Due March 2008 Surely someone has to pop soon...

[turtle23]

New thread

I'm on Mat Leave As long as I get this one week I'm willing to be the next to pop!
Hope you're all well

phew, glad for new thread, tried to mobile it whiule waiting for ds just now, was too big to load! seems a prob once we get past 600 posts for me. anyone else?

I'm enjoying the first day of my mat leave too E14. I have baked some fairy cakes for the dsd's. They are doing a cake sale at school tomorrow for the NSPCC. Normally I have to say that I can't do anything as I'm working. Its nice to be able to help, plus it makes the kitchen smell yummy!

Nearly wasn't able to make the 22nd meet up. There's me saying weekdays are much better and I'd definitely be there, I'd totally forgotten that the dsd's are on half term that week. Luckily enough I've managed to persuade dh to take the day off to be with them, so I'm free again. Yay. Suppose I could of taken them round the Tate Modern, but this way I get to eat cake in peace!

Happy "Holidays" to you too timmy!
V. ambitious baking... have managed to fold laundry and do dishes so far

Congrats for creating the new thread. I always wonder who is going to "be mum" and do the sensible thing and start a new thread.... I don't feel popular enough to do it heh heh...

I have a question..... Is anyone else having severe out of body type experiences (not physically but mentally) where all of a sudden it seems like you are just realising you are going to have a baby.... An actual real live person in a few weeks??? Someone who has never existed before??? A brand new human?!?!?!?

Dunno if it is because I am a 1st timer but I am really freaking out at night and - along with not being able to sleep due to the major discomfort of the massive football up my nighshirt - I just can't seem to get my head toghether!!

Also, I am increasingly "ants in the pants"y like I have forgotten to do something or that something is missing.... I seriously think I might be losing it big time.

There are some issues at the mo with the old personal life and ghosts from the past coming back to haunt us which might be a contributory fact but I am seriously having a terrible time with my mental state!

Anyone else? Or is it just me.

I got a hypnotherapy cd for "happy childbirth" that I am yet to actually sit down and do so maybe that will help calm me down but I am really freaking out

Sorry....

I panicked last night when I moved my book in bed, looked down, and realised I was having a baby in 14 days!! I'm not sure I'm ready for this (baby No.2).
Anyone else with last minute panics?

Paranoid-Don't apologise. This is the perfect place to voice all those concerns.
I think that I am either very strange or haven't hit the "reality" wall yet as am very calm. I don't appear to be the norm, though. I go and check that my "in case" hospital bag is till packed, pool bits all together, etc. on a regular basis. Feel like one of those kids who know that they're going on holiday and just sit there with their bag packed and on their lap waiting for it to be time, but impatiently!!
I am now sleeping in the baby's room(thanks to my restless leg syndrome keeping DH awake) and when I wake up first thing I see is the cot and keep secretly hoping that I'll have just been dreaming he isn't here yet and will be in the cot when I get up.

Aww thanks. I don't know if the lack of sleep is affecting me too. I can't seem to put what I am feeling into words - and I don't really want to let people know that I am feeling like this. Everyone in the "real world" just likes to spout forth with the usual cliches that aren't even related to what I am talking about.

Like earlier, I got a text from my friend because I was asking her if she felt like this towards the end and she just said "I hate to say it but you just have to get on with it. Men are no help anyway"

Eh????? Hello - were you even listening?!?!? Not helping.

AH well, it's not like I go on about everything - in fact I tend to just vent on here cos I know the people I associate with aren't really interested in other people's feelings. I don't really have a "support network" and I have also been having sleepless nights realising that somehow I have ended up in a life where I am pretty much alone even though there are a lot of people around me. They have only started paying attention to me because I am having their grandchild/neice/nephew/a baby.

This sounds so pathetic but I am seriously just being brutally honest. Yes, it is my own fault I have ended up in this situation and I feel so lost and trapped and alone but I really believe I have dug myself right in deep to this situation and I can't get out. Then again, there's a lot of people out there with real problems compared to my little foibles and I have a roof over my head, a semi decent relationship and people who will love the baby so much. I just hope there's room for me too!!!!

