March 2018 babies due? How is everyone!

[Potteryprincess30]

Can someone direct me to the March thread please? Or shall we start a new one? I feel like the old one has completely disappeared into the depths of the mumsnet sea.

We're getting close now and wanted to see how everyone was as I'm due the 7th

All the best to you all lovely pregnant ladies

I'm glad this thread has been revived. Lovely post bursting. I have to disagree on one little point though. Just to put 1st timers in the picture. I had a very easy 1st pregnancy. Lots of people told me that I would be so much more comfortable after the baby was born. I didn't understand them as I was perfectly comfortable throughout! However, after a back-to-back birth, episiotomy, carpal tunnel syndrome, piles... I was in a lot of pain after the birth and it lasted ages. So you may feel much better but you might not!
My 2nd birth was more straightforward and I recovered quickly.
This time around I am in so much pain every evening, just trying to get through the day! It's backache. By the time the kids are in bed I have no energy to do anything except bath, eat, sleep. So my hospital bag remains unpacked... the furniture I need for the baby isn't ordered... I feel very unprepared!

@Warmsummerbreeze I have one in the fridge ready and waiting. Is it unreasonable to pack it in my maternity bag along with a straw???

Good morning ladies...another day over and done with!
@lavenderdays, Well done for having your bag ready. I usually enjoy shopping, even the weekly food shop, but somehow shopping for extra thick sanitary towels, breast pads, nipple cream etc just isn’t getting me excited!
Must force myself.
This weekend I had husband up a ladder painting the living room. I’m feeling compelled to have our home in order....he’s still got our bedroom, hallway kitchen to do. He’s so lovely he’s obliging me. I made him do the same 2 yeRs who just before our youngest son was born. Wicked witch I am.

Like you we don’t have an exact plan for our two year old whilst in labour. It’s all a bit airy fairy if I’m honest. All my family live abroad. My 20 year old is at uni in Cardiff, she’s said she’ll come home on the train (3hours). I’ve had in the past though, so.....watch this space.

Won’t it be lovely when we all start posting our ‘babies here’ stories. We are getting closer all the time.
I hope everyone is ok today and wish we all get that one day where we feel that much better to give us the boost for the rest of the journey x

@blinkineckmum balls to the babies things! you know all that can be sorted once your free of pregnancy and the babies here, especially with the internet and plenty on time on ones hands.

Your hospital bag on the other hand though must be done soon I think. Do the bare bones of it today, we believe in you! [smile[

@Burstingwithlife Morning , so nice to have another week to begin (though they always begin positive, then by Wednesday i'm like 'I hate EVERYTHING!')

I literally slept 12 hours last night and I am actually, shock horror, going to leave the house today . Half term couldn't have come at a better time, I keep hugging my daughter like a limpet and saying things like 'thank god your here to play with me and care for mumma'

Going to take her somewhere everyday (preferably places without mirrors). I can feel this week is going to be a good one

@Burstingwithlife wine and a straw sounds unbelievably fantastic

Bursting...No, I definitely wasn't excited about packing the hospital bag with all the items you mentioned...it didn't feel me with joy, especially the realisation of all the pain to come when I have to pick that bag up and go.
Sorting childcare out for the dcs has been a real wrangle with no extended family to speak of. DD2's pre-school does excellent wrap around care and they have promised to have her on any day of the week 8.15 am - 6 pm, dd1 is at secondary school and can therefore almost fend for herself during the day - has bus pass etc. Then, I'm banking on a friend to have the girls in the evening/overnight. Feeling a bit concerned at the moment - highly unlikely that I go into labour this week but the usual routine is not established as its half term...the pre-school has broken up and said friend is away (there are a couple of other friends but this is the easiest one); it's really selfish but I just want the usual routine back in place so I have something to rely on without worrying about people gadding about the place etc.
Good for you Pottery...get out and about whilst you feel like it, it has been the reverse for me over the past few days unfortunately. Half term has started and dd1 (who could potentially run around with her sister in the park etc.) has gone down with a heavy cold bless her and doesn't feel like doing much anyway. After a wakeful night and half an hour playing with dd2 in the garden (sedate football etc.), I felt shattered. Trying not to let it get me down as I know it is only temporary and the end is in sight...I usually love the school holidays...but this one, it has to be said is a major struggle (dh is trying to bank his leave for when baby arrives) but will be having an afternoon off this week to take us all out. For me it is a matter of getting through at the moment and doing the basics like preparing the dds lunch (the house appears to becoming more and more of a tip - could be picking up constantly after dd2 but refusing too and would struggle anyway, so definitely not in the mood for visitors either). I hate looking as if I can't cope - the truth is, I can't really cope at the moment so lying low x

