September 2010 - the end is in sight (even if our feet are not!)

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Time for a new thread to take us into the final leg of the journey!

Here's the latest version of the list that I could find - do update with your info as necessary! PickleSarnie, I've added you. Sassie, I can't spot you in the list unless you've maybe namechanged?

Jaysfourth #4 EDD 24/08/10 Nottingham, GIRL
Inzidoodle #2 EDD 26/08/10 Scotland, BOY
MerryMagpie #1 EDD 28/08/10
comixminx #1 EDD 28/08/10 Oxford SURPRISE
Foxyjbro99 #3 EDD 29/08/10 Shropshire
lilypad72 #1 EDD 30/8/10
mcfee #2 EDD 31/08/10
cinnnamongreyhound #2 EDD 31/08/10 Suffolk BOY
BooStar #1 EDD 01/09/10 New Forest
sazziej #1 EDD 01/09/10 West Lancs, GIRL
SkaterGrrrrl #1 EDD 01/09/10 London SURPRISE
Stickhasgrownup #3 EDD 02/09/10 SE London SURPRISE
NovemberAli #1 EDD 02/09/10 Nottingham
lillyfc #4 EDD 02/09/10 East Sussex
Babyshoes #2 EDD 02/09/10
ChocolateCalculator #2 02/09/10
swordfishtrombones #3 EDD 02/09/10 SE London
bananastew #2 EDD 02/09/10
flippertygibbet # EDD 03/09/10
IlariaS #1 EDD 03/09/10
jbakedbean #2 EDD 04/09/10
patito #2 EDD 04/09/10
Cakeandfinewine #2 EDD 05/09/10 Staffordshire GIRL
Mellousol #1 EDD 05/09/10
Monstermuncher #2 EDD 05/09/10 Glasgow
ciacia #2 EDD 05/09/10
Eleanora #1 EDD 06/09/10
Debs75 #4 EDD 06/09/2010
monkeymiss #2 07/09/10
EmmaLM #1 EDD 07/09/10
Heather1980 #3 EDD 07/09/10 Manchester
Eggonlegs #2 EDD 08/09/10
Catbus #4 EDD 09/09/10
TTTrouble #2 EDD 10/09/10
Surreygirl #2 EDD 10/09/10
LB1981 #1 EDD 14/09/10 NE London, Girl
Susiey #3 EDD 12/09/10 N.London
weirdbird #3 EDD 12/09/10 BOY
upsoearly #2 EDD 13/09/10
AMMG #1 EDD 14/09/10
Cityangel #2 EDD 15/09/10 London
Love2Dance #2 EDD 15/09/10 London, SURPRISE
Bonners #1 EDD 15/09/10 Scotland
MadameG #1 EDD 16/09/10 London
CathN #1 EDD 16/09/10 London
MudandRoses #2 16/09/10 Brighton Boy
ArcticFox #1 EDD 16/09/10
HellysBelles #1 EDD 16/9/10 SW London
Bloominnorah #2 EDD 17/09/10 Scotland
WhiteRoses #1 EDD 17/09/10
cazza41 #1 EDD 17/09/10
Mellymooks #2 EDD 17/09/10 BOY
Willthecatbejealous #1 EDD 17/09/10 Leeds
Lifeas3plus1 #2 EDD 17/09/10
princerhysmum #1 EDD 17/09/10
aswellasyou #1 EDD 18/09/10 Birmingham GIRL
LadyRabbit #1 EDD 18/09/10 
LucyLG #1 EDD 18/09/10 Staffs
VoilaAnotherGimlet #1 EDD 19/9/10 London
Scooby16 #1 EDD 19/09/10
lenga01 #2 EDD 20/09/10
Whammie76 #2 EDD 20/09/10 Scotland
PickleSarnie #1 EDD 20/09/10
Irishgal1 #1 EDD tbc
MammyG #3 EDD 21/09/10 Ireland
Nandos #2 and #3 EDD 22/9/10 London
caprica6 #1 EDD 22/9/10 Hampshire
DreamingAboutSleep #2 EDD 22/09/10 Herts
Muswellmummy #1 EDD 22/09/10
coppertop #4 EDD 23/9/10
ooosabeauta #2 EDD 23/9/10 GIRL
JodeyLea #1 EDD 24/9/10 Birmingham
Saoirse86 #1 EDD 24/09/10 Birmingham GIRL
Bessie123 #2 EDD 25/09/10 London BOY
StrictlyTory #2 EDD 25/09/10 SUPRISE
Sunface #3 EDD 25/09/10
Kittyonthebeam #2 EDD 25/09/10 Dubai BOY
Bellabelly #3 & #4 EDD 26/09/10 Kent 2 GIRLS
Ohfuck EDD 26/09/10
RunningGuerita #1 EDD 26/09/10
Dixiebell #1 EDD 26/09/10 BOY
Zowina #1 EDD 27/09/10
Watersprite #2 EDD 27/09/10
legallyblond #1 EDD 29/09/10
velvetjess #1 EDD 29/09/10 London, SURPRISE
MummyFifi #1 EDD 30/09/10 GIRL