ARGH!!! at myself

1st Timer - emotions likely due to transition phase which always heightens things. I think I am still in the 'not yet hit me' phase but I have been having a ll sorts of career type anxiety like 'i'll never work again!' and people will think i am dull housewife' type issues. on the being alone bit - you're about to have a new best friend!! and if you get connected with a good mum's group (or hell, join 2), that will be an excellent support of people who ater likely feeling evry similar.

just wanted to follow up on earlier post that my dh is not usually a thug!! very out of character so was kind of cute. was not condoning violence :.)

am also going to try and post profile picture...

ps has everyone seen turtle's excellent exec decision re: feb 22 meet up?

Paranoid - if you can't be a little concerned and worried now, when can you be? And this is the perfect place, because we're all in a similar boat (ie, waddling about feeling like some joker strapped a medicine ball to our fronts while we were asleep...).

The thought that there will soon be a baby here is starting to bother me a bit too. I was giving the dog a cuddle before bed on Saturday night, and I suddenly started to cry because I was worried that when the baby comes along then things are going to be so much different for the dogs. That's right, the dogs. Never mind Bloke and I...I am just accepting that the huge change in circumstances, along with millions of hormones, means that I might be a little mental sometimes, and panic about stuff that wouldn't usually bother me.

e14mum - Are you enjoying your first day of maternity leave? I am starting my second week now, and packed my bag his morning, a job I have been promising I would do since last weekend. Almost feel ready now. Would enjoy some more time for lazing about, but it would be fine if the baby came now.

On the thread title...anyone feeling close yet?

Thanx MarchMum

It's nice to know I am not actually going completely mad although it really does feel like it. I find myself sitting in the room full of people looking at everyone smiling and nodding on the outside and making small talk but my brain is going "what the heck am I doing? These people don't even know me?!?!? I am soooo alone" etc but I don't really believe that to be true in my heart of hearts.

I think it was very sweet of your dh protecting you like that!!! I love it that when you are in your pregnant "nature n biology rule" state, then he should get into his manly man role of protecting his woman and his future heir!!!! It's not really violence - it's self defence and really makes you feel chest puffiness pride!

thanks for listening to my cr@p xxxxx

paranoid, I had my mini nervous breakdown last week - have been putting so much faith in the hypnobirthing that i had a panic attack about it not working or that the m/ws won't believe i'm in labour etc. The whole what happens afterwards thing is tbh worrying me a hell of a lot more than the birth bit. And yes, SpaceHH, I am so worried about how the dog reacts as he's so used to being my spoilt only child at the moment! I think because he's a rescue dog I feel more guilty as i don't want him to feel abandoned again

Oh, and on the crying at films/tv stuff again. ...just watched the Mighty Celt and bawled my eyes out even though i could see what was coming. If you haven't seen it, don't believe a word of the "no animals were harmed in the making of this film" statement at the end, it's far too realistic

Still, have managed to take the pooch for a quick walk today without crippling myself! I waddled a little too fast though so was very out of breath by the time I got home. Mustn't overdo things Tried the birthing pool out this morning and listened to my hypno stuff while in there and it was sooo relaxing I loved it. Didn't want to get out but was getting a bit too hot. The company who hired it out (Aquabirth) is run by a girl who's also a doula so she was giving me loads of free advice this morning about how to fool the midwives into thinking the temperature is ok as it doesn't really have to be 37deg, they just like that as a safety measure. Also tips on how to handle the 3rd stage which i want to be natural and the m/ws think should be managed.

Hope i haven't just repeated anything i typed on the last thread, I can't remember!

Hi all

Last week of work for me! Luckily (for me) network has crashed, so no work this afternoon off anyway at 4 to "life after birth" course! Not sure if need to go to London at all this week (if they don't ask me to, I'm not offering!)

Had my parents and DP's Mum visit this weekend - first time they've met (DP and I have been together for 10 years!) -that all went very well (phew!). As usual, they all turned up with more bits for LO! Boy is this one going to be spoilt!

Managed to get the nursery finished before they arrived (bar a drawer unit which should be arriving tomorrow) - everyone thought it was lovely (even made the cotbed up with the duvet which matches the room decor, even though it won't get used for a year!)

Glam - try not to worry about LO - I like you have been a bit worried about mine after short femur length at 20w and re-scan a few weeks later. Have put it to back of mind and said what will be will be and like you am banking on the fact that I'm short, and so will LO and not anything more serious.

Right - countown to Friday (and then baby shower on Saturday)! Can't wait!!!!

Oh dear..heehee.. do your pelvic floors before reading this

that's a hilarious thread!!

excuse my shite spelling on earlier message, brain works faster than fingers....

