Due April 2009: Episode 22 - Plug Popping, Ball Bouncing and Cervix Searching the preparations continue...

[SmuttyNuttyTaff]

chose this one hope nobody minds another quick thread!! the last one is a record i think at a day and a half!!!

Wish I had never got pg in the first place.

glad we're all in this together though xx

We should have known better.

i personally think part of the problem is not knowing when it will happen - if you could look back with hindsight and know for definite you had another 5 weeks to go for example, you could just stop thinking about it for a while - but not knowing, and wondering if every twinge or set of bh is something starting off means it becomes quite consuming.

very well put conker.

tis enough to put you of sex completely tbh, the only good thing to come out of it so far is MN and the friendships i have formed with you all the rest is just pain and misery, havent even had any CX, BH or twinges yet lord help me when that happens.

a definate date would help though.

On a happier note....I'm sure i will be filled with joy when this LO comes out to play though.

What is sex? I have forgotten.

i dunno?? something i used to do (was a while ago now though)....... may have been nice, i think cant remember ...lol

As I recall, you have to move whilst doing it. That is a problem right now.

bit like the hokey pokey though i think....

you put your best willy in
your best willy out
in out
in out
and shake your bum about
do the hokey pokey
and you turn around
thats what its all about

sing it with me now......

OOOOOOOHHHH THE HOKEY POKEY, AHHHHHH THE HOKEY POKEY

Move???? feck!! i really am stumped now!! what is THAT??

Will catch up properly tomorrow - can't stay long now.

Boff, am so glad you asked that TMI question. I was really wondering how to ask that myself - it's not that I was (here? that'd never happen!), but more that I was unsure of how to word it. We definitely have the same issue. I was pretty aware of it anyway, but I looked yesterday & yes. Definitely that issue.

As for 'toe wiggling certainty', you're having a laugh, aren't you? There's no certainty to that so far as I can tell!

Will catch up with everyone else tomorrow, as there are no major dramas. Nanight xx

(Sex is a lovely thing, but not a good idea for any of us for various reasons - general movement being the main one )

Oh lordy, I have BLOOD.

I'm on here at a stupid time because I'm really & hopeful & need to tell someone (even if you're all in bed at the moment), & don't want to wake DH. Mostly because he'll panic & it'll come to nothing anyway.

But we had sex (it was our anniversary, we couldn't not - it's practically a law!) & there haven't actually been painful contractions since. Even though it was about 3 or 4 hours ago. I've been asleep for most of that time (unheard of after sex for the last few weeks) & although there are movements, they're more BH than anything else. There is, however, period pain.

I didn't think anything of it, other than 'quick, fall asleep faster!' when they didn't kick in straight away, thinking that they would & that I should race them. I just got up to wee & my knickers are fairly bloody. Not in a huge way, but very much like when you catch the beginning / very end of your period with sex without realising & the other fluids mix in with the blood. Because of the sex it's not bright red, but I've established that it's definitely coming from inside (& still is coming!), not an external injury. & I was definitely ready for the sex, so it's not one of those grazes that you can occasionally get.

Of course it's unlikely to come to anything. I'll still be posting in impatience in 4 weeks & I'll feel really silly about getting hopeful about this. But it's definitely progress & I've managed to have sex without crippling pain ensuing, which is exciting enough!

I've put a pad in my knickers for the time being to see what collects there before my next toilet visit. I'm going to go back to bed now to get some sleep - if it isn't anything (definitely most likely), it's stupid staying up all night getting excited. If it is, I'm going to need some rest!

I will be on in a few hours at a normal time, I'm sure. I won't go disappearing off to hospital or anything exciting without posting first, don't worry (I've come to notify you as to my vaguely bloody knickers, it's not like I'd let you miss that fun ) & will probably be full of disappointment again - but I'm still very much in the race, even if I'm not winning!

Sounds like a show to me, Springy, but if there's more blood than one pad can cope with it is straight to hospital for you, young lady, in case it's a placenta issue.

If it's a show you may have a few days to go, but it does mean your cervix is opening. So your cervix CAN open.

If your DH has successfully induced labour in your case, could we all borrow him for a bit while you are busy and have a bit of help ourselves, do you think???

sorry I disappeared for a bit - DD not well.

Springy does sound like a possible show - is it gloopy or just liquid?
Vaginal walls kind of distended is a sign of things opening up -more blood flow and everything getting softer - all good
I had a rummage last night and felt what I can only presume was the baby's arm poking in - very strange - we basically shook hands once I realised it wasn't part of me !!

