Due Sept 08: Come on babies, 'cause we are running out of space.

[kiskidee]

New thread here.

Daft name cause we only have 4 more before we hit 1000.

hi sketti at least it will all be over soon you may find that afterwards you and your partner will get back on track, when i am pregnant i get very very wound up over the smallest things and then after having the baby have been like completely at a loss over what was pissing me off so much

midwife place has just called me back and the lady that deals with the home borthgs is not in till friday!! do we think i should just make myself a normal appt as i have not been since the 17th july!!

i bet i can't get in for weeks now as they seem to get booked up really quickly

hi everyone, thanks for the welcome. i too am finding it difficult to sleep and have mirated to the sofa for the past 3 weeks (much to hubby's dislike!) still, not long left now. at hospital on friday, hoping they will agree to an induction. have very hort labours and dont think i will make it to hosp in time. getting loads of bh's some quite painful and just when i think its's starting, they tail off. mind you i suppose its still a bit early to have baby yet. maybe next week if hosp agree

great can;t get into see midwife until next thurs so much for the appt schedule thing

wandering about hb now seeing as they can;t even seem to arrange a home appt, and the last time i phoned up i could not ven get to see the midwife and was told to go to the hospital

I know not everyone likes the heat but I want the summer to come back!!! I am trying to clean my house and do a load of washing and it's impossible with all the rain! Booooo to the British summer.

I experienced my first painful BH's yesterday, they nearly knocked me off my feet. Never had that before.

Packed the babys' bag yesterday, have got together a mixture of normal and tiny newborn clothes so that something should fit her. Luckily my friends have donated old girls clothes so she will at least have a pink sleepy suit in the first photos. I thought she would be in DS's old blue stuff for the first few days .

aaarrrgghhh hospital bag i really am going to get off my arse and pack it!! .... after dinner.....maybe

Welcome sketti what a crap time you've had, as for dp they don't understand in their eyes "your only pregnant" it is a very difficult time but i'm sure once the baby arrives you'll get back on track...keep your chin up xx

meglet i agree i'd like a bit less rain and more sun ...but not too hot! you can never please some people can you!!

i washed my newborn clothes how cute did they look on the line...bless can't wait to iron them then i can pack my bags!!

hi again,thanks for my comments back.i do hope things will get better when baby is born.just hoping for a normal labour with no complications and have a fear of getting post natal depression.everything is generally worrying me atm, but its prob due to hormones and not sleeping.sounds bad but i have to remind myself i am looking forward to having a child.i feel like i should be more excited than worried!

welcome danclare and sketti

having a brief moment of respite in what has been a busy few weeks of work. am having to organise a 3 week shoot across europe for the team at work, it's taking up all my brain power.

Absolutely knackered today. Woke up at 6am worrying about my tax bill that will have to be paid in January. It's £2k more than I've saved which represents 6 weeks maternity leave savings. I don't want to go back to work before the baby is 6 months , I guess we'll just have to be really, really careful with money while I'm off and see if we can make it stretch.

Thanks for the bra tips. I've decided I need to go to somewhere like Rigby & Peller and get properly measured when I'm about 35/36 weeks before splashing out on anymore nursing bras. I don't trust the assistants in my local M&S they didn't even whip out a tape measure when I went for help with maternity bras.

notcitrus have you been given any advice on what positions to sleep in with SPD? I find sleeping on my back is the best to minimise SPD pain. But I do like to alternate between being on my back and being on my side...it's the moving between the two positions that hurts and sitting up after a few hours lying on my left turns my pelvis all crunchy (you know when you can hear and feel all the ligaments clicking).

I'd love to sit forward more during the day to encourage the baby into the right position (although have no idea what position it's in at the moment). But if I sit forward with my feet on the ground for more than ten minutes they start to swell up.

It's a toss up between swollen feet, painful pelvis and getting the baby head down and not back to back.

starlight I'm getting BH everytime I go to the loo. In fact, when I'm on the loo I feel a lot of downward pressure in my fanjo, as though it's already started opening up. Any ideas? Probably increased blood flow.

We haven't got a cot yet. DH doesn't want to get one till the baby grows out of the moses basket. Does that mean we'll be shopping for one when the baby's 2 weeks old?

mumiyumi whats an iron

digital our moses basket lasted 10 weeks, but DS was quite a tall baby. Think 3 months might be the average time you use them for.

lol at meglet's ironing comment. I thought something similar.

My MIL is coming down tonight till Friday and she has promised to do my ironing.
Should get a bit of time to sit on my bum being lazy coz ds loves her more than me and will only want to let her do things for him!

Getting really uncomfy at night now, esp early in the morning, my hips are really sore from lying on my side but can't get comfy on my back either.

the majority of my baby stuff had been given from family, trouble is i now have 3 cots and feel guilty at not using the other 2 lol
Bra wise how common is it to be producing milk now im 32wks?i also have only gone up a couple of sizes round the back, but remain an A cup!
sleeping wise, i dont sleep much, but its far more comfy to be on my side with pillow between legs, but when i get BH i usually go sit on the loo

i uses our moses basket for 6 weeks as i had a big baby too so i put dd in the cot. i found that she loved the softness (mattress) of the moses basket but not the hardness of the cot so in the end i put the cot mattress in the cot and then she was happy. Atm ive got a swinging crib (kingswood make) which is fab and a huge cotbed Tutti bamini cotbed - my dd slept in both.

ds used the moses basker for all of six weeks and he wasnt huge just seemed too big for uit quite quickly

with dd she was smaller than s but was in it for even less time

i have been feeling the downward pressure on the old fanjo too when sitting on the loo

tbh wouldn;t mind going into labour right now as long as baby was ok just want to be done with now

Sketti, My dh was a PITA in the first pg because he could not fathom a baby inside me, never mind giving practical and emotional support when I was suffering from morning sickness. He came to the 12 wk scan and he said if he wasn't sitting down, he would have fallen to the floor to see a wee baby on the monitor. It wasn't like I hadn't told him i was pg.

