due in August 05 - 3rd thread!!

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Hello everyone

thought i'd start the new thread since i haven't posted on the last one in a couple of days.

I'm well although my patience/tolerance/ability to smile has completely gone out of the window. I don't seem to have any patience with DD (she really is suffering) or DH. i'm moody and sulky. the only thing that seems to calm me down is a nice bath at the end of the day.

Is it all pregnancy hormones and is anyone else feeling the same!?!?!

My googdnees everyone sems to be having such a rough time of it, we're supposed to be blooming!!!

KMS, I agree about the co-dydramol, although I've been prescribed them, I'm very reluctant to take them. I take one occasionally at night if I think I can't sleep. I'm so sorry that there is nothing else that they can do for you.

Colinsmommy !! I can't believe your MIL. I think your plan is brilliant, very sneaky and very clever.

Azure, isn't is grteat when people are completely underwhelmed by things you are thrilled about.

K7 and Colinsmommy, I am also 5'7" and weigh neither 9st or 11st, but quite a bit more. So tell your MIL about me. My MIL looks at me like she thinks I should be a lot thinner, at christmas she asked me if I was going on a diet for the new year!!

Seeing the physio today, I'm cautiously hopeful, also got an appointment for the consultant today, in 3 weeks and that's supposed to be an emergency.

I'm feeling quite blooming now - bump has arrived with a vengeance and I get stitches when I walk too fast, but apart from that, I'm fine..... Our work fire alarm went off on Tuesday and the immediate kicking that I felt was amazing - at least I know she can hear........

well i came back - thankfully I have a half day today unfortunately its for the solicitors to try and see about my other problem god when are they going to stop!!! there is still an atomosphere in here although not quite as bad - there are no mangers around and this person is my supervisor.

KMS i really feel for you thats awful there is nothing they can do to help and as for your MIL i would have offered to stick her head in the oven for her now.
Colinsmommy good for you, though are you not a bit worried you will spill the beans to DH i would find it hard to keep it a secret

supose should do some work on tea just now

Where are you josey? is it tea time.....

sorry beachyhead meant as in morning tea break time at work - wish i was somewhere nice that would make me have that time difference!!

I had a very positive afternoon seeing the solicitor, filnaly i have someone of improtance that agrees with me and will fight my corner so think i will have a good sleep tonight cup of horlicks and that will be me away.

got a wee holiday booked last night for a few days in July we are going with our neighbours and there dd who is in school with ds going to one of the centre percs has anyone been?

Glad you had a positive time at the solicitor's Josey. I haven't been to a Centre Parc, but know there have been a number of relevant threads in the Travel section. I would really like to have a week in the UK with DH, DS and my parents (so I can rest) before the baby is born, otherwise poor DS will not get away during the summer holidays. I will probably finish work at the end of July - does anyone think the first week of August is too late when the baby is due on the 25th? I'm not thinking or going further than 2 hours from home and DS was late.

Azure im taking the last too weeks in July as holiday then im starting my maternity leave im due just a couple of days after you - if your well enough and think you will be ok i dont see why you cant work till then, thats when i first thougth about going off but the scottish school holidays are earlier and DH has the last 3 weeks in July so thats my excuse for being lasy.

to all of you leaving on holiday at the end of July. My dr. has already told DH not to take me anywhere less than 4 weeks before my due date. I guess DS came so fast she's afraid of how long it would take me to get here.

I am kind of afraid of spilling the beans if it is a girl. But since I've been calling the bump he for months, and I'm positive it is a he, if it is a boy it won't make any difference. I have to admit, I'm so mad at MIL and DH right now, I don't really care if I do let it slip. I never have been able to keep a secret from DH before, but there always is a 1st time, hey?

good luck with it colinsmommy hope you manage to keep it secret, i think i would have to know in your situation because i know that if it was a girl my MIL would say i told you so and i would need a few months to prepare for her opening her gob
Colinsmommy wondering if you can give some advice on the american cloth sizes i have seen a nice dress for the wedding im going to in mimi maternity just not sure about how to order think i would be a medium - if you could shed some light i'd be greatful

