Due March 2010 - "Hello Baby... Goodbye Pelvic Floor"

[Arcadie]

Welcome to the March Preggos. Here's hoping we see nearly 1000 posts before anyone pops!

Glad to be of service, IWCAS

Pixie, I saw the most gorgeous set of twins this morning at the toddler group I go to: 4 weeks old, boy and girl, mum is BFing them both . I did not get to speak much to mum, so don't know any gory details but they were just delish!

Oh, off to have my dinner now, DH cooked, and I am well prepared with a good swig from the Gaviscon bottle !

congrats to your fab daughter pixie, you must be so proud of her, xxxx

So has anyone given birth today as was predicted last week???

i have been in a and e with my daughter as she had a nasty smell coming from her nose(its been there a little while) we just presumed it was her plaster cast- however i realized it was her nose after much inspection!!! so called nhs direct who advised i take a look up the nostril with the help of a torch- there was something there!!!! it turns out after much screaming for her and panic fom the young doctors, she has somehow managed to get a piece of sponge (from the bathroon not the cake variety) up there¬¬!!!! little monkey she smells lovely again and can be very proud of the sticker and certificate she was given!!!!(its going in the keep sake box for when she is older!!LOL this child will be the death of me!!!!

i too have very tight bump and feeling very achy- lost some mucus type stuff earlier too!!!! woohoo hopefully my little one will arrive soon- please dont let me go over due!!!!

we are attending a funeral tomorrow- my dh's great uncle- very sad but not unexpected,

hope everyone is ok, xxxx

Had a strange look in Sainsburys today after asking for a paddling pool (not till spring) after being awake half the night worring about not getting a birthing pool/bath . Ive convinced myself I need it so I dont tear again
BulletProofMum seethats what worries me after this one - chosing something and getting pregnant again anyway...had no periods for a year after other 3 due to BF didnt miss them must say.
Smac third time round writing a birth plan to tell them what I DONT want to happen, & a few suggestions about what I would like.
mumof7plus4 wow i think ive had enough births at 4.. Sorry to hear of your losses, dont know anything on breech births but I posted a link couple weeks back to UK midwives site may have info there - brain not together enough to find it again.
arcadie at fertile period afetr birth - check
DrSkidaddle no 3... contractions started getting painful in evening, went to hosp at 3am but decided outside door that they werent strong enough & I prefered my own bed, went home managed to sleep for 3 hrs woke up with a BANG at 6 with strong cont.off to hosp, lunch at 11 5cm dilated baby born early afternoon 1ish?
PacificDogwood my kids think its hilarious when bump gets hiccups.

evening all
since i skidded in with my headmistress bonkers lady link i think i'm bound to overlook some people,so apologies in advance
saw a piece on tv about said headmistress and she came across as rather posh and, er, capable so harrumpf at her. My plan for Hour 7 involves Ordering More Toast Please, Gazing At Beautiful DC2, Trying to Have A Poo, and, um, Eavesdropping As Many Conversations As Possible in the overcrowded Ergonomically Efficient 12 people PostNatal Ward. Not all at the same time of course
[BECAUSE THE AWARD FOR SUPERMUM HAS ALREADY GONE ]
pixie great news at DD1! And great for her to have a new challenge and something to get her teeth stuck into, what a clever girl.
pacifichippowood LOL at dancing, do pls video it
snowflakesarah love the sponge story, bless her
henrietta at the paddling pool obsession, fair play to you but I can NOT see myself a) getting into anything that low down and b) getting myself OUT of anything that low down!! have you seen these?? kids could actually use it in the summer (after a good rinse of course...??) I know that sounds gross but i've heard stories of exactly that happening?!!

v of talk of mucus plugs and BH... i'm still awaiting me doubling in size over the next 6 weeks and waving fond farewell to my ankles.... still, we'll see.

Right LAST DAY AT WORK FOR ME TOMORROW... better get some sleep.
toodle-ooo

MummyElk Like your plan for hour 7. Mine is: Sleep. In own bed. Having delivered at home. In record time. Without swearing, dirtying lounge carpet or requiring anyone to come and look after the DCs.

Evening

pixie what a clever girl you have!!!!

sarah maybe you should tie her down til she's 18!!!!! And you want another??!!!!

