Due March 2010 - I'm a baby get me out of here!

[annamama]

New ante-natal thread... the post-natal thread is here

Oooooh, more babies!! Congratulations, Abs and Grizzer, hope you both enjoy your little bundles.

I feel I have No Right to demand ask for photos of gravid Pixie, but might be able to offer a medical opinion on when the twins will put in an appearance if one were forthcoming?? Trust me, I am a doctor .

Well, DS4 likes a good party until about 3am, then sleeps til 6, then does a lot of retching and coughing and puking and filling of nappy then goes back to sleep and had been sleeping since .
Could he not sleep from say midnight to 5am instead??

Righto, DS3 demands attention

Any word from Manda??

Does anyone else who's overdue keep having to remind themselves that they ARE STILL HAVING A BABY even though the due date has passed?? My brain keeps going 'oh well, that's that then, no baby, let's move on'. And then I remember that it WILL still happen - in fact, it's going to happen REALLY SOON?!

Think I excited my two best friends this morning - made a coffee date at my house with one, who must have turned up while I was in the shower or drying my hair so I never heard her knocking the door (and she wasn't bold enough to just walk in even though it was open!) She promptly texts our other friend to say she thinks I must be in the hospital, having baby - confusion ensues! My own fault for not having a shower early enough this morning, but I could only just muster the energy after lying awake quite a lot last night and then DD climbing into bed at 6am, a full hour earlier than usual. [tired emoticon]

anna re your profound theory on knicker-checking. Very true.

abs and grizzer congrats! Hope to join you in post-natal soon!

On that note, think I'll think twice before venturing onto the PN thread again before my time -had a bit of a nosy last night and ended up rather worried about labour and just, well, you know, the pain of it all, especially if it's a back to back labour. Oh, and how to cope with two children when this baby eventually does decide to show up. Hmm, not issues to consider when labour is imminent.

Gosh what did I start with the chicken sucking thing? It's an aussie bush remedy for bringing on labour, haven't you all heard of it? . Obviously not very effective though as I'm still around.

Can't sleep so very tired and over it here. Don't feel like leaving house, but also don't feel like sitting still. Not really sure I want to go into labour or that I'm ready for this baby quite yet, so feel like I'm in some sort of grumpy limbo. I need to think of something I can look forward to doing on the weekend so that I'm not just sitting around eating and whingeing and waiting!

Congrats to IWCAS, AbsB, Grizzer, Bluey, and Pacific! They are coming so thick and fast, I can barely keep up. Love the thread title suggestion too Arcadie. Hope all is going well Manda, Blonde and Ang. I hope all is well too with you Caitni if you are still reading (and not already cuddling baby).

I think I'm with you on the RL tea Mummyelk - actually think it might be bringing about this nausea I've been getting!

Heckle, I've also worried myself a bit after reading about back to back labour on the PN thread! Hopefully baby has turned now.

Okay I think I might walk down the street and get ingredients for DH to make me strawberry pancakes tomorrow morning.

PixieOnaLeaf and MummyElk have made the Mumsnet Talk Round-up email!

Ah, shroomer you beat me to it! Was just about to 'out' them myself! Wahey! But also PMSL and on pixie's behalf at her weepy confession! Michael Jackson wouldn't see the leaf buds...really??? THAT set you off??

Right, I've posted my Mother's Day card (at the last minute as I was hoping she'd be here to cuddle new baby by now anyway) and have made rock buns, which look rather yummy if I do say so myself (pics on FB). Now off to eat soup and aforementioned buns.

Drooling at the thought of your strawberry pancakes walnut...

Oh my goodness i've NEVER made the talk round up!! Pixie's a veteran by now, she's far wittier than i am..how funny
re the RL tea, i had some holland and barrett stuff but heard the loose stuff was stronger am easily duped. Anyone else find they get obsessed with stuff and HAVE to go out and get it? So, for example, one week it was all the aromatherapy oils i MIGHT need for labour...this week it's white baby grows. I have pLENTY of outfits for the LO, particularly if it's a pink flavour, but NO i Must Shop....
However I AM now the proud owner of a Jane Power Twin (in navy blue annamamma - less choice when it's second hand!, though the green and red is lovely, i quite like the bright red too, v nice) and a car seat which seems to play music to the baba ??!!! hilarious. I was rubbish at the bargaining but frankly bugger it. got a few quid off at any rate.
mmmmm strawberry pancakes......walnut you had to go and say it didn't you...
heckle your story made me laugh about your friends, bet they were in full panic mode! love it

Wow, we have famous people on here... can someone please copy and post that part of the email as I don't seem to get it anymore.

