Due April 2009 - Chapter 26: Once We Pop We Can't Stop!!!

[SmuttyNuttyTaff]

May the popcorn continue to pop!!!

The baby list...
12 Feb: Skiingone: MARIANNA 4lb 4oz
20 Feb: Glaskham: RUBY MARIE 4lb 3oz
04 Mar: Barbarella: ESTELLA, ROSANNA, OTIS
05 Mar: Kazkiss: ISABELLE FLORENCE 4lb 6oz & OLIVER THOMAS 3lb 7oz
15 Mar: Babypringle: OSCAR WILLIAM 7lb 2oz
28 Mar: Claireykitten: VIOLET ROSE 7lbs 9oz
29 Mar: WhatFreshHell: BABY FRESHHELL 10lb 5.5oz
31 Mar: Mumblemum: ORSON XERXES

Still yet to hatch...

30 Mar : BabyBolat: 1st timer
01 Apr : Rachelinscotland: DD 3 years, and DS 2 years in March
01 Apr : Juwesm: 1st timer
01 Apr : Chickenbalti: DS 4 years DD 17 months
02 Apr : BoffinMum: BOY! dd(21) ds(10) ds(7)
02 Apr : MathsMummy27: GIRL! DD 3 years
03 Apr : purlease: 1 m/c, 1 DD 3 years
03 Apr : Kalikaroo: SURPRISE! (28), 1st timer, lives in Scandinavia (but too shy to say where!)
04 Apr : Bleuravin
04 Apr : Bumpalump
06 Apr : ToastnHoney: first timer
06 Apr : Mummyontherun: DD 22 months
06 Apr : pintofstella: DS 5.7
08 Apr : LuLuBai: 1 DD born 02 Apr 07
09 Apr : Oddeyes (30): GIRL! DS 17 mths, 1 mc. London
09 Apr : Minush
10 Apr : hopeful1
10 Apr : mrsfossil: 1 DS 6.5
11 Apr : Bubbaluv: 1 DS 1yo
11 Apr : SpringySunshine: BOY! 1st timer.
12 Apr : Brettgirl, 1st timer
13 Apr : Dungungirl(30): BOY! 1 m/c, DS 4 years
14 Apr : AuldAlliance: DS3.8 BOY!
14 Apr : Woody2shoes: Second DS
15 Apr : electra
15 Apr : Sarahmum: DS 10yrs
16 Apr : tristaleejac(25): 1 ds, 3 years
17 Apr : Surprisenumber3(32): DS1 9 DSS 9 DS2 5 GIRL!
18 Apr : gingersarah: 1st baby
18 Apr : Lauren61
18 Apr : salbysea: (28) 1st timer
19 Apr : Kittycatisgettingfat (29) 1st timer
21 Apr : B52s: DS will be 2 and a quarter
21 Apr : Staryeyed
21 Apr : Schulte
22 Apr : PuzzleRocks: DD 22mths GIRL!
22 Apr : soon2befamilyof4 DD 13 months.
23 Apr : FatandFedup DC3
24 Apr : conkertree (27): DS 17 months
24 Apr : Bronze (Gawain) - 4th DC
24 Apr : Frekkles
25 Apr : Swaliswan: DD 17 months
27 Apr : Bicnod
27 Apr : Carameli
27 Apr : ilovesummer 3rd dc
27 Apr : purplemonkeydishwasher DS 3yo
30 Apr : Nutty Taff (27) DD nearly 5 GIRL!

Morning all, happy April!

Another grim night, the baby gets really hyper around 11pm and boots and punches me very painfully. I think all my internal organs have severe bruising.

DH has come up with a cunning plan for his future, so that also meant we got to sleep late as we were discussing whether it really is a cunning plan or not...

Have finished the Zweig book, Boff, so if you e-mail me your address I'll post it to you.

I have been ignoring agents/landlady who phone and leave messages trying to arrange visits to view the house. I am just too exhausted to deal with it. AIBU? (Be gentle with me!)

Right, 10am seems a fairly decent time to get DS dressed . He's currently bathing playmobil men in the new tummy tub, singing "One a cuisine, two a cuisine hot cross buns", interspersed with concerned comments ("Are you clean, now?"; "Did the soap go in your eyes?" "Ready to get out?")

