New due in Sep 04 thread...

[dejags]

I thought I would start a new thread because we finally passed the 500 post mark.

This is a pretty quiet thread - I think too many of us have been moving house. Our move is well and truly over (thank heavens) - well at least for the short term, we still have the small matter of emigrating in November with an 8 week old and a 3 year old which should be a barrel of laughs...

Otherwise I am bumbling on nearly 31 weeks and actually feeling ok despite no sleep, spd type pain at night and lots of time at the hospital because DS2 is so big and needs constant monitoring.

How are you all doing - time is flying we'll be doing birth announcements soon...

LOL, surge of hormones today! Both highlander and Dinny almost screaming! LOL - maybe your both closer to labour than you think . Cazzy, your scaring me with you bleed story! I hate, loathe, detest monthlys and one thing I have loved about being pg is not having them, the thought of a long ad one is really horrific. Is it really that bad? I have 3 pack of 2 and then I have bought 3 pks of kotex for heavy....are you suggesting maybe I need more maternity pads? Oh hell, this is the bit I am dreading, really dreading. Pleeese tell me its not really this bad. How long is it going to last for?

I have stocked up on the disposables, but may try the terry shaped cloths later. I am pretty determined to just have one baby, so maybeas I wouldn't get the wear on baby No2, it may be best to stick with disp. Unsure of this!

Dejags. I am with you on not wanting to be pg anymore. Baby moved at 9pm last night after a frantic hour of kicking and lay firmly high under my ribs on my right (sleeping) side, so I lay awake until 1am waiting for a shuffle.

With dh out all day, the home pretty pristine, and tea always cooked, dh can think what he likes about me napping. One cocky remark from him and I will ensure once baby is here he never naps in the day!

Have a good day everyone.

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I know it's been talked about before but I am now really, really, really getting fed up of people saying - but your HUUUUUUUGEE!!!! What the F**K do they expect at 38/40 weeks pregnant. If I have to endure one more remark I swear I'll just have a complete meltdown. Why is it that people are just to damned presumptious when it comes to pregnancy

The other one that really gets me going is xxx is pregnant and due 2 days before you and she is soooo petite... grrrr!!! I just can't be bothered to mention that I probably have polyhydramnios and to explain what it means...

Rant over...

On a lighter note - tried to get DH in the mood for a little horizontal bopping this morning, sadly he says it feels too weird (i.e. he can feel something there???) - no natural prostaglandins for me then

My dp is always in the mood - I really went off last time just at the end and I seem to have this time. Oh well. I am spending too much time on mumsnet, expeically as I should be revising for my OU exam before the baby arrives.

Saddy you might not bleed as much as me - I don't know how much everyone else bleed. It was worse when I bf. Anyway this time i am prepared, although dp says he won't let me come home staight after the birth because I will bleed over the bed!- charming. He is very nice honestly!

I so totally relate to the frustration of everyone telling then they are huge and stating baby not come yet then DOH! what does it blinking look like! Even the woman in sainsburys petrol station keeps telling me it must be any day now. So I can totally relate

My back hurts pretty bad today, low down, and my pelvis feels achy too. Hoping this is a sign...living inhope really!

Bank Holiday weekend for the first time in history does not feel any different because of not working, it just brings relief that its pay day and the end of August so I will finally be in September!

Oh well, sending everyone labour vibes for the weekend.

Sx

thanks for sharing your rants girls - the worst thing about feeling crap when preggers is thinking you're alone and wierd for feeling like this!

Anyway, just sitting having my brekky (9am in Canada) and have found out Paula R is running in the 10km - has cheered me up no end! Now I just need to finad a Canadaian station showing it. Shucks, no work this morning then.........

I've had the opposite - not "wow you are so big" but... "you are much smaller this time round..." Doesn't baby's position have a lot to do with it? (ds was in classic head down position for weeks whereas bump is lying crosswise and perfectly happy!)

I too would like a good nights sleep.. I toss and turn in the early hours with pain in my back/pelvis and constant trips to the loo... I know it's preperation for nightfeeds BUT surely nature could let us have a few good nights sleep before it all starts!

4 days to go.... I can't get excited.. I feel quite sad that I feel this way but all I can think is.. 1. operation 2. worries re:ds and 3. the discomfort and pains will start to go.. the fact there is a baby at the end of all this hasn't really made an impact... Do you think I'll get excited on the day?!

everyone ok??

Need a moan so hope you don't mind.... Have had a mixed day with ds - a huge chunk has been devoted to toddler tantrums and answering back - I honestly didn't think a 2 year old would answer back.

