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

Just back from mw - LO back to back. Is all fours the best way to move it? I have such bad back ache at the moment.

Thanks for advice re bras.

EEC, think I read somewhere that the all fours thing is best, but to also try sitting on a cushion and not slouching. But I have no experience of this at all so there may be someone on here who has a tried and tested approach!!!

hi girls, thanks for the support. feel a bit better today, still grumpy and shattered, but have a clean bathroom!

will plan to have takeout tonight (curry - bored of being preg now!) and watch the footy with in laws.

ordered 2 diff styles of hotmilk bras via brasformums. hmmmm, like both (cherry bomb and sinfully sweet seductress), will prob have to keep them both now. oh well. still getting paid a reasonable amount at present!! I did get 2 elle mcpherson bras for the price of one at fenwicks, and otherwise it's my old (6 years old!!) ones as I throw nothing away!!

Do you think I should keep the 38E, which fits now with a little bit of space, or the 38F, which just about fits with a lot of wrinkling!! I know they'll swell up to start with, but then boobs tend to go down, don't they. plan to feed for 7-8 months. normally I'm a 38D, so the E is 2 sizes up, as recommended by someone.

cass - I'm wearing my cherry bomb hotmilk bra and it is far comfier than any others I have. (And my milky tits look fab!!)

Lovely photos libralady!

jocesar got anything like a zoo or animal park or farm near by? Bristol zoo does a toddler group think the city farms here do to. When they are slightly bigger (you could well be totally knackered initially so don't plan too much until you know how you feel) some places do music for babies too.

Hooray! Palmed DS off on BF for the afternoon.
Now what? Clean bathroom? Wash up? Prepare tea? Slouch on sofa with tea & biccies? Go to bed with a good book? Stay on MN? Decisions, descisions!

Afternoon all.
Happy birthday Disney's DS. Glad you feeling a bit better bebejones and that you enjoyed the gig Gilly.
I had lots of other things to say to people but it took me so long to catch up I've forgotten what they were!

So much for sleeping well - was up the usual 3 times last night so it seems my one good night was just a one-off

Niggles seem to have died down too. Went to MW today for my 38 week check - she says it sounds like it was a show had. Mind you baby is still back to back and head is free (although I know you don't engage so early with 2nd/3rd babies). I've been trying to turn LO lots over the last couple of weeks - leaning over birthing ball - lying on left side. Trouble is the best positions for turning baby (eg Christine Keeler style pose on chair apparently)are the most painful for my spd .
Swimming on your front is supposed to be good too but I've not tried that - the idea is that the heaviest part of LO (eg his head and spine) will naturally swing to lowest point with gravity - so if you make the front of your belly the lowest point by being on all 4s he will swing round to the right position iyswim

Have just researched abit and here is a link for optimal postioning... www.homebirth.org.uk/ofp.htm

Hello all,

Gosh Ive only been away a morning and you've almost filled another tread!

I'll try to remember......

jocesar Once you go to one group, you'll find out about LOADS! So if you start with the mother and baby Yoga, someone there will suggest something else and someone there wll suggest something. etc.... I ended up doing something very day and I was shattered! on the up side I still have loads of friends from it and 3 of us are pregnant again, so that's cool... You could try your local library, I know all the libraries round here do a rhyme and bounce type singalong which is nice, and our local hospital runs a breastfeeding club for mums just to get together and chat...

Gilly glad you had a nice time last night, amd very jealous. Mind you DH was talking last nigt about booking tickets for The Wonder Stuff (anyone remember those, midland band, my fave all time live band!) With Jesus Jones supporting, a 20 year birthday gig! (makes me feel sooo old!)

Libralady Lovely pics, he's soooo cute! all these new born pics are making me broody, it's a good job I'm pregnant already!

Kaz glad you've decided to go to your friends, I think I would have done too as all your support is there, alot better for you... When are you going?

OMG - I was only on yesterday and but you ladies have managed to fill 6 pages since then

Thanks to all for birthday wishes!! Yes I was 40 on Monday - had a very quiet day but dh did a lovely bbq for tea and mum made scrummy cakes Everyone had champagne except me

Delighted to have had LO before birthday though - mow I can truly say I had my dc before my 40's

Feeling rubbish today although feeding going a bit better. I have been having shivers and sweats with a sore throat and ear so went to docs - I have now got tonsillitis It shouldn't be allowed!!! No illnesses so soon after giving birth!!!!

LOL to everyone - come on let's have another baby!!!

minipink - hope tosilitis clears up soon. I'm due on 13th july and will be 40 on Aug 5th, so unless LO is very late (please no!) I will just have scraped in in my thirties too!

Crawling around on all fours is really tiring!

