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

[turtle23]

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Where is everybody?

MissingMyHeels Maybe everyone else has gone into labour and are away having their babies and we are the only ones left!!!! How typical would that be ha ha... Actually, I feel really guilty making a joke out of that!!!! Don't tempt fate and everything.

I am having the most painful "lightening" pains... I really think my nonchalant "I refuse an epidural cos I am scared of them" is going to change cos if I can't handle this pain then how the hell am I gonna handle proper labour!!!

Totally feel for you - moving house is traumatic enough when you are in semi control of your hormones but full term pregnant plus all the stress?!?!? You are a strong woman!

Missingmyheels...are you coming along tomorrow? I'm bringing a friend along who's due mid-March who lives in Epsom too.

It's my first time posting anything and its quite nerve wracking - but I really feel the need to join in. Please be gentle!!

I'm due 2 weeks today, and completely exhausted with half term and having my two girls at home all the time.

Yay - another new person! Hurrah and hello! It is nerve wracking isn't it?

Yep I'm coming tomorrow turtle! Good news that you're bringing a fellow Epsom-er - I need to start meeting some local people as I am so bored at the minute that I keep going into London because I miss the busy-ness of it Going to start looking at classes for babies soon.

Shhh Paranoid - let's not tempt fate! I have been trying Clary Sage baths, loads of sex, lots of walking, spicy food and nothing seems to be doing anything. I don't even really have any Braxton Hicks. Rubbishhhhhh!!!!! I keep asking her nicely to make an appearance a little bit early but no joy

At least you have lightening pains Paranoid - you know your body is doing something. I don't even feel pregnant!!

Welcome whathavewedone and CricketsMum!

Don't be nervous - we're getting a little thin on the ground what with peoples waters breaking etc we need all the chat we can get!

Love the name whathavewedone

I fully plan to come tomorrow, but it depends on how bad the aches and pains are 'down below'. I start off walking at a normal pace, which quickly slows down to a crawl after about five steps.

Hello Cricket and whathavewedone!
Missingmyheels - not suprised you are feeling awful, moving house is dreadful at the best of times. Impressed that you are managing loads of sex though! Pineapple is also supposed to help things along (labour, not sex).
I have realised how much I don't want LO to be overdue today - but I don't quite feel organised yet!
What are lightening pains?

My sole motivator for the loads of sex is the prostaglandin - surely if I do it enough it'll have to have an effect!

Moving is rubbish, my BP last week was 120/60 and this week it is 137/82 - the midwife asked why I might be feeling a little stressed

I know what you mean piggy - I really want her to come and am desperate to meet her but then I am not organised or ready really. I still need to sort out her room etc. Although I do think if I went in to labour it'd be great because then everyone else would finish the unpacking!

Now I've started I don't know what to say, other than I want to pop NOW (or at least in the next week). I can't bear to be late like I was with the others.

We moved house just before dd1 was born - not ideal but keeps you occupied.

I don't know what lightening pains are either - other than that horrible sharp stabbing pain in your bits when the baby bounces on your cervix (apparently). Very nasty

Ah, back from lovely reflexology/massage. She told me to take it easy today, and maybe have a nap. I said I thought I could handle that. Although must pop out to find a little something for our gift exchange.

Glad to hear some more are coming tomorrow. Will be fun to meet some of you finally. New people, come along, too! I didn't make it last time, so haven't met anyone yet.

Know what you mean about being slow, purly, although I'm not in pain exactly, just can't move very quickly!

MMH I second the whole "no symptoms" thing, and I'm 38 weeks today. So frustrating! No BH, no engagement (well as of last monday), no nothing. Either the whole thing is going to take me very much by surprise or it's not going to happen for ages. OR, both!

But I think maybe nothing's happening as we're so not ready for it mentally or with the house. So, maybe MMH, baby is waiting for your moving house stuff to calm down before coming out?? I guess we should all be careful what we wish for.

hello new people, welcome!

I can't remember when i was last this rested. am sleeping an hour, eating/drinking, reading a book for an hour, sleeping again, on and on. It is magic.

Loads of irregular but quite frequent and mostly painless contractions going on here. Obviously, can sleep throught them! It's just that I do remember this whole feeling sick/shaky/cold and having a clear out thing from first time round. But first time was after 3 prostin gels and then I was given syntocin drip anyway, so lord knows how long I'll take if I continue naturally at this stage.

Days? Hours? Weeks? sigh

I wonder what the story is with marchmum and SSH?

