Due November 2008 - hang on a minute, that's NEXT MONTH! Yikes!

[ruthosaurus]

Not that it'll even BE November by the time we run out of space on this thread...

ok Just a quick note to say I'm going in. Baby hasn't grown since last scan, movements a bit reduced. Placenta fine. Having ecs either tomorrow or friday. HO hum.. going to meet my baby!!!
speak soon.x

I got all excited there as a delivery van appeared and I thought it was the new infant carrier coming! But it was just the boring old corner guards I also ordered for my coffee table... OMG my life is soooooo sad!

Have tried to put them on tho and te sticky tape that comes with it isn't double sided?? So how the heck do I attach them??????!!!!!!

Oh Pinky GOOD LUCK HONEY!! Another baby on the way tho yay!! Gosh tis all happening! Keep us updated...

Best of luck Pinky and Obs too. Also popped on for news on MM and the babies!

39 weeks here and no fewer that 3 people in 5 minutes this morning asked if I was "still here then?" I was very tempted to say "errrr, no, I am someone else all together". I the 4 days since I last went to the chemist (I am a regular, always there between getting stuff for myself, dh or prescriptions for ds2), one of the women took a really good long look at me this morning and announced for everyone to hear that I won't be long as my face has changed . I do remember my face changing towards the end with ds1, but it was water retention as it was HOT. I have to keep reminding people that baby will come when he is good and ready, still not quite at the stage of wanting to try and evict him yet, lol!

afternoon......no news yet?

pinky...good luck for Friday and I hope that all is well.

I didn't get checked in the end as Virg is wriggling like a good 'un and the AN wards are closed due to over subscription . So I went for coffee with a friend instead. I am back to wearing my attractive full body elastic bandage though as I'm very very sore.

We have settled on our name as well, and it'll be another Finlay here too....but middle name Lawrence. Finlay means fair warrior so I hope he isn't dark haired!! Bu then again DCs name means crooked nose and he has the cutest button nose imaginable. If it was up to me I'd spell it Findlay which is the way most Scots would spell it, but since we are in Yorkshire DH thought we better keep it simple. It's not that popular either; 74 on the top 100 names list iirc.

Feeling horribly weepy and hormonal today and have been crying at everything.

erm can't remember anything else.

oh, hi Yorky and weclome back to the fold. Don't be a stranger this time

hope you are feeling better Pinkali and not overdoing things too much.

Oh wow pinky hope it all goes smoothly keep us posted! so thats 4 definate babies this week!!!!!!!

Its all feeling very real now more babies on the way, all by CS so far though, wonder who will be first to go into labour?

I havent had many people asking but there is 1 woman at toddler group that asks every week if I'm still here, but she must have been saying it for the last month already, and I could have another 3 weeks yet!!! (although hope not!!)

Pinky Good Luck hope all well. Who is Pinkys text buddy???

Obs Good luck to you too.

Oh my goodness all these babies. Can't wait to see photos too!

Just a quick one as got to dish up dinner, done DH favourite and let him last night I in very good books!!

Thinking of you Ob's, Pinky and of course Merry.

My lordy all feeling a bit real now. My legs keep going funny today think she may keep sitting on the nerves.

Hope everyone ok will do proper post later. x

Re names:

Girls:

India Esme Matilda Boys: Henry William/Thomas
George

Oh dear all these imminent babies, it's making concentrating at work very hard!

Sparkle - forceps apparently classed as 'difficult instrumental delivery' - consultant said ventouse ok, but if that doesn't shift things then should take it as a hint that head is just TOO big, and opt for CS. He did say though that we plan for a normal birth. My mum managed to push me out (9lb 4oz) and I was back-to-back, plus she's smaller than me. So not too worried, but might start reflexology/accupuncture/curry-troughing with a vengence at 37 weeks to help things along..

Naive first-timer again, but I don't think I've felt any BH...I know i've had them, as they clouded the picture for sonographer at 20 week scan, but can't say I've felt them. What's it like?

Pinky wow, good luck tomorrow or Friday - 4 babies this week....... Things are definitely moving in the right direction for us all now - tis kind of making it seem real.........

