Due November 09 - 10 days left, who will be next?

[longwayaway]

Last chance for a Scorpio, after this weekend they'll all be Sagittarians!

Hi all and thanks for the well wishes. Very sorry about the multiple posts, i'm a bit bored cooped up here in hospital and trying to MN via phone. It's not working very well! Will catch up later. x

Hi all and thanks for the well wishes. Very sorry about the multiple posts, i'm a bit bored cooped up here in hospital and trying to MN via phone. It's not working very well! Will catch up later. x

Hi all and thanks for the well wishes. Very sorry about the multiple posts, i'm a bit bored cooped up here in hospital and trying to MN via phone. It's not working very well! Will catch up later. x

Hi all and thanks for the well wishes. Very sorry about the multiple posts, i'm a bit bored cooped up here in hospital and trying to MN via phone. It's not working very well! Will catch up later. x

Hi all and thanks for the well wishes. Very sorry about the multiple posts, i'm a bit bored cooped up here in hospital and trying to MN via phone. It's not working very well! Will catch up later. x

Hi all and thanks for the well wishes. Very sorry about the multiple posts, i'm a bit bored cooped up here in hospital and trying to MN via phone. It's not working very well! Will catch up later. x

Hi all and thanks for the well wishes. Very sorry about the multiple posts, i'm a bit bored cooped up here in hospital and trying to MN via phone. It's not working very well! Will catch up later. x

longwayaway oh poor you, soon you will be home. How is your little new baby?

ninjacat was it you who had ordered hotmilk bras from Brand Alley? They have just cancelled my order and refunded me as they cannot fulfil the order . I am very annoyed.

hello everyone! congrats to those who have had their babies .
although i am just 1 day overdue, i am feeling frustrated, feels as if it wont ever happen...

No not me Pav. I need a 38H nursing bra apparently (M&S) which is not the easiest size to find in anything with the word HOT in the title.

Just got an e-mail from my Mum in Australia. She was hoping I'd have had the baby before she went but if you will book a flight one day after my due date there is a chance you'll miss it! Still she is back in 3 weeks and actually that is probably when I will need the most support, once everyone else is back getting on with their own lives.

Have decided that today is going to be a good day. The sun is up. I have had a reasonable amount of sleep and the house is clean and quiet so will read and make the most of it. A short walk a bit later and generally ignore the feeling that I am coming down with a cold.

Odd question but the inside of my mouth looks like I've been raving all weekend, kind of chewed and white. Any one else have this?

Morning!

Hope you have a lovely day, ninja. I have MW appointment in half an hour but intend to do the same with the rest of my day.

And I've booked a pedi for Saturday. Never had it done, but my feet are looking like hooves now so that will be a nice treat.

Haven't noticed anything like that about my mouth, but I still look like Dracula every time I brush my teeth. Does that go away after pregnancy?

People have started contacting me to check if I've popped yet. Not even due till Sunday! And what do they expect? That I'm not going to bother mentioning it?

Hi all

Glad to see that some of you have managed to resolve the waiting and are making the most of the time you have. I hope that you all manage to avoid inductions.
My pedicure before the baby was born was bliss, she even managed to massage some of the fluid out - and they were like tree trunks at the end!!

Bras - I am in 36H nursing bras and have bought some Anita underwired bras from here They're brilliant as they give such a good shape and don't make me look like I have saggy or mono boobs. They have 20% off this week so might be worth a look. The bras are £36 but as you'll wear it for at least 6 months I think it's worth it. I sold my maternity ones on eBay too so there's always that option too!

Bleeding gums, spd and water retention has all gone for me now and it's been 2.5 weeks since he was born. Spd went pretty much straight away so hang in there.
Of course, other pains appear to replace them ...

Best of luck with the mw Skorps Scarlotti glad to hear things do ease up, even if they are replaced by other aches and pains. Variety is the spice of life and all.

I have added a bump photo to my profile, just can't get it to be the right way round. Ho hum, you can't have everything I suppose.

Bump-a-licious, ninja, and love the colour of your hair. Always wanted mine auburn... Too many experiments gone wrong with colouring to bother now.

MW appt went fine, booked in for a stretch and sweep on the 6th. It's very weird to think I might not need it... Just have to work on positions now as she's got too many limbs at the front. No more reclining on the sofa for this young lady.

Hello, hope everyone's having a nice day and you're recovering well from the CS longwayaway. How's life as a mum of 3 scarlotti?

It's my due date, but no sign of anything happening here. I spent the morning drinking hot chocolate and reading the paper in Starbucks and have just been to the library to pick up some books to keep me going. It's nice and sunny here so I've had a good little potter about.

Am I the only one getting cold feet about this having a baby lark? I have got my head round childbirth (I think), but it's the thought of a newborn that terrifies me.

