Anyone due May 2004 .. new thread

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yes me last week after initial scepticism... they let us have a shot in ante natal class and i was a bit pooh pooh ish not having the slightest clue how that buzzing translates into pain relief... But having heard others' reports decided it was worth a try. What puzzled me was that the grumpy woman in Boots said you were supposed to practise with them?? nobody else has mentioned this. How can you practise when the whole thing's geared towards responding to pain, and until you're in labour ... there is no pain?

I have put it on my arm and had a shot but still a bit bemused by the whole idea.

Yes I used a Tens last time and have hired one for this time. I suppose practicing is to get used to the sensation - I've put mine on a couple of times in the evening. Don't want the sticky pads to wear out though. Last time I didn't think it was doing much then took it off to have a bath, lasted one contraction in the bath and scrambled for the Tens again!

Not much new to report, other than that DS has been invited to another birthday party next Sunday. So thats one in the morning and one in the afternoon - never mind that it is a) my due date and b) my wedding anniversary.... Actually though it is a neighbour's one year old so if nothing has happened I can just waddle across the road, plonk myself on her comfy sofa and watch DS create havoc. And if I have had the baby I can probably send DS on his own.

bozza, its weird that its our anniversary on the 20th and due date a day later than u!

i've got some spare pads with the tens as well, 'to practise'! not q sure how you do that, but i guess it is just getting used to the sensation, like u say bozza.

nothing happening today, despite mw getting my hopes up on sat night, telling me that i would go into labour in 1 or 2 days time.

what am i moaning for? its not like i am overdue........but i'm NOT going to go overdue!!!!!!!!

Overdue is ok today; just had a sleep in the sun in the garden. LUSH! Annoyingly the car has broken down so hoping actually that I won't go into labour till Thursday when it will be back from garage. Here's a nice thing tho' - I stuck a note thro' the door of the garage at lunchtime telling them we were due a baby any day now (dh hadn' t mentioned it when he booked car in!!) and they just rang back and said if I go into labour before the car's back then give them a ring and they'll take me to hospital themselves! Classic old gent garage. I was v. touched.

wow spots, thats good. does it include middle of the night !

my car is still in garage since feb when i crashed it if you remember!!!! we have dh's so its no prob - but maybe should try that with them.

where DO you like spots? we have had no sun at all

wonder how the 2 girls are doing.

sorry, meant where do you LIVE

Spots, your garage sounds lovely! our new washing machine is also due on Thursday so hopefully that will be our cue!

I have stomach cramp at the moment - is this good? I don't know anymore!! I feel like I've been thinking about it so hard my brain has died . . .

Andy is round doing the carpet for the nursery and stairs - hurrah! We will now spend all our time on the stairs and nursery because they are the only decent areas!

I asked my mw what she meant by practicing with the tens and she said that apparently it works by building up your own endorphines and if you start to use it 2 weeks before you due date it will gradually build the hormones up so that when your in labour the endorphines build up quicker so its less painful. Dont know if this is right but ive just ordered my tens so ill get practising. Hope everything wnt ok with GoerginaA

I had a not very nice Post Office experience this afternoon. Got stamps and shuffled away from counter to get myself organised and heard PO lady say "Blimey, did you see the size of THAT bump?" to the man in the queue. He then replied "They don't even try and hide it a bit these days do they? It's all just out there - it's like they're proud of it!"
I got out of there as quickly as possible, hating myself for not daring to say anything back but knowing that I would have just started crying. They made me feel like a teenager dressed in Spice Girl-stylie.....I'm 34 and was clad in H&M maternity top and jogging trousers!!
Am going to have extra pineapple tonight to console myself.
I haven't got a TENS this time round. I found that it felt like lots of little insects crawling on my back - really hope that this doesn't put anybody off it. I just couldn't get the hang of it at all. I did test it beforehand, I think the NCT teacher said that it was good to try getting the pads in the right places.
Hope somebody, somewhere is having a baby.....

reckon I've missed two weeks before due date whatever happens...

Egypt I was just thinking about that crash business of yours today. That was a mad thing to happen to you. Do you feel ok driving now? was your dc (dear car!) trashed?

I live in Fife, across the water from Edinburgh... so my sun might not have hit you tho' I can't remember where you are exactly.

Libb I have cramps too and hanging on to them for dear life as they're the only evidence I have of activity. Tho' I have had a very spaced out day and did wonder if maybe anything could happen. Which of course it could.