And can I just say, how rude of Marchmum, SHH and merryberry not to take their laptops to the hospital and give us play-by-play accounts. I mean, we are waiting here, people! And you know it's not a good idea to keep pregnant ladies waiting!

LOL @ Missingmyheels - your plan for the unpacking sounds really like something I'd plan. I'm totally with you on the wishing I wasn't pregnant anymore despite not being ready for the baby to come and having another week of work left.

welcome "whathavewedone and CricketsMum*

Oh there you are! Sorry, cross post!

lol, i'll have me phone with me when it does it get serious, no doubt. keep the list down under 600 posts, and i can usually join in from wherever!

MMH I just noticed that you're on the dates thread for Feb 28th, so that's a week today! Have your dates changed?

Excellent, merry. Hope it doesn't linger foreveah. OH, I'm so excited!

Hi paranois1stTimer! I am 36+5 weeks and I can't walk properly! The inner part of my thighs feel like I have been trying to do the splits and hurt myself!

The baby keeps using his legs to push my ribs out of the way (painfull!) I have to keep pushing his little legs back!

I feel like there is so much pressure down below! I feel like he is trying to make an appearance now!

I also keep getting shooting pains down below and sometimes up the back passage when I try to walk somewhere! Sometimes I have to completely stop walking to calm down the pain! hehe!

Your not on your own with this one!

Hi all,

I hope everyone is feeling cool calm and collected despite house moves, night sickness and lightening pains

Have had a truly awful night! Almost constant Braxtons, felt really hot and like I was developing a temperature(!) and horrid back ache. I've got up this morning and its as if I've got thyroid problems...! My hands are shaking like mad! I also feel really sick and queasy. I'm not due for another 3 weeks....feel okay now, no pain just a very active baby....can anyone identify with this? I'm a first timer and feeling a bit nervous (insert nervous laughter here)

im not even 36 weeks yet trying not to hope it might come a bit early as i got all excited from about 37 weeks with the last 2 and was sure that every twinge was labour. face it ladies were in for the long haul {some of us longer then the others}

baby is definitly running out of space as her movements have slowed down, still getting a lot but there more lazy and squashed iykwim. also starting to get head butted in the bladdre more often and the nerve at the front of my legs keeps getting squished [ouch] were all organised now apart from i need to get a nursing bra its just a matter of sitting and waiting

I'm 36+5 and I cannot wait to go into labour Well just so that I have bub in my arms and can ( hopefully ) start to feel normal again. It is my fourth baby but my youngest at the moment is almost 13 and my eldest is going to be 18 on the baby's due date.
I keep having serious bouts of wishful thinking where every little twinge I keep hoping is the start of something. I feel soo slow, achey, heavy , tired , backache, rib pains. . you name it that I'm almost looking forward to contractions! I had so much more energy last time , guess I'm knocking on a bit this time. It's my DP's 1 st child so he can't wait for it to appear either.baby has slowed down a bit , but still knows how to give a hefty kick especially painful whilst in the middle of a BH contraction.

Hi Everyone,

Also wondering how the newmums and babies are doing.

I have been crossing my legs for the past few days, got a yeast infection of all things....was getting panicky...could I give birth naturally etc....but now all is 'well' down there.
We finally have received our shipping, so have been in full nesting mode, poor DH, got a bit of a shock on Monday when he arrived there was litterally a mountain of cardboard box with me in very very scruffy gear building a bookcase in the middle of all of that. I did not want to stop either, poor DH was helping reorganising the living room still at 11pm at night . I don't know where I found the energy for it, but LO is now making me pay for it, he has now started to love my ribs more and more...

I am the same the first week of Mat leave, I was really going a bit crazy (being in a new place etc... did not help), but now I have come to term that it is almost once in a life time opportunity and making the most I can of it. I starting to panick since I still have not finalize many aspects of our wedding in August in France since I know once LO arrives, it very unlikely I will get the time to.

Going to have a lovely cup of rasp tea now...yuck..

JFly - I was due to be having a c section and was booked in for 28th but my due date is 10th of March. I (stupidly, now it seems) decided that I would try and labour naturally as my fractures are hopefully healed enough not to cause further damage and that was why I was having a cs. Thinking I might change my mind about it now though...

LO has just given me a really painful boot in the ribs.

I'm looking forward to ML now that I realise that starting early is, in fact, a blessing in disguise as I am being paid to do nothing and no-one is expecting me to be Superwoman!