Due May '09 - wave your bum in the air, like you just don't care !

[Tummum]

Here we go !

All my washing is dried and folded ready to be put away . Bliss. Benn a lovely day here and we have been in the garden enjoying it most of the day.

blotted, I started at just over 13... and have put on 2 stone 2lbs. I'm heavier than a rugby player!! In fact, maybe more than two small to medium rugby players!

pula, sunny here too and have hung washing out for only the second time this year (first being yesterday). I feel all worthy for not using the tumbledryer.

Have been working and cleaning all day - no fun. A combination of DH porch-building and one week left before maternity leave is not ideal.

Still not decorated the nursery, built the cot or had the furniture delivered. Or packed my hospital bag. Oh well, plenty of time between 25th April and 13th May I'm sure!!

hope everyone is well and enjoying the sunshine.

PS No chance of any excitement here, DH is totally weirded out at the idea of approaching me when there's a baby inside me already... and has now acquired a nasty bad back from all his porch building activity!

I'm impressed you lot can be bothered, I put out last week because it was DHs birthday and I felt it was the least I could do but seriously? I can't think of anything worse right now.

Blotted Our weight is similar but I think you've mentioned how tall you are before - I think I'm a little bit shorter than you......

Took DD1 shopping this afternoon for 2.5 hours and am absolutely wiped out. I feel like shite to be brutally honest. Boo-hoo poor me etc. However, I did buy some wool and needles and may attempt knitting for the first time in about 25 years .

DD2 has, for some reason, taken to cycling her trike very quickly round and round the kitchen. It freaks me out - reminds me of the Omen.......

I wonder how LoobyLoobster is getting on?

Oh and I just want to point how how very very very much I love my DH.

He has cleaned the house from top to bottom whilst I was out. Including sorting out the porch.

He is just wonderful

Grumpy I'm 5'8". I'm not too fat, I'm just too short. I'd be perfectly in proportion if I was 6'2"

I'm also going to join the DH appreciation society, my DH has been out the back for most of today finishing a fence. PLUS he surprised me earlier with my favourite flavour of Ben & Jerrys AND he let me nap undisturbed for two hours this afternoon.

I really should put out, shouldn't I?

Hi ladies i'm back!

Went in as instructed - got a bed waited round for an hour then MW came and took blood pressure, temp, wee sample. Hooked LO up to a monitor then informed me that my baby would probably end up in SCBU due to my diabetes .
She went away again, came back and said that SCBU was full and short staffed and they might have to send me home, but said that they'd monitor the baby and then discuss options with the registrar and consultant.

Felt a bit sorry for the MW, they were short staffed on maternity ward as well - only 2 MW's .

Anyway - was told in the end to ring up on monday at 8 to come back. They don't do inductions on a monday normally its their c-section day so I should get first dibbs and they always have more staff available on a monday apparently.

So spent 3 hours in hospital and then came home again .

glad I wasn't there for lunch - apparently it was dire

When I was being monitored I had a fair few BH show up, MW said head was well engaged too. I've been having quite a few nagging pains really low down so assume LO is getting ready.

blotted lol, sounds like your DH is pushing all the right buttons for you to "put out"

Dandy Oh wouldn't that be a wonderful achievment! A pregnant sex book...I can see the proud smiles of my parents already

Actually my mother is a published erotica novelist...so maybe she would not be as shocked as I was when I found out what she did!

Ah well, I am one of the lucky few who have a very high drive when pregnant so one must be creative lol

Just hope I was helpful and not just revealing a little to much

Glad to hear that all DH's seem to be behaving themselves today! Mine worked all day...boo...however, I made him a nice dinner and am currently 'letting' (I hate saying it like that!) him play his PS3 while having a beer...so he can fall into my little trap later when I ask for a back rub...[evil laugh]

MW was well impressed with my 3 full syringes of expressed colostrum they are now sat in the SCBU freezer

she gave me some more to fill. she gave me 8 how many breasts does she think I have! lol

going to have a nice bath with lavender oil to try and ease my back pain - will be back on later x

Looby Oh sorry to hear that you are home again! Hopefully you will be able to use the extra days to relax a little bit more, although I am sure you are getting anxious to just get under way...I know I would be! Hang in there...thinking of you!

Looby my hospital have said that to me too about SCBU. There is no clinical reason why our babies need to go into special care at all, and in fact, the national guidelines stipulate that babies born to mothers with GD should stay with their mothers. I've challenged my hospital (like many other local mothers with GD) and I'm speaking to the Head of Midwifery on Monday about it.

All they do in SCBU is monitor blood sugar, which they did with DS on labour ward.

If you want me to link to the NICE guidelines I will. My consultant is very supportive of my view that my baby will be better staying with me. Essentially my hospital's policy is based around staffing, and not the views of the parents or national policy.

