Due Dec 08 -- Getting Ready for final push (in every sense!)

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Here's a new thread for us all lovely Dec Mums!

Hatty, just realised i sounded a bit mean towards your DH, how about you tell him Cbeebies is educational and you are actually thinking of their future.

Hello lovely ladies,

Welcome CatDean

So sorry cannot seem to catch up on this thread. It's moving so quickly! So busy at work I am not getting a chance to catch up tut tut roll on ML

Right going back to try to catch up a bit.

Really tired today. Had a work call last night at nearly 2am poor chap in Indonesia don't think he was aware that I am London based staff. Needless to say was very difficult to get the brain in gear straight from deep sleep and am suffering for my efforts today. Still all good practice for when the bump becomes a lovely little bubba

Hope everyone is well x

Small whinge alert - I've been trying to get through to the mat ward reception desk to arrange a visit - we've not been so far but it occurred to me that we might end up there so best to get onto one of the tours - have been trying every half an hour since 2 and nobody ever answers. It doesn't bode well for getting hold of a MW when they're needed!

I'm going to whinge too... they couldn't book me in for my "pre-op assessment" next Friday because they have "overbooked". So they said I should just turn up and they will see me sometime next week . Call me paranoid but after my previous experience with hospital reliability this doesn't exactly fill me with reassurance. I bet I turn up and they send me away as I have no appointment. I could really do without this at this late stage!

Am going to ask my NCT organiser about it as she works at the hospital as a maternity assistant (v useful contact to have I think!) Wish me luck!

how bizarre you are both having hospital troubles [sarcastic face emoticon]. Verso they will def send you away unless you can produce the name of the person who told you this, actually even if you do that they will probably suddenly not work there anymore.

JJ-it may be that there ward receptionist is away or they may have protected education time, although are you still trying now as it is getting a bit late for that.

veggie - I could understand if someone was busy for a short while, but all afternoon? Shouldn't they have someone covering to answer the phone?! Especially as it's the only number we're given to arrange any kind of appointment, ask for emergency help etc. It's the reception for the whole maternity dept which has delivery unit, MLBU, 3 wards, scanning, NICU etc... Might try the community MW in case she knows an alternative way to get through to someone.

How annoying re the hospitals. grr

Veggie your DH sounds like my perfect man can you send him my way.

I can defo reccommend getting a cleaner or using an ironing service once your DC are born. We sent our ironing out for a month after DS was born then we used my stat mat for a cleamer for a couple of months made all the difference. Shame this time round we are skint so will be muddling through ourselves.

Indith . My BF is always telling me I should be sent round schools as it would put girls off having sex ever.

I keep thinking that I would like a third but DP is not so keen.

Hi CATDEAN nice to meet you are oyu coming to the meet up next wk?

Oh my secret stork arrived today must get to the post office in the next couple of days.

Mmm I have not had that many braxton hicks this time round which is weird as with DS I had them massively from about 26wks.

Well I am totally and utterly cream crackered at the mo just want to sleep or eat. Went to yoga today and during the relaxation I am sure I fell asleep could well have been snoring .

Also my junk food obsession has begun. Today I have had a pack of toffee popcorn, monster munch, a wispa (there is another in the fridge for later) and I would love to have fish and chips for tea. Must be nearing the end always makes me ravenous for absolute rubbish.

Oh and have finally packed my hospital bag this arvo have gone very light and got about half the stuff I had last time.

Have a good eve all.

Evening,

I feel terrible. Got awful back pains, loads of BH's and feel very uncomfortable. I am so bloody fed up with this. It seems to be going so slowly.

I hope everyone is fairly ok. I want to sleep for the next 4 weeks.

Hi December 2008ers!

Hope everyone is well and the baby baking is coming along nicely! I have not been on the ante-natal thread for yonks! This time I'm posting a message before I go back to catch up on the thread, as usually by the time I do that, it finishes me off and I'm ready for another nana nap. (That's no reflection on the thread! Just my lack of stamina!)

I'm ready for this baby to arrive now. I'm getting very impatient and excited at the same time, not to mention a bit uncomfortable. Anybody got any tips to bring it on?

Indith & Jam- LOL at having sex ed dvd's for schools of your bits.

Jam- i am very lucy to have such a brill DH, don't deserve him but oh well. DS def takes after his dad, it's quite spooky how similar their personalities are. I'm really nervous that this next one will be more like me, grumpy and moody and really really untidy.