MummyElk - we stalked ebay for months before we got our Jane, can't remember how much we paid but at least much cheaper than a new one! We also have a car seat but I don't think it plays music? Are you sure or have you just gone a bit loopy in late pregnancy...?

I was wondering about Caitni the other day, where is she?

Ok I have a silly confession to make, I mentioned it before, I really want this baby to be Pisces! 19th is the last day which also happens to be my birthday and I don't want to share. So it needs to be born on the 18th at the latest. Apart from that I guess there's no rush. Due date is 15th. Will go for another brisk walk later and I told DH we must have some love makin' tonight no matter how tired we are! Gah.

Heckle - haha, I know what you mean, feels like anti-climax if you go past your due date doesn't it? Like going to the airport on a certain date to pick someone up and they don't arrive and you just stand there looking at lots of strangers arriving for ages then give up and go home empty handed...?

And Belgian will stay huge forever, yes, I'm glad you've accepted your destiny!

How exciting - how do you get the talk round-up email? I want to know what they said!

MummyElk - i've got the loose stuff too. i think if anything it is more disgusting than the Holland and Barrett, so on that basis hopefully it is stronger. Can't wait to stop drinking it (yet another reason to want this baby to arrive).

I have bought a new baby bouncer this morning - having resisted and resisted doing any unecessary shopping, I finally caved. It's a babybjorn one. I was looking on ebay but then found they're only about £15 more new and it'll hold it's value for resale (desperate justifications to self). I really shouldn't but I REALLY wanted it after seeing several friends using them with their newborns.

heckle - good plan posting the mother's day card. Should make it more likely that you go into labour so your Mum will be around anyway. Might try it myself.

walnut - are you joking with the chicken sucking? I genuinely thought it was a typo (not quite sure what for though!) Whatever, I'm sticking to the exessive amounts of chocolate diet, although I'm craving fruit again now which probably means nothing at all.

annamamma - yes, you're quite right... wanders off to check knickers ... nope, nothing going on.

I have stuff in my knickers but it ain't pink. Just normal yukky pg discharge... tmi sorry!

Walnut meant to type I'm such a chicken but she instead typed suck a chicken. However, it might be worth a try eh?

Brisk walk now........ maybe.......... yawn.

Aha... I found the Talk round-up on the site:

Blubbing pregnant ladies shared their tales of shameful sobbing after musicposy confessed to bawling hysterically by the ice-rink when her daughter's lesson was delayed: "Please tell me I'm not completely losing it." "I cry at everything," reassured PixieOnaLeaf. "I cried when I saw leaf buds on some trees the other day because Michael Jackson wouldn't be able to see them." Colie was still gutted about the passing of Elvis: "I found out he passed away when I was about 10 but found it extremely distressing to hear it on the news again recently." Tiredfeet was dreadfully upset after viewing the Creme Egg advert: "Where it catapults itself and splats." MummyElk joined in the sobbing: "He's someone's Creme Egg son, how would his mother feel?" Auburnlizzy78 fell to pieces in the cheese aisle at Sainsbury's: "I just thought about how lovely everything looked, with the shelves all fully stocked, and I was struck by how much choice there was."

Oh, Talk Round-up made me laugh!! You are quite insane, Pixie! I used to cry at the BT advert where the daughter in New York phones her father in good old Blighty - soo poignant and this was years and years ago without any pregnancy hormones to blame

Re knicker checking: anna, you are quite right in your analysis how the reason for knicker checking changes as pregnancy progresses, but may I just add the cautious note that I Did Not Get Any Warning!! No show, no tightenings, no nothing...
Much much better than hugely long latents phase I am sure.

Anyway, you lot will all not be in the waiting room much longer.
There is a baby in there honest !

I am missing my bump, am left with most unattractive jelly-belly...

Off to offer wee Joe a feed, he was up until 3am, and has been asleep/sleepy since, quite difficult to get him to feed and my milk is begiggning to come in , gah!!