How big are you before being pregnant, Josey? I tried to skim the thread, but having a hard time paying attention with a busy 20 mo. old in my lap. For reference, I am 5 7 and weighed 9.1 stone (love those online pounds to stone converters) and was an American size 6. That falls to the upper end of small (small size 4/6, medium 8/10 large 12/14 usually). Usually medium, especially in dress sizes covers a fairly good range, but the size assumes you are proportional all over and doesn't account for extremes in single areas, if that makes sense. For example I am a 36D before being pregnant, and small doesn't work at all for me in tops, I have to buy a large, while I get a small in trousers. Will make a point to check MN this weekend to see if you have any more info, or try to help more.

Wow, Josey, I bet you and I are really close sizewize then. I gain all my inches in chest and belly, too. Welcome to the awkward in-between size club. I feel really confident in telling you to get a large then, unless the dress is really loose and breezy all around. I got 2 casual summery dresses, and had to get a large in both because of my chest size. I went shopping with 2 of my girlfriends, and all of us thought every single dress I tried on in a medium was so tight around the chest, it made my boobs a funny shape. Some were so tight, I made them come in the dressing room with me because there was no way I'd go out in public looking like that, and I was afraid if I moved my arms too much it would rip out around the chest. I tried on several different brands of dresses, too, but none of them were Mimi. We don't have that around here. But I'd guess with all the ones I tried on, large is probably your best bet.

thank you colinsmommy - the dress is quite floaty but also fitted especially round the bust so large here I come, even if on the big side(wishful thinking) i could get it adjusted, but as the wedding is not till the middle of June im sure i will be pretty huge by then.
have to laugh at you changing room saga i dont think i would have even left my friends in

God can't believe the interfering mother in laws. Glad I don't have one.

I don't have any news, having a really uneventful pregnancy which is good. Just seem to be getting big and baby is kicking a lot. Had a little bit of reflux last week but am eating smaller meals now. Apart from some early morning cramp I don't really have any other symptoms.

Just about to start wearing my matty dungerees again - getting an airing for the 3rd time!

Had the ultrasound today. Not a whole lot to tell, everything looks great according to the technician. I'm kind of worried, because either she's a great actress, or she didn't read the notes to make a note of the sex for the next visit, because she asked if I wanted to know the sex (of course I had to say no) and then said well we won't spend very much time in that area, then. It was a really quick ultrasound, too, and unless she had a brief moment of clarity that I missed, what little time she spent on the lower part of the body the baby had its legs together and drawn up to its body. So I'm kind of disappointed right now, I guess. But I really shouldn't be, because all was well with the baby as far as they could tell.

Hi

have been looking in recently but haven't posted at all. Hope thats OK.
Finished work (redundancy)on 31.3.05 but am looking around for something to keep me out of mischief until August ( and hopefully remove the need to look for work when I 'm getting up in the night to a small baby) not sure there's much hope once I walk in for the interview with my very obviously pregnant belly but apparently an employer can't discriminate on such grounds. it would be a difficult one to prove though.

My bump is now huge so I'm told but, it doesn't seem too bad to me. I feel fairly comfortable and am sleeping ok.

For all of you with MILs from hell all I can say is mine's pretty ok. Its my mum who doesn't think before she speaks ie. 'You're v.big considering you've still got 3 months to go and it will be more difficult to loose weight with this one as you're a bit older this time'. and on being told new GC on way 'O Dear, I thought you'd settled on 2' She usually appologises though. Bless! Classic case of Open Mouth Engage Brain later MIL in contrast always starts with a positive comment and was so pleased when I told her the news she had tears (happy ones) in her eyes.

All of you not feeling your best hope things ease off soon .
Just to make you giggle I've got really bad wind and I hate prunes. Any one got any ideas for a cure?

Hi everyone - we had a nice weekend visiting MIL on Saturday (no negative comments from her for a change) and my parents. Shame to be back at work now. Jellybrain, I hope you manage to find what you want work-wise - it's a shame your redundancy wasn't 3 months later. I have also been having wind, which I find mortifying. I've also had some reflux the last couple of weeks. Colinsmommy, I hope the sonographer did do as you requested and wrote down the sex - how annoying otherwise. It's great news that the baby looked well.

