November ladies are having there babies. One by one here they come. But here we'll let the candle burn. Until we've all had our turn

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morning all, am knackered this morning, had to get up to pee five times last night. wanted to go with dh this morning to meet Fil for a fried breakky but thought that everyone would be nervous round me so stayed home.

hoping those with piles can find some way of being more comfortable today.

Aaw Trikken sorry you didn't go for breakfast! I hope you made yourself a nice bacon sandwich at home.

No news here.... Braxton Hicks and felt rough after v long walk yesterday, but nothing of interest.

Off to John Lewis to spend vouchers on a cot mattress and changing table thing.

Comma sorry to hear about your MIL!! Oh dear...

Trikken I know what you mean - I swear DP would have me under house arrest right now if he could. Hope you have some yummy stuff for breakfast at home.

Katster enjoy Hope the exciting spending pokes your little one into action

Think I am going to do some online Christmas shopping today.

Does anyone else feel like their belly is constantly rock hard?! Although I have the use of my lungs back and baby has definitely dropped, it feels solid all the time.

Hello all! Busy cleaning here today: why does the cat feel the need to lie on my nice clean, still wet, kitchen floor?

DS2 is helping DH clean the bathrooms. They are well trained

Trikken Even 3 weeks out from my due date people seemed shocked to see me when I appeared in public Now I'm home alone with sciatica while the DH and DSIL are out and it's heavenly, to be honest... I never, ever get the house to myself and who knows when it will happen again after the baby comes!

Ouch, Ninja, my sympathies...

Comma hope the MIL is keeping her distance today.

BBL nice work I've stopped telling my female friends that DH cleans the bathroom... seems to make them angry, hehe.

It was my last day at work on Friday and I think it's starting to hit me that I'm about to have a baby. Better late than never eh?

Just wondering if it's too late at 37 weeks to try the hypnobirth cd? If not, which one would you recommend?

Hope all is ok with Preggok8 x

Hi everyone,
It's my due date today. I can't believe it has finally come to this day, it feels like such a milestone looking back all the way to early March when I first found out I was pregnant, seeing the tiny heartbeat on the first scan, etc. On the other hand, I'm now pretty fed up and ready to actually meet the baby.
So sorry to hear about you girls with the horrible piles, that sounds awful, and the SPD as well. Hopefully it won't be too much longer now for any of us.

ninja sorry for your haemos..I had them bad with DD..It really kills I know. By labour your forget them and then have to deal with them later but as I recall i didn't have time to worry about them...sigh..I hope they get better.. are you putting cream on?

I have an awful pain on my left side by the groin..it really hurts when I walk. Don't really know if its just the baby's head or something more serious. No bleeding or anything. I wasn't this disabled with the first one..sigh.

More bad news, my SIL had another miscarriage. I don't know how say sorry, its awful. For those you have gone through or know someone who has dealt with this, how do you get the strength to carry on trying?

sleepless i have that groin thing still too. I also now have had that stitch you were talking about (was that you? i have lost my brain!), i had it for a good 2 mins, and thought it might be a contraction, thinking 'can it happen on just one side? ' it was so so painful i remember thinking 'omg this is so going to hurt when this baby comes out' , but it passed.

I have an almost constantly solid belly too, but i think he is less engaged now than he was a couple of days ago. I so thought he was going to be early, certainly earlier than DD was, but she was on her way this stage last pg - my waters had broken, and I was having regular BH, and in 1.5 hours would have my first proper painful contraction. In 11hrs 43mins at this stage of pg she was born to this world! He is still kicking and doing mexican waves, so not coming soon.

I hope some of you poor overdue ladies start to have your babies very soon x

Sleepless your poor SIL, how many mcs has she had? I only had 2 mcs or really I suppose 1 and a half (one chem preg)- I just became fixated completely, was very down for a while about it- if she gets three in a row though then at least maybe some investigations should start?

Long story here about the midwife but thanks to all for making me feel that it was OK to be a bit cross- I had a visit yesterday morn after making a LOT of fuss, including phoning the head of midwifery to complain. BUT though it was reassuring to be monitored the midwife who visited said baby still only 3/5, no point in doing a sweep, and she put my induction back to Tuesday at 8pm after noticing the mistake I had hoped no one would notice, ie that if I was induced on Monday I would only have been 9 days overdue. Bah! Another 24 hrs to wait!!

Although, lots of pain here today, so maybe not????

oh thats a shame wook, a day early would have been nice. hope things move quickly on their own for you. come on little baby!

sleepless your poor SIL. I've only had two and you just get more determined to beat nature and keep trying and have success next time. I can't imainge what it is like to keep having MCs in a row (mine were between DS1 and DS2 and between DS2 and this one). You never get over the ones you have lost though but anything anyone can say to comfort you is good. Sometimes it was nice just to get a hug and for someone to say 'I'm so sorry'. The worst thing was when people didn't know what to say so said nothing.