Hello all,

I've just realised (thanks to timmy, was it?) that DD will also probably be on half term when we have our meet up. She is quite portable though and she likes the tate so probably will bring her along if no-one minds. Unless I can offload her somewhere, but tbh I'd like to save up those opportunities for a bit later! Is it a week on Friday?

Am I the only one on this thread with a breech baby? That can't be possible, surely.

paranoid I spent most of the weekend in floods of tears about something "going wrong" and "not being ready to give birth" amd "look at the state of this f*ing bedroom". We will all get through these next weeks somehow.

Just had a pedicure as it's so long since I could reach my feet. And when LO is being pushed and pulled about on Wednesday during the ECV, I can at least look at me feet and not feel hideously embarrassed.

Right, school uniform should be off now. Better get on with the long promised rice krispie cake making session.

X

Glam..she's lovely, bring her along. Feel free to bring rice crispy cakes too!

Paranoid - hope you are feeling better! I think I'm in 'denial' just can't (that is to say don't) believe that I'm about to have a baby. Got the all the stuff ready, but as for the brain....
Spacehopper - I've been worrying about my dogs too. They definately know something's up and have been a bit unsettled and extra clingy. I guess it's all the baby stuff arriving and my mad chucking old stuff away. They hate any kind of packing! I've just been for the slowest dog walk ever - BH nearly all the way. It was more of an endurance than a pleasure.
Questions - what is hypnobirthing and should I be drinking raspberry tea (it sounds horrid)?

what are the odds on my LO arriving on Monday, since that's the day we're all going to have our spa treatments? Admittedly i'm restricted to a facial and pedicure as they aren't qualified to do preggers type massages etc, but wouldn't it be sods law that i want to enjoy the day and my waters break?

That's my sort of warped thinking . Off for a kinesiology top up session tomorrow so will see if we still come up with the same rough date of arrival round 21st and the lunar eclipse. Oh, can't remember who was asking but that's also the date of the full moon...

Roy Schneider is dead!

And I've just dropped and smashed a bottle of Clinique Elixir on the bathroom floor. Feel ever so queasy.

I've bought my ML forward by a week, which means I've got just over two weeks to go!

I read in my notes that the baby is now 4/5 engaged, so I am hoping that s/he doesn't come too early.

Purly..when they write 4/5 they mean that 1/5 is actually in. 4 is the number of fingers of head they can feel...so doesn't mean you're up soon, could be ages yet!!

thank goodness for that

piggy - I'm glad it's not just me thinking that the dogs can totally tell that something is up. The boy dog follows me everywhere, and has been more than usually interested in sniffing my boobs. Whenever I sit on the sofa, he curls up next to me and puts his head on the bump. Girl dog has started nesting for me, so we have to watch her all the time to stop her ripping up carpets and digging in the sofa. (It's at times like these that I think that maybe something a bit smaller that rotties would be more practical...Love them to bits though.) I'm 99% certain that they are going to love he baby, and have everything crossed that they don't think we love them less. It'll probably be like when we brought the puppy home - boy dog was 10 months, and acted as though the pup was a present for him, rather than an interloper in his cosy home. Hope so anyway .

turtle, that thread is hilarious. I'm especially thrilled by the poster who had to ask if she was really in labour, then delivered two pushes later. Fingers and toes crossed....

Is very hard to believe that in a maximum of 4 weeks (and a bit) I will be a bona fide parent. Just had a mad 2 days of ballistic cleaning, gardening etc, and afterwards thought - 'oh blimey, maybe this is that nesting they all talk about' and got all excited. Woke up this morning totally not in labour and realised I was just cleaning and gardening and not nesting at all, humph. Then i suddenly got all freaked out by idea of real human coming out of me and relying on me and DH for everything, then I forgot about it all and had a cup of tea, which seems to be the best way forward.

My dogs are idiots and don't have a clue anything is up. they trample all over my bump if i'm not careful. Have been on a vigorous dog-borstal-style training regime with the youngest who is v naughty generally. Now getting less naughty but feeling very sorry for herself as she gets water sprayed in her face every time she misbehaves.

37 week check at the midwife today, baby is 'long, thin and relaxed'. WTF? I do notice from my notes I measure 35cm so hopefully a smallish (but not in a bad way) PFB is on its way. Everything crossed for a nice small head, at least...