Due May 09 - May Day! May Day!! Read All About It - Babies Dropping Everywhere!!!

[divedaisy]

Here we go ladies... over to you all!

morning.. didn't get on yesterday as was totally shattered even though unlike some I've been sleeping at night great.. so much to catch up on now though!

1stMrsF congratulations on the girls.. love the names & glad to hear you're back home .. not surprised you're v tired and glad the tongue tie was sorted so soon.

tummum your birth story got me all emotional and teary but in a good way.. I'd like to order one of those please..

I hope all waiting on position scans get good news and that the LO's stay head down! ours shifted at 35wks to transverse/breech but then shifted back again thankfully so hoping she'll stay put too. have had lots of wonky belly which makes me

detsy and minim I hope things kick off again.. that is if you want them too!

ladyhelen.. keeping fingers crossed your milk comes in v soon..

jael sorry to hear your cs incision is sore and hope they give you some anti biotics if it's got infected. . i needed some for my cs wound & they work quickly

reggie I'd use a shield until they sort out the tongue tie.. check out the medela ones.. they are thin latex and are shaped to still allow skin to skin where baby's nose would be when feeding. when I've the laptop on later I'll post the link.

group hugs all round for us atm .. must hit post.. started this hours ago! there's prob lots more pages to catch up on now!

Congrats to 1stMrsF and to aquababe - how exciting and what great names!

Also, tummum, loved your birth story; it made me all wet-eyed (and more than a little !!)

Had MW appt this morning, am measuring full term (and am 39 weeks today) and baby now 3/5 engaged so seems like progress is being made. Eek! BH and period type pains but absolutely nothing else. Reckon he's holding out to arrive on my birthday (17th), the little beggar!

Hope everyone is well and taking it easy! I am off out for lunch and to see a friend's 6 month old twins today so that will be lovely.

Have considered and discounted baking as too much like hard work, but do need to have a look at our washing machine which is making an ominous clicking noise. Fingers crossed it's only hair clips in the filter (as usual!).

Grumpy - poor you re the hell-hound; wonder why she's playing up - maybe she's poorly / feels insecure? I do empathise - it's a nightmare esp when they've been unbearable and then stare so sadly at you / ignore you and act so wretched that they make you apologise to them!! Really, what's that about? They're animals for heaven's sake! One of ours has perfected the desperate and defeated expression to the extent he could be a poster dog for an animal charity....

still trying to catch up but just seen aquababe's post yay many congrats. fantastic news.. looking forward to hearing all about it at some stage..

not had a chance to catch up properly & haven't got time to post much (sleeping baby on arm desperately in need of a nappy change - the dilemma!!) - just wanted to say

Congrats to aquababe 1stMrsF

bantam exciting... good luck!

Tummum lovely birth story - I want to do it all over again now!

DETSY am very excited for you, sounds like it could be any time now. Hope the reflexology does the trick. And THANK YOU so much for the card & pressie for H, it's sooo cute. Will post a pic of him in it soon. xx

morning everyone,

I'm feeling much better in myself today, even though my pelvis is hurting me more. The going out distraction technique worked yesterday and on top of that I've had a relatively good night's sleep (only had to wee 3 times and no b/h to wake me up). I was becoming completely obsessed by getting the baby out and have now become a bit more relaxed about it all. I've reached my due date today and clearly this baby is not in any way thinking about coming early. I'm going to try and stop obsessing about it from now on, but it's not easy.

Oh and I get these newsletters from the baby centre website and today one arrived saying 'congratulations with your new baby' That's really not something I needed!

sausage I know what you mean with inside knowledge making you more worried. I keep palpating my own tummy, because I'm so worried s/he'll turn back to transverse or breech. It doesn't help that it's a real fidget and my bump is a different shape every day.

Aquababe Congratulations on the birth of you baby!

blotted I know how painful it is. I do still take 1 co-codamol a day and then top it up every 4h with paracetamol. I've tried cutting out co-codamol completely, but it just doesn't work. I'm in too much pain without it. I know you were cutting down on the codeine too, I was just wondering whether you'd gone back to it too.

