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! ...

another snow day for me - drivers door still frozen shut and passengers door has refrozen open so not safe to drive that shed even if the roads were safe which it seems there are not.. work being very understanding but didnt stop me from bursting into tears on the pavement and startling the postman. I think is a) hormones b)obvious frustration from now 3 days of trying to get out of the fricking house and c) i dont want to get to next friday and not have said goodbye to work properly!

Much less tearful now and baking a red pepper and feta cheese tart.. mmm

Roll on tomorrow night when DH gets back and he can dig his much better car out of the snow and Ill be up and running again..

iphone is telling me I'm 8 months pregnant today at 32 weeks. How is that accurate then if gestation is 9 months and I have 8 weeks left?

8 "moon" months ie 4 weeks; 4x8=32 . By that count a normal pregnancy is 10 moon months ie 40 weeks, not calender months!

Makes me feels all druidy, thinking in moon phases and all that...

Don't panic, it will not make baba appear any earlier, hearing this news!

Righto, I am off to work, wish me luck!

Hope you got your heating sorted!

Thanks pacific I'm off to find a floaty dress and be a hippy for a while

Very happy for baba to stay where he is until this ice and snow goes

hello all
db and pacific thanks for info etc, i think it's good to hear lots of stories about it because otherwise she's just going on hypotheticals which are sccaaarrrry! Have everything crossed for her - and you're right about being offered extra tests, I just hope she is given time to weigh up all her options once the results do come back in. it's her fourth pg so, you know,...
mumbot my friend has a babymini jogger thingy and it is definitely BRILLIANT, hope you enjoy it. you're rigth about the hood, it's so clever!! and yay you get to do the whole OneHandedFlick to shut it and get it in the car boot which is VERY chic.....
Can't believe people are without heating and not moaning more about it on here!! I would be and VERY stompy about the whole thing so well done fay and pacific for being so, er, restrained...
also restricted to house, it's descending into a fking tip complete shambles - I tidy one lot away and turn around and DD has unpacked another lot.....

right better get on with tea and finding some carpet somewhere in the house. i've ALWAYS said pg is a ten month thing - had some very stupid looks from family etc until i explain (not very gently) the MATHS OF IT ALL.
harrumpf. and yet we still say nine months? why? i know not....

Gah! I've just found an unopened letter that ex-dh must have put up when it arrived. It's dated 9th December, so...

Anyway. It's my jury service summons thingy. I remember vaguely filling one out a few months back. Well, I'm to report for duty on monday morning.

I'm not going to bother trying to defer it/be excused as I'm pretty sure it's too late and I suspect I won't get 'chosen' when I'm there anyway given my very obvious pregnant status. I mean, would they want to risk that I'd have to halt proceedings every half an hour to have a pee? (actually my pelvic foor is still great and I can not go for hours on end... but still!).

The only thing I hope is that we don't get more snow between now and then as I'll be on public transport.

Meanwhile, my throat is still agony, but a tad batter, I think, and have developed 'cold' symptoms too, so I'm guessing virus rather than bacterial (so a visit to the dr would be futile, right?).

Re: lunar months - why is it that virtually everybody in my 'real' life cannot grasp lunar months that make our pregnancies 'ten' months rather than the nine (point something) calander months everyone assumes. I know pregnancy maths is somewhat confusing and weird sometimes (the egg and the sperm have just met - congratulations, you're two weeks pregnant! :P), but it seems so simple to me.

Maybe I'm just in touch with my pagan side

Question: Scampi fries - delicious and more-ish cereal snacks or foul fishy smelling pieces of doom?

What... so you're saying a lunar month is 4 weeks ie 28 days? I didn't know that. But I knew that lots of people think that if you take a number of weeks and divide by 4 you get the number of calendar months... which of course is wrong as most months have more than 28 days. In fact you should divide by 4.333! I worked that formula out a few years back when comparing weekly and monthly rents for flats I was looking at.

Oh and according to my formula 40 weeks = 9.23 months.

Hi All,

Hope your all enjoying the 'Snow days' and those of you that already have children i hope they are not driving you too mad.

My shoulder is getting a little better every day and i dont need to have surgery which is good news.

Its a pain at night though as sleeping propped up in bed as cannot get on either side.

Be careful when you go out in the snow!!!!

Evenin' all!

