Pregnancy post mc: Totally's grads continued part 8

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new thread!!

Wednesday 13th July

Wobblewatcher - baby#2 42+3 wks EDD 27th June Awaiting news!
urbanlolly - baby#2 40+2 wks EDD 12th July
Inbetweener - baby#3 39+4 wks EDD 17th July
Nickster - baby#2 36+4 weeks EDD 7th August
Owlbooty - baby#1 36+4 weeks EDD 7th August
PrettyVacant - baby#1 33+4 weeks EDD 28th August
OrangeGloss ? baby#1 32+3 weeks EDD 4th September
Wombat33 - baby#1 31+4 weeks EDD 10 September
Daisybell - baby#1 31+1 weeks EDD 13 September
PinkFondantFancy - baby#1 29+1 weeks EDD 25 September
Tiggersreturn babies #2&3 29+1 wks EDD 26 September
Mamapower - Baby#1 29+0 weeks EDD 28 September
A lovely bunch of coconuts baby #2 28+4 weeks EDD 1 october
Emoo - baby#2 27+5 weeks EDD 7 October
Tunnocksteacake - baby#2 25+2 weeks EDD 24th October
Hotnspicyonions - baby#2 25+2 weeks EDD 24th October
Velvetcu - baby#1 25+1 wks EDD 25th October
MummyAbroad baby #2 23+5 wks EDD 4th November
CEP baby #2 23+4 wks EDD 5th Nov
Collieandpup baby #1 21+3 wks EDD 20th Nov
Wombatinwaiting - baby # 1 20+6 wks EDD 24th November
LaraMi baby #1 20+5 weeks EDD 25th November
Izzy - baby #3 20+4 wks EDD 26th November
Bigmacandhappymeal - baby#1 20+1 weeks EDD 29th November
Blackkat - baby #1 19+2 wks EDD 5th December
Youremindmeofthebabe 14+6 EDD 5th Jan

Waiting to join the list:
emmywoo
Purplehibiscus
Lucysnowe

MIA
Tigerbear - baby#1 EDD 14th May

The babies are arriving! Huge congratulations to:

Totally with daughter Faith Juliet, 9lb5oz born Tuesday 16th February 2010
Amyboo with son Matthew James, 4.714kg (10lb3oz) born Tuesday 30th March 2010
Hoops with son Benjamin Scott, 7lb4oz born Friday 2nd April 2010
Memorylapse with daughter Olivia, born Friday 16th April 2010
Jacanne with daughter Lotta Eliza, 8lbs 5oz born 20th April 2010
Becky78 with son Thomas Christopher born 22nd May, 9lb 1oz
Meita with son Ianto born 23 August, 7lbs 4
Boodleboot with daughter Alice Elizabeth born 10 Sep - 8lbs 2oz
LeeWT with son Andrew Anthony born 28th Sept 7lbs 14oz
TFLS with son Charlie born on 30th September, 6lbs 8oz
SamB with daughter Ruby Mae born 19th October, 7lbs 10oz
Effilump with son Arlen born 16th October, 8lbs
Sarahlou8 with daughter Emily Isabella born 21st October, 7lb8oz
Unbuffy with son James Anthony born 3rd December, 6lb8oz
HappyGirl with daughter Ciara born 10th December, 8lb2oz
Malteser1981 with son Eli born 18 December, 8lb 6oz
Zayja with daughter Winona born 19 December, 7lbs 11oz
Sparklyrainbow with son Alex born 28th December, 9lb 7oz
GoodLuckBear with son James born 25th December, 8lb
BunnyBaby with son Daniel George born 5th January 2011, 10lb 1oz
AlbaDeTamble - with son born 10th Jan 2011, 8lbs 10oz
Gilda - with son Ren born 10th Jan 2011, 8lb 4oz
WestYorkshireGirl - with daughter Hester Rose born 14th Jan 2011, 6lb 4oz
Redheadgal - with daughter Cecily Anne born 13th Jan 2011, 8lbs 13oz
Toomuchteaching - with daughter Jemima born 17th Jan 2011, 8lb1/4oz
Dorcas111 - with daughter born 4th February 2011 8lbs 5oz
Clareanna - with son Tobias born 10th February 7lbs 10oz
Muser - with daughter born 15th February 6lbs 12oz
Ba8y1 ? with son born Tuesday 15th February, 8lbs 11oz
Lotta123 - with baby born Monday 21st February
Magic8ballhastheanswers - Identical twin girls, born 27th February 6lb8 & 5lb15
Northerngoldilocks - with son born Wednesday 16th March, 9lb 6oz
Stuffedmk - with son Thomas, born Wednesday 23rd March
Hopefully - with son, born 29th March 7lb 12oz
Lia - with daughter, born 1st April 8lb 11oz
PenguinsMummy - with daughter Clodagh
VivClicquot - with daughter, Phoebe, born Thursday 28 April, 7lb 5oz
Ivysedai - with son, born Tuesday May 2nd 3.83KG
Loopymumsy - with daughter, born Thursday 12th May, 7lb 15oz
Caribou - with son, Caleb, born Saturday 28 May, 9lb 1oz
LittleMiss - with son- born Wednesday 1st June 7lb 1oz
appleblossoms - with son Malachi, born Wednesday 15th June, 9lb 4oz
crochetcircle - with daughter born Sunday 26th June, 8lb 4oz.

