November/December Babies - new thread

[susanmt]

To make it easier for all of us!!!

this thread is filling up fast as well, we'll be on Nov/Dec part three soon!
Susanmt- delighted your op worked, hope you get the birth you deserve now.
Chanelno5 - any news on your test results?
welcome hinnigan - you're due the same time as me - it's a race... how's the pregnancy being going for you so far?
WWW how are the plans for your home birth? Anyone else having a home birth?

I have two more weeks of work left, I'm starting to get into the "it doesn't matter to me, i won't be here much longer" frame of mind, it's going to be one hell of a hand-over for the rest of our team though. Hopefully they'll appreciate how much I do now! And I get to keep my PC while I'm off - so will be able to check mumsnet, yay.
I'm planning a shopping day next week to finish off my christmas shopping, I've never been this organised and am surprised at how good it feels. I wonder will I keep it up (yeah right!)

out of interest re: the diabetes - I haven't done, or been asked to do a GTT. I think they check my wee for protein & sugar, is this sufficient?

Hope you're feeling better after your op, Susanmt. And www - have you met your new midwives?

I can't believe it's so close to the end. I'm 38 weeks today. Ds 2 was due 13th & came on 2nd. This one also is due on 13th, so feel could go any time! Every twinge rings alarm bells! It feels like I'm getting occasionally kicked really shrply right on the cervical bullseye - does this mean I'm starting to 'loosen up'? Sil is due to come next Thursday to look after my boys while I'm in hospital, so I'm sort of hoping baby will wait till then, but Thrusday afternoon, Friday am at the latest would be great!

Luckily, I feel very energetic & good, so I'm having an easyish last few weeks. Hope other people are enjoying their last fews weeks.

Hello, I give up with the sept/oct baby thread. This baby is stubborn. Can I come and play with you?

Hi eefs - the test results came back normal, thank goodness, so I'm tucking into the chocolate with avengence (keep dipping into tonight's trick or treat supplies!) Thnaks for asking. Bet you can't wait to finish work now.

Monkey - re diabetes in pg, checking your wee for sugar is sufficient. You only get sent for a GTT if you repeatedly get positive results, so you must be ok.

samAcon - the more the merrier! When was your baby due? I'm sure it will happen very soon!

Hope everyone else is doing ok. I've got 11 days to go now and am counting every minute, though I expect this one to be late like the others. Feeling huge and struggling to even get into my maternity trousers now!

thanks channelno5.

welcome, samacon.

anyone got any ideas for how not to think about it every second??

Go see a good movie?
Cook/clean bathroom (I tend not to think when I do my household duties!)

Really fed up.

Due on Tuesday 4th November and within the last 24 hours have got a stinking cold. Feel really rough - sore throat, sneezing and generally grotty. DS1 (23 months)has also got it. Not much sympathy from dp this morning either......

Wonder if its an omen tho' as with ds1, I got a cold, spent 24 hours in bed and then my waters broke. Had to be induced tho' as nothing else happened. Just seems to be a case of deja-vu!

Ah well, off to bed for an hour whilst ds has his nap.

My kidney thing is still helping me to feel better, but saw my doc today (hopefully for last prescription of pethidine - almost not a junkie any more) and she was asking about how I was coping, after I threw a wobbly about going for my op on my own and had said to her last week I was feeling pretty tearful.
In my last pregnancy I got diagnosed with depression at 32 weeks, and am STILL taking the tablets from that, as the pre-natal depression flowed wonderfully into postnatal that didn't quite go away, so when I tried coming off the tablets when I got pg this time everything crsshed. GP has suggested I have to up the dose of my antidepressants again now, like I did the last time, if I am not going to be a total wreck by the time the baby is born. We had to phone the childminder in emergency this afternoon as I was just sitting on the bus crying on the way home - she agreed to keep them all day, she's wonderful, but I feel awful not being able to cope with the 2 I have - what on earth is 3 going to be like?
One thing goes and another thing comes along to take its place. Dh and I also had a discussion last night as he was worried about me - I'm still not sure I even want this baby, I didn't ask to get pregnant, I tried just about everything not to, and now here I am just a few weeks from giving birth and I cant get my head round it still, I have nothing ready (by this time before I had clothes sorted, my bag packed, childcare arranged for dd, etc etc - this time the clothes and carseat are still at mu brother's house (he had a baby in the interim!) on the mainland, I'm no nearer ebing ready that flying, and the baby's room is still a study which we have made no effort to get organised. I have no idea where anything is going to go and as ds is still in the cot, we don't even have anyplace for it to sleep in our room. I just cant get myself motivated.
I suppose I've been hiding behind the kidney problems - now they have gone I will have to face up to things I have been hiding from for the last 6 months.

