Due Fab Feb 2009: crossed fingers (and legs) we'll get through another thread without welcoming any early arrivals!

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Welcome.

Please feel free to add yourself to the list.

TinkerBellesMum - DC3 (girl), due: 01.02.09 (not expected to get far into December) (age 27, Birmingham)
Laidbackinengland - DC4, due: 23.01.09 (age 34, North Devon)
Nkweto - DC2, due: 30.01.09 (age 35, West London)
Mamagoose - DC3, due: 31.01.09 (age 32, Spain)
Questionkid - DC1, due: 03.02.09 (age 33, Wallington, Surrey)
PinkTulips - DC3, due; 04.02.09 (age 24, Roscommon, Ireland)
MsLucy - DC2 (a boy), due: 4/2/09 (CS a few days early)(age 38, North London)
Swampster - DC3, (a boy), due: 06.02.09 (age 40 , London)
Rosieposey - DC4, (a boy) due: 06.02.09 (age 36,Swindon,Wiltshire)
MarkStretch - DC2, (a boy) due: 07.02.09 (age 29, Norwich)
onwardandoutward - DC2, due: 07.02.09 (age 35 South West)
LittleMissNorty - DC2, due: 08.02.09 (age 40 in a couple of weeks, Kent).
KT1983 - DC1, due: 09.02.09 (age 25, London)
KazzaL - DC2 (suprise flavour), due 10.02.09 (age 35, Cirencester, Gloucs)
herbgarden - DC2, due: 11.02.09 (CS 02.02.09) (age 38, Berkshire)
TheHouseofMirth - DC2, (a boy) due: 12.02.09 (age 38, Wimbledon)
Littlesez ? DC1 (a girl) due: 15.02.09 (age 28, Manchester)
America - DC2, (a boy) due: 16.02.09 (age 32, London)
Rachrox - DC4, (a boy) due: 18.02.09 (age 28, Cheltenham)
Catstar - DC2, (a boy) due: 18.02.09 (age 36, Chessington)
Dinkystinky - DC2, (a boy) due: 19.02.09 (age 32, London)
Pluto DC2 (gender unknown), due 19.02.09 (Age 38, Kent)
DizzyBrummie - DC2, due: 20.02.09 (age 36, Berkshire)
Calico1 - DC2 due: 21.02.09 (age 40, West Herts)
mrsy - DC1, (a girl) due: 22.02.09 (age 24, Maidstone, Kent
Scubagroover - DC1 (a boy), due: 22.02.09 (age 31, London/ Kent)
Winemakesmummyclever - DC2 (a boy), due: 23.02.09. (age 35, Manchester) expecting cs @ 39 weeks.
Spottyshoes - DC2, due: 24.02.09 (age 28)
Lardybump - DC2, due: 24.02.09 (age 34)
Chilledmama - DC2 (a girl), due: 25.02.09 (age 32, Southsea)
Cocodrillo - DC3, due 26.02.09 (age 34 at the mo, London) expecting a CS at 38-39 weeks.
mumoverseas - DC4 (a boy), due: 28.02.09 (CS 2 to 3 weeks early) (age almost 41 Arabia/Crawley West Sussex)

LBB - babies don't grow on a smooth curve (That's just the average), so even if your baby is largeish now, that doesn't mean they'll be huge when they come

And if you've birthed a 9lb10oz er, then you maybe make big babies and as long as you aren't tiny with a 6'6" dh, then there is no real problem with that (i.e. if you have a tiny tiny pelvis you might have difficulties I suppose).

Women birth 12lbers absolutely fine. It's not even the length or weight that's relevant, particularly, just the size of the head, and if you've got a bouncing baby head out once, what grounds would anyone have for thinking you couldn't do it again?

This pep talk is now finished...

littleboyblue

This time I was told I was measuring a week smaller than I should be and that the baby isn't going to be very big.

I find it hard to believe that my second MALE child is going to be loads smaller than the first, esp when everyone who knows me says I look massive.

It's all a load of tripe.

Dinky. Potty training has taken us a long time - it has, shall we say, been an ongoing process since last Xmas, which was when I took ds's nappies off during the day (it's taken me until now to brave taking them off at night).

The sad fact is that boys just aren't that fussed about being a bit wet and icky.

Thanx onward and mslucy. I originally asked if they were gonna monitor growth coz they did with my friend whose 1st was nearly 10lbs, so maybe it's just to keep me happy. We'll see what happens anyway.
Me and dp are both 6 foot anyway so expect big baby due to genetics anyway

morning all, sorry some of you are still suffering with heartburn/indigestion. I thought I was lucky to have not had it but it seems to have started last night and now I get it after every meal. (maybe its pork intolerance?)
LBB, sounds scary about giving birth to a 10lb baby but as the others have said, how can they really tell at this stage? Try not to worry about it too much.
Has anyone had the glucose tolerance test? I think I'm having one in a few weeks at 28 weeks and I'm just wondering if it is as bad here in the UK as it was when I had one in Saudi for DD. In Saudi I had to go to the hospital early am, have a blood test, drink some nasty orange stuff (far worse than lucozade)and then wait there for another 3 hours and have blood taken every hour. Is that what they do here?

