May 2009 Part 3 - brains still pregnancy addled so we forgot we needed a new thread !

[Jools1]

Hope this will do

JustgotBFP due 1 May (36 will be 37 when dc arrives DS age 4)
Sahbear due 1 May (DS age 14 mo)
farrahgillani due 1 May (1st Child)
Brightsideoflife due 1 May
Reggiee due 1 May (ahem 30 April but want to stay - DD age 22 months)
Aquababe due 1 May (DD age 2.9)
Evergrounded due 1 May
Momino due 1 May (DD age 2.5 and DD age 1)
Llareggub due 1 May (DS age 22 months)
Loulabela due 1 May
AAL due 1 May (DS age 4)
Olderbutnotwiser due 1 May (DD age 21, DS age 19, DS age 16 DS age 4, DD age 2)
MissyK due 1 May (DS age 3)
Heverhoney due 2 May
SpangleMaker due 3 May (first child)
LoobyLou36 due 3 May (first child)
Inni due 4 May (DS age 2.9 and DD age 1)
Ceeceeanne due 4 May (DD age 9)
Bantam73 due 5 May (2 DCs ages 2.5, 16.5)
Chicadee due 5 May (DD age 6.5)
Overtiredmum due 5 May (DS age 3)
Hopefullypregnant due 5 May (DD age 10.5m)
Gibsongirl due 6 May (DS1 age 5 and DS2 nearly 2)
BrownieBells due 6 May (DS age 2.9)
lauralou1 due 6 May (first)
Minimenace due 7 May (DS age 11 mo)
Detsy due 8 May (UK, Cheshire - DD 11 months)
Carol7 due 9 May (DS age 16 DD age 12)
Febes due 10 May (DD age 9 months)
Jennster due 10 May (DD age 2y7m, DS age 13m)
Missblythe due 10 May (DD age?)
Superdenki due 10 May (DS age 2.5)
Pinkcandyfloss due 11 May (DS1 age 5 and DS2 age 1.7)
Mootie due 11 May (DD age 2.4)
Flippineck due 12 May (DD age 17 months)
Ses due 12 May (first child)
Millionsaway due 13 May (DD 20 months)
Mammajamma due 13 May (DS1 age 4, DS2 age 22m)
Gateau due 14 May (DS 16 months)
Wobblypig due 14 May (DS 1.11)
Looneywoman due 14 May
Nikkiemadisonandbump due 15 May (DD age 2)
Frazzledoldbag due 16 May (DD1 age 7, DD2 age 2)
Nauseous due 16 May
Daisydoo due 16 May (DS age 19m)
Bluebell82 due 16 May (dd age 7 months)
umamimama due 16 May (dd age 16 months)
Bigtree due 17 May (first child)
Divediasy due 19 May (DS age 5 1/2 3rd preg)nucal scan 04/11 hosp 05/11
Bekkaboo due 19 May (DS age 2)
Tigergem due 19 May (DD 18m)
GreenFingeredMummy due 20 May (DD age 15m)
Jonesy68 due 20 May (DS age 5.10)
Mags98 due 21 May (first child)
2beautifulgals due 22 May (2 dds?!)
halfmumhalfbiscuit due 23 May (DS age 2)
Swottybetty: Due 24/05/09. DD 6mths
Moonlit due 24 May (DD age 2.6)
Agooboo due 24 May (DS1 age 6 DS2 age 2)
Dandelioness due 25 May (DD age 3 1/2)
Alapala due 25 May (DS 1.5)
MatthewandBumpsMummy due 26 May
citybranch due 27 May (DS age 21m)
Imnotok due 27 May
pulapula due 27 May (DD 3.10yr, DS 16 mths, Sheffield, booking in 20 Oct, dating scan 7 Nov, nuchal scan 13 Nov)
Runningmonkey due 27 May (first child)
CoteDAzur due 28 May (DD age 3)
MrsEvs due 28 May (DD age 4, DD age 2)
Jools1 due 29 May (first child at 39)Dating Scan Nov 11th
Fryn due 29 May (first child)
MsG due 30 May (first child)
Bluebutterfly due 31 May (DS age 3.5)
DorisIsAPinkDragon due sometime! (DD1 age 3 DD2 age 14mths)
FiKelly due may sometime (DS age just over 2yrs)
sebandelliotsmum due sometime in May ds1 5 and ds2 20 months.

Flippineck the more I tell my story, the more I hear about undiagnosed breeches. I guess it must be quite hard to diagnose, but am still amazed no one notice even when I got to hospital and had an internal at 5cm dilated.
They tried shoving her leg back inside me three times to enable a breech vaginal delivery (no pain relief at this stage) before conceeding defeat and whisking me off quickly for a general.