I'm being dead lazy and am knocking off work when the kids finish school. I've got four weeks holiday left for 2005, so I'm going to have that first and then start maternity leave, so I think I'll be off from about 30th June....still the elective CS will probably take place about mid August, so its only 6 weeks before.

I plan to sit in a paddling pool all summer and direct operations from there......I'm hoping the doctors will let me go a couple of hours away to stay at my mum's on the Coast, as long as I can get midwife care there, I should be OK.

hi all.........been popping in and reading but not posting. have been staying mainly on the Sept thread, but the general concensus is that i won't hold out till then and baby will appear last week in August (my birthday 23rd, dp's 30th). i have a sneaky feeling i will spend my birthday suffering agonising labour pains! trying not to get my hopes up about an august arrival though as i know i'm gonna be really cheesed off when i sail past my due date and nothing happens!

sorry to hear so many of you are suffering bad backs etc...........

colinsmommy glad everything is fine with the baby, i hope that they took notes for you,

beachyhead i cant remember when are you due? out of interest how soon so they ususally do elective CS - thats what im likely to have and a bit nearous about going into labour and having and emergancy DS was so quick and bang on my first due date of LMP which to the docs made him early.
Jellybrain try peppermint tea slightly better than pruns.
have the MW tomorrow it seems so long since i was last there about 6 weeks i think, will be nice to hear bay is ok
im away to bath ds then get into bed myself i have a cold coming on and feel awful have just squeezed fresh orange juice so hope it helps a bit.

I'm due 27th August, so I reckon they will do elective maybe two weeks before, that is what I'm hoping.....I also tend towards high bp and pre-eclampsia so they might be a bit quicker off the mark for me - I have heard some hospitals do electives very close to the due date, but I hope Thomas' will take pity on me

Hi everyone, I've looked in but haven't posted recently as I've been feeling so down. When I went to the physio last week, she was all doom and gloom and seemed to think that I had damaged my back and it wouldn't get better after the baby was born. She referred me to a muscular-skeletal physio who I saw today. She says that I have SPD, but as the pain is in the back of my pelvis and not the front, everyone else was confused about what it could be. But she checked me out throughly AND she had it herself in exactly the same place so I'm pretty confident that she knows what she's talking about and although she wouldn't commit herself totally she thinks it will go in the 6 months after the baby is born. Today I feel an awful lot better about things, as now I actually know what's wrong. She also gave me lots of tips and advice on how to manage and not make it any worse. KMS, any advice you have to offer would be greatly appreciated.

Colinsmommy, so glad that your scan went well, hope the sonographer wrote down what you wanted.

thanks beachyhead, my due date per lmp is 27th but scan could decide 30th or 1st so im hoping they will pick a date a few days at least before the 27th.
sorry to hear you have been so down kate 100 hope they are right at you will be free of pain within that time, positive thoughts for you

Kate100 sorry to hear about your SPD. although as you said at least it has been diagnosed. I get the most pain in my back too.

Get in contact with the pelvic partnership as they are really good with advise. (I got a newsletter today which gives you hope. nice to hear other peoples story!)
Do all the things they suggest like keeping your knees together at all times rest as much as possible and generally take it easy. mine was fine 3 days after DD was born, but some people take a bit longer. The main thing is to start minimising the things that make the pain worse and to keep it up even if the pain dies down. I have found a wheat bag very useful. Heat it in the microwave and put it where it hurts. Also loads of pillows at night to make you confortable. i got a wedge shaped pillow for the bump which has helped. I have one behind me to stop me tipping backwards and a slim one between my knees while sleeping on myside (IYSWIM?) HTH. sounds like you have a great physio though.

Sorry about the spd, Kate. I wish I knew of something that could help.

Well it looks like the psychic was right, the office thinks it is a girl. Like I thought, they didn't have that great of a look, and told me not to run out and get everything pink, but they were pretty sure it was a girl. I was going to wait until the next visit, but was with my friends today, and they convinced me to call, and the office was so nice about it.