Due March 2010 - just because I'm pregnant at Christmas doesn't mean I'm a taxi driver

[annamama]

... new thread for oldies and newbies due in March! ...

Hi all

Marking the thread with a 'Happy New Year!!'

Only 9 weeks to go eh- not too bad. Has snowed non stop here since about 3am and now got 6 inches. Looks v picturesque. Off to collect the pram tomorrow. Heres hoping we can work it!!

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Happy New Year to all mums-to-be, bumps, and associated SOs

Heckle that is indeed a scary thought. Even 9 weeks doesn't seem quite long enough to get ready, so babies arriving early is a little bit terrifying. I really need to start buying stuff now, especially since Next have helpfully stopped selling the nursery interior range I had my heart set on (thought I'd wait to see if it was reduced after Xmas, and it's just gone! )

I wanted to ask everyone, if you don't mind, how consistently are you feeling fetal movement these days? I'm 31 weeks today, and still getting quite irregular movement. Maybe a couple of crazy days with lots of squirming and kicking, then a couple of much quiter days (still with some movement, but less). Is this normal? If I tried to do kick counts I know there would be some times that I didn't feel much over the 2 hours or whatever, but I'm not sure whether to consider that a decrease in movement, or just a quiet day.

Oh, no, no, no, there will be no early baby here . Must Have Time To Myself when I finally go off on mat leave end of Feburary. I hope my bump is listening...

Hope you all had a very good first day of 2010!

Re movements, I think it is quite normal to have periods of more activity and quieter times. From what you are describing I do not think you need to worry Izzy, but before you do speak to your midwife and see if they would monitor you for peace of mind. Any Day Unit will be able to do that.

Off to have an early night.

Speak for yourselves with the "only nine weeks" Still got 12 to go as of today which is plenty of head burial in sand opportunity.

Hear, hear, Arcadie, united we stand .

Happy New Year everybody! Had a fantastic roadtrip to Namibia, didn't notice it was Christmas, 5000km later am back home and realising how much WORK I have to do in the next 6 weeks...before I climb into a jet plane and fly off to Germany to have this AfriBaby (hopefully about 6 weeks later). Does anyone have any tips on getting a free upgrade? Would so LOVE the extra leg room.

Hope everyone is doing well/getting better, realised in this new year that I will never be the type to have several windows open and respond to everyone individually - so I will give up trying. So a general friendly wave to all, feeling energetic this morning, might go clean the house (!!).

Happy New Year ladies
I've got 8 weeks to go and I know Pacific disagrees with me but I am hoping for a slightly early one this time. 39 weeks please, not too big, hope to have a VBAC and if this bubs gets too big then I might get all wobbly and go for c-section.
I've been having a lovely time with my parents staying. designerbaby I really feel for you coping with your nightmare inlaws, a toddler and being pregnant. My parents are fab. Mum has been a great help and although I do some cooking she has been great at helping out and lots of tidying up and telling me to go and rest Also lots of help in entertaining DD and dog walking. I'll be really sad to see them go on Monday.
On Hogmanay we were invited to a party that I really didn't want to go to. I'd have been quite happy on the sofa but I made the effort and went for a while. There were 3 midwives there. One I'd met before who works in the day assessment unit, one on the wards and one who will be covering maternity cover for my team of community midwives so might well be the one who is with me in labour. All a bit weird. Anyway they all seemed very nice.
donttrythisathome 'tis me who is a nappy advisor. I don't have CAT but you can email me sarah at nappygolucky dot co dot uk and I'd be happy to give you some advice.
Too many posts for me to scroll through and answer individually but have to mention that manda there is no way I could have coped with bleeding on Christmas day and not getting checked out so hat's off you are a strong woman!
annamama glad that it was just a pg fart at the airport and nothing more serious.
On the topic of hiccups. DD had lots of hiccups in my belly but up until this morning I hadn't noticed any with this baby and now I'm noticing loads!
I think I said before I never had any Braxton Hicks with DD, I'm a bit confused I thought I had read that your belly goes hard/tight. I don't get that but I'm definitely getting strange twinges in my uterus - is that Braxton Hicks?

Happy New Year everyone - I know 2010 is going to be an exciting one for all of us! Glad to hear so many of you managed to enjoy Christmas and NYE - I kept thinking how different next year's will be.

