Due July 2008 - The thread where we either all have our babies or talk our way through another one LOL

[Kaz1967]

Starting again ladies? God we don't half talk LOL

Clic- I know about the pre- eclampsia, thats why im going to keep any eye on it. I was told to look out for swelling when i went in for monitoring for the high blood pressure.

Seems odd as its suddenly just come on today.. Will see how it is in the morning.

I know a few people who got pre- eclampsia, one close friend almost died it was that serious!

Compeletly with you guys about getting fed up now - or should that be Fecked off!

With you Min012 - I cannot, possibly get any bigger. Can I?
Just spent the day entertaining 25 "friends and family" with a huge bbq and copious amounts of birthday cake for DS's 3rd birthday. LO didn't perform all day, despite all the bump touching and poking he receieved. Now everyone's gone home, he's kicking like Jackie Chan!
And what is with the swollen feet thing? my right foot swells more than my left. I don't have the most attractive feet in the world (in our family they are referred to as "trotters") but my toes resemble fat pink sausages.
Very angry on your behalf Butterfly. I hate it when people are so inconsiderate.

Butterfly / cilc - can't believe how rude and inconsiderate people are. I'm sure it's got much worse over last few years, too; I seem to remember when I was preg with dd lots of people being helpful, holding doors, giving up seats etc etc. Now no-one even seems to notice! I went round supermarket a few weeks ago on both crutches, obv with enormous preg belly - and the amount of people who pushed past, wheeled their trolley right in front of me, 'tutted' behind me and someone actually banged me with their bag so that not only did it hurt but I nearly fell over!! DH has a theory that because of the 'economic climate' or whatever lots of people have become very selfish and resentful of anyone who's disabled / vulnerable in some way. How depressing.
I have started leaking milk which is weird, never had that before! All getting close now..

No stretchmarks no piles here yet either, thought I had gotten away with no stretchmarks last time but found 6 under my bump once DD2 was out (wasn't surprised I was so big) they faded fast though. Got one pile after DD2 as well, Anusol cleared it up got some in the bathroom cabinet just in case.

Now it's getting to the time where every morning you log on thinking I wonder if anyone will have had a baby in the night?

Purple - I am sure your DH is right. I have to say using the wheelchair has been such an eye opener. Is it that we are so used to seeing people with disabilities that we no longer register? What has really peed me off are the layout of shops and the amount of stuff on the floor. Found this difficult with a pram but a wheelchair so much worse! I will definitely learn from this!

I am surprised we have not had any announcements. Who has been quiet?

Sorry about the time reading Jules - I am sure it must have been a misprint! COuld not possibly have been you!

I keep waking early so have tried staying up a bit later...but I still keep waking spot on 3.50 every morning. So off to bed now. I am sure I must be sleep deprived but I just do not seem to be feeling t. Exhausted definitely but not tired if you know what i mean.

Anyway good night everyone!

Exhausted but not tired. I know what you mean! Been awake since 4.30am, been on my feet all day, still can't get to bed 'cos i know I'll just lie there for a couple of hours reading or on the DS!

357 messages since Tuesday on this thread? There's no WAY we're all gonna have our babies on this one

CilC and Butterfly can't believe some people are so unpleasant. Hopefully they are meanies to everyone and not just heavily pregnant women, karma will get them eventually.

Pigley glad you posted I was wondering where you'd got to!

Now wondering where Disney is too- hellloooo Disney are you there? Hope all is ok.

Rumpel thanks for the popping vibes- back atcha babe! I've been doing a bit of gardening (er, pruning a bit) too, plus pottering round a garden centre with dh and ds but all this activity is to no avail. Having cramps occasionally and some other niggles but nothing real to speak of. Darn it!

With you all on the itchy stretchmarks and revolting bunch of bottom grapes. I moved uncomfortably earlier and dh said "what's up?" - when I said "my piles are hurting" he gave one of those "turning-nose-up-ewwww-how-disgusting" looks. Thanks dh!

Now don't flame me but hopefully all of us at the end of our pregnancy tethers will have a terrible nights sleep because we're all in labour!

See you in the morning though no doubt

xx

CilC and Jacobs yes I know what you mean about the exhausted but not tired. Maybe because we are waking up in the night so often now that we have just got used to existing in a permanently tired state.

Can't believe that this time last week I was still pregnant willing it to happen in the near future, and then bang at 2am on Monday morning my waters broke and by 10 past 8 Luke was born.

Pregnancy really does seem a distant memory now. The best thing (obviously apart from holding Luke in my arms) is being able to have a proper pee i.e. not feeling like I am busting only to discover I manage to pass just an eggcupful. Oh and I can now bend at the waist to pick things up off the floor.

Sleep deprivation is a bugger though. Luke wouldn't settle until 2.30am after I mistakenly woke him at 11 to give him a feed hoping he would go longer through the night. Then he woke at 3.40 for another feed and I fell asleep winding him.