Once again, I'm not an expert, just very curious.

Hope you have gone back to bed Springy, but like Boff says, keep a pad on and any sign of placental bleeding get thee to hospital immediately.

I know you are all up and getting DH/DD/DS breakfast..or hopefully getting pampered with a lovely breakfast in bed

Hi All

Sounds possible springy - my husband failed to bring on labour yesterday BUT I am now having some signs that body is getting ready (yikes).

Mathsmummy - baby arm sounds a bit spooky.

This is probably going to sound mad but I feel quite nervous about meeting my baby. Also I'm quite worried that there will be something wrong .

On a ligher note I have an AIBU (and the answer is probably yes) to be a bit pissed off that having got to 37 weeks today (yay) I don't get a mothers day WHILE my DH will have fathers day in June? I've almost gone through a whole pregancy ffs what's he done? (Well apart from the obvious and putting up with me )

Happy mothers day mums and mums-to-be!! Hope you are all getting spoilt rotten!

Springy - what did I tell you about doing the naughtiness!! Really hope it's something starting for you keep an eye on it tho - so maximum week or two (probably much sooner) for you!!

Nutty am with you on the having enough! I would break my own waters if I knew how!!

Nothing this end - curry last night (nothing), long walk yesterday (nothing), pineapple (nothing). This LO is DETERMINED to stay inside!! Was complaining (me never!!!) to DH about said lack of action this morning and he declared that we will have the baby on 29 March - I will be asking for a refund from him if said date is not right!!!

MM arm???? That would very much freak me out!!

Boff, mine is much softer too although cervix keeps moving up and down so different everyday (helpful!!!)

Ok so the little touch up from the bathroom has now turned in to something else all together!!! We are getting it completely re-fitted!!! (I am crazy I realise this!) 2 weeks today (yes one week AFTER my due date!) I will have a whole new bathroom suite, new lovely black /grey granite tiles on the floor (and we are just now currently deciding to do with the walls!) tis currently white tiles and green walls but not sure on colours / tiles etc. Turns out the leak is because the shoddy people before us but tiles straight on to floorboards so they are all cracked (yuk) and leaking water through which has in turn ruined the floorboards!

We can't really justify the cost now it but it's the last room in the house to 'do' and is really very small and the current one is horrible (we've done our best with tile paint and it looks soooooo much better but it's still has a manky bath and old bronze fittings that you cannot get clean) so we are going to do it as cheaply as possible to make it more sellable in 18 months time and at least we can make sure there are no more leakage incidents - also will ensure DH and LO (When it finally decides to come!) don't scratch their bums on the chipped enamel bath!! I will just be happy with a bathroom that I don't have to spend an hour scrubbing only for it to look dirty again in half a day!

Anyway, DH has gone to the gym, I have to do the dishes from last night but other than that have no plans at all today (quite alien to me really as I am planner!)

What is everyone else up to?

YANBU Mothers' Day whilst pregnant = extremely high on the potential pampering scale as far as I'm concerned. My DH has been trained in this regard, of course

brett YANBU - we all deserve wonderful mothers days!! (the next thing i will get is my b-day in NOVEMBER!!!) while DH gets fathers day and a birthday before that!!

brett I think that is natural to be nervous - is a major change but those nerves will disappear when LO comes! and it's a sign that you want LO to be perfect which is natural!

Goooooooooood morning!

(& happy mother's day to us all!)

Still spotting a bit of blood, but definitely not more than a pad can cope with - after I put the pad in at about 3am, I've not had to change it at all & it's nowhere near saturated. It really does just look like the end of a period.

I just showed DH the knickers from last night & he got all wide-eyed until I reassured him that there was nothing happening right that second & now he's gone back to sleep My head is far too full of other things, even though I'm really tired.

Boff, if he's induced labour in my case, you can indeed all borrow him - I've been quite amazed by his ability to get me pregnant despite the contraceptive pill (although I know that technically that's my issue) & induce agonising contractions with every ejaculation. I think I should donate him to medical science once I'm done having this baby - I can start with you girls

How's your DD, MM?

brettgirl, I feel exactly like you about the mother's day issue. We only just miss it Although I've told him that if I do pop today that that counts & I need a present!

My birthday's not until October - DH's is the 24th April. Bastard.