Due Dec 08 - Braxton hicks, baby kicks and leaking nips!

[Veggiemummy]

that was Disenchanted's idea for a great title not mine

Hi all
So much going on - am a bit lost with all the news!

LadyT glad you managed to stand that long - I am impressed (given that you are - what 35 weeks!). I had to miss a 40th at the weekend as couldn't bear the thought of all that standing and sober chit chat with the very drunk (not a close friend though).
How lovely that the Beeb is doing something in honour of your ex-DH.
Do you think your wrists are carpal tunnel syndrome? Quite common in pg and can be helped by splints.

Hi Kayz! Good to see you online. Hope you are well.

Arti would second your advice as to making friends on mat leave. The postnatal groups ARE great - I did an NCT one (much cheaper than the antenatal) and met such lovely girls. And just made friends with random people is cafes with babies.
My friend though spent her entire mat leave sat at home and didn't make a single friend. She didn't have pnd, she was just being lazy - and it all sounded so boring. She really regrets it. Emma you will make plenty of friends, don't worry!

Loving all the perineal massage chat! Hilarious, Frankly - have never done it. But having had 2 tears, I am hardly an advertisement for NOt doing it...

Now, I am really worried about tomorrow morning. I am going to my FIRST antenatal yoga class at 29 + 4. Am I completely bonkers?? Was quite fit until getting pg but have done no exercise since then due to very bad sickness, then laziness . Now am mortified, as (a) am big as a house and (b) as stiff as a board mainly due to very bad SPD but also I am sure due to lack of exercise. But I really should do, shouldn't I? Even 9 weeks or so of yoga is going to help....

Great to hear fom you kayz! Looking forward to having you back with us after 23rd.

turnip- i am actually the youngest pregnancy gestation wise at my antenatal yoga, yet i am easily the largest. One of the ladies is due in 2 weeks and looks like i did at about 15 weeks, seriously!!! do these women not eat!!!

i didnt do perineal massage for last pregnancy because i looked it up on the internet and it was described slightly differently to what it actually is. My yoga teacher this time around explained it and have to say, is quite tame and do-able compared with what one website had explained to do.

Haven't kept up - can't keep up with this thread as well as work! Have cleared lots off desk today - good night's sleep worked wonders and got me back to my assertive self again. Will tell all about my work once on maternity leave - but it's nowhere near as exciting or mysterious as that makes it sound . I love it though and love the social interaction, being busy but in control (can you tell?) so I found maternity leave last time round a complete mind-meld. Sudden isolation and 24/7 responsibility for a completely anarchic (but adorable) little person. Am SO GLAD I've booked to finish in two weeks so I can start to nest in earnest and get my head in the baby 'zone'.

Someone asked a while ago if I live in Clapham Junction? I don't - but I go through there every night and morning changing trains. It's easy for me to get to if you fancy a meet-up after the birth though (hint).

Turnip be v careful with the yoga if you have SPD. Let the teacher know you have it. I went swimming just the once when I had it with DD and had a major flare up that lasted weeks and never really settled. Your ligaments will be soooo stretchy at the moment you could end up really straining the joint.

veggie good news about the ametop - I might do that and apply at home first! I am meeting with the Anaesthetist the day before so I might chat to him first too. I think husband is a bit worried that I will whip it out of my pocket at the last minute like I'm 5! He works there so could be embarrasing!

I am mad!! We set up dial up internet a few weeks ago then realised our pc hasn't got a dial up modem. For some reason tonight I thought I'd see if my laptop has a dial up modem. IT DOES!!!!

So I am back and have to tell you all I have missed our chats!!

Effie thanks for that - how not knowing that, I'd better get reading the birth chapters of my books !

Turnip I started yoga 3 weeks abo so I would've been 29 weeks too - just be careful with your SPD as others have said and let the teahcer know.

kayz welcome back - we missed you

emma we can meet up sometime if you like. I think we're fairly near each other... short ride on the tube. I worry about becoming a hermit as well. Especially since I don't know anyone who lives around us yet.

Emma where do you live again? Sorry I forgot!

BAH

heartburn, baby gymnastics, nausea and DS screaming at one in the morning

GAH

hi all, thanks for the lovely messages. Still not really feeling any better though . The baby is moving lower & its making my pelvis even more uncomfortable so can't sleep very well. Our mortgage is ending in December so we're trying to sort one out which is causing a lot of stress, especially with dh. I don't feel like I can say anything to dh about how I'm feeling/doing though. I just have to be the upbeat housewife from the 1950s so I end up feeling even more down & tearful! Thank god ds has been a sweetie this week otherwise I think I would've broken down completely!

Anyway, sorry for the me post, I'm going to catch up now & do a Bisou-type post!

Right, here goes...

