Due Sept 08: The one where we pack our bags and write our birth plan.

[mamamufin]

I thought I would be brave

Hope you feel better Sunshine - wow, you sound so organised and I feel in total chaos...

On the iron front, I've recently found out mine is quite low and have been taking Spatone sachets which are fine, esp if they are in orange juice. Dunno if they are working yet though! Still feel pretty tired.

For all those considering buying the Hypnobirthing book/CD, I just ordered it from ebay yesterday afternoon from here and it was waiting for me on my desk this morning! £12 in total, so not bad.

Finally, I actually bought something. Oh, and some muslin squares from Boots - how prepared am I?!

Oh I've missed loads of posts! Hello all Sept expectants whop all are well.

I'm just ravenous all the time.

Anyone else (I'm 7 months gone) find getting out of bed a massive heave? There's no quick exits to run and hit the alarm clock!

Anyone else on their 2nd suddenly getting slightly hysterical/emotional about precious time left with number 1? It's very odd, I keep thinking, I need to spend all this high quality time with him quickly now!

Have washed the kitchen floor and done a little bit more baby prep. Looked at a baby magazine (a friend gave me loads) and had to shut it quickly, they scare me!!

Sunshine how exciting to have a set date on which you'll meet your baby! Hope that makes up for the reflux and amazing non-sleeping DS a little bit.

Glad I'm not alone in being BH free starlight! Was beginning to feel like a bit of a weirdo.

So want to go home and start the weekend, and still have over 90 minutes to go. Bleurgh.

Great birth plan starlight - you have inspired me to get around to writing mine now. It has just occurred to me that we are going away for a week in two weeks time (just renting a cottage in the Cotswolds so not too far) and I really should take a hospital bag and my notes just in case - which means I need to dig out all the newborn clothes, get them washed, write birth plan etc!

hopefully I am really excited and not a little bit scared!

I don't have BHs either.

sunshine your reflux sounds awful. I thought mine was horrid but its not as bad as that. I get the lumps of sick trying to come up but I just get a little bit in my mouth, I'm never actually sick. Gaviscon ADvance is the only thing that works for me.

It's not nice Debi and I can feel it a lot of the time but it's only in the middle of the night that it makes me actually sick! I've just bought some Gaviscon and it tastes so awful I'm not sure I can keep using it!

I too have been having that acid in teh middle of teh nights and running to the toilet with a massive explosion of sickness. I have started taking gavascon advance before I go to bed and have been sick free for almost a week horray.

Starlight- thanks for the info, I have range ante natal clinic and they have put my name down, just have to wait for a call.

What's the difference between Gaviscon Advance and the normal (vile) stuff I've bought?

Maybe they make it extra vile?

Hi,
I don't seem to have time to spend in fron of the computer at the moment. I am getting very nervous about the whole thing. I still haven't found anyone to look after my son the day of the Cesarean and I just can't sleep after 3:00 am. I've rented the 24 series and watching it it has made me more frantic, but I love it!!!!!.

Startlight great birth plan. Why don't you want an epidural if you need a C-section?. I thought it was the best thing to do. What is the difference?

Sunshine your baby will be born a day before mine.

Gaviscon Advance costs the national debt of a 3rd world country but is a life saver - only thing that works for me. I take it after meals and before i go to bed. I'm also using Vicks vapour rub under my nose every night as I get so congested.

It's better than normal Gaviscon as it works in 2 ways - neutralising the acid AND forming a protective layer so there is less chance of acid coming up in first place. Normal stuff just neutralises acid already there.

I need to get hold of this gaviscon advanced .

mamamufin any supermarket should sell it. I get mine from Asda but it costs almost £6 for a smallish bottle. it's a bright pink bottle.

Stroppy Letters Work!

One of the ladies in the same hydrotherapy class as I has the same CMW I had - the one who told me that none of their midwives do hBs / WBs so if I want one then I will have to transfer to another team. .

Well on my advice last week, not knowing who was her MW, I said to request one. She did!

This same midwife didn't bat an eyelid and agreed without hesitation. Even adding that they will book her in with 2 MWs for the HB but it is likely that only one of those 2 will be there.

I wait in anticipation for the response to my second stroppy letter as the additional info she got is what was denied to me 2 wks ago, prompting my second letter.

well ive just had a glass of Fybogel...as im full and my tummy is aching so much!..i need to shift my bowels more!! as im so full of stinky wind!

debi its all im thinking about lately - i want ALCOHOL (as im need to c-h--i-l-l o-u-t!)....i only drink a few times a year so im not much of a drinker but last time i had a proper drink and not shandies was before i was pg!....it feels ssooooooo long ago!!

Thanks imo
Hope it works biglips
Anyone heard from eandz? shes unusually quite.

yay! my conservatory is all finished and painted and furnitured up now just waiting for the vertical blinds (i had no idea how exoensive they would be!!)
have decided against putting the moses basket in there though as it gets really warm

yes eandz is full of cold so prob hadnt got the energy atm. Theres nothing worse than being pg and full of cold.

Hello ladies....

Welcome kookie

Well, new bedroom carpet fitted, room spring cleaned, curtains washed and ironed and back up. Been to town to Bravissimo to get new bras -am now a 38H Then to marks for some food, then home to cook tea.

Now got some ikea furniture to put together when ds goes to bed as it all starts again tomorrow morning with laying the new wooden floor for ds room and more spring cleaning.....phew.

Hope you all have a much nicer/restful weekend than me!

StarlighMckenzie Thanks.I have to go to speak to the anesthetison on August 26th, the day before the C-section to discuss the options, so I guess I would ask him/her about the difference then.I am pretty sure yours will be a straight forward and enyojable birth. In between all of us there must be one whose delivery is very fast. It could be you.