Just a quick not to any of you out there who are at all into Radley Bags. If you are, they do changing bags (called baby bags!) New seasons colours are either black, lime green or pale grey. Reason I mention is that Debenhams have 20% off everything on line and they have the bags in stock so £20 quid cheaper if interested. Mine enroute as we speak.

xx

Pixie Big congrats to DD!
PacificHippo Your phraseology inspires me. Dyspraxic hippo. ROFL.....
Sarah Blooming heck your daughter gives you some trouble! Poor little mite though - I guess if you could smell that bad a smell outside then for her the smell up her nose must have been horrid.

Anti-denial Took delivery today of: one papoose, one moses basket, one set of boys newborn clothes (just need a set of girls now), one baby bouncer. WHO SAYS I'M NOT PREPARED!??

Actually I'm still in total denial but watching myself on the video footage coping calmly with labour, birth, first screamfilled baths and DS meeting DD I felt much better about this one.

at the headmistress returning to work so soon (7 hours FFS) - just madness. Perhaps she wanted to break some sort of record? After DD1, all I wanted to do was to be able to breastfeed my child without feeling like a total failure. Happily I did manage that, but it took a couple of days (nothing had actually prepared me for just how hard it can be). However, MummyElk, thank you so much for reminding me about the 1st poo following the birth. I had locked stored that little memory somewhere dark and dim at the back of my mind. It had been there quite happily for some two and a half years...until now!!

Pixie well done your DD - what a gifted girl!

BPM I also got all the baby stuff sorted this weekend. I could not get over how tiny the newborn nappies are How does one go from a hyperactive toddler to such a tiny, delicate baby? I guess you just do, but seeing the clothes & nappies makes the difference just seem vast.

So, hospital bag is now all packed. As is a bag for DD just in case someone has to take her in an emergency. DD was actually very sweet and went off and got one of her soft toys and put it in my bag for the baby I am loving the idea of showing her photos & video of when she was a small baby - what a great idea.

DH is away on business at the moment and I am quite looking forward to having the bed to myself (in the nicest way). I get so uncomfortable, especially at night, DH's absence means I can toss & turn 'til my heart's content!

Ahh, Arcadie, the idea of photos/video was yours. Tis truly inspired

Thanks Rinders - my 2 are narcissists very interested in themselves at a younger age!

Morning all-

still shocked at bloody weird headmistress woman. Can only assume she was bonkers with hormones. My plan for hour 7 will be sleep after a shower, with the baby in a seperate room kidding btw. They usually kick you out after twenty minutes these days, right?

Will say hello to everyone now as am being a little self-centred. Had planned a lovely calm final week (very few people in RL know I am going in on Friday so that I don't get those annoying "Any news yet?" texts) with no playdates, dinner out with DH (he'll be drunk in charge of wheelchair onj the way home I imagine) baby shower on Weds night, lunch with my mum yesterday. Has not yet gone to plan. Waited all day yesterday for MW to show up for weekly appt. No-one showed. No-one answered the phone at their office. So I sat with my swollen ankles and missed lunch out and didn't get a nap and started to panic because they have yet to discuss my birth plan with me, yet to confirm that they have, in fact, sorted me a single room and made the ward-staff aware of my condition and the limitations of it, yet to generally reassure me that the staff will take my pain seriously this time and not laugh at me as they did last time. So spent most of the evening in tears. When MW eventually returned my calls this morning she wanted to know why they were seeing me weekly (they've been doing it for about 6 weeks and visiting me at home since 28 weeks so why she doesn't know who I am or what is wrong is a little alarming to say the least) Genrally just frustrated by total lack of communication on their part. Being part of a Group Practice is supposed to ensure I get better care and friendlier service. Didn't happen last time and doesn't seem to be happeneing this time. Now very worried about going in on Friday.

Sorry- know I am being a drama queen but really needed to get this off my chest and sort of hoped that you guys would be the most sympathetic/understanding!!

On a more positive note:

excellent preparartion Arcadie. Remind me what I am supposed to say about my birth when it eventually happens ( I know it started: I woke to find a content little baby lying next to me and no pain in my fuzzy parts, but would hate to get the wording wrong)

Great news about your daughter Pixie you must be swollen with pride rather than baby at the mo. My best friend went to a ballet school (still whippet thin and recently gave birth without pain relief in 90 minutes or something like that....bitch!)