Blimey Reggiee, that doesn't sound like a whole heap of fun!

DD fooled everyone, she was really curled up with her head tucked in under my ribs. I had a few moments when I thought she was breech because when I was lying in bed sometimes she kind of uncurled a bit. But I didn't trust my instincts and trusted the mws and gp who had felt my bump. I'll truct myself more next time!

I've heard of a few undiagnosed breeches too, but nearly all have ended in c-sections. I really glad, and really lucky that our experience was as it was. I know someone who knows the consultant who let me carry on labouring, and apparently if it had been any of the other consultants on duty that day then it would have gone straight to section. All the diagnosed breeches I know have been c-section too, no chance of labour at all.

I've done quite a bit of reading since the birth so I know what to fight for and what is realistic I think. I'm sure the next one will be breech too - my mum had three breech babies.

I had an emergency c-section last time at 37 weeks. It healed remarkably quickly, and was driving after 4 weeks. I'm in two minds about whether to go for a VBAC or an elective c-section. Neither option seems particularly appealing, but the thought of the post c-section hospital stay really does not appeal!

Would love a water-birth but I've been told by the midwife that I'll be monitored carefully throughout, so a waterbirth isn't an option. Will have a word with my consultant on the 14th November when I see him. He is actually less interventionist than the midwives, and a lovely chap to boot.

Just bought some leggings and a dress from IO, and had a lovely 20% off, ending tomorrow.

Ladies, ladies - chill with the birth stuff! I'm no earth mother type but found hypnobirthing cds FAB and TBH if I can give birth with nothing (gas and air made my mouth so dry) and I was induced which is supposedly more painful than normal labour - than anyone on here can do it easy peesy. I am really looking forward to it - course it hurts but its so worth it!

Whoever was asking about second births being quicker if cs first time round - I think that is the case just if it was a vbac first time. But i guess that depends if you laboured or not, hmmm unsure actually. Will have to research!

Right off to do some ironing for trip to Germany tomo - def will be in comfy preggers clothes.

Gateau, so sorry to hear your devastating news. I had a miscarriage last year. Hope you have the support you need to get through this difficult time.

Jools, your dream is brilliant - let's hope it's a premonition!!

Was feeling very hormonal over the weekend, up and down at the drop of a hat. Feeling better today. Bit fed-up of the sickness/hunger gnawing feelings though.

Congrats to those who have had great scans!

Just under 2 weeks till mine. V nervous but trying to stay positive. x

llareggub I fancy a water birth too. Couldn't do it last time as there was no room in our apartment to set pool up and worried if we sprung a leek as we're on the 1st floor! Our local MLU didn't offer those fascilities either but didn't matter in the end anyway with the EM CS

This time we have to go under consultant too and that hospital does have the facility. Don't even know who'll be my consultant yet... suppose MW will organise that when I see her next wk. Haven't told DH yet about WB... don't think he'll mind as long as consultant says ok

fikelly I asked the MW for the same consultant as I had with DS1 and she was more than happy to refer me to him, although I suspect he probably is the only one anyway! I am looking forward to seeing him and showing him my unassisted pregnancy!

detsy which hypno cds did you use... i'm intrigued

I'm vaguely thinking about hypnobirthing too - either that or an epidural!
I know a friend of a friend who hypnobirthed her 3rd at home, in the bath, with only her husband to help (by accident) as she was so relaxed! Midwife had been to the house to check her about 1 hour earlier but told her she wasn't in labour as she was far too chilled out! ha ha, baby was born shortly after - (all fine, in case you were wondering). Midwife was a bit miffed when she found out she'd missed it!
Not sure I'd be up for that though - might ruin my beautiful new carpets. And DH would be traumatised!
And I did love my walking epidural last time.
But tell me about the hypno birth stuff anyway ...................maybe it could work for me too?

divedaisy & MsG when we were talking kntting/crochet the other day I completely forgot I know a site that has loads of free designs for babies/children/adults aready... sorry am I allowed to have baby brain already?!

It's www.garnstudio.com/lang/en/kategori_oversikt.php and there are all gauges and garments/blankets to choose from

Done ironing and off to bed now as up at 5

I used natalhypnotherapy.co.uk series. If I remember right we can kind of start now with the relaxation ones and plinky plonk music. I have them on my ipod and am going to start listening again to the first cd. I found it generally relaxing anyway (hate flying as got claustrophobia and use this on planes a lot to chill out with!)