JJ- the community MW should give you an emergency number when your around 37 weeks i think i would ask them to give it to you now due to crap maternity unit people.

Kayz- you poor thing i am feeling a little less uncomfortable today but still soooooooooooooo tired, 4.5 weeks left just feels like forever. I keep getting people saying oh x weeks not long now then, so close, but it feels like bloody forever.

Jam- i have spurts of healthy eating then go back to intense junk eating, DH bought me some funsize packs of chocolate bars i love from Australia and instead of just having like one everynow and then i will have non for a day or 2 then eat like 5 in a row. Oh not sure if you saw a post i write last night but please go to waitrose and get a pack of their dark choc ices, they are small so you can have 10 at a time.

My C-section is booked for 3rd December, less than 3 weeks to go - yay! I've updated myself on the list below. Oh, and baby is measuring at 9 1/2lb at 35 weeks , thus the C-section!

Flumpybumpy scheduled c/s 19/11 (due 02/12) DC#3, (GIRL!)
LadyThompson scheduled c/s 25/11 8AM (zzz) (due 03/12) DC#1 - St Mary's, London, (GIRL!)
Verso scheduled c/s 25/11 (due 04/12) DC#2 - St Helier, London
daisydora/cc21 scheduled c/s 25/11 DC#2
MrsMattie due 28/11 DC#2
LadyOfTheFlowers due 30/11 DC#3
badkitty due 01/12 DC#1
twinkle183 due 01/12 DC#3
pwcbird due 01/12 DC#2
pixsix due 01/12 DC#1 - St Thomas', London
rosmerta due 02/12 DC#2 - Homebirth/West Mid, W London
RawChocolate due 02/12 DC#3
melissa72 due 02/12 DC#1
theyoungvisiter due 03/12 DC#2
Modernlove due 03/12 DC#1
DonnyLass due 03/12 DC#2, (BOY!)
Doozie due 3/12 DC#1
penny99 due 3/12 DC#?
amy123 due 3/12 DC#3
Katie3677 scheduled C/S 3/12 DC#2 - Hereford County Hospital (due 14/12)
goneundergroundtillfamilyknow due 04/12 DC#3
Hanni22anni due 04/12 DC#2
BrightShinySun due 05/12 DC#2
Nolda due 05/12 DC#2 Princess Anne, Southampton, (BOY!)
mibbes due 06/12 DC#1 - Stirling Royal
majormoo due 06/12 DC#3 - Royal Sussex, Brighton
elenamaesmummy due 07/12 DC#2
jenduck due 07/12 DC#1
Beans33 due 07/12 DC#1 - St Thomas', London
Ebs26 due 07/12 DC#1 - Darent Valley, Kent, (GIRL!)
hiccymapops due 07/12 DC#2, (BOY!)
poisondwarf due 08/12 DC#2 - Homerton, London, (GIRL!)
toratora due 08/12 DC#3
Mina30 due 08/12 DC#2
lal07 due 08/12 DC#2 - St Thomas', London (GIRL!)
jumpjockey due 08/12 DC#1, Homebirth, Cambridge
JezzaJ9 due 08/12/08 - Hope, Manchester
JamInMyWellies due 09/12 DC#2 - St Johns, Chelmsford
Natalie537 due 09/12 DC#2, (GIRL!)
hennaly due 09/12 DC#7
kmp1 scheduled c/s 10/12 (due 17/12) DC#1(BOY),
ChutneyMary due 10/12 DC#3
Artichokes due 10/12 DC#2, London, (GIRL!)
Webbi due 11/12 DC#1
Bisou due 12/12 DC#1, Australia, (BOY!)
fishnchips due 12/12 DC#3
Jackstini due 12/12 DC#2
kayzisexpecting due 12/12 DC#2, Malton, North Yorks, (BOY!)
Alliebongo due 12/12 DC#3 - West Suffolk
KutilPutil due 13/12 DC#2
traceface due 13/12 DC#2
cococat due 14/12 DC#1
pootleflump due 14/12 DC#2
monkeydops due 15/12 DC#2
Veggiemummy due 15/12 DC#2 - Homebirth, Derby, (BOY!)
abbymeg scheduled c/s 15/11 (due 21/12) DC#2 - St James, Leeds, (BOY!)
bunnysgirl due 16/12 DC#2
chinchi due 17/12 DC#2 - Calderdale Royal, Halifax
Purple79 due 17/12 DC#1 - St Thomas', London, (GIRL!)
IceCube due 18/12 DC#1 - Homebirth, Cheshire
snorris due 18/12 DC#5, (GIRL!)
SummerLightning due 18/12 DC#1 - Addenbrookes, Cambridge, (BOY!)
moaningminnie2020 due 20/12 DC#2
reban due 20/12 DC#4
Ninii due 20/12 DC#2
Indith due 20/12 DC#2 - Homebirth, Durham
hotmama due 21/12 DC#3
RhinestoneCowgirl/MaeWest due 21/12 DC#2 - Homebirth, Bristol
waitinggirl due 21/12 DC#1 - Whittington, London
preggiejane due 21/12 DC#1
georgiepig due 22/12 DC#2
NineUnlikelyTales due 22/12 DC#2
hattyyellow due 22/12 DC#3 (GIRL?)
Turniphead1 due 24/12 DC#3 - St John & Elizabeth's, N London
zoejeanne due 24/12 DC#1 - Scarborough
HollyMiranda due 24/12 DC#1 - Chelsea & Westminster
anjlix due 24/12 DC's#1&2 - St Thomas', London (TWIN GIRLS!)
Missmama due 25/12 DC#3 - Birmingham Heartlands
EnchantedWithEdwardCullen/DisenchantedPlusBump due 25/12 DC#3
kitkat9 due 25/12 DC#3
Annagt due 25/12 DC#1
strikey due 25/12 DC#2
GettingBiggerBird due 25/12 DC's#2&3 - Homerton, London (GIRL & BOY!)
purplepansy due 25/12 DC#3
PinguRocks due 25/12 DC#1 - St Thomas', London
Lowrib due 25/12 DC#1 - Homerton, London
mybumpsaboy due 25/12 DC#1, (BOY!)
Jollybear due 26/12 DC#1
tm2 due 26/12 DC#1
GordontheGopher due 26/12 DC#2
Twiga/okaythen due 26/12 DC#3
LitterBug due 26/12 DC#3
Crazycatlady due 26/12 DC#1 - Homebirth/St Thomas', London
Olipop due 27/12 DC#2 - West Middlesex, London
simmo14 due 27/12 DC#2, (GIRL!)
rowergirl due 27/12 DC#2
CatDean due 27/12 - Homerton, London
feb due 28/12 DC#2
babblington due 29/12 DC#3
emmanbump due 29/12 DC#1
Kimberly1979 due 29/12 - St. John's and Lizzies (BOY!)
EffiePerine due 30/12 DC#2 - Homerton, London (BOY!)
march29 due 31/12 DC#2
TheInvisibleHand due 31/12 DC#2 - Royal Free, London

