Due May 2009 Hairy Mary!... We're on the final stretch!

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Thought I'd better start the new thread before it was too late. Here we go!

Spangle update - waters have gone, they're keeping her in on abx and steroids and giving her 48 hours to go into labour !!! So first baby on his way on this thread. She seems calm and in control

Detsy thanks for that. One less worry to keep me up tonight...

Oooh Detsy- thanks for the update. Glad to hear Spangle is calm and I will await further news (how exciting).

detsy Send her good luck from me too. And tell her to post pictures of lo as soon as she's all settled and home and everything!

Goodness, good luck spangle!!

Thoroughly hacked off. Have had blazing row with dp. Am in the spare room tonight. Face all puffy from crying. Slept so badly last night, hope I get some tonight.

Night everyone x

OMG it's all getting a bit real now. Big hugs to Spangle.

I am definately going to pack my hospital bag tomorrow ! Am really restless tonight and wide awake when I am normally asleep by 10pm... off to do some cleaning or something to knacker me out. Night night all.

Hugs saus too hope you get some sleep tonight.

belgian, thanks for the answers, much appreciated. Just bit shocked at reg attitude!!

All other ladies will pass on best wishes to spangle!!

Saus hope u get some sleep and feel better tomo, men pah xx

and, yes think I'll pack a bag too and start on rasp leaf and caulophyllum. Spangle only got to listen to natal cd once, poor thing!

Frazz, how you doing girl? Bit worried heard nothing more, hope just in land of nod. Let us know when you can and break out the rescue remedy, stress is no good. Deep breaths...

o oh, dandy, missed your earlier post to me - sorry and thanks for info. Just strange as was 40 with lotti and none of this was mentioned just std 2 weeks over induction. Ye gods didn't realise I'm such a freak of nature up v late a
Be off to London office timo so best get snoozing. Apple for typo but on I pod. Nighty nite fx

Well I'm back on again. Just after my last post heard DD2 howling so ran upstairs to find her throwing up all over the place. So for the last 2.5 hours we've been on the sofa watching peppa pig and charlie and lola with her being sick every 15-30 mins. Thank god I didn't go off to hospital and leave her with MIL. Thankfully I'm feeling much better now with just the odd tightening which is normal for me anyway. Might come back on and talk to myself later if I'm still here with her.....am hoping she'll stop vomiting and fall asleep soon. Poor thing is absolutely exhausted (as is DH currently also sleeping next to her on the sofa).
God, what a night.
spangle so excited for you. Fingers and everything else crossed that all goes well. Can't wait for the birth announcement.
Am definitely packing a proper hospital bag tomorrow! This is all too scary all of a sudden.
x

morning all,

Wonder if anything happened for Spangle last night?

Well the effects of the clocks seem to have worn off with DS who was awake at 6.20, his "fovourite" wakeup time . He is also determined to go and wake up his sister, and DH left early to go to London, so I am trying to entertain him with singing and kids TV.

Morning all.

Oh wow spangle! Wonder how she's getting on?

Am at work and wishing I wasn't Had a row with DH last night. He keepes telling me to go in and tell my boss I'm finishing this week as I don't owe him anything !(what with money probs and everything)
I know he means well cos I am knackered but I just can't face any confrontation at the moment after having such a crap week. (going on insulin, finding out I can't have a water birth, prob have to be induced early, birth plan shot to shit, etc, etc)

Sorry for the rant.

loobylou- in some ways i can see your DHs point- your boss must "owe" you around 2 or 3 months leave in missed pay, but if you want to take this through legal proceedings (I hope you will) then you need to play by the rules and make a special request to finish early on medical grounds - could you ask for special/compassionate leave without pay (as you dont seem to get any pay anyway!)

Looby in your shoes I'd get a med cert covering me for sickness until you reac 36 weeks, when your maternity leave can automatically be triggered by your employer if you are off sick. That's from an HR person too, and you know what we are like about sickness! You really don't own them anything.

spangle good luck! It is so real now! I can't find the list so don't know if you know what you are having, how exciting.

sausage DH and I have had quite a few humdingers lately. I think they are affected as much as we are by the arrival of the new one, but don't have the hormones to blame! I'm extra tired, which doesn't help my mood either. I hope things are better today.

Right, have got to get DS off to pre-school and then I'm off to see the consultants. My blood sugar was very low this morning even with the lower dose last night, so it is very odd as really it should be higher now that I have a UTI. Still, I'm not complaining as it meant I could have a guilt free ice cream last night!

Morning ladies. Sounds like crap sleep all around.

I have a funny tale for you from last night. I finally went to sleep at 1am after having a mega burst of energy (unheard of from me.) 2am DD2 then started shouting in her sleep - proper shouting "DD1 get down from there!" I rushed in to their bedroom to find both of them snoring, then DD2 shouted again, fast asleep.

Then, at 4.30 DD1 wakes up having wet her bed. It's only the 2nd time ever so I couldn't get cross, but picture in your mind a 36(ish) week, naked (sorry if TMI!) pregnant woman trying to change the sheets of a top bunk without waking snoozing DD2 on bottom bunk...