LT nice to see you back, how's the driving going? How nice of the Beeb to celebrate your dh.

jump glad your ILs dilemma is sorted! Btw, the one room a day is because I get too knackered to do any more than that, not because I live in a mansion or anything

turnip sounds like a great idea to have some temp help in, definitely make the most of it! Agree that we should have a state-funded initiative for everyone to have practical help after a birth. Thanks for the dried apricots tip, I also need to increase my iron levels.

arti glad your bp was low! Hope the protein tests come back ok. Good luck with the house sale. No doubt we will also be having a few takeaways & ready meals but dh doesn't cook so I need to get as much stuff as possible stocked up for ds.

katie sorry to hear about the GD, but you seem to be handling it really well. Congratulations to your friend as well. Have you seen her yet?

hetty lol @ your pants tip!

veggie well done on the 100% assessment!

beans what an awful train trip & the man on it . Definitely write to Virgin, fwiw my dad has worked on the railways for years & he's always said that if a train is full & there's a pregnant woman they have to let them sit in first class. Sounds like you just got a complete jobsworth! But still, glad you had a good time in the Lakes.

emman hope you have a nice time at your parents and were spoilt lots!

oli I remember that feeling of being last in our NCT group, you beat me though

verso has work calmed down a bit?

kayz nice to see you back, was wondering where you'd got to!

effie lots of biscuits & CBeebies for you today I think

[hugs] to those struggling with pgp & heartburn, sounds horrible.

Hey rosmerta, welcome back. I'm sorry to hear about your mortgage worries and it sounds like you are giving your dh a lot of support which must be very hard when you're feeling so tired and uncomfortable. Thank goodness your ds is being so sweet.

I've been spying on the Due in September thread (reading the birth stories is lovely!) and the last of their babies was born yesterday. Isn't it exciting/terrifying to think that all of our babies should have been born by this time in Jan? Only 3 months til we're all Mums (for the first, second, third, forth or seventh time)!

Eeeek!

Here is a sweet story in the news today. I must say the first thing I noticed about it was how AMAZING the mum looks, and she's just had a dramatic birth??! Wow.

Yes, i saw that and my first thought was "how does she look that good!!"

Hi guys - this is going to be a very me post. Sorry.

I am at work and just got a call from the hospital. The analysis of the protein in my urine is back and it was just out of the normal range . its not terrile (23, below 20 is normal) but because of previous pre-eclampsia they want me to go into the Day Assessment Unit now and have a few hours of monitoring and then do a 24 hour urine collection. I am gutted. I don't want to go down this path again. I thought I was doing so much better this pregnany. I am sat at my desk trying not to cry. In a minute I will have to go and find my boss who will panic that it means I am not coming back. I will have to go and find my secretary and get her to cancel all meetings for today and she will panic that I am not coming back. I really wanted to get through another few weeks at work . To top it all off I can't get hold of DH and I want him to come with me.

To sum it all up "Oh poo". I am really upset and pissed off.

So sorry arti

Hey Verso - it was me in CJ - definitely keen to make up once maternity leave starts - pre or post baby! We'll be in touch!

Rosmerta - I'm so sorry you're feeling so low. My husband is having total wobblies at the moment about the recession and how it's going to affect us and having a new baby etc. I know we'll get through it, but it's going to be a tough few years. I woke up thinking about it at 3am and lay awake fretting re not earning while on mat leave. But even when I go back to work, I only really break even on pay after forking out for nursery. Sorry, sounds me me me and it's meant to be helping Rosmerta!

Oh wow, Pixsix - that story is amazing. How can she look so pretty so soon after dropping a baby! I'm soooo jealous. I'll be greasy-haired, sweaty and with smelly armpits!!! Someone said to take some make up into hospital for photos - don't think I'll have the energy or the interest!

Re NCT - yes, the reason I'm keen to do it is that I'm a bit shy on the old starting up chats with people in same position as me - hope I look friendly enough for them to chat to me, but it's clearly not the case! So I never get involved. Sat on my own like a norma-nomates in yoga on Tuesday while everyone nattered - I'm just too weedy to broach a chat! Silly me. So am hoping NCT enforced friendship will be good. Honestly, once I'm chatting I like to think I'm quite fun and nice, but just pathetic at instigating!!!! Promise!

Oh arti - sorry, cross-post. That sounds miserable. I'm so sorry for you. Are you ok? Keep trying DH.

What a nightmare.

BIG hugs xxxx

Arti . Do you have anyone else who can go with you? I'd volunteer only I'm at work... do let us know if you need anything. Hopefully the monitoring will show that there are no real probs and they are being extra cautious. NONE of this is your fault and I'm sure your work will realise that some things are out of your control.

arti big hugs, keep trying dh. As effie said, its not your fault and the level is still quite low so fingers crossed it will all be ok.

beans thanks for your post, I guess a lot of people are in the same position as us, the hormones just seem to make it a bit harder to deal with! And I'm like you in that I find it hard to start conversations with people so the NCT was a good place for me to start! Plus I found the MN local chat good as well as met many of my friends from here!

I have found DH. He is going to come with but can't leave work 'til 12.30 so we are going to wait until then so we can go in together.

I am desperatly googling for info on protein levels in urine but am not coming up with much.

sorry arti that is crap news, fingers crossed it is ok though. Hopefully they are just monitoring to be on the safe side but not surprised you are stressed . good luck with it all.

rosmerta sorry about your stresses, you should definitely come on here and moan especially if you don't want to moan to DH as it will stress him out! Hopefully once you have a mortgage sorted that will take the stress off somewhat even if money worries are still there.

beans I am the same as you, but I am fine once I am actually talking to people, it's just that first getting talking that is hard!

Arti Hopefully it'll be ok. I'll keep my fingers crossed.