In our thoughts and prayers:
Louise with daughter Georgie born asleep on 10th October
Dachs with her babies Alexander and Felicia who left the world asleep on 21st May

We share the pain and and mourn the loss with:
Jollster, Cheepz, Freezing, BarrenBrook, MsJL, LadyBee, Banana87, BatteryHen, HairyTriangle and Waterplate

wombat we looked the Bee and based on the Which review was v excited as it seemed it tick all the boxes. But once we'd seen itbwe didn't like it. Inputted this on the FO room as Lara asked why. She cannrobsbky offer sn alternative view though as I think she's opted for the bee.

When we had a mess around with the bee I just really disliked it. big bonus of the bee is it's size, the fact it's so lightweight and that it folds with the seat very compact. BUT I thought it felt really quite flimsy. I also didn't like the cocoon, which is the bees equivelent to a Carry cot. But it's not completely flat for the baby to lie on, which I think is important. And I didn't think it look very secure. I seemed like a bit if a sleeping bag perched on the seat. I got the impression that the bee is a good pushchair but not necc the best travel system especially if to be used from birth. I think the cameleon is bulky but most travel systems are, that's the down side to them. Although the chameleon has poor off road reviews from Which, most parent reviews rate it well.

Hoorah Izzy that is fab news So pleased for you - it's a big hurdle and now you are firmly on the other side of it!

I also looked at the Bee and decided I couldn't spend that much money on a pram as I know damn well by the time he's barely toddling he'll have grown out of it and I'll be using one of those cheapo fold-up buggies instead. I really like the travel system I have bought (Babystyle Oyster/maxi Cosi car-seat) as it fits in the boot of tiny car and seems fairly robust - the carrycot is pretty large so I'm hoping that will last a while before we have to move on to the seat thingy instead. Not sure how it would perform off-road but my main concerns were fitting it in the car and on the bus.

velvet - I found plenty of water, the odd bag of crisps and at least one banana a day helped hugely. The bananas apparently have something in them that stops cramps. Don't know what it is but it worked a treat :)

Ooooh I will try your banana suggestion owly-this morning I woke up with hideous cramps in my calf and was making such a fuss that DH thought I was having the baby doesn't bode well for the big day methinks!!

