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

[Tummum]

Here we go !

Hi all pregnant ladies!!

Hope everyone is keeping well...still reading and catching up on everyone's news. I am also getting fed up and even though I will miss being pregnant, I just want her to come so I can get into things with 2 rather than just waiting...and waiting!!

Oh my mom lol Yeah well she gave me my first romance novel when I was 16...didn't think much of it. I knew she wrote, but she only showed me 'normal' stuff. She has been published in some horror mags with short stories, and in a few erotica books with her short stories. She has published 2 novels (that I know of!) and is about to send her 1st romance novel to an editor in hopes of it being a trilogy. She just finished and is sending me a copy to read and I can't wait! It was not until about 2 years ago that she gave me a short story to read that was very raunchy So, I really only just found out what my mom really does lol I have to say though that she is very talented but a total soccer mom in the states so you would never ever guess...and she uses a few different names...some mens!

I also have not gotten my Hip grant yet...but think I applied in March too, so may take some time for me.

Just went to the outlet mall in Livingston today and I am pooped!! My back is screaming in agony, but I spent a fortune in Gap on DD getting her set for summer. I don't mind buying quality things since I know this one is a girl too so it will get used twice! And, it is all just to cute! DH nearly had a heart attack though when it was all rung up. He is off playing PS3 now to cool off

Divedaisy Yeah well, on your own is good too! However, that is why the facing away position is good because men with bump issues don't see it! Go get yours and screw what he wants! lol

dandy your upper arm comment made me laugh! Mine are the same but when I am pregnant and hot I no longer care.

emmab your mother sounds fascinating.

I've been reading and lurking but I am so tired right now. I just cannot last a day without flaking in bed by 1pm or 2pm. I have literally been asleep all afternoon and I am sleeping much better at night to boot. I am hoping that my body is gearing itself up for labour and getting as much rest as possible.

I am going to moan now. Every now and again I get a twinge and a really heavy period feeling and I think great! Here we go again! But nothing. I've had nothing but discomfort since Wednesday and no more progress. On the other hand, my constipation has gone (hurrah!) but sadly I have SPD like pains again.

I hope beyond hope my sweep works on Thursday!

alapala I think the strongest thing you can take is paracetamol, I'm afraid. I hope you feel better soon.

My turn for a moan - DH has just told the MIL what our choice of name is for a girl. I'm as we don't tell anyone anything - plus MIL is bound to have spoken to the rest of the family already even though she's sworn to secrecy . I know I'm probably being unreasonable, but I'm furious. DH is doing his usual - don't see what the problem is, grrrr

hi everyone, hope your all well.

just wanted to pose a quick one today as im off on holiday wiv dp and ds 2moro to a haven holiday park, sure im gonna be exhuated by the time we get back only going mon-fri so hopefully wont be too bad!

hope belgian is ok.

hope when you all hear more from mr jeal
that she is ok and things are going better for her. must be so horrible for her will be thinking of her too.

good luck looby for your induction 2moro hope it all goes well. best wishes will be thinking of you

hope everyone who is feeling fed up feels better soon, ive been really down but going away has cheered me up just really looking forward to time just the 3 of us.

for those who are feeling impatient just think about me ive still got at least 6 wks to go and its porb more likely to be 8 knowing my luck! i cant believe some of you only have like 2-3wks to go im so but also very happy for you all too

im sure ill have no hope of catching up at all when i get back but im hoping to here lots of exciting baby news! best wishes to everyone with birth's fast approaching, so exciting!!!

right off to finish packing, i hate holiday packing its such a chore! its such hard work to think of everything! normally id leave the home spotless so i know it will be all nice,tidy and clean when we get back but to be honest since ive been pg i just havent got the energy to care about housework anymore, well i say i dont care but i still get all uptight when i know there are things to be done that wont do themselves. but this time im just gonna go and relax and worry bout it when we get back, then ill be really stressed about it but least id have had a nice calm holiday

well that didnt end up being a quick one did it, but makes up to the next 5 days

Well I'm feeling very proud as DH and I did manage some action yesterday (well I say action, there wasn't much activity from me ).

At scan on Thursday, blardy babies had both turned breech again, so I don't know what to think. Wish I hadn't got so excited about VB, guess CS won't be the end of the world - TBH, as long as they come out soon, I'm starting to care less how...

