March 2016 babies - 2 here already, many more yet to come!!!

[Missikat]

Hi ladies, thanks Indom for the suggestion of me starting a new thread. Seeing as Zach and myself have been knocking about on antenatal since November it will be lovely to have you all joining us shortly in the baby, rather than pregnancy conversations! Bring on the March babies!!!!

Yeay!! God luck mship!!!! not jealous at all

*good not god!

Good luck mship!!!

Aargh I've missed so much this weekend - belated congrats to MrsE (gorgeous name and gorgeous baby - jealous of your birth!) and good luck mship - excited to read updates!!

hayley thanks for those coping techniques, would be interested in hearing more as I won't have gas and air or a tens machine. So are we allowed to take strong paracetamol in early labour whilst we wait to go to hospital?

We had beautiful weather on Saturday and managed a lovely walk around a lake - but several women came up to me to ask when I was due, give me (unsolicited) advice, tell me their birth stories and very knowingly tell me size of baby (8lbs apparently). Americans are so forward!! They were all very friendly but I am getting sick of strangers commenting on my body, grr!

Ooh good luck MShip! So jealous!

ffaux I really wasn't coping with the pain until my midwife said that each contraction has a peak which only lasts a few seconds and then the pain will decrease. Also each contraction is one closer to meeting your baby :) one closer to finding out what she looks like, who she looks like, if she has hair. One closer to that moment where you can finally look into each other's eyes :)

Aww beaut that's lovely to think of. I'm still at home, things are progressing and I'm happy to stay here for a while longer, coping with co-codamol so far (still have some left from a back injury prescription, glad I kept it!). Would actually prefer it if I can manage here a few more hours at least as rush hour traffic is awful between home and hospital. Then I can say goodnight to DS too - he's with his grandparents this afternoon but they're bringing him home for bath and bed at 6. Gran is going to stay overnight with him, they're so kind.

MShip I'm so jealous! Good luck, hope things progress well and update us on your leapling!

Mship green with envy. Best of luck!!

Some rude bint told me I looked like I was expecting triplets today! I gave her the stink eye.

Oooh good luck mship very exciting!

Had a lovely home birth support group meeting today, I feel a bit more chilled about the possibility of ending up I'm a different hospital, got some good advice on what to do if my local hospital says they are closed for admissions when I ring up (which is a very real possibility).

I also had a 'I'm due next week... SHIIIIT' realisation today! Really don't think this baby will come before my due date though. Expect I will go a week or so over. Midwife in the meeting today said that second time births can often have little/no warning though so who knows. We're pretty much ready though house wise so I don't mind if she does decide to make an early appearance!

Went into town today and did some last minute shopping for postnatal wear, ended up going a bit mad in primark haha and buying quite a bit. They have basic stretchy vests for £1.80 each which looked perfect for the 'one up one down' breastfeeding method which I always favoured when bf DD so got four of those, then got three new t shirts just because I felt like it, some new pyjamas to treat myself and a pair of black jogging bottoms for slouching around the house in! Obvs couldn't try anything on though so have had to guess sizes and now worried I've forgotten how ginormous by boobs will get - they are already a 32GG and when my milk comes in they are going to explode outwards!

Ooh mship I'm glad things are progressing well for you after last week's false start; it must be so irritating when that happens.

Sorted out my birth plan with the mw today so I'm feeling much more chilled out about it all now. Baby is 3/5 engaged which explains the sudden bowling-ball-between-the-legs feeling I've been having recently. And best of all, my fundal height has only increased 0.5cm in 3 weeks which means...no ginormobaby for me!!! He must have just been having a growth spurt last time and now things have levelled out a bit. I do obviously have to have a growth scan tomorrow just to check he's OK in there (and you know how we all love a good growth scan on this thread ) but I needed to go in at some point for a presentation scan anyway so I might as well get it all done at once.

I asked my mw how much shorter 2nd labours are typically and she also said around half the time of your first, so looks like the thing I read on the internet is true (thank god!).

worrying about how long my first labour will be now

thanks beaut I'll try and remember that - a lovely thing to think of

Hope you've made significant progress now mship!

Thanks ffaux. My first labour wasn't very long either - you never know!

I'm really struggling atm; it's like having shitty PMT. DH is really upsetting me, but I think it's probably me. He's annoying me when he's here but he's going to the gym tonight and now I'm annoyed about that too.. not even the fact that he's going, just the way he said it I'm ready to cry, cried loads yesterday too. Fucks sake!

Good luck Mship!! Hope things are progressing well by now!

Beaut sorry you're feeling rubbish, hope it improves soon, maybe with the arrival of a baby? I've been very short fused with everyone, and despite been aware of this I can't stop... I will bite my tongue in last work meeting!

Thanks vroc. I can't wait to meet my baby and hopefully I'll chill out then but atm all I can think is how tired we're going to be and how the hell we can avoid arguing and resentment. It's taking the excitement out of next week! :(

Eek! Just scrolling through the list of despondent lack-of-leapings and got to TheMShip's post! Hopefully there'll be a newborn pic by the time I get to the end!

