Due July 08 - Third trimester - we're on the coundtdown YIPPEE!!!!

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Couldn't fix the title so thought I'd start again - hope this is okay now!!!

Tinierclanger - hello! Sorry to hear you're having a hard time. I've been having the same kind of feelings lately, I think it's just hormones but I have moments where I get a bit mad, especially with DH. A good night's sleep does seem to help, but it's difficult to get at the moment! FWIW, I'm sure you'll be a fab mother

Minkus - I keep having that low down feeling too. It's quite uncomfortable!

I do feel a bit guilty - keep thinking I should be doing more but difficult to know where to start. I'm waiting for loads of new furniture to arrive so that I can 'finish' various rooms.

Tinierclanger - join the club, and don't worry about moaning! We are all in a similar boat at the moment and all this anxiety is totally normal methinks!

Minkus/Heffa - me too. Sometimes it feels like a bowling ball in my pelvis and I have accidentally leaked twice now too which is disturbing as I have been doing my pelvic floor exercises!

Don't feel guilty - enjoy your ML!! xx

Hi there tinierclanger. You moan away. We all do it! It's perfectly normal.

Am not doing pelvic floor excercies and am feeling very guilty and worried about it. I really don't know why I can't make myself. It's pathetic. I haven't leaked yet, but with baby no 3 at 39 I really should be careful. Squeeze!

Got MW appointment tomorrow. Am sure LO is wrong way up, so am a bit nervous. Also i measured myself and I think I am too small. Am hoping I am not stunting the growth with constant stress and overactivity. I just NEVER seem able to stop. Still so much to do and the panicky feelings are growing daily.

I agree about sueing about the finger. It really is terrible that that could happen!

glad your ok peanut

Libralady- our BT monitor was from Amazon too

Welcome to tinierclanger.
Moan away, we all have our bad/down days/weeks

Re - downstairs feelings.
I feel that my downstairs is pretty swollen. must the extra blood down there. Feels most perculiar!

Done nothing today!- how lazy!!
But have just caught up with 3 old friends from college (through facebook) which is fab!! One of them is pregnant too and due in oct.

Hey pigley - you sound really good at the moment, I can sense all those work stresses have just melted away as you luxuriate in your newfound ML bliss! I agree too re the 'swollen' feeling. I was crouching down doing something yesterday and my nether regions started throbbing! OMG!

Hello to tinierclanger, we've all had similar whinges over our pregnancies so this is a good place to let it all out! Don't know a pregnant woman who hasn't felt really really pooh at some stage so don't be too hard on yourself. Tell your DP why you're being so horrid and get a nice big cuddle from him, you'll prob feel loads better.

EEC I've not been doing pelvic floor exercises for weeks either, have just decided that every time I come on mumsnet I am going to squeeze to my utmost. I come on MN so much at the mo that I'll be able to crack walnuts with my fanjo soon

There's plenty of time for lo to turn round if it is breech though- maybe encourage it to get into a good position by leaning over a beanbag/ birthing ball/ foot rest?

Afternoon Ladies!
Sorry have not posted in ages! Just as I manage to sir down and read thru what you have all been up to I run out of time again!
Am so of everyone on mat leave. I still have 3 weeks to go . Starting to think that maybe I should have stopped earlier as it is just getting so hard to do anything now! and I feel the size of a house!
I have also had my painting thing going on in the evenings when I get home. I think this nesting thing is getting out of control as I now feel the need to clean or paint or both everything in sight!
Enjoy the rest of your afternoon everyone!

Plus has anyone heard from Kaz1967 recently? Been ages since I saw her posts, hope all is well Kaz if you are lurking x

welcome back baby on the way

Looks like the nesting thing has hit everyone!

Pigley - I wish. I have no enthusiasm for anything housework related. I have a huge pile of ironing of the clothes we took on holiday and we haven't even started on the babies room yet, but I just haven't got the get up and go to get started. Mind you it could be because I am so knackered after the holiday chaos we had, and I've been signed off this week to rest by the Dr anyway so maybe it's not a bad thing.
Did manage to out the hoover around the living room earlier and sort the ironing into need to be done and no it's not worth it piles.
DS now back from nursery and had to take him to the clinic for his pre-school booster jabs. He's now curled up on the sofa feeling sorry for himself - a typical man.
No chance of me getting a kip this afternoon, although I really feel like I could do with one.