Haven't meant to lie low for the last few days but it's ruddy freezing in our hallway where the computer is so I've been minimising screen time so as not to lose a finger or two to gangrene. AND I'm still waiting for the wireless router to be delivered which will allow me to use my shiny lovely new laptop in the living room. [can't wait! emoticon]

Anyhoo, the snow is STILL here, eh? I've resorted to threatening Mother Nature that I will actively seek to advance global warming if she doesn't get on and melt all this frickin' snow. The last couple of days haven't been so bad I suppose - it's been sunny and I've managed to get out in the car a couple of times, which feels so NORMAL! But I'm getting really fed up of cold feet and snowy boots and a gazillion layers just to walk to the corner shop. I'm now longing for the days when you can get up in the morning and throw on a T-shirt and trainers! My last PG was largely summer-based and feels SO different from this one. I spent most of mat leave lying on a sunbed in the back garden - absolute bliss! This time round I feel a bit vulnerable and really SLOW.

Am also now starting to worry slightly about my lack of preparedness in ANY WAY, should the baby arrive early. I don't even have a tube of nipple cream. So am looking forward to a bit of a blitz in Boots and/or Mothercare (thanks to a Christmas voucher) for some necessary items (and maybe even cute new clothes!) It's a lack of mental preparedness too - am veering between complacency and outright panic at how I might cope with two, especially when DD is in a more, erm, 'trying' mood. Ho-hum.

sarah I really hope everything goes well tomorrow, I'm sure you'll be rock solid for your DD

pixie you too - all the best for tomorrow's scan

greenbeans [sarcastic emoticon] thanks for the reminder about the pelvic floor! I'm actually in denial about that right now! My exercise regime stretches to once a week at PG yoga doing about 1 set of pelvic floors, pretending to do the rest and then adopting the mindset of 'it'll be fine'!

manda scampi fries. Nooooooo.

mumbot the Baby Jogger looks cool! Think I'll be popping that one on the shortlist, should I be in the market for a new stroller. (I'm such a pram geek )

Oh yes, and I found out today i'm borderline anaemic. The doc offered iron but I don't feel overly tired or breathless and I'm only just keeping things 'normal' in the poo department so am reluctant to go down that road! Is this spatone people speak of to do with iron levels? I must admit I've sort of glazed over the topic before now because it hasn't really applied to me! If anyone's got good advice for maintaining iron levels AND regular bowel movements, then bring it on!

Right-o, I'm off to do the dishes

If someome wants to know how many months pregnant you are (from 1 to 9), just divide the number of weeks pregnant you are by 40 - then multiply by 9. Or just divide the no of weeks preg you are by 4.444444444. I think someone's already said that, but I'm a bit tired at the mo.

Went to docs about (ahem) PILES (had em for 3 weeks now). She has given me some sort of steroid cream to try for a couple of weeks. But even if I get rid of the problem, it is bound to come back due to the strains of labour. Joy.

hecklephone - I'm the same - complacent one minute and then panicked the next. I have very little sorted.

Spatone - it is good stuff. Disclaimer: I have never taken it personally but the MN quorum seems to like it !

No, not prepared here either. Baby's room is still a box room, full of, ehm, boxes !

Pixie, I feel so ginormous all of the sudden; I cannot imagine carrying 2 of the little blighters. You (and all mothers of multiples) should have a medal! Good luck with tomorrow's scan - they might just be running out of space?

-9 here on way home at 6pm, Dh reported -11 an hour later, and now... our outside thermometer (cheap digital crap) has ceased working !
But - heating seems to be working, so yeah!!

Have a nice evening all.

Yeah Pixie 30 weeks feels like such a milestone. Can I be really nosey and ask what your birth plan is? Are you booked in for CS or will you try a natural delivery as you already have DC? My mw had 3 boys and was keen to try and deliver her twins naturally but I don't know if she succeeded or not, last bumped into her at hospital appt when she was 33w and going for another scan.
designerbaby glad you had a good chat with the consultant even though she's not at the hospital you will be having DD2 - I have to say at the mere mention of rectal incontinence I would be signing the paperwork for ELCS immediately but I am a bit of a big girls blouse! I had to switch my antenatal care half way through my first pregnancy and fortunately it wasn't half as stressful as you have outlined. Glad you finally got to talk to someone with a bit of commonsense who would take care of it for you.
Manda I would be a nightmare on jury duty right now, I have restless legs as well as a 30 a day toilet habit so would definitely be trying to wiggle out of jury duty but yes stick out bump all the way and hope that no one will pick you! In normal circumstances though I think I would be quite into jury duty (being naturally nosey and judgemental!)
annamama this is the mountain rescue thread MNHQ posted yesterday having read a twitter message announcing the birth of Jimi Ray. I stopped following after I heard all was well!
scampi fries mmmm delicious - can't remember the last time I had them though.
Months and weeks I just stick to weeks mostly and every so often when the 25th of the month passes I think - oh I'm 7 months or whatever pregnant. Read somewhere that 40 weeks is actually 10 months but that thought just depresses me.
I'm 33 weeks tomorrow - 7ish to go, 49 days, woo hoo that's less than 50 - must be the final countdown. Can you tell I'm more than a little bit fed up?
Glad your heating is fixed Pacific I couldn't imagine surviving with no heating at the moment. I had a lovely open fire when I lived in Scotland but if our heating packs in here we are in big trouble. FIL lives on a remote farm and he has no water as his pipe has frozen where it crosses the river to come up his farm track.