Sarah at least you are familiar with all areas of your local hospital now...might even be nice for you to have your turn there!! But yuck to the smelly nose thing. I thought only boys got things wedged in body cavities?!!

IWCAS hope you are coping xx

Mummyelk- hope your last day goes well!!

Hi all... I can't keep up... am kinda working trying to learn something on the computer.

Welcome back Rinders! Haha, I thought the same as you about BPM's positioning.

Thanks all for input about contraceptive. Non-hormonal coil sounds good to me. I'd like to still ovulate, ie get horny every once in a while. Then DH might have snip in a few years if we feel we're done.

If only my sex life was that interesting!

Sadly only in my dreams (which are rather pornographic at the moment )

My bump issn't quite so sore today but baby is really poking my fanny today. It's embarrassing walking around at work as I'm obviously in pain. Not good whilst surrounded by male colleagues!

Just one week and two days until I finish. nearly there!

Afternoon all. Was very shocked by the headmistress - and yes, pretty sure that's illegal - you have to take 2 weeks leave.

Henrietta - we've just had a La Bassine pool delivered for our home birth. Here's the link: madeinwater.co.uk/pool.html though I got ours from ebay - but still new in box so was only £75 including postage. We tried it out at the weekend - it was sooooo lovely and warm I stayed in for an hour - can highly recommend it. Only downside was that DH videoed me in it and any illusions about being attractive at this stage have been totally blown out of the water. I look like a puffy hippo in a bikini. Nice.

Pixie well done to your daughter! Am remembering all my dreams to become a ballet dancer (shattered by total lack of talent and flexibility) with fondness - but sounds like your DD is the real deal.

P and P that sounds really frustrating. I guess you just have to keep on at them. Could you try calling the head midwife and talk about your concerns? Not long to go though now - how exciting!

Sarah glad your DD is feeling better and hope the funeral is ok.

I've totally stopped sleeping - averaging about 2 hours a night. Had a really high blood glucose level when I saw midwife yesterday so now have to have a test for gestation diabetes next Monday -hoping it won't screw up home birth. Also apparently still have UTI so was told to go to GP for antibiotics. After an hour faffing getting my results he refused to give me antibiotics as I don't have any symptoms saying I 'probably just contaminating the sample myself'. Hurumph.

On the plus side baby's head so low down student midwife couldn't find it and my midwife says she's fully engaged. Gulp.

Having a names crisis.... thought we;d got 2 really nice names picked out for unknown gender DC3. THey go really nicely (IMHO) with DS (Gideon) and DD (Imogen), but now I've read this thread on Baby names about how naff it is to have names that "match" your existing children like putting them in matching outfits (which I don't mind doing but would look at bit daft with my 2)..... Should I give a monkey's what anyone else thinks or will we be secretly laughed at and does that matter???? (Arcadie has TOO MUCH TIME on her hands clearly!)

What do you mean by match?

Gideon and Imogen go nicely together but I would say they match (as in: bill and ben, topsy and tim, peter and jane kind of matching).

Recently heard of someone that had Coral and Reef (not sure I believe it though!)

Go with the name you want !

I am happy with our chosen name for DD3 but not for DS3 - I thought I had decided but having a definite wobble.

Please let it be a girl! Im find boys names so ahrd (have two boys already - no problems with DS1, in fact wanted a son so I could use the name (Felix)) we really struggled the second time though still have some regrets about our choice.

Arcadie, I really would't worry what people are saying on that thread. Everyone has their own opinion, and whatever name you choose you will have someone going when you tell them what your new baby is called (whether behind you back or openly to your face). I personally don't think that unless you do as BPM pointed out, and name your children Levi & Strauss or Bubble & Squeak (genius ), then it's not naff in the least.

I used to get a bit uppity on the baby names threads if anyone dared to criticise DD's name (India), but now I realise that it really doesn't matter.