Smac here's hoping for a baby bang on 39 weeks for you. Very scarily a friend of mine due 10 days before me (i.e. end of Feb) had her baby on Monday. The little girl is tiny (2.5lbs) but doing v well, breathing fine and Mum is doing brilliantly. Still, 32 weeks - she hadn't started ante-natal classes or bought anything and as it was her first said she had no idea what to do in labour.

Cue frantic nesting/purchasing this week from me so that we are nearly ready just in case.

Afribaby good luck with the upgrade - I've never got one, but imagine a huge bump helps!

Izzy I get the same movement-wise. I feel something everyday (and think it's when you don't feel anything for an unusual length of time you need to worry), but somedays it's almost all day and other days it's just a couple of kicks throughout the day.

DB your inlaws sound AWFUL. You deserve a huge bunch of flowers from DH when they've gone. Tell them where to stick their ironing, or just set up the board and iron in their room and tell them it's all theirs - adda bit of your stuff to the pile too. Next time FIL suggests a cleaner, say 'thanks so much, that's so sweet of you. I've always wanted one but we can't really afford it - so kind of your to offer to pay for one.'

Manda, Elk, Anna I also have hiccup-mad baby!

Right off to BIL and SIL to exchange girts and play with our lovely nephews. Hope everyone has a great weekend and enjoy the last days of freedom those of you who, like me, head back to work on Monday (only 6 weeks to go, only 6 weeks to go, only 6 weeks to go).

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gifts, not girts - no idea what exchanging girts would consist of.

Hope everyone had a good New Year Sounds like some were far more motivated and sociable than I was - well done . Had a nice quiet one on the sofa with DH watching his Christmas present (a box set of Sapphire and Steel,one of his favourite shows from his childhood). I was too young for it the first time around, so I was pleasantly surprised with how good it was, and a bit scary!

Am now trying to summon up the will to get house super organised for return to school on Monday - and tackle the marking I have inevitably left to the last weekend of the hols! Even housework is more appealing than essays at times...

Enjoy the weekend

Hello - just quickly popping in before dropping the inlaws at the airport...

A quickie for our resident GP, Pacific, if you wouldn;t mind...

Having taking DD to the GP for her persistent cough (which is worse at the moment as I think she has my cold too) the GP has prescribed some homeoathic remedies (I nearly fell of my chair when DH brought home the sript!)

125 Phosphorus 6c tablets and
125 Pulsatilla Nigricans 6c tablets

but we have no inducation of dosage (or how the heck we get them in to DD!?)

Any ideas or suggestions?

Sorry to post like this and run, but if it will help her non-stop cough, I'd like to get started on it ASAP...

And a plane awaits...

db
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Rebecca- OMG your friend must have been so scared!!!!! 32 weeks OMG!!!!(praying its not me- what with Rosies operation on thurs!!!! i will be 32 weeks and i day!- ) i had Ds at 37+2 so who knows!!!!LOL scary thought though

lets hope my body can keep lil man til nearer my due date- needless to say i am taking my packed bag in the car just in case!!!!

hi to everyone else, xxxx

rebeccacad - If you were to exchange 'girts' you'd be exchanging (according to online dictionary): 'in architecture or structural engineering terms, a horizontal structural member in a framed wall'. Yep, gifts would be much more exciting.

Designer babies 'The GP has prescribed some homeopathic remedies'. I too have fallen off my chair! A few weeks ago I read a funny article by Ben Goldacre about homeopathy on the NHS.

MandahugnKiss and RnB - thanks for telling me about this thread. I'm just getting to grips with using Mumsnet - wish I'd found it before DS was born, I would have learned a lot! Last time I sailed through the pregnancy and stupidly worked 1 week and a half before the due date. Little did I realise what was on the other side and how tired I would be! This time I am already shattered, have been for months, have had 8 colds in a row and a chest infection so feeling pretty fed up even though I know things could be an awful lot worse. Hopefully this is the last cold so on that positive note am trying to plan for baby's arrival - can anyone recommend good books for helping 2 and half year old son prepare for arrival of new baby???? Suddenly realised should try potty training again before baby arrival in March - all going much better than last attempt..but now people tell me that he might regress anyway when baby born!!!