Weirdly, as I get bigger, it gets more and more comfortable to lie down (perhaps it's just relative compared to sitting and standing?) so I'm sleeping adequately which is helping. Otherwise, sympathy with all the end of pregnancy niggles, I'm right there with you.

1stMrsF- sorry to hear your LOs are moving themselves around. If its any consolation, I've heard that once one twin is out, the other one can turn (as there is suddenly more space) so even 2 babies head down doesn't guarantee vaginal delivery.

A friend of mine carried her twins to 39 weeks (can't remember now if she was induced or went into labour) and had one vaginally (ventouse) but then the other one got into difficulties so she had to have an emcs. She said the recovery of the cs was quicker than down below so don't worry too much if you have to have a cs. She did have her DH and then her mum around for the first month or so, which obviously helped!

Evening ladies.

Yay - just checked I too have my HiP money sat in my account.

I feel a spot of shopping coming on..once LO out so I know whether to buy pink or blue

1stMrsF you should feel proud at "action" its difficult with a one baby bump never mind 2 I should imagine

Have had lots of niggly pains today and BH think LO is getting as impatient as me to get the ball rolling.

Managed to express another 2 syringes of colostrum today so have 3 more to take in tommorrow to go with the 3 already in the special care baby unit freezer. I think 6 will be enough - don't want to make myself sore.

I swear my bump has dropped down more over the last couple of days. LO does feel like she/he is tunnelling out - ouch!

Have taken everyones mobile no.s off FB so will let one of you know how it goes 2moro.

DH is cooking me dinner tonight - barbecued lamb chops and veggies - yum!

My have a small cider with it too

looby- good luck for tomorrow- hope everything goes to plan. I'm really impressed with your expressing- that should give your LO a great start when they come out.

Good luck for tomorrow Looby!

Somebody please update on Looby here for those of us who aren't on Facebook.

looby, i'm impressed as well at your expressing - well done! good luck for tomorrow.

was just at a friends for Sunday lunch and had some illegal things : runny, gorgeous camembert as well as a glass of rose'. it's the 1st time in awhile i've been able to have a glass of wine that doesn't taste like vinegar.

about the camembert, how dangerous are the risks at 38 weeks, anyone know? i'm not too worried as 1) i've never -touch wood- become sick from a piece of cheese and 2) baby must be fully developed by now. hope i'm right for both.

also feeling niggles deep down in the pelvis. last wed, baby wasn't yet engaged but now feels like s/he's at least trying to do so and possibly succeeded.

Hi everyone. I'm back with bump in situ! I haven't tried to catch up yet, I thought I'd let you know I'm back at home first.

So on Thursday I went into hospital. Baby was definitely transverse. When the put me on the monitor baby's heartrate was very low (80bpm!) at first which I of course picked up straightaway and scared me big time, DH heard it, but was totally oblivious because he doesn't know what a normal h/r souonds like. Anyway, I though here we go, another problem. Luckily it picked up by itself and then I was on the monitor for ages.
By some miracle the baby turned head down overnight, I didn't sleep well that night due to the heat/plastic mattress and pillows/noisy ward/ etc... so I did feel movement overnight, but nothing huge. When the mw examined my bump in the morning baby was head down and well engaged, only 2/5th of the head palpable! I had to stay in for another night to make sure it didn't turn again and yesterday morning it was still head down. They did a scan just to make sure it was definitely a head and it was! Today my bump is still the same shape and I'm pretty sure baby is still head down. Just amazing how s/he just flipped around like that without me noticing!

Now they also did an estimated weight and that's 3760g (about 8 1/2 lb), so the drs weren't happy for me to have a h/b. I told them that I know my body can give birth to a big baby. No one in my family has small babies and we all have fairly quick and easy births. The dr wasn't happy and she said she couldn't allow it. Tomorrow I'm seeing a cmw at home to just double check the position again and we'll discuss h/b again. I want some sort of compromise that if I go over my date I'll go in and before I'll have it at home. I feel like getting a h/b is starting to resemble an obstacle course. THere seems to be new problems popping up all the time.

