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

[turtle23]

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Goodness, hard to keep up with all this activity!

38+4 and 3/5 engaged today at MW, so things are moving in the right direction. No other signs or symptoms, but off to get the last bits and bobs for hospital bag just in case!

Sorry to hear of the various pains and woes. Migraines are horrid even when not pg, so I sympathise. MB hope your pukiness goes away - sounds like the only thing that will cure what ails everyone is delivering their LOs! I know I can't wait to feel my fingers again. It's really annoying whilst trying to type.

Monthlymayhem - yep, 18th March (quite a popular date judging by the dates thread).

For all those still sorting out their hospital bags, I've just discovered that M&S are doing "buy 1, get 1 for 1/2 price" on multipacks of knickers. They do value packs of 7 for £5 which means you can get 14 pairs for £7.50. I'm quite taken with the idea of my usual comfy M&S knickers post-birth without the worry of the expense involved if they get so horrid that I need to dispose of them.

I've finally finished shopping for the baby and now just need to get knickers and a couple of nighties for me for the hospital and then I'm done! Off for a cuppa and a lie down to celebrate

just woke up from nap, wondering how marchmum is getting on with her fluffy nappies!

pretty random thought.

Crumbs - more babies! Good luck, everyone!

I got stuck in bed on Saturday morning when my husband went out for a bike ride.
Somehow I ended up on my back - like a tortoise. The pain in my groin stopped me moving my legs. It took 30 minutes to get out of bed. Once I had returned from the loo I ended up sleeping with my back on the bed and my legs on the floor.

PurlyQueen How awful!!! I had the same kinda thing the other night - woke up flat on my back with no feeling in my legs and the weirdest shaped bump ever!!! Think LO ended up lying in the same position I was in. The pins and needles when the feeling started coming back was terrible and not helped by OH grabbing my feet and jiggling them around then taking the huff for getting screamed at!!!! Heh heh.

I am looking forward to being able to sleep on back and/or tummy once LO is here.... Then again, huge knockers and nightime feeds prob won't allow for too much comfort!!!

Hi,

Just came back from the Obstetrician and very down now. I knew that LO moved yesterday but did not want to think it was too much. Well he is now in an Oblique/Transversal position after being in the perfect head down etc...one , so much so that the Obs mentionned the word: caesarian delivery. It is apparently very unusual for a LO to turn this way so late (36 weeks) when he had been in the proper position for a while. The Obs even looked surprised and concerned. So I am booked for a Scan this Wednesday at 10am to see if the placenta is now lying low or check if the baby is very big etc.... From the start I tried not to think that I will be having a C section since I am so scared of any form of surgery and everything had gone so well so far.
I know I should not panic, as many many people get one and maybe that LO will be moving back down, but can't help it, whom as ever said that a pregnant women was rational!
HolidayQueen, I hope LO has stopped his moving upward also.

Sorry to hear you're down Prisci, that is a blow to have to take onbaord isn't it. Remember that obs are trained to be risk averse and rather gloomy on prognosis. You've a month to go still and room to move!

Have you read this about positioning stuff you can do to help, does it help any to read more at this stage?

Good MN thread here

Spinning babies say treat yourself like you've got a breech on board...

Oooh, another one! Good luck Brazillianmum!

Sorry about whizzy baby, Prisci. My brother was like that - kept shifting and was eventually breech so my mum had to have a c-section. But maybe yours will shift back again.

Well, I'm 37+6 today, and with DD I went into labour the evening of 37+6. So if it doesn't kick off tonight, tomorrow I will be more pregnant than I got last time!

I think I need to get DH to 'help things along' this evening.

That being said, something is defnintely going on cos my boobs are all tender (though that might be too much nipple stim! ) and I'm having lots of thick discharge. Sorry if TMI! Not sure if I'm having a slow show (all came out at once last time) or if some kind of hormonal change has happened. Still lots of backache and BH (some painful), but that's been going on for weeks so nothing worth getting excited about.

Sigh......

I'm almost envious of all of you who are about to give birth. My due date is the 29th so I feel like I'm miles away. I am praying that I'm not still pregnant in April (I reserve the right to change my mind when labour really kicks in!)

nearly shocked myself into labour there: clicked on a box of lucky charms cereal to add to the internet shop then noticed they are charging FIVE POUNDS 99 PENCE.

For a box of cereal.

I'd expect it to have been sailed back over the pond in a replica of the Mayflower, sailed by Johnny Depp and assorted other Hollywood totty at that price.

Hello March ladies - some of you may remember I berifly joined your thread way way back but sadly had to leave (am now 20+5 weeks myself)

Anyway to digress I wanted to wish you all the best of luck and for short and relatively pain free labours and you are all so lucky you will shortly be holding your little precious bundles. I look forward to seeing your birth announcements and stories.

Best wishes sweetkitty x

merry... where do you shop?!!!
Prisci- As much as I hate to say this (because you're due the same time as me) you still have ages to go!! Try OFP, try moxibustion...try everything!! I have had the same concern today, he feels like he has shifted oddly and I am desperate to see the midwife to tell me I'm imagining it.

ocado turtle, they do sometrimes have choke on your tongue prices. like that. blimey.

