November 2008: October are popping like peas.......it'll soon be our turn to moo on our knees!!

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Better, No? less cheese-tastic

Misdee I'm struggling to find you - can you send me a request?
Tegan you too send me a friend request and I will invite you to the Nov group!

Lolabella I'm measuring too small with DC2 and have had a scan everything looks fine its just the angle of the baby! Try not to worry too much

Lolabella, I agree with Hana, alot will depend on previous measurments and if the baby has dropped and how baby is lying. I had the opposite problem, measured HUGE from 24 weeks. 4 weeks ahead at 24 weeks, 6 weeks ahead at 28 weeks but then at 32 weeks the measurments started coming back in line a little. 32 weeks measured 3.5 weeks ahead, then 3 weeks ahead at 34 weeks and last week, I measured 38cm at 36+5. There was some concern about my baby's growth so I have had a couple of growth scans, but baby is absolutely fine. If they are really worried, it is easy eough to check how baby is with a quick scan, but weight estimates can vary by as much as 20% either way.

Tegan, I am glad you are feeling better and yay for another fellow homebirth mama!!

Hanaflower at 35 weeks i was measuring 33.5cm and at 36 weeks i was measuring 34 and now nearly 38 i'm measuring 35cm so he is growing just slowly. Do you think this is nothing to worry about then?

pinkali no I don't think we are friends - will try and track you down.

Lolabella it all sounds fine to me tbh so I really wouldn't worry (not that I am an expert of course). I think we have discussed on here before how inaccurate the measurements can be anyway.

ladybuzz i jave sent you a friends request i am toni creed incase anyine wants to request me.

Sorry got sidelined by DS coming home there, will try to sort this FB thing out now...

OMG I now have loads of new 'people I may know' but can't be sure that they are ALL one of you guys!!

Am guessing a lot of them so there could be a lot of people getting messages from a Sparkletoes they have never heard of!!

I also don't seem to have any messages????!!!????

Tegan I think I have it but FB is playing up so it might be tomorrow when I accept - i'm not ignoring you

Thanks guys
Am trying not to worry. Waiting for a call to see consultant at end of week anyway and then maybe a growth scan depending on the outcome. My little man is active enough so that's a good sign.

what group am i searching for on facebook?

Misdee you can't find the group as you have to be invited to join by either Ladybuzz, Dozy or Chocorange - if any of those can 'befriend' you then they can invite you.

Had a lovely day today - it is the first one in weeks where it has just been me and DS (I only get Mondays with him and DH has been working from home for the last few Mondays) - although DS is getting another bloody cold and has done nothing but cough all day which has been irritating the hell out of me and also sneezing huge long snot strings out (just thought I would add that for you first-timers ) - good job he is so cute

My training course which I have to deliver was nearly cancelled today but they have managed to drag persuade other people onto it....grrrr! I really really don't want to do it so I need lots of positive vibes from you all tomorrow.

For those playing Scrabble with me, after I go to bed tonight, I won't be able to access a computer until about this time tomorrow night so if there is a delay, you know why

Hello all
Well I'm feeling rubbish now. Had a great big nosebleed after picking DS up from school. Now I have a raging headache..pah

Dcs very well beahved thank goodness, went to bed without any tears tonight.. don't know how I would have coped if they hadn't!

Thanks for the invite, obs but I really don't think I'm up to scrabble.. I prolly should go to bed.

Ceebee I've started a game of scrabble with you

I linked this before, but For Rutho. They even have reinfoced knees for all that time you'll be spending crawling around on the floor with your baby

Arses.........BH are meant to stop when you get active aren't they? They are not meant to be painful are they?

Mine are going on all the time; awake or asleep, moving or still and I now have horrible backache and pains in the top of my legs which is quite uncomfy.....as well as what feels like pins and needles in my fanjo . I also feel like I want to crawl into a very quiet and dark space and just be by myself; no DH, no DCs, no noise, just lovely warm dark comfort. This IS NOT IT though!!