BH I didn't feel them at all when pg with DS but this time, my bump goes rock solid - not painful though it can be uncomfortable when I stand/walk - but still not overly noticeable (although I do make DH touch it cos it freaks him out). I wouldn't worry if you haven't had any tbh.

Had the presentation - was nice although I hate being the centre of attention - but at least it is done. Have given me money which will pay for the baby gym that we have bought

OMG another baby! Good luck, Pinky, thinking of you, hon.

Is that really now 4 babies this week? Bloody hell, as Ron Weasley would say.

BH, not necessarily painful, Mildwest, but can be. For me, sometimes they are and sometimes they aren't. At the mo' my bump is basically entirely rigid and pretty uncomforatble but Imwouldn't say it was painful as such. However, last week I had a couple that made me cry...

Ceebee me too on both counts, cheering DH up and freaking him out. And it's even funnier if you can do both at the same time. I am going straight to hell for that one, aren't I?

Right, hoovering so the mw doesn't faint when she visits.

OMG OMG Pinky is having her baby as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! good luck honey, I really hope you get a chance to read this before you go in.....4 babies this week makes it all so real...off to catch up now with the rest of the thread....XXX

Wow caught up now, took a while

had this little one been a boy, we would have called it finn as well! (although just Finn)

Love the nbame India as well and Rutho your names are fab - what are your final ones though or still undecided????

We are 90% there on Tallulah but will wait until we meet her just to make sure, if she is not a Tallulah then it will be either Layla or Scarlett but I just love, love love Tallulah and it's shortened versions of Lula for a little girl and Tally for a teenager........

BH's I am having very striong ones as well....Baby is very active as well and loves a minty magnum - just like her mum she goes nuts whenever I have one!!!!!!!

I can't belive we are having 4 babies this week now, it is all so real but I think I am personally still in denial!

monkey enjoy your last day and lunch!!!!!!!!

PINKALI Please slow down, take it from experience you really really need to rest for at least 2 weeks before delviery, can you perhaps do half days?????

I'm like a goldfish, can' tremember what else I have just read...

DM xx

Wow good Luck Pinky I can't believe we will have so many babies this week, DH can't belive how excited I am for people I have never even met - I just told him there was no way he could understand he trials and tribulations everyone goes through on here.
Well I have been to the hospital AGAIN this morning and have come home with no firm date again. I'm starting to get annoyd now. The consultant has agreed to everything I want but they are fully booked for elcs until Nov 18th and are not happy to let me go that long - Thank god for that. I am currently awaiting a phonecall back from them to give me a date! It could be any time from Nov 3rd until Nov 15th. I should know today but I'm not holding my breath!

Hi Dozy, our final choices are Phoebe Rowena Jill and Finlay Bejamin Richard. I'm not mad about Rowena and DH isn't nuts about Finlay but it's a compromise so honour is satisfied on both counts.

Do pick Tallulah, I think it's an ace name and I really wanted it but DH dug his heels in. Re: goldfish, I'm like a stoned goldfish that hit its head an hour ago and hasn't been getting much sleep recently... My granny has a better short-term memory than me at the mo and she's 92. But then again she has v little to occupy her days - maybe she wants to do some wallpapering? I can't see how her being blind and deaf with fallen arches and a heart condition could stop her...

Speaking being in no fit condition, I've just done an hour of washing up, laundry and hoovering and now I feel like crap - v BHy and tired. Not a greaat state to greet the mw in but at least the house looks a little better. DH can mop the sodding kitchen floor when he gets in. To put this into perspective, the floor is 1m x 2.5m. It's just the filling and emptying of the bucket that's difficult.

Hey Ladybuzz, how frustrating for you. Fingers crossed it's earlier? Are you in the "out now" camp?

Mildwest, is it just me or does "difficult instrumental delivery" sound like something you'd hear Alan Yentob going on about in the context of experimental music? Or is that just my poor, poor brain on the fritz again?

Hi Mildwest still don't really understand but think I have prob missed something about the forceps (do they not do them at all or is it just if head is too big?). Anyway that is reassuring (to me too) that your mum managed a 9lb+ that was back-to-back as that is what mine is predicted to be and it is B2B too! MW told me tho that a few 'strong' contractions may turn it to the correct position... so I am willing my RLT and bouncing on yoga ball to help me out on that score!!