Washing's a bit of a theme for me as we've now got a line up in the garden so I'm sizzling my way through the laundry. Is anyone else thinking of using cloth nappies? or am I the only hippy here? Getting used to the sound of the washing machine being a constant factor in my domestic life.

Also thinking about G. & hoping she has her own positive induction story by the end of today. It's a funny thought, all these half-strangers knowing bits of each others' lives... somewhere there is a real Georgina having a real baby... (and a real Egypt with tens machine on practising and a libb with new stair carpet and so on...) I haven't ever done chat rooms before and I am surprised that it doesn't feel MORE weird! (But it does feel a bit weird )

aah spots - yes it is a bit weird that we are all real people doing real things in this cyber world of ours.

my car is ok thanks. it just keeps getting sent back to us still un-fixed! then passed to another garage, then another....

i'm in leicestershire. sun didnt get our way today except for a little bit around tea time. decided to take a walk whilst dh went and got hot curries! thought it may do the trick. only thing is - must bake you have bad wind and watery bowel movements in labour - surely this can't be good...oh where is my dignity

Judd, poor you. I would have really cried, and think i may have had to walk out too, although dying to say something. some people are just so stuck up and old fashioned. be proud - i'm sure you are.

just watched the live c/s on 5. wow - amazing. brought tears to my eyes. dh didnt want to watch and hid in kitchen bless. said he would if it was me. thought it would be a good idea to be prepared, but he want keen. hey - maybe she was georgina or snowbird!! hope they are ok

Judd, ignore those muppets in the post office - what the hell do they know?! Sorry, am in fighting mood because DP's brother accidently sent an e-mail to us this evening instead of who he intended - it basically said that he was not looking forward to being an uncle and he hopes DS doesn't arrive on his birthday (the 23rd May).

DP sent him a very terse reply that he'd better check his recipient next time and that there was absolutely no intention on us having it then! stupid stupid ** (make whatever word you wish there!)

Grr! (note to self, must chill . . .)

Our carpet looks good though!

My DH was complaining about how much noise the baby made (on the programme. I just laughed at him but didn't want to put him off his ironing.

Judd I don't get what you're supposed to hide or exactly how you are going to hide a ready-to-be-born baby. Think that was very unpleasant and unnecessary. Have to admit that if I'm not careful I end up with a gap showing an inch or two of white belly - but at least its taut at the moment! But I'm not getting new clothes now.

Thanks for your support! I did check that I wasn't cheekily exposing a slither of M&S maternity bra...but no!
Libb, last week I committed the horrible crime of sending an e mail to completely the wrong people and I am still cringeing even now. I just thank goodness that mine wasn't at all rude about anybody...just contained bad language! I "efficiently" put together a mailing list for DH to use when he was letting people know about birth of baby. However, instead of just sending mailing list to him, I managed to send the e mail to the whole mailing list. So inlaws, church minister, various people from whom I like to shelter certain sides of my character, all received an e mail which not only included the phrase "bag o' shite" but also made everyone aware of the special, secret nicknames that DH and I have for each other.
I'm really sorry that the e mail you received wasn't just a daft one - does DP's brother have family of his own? Sounds like the clumsy words of a single bloke. He's probably very embarrassed by it anyway.
Right I'm off to bed, tomorrow is meant to be The Day, wonder what will happen???

I can't sleep - DP is snoring and I have heartburn! that can't be a good sign!

His brother replied, just laughed it off and said he'd been getting some stick for it . . . the poor darling! (he is single and obviously embarrassed!) He doesn't care for me much, thinks I am going to take his share of the house that he owns with DP or something! He wasn't very pleased when he found out we were expecting the baby and assumed/hoped we would get rid of it, and when we didn't he skulked in his room until he left for his mum's in New Zealand at Christmas . . . now he skulks in his room there instead! and in the meantime I am paying for his share of his mortgage with DP. Pah! anyway, that is my rant about him for now - I really mustn't let him get to me! Got other things to worry about now (and my hormones are obviously playing up!) Thanks for letting me ramble . . . I promise it won't happen again . . .

libb he sounds like a right arse.

Judd I can see the cringe factor there but actually ...made me chuckle! (the bag o shite email not the bump comment. Which is so retrograde it barely deserves the thump on the jaw I'd have been tempted to administer).

