March 2009: Beware of TMI . . . we're getting ready to give birth and there's nothing we won't share.

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Ok so I'll start it off.

Has anyone else had a huge increase in discharge? It's gone from clear and not too much to thick and white, and copious amounts.

Because at my last scan they said the baby hadn't grown since 32 weeks and diagnosed IUGR, had this with my dd, she was born at 38weeks weighing 4lb 13, so my consultant said its best to get this baby out while its relatively(sp?) healthy.

Good morning ladies! (well it's still morning for me anyway)

Am so excited that tomorrow I have another ultrasound. Maybe I can get them to do another internal and see if there has been any progress. I may be the only woman on earth that doesn't mind them. Other than washing the sling and bringing down and cleaning the bouncy seat (which I might do today) I'm ready for this baby to be born. It feels very strange to just sit and wait around. I'm very excited because after this week my work schedule is going to get very easy.

Titchy--I remember when I was induced with ds1 2 weeks early. After he was born it was very surreal and for two weeks I looked at him and thought "You're not supposed to be here yet, you're still supposed to be in my tummy" Hopefully all will be well tomorrow.

Oh cripes Titchy - hope everything goes well!

Titchy - good luck for your scan. Its good that you've had a few weeks to get your head around the situation and prepare for monday.

I thought I was nesting a couple of weeks ago when I cleaned out my handbag cupboard - completely randomly, but now resting is higher on my list of priorities than cleaning. Wish it was the other way round!

Gold - You have a handbag cupboard??!! Wow. I have the bottom of the wardrobe...

I ended up calling the community midwives this morning after my show yeseterday. Anyway, they put me straight through to the delivery suite. Lovely midwife I talked to was very helpful and, amongst other things, told me to put my feet up and rest for 24 hours. So of course all I want to do is clean. I'm compromising and cleaning for half an hour and then resting for half an hour. The linen cupboard is calling me though...

Good luck with everything tomorow Titchy. You sound well-prepared...!

Boobz - Apparently most posterior babies turn that way during labour so there isn't much you can do about it till then, when there are certain postitions you can use. But I have to admit that i'm spending a lot of time on the birthing ball just in case.

Afternoon everyone. Hi to Flowers and good luck to titchy.

Been and done a big shop this morning including stocking the freezer with ready meals for DH has to do the cooking! Also bought some maternity bed protector things so hopefully they will work and not make me too hot. And I went and bought the lansinoh cream so that I can have well protected nipples for the breastfeeding that I hope to be doing.

Also finding sitting for too long uncomfortable becos of the rib pain it causes so I end up lying with my feet up on the back of the settee or lounging over the birthing ball.

Yep, and add to that list let's see:
back ache
need walking stick to get around
want to sleep for next 4 weeks (wake me up when baby ready to come out)

I hope I get this nesting instinct soon...why oh why do we have to do it....it is funny as it is not as if baby says oooohh what a lovely tidy house I came into!

My nesting instinct lasted all about a day. I have no energy to speak of. I think I am a 90 year old woman. Figure you know you have problems when your 3 yo has to help you get out of bed. He usually moves my legs and pulls my arm up to help me. God bless his little soul.

Am tired but not 90 year old feeling yet. Am out with the girls tonight at a French restaurant near Paddington Station and then the Champagne bar actually in the station (I can have one, can't I?!)

And then hopefully to bed by a reasonable hour. Dog will want walking before then though. Wish DH was here to do it - it's so damn muddy outside!

xx

I nested - I now have some newborn baby stuff ready for the wash - but I am so so tired and can't even face unloading the washing machine - ugh!

Have also had an outbreak of spots on my face - you know those horrid red lumps under your skin - and my eczema is playing up.

Can't believe I feel this rubbish after a day off work on my own with no dd to look after - typical!

Here's the link to spinning babies for all of you worried about posterior babies.

Good luck titchy

Good luck tomorrow Titchy.

Have just had a friend over with a 4 week old - they're so tiny and wierd to think he and my baby will be the same age growing up but mine is still inside me IYSWIM.

Boobz - enjoy the champagne bar. Of course one won't hurt.

at champagne!

I also feel about 90

Ive not slept right for over week, ive had a stinky cold all week but i dont think its the cold that keeping me awake. I think i am suffering from anxiety i go to bed at 10.30 (ish) read until i cant keep my eyes open, i sleep for 3/4 hours and then i dont settle back properly . My Mum took the girls out for the day today to give me chance to have a nap this afternoon, but couldnt sleep, i just dont seem to be able to switch my brain off .

twocute, I'm the same - fall asleep really easily then wake after 4/5 hours and can't get back to sleep. I know a lot of mine is work stress as I slept better last night knowing I was off work today - so I am hoping that once I start my mat leave it will get better.

But it is so frustrating lying awake for what seems like hours on end - only to fall asleep just before dd wakes up or the alarm goes off. Am also having scary vivid dreams in the little sleep I get at this point.

Totally exhausting. But at least we'll be raring to go with the night feeds !

God I'm naffed off this evening. I know I only have a week and half to go and I know this is the hardest bit but I feel so USELESS. I picked up DD from nursery and brought her home, gave her tea and ran her bath but physically couldn't lift her in . I had to wait until DH came home.

I'm crap at asking for help - what am I going to do when I have two to deal with and am recovering from c-section?

What am I doing?! I can't do this can I?! ARRRRGGH!!!!