oh no! poor skyebug...
she's very clever but i do worry as me and dp are dyslexic and struggled at school despite having higher than average IQ's.
(my sisters in mensa though,so you never know...)
we were looking into a montessori or steiner school,maybe they could redress the balance...although we're not sure we can really afford it past pre school!?! also looking at forest schools,witch are ALOT cheaper!!

ohh to be rich...

Everyone seen the 'Who knows best- can't sleep kids' programme on tonight at 9pm channel 4? It has two women with opposing ideas trying to help mums at the end of their tether. Should be interesting.
I had trouble with DD when she was about 1/18months and did the leave her for a min, then 2, then 3 etc sleep technique. Think i only did it for 2 nights and on the 3rd, she went to sleep. Not quite as confident with two, but will definately try it again.

i cant wait to see it! bedtime went like this:
dd in bed all tucked up in big girl bed after bath story kisses etc,im patting her back and shhhhhhhing as we have since she was born,

dd:"go away!"
me: "oh,okay, goodnight darling" kiss

i go downstairs,30seconds later

dd: "muuummmmyyy!! come baackkk, wahaahhhhaaa!!"

i go back up,put her into bed,kiss.

dd:"go away,GO AWAY!!"

repeat about 20 times!

now what the hell is that all about?!

Ooh, thanks for the reminder - I want to watch ths! Switching on now...

skye I would say it's about her testing to see what she can get you to do.

sassy she's winning then...
pants.

How old is she? My dd tried it with me. 5 mins after i had put her to bed, she would be shouting me from the top of the stairs 'i'm hungry, i'm thirsty'. At first i took her on, but then realised she was just trying it on. It was tough but i just told her it was bedtime and if she had really been hungry and thirsty, she would have said before. She cried and screamed and i felt awful, like i was starving her!!!! but she stopped doing it.
I'm definately with the tough love side of things!

she was 2 last monday,
im pretty toughlove with everything,
but we've always been obliging at night time as she had refux as a baby and we couldnt put her down,she was in a sling almost permenantly till she learnt to walk at 7 months!
shes just moved into a big bed,but still is carried and cuddled to sleep,you put her down fast asleep,and bang shes awake!
and telling you to go away!
its like she wants to do it herself,but she cant(our fault)
so very very unfair.
im praying (atheist prayers!) this one's a sleeper and does NOT have reflux!

It's hard, DD had colic till about 2 years. The child would not burp! She used to draw her legs up screaming. I would spend hours rubbing her back and used to thank the stars when she got hiccups, cos loads of burps would come up. Turns out it all stems from constipation. Caused trapped wind for years and kidney infections. She's 10 in August and is still under a specialist, and has medication every day. The constipation has stretched her bowel too big and therefore it only fills up every few days, gives her tummy ache and causes fecal compaction. It's a bloody shame for her, but it is getting better and better. The medication is to soften stools and allow her bowel to contract back to it's normal size, but i've been told it could take years.

