August- number 4!

[jellybrain]

Thought I'd start a new thread as No 3 is pretty long now! If anyone knows how to link between the 2 threads can you put one in - I'm not called Jellybrain by accident you know .

Had a job interview yesterday but, haven't heard anything back yet . I don't think my preparation was all that good and was pretty busy over the weekend with birthday party preparations and was consequently shattered.

Would love a due date and drop thingy.Being very nosey I noticed that the June lot have done this here
But I have no idea how it is done. They have a link from their thread see tribpot sun 19th june

Hello again. Colin and I got back from our trip yesterday. He didn't sleep very well, but was amazingly good. I'm so tired, though, I only got a few hours of sleep a night because now that he's in his new bed, he won't sleep in his travel cot, so I had to put him in the bed with me, and he kept rolling on top of me in his sleep. It almost makes me wonder why I'm having another one, I'll have to get used to the sleep deprivation again. I was so tired that last night after I got home, I fell asleep sitting up with DH and DS playing in the room, which has never happened, I'm a very light sleeper.

I went to the dr. again today. I feel like I go there all the time, but I know I'm just following the normal schedule of visits. She did say to cut out dessert, but I've already done that, so no big shock.

I'm sorry all of you who aren't doing well. I'm afraid I have no problems either. I still can't believe how many SPD sufferers there are. I've never heard of it before being on this thread.

Welcome to all the new people. How nice to have people join still this far along. I have to admit to feeling toward all of you with 5 weeks to go, and I'm only 30 weeks along.

I have no idea how to do that arrivals thing the June lot have done, bit it's very impressive.

Is anyone else having to go to the toilet every 2 hours in the night, I'm regular as clockwork. Do you think it's my body getting ready for the sleep deprivation? Still at least it's warm when I get up. I wouldn't fancy doing this in the winter, even though it is uncomfortable in the heat during the day.

I'm currently trying to get the baby to turn as it's lying with it's back down the right and I'm not keen to have another back to back labour. SO it's down on my hands and knees all day and trying to remember to sleep on my left. Unfortuanately this puts me in the direct line of DH's snoring, nice.

No other pregnancy problems to speak of either, if I could walk I'd be doing great

I've popped over to June to ask them to pop over here and explain it......bit like going over to the neighbours!!!!!!
Feeling very uncomfy - what exactly do BH feel like and when would they start - am only 30 weeks, but there is a lot of movement and crawling up under my ribs which is horrible, to be honest!

Beachyhead, I'm the same - no idea if I've been getting BH not sure what to expect really as this is my first, but baby seems to enjoy running it's feet over the edge of my rib cage which isn't sore but feels really weird. Can feel the bottem of baby's feet and find if I tap them I can persuade them to tuck in again away from my ribs - certainly a very odd sensation!

Hello to everyone else. Still feeling a bit off colour but not been sick this morning which is great. Loving the warm weather here in Belfast, hoping Aberdeen will not be too chilly when I get home. Don't think I would want it much hotter as feeling even more sleepy than usual but it's just so nice to see the sun adn be able to sit out in the garden .

Rochwen, how are you feeling with things today?

Hiya beachy and the rest of you August gals

Tribpot is our June person responsible for the gorgeous table. However, she went off to be induced a couple of days ago and I presume is now in the throes of blissful, first time motherhood

I meant to ask her how I could add to it while she was gone, because a couple of others are also beng induced or in labour, but she left before I got a chance!

Not much help really! I'm sure she will be back in plenty of time to help you sort something out.

Good luck for the next few weeks, I don't envy you in this heat, how are you coping? I have a 2 year old and am just spending my days sitting under a tree, watching her play in the paddling pool with my feet in it, it's quite relaxing really!

Or do we live next door?? It is like visiting your neighbours!

Twiga - it was lovely out here and in Aberdeen yesterday (dh works there and commutes). Today here (20 miles south it is dull and about 20C so not too bad. Glad you are feeling better.

Must dash as I need to do a urine sample, forgot this morning.... got midwife's appointment in 45 mins.

oh you poor august ladies.

I'm waiting on the June thread - due tomorrow.

