Due November 2009 - we just can't stop chatting!

[BeckyBendyLegs]

A new thread!

yes, today I have its been quite painful sometimes, plus it really hurts my insides when she moves. im sure i felt her elbow sticking out my side a minute a go, it was really boney!

Oh the joys of the third trimester eh?

its all worth it in the end.

Oooh those pains are horrible aren't they, I have had them since quite early this time, I think it may have something to do with my distinct lack of muscles being able to hold everything in place this time around

Feels like baby is going to fall out. Everything hurts and feels like it's "bulging" sorry for the tmi!

Also get shooting pains in top of legs and fanjo, not nice. I did ask MW and she said it's more than likely just the weight bearing down and blocking things up ie same way you get varicose veins, also another fantastic pregnancy symptom

Now if we could all go read these threads to teenage girls I bet they'd think more than twice about getting preggers

easyeggs yes, thats pretty much how i feel right now! And yes trikken it will be worth it!

LOL - EasyEggs if I'd have read all this before hand I'd have been using several condoms Have had the same kinda pains, by the way, and MW said the same to me - something about the head pressing on the cervix.

Had knees and elbows sticking out today, rather uncomfortable. But rather adorable and miraculous, too

I have officially reached the "I Need To Pee Every Ten Minutes" stage - fantastic

Had my cereal kicked off my tummy again this morning But couldn't bend down to pick up the ones that went on the floor, much to my fathers amusement

Had such a lovely time on a MN meet today (really sorry you couldn't make it, Scarlotti ) haven't laughed so much in ages. Was delightful to be sociable for a bit!!!

DP is acting human again - or at least not so male

I keep getting an elbow/knee sticking directly out of my belly button and dd thinks it's hilarious!! She puts her head on it so baby can kick her, bless

Erika I'm so dumb, I've only just realised you're in Brighton, I was there on Monday with the dc's. Fab day. Not too far from us, well about 45mins or so. Go there quite a lot.

Where was this meet today and how did I miss it ?!!

Glad you had a good time though, sounds like it was just what you needed x x

Hello all!

What a lot to catch up on.

Wychwood Forest Fair - ooooh I have been to that - wonderful. Not far from where we lived in Charlbury. My ex-work collegue and her husband did a wooden spoon decorating thing there last year. Such fun. And lovely cheeses to eat too. All this talk of Oxfordshire villages, Witney, Burford Wildlife Park (great place), Banbury (where we used to go shopping on a Saturday - Gap, Toys R Us, Waterstones and a coffee in Costa Coffee), etc is making me very nostalgic again.

Throwing up in labour? I didn't know people did that. With DS2 I was a bit loose just as the contractions started but no sickness or anything.

We're back from Wales and I'm getting kicked like mad too. This little blighter is quite strong! But every time I say to DS1 'come and feel my tummy' it stops.

DH is cooking me Spanish omlette and baked beans at the moment. Yum.

Easyeggs I'm so sorry, didn't realise you were so close or would have mentioned it!!! It was a Brighton and Hove MN meet, think there's another one planned round around Xmas time, will let you know any dates if / when they're suggested Next time you're down if you want to do coffee or something just give me a shout!!

Becky how was Wales? Did you have a good time?

I was sick in labour a few times. I think the gas and air caused it. That stuff doesn't agree with me and made me feel terrible. My vomit also made it's way on to the consulatant on my last push! I didn't realise until DH told me the next day

Pav I've also had a very heavy feeling low down and some leakage. It's eased the last few days. Don't recall having that feeling in first pg.

I'm getting kicked and elbowed/knee'd lots too. Also, it feels like baby is pushing it's back right up against the front of me quite a lot as my stomach goes really hard for ages at a time (not like contractions) and is quite painful. I'm also getting weird pains down below where the head is pushing down against my already very sore pelvis! Seriously think this will be my last pregnancy!

Talking of throwing up in labour - I did it 5 times with dd! Not pleasent at all. Think having an epidural can make it more common, and it's also common with gas and air too. There are so many fun things that go with pregnancy \childbirth aren't there

Going to try and go out with dh and dd today. We are going to the country park so said I would go too but they have to be patient with me as I can't walk fast what with the crutches and the pain! Just feel we need to do something altogether as apart from being in the house, we've hardly done anything together lately!

erika glad the meet went well, was sorry to miss it but hopefully next time.

Am also feeling quite uncomfortable now, getting punched and kicked all over and spd is getting worse. Asked for a physio referral from gp on Friday so hopefully it won't take long. Also asked about getting my tubes tied!! This is deinitely my last

Sleep seems more difficult now which isn't helping ... neither is bloody dh, who took his lazy butt off to bed yesterday to catch up on sleep after a late night thurs, leaving me to run around getting shopping etc. for his friends who came around for dinner last night! Had he been up and about he could have done much more and I could have rested

Needless to say he's not been my favourite person this weekend!