Hi all
Have spent the past half hour just trying to catch up!
Am so tired today - mind you have been overdoing it somewhat over the past few weeks. Chasing around the country meeting people or organising things. Summer is so hectic. Have all the baby clothes washed and sorted - need to just organise room now and pack a bag! Supposed to be travelling to see SIL tomorrow but am thinking of letting DH take the boys and staying home alone??
Travelling to other side of country on sun for a few days with my brothers family. It will be nice to see them but wont be relaxing. Whole day there and whole day back. Also bringing my mother so could be recipe for disaster!!
Am having crazy braxtons. And the minute I lie down this one takes off. DH laughs as bed shakes with some of the jumps. Have to go an get blood tested again to see if anaemia has gotten any better. Also really suffering with my teeth!! Feel like whole right hand side of my mouth is just super sensitive. Actually waking up with the pain! Ah pregnancy - the gift that keeps on giving!!

sassy that sounds far to similar for me to ignore...how did you get this diagnoses? we have always thought somethings up with her tummy.
she wakes up screaming from the pain.
any tips?

just washed tons of baby clothes,and finaly written list for the bag!
feeling rather nesty tonight!

oh,
35+1(nearly 2)

skye We didn't get the diagnosis until quite recently. Because of the numerous kidney infections (sometimes monthly at one point) they concentrated on that for years. She had scans on her kidneys and dye injected. I took her out of our local hospital care and moved her to a neighbouring one because a friend recommended a consultant there. (2006). But even they never gave me a full explanation or a solution. It was only when the school nurse was called in because i picked Chloe up early one day when she had stomach ache and she I realised she had soiled her knickers. Broke my heart that she had sat in it in cos she was too embarrassed to change. Went thru loads of problems with this. I have sent a change of clothes in from day 1. But kids would ask why is she taking a bag to toilet. So then she would keep the bag in the disabled toilet. Then went thru another stage were she wouldn't change- found out it was cos i had put in a different stlye skirt-didn't occur to me- took weeks to get to the bottom of that.
Anyway the school nurse put me in touch with a specialist in wetting and soiling and he explained it all over an hour in our 1st meeting. He spent ages with us, asking questions and explaining why she would say she didn't need the toilet and then wet herself 2 mins later -she can't feel it cos the bowel is pushing into the bladder. This is also the reason for all the kidney infections. You can't imagine the guilt i felt cos i had spent years despairing thinking she was just being naughty or lazy and ignoring her need to go to the toilet. I've screamed at her more than once. I remember ringing the doctors at the height of it, despairing that she had another kidney infection. I was also stressed out that she would be picked on at school.

Her medication is called movicol and if you google this, you will find a ton of blogs that just re-iterate DD's story over and over- it's alot more wide spread than you would think.

movicol

Sassy my friends daughter had almost the same problem. She was soiling herself everyday for about 5 years. The docs told her that the constant problem of not pooing then pooing a brick sized poo was deadening the nerves in her back passage. They put her onto movicol and loads of other stuff which gave her diarrea(sp?) for about 6 months so that the muscles and nerves could start to work again. In the end her parents split up. Dad moved out and the problem disappeared. Might have been a coincidence but her Mum is sure that the constant arguing was adding to her problems.

Baby is wrigling so much I swear it is trying to escape. Is definitely transverse so i get pushes on each side, feet on the left and head on the right

ditto mammyG with a lot of what you just said!

My teeth aren't too bad, but that may be because I'm brushing them anything up to 4 times a day! Especially after a sleep.

I was supposed to go see my MIL yesterday, but with DH not well (he's back at work now thank goodness!) I didn't feel like driving for an hour on my own. Going to see her at the weekend anyway to drop DS off for a few days, so it's not too bad.

