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I have gone with Sorky's idea!!!

Alive and kicking

Is your DH's work picking up at all?

Diege i will be bringing both kids with me. I am coming up on the friday and staying over so that there is not too much driving in one day. He is fine about it now just worried about cost but I dont do anything else so he has no room to complain..... Right need hotel number have you booked yours yet?

Morning, i've been up for about an hour, hip pain is horrendous, radiating all down my left leg.

Probably won't beable to make the York meet up as i'm due the 19th May so right in the middle of expected meets and will probably be gone stateside when you do the next

Sounds like everyone is doing good and going to be having a nice easter weekend. We are doing a car boot on Sunday as long as the weather is ok, has been raining past 2 days.
Losing all our privacy and freedom from next week!!!!!!!Scary thought its just the not knowing how long for.
So i have 38 days until expect due date so hopefully i will have a new babe within the next 50 days! Decided to write the list for hospital bag, and even though i have done this twice before all i can remeber is evian spray! So please give me you input
Girls have just got up, so better go organise some brekkie.
Have a good day everyone

Morning,

I've been up since half 3. DS2 was mumbling in his sleep and it always keeps me awake. I might buy some ear plugs.

Sorry for the early start kayz earplugs might be a good investment?

morning

we r off to the zoo dd1 cant wait

hi nat hope all is well ur end

hi lb and mitm

Morning!

NJ - great to hear from you and fab that Mikey is doing so well. I get the feeling from your post that things are not resolved yet re finances but hoping that either I'm wrong or that something turns up soon.

Kay - sorry but LOL at DS2 mumbling! Makes him sound such a happy chappy! Maybe just not best at 3am so earplugs may well be in order...

MINM - boo to hip problems. I can really tell the difference at the moment if I don't sleep with a little pillow between my knees but fortunately it's not anywhere near as bad as you - or some others - have had it.

tink - yay for the zoo!! Which one is it? Hope you have a fab day!

I seem to have woken up with a bit of a stomach upset. Really windy and diarrhoea. I'm going to try some toast in a minute and see if that settles it...

DH is nagging me to pack my hospital bag so I must try and get that done today as well. Anything that anyone thinks you need but they never tell you or thinks you don't need that they always tell you to take?!

Hi everyone

No time to catch up but just thought I would fill you in on last 24 hours or so and see if anyone has ever had anything similar etc.

Yesterday I was having quite normal braxton hicks and then suddenly I noticed that I was feeling them more regularly and they were getting more painful along with difficulty in walking.

Started timing them at 1pm ish and basically they were every 4 mins lasting for a minute until bedtime. By this point they were like terrible period pains in my lower back and round the front. Also my fanjo was really swollen up and had so much pressure there and my back passage.

Went to be and laying down caused the pain to get worse. I managed to finally fall asleep at 1.30 and then from 3.30pm was woken up and they were so painful I had to put my TENS on. This stayed on all night and I still could not sleep for the pain. They were every 9 mins lasting for a muinute but much more painful than before.

Finally by 8am they were every 7mins but still so painful I was breathing through them and squeezing DH's hand and using birth ball etc to get through the pain.

I went back to sleep 8am - 10am by which time I had about 3 more contractions in an hour, still lasting a minute each but were much less intense. By 11.30 I was hardly having anything and just had niggling lower back pains.

I rang mw and she said not to do anything til they regulate again. Just started to have waves again but still not as painful as before.

Im pretty sure these cant be braxton hicks but I dont know for sure. Anyone shed any light? Im going for a walk in a minute to see if I can get things going again. But I am seriously frustrated. HELP!!!!

Ok just had a show so maybe things are moving

I'm going to have a cuppa and flap jack and then go catch up on some sleep. Just in case i need some energy tonight

Ooh Gruff! That all sounds v promising and v exciting!!
Building up energy stores with flapjack / sleep combo is a good plan.
Keep us posted!

Will do Ses!

Im going to sleep now. Hopefully will have something to post soon

Ooooooh how exciting, Gruffette is coming!

Did you have your walk? It definitely helped get things moving for me, so if you haven't been already, go go GO! [excited]

Hello! GRUFF, sounds like thinks are nicely progressing, and show makes me think little gruff will be here very soon
LB, not booked my hotel yet - thinking I might get an early train up instead on the day to save on money, but on the other hand if I can find somewhere reasonable would ideally like to stay over the night before. If you find somewhere cheap that seems ok, let me know!
SES, one thing I found invaluable in my bag were warm socks and lip balm. For some reason my feet got really cold in labour and my face really hot!
MIM, not long at all for you now! Shame about meet up(s) . I am similarly clueless about labour bag (aprt from the above!)
Hi TINKS, hope the zoo was good - bet it was busy today!
Be back later, dds very vocal!

Me again! Dh has agreed to a home birth but now of course I am umming and ahhing bit style...
Main concerns are rather cliched...