Still loving the chat over here ladies - can't keep me away!
pixie you will get your own special trophy for carrying the biggest twins ever. I will keep my trophy for now for biggest singleton. . . . . unless I get beaten!
manda you will be too busy snuggling your newborn to read this but to answer your question 'yes' Big baby is packing on the weight, she was weighed yesterday at 10 days old and is now 11lb 5 1/2 oz so no weight loss here!
how much for your RL tea mummyelk???? I bought mine at an independant health food shop - the loose stuff that is and it was less than a £1. I quite liked the taste.
Right will go and check in at the 'other side' and see what all this talk round up stuff is about.

Swings I'd definitely stick to the excessive amounts of chocolate diet. Even aussies aren't mad enough to suck chickens However I'm beginning to wonder whether babynut is liking my chocolate and fruit diet (also craving fruit) a little too much and am thinking of depriving her by eating ... I don't know ... brussel sprouts and cabbage or something. I think she's getting it too good in there.

I had forgotten all about my obsession over that babybjorn balance. Dammit. Now I want it again.

anna I'm also trying to force myself to do the brisk walk thing. I have to remind myself I don't get the pancakes unless I go get the strawberries.

Is it normal for boobs to suddenly feel massive and a lot harder at this stage? I though that was supposed to happen after the birth however they definitely seem different today.

I got my Mumsnet guide to Babies in the post today! Now all I need is a baby to look after. Those clever ladies at MNHQ managed to time it so the Pregnancy book came out just after we Marchers conceived and the Babies book has appeared just as we're all due/giving birth!

Blaaaaahhhhh....I'm simultaneously bored and yet can't be arsed to DO anything. Oh well, DD and DH will be home soon to bug me keep me entertained. I know, I know, I'll be wishing I could have all this quiet time back again after the baby arrives...

walnut I haven't personally experienced boob changes like that til after my milk came in after DD was born, but everyone's different. Probably just your body limbering up to do what it has to do.

Check out Sariska's birth story on "the other side", it's awesome...

Hi everyone, Im new here and due 22nd March with my 1st. Feel like I have been pregnant forever! Looking forward to talking to you all.

Our baby boy Luca was born at 5.40am on 8th March after a traumatic birth experience. I don't feel up to writing all the details as it makes me cry but fortunately he is a happy and healthy 8lb 7oz boy.

Hi westlondongirl Big congrats on Luca ( LOVE that name as I am a big ER fan). So sorry to hear you found birth traumatic. Totally understandable - it's a huge shock to the system even when it all goes in a textbook fashion. Hope you can chat through your notes with your MW or consultant and get a sense of closure - I know it's helped a fair few of my friends to understand what happened and why and in some cases has stopped them going down an spiral of PND. Very glad he's doing well - enjoy!

Strawberrycrumble Welcome. We're about 1/3 popped here and I'm one of the last due to pop so you and I can sit feeling pregnant, unpoppable and grumpy for a good long while.

Pacific Post some photos woman. I want to see what a PacificPuppywood looks like.....

Oh gosh, bloody hormones! Should have stayed away from the post-natal thread...Sariska's birth story had me in a bloomin' blubbering mess, it was just so lovely!

Huge congratulations to all the new March babies! Arcadie gives good advice on reviewing your notes westlondongirl, especially if it was terribly traumatic for you. But welcome little Luca (love the name too). abs and grizzer congratulations to you both too. And huge apologies if I have missed anyone's arrival - it really isn't intentional, it's just so difficult keeping up with this thread (hence Arcadie's fab suggestion for the next thread name!).

Pixie you must feel fit to pop! Speaking of which, DD said the other day that, "Mummy's tummy is like a balloon. It's going to go 'pop' and my baby sister will come out". Guess that's not bad biology for a 2 and a half year old!

I am starting to feel sooo much better - thanks to lots of you lovely ladies, some great friends, a fab DH (once I had given him a kick) and DD and some antibiotics - think the chest infection was far worse than I actually thought and had really got me down. Thing is, you just carry on because you have to don't you?! I managed to sleep for 3 out of the 4 hours that DD was at preschool this morning, and think that uninterrupted peace did me an awful lot of good. Definitely on the mend now, so hopefully I will be fit and ready come the birth! Am still predicting that it's going to be 19th March for me

Pacific, am loving the how appropriate!