Sorry Susanmt, sounds like you are feeling a bit overwhelmed atm. I can't offer any advice - all I can say is that I, for different reasons, didn't have anything set up for DD1 when she was born. We moved house when she was only a few days old, and things really never got set up for months. We had things in boxes all over the house for nearly 1 year. DD ended up sleeping on - dare I say - a changing table part of a 3-in-1 playpen or sleeping with us, as we did not even have a cot when she was born. We borrowed one, but neither DH nor I could ever pick it up. What I mean to say by all this is that things eventually sort themselves out. I can't imagine having 3 children, and am just getting used to the idea of 2. We too had an accident here, so I can relate somewhat to what you are going through. I hope you feel better. It sounds like your DH is supportive, and thank God for that. Good luck to you.

Mumbojumbo - if you haven't had her/him yet - good luck to you too!

susanmt - sorry to hear you're feeling so panicked. I have the odd moment of panick at the thought of 3 too, but I planned for & tried for a few mnths for this baby, plus, I feel very well physically, so I really sympathise with you, becasue it is scary at the best of times isn't it, yet you've got so much more to deal with.

It's brilliant that your childminder & dh sound so supportive, as well as your doctor, so at least you should be getting looked after too. It will all come out in the wash, honest, and you've got plenty of people here who are more than willing and ready to lend an ear, and I bet even a hand. All the best. xxx

Thanks for your ideas, pupuce - my house is looking tidier than it ever has in the last 3 years we've lived here. I even hoovered out our car today.

Susanmt - sorry you are feeling so bad - nothing useful really to add - just try to get as much help as possible and as much rest if possible. I have also had a bad week and am ready to drop dd at the nearest orphanage (she is behaving very badly) and wondering how I can cope with 2 (dh works away all week) - if this was a job I would hand in my notice....

Monkey, sounds like your 'nesting instinct' has completely taken over. Aren't you the one who has finished all her Christmas shopping?

Grommit, my DD also has been acting up lately when I'm home alone with her. She's been throwing tantrums more frequently, and I barely have the energy to respond. Hopefully, all this will pass soon.

have a great weekend!

Thought you might like to know I'm feeling a bit more positive today. Had a bad night with baby turning and kicking me in the stent - hey! Just when I thought there wasn't anything else could go wrong.
Tinyfeet used the word 'overwhelmed' and I've found that very useful - I am overwhelmed. I've been seriously ill with kidney stones for 6 months, I can hardly expect to bounce back overnight. I'm still suffering recurrent UTI's, and will until the baby is born. I'm depressed. I'm having a baby that I never planned. No wonder things are a bit much for me.
Dh and I had a good chat about it - it does help that he's really looking forward to the baby. He suggested we upped the childcare to 3 days a week for the next fortnight, until the new dose of my antidepressants kick in. I really need to get on top of the depression. I was hospitalised with PND after dd was born, and I don't want to go through that again, which is why I am increasing my dose now. Then the week after that my Mum is coming for a week (dh has to go away with work) so things will be easier. We also employed a cleaner a few weeks ago and dh sugggested we increase her hours if she wants it to include the laundry and she also offered to cook for us - she's a fab cook and will spend a couple of hours a week in the kitchen making soup and stews and pasta things for the freezer if we want - so we've decided to go for that - even if we save it for after the baby is born to make things easier then.
I was also chatting to my Dad this morning - I like it when I phone and get him, I'm a real Daddy's girl, and he spent ages telling me how proud they were of me, getting through this and coping as much as I do. That made me cry but it has really cheered me up to know they are proud of what little I can acheive at the moment. I don't see them (Dad & Stepmum) as much as I would like (my brother has AS and they can't get away as much as they would like) but they are coming for a whole week at New Year and Dad has already got the food all planned for the week (mainly fish he has caught - he's a good fisherman these days) so I won't have to do a stroke in the house from 29th Dec - I'm really looking forward to them coming. So things are looking up, when I look past the next couple of weeks.
And where would I be without Mumsnet - you lot are keeping me sane at the moment! AND the other worries will be off my mind as of Friday when DH has the snip! Dad has been phoning up and leaving messages on the answering maching that go 'snip snip snip snip SNIP!' - which make me laugh and make dh chuckle - nervously!