Evening all, hope you are all well, or at least as well as you can be when hugely pregnant. Have just been to medical obstetric clinic and given a date for my csection,12th March! I will only be 38 plus 5 ,so this pregnancy will be nearly 4 weeks shorter than my first! Also managed to hugely embarrass myself when the consultant asked if id started to think about contraception yet, started laughing which almost descended into hysteria, DH has no interest, which really doesn't bother me at the minute and we are unlikely to be up to anything anytime in the near post birth future! embarrassed face emoticon

Yep, another posterior baby (at least for the moment!). DH is going to try to move him with some frozen peas later.

Am a bit worried as I'm planning a homebirth and MW is convinced a posterior labour is going to be much harder and longer, although DS arrived in under 2 hours, so what longer means to me is debatable....

I still think if I have to go through icky back pain for hours, I'd rather be at home though!

Hi girls,

i am 37 + 4 today and I felt the strongest BH ever! I thought that that was it! I just couldn't move for a long 15 minutes and Mr or Ms didn't stop moving... Gosh!!!
Full on pressure on my bum I truly thought that this was starting...

Well, Boobz- regarding the cinema - the first 7 to 8 months are the best times to take your baby to the cinema.
There are plenty of mum and babies (up to 1 year) sessions in the mornings in various parts of London.

I can wait to go again with my little one while dd is at pre-school!

Meep- I am the same as you .. sleeping very badly but as you I think that we are getting prep for what is coming.....

Nesting like mad at the moment- I just want to check every corner of the house and make sure all is in place.

Sooooooooo excited now.... Nighty night!!

auntyspan I could have written your post!

DH has been doing nursery pick up and drop off but I did it yesterday - exhausting!

Will you dh be on paternity leave after your section. My dh will be here for 2 weeks then he is going to take some Thursday's off so he is here to help on the day dd is not in nursery.

I have just resigned myself to asking him to do all baths, lifting and nappy changes (for some reason they hurt my back ). The trade iff is that I get up in the night if dd wakes because i am normaly awake anyway with insomnia (grr)!

I have no idea how i'll cope with two. I have this memory that recovering from a section last time was a doddle - but I didn't have a toddler to carry last time round.

We will cope though!

So sorry that aches and pains and insomnia seem to be ruling the day for most - the good part is that it's almost over for many (the bad part is that what comes after doesn't seem to be any easier!).

I am feeling like a big nesting loser - I've not been compelled to scrub or sort ANYTHING.

I am so jealous of you who have done this before - it must be incredibly comforting to know, at least approximately, what lies ahead. As a first-time mother, I'm spending a lot of time and energy metaphorically in a rabbit-in-the-headlamps pose wondering what on earth I'm getting myself into.

On the plus side, I went for a prenatal massage yesterday, and it was LOVELY. Ninety minutes of pure bliss. She's managed to squeeze me in for another the week before I'm due. If any of you have access to this kind of thing, go for it - multiple times if possible!

Right - off for my 35+3 midwife consult. I wonder if there will be anything interesting said. I'm going to try to talk about my birth plan, but don't anticipate she'll have much patience for that. Plus I need my "prescription" for the 9 physio sessions that the insurance will partially reimburse (a whopping 5 euros per session - makes me wonder why the h*ll I'm paying 60% taxes...).

Good day to all...

does anybody else have this thing where they get a throbbing pain in their back, like a pulse? it comes and goes. I've got back issues anyway but this one is weird!

I'm going to a group physio session on Friday and I had posted about it on the main pregnancy board to see if anybody else had been to such a thing - anybody here have any experience of them?

have a lovely nesting, resting and hopefully pain-free day everybody xxxx

titmouse I've only had a one on one physio session at the hospital - she gave me lots of info about doing pelvic floor stuff when standing/lifting etc - how best to sleep - how to get out of bed and stuff like that. Hope it goes well for you - back pain is hell. Mine has eased off due to a combination of following the physio advice and putting my dd on a steep learning curve so that she will now go up and down stairs without being carried.

corgi - it is still scary for those of us who've done it before. Even though I am having the most planned birth/section ever - I am still sh*tting myself !

I think I have got my rose tinted glasses on at the moment and am in denial about the tricky parts of having a newborn. But I suppose the one thing that won't happen this time round is the massive shock to the system of going from an independent professional 36 year old to a mum whose life is run by a teeny tiny person!

I have to say though that I know how lovely those first baby snuggles are and that you do get through the sleepless nights and you gradually get back to being your own person again. I love being a mum now - and if you knew me pre-dd you wouldn't have believed it! there is nothing better than that first smile, then the first cuddle, then the sloppy open mouthed kisses..............I could go on and on and on!

Not nesting here any more. went mad for a few weeks but as soon as mat leave started at 35weeks I just counld't be arsed anymore!

Have 38 week appt to see GP today. Hoping baby is not posterior. DS was and it was awful from start to finish. would like a normal labour this time please!

Just back from my consult - no earthshaking news from the midwife, other than (a) she doesn't remember ever having seen me before, and (b) they still hadn't updated my chart with my blood type, after I gave it to them three visits ago. If I emerge from this hospital unscathed, it will be a miracle. I am envious of everyone who has good relationships with their midwives!

It seems as if Cletus does have his head down at the moment, to my left, and then his butt is curved around up underneath my ribs ? so he?s kind of diagonal, as it were ? but he?s not at all engaged yet.

She did a quick internal sweep and confirmed that my cervix is still closed and hard. I?d forgotten how uncomfortable having fingers jammed up there can be!

And unless their scales are completely mad, I?m still sitting at a total weight gain of 6kg and a smidge. She seemed happy with that, although it feels as if my bum has spread exponentially in the past couple of weeks...

meep, thanks for the reassurance that even BTDT mums can be feeling a little overwhelmed. Sh*tting myself seems like the perfect emotional description at the moment!