Due SEPTEMBER thread 12 - the big countdown ...

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Here we go

I've decided I'm ready - even if my bag isn't, nor most other stuff. Just pretty fed up with being pregnant now, and being the only person doing any organising - dh just doesn't seem to have thought/made decisions about ANYTHING! It always seems to be me getting the last minute things sorted, thinking about what we need, planning for contingencies etc. Ho hum.
A mother came back to the yoga class last night to tell her birth story, had planned home birth but ended up being induced 10 days after due date. I SO hope that doesn't happen to me! I very intolerant of lateness generally, and remember last time the final 2 weeks dragged like crazy as it was.
Hope all's well STM.

Glad everything is ok STM, you had me worried there for a bit. Goodluck with the wedding.

Pooka - I am ready now as well I have done all the organising and am fed up with making all the decisions too I would of thought DH would know better after all he has been through all this before but has left all the work to me this time round.

RZ - Goodluck and give them hell!! If they had done what they were supposed to in the first place you maybe wouldn't of had to go to the trouble of hirring an independant midwife. My parents luckily do not follow the thought patern that the medical proffessionals know what is best all the time. But the purle spacesuit sounds well sexy LOL.

Dianne77 - I wouldn't worry too much they can turn the baby at this stage. Try putting a bag of peas at top of bump and a warm water bottle on pubic bone may encourage baby to position itself correctly. Can't remember who but someone had posted a link on one of our previous posts on methods of getting baby into optimum position.

Welcome back beatie kiwi(now was it kate or kath) posted some usefull information on SPD on thread 11 if you have broadband up and running it might be worth a look.

You can tell that most of us are on mat leave as the threads are growing well.

I have a hosital appointment on Friday to discuss my birth options with regard to my prolapsed disc. I think they have left this a bit late as I will be 38 weeks on Tuesday so will not be able to elect for a section so easily if i wanted to based on the information they will hopefully have for me this time, as when i went to see them 3 weeks ago they hadn't even written to the orthapeadic team and had forgotten all about why I had booked the appointment.

We are going to Bristol for the day on Saturday. Will make sure I have my hospital bag in the car just in case!!!!!!

Wish I had the energy all of you who are cooking for the freezer have! Have enough trouble cooking tea for kids, then us later on. Ended up with fish and chips on Mon which was a very bad idea for heartburn! Planning to make fish pie on Fri so might do 2 if I have the energy as should freeze well. With ds1 my Mum cooked us a whole load of chilli etc, but I don't remember her doing it with ds2 (all a bit of a haze though) and i think this time around I'll be left to fend for myself more! Took kids out to meet friends at great forestry commission place today, but now exhausted. Think I'll admit defeat now on adventurous day trips and stick to the park instead!
Glad you're OK STM - thought we might get our next birth!!

Good to hear from you STM - glad everything is OK, you had me worried there for a while! Have a great time at the wedding!

Got home last night to ANOTHER letter from UCH saying that they have once again mislabelled my bloods and can I please go back to do some more. That is the second lot they have messed up. Am starting to feel like a pincushion !!

Pooka - my DH is exactly the same. Nightmare. Seems to think I will be able to sort everything out when I go on maternity leave... that is everything baby related, and everything moving to the other side of the world related . Marvellous.

Zubb - good to hear that all is OK with the baby.

RZ - I think a purple spacesuit would be very fetching! Give them hell and stick to your guns...

OHHH, just got an email from my manager to all of our team saying lots of nice things about me and inviting everyone to a farewell do on Monday. Leaving work is starting to feel real!!!

I don't envy you sorting out the relocation to NZ on top of everything else, Kiwifruit. Poor you.
I know that I've been technically on maternity leave for AGES (nearly 15 weeks ), but it's not as if I spend my days eating chocolate and watching daytime television. DD is full on (lovely, but very labour intensive) and not old enough to help/amuse herself too long while sort things out. So I feel like I've swapped one job for another IYSWIM and yet it's still my responsbility to oversee building works, paint walls, go into loft, clean house of builders' dust, do all gardening, washing, plan labour, buy equipment for the new one, choose pushchair/buggyboard, get all clothes ready and so on. Oh well - I'm so lucky that my dm tends to have dd once a week for a day, which gives me a chance to at least have a good old clear out. So I shouldn't complain really as I am really fortunate to have her help.