Hi all

Just trying to calm myself down after an incident this morning. DS decided to launch himself off the sofa and caught his head on the way down on the corner of a wooden table........blood everywhere! it was terrifying, all I could see was blood dripping off my hands as I tried to hold him still so I could take a look. Ambulance arrived and mopped him up and it was actually the smallest cut that you can hardly see now. Phew - but I am still really shaky. DS just keep saying 'red, red' as the blood ran down his face...well at least he is getting his colours right!. Right have to go and buy myself some cake now...it's all been a bit much.

Oh Calico - that sounds massively stressful. Cake definitely called for. Sounds like your DS is fine though and not phased by it - just poor mummy.

MOS - I have a GTT next week. Have been told will need to drink some lucozade then sit around for an hour and then have some bloods taken - never had one before, but sounds less stressful than the Saudi version...

London mumsnetters up for the meeting up in late November (those not on facebook who would like to meet up, 27 November is the pencilled in date - just say on here if you want to join us but arent in the facebook group) - place in Tottenham Court Road I was talking about is Malabar Junction (www.malabarjunction.com). Is on Great Russell Street and does delicious keralan food...

Heartburn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! boo hoo does anyone else suffer with it all day and night? my god apart from that all good. Does anyone know what food are the culprits as mentioned, i know someone said potatoes, any others?

oh poor you Calico, sounds terrifying. My DD (now aged 12) had some sort of head injury (we think her older brother - now 15) threw a dressing up shoe at her head when she was about 3 and there was so much blood then which was really scary but when it was cleaned up it wasn't nearly as bad. Her cut was just above her eye and I think they just bleed a lot more than other areas. Hope he is ok now and hope your cake was nice.

dinky - can you please keep me posted ref the GTT. Am hopeful that the one in Saudi was just designed to annoy and for them to charge more (for each blood test!) I had a sneaky feeling it should have been just an hour after drinking it. Will be nice to know whether I need to think of long term babysitter for DD or just take her up there with me if just for an hour!

ooh, I'm not a Londoner but the food sounds good, might be worth jumping on the train for!
littlesez, definitely pork causes it coz I've had that everymeal since I've been back and started getting it since then! Wonder if little and often (not necessarily pork!) might help, like the early sickness days!

Not an expert on heartburn Littlesez - but I find I get it if I go too long between eating food so have to have a snack mid afternoon to stave it off. Posture can also set it off (if sit hunched over computer for too long) though as you're a dancer suspect its not the cause for you. Think spicy or greasy food can also trigger it in people - though doesnt in me.

I am falling apart - abit of my tooth just fell out while I was eating some fruit! Now have very expensive emergency trip to a dentist to look forward to over lunch, ho hum

Calico hope you now have cake and that you and DS are in recovery mode !

MoS I had my GTT last week and it was fine - same as Dinky really . Fasted from midnight the night before (quick bowl of cereal at 11.58 ! ) and then appointment at 9.20 . Blood taken, then lucozade drunk, then away for 2 hours, returnung for 2nd blood test at 11.20. The worst bit by far was the fasting !!! Could have eaten the nurse at 11.20 !

Weirdly this time I am not getting heartburn - but did when I was pregnant with my 3 boys. I wonder if baby is lower down this time or something ?

LBB agree with the rest, ignore what they say about the sizes of the baby, notoriously inaccurate. You've delivered a big baby before and can do it again . DS2 was 10lb 4 and my DS3 was smaller at 8lb 8- so they don't necessarily get bigger each time.

My friend is picking DS2 up from school today at lunchtime and I have made soup ! 5 more weeks until Maternity Leave, Yay !

Calico, how awful for you. Glad he's ok. I remember when my little brother smashed his head on tv unit, head cuts are the worst for bleeding.
Bet your more shaken up than he is, I want some cake now. Will have to settle with moping kitchen floor and cleaning chip pan while ds is in bed. Fun!

KT1983 - moving is possible close to due dates, but hard work. I moved back from Asia at 34 weeks last time and it helped to be really organised and I packed when I was about 30 weeks, when I could move about still !

The Whittington are too tight fisted to give you lucozade - you literally get sugar water for the GTT, which is one of the most nauseating drinks known to humanity.

Their excuse is that they can get a more accurate result, but quite frankly I don't buy that for one minute.

The only thing you can do is down it in one - it's gross but sitting there looking at it, just makes things worse.

GTT for me was a total waste of time. But I guess it's good that they check you out thoroughly.

Curry place on 27th sounds pretty cool,dinky.
what time were you thinking of getting there.