Still, Ninja I didn't like the sound of the suggestion that you're likely to go 2 weeks over again just because you did the first time (me too). I thought subsequent babies were less likely to be so late? If that's the case, I won't be due until 10th December!

Oh, white, chewed up mouth: could it be oral thrush?

laugs it's not the baby stage that terrifies me (just met a mum at the surgery today with a three week old boy - made me want to have mine right now for all the cuddles, he was so cuuute). I'm a bit more scared of the later stages, what if we scew her up, what if we push her too much or not enough, how do we make sure she grows up to be a rounded person, how do we avoid the Barbie torrent ???

How will we manage to raise a proper little person all on our own? The sense of that responsibility stops me in my tracks now and then...

I think I need a hot chocolate now.

If I may join in, I think I need something a lot stronger than hot chocolate at the thought of all that, skorpion and laugs!

I'm still getting my head around the birthing gig. Due on Monday, but baby isn't really engaged yet (or doesn't feel like it) and I think somewhere in my head I'm in denial that this labour hoo haa will ever begin. And I'm okay with that! Except that I want to meet our baby! First one, so everything is new and terrifying and exciting. And did I mention terrifying?!

I was reading today about breastfeeding and I realise now that I know so little! I need about 4 more books and 2 months before I will feel prepared enough for it. Don't have that time so will have to wing it...

congrats longwayaway. Lovely name - it's one of my top three if we have a girl, and I love that you put it with Rosalind, very nice.

sassmonkey winging it has pretty much been our strategy so far. That and shouting lalalala whilst keeping fingers in ears

I've only read the Ina May Childbirth book and What To Expect year 1. As for the rest, the lovely ladies on here are my guide.

To be frank I am quite amazed that I'm pretty much ready, bags packed and all...

I wonder how katster is getting on.

I think winging it is the way to go. I am the type that normally reads everything I can get my hands on, but actually when it came to DD last time everything I read ended up really pissing me off. All these experts are so prescriptive, but if you dare to read more than one person's advice, you'll find they all contradict one another, which just left me feeling like I couldn't get it right. I'd have far more respect for someone who said 'look, there are loads of different ways of doing this and most of them will be fine', but I suppose that wouldn't sell any books. Also, loads of them (Gina Ford, Tracey Hogg, Supernanny etc) aren't even parents. I don't think being a nanny is the same thing at all, however much experience they may have.

Rant over!

I don't think my baby's engaged either, though I have had a bit of low down aching this afternoon, so something might be slowly getting into gear.

It's very quiet on here today. I wonder if anyone else is in labour?

Hope we hear from Katster soon. I dreamt about her last night!

I am quite interested in the Ina May book though. Did you enjoy it Skorpion? I read an interview with her in the Guardian a couple of months ago and she sounded quite inspirational. I'd be worried if I felt like I'd failed if I opt for pain relief though - or is it not like that?

No, I didn't find her preaching or prescriptive at all. Rather empowering and making you believe that birth can be a great experience. And that the way the female body is built is not some sick nature joke, but the perfect creation for bringing a child into the world.

Sorry to go all lentil-weaver.

I'd like to read it (and I am a bit of a lentil-weaver myself). But what scares me is - if labour doesn't feel like a wonderful experience, or if you need intervention, will you feel like you didn't have the labour you hoped for?

I have been to active birth classes and done natal hypnotherapy this time round, but I'm still really reluctant to have a birth plan that is anything other than 'let's see what happens'.

Lol Skorpion, Ina May is right- the female body is a perfect child birthing machine- it only becomes a sick nature joke afterwards. (She says bitterly, with piles, jelly belly and leaking boobs )

Good luck to all in the waiting room today- a hot choc and paper sounds like bliss- wish I had treasured the nine days I went overdue more!!

Sassmonkey On bfing I think nothing you read can prepare you. Went to bfing support group earlier and it was so, so helpful to get proper advice instead of rushed midwife saying 'that looks fine' when clearly it wasn't! I thought I had it sussed after having bfd ds1 for ever and a day, but I really didn't! Had got into loads of bad habits. Glad I got help so soon- not being patronising here but anyone finding it hard, get straight to the bfing counsellor, sooner rather than later. AND there was a knitted boob!!!!

Mmmm, I'm going to have a hot chocolate now, you've inspired me!

I met up with my NCT friend who had her little on just days ago and we had a cup of tea at a local cafe. V impressive that she is out and about and socialising already! And her little one is very beautiful.

I've also been at the mw's this morning but my nice one was off sick so I had a random one instead, who was all right but... Anywya, my naughty baby has gone from being in perfect position, lying on left & almost fully engaged to sliding round to the right and almost being back to back! Naughty thing! So I have to do lots of being on all fours and other random things to try to coax her back.

Well, I'll just have that hot chocolate first...

Raggie same happened to me at the last minute! Toby stayed that way though unfortunately and was born back to back but he came out ok!