Am also feeling very down and very tired, my feet have swollen dramatically and the day has ended with me in tears to my parents on the phone - what I expected them to do 200 miles away I don't know!! I hope this isn't an indication of what the baby blues will be like for me this time round - it was hard enough last time! Anyway, Mum persuaded me to ring the midwife (who want to see me tomorrow morning for a check-up) and my MIL (who is having ds for a few hours tomorrow). Wish Mum could come down now but unfortunatley, she can't come till tues pm at the earliest...

Hope everyone else is having a better weekend than me! Sorry for the moan,

Jacksmum

Jacksmum - hugs!!! I feel like crying all the time too - I think its a combination between lack of sleep and hormones and I haven't even had a terrible pregnancy like you. Tomorrow is a whole different day and I hope will he heaps better. I am thinking of you.

Thanks all for your messages after my moan about polyhydramniosis. Dejags you did reassure me, thanks. You've obviously really been through the mill with constant hospital visits and different possible problems suggested, and Saddy too.

I spent nearly all day at the hospital on Thursday (mostly just waiting to be seen) and the scan showed that everything was normal after all -average sized baby and normal amount of fluid. It is of course very reassuring, but somehow all I felt like doing all day was crying. So can sympathise with Jacksmum and Cazzybabs. Think it's partly hormonal, lack of sleep, worry and all the bloody discomfort.

I just hope that's the end of the story as far as PH is concerned. I was previously sent to the hospital for a scan at 28 weeks too as the local midwives thought I had too much fluid. The scan then showed it was normal as well and I was happy to forget about it until my week 34 appointment which then showed same thing, but with even more disproportionate measurements. Just hope things can carry on as normal now and this doesn't keep happening.

I'm not as far gone as everyone else who is now fed up and wanting baby out (not quite 36 weeks). I've got mixed feelings really, as having only just finished work I really am looking forward to at least 3 days of each week being able to have a nap during the day before the baby arrives. On the other hand I have been so huge for so long already that I am getting really fed up with the discomfort and lack of sleep at night.

Good luck to everyone due next week. Looking forwad to hearing some positive birth stories (and of course we're all going to have lovely easy births)

Hi There, August thread V.Quiet Baby due 31st Aug, so hope you don't mind me joining you.......

Quick question for Jacksmum, does the academic year start on 31st Aug or 1st September? Like you am also hoping to hang on, knowing how hard they work kids at school, I have a DS of 9, and they expect so much from kids at school...

Been up and down to the hospital also as my bump is measuring 43, though scan show everything OK, and on schedule...MW states that early scans are most accurate as all babies measure the same at 7/8 weeks......

Nappies: We have a great service in Lincoln called Nappy Hopper, for a fixed weekly charge she provides wraps, inners, liners and a bin, she collects, washes and returns the inners weekly, used them for DS, but DH didn't want them again, so going for disp, this time.

Hi ladies - been about bloody 3 months since i posted anything, was on the original sept thread as duue 1st sept (or so i thought) but am actually due 30th August it would transpire which even though i know due dates are to be taken lossely the fact it is tomorrow and my first is enough to have me in a state of constant butterflies! I was banned from continueing in mumsnet discussions due to some nasty twat at work grassing em up for usoing the internet within work hours so the internet facility was withdrawn from my computer so now i am at home i have managed to get it all set up at home and can at least now try and get some last minute feedback/advice although my list is endless!!

SO ridiculously desperate for it to start although i have a feeling i am going to be quite late (bump hasn't dropped as per my other thread)and if one more person calls asking if i had it yet i will probably snap as I'm extremely irritable and IF i had had the baby surely i would've let them know by now???!! Especially my bloody mother and mother in law??!! My mum keeps trying to pop round as i know she wants to be here when al the action starts as i told her i wasn't planning to advertise my beginning of labour as i want it to be as stress free as poss so she is loitering with intent round my area in the hope she'll catch my waters break/first contraction etc. God i hope this babe comes soon!

Please excuse all my spelling mistakes!! Fingers work faster than brain!!

Know what you mean Lolabelle, my Mum lives around the corner from me, and is always just "nipping in" to see if I'm "alright", and whenever I answer the phone now I dont say hello I say "Yes, I'm still here!"

The thing is that she is the LAST person in the world i need in my face when I go into labour - a fine example is her insistence that i take some tea tree oil to the ward with me to clean the delivery room beforehand in case of the MRSA bug being present! She talks shite with ease and has a way of saying the comletely wrong things but this is her first grandchild and she has been waiting for this moment for the last 5 years so she is desperate to be there but i have told her i want it to be totally between me and DH as its 'our moment' so she has taken to turning up wherever she knows i am going ie shops/car boot sales etc!

