Due Dec 08 - Christmas inductions ... The Holly and The I.V.

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Here I have done it!!!!!

Just need more babies now!!!!!

Seems like not sleeping well is becoming more common for all of us. I think I kept DH awake most of the night tossing and turning. I couldn't seem to get comfortable and my left hip was and still is KILLING me. Hurts to walk, sit or stand. Thinking I might try icing it down and taking some Paracetamol before bed.

Went to our antenatal class today. Lots of good info. Made me feel a little less anxious about the whole birthing process. My brain was a little mushy when we left though.

Hope everyone is having a good weekend so far.

just book marking myself in then will read back have had a busy day but good news we have found some new tenants hooray. in fact found several but chose a lovely Hungarian couple who are going to share with some friends of theirs. So relieved it is rented and they will move in as soon as the current girls move out so no break in the rent yay. Right time to go back and catch up.

Bit the bullet the other day and bought us a mattress topper and managed to sleep nearly the whole night with only 1 wee stop and no aching hips, what a relief would totally reommend.
hotmama - ace name I'm in Lowdham, work in Rudd, children go to school in WB! Queens delivery suite is fine but post natal wards are awful, let's hope I an get out asap.
Can't believe they are going to do a sweep on me a week on Monday, how annoying - I'm not ready yet and neither is this baby - it's still back to back.
I thought the placenta did start to deteriorate after 40 weeks but thought that was what the 42 weeks cut off was for!
Hugs to all, I'm doing a lovely waddle at the moment :-)
Anne

ZJ-it might be a bit much to ask mums to be to do a 12 week breastfeeding course but don't think it is too much to ask MW's and many other health professionals inc HV (who watch a DVD on the subject by the way) to do a bit more of an indepth course like this. To get up to full qualification for a BF counsellor i need to do 2 more 12 week modules.

also whoever was asking about boobs sizes etc, for last pregnancy i had next to no growth until day 3 after DS' birth when i went from a bcup to a DD!!! they were massive DH and i took photos they were so impressive and i wanted a momento of what i had.

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catdean the allnighters ARE tough - but you will find a way to cope - and you won't smother the baby. Worrying is completely natural and is a good sign! It means you're going to be great parents, because it shows how much you care - even before the baby is here. I think the first few months are difficult for everyone - whatever impression people may give. One of my postnatal acquaintances told me "of course she sleeps through the night..." when I was struggling on 20 minute bursts of sleep (helpful!) and then a few months later in a separate discussion I overheard her say, "well of course she wakes three or four times for a feed but goes straight back down again". Interesting definition of "sleeping through" there!

Also regardless of how many children they already have it's STILL difficult and unpredictable and exhausting. Caring for a newborn is complete anarchy! But usually things settle down a bit after about eight to twelve weeks. (They didn't for us with DD but we still survived and decided to do it all again! )

Big {{hugs}} to you. For once I wasn't up at 4am - DH and I both have really bad colds and decided to sleep apart so we didn't wake each other up sneezing/coughing. I hope you feel better in the morning.

P.S. I picked a huge fight with DH yesterday because we came back from the supermarket and he wanted to sit down and rest - while I still had lunch to prepare and groceries to put away. It wasn't the end of the world but I was sooooo angry . I think at this stage in pregnancy you're allowed to be a bit ratty!

Morning,

Cat Sorry you didn't get much sleep. Verso is right, the fact you are worried is a good sign. I have a DS and I'm worried about this one. DS was one of those babies that slept through from 6 weeks but I didn't. I was up about 4 times a night until he was about 8 weeks so I could check on him.

This one will probably sleep through at a year old knowing my luck and with DS being such a good baby. Lots of people have told me that if you have a good baby first you'll have a bad one second and vice versa.

I had a fairly good night last night. But I think I slept funny as my shoulder is killing me this morning.

Hope everyone is ok. Anymore babies????

Just wanted to say hi to everybody. I haven't posted for ages but have been keeping up.
I have agreed with nearly everything that has been posted the last few days too so couldn't let it all go without commenting

I cant believe we have thread babies!!!

I am so jelous of all the London people and their meet ups, if anybody is near Birmingham I would like to play too

Good first baby bad second one I agree with. My first - he is now 10 1/2 was an angel, he slept through from 8 weeks. Feeds at 12 and 6am and straight back to sleep every time (might be a bit hazy because of the amount of time elapsed )
My second (8 in a couple of weeks) did not sleep through until he started school - sorry everybody - and would be up until 12 every night and then wake about 5 - 6 times through the night as well. I spent the first 9 months sleeping on the sofa with him lying on me as that was the only way he would sleep at all
Hoping this one will sleep

Also bought some Clary sage this weekend but I am not sure what to do with it...
And after a national shortage Holland and Barrat have the raspberry leaf capsules back in stock this weekend too.

There must be more, I will be back

Ohh and It snowed in the night here, but had all been rained away when the boys had got up this morning.

Morning all, no babies here. Which is a shame as I took the hound for a tramp through the firlds yesterday morning then did yoga then went to a yoga birth preparation course last night and still nothing. I know whats going to happen I am going to wake up on the morning of my birthday and my waters will break then I will spend the entire day having contractions and pop the LO out just before midnight grr . Selfish moi.