Fwiw, we have chosen DD2's name because firstly we love it, and secondly because it goes beautifully with India

Btw, am loving the name Gideon!

hello ladies
that website for material you linked to pacific has some lovely stuff on it. I am rubbish at sewing but granny Mac is ace so I might also be making a purchase. We don't have any nice John Lewis type shops nearby so I miss have a look at nice fabrics and home furnishings.
Big congrats to your DD pixie that is brilliant news, you must be so proud.
sarah my DD wedged a pea up her nose the other day - reckon it must have been there for 22 hours or so. I was aware she made a funny noise through her nose when breathing but thought she had put some mash up her nose and then forgot about it. The following day I said to MIL about 5 times she's got a fluorescent green bogey today but every time I tried to wipe at her it disappeared. I even laid her on my knee and couldn't see it. Finally sussed what it was and squashed it back out. So it's definitely not just a boy thing!
p&p sorry no words of wisdom but it does seem strange that the MW you spoke to doesn't seem to know anything about your case. I have a team of MWs too but they seem to be pretty good at communicating spend their time yabbering on their mobiles and if you call up in the early days of pregnancy you have to say your name and how pregnant you are but by the end they must have a 'hot' list as they know who is near the end and are almost expecting their call.
I should have had a MW appointment today but I'm seeing the consultant on Thursday so they said no point in coming in. Feels like a long time since I've been checked over but baby is still moving a lot, head is still well engaged, fingers and ankles are a bit puffy though. I'll be 38w on Thursday. I keep telling DH that the baby could really come at any time now! I think his head is still truly in the sand.
BPM I am also a one tuber. I had an ectopic in 07 and although the tube didn't rupture it was so stretched and damaged they decided to take it out. I was absolutely gutted at the time but with hindsight one good tube seems to be able to do the job fine and by removing the damaged tube I suppose I am less likely to suffer the same again. I definitely won't be going for a coil though as that increases your risk of EP.
I've said I won't comment on names but I cant' help myself I don't like sets of names like all flowers or all islands or something so Lily, Daisy and Rose or Lewis, Isla and Iona makes it sound so twee and for flowers definitely makes me think of Jamie Oliver but I do think that it is nice if names go together. Can you imagine writing your Christmas cards and signing John, Susan, Elizabeth and Princess Tiamii ? Okay extreme example but if everyone else has 'normal' names and then you suddenly pick a fashion/made up/trendy name it will look odd.
Oh and that headmistress story is just crazy.

isn't there someone on here with Isla and Iona...

Thanks guys..... we have two fairly unusual names (at least Imogen was unusual until we picked it and then everyone and his wife has an Imo!) so we want to go with something a little less than everyday. Again Imogen, Gideon and Jane or Gideon, Imogen and John does sound odd..... just wondering and wobbling as another friend due at same time has a Josiah ( LOVE the name) but doesn't want to go for something as unusual this time as they don't want to seem like people who have wacky names for their kids..... Oooooh I don't know.

BTW I love the names India, Iona and Isla..... but two Miss I. would be tricky.

Oh, pandp, what a rubbish experience! NOT what you want so close to D-Day... Will you have a chance to speak to consultant/anaethesist in charge on the day, before the day IYKWIM? IME it often helps to go straight to the top if you do not get the help/answers you need lower down the food chain. What about the midwifery supervisor? They are a V Good Person to get on your side.
I am getting v excited for you - easy for me to say, I know...

There seems to be a bit of a hippo theme emerging on this thread
I'll have you know that I am quite embarrassing good when dancing free-stylee but cannot for the life of me coordinate myself with Another Person. I still have cringeworthy flashbacks to the compulsory ballroom dancing lessing we had when we were 14 - you had to let a boy touch you, aaaaargh!

Arcadie, re names, just do not listen to anybody else . Babies/children are only together for a relatively short period of time; they could move to different corners of the earth and nobody would care that Pride has a sister called Prejudice .
We have a terrible boy naming crisis: the other 3 all have single syllable names and I am now incapable of even considering any other names. AND there are names that do not work with our last name (think Ben Dover...). AND ideally the name should 'work' in German and English. AND it Must Not Be At All Trendy according to DH.
So far this poor child will be known as "Four" . His brothers have decided on Jack which I do not dislike but there are just toooooo many of them....
What do you all think of Joe?? Not Joseph, just Joe. It would work...

My mum asked yesterday on the phone whether we had decided on a name and I said I would rather not disclose anything until bubs was born "because then you just introduce the baby and say 'this is Edmund' and everybody has to get over themselves" meaning I do not want/need to much discussion by all and sundry beforehand. Cue my dad in the background: "What, Edmund, there calling the baby Edmund?? What kind of a name is that?" .

Righto, I am off to school, DS2's friend coming home with us

Oh, doh, they're not there, gah