Due August 2009 - It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine!

[becksydee]

thought i'd better start the new thread off before we completely filled up the old one!

link back to the previous thread here

Haha hawkmoth love the name change, now that has made me laugh

I think I need stupidity prize for the last post. i meant Hellhath for name change and Hawkmoth for the rhododendrum story ... god baby brain

Well I thought the baby was arriving last night, I was having contractions for a couple of hours in the middle of the night!!

If they had gone on for much longer then DH was going to start inflating the birthing pool, but they stopped. I thought things might kick off again today as they did with DS, but I had a couple of random contractions and crampy feelings but then nothing!!

I'm 38+2 and can't decide whether I'm disappointed or not that it was false labour. It would have meant I would have to cancel the telephone interview I have tomorrow, which would probably have been a good thing as I am just not as prepared as I would like to be!!

BH's suck cock.

I have been having them - some of them very strong - for sodding weeks now and it means NOTHING in real terms.

Yes ok, ok, your body is preparing and all that bollocks, but when you are massive and want it OUT and over and don't with, I feel like I am being teased and tricked, not 'prepared'

Apologies for my mood and cynicism, I am fucked off, car was broken into last night.

lol @BHs suck cock! Sorry about your car- did they nick anything?

kwym about not being sure whether you're glad or disappointed to postpone labour for a while, trix. Part of me wants it to happen quite soon and another part is just fine with waiting and pottering about a little bit longer. Basically I'd like to skip the birth bit, I think! But as I can't I'm fixating on not having to be induced as I'd quite like a vbac, maybe in water, and induction is not the ideal start for successful vbac or labouring in water, I understand. Wah! All this choice bollocks- it's all about luck sometimes, isn't it?

hi all,

did uki and oonagh start a postnatal thread? any news from michaela and nathan?

mrsthepoint congratualtions on your super dh! mine just creates one fiasco after another with every diy attempt he makes it's really pissing me off!

my BH's died down a bit but I'm so massive it's horrible. never felt so uncomfortable in my skin

in fact having a miserable teary day today and no real idea why! nesting hasn't kicked in yet even though surrounded by piles of baby clothes taken out of attic and needing washing. feeling a bit overwhelmed, think i need a holiday at the end of this bloody pregnancy not 2 kids under 2 to look after!

yankncock laughed at your comment about realisation of how the baby is actually going to get out. i had exact same in ambulance on way to hospital with ds1, suddenly realised that i'd avoided really thinking about it the whole pregnancy and panicked and didn't stop bawling until holding ds..but i'm just a drama queen

Saw midwife this morning. First of all she sat there chuckling telling me I look too well to be 38 weeks pregnant. Then she said the baby is "a good size". Can't help feeling this is midwife speak for "lordy, that's going to hurt like hell coming out". Baby is still 2/5 and it feels to me as though nothing's going to happen for ages. I'd really like not to be induced again though like MrsthePoint, I have NO idea what the signs of labour are.

I ate a whole pineapple today. I fear this may turn out to be painfully unwise. We are having chilli for tea... tomorrow should be fun!

Agree about BHs. Knobs the lot of 'em.

Hawkmoth...did you want to eat a whole pineapple or was it cos you want baby here???? Just if it's the latter I read you had to eat 8 of the things

Well I wanted to eat the first few pieces...

I read that you had to eat the core as well, in the form of a smoothie. I didn't do that, but will when next I can stomach one.

I'm eating like a horse at the moment - there are cinnamon buns in the oven right now!

Hawkmoth Im certainly not envious of you eating a whole pineapple lol I tried it with DS and all I got was a sore mouth

Mmmm... cinnamon buns...

I'm eating like a horse these days too. The OH thinks it's hilarious. I don't think I could cope with a whole pineapple though. I like pineapple but it makes my tongue feel all weird. We had curry for dinner last night (and leftovers for lunch today). Not really to try to bring about labour, just because we wanted some (and he decided curry was a good way of celebrating the baby turning head down). Obviously it hasn't done anything.

Havent started a post natal thread yet, any suggestions for a title? I think Sheena has her section either today or tomorrow and going by the messages she might not be the only one..... Well hopefully not a section but you know what I mean!