@Lavenderdays It’s bloomin hard going growing a baby isn’t it. I don’t know why they don’t list all this stuff in schools, ie the tiredness, aches, spd, achy foof, constipation, piles, swelling, Wright increase, boobs become udders.....the beauty of it all. Imagine if young teens knew the truth, surely this in itself would be enough to frighten them off from underage sex. After all young teens are very self conscious about how they look and feel. The myth about blossoming certainly hasn’t bestowed its magic on me so far. I just keep telling myself, the worse I feel the more gorgeous my baby will be. She’s just draining all the more from me.
My teens are off too, but they are 16 and 15 yr old boys. They can assemble their own lunch but that’s about it.,ds2 lives for football, 6 pairs of boots waiting to be washed from seriously thick mud. I actually burst into tears last night as I looked st them. Dh was very understanding . I’ll tackle them today as it’s pouring with rain here, little chance of leaving the house.
I’m not sleeping at all well as I have headaches whenever I sit or lay down. Does anyone else have these? Paracetamol haven’t helped at all. It’s been 4 days. If I stand up the headache subsides.
Another day done ladies xxx

Hi ladies, mind if I join?

I'm due 18th March and it isn't coming quick enough! I've had a relatively easy pregnancy apart from spd starting around 20 weeks and getting considerably worse as the weeks go on. Hoping the next 5 weeks sail past 😊.

Hi I’m joining in too if that’s ok, due 30th March with my second baby.

Hi Bursting
Interesting you should say that about educating teenagers about the realities of pregnancy because I've been thinking along the same lines. My dd is just learning about all this stuff at school and it makes me smile how neatly packaged it seems to be without all the added stuff like you mentioned. I also think that family planning as a subject should be broached...ie. more about fertility issues and the fact that sometimes things do go wrong...I have experienced a late miscarriage so my elder dd certainly knows a thing or two about this. In fact my elder dd says I am putting her off pregnancy a bit because of my complaining about my ailments etc. (although I have tried to keep it low key in front of her). She discovered that I have to inject myself with fragmin everyday and currently has a phobia of needles so that didn't go down too well either.
If that were me Bursting...I'd send your boys outside to wash their own boots...they are happy to play football outside in all weathers...they should therefore be O.K with scrubbing off their boots in my opinion. I know exactly how you feel about feeling tearful...I watch my dd2 (4) slowly destroy my house with her muddles...nothing terrible but it all mounts up throughout the day and I struggle to bend and pick up so put up with it all until dh puts in an appearance.
I think you should get those headaches checked out to make sure that they are not blood pressure related etc.
Welcome to the thread LoveRainbow and Vicky x

More the merrier! It’s great more ladies are joining. Blimey, March will be like the sound of champagne corks going off with all these lovely babies popping out!! Xxx

May I join too? Have been lurking a while. I'm 36+4 and this is #3 for me. I've started losing bits of plug and am wondering how long I've got. Probably weeks yet but am feeling antsy about house not being fully sorted yet. Place was spotless when my last 2 arrived (didn't stay spotless for long obv). Need to crack on!