I'm thirty weeks TOMORROW!! Yay etc. It does feel good to be counting down in single digits, alhtough having said that I'm not in so much of a hurry for this one to arrive, got to move house, decorate, of, and get a hopital sorted out before THAT can happen .

I swapped antenatal care at 16 weeks last time, and it wasn;t difficult at all, it's swapping antenatal care, moving house and changing GPs that does it... Still hopefully we'll get it sorted in time [eek etc.]

Oh and can I join the group of no heating? Specifically no gas. IN our new house. Was supposed to be being connected tomorrow, but because there's snow Scotia Gas are not doing any work at all. Apparently. And havn't for three days. And the rescheduled slot? 25th January. Fantsiatic. That's the week we're supposed to be moving in. And after connection the gas takes another 4-5 days to come through, whcih takes us to, oh, the week after we move in.

I've tried to explain that we'll have no heating, hot water or cooking facilities, that I am heavily pregnant and we have a two year old and nowhere else to live, but apparently none of that makes a jot of difference. They have us over a barrel, there's nowt we can do and they know it. I a;m spitting feathers .

At my repeated insistance, someone more senior is supposed to be calling me back tomorrow to see what they can do... I thought things had been going a bit too smoothly recently.

So yeah, just waht I need right now. A bit more stress. And a touch of rage...

Pixie, hope your scan reassures you tomorrow, and Sarah I hope your little girl is doing ok. Been thinking about her today.

SMAC - I have to admit the rectal incontinence thing did scare me a bit, but it's nt s definite, even if I do tear badly again, just a possibility. And for me, a C-section is absolutely a last resort - my mum lives 3-4 hours away and can't come to stay for a long period of time (and I couldn't cope with her with me for 6 weeks or whatever, she's quite hard work, emotionally and stuff) and I have no other support locally - which isn;t really massively compatible with a 2yo DD to look after. And I worry about the impact on her if I wasn;t able to pick her up and all that stuff ? I imagine it wold make any new sibling issues a whole lot worse. Plus a longer hospital stay - I've never even left her overnight. I fear she'd feel abandoned.

So I'm going to try and go for a vaginal delivery, but I'm not going to be silly, obviously...

Scampi fries? DEFINITELY. And yuk. At the same time.

I won't count myself to be seven months until the 19th. I don;t do lunar months. Just iPhone months... .

Also fed up with snow. Makes the nursery run even longer and more arduous, and pushing a buggy up/down hills covered in sheet ice isn't my idea of fun at any point and especially not at (almost) seven moths pregnant. It was fine yesterday when I could just watch it from my window coming down and making the garden all pretty. But now? I'm. So. Over. It. [grinch emoticon].

Ooh yes. Start my NCT refresher course on Monday. I'd be more excited about it if it didn;t mean a trek to Wimbledon and back to Crouch End after a full days work... In the snow. Bah...

db
xx

Oh BLOODY HELL!. I just can't type any more... [shuffles off, humiliated...]

Happy 30 weeks to Pixie (and everyone else coming up to that) . Tis a great milestone to pass. Good luck for the scan. I hope your second LO is just having a snooze and hope tomorrow's scan shows good growth for them both.

Sarah thinking of you and your DD - hope it went well.

Manda I did jury duty several years ago and really quite enjoyed it (two trials over the two weeks). But I do hope they let you skip off if it's quiet, as it involves a lot of sitting around...don't know about you but I'm finding it increasingly uncomfortable to stay sitting for any length of time!

DB how annoying about the gas company - really hope that kicking up a fuss means you get faster service than that. I live near you (Stroud Green) and am also quite sick of snowy roads and lethal icy hilly footpaths. We definitely got way more snow in North London than where I work at Kings Cross - 4 inches of snow on our car roof this morning...

Pacific at the temps! Though am so glad your heating is working [phew]. Stay toasty!

Summer glad things are healing but the sleeping must be awful (bad enough without a broken shoulder!).

Heckle I'm a big fan of spatone - I've been having it for weeks and definitely no constipation (but I do try to keep my fluid and fibre intake up too). You can add it to a glass of OJ (vit c aids absorption apparently) and you can't even taste it.

