30 weeks today! Anyone else counting down?

[Castlelough]

Hi ladies just wondering if anyone would like to join me on the final countdown from 30 weeks to newborn?!

I see there is another thread on here but the ladies are all at the end of their journey now, so was hoping to find some other mamas-to-be to natter with over the final stretch...!

Hello everyone. Hope I'm not too late to join your chat party?

I'm 30+4 today, due 15/1/15 but will be a week or two earlier I anticipate, as am having a planned c section.

I have a massive fibroid, too much fluid and quite a big baby they reckon, so feel like a whale out of water at the moment. Previous posters who have referred to waddling certainly are ringing bells with me!

My Dd1 is 2.4 and currently mostly being entertained by cbeebies, Mary Poppins, chitty chitty bang bang, finding Nemo and Charlie and the Choc factory DVDs! I feel like a bad mum, but know it's not forever.

We have a taster session at preschool tomorrow, as DD1 is due to start just as baby arrives, and I don't want her feeling like we are pushing her out because new bubs is here. I'm quite looking forward to seeing how she does, as she's never really left me before. I hope she'll be fine - I could do without hormone fuelled tears in front of pre-school staff! Could be v embarrassing!

It will be nice to be part of a 'last 10 weeks' club. I'm kind of thankful we are running up to Xmas as I think the time will seem to go faster than if there were nothing to look forward to, but I know I'll end up doing stuff last minute. Oh well, that's how it goes!

Hello to the new people! Wow dingalong that sounds pretty bad. I've got gallstones and am keeping all my fingers and toes crossed for no flare up. So incredibly painful and awful when it happens.

joosie I can't decide about pre school. She was down for this sept but they could only offer afternoons so I held her back as she still naps in the pm. Am considering feb but worried she'll feel pushed out as baby will be 6 wks old. She's so ready for pre school and she could do with but of outside discipline as she sure doesn't listen to me! I liked how they said they concentrate on listening first because if a child can't listen they can't learn. I'm all for that!

bugaboom I haven't forgotten the explosive poos. The memory of dh doing a nappy change at 2am when poo shot across the room at lightening speed splatting all over the slats on the wardrobe and dh trying to clean it all out will stay with me forever!

My dd is 2.5 yrs

Little Pink, I rang the preschool and asked them for some early taster sessions so Dd didn't associate it with new bubs. They were v good, understood our worries and brought taster sessions forward for her, so hopefully, she'll be associating it with the new activity itself rather than with bubs coming and shoving her out! Time will tell though. Is it worth you having a similar discussion with your planned preschool, Little Pink?

Castle we're going to use reusable nappies, got some of the birth to potty pocket nappies. Though even if he's 8lb plus and ready to use them straight away will wait a few days till after the meconium has passed.

Cheesecake I'm 33 weeks too and just this last week have been getting lots of kicks in the ribs. I'm not sure whether it is because he's getting bigger or if he was not head down previously.

What's everyone hoping for their birth? Water birth/pain releif/c sec?

30+4 as well! Looking forward to my second antenatal class tomorrow, partly because I get the afternoon off work and partly because it's the 10th anniversary of me and husband getting together. Baby was a long time coming :) Flipper is measuring about a week big, and the look the MW gave me, telling me this...! I felt like a whale. Anyway, scan confirmed it's Flipper who's big, not me ;) Got a 3D scan - was sceptical but I feel it's carrying me through this last trimester, picturing the little face inside me! I think they may be a few days off on my dates - due on the 16th, but I'll be ready and waiting anytime after 1 Jan.

Cheesecake I got wonderoos as couldn't really find any reviews to fault them and managed to get a good deal.

Ducky I'd ideally like a water birth with just gas and air. I've got a natal hynotherapy CD that I'm listening to to increase my chances.

I'm hoping for Vbac. Saw midwife today who said baby is breech. It's only at 36 weeks that they take it seriously. Up until then baby could turn any time. He's still free so plenty of time and room to turn.

If I can Vbac then I want a tens machine again as that was great last time. Pain relief wise I'll go with whatever is needed at the time. Last time I specified alsorts in my birth plan about what I did and didn't want but it stayed in the bag and was ripped up and thrown away when I got home!

Same as me baking!

Little I always wondered if they pay any attention to the birth plan!

They might pay attention to it in some but in my case with my first it was more obstetric led and not straight forward.

Dd has just announced to me that mummys a trampoline. At 32 weeks I am anything but a trampoline thank you very much!

