Early Oct Babies Part 9

[Treaclepie19]

Another thread!! 😊 Come on babies, we're ready for you ❤

Congrats @HerondaleDucks!!!! Welcome to the world baby Ennis.

Hope everyone else is holding up ok. I had a mw appointment and nothing to report, she marked me as 4/5 again which means baby barely engaged I think?

Two more days of work then I can throw myself into all the voodoo to try and get this bubba to make an appearance au natural.

@HerondaleDucks Huge congratulations my lovely! How are you feeling at the moment? Glad to hear baby is latching on, you go Mama!

@Treacle81 Hope all goes well with the scan tomorrow! Are you feeling any better?

@otterbaby Now is the time to absolutely go for it with bad food 😂.

@AutumnBabyWinterMummy Myself and DH were shielded and at home from March - August and I was unable to return to my work as it's a clinical setting and I was high risk and in my third trimester by the time shielding was over. I was super nervous at the start but I needed to send DD to nursery (as they were going to start charging for her place if she wasn't going - which was 50% of her fees!) and DH was going back to work, so I naturally started to do the odd thing like visit a shop or get a prescription. I'm nowhere near back to normal, it was ages before I took DD to a shop with me and even then I think she's only been twice. My DH is fully back to normal now and he's higher risk than me and it was so nice to actually see family again that I've stopped myself from worrying too much. The biggest thing is that DD is at nursery, surrounded by kids who can't social distance and I can only assume their parents are living life as normal so it's pointless restricting our family any further. Just go with what you're comfortable with at the end of the day lovely ❤️.

@AutumnBabyWinterMummy oops forgot to tag you earlier !
Trust me my mil is so odd with me - dh doesn’t alway notice it and it gets annoying trying to showcase it to him.

@Treacle81- oh no baby always giving us scares - glad the midwives were really
On it for you x

@HerondaleDucks soo cute - you must be in Awww 🥰

Beautiful @HerondaleDucks ❤

Here's my little Beatrix ❤

@Treaclepie19 Oh my GOODNESS, my heart 😩

@HerondaleDucks Your baby picture is just 😍.
Ooooh my god I can't wait now!!!

@HerondaleDucks and @Treaclepie19 🥰😍💙❤ so cute, again find it hard to understand that's what our pregnancies result in. In awe :)

I cannot say a bad thing about the staff, especially with them being understaffed due to corona spike in this hospital. All been outstanding. I was planning on getting the maternity review ward and labour ward chocolates when I come into give birth so I'll get partner to get a box for this antenatal ward too. Omg @Treaclepie19 I could just eat her 😍 from pics ive seen think she is v like her big brother. Hope you get to grips with her latching soon enough xx

@HerondaleDucks aww how lovely 😊

@justanothermamma thank you, who knows what we will do!!

@Treaclepie19 aww how cute and love her name! Xx

@Treaclepie19 so so cute !!!!
The name is just fantastic 🥰🥰😍

Thank you all ❤ She really does look like her brother @Treacle81!
We've moved to formula. I was getting myself quite worked up and I always said this time I wasn't going to keep piling on the pressure.
Shes a little jaundiced so just keeping up her fluids and hoping it will go off 😊

Aww, all the baby pics 😍

I'm now the most pregnant I've ever been- DD was born already by this gestation! Shout out to the other impatient mums to be on this thread.

@Zaalfruit I got fed up a week or so ago and put the next2me up myself. Was actually really easy to do, but I don't know how much of that is because it had already been up once- not sure if DH disassembled it entirely last time or not. Also, tell your MIL no. Set your precedent now- let them boss you around in the early days and they'll walk all over you forever. I just tend to go with blunt honesty these days. I'd head it off now and announce no visitors for the first few weeks if that's what you're going for. That's a popular move even outside of a pandemic to be fair- we did it with our first. Hopefully your other half would back you up on that?

Finally, don't worry about immune system building at this stage. Until three months you want to keep them and everything around them clean because any illness at all is far more likely to result in a serious complication like septicemia or meningitis. Plus they can't have baby calpol until two months and it's hell when they're ill! You can do immune system building when they're a bit bigger.

Such gorgeous pics @Herondaleducks and @Treaclepie19. The name Beatrix was my first choice, but DH said no as its too similar to his SIL name and they would both end up being Bea. I was very annoyed.

So odd to think theres one of those in me, even though it's my second xx

@FourPlasticRings thank you - I just need to grow a bit of a back bone with her . Will have a serious convo with her today . My mil will most likely have a strop and accuse me of manipulating her one son .

I built the Moses stand yesterday evening - dh is so annoying anything to avoid diy . I have a free day today apart from mopping the floors - so I might tackle the next to me . I have decided I am not talking to dh any more as he thinks that before baby comes is the best time for him to socialise and watch football .

The rain in London is hard core right now !!
Last year this time I was in Amsterdam attending a wedding and then I went to Morocco - life’s so strange .

I’m getting so impatient with baby right now - why isn’t she coming - I want her to come whilst dh is unprepared - serves him right for wanting to watch football and play stupid fantasy football . Yesterday night he asked about having sex - I was like excuse me ...

Oh @Zaalfruit you are having a time of it between him and his mother, I feel for you! He has to COMPROMISE, esp as you are so close to due date now! A week today is it not? I have only slept 2.5 hours all night due to worrying about this damn scan and now think as been so ill they might cancel my sweep on the 1st. Sooner get this over with and back home the better! Crazy to think we have someone around that size just waiting to be born isn't it @Spark27? Just incredible xx

@Treaclepie19 she is gorgeous. Glad you are doing what is right for you with feeding.