Hello! I'm sitting here eating Welsh organic crusty bread with Welsh butter and getting ready to go to a Christening. My oldest friend (we've known each other since infant school - 5 years) is getting her baby (who is now two - she's not the most organised of people) christened. The DSs look very smart in their waistcoats and DH looks like he is off to work!

BBL sounds fab! Have a lovely day, very of your Welsh bread and butter, I miss home!!

Gas and air can make you queasy, but I was throwing up from the sheer pain long before I got my hands on it. I must say, it made it very impossible to do any labour breathing or lovely visualisation, and I'm still not sure how to cope if it hits again this time. Worst of all, I was throwing up a hot curry and raw pineapple - DH went to fetch the midwives when I managed to cover the bed, the walls, myself and him Exorcist-style, and they were saying in disgust 'Why did she EAT this?' I don't know, geniuses, I'm ten days overdue, why do you THINK I ate it?

We had the hospital tour yesterday. Apparently the labour ward was packed so they didn't have a midwife free to run it, so the woman who DID run it couldn't answer either of the questions I had. ('And here's the birthing pool room! Who wants a water birth?' 'Can I have a water birth if I'm GBS positive?' 'What's - that?' FFS.) She did go on and on about the toast, though, and spent ages showing everybody the kitchen where we could all make ourselves postpartum toast. Good lord.

Mind you, I think she did this to distract us from the guttural hell-howls coming through the walls from some poor cow in the labour ward. 'Ah yes!' said DH, nostalgically, as all the first-time parents on the tour turned a faint shade of green.

I've got to say, if I was judging solely on the basis of the tours, I'd have picked the hospital where I delivered DS and had the most godawful experience of my life. This one looked much less nice - less shiny, less new, and didn't have the private rooms with internet access and ensuite. However, I'll happily sacrifice those if the staff at this one treat you like a human being.

Tamlin - sounds like a bizarre tour!! I was told no to a waterbirth if GBS positive - main reason being needle thing left in hand (tho I think some hositals are more relaxed with it and will let you use waterproof plaster or similar).

I'm feeling bit more comfortable today (& yesterday) getting the pushes and aches you are all talking about, but at my MW appt on wed the baby was lying transverse and had been SOOO uncomfortable for a few days, so i'm hoping it may now have turned.

I have not bothered this time with a hospital tour tamlin as I am intending on going to the same hospital, for as little time as possible! I did not do the ante-natal classes either . I was planning on doing NCT but DH out of work and all felt the money would be better spent paying bloody bank charges elswhere. DH has a job interview on tuesday for an almighty brilliant job should the luck of the gods be shining on us then I will join and go to the post-natal groups.

DD started nursery this week. OMG its an amazing nursery. Not intending to sound like the common oik that I am at heart, it was dead posh! In comparison to the other nursery DD went to, it was unbeleivable. She was very happy there from the instant she walked through the door and had made a friend in the hour we were there.

Some-one mentioned the pains I am experiencing could be mild spd. It is painful to move legs at night, climb stairs, put on knickers and trousers, walk up stairs, get in and out of car etc. Not stupidly so, just enough to make me look like an old woman! So I am making sure I don't move legs too far apart and am trying to rest as much as I can. typical really it is happening now as in the next couple of weeks I am going to be decorating the house. I am sorry so many of you all are experiencing it too. I wonder if those who of us who have had children before are more prone to it as our ligaments have done the stretching in the past? .

Had an awful night with DD, for some reason she woke needing a wee at 3:30am and did not go back to sleep until 6am. DH took himself off to the front room . but realised his mistake and has taken DD out for the morning for me to mumsnet sleep a bit longer! Then I have to hoover the eves in the loft, hoover the house generally, tidy DDs room (we have it back!!!! its just a toy room for now) and start to clean the front room skirting in prep for painting.

Hi eeyore, thanks for the warm welcome, sorry I haven't been able to get back sooner but yep you read right this will be my 8th so am busy running after the masses...i use the term running loosely as i'm hard pressed to walk for long as you'd know

Waves at easy eggs people have finally got over thinking I'm mad, now they either KNOW or haqve come to the conclusion that I love kids, the latter is the case, I think . Other dcs are 19, 18, 14, 13, 10, 5 and 2.

Laughs at broodzilla, resident guru....umm pass but thanks all the same, the only thing I have figured out is it doesn't matter how many you have it's never the same and just when you think you have worked it out your LO changes it all for you.