Woke up sat on the sofa with him in my arms soundly asleep at 7.15. DS1 was down on the sofa next to me watching Nick Jr, having helped himself to a yoghurt out of the fridge for his breakfast. Have absolutley no idea what time he came down, but I didn't hear him . But he is an absolute star.

Luke now on 4oz feeds every 3-4 hours. Am still having to top him up with FF though.

Had a couple of hours sleep at lunchtime (again on the sofa) and never heard the phone calls.

Went to a BBQ this afternoon for my Niece's 16th birthday. It was noce to see all the family, but felt a bit guilty as everyone seemed to be more interested in holding Luke, and it was her birthday after all.

Oh well, now need to decide whether or not to wake Luke for his next feed, or wait until he wakes naturally. Don't really want another session of trying to settle him that take over 2 1/2 hours tonight. I can catch up on some sleep myself.

Sending positive labour vibes to those that have had enough. Think the fresh pineapple and clary sage did the trick for me.

still here minkus im afraid

well it look like we are all gonna make it to july now no more june babies

just been so busy here

cant believe next weekend is my last before LO is here

i must admit i am scared but gettin more excited by the day now

well ladies we have nearly done it some already have
but for all of us its been a rough ol rollercoaster at times hasnt it,but the end is in sight now literally

who reckons we should have a thread when all the babies are here to keep in touch and see how we all progress and see them all grow i think it would be lovely
kinda sad really as MN is a bit of support for me i cant get out much cos of my DS and then its only hospital and id hate to lose contact with you guys

i have my dh home tonight he reckons hes on a promise tbh i dont know if i can be bothered how am i supposed to be like oh yes when i just dont have the initiative there!!!!

im sorry if i dont asnwer posts to certain people i just get so busy here i skim them

i was a bit concerned as scan told me baba was approx 6lb 3 and you guys said youve had rough guesses from hospitals and they have got it wrong totally i am only going for my elective induction instead of my section due to this prediction they say i can have this baby if its small
but now im thinking what if its not then
im not going to be happy till hes out in my arms

also i go to bed everynight wondering if tonight is the night

to wake up with the oh this doesnt feel right thing

anyone else gettin as paranoid as me here?

Disneystar a post natal groupd sounds like a great idea!
Paranoia has definitely got me...I have been having such vivid horrible dreams. Earlier in the pregnancy they were just plain rude ones but now they are scary ones, things going wrong sort of dreams... Hopefully they are just all our hormones!

Sleepcat I hope you managed to get some good quality sleep!

Never heard the term bottom grapes how apt though!

Libralady sounds like you are in what I call the fog stage...sleep when and where you can get it, feeding baby and on auto pilot and somewhere around 2-3 months you re-emerge thinking what have I and baby been doing for the last few months...???

I pretty much woke again at 3.50 (yes it is that exact). Decided to stay in bed and try and read, sleep again, but after two hours I think DH ready to throw me out window. Came down stairs and have been writing letters (old fashioned style) to some friends thanking them for help, support etc. Also wrote LO a letter for his keepsake box!

libra i so remember the days of the newborn feeding stage

i said to my DH i might be tired now but i reckon im gettin more sleep and relaxation time right now than i iwll when the baby is here
this is my last week i have to waddle to the school run
try to squash behind the wheel of my car have my ankles overhang my sandals where they are so puffed up
keep saying to my 4YO wait for mummy i cant walk fast right now
and it seems weird as much as i cant wait to see him and have that huge cuddle im gonna kinda miss him in there like gettin thats 5am kick to hi good morning
gettin a bit nervous as i want to bf totally something i havnt done before as boys to sick
what if i cant do it and after 7 babies they will think im an idiot my dh says surely its natural and easy but after reading on here you guys are having probs
im supposed to be expressing this week as im on insulin and my babies always need a feed asap due to low BS

CilC,

What a lovely idea about a letter to your LO for their keepsake box.

I started a keepsake box for DS1, and it's now progressed to a campherwood trunk which was my great grandfather's sea chest. You name it I've kept it.

I'm now starting to collect for Luke too. The first thing my M&D did when they knew he'd been born was to go and buy every single newspaper incl the local evening echo. My brother had done this for Sam and he also bought him the number one single from the week he was born. I've also kept a broadsheet and a tabloid when something significant has happened. 7/7, Wales winning the Grand Slam in 2005, Saddam Hussein being hanged, etc, etc. I also have all his Congratulations on your baby boy, birthday and christening cards, his hospital tags, oh and the TV magazine from the week he was born. Silly of me, but I will sort through all this I present him with a montage on his 18th birthday.

A postnatal thread sounds fab. I know I've had Luke in June so am now posting there as well, but I feel I know the July ladies better and we've grown and moaned together through the 9 months, so please can I be on your thread too?

Anyway, off to feed Luke again.

Wonder if there have been anymore babies this weekend?

Morning,

No babies? Gosh, it will be July now then won't it? Maybe someone can squeeze one in today? (Or should that read squeeze one out!)