My BH just felt like bad period pain, I mean pain that stopped me in my tracks for a bit and then passed. But as I said never noticed them in first PG.

Dozy Lula and Layla are so sweet for little girls, I used to babysit a baby called Layla (whispers... but she is now 14 yrs old!). It has appeared on my list in the past...

LadyBuzz for you about dates but at least you should know by end of day... fingers crossed!

Ruthy!!! FGS SIT DOWN LASSIE!!!!!!!!!

ladybuzz that is crap....surely with your due date being early Nov they need to give you a date around then??????

Rutho you really, really make me laugh!!!

Saurus yes I am def in the out now camp. I can no longer walk without waddling and feel like my whole body is going to fall out of my min-min (love that name) (sorry TMI )when I stand up.
Went for Petrol and the server asked m if I was in labour???? yes of course I am I just thought I would fill the car up and get a paper on the way. (the hosp is 2 mintes from the garage).
Love all these names Tallulah is fab and India is lovely too, I liked it but DH didn't.

Dozy x post, I'm hoping so, he said he was going to try to get it as close to EDD as possible but it will have to be on a day when they don't usually do elcs so he couldn't be certain. I just want to know now it is diving me nuts!

no news?

I have my new hospital and lovely nice water birthy consultant . Will be seeing her on Monday to do my care plan (so hold tight till then you little bugger )

If baby doesn't look like a Finlay we will reconsider....and we are half minded (obviously ) to have Virgil as a middle name, but I promised my mum that if I had ever had another baby boy I would get Lawrence in there somewhere. Never mind that my Dad banned it as a concept when he was alive. Tis a tough choice that one; do I honour my dead Dad or dead Mum? Either way they will have something to bicker about in the afterlife

C'mon babies.

Rutho.....sit the hell down; you are making me feel ill with all that activity! And what is it about men and floors. DH has been promising to do ours for two fecking months.....it is truly manky and visitors are starting to wipe their feet when they leave our house!

hope you get a date soon labybuzz.

Hooray, Lacks! Thank frel you aren't having to have your bairn in the car park! Pass the flapjack, you.

Names - we are using the name Rowena as a middle one after a friend who died and DH wants to commemorate her. However, Rowena herself HATED her name and would be gutted we were inflicting it on another generation.

I just had midwife appointment and she said if bedroom not ready when baby comes to tell DH he is sleeping on the couch while I co-sleep with the baby as my back will need the bed. That ought to do the trick. She also said we seem very well prepared and tidy (result!) but I'm not telling DH that as otherwise all work will stop as if he's on strike.

Our kitchen floor sort of sucks at your shoes like the carpet in a very old man sort of pub. Gag. I don't know why men won't clean floors - maybe they think it's beneath them?

Also, ladies, I am engaged! Well, actually, I'm married, but the baby's head is engaged. Ta-daaaaaaa! Doesn't mean that Saurus Jr is any closer to making an appearance, but hey, it's progress. Woo! And she says any mucus (ew...) is the show coming out in bits, so I won't get the pants moment but that's what all the BHs are up to.

I'd always imagined the show happening with a sort of "pop!" noise, so am sleeeeeghtly disappointed...

Plus, my lovely mw is doing my next appointment at home as the mw centre is two miles walk up a vertical cliff (comic exaggeration) seeing as I can't drive any more. And I hate the centre as it's full of 19 year old psychos who look at you like they're comsidering cooking eating you.

What a successful afternoon!

Can I have a martini now to celebrate?

Mine went with a big pop when I was in labour with DS...had been having strong, but irregular contractions and I was just having a wee relax on my side when it happened. DH and I looked at each ither in a puzzled fashion, and then he stood up, looked over me to see what had happened, the colour drained out of him and he pressed the buzzer for the MW. I wondered what the hell was srong, but it was just the show and waters all coming together and was a bit messy.......good job he never got to see the real deal if that was his reaction to a mucous plug

Right, off to see my head doctor and get my "officially mental" status assessed!!

C'mon with the babies MerryM. I hope all is well