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

[Beans33]

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

Yeach have aquired DS' V&D bug feel quite literally like a bag of poo.

Good luck Flumpy and congrats Mrs Mattie

Morning,

Sorry to Verso and Chutney that you didn't sleep well. I only woke up once so it wasn't too bad.

Oooh today is the day Flumpy. Jam Sorry you are ill. I hope you feel better soon.

Hope everyone has fun when you all meet up and you don't scare anyone. I would imagine a large group of pregnant ladies walking into a restaurant would be quite frightening.

flumpy good luck for today!

verso/chutney I'm with you on the bad night. Ds woke up, dh got up but just brought him into bed with us. I ended up on the very edge of the bed unable to move! Oh well, quiet day for us I think as ds is very tired as well.

jam sorry you're not well, hope you get better soon

Hope everyone who's meeting up today has a good time. Considering last night its probably a good job I'm not coming as ds will no doubt have a meltdown at some point today!

Morning!! Yay...day off today! Just dropped lovely DS at nursery and came back to eat 3 french fancies whilst catching up with you all (I'm allowed 3 as I think they are certainly no more than half the size that they used to be!!!!).

Trace - I love your see through tummy dream. It does odd things to you this pregnancy lark. I dreamt that there was a tiny baby tiger, giraffe and other animal running around our living room. Woke up this morning and the cat has a big scratch on his face...wonder if it was the tiger!

Jump - I think you should make an appointment too. I am seeing someone every fortnight now for BP and wee checks.

Kimberly - LOL at your pencil sharpener baby!! DS was doing that during birth . It was the weirdest thing...not that I was much aware of it. Apparently every time I pushed, he came down a bit but was rotating. DH said it was fascinating! They even called a few people in to have a look... again!

Ros - sorry you had a bad night. DS keeps waking too and I am seriously concerned about the shape of nights to come. Oh well...too late now! I didn't realise you weren't going to make the meetup. I might not see you now before the big pop! Unless you are free for us to nip in for a quick cuppa next tues pm? Let me know.

Looking forward to seeing those of you who can make it at the meetup.

PS - got my secret stork a week or so ago...thank you!! DS tried it out and liked it!

x

Hi All - honestly, it's so busy on here - I love coming on for a catch up, but now finding it quite hard to respond to messages! I hope everyone has recovered from their bad night's sleep? I'm quite annoying and had the best night's sleep I've had in weeks - 10 hours with only 4 loo stops and now feeling brilliant! Can't wait for lunch!! here - only getting one high chair - hope that's right?

Is Flumpy having her baby today! Oh my GOSH - good luck!!!
xxxx

Hello everyone

Flumpy will be thinking of you today! Our first thread baby!

I had a scary realisation this morning. I currently weigh 50% more than I did 7 years ago. At the time I was coxing at a very high level and was pretty skinny, this was in the days when it was considered better to be tiny for university level sport than meet the international minimum weight rules. I put on a good few kgs when I stopped, but this baby has really hefted me up the scales! I know it's all healthy and nothing to worry about but it really struck me this morning. 50%!

olipop - mmmm french fancies! If you've got any pink ones you don't want I'll happily help you out

Oh and have a lovely meet up you lucky london ladies!

flumpy good luck for today.
jam hope you feeling better soon.

Saw MW this morning for last antenatal before c-section nx week. She did my bloods for it so I'm all ready to go now. She also said baby's bum was engaged. I did think that my bum had dropped and that I felt a lot more pressure in my pelvis - now I know its a squidgy bum!!!!!!!

Have a lovely luch all you London Ladies

flumpy - good luck for today - look forward to hearing the announcement. And of course congratulations MrsMattie

Have fun all of you meeting today. Am a bit still stuck at work.

My last day is shaping up to be ridiculous - so far, I have a breakfast meeting planned, possibly a very big meeting with a regulator and then yesterday someone suggested I might want to go to Brussels for an evening Xmas do...nice idea, but...

Many sympathies to those up in the early hours. I feel like a walking zombie most days right now.

Have just read my thread - I mean my bump has dropped not my bum.

afternoon all. crap night again, and spew this morning. I have to make an appointment with GP tomorrow to sort out some bloods so might talk to him about Ranitidine or something.

Beans it's nice to hear you had a good sleep nice t know some of you are.

Jam sorry about the D&V, not nice, vomiting is quite difficult with a big bump.

looking forward to hearing from Flumpy, wow amazing to think it is all gonna be happening soon.

I read a really interesting article on the 3rd stage of pregnancy and cord cutting etc (my MW knows i'm a bit of an information and trivia head so keeps giving me stuff to read) amongst other stuff it said in some studies premmie babies who had had the cord cutting delayed by just 30 seconds had had much lower rates of respiratory distress and problems due to receiving a bit more oxygen rich blood. Also the theory that the baby got too much blood if the cord was left to stop pulsating was a old one that had never been proved. Some babies can get mild jaundice apparently but as it was not severe it was not see as a bad thing but quite normal. According to some studies it's believed the baby somehow regulates how much blood it receives post birth so it will always be enough, and if the cord is cut too early the baby can be left without enough blood and even miss out on some of the stem cells that wander down to the bone marrow to help make new blood. Sorry this is all probably quite boring i just found it all very amazing esp in view of the fact that hospitals tend to cut the cord early seemingly against what the research says.

lol Daisy at your bum dropping

Omigod! I can't believe we have our first December baby and maybe even second one by now. Congratulations MrsM and hope it goes really well for Flumpy. Trace, Zoe and Kayz other Yorkshire lasses (sorry brain gone emoticon) - we are Yorkshire too. Went to the Deep back in March with the DD's. Absolutely loved it - very peaceful.