Oh goodness, there's a Due in November thread now! We really are the oldies!

Hello Sweetkitty, good to see you and I'm so glad to hear that this pregancy is going well.

MB all I can think of when you said lucky charms is "pink hearts, orange stars...blue diamonds, purple horseshoes...."
They're magically delicious!

I'll see your Lucky Charms and raise you a combination of Sugar Puffs and Cinammon Grahams - heaven in a bowl

It's because they're american imports... I've seen it before on there. £5.99 is ridiculous! Sorry, but Lucky Charms are pretty gross. Up there with Count Chocula in my books. The kind of cereal we used to beg mom to buy of course but she never would...(But I do like the commercials for them!)

Evening all. I am trying everything to get OFP this time so really sorry to hear about positioning problems. I hope baby turns for you Prisci

Thanks for your lovely best wishes sweetkitty and so pleased to hear this pregnancy is going well. Take care x

bored lying in bed awake so have retrieved the laptop for a quick browse, and will probably watch a few episodes of House that i've been saving for such occasions... we need a yawnie emoticon don't we?

Well done sweetkitty and keep us all posted with progress!

prisci and others with fidgety babies, fingers crossed they turn the right way in time, but if they don't then hope all goes smoothly in other ways.

Tonight my stomach feels like a washing machine is going round inside me - what really confuses me is how much of it is the baby's movement and how much is say, braxton hicks? I get tightenings which i think are leading to extra kicks from LO, but being a first timer i find it really hard to tell!

Got what i hope is my final m/w appt later this afternoon if i can get the car out of the driveway...resurfacing has been partially achieved outside the door, but they have very big machines blocking the road and buggered if i'm walking to the surgery!

Thank you so much for the support. Merryberry those links are very useful indeed and I also guess that Obs are trained for the worse, it is just that he was so surprised by the change in position himself, as I am pretty small etc...
Turtle23, indeed there is a while to go but I can't help being worried since the Obs made quite a fuss about it. Can't wait for the scan on Wednesday to see if there is a genuine reason for LO to turn such as placenta previa, in the meanwhile enjoying my birthing bowl and will be booking some acupuncture, prefer those needles to others.

Hi Prisci -

So sorry you're down in the dumps. If it's any consolation to know you're not alone, I'm feeling quite worried about the baby's position now too. Like you mine had been in the perfect position for at least 6 weeks, and he has definitely moved. It was so uncomfortable when he did it that it definitely wasn't just small movements and there is now a hard lump at the top of my bump which I have never had before and I can only think it is his head. Plus where his back was is now quite soft and yielding whereas before it was fairly solid. At night I get the feeling of limbs moving on both sides of my tummy so I am completely confused as to where he is! He seems to have more room to move now as the hard bits do move a bit, so I think he was just really uncomfortable and is trying to get a bit more room for himself.

I'm 36 weeks on Thursday when I have a prescheduled scan booked in. My placenta was low lying at 20 weeks so they just wanted to check it had moved to be on the safe side - it was a borderline diagnosis of placenta praevia so they were 95% certain it would move - so I should find out more then.

I was so proud of my baby for being such a good, compliant baby for so long and staying in the perfect position, and now I'm having to revise my thinking and realise that I might have quite a headstrong baby who wants to make up his own mind about what he should be doing in the womb

Good luck with your scan tomorrow!

HQ xx

Good Morning Everyone.

Thought i would drop in and make a quick post, so much has been going on this last month we have moved house but the house was a re-possession and needed everything doing, replastering decorating carpets everything. We are eventually getting there now most rooms done. I will be 36 weeks on friday and really thought i would have had the babies by now everyone told me with twins to expect them about 6 - 8 weeks early. I always said though it would be nice to have them on the leap year from the beginning and now all my family are convinced i am going to have them on Friday.

Getting quite a lot of movements not so much kicks but big movements now i suppose there is not that much space in there for them now.

Glad to hear everyone is ok (ish) hope these moving babies move on time for peoples plans but if not hope everything goes ok for other birthing plans.

Hi mods - good to hear from you! I have twin sisters (fraternal) and they were overdue whilst very grateful for the good weights my Step-Mum was mentally really struggling as she had prepared herself for popping arounf 35-37 weeks!

I had really bad period pains before bed last night, I managed to nod off to sleep so they were obviously not doing anything useful. I am getting texts practically every day from friends etc saying "Still pregnant?" and the like. As if I wouldn't have told them if I wasn't!

I'm booked in for reflexology and homeopathy next week to try and move me along although I keep moaning that I don't want to be pregnant everytime I have a bad BH or period type pains I start to freak out a bit as I don't really feel ready to have a baby either. Eeek!

HQ - I have a hard bit at the top of my bump and it's her bum! Also still getting kicks on both sides, lots of pain when she wriggles (think she spins on her head!!) and she is 4/5 engaged and in the perfect position so you may be the same?

Missing i feel like i am physically and mentally struggling, i have a two and a half year old keeping me on my toes so can not even take a nap when i get tired, my family are good and keep offering to take him for the day etc but i feel like i am neglecting him a little as i can not get on the floor and play with him any more.