I still cant get my head around the fact we will have a baby soon. My mum has knitted all these lovely bits and I look at them and think how lovely and cute they are but still cant comprehend that I will be holding my baby in them. I just cannot wait to meet him now.

@Treacle81 sorry you haven't slept well and hope everything goes ok for you today. I'm glad the hospital staff have been so great. I never like to slag off the NHS and my care has been really good so far too.

My friend that had her baby couple of weeks ago said that they let all family hold her baby providing they washed their hands, didnt kiss her etc...then her DH uncle kissed her. This is what puts me off trusting people and I dont think its always people ignoring your requests, sometimes they forget and cant help themselves!

@Zaalfruit sounds like you are doing great with building baby bits... I'm the same my DH tries to stall on things like that and I end up doing it myself. I've been quite relaxed til now as I felt organised but now I've kinda realised a lot of jobs I started but never finished and suddenly it seems close...although part of me doesnt want to be more prepared as then he will keep us waiting longer!!

@Treaclepie19 she is absolutely beautiful ❤️

@Treaclepie19 You just do what works for you Mama! I was the same last time, no point in upsetting yourself x

@Zaalfruit My DH has been going to football/pub still, he was saying how excited he was for next weeks game on Wednesday and I said it was a shame he'd be missing it and he looked so confused. It was at that point I reminded him I'm being induced so he'll have to miss it - he looked horrified (I'm hoping it was because he didn't realise how soon it was rather than the fact he'd be missing it 😂). I'm a bit hard on DH sometimes I think, I think it's because I'm carrying baby I'm so aware of it all but because he's not and when he's at work or out it's not something that's constantly on his mind he doesn't process it the same way I do. My MIL is really hard work and she always manages to upset me, she still makes comments about DD and things which is hard, I'm just going to try and be blunt this time with her, DH is usually pretty supportive as he finds her hard work too, so fingers crossed.

@Spark27 I can't comprehend a little person being in my either, even though I've done it before! It's mind boggling what our bodies do!!

@FourPlasticRings How far along did you get last time?

@Treacle81 I hope you haven't worried yourself too much, thinking of you!

@LexiM There is always one relative that doesn't listen isn't there?! Nightmare! It's ten times harder when newborns are so overwhelmingly cute too. But that isn't ideal at all, especially if she asked family not to kiss baby! Mine will get kisses from DD after nursery no matter what I do to stop it so I'm just going to be hopeful that all is okay! X

@Treacle81 what time is your scan and good luck hopefully they don’t cancel it . I slept very little as well - just bump pain .

@LexiM how are you? - so true also kissing can pass on the simple herpes virus and babies can get cold sores . My mums tried to knit some bits it’s really cute as she only started this year.

@justanothermamma I think this week feels harder for me as I’m on maternity leave and I don’t have work to concentrate on so I’m finding dh extra annoying - also waiting for the little one to pop out is driving me mad - to think of she’s not here by the 1st they will offer me a sweep who knows when. I like being prepared and in control . Dh was upset as he had tickets to some football game for the 1st but now the govt has cancelled them attending I asked him how could you have thought to go when that’s more of else edd. His response she won’t be here till about 42 weeks plus it’s only a 2 hour drive - will be back and ready before you notice .

Thank you all ❤ We're completely smitten with her.
As for visits I'm not letting anyone near which is as much to do with protecting my sanity and rest time as the virus. Ds1 is at school and obviously we can't do much about the risk apart from hand washing so she is a little exposed.

I've posted this as a separate thread as well, but not getting any replies so thought I'd post here as well and see if any of you can help me!

Since about 6pm last night I've had really bad lower back pain which is continuous, as well as occasional stomach cramps like period pains which aren't too bad. The back pain is horrendous and much worse than the stomach pain - it's in my lower back, hips and upper thighs and feels like extreme pressure and aching. Last night I wasn't really able to sit down, I was just pacing around in so much pain. I thought it was the start of labour, but I had a hot bath (so amazing) and took 2 paracetamol and after that was able to go to bed and have an alright night's sleep. I've woken up this morning and the pain is back but no worse than last night, pretty much exactly the same, so I'm doubting it's labour as surely it would have got worse over the last 8-10 hours? Don't want to ring triage as I don't really know what to say or what they could do... baby's movements are fine, I'm just so uncomfortable and don't really know whether I'm in early labour or not.

Has anyone else experienced this in late pregnancy and was it the start of labour or just back pain associated with being heavily pregnant?

@bluemoon2468 I'm sure I've read that some women experience labour more in their back than they do their front? Obviously back pain comes with the territory at this stage but if it's that bad, I would definitely say ring triage - they might have you come in and see if you're having contractions or if you're dilated? Could just be a slow early labour maybe!

I'm afraid I cant really help @bluemoon2468 but I second ringing for advice. Could you ring your midwife and see? If not give the hospital a call. They might have some advice on what to do and when. They might want to check you over. It also gives them a heads up if things do kick off. I know it can start with backache, but if a warm bath and paracetamol are taking the edge off it could just be the beginning of a really slow build up for you. 🤞

Just had a call to say the people viewing our house this morning have cancelled due to their kids being ill. Cant blame them, but so annoyed. Least I have a clean house now I suppose 🙄

@Treaclepie19 baby Beatrix is beautiful 😍 and @HerondaleDucks what a cutie Ennis is 😍

@bluemoon2468 do you know what position baby is in? At my last appointment with midwife she told me baby was sitting slightly back2back/slightly sideways and said that can cause more back pain in labour? I think you should ring triage, it's what they are there for. They may get you to go in and see if you are having contractions that can be picked up on the monitor? I'm sure I've heard people describe early labour as aching in the tops of thighs too.

@Spark27 we had people cancel a viewing at ours yesterday. I am enjoying a lovely clean house this morning though!