Now Nutty, let me get you sorted out. Here is today's recovery checklist:

Snacks and drinks to hand, along with TV remote and mags?

Has flexible cold pack been used on offending areas? (20 minutes on, 20 minutes off)

Are you taking codeine and paracetemol together very regularly by the clock?

Are you having regular warm baths or showers (if you can get in and out)?

Also if you can bear it, later on, get DH to massage the point where your hamstrings meet your bum, because this will get a lot of stuff out of spasm and ease the pain (our latest discovery). Did you know ginger oil and black pepper aromatherapy oils have a numbing effect on the pain?

Look after yourself, my lovely. xx

Morning all - sorry am about to have a rant

I have just been to the (awful) local community midwife again and honestly I have never known such an incompetent uninterested group of people. I am now determined to do everything I can to have as little contact with them as possible post birth.

Got there for my appointment (early) and waited for AGES, was put in to a skanky room (where there were no curtains and the toilet looked like something out of a 1950s school complete with missing seat), they took bp tested wee and sent me on my merry way, I don't think I saw the mw for more than three minutes. I was trying to ask them questions and explain symptoms etc and they just weren't interested at all, they just said well speak to your other midwife and we will see you and baby post birth (Not if I can help it!!). So no progress at all and am genuinely really disheartened by it all - feels like I will just be sat here in with this dull pain for ages until I have to be induced really late and I know I haven't had a particularly difficult pregnancy and I am only 3 days late but I just don't think I can face it. I hate that I feel like this and resent the baby even though I know it's the stupid mw's fault for making me feel crap.

Boff, so glad things turned out ok, I still feel very pregnant but think the constant period pain is adding to that

Nutty sorry you are still feeling crap - take it very easy today!

Oh BB I am sorry to hear that they were so crap.

Can you pop down to the GP for a quick ante-natal check, do you think? Would that be reassuring??

It's important to stay positive and maintain a feeling of control because then your mood will be so much better after the birth.

oooh Auld - did you work out if it was a cunning plan?

YANBU, you will have to answer them at some point but only when you feel up to it!!

Bless your DS!!

Conker, glad DS pox doesn't seem to be progressing! not so glad he is keeping you up!!!

IT'S APRIL !!!!!!! One way another I will be having a baby this month

Sorry to hear about the pain Nutty - that's really shite. BUT not much longer now, the end is in sight.

Purple - I was very to read your GP's reaction to heartburn. She should try having heartburn constantly for five years grrrr!!!! Omeprazole definitely works, I'm not sure that they are as keen on it in pg in America though (is that where you are?) Rinitidine would help a bit though, particularly only for a few weeks (the effect of it seems to wear off quickly IME).

I can't believe that people are getting precious about people having babies on their birthday - I mean ffs, there are 365 days in a year (well apart from a leap year) and 60 million people, therefore there needs to be some overlap . I think that they should be completely ignored - I would love it if someone I knew had a baby on my birthday (at least I'd remember when it was, I'm crap with birthdays haha .

Good Boff that your boys are both getting sorted prior to the birth. I think it's secondary age kids who dislike moving, at primary level it just seems like a new opportunity.

Morning All.

Well, I'm still pregnant despite having to go to labour ward last night until 2am. Things were starting to heat up with contractions so I phoned up to ask 'when do I need to phone to say that I'm coming in?' and they wanted me to go in then because my 'bloody show' was fresh blood and I'm pre-term. Anyway, being stuck on the bed strapped to a CTG seemed to put my contractions off. The CTG showed that my contractions were off the scale when they happened but they were only one every ten minutes, irregular and I wasn't even dilated. It seems that this is only a latent phase of labour, if that. I'm so disheartened as I didn't want to go in until I had proper established contractions and I feel that it has stopped any progression.

Anyway, I'm going back to bed now as I've had three hours sleep. I'll update again at some point. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do until labour starts though as I never really noticed this phase with DD.

Oh and happy due dates to Rachelinscotland; Juwesm; Chickenbalti - get birthing those babies ladies!