And finally as for naughty pets. Our cat has woken us for the 2nd time in the same amount of days at 5 in the morning proudly depositing a dead bird on our bed. Why can't she catch mice!? DH hadn't noticed she'd brought something in, but I could just hear that she wasn't just meowing to say hello, I could hear crunching and she seemed far to excited. By the time I'd convinced him to go and investigate (getting up at night is torture for me), there were feathers all over our bedroom floor, the landing, the bathroom, the stairs,...

The dog has been forgiven, I couldn't ignore the beseeching eyes any more (even more beautiful than most as one eye is brown and one is blue - just gorgeous). She's had her strokes. She's an insecure dog anyway, highly strung so I try not to get cross with her.

The cooking has begun, the soffrito is gently cooking down, in preparation for being divided into 3 for the various dishes. The cake baking is commencing shortly.

Blotted I know what I meant to say to you - I loved your changing mat/bag. I think you're ever so clever!!! I wish I could do stuff like that - I can cook but that's it.

Spangle How's H coming along - he's such a cutie.....

Bantam sorry - hope everything is progressing

Oh, I've forgot a few of you:

ladyhelen Your milk should come in soon. The more baby feeds and has skin to skin the sooner it'll come. I also agree that some women don't actually feel it coming in, you know no tingling or engorgement. You might be one of them. Try to relax about it too. Stressing about it can only slow it down.

detsy minim I hope for you that things kick off again soon.

detsy hope your dd's OK after her bump.

hi all. got a couple more hours of sleep but a bit shattered. i think it was harper's tummy that woke her/us up again at 4am. hope she doesn't get colic.

wish i could do a marathon post like blotted, [very impressed emoticon] but don't have my brain on right.

aquababe, many congrats on the arrival of Ethan... well done!

detsy, my sis who's visiting did reflexology on me the 3 days before birth and i think it helped so much. i was amazed at the things she could tell me about aches, baby position just by feeling pressure points. enjoy your appt.

grumpy... oh your dog! our collie is at the inlaws still and I'm so relieved as I'd be posting same as you otherwise. hope yours gives you a break. also, calm down on the cake-baking, lasagne factory busy cook that you are. i hope yo can relax. though if cooking relaxes you then do indulge.

gotta catch up on other posts because i now forgot what everyone is doing/feeling.
hope all ok today. detsy, mini, anyone else with twinges?

tummum, milk come in yet?

blotted, H does look a little jaundiced though GP at yesteday's check didn't mention it. she is awfully sleepy and i'm trying to wake her again as she's dozed off mid-feed again. will try the ear thing.

Dandy - non huggy-hug for you. You poor thing. Maybe a good cry would help? It must be so frustrating. I really do hope it picks up soon.. its so unfair.

dandy I tried to relax about it earlier, but at the same time I was desperate for it to happen early, because of all the reasons I said before. It didn't happen and so now in a way I find it easier to accept it, because I've now reached my due date there's no way the baby will ever be early. Neither of my other 2 were all that late, ds came at 39+2 and dd at 40+2 weeks, nor has any one in my family ever gone more than a few days past their due date, so really speaking things look positive in that it's unlikely that I'll go 2 weeks over. But as you said, you never know, in many ways it's out of our control...
I do hope you'll find a school that's acceptable to you soon, even though it might not be your 1st choice. I wish you all the best in your search, it must be so hard to cope with all of that stress, especially at this stage in your pregnancy. Good luck and all the best and a big virtual hug, even though we're both not of the hugging kind of people (which can be hard for me at work as most mws are and my colleagues are constantly trying to hug me, while I try to get away from them )

Dandy That's a difficult question really. I do think there's a loose link. I've met quite a few women who had to be induced for post maturity with all babies, equally women who never had to be induced for this reason. From meeting many women I find that there is some sort of consistancy, but having had e.g. 1 late baby doesn't mean that your next baby will be equally late. But at the same time I find that often women who had an induction for post maturity don't tend to go into labour at e.g. 38-39 weeks next time, they do tend to go over, but not always by as much as the previous time, IYKWIM. I hope you can make sense of my thoughts, they're a little bit muddled at the moment All of this is of course my own opinion and in no way scientifically proven. Actually come to think of it women with a previous preterm labour are treated as high risk, because they are more likely to have a preterm baby again, so there must be some sort of correlation.

