November/December Babies - new thread

[susanmt]

To make it easier for all of us!!!

Well maybe I'm just weird, but am I the only one not absolutely dreading the birth?? I expect a wave of terror will hit me once it gets started , but I'm mostly just feeling excited. I suppose my overriding memory of ds's birth was the euphoria that he was really, finally, here, and that's what I'm looking forward to this time. I do feel nearly ready now, and very big and heavy, so I expect I will also feel very fed up as the due date approaches (and passess.....noooooo, surely not!!)

And no doubt I'll have the labour from hell now....

Your pool sounds great www. I don't get mine for another three weeks, boo! But I didn't realise you were allowed to try it out, I thought I read somewhere that you shouldn't. Did you get an extra liner? Or has yours got some extra special disinfecting filter? I don't think mine is going to be as fancy as yours, it doesn't come with a heater--hope it doesn't cool down really fast.

Like Elliott, I'm not dreading the birth either at the moment, in fact feeling quite excited about the fact that it is now kind of within sight, though thank god I haven't yet reached the annoying phone calls stage. No doubt the terror will kick in as I get closer to being due. Optimism may be due to my lack of experience of course, I've never done this before ...

I'm not really dreading the birth, I'm just looking forward to it being over. Both my previous labours were early - dd was 4 days, ds almost 2 weeks, so I am a bit nervous about when it is going to happen! We're about 3/4 of an hour from hospital (where I really have to be, despite desire for homebirth, given the ghastly pregnancy I've had) and so my real fear is having it in the car - kitchen floor would be OK in comparison! I'm 34+3 by hospital dates but am convinced I'm a week further on, and as ds was 2 weeks early then it could be as little as 3 weeks away, more likely 4.
We finally settled on names as well, which makes it all a bit more real, although I still don't think I really think there will be a baby at the end of all this!

snap whellid - although I'm not due till Thursday, ds2 was 11 days early & I've stupidly had it in my head for months that this one would be about the same amount early. i really thought I'd have it at end October. Can't believe it's now 9th nov. & still not had it. Freaking out that sil will come & go with me still pg.

I know there's not too much you can do about it. Checking out the 'old wives tales' thread (started by www?), so far tried the g&t & spicey food, that didn't work, so in desperation went for plan b - sex - that bloody didn't work - feel very hard done by. May have to resign myself to a night of nipple tweeking.

WWW your pool sounds lovely. I wish I could get in it myself right now. Bit early for the wine though.

Also jealous about the 8cm surprise, chanelno5.

Good luck all

thinking of you all on this thread - chanlelno5 due tomorrow, goodness time flies!

Glad your move has gone so well, www. I think you are doing the best thing by socialising - get it in now! buty then again, even with a tiny baby you can still go to lots of places to meet friends. It's the toddler stage that cramps your style IME.

I relate to many messages here. When I had my second son 4 and a bit years ago, I do remember feeling so apprehinsive about the pain of labour and the work of caring for a new baby. Second time around you know what you are letting yourself in for. You know nothing can stop the labour happening too.

Yet the past four years have gone in a flash - my baby will be at school in January. It's all been much quicker than seeing my oldest son go from baby to schoolboy. I don't know if this is common, a reaction to treading a well known path, not carving out your way from scratch, but all the parenting things seem much easier second time around.

good luck to you all

I am regularly scanning this thread in prurient manner! Good luck, everyone!

wot no more babies yet? I've been getting occasional painful contractions, which is a bit odd as last time I could instantly tell the difference between BH and the 'real thing' - which once it started didn't stop until ds arrived. I hope this doesn't mean its going to be on and off for weeks and weeks....
37 weeks today, so officially the homebirth is on, but still feeling a bit nervous about that. Got my bag of stuff from the mw today but don't really fancy looking inside yet....
Hope everyone else is doing ok, look forward to more news soon!

Hi everyone. I'm nearly 35 weeks and this morning vomited my entire breakfast. I called my doctor and he said it's probably just a virus. This didn't happen with my previous pregnancy - only vomited during my 1st trimester. Anyone have this experience? I feel fine otherwise.

Sorry you brought up your breakfast, not much fun. No experience, but unlike other pg's, I retch violently nearly every time I brush my teeth, so each pg is different. Maybe it was just something you ate? My mum puked for the full 9 months with both me & my sis.

