Due in September 2009 - waiting for an August baby!

[StealthPolarBear]

Hi everyone Can't believe we could have our first baby in 4ish weeks

Thanks for the advice trixie!! They are going to try 3 doses of the pessary first, then see what happens after that. Will definitely have the epidural of I'm put on the drip. Have heard that it is agony!! Hope that DD gets her 'hurty ear' sorted out!!

Still need to re-pack the bags with stuff for before the birth and extra snacks! I have NO room left in the bags, so I currently just have a pile of stuff by my original bags that will probably end up being stuffed in a carrier bag on the way out Friday morning!!

oh no frosty Bloody bin men! That's like those bus drivers who pull off just as you get to the bus stop. I think they must get a thrill from doing it. Grrrr! Thank goodness for your nice neighbour! Hope the osteopath helps with the pain and that your day takes a turn for the better.

Hi everyone
SF - what a lovely neighbour
Can't believe I have completely forgtten the RLT - still have some bags left over from last time! I could have been drinking it for ages now and always meant to but never remembered at an appropriate time. I quite like it and I hate fruit tea - just tastes like late pregnancy to me!
I had the tablets last time and I was going to say they didn't do anything...but I did have a quick labour, so really I should get some more. I'll see!
Well, MW appointment this afternoon - would love to think it will be the last one but I doubt it. Also really really need to pack our bags, am getting hung up on the fact I havn't got stupid stuff like "toy for big brother" - that does not need to stop me packing a toothbrush and nightie! Just procrastinating I suppose

Frosty go back to bed and start all over again. Rotten day for you. I imagine most of us are on the Katona side of pregnant by now .

and erm I was referring to Frosty's quip about her weight, rather than this news story www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2009/08/18/kerry-katona-axed-by-iceland-over-cocaine-claims-115875-2160 3997/

I havent even touched the G&A officer!

Anyone going to Primark look at the short nighties with straps I got a white with pink embroidery on which I intend to wear for the birth (I know I know white is a bit impractical) They had a nice pink one too but not in the size I wanted.

I got a 14-16 (normally 8-10) and it is loose and cool and comfy and because the straps are adjustable. They are not fallng off and showing my boobs.

It was very comfy in bed last night.

Ugh, poor StayFrosty - what a miserable day. I would have been weeping in the road if it were me, too. Did the osteo make a difference with the SPD?

My drip/epidural situation last time was, I hope, unusual. My doctor told me she would have the nurses start the pitocin drip, but that she was going home for a rest and would be back in plenty of time for the main event. In the meantime, the doctor on duty was in charge. Said duty obstetrician was a bit younger than me and 8.5 months pregnant herself. The drip was started, within an hour I was begging, BEGGING for the epidural, and the duty doctor said nastily, 'You're going to have to wait till the pain is a lot more unbearable for that.' Neither my husband nor I had been through labour before, so we didn't realise how totally out of line the doctor was.

Eventually the nurses took pity, chased down the anesthetist for me, and I got my lovely lovely epidural. By the time my own doctor came back, I was too distracted to mention it, but when I brought it up at my post-natal checkup my doctor was horrified and asked me to write a letter to the hospital about it, as denying an epidural to a woman on a pitocin drip (or any woman who asked for one in a situation where it wasn't clearly impossible) was totally against the hospital policy.

I expect the duty doctor was, in some weird way, projecting what she wanted for her own birth onto me. And who knows who else. My letter to the hospital was a furious work of art, if I do say so myself.

Anyway. V annoyed by the predicted heat tomorrow, am sweaty enough as it is. hmph.

Hi ladies, sorry about DH Stayfrosty.

Well a bit f an adventerous weekend here. Went to the loo at about 2 in the morning on Sunday and foun I was bleeding - again! rang hospital who said i needed to go in. As I had previously been told of lowlying placenta they weren't happy for me to go home but couldn't scan me until Monday. So stayed all day Sunday and overnight. Lots of suggestion that placenta must still be low and hints of C/S. Anyway had the scan and it had moved so no idea where bleeding was coming from but allowed home at tea time.

The other scary thing was that the scan reckoned he weighs about 7lb 5oz already but given that DD was 9lb 14.5oz I suppose he is just on track to be about the same. Currently 36.3 so potentially another 2lb.

Anyway its given me a kick up the bum and bags are more or less ready and all nursery things are down from the loft.

Good luck for Friday Ladyem.

Hi there
Sounds like everyone's about to pop in the next couple of weeks. Hurrah. I have 9 days to go which is a blessing as if they leave it any longer I shall get my dressmaking scissors out and do it myself.
I will join everyone in their Katonaesque status I am still hoping for 2 1/2 stone babies.
I am getting excited now it's so close!!!
By the way did anyone see the lady preggers with 12 .... the mind boggles.