I have my induction chat tomorrow with my hospital so think I will wait until then (although at this rate I am likely to just sit there and cry until they agree to induce me there and then!!!)

Think I am going to start demolishing the bathroom today as I need to take my frustration out on something!!

Conker - sorry about your poor ds & lack of sleep, but yay for french toast!! yummy!

Auld - Bless your ds Yay for cunning plans!! (i love the "cunning plan" phrase, how i miss blackadder ) and you are not being unreasonable, have a break from the viewings you have enough on your plate!

Boffin what would i do without you xx

Snacks and drinks to hand, along with TV remote and mags?

CHECK dh laid them all out on the table when he brought me into the lounge this morning (love him [smile)

Has flexible cold pack been used on offending areas? (20 minutes on, 20 minutes off) -

Tens is on the back (highest setting, been leaving it on all day [naughty] as it doesnt seem to do much, can barely feel the nib nibs anymore) but fanjo has package appliance regularly

Are you taking codeine and paracetemol together very regularly by the clock?

paracetamol only as i cant take the morphine tonight if i take the codine.

Are you having regular warm baths or showers (if you can get in and out)?

No can do till dh gets home.

Also if you can bear it, later on, get DH to massage the point where your hamstrings meet your bum, because this will get a lot of stuff out of spasm and ease the pain (our latest discovery). Did you know ginger oil and black pepper aromatherapy oils have a numbing effect on the pain?

Will order some oil now, dh will give me a leg & thigh massage after hes get me out of the bath, he still cant touch anywhere above the bottom of my left buttock sadly as i shoot through the roof but the thigh massage does help some definately.

Sorry about the crappy appointment BB - is that MW attached to a different hospital then?

BB - GRRRRRRR for crappy MW ((hugs)) try and see your hospital (thats where the good MW are that you like isn't it??) xx

Swaliswan - sorry for the monitoring and the hospital trip xx try not to be too daissapointed and rest if you can xx

Right. It is April 1st. Where is my baby?? Hmmmmm??????

Nutty - do you get knocked out if you take codeine in the day and morphine at night or has someone said not to do it? If no wooziness, do 30mg codeine every 4 hours through the day and oramorph at night. Neither works long enough for you to end up ODing.

My baby is still not here.

My baby is still not here.

There are no other babies either. Is this an April Fool? Have loads of people had babies and are keeping it quiet for fun?

RASPBERRY LEAF TEA!

Juw - My doc said not to do it cos they counteeffect each other as they are from the same/different (not sure which) drug family, so if it take the one then the other would be less effective.

Have you had your baby yet Juwes? (ducks)

Juw - nutter xx

Absolute bollocks.

Juw, one thing my MW did say is that you would need at least 10-15 cups a day of RLT for it to make even the slightest bit of difference (she managed to inform me of that within the 3 minutes) and apparently even then there is no proven association.

brettgirl, yes I refused to have my baby at the local hospital as they have a ridiculously high level of CS's compared to the national average and the third highest rate of MRSA (I can see why) had also heard some pretty horrendous stories from them too. So have gone to the next hospital (10 mins down the road) which is lovely but have to see the local midwife as towards the end as they will be the ones looking after me post baby (they wont as I am not letting them near me!!)

You shouldn't take them both regularly, as in that situation the codeine is so weak in comparison with the morphine, the codeine would be completely useless - the morphine would already have done all the work. Like having a double vodka, and then taking a sip of Babycham and worrying about the extra alcohol content! All you'd get is a bit of extra wooziness and constipation (drugs, not Babycham ). But no reason at all why you shouldn't take codeine through the day, and then finish off the day with morphine instead.

Codeine 0600, 1000, 1400, 1800, 2200
Paracetamol 0600, 1200, 1800, 2200
Morphine 2400

Something like that

BB - I have absolutely no belief in the RLT! But it makes me feel like I'm vaguely doing something. I suspect there is probably some reasonable evidence that it affects uterine contractility, or it wouldn't be contraindiacted in early pg, but I'm not expecting it to kick off labour .

However, if I do lots of strenuous exercise...

...maybe that will start things off!

Plus, we hate your midwife, so anything she's not keen on, I think we should all do lots of!

My baby is not here yet.