In a way my stay in hosptal was nice. It was nice to spend 2 days just relaxing and doing absolutely nothing. No dcs around wanting things, no meals to prepare,... I read a whole book, finished my 'baby sugar boxes', started some cross stitching and watched some telly, lovely

It was also nice that I was in the hospital I trained. Lots of people popped in to say hello. Except for my ex-mentor who couldn't stand me, nearly failed me and made my life living hell for 6 months. She was on duty on my ward while I was there and not once did she pop her head round my door to say hello. Then when I walked past her for my scan she said hello and she laughed and said 'ooh, You can't have your home confinement now, B/C' in a sort of enjoying my misfortune sort of way.

Anyway. These were my adventures for the last few days. The best thing to come out of it is that it made people more helpful at home and made my parents decide to come over earlier to help me out. So on fri my mum and dad will be here for nearly 3 weeks. I'm looking forward to it, because I'm really really struggling with walking now. I think I can actually feel that that head is so low down and it's made my pelvis more painful, but I'm not really sad about it, because it's a good thing to have baby in the right place!

looby well done on the syringes of colostrum and keeping fingers crossed they have a bed for you tomorrow and all the best for a straight forward IOL.

Belgian fantastic news that LO turned, is well engaged, you're home & that you've got more help on the way! at babys weight... that's a good size baby you have there The hospital estimated my LO at 6lbs 6oz at 36wks so suddenly i feel that's not so bad

Belgian - Good news re position of baby

Do they consider 3.67 kgs "big baby" in Belgium? Mine looks like he will be over 4.3 kgs. French were very impressed by DD as well, who was born 4 kgs.

belgian is baby an estimated 8 1/2 lbs now or at term? Let's hope you get the h/b that you so want.

cote well, my baby is 3.76kg at 37 weeks, which is above the 90th centile on the growth chart, so the drs are worried that by term I go into labour it will have easily reached more than 4kg. 3.850kg would be considered fairly big in Belgium, but there are bigger ones in my family. My mum made me smile when she told me about my grandmother. Back in the 50's when she had her babies her labour was attended by nuns who insisted that she lay flat on her back on a surgical type table. My grandmother refused prefering to walk around. She told the nuns that they shouldn't tell her what to do, because they never had had babies themselves and never would! My grandmother's biggest baby was 4.5kg. She had 6, half born at home and the other half in hospital.

Now I'm home I'm determined to get this baby out NOW, so I've started popping the raspberry leaf tablets (I was worried about it while baby was breech/transverse) and I'll make dh do his job tonight too

I can't remember who it was that mentioned that swallowing semen is supposed to help, but dh has heard it somewhere and he's been on about it all day . I've been telling him it's a load of nonsense, but he wont forget about it...

I've now read through the whole bit I've missed and it look like there was mainly talk about p/n ward experiences. I can counterbalance all the bad experiences by my good one . After ds was born I had a side room, it wasn't very busy so they let me choose. They made it clear how and where to get my meals. The only problem I ever had was 1 of the night staff who didn't come back to check on my ds's positioning when I bf even though I asked for it. I mainly remember being very bored and so with dd I had an early discharge and was home the same evening. I do hope no one in my hospital has similar complaints about the p/n ward, especially when I'm on duty! Normally when people are admitted I always give them my little speech about visiting hours/where is the bathroom/dining room/meal times/etc... My colleagues do too, so I thought that was standard in all hospitals.
This time around I had a side room, which was nice. I do advice everyone who's going in ante-natally to take their own pillow and ear plugs. Those hospital pillows are absolutely horrible and I kept waking up soaking in sweat from the plastic pillows. I also kept hearing the staff walking around pushing bp machines and wheel chairs and the lady in the room next door had a nasty cough. So I begged dh to bring in some ear plugs and my own pillow and the next night I slept like a baby

Oh and before I forget looby good luck for tomorrow!

Yay! You're back! Well done Belgian!

My baby is currently 3100g (6 pounds 13) and on the 50th centile, so hopefully he won't be too big when he arrives, until DS who was nearly 9 pounds at 37 weeks.

Good luck tomorrow Looby I'll be thinking of you.