susanmt - glad to hear you're sounding more positive - especially finding ways to really help - like the cleaner cooking. that's a really good one. I might even pinch your idea.

tinyfeet - I wish it wasn't nesting - my house (and car!) hasn't looked so good. i love walking into a room & thinking wow - the floor looks a different colour, as opposed to look at all the toys - you can't even see the floor. It would be good if I could be like this all the time - a bit disheartening to think it's all going to go up the wall in a couple of weeks! (and yes, I have finished my Christm,as shopping, well sort of - forgotten dh, oops - better check out that other thread for some ideas pretty sharpish!)

Take care everyone.

Susanmt, everything you're doing sounds great! You have so much support and love around you, I can tell from your messages and it seems that you are already feeling better despite the kidney stones and UTIs.

Monkey, I don't know where you are finding the energy. I can barely muster up the energy to play with DD, much less hoover the car. I must get my on-line Christmas shopping done, at least though. You have inspired me. I'm happy to finally be in the month of November, as now, for some reason, it does seem a lot closer to the end of pregnancy. Happy November everyone!

ChanelNo5 - I was due 24/10 and have now got to the point where I am sitting here drinking gin and orange even though I rarely drink and I hate gin. DH found half a bottle at MILs this evening and we've tried everything else!

Have to go with monkey over the cleaning/nesting thing. My house has never been so organised, I wish I could be bothered at other times!

I had another appointment with my obstetrician today and he now seems to be happy to have me deliver on the Island - which is a huge weight off my mind. He is fussing over my blood pressure now - there is nothing wrong with it but it was a little up when the midwife took it today - partly from me being all uptight about seeing him and arguing my corner for a local delivery and partly as they only had the small bp cuff in outpatients and, being a bigger lady, they usually use the bigger cuff to get a more accurate reading.
Everything seems fine - had a lovely long scan and saw the baby's face and it was sucking its fist.
Feel I can relax a bit now about the delivery anyway.

SamACon, looks like you'll be the first since you're not even supposed to be on this thread! Hope it happens soon for you. Monkey, wish I had your energy - I keep looking at the state of the house and thinking I would love to do it but I just don't have the energy. And I haven't done ANY Christmas shopping yet, despite having told myself I was going to get it done before the end of the summer holidays. Yeah, right. Maybe I'll try online today. ChanelNo5, good news about your GTT. Susanmt, I am pleased you're getting so much support, hang on in there. I feel bad moaning whenever I think of people like you and Pie, who have had awful symptoms of other things as WELL as pregnancy to cope with.

I can't believe we're in November already - I'm veering between relief that it's nearly all over and abject terror at the idea of giving birth again. I'm collecting a birthing pool tonight and seeing a doula on Thursday so hoping those 2 will help. I have met some of the midwives here although not all, but I have decided that it doesn't really matter - they're bound to be OK (a mumsnetter filled me in on them and I gather they are) and I do realise that when it comes to it all I'll want to do is get the baby out and get it over with. I can't wait to sleep properly without waking for a wee (4 times most nights) or being kicked from within. I know, I know, new babies don't sleep either but I just want two hours entirely alone in my bed. Apparently the head isn't engaged yet (as at this am's appt) so please please let her stay with her head down. Still intending to give home birth a go although I'll see how I feel on the day. Any insurmountable terror and I'm going straight in...