I totally agree BBL saying nothing is at least as bad as saying something crass/insensitive.

Well, maybe not quite as bad, sorry posting in bits and a bit dippy as having bloody painful contravtions now, tens machine on, could be it!!!!!!!!!!!

Sleepless my sympathy to your SIL. I didn't tell people when I had my MC at first, have only recently started talking about it recently, but the kindest thing anyone ever said to me was that it was still my child and it was okay to mourn. Probably not the best thing to say right now, but just wanted to share.

Wook keeping my fingers crossed for you!!!

oo wook I hope this is it!

I feel kinda bad. Realised just now this probably will be our last weekend just as "us" and part of me is a little upset by that. Not that I don't want our little man to arrive, nor do I regret it in the slightest. Just that the nine months we've been together now are the happiest I've ever had, and I know its going to change. Probably in a good way - we'll have our own little family and I'm sure we're going to be very happy together. But still. Is that really terrible of me? We've done a lot of cuddling this weekend and we're just going to go and have a bath together like we did when we first started going out. I guess this is my brains way of shouting "Its all change from here, girl!!" Sorry for the rant...

Yes, you've got to mourn and it takes a lot longer than anyone else thinks. The strength to keep trying? Comes from uncontrollable hormones. Makes you a PITA to live with, according to DH. Obsessive and very unpredictable. Sleepless give her lots of hugs and sympathy, and also lots of lovely unhealthy/banned pregnancy food. I whiled away the week I took off work after my ERPC with a bottle of rose and Lindt chocolates. I wanted to get a little necklace charm with the baby's birthstone in it, but DH wasn't keen - he was more of the 'what will be will be, let's get over it' camp.

wook excited for you . Bring on the pain!

erika you soon won't be able to remember what 'just us' feels like, and when you do get that opportunity again with a willing babysitter, you won't know how to do it any more! Life seems so pointless without the LO's, and it's great

Just popping in to say hello and see is we have anymore babies or not?? Looks like not.

erika enjoy your bath

Tabby So sorry to hear about your Grandad

Wook Keeping my fingers crossed this is it for you.

No news from me, still no sign of anything, lots cervix dancing, nerve sitting and (sorry tmi) constipation also joining to pile club!

Have spent the weekend working our way through a list of jobs, I even managed to clean the oven still got loads to do though. I hope to be ready by Wednesday.

Erika I totally understand the 'just us' feeling. We have had a lovely weekend together, and I had exactly the same thought.

Wook I am very excited for you!! Did you buy your own TENs machine? I am still undecided.

I am feeling like I am nearly there, which is either my 'intuition', or wishful thinking! The MW yesterday seemed v excited, and told me the entire week's night duty rota (I know the MWs who will deliver me, as it's community care), and seemed to think it was imminent, and unlikely I would make my next appointment next Saturday - BUT, I am only 38+2, so I don't want to get my hopes up!! Been having v strong BHs, and, in a complete U-turn to the past few weeks (TMI alert), ahem, loose bowels... Is this a reliable indicator?!?! Give me some hope, somebody!!

Ninja poor you with the piles. That sounds horrendous. Have you got something to put on them? Ooooow for you.

Sent Dp out to buy Anusol bless him. Luckily for me he spent his 20s working in psychiatric care so not much fazes him.

Hello all!

No more babies then this weekend? Hmmm. We'd better get a move on.

The DSs and I have just been to a party and it was two hours of hell for me as I have a really annoying phobia about balloons (I suspect my horrible big brother once frightened me with a balloon or something). I'm ok if they are on the walls, just about, but these ones were all over the floor so for two hours I was on high alert as the children bounced them around the room, not good if you are 39 weeks pregnant - but no labour was induced. I survivied the two hours and back home and the DSs had a good time.

Another member of the piles club here! I had them with ds too but they didn't give me much trouble. This time round however, as different story and, as you say tigger, the constipation really doesn't help!

A friend has just recommended nipple tweaking to bring on contractions. I must say it's the only thing I haven't tried yet. Has anyone else had a go?

Need this baby to get a move on! If nothing else than to distract from dh's bad mood. I find it hilarious that he can talk to me about how irritable agitated he is at the moment. Ah, hello??!!! How do you think I feel! Men, eh? It's always worse for them!

Nipple tweaking - yes I've heard about that - you have to do it for 30 minutes and we're talking serious tweaking. Never tried it though!