Heh. Think we're in for an all-nighter! I'm contracting fairly regularly (every 5ish minutes, 30ish seconds) at the moment, pain is manageable at home and I don't want to go in till I really need to. It's plenty late so should only take us 25-30 minutes to drive. Almost certainly not going to be a wee leapling unless things seriously pick up in the next hour or two, but I do think 1st March is a very strong possibility.

Good luck mship. Fx for everything being quick and straightforward.

Oh beautiful, hormones are just dreadful things. I reckon you deserve a good cry if you feel like it; may be good to get some emotions out of the way. You relationship with your dh has survived a lot; I'm sure you will continue to work things out. Try not to worry. Thinking of you.

I'm getting some contractions at the moment, but don't think they are significant. Dh wants to go to badminton at least 20 mins away; I think I might let him in the hope that Sods Law operates and things kick off in his absence!!

Oops, I didn't mean to press post yet (over excited). Must read on...

Re: coping techniques, last time I used yogic-type breathing from my natal hypnotherapy cd and general whinging! It did the trick!

Gas & air did nothing for me (they made me use it during the ambulance transfer, which was also transition. I just got cross at the tube thing.)

Like Beaut says, contractions are like waves, they build, they crest, they retreat and everything's fine in between. It means you do only have seconds to bear at their worst. Then regroup for the next one. It can just get a bit much when they're one on top of another (like real waves!), but I found after transition they slowed to a level I could work with for the second stage.

Wow, ffaux, that is forward! And my sister's first labour was about 2 hours, start to finish (mine was 13 from first twinge, but recorded as 9 in notes).

How fecking rude of her maybe!

Oh, still going TheM! Well, the 1st is a good day for a birthday (if I do say so myself! 35 tomorrow)

Ooh, shieldbug! Exciting times!

Beautiful I am seriously irritable too with DH the last few days. He is being so annoying though! He keeps telling me I should have worked longer to avoid the boredom/waiting I'm now experiencing! I worked up to 38 weeks for goodness sake which is longer than many and I was in desperate need of a rest! True that now having had a week off and entering my second week I'm bored but in no way would it have been practical for me to work any longer than I did and for him to keep saying it is really irritating.

I still have 4 days to go until my due date but already the texts from friends have started - any news yet etc - which is also annoying!

MShip sounds like you're doing well at home! Will be checking for updates tonight when I'm in CSC (which seems to be inevitable!)

Oh, forgot to offload my moan/update. So my pelvis eventually improved at work, after several hours of people looking at me with horror and commenting on my slow walking. When I was shuffling walking I kept getting a lot of pressure on my cervix, but I think it was just octobaby shifting around. But generally intensely uncomfortable today.

I nearly cried off and risked starting my leave early, but crunched the numbers and confirmed that in order to be able to pay all the bills at the other end, I need to make the next 3 weeks at least! I nearly cried, but thought of ffaux and women who aren't entitled to any leave at all and sucked it up. Well, for now anyway!

What is it with the OH's at the moment. Mine has been pretty miserable all day for no discernible reason. Maybe they are all having a mini pre baby panic.

Happy birthday for tomorrow Indom!

Keep going Mship!! Here's hoping things speed up for you soon.

Ooh happy birthday for tomorrow Indom! You doing anything nice for it?

Thank you shieldbug. Did your DH go to badminton? Mine has gone to the gym, it's only 5 mins drive away but he's uncontactable whilst there!

Ugh, Me, glad I'm not the only one getting annoyed with all the little things. And you did bloody well working that late - seriously I've been shattered without commuting and working all day!

Well I told DH how I felt and he got pretty defensive/annoyed when he realised my main worry is that our relationship is going to change after next week. He succeeded in making me feel worse ffs so I've had a HUGE cry (think snot dripping, loud sobs) and he was nicer after his shower. Now he's at the gym, probably for the best.

Really wish (some!) men understood more. I've coped so well in this pregnancy compared to others, been so positive and calm, but since the induction was booked it's sort of sunk in that next week I will have a baby and that's a huge thing! Really hope I can deal with everything!

Ooh Rhubarb I forgot to say - I think you've hit the nail on the head there! DH has been so grumpy and distracted recently and I honestly think he's nervous about the baby - but he won't admit it because he always feels the need to be strong for me! Grrr.

Oh and maybe, glad I'm not the only cervix checker, although I'm a bit that I could feel mine so readily!!

Sooo many Braxton Hicks these days at 38+6; anyone else??

mship I'm eagerly awaiting updates!!

me my in-laws have rung every bloody day for the last 2 weeks and asking "have you had the baby yet?" That's a direct quote!! It's like they think we might forget to tell them about their new grandchild! It's starting to annoy me now!!

Happy birthdayf or tomorrow indomitable

Mship FX for a leapling for you

Indom Happy birthday for tomorrow!

Come on March Babies!! Let's be 'aving you scrumptious lot.

I may be somewhat crazy in love with Martha and can't believe she's so cute! I want to bite her little ears off I won't though