I am now getting severly fed up. i stupidly convinced myself this one would be 2 weeks early. Now is my due date tomorrow, sil return home in 3 days. No sign of baby. Had docs appt on Monday, he did 30 minutes heart monitor. Said it was perfect. Had a good feel of my cervix & said "in the next few days' Well, as I was just 3 days short of my due date I'd sort of taken that as read anyway. I've gone through the entire list of old wives tales. Nothing has worked. Please let it come tonight.

Good luck to all you others. Hope you're not sick again, tf.

i've had a similar experience, elliott, other night from 2 - 4 had quite painful contractions, coupled with backpain. Really wondered if things were starting, but obviously not. Had crap sleep as a result. Going to be too knackered to actually have the baby at this rate!

Well, I'm back again - thanks for all of you who posted congratulations on the other thread (and thanks to dh who managed to follow my garbled, post-labour instructions as to how to use mumsnet!).
Having posted "no news" early Wednesday evening last week, started having gentle but regular contractions at about 11pm. Every 10 minutes, but nothing too painful, so I just told dh and went to bed. Didn't manage to go to sleep, but contractions just kept on, regular but less painful than period pains. By about 3am I'd worked out that the baby was probably going to be born that day, so I got up to finish packing my hospital bag and dd's lunchbox. Dragged dh out of bed at 4am, telling him I supposed we'd better get dd packed off to the neighbours as the contractions were getting less comfortable and slightly closer. Also knew I had to be in the hospital early for intravenous antibiotics for 4 hours before delivery, as I'm strep B positive.
By the time we arrived at the hospital at 5am, contractions had suddenly become strong and every few minutes. I went from 3cm to fully dilated within the hour and couldn't understand why I suddenly wanted to push. My wonderful physio (here in Belgium the physios give you the kind of support the midwife does in the UK) turned up just as I was wishing I had screamed for an epidural much earlier and managed to convince the midwife to examine me. The next half an hour was rather surreal as I was told "you're fully dilated but you're not allowed to push 'cos in Belgium the doctor has to be present at the birth" - I never thought how much I'd need those panting exercises!
Doctor arrived at 6.30 and dd2, Miriam Eloise Harriet, was born dot on 7am weighing a respectable 3.65kg (sorry, no idea what this is in lb). Disappointed that I had an episoitomy, as I started to tear along my scar from last time, but so pleased I managed with no pain relief.
Sorry for such a long post, but after what has seemed like a tough pregnancy this time (SPD, strep B, blood sugar problems so strict diet etc), it was my ideal birth scenario. Miriam is doing well, no signs of step B problems although there wasn't time for the famous intravenous antibiotics, and dd1 thinks her little sister is wonderful.
Good luck to all of you who are still waiting...

Oh Monkey, good luck! Sex with plenty of 'nipple stimulation' might help - long walks, curries. Will be looking out for a birth announcement on little monkey soon.

Hi Sprout, and congrats again! Good to hear that everything is going well.

Oh I've had enough too and I've got 9 days til due date. Tf, sorry to hear about the vomiting, I've felt like puking for the past 6 months but haven't actually puked so far. Assume I'm saving it for labour, which'll be nice. Elliott, you can always transfer if home turns out not to be the right thing at the time, that's what I'm telling myself anyway. Oooh Monkey, at due date, how exciting, hope it happens for you tonight. Every time ds goes to school I think "come on then! Let's get this over with" but no luck yet...

Oh your post wasn't there when I wrote mine Sprout, well done!

Oi sprout, start a Nov/Dec babies thread will you, I've forgotten EVERYTHING and will need advice!

Great news Sprout ! Thanks for the story - Where did you go Cavell, Baron Lambert ????
Lucky hospital that it wasn't me.... I'd have push - REGARDLESS.... what's that stupid Belgian rubbish - Sprout are you becoming too belgianised???... my cousin had the same with her 4th..... she was told ... "NO don't push.... you're in the wrong room" (i.e. not the delivery suite!).... I told my cousin this was silly, she said "well they don't have any instrument in the normal room".... and what instruments do they really need that can't be fetched ????? Sorry rant over !

well done for managing without pain relief, how's the episiotomy healing?

DH was telling me about a colleague at work who's jsut had her 2nd. She was in labour for 4 hours before her dh turned up, just 10 minutes before the delivery, claiming "it's OK< I'm here now darling!" He hasn't been forgiven & he will never be allowed to forget it.