Me too - due on 9th July and turn 40 on 21st July. Although I have told people I'm postponing my 40th till next year when I can celebrate in style

i was 40 last october my dh took me away for a romantic weekend

i came back pregnant

well he says he gave me a present didnt he
i guess he did

il always remember what i did for my 40th

awww libra he is so lovely

i see you have a samuel thats going to be my LO,s name

Its my birthday in a week and a half (July 5th)

Ill be 39 weeks then. Everyones asking what i want ?? Only thing i can can say is a painfree easy birth

Due to have about 10 people visiting that day for a bbq or something. Ill be waddling around feeding and entertaining them with either a huge lump in front or a baby stuck to my boob!

Just had a little doze on the sofa which has made me feel even more tired than i did to start with!

Ooh lots of birthdays My DH's birthday is the day after my due date so he's taken it off (optimistic).

My birthday's in early January which is a lousy time of year.

It's my birthday on 15th Aug, so worse case, baby will be 2 weeks old (if I go to 42 weeks!) I've told DH that he can't drink so that he wakes up in the night (a drunk DH will sleep through nuclear war!) and we will have a BBQ to celebrate my birthday and 'wetting the babies head' (well that's the plan anyway!

Hi All,

My GOD!!! I had a quick peek yesterday and now the new thread is 4 pages long!!!!

JULES - arnica tablets for bruising and also shock and aiding healing. You can get 30c from Boots - take them during labour if you remember, if not then immediatley following labour - 2 tabs every 2 hours for 6 doses then reduce to 2 tabs 3 x daily. You can also buy arnica cream to apply downstairs if it is sore, or on canula bruises.

LIBRA75 - you can have a waterbirth if baby is back to back but back to back labour is (usually) much longer and much more painful (sorry to tell you). I ended up stuck at 5cm dilated for 5 hours with DD before they realised. I was a prune by then! Anyway as she was in the wrong position her head wasn't hitting off my cervix properly so I ended up having to be attached to a syntocinon drip (synthetic hormone) to regulate contractions and I had an epidural as it was so painful and I was exhausted.

I have been lying front down on my beanbag and sitting on my gymball - I sleep on my side anyway but am just devestated that this LO is back to back too!! I am visuallising him/her turning and will be pressing the little toe acupoint to try to get him/her to turn a bit. I started a thread about it here

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/49/554556?msgid=11333036#11333036

CILC - I am sure your GP was just doing their best for you (they are very attuned to Pre-natal depression now) however, she will understand you losing it with her - I would write a letter to apologise - it's always nice to be nice and know when to say sorry. You had to let off steam somehow with all you've been through. [hugs]

MINIPINK - gargle with soluble codis/paracetamol/aspirin - anti-inflammatory and will dull pain. Tonsillitis is awful - I used to get ti all the time when I was a teenager and in my early 20s. Hope you feel better soon.

Must go as DD is at nursery and I really need to rest and go on my gym ball again.

Tidied up this morning and painted the giraffes and monkeys and parrot in the playroom - so at least I have achieved something today

Take care all
xxx

MR TWINKLE - how are the Twinkletts?

HUBARBSPONG - how is your wifie doing?

I keep having this nightmare scenario in my head that i will go into labour when all the family is here on my birthday. They will all follow me to the hospital and end up gathered around the bed watching the business end!!!

Think im getting paranoid now as everywhere I go i keep thinking... What if my waters break now?

Going to an friend of the familys anual BBQ on sat (50 miles away) so desperately hoping nothing happens that day too.

Hi - I can't remember who it was that wanted a P&T sport double ...was it SK? Anyway I've been looking and I've found a deal on urchin - they're discounted anyway (you have to buy the pushchair and doubles kit seperately) but then if you put in code A0805X you get 15% off. It's valid till June 30th. Means that the double works out about £295. You can use the code on anything not just the P&T's so if anyone has some last minute shopping to do...

RUMPEL and others whose LO are back to back
Try spinning babies would be helpful I know it as a technique for helping turn a breach baby

Jodie, I smiled when you mentioned the Wonderstuff. I went to their supposed 'last' gig at the Phoenix festival in ?1993. will have to google their tour, would love to go. I went to the scissor sisters gig in Newcastle 18/12 ago, it was fab, but I did feel old, and there were lots of people there in jumpers and heels, not willing to jump about and get hot and sweaty!! I annoyed a few people that night, but enjoyed myself!!

Oh Cass the Pheonix Festival... he he he. I never saw the Wonder Stuff the first time round, but have made up for it since It's where the name Miles comes from (Miles Hunt being the lead singer!) Still not sure on it though!

Live dates here

thanks Jodie, that's great. will have to go to the London one, as nowhere north!!! will have leave baby for the evening. hmmm, will have to think about the logistics!! Cass.