The last two weeks of pregnancy are crap. Please take my advice and stock your house with cooling fans (one for every room) and ice lollies. You may even like to buy a lolly-making kit.

My heart is with you. Wish me luck!

Oh Mogwai how exciting, although much sympathy for you being all fed up with waiting - hope it happens soon, all the best!

Eulalia, good to hear the weather is pleasant back home, makes a refreshing change . Hope mw appt goes smoothly.

Beachyhead- BH can start anywhere from about 20 weeks on, I think. I've been having them for about 5 weeks or so myself. Nothing to do with your ribs. It is a tightening of your uterus. I feel mine start about the middle of my bump, and it spreads over to most of my stomach. My stomach gets really hard, DH can feel if one is happening. They're like a practice contraction. I'm getting them much worse this time around, but I guess that is normal. They don't really hurt, though, just a bit uncomfortable, but nothing like real labor.

I think I have had a few, but as I've never been in 'real' labour at all (going for my 3rd cs!)and I'm sure I didn't have BH last time, it is difficult to say! I have had a swift hardening of the tummy, so much it kind of takes your breath away, so I suppose that's what it is.......Can't wait now - I guess about 7/8 weeks to go for me. I get given my date on the 26th July at my hospital appointment......

that is a good stats thing the june lot have done, i appears to have been saved and created on a web address have tried to do one but with no success yet, will keep trying though.
Been getting lots of BH lately, some of then arent nice,and made worse by baby moving during some of them which seems to make tummy tighter.
have aquanatal classes tomorrow think i will brave going.
beachyhead wonder which one of us will go first we are both th 27th and both being taken in for sections, my next hospital appointment is on the 27th July and will find out then, i didnt have a section with ds so bit nervous.
twiga i took morning sickness later on with ds infact i only have about a month off to be truthful, is it before or after you have eaten you are getting it? i felt sick this morning but that was after a bad night of heart burn and that can make me sick.
there was 3 of us at work all due with in a month of each other and im the last the fist girl has just given birth to a bouncing baby boy weighing a fine 9lb15oz

Nice to hear from the June folks. Beachyhead, I've never had BH - neither last time nor so far this time. I feel like I'm missing out! The baby is continuing to do acrobatics, though. Yesterday I was talking to my boss and he said "is your tummy moving?" He then spent the next few minutes transfixed on my bump. I don't find out whether I'm going to have a c/s until 36 weeks - I would rather know now.

Josey, I'm being sick after I've eaten in the mornings. Been getting worse heartburn/reflux at night paticularly when led down.

twiga i wouldnt worry too much, im not very good at the medical names and things but it could be that the pressure on your stomach and your what you me call it being more open is causeing nausia especially on top of an acid tummy i have had to cut down on the amount i eat in the morning, worth a try.
went to aqua natal yesterday and the midwife didnt turn up do we all just bobbed about a bit and went home again, it made me feel very neet though dont think i will stay so for long everyone is sussing im not working and keep coming to take me out for lunch, its my grans turn today so its the 3rd day i will have packed my face, make the most of it i suppose.
still cant work out how to get that stats thing to link,

Josey, thanks for trying do work out how to do Due Date list. The only solution I could come up with is putting it in a wordfile and then cutting and pasting.

Twiga asked: 'Rochwen, how are you feeling with things today?' Well, I've had a rough week emotionally. This SPD thingy is really getting me down esp as everyone keeps telling me different things about the prognosis. (...and then there are all these women in my NCT and NHS classes who feel wonderful and love being pregnant and I just want to smack them and shout 'why me?') Poor hubby was getting upset with me because I was just moping around the house crying and being depressed and he didn't know how to help apart from perpetually saying 'you'll be fine, trust me' (that line soooo doesn't work on me). To be fair it must be hard on him to see me suffering and feeling unable to help (you know how men like to find a solution to everything?), and living with me at the moment really isn't much fun. Heck, I don't even like myself at the moment. I want to be the old bubbly fun active Rochwen again !!!

Anyway, there's good news as well, my GP has flexed her muscles and has managed to get my an appointment with a very good Pysiotherapist in two weeks time. Apparently this woman had SPD herself and is very experienced with the condition, so I'm sure I will finally get some decent advice (and some sympathy !). The fact that I finally have an appointment has really pulled me out of my funk as I feel that finally something is being done.

