Due SEPTEMBER thread 11 - nearly there!

[pooka]

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Hello new thread - is the last thread before a baby arrives - I think so!!! Why is that so exciting and so scary all at once!?

Think I have sorted out my maternity pay - so feeling much calmer now than the angry fog that desended yesterday!!!

hi, wow, thread number 11, everyone is so quiet lately, they've either got a life or are all in labour. i seem to have nothing better to do than sit at my laptop all day. i do have stuff to do but i just can't be bothered, have bought all my hospital stuff but not been in the mood to pack the bag and sort it all out. god i'm so lazy!!!

it is certainly a very scary thought helen

Actually I'm silent but lurking - mainly because I haven't the energy to type all the things I mean to write. Think peanut is having a growth spurt again (it seems to go in fits and starts) and I'm finding even standing up a bit of a challenge at the mo. Bloods ok - hb just a wee bit low. Doctor said 'eat a more iron-rich diet'. Ha! I can't fit any more iron in! I'll have to start eating bloody steak for breakfast [looks for vampire emoticon].

With you on the silent but lurking thing RZ - up till recently this thread has been moving so fast I haven't had the energy to keep up! So still here, just knackered. Actually came to a complete standstill in the street today, pushing DD in her stroller with tons of shopping loaded on the handles, just yards from our front door! Didn't think I was going to make it up the front steps!

I'm always reassured to learn that we are pretty much all knackered! I would worry if it was just me - I really need to get stuff ready for babys arrival - but just the daily basics are enough! -ds was up at 6.30am - I kept trying to sneak of back to bed for a little lay down! and he kept finding me - and jumping on me to get me up!This time next month.........

Hi all, we had a lovely lunch yesterday. Have finally got a rota going ans volunteers to run moms and tots for a couple of weeks when i have bump. Spent this afternoon with in laws. Stressful or what! Have tomorrow to myself so might actually get some housework done (stranger things have happened you know). Wednesday i get to spend my whole day with a three year old and two 85 year olds (not sure who is the worst out of the bunch) Will have to give up the taking the nan's out to do their shopping once a week soon though which is a pity as they treat nat and i to our lunch each week. Thursday dd has a play date and friday she will spend with nanny and grampy (yipeee i finaly get a rest).

Work managed to not get me anything either because i was off sick followed by two weeks holiday then my mat leave started today. The odds on themn doing something nice whern bean arrives are slim even though i have been there for over three years becuase they keep changing my department round so far i have worked in the cafe, petrol station and checkouts.

Have finally got my bag packed and am making a list of things to come down out of the loft.

I am also (a) tired (b) lacking in motivation to get ready for this new arrival (c) in denial that there is going to be a new arrival.

Although I have now done two loads of washing of small clothes .

Hello fellow tired people! Life is officially chaos here - today i bid a fond farewell to my dishwasher, my kitchen, my oven (yes really) for the next two months at least! WTF am i doing!!!! I think I must have lost the plot to agree to all this just seven weeks before baby comes. DS is up and down most nights from his new "big bed" which is adding to my tiredness but hopefully that will improve over the next few week (please please please)

PicadillyCircus - think I'm in denial too. Managed to dig out some of DS newborn clothes last night and get them washed which made it all a bit more real.

Was very naughty yesterday and have to admit couldnt be arsed going to the NCT classes we had booked. It was all day, 10-4 which I just couldn't face after a 4.30am wake up from DS. It'll be my own fault when I lose the plot in labour again!!

morning all, glad you're all ok.... well i'm very proud of myself this morning, woke at 3am in agony, severe back ache and stomach pains, almost s$%t myself as i'd been dreaming of being in labour and at one point i thought i was,anyway tossed and turned til 4 and then got up and decided to keep myself busy. got all babys stuff ready and ironed all clothes and even did all of mine and dd's ironing, which is a rarity, believe me, i've been in this house for 19 months now and only had a empty ironing basket 3 times including today and when i moved in LOL. i'm that proud i've just text my mum to tell her all about it(she starts work at 7, i aint that sad)and she's also very proud of me PMSL.
i can't believe that we're all going to have babies really soon, it seems so unreal.
Well i got informed off my best friend that my cousins wife is expecting, as they also speak. i don't really speak to her unless i see her in the street. My friend told me she's 6 weeeks and has picked her names already, 1 of which rhymes with the name i've chosen as i know the sex, my friend now thinks i'm wrong for using this name as i will be stealing her name even though she's only just pregnant, i was fuming!!!! why shoulkd i change my name just because she's decided in the last few weeks that this is the name she wants? can't really explain properly as i would need to reveal the sex of my baby which i am trying desperately to keep a secret.
sorry, i've waffled again, going to make myself a well earned brew and watch last nights big brother now!!!

Bubbles - Use your name its not like they are using the same name and they have plenty of time to change their mind. You choose yours first and at 6 weeks they can't even tell which flavour baba is going to be and may not get the chance to use that name anyway. (Does this make sense?).