DD's seem to have finally recovered, but lots of tears about going to nursery this morning. Does anyone else find this with their pre-schoolers, that if they have a break from nursery/pre-school they get very unhappy and clingy about going back? Ashamed to say there were tears from me as well - I haven't had a morning off for so long and I was so over excited about the thought of going back to bed! Am such an overemotional tearful mess!

Hope all you London girls have had a lovely lunch .

that deep place sounds great, I haven't been to Yorkshire since we moved to midlands we should come up for a weekend.

My DS sometimes gets a bit sad when he has had more than a week off for holidays and then has to go back. A bit nervous about when he goes back to Nursery after Christmas holidays as he will be starting 5 mornings a week and the baby will (hopefully) have been born just before he goes on holidays and his Nanna-pippy (my mum) will have been to visit him during that time so we are keeping him off for the first week to spend more time with her, and of course there is also the excitment of christmas. So in all he will have been off for 3 weeks and had so much excitement and goings on during those 3 weeks.

Veggie I think your DS is the same age as my DD's isn't he?

I know what you mean about Christmas, my two will have had my mum and two of their uncles plus DH's parents around for a good week - and then suddenly it will be everyone gone, daddy back at work, tired mummy and them back at nursery!

Glad you have potential tenants for your flat- hope they are as nice as the last ones - great to have one thing off your mind.

he is 3 and suddenly hit the terrible 2's albeit a bit late but very cheeky lately, and mouthy.

We suddenly have loads of interest, quite bizarre nothing for weeks and then several people at once. we are down in London this weekend and are going to line a up a few people to take through. One guy has already seen it and is very interested but he doesn't actually want it for himself but wants to sublet it to friends he seems quite nice but we are a little nervous about the subletting thing. we aren't that precious about the house more that we have very lovely neighbours and one is quite old so a bit vulnerable ad so we don't want dodgy people living next to her making her feel unsafe.

Hello everyone

Hope you had a lovely time on the meet. I'm originally a Londoner, but now in Yorkshire. My family still lives there though, don't see them as often as we should because i DO NOT miss driving through London

Loads of sympathy to everyone's sleepless nights. My ds is still up sometimes through the night, add to that toilet trips and heartburn, and i'm now a walking zombie! How am i going to cope when bumpy arrives?!

I thought we were all organised when my birthing pool arrived yesterday, but the connecter thingy for the tap isn't big enough, so i hope the baby hangs on till we get another one

Hope everyone's doing okay, i still can't believe the babies are starting to arrive, i feel like i've been pregnant forever, but it doesn't seem like two minutes since we all started talking on here. Does that make sense?

Veggie that's so sweet of you to think of your neighbours. Hope you get someone nice.

Hiccy I am another London girl turned Yorkshire. Miss London but you're right the traffic certainly isn't something you miss!

I still make DH laugh (he's Yorks born and bred until he went to uni in London) by arriving places really early to make sure I get a parking place- before realising that there's pretty much always parking places in the middle of some country village!

I am worrying about the sleepless nights and dealing with toddlers as well. However, my sleep has been so rubbish in the last 9 months with getting up with DD's a couple of times a night plus 300 loo trips - it can't be that much worse when the baby arrives..can it?!

Hope everyone had a lovely meet up today.

I didn't realise there were so many of us in Yorkshire, we should maybe meet up once the bumps are babies.

I still feel pretty crap, I am so uncomfortable I just want to cry, it doesn't matter how I sit or where nothing works. I'm so sick of it now. I feel so sorry for my DH who has to put up with me feeling so down. Going to talk to MW about it tomorrow.

Look where dh is planning for me to spend the next couple of weekends
doing starjumps

{B&Q car parks up and down the land filled with Dec 08 MNers looking tired and a little shifty}

Kayz sending you huge hugs. Is anything in particular getting you down( sorry for ignorance am finding it so hard to keep up with the thread at the moment!).

Rosmerta lol at the b&q baby vouchers! Hope my DH doesn't see it or I'll be down there doing high jumps with you!

Didn't realise Charlotte Church was due again in December - I wonder if she's on our thread incognito!

I am so uncomfy too, my ribs feel like they're about to snap any minute if they get pushed out any further. Have agreed with my client and DH that I'm going to finish working Friday when I'll be 36 weeks. Was going to struggle on into next week but my brain is like jelly and I'm so tired I can hardly move.

The extra money would have been useful but I feel so much better knowing that I can start having some brief breaks during the week whilst the girls have their nursery mornings.

Seems to be everything at the minute Hatty I totally agree with the ribs feeling like they are going to snap. It feels like his head is pushing down on my bladder and his feet are pushing into my ribs. Then there is the heartburn, nothing is working anymore.

I would give anything to go into labour tonight.

Maybe I'll go to B&Q at the weekend.

He he - loving the thought of us all at B&Q - maybe we should plan few meet ups there, although would B&Q get suspicious if too many pregnant women showed up at once, all with flasks of raspberry leaf tea??

hiccy didn't realise you're a Yorkshire gal too, whereabouts in Yorkshire are you? I agree kayz, they maybe enough of us to meet up (stop me being of the London Mum's having fun today)

I've had a lovely day today and met 2 new babies - this morning I went to catch up with someone from my ante natal class who's DS is 1 month now, and this afternoon I've been to see my Gran who has my cousin and her new DS staying - it's made me excited about what's to come

We could meet at the big B&Q in York!!! It would be so funny.

My cousin's girlfriend had her baby girl this afternoon. She was born at 2.13pm, 6lb 9oz and she is called Sophia Ava.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!