Had a bit of a fright yesterday! Went for my consultant appointment, which has been scheduled since forever as I'm shared care due to being 'high risk' (=fat). Last week at midwife my BP wasn't great, and it was worse this time (140/100). There was also a bit of protein in my urine. So all of a sudden this routine appointment turned into urgent blood tests and a trip to the day unit for monitoring. The consultant was talking BP medication and possible admission to hospital, so I got a bit freaked out. The day unit couldn't see me for an hour and a bit, so DH and I went to breakfast after getting blood drawn.

Went back to the day unit, sat in a comfy chair and had BP monitored for about a 1/2 hour. Oddly enough, it was absolutely fine and slightly better than it was at booking in! (115/78) Blood tests were ok too. I have to go see the consultant again next week, and am supposed to watch carefully for headaches/blurred vision. My feet/ankles feel like they're going to explode from swelling. Would like this over now please!

glad your BP is ok yank - a bit of white coat hypertension perhaps? i shouldn't imagine all the talk of medication & admission helped either, some of these doctors are very good at scaring the crap out of us!

i'm tending to agree with the general sentiments expressed on here about braxton hicks - been having them for a while & hadn't realised what they were until i was hooked up to the monitor on monday and saw the numbers going up & down. had some rather painful ones on the way to work yesterday though - ouch! i turned round and came home for a rest in the end & they went away after a few hours. really tired me out, still feeling pretty drained today.

trying very hard to keep my blood sugar low - the only meal that i've found to work so far at any time of day is smoked salmon & scrambled egg on 1 slice of toast, but i can't eat that 3 times a day! also struggling to think of stuff to snack on that'll fill me up without affecting my blood sugar too much. seeing diabetic nurse tomorrow morning so maybe she'll have some ideas. hoping she'll give me a bit more time to control it through diet & i can avoid being put on insulin. how are the other august ladies with GD coping?

i'm having a curious craving for cinnamon buns now, THANKS HAWKMOTH

hi all

sorry to hear you had a scare yesterday Yank

Oonagh, how're you doing, you sound remarkably 'together'!!

KITKATQUEEN where are you??????? Hope you're OK?

Im ok, sleep deprived and quite upset by my MW.Ollie lost 10% of his weight as my milk hadnt come in and was weighed again today and he has lost another oz and my milk has been in since sat.So I was upset by that but its her blunt attitude. Also he has a tongue tie and on my first day home she suggested getting it snipped. I was horrified that she would even consider such a thing on a three day old baby.

Glad your BP is down yank.

sorry to hear that oonagh, sounds really tough

is ollie having trouble latching properly because of the tongue tie? have been reading lots on breastfeeding recently and the general consensus on snipping tongue tie seems to be 'it's not actually as bad as it sounds' - but i completely get why you're horrified at the thought, i'm already having kittens about heel prick tests and the vit K injection fgs!

have you got a local breastfeeding support group (local council here runs 5 drop in sessions a week around the borough, don't know what it's like in your area) or la leche league group you could go to for slightly less blunt advice/support than that given by your midwife?

good luck with it all

Hi All!

Yank - sorry to hear about your scare. I hate it when Dr's panic and scare the bejessus out of you.

Oonagh - Aren't they "supposed" to lose 10% birth weight? Boo hiss to her bluntness!

I think I may have felt a contraction yesterday. Felt like a period cramp that lasted about 40 seconds? had two and then they went away.

I'm finding the unpredictability of all of this labour business difficult. Am slightly envious of the several women I know having elective c-sections, mostly just for knowing when they are having the babies. I'm very anti-elective c sections (aside from for medical risks) but now as I sit here and twiddle my thumbs, over-analyzing every little twinge I would love to when (and that I'm not going to be in massive amounts of pain.)

Hello, i'm sort of back

Hi Oonagh, It gets better. You know it does so trust yourself. Babies are designed to be able to lose a bit of chub at the begining, he will make up for it later on and you'll be posting on here that he's loaded on a 1 lb in a week. Do Not Stress. If you haven't done it already speak to someone at the bfn or whomever your favourite b/feeding support group. Midwives are NOT trained b/feeding councillors. I used to work with a local midwife helping to give info to mums to be on b/feeding. Talk to someone with a proper attitude to the situation.