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Its so bad, I'm in my PJs already!! It's so much more comfy then being in normal clothes.

Oh I ordered this today. Its so cute!!

Katie3677 . Just curious, what does your bump measure now? I'm only asking as I'm 34+4 but measuring 41. They won't send me for another scan as I'm already booked for the c-section (which my MW, after measuring me, concluded was very wise!), so there's no way of getting an estimate on the weight. I'm guessing that this one would be about 7lbs now, but that's based on DDs weight. Goodbye what little remained of my stomach muscles... .

Hi all am doing a quick post before i go back to catch up, but as usual you miss a few days on this thread and its nearly over!!
Had latest check up at hospital on tuesday and they decided no need to scan. Did my fundal measurements and was 34cm at 34 weeks 3 days so so couldnt be anymore "right" for there charts ... am a bit at how the baby was so small 20 - 30 weeks but now is perfect size for age, didnt know babies could have such a leap in size but not ginna question it now!

Anyway hope everyone well and ill be back when ive caught up on the whole thread xx

Abby My MW said if I measured more than 3cm bigger or smaller I would be sent for a scan. I suppose if you are booked in for a CS, it might not matter as much.

Kayzi They gave me one 2 appointments ago, and he was big, but still within the normal range. However, he is much bigger now (I'm measuring 6cms over rather than 4 and have popped out loads) but they said since he's moving plenty and being huge didn't seem to effect DD, he should be fine so there was no need to scan again. I make them big was the conclusion. I have put a picture on my profile of my vastness at the start of this week.

Cat your Vicar of Dibly/birthing ball/rellies looking on while you do nip stim made me laugh big time! I have only ever made one meetup and it was small one "just" LadyT and PoisonDwarf (but worth the trip - they are lovely ). I know others have met in Clissold Park (i think) and other more central location.