My dh is nor banned from booze. I've sent him out w. sil tonight & she's on strict booze monitoring duties. I should've given him permission to get plastered - sod law it would come then.

I have spent the whole day in a fenzy, thinking being active will help bring it on - changed all the bed (including bunks & king size) run up & down stairs, cleaned kitchen floor on hands & knees (that seems to have just given my heartburn), drank pineapple juice, I suppose I could sit down to watch telly topples & give my nipples a good old tweeking, but frankly, I hate them being touched at the best of times. Dh is taking his duties very seriously (sex) claims to be doing me a favour. Hasn't bloody worked yet. In fact, isn't that how I got in this mess in the first place??

Oh, good luck all.

Monkey, this is what you get for being too organized and finishing all your Christmas shopping last summer You could be running around the shops in a nervous frenzy, and that would probably bring on the labor. Hope it happens tonight!

well, I did rush to Ikea (again) for a new throw to protect against the baby vomit - doesn't that count?

Ta.

Feeling fed up, am now 2 days overdue. Saw midwife yesterday and had a stretch and sweep but.............nothing! Still, apparently if something is going to happen it will happen in the next 48 hrs so still have another day to go before I have to try another plan. Had hot curry last night and downing raspberry leaf tea likes there's no tomorrow. Today am going to blitz the house so at least that will be tidy in readiness for the new arrival. Best wishes all.

chanelno5 - can really relate to your post (apart from the sweep thing - ouch). I am also two days overdue now and very very fed up. Despite drinking packets and packets of raspberry tea, fresh pineapple and hot curries etc. etc. no action here at all. Just can?t bring myself to try sex or nipple tweaking - would rather wait another 2 weeks than try that!!!!
I can?t leave the house without someone seeing me and stating the obvious "oh, you haven?t had it yet then?!"
Like Monkey I have been in house tidying overdrive. I have made dozens of ready meals and mince pies for the freezer, seem to hoover manically several times a day and it is driving everyone mad. I even caught myself telling my little toddler that of course she couldn?t play with her toys today as mummy had tidied them all up!! Poor little thing - I swing from trying to pack in loads of stuff with her in a mad effort to "enjoy the time we have left just the two of us" and then not wanting her to "bother me" because I am so tired and desperate to keep everything tidy and neat.... Maybe the baby is better off staying inside for a bit longer until I have got a grip again and calmed down (if that is possible).

congratulations sprout - I missed your news earlier, sorry. Shame about the episiotomy, but probably the best that sould have happened in the circumstances. Hope it heals well for you.
Chanelno5, hope you don't have to wait too long - I was about 10 days over with ds and they were the longest days of my life. I got really narked with everyone who kept ringing to find out if I'd had him yet "yes, but it's a secret"!!?? - keep your phone off the hook.
Snap WWW, I'm beginning to realise that I'm actually going to have a baby after all this is over and I can't remember what to do. So the sooner the Nov/Dec new babies thread is started the better
Our house is a mess of baby stuff - my sister delivered everything her ds has ever even looked at to us last week and I haven't had a chance to go through it all yet - ds thinks the moses basket is great fun though, I wonder how he'll feel about a new baby taking his new toy away from him.
Best of luck everyone!
I had a look at Susanmt's list again and am I ringht to think that sprout is the only one to have had here baby yet? Apart from SamAcon (congratulations Sam!)
whellid 6-8 Nov
1sttimer 9 Nov
Stripeymouse 11 NOv
sprout 11 Nov
chanelno5 11 Nov
Monkey 13 Nov
How are you feeling about the birth now WWW?

Am now 6 days late, and still no sign! To stop going mad - I even dreamt I was in labour the other night and woke up quite disappointed - I have started to tell myself that it's the 17th that it's due!
Saw the midwife yesterday, and booked an appointment for next week for a sweep.
Eefs - my ds is the same with the moses basket and the bouncing chair - thinks they are great new toys, and if anything is in them just throws it out to get in himself. Can just see the baby being thrown out onto the floor!

Just popped on this thread to see how you are all doing and am amazed that D-day is so close! Doesn't seem that long ago that your pregnancies had just begun. Enjoy you last few days/weeks of freedom (relative) and enjoy the time you have left - don't wish it away Good luck and best wishes to everyone - am looking forward to the announcements