Judd, just read about your post office experience, and cannot find the words (well, actually I can but am resisting urge to use them) for the mindless comments of complete strangers. Even if you did have Bump exposed, which you clearly didnt, people have no right to be soooooo rude. What you, and all of us on here are carrying, is fantastic beyond belief, as for trying to cover it up, a virtual impossibility!! As for me, am still waiting for Friday, my due date. After the curry and 24 hour Tesco dash in the early hours for Gaviscon, have decided to try and be patient. But its so hard!! Every day when I fetch my dds from school, I can see their little faces drop when its me, as they too feel they have waited long enough. I do try to not take it personally, but after all the comments from others mums at the school gates, its quite hard!! Think I`m just very sensitive at the moment. Ho hum.... Not long now.

oh libb, i think you can safely say he feels worse about it than you do - if not guilty, then a complete kn*b!

m/w been round. baby 3/5 engaged now. 4/5 two weeks ago. does that mean i have another 3 weeks to wait!! she's coming round on 20may to do a sweep - oo just realised, thats our anniversary!

baby is in posterior position. going to get searching now for some info on how to turn it. she said about the birthing ball, so will use that.

Laa laa laa, just calling in to make sure we don't slip off the bottom of the list... Have had a very very bored day, and now am starting to resent people phoning just to see how I'm getting on even tho' they're being lovely about it. I got a horrible thought in my mind about what if something was wrong, and all these people would have to be told.

as I say laa laalaa...

made some baby dungarees and trousers and a beach bag with my spare time, all huge. Beach bag big enough to keep baby in, and dungarees big enought to use as beach bag.

I do actually have appointment on Thursday but not expecting any sweeping to happen, just talking about it?? but then you'll only be 3 days overdue when you're swept Egypt? Did you ask for sweep or did they suggest it?

Nowt much happening here either - have a midwife appointment tomorrow just to see how things are and talk about inductions. Egypt, your midwife sounds keen! I guess that is a good thing though, I am also getting fed up with the phonecalls - somehow it makes me feel like I'm doing it wrong - or worse, something is wrong! he doesn't move as much but I keep telling myself its normal. Heartburn keeps coming and going, plus the usual bum under ribs - which is starting to irritate me to be honest! I want some action!

Plus my hormones are a nightmare at the moment, is it a sign?! no, didn't think so . . .

Spots im impressed. I can barely sew a button on. DH took a pair of white pants over his mums on Sunday as i had washed them and the red from the elastic band around the top had run and I refused to rewash them. In my defence I said that how else was I supposed to wash them if everytime I did the red runs. Its not my bloody fault that their crap pants ( I think pregnancy is finally getting to me) I seem to be snapping over the smallest things this week.

kbaby that gets right on my nerves too. DS had a white T-shirt with red bands round the neck and arms from Next. I washed it at 40 degrees and the red ran into the white which did not come clean due to having been worn by a two year old. Grrr....

Not much to report. Feeling more uncomfortable lower down, like there's a lot of weight bearing down on my lower regions. Also boobs have got bigger this last week. Thats about it.

When would you lot consider inductions? Just had conversation with dh who is as impatient as me for baby to get a move on but I'm wanting to have as natural a delivery as poss. and not keen to be induced. He sees it more as a means to an end. Have to admit that I can't imagine holding out indefinitely... but interested to know what the consensus is here.

Kbaby lol! pants nightmare...don't fret honey it is definitely the pants' fault.

yes my m/w does seem keen i spose. she made it sound like usual practise. i didnt really think how soon the sweep would be! she says that 12 days after EDD is when they look at induction. she gave the spiel about the placenta beginning to deteriorate by then. i think really as long as you are monitored it is fine to wait until it happens naturally. my friend was induced and she said she thinks she'd make a stand next time, NOT to be induced but monitored to see if it was really necessary. she said she felt that her body wasnt ready and hence made the labour harder...but i have to say, i think my 12 days overdue i would just want to get on with it, and wouldnt be able to resist. i dont mind the sweep being so soon. theres no disadvantage to that is there? m/w says it usually doesnt stimulate labour in first pregs anyway, but worth a try! i guess i'd try mostly anything.

still trying to get this babs to turn back to having its bum at the front - miss it!!!! now i have lots of lumps and its so so uncomfortable. not allowed to slump back on a chair - like the sofa!! ARGH, nor lay on back, got to sit upright in car etc etc....so uncomfortable. found website about posterior positions and how difficult labour can be with that. great so trying my best to do something about it now.

chuckled at your pants trauma kbaby - i know how it feels. my prob is i always shrink dh's stuff.

ooo on the positive side, spoke to friend today who had baby 6 months ago and she had exactly the same kind of pink watery show that i did, the other night. she went into labour a week later - theres hope for me yet

wonder how georgina and snowbird are

god. i'm really not with it am i? just seen georgina's posts!!!