Just posted on the childbirth thread on intrauterine pressure monitoring. Anyone had this? I feel very nervous about the prospect and all the intervention that could result.

Well its my birthday today and going to take it easy today. My toddler has been taken off my hands all week by my hubbys parents, which has been great - first proper child free break in 3 years, so nice
Have been reading this thread since yesterday, sounds like you all know whats going on with each others pregnancys which is really nice. Not sure if its just me but being a londoner have found the pre-natal midwifery care crap! Have not been seen by a midwife since 33wks as they are so busy have had to make my own GP appts every 2 weeks. Midwife was supposed to turn up yesterday on a rare home visit but when I called to find out a time, she told me that they were understaffed and would not be able to make it. I really wanted to be seen by someone as at my last chk the baby had moved out of enaged position and into breech. Feeling quite nervous as my first was always head down. Do they wait to see if it turns with a second as I have heard that second babies don't engage until labour??

I think it's true that for subsequent pregnancies the baby's head doesn't necessarily engage until the last minute. I'm trying for a home birth this time, and one of the things that would necessitate being shipped to hospital would be if I was having regular strong contractions and the baby was still high up in the pelvis. apparently. Not sure about the breach thing - shame your midwife care is so haphazard otherwise you could ask them.
I've been really lucky (don't know whether it's because my community/group practice midwives are particularly keen on home births or not) and have been seen at 30, 34, 36, and 37 weeks and will be seen weekly from now on. And the last 3 visits have been home visits so haven't even had to drag myself and dd to the surgery. Haven't gone longer than 6 weeks without midwife appointment, haven't seem any doctors at all.
Next visit on Monday.
Happy birthday! Have a relaxing time.

Welcome Zoezebra.

Thanks, looking at the stats, think we are due on the same date!!

Welcome zoezebra and happy birthday .

Have looked at the stats thread and you (and some others) are due on my birthday. An excellent day to be born (although DS2/DD is not allowed to be born that day )

I am feeling big and heavy and round. I suppose that being 36 weeks tomorrow could have somehting to do with it. Luckily DS is currently playing happily allowing me to have my morning Mumsnet fix.

It has got hot again, but looking at the weather forecast today seems to be it, with rain and cold tomorrow.

My baby is also breech (although there was lots of vigourous movement last night). When I see the midwife next week, she'll check its position and then if it still seems to be breech I'll get sent off to hopsital some time to have a scan and possibly have an ECV to turn it. I really would prefer not to have a C-section as the thought of (a) not being able to pick DS up for weeks and (b) not being able to drive for weeks are not appealing prospects.

But I will wait and see.

Went to see a friend of mine with a 3.5 month old yesterday, partly to borrow the moses basket and partly to see baby again (last saw her when she was 7 weeks). I'd forgotten how much they change at that stage; she is interacting so much more now.

8th is the date they have given me from the scan but i had it worked out to the 6th (my birthday) s*ds law states that bean will arrive on my birthday though don't you think?

It would be typical if it was due on your birthday, this is what i too also feared but the day is here and no sign of the baby coming (apart from one or two severe and painful braxton hicks which seem to be coming more frequently every night now). Have just spoken to the male team leader midwife and it appears that I am due a visit tomorrow...at last. Was beggning to think that i would go the last few weeks without seeing a midwife at all. Hopefully he will tell me if the baby has moved and is now in the right position. It still seems very high up to me and in the bath last night I felt a bum up by my ribcage so i'm not hopeful. Anyway, will keep you all up to date. I am off out now to enjoy a coffee in starbucks, a magazine and some me time whilst still have no toddler in tow.

Meant to say head in ribs not bum, which would be great then at least it would be the right way up.
Am so pregnant and ditzy right now!!

PC - I never thought I'd be grateful to hear someway say rain and cold are forecast! [grin} Yesterday I felt like I could get no air.

DH has gone into work today as it's A level results day. I've just made a cake sitting down with DD. I was dreading amusing her myself all day after I have had DH to hand for the past month! But, she's less hyper when he's not around getting her over-excited.

Only problem, I've just spotted a spider - a massive brown, hairy spider sitting in the bottom of an empty glass vase. I' pretty squeamish of large spiders in the house. What are the chances of it still being at the bottom of the glass vase by the time DH gets home at 3pm? I've entertained the idea of moving the vase outside but calculate that the spider could move to the top of the vase quicker than I could get the vase out of the back door. Oooh, and then I'd have to see it crawling and it would be crawling towards my hands Most likely I'd drop the vase and lose the spider. Sods law it is a shaped vase, angular at the top, so I can't even slip something over the top to keep it inside.