I think i will stick to lurking as all I seem to do is moan and whinge! I managed to half an hour and a half's kip this afternoon though....bliss, sheer bliss.

Read up on the days news and it has all gone from my brain already.....

Oh Daisy hugs hope you feel better soon.
Misdee if you send me a friend request Tricia Nicholls its a wedding photo and the 2 bridesmaids are dressed in black. I will inviteyou to the group from there

hello
would you mind if I get something off my chest...
this is going seem a bit random.
I'm really starting to worry that there's going to be something wrong with the lo and it's going to be my fault.
I'm worried that the cider I drank before I got pregnant has given him FAS.
I'm worried that I haven't cooked meat properly and he will have toxoplasmosis.
I'm worried that if don't have a caesarian I am going to be crap at giving birth and something terrible will happen to him.
I'm obsessing somewhat I think.
Is anyone else feeling like this?
it seems the closer I get to my edd the more worried I become.
I just want him to be safe.
Sorry for this depressing post. It has helped to write it down though xx

Barbareeba don't worry it is normal to feel that way.
IMPO I think we bet ourselves up worrying that we will be crap and something will be wrong so that when it isn't and we are not we feel really good.
You won't be a crap mother no matter how he comes into the world and don't let anyone try to tell you different.
We are all here to listen, if it helps you then it has got to be a good thing.

Barbs that you feel this way but it is perfectly normal as you appraoch the big day (so to speak). It is such a huge change to your lives and, I think what shocked me the most, was the responsibility that comes with it that you are bound to be having these thoughts - I am sure I did first time round and am definitely having them this time round as I know I haven't been as careful as I should have been.

As Ladybuzz says, it will be your mind's way of coping with the changes that are going to happen and preparing you for the worst even though that ain't going to happen.

Keep yourself busy and try and distract yourself

Right am off to do boring stuff like make my butties for tomorrow, iron etc. For those of you playing Scrabble with me, don't rush as I won't be able to get back on until tomorrow night

Barbareeba - I have been having similar thoughts and have been assured it's normal. My biggest fear is that I just won't be able to push him out, I'll be in too much pain and get too tired. I am trying to reassure myself and think positive but I am quite terrified now.

Thankfully I have bought the last few things I needed today and so, if 'Cyril' arrives tomorrow - we are prepared.

I had a few panics this weekend. Bowel had a big clear out (TMI?) and was gettting period pain type cramps. DH got quite excited (good to see) and has decided that I'm going to go into labour the Wed and he'll be born on Thurs at 1100!!!!

Hope not though, 3 weeks to go and I want to relax and sleep as much as I can first!!!

I have another CTG on Wednesday - anyone else having these? I've got my GP tomorrow (MW is on holiday) and I'm not sure he'll be able to interpret the one I had on Friday and, as that was the first one, I have no 'expert' opinion to go on. I don't see the consultant again until a week Thurs.

thank you for your reassuring words..
I just feel so guilty
I also think if i get too excited I'm going to 'jinx' it, it's always at the back of my mind that something could go wrong.
I kind of feel like I don't deserve him.

sorry
hormones?!

maybe because I've stopped work and am totally focussed on the baby am driving myself slightly loopy...

thank you ladies - feel better for not being the only one, and to hear that it is normal to feel like this.

barbs...all perfectly normal lovely, but definately a bit worrying for you thinking things like this .

I have been having similar thoughts all through this pregnancy, mostly to do with my age and lack of downs testing , the fact that we surely can't be lucky and have a third perfect, normal and healthy DC, Ttat after two gorgeous DCs he'll be ugly ; that after my insistence on as natural a delivery as possible will result in something horrible happening to put him in danger.

One thing I will say though, is that if, after the baby is born, you are still worrying about things like this please talk to your HV/GP about it.

What is a CTG mummynic ?