Anyone due Sep/ Oct 2003

[ANGELMOTHER]

I know it's early yet but am so excited as pg with no 2 due 25 Sep Dd not too impressed but I'm sure will be fine in time, just wondering if anyone else due around same time

This last minute burst of energy is mostly escaping me also, but I do remember it last time.
I've had good weeks and bad though, this week I have more energy than last but really believe the secret is rest, Iron and decent food (not the coke and cheese and ham toasties I've been consuming in copious quantities lately).
Wiltshire you've been getting some great advice for us all on the idiots guides threads, I can't believe I'd forgotten soooo much.
Ragtaggle hope the nerves are holding out

Well at 39 +1 wks I feel like I've got everything ready and yes I suppose we're quiet because we're all just bl*y waiting. Isn't it bizarre willing pain onto oneself, barmy really.

Had hopefully the last midwife appointment yesterday where she told me this bub has gone back to back, not sure what the implications are....glad of any advice or warnings but I hope she'll move soon, as it's quite uncomfortable at the mo. I find sitting on my birthball helps.
How's the Iron going Emma......Emma you're still there aren't you

Yep, still here and still waiting. Walked to the shops and back again today, and then all around the park after school with DH and DS's and the dog, collecting conkers, or conks as DS2 calls them
Spoke to the pharmasist (sp?) today about increasing my iron intake further still and questioned whether anything I did now would actually make a great deal of difference concidering I only have, offically of course, 3 days to go. She did suggest a iron only supplement but said that it doesn't start working immediatley so what I'm doing already should be okay and after the birth I will be checked again and then could start taking more supplements if needs be.

Getting loads of aches and pains all the time now. My hips have a lovely habit of doing a cross between a pop and a click every time I get up in the night for the loo. It's horrible and turns my stomach every time.

On a lighter note the double glazing has been postponed until after the baby arrives so at least I haven't got to worry about having several unknown birthing partners trapsing through the house while a I push, pant and breath!!!
DH keeps asking me to get things started as he's got 4 long shifts next weeks and wants those to be his paternity leave........Yes Dear I'll see what I can do!

Don't the men get impatient, how on earth do they think we feel
My dh even said today I think it's time for your Mum to come over (She's in Ireland on standby waiting for the word to come).
Now dh is not a huge fan of my Mum so he MUST be getting impatient, he also has to go North next week for a night so I suppose that's part of it too.
Someone on Mumsnet recommended a water avilable in Boots which is fortified with Iron. I intend to get bottles to leave around to drink while b/feeding.......maybe worth a look Emma !!!

OOoooch, the pop & click. I wish I could say something really profound to all of us to make the last week go really quick. But errrr.....I can't. Advice I have been given is to enjoy the last few days as I will wish I was still pg. Sorry can't relate to this either.

The threads have been brilliant on the idiots guides. I can honestly say that both threads have been about 1000 times more informative than the 50 or so books I have read.

Angelm, aren't you supposed to give up walking on two legs and crawl around on all fours to will the baby to face the other way.

Angelm, aren't you supposed to give up walking on two legs and crawl around on all fours to will the baby to face the other way.

I only have two problems with the all fours position....

1. It brings me too close to the floor which I need to clean, and
2. Every time I am in this position, I end up with dd thinking we're playing horsey games or dh making unfunny lewd comments about how perhaps that's the position which caused all this in the first place.

So I bounce on my birthball or sit on a hard Dining room chair (hoping I won't have a repeat bowel experience)

Right ho, can see your point,. However, if DD has gone to bed and you do that position, could make you go into labour. If you felt like it of course. My DH would be told 'go to medicine cabinet and take one of those big f**k off tablets that I like'

I spend a lot of my time kneeling draped forwards over my birth ball - so that it is like a BIG pillow. The leaning forwards is supposed to be good for optimal fetal positioning. Actually not a lot of time - I spend a lot of time sitting in front of my computer - I spend a bit of time with my ball!!!!

Still got just over 3 weeks to go. Don't want it sooner - I haven't got my head around it yet - I keep kindof feeling a bit panicky when i think that theoretically it could be only a week or so!

And apparently I have thrush - which is news to me, as it is completely symptomless, but they did a LVS when I had my "leak" and have reported back. Glad to find out now, so I have time to get rid of it before baby emerges!

Oakmaiden... sit on the birth ball in front of computer and you will do wonders for your body and baby

Your all so close I'm getting nervous for you! I'm re-living my labour just thinking about you lot. Hurry up you're making me stressed. Thinking about my great labour can I recommend a birthing ball especially to lean on. Don't feel frightened to ask for intervention if you feel that you need it. I remember all of a sudden saying "I want my waters breaking". I didn't feel that my waters could break on their own, plus I was becoming absolutely terrified of the thought of them breaking and I didn't want that worry on my mind as well as concentrating on coping with the contractions. After quite a bit of a struggle the midwife finally broke my waters and the labour was very quick after that and the midwife said that it was the best thing I could have asked for. Also if you want to try to go through labour with minimum pain relief then try and forget that pain relief exists and tell your midwife not to offer you any. That way only when you really need it will you scream for it. Good luck everybody!

