Due in September 2009 - waiting for an August baby!

[StealthPolarBear]

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

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Ahh that's better. Had to go and have a blood test done to check my thyroid levels as they had increased my meds. Had to walk there and back on the crutches with the kids playing up as well not a fun trip and my hips and lower back are now in pieces combined with a braxton hicks for good measure due tot eh fact that I just over did things a little. Ohh and I have had a letter from the hospital to say that tests were inconclusive on the sample the midwife sent off as she found protein in my sample so have had to drop another one into the gp this morning so now have to wait and see if some of the pain/discomfort is actually down to a uti and if so hope we can get it cleared up before I go into labor!

ticklistqueen - yay, that means only 7 days to go!! It does make it all seem real when you know when it is happening! I have had my last lie-in in my own bed this morning!! That seems weird! I have to go in between 8 and 9am, so it is a bit of an odd time you have to go in, but hopefully they'll just induce and then you can sleep until something happens, where as I have to find stuff to occupy myself and DH until it all happens!! Am bouncing on my birthing ball in the hope that I will manage to dilate enough for them to break my waters and not have to bother with the pessaries!!

Mishnu - Happy Birthday!! Hope you are having a lovely day!!

Thanks, everyone, for the messages of good luck!! I am getting very excited, but also quite nervous as I'm not sure how it is all going to go, but am assured it will all be over with my Sunday, so fingers crossed it all goes smoothly and quickly!! Think dilating thoughts for me!!

Physio was good for the advice re labour positions, and the crutches are helping, but as regards to pain it is worse today as she had to manipulate my pelvis to examine me so I think it has aggravated it all. Was agony yesterday evening, but I did get a full nights sleep thanks to her advice on how to position my back for sleeping - ie make sure that I put something in the small of my back to support it. Got a full 7 hours without waking up! Lovely!

Phew - what a mega catch up I've had to do!!

Happy Birthday Minshu [simle]

Mummyhill - bless you having a shitty day already!! Try and put your feet up for the afternoon!

My SPD is really pissing me off now - 35+2 now so I seem to have much longer left than most of you! - Ladyem - can't believe your being induced tomorrow - so jealous!!

Stealth your labour plan sounds just like mine!! hee hee - infact, anyone familiar with the 'cosmic ordering service'?? - I've placed a very specific order for me to go into labour next thurs so watch this space!!

Littlecheese - don't feel guilty about sitting dc in front of cbeebies - my dd is permanently in front of it at the moment, after all - what did God invent it for!!!

Oooo - ladyem - cross posted!! I am indeed sending strong dilating vibes your way!! GOOD LUCK!!

Oh mummyhill that sounds awful, poor you

LittleCheese, I've been getting the stabbing pains too! as there's 2 of us getting it (at least) then I'm hopeful that it's just babies and bodies getting ready!! Not long now

Although I finished work on Friday this is the first day that I've not got anything to do, have been ordered by DH to not do anything and just relax all day, which sounds heaven but I feel a bit lazy and keep thinking of all the things I still have to do like cleaning and tidying!! Still, I will make a valiant effort to not do anything today and will start the nesting tomorrow

Good luck LadyEm, sending you lots of positive and dilating thoughts, can't believe that babies are actually coming now, I know we have ladylush's DD but she is a special exception!! This time next month most of us will have our LO's!!! How exciting!!

Lovely ladies - loving maternity leave. Have done so many jobs that I have been putting off, including arranging for the oven to the cleaned, boiler service, all the ironing and am off in a min to join the library.

Turned over in the night and got a shooting pain in the right side of my groin - thought I was going into labour, but think it was the baby dropping, as my bump seems to be a lot lower today. Was like someone stuck a knife in me! (such a drama queen

Have to whip DH into gear to finish off building the cot, just in case little baby decides not to wait until due date - think it will, but he doesn't have to know that!

Happy Birthday Minshu and sorry so many of you ladies are suffering with SPD - is pants

Happy Birthday Minshu!!

Sorry for all those SPD sufferers. Hopefully yours is closely at an end Ladyem. Good, good luck for tomorrow. Sending lots of good vibes your way!!

I have been getting a few stabbing pains both in fanjo area and on one side of my groin. Baby is engaged but I do feel like my bump has got a bit lower so maybe it is the baby dropping further into my pelvis?