Firstly took the sheets off and tried to turn the mattress. Then heard "drip drip drip" as wee is dripping on DD2 head underneath. So didn't bother with that and put mattress right way again.

Then wrestled with taking sheet off and trying to put bargain new single fitted sheet on top bunk. This involved climbing up the ladder and attempting to fit sheet into corners. Except the sheet was too small and it's an ikea mattress which is slightly bigger than normal mattress. DD1 "Mummy, what are you doing?!" So gave up on that also.

Subsequent wrestling match with getting duvet in duvet cover, and tucking up DD1. Felt like I had run several marathons by the end of it. Certainly didn't want to wake up when alarm went on this morning - nap for me this afternoon (after trip to ikea to buy some more sheets. Sigh!)

DC - who'd have em?!

detsy thanks for keeping in touch with spangle. can't believe one of our LO's are on their way already!

def getting last bits for hospital bag today and ds's activity bag sorted for when he goes to my aunties.. better get his likes/dislikes & general routine book written too. oh and write birth plan down..

frazzle glad your tightenings eased off but sorry to hear your dd was so poorly in the night. is she any better this am?

llareggub let us know what your consultants say.. at guilt free ice cream night.

looby my birth with ds couldn't have been more different to my birth plan even if i tried! best to just go with the flow and focus on the result of lo in your arms.. i'd take everyone's suggestions re work.. you don't owe them and i'm sure you could do without the stress of not being paid for even more work than you've already done..

big hug sausage xoxox

blimey o riley! whats going on here then????

i take the evening off (feeling really crap and ill) and everything goes crazy!

glad your ok frazzled sorry to hear you DD is poorly, what a nightmare, Madi has a cough and cold at the mo and has been up all night too, so naps all round I think

hope spangle is doing ok, god how much is that a reality check for us all, we are all actually going to be going through that in a few weeks, arghhh! what have we let ourselves in for!!!

tummum that did make me smile i have had many a night of getting up to Madi in the nip! Am very suprised your DD2 didn't wake up though! She's going to be ok with a screaming newborn then?!

Llare God knows how you cope with the blood sugar shenanigans, it would actually drive me insane! hope your ok though, mmmm ice cream, I had a Strawberry and Rhubarb one last night, was heavenly!

Looby Sorry everything is a bit shit for you at the moment, am sending happy thoughts your way, Im sure everything will work out in the end, and if not, your going to have a new baby soon!

Hope your feeling a bit better today sausage jael hope everything went ok with consultant this am?

divedaisy saw you having the loan of some slings to try once LO arrives, is that with a company or is it friends lending them to you? If its a company, could you let me have detais please? I really want a sling/carrier but have no idea where to start!

Sorry if I've missed anyone, am half asleep writing this, hope everyone else is ok?

I'd like to take this opportunity to invite all my fellow mumsnetters to my virtual hen night at the end of April, with virtual coctails and food, possibly a virtual chippendale! Who knows! ! A month today to the big day!

Chocobunnies

tummum at your night time olympic workout.. tired out just reading about it!

Morning everyone!

Whew I signed out about 9pm thinking it was late and you all just kept going! lol So much to catch up on...

I have to start getting this house turned right side up for the quests tonight. So hard to clean with a 16 month old trailing your heels...

Anyway, just wanted to say hi, send hugs to everyone who needs one, and say good luck to spangle !!!! I can't wait till it is my turn lol

Hopefully will have time to breath and catch up more later.

Have a great day all!

Morning everyone. Just a quick one really, because I was wondering if there's any news yet from Spangle. She could try and listen to her CD on last time today if nothing's happening I wish her tuns of good luck.

I feel like I jinxed it a bit yesterday though. In the morning I was wondering who would be the 1st one to have their baby, with April coming up and everything and by the evening we had our answer. Maybe I'll just keep quiet in the future until everyone has reached full term!

Sorry to hear about those of you who have had arguements with their DH's. I don't think they realise half the time how exhausting this stage in pregnancy can be. My dh keeps nagging me about what we'll do with the front room. I just don't want to think about that and just want to relax and have no decorators/workmen around me. That way I can nap or try and listen to my CD whenever I like without feeling guilty or getting disturbed! In a way it's nice that he's working away. We talk on the phone 1x a day and after that I can go back to my own little world We don't get a chance to argue.

frazzled hope your dd will feel better soon. Hopefully both of you can have a nap today. Also good to hear those tightenings have worn off.

Tummum DS has got one of those high sleeper beds, so I know how challenging it is to change sheets up there.

looby I think your dh is probably worried about you and wants you to take it a bit easier. llareggub has got a good suggestion I think and with all the money you're owed your dh does have a point. If you go off sick you'd avoid a confrontation as well. Oh and, looby, IMO the best birth plan is a birth plan where you keep an open mind and take things as they come. It's difficult to plan for something you haven't done before and the best you can do is to make the best of what will happen and turn it into a positive event, even though it is not like you planned. Like fi said: focus on meeting your baby. That's ultimately what we all want.