Cat dont worry about it it will be bloody hard going but you will make it and it is perfectly normal to be having panics about all sorts of things right now.

Tis snowing here woo hoo. But we have to drive up to Beds to visit my fam for sunday dinner so no running around in the snow for DS.

Have a lovely day everyone.

Hello everyone, she is here!!!!

Niamh Lily born 19/11/08 weighing 6lb 13oz.

Have posted pics on profile so have alook.

Any more babies whilst I was gone???

Missmama i think there is someone else in Birmingham, otherwise the closest is me in Derby. We are in London at the moment and DS has just been out playing in the snow. so cute but it is starting to melt away now.

i forgot to bring the slippery elm mix down with me so was up from about 1am with the hourly indigestion. However i think my body has started to get used to the regular waking and is somehow sleeping deeper in between so actually feel ok this morning.

Cat- there is nothing you can do to 'chill out' it is normal to be anxious but please know that you will not smother your baby. Somehow our bodies know not to hurt them even when we are asleep. I used to wake up sitting up in the nursing chair next to our bed feeding DS with no recollection of him waking for a feed or me getting him out of bed to start feeding him. I never dropped him or did him any harm i just obviously did it in my sleep. And they will sleep through eventually. DS still gets up in the night to come into our bed, there are worse things in life than a child who doesn't 'sleep through the night' and it has no bearing on your parenting abilities (and don't let anyone make you feel otherwise) it is just up to each individual child and they are all just as lovely as each other. Babies who do not sleep through the night are not 'bad' or 'problem' babies they are just lovely babies.

yay Flumpy well done. Pixstix has had her baby though i can't remember the flavour, and aven't heard any details yet. thanx for the photo you all look very happy.

Missmama I'm on the Hereford/Worcs border to so not too far from Birmingham. In fact that's where DH works.
Flumpy well done, beautiful baby girl and lovely name.
Managed to get a fairly decent nights sleep after I propped myself up on about 5 pillows, not particularly comfortable but does stop the aches and the tossing and turning. DH even got up with DS (after some heavy hinting from me) so I got to lie in until 9.45 - amazing.
Boring DIY day ahead, putting lino down in bathroom etc, but will satisfy my nesting urges I hope.
Have agood day everyone.

CONGRATS Flumpy! I'll update the birth list...

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS

14/11/08 - MrsMattie - Baby Girl "Bella" 7lb, C/S (due 28/11)
19/11/08 - Flumpybumpy - Baby Girl "Niamh Lily" 6lb 13oz, C/S (due 02/12)
20/11/08 - pixsix - Baby Boy (due 01/12)

Morning .

Like the thread title-made me smile.

Congratulations to those who have given birth already, I am very !

I really thought it was going to be my turn this week, after having twinges for the last 2/3 weeks, they got very painful in the earlier hours of Weds. I told Dh to stay off work only for everthing to fizzle out. Same thing happened Thurs/Fri,I dozed off about 5am and they disappeared again .
I have worked out though that if this baby follows the example of dd4 and arrives 10 days early, I've only got another 2 weeks to wait .

No chance of snow here-where we live on the South Coast we're only about 1/2 mile from the sea as the crow flies. Very strange weather today though, one minute it's raining, the next the sun is out in blue skies and the suddenly the rain's back again!

flumpy congratulations on the birth of Niamh Lily (love the name, I wanted to put Niamh on our list but silly DH wasn?t as keen). I had a peep at your pictures and she?s a beauty (and your other two DC?s are v cute as well).

veggie good point about a 12 week course being too much for Mum?s to be, hadn?t thought that one through! But I?m that MWs and HVs don?t get that sort of coaching (is that the right word?) ? with breast feeding such a priority to the NHS you?d think that everyone would trained it. Now I know why so many of my friends have struggled with it. And fab news on the tenants.

We had yet more snow overnight, but in the last hour it?s started to melt so by the end of today everywhere will be horrible and slushy. I love snow so much and hate it so much when it goes

Have a good Sunday everyone

Congratulations Flumpy

Congratulations Flumpy. She's beautiful.

Ahh flumpy she's beauty!

Am feeling right now. Have just really shouted at DD, she's only 2.3 and have never really shouted at her before. She wouldn't eat her lunch, I am exhausted, DH at work till 5.30, its raining and she is bored silly. To make it worse I totally went overboard yesterday on the cleaning, and my pelvis is crippling me right now (have had mild SPD throughout). She started crying and kept saying 'sorry mummy'. She hadn't even been bad....I started crying and have just been sat her crying. Feel like a right f*ck up. She's sleeping now but I feel so guilty, and feel like I'll never cope with 2.... Has anyone else felt like this with DC (not the shouting bit)? Sorry for the me, me me post..

Going for a lie down, hope everyone has a good day.

daisy I spend most of my life shouting at DS at the moment. A combination of me being tired and uncomfortable and him knowing something is up and playing up accordingly. Don't worry, they are pretty resilient. Bet she's forgotten all about it by the time she wakes up.

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