I wad planning on using the free Boots changing bag too! A girl at yoga told me that a top tip is to put something personal like a ribbon on the bag though, as if you go to any mum and baby groups there will be an enormous pile of identical bags

Hehe sieve/poo chat is making me laugh. I don't think you have to fish the poo out yourself-I think the midwife does that for you so at least that's one less thing to worry about! I am actually quite of this chat TBH..... Reason being is that I would love love love a water birth but my hospital has just one birthing pool, and it's luck of the draw whether you end up in that one delivery room, and i dont rate the odds in September. Apparently they don't keep that room specifically for women that want water births so if there's someone in there that's not using it, they won't swap rooms with you. V frustrating as it means that I'm almost certain to be denied the way I'd like to labour. I could have a homebirth which would allow me to use a birthing pool but I'm just not comfortable with that, so hospital it is.

daisy so pleases daisybean was ok when you went to check. Definitely better to get it checked out.

tigger fantastic news on the impending maternity leave!

I have been very good and haven't had a pork pie or magnum for days!! I actually neeeed one though-can't stop thinking about it!! I might crack into a fried egg sarnie to distract myself daisy did you get involved in the reduced pork pies? Luckily for you it's a long trip for me too so there should have been some left for you

Things have improved a bit on the constipation front. Just for reference in case anyone else ends up in this sorry state, eating an entire bag of prunes won't do anything to shift it, but will give you horrendous toxic gas and trapped wind..... Just saying!! I am currently trying nanabigmac 's suggestion of hot water, and will try some tinned fruit later.

Sorry collie no suggestions on the cinema front-DH and I were thinking about going the other night but everything looked rubbish. On the upside we're only a month away from the Inbetweeners movie coming out-can't wait!!!

YRMOTB sorry they all come with jelly but the m&s ones don't seem to have too much jelly. Plus normally I hate the jelly but weirdly I don't seem to mind it now. Wrong wrong wrong!!!

owly and daisy my tankini bottoms are vast too. And they're getting too tight.... collie my arse and bump and growing in proportion too. On the bright side at least it helps with balance [ grin]

coconuts fab news on the GTT!

collie daisy and YRMOTB so sorry to hear about your DH's experiences :(

daisy I think it's just sinking in for my DH too. He is getting panicy that we won't get the car seat until the end of the month and wants me to pack a hospital bag. Actually so does my mum so maybe it is time afterall I am still totally in denial that the day of giving birth will ever come!

izzy fab news on the scan!!

velvet sorry about your work, that is naff :(

orange nor had I until about a week ago. I have no idea how to feed or change a baby. I am hoping NCT classes are going to assume this level of cluelessness!

lara not sure, maybe about 24 weeks? It had been becoming a shallower and shallower innie, then plateaued for a while and the suddenly popped out! Oh and on garlic, I did a lot of googling of that stuff when I had the fanjo infection and turns out some people put whole cloves of garlic in their fanjo after stitching thread into the clove so you don't lose it to try and get rid of strep b...... definitely don't do garlic supplements though, read some scary stuff on the internet about their side effects in pregnancy.

I am still giggling about garlic fanjo experimentation. I bought the mumsnet preggo book about 6 weeks ago and there is a mention in there from a poster about the stringed-clove-up-fanjo approach for thrush. Still not a convincing argument though!

Izzy - hurrah! Great news! FX that your placenta has the good sense to hitch itself up over the next few weeks - plenty of time. The quality of the pictures is amazing - did MiniIzzy look at you? Ours did and looked like Jack Skellington from the Nightmare Before Christmas!

Orange We also have an envelope containing HappyMeals sex. I don't know how long I'll be able to hold out for.

Velvet that's crap re work. I take it they are not open to negotiation at all? However, your sister's fanjo-shyness made me roar. I'm only 20 weeks and if someone asked me on the bus if they could see mine, I might consider it. Might.

Daisy very interesting re bereavement. MrBigMac's dad died when he was 8 so I wonder if it will throw up any issues for him... will find a way to gently introduce it

Pink do consider lactulose - it also really helped me. There is also only one pool where I am planning to go. I'm thinking that you can only book it for your due date and even then it's odds or sods whether someone will already be in it so trying not to get too attached to the idea.