Still he didn't the most empathetic. This from a man who has taken about 2 days off work for sick in the last 11 years that I have known him. This pg I am suffering more physically with SPD and also have a 3yo but I think he is has more understanding of what my body is going through and helps out with dd more but he is still crap at offering back massages or the like to make things more comfy for me.

Let's hope things improve with your DP.

oh, my boobs haven't grown much either. still A cup too. Like the last time. I have however successfully breastfed my first with them anyway!

It is great because it makes bfing in public so much less of a faff to cover up which can be very intimidating in the early days.

It sounds like you are producing a lot of colostrum and that is a really good thing at this stage. I never really leaked lots of colostrum or milk even. None of those things are guidelines on how well you can breastfeed.

Trust your body. It will show you miracles yet.

i have never leaked during pg and havnt this time either yet succssfully bf ds and dd.

RE. ARNICA They arrived this morning. I ordered them yesterday so I am very pleased.

mamamuffin yes it is the same for any surgery, especially labour. 1 o 2 tablets 3 times a day for as long as you feel you need it. Apparently it is benefitial through the milk for the baby, especially if it has been a long or difficult labour.

My Dd was still in her moses basket on and off till 8 months!

She went through a terrible not sleeping phase, and I just needed her near me for easier comforting!

She didn't sit unaided till 8 months though, thats when she had to come out of it!!

digi - I can't lie on my back at all (unless I shove a pillow under one side of my arse to tilt me), as my pubis feels like it's being ripped in two. So it's one side or the other (left is better) and for the last few days I can't even put a pillow between my legs as they won't move apart.

Propping myself on my side works pretty well, and then to turn over I have to put all my weight hanging onto the headboard bars and on my feet, and try to keep my hips straight while I swivel. Physio suggested trying turning via my front resting on my knees, but that's even less elegant! I give up in the mornings and lie on the sofa as that cushions my hip better than even three duvets on my mattress under me...

Squirmy keeps waking me up and kicking when it's time to eat, and then an hour later is kicking because his space is being squashed. And I'm having an amazing variety of squeezing and scrunching earthquake-like sensations.

Until this week (34) I felt pretty good and was thinking I was quite happy to keep Squirmy inside for a long while, but now I'm thinking I don't care how noisy he is once born, at least he'll stop kicking me, sitting on my bladder, etc!

Started packing the hospital bag last night just in case...

Sketti I am glad you have found us, you are going to be Ok. Focus on your baby and in all the hard work you have gone through to get where you are now. I also had to have an amnio and discovered I was high risk for Down S. My daughter is going to be fine, but i could not really celebrate I was in the safe period of my pregnancy till i was almost 7 months pregnant, because I bleed many times and had to be in observation in hospital.

I don't know what I would have done without the pregnant ladies, my friends, on this threat, they have been extremely suportive and I never felt alone.
SO, CHANGE THE WAY YOU ARE LOOKING AT YOU PREGNANCY,YOU ARE OK AND YOUR PARTNER HAS TO DECIDE by himself.

Stay with us and count the days till you see your beautiful baby.

Hello all, as usual I'm not up to date with this thread it just moves too quickly!

I'm due Sept 14 and wonder if anyone else has gone from thinking they were having a baby to suddenly feeling like they're having an elephant! God this baby feels massive now!
And I'm suddenly much more tired if I do ought and the indigestion was so bad last night that it woke me up! Don't know how I'm going to do another 6 weeks of this!

All the best to all....

Everyone is so sweet on here!I really appreciate being able to talk to people that understand.
yes despite all the physical pain, i think the amnio was the hardest as no parent wants their child to have any problems like that and was very much a shock to be high risk too.tho it really kicked my maternal instinct in i must say.
as for weight, i went from losing 2 stone when having hypermesis, to putting 2stones to my origeonal weight on!

weight wise i am absultely huge and measuring slightly big for my dates buthave only put on a stone!! which is good as i put on two stone when having dd and have yet to lose it!!

acid indigestion is back with a vengence feel like i could breath fire!

still waiting to hear about my ma- know it;s early days but hoping it comes through soon, i know i am entitled to it but keep thinking that they are going to turn around and say no which would mean me having to return to the hell hole asap!!

DG.....some babies just will not sleep in a moses basket so I would get a cot, even if you dont put it up yet, better than racing round a baby store with a sleep deprived baby!

Well, here's my list of moans today...

Have put on 2 and a half stone
Bra size now 38H
Cant sleep
Cant eat
Acid reflux
Nausea
Pain in lower back
Incredibly strong BH all day and night
Cant walk far
Cant bend over too far
Constipated

Think thats it....I know I only have 6 weeks to go, but not sure I can last that long!

I have another scan to check babys growth any my amniotic fluid levels in 2 weeks...do you think if I begged them they would induce me? I will be 36 weeks by then. I know some of my problems are caused by the excess fluid and there is a risk of PROM/prem birth anyway.

Raining here