I had glucose in my urine last week, had a bood test and it was OK. Sugar showed again today so I am being sent for a Glucose intolerance test at the hospital next week. This is such a pain as I have only 3 weeks to go. Feeling very fedup and wondering why I ever got pg again - I want to run away!!! Not excited one bit

Ok well today I am feeling excited so let me inject some positive vibes here....
36 weeks tomorrow, saw the midwife and she referred me for a scan for presentation (my request, I don't think either of us in much doubt that babe was head down). All is well, babe is well down in pelvis and around 50th centile for estimated weight, so no fears of a huge baby....
I've bought some newborn nappies and washed all the baby clothes - really brings back the memories, it seems just yesterday that we were awaiting ds's arrival. So I'm very excited about meeting the little one now
Downsides are that my first non-working days have left me far more exhausted than a day at my desk!! I'm wiped out after an hour or so on my feet - how am I going to get all my xmas shopping done? Not to mention ds's birthday presents?? Plus dh managed to write off the car at the weekend (no people damaged thank god - my blood goes cold thinking how easily it could have been different) so we are now having to buy a new car as well....
Anyway really looking forward to hearing some birth news soon from everyone!

Trying to catch your positive vibes Elliott! I'm due on Friday, and as ds was early had thought it would all be over by now. I'm totally fed up of not being able to sleep because my back aches and I need the loo. I'm still working, but as thats from home it takes my mind of the fact that there is no sign of the baby arriving this side of its due date! And I'm fed up of people phoning and asking if I've had the baby yet - as if we would keep it a secret! And I'm not looking forward to the birth as the midwifes have predicted a 9lb + baby.
Sorry, rant over! I know that I've had it easy this pregnancy so this is just self pity, but its so close to the end and I just want to get on with it!

I'm now 35 weeks, so I've reached my target goal! I won some vouchers courtesy of Mumsnet for Pesky-Kids clothes, and I've just ordered an outfit for the baby. It's the first thing I've bought for it and the first time I've really thought about it's existence to be honest! So I've had a little cry to myself.

Yeah elliott, let's have some of those positive vibes over here too matey! Rhubarb, glad you're OK. Whellid, know the feeling. The birthing pool is dominating our dining room and scaring the life out of me, there really is going to be a baby here soon, eek!

Congratulations on winning the vouchers Rhubarb.
How are you?
I've not bought anything new for this one, just got all ds things, and half of them are still in the loft. Think thats probably why the baby is staying put!

Hey, don't begin a post with 'congratulations'!! I thought I'd missed our 1st birth for a minute, but yes,lucky you, rhubarb

Still feeling energetic. Lucky me. Just keeping my fingers crossed that it bodes well post-natally, as I've never had a 'difficult' pregnancy (although this has definitely been the easiest), but had 2 rotten post-natal years due to thyroid probs & poor healing, so here's hoping my thyroid will behave & my undercarriage doesn't get ripped to shreds. (sorry, a bit graphic).

Had a few twinges, & really thought things were happening in Ikea on Monday. Managed to get home in 1 piece. Sil arrives tomorrow, so will feel more relaxed that help is here for my boys.

I'm finding these last few days easier because I'm keeping myself really busy, but then i'm lucky enough to have the energy (easily annoyed though - grumpy mummy, my poor boys!) commiserations to those who feel like crap. If it's any consolation, I have no energy or enthusiasm for cooking/eating, so getting major complaints from dh, particularly about all the stuff going off)

Can't wait to hear some exciting news from somebody soon.

Btw, even though I'm not due for another week, nearly every time I ring someone, I get the bated breath & 'any news yet' / 'thought you were phoning to tell me...' comments. it's starting to get on my nerves. I'm not even due yet for goodness sake! God knows what it'll be like if (God forbid) I go overdue. Anyone else getting this?