My BHs have really kicked off these past few days. I shuffled round Asda on Friday, and couldn't make it past the chocolate aisle so DH bravely volunteered to face the hoards to get some garlic bread for tea!

Morning everyone.

I am 36 weeks today , could be anytime now.... my next midwife appointment is Friday afternoon so will find out then how baby is position wise.

Nusery is finished and all baby clothes have been washed and put away. Pram is due to arrive this week! Hospital bag is packed and ready by the door.

Anybody else been suffering with backache? I bought a gym ball from Tesco at the weekend (£6 much cheaper than a birthing ball and the same thing),have found it realy helps, am sitting, rocking and bouncing on it for a few hours every night.

debs75 Sounds like dd. But her dad is never here to argue with! ha. Actually we don't argue that much. So it's definately not that.

sazziej My back keeps giving in. Only started yesterday. It's just on the right side. If i step with my left leg, it's fine. As soon as i step with my right leg the pain shoots in the right of my back and it's like i'm going to fall because i can't hold myself up.
I suppose it's good in a way; it's forcing me to do nothing!

Hello everyone, this thread is moving faster and faster as more of us start mat leave! Went for my regular massage last night but she had to stop as I started getting really dizzy and thought I was going to faint, think the nerves are just so tight in my back now my blood flow couldn't cope with them being manipulated - bugger though as I now still have a really tight sore back, ah well will go back next week and try again.

Feel bad about my DD too, I simply don't have the energy to do much with her now (cbeebies is my life line) I'm finding walking a real problem, it's so hilly here that with my back the way it is I simply can't push the buggy up and out the hill where we live. Driving isn't too bad but any longer than about half an hour and I start to be in too much pain in my spine.

34 wks

I'm kind of hoping he might be early, just cause I feel like I want to get on with it all now and not have this massive bump any more(bet I'll miss it when it's gone though, especially as this is my last...)

I think I've been quite lucky with aches and pains, have had lower back pain for a while but as sazziej says the birthing ball helps, plus I'm doing antenatal yoga and the instructor always caters the class to our aches and pains and has taught me several stretches.

I am honestly not ready to have this baby yet, DS was 2 weeks late and the last 2 weeks were awful but I'm doing this for the last time the same as mellymooks and I decided early on I was going to enjoy it more than last time. I still feel I have too many things to do before he comes (not baby related) and I have been expecting him to be late from the start as DS was.

Any news from Jaysfourth? Not heard since her early morning post about her horrible dream. Hope she's feeling a bit more positive

36+1

Sassy Don't think I was insinuating anything, noone made the connection till a few months later when we realised she had completely changed in temperament. She had gone from, sulky, wingy, listless and tearful to more confident in the space of a couple of months. All the time her bowels got better and better. A year on she is even better and has now got so many friends and doesn't sit gawking at the tv all day. Incidentally just like her Dad did.
My dniece has the same problems but with a completely different family set-up.

I have terrible back-pain so might think of getting an exercise ball to slump over. Walking is making it worse but only when I get back and sit down.

Had first ever Braxton Hicks last night! Scary but exciting.

36 + 2

debs75 No, i didn't think you were insinuating anything. No worries.
Probably if we were always arguing and looking rocky, it might have hit a nerve, but i'm quite secure in the knowledge that we're in a good place- twins on the way and a new house being done up. Although it is stressful as well! The house isn't helping, but i'm resigned to the fact that i'll be bringing the babies back to my mum's. Boo.
DP is back in 2 days. Yippee. Just got 2 days to hold onto babies and then they can come when they want, without worrying about DP having to get back via, boat or helicopter and then train and me having to squeeze legs together for over 5 hours!

34+5

Woohoo! DP just rang, he is on his way back now...2 days early. Burst into tears. Had anxiety from the beginning that he would miss it. No chance of that now. Can't tell you how relieved i am, don't think even i realised how wound up i was about it.

oh wow sassy I'm really pleased for you x