36 weeks now! Seems to be dragging though been ill with a bad cold and cough for weeks! Can't take anything so it's been awful. She has turned head down on Mondays scan so hopefully will stay like that I'm having a vbac hopefully as I just want to be in and out . Need to pack my bag yet too lol. Fed up of being pregnant now just want it to be over just hope she comes on time I haven't really got a birth plan as such, whatever happens will happen! All I know is if I need pain relief I will and if not then I won't. I just hope she's healthy and I'm in and out the same day haha. Good luck to you all.

Well I'm hoping for as natural a birth as possible, but didn't quite work out like that last time so just wait and see.
I'm shattered this evening! Oh and joosie my ds is also watching far too much cbeebies when I'm home with him.

God this pregnancy lark is never ending! I am 37 + 4 today. Have an ELCS booked but just want to go into labour NOW and get it over with. Have been on maternity leave for a week and a half and am struggling with the boredom. I suppose that will all change (??!). My mum is calling me all the time which is driving me mad - the phone just went at 8.30am which I deliberately didn't answer, I know it will be her: "how are you feeling?" Gaaaahhhhhh. Maybe it's the pregnancy hormones but I am feeling irrationally ragey and want to go back to my office and have non-baby-related issues to think about.

Hi all! Im 30 weeks on Thursday with my first (little girl)... Im soooooooooo excited for her to be here... I'm so impatient now (Not that I want her to come early lol.... but I'm desperate to meet her properly!!). I'm on maternity leave as of Saturday as I have SPD and I'm a zoo keeper so I cant really do my job any more!

Hoping all you ladies have peaceful last few months... so exciting! :)

Hello everyone. Genz I remember my mum doing exactly the same. She used to call everyday from about 38 weeks and say "any contractions?". And getting to my due date was even worse- a day full of texts from well meaning people along the lines of "any twinges?". So irritating!

If you can, go and treat yourself to a massage. I did that right at the end and it was lovely.
32+5

I'm finally 30 weeks today and I can join in. WOHOOOO

I don't finish work until the 23rd December. 4 busses a day, tons of walking, and out of the house 11 hours a day. I'm a knackered little whale! ;)

Sooooo what did I miss?

;)

I'm 37 weeks and equally impatient and panicking! On my second week of mat leave now, and have got bags packed for hospital.
I haven't bought much of anything, just essentials I think (figured we will get presents from friends and family and can go out/order online anything we don't have as and when we need it). Wondering now though how many blankets people have as I've only got a couple and worried I need more. I have a fleece, crocheted, and cotton cellular blanket as well as some swaddle blankets to try(were given by a friend) and sleeping bags for when baby is bigger. Should I get some more cellular ones now?

33 weeks tomorrow and I must admit I am starting to feel the strain.

I've had an easy pregnancy and I know I am really lucky in that respect so I don't want to appear like I'm now moaning!
Anyone else having the following:

• breathlessness when I go anywhere or do anything - at times this includes when I am sat down
• Feeling like you need a wee every time you stand up
• Heavy feeling in the pelvis when I stand
• Period type aches low down

I'm sure this is all part of the course and given I had it easy early on karma is coming to get me!

superbfairywren I have 2 fleece blankets, 2 little green sheep blankets, 2 cellular blankets and I know some family are knitting blankets as well
You'll be fine with a couple to start I imagine as people will buy/knit them for you as presents

Hi all can I join you ? 30 weeks today! Am still working for another 4 weeks then start may leave just before Christmas.

Have read most of the thread and sympathise with those getting texts and calls from relatives. I had this with my first DS (who is 2.8 now) from my MIL. She would call every day to ask 'any twinges?any pain?' Till I was about to crack! I was very tempted to reply 'yep had him the other week did I forget to mention?'

Am booked in at the local community hospital with the midwife lead unit. Hoping it all goes smoothly this time as had a nightmare previously.

The back pain from sitting at a desk all day is my biggest problem at the moment.
Had a check up at the hospital the other day and saw lots of new mums coming out of the delivery suite with there tiny babies! Made me very excited!

Thanks cheshirem2b I have been trying not to go into overdrive and buy loads of everything. I think I will leave it and see which ones I like/use most/wash up best before getting any more.

Is anyone else shocked at the size of maternity pads? I know they need to be absorbent but I need a suitcase just to take a pack in to the hospital with me! I was expecting them to be more like sanitary towels. Can you get any that are smaller/individually wrapped? I have a pack from mothercare and 2 packs of the natracare ones as they were on offer. They are all huge. Any help In minimising the size of my bag appreciated.