We've a new matress being delivered at lunchtime. I might just have to be pathetic and ask the delivery person to get rid of it for me. What a fun life I lead

Beatie - what about cling film on the top if it is angular?!!
Zoezebra - welcome and happy birthday.
People have started saying that my bump has dropped, I would so much like to have this baby soon! 36 wks today - this is definitely the slowest bit. My back is so painful - not due to see the osteo for another couple of wks, but might have to bring it forward. Think it's probably all that dog walking.
Listened to the birth prep hynobirthing CD last night and have to say I was almost in tears - brought back memories of previous births and made it all a lot more real. Certainly didn't relax me!!

Hi Zoezebra - welcome, and Happy Birthday ! Make the most of your toddler free time!

Am feeling exhausted today - thought I slept quite well last night (apart from 3 trips to the loo) but maybe I didn't... Also had another bout of morning sickness this morning, which wasn't fun. Off to the midwife this afternoon, so will ask her about it.

HIYA ZOEZEBRA, welcome and have a lovely birthday, you are in with a chatty crowd now, hope you have a lot of spare time to keep up. LOL
hello everyone else, been to doctors this morning for another blood test only to be told by the nurse that i didn't need one and i was imagining the answerphone message from my gp yesterday. got so mad. had dragged dd and my niece there and was informed that i hadn't needed to go. i had a go at her and insisted that she go and find out what the hell was going on. she went to see my gp and found that i was right after all and then gave me an excuse as to why no one knew what was going on. i've never been so happpy to see a needle. lol
well i'm babysitting for my 3 nieces today, god i must be mad!!!

ladylazarus - have gained over 20 kgs as well. Feel huge! Last time it all came off with bf and never resting (not that I do now with 3 kids & school hols!!)
andif - had a major wobble about labour yesterday after doc said I should have the contractions measured by a probe put into the womb during labour. Felt so stressed. Have now decided to refuse this intervention. Told dh this so he can repeat it as necessary.

Welcome ZoeZebra

I have put on LOTS of weight. But last time it came off again so I am hoping for similar luck this time.

I am feeling urgh. Getting a bit swollen and was feeling (and nearly being) sick earlier on. I also had a dream last night that we were moving house tomorrow which concerned me a bit.

Have just looked at my legs and they are very hairy . Suppose either DH or I should shave them some time or other, although if the rain (which is still forecast for here ) comes I could get away with it for a while longer.

Hello hello. Am chuckling to myself at the hairy leg thing: I actually managed to do mine this morning in the shower, but now wonder why I bothered since I've no energy today and therefore can't find it in me to change out of my slobby trousers to go for an (entirely unnecessary in my opinion) growth scan this afternoon. And my back hurts.

My husband thinks this growth scan is a pointless waste of time too - but he seems to want to keep the consultant sweet. Bah. Since I've had the peanut felt and measured by four people recently, including the consultant himself, his registrar and a supervisor of midwifery, I strongly suspect it's all just a bit of a*se covering on the consultant's part. And one with a significant margin for error.

Grump grump grump. Leaving purple space suit on the hanger for while yet...

Milward: I read your thing about the probe and thought that it can't be that common a procedure, given that people weren't falling over themselves to say they'd had it done too. I'd never heard of it - but I do think with certain interventions that they prejudice the outcome of the event. And if it's making you stressed, it's pretty counterproductive anyway.

Right. Time for lunch.

I keep having bouts of nausea too. Nothing like m/s but enough to make me feel a bit out of sorts.

My legs are so hairy! I'm going to a BBQ on Saturday and planning to wear a knee length dress so I will have to do something with the hair. I'm not sure I trust DH to shave them for me (although he plucked a few dark hairs out of my belly last night ) Is it safe to use hair removing cream?

AndiF - Cling film is a good idea. I just wish it wasn't a glass vase so I wouldn't have to see it crawling up the inside. It hasn't moved yet. Perhaps it is dead?! Or perhaps it is laying eggs ((((((((shudder))))))))

Tin foil instead of clngfilm? Then you wouldn't have to see it. Don't kill it though!

I'll only kill it if it comes anywhere near my shoe - otherwise I'm not going near it and DH can put it outside when he gets home.