Saw the doctor today for usual weekly check up. He was happy with everything so now just waiting, waiting......

ladyem maybe i should be greatful that my physio took a hands off approach then if you ended up in a lot of pain from manipulation. Im definately sending dilating vibes your way.

I just found out that in america from 37 weeks a lot of women have internal examination to see if they are dilating. I'd rather go without the examination but would love to know if i was at all dilated.

Fairysparkles glad your dd is watching cbeebies too I dont feel as bad now, she actually really enjoys watching tv which i think bothers me more than me putting her infront of it.

sprinkle and babylady its reassuring that you are also getting the stabbing pains, fingers crossed it means labour is coming sooner rather than later. To be honest i do sometimes get pains that feel like baby is trying to claw its way out.

I have monday and tuesday next week left at work and thats it. My work friends think im crazy working until im 38 + 3. To be honest I would have worked till 39 + 3 if they had let me but as baby is due on a saturday my mat leave has to start sunday before due date

Hi.

I've been missing off this thread for a long while now and am using my newly started maternity leave to catch up...

Have had a quick scan through the posts - my sympathies to all you ladies with SPD. Hope your babies arrive soon.

I am 37+1 and due on the 9th - hopefully at home using the pool that's arriving this weekend....anyone else planning a home birth that would like to hold hands with me...?

there are lots of HB planners on this thread . I wish I could join you all but DH panics at the thought - I'm planning a sneaky HB - i.e. give birth before we've had time to get to the hospital!

LadyEm, you are hardcore!! Working that close!! I would have worked a bit longer if I hadn't been so ridiculously tired and didn't have to travel quite so far to work, I realised it was a good time to finish when I drove straight past the exit on the motorway, and the next one and then had to get off miles away!!

Detoxdiva, I'm having a home birth too, and there are a couple of others who are as well. My TENS machine arrived today (I'm 36+5), which is very exciting!! Not going for a water birth though as our house is quite small and didn't think one would fit without the neighbours all getting a good view of proceedings

mummyhill - sounds agonising, you poor thing.

LittleCheese - loose stools are often a sign of imminent labour...hope that's the case for you. I did indeed get examined internally from about 37 weeks last time round, but it never gave me any good news. I was never dilated or effaced. Though I did get my lovely hippie-ish midwife (who shared my care with an OB) closing her eyes rapturously and murmuring, "You have such a great uterus." Um, thanks?

Ladyem - better late than never, except not all THAT much better. How totally frustrating that they never got your other referrals. You're calmer about that than I would be. Good luck for tomorrow!

HBD minshu !

TickListQueen - that timing could be ideal, actually. If induction takes 12ish hours, you'll be done in the morning, then you'll have all day for the paediatrician et al. to do their tests before they leave for the day, and you could well be home that evening. Fingers crossed for you.

Stabbing pains here too. Not much room in there for the baby to move round so anytime he tries something especially ambitious I howl.

CBeebies blaring constantly as well. I have a cold and am worn the hell out. I refuse to feel guilty.

detox, due on the 9th and having a home birth too.

Oooh - so a few of us then...am feeling quite nervous about it but am hoping for a straightforward birth like dd's. Fortunately dh is being supportive (although a little apprehensive about the mess!) and I think once the pool gets here it will seem really real. Have researched it a lot, and while am keeping an open mind about the whole thing, would love a very relaxed, calm time at home with the luxury of getting into my own bath and bed at the end of it

Thank you for the birthday wishes! Had a very chocolatey day, so far. Been shopping and got a few bits and pieces, but had my heart set on some new boots as a pressie from DP, but not seen "the ones" yet. Might have time for another look tomorrow, if I have the energy...

Trying not to think about work today, although DP is there and suffering (probably better than shoe shopping with me, though). My position is being taken over by a combination of a team member and another manager, but worried that the pair of them could be left high and dry as things are likely to continue to get worse.

Having my first cup of RLT - not too bad. Real tea goes better with chocolate though.

So, that makes 4 babies before the end of the month? I'll get some waterproof mascara to see me through the birth announcements. I've still got a month left!

And aren't there a few of you with babies due around your own birthdays?