1. What if I can't cope with the pain and need an epidural, as with last 3 births??
2. What if something goes wrong?
3. What if the baby isn't breathing properly?
4. Will dds cope with hearing me screaming like a banshee?? (if not at school)

Those of you who've been through a hb, am I being totally irrational, or does this suggest hb is not for me?? Any thoughts would be appreciated! Hope you're ok GRUFF!!! Will pop in with brownies throughout evening to check up on how things are progressing

Evening

Gruff sound's like things are getting off to a good start V. exciting

Ses, it all seems to have turned around financially wise, we are very very tight this month, but DH has been on call all week and he had his busiest ever day (in the nearly 7 years he's worked there) yesterday with new jobs coming in, (all on triple time with it being a bank holiday! ) and he has been out all day today on double time, and he's got jobs lined up for tomorrow - double time again, so as much as it's not been good as in we haven't seen him, next month is going to be one of the best paid months he's had! Which is great, just hope it carries on, not sure we can go through all of this again! If I am moaning in a couple of weeks that we've not seen him then remind me of this please!

MINM, how exciting that all the wheels are in place for the move Really feel for you with the feeling of losing privacy and the disruption it's all going to cause in the short term, but just think, give it 2 months, you'll be stateside with a new baby, no more hip pain (oh for small mercies!!) probably still in the thick of everything, but the worst of it will all be over! A new life for you all!

Tink, hope you all had a brill day

Now this meet up, presuming the least loyal wagoner is still invited?! I would really love to be there with you all, but with DH's on call lark and all that's going on, I can't promise, but once you've all come up with a time and date, if I've not been on, someone let me know when and where please and I'll do my very best!

Right, dinner is erm.... burnt I suppose I'd best go and get it out of the oven and start again! Gruff I'll try and get back on to see the update, if not today then tomorrow, really hope it all goes smoothly and well, will be thinking of you xxx

Fire alarms are going to start in a second.... byeeeeeeeeee xxxx

have a hwb diege you won't need anything else for pain (maybe some G&A) it is THAT effective

Ooh Gruff

NAT!! Don't think I saud hello after your last post . I remember reading and thinking how great it was to hear you post again, and then swiftly ignored you! Really glad your dh is getting work, and as you say over the BH the money is good. I would expect nothing less of you but to be at the York meet , though appreciate it's quite some way from Manchester area.
Ooh no SORKY not water!!! Not a water person at all - water birth fills me with dread - all that getting wet and then having to get dry business, plus fishing about with a net for poos...I think I have in mind birth balls/beanbags/just being able to move around! TBH, if my hospital were into active birth, I really wouldn't mind going in, but our hospital has a real 'thing' about people not lying down on a bed to labour - ffs all I want to do is stand up/move around!! You'd think it was the 19th century the way they go on about the 'problems' they have with 'ladies who bring in their birth ball and the like'
Right, going to watch GB got talent . Dh staying at MILs tonight as out for a meal with her and his sister and niece, then we're all over there for an egg hunt tomorrow...it would be great if it didn't involve a whole day of MIL

oh gruff - good luck

nat - glad finances r picking up

diege - hi

we had a great day @ marwell zoo
dd1 luved it and bracken slept in buggy all the time

weather was abit wet and cloudy still packed
i am watching gb got talent luv it

Hi everyone

thanks for the well wishes!

I'm still here. Had a few contractions, stepping the pain up a bit from earlier but still not regular. Had some funny sensations up the fanjo, thought it might be waters but nothing so far!will do my best to keep updating. come on gruffette i want to meet you!!!!

Hi GRUFF, and thanks for the update. You are a trooper .
Best of luck for tonight; I think with first time births the contractions you are describing can go either way - develop very quickly, or come and go over a few days until slowly getting more regular (sorry!). Really hope it's the former for you and you get to meet the gruffette very soon

Ooooh! Had to post to say GOOD LUCK to Gruff! You can do it! If things get tough just picture holding your little girl in your arms. Each contraction brings you nearer to that moment. It sounds like things are warming up nicely..... Thinking of you.

Great to hear from you Nat, it hasn't been the same around here without you! Fab news about DH's work too. Bet Mikey's getting so big now. Have you got any recent pics?

Hope everyone's having a lovely weekend.

Diege - course you can do a home birth! Your worries all sound very normal. What do you like about the idea of being at home?

Right off to bed - well past my betime. Night all. May the Easter bunny be bounteous to everyone tomorrow!

Morning and Happy Easter

Gruff - hope things are progressing well for you and that you have your lo in your arms soon.

NJ - glad things are a bit more positive. Always hard though as seems to be one extreme or the other. I have a friend who's self employed and things were really quiet Dec-Feb and now she's inundated and is working stupidly long hours!

Diege - thanks for suggestions. Socks and lip balm going in! Still not packed it yet but maybe tomorrow...

Tink - sounds like you had a great day

We're off to my aunt & uncle's today with my parents, just for the day. They live near Oxford. My 2 cousins will be there too and should be good.

Oh and I'm 36 weeks today!!!!

Good luck Gruff

Diege - I think you're very brave to be considering a home birth. I always think giving birth at home would be a lovely, relaxed way of doing it (as relaxed as giving birth can be of course) but can't quite shake my fear of not being in a hospital.

My stomach pains have pretty much gone now so just need to get rid of my cold in order to build up my strength for telling the midwife I don't want any ante-natal tests. I'm assuming she will try & talk me into having tests. Has anyone else refused tests? My last pregnancy was completely ruined by the results of my triple test & I don't want to go down that road again. dh has yet to be convinced however. Any advice/opinions much appreciated.