Warning - baby wipes also take any colour off of leather sofa's. Evil as well as helpful.

Nickster I'd be really interested to hear what you thought of the doula after your meeting. I'm seriously considering it.

I've reserved my place on an NCT class in October

What a funny day on this thread - Greenpeace rescue for beached whales, poo, inappropriate garlic application to fanjo's ...

ps bellybuttons. WTF? Mine is an innie and is feeling shallower. I daren't look on google. Did it hurt when it popped out (I'm squeamish about feet and bellybuttons and for some reason this hadn't occured to me before)?

Thanks bigmac, I'll go to the chemist and get some. PMSL at your willingness to consider showing randoms your fanjo . Oh bellybutton didn't hurt, just looks a bit weird. Just don't prod it to see if it will go back - it hurts then..... :)

Hello,

I fear I have missed too much for personals. Apols, although funny chat going on here today :)

My inny belly button has been flat and not inwards since I was about 16weeks. Although I am massive so I think mine came out alot earlier than it should have! Now, all my stretchmarks from DD are coming back up really strongly and my skin is that tight that it actually looks translucent around my belly button. Sexiness personified I am!!

I vaguely remember a thread on here, possibly in chat, abut smeone who stuck a clove of garlic up her fanjo to try and cure a bout of thrush. Was hilarious reading! It may be in classics but if not it was probably deleted after however many days they last in there.

Glad I have turned you all into Lamaze addicts! I should be on comission!!

No need for a seive here, as no water birth, but I do know that crapping during labour is a must. Apparently it proves you are pushing correctly. When in labour with DD I was petrified of doing a poo (I have poo issues) . I couldn't get the push right either and ended up with a ventouse. MW told me after I didn't poo but I should have done if I'd done it right. Which I didn't obviously. So everyone, push like you're doing a poo

Re Cramp in legs - I keep getting it in my calves if I stretch my leg too fast and I really suffer with Restless Legs at the mo. It seems to only come on when I wsant to go to sleep.

Great news on scan izzy :) :)

Pink good tip with the bag, I just got back with it, not as fancy-looking as some but it'll do the job for now at least :) it's rubbish that they don't have more pools. My local has 5 rooms and 2 pools, better odds but only low risk so will wait and see what miniO does

I haven't packed a bag but now have things in piles which I'm feeling quite pleased with - are you meant to wash everything? Boots have snuggle towels reduced to a fiver very nice btw :)

We've done labour/birth in our NCT and have breastfeeding and babies/cs to come

My bellybutton didn't hurt, but I am starting to feel a bit 'stretched' in the bump area in general

My belly button is still an inny, but much shallower already too!

Right that's it, I'm not eating running up to
my edd, so there is no pooing myself!!

Oh no! Don't google pooing during birth!! I fear what you might find!

bigmac what does it say? Don't make me google it myself!!

I have just read an email update thingy which has tld me that should my baby be born now it would have a 95% chance of survival. Wow.

Sorry - haven't looked myself, but my over-active imagination helped fill in the blanks :) I'm far too cowardly. You look and brief us afterwards. Go on

evening ladies. glad everyone is ok. glad scans have gone well.

oh and does anyone know how to stop mn from e-mailing everytime theres a message?

Morning ladies.

velvet work sounds crap and boss is an arse! You know it's really unacceptable that they are treating you differently (and more negatively) bcs you are pregnant and it is illegal. I suppose it's understandable they are trying to put a timetable together that is managable whilst you're off but it's not acceptable that the impact is that the quality of your work deteriorates AND the time-pressure increaes! With regards to the time, have you had your risk assessment? Maybe work asking for it- they are olbliged to do one.

I see from the list we have a couple of ladies due any day! How exciting!

Had a major case of branston hicks last night during a walk! Thought I just really needed a wee at first! Pup has been super active today and yesterday too, and dh has managed to feel lots of kicks so I'm very

I miss real coffee!!!!

