November/December Babies - new thread

[susanmt]

To make it easier for all of us!!!

Whellid and Monkey - waiting for the good news. Please do have someone post when yours arrives. Would like to hear all the details. Rhubarb, congrats on the vouchers. It's sometimes the little things, isn't it?
I'm in week 33, and am continuing to have bizarre nasal problems. Not to get too graphic, but I've blown nearly a handful of what looks like gelatin out of my nose and am sneezing constantly after that. I'll ask my doctor about it, but I'm trying to figure out if this is related to the pregnancy or if this is some sort of nasal infection or virus. Anyone had this type of congestion, sneezing. I had a similar experience when pregnant with DD1, but not so bad. I was given antibiotics the 1st time. It's as though I am allergic to being in 3rd trimester. . .

Great to hear everyone's news. I can't believe it's so close now too. Am due in 6 days, but have already had 3 late babies so don't really expect anything before then. Have also suffered with a congested nose, tinyfeet. Think it is quite common in pg. Just keep an eye on it and hopefully it won't be anything more (had sinusitis in last pg and it was hideous) Yes monkey, I'm getting lots of those comments too. Was dreading going back to school after half-term because I knew I'd get lots of "Not had it yet!" comments ...... and I wasn't disappointed! Hate these last few days of being pg, think they are the most worrying. Saw midwife today and everything is ok, so it's just a case of biding my time. It helps to know that I'm not alone in this and that we all feel the same. Can't wait for some Nov/Dec baby birth announcements. All the best to everyone x

samAcon - You've gone very quiet, any news? Can't be long now!

Goodluck chanelno5. Can't wait to hear the good news. I did try the Olbas, but it hasn't been all that helpful. Anyway, you're near the end!!!

Just logging on to say "good luck" to everyone. Dd was born 5 days early, and I'm due 5 days tomorrow... but no sign of anything happening yet. Grumpy and apprehensive are the 2 words that describe me best this week, so I think dd and dh will be pleased when the baby finally arrives! Can't bear the thought this one might be late...

Congratulations to Sprout - see todays announcement! looks like you win the prize for the first to produce on the Nov/Dec thread. Can't wait to hear all the details!

How exciting! There she was saying nothing's happening and a few hours later! Just wish things would get started here, though am resigning myself that this one will be late. Dh is getting worried that it might interfere with watching the rugby at the weekend!

It's the 6th November, so WHERE are the babies??

Feel like mine could be born anytime and I'm not due for 6 weeks, but this morning its head is definitely lower than it was - I feel like I've spent all day in the loo - in fact, I read ds a story sitting on my knee on the toilet this morning as I was frightened to get up - combination of head and tube in my bladder made things pretty sensitive!!

Arrgh - and 2 nights ago I fell down the stairs going to the loo at 2 in the morning - but am just glad I didn't break my ankle!

But a whole pile of my internet Christmas shopping arrived today so I am feeling pretty virtuous about being so organised. What a difference I am feeling in myself since I had my operation!

Rhubabrb - well done for winning the vouchers. I know a bit how you feel both with (1) the depression, I'm up a dose on my anti-d's now) and (2) not really thinking about it. Although I am feeling a bit better, I still can't really beleive its real!

well, we've got one, so I don't think that's bad going for 6 days in...
I'm also feeling very imminent - baby has moved well down and boy can I feel it!! I will be desperate if it isn't on time...
Glad you are feeling well organised susanmt...wish I could say the same. Been stuck in the office all day trying to finish things off (when not sidetracked by mumsnet...) and will STILL need to be here next week. Christmas shopping? Will be done on Xmas eve at this rate...

Is Stripymouse still around? I gather she was expecting in November so maybe she's reading this thread. I spotted her name from doing a search about Braxton Hicks - she had been having really long ones and wondered what it meant. Did you ever find out, stripymouse? (mine last up to 15-20 minutes, not painful but getting more intense each week).

