Due September thread 10 - On the downhill slope...

[Kiwifruit]

Here's the new thread ladies - may it be as chatty as the last 9!!

Mummyhill - thanks for the thyroid info. Just have to wait until next week sometime for more results. Doc says she'll call if I need medication.
Thanks to all for the leg cramp info - good excuse to eat crisps!! - not as keen on bananas - will try. Love yogurt so this will be fine. I have a bolster cushion that I'll use to roll with my feet. Interested to try the earlobe idea - will probably have the opportunity tonight

Milward - Try google there are lots of useful sites listed there. Too many for me to put a link in for you but try thyroid uk they helped me a gret deal with information when i first got diagnosed and durring my pregnancies.

Talking of cakes, I had 2 jam doughnuts at work today! Everyone else had 2 though, so really it would of been rude to refuse the second one in the afternoon!
Hope all the London girls & their families got home ok today.
Milk seems to have helped my leg cramps. My mw also told me to lie with my legs going up the wall for a bit before I go to bed. I usually sleep with a pillow under my feet now too.

mummyhill - thanks for the www recommendation.
ych - have had three bowls of cereal!! - hoping all efforts work.
elasticated - feeling hungry as well!! only gained 20+ kilos so far!! how this happened I don't know
redZ - like your attitude to bf - giving it a go is the best way to see how you feel when you're with your baby.

Good morning everyone. hope everyone in london is ok, you must all be at your wits end. well check me out, look at the time and i've already had a bath, ironed my uniform and dd's school clothes and done her packed lunch. Think it must be nerves, finishing work today, and am a little anxious about it but sad too although i feel physically and mentally exhausted. Have a scan this morning at 9 to see if my placenta has moved, they said it was too low last time, and i'm a little worried in case i get told i need a cs. i'll get over it if i do but you always want to stick to what you know and i would really love to deliver naturally. also have a appt in a&e today in the burns and trauma clinic, for a burn on my hand i did with my hair straighteners, my hair has never been so fuzzy. thats the only bloody trauma i have, LOL it's a good job i work in the hospital as i feel like i'd be spending half of the day there anyway. anyone else finding getting comfy in bed hard? i keep dreaming that we're being burgled and i hear banging just as i wake for the loo, then i'm too scared to go, and yesterday i almost peed myself LOL

bubbles2904 - hope your last day at work and your appointments go ok.It is very tricky getting comfortable in bed and staying that way. I surrounded myself with pillows last night and in the morning found I'd thrown them all on the floor! DH's next - jees he snors! Having crazy dreams too - yesterday I was running a chinesse restuarant - last night I'm in the spice girls! Still no sign of Brad Pitt

Am very glad that I stopped work yesterday - getting back home again was OK (got a taxi from Baker Street to Kings Cross and then train home) but very glad that I am at home instead.

DS in nursery today as well so I am going to be lazy . Might go out and have lunch somewhere.

I slept pretty well - only had to get up once and that was at 5:23 (I always look at the time on the clock radio when I go back to bed). Pity that DS woke up at 6:30 and DH was incapable of getting up (he just lay there covering his head with a pillow).

Does anyone else find that their bump seems to rise and fall during the day. Or in my case, it seems to get higher up as the day goes on until in the evening my lungs are very squashed.

Have arranged to borrow a moses basket. I now feel slightly organised .

PC - I know what you mean about the bump 'changing' thru the day... by the evening, my bump feels much more solid, and I feel like I'm going to explode sometimes! Never feel like that during the day.

Bubbles - that must have been some accident with the hair straighteners . Hope your scan was good news. They sayd the my placenta was a bit low at 20 wks, and I just had a repeat scan th eother day but it has moved up ok. I think they said for most people it does move up as your bump increases.

LL - I was told at 20 weeks that my placenta was low, but as there are no indications at the moment they aren't rescanning. My midwife said that if the baby seems to have trouble engaging then they will rescan.
Still got tons of work to do and am having lots of meetings to try to ensure good transfer of projects so ironically I'm travelling more then normal at the moment. Also have to remember to put in my maternity allowance application so that I get some money coming in.
Had a mothercare catalogue delivered today but I really can't think of anything I need for this baby - except for dh to get his act together and get up in the loft to see what we have.
Builders seem to be starting in 3 weeks, so by my reckoning they will be taking down walls and chimneys just as the baby is due - great for a homebirth! Don't want to delay them as it's taken ages to get to this stage, but may suggest they take a few days off when ds3 arrives - although we may not see them again after that!

Hi everyone. I have 5 hours left in work and then at 4 oclock 2day I begin my maternity leave! Baby is kicking right now so I guess he is looking forward to a few lie-in's too! Everyone has been lovely tho-took me out for a leaving lunch yesterday and brought gifts for Paddy. He has had SO many gifts brought for him already. We start our ante-natal classes Monday. Hope there are no gruesome vids of women giving birth. I am actually becoming calmer and more focused about the big day but I will be at the top end so wont have to see that side of things!

I got my Mothercare catalogue today as well . I like reading Mothercare catalogues.

Reading all baby catalogues is great! Being pg is such a good excuse 2 shop
UGH...suddenly feeling really dizzy. Is this usual at 32 wks?

Paddysmum - I'm feeling very dizzy today at 33 weeks - like I've been on a roundabout or rather drunk - and I've done neither - honest! Going to do lunch now with pregnant friend - what a moan we shall have about our alliments!

Bubbles - hope everything has gone well today. Am getting jealous it's your last day, i've still got one more week, well 4and a half days, got mw again next week.
Not expecting to get anything from people at work, only been here six months. Don't mind though, i don't need anything else although a flash monitor would be nice, but i really don't need it.

Holy cr*p! Now the end of my street is on the news with armed police with machine guns aargh!! I can't see anything out the window tho, but very worried!!

Was thinking of you LadyL. This is all dreadful. I know this is reaction that terrorists want but it is scary now.

Take care Lady L - think I would stay away from the windows, just to be on the safe side.

On a more cheerful note, LadyL,Boompi,Katts did you see my note about the pedicure on the 6th? All booked for 2pm, just need to sort out a lunch spot.

Yes KF - Thanks for this. Should we wait for Franchs return to see if still need to book meal?

thanks KF! Pedicure sounds fab! Bit bizarre to think this is all going on at the bottom of my street (I live in Portnall Road). Can;t see anything, I live in the middle of the street, can only see reporters and stuff. Watching it all on the news... very surreal. Hope everyone else ok x

Boompi - good plan about the meal. Wonder how Franch coped with the flight - 1.5 hours the other week was enough for me, and I'm a few weeks behind her (and I only had to look after DH, not another child - although sometimes I do think the 2 are similar )!

hello everyone! Anyone due 12 Sept?

Hi Dee77 - welcome to the thread! There's a stats thread here that shows who's due when - add yourself by copying the last text into a new message and adding yourself to the list.

Thanks for that, I totally forgot about that, its been a while since I've been on my pc!!! I was on the list of when people are due but I seem to have disappeared from it!!

Kiwifruit, Thanks for booking pedicure. Sounds good to me!

LadyL - hang in there! Stayed at home myself today. Just didn't feel like another day of sitting in an office next to kings cross worrying about how I would get home. Watching the news today is enough to make one never want to leave the house. Hope everything's calmed down on Portnall Road by now!

Welcome back Dee!