Morning Ladies. I was just wondering if anyone else feels like this or is my PG head actually turning me into a nutcase.
With only a couple of days to go I'm finding the constant anxiety (sp?) about every twinge being the start REALLY exhausting, whereas once I've reached my EDD I feel I can relax abit and just wait more patiently. Does that sound mad? It's almost like being under pressure to produce this baby early and once the EDD has passed then the pressure is off. I'm sure the phone won't stop ringing when I go over but but but but but........
OH I don't know maybe I am just living with a scatty PG head and none of this makes sense. Just humour me girls

Emma - I do know what you mean about thinking every twinge is the start of something bigger. My DH is driving me mad because if I even sigh he looks at me warily and says ...You okay?...Come to think of it, I should milk it now for the attention. Yes I think that's how I'll spend my weekend sighing heavily whenever washing up needs doing.
Angelmother - still bloody nervous. Although went to see friends four day old baby last night and was enchanted. It was a good reminder of what it's all about.
Have an appointment with a homeopath on Wednesday. Still suspicious that it's all bollocks but I'm that desperate that am willing to be placated by placebos. I am going out to buy groundsheets and plant sprayers now in case the baby comes this weekend. (Am having her at home) Although my friend bought a plant sprayer filled with water and said that in the throes of labour her husband tried to spray her and she managed to say 'Come near me with that and I'll deck you'...

I posted this on another thread yesterday, but as I'm not due in like 2 weeks instead of 4 I'll post it again!!!

"Had my 36 week check today (yesterday) and I have to go back in 2 weeks having decided whether I'm going to have a C/S, induction or just wait. It looks like I'll be opting for the indction, so I'll be moving my due date along when I have the date booked.

I can't wait not to be pregnant anymore, I just to want to meet my baby and see her and know everything is ok and start to recover.

I've had one of those days anyway.

I was so psyched up about my appointment and getting the staff to take the SPD seriously that I barely slept. And then they were like 'you do what you want, its all good with us'!!

The wheel fell off my wheelchair so I fell on the floor, that was pretty sore. My mum wouldn't believe me that I shouldn't sit in it after (she thought she had fixed it) until I fell out again.
She got a hospital wheelchair and they told her it could only be pulled backwards not pushed. Did she believe them?? Noooooo So guess who got stuck in the door of the antenatal clinic with 20 people trying to push past.

At bathtime I'm trying to get to the bathroom but I'm really sore and taking my time. DD (who is 4) offers to carry my Gaviscon in for me, really sweet, so I let her. I get to the bathroom and there is toilet paper floating around all cloud like in the bath. I ask DD if she put toilet paper in the bath, she just runs off, so I pull the plug and run the water all over again.

DD comes back into the bathroom in time to see me drink some of the Gaviscon. In the smallest voice she says 'Oh you drink that one? Not put it in the bath? I put it in the bath to make your skin better' DD thought that it was my Oilatum for my eczema and wanted to help. Hence the clouds in the bath.

I smell like peppermint antacid now as it left a film on the bath tub.

DD then decided at 9pm she had a stomach ache, threw up macaroni cheese ALL over the bathroom. I cleaned it up, which did wonders for my morning sickness. I was then desperate to wee, put the toilet seat down. Guess where I had forgotten to clean. Yep a rancid cheese butt was all mine...

I need a holiday."

Not 'not due' but that should be 'Now due'

I swear I'm still surprised my brain is managing to perform at all!

Ragtaggle, I have to agree with your friend on the spray bottle thing. I would have killed DH if if came near me with one of them and DS1 would simply drown me if he knew I had one of those planned to use in labour, not that he's invited to watch though.
For your dust/ground sheet quest I'd say check inside to wrapper before you buy it as when we got ours (having a home birth too) and I looked at it at home it's only very thin plastic, like cheap clibgfilm, so will easily rip and all that mess with get on the shagg-pile!!! So we've now got 2 to double-up. DH kindly offered his manky old tarpaline(sp?) for me to deliver his 3rd child onto but sadly I had to decline his offer as it's the same tarpaline that he uses to protect the car when he takes stuff to the rubbish dump.......thoughtful isn't he

Ohhh Pie, you really are having a rough time aren't you. The "Not long know " line probably pi**es you right off by now so I won't say it.

Think happy thoughts.........

Take care

I've told DH that for the induction to go as smoothly as possible I have to spend all of next week on