I feel the opposite at the moment! I’m 35+5 & generally enjoying being pregnant. This is probably my last (DS3) & I feel sad it’s the last time I’ll be pregnant. Also a little in denial of birth & knowing what’s to come. Still have lots to do (labour bag half packed) tho finish work on Friday so looking forward to getting more organised!

@HalfStar hello and welcome

That's exciting your loosing some of your plug. This never happened with my last one (this is my second pregnancy). I would be thinking your labour could be imminent then?!

I hope your feeling ok and have good support at home, these last few weeks are a bit sluggish arnt they? Though it's definitely also difficult to get things done aswel, a catch 22 situation.

I finally did my hospital bag a few days ago, 37 weeks today so though it wise.

Were your last 2 born early? Mine was just a week early so not to concerned I'm going into labour this half term or anything. How are you feeling generally? All the best from us all fellow March mamma's

Hello @LoveRainbow02 and @Vickylou78 So pleased you found the thread and hope your both doing well. I honestly reckon a few of us are going to have our babies on the same days at this rate! So many of us March mums now on the thread.

@HalfStar are you due the 11th of March? This is my partner's birthday.

My daughters the 19th of March so someone's bambino is bound to birthday share with them I reckon. Hope my next misses those days though

Thank you for welcoming me to the thread! It has helped enormously reading all your stories and pregnancy woes!! So I’m 33wks +3 and I’m 39 and expecting my second daughter. My first dd is 3yrs old so full of beans.
I’m still working and have 3 and half weeks left to go... thank goodness. Ive not had to bad a pregnancy but since about 27 weeks I’m struggling as have pgp/spd which is particularly bad at night, backache and have really bad separated tummy/ab muscles so in all sorts of pain despite wearing a support belt etc. Oh and all the other fabulous pregnancy symptoms! But as so many of the posters have said it will hopefully all be worth it when we have our new babies in our arms! Although sometimes I wonder if we are mad when my dd (3yrs) has a tantrum!!

I totally sympathise with the other posters with pre-schoolers who are just gradually messing up the house! It gets so hard to pick it all up from the floor isn’t it! And I’ve found you can clear up the floor in one room and you walk in another and they’ve just tipped a whole load of other toys on the floor! Makes you want to cry! Today I just gave up and just left dd’s piles of toys all over the house! It’s like a bomb site!

@scarlett10 hope you are ok?

Hello newcomers. Just to quickly say I have finally made it up to the loft and dug out some stuff for the hospital bag! So it will be getting packed tomorrow! I still feel very disorganised but I also plan to buy a chest of drawers and order the Tens machine tomorrow. Then we need to do some jiggling of furniture to fit us all in the house! It feels so cluttered!

I have part of my hospital bag packed already but as this is my first bambino I have no idea how many vests, sleepsuits etc I should be taking in. I don't want to take in more than necessary.

I had another restless night as my partner works away a few days a week and I struggle to sleep without him. Got 2 of my nieces arriving at 7 for me to babysit until 6 tonight so that should keep me on my toes lol.

So glad I found this thread as I think it's going to get me through the last hurdle 😊.

Hospital packing.
Baby:
Nappies
Cotton wool
4 x vests
4 x sleepsuits
2 x cardies
2 x hats
Blanket
3 x muslins
Snowsuit
Carseat

Mum:
Sports bottle
Snacks
Underwear
PJs
Black trousers
Feeding tops
Stretchy bras
Maternity pads
TENS machine
Painkillers
Washbag
Music
Breastpads
Cardy/ dressing gown
Camera
Flipflops
Birth pool top

@blinkineckmum oh I forgot painkillers, will get some extra strong ones today in town

Things to own!
Muslins
Vests
Sleepsuits
Blankets
Snowsuit
Hats
Change mat, nappies, cotton wool
Carseat
Somewhere for baby to sleep
Feeding clothes/ formula, steriliser and bottles
Sling
Buggy
Baby chair or beanbag
Bath support
Sanitary towels
Painkillers
Lavender oil for the bath!

Lists for me but thought it might be helpful to share!