Anyone due May 2004 .. new thread

[twiglett]

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GeorginaA's top expressing tip: hire a hospital grade pump!!

They're not that expensive to hire, and they really are far more efficient!! I think there was a thread somewhere which gave some very good expressing tips - must look it up.

this is all very good follow on from last night's ante natal class which was about breast feeding... they suggested mixing bottle and breast really confuses baby so I'm glad to hear prufrock that this isn't always true...

I love that even people with children already imagine the angel baby.(lol twiglett!) But do let me not be doomed to a devil baby because I am having a smooth pg... please?

Quick shoot up to Aberdeen tonight marks the end of work for me. But it's been a lazy few days anyway... yawn.

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Feeling horribly depressed today.

Doesn't help that ds was up early, and I woke in the night and couldn't get back to sleep. Feel so knackered.

Then a friend I was meeting today (who is around 12-13 weeks pregnant) texted me to say she couldn't make it because she was bleeding and had to go to hospital for an anti-D injection and scan I feel so wretched on her behalf - heaven only knows the dread she's feeling at the moment. Ds spent all morning at Wacky Warehouse asking why they weren't there.

I'm supposed to go out to yoga this afternoon - but I just feel like going to bed and sobbing my heart out to be honest.

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I did go to yoga, and I do feel better for going. Still feel a bit on tenderhooks for my friend... had no similar experience, so don't feel particularly qualified to help and as she only texted me I don't feel I can intrude by phoning her properly. I just hope it all turns out to be minor.

Dh has gone out for a meal with a mate tonight, I could have done with the company really

Am also really perfecting the pregnancy waddle. Struggling with the housework already - so tempted to research getting a cleaner, but I'm sure our finances won't stretch to one.

Sorry, will drag myself out of my pity party by tomorrow... promise

How is everyone else today?

Isn't knackeredness just the killer? Today I have slept ALL AFTERNOON, like having a big drink of water when you're thirsty.
Georgina I think anyone who is thinking about getting a cleaner should get one... when I was a student I used to clean houses for people and always thought it such a sensible arrangement; it only took me 3 hours a week to do a family home and then I got paid £5/hour. That was maybe 7 years ago? but I reckon shelling out £15-£20 a week for the sheer pleasure of having the work done for you is money well spent. (It was a lovely peaceful job as well.) Sometimes I have considered it myself.

Yoga and a cleaner sounds like excellent stress management

Hope your poor friend is ok.

thanks for the advice on breastfding all. i'm sure i will get the hang of it all....so much to plan!!
finished work -hoorah!!!! isn't it great spots and kbaby - anyone else?
hope you are feeling better georgina. have you heard from your friend? very scary. i'm rhesus - but didnt have any bleeding, touch wood. hope she is ok.
anyone else having loads of braxton hicks? accompanied with a bit of mild aching? (period pains/backache)? am seeing midwife on weds. i am sure i wil have this baby early.

To be honest, still feeling low and weepy. Almost certainly a hormonal blip like twiglett says. I know I'm being silly, but I've got into this negative thinking rut where the birth is going to be horrible, I'm not going to be able to cope with two children and I'm a crap mother. I know it's all wrong, but it's easier to know it in your head than it is your heart, isn't it? I'm still feeling absolutely knackered - hard to tell now whether I'm feeling down because I'm tired, or I'm tired because I'm feeling down. Probably a bit of both. Going to try for an early night tonight anyway.

My friend has her scan tomorrow morning (was the earliest they could slot her in ) so hopefully will have some good news tomorrow.

I weighed myself today (bad mistake, I know!) - I've put on 3 stone this pregnancy already. Seeing as how I only started out at 7.5 stone that's almost a 50% increase!!! Can't remember what I put on last pregnancy to compare whether that's "normal" for me though. Thought I was feeling a bit stretched and bloaty No wonder they keep telling me baby is growing well...

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Thank you for the hugs

Well I didn't manage to get the early night - my willpower is so appallingly low for things like that! I did, however, manage to get about 6 hours uninterrupted sleep and I feel a lot better.

Even managed to clean a bit of the kitchen this morning, which although I hated doing it, it's so much nicer feeling that I can get back on top of all the chores psychologically.

My friend has been given the all clear which is fantastic news, too.

How's the asthma now, twiglett? I'm glad to hear your sleeping is better now - does that mean it's a bit more under control?

How is everyone else feeling today?

Hello,
Egypt, how was your first day of maternity leave.

Mine has been taken up by watching some hospital program on bbc his morning and then this morning followed by a bit of discovery health and all the baby programmes. Also making tea all day for a decorator whos doing our landing, because neither of us can be bothered to do it. Really exciting stuff

Good good good about your friend G. You must be relieved.

I made a start on baby room today. Finally admitting the likelihood of someone to inhabit it, partly prompted by v. realistic dream last night about a teeny tiny baby who just popped out like a little bar of soap.... lovely wee room, all blue walls and you can see the garden flowers outside... NONETHELESS still feel it's complete fantasy, the whole baby thing, and despite absolutely overwhelming evidence to the contrary sometimes a bar of soap popping out seems far more plausible.

Having fears about being a good mum seems like a v. sensible hormonal blip to me; funny it's just not real enough in my mind to worry me yet. Which probably makes me quite likely to be a rubbish mum. argh.