Obviously if there is a clinical need then of course I'll let him go into SCBU. But if there isn't a clinical need I'll be keeping him right with me where I can breastfeed him.

I'm really sorry you've geared yourself up for the IOL and have come away. Did they do a sweep or anything?

I'll link again for those of you who can't support yourself while trying self induction methods

looby what a disappointment to be sent home.. after all the nerves and anticipation & 8 more syringes oh my! will keep my fingers crossed for you for mon. try and make the most of the pre lo time you have left too.

looby, hope you're ok and think emmabemma's right in that you should use the extra day or so to relax.

DHappreciation, mine is absolutely wonderful and I, like blotted, feel i should put out but i just can't bear to think of sex right now. am i selfish? (yes, says a small, guilty inner voice.).

ladies, i think i had a small 'show'... (tmi alert). it was a (ahem) thicker mucus (ugh!) discharge with a small spot of blood (ugh! and another ugh!). this happened earlier today about 4pm and haven't had anything since. last time, before dd2, i had a couple of so-called shows about 3 days before labour started. this time, it wasn't huge so not sure if it means anything so we'll see. nothing else much but BH and some lower abdominal discomfort but that could be baby moving.

i don't want to think i'm too close anyway, since the pessimist in me thinks I'll jinx myself to baby being late.

anyone else scared? this is my 3rd... i should be confident, fine right ? i was reading about labour, etc this afternoon and burst out crying. must, must listen to the hypnotherapy cd about 100 more times.

jennster, lol at the beanbags. i want one now!!

looby - sorry to hear that you spent all that time in the hospital today, although the signs do look good! Hope you get a lovely calm and relaxing day tomorrow and then everything goes smoothly on Monday. lol at 8 syringes though, that'd be good going!

I'm up to 2 stone 3 pounds weight gain so far, but it's definitely slowed down now so hopefully not much more before the end.

Beautiful day here too, loads of washing done and dried and DD played out in the garden nearly all day so hopefully she'll sleep well tonight. Forecast good for tomorrow too, but I'll be on my own all day with DD as DH is off cycling for about 14 hours - I really hope that this is the last long one before the due date, it makes me slightly nervous. And I get really tired looking after DD on my own all day too!

Momino - show sounds exciting! But it could be a while yet. I was reading about labour this afternoon too, in the garden, while DH and DD played. I started feeling quite nervous too, it suddenly all seems very real doesn't it. No tears, but definite apprehension. I started writing a list of questions for the MW when I see her next week, it's very long already, and I'm sure it's all stuff I should know.

Momino I'm started to worry about things, but basically the same anxiety as last time re. my elcs which is of getting MRSA, or getting an infection in my scar.

The show sounds interesting- i didn't get mine until i'd been having contractions for 24 hours...

flippi, you're right. i think that with a show it still could be a couple of weeks which sounds right to me as i'm 38 weeks now. i'm just so desperate not to go overdue. but baby will come when he/she thinks it's right.

off to eat now.

the sex positions made me been so tired this last few weeks dh hasn't even asked.. but I know he'd be up for it if offered.. as he's commented frequently on how sexy he finds my bump is this time.

well this morning ds decided he wanted to come out with me to the shops.. 1st stop was to collect my new changing bag that I'm treating myself to with some of the grant money in advance of it coming.. it's a storksak 'claire' and absolutely chuffed with it. not too big or small. will take everything I need it if to for ds & lo and lots of pockets etc for my meagre things too

next stop was mothercare v nearby for some new camisoles with built in support as my old ones had 'had it' & while paying ds had a meltdown suddenly v v tired. dh had dropped us into town and it's only a 5min walk (10 for ds speed) had to get dh to come and get us as ds just wasn't going to cope with walk home and had stupidly left the pram at home.

at lunch dh set fire to our toaster! ds has fallen asleep at dinner table the last few nights and missed his bath.. going to bed early instead so after a quick bath after lunch he was so shattered & wingey i decided to make him have a nap while dh went out to buy a new toaster and do rest of errands. ds and I snuggled under duvet in our bed with cbeebies at about 2.30 we both nodded off & the next thing I knew it was 4.30, my arm under ds had gone to sleep and dh popped his head round the door! ds was happy to go to sleep tonight too so either he's brewing something or he's on another growth spurt.. hoping it's the latter. we're supposed to be going to ikea again tomorrow.. just have to see if ds is ok..

Momino Wow a show. I got mine a few days before going into labour both times. Having said that it was almost constant blood flecked mucus for a day. I thought I had one the other day but I don't think it was now. I was offered a sweep my a mw before my due date because I'd had a show, but turned it down. If baby isn't cooked, then baby isn't cooked!

Looby What a disappointment. Don't make yourself bruised though with the expressing!