Admittedly i havent done much today,

Had a busy day sorting and organising yesterday so day off today. Have done a couple of loads of washing so thats something!

thanks for the support everyone. its weird how we have little waves of feeling the same way. i hate attributing anything to hormones as it seems to negate the issues somehow, know what i mean? but i am definitely more of a mad bitch these days then normal.

minnie - thanks for the hug its really not that bad - 7 people for the actual marriage and 30 the next day for rum punch and jamaican food (catered). My so-called "proper" wedding next year will require much more coordination but i am a serious fussyboots at the moment.

mcchesers thanks for that - and so true about being up the duff for the best part of a year. that is a lot of hormonal fluctuation! i also had a few drink blow-outs in the month in between but really, its been a rollercoaster, hasn't it.

minkus - i cancelled the danish this morning and felt a huge relief. the woman on the phone just said "good idea - just relax and enjoy the last weeks of your pregnancy" and for some reason, that meant a lot, coming from a stranger. why am i stressing so much, when the sun is shining and soon i will meet my lo. weird about the whole clit thing - everything connected to sexuality is just totally changed right now! also thanks for the compliment on my dh2b - i do think he is rather lovely but i am biased.

tinier - welcome to the club! we are all going through the same stuff to a certain extent so don't worry, whinge away. it can only help to get it off your chest. hope everything else is going as well as it can.

eec i have the same (guilty) feelings about stress and anxiety (and my occasional histrionics) but i am sure its going to be okay. we still have lots of time for baby to turn and to squeeze those pelvics. hope you mw appointment goes well.

libra - my nesting instinct is also very "abstract" and involves noticing grubbiness and things to do, then planning for other people to do them. maybe once i am off, i will actually do stuff . . .

Oh tinier I meant to say welcome as well. Sorry pregnancy brain has kicked in and I can't remember more than a few posts at a time.

Tjuice don't stress out about your wedding. Just remember to enjoy the day, it speeds past so quickly. It will be worth it in the end.

I've just had a thought, I've had nothing come through regarding antenatal classes or hospital visit this time. Do you think it's because I'm on my 2nd? Last time DS was expected in April and my classes began at the end of January for 6 weeks. Or should I instigate this with my MW? I'm not due to see her again until 3rd June which only gives me 4 weeks until EDD.

I go through phases of doing tonnes of stuff, and then I slob relax for hours. We've been doing loads to the house since we moved in though so I'm not feeling too guilty.

Libralady - I haven't had information about antenatal classes yet, or at least, only from my old MW. My new MW said she'd post me some information. I'm not sure how keen I am because I'm very shy and a bit rubbish at that kind of thing. On the other hand, I do want to meet some local mums in the area.

Tjuice - your wedding sounds so lovely! I was quite stressed out about mine (we had a big one, and my MIL was a complete horror) but I've never felt so chilled as I did once it was over.

It's such bliss having my MIL out of the country at the moment. FIL (they're not together anymore) was telling us that she hates babies which she hadn't told us. He also said that my DH wasn't quite the perfect baby we'd been told (according to MIL he was pretty much self-sufficient at 1 month!!!!) which was reassuring.

Libralady- I would say ring the midwife just to check. I heard a few weeks ago about my classes. They start on 4th June and we have 3, 2hour sessions.

My sister hadnt heard anything about any classes and thought she would just be told about them when it was time. She got to 38 weeks before she contacted the midwife who said she should of arranged them with the clinic ages ago! Not that my sis had been told that.

Anyway they have managed to squeeze her in for a few and had her first one last sat... shes due on Monday!

Id ring and check if i was you.

Welcome tinierclanger, i think we all have been going through that at the mo so you vent away hun...

Just after getting 20 min shut eye and that does'nt happen often... and of course the only time it does DP comes in !!!

oh I like the fact that people going on ML means they are posting more, keeping me entertained at work.

tinierclanger - welcome, the more the merrier and it's normal to worry about the little things (and big things!) whilst you are pregnant. As long as remember to laugh every now and then as well everything will be fine

Afternoon everyone been out all day just to toddlers and a friends for lunch but have a stack of housework to do, just chilling with a cold drink before I start it all.