Hawk if you want to go for pineapple actually it can take just one, but it must be properly ripe ( golden yellow - no trace of green) and you need to pure the whole thing including the core.( obviously not skin and leaves ) And you need to be ready - if your babe isn't engaged and keep your pineapple until he/she is.

If you can only get a green pineapple buy it a banana friend as it will ripen it much quicker

Have been forced into hospital 3 times now because of contractions - if it weren't for grp b strep I would just stay home but I need the iv anti b's if I am in labour and when you are getting contractions lasting 3 minutes with a 3 minute break inbetween for an hour and can't talk through them you start thinking yep this is it!

The midwives all think I'm well on the way too until they check. They now think something is irritating my womb but don't know what.

Dp had to come home early on tuesday and stayed all day wednesday to look after the dc. I was just totally incapacitated - I slept for most of the day, still feel really rubbish.

Have now had bad headache on and off last 3 days, keep feeling really cold, want to sleep all the time and in last 24 hrs have also had diahorea (sp?) and nausea. I now have a cough and very mild sore throat. Thermometer says temperature but I think the batteries are up the spout so I'm not trusting it.

Ds has had temp and still has runny nose and has refused to eat his dinner several times which is v unlike him.

What would you do? Am I being paranoid?

Thats it, all energy gone now.

Thanks for wondering where I was heinz. speak soon.

hmm. Have you called the GP, kitkat? I think you do need to rule out flu or other illness if both you and ds have a possible lurgy, tbh. Sorry to hear about all the false contractions- sounds dead stressful. The flu website is here, btw.

Hope Ollie's breastfeeding sorts itself out soon, Oonagh. I think I've blocked out how hard the first few weeks can be but everyone who's saying it's v normal is surely right. Is he filling lots of nappies with those big yellow poos? I think that's usually a v good sign.

Glad the blood pressure is down again, yank.

I know exactly what you mean about the unpredicatability of labour, bb2b. I've noticed I'm definitely in denial about the fact that I'm going to have to go through labour in fact. Everytime someone asks how far I've got to go now I kind of brush it aside as though it's a tiny unimportant bagatelle that is still ages away... And I still haven't packed my bag! Must do that today.

The diabetic nurse should have loads of ideas on food, surely, Becks? If not, could you get a diabetic cookbook from the library?

Hi lovely Fio. How are you?

The boys are 10 so I will have the only family in the world where the age gaps are 2.5 minutes followed by 10 years, I think!

Hi all x
Hope you are all ok, sorry for my absence but I have been stuck in hospital since tuesday night
I went to the loo just after 9pm on tuesday and when I wiped I was bleeding, I rang the hospital who said I must come in immediately.
The bleeding stopped but they couldnt tell where it had come from and wanted me to stay in for monitoring so I was admitted.
When they did the CTG I was having tightenings (couldnt actually feel them) but they eased off after an hour and half and didnt return.
My consultant examined me this morning and said it may have been a kind of show as my cervix had softened but wasnt dilating and said she is happy for me to be a home aslong as I ring if anything happens.
I am seeing her again next thursday and hopefully things will stay settled for now

ready ! that must have been scary! Put yr feet up!

Well I checked all the flu info and as I have 7 of the symptoms on the list i rang my gp. gp told me to ring a number which told me to ring gp...

Rang gp, stroppily told didn't sound at deaths door 50 /50 chance of it being swine flu or something else and if baby turns up now because of swine flu i'm close enough to term for it not to make a difference. Effectivley told to stop wasting her time.

They say if you have these symptoms and are pregs then you should ring - but whats the point? The gp told me that people with swine flu are really sick and if I can ring her then i'm not too bad am I? On the news etc it has said the symptoms are the same as normal flu or milder. She also told me that she would prescribe me tamiflu if I felt it was necessary. Except your not meant to be offered tamiflu in pregnancy unless you have a really severe case / if it turns straight into pneumonia.

Didn't say anything about whether its ok for me to go out or not or anything.

I give up.

Dp will be back soon and then i'm going to go to bed.