of hours, but later stopped, probably because I was feeling so anxious. I just hope and pray that this is it! 20.02.08 would be a lovely birthday I think!!! There's positive thinking for a quick labour! I'm off for a little rest while DS is napping. Will be back later unless I'm in labour (it will never happen...)

hello lovelies

gosh, sireedubs you are doing just great - you have a lot on your plate not to mention the waiting game - rant away. I've spend today so far under the duvet, watching Gordon Ramsey on Channel 4 website; and blubbed pathetically when DH doled out the merest hint of sympathy.

tyaca, you're not lazy, you're pregnant - quit with the pressure! like pobletsmum says, we should relax and give up our anxious ways!

digby is a real cutie mymissus - what names are you thinking? I know a man who was given a name when he was born, but his womb name stuck, so everyone calls him Bun.

Hi

Just a message to the fed up febs ready to droppers - hang in there, put your feet up, walk, munch pineapple, have a shag, do whatever it takes to get your mind off it but please don't drive yourselves crackers too much (easier said than done I know).

Have been out with LO today for first visit to baby clinic to get him weighed and poor thing also had his first jab - think the health visitor slightly scared me into it but LO's protests sounded more like pure fury than tears - he absolutely lost it then expressed his disgust with a massive double poo. Was all fingers and thumbs with baby, pram, wipes, changing nappy and trying to get him dressed with HV looking on with humour. Anyway he's gained 11oz since being born 2 weeks ago so things are going in the right direction. Can't remember what's the average amount they should be gaining each week?

Would love to open up a forum on the great bf in public conundrum. Was a little put out to find myself in baby clinic giving LO a quick pit stop when some bloke wanders in. Still not quite comfortable with all of this. What are others' thoughts?

Also PK - haven't seen you posting for a while and have missed your hilarious anecdotes ... hope things are OK with you and you are settling into motherhood without others around you driving you crackers.

Must go and wake LO now for another feed - trying to keep him stoked up at least every 3 hours during the day to keep nights as peaceful as possible.

Welcome sireedubs. Feel free to vent - you have a lot on at the moment.

Muth re. breastfeeding: I don't really see myself breastfeeding at a dinner table in public but apart from that, I will whip out a boob and feed LO, covering the boob up with a scarf over my shoulder (once i have learnt how to bf!).

Have reached the stage where i can't seem to get comfortable for very long. On one hand, i want to go into labour (due 28 Feb), on the other, am enjoying being selfish and not having to do anything.

Readytopop - Just saw your post. Welcome to our little club.

Hi ladies and a big welcome to Readytopop and SireeDubs, and don't worry about people thinking you're psycotic because most of us are

I really feel for those of you who are now overdue, Who's gone over the most? we haven't had any babies for a few days (or have we?) so get ready for the rush this weekend, anyway Dp will be 37 on fri and pisceans are just the nicest people

Egg happy 2nd birthday for your Ds1 hope you're having a lovely if not v. cold day!!!

Can any of you ladies that have breastfed before give me some advice please....when in god's name are my tit's going to get smaller!!! they were'nt this big when i was pregnant and although i do have some lb's to shift they feel like a dead weight, breastfeeding is still going well apart from the odd toe curling moment every now and again, but i really do wish they were'nt quite so big ( ) ( )

Have a good evening everyone and those of you still waiting for your lo's get those feet up while you can!!!

Hi to newbies!

I'm due tomorrow and I really thought I'd never get this far. It was my birthday yesterday (had a really lovely day with dp and family) and it was always there at the back of my mind that my little one could end up sharing my birthday. But it was not meant to be. Oh well. I've had tightenings galore and pains low down particularly at night but nothing that's led to anything. I'm keen to get this show on the road, so to speak, but also more than a little scared at the same time...

Don't have time to read all the posts; in a bit of a rush. Just leaving for hospital now, for induction tomorrow - wish me luck.

Will post again when I'm back with baby

xx

Oh, and happy birthday for yesterday, Violeta

Good luck, Bessie!