I saw the artcles about the lady with 12. Good grief.

Great news LJ29. I think thats all our placentas moved now

and Poor you stay frosty. What horrid bin men

Good luck ladyem.

Trixie the plugging thing is probably to do with health and safety and having all elecrical equipment in the hospital tested. It is the same at work for me, although we do sneak items in. I have a popcorn machine for example and people sometimes bring George Forman or pannini grills in to use when cooking.
We have stuff tested annually and they get a little sticker.

Thanks for the responses on the disappearance of symptoms. I know I've not had it as bad as a number of you, and have actually enjoyed the experience on the whole, but looking forward to some of the aches and pains disappearing. Five weeks (ish) left.

Just tomorrow and 2.5 days next week left in the office before joining you on mat leave!!! And it's really horrible in the office at the mo. Had to have some serious conversations with team members yesterday, while trying to ignore baby gymnastics going on in my belly. I'm sure the other people could see my bump lurching - not very appropriate in the circumstances.

Will start packing my bags once I've finished work next Wednesday. Thanks for the encouragement, SprinkleofStardust!

oooh, i can't believe we're all so close. hope everyone has lovely births and lovely sleeping babies. I am 37 weeks today, so hoping for anytime now. Going to get my hair cut this morning which I haven't done for ages.
A good friend who i see most days is going away this weekend for a few weeks, it's weird to think that next time i see her i'll have a little baby in arms (or be feeling mightily uncomfortably pregnant otherwise!!)

Quick message for gonnabamumma if you are reading- trying to email you about the next meet up but I got an auto reply telling me you are on maternity leave If you're not checking those emails for a while could you send me another address, would be great to have you there.

Hope everyone is well, sorry I can't catch up right now!

Morning everyone
One week left at work
Had a MW appointment yesterday and everything was fine. They mentioned the hospital has a birthing unit which has beanbags and sofas and you're left to get on with it, so that sounds fantastic. Although iirc last time I'd have given birth in the hospital lift if I'd needed to - by that point I didn't care!

Hello everyone,
Had antenatal appointment yest and heard the lovely heartbeat Baby still measuring a week ahead of dates and even though he/she is still head down he/she has not engaged yet. When do 1st babies tend to engage?
How is everyone coping with this hot weather? I just feel like laying still all day and not moving!
Everyone is so close now

Almost cried when I saw how hot it was going to be today!! Although the office is air conditioned, I'm off for a meeting this afternoon where there's no air conditioning - grrrrr!!! Not happy. Only 2 more weeks of work to go and thankfully on a couple of those days, I have antenatal appointments (and a bank holiday - yay!!)

I was told at my 34 week scan last week that baby had moved south (or heading towards the light as I like to say), but not engaged yet. I've read somewhere that for first timers, they usually start the engaging process around 36 weeks.

I definitely second lying around all day and not moving (with a giant fan close by....)

I freely admit that I am being a miserable cow today thanks to the weather. Thankfully dd is in an angelic mood and is being really easy to look after today. She's mostly entertaining herself outside in the garden or watching telly.

Antenatal appt this morning - all fine, no problems at all. The MW suggested I might want to get my birth plan sorted . I have managed to start packing bags.

Not sure if it's nesting or sheer blind panic but I have been frantically washing tiny clothes, blankets etc for the past couple of days so I can get them dry before the weather breaks. The socks in particular are so very teeny. I had a bit of a hormonal moment over a little newborn babygro... I had forgotten how small newborns actually are.

StayFrosty I hope your dh gets home soon.

Good luck for friday LJ29

[melts grumpily]

yes we were given some socks that he never actually wore - I'm sure they must be doll socks as his feet were never that tiny!

Like this

seriously!

When dd was first born her feet seemed enormous in comparison to the rest of her, with really long prehensile toes. We called her Monkeyfeet for a while

The socks I've unearthed aren't quite that small, but they're not far off.

ah the wee socks, so sweet hanging on the line. stealth, don't think they're that small though!

am going to try hibernate from the heat today although ds not sounding like going to sleep sadly, so might be a long afternoon.

am 37 weeks today, really hoping not to get to 40!

That's you at term then audrey I'm a couple of days behind you - 36+4. I'm really not sure I can stand another three or so weeks of this. It could even be five or six weeks before this baby comes [sob]

I'm so tired, I could really do with a kip, but dd is well past napping age and is playing in the garden complete with paddling pool so I really need to keep an eye on her. Perhaps I ought to switch the laptop off, it's chucking a lot of heat out onto my knees. Not helping. I'm enjoying sitting on my arse and having a good old lurk around the boards though.

no, wasn't sure how big it would come out on the screen but they are tiny -take my word for it! Might take a photo of one against a 2p coin and put it on my profile!