Sorry you had such a shock last night, but you were just right to go in. But so glad all was well.

I will try and organise a mid-Jan meet up somewhere around E5/N16/N8 etc etc because personally I am unlikely to fit anything in pre-baby.

Hatty I am quite at your DH's comments. Sometimes I think men need to walk a day in our shoes (and with a bowling ball
firmly wedged in the groin RIGHT on their bladder) to truly feel how debilitating being heavily pregnant can be . Yes, it's not an illness - but it really is quite hard - and I am so full of admiration for you doing it with two little girls. Twins are hard too - you have a lot going on. Cbeebies is a godsend and your girls will benefit more from you having a bit of a rest rather than trailing them miserable round whatever ectivity she thinks they need. I don't know what his working hours are like - but my impression is not 7am to 8pm - in which case he should feel free to organise whatever worthy trips etc he wants...

katie - wow what a whopper! Glad you got your date - so close. Yay.

doozie - good to hear from you - you are so close to your due date!! No tips alas, I am a firm believer that babies will only come when they are ready (unfortunately) and sometimes the fixation on our due date drives us nuts!

verso how annoying about your apptment. Sounds like a good idea to get a name if you want to just rock up- sometimes they say anything to get you off the phone

jump I have just washed all my small baby type toys (even though my poor babe will have grotty 3 year old and 5 year old paws with school germs all over him or her). Sorry - forgot who was asking - I always wash clothes in non-bio before putting on a new baby. But it is a good idea not to wash loads of the 7lb "new baby" size babygros in case you get a bigger baby. Wash one pack and then keep the others in the wrapper for return if necess.

Another tip - if you get loads of 0-3month and 3-6 months "outfits" consider returning them for bigger sizes eg 9-12 months(but bearing in mind seasons) as small babies only really need to be in babygros & cardies, certainly for the first 12 weeks and even after that probably don't need a huge range of clothes.

Indith sorry to hear that your varicose veins are bad again - you poor love.

Sorry forgot who mentioned a cleaner - but agree with the point that it can save a marriage . If there is anyway of affording one I would go for it - even if it's just temporary after the babe is born. I heart my cleaner big style!

My friend who had the scan yesterday is fine - yay! Heartbeat seen (only one so far) but all very small so she has to go back next week. She sounds so happy. I am delighted for her.

I had a reflexology massage today and the lady tried to do lymphatic drainage on my legs. They are quite swollen so will be good if it works!

Just saw the M&S xmas ad. Take That round at the Supermodels (and Myleene) house?!? Lovely though!!

I've just thought that I'm 37 weeks next Friday and you are considered full term from 37 weeks!!! ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

reban sorry cross-posted. Glad they are happy with size now. Little one must have been munching more within?

Abbey that's a lovely bump! As Kayz said, sounds like if you are having a c/s in any event they won't bother to scan.

I am having a growth scan tomorrow. DS was just under 10lb. Don't think this babe is as big, myself. Even if they say this one is over 10lbs I am not going to be persuaded into an induction. I am confident my body can give birth to whatever size of baby is within...she said

Thank you Turnip. It does tend to get in the way! Good luck with the scan.

Abby I have no idea I'm afraid, they concluded the weight purely from scan and measuring baby's tummy, head, thighs etc. I would measure myself for you but not sure I'd get it right. Are you under consultant care? If you are and are worried about size, I would ring him/ her and request a sizing scan, for your own peace of mind if nothing else. They did warn me today that they can be up to 1 1/2lbs out though, so it's not definitive. Also, water can make up for alot of the bump size,in my case 11cm's worth, whereas average is between 4 and 8cm's apparently.

Katie thanks. Lots of water! I'm suspecting that's the same for me. I had a scan before, but he's a lot bigger than he was then. The MW seemed fairly relaxed about it - he's moving loads and obviously has lots of space. I'm only concerned in case I'm missing something about what size can indicate. All of my tests are fine, and GTT was normal. DD was overdue (and seriously underestimated in size when scanned), but absolutely fine, but I don't want to not get something checked that could be important. Do you know whether big babies are prone to anything that I should be getting scanned, or are they scanning just to determine that it is big? I hope this makes sense! I'm not due to see consultant again until the CS.

Abby Just looked at your picture and you are quite big!! But you are meant to be bigger 2nd time round. I know I am.

You look great though!!

Kayzi bless you! I finish work tomorrow, thank goodness. I think my size is scaring the teenagers! I'm actually smaller than I was with DD - now that was scary!