Anyone due mid 2003?

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Hello!

I told Katherine I would start this thread! Are you there Katherine? Am feeling shy now!!!

Congrulations Melly and Welcome Alexander - great name, DS also called Alexander.

Congrats Melly, Like the name

Hoorah Melly - well done and welcome Alexander. Lordy lordy that IS speedy - see you were obviously doing lots of hard work before hand. How are you feeling?

Melly - I am SO pleased for you both
there's me fretting about all the different things which could happen during dd2's delivery...that's certainly not one option I'd even contemplated!!! brilliant news and do get tech to give you my email if you'd like to meet up for some more baby talk - when mine arrives that is! feeling a bit 'tender' down there tonight but nothing tummywise yet. started last time with period pains. dh at opera - so could happen tonight

just seen consultant, already 2cm so hopeful she's booked me in for an induction next Tuesday if I get that far - and feels that another c-section is bottom ofthe list at the moment. she did a sweep (yuk) so feeling a bit sore & it's finally sinking in that something could be happening...

ooh bundle - very exciting. its such a bloomin' waiting game isn't it now and i'm not even due till next week. am managing to remain relatively distracted, but finding it quite hard. hope to hear some good news from you soon - i'm going onto mumsnet lots at the moment just to check.

ooh bundle how exciting!

That's very exciting Bundle - any news today??
I must say as a second-timer I have very mixed feelings about the forthcoming event!

Best wishes to you Bundle and Percy,really hope it go's well for you both! Am feeling very jealous as I've still got 10 weeks to go!Hope you are doing well Melly too.
Take care.

www, percy - spoke too soon! I definitely had achey/opening type feelings, which stopped on Thurs..now feeling just like I did before internal and got a bit tearful & fed up yesterday. but feeling ok this morning and expect I'll go into labour the day before my planned induction - that scared the baby out last time
everyone we know who's due after me is dropping - mostly girls too - so it's getting a bit embarrassing! will keep you up-to-date!

www, percy - spoke too soon! I definitely had achey/opening type feelings, which stopped on Thurs..now feeling just like I did before internal and got a bit tearful & fed up yesterday. but feeling ok this morning and expect I'll go into labour the day before my planned induction - that scared the baby out last time
everyone we know who's due after me is dropping - mostly girls too - so it's getting a bit embarrassing! will keep you up-to-date!

Bundle, fingers crossed for you and Pamina and looking forward to hearing your news!

oh bundle - you must be feeling so frustrated. i'm sure you will go into labour yourself - have you thought about some reflexology or something? that got me going last time at 40+13 and due to be induced the next day. have you had a show or anything? were you late last time i can't remember?thinking of you.

thanks percy, www - feeling a bit up & down, baby still v active and yes, I've had a show (weds/thurs) and nothing since. started labour myself last time 40 +13 so expecting similar on mon/tuesday. haven't tried anything like relflexology to get things going, a friend tried acupuncture (by midwife who knew her well) to no avail...but I will persist with sex option tonight (fell asleep too quick last 2 nights!) and see what effect that has
have had some sciatic spasms in left hip - which had during last labour - so I think baby is gradually moving on down..

Bundle, wishing you all the best for the next couple of days.

I have a growth scan on Tuesday and see my consultant on Wednesday hopefully to confirm a c/s date around 9 May, though this baby seems to be a lot lower than last time - not sure whether he is smaller or just that my stomach muscles have totally given up! Already rejoined the gym in the hope of recoevering some shape afterwards (and to be able to put DS1 in the creche in the meantime!)

How is every one doing ?

I still have another five weeks, but feel like a zombie every night when I get home from work. DS says "no" and I don't have the energy to get involved - DP and nanny doing everything.

Only 16 working days before I go on maternity leave !! Hurrah. Why I thought two weeks pre birth was sufficient time - god only knows why.

Bundle - get yourself a hot curry tonight and have a large gin and tonic! It worked for me!!!

still here bundle?

Bundle, hopefully we'll hear some good news from you soon!
Hope everyone else is OK. I have just over a week to go to my EDD, but since dd was a week early I had assumed this one would be earlier. I am really enjoying this unexpected free time (and trying to get some sleep credits in the bank while I can..).

I now have my c/section booked for a fortnight. Had a growth scan earlier this week which indicated that the baby had already got to about 8lb 4oz, so looking at a healthy size (with almost 4 weeks to go to official due date - and ds1 was late!). In some respects I'm quite glad that it is another big one, as I had started worrying how I would feel with a 6lb'er (and I have almost nothing in newborn size!).

lisac, enjoy your last week or so! I'm not sure how I'm going to cope with the broken nights and a toddler - ds1 has been a very good sleeper, so I'm hoping that this one will settle soon too.

bundle - must be some news?

I have just joined mumsnet and feel quite a novice, in every sense as I am pg with my first baby. I am due middle of June and feel now like it's being going on forever and I want it over soon: is this a normal feeling? I do feel a bit guilty about feeling this way since everybody says I should enjoy these last few weeks before baby's out and will give me endless sleepless nights, but cannot help it.
I have put on already 3 stones and cannot see my shoes anymore, but everybody says that once the baby is out and with breastfeeding, everything goes back to the way it was before. It's so depressing to look at my old summer clothes and think that only last year some of the skirts were loose around my waist and hips...

Caterina, welcome to mumsnet and yes, it is normal to want it all over with at your stage if I remember correctly. In fact, I already feel like that and I'm only 10 weeks so another 30 to go!

Welcome Caterina - yes, its perfectly normal to want it all over. I've got 5 weeks left and am fed up with being so tired all the time, tossing and turning in bed to find a comfortable position. I have to avoid walking past clothes shops because it so depressing.

I just remind myself that it is a very small period in my life and take it day by day - thinking about it that's what I said about the sleepless nights with DS1.

Good luck and try to relax - make sure your partner/husband spoils you rotten.

Hi Caterina,
I know just how you feel - I am due in 7 weeks with 2nd baby and I am completely fed up! I am waking up at least 4 times a night to go for a wee, I have the worst heartburn in the world (I have to drink gaviscon from the bottle) my back is sodding well killing me and I can't stand for long as my ankles swell horrifically. But hey, apart from that its great. Have to say though that although absolutely cacking it about the birth I am also dying for it to happen - I just can't wait to see my baby and see my 7 year old dd with it aswell. I get completely emotional just thinking about her little face when she holds him/her for the first time. But I am very very very very nervous about the birth - had a yucky ventouse delivery first time, and an episiotomy that healed badly and had to be unpicked and redone 10 months later. How gross is that? Sorry, shouldn't have mentioned that, it does sound somewhat horrific. I would add that it was done under general anaesthetic.
I think maybe I should quit while I'm ahead and just shut up.

Dahlia
The labour and the birth... for fist timers like me they are still a mistery, but I have heard so many horror stories that yours sounds like plain sailing to me.
I guess women keep that part of the pgnancy secret until you get pregnant yourself, because until I got pregnant nobody had ever volunteered to tell me their birth moments ;-), I guess it's a way to perpetuate life, otherwise nobody would get pregnant again.

Having said that, I am getting more and more emotional in my pregnancy (this goes back to another mumsnet thread...) and I now even cry when I am shopping and imagine my little baby in the tiny clothes I am buying for him/her.
Today I bought a little hat and nearly cried of joy at the till just looking at the picture of a tiny baby wearing the hat on the label!

Hope it's normal too....