Egypt how are you wallowing in your free time?

hee hee egypt do you feel pestered now? I didn't see kbaby's entry till mine was posted! kbaby that sounds like CLASSIC monday maternity leave behaviour, well done!

hello! i watched the same hospital prog on bbc too kbaby. was staying at my mums, which is a good 3 hours away for the w/e. back now and my poor friend is here doing alsorts of things for me - bless.
list as long as my arms and legs together for baby prep.....sooo sooo tired though

hope you are feeling much much better georgina.

dh was found in baby room late last night gazing wistfully at ... his bike! which he had thought to park there temporarily seeing as how there was so much floor space.

sometimes a little feminine sigh and shrug just aren't enough to express the wifely feelings that crowd in at these times.

In a fit of genderbalanced pique I scrubbed kitchen floor With Lavender.

oh spots, i know!
as far as i am aware, dh hasn't looked at anything in the baby room. i am piling it full of stuff and he hasnt a clue what is in there.........why oh why????? i cant leave the place alone.

went to m/w today and baby is still breech. am 34 weeks. she has told me to get on hands and knees with bum in air, as much as poss, lie on left side, get a bym ball and sit on an upright chair. if all fails will have to have baby turned. anyone experience? does this hurt??? don't want that.

I'm so impressed that you all seem to have the babys room ready or almost ready, haven't even started on ours yet. At the moment it's the laundry/ironing room plus a dumping ground for dd's toys and dh's bike. Not going to paint it until after baby arrives else everyone will know what we're having because of the colour. and baby will sleep in our room for the first few weeks/months anyway.

Had a midwife appointment yesterday for 34 week check up, although I'm actually 35 weeks today. I was convinced that the baby was lying breech because of where all the kicks/punches have been and because of this big hard lump at my rib cage but midwife joyfully reported that the baby is lying head down and the big hard lump is a bottom not a head. Had blood tests taken for antibodies, not going to be any since Dh is also RH Neg. but they have to check anyway and they are going to check my platelets as usual.

Also asked her my huge list of questions that I had written down and I'm feeling a whole lot better about things now that I have answers.

I'm off for the next 5 days for the Easter weekend, don't go back until next Tuesday. And I finish 3 weeks on Friday so this long weekend breaks it up nicely. Going away tomorrow to a larger city with more shops to do some baby shopping, dd is very excited and has been helping me write a list of everything we still need to get, which is loads.

Georgina, glad to hear that your friend is ok.

Egypt and Kbaby sounds like you're enjoying your maternity leave.

Hope you are all well
bye for now
Linnet

hope u enjoy your hols linnet. have been trying my best to get baby to turn round. hands and knees, lying on left side, mum's bought me a birthing ball......but no luck yet, i dont think. oh bum, having a bathroom fitted by my dear dad this w/e and he's just reported that the slate tiles need sealing BEFORE they are laid. he's laying them tomorrow so guess what i'll be doing toda? and I've shelves to wax, clothes to wash, hospital bag to pack - just incase?!! etcc.................

I think the main reason our baby's room is ready is because we didn't have to do anything except chuck DS out.

Today is my last day at work and I am soooo happy. DH is laughing at me because all week I've been saying "don't worry - I'll do it next week".

we had nothing to do in baby's room except stand the cot and wardrobe in it. i had decorated last year because it needed it, and did it in neutral colours, with the possibility in back of mind that it may soon be a baby room. i dont think we would (I WOULD) have got it done otherwise.
our house is a tip - like i said before, having a bathroom totally gutted and fitted over easter w/e. had french doors put in lounge a couple of weeks ago and STILL not finished - plastering to do - carpet is RUINED (8 months old!!!!!) direct line??? loft to finish insulating......la la la.........no time for a baby

Our baby room was already lovely when we moved in at xmas so no credit due to us... It seems to be awfully useful too. My sister (up for easter) is the first actual inhabitant (not counting bike which does enjoy perverse status in household). Actually just got back from sisterly shopping... she showed me glam dress she'd bought for my b'day lunch at which she will sport silky summery spaghetti strapped Number. I pathetically came over all huffy picturing self in grey monastic smock which is only thing that fits now... Shopping seemed a good solution. I bought BOOTS... last bastion of glamour; what would we do without 'em. (and changing mat and baby bag...)(won't plan to wear those tho'

Egypt sorry to hear yours is breech. Have heard turning is not that nice (or successful) but still time for it to turn alone; also my friend who had caesarean in Jan due to breech babe was quite adamant she'd "had worse experiences at the dentist". He came out with lovely curly legs too...

Oh bollocksy bollocksy bollocks.

Remind me NEVER to get pregnant or have any more children EVER EVER AGAIN!

Ds has got a load of spots... had my suspicions at lunchtime, booked a doctor's appt (for just over half an hour's time)... now one's looking more blistery than before so pretty likely to be chickenpox.

Joy of joys, more blood to be taken from me to check immunity, more days of worry (I must train myself to stop worrying, I seem to be wasting a lot of energy recently), more days of feeling "sod this, want the baby OUT NOW PLEASE"

sorry that does sound a bit flippant, not intentional... honestly, she was really chuffed with her experience.... but I know I'd be pissed off if mine was breech despite that. Turn Baby Turn!