One of our NCT regulars was due her baby on the 15th of Nov, but she gave birth last Tuesday, two weeks early!
I have four weeks to go now and I am feeling very apprehensive and pretty scared. I am very fearful of the pain, fearful of complications and I am just hoping and praying that I can cope. I am trying visualisation techniques, but every time I think too carefully about the birth, I end up crying. Part of me still doesn't quite believe there will be a baby at the end of all of this, and part of me is terrified that there will be! The worst part is the waiting. I know it's inevitable, I know I will go into labour sooner or later, all this will happen and that is what is so scary. I can't put it off or cancel it, whatever happens now it is more-or-less guaranteed that I will go into labour, and I'm really scared!

wickedwaterwitch, how goes it? haven't seen you posting as much as usual your due date is very soon, isn't it?

Thinking of you, your dp and your ds and wishing you lots of luck!

Thanks for asking tigermoth! I'm fine, haven't been posting as much since a) I've had a cracking social life since moving, which has been lovely - not all glamourous stuff but lots of days out with friends and family and assorted children and b) I was scaring myself reading some threads - pain relief, childbirth etc. So I sort of stayed away a bit. But I met a lovely doula yesterday and she made me feel a lot better about the whole thing and has agreed to come and help, plus I have a birthing pool all set up and ready to go and I'm reading Have The Birth You Want as well as hippy chick Birthing from Within (which convinces me less but there are some good ideas there) so I'm starting to get a bit more optimistic and think maybe I'll be OK and will labour all right at home and without dying! Rhubarb, it sounds like we're having similar feelings - I've been afraid of loss of control, death, pain, you name it, I've been scared of it. But I think I'm getting to the point where I'm about to start celebrating the arrival of this baby - I'm going to buy Champagne later to put in the fridge and some vanilla candles and I'm so determined to change my mindset and realise that it might not be awful. I think the fear and anticipation has got to be worse (well, not quite) but almost, than the actual event. I'm due in 14 days on 21 November, eek! How exciting about sprout, off to find the announcment now!

I wonder what happened to Rachael17 - are you still around?

Hello everyone. Glad you are having a riotous social life in Bristol www. Good luck with the waiting everyone else. I've still got 5 weeks to go before my due date, but have begun to feel quite excited and 'ready' for this new one to arrive. I mean emotionally rather than physicallyI don't see any signs that it is coming early. Maybe it is that I have been devoting so much time recently to childbirth preparationhave been going to aquanatal classes (Monday), and yoga (Tuesday), and have just started NCT on Wednesdays--it is practically a full time job! Hmm, perhaps that explains why I'm feeling behind with everything with my real job.

When are all of you with jobs going on maternity leave? Or have you already started it? (I know Elliott has, can't remember if anyone else mentioned it.)

I am on maternity leave now - saved up 3 wks hol and took 3 wks mat leave so trying to relax and make the most of free mornings when dd is at nursery. There will be no such thing as free time soon

rhubarb - just how I feel! Was absolutely terrified it would happen last night, as dh went out on thbeer - promised he wouldn't get drunk, then rolled in at TWO AM!!!!!!!! roaring drunk.

Thankfully, baby stayed put, but now I'm terrified now, I think I feel exactly how you describe.

Aren't men just so caring and understanding when you really need them????

WWW - I've been thinking about you too but haven't got round to emailing you personally yet, too busy with Mumsnet I guess! Glad to hear that you're feeling a lot calmer now and getting plenty of distractions! I'll be scanning the birth announcements for your name soon! Can you imagine that actually happening? Posting about the birth rather than the pregnancy? It just doesn't seem possible to me!

hi everyone - reading the latest on this thread has really cheered me up - thanks for your concern marsup, my Braxton hicks are still giving me plenty of agro and even led to one trip to the hospital several weeks back for a checkup but was as expected - false alarm. I knew deep down it was a false alarm but my mw was "playing safe" as I had two really powerful ones within a very short appointment, both fairly painful. Ho hum. I never realised that Braxton Hicks can be so uncomfortable that they can actually wake you up!! Just not fair - esp. when some women sleep through early stages only to wake up in the morning several cms dilated...

Great to hear about Sprout. We were both due on Tues. and so am very envious that she has got the first tricky bit (ie. labour and birth) well out of the way.