I've got my GTT tomorrow morning. Quite aside from the fact that they have to take your blood twice, which I'm not looking forward to, I'm dreading not being able to eat. I'm going to be starving!! I'll have to have some treats ready in my bag so I can stuff my face as I'm leaving the hospital!! I'm also not really looking forward to hanging around the hospital for 2 hours, I'll have to stock up on some magazines on my way home tonight.

I had a lovely weekend in my Bristol with my sister and we came home with a car load of baby stuff - changing table, clothes (bags and bags of them), sling, baby bouncer (a chair and one that hangs in the doorway), one of those things you put in the bath that you can rest them on so you don't have to worry about losing grip on them - the list goes on. It's great, she's saved us a fortune. I think Father C will have to especially generous to her this year...

What's GTT and why are some of you going to hospital for blood tests for 2 hours?

LBB - GTT is the glucose tolerance test and is done for everyone in some areas and is more targetted in others. It looks at how the body processes glocuse and so can inidcate or rule out gestational diabetes. In my area you only get it if you are overweight or if you have had previous big babies.

QK I meant to ask you, where your parents are in Devon ?

Oooogggs my fellow Devon girl...where are you ? Get ye back to this thread !

please excuse typos !

Good Afternoon Ladies - sounds like some of you have been having eventful weekends

when I was about 3 I threw a fisher price toy camera at my little sis and it cuaght her forehead and it was also so long ago that kids toys didn't have rounded corners and mum said there was soooooo much blood - heads definitely produce galloons of the stuff compared to cuts on other bits of the body.

When I did NCT classes first time round I remember the teacher showed up cut outs of a 5lb baby and a 9lb baby and although the bodies were different sizes, the heads were more or less the same size, just a few mm difference, so i don't think it makes much difference how big the baby is, just the head size that's important - hence why I'm worried this time as DS had a 98th %ile head (ouch - eyes-watering emoticon), DH's genes though not mine, so another thing to hold against him.

Had my pg calendar email from mothercare this morning - 28 weeks is the last of the middle trimester, 29 is 3rd, so some of us must already be in the home-straights now

Also got my GTT this week, alos not looking forward to the not being able to eat thing as if I try to get to work without brekkie first then I don't make it without feelinf very weak and pathetic and faint, so how I'll manage the hlaf hour drive to the hosp in rush hour traffic and then the walk up 2 flights of stairs to the ante-natal dept, I'm not sure

LBB - I;m having GTT cos my dad is diabetic, but I didn't have it with DS less than 2 years ago and this one is not showing as being big so far

Ok. I had my 28wk bloods taken last week but didn't tell me not to eat, it was just standard midwife stuff.
I hate needles so not too upset that haven't/won't have it, although there was some talk abaut gestational diabetes from gp as ds was born big, they checked blood sugar and was fine but again it didn't seem to be a big deal, no hospital, no morning fast, no drinking lucozade.
Like I mentioned earlier, seeing consultant today about size so see if he mentions anything (I won't!)

LBB - I'm having my 28 week bloods tomorrow at the same time as my GTT so I guess the fact they haven't sent you to have GTT means they're not worried and aren't going to, otherwise you would've had it all at the same time?

laidback - my parents are in Kenton, which is about 10 mins outside Exeter, not far from Dawlish. Where are you?

I'm 29 weeks tomorrow so that sounds like I'll be officially in the 3rd trimester (wasn't sure when it started). Woo hoo, the home stretch!

We don't have tests for gestational diabetes in Berkshire as a matter of course - I was getting confused as I read the thread too thinking I was missing something important !!

Hope you're feeling better Calico (and of course ds ! ) after his tumble. I think those cuts are worse because they are so close to the bone - you know when you see those rugby players on telly with blood pouring down their faces - it's usually a pretty minor looking cut when they clean it up but boy does it produce a lot of blood. DS went head first over the side of my mums sofa the last week when she had him for the night (dad told him to stop jumping on it and he was naughtily ignoring him) - he went flying (it's quite bouncy). My mum panicked as they have wooden floors but at least there was no blood.

I'm off for my 28 week midwife appntmnt on Wed am so prob routine stuff. Am starting to feel v.uncomfortable, v.tired and v.lardy. I can't WAIT for my mat leave to start.

I think the pork is definitely a heartburn inducer - I find things like chocolate and fatty foods (sausages and the like) and also orange juice start mine off.

Hello ladies

Haven't had time to catch up but just sitting her at this time of day enjoying my first cup of tea cos I also had my GTT this morning (as well as 28 week bloods and anti-D injection)....oh what fun .

QK....take something with you that you can eat afterwards....I had a huge twix....and very nice it was too!

So you have to not eat until your GTT? God, mine is at 11.30 in the morning - will be starving!!

MsLucy - am pretty flexible about times for curry on 27th as finish work around 5.30 - what time works for you, Swampster and the others hoping to meet up?

I'm up for London mums-to-be curry, though might have to juggle commitments. How do I join you on FB? I know it's been mentioned here before, sorry for technical numptiness.

Big sympathy to the heartburn kids, the head-bashing kids and the GTT pincushion kids...