Very best wishes for tomorrow Bessie.

Leesmum - I'm currently 7 days over, but I think there are others further over than me. As for boobs getting smaller again - mine never did! They don't feel as full as when I was breastfeeding, but my bra size never actually went back down. It's probably more to do with the fact that I never lost my pregnancy weight than anything else though.

Mutha - sounds like good weight gain to me. The breastfeeding in public thing gets easier with practise. Just keep persevering.

My tightenings are still coming, but aren't getting any more regular or stronger yet. DS has been particularly difficult this evening (streaming with cold, poor mite) so have let DH (aslo feeling unwell) put him to bed while I chillout for a bit. That's the theory anyway .

oooh, good luck bessie!!

happy birthday violeta - glad you had a nice day.

poblet, glad things went well with midwife and hope you get the much-deserved chillout.

you're right leesmum, no babies for a while.... a lull before the storm? your comment about boobs getting even bigger has terrified me. mine have gone from a C to and E already... can just about cope with the size but the shape of 'em - esp the nips - means that i do anything to avoid looking at them ... bit the bullet and bought a nursing bra in mothercare on sunday, they're all so huge and not v. pretty.

tescos f*d up my delivery today... so it was jacket potatoes, only the newly cleaned oven is a bit chemically and smells v dodgy. so hurrah! i get pizza.... with extra jalepenos.... this baby WILL come.

Evening ladeeeez! how's you all? Welcome to Readytopop and Sireedubs, and please don't worry about the psychotic thing.... personal opinion is that anyone who is 39+ weeks pregnant and not completely mental is weird anyway as it's such a horrible place to be (just read my posts of a couple of weeks ago!!!) so welcome to the zoo!
Have i missed anyone? not sure, but in case i have, congratulations!!!
Good luck Bessie, hope it's all quick and painless!
Poplet, hope things work out for you friend, and hey, every baby is totally different!
Leesmum, you're so right about Pisceans.... I'm 37 next Tuesday! 71 was a good vintage for us!
Tyaca, and everyone else desperate to pop... curry and sex..... it worked for me!!!
anyway, health visitor came today, (midwife signed us off yesterday)... nice woman! yeah i was amazed too!! she retires in about 2 years, so she's seen it, done it, bought the t shirt and seems more interested in what works than what the book says! most impressed about her advice regarding Alex's sticky eye (use teaspoon full of salt in cooled boiled water to bathe) ... i'd just been using plain water.... and that's it's ok to use baby lotion in the bath and either aqueous cream or E45 on her dry skin (as she was late her skin is really dry looking... very flakey!) Tried both tonight and already she looks more comfortable and happier! I know from my own job that a lot of H/v are totally barking, but this one is lovely! although she's back each week for the next 6 weeks, i might hate her by then!! anyway folks, huge sympathy to those still up the duff..... won't be long now, like that's any help!! and it does get better...... instantly! never known of anyone who needed Gaviscon in the post natal ward!! love to all... lolo xx

PS... i think Digby rocks!!! x

Hi all,

Apologies if I use the wrong terminology and phrases...

Just a quick post to let you know about Widgetsmummy. The short version is that it was very long, very painful and very scary. However both Mother and LO are doing very well and all is now getting better.

Bethan Grace was born at 11:28pm on 19/02/08 weighing in at 9lbs. All in all DW had been contracting for 69.5hrs (almost) straight. All were absolutely exhausted. Widgetsmummy will be in hosp for a few days but we're hoping she will be let out by Friday.

I'm sure she will post quickly when she gets back.

I've uploaded a pic into my profile if you want a look, hopefully you should be able to follow this link

Cheers,

Widgetsdaddy

congratulations widget family. very sorry that it was so hardcore. just had a look at bethan picture and she is beautiful. hope widgetsmummy recovers soon.
good luck tomorrow bessie
tyaca i've gone from d to g mind you last time was d to h so even more . the emma jane bf bras don't look quite so bad but have to agree that ultimately they all look fit for purpose and nowt else