IWCAS... so sorry to hear this news... you've had more than your fair share of loss (in a variety of guises) in these last months, and I feel for you. Hoping your wriggly bump is giving you solace and a bright hope on the horizon. He'll know your grandad, by what you tell him, and the love you pass on.

I lost my Dad a few years back, and I'm gutted that my girls won't know him, as he'd have adored them. I just try and make sure DD hears about Grandad John and that I try and teach them all that I learnt from him about generosity, unconditional love and acceptance... That way, I figure, even those that aren't here are still with us, in a way.

You and your little one will also bring real joy to your grandma and mum in what could be really dark times otherwise - I know my DD has to my mum these past two years...

Schroomer - maybe I should just give DD that whole bloomin' bottle full in one dose then? .

I'm very about homeopathy and such alternative remedies, but, tbh, I'm at the point now, after over a year of persistent low-level coughing in DD where I will try almost anything... And you never know. But I would never have expected to be prsecribed a homeopathic remedy by a GP in the NHS...

Anyway, am outlaw free!! Just got back from the airport, DH (bless him) is hoovering, I'm making DD her supper and we will be having a takeaway and a DVD tonight... [db breaths HUGE sigh of relief and tries to ignore the fallout/detritus surrounding her]

The new year starts here at designerbabyvillas!!

db
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Evening all - I've been promising a proper update all week, so here goes. . .

*Evitas" - 'Tis good news about the scan and I agree that it's amazing to see the little ones, no matter how many times you've seen them before!

Arcadie - We spent a lot of yesterday sorting the DC's bedrooms out - you can see the floor in DD1's now and the playroom looks lovely, although I give it about three days before it's back to its former glory!

Angfirsttimer - I am also panicking that it's this year - I'd always thought that it was 'next year' which was a long time away and it's hit me now!

Manda - I wish I could find the 'wrong sex' thread - I was looking for it after quickly reading through the posts t'other day and I can't find it anywhere - link, please? Mine get hiccups alternately - I never get any peace, although I'd rather they were busy rather than inactive because that makes me worry!

DesignerBaby - I love the V&A and often wish that I lived closer to London. Sadly, it's daytrips only for us and the DC don't do museums, or anything remotely educational. . . My inlaws are lovely but deranged - they often maintain that the DC's asthma just doesn't exist, as nobody had it 'when they were young' - I think wierd ideas about health just goes with old age the job! - I just don't do homeopathy. I would rather have proven to work medication, but that's just me - maybe take her back if you don't want to go down that route?

Shroomer - Just tell them the wrong thing - everybody knows ours are girls, but we have been planting false names when people ask - DBIL thinks that they are called Tracy and Sharon. . .

Pacific - you'll definitely be the first one to give birth, then, now you've said that!

Smac - you want yours early? I'd rather have mine slightly late, although that's never going to happen! I'd quite like to get through my birthday first, which is 1st March, so anything after that is fine, thankyou!

IWCAS - I'm so sorry. You must be so upset that he'll never get to see that little one. My grandmother would have loved my DC, but never got to meet them. I often hope she can see them and that she is proud.

My cold seems to be a bit better, although I still sound a bit like a donkey when I laugh! We've not been out today, although we're hitting the sales again tomorrow! DC have got another week before they go back, so I'm counting down!

IWCAS I'm so sorry! Be strong and remember your little one in your tummy. (virtual hugs)

designerbaby I think you should celebrate after such hard time

Afribaby if you arrive earlier at the airport and ask them directly, you might be lucky (it just depends on how busy the flight will be). But even if at the check in they don't give you an up-grade talk with the head of cabin crew once you're on board.

annamama yesterday I met a Brazilian couple with two lovely daughters (8 and 6 years old). They were totally bilingual and they've just been in the UK for 2 years.

Happy New Year
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icwas- so so sorry to hear of your grandfather passing away, xxxx i hope you and you family are all ok xxxxx so very sad xxxxx-

DB, sorry, I have no idea about homeopathy, cannot help you at all. Although the family doctor who looked after us when we were little was a homeopath, homeopathy is one of those theories I cannot get my head round ("the imprint of an atom in water", WTF) so have never ever had an interest.
Best I can say about it, it will not do her any harm, so good luck .
Lots of children will either have one viral infection after another this time of year, or have persistent airway irritation (particularly after RSV/bronchiolitis) so it might just be a matter of time before she gets better.