My hospital don't do walking epidurals - all or nothing, I really want a natural water birth but only one pool so guess its the luck of the draw on the day

detsy I think she used the natalhypnotherapy series too actually. The woman I know that used it did practise it all the time though (she doesn't work and has lots of free time for facials etc) and really got into it. Not sure I have the time for that? Although I really could do with a facial.........Did you practise it a lot?
She also used the hypnobirthing thing when she had to have the baby turned from breech - the consultant said he'd never done it so easily before as she was so relaxed!
Absolutely freezing this morning - suddenly seems to be winter here. DH just had to de-ice the car for the school run. Hope Germany went well! Off to do some work now.

OMG I've just had 7 hours straight sleep, and then another 90 mins. I can't remember the last time I slept that long uninterupted. About 4 years ago I think.

i'm with cote on the birth stuff. i agree we shouldn't talk too much about this yet. HOWever, i know so many women who have had quick, needed little pain relief. for each of my friends who have had tough labours I know two who have had easier times. i think my age is against me as well as my size (i'm a bit narrow) which didn't help the last stage go too quickly. I'm defn going to either demand epidural or look into hypnobirthing though i may be too skeptical to 'allow' that to work .

Anyway, I'll stop now with birth talk and leave it another five months or so.

detsy thanks for the cd info i'll check it out.

change of topic.. ds has just brought ALL of his wooden train tracks and trains through to the lounge. bit tricky making a useable track with his selection of bridges etc. but managed in the end! now it's done he won't let me add any carriages to the trains! so i get all the work of building and he gets all the battery trains

so might get to drink a hot cuppa for a change

Hmmm - I had that dream again last night, but with embellishments - I had dream twins (eek) and my two Siamese cats sat on the bed and watched intently ! I was on my own in the house and didn't call anyone - just BF'ed the twins and waited to surprise DP when he got in from work

Jennster - am very VERY of your lovely long sleep - the last time I slept that long was when I conceived in July - felt really wierd as I slept for 8 hours every night for a week before having the CP. Before that, it had been years aswell I think.

Last night, I woke up for a wee at 1.50 and was awake for aaaggggeeesss after that - then DP woke up early, so we gave up at 6am and had tea in bed

Is anyone on this thread actually having twins (or more?!)
Just wondering.
I'm not (by the way) - although to look at me today you could be forgiven for thinking I am

Morning all, I'm feeling sorry for myself, suffering from a bad cold and not being able to take much for it (keep making honey and lemon drinks but not sure how much use that is). Anyone got any better suggestions.

Also now nearly 10 weeks and symptoms have faded over last few days and almost disappeared. Bit worried that its not a good sign as usually suffer til week 14 or so. At least I'm prepared for bad news at scan a week on fri.

By the way jools are your siamese cats real or in the dream?
I'd adore a siamese
but unfortunately am allergic

pula - I think symptoms fading from 9 wks on seems quite common. Mine have almost gone now and have been going away since 9.5 wks. (last time was 12 wks, and with first baby even later - 15 or 16 wks I think). Am now 11+4, sickness 95% gone and I know the bean is still there as heard the heartbeat this morning. Don't worry - chances are high that all is well
I like these halloween smiley things - cute!

Pulapula - I can sympathise as I had a horrid cold a few weeks ago and never realised before how much I rely on lemsip and Night Nurse !!

Things that worked for me - Olbas oil on a hankie / a couple of drops on my pillow so I could breathe and sipping warm water - keeping hydrated seems to thin out all the gunk, making things feel less congested.

Frazzled - yes, I do have two Siamese - a lilac and a choc point. They are both girls and, for a long time, I thought they would be my only "children" I adore cats, especially Siamese and would have a houseful in all the colours and shades if I could. I did have a blue point boy aswell, but he passed away last Nov at the ripe old age of 17 We used to consider him a good contraceptive device as he always always sat on my pillow and watched - quite offputting !!

jools LOL at your feline contraceptive!
Am very of you having 2 siamese. You're so lucky.

If I had one, I think I'd have a seal point.
[daydreams about fictitious kitten]
My favorite book when I was about 11 was 'Kym' by (I think) Joyce somebody. Have you ever read it?
It's about a woman and her siamese cats.

Joyce Stranger her name is.
Might have to go and dig it out and read it again now!

No I haven't read that one Frazzled but I do have loads of others - keep an eye out for Doreen Tovey books - she writes some hilarious and heart-warming stories about her Siamese cats - also Marilyn Edwards and Deric Longden. I could post you one or two if you are interested