I'm looking forward to getting back on here more often, DC's allowing and getting to know you all.

pavlov sounds like mild spd to me, and yes, I think those of us on no. 2 or more are more susceptible. I started having twinges around week 28 and it's getting more sore by the week so I've asked for a referral to a physio. Hopefully I can have some help to stop it worsening.
Baby seems to have settled up under my ribs today so am feeling short of breath and full - am only 5'2" on a good day, so there's not much room in there! DS was born with bent feet as he'd run out of room!

Great news on the loft though - is it all finished now?

mum27 brave would be the word I'd use!

DH taking DS to the park now so the moans over the weekend have obviously sunk in. Am going to head up to bed and snooze/read in peace for a little while, bliss!

You know that irritable feeling that we're all chatting about the other day? Hell is other people and all that? Well, try having your MIL coming to stay indefinitely... she's now muttering about "next month, when I go home..." and I can't decide if it's good or bad that DH is as wound up as I am.

Last night he suggested we should pretend to have a massive ding-dong as that might make her go sooner. I'm thinking if things carry on, we won't have to pretend. Ooooh, I'm feeling sorry for myself. I just want to chill out and get on with work, not feel like I have to set the table for three meals a day (and clear up afterwards, because while she won't offer to help, she does have a disapproving gaze...)

I wish I could tell you about the stunt she pulled yesterday morning, but I'd worry about too much identifying information (my SIL is also on Mumsnet) but let's just say MIL had a massive case of hypochondria and got DH to drive her to a specialist hospital an hour away (and spend half the day there, getting assessed, because your normal A&E wouldn't do - "oh no, I need to see a specialist") basically for something that was a spot. Wait, let me say that again. SPOT. It was all for a spot. As I said, DH is as wound up as I am. Well, I guess we can finally agree on something!

Oh, and whoever said about the Blooming Marvellous tops being short? Well, MIL kindly informed me yesterday that I was "splitting down the middle".

Ok, rant over. I'm sorry, but I couldn't help it. My tongue is sore from getting bitten constantly.

Scarlotti Try the on-all-fours-jiggling-your-bum position, that might help shift the little one.

Pavlov you sound like you've got way more than your fare share on your plate.

Erika Glad you had a good time at the meet-up! You needed a ray of sunshine!

I'd say something about the whole vomiting in labour thing as well, but it would just be another moan so I'll shut up and go and count to 100. 1000?

Hello All!

Feel like I should have joined this thread ages ago. I'm a first timer with an EDD of 1st Nov, live in Bishop's Stortford and planning to go to Princess Alexandria Hospital's Birthing Unit in Harlow for the big day (or night, or day AND night....)

Looking forward to joining in the general chit chat over the next few weeks.

we are going to run out of room soon! how do u link to a new thread?

Is anyone else constantly hungry?? It's gettig ridiculous now, the other night I had spag bol for dinner followed by a yoghurt, 3 pieces of fruit and then a chinese when dp got home

I had a roast at 6.30pm today and I could eat another one already, at this rate I'll be the size of a house by the time I give birth.

Weston you need to start the new thread then copy and paste the address here.

Had a thought for new thread name if anyone is interested...

Remember, remember we're due in November, but not yet quite ready to pop!

Ok so it's naff, I'll go back to my hole now

Broodzilla OMG I really do feel for you, I hope MIL decides to disappear very soon, but the spot story sounds very funny

Venus welcome to the madness and congrats

Hello everyone!

Just got back from a very wet week in Devon but had a brill time! We stayed on a farm and ds loved feeding the animals and stomping in the mud, even went on a pony ride and he is only 2, bless him he was such a good boy.

Anyway, there are about a million posts so I have only skim read so apologise if I've missed anything.

Welcome to all the newbies, it's never too late to join in the chat!

Sorry to everyone having a rough time recently, hope things start to look up in time for these bubba's to arrive.

Loving the hospital bag lists, even though I'm hoping for a home birth it won't hurt to have a bag all packed just in case! Also, Perrineal massage? Yuck! No way am I doing that, sounds gross! Didn't do it with ds and have no plans to attempt it this time round, also don't think I could reach

I am also perminantly hungry, food is all I can think about, especially chocolate. Have eaten so much this past week, am really starting to resemble a house!

Ds is starting nursery this week, I feel quite anxious about it and am worried that he'll be upset when I leave him. In fact I feel quite tearful just thinking about it. Hopefully it won't take him too long to settle in and then I can enjoy a few mornings to myself before this little one arrives.

Hope everyone has had a nice weekend, will try and catch up properly now!