I have felt "imminent" for so many weeks now that I am truly sick and tired of all the waiting now - just want to get on with it. I have even been avoiding mumsnet while going through a brief spell of denial, frustration and downright moodiness

Still got the all clear for a home birth (allowed up to 16 days overdue but not planning on using that option). It is worrying me now but not as much as it would worry me if I had to go to the hospital instead. Enough moaning - i am well and healthy and so far so good and not yet even overdue. Gonna stop typing now and try to snap out of my constant moodiness for the sake of my long suffering DH and DD.

rhubarb - your posting about reaching your 35 week goal was brilliant to read. Glad to feel that you are starting to feel positive enough to start shopping etc. Can really relate to this - couldn?t stand people buying anything at all when pregnant last time and have felt the same this time too. It was a lovely feeling when I went out shopping all by myself a couple of weekends ago and chose a first little outfit with no negative or reserved feelings at all. Don?t think anyone in my family really were aware of the emotional significance of that purchase but was a big deal to me! Now I just have to get past the next bit...

I'm so fed up! Having watched my due date come and go, and having to field all the calls along the lines of 'we thought you'd have had it by now' I'm going to scream and scream!
Why did I believe people who said that the second is earlier than the first! Was totally unprepared to still be pregnant by now.
It's a weird feeling, like Rhubarb (I think) said I want it to be over, but really don't want to have to go through it!
Oh well, it will happen when the baby is good and ready!

stripymouse - I'm due on Tues too and starting to feel really fed up with waiting. Have been getting strong Braxton Hicks all week, but not developed into anything (yet!) Today I have a really heavy feeling in the top of my legs and lots of twinges - don't know if this means anything is happening. Thing is, the other 3 were overdue so have sort of been expecting this one to be the same. And I remember when in labour with no.2, had irregular, not too painful contractions for a few hours before I went to the hospital to be checked. Expected them to say I was only 2cms and send me home again, but was shocked to find I was 8cms! Had had a show 2 days earlier, but that was it. No show or anything this time yet, but then I didn't with the other 2. Every labour and birth has been so different. Keep worrying that maybe something is happening and I'll leave it too late and end up having it on the kitchen floor! Am also worrying about what to do with the other 3 if I have to go into hospital quickly. Suppose dh would have to stay with them, but I don't want to be on my own either. It's turning me into a mad, irrational, worrying fool! Oh I hate all this uncertainty. Lucky old sprout eh?

whellid - it is hideous going overdue, isn't it. Has happened to me 3 times already and am expecting no.4 to go that way too! No.3 was 11 day late and by then really ,really had had enough. Thing is, when labour started, I really, really didn't want to go through with giving birth, and suddenly being pg didn't seem so bad afterall, so I do know where you are coming from when you say that you want it over but don't want to go through with it, I feel the same. Fingers crossed it will happen for you soon and won't be as bad as you think

Gosh, we're all normal then, feeling as if we want it over with but without the going through labour bit. Stripymouse, well done on starting to feel positive too and buying some stuff, ikwym about that. Oh whellid, you poor thing - I've had 2 calls so far and I'm not even at my due date, it must be driving you mad. It's that expectant How Are You? question isn't it? As if you wouldn't tell them immediately if you'd had it! Cor Chanel, wouldn't mind one of those "wonder if I'm 2cm, oops, I'm 8cm" labours, wow, I hope it all goes fast for you this time too (but not so fast it's on the kitchen floor). Is there a neighbour who can have the other 3 so your dh can come with you? Monkey, glad babe stayed put while your dh was out.

Dp and I got in the birthing pool last night to try it out (Dp said "I feel German" ) and it was wonderful, the first time I've felt weightless in a very long time. It was deliciously warm too, as it has its own heater. Dp has also put thick velvet curtains up in the dining room so it all feels very cosy and safe and private and a lovely place to give birth. As a result of the warm pool, hours of chatting, no ds (at his dad's) and a glass of wine I slept for 10 hours last night with only 1 loo break and it was wonderful, I feel like new this morning apart from a slight cold. Happy day!

www - ah, but what I didn't say about my labour with no.2, was that when I got to hospital, was examined and found to be 8cms, my waters then broke and it went downhill from there - agonising contractions and no time for adequate pain relief Does help to know that we all feel the same at the mo though, doesn't it? Your birthing pool sounds fab and the glass of wine sounds even better! Glad all is well with you x