Ehem, yes, photos, one has technical difficulties here.... My mum may never speak to me again if we do not manage to send some photos soon - DH is working on it... Arcadie, I am calling him 'puppy' in RL . DS1 thinks he looks like a monkey baby - he is v skinny

westlondongirl, congratulations on the arrival of Luca! I hope your life together will be better than what your birthexperience seems to have been like... Hope you can put it behind you soon.

Strawberrycrumbly, I have already moved to The Other Side , but welcome and hope to see you on the P/N thread soon.

evening all - jelly bellies/basketball bellies/anything inbetween.....
right have checked the price of the RL tea and it was £4.50 was i completely ripped off?! i think i've worked out this shopping lark - it's because you get a quick adrenalin fix which helps subdue that I've Been Pregnant Forever Feeling....make any sense? Or have I just drunk too much loopy juice tea?!!
annamamma the car seat definitely plays music!!! I promise! (god knows why) Am quite looking forward to getting a nice bright coloured cositoes once we know what flavour this one is (back to shopping again...terrible )

Will be back in a bit, i feel like i should watch the One Show, christine bleakley sounds like she did an amazing job today water skiing across the channel

Evening ladies

Big congrats to all the new mums! And looking forward to all the exciting news to come.

I've been lurking a bit but am still here (40+10 ) and just haven't had the heart to post.

I've been so up and down - after a week that's involved 3 sweeps (latest today at the maternity day unit where I went for monitoring) and almost daily long walks/curry/hours of nipple stimulation with a breast pump/two more acupuncture sessions/sex, sex and more sex, there's still no sign of this baby making an appearance. I lost my mucuous plug overnight on Wed/Thurs (tmi alert, but lots of bloody show - whoever said slug-like was definitely right!), my cervix is effacing nicely, is 2-3cm dilated and moving forward but yet no contractions (that I can feel anyway).

The lowest point was an appointment with a horribly brusque registrar on Wed who basically told me I'm being irresponsible not to have gone in for induction last night - when I questioned him he couldn't come up with anything more than "because it's hospital policy" . My DH congratulated me on holding my cool with him, but we did decide to book in for an induction on Tues (T+14) - meaning I'll go in on Monday night, so T+13 really - as expectant management isn't for us because the IVF means we're so bang on sure of our dates that we're not happy with the risks of going over 42 weeks.

I was so very sad that it looks like my long-planned home water birth is becoming less and less likely, but I've picked up my mood a bit today. I'm now only days away (at most) from finally meeting my baby and I'm 100% sure that he or she will be worth the wait! And while my kind family and friends keep insisting that things can happen naturally still, I've decided that induction is the only way to get this baby out - too comfy by far in there, as proved by today's scan to check amniotic fluid levels which showed us just how comfy the little baby is in there. Luckily, the liquour levels and trace and movements were all fine (as I suspected they'd be).

I was v happy to be told I'd had a contraction (which I didn't feel) during the trace. While I appreciate having such a laid back latent phase, I do wish it would kick off into proper labour soon! Still, we are finally facing into our last weekend as a couple before finally becoming a family of 3

So my massive sympathies to everyone else over 40 weeks - tis frustrating and tiring and emotionally draining and irritating and I hope all the babies arrive soon! And sympathies to all other sufferers of general late pregnancy-ness!

Now I'm off to lurk again, as the next time I post I WILL have my baby

PS Blonde really hope your induction went well and looking forward to reading your birth announcement

PPS For any nervous first timers, sweeps are fine - about as uncomfy as a smear - and really do help most women start labour!

Yippee! More babies. Congratulations.
I have been for a sweep this afternoon. Thought she was going to pull a calf out. I was 1 cm and favourable she said but I could be like that for days. Have been left bleeding a bit a very bruised. Can't actually stand up cause it hurts so much. Will have to convince DH to cook dinner. If the sweep gets everything going I think I will kiss the midwife.
Think my sweep was uncomfortable because my cervix is in a funny position. Never needed a sweep before so it was a new experience for me. Have sweeps worked for anyone else before?

caitni really feel for you, don't take any grief from the docs. They are so insensitive sometimes. Will keep my fingers (not legs) crossed for you.