Belgian Dandy interesting... so if I have another I should expect he/she to come early like H?

Do you think there is a tendency for types of birth to run in families? My Mum went over with all three of her pregnancies (sadly, my older brother died after 48hours, she's never told me why or what happened though I know he was undiagnosed breech & she had to have an emcs under ga and never even saw the baby ) so I was expecting to go over myself. However, it turns out I had a very similar labour with H to that my Mum had with me and to the labour my cousin had with her first baby. Alarmingly, she got faster with all three of hers and the last one was delivered at home by her DH!

Congrats aquababe- sorry things didnt go to plan but look forward to hearing all about Ethan (another lovely name).

IMO I think there may be some correlation with early deliveries. A friend of mine had her DS about 4 weeks early, and was told the same may happen with her DD, and it did! My BILs sister had 2 early deliveries, both 2+ months early, but i think i've mentioned this before that she was obsessed about putting on weight and i'm sure the babies were affected by this.

I always thought first babies could often be very late, but that subsequent ones might be more timely.

I had my DD at 41 weeks (41+5 on my dates) but then had elcs at 39+1 with DS so not sure when he would have come naturally (there were no imminent signs).

Dandy I think fundamentally there's very little that's predictable about pregnancy an childbirth!

My Mum had an awful experience, not just the outcome but her post-natal 'care'. She was given tranquilisers without her consent and, when she wanted to go home early, accused of 'wanting everyone to make a fuss of her' There was one particular midwife she said if she ever saw again - be it in the pub, out shopping, etc - she would not hesitate to go up to & give a piece of her mind! I think she should really have taken action against the hospital but I guess in those days and when she had just lost a baby it was too much to think about. Happily, she got pregnant with me accidentally very shortly afterwards though she must've had a difficult time dealing with that emotionally.

Spangle - your poor Mum

Dandy - glad to think I'm a main attraction! We can have a good whinge!

Pram is here. Lounge is now covered in bits like Christmas day! Gave me a headache, so went and had a bit of a little lie down. Just dropped off, then phone rang. Twas MIL-2b. Just calling to say hello, have I had any twinges, have we not got a name yet, blah blah blah...... can't believe its started already and I've still got 3 weeks to go....

Belgian - chin up, it'll soon happen!

I've got yoga tonight. I can't be arsed.

momino - lovely pictures of Harper, shame about the sleep though.

blotted - glad to hear that your appt with the consultant went well, good news that you're seeing them weekly now. Fingers crossed for an easy day for you.

aquababe - congratulations!

dandy - the appeal thing sounds like torture, especially at the moment. I wish there was an easy answer for you.

spangle - your mum's experience sounds horrific. My mum had a similar experience too (well, undiag breech and same outcome but not the rest), we were seriously seriously scared when it was realised that DD was undiagnosed breech too (very late on) - things like that really do make you wonder about hereditary factors. Shape of pelvis? Shape of uterus? Something else? Coincidence? Who knows.

All fine here, still having on-off period pains beut nothing terrible. But am having huge BHs - the moment I do anything remotely energetic my bump goes rock hard. We went out this morning and when I was walking back up the hill to my house it all tensed up for about 10 minutes! Very odd feeling.

spangle- so for your mum to have lost her first baby in such a way- to have had such a traumatic birth and then never see your brother afterwards, when he was so poorly.

sausage you should tell your MIL- 2 be that you will call her if there is any news. It's no fun if you are resting to get woken up. My MIL is great- i am very lucky. But i remember my mum calling daily when i was expecting my first, although i'm sure this didn't start til around my due date.