I was going to try some alternative induction methods with DH tonight, but I've had a rather worrying call from my stepmother who, it seems, is going to start divorce proceedings against my father on Monday. My father is currently in a hotel and refuses to tell me or my brother what on earth has happened...they were fine at 4pm yesterday!

on the subject of post natal wards... I meant to post a fuller story of mine as I have had two care experiences with the birth of ds.

As i already mentioned I was desperate to get out of the hospital i had my emcs as they made me feel like a burden to them and felt like there was no support for me as they were so short staffed. As soon as the min stay in hosp after my cs had passed i signed out & I went home... but it was too early. I was still poorly (didn't realise quite how much) from the PPH and anaemia etc. & at about 10pm later that day I collapsed at home. DH went into panic and phoned our local W-S-M MW led unit who said to bring me straight down... so 6hrs after i discharged myself from the bristol hospital i was in our mw led unit. What an absolute marked difference there was between the 2 places. The MW led unit helped me with BF, served our meals at our bedsides & the food was super (in comparison to the bristol hospital), I never felt like i was just a number and the MW's always made me feel supported and cared for. I was in a 6 bed room but there were only 2 of us in it and the girl in the other bed had been to the same ante-natal classes so i kinda knew her. I spent a week in the post natal unit there and the MW's basically put me back together again. When i did go home for the 2nd time... although still weak I was more like my normal self and DH and I were so very grateful to all of the lovely MW's there. I wouldn't hesitate to go back there for some rest and recuperation after this one arrives if nes.

llare my LO is following yours in weight i think... Is it about 0.5lbs/23g they put on a week from 36wks? LO is longer than average in length too so i'm hoping that'll make delivery easier?!

at your step mother & dad... more than a bolt out of the blue to you by the sounds of it

fikelly yes, completely out of the blue. But then, when my parents split up after 34 years it was a shock, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. I am pretty upset, as my stepmother is lovely and probably is the best thing that has ever happened to my father. DH has nipped outside to try and talk to my father on the phone. He won't talk to me about it.

I've been looking at the line in my book and if I go to 38 weeks then I think DS might be 7 13, which is fine, I guess. I'm glad in a way that I had GD diagnosed as this baby might have been huge if I hadn't been!

I spent ages outside today - weeding and on dog poo duties! then I sprinkled Ariel automatic everywhere where I don't want dogs to poo in the hope that the enzymes in the powder will 'eat' the scent...

I had to have a soak in the bath to ease my aches and pains.

Glad all's well Belgian!!!

GOod luck for tomorrow Looby - thinking of you lots...

Looby sorry Saturday was an anti-climax. Logging on tonight I was really hoping to hear about the birth of your LO - but not as much as you were hoping I'm sure!! good luck for tomorrow.

Momino woo hoo, a show! I got one on a Sunday & went into labour the Tues night. Here's hoping it's not too long for you.

Belgian great news about your LO. Grr about poss not getting your H/B though. It seems to me Drs can be very risk averse. Most of the midwives I've spoken to are much more pragmatic.

Oh I really want some of you to have your babies now, it's lonely here on the other side

Looby well done on your expressing - v.impressive - and best of luck for tomorrow. Hope you get a lovely night's sleep tonight.

Belgian fantastic news ! Well done LO for getting into the right position. Good luck for your meeting with CMW about H/B - it's just great it's even back on the cards again after the last week.

Llare so sorry to hear about your Dad. Hopefully your DH may be able to shed some light on the situation. My DHs parents have recently split up (after 40 years then got back together then split up again (don't ask - it's a long story) and it's just so sad to see them behaving that way after so much time together. I really hope it works out OK. You could really do without the stress at the moment !

Monimo I have just eaten my body weight (with LO!) in cheese and then realised some of it was unpasteurised. Oops. I am sure at this stage it will be OK and as it was Tescos stuff, and not proper rural French stuff, it will be OK.

Well, I am recovering after setting up the pool after postponing sorting it out last week. DH had a right 'face' on about how he "wasn't comfortable with it and wanted to make sure I knew he wasn't comfortable but he knows it isn't his decision." Gee thanks. So the deal is I have to keep the dining rm really tidy and get some hose / tap adaptors tomorrow and then we are good to go. So definately do not want LO to turn up tonight please.

Got a cracking headache after trying really hard not to smack DH in the head with the nearest implement (a saucepan perhaps...?) so going to retire to bed. Night night all.x