Disney - I know how you feel about going to bed thnking is tonight the night? I keep feeling 'pressure' down there, and keep willing the baby to push harder to break my waters! (kinda like a bubble in my head!) Oh well, at least I've only 4 weeks left at he ABSOLUTE maximum... (38 weeks tomorrow!)

Al those who kept/keep keepsake boxes, we did the same for DS, he has a box upstairs with all the papers from the day he was born and all the cards and tags and stuff, his first babygro that he wore in hospital and all the 'keepsakey' type of gifts he got for his birth and christening. I also kept a diary the whole time I as pregnant and abot after(something I've failed to do this time! Maybe I should just print off the threads!!)

Sorry to hear that people have been rude! what are they like, people are just so horrible! I used to work in Waitrose (just a couple of evening shifts when DS was little) and although customers were generally quite nice, there were a few snooty ones, (more than you'd get in Tesco anyway )

I'm sure there is so much more to write/comment on but my heads still full of cold......

Butterfly and CilC - sympathies re. the rude and inconsiderate people. Somehow I feel it seems even worse when it's other women doing it, as if they especially ought to know better. But I don't suppose that really follows.

Disney - I definitely think it'd be lovely to have a postnatal thread going once all the babies are here. It'd be nice to do what the June ladies are doing though, and all stay together on the antenatal thread until everyone has popped, so those due at the end of the month don't end up left here on their own. I agree with you - I only found MN in the last few weeks, but it's been such a support, and I don't get out much or easily either because of my ME, so I know what you mean about that.

Well, I'm off to the hospital this morning for an antenatal appt. I'm really hoping they'll offer me a sweep and that my cervix is favourable and so on (I'm 39+5, and consultant says he'd rather I didn't go too overdue). Wish me luck!

Hi all, well, looks like the rest of the July babies will be July babies. Mind you, it's early yet.

Got to stay in for my John Lewis delivery of cot bed sheets that never turned up on Saturday. Grr. Happy to be pootling around in the house though - it's just too hot. Is anyone else just sweltering the whole time? I can't have any covers on in bed, so if my waters go at night, the duvet gets it!

Libralady, bless your DS1.

CilC and Butterfly - they are sad people with sad lives. And karma will take a huge bite out of their arses one day.

Donut Mum I am using one of DD's mattress protectors under my bed... just incase... They are the square ones.
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I have been using a fan at night as I sleep best with duvet and sheets but like you feel quite warm. Plus I keep getting a fright- my boobs keep escaping my nightie at night!!! It at least keeps them covered!

DD asked me yesterday why I had painted the points on my boobs !

Good luck Poly! I hope you get your sweep!

Off to see anaethetist today. Then hopefully British gas will show up - our boiler blew up on Friday! Just what everyone needs...at least it is not winter!

Morning all again nothing happening here, DP desperately wanted me to go last night as he has a rubbish day at work today, he says he is getting fed up and wants to meet the baby - poor man must be hard for him eh?
Also he would prefer I was in hospital instead of at home think he just worries a bit even though I had a great homebirth last time.

re keepsake boxes, I have one each two although DD1's seems to have more in it than DD2's DD2 never had any hospital tags or hats though.

postnatal threads - I still post occasionally on DD2's not so much DD1's now she is almost 4. I think it's a lovely idea us all staying together until the last baby is born I felt very lonely last time. another thought I had was having a little facebook group closed just for us where we could post photos etc

Right just a quick post from me this morning off to have a shower and tidy up a bit before collecting the DDs, today is the first official day of the school hols in Scotland so nursery is empty am paying for DD1 to go 3 days a week and DD2 has a free place anyway.

Morning all,

Hope everyones well today

Feet are still swollen... right one especially and ive only just got up.

A friend suggested these to protect the mattress- especially our brand new memory foam one .
She said it was good for afterwards too incase of any nighttime leaks
Only £3 too so cheap as chips.

Anybody fancy having our last June baby??
Who will be the first of our July babies!!??
Scary stuff but exciting.

A post natal thread is a fabby idea, I would miss you lot if we didn't keep in touch [soppy emoticon]

Also SK that idea about the Facebook would be good, then we could post LOADS of cute photos! Do you know how to set it up?

DH has just been into my office and told me to 'hang on til tonight' as he has a very busy day today! I've had a word with baby and I think it's gonna be OK....

Was so at DH yesterday, we went for a stroll around the village and stopped at the pub for a drink (as you do) he had 4 (yes4) pints..... Told him off as he really needs to drive me to the hospital! Why couldn't he have had 4 shandy's???? He's not stressing as last time I was 1 1/2 days in early/first stages, and even then the MW had to break my waters. I've told him that this time I've been told that AS SOON as my waters break I've been told to go straight in, no question... He went a bit red faced then and said he hadn't thought about it like that, and he went and bought me some Mars Ice Cream!

Crosspost with SK--

Loving the facebook idea

Def with everyone on staying on here untill the last baby is born- lovely idea
Bet ill be the last blooming one!!!