Anyone due in April 2004 - part 2

[Fennel]

here we are, new thread so we can keep up to date with all the labour pains.

I get that too laurakim, at the moment it's worse at night. Horrible!!

Hurrah, it's April!

one day less of pregnancy to endure....

Yeah and it's April Fool! Share you sentiments Fennel. Weather is not so nice here today. How is it up in Manchester?

not as sunny as yesterday, no.

I read on another thread you're a philosophy student Mrs D. is that at the Uni?

(I have no pregnancy or labour symptoms to share, is anything happening with anyone?)

Nothing happening here - but just 37 weeks today. Have had builders in and out since Sept, got a new extension. Now a race against time to get the plastering, decorating etc finished...

Happy 1st April to us all. Let's hope we all have our babies here safely by the end of this month.

I had a good antenatal appoitmnent with my lovely Gp yesterday. She said baby is no longer transverse ( as he has been for most of the preg) and is head down, but towards the left. Now this morning i have woken up feeling a bit strange - I have a feeling of pressure down below, as if my bladder is full or I'm constipated (neither is actually the case!!). Its also a bit like the fullness i get a couple of days before my period. Not cramps, its there all the time.

Is this just because the baby is head down ( so is this how most of you have been feeling for weeks???)? Or is the head now engaged ( I'm 37+5, first baby)? Advice please from all you experienced Mums.

hi Lesley

Good news about the positioning. I feel that sort of pressuere and my baby is apparently only about 3/5 engaged, so no it unfortunately doesn't necessarily mean you are fully engaged. Just that you will look really silly waddling down the street.

Oh dear, that's a shame Fennel. because until yesterday i looked the height of elegance walking down the street!! With my trainers, baggy jeans that still fall down, despite my ENORMOUS bump and my size 14 fleece (I'm a size 8) hanging off my shoulders in a pathetic attempt to disguise the fact Im 9 months preg!! Oh and my hair that has returned to teenaged greasiness, despite the fact that i won't see 40 again...

LOL - does this feeling of needing to do an enormous poo go away then , or will I be like this until D-day???

Yeah I was causing upset on that thread, I fear.
No I am a lecturer, part of my MSc studies involve philosophy. So I guess in a roundabout way I am a philosophy student. I am waiting for the results of that module actually... Heck I had forgotten about that!!!!

mornin all
l76 , this is my first too , and I have no idea what is happening ! 38 weeks today !
off to the midwife at 2 pm and am hopong that she will have good news for my as I think that my bump shape has changed
have just heard on the news that some footballers wife has asked for her baby to be induced so that the birth does not clash with the fa cup semi final ??? !!! you what
ok , so I would like to be induced so that I do not clash with my watcing the grand prox please
for heavens sake

Not a lecturer at Oxford Uni - I should add!!!!!
Hi Lesley, that poo thing I have had for the past week or so now, hence my endless complaining about going to the loo. This 'head engaged' thing is not as exciting as it sounds, hey? At work when I was 36 weeks I announced that the head engaged and there was a chorus of "Ooooh how exciting?"
Not now, methinks!!
Oh and I wear jeans that fall down and dh's fleece tat I have happily mishapen!!!

HMC, thanks for your message. I cant wait to get to 9 months. Seems such a long way off. Hope you have a little warning before #2 makes an appearance.

I'm looking out for lots of good news from this thread.

Lesley76

my under-bump jeans are also difficult to keep up, except by exaggerating the waddle and sticking my bum out as I walk.

Mrs D I studied philosophy at oxford uni, a while ago now.

as a strange footnote , I was at Manchester umist for a week as a OU student , living the life of riley , as students do !! and returned to find that I was pg oooops all above board mind you
drank , smoked the night away ! and I had completly forgot about watching for the old admiral
had a great time though , studying history btw

fennal , your description had me in stitches ! bit sore now , bit like when i sneeze now

Dolbear, knowing the sort of lecturers from my department who like to "teach" at OU summer schools I'm surprised all the students don't go home to find they're pregnant! OU summer schools are a bit notorious for that.

My over-the-bump jeans kept falling down, so recently I gave in and bought under-the-bump jeans, even worse! Until.... I snatched dh's belt!!! Another thing I have happily mis-shapen!
What's anyone wearing back from the hospital? This is my latest quandry.

DH's belt? I have been wearing DH's underpants in bed

Mrs Doolittle, I'm not due in April 2004 but was lurking around mumsnet because I can't write my dissertation and just wanted to say that you're not the only one who thought Sophie's choice was Sophie's world. I was sitting there thinking - hmmm, read the first hundred or so pages and it didn't seem that sad...... Thanks for posting before I did
Good luck to all of you, I'll be off before I start coming out with such gems as oh, still here then etc etc etc

Oh, before I go I wore gap drawstring trousers that I'd bought in a size bigger than normal and was nice and comfy. Saw lots of ladies leaving in their nighties though

OOh we sound such a gorgeous lot! I cant imagine why our husbands/partners are not jumping all over us.I must try wearing my Dhs underwear in bed and see whathappens...........

Croak - going through a bit of the old thesis avoidance are we?? Thats familiar ground I can tell you. As for the other thread - I was lurking too, I should have stayed lurking. Looked like such an idiot! Especially after asking what a Mooncup was yesterday. Stupid!!

Now dh's pants, there's a thought......

Laurakim,

Yes it is quite normal to feel tightenings at this stage, but also quite normal not to! Confusing eh?

Dolbear - I actually think the footballer's wife's request for an induction is not that unreasonable (assuming that her husband is scheduled to play in the FA cup semi final) - but then I am a football fan!

Pack something VERY VERY comfortable to wear on the way back. NOT your slinkiest jeans!

Very, Very comfortable? So if I put clean jeans on before I go into hospital and wear the same ones back, that's not a good idea?