IWCAS, my condonlences to you loss, how very very sad for you and your whole family. I hope you can all be a comfort to each other. Having said that, from your description it sounds like your granddad had a near perfect end: enjoying himself, amongst people he loved, not drawn out. I know that that does not make the shock and loss any less for you, your grandmother or your mum just now, but it might be a comfort to be able to remind yourself of that in times to come.

Afribaby, re upgrade, appear at airport looking presentable and as posh as you can bear and then ask very nicely mentioning your swollen ankles and varicose veins (real, or invented ). The rest is luck... Where in Germany are you going to have your baby?

I am keeping my legs firmly crossed, ideally until after 22.3. (DS3's birthday), then their birthdays would all be in birthorder IYKWIM. I know, I know, I am really not focussing on the important stuff. Where DID I put that tax return....??

Thanks Pacific - I know, I'm very about it all myself, but figure, wha what the heck. I too am quite philosophical about DDs cough - yes. it's worse at the moment, but I have a stinking cold and cough, so it doesn;t surprise me that she's picked up the cough bit.

FWIW, I (in my capacity as someone with no medical training whatsoever ) think it's linked to her teething - we've just had a period of two months or so with no cough at all, and, coincidentally it's been pretty much the only period when she hasn't been teething (i.e. drooling, chewing fingers saying "my teethies hurt, I wan' med'sin". At the moment we're cutting final molars... BUt I guess we'll only know when this final lot are out, and if the cough miraculously disappears I shall feel vindicated. DFIL says this is rubbish though... so...

But D,DFIL (GP in SA) likes to put the fear of God into me by talking about long-term lung damage caused by a persistent cough and other horrors, and, much as I try and take it with a pinch of salt, it does prey on my mind somewhat when I hear that...

But "imprinting" on molecules

db
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IWCAS, I'm so sorry to hear about your loss, that's really sad for you. Big hugs.

Movement wise I'm also getting the very active days then quiet ones. I think BabyDragon wears himself out/has a growth spurt/flips round to give the other side a good kicking. When I asked the midwife about it she seemed unbothered as long as there was some movement.

DB, what nightmare in laws! Did your FIL offer to pay for the cleaner? Maybe you should try and get that out of him... [naughty stirring Bluey]. DD has also had a persistent cough but nothing we can link it to; 2 chest infections in quick succession seems to have wound the NHS up to action stations but no homeopathy here. I'm not a big believer anyway tbh - never helped any of my (many and varied) allergies, asthma and eczema - though acupuncture and reflexology ROCK.

Anyway, I only popped in to say that if anyone wants cheering up retail therapy there are some fantastic bargains on Mamas and Papas for maternity kit. The great big chunky brown wool wrap they do is 75% off.

Off to continue avoiding doing anything I was supposed to be doing - Pacific, I too am putting off the evil tax return. We've got a month, right!

Happy New Year everyone!

Tax returns: aaarrggghh.

IWCAS, sorry you have had such a horrible start to the new year but I am sure what DB has said is true and that your LO will be a great comfort to your family. (As with DB, my father died a few years ago and the arrival of a new generation has brought some solace to us all, even if it is tinged with sadness because the children will never know their grandfather nor he they.) And I hope you can find additional comfort in the fact that your grandfather had the joy of anticipating your DS' arrival.

Sarah, I guess it's going to be a tough few weeks - I am thinking of you and your DD.

Happy new year and hello to everyone else!

Not much to report here other than the return of vague morning sickness symptoms, which is rather aggravating. Oh well, only another 9 weeks to go. Actually, what am I saying? I bet it's another 11 weeks. At any rate, I am not keen to be early - or at least not before 39 weeks - as I am working til 37 weeks, and working means nearly 3 hours of commuting for 3 days each week. That seems like a long way from home if I go into labour. (Although, if last time is anything to go by I will have hours and hours and hours to go before I actually produce a baby.) Plus I want to have time to stock the freezer with enough homecooked meals to break up the anticipated post-birth diet of takeaways and DH's pesto pasta.....

thanks Sariska,