Hi ladies, thought I'd pop over and say hello after being nudged by Collie. I'm 17 weeks today now, and huuuuge!

Morning Ladies

Didn't log on yesterday so it was an absolute treat to come on this morning and catch up on a couple of pages worth of pure juice. I was in hysterics for most of it. I am sorry that my posts were a little uncouth - I promise I'm not that low-brow in RL!

I have forgotten who said what so sorry for lack of personals...

Did remember Izzy's awesome scan news - well done m'lady... A friend asked me if I am "excited for my scan" and told me to "enjoy it"... WTF and how TF???? Do people in RL not realise how horrifically scary those things are for us?!

OMG - people put garlic up there for real???? Are they insane... Actually, I did assure you I am not uncouth in RL but I do have one more (last one, I promise) uncouth thing to share... Popped into Waitrose the other day and as I waited in the queue I saw that the girl in front of me was buying the following items (and I stress only buying the following items, nothing else): "intimate feminine" wipes, femfresh, femfresh wipes, vagisil wash AND vagisil spray... EUCH... I told DH and the poor thing was so mortified, he had to wait for me outside the store... (I now wonder if she was resorting to such measures after trying out the garlic remedy). I mean, IF you were buying THAT many (and that diverse a range) of, erm, feminine products, wouldn't you at least try to hide a couple of them under half a dozen eggs and some bread????

I can't google "pooing during birth" as I am on the work server... (hard at work from home). Actually, for some reason, it doesn't scare me - I am more scared about my fanjo ripping.....

Now terrified about my belly button (a deep innie) popping out. (Oh well - on the bright side, at least it will be an opportunity to give it a good clean...)

Great idea re using dog wipes to clean off erm, dog snot. We have two Shar Pei and they make quite a mess on the beautiful magnolia walls in our hallway. I tend to use washing up liquid and a sponge. I had to after DH accidentally caught me one day cleaning it off with nail polish remover (and stripping off the aforementioned beautiful magnolia paint).

Went swimming this AM. Started day dreaming and then accidentally forgot to stop swimming. Thighs are now killing. Oops. Actually am worried how I will get out of the pool in the coming weeks. The steps are those old school ones where you have to hoist yourself up them to get out (as opposed to the lovely gentle steps you have on the edge of a hotel pool). I have to admit I did huff, puff and heave my increased body weight out this AM and am worried I'll get stuck in the pool further down the line. WTF would I do??? I'd have to stay in the pool until it emptied completely and then somehow get out on my bottom. But the steps are narrow and my butt is widening. Oh dear.... After swimming this AM I had to go through the trauma of changing in the communal changing rooms (only one cubicle at Fitness First and I missed it). Anyone else feel like a hippo next to all the slender, beautifully toned, teeny-weeny gym bodies?? I now bring an ENORMOUS bath sheet from home that I can engulf my humungous mass in. (Maybe people will think I have a teeny weeny gym body under my towel-tent).

Re buggy talk, we're still set on the Bee but I am limited due to boot space (after buying my f*ck-it Mini Clubman only three days before getting my BFP). The Cameleon is a thing of beauty but we have a narrow hallway and I think I wouldn't use the carrycot due to lack of boot space.

Re constipation, quite bizarrely, the only thing that helps my constipation is erm, a phone conversation with my mum. God knows what the hell happens to my body (something weird must've happened in my childhood) but whenever I speak to her, I need to go and have a crap... (I guess I'll have to ring her as labour starts.)

Right - enough of my blabbing... Sorry for taking up so much space with nonsense

Excellent; Lara you should distribute your mum's phone number to those in here who are suffering!