Slept supprisingly well last night appart from having to get up at 2 this morning to go to the loo and sort out dd. I actually have the day to myself at home today so will try and crack on with the house work but will probably spend most of it on mnet!!!!!!!

thanks mummyhill, i have no intention of changing mine. i hope you enjoy your rest day, should be nice for you to have a break. my sleep was awful as i've already said in my last post. i too will stay on here most of the day between playing pogo. also going to go shopping for dd's school uniform today as i have a feeling i'm going to have this baby early. the nesting has hit me all of a sudden this morning and when i got that with dd i had her about a week later so we'll see if there's a pattern.

i'm having trouble getting up the stairs to the computer so haven't been about as much.

i am suffering some pretty bad pains now, which have been keeping me awake for the last few nights. missed my last antenatal class last night as i just cannot get comfy and the thought of sitting in a stuffy hospital, on an uncomfortable chair for an hour or more just wasn't appealing.
baby is doing some pretty impressive gymnastics inside me which appear to be the cause of most of my pain, and when i stand up i kind of have to unfold slowly, or all my ligaments and muscles HURT.

i really don't think i'm going to manage to carry this baby to my due date, this morning i noticed its started bulging out sideways, and there isn't actually a single position or piece of furniture i can get comfy in.

midwife appointment tomorrow so we'll see what she has to say about my basketball bump.

Thanks for sorting new thread, Pooka.
Moschops - sorry to hear you are so uncomfortable. You're due at the beginning of Sept, aren't you? So even if you do go full term, not long now, and even if you don't bump should be ok if it arrives anytime between now and then.
Bubbles - very disappointed! First you say you can't be bothered for which I think "hooray, I'm not the only one!", then you go on a mad ironing frenzy!! Don't you dare change your chosen name. You got there first and even if your friend sticks to her chosen name, it'll look a bit silly, as though she's copying you. Sorry to be brutal but choosing a name is hard enough.
PC am with you on the tired/lacking motivation/disbelief thing. Hoping will all start to sink in...sometime in the next 7 weeks would be nice!!

Can't believe there are already so many posts on the new thread.

Just looked at the date and realised OMG - our babies are due NEXT MONTH!! Does anyone else feel that it is still a bit unreal?

Glad I'm not the only one who's exhausted. But I've only got three more weeks at work including this one, yippee! Last week was a real killer as I was in court twice which meant early starts, travelling, lugging heavy files around AND having to wear high heels.

I finally got round to blowing up my gym ball at the weekend and did some positioning exercises - which led to some extremely violent wriggling from junior so I'm hoping she's wriggled herself round into the head down position. I'm slightly worried she did a full 360 though!

Piccalilli - I've got 3 weeks left at work after this one too but at least I'm mostly office based so you have my sympathies. How did you manage on high heels? I'm at a wedding on Friday and will start off in a pair but am fully intending to change into something more comfortable after a suitable interval (probably once my ankles reach balloon proportions!)

Not sure if my beach ball will go to term either especially with everything else thats going on at the moment so am frantically trying to get everything sorted. Sorry for the lack of punctuation got carried away a bit there.

DD is driving me up the wall, she will not play and let me get on with housework. Plus she keeps stripping off and running round the house starkers, it's not quite warm enough for that at the moment.

Hope we all manage to get some rest and feel a bit better before our bumps arrive.

don't worry jessysmummy, i'm back to normal now and feeling crappy again LOL. my dd can't do enough for me though at the moment which i suppose is a good thing. i have absolutely no intentions of changing my name as it's the only one that the 3 of us could agree on so my cousin and wife and best friend come to think of it will just have to get over it!!!!! had a row with dp this morning so feeling a bit down at the minute, ffs men do my head in!!!

Bubbles - of course men do your head in...if it wasn't for them none of us would be n this position - tired/uncomfortable/tetchy/achy and about to go through the unmentionable .
Then again, if it wasn't for them we would be about to give birth to the most fantastic little people in the world, either!! Glad to hear you are back to "normal" though. Hope DP returns home with bunches of flowers and apologies for the beautiful mother to be of his child!

Should have typed "if it wasn't for them we WOULDN'T be about to give birth to the most fantastic little people in the world" sorry!

Jessysmum we will let you off as typos are easy when shattered and achy and feeling fat. Are anybody elses kids whinging today or is it just mine?

I have just got back from a hospital appointment - am now having the baby at QMC, Nottingham since we moved. As I have Group B strep, my care is supervised by a consultant this time and am having another appointment at 38 weeks to see how things are. Had a scan today which estimated the baby to weigh around 6lbs 1oz and predicted weight 8lbs 110z - my others were 8lbs 14 and 8lbs 7. All seems well although very sad to be having my final baby in hospital rather than at home. But best to be safe, I guess. Hope everyone else is fine. Haven't had time to look at the threads recently....

jessysmummy, my advice regarding the high heels is DON'T DO IT!! I had to keep removing mine beneath the desk, hiding my feet behind my handbag and hoping the judge didn't notice. I'm usually office-based too but somehow have ended up with all my court commitments being in the last few weeks before maternity leave - not the greatest planning on my part.