The only thing that I'm still fretting about is the uncertainty of whether the consultant will grant me a c/s. There is a pretty good indication for one anyway because of previous surgery taht I've had, but now with the SPD I simply cannot imagine going through labour and birth. I can't get into any comfortable postions, I can't move around and I worry that the contractions will make the conditons worse. Also, my GP and midwife have both said that I must not got into stirrups as this can lead to the pubic bone separating, but how will they do this if I have to have forceps, ventouse or simply need to be stitched up? I'm sure that they will put me into stirrups whether I want it or not. I just don't want the birth to damage me further. Thus I'm panicking about not getting my c/s.

Sorry, another novel ...

Oh and btw, perhaps the Aberdeen lot could meet up sometime?

just popping in to say hello, im one of the unlucky ladies who had to drop out of your thread, however im now on the due feb thread, i feel for you all at the moment, this time last year, i was 34 weeks with dd2 and it was awful, hope you are all managing to keep cool, somehow and are all doing well

Rochwen {{{hugs}}}, hope the next two weeks fly by, good to hear you've got an appt and with someone with experience too. Not doing too badly at this end, pelvic discomfort doesn't seem to be getting any worse but is definately aggrevated by too much time on my feet. Been a bit naughty and haven't been wearing the tubi-grip thing - too hot! Night time seems to be the most uncomfortable, turning over is pretty painful and not been helped by bouts of cramp in my legs - oh well .

Would be well up for meeting with folk that are around the Aberdeen area - would be nice to put some faces to names etc. Have to see what we can get organised!

Spacecadet - good to see you, hope you're keeping well. A great friend of mine has joined you thread - Popadopolis - she's a little crazy but really lovely. Was an ace support whenever I mc last year and I imagine will keep you lot smiling on your Feb thread. All the best !

thanks for that twiga, not all that long for everyone on here now

Great to hear from you again spacecadet, and great news being "due in feb" have everything crossed for you.

Its been a bit cooler today here, which is a great relif, as i was swelling up like a balloon in the heat.

Have had a really busy week as it is "Real Nappy Week" so have been out with the county council people, encouraging people in Bucks to use cloth nappies. Bucks has just started offering a £30 cash back as well so that will be good.

must get some sleep as it is the last day tomorrow and I am shattered already.

Lovely news spacecadet - fingers and toes crossed for you.

Spacecadet - how lovely to hear your news Thanks for letting us know. How are you feeling - got bad nausea?

Rochwen - would love to meet as long as you don't mind me looking disguistingly healthy... I'll show you my horrid veins though which are probably permanent

Went swimming today with the kids and felt fine - can't believe I am 35 weeks. The nesting has kicked in too and I am in tidy up mode which included nagging at dh this morning.

thanks everyone for your good wishes, im feeling queasy and tired at the mo, colinsmommy thanks for dropping into our feb thread, i do occassionally lurk on here i confess to see how you are all getting on

Spacecadet, delighted to hear your news - best wishes for a happy and healthy pregnancy. Thank goodness it's cooled down considerably - last week was such a struggle. I helped out at DS's school fete yesterday - the first of many I'm sure (he's in the nursery of the school he starts in September). We had friends around to dinner last night and thankfully they didn't leave too late and I was in bed by 1am. Trouble is, DS woke up at 5am - he's getting earlier and earlier. I refused to get out of bed until 6am, though with a wriggling boy in bed with me I didn't get much rest. We're off to John Lewis shortly to try to get some essentials (and Heals to, for the sale). Eulalia - I can't believe you're 35 weeks already. Only 31 weeks here and it seems far too soon.

rochwen tried the cut and paste but it doesnt take the table. if i could find my brain these days i might be able to work it out.

Congrats spacecadet thats lovely news, lots of fingers and toes crossed for you, nice to hear from you.

Depending when you Aberdeen lot are thing of meeting up i might see if i can manage to tag along if thats ok, though Eulalia if you have only 5 weeks to go it better be quick! i cant believe how all of a sudden we are nearly all there.
well i have been to the supermarket to buy loads of lollies today its so hot already! think i will beach outside and not move