Thankfully my local pool has proper steps. I think I could probably still get out if they didn't but it would not be elegant, let's put it like that. But isn't that what lifeguards are for?

cep I have no idea I'm afraid; I am a complete luddite and spend a lot of my time hopelessly searching for ways to turn things off and failing :)

Hello dear :) Welcome to the whale sanctuary

Re. pool births. I really want one as have spent most of the last six months sitting in the bath anyway and my hips are beyond shite now so anything that takes the weight off them and allows me to move about has got to be a good thing. My local hospital has one pool on delivery suite and one in the MLU. The MWs assure me that it is exceptionally rare that anyone who wants a pool birth doesn't get one - and in my own experience, the pool on the MLU/ward I used to work on was rarely used so anyone who did want it, tended to get it. Even if they say they don't 'save the room', I suspect they will occupy it last.

Anyhoo. As you know I'm planning a home birth and a big part of the reasoning behind that was that I definitely get a pool. And as many fried egg butties as I require. If it all goes tits up and I end up at the hospital the chances are I won't be allowed near a pool anyway because of whatever has gone tits up. Que sera, sera etc. The boy is officially fully baked on Sunday. I am still in complete denial that I am about to have a baby. I never thought I'd get this far and it's freaking me out in a whole new and alarming way

Just a quick post to say i've put a thread in the pg board on accruring annual leave during mat leave. I was told by my employer i wasn't entitiled to this and on googling was really suprised at the variance of practice and how few women got to accrue these.

Anyway, I got a bee in my bonnet about it so did some digging and we ARE entitled to it. have a look at the thread and make sure you are getting your entitlement!

Collie - you accrue bank holidays as well or at least those that make up your basic holiday allowance (28 days pa for 5 days a week)

Thanks owl!

Collie def get holiday leave accrued whilst on mat leave. I'm planning on tagging a chunk onto the end of my ml, and hopefully the beginning if I've got any left.

On the subject of pool births, yuck! I tried it with dd, really thought I'd like it, but must have stayed in the thing for 10 mins. So not for me.

I'm planning a home birth this time around (dc4 for me!) as due on 22nd Dec and have been worrying that I'll go into labour on Christmas Eve. Dh and I will go to the hospital and dd (5) will be really upset and worried about Father Christmas finding her........ very daft and hormonal, but I feel better for having made the decision although dh is slightly freaked out. He keeps asking where I'm going to give birth [hgrin].

Good for you Collie - the bastards probably thought they could get away with it. The holiday leave makes a huge difference.

I plan to do the same as you Harassed - am now saving all my leave to use at the start (if poss) and then all next year's to tag on the end. Thankfully my due date enables that (if Monkey cooperates).

Owl - awesome that the boy is almost fully baked!

Hello lovely ladies!!
Have been loving the chat over the past few days....ESP the poop!!! I did goggle it hahahaha!!! Didn't delve too deep but the first article by a midwife was quite reassuring.....its def a fear of mine as well as those pesky piles popping out to greet everyone I believe some poo escaped whilst pushing ds out but as the others have said the midwives are so quick & your mind is pretty much elsewhere!!!

So I had my sweep on Monday it was def not a fiddle more of a hoke.....bit tender afterwards & thankfully the piles behaved and stayed hidden
But no sign of baby not even a niggle Ds was 7 days over also so I just hope something happens before my induction date 19th
It's such a weird place to be at the moment I was quite excited and kept taking out my baby bits to look at last week but now I can't even imagine a baby or what to do with one .

Lovely to see new faces arriving from the freak out room and all the good scan news
Keep up all the funny chat.... Although I'm running out of things to tell ds when I'm pmsl......!

Will let you all know when we have some movement
XXXXXXX

As I never did a poo with DD and am becoming more open to idea with this one can someone shed some light on it please?

I have not and will not google, although I want to know something. If you do poo whilst giving birth, is it like a huge turd? or perhaps just a tiny rabbit dropping sized amount? What if it smells? What if a fart comes out too?

As an aside, I have a prescription issued for ferrous fumerate to pick up tomorrow for my anemia. Will prob get some Spatone as well and some orange juice. Can't be putting up with feeling this exhausted much longer.