Wishing you all the best, Ladyem! And well done on that 7 straight hours sleep and a lie-in! More dilating vibes coming your way.

Happy birthday minshu,

Yes the carpel tunnel is like pins and needles. I haven't had it constantly this time but when I drive the car I get very bad pins and needles in my right hand, almost enough to make it go numb. DH doesn't drive so I have no respite in this area

I have been having the shooting pain in my groin too on the right hand side. You have worried me saying the baby could be engaging I'm only 34+2!! I did mention this to the midwife and she said it was probably ligaments But it's not like a muscular pain. I had put it down to constipation.

Baby is lying on the right though so this could be why no left hand pain or pins and needles

I've been getting leg pain too, not all the time and nowhere near my pelvis , mainly in my calf, it comes and goes and is sometimes all down my leg. I had a wobble last night about DVT. but i have no swelling so am trying to be calm.
I'm seeing the consultant again a week today so I will ask her about all this.

Good grief I sound like a moaning Minnie!

My mum and dad have been here and it has been nice. Dh and I went out twice for dinner and a film and we did lots in the garden.

I am in the same boat as those with toddlers also watching a fair bit of telly here. We are currently loving 'show me show me'. We do try to get out and about though even just a trip to the supermarket.
I'm finding it hard that DD is very active and boistrous and she tries to leap on me when I am lying down.

Happy birthday minshu

I've had pain in the right hand side of my groin too. Baby's been lying over that way for a few weeks (I only have a couple of stretch marks but they're on that side too) so I presumed it was down to him in some way. It feels as if I've done an 8 mile country hike.

Managed to get the time wrong of my local 'meet the midwife' thing where I'm supposed to meet the rest of the team. Turned up as they were finishing and they were all so nice, I had to have a bit of a cry. Felt terribly embarrassed. Do wish I could stop crying at the drop of a hat....

Also leaning towards a home birth but we'll see how we go on the day.

Fingers crossed for you for tomorrow ladyem

This one is due about 13 days after my birthday which is better than last time as DS was actually due on my 30th birthday I was quite pleased when he arrived 16 days late as he doesn't share his birthday with anyone else in the family. Wondering if this little one will manage to squeeze in with a birthday of her own we have about 10 family birthdays in September already.

Ohh and thanks for the info about capal tunnel peachygirl. Will it go after the baby is born do you think? I am dreading it hanging round afterwards as I have friends who have had to have surgery for it and it was really painful and incapacitated them for ages!

mummyhill - my carpal tunnel came on at 34 weeks, never had it before, and within a week my right hand was so swollen it looked gangrenous. Lovely. The physio I saw said that pg carpal tunnel usually clears up within a week or two of delivery, sometimes sooner, and the later in pregnancy it develops, the faster it usually abates. Wearing wrist splints (especially at night) has helped me a lot, as has alternating ice and heat. No real pain now, just numbness. Tolerable. Hope yours stays pins-and-needley; it means it's not as severe, or so the physio told me.

Blimey the activity on this thread has really picked up since some of us finished work. Anyone'd think we had time to sit on our arses all day MNing

Mummyhill I had CTS last time, it disappeared within a couple of weeks of the birth iirc. My hands and feet were quite swollen towards the end of the pg and as the swelling went down after the birth, the symptoms disappeared.

Happy birthday Minshu Sorry things at work are difficult.

Ow ow ow the baby is trying to claw her way out of the top of my stomach alien style. It's a very strange sensation. I don't remember dd doing that at all. There's one spot where she pushes me with a foot that really hurts. I wonder if she's bruised me internally with her shenanigans???

DD is also watching far too much tv . We managed a trip to the park this afternoon though so I'm feeling quite pleased with myself even though we had to drive there as I can't walk that far any more.

I have just worked my last Thursday
4 working days to go!
I had an arthritic type pain in my finger the other day - could that be CTS? obv very mild as it's gone now.

Hi ladies, hope you're all ok?

I had a growth scan this afternoon. My baby is large and I have polyhydramnios, so on Monday have to go and do the glucose tolerance test thing to see if i have gestational diabetes. The scan suggested the baby is already around 7lb, which is fairly terrifying at 35 weeks!

I just want this all to go quickly (and safely) now. Does anyone else have any experience with any of this?

afraid not JR but hope everything is OK.
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