Felt really miserable this morning pelvis really sore and walked about 5 mins up the street and needed the toilet and got a stitch. Yes I agree my nether regions feel really swollen and as if they are falling out. On the plus side bought some travel toiletries for my hospital bag (need to be prepared even though I am having a homebirth hopefully). Plan to stock up on some cheap PJs and pants from Primark this weekend and next week start washing the babies things and hopfully start pakcing my bag oh and I plan to start taking the raspberry leaf tablets form 34 weeks which is next Thursday.

Tjuice/mcchesers I know what you mean about having been pregnant for a year, we found out in July last year so it will be a year when this LO is born. TBH I feel like I have been pregnant forever, since Nov 2003 I have been pregnant/BFing/pregnant/BFing/gap of 2 months/pregnant/mc/gap of 6 weeks/pregnant again

DD1's nursery teacher is getting married on Saturday and she told me this morning she is 13 weeks pregnant too DD1 is already convinced every lady has a baby in her tummy.

Right best be off and get something done about this house.

sipping my first cup of raspberry leaf tea. Not too bad really. Housework non existent here. no point as constant builders still, and no time anyway. It is adding a lot to my stress though, as I think the nesting instinct is there (I see things I want to do around me all the time) yet I can't indulge it, so frustration builds!

I'm another one in the pregnant for over a year club! (excluding month in beteween for depressed drunken binges!)

Hi all! Re the nesting thing - it has just come upon me all of a sudden - last week I was worried I was too laid back - well no more!!

I am sorting out, cleaning, ironing and shopping for Scotland DH thinks I've gone (more) mad!!

Welcome tinierclanger - you moan away honey - it's good for you!! I get all worried and often very upset re relationship every time I am pg - but it is almost never as bad as it seems at the time.

It's lovely and sunny here again today xx

Hello fellow nesters. Finally started the ebay pile and am shifting some stuff to be replaced with other (baby) stuff!
TJuice, I empathise with the wedding stress.

Sweetkitty and Pigley I'm with you on the nethers, swollen but can't bear to look, will get DH down there on duty for the overdue trim n tidy and a go at the old perineal massage, hope he doesn't pass out.

Peanut seems that things have settled down? Hope you're feeling ok.

Heffa What do you reckon on a good supportive maternity bra? I noticed you were a 32GG to start with, like me. I get terrible shoulder strain and wonder if the trendy Hotmilk ones look a bit flimsy in the straps. No point in looking like a hottie if you end up with backache!

Welcome Tinierclanger, I'll join you in a good old moan! The next person to ask me if I'm imminently due with twins might get a smack in the mouth. It's 2 this week, and the woman in Tesco just said 'you know they put on a pound a week now till they're born?' Oh my God, am I going to give birth to a bohemoth? Maybe I need more than perineal massage down there.

i was gonna ask the question how much weight do they put on in the last few weekss im 31 now got 7 weeks left till hes here
(having an elective)he weighs 3lb 9oz at moment

EEC - LOL..I've never been this pregnant, so this part with all it's aches and pains is welcome after all the crap we've been through. We're on the home stretch!!

Gilly - I always heard it was a pound per week for the mum and 1/2 of that went to baby. So with 8 weeks left that's really only 4 pounds on baby and 4 pounds on you. BTW am doing the ebay thing too. I've got heaps of super cute vintage dresses that will not fit me now, nor in the foreseeable future. Could have slapped the MIL last night saying I looked like I only had a month to go. I'm neat damn it, my MW said so.

I have to go through my shoes this evening and give many to charity, ugh. had the handyman out today to do the odd we things before the estate agents come to do photos, and have discovered that we have a plumbing problem in the kitchen and the sink and washer are out of commission until further repair at 9 am tomorrow. With the agents coming at 11:30 tomorrow do photos, who's a wreck?

Baby is doing his best impression of a giant octopus. I'm sure it only had two arms and two legs in the scan but it feels like 8!

ugh ok break over back to the grind...

Ds according to my babycentre email (32 weeks for me)
" You may be gaining around 500g/ 1lb a week now and roughly half of that goes right to your baby. In fact, he'll gain a third to half of his birth weight during the next seven weeks, fattening up for survival outside the womb. Thanks to these fatty deposits, his skin is getting plumper and looking healthier.
"