Talking of which i have been on the internet now for 30 minutes and she has now taken to ringing my mobile continuously followed by my DH mobile - we are blatently ignoring both and have hidden
them under pillows as i refuse to listen to one more bloddy 'thought you'd gone intolabour/have you had it yet' - AAAaaarrrgggh!!!!!!

Hi folks... had a horrible night in all... I started feeling even worse by about 8.30-9pm and also noticed that the baby was hardly moving... so at 10pm I phoned the midwife again and she directed me to the delivery suite. So off we trundled...for monitering... my BP was fine and baby's heartbeat was fine so they were not worried.. just me feeling really ill . Thankfully baby has moved more today so I am just monitering it. Apparently some of how I feel could be due to my liver not working as fast as it should and therefore I have xs fluid and uric acid crystals (? I think) hanging around causing all the aches and pains.

Demure - I think that the 31st August is the cut-off date for school entry - so if baby is born then, he will go into the next school year rather than be the youngest. I'm going on Sept 1st as an easier date to remember!

Lolabelle - know how you feel! I took to telling people that ds was due sometime between Feb 1st and March 3rd and he would come when ready!

As official due dates roll closer... GOOD LUCK and BEST WISHES EVERYONE!!!!!!!!

Hi everyone and especially Demure and Lolabelle - nice to have you on this thread. Am 39 weeks today - can't believe it (dd was born at 35 weeks). Have been feeling nauseous and headachey though - will see how feel tomorrow and then maybe call mw. BP/urine was fine last week though. Should I worry?
Caught sight of self in shop window this pm - am MASSIVE. God knows how this baby is ever going to get out of my, er....you know (hate the V word!)
I have decided my ideal labour day would be a week on Wednesday - so don't send me any labour vibes yet, Saddy! Really want to get to 40 weeks. A personal goal! All the best to everyone. Anyone else really scared? xx

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Podmog, me too re antibiotics for GBS. Going to try and get a private room if I can. What hospital will you be in?
My dd also has a cold - sounds like she smokes 40 a day.

me too Podmog re the amenity room, there are two types at my hospital, private without en suite £80 and private with en suite £120 so DH is praying only the non suite ones are left!! Keep reminding him of actually what I am going to be going through which shuts him up but I HATE hospital wards, spent a few days in hospital with a broken pelvis a few years back (caused by a combination of alcohol, stilettos heeled boots and a flight of concrete steps) and I was chomping at the bit to leave! At least in a private room DH can bring me McDonalds and I can avoid that thing where all the other patients visitors gawp at you and thats not mentioning other peoples screaming babies!!

Anyway due date today so the phone is officially being unplugged - already rung the hospital as well this morning as i thought my waters had broken but think i just pissed myself - oh the glamour....

me too Podmog re the amenity room, there are two types at my hospital, private without en suite £80 and private with en suite £120 so DH is praying only the non suite ones are left!! Keep reminding him of actually what I am going to be going through which shuts him up but I HATE hospital wards, spent a few days in hospital with a broken pelvis a few years back (caused by a combination of alcohol, stilettos heeled boots and a flight of concrete steps) and I was chomping at the bit to leave! At least in a private room DH can bring me McDonalds and I can avoid that thing where all the other patients visitors gawp at you and thats not mentioning other peoples screaming babies!!

Anyway due date today so the phone is officially being unplugged - already rung the hospital as well this morning as i thought my waters had broken but think i just pissed myself - oh the glamour....

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Podmog - which hospital are you going to? I am going to Southmead and have been told that the amenity rooms are £80 a night there.

Lolabelle - let us know if anything changes!! Pissing yourself is quite normal.. if not ... my pelvic floor has vamoosed despite trying to do my exercises....!!

Baby is still very quiet for me - moving but not a great deal... I am concerned but all was well Sat night so I figure some movement is good? Have my booking in appt tomorrow and then d-day on wednesday.. [gulp emoticon] - can't quite believe it is time!!!!!!

Hi all,

This thread has really picked up. Good luck to all of you who are imminently expecting

We are not quite sure what to think. I feel really unwell today - had BH contractions all night and hardly any sleep, have had a runny tummy for a while now but today feel nauseous too. Can't help wondering if I have picked up a tummy bug

I have also had the sensation that something is leaking in the nether regions but I am not phoning the delivery suite - I have already had two embarrassing incidents where we went up there with suspected broken waters - turned out I had probably wet myself ..

DH is also sick as a dog - got a bad head cold but has been marvellous keeping DS entertained while I rested this morning.

13 days to go...

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