Am 32 weeks now, and definitely on the count down...though I find myself looking forward to all the little milestones before my due date - maternity cover starts on 18th, driving test on 26th, last day at work on 5th Feb...we had our second to last antenatal class tonight, and our group is really bonding nicely I think.

And I've got tomorrow off - myself and my husband are taking a long weekend together...we were going to go away but I decided I didn't fancy it (the more pregnant I am the more I want to just stay near home). And with the weather we've been having I'm glad we didn't plan a weekend away! Still, looking forward to a bit of a lie-in tomorrow and then doing some London stuff like heading to some exhibitions and stuff.

Anyway, enough rambling. Big waves to everyone

-10ºC when I woke up!! But still beautiful outside.

Pixie and designerbaby - congratulations - 30 weeks!!! Pixie: good luck with the scan

Summer - great news about your shoulder!

Pacific - glad the heating is fixed, specially after such a cold night in Scotland! Are you in Glasgow?

Caitni - enjoy your weekend. It's great to have all those milestones. Glad you are enjoying the antenatal classes, I'm starting an intense course tomorrow.

My mum is coming tomorrow, and she will stay a week!! Really looking forward to see her again. I haven't seen her since October.

xxx

db I moved from Scotland to Wales when newly married and 20w pregnant with DD, so new name, new address, new GP, new MW team, new hospital. But at least at 20w there was time to get sorted! The hospital still send me stuff in my maiden name sometimes, my 20w scan letter was to Ms Mac and then when I took DD to A&E they asked if she was born in that hospital as she would be on their system. I said yes, they asked me to confirm my address and they quoted my Scottish address that DD has never lived at !
Good luck with hassling the Gas Board.
Despite the fact the temps are freezing here and most of the side roads are still covered in ice the gas board here are still trying to dig up the road. If it's simply a connection issue then I really can't see why they are insisting on such a delay. If it was a new supply to a new property and the ground was frozen then that would be different. I hope someone more senior is able to help out.
Caitni enjoy your long weekend with DH. I'm like you I don't like to go far these days. . . . well getting out the house would be a start but you know what I mean - planned trips away just don't appeal when you reach a certain stage.
sarah hope your DD is recovering well and the stress isn't getting to you.
Pixie hope the scan is good today, must be nice to see your girls again!

morning all!!
quick one - db do NCT do refresher courses? what do they entail?
plus anyone got any thoughts on hypnobirth etc and whether just having a CD etc would help or do i need to do classes? (last time did Activebirth and yoga and the breathing was GREAT but can't quite fit it all in second time round [blush[)

OH. and SCAMPI FRIES have been getting me through every work day since i found out i was pg. I didn't admit to it then because you lot were on about nectarines and i decided my craving was far less nutritious....
Still, glad you all came round to my thinking....

Smac - glad it's not just me with the restless leg thing. Mine is annoying enough for me but it's driving DH mad. When does yours happen? So far, mine seems only to occur in the evening (and mostly in the right leg) when I'm slobbing on the sofa watching TV. Maybe it's a sign I need to be more active???

MummyElk - antenatal refresher classes: yes, the NCT do run these. Can't really say what they cover as I was meant to have my first one yesterday but it was cancelled due to the weather. I think there was something about coping with more than one child, which appealed to me!

Quick question about itching. Itching everywhere, I mean. I know some itching of the skin over the bump is usual but, as well as that, my arms, legs, back and the sides of my feet are itching. It comes and goes but when it's there, it's torment. Anyone have anything like this? I did wonder if DS had kindly shared his molloscum (don't ask) with me but I have no rash and, anyway, I don't think molluscum causes much itching and is usually confined to discrete patches of skin. I am now wondering about obstetric cholestasis - but, no, surely not? Isn't that itching on the palms and soles? Am not seeing the m/w for another week and a half and think I'd feel a bit stupid ringing and saying, "Hi, I'm a bit itchy...." - and even if it is obstetric cholestasis, there isn't much they do at first (is there?) although it maybe = early induction. Hope I am being a pregnant hypochondriac.

Another snow day here and so am working from home again. Getting a bit tired of it actually. And really wish the local council could magic up some fresh salt/grit supplies, particularly for the pavements.

MummyElk:

NCT Refresher Course

I did the NCT refresher course before Christmas, it did cover adjusting your DC1 to arrival of DC2 and also included good tips I didn't get from NHS classes - highly recommended.

Oh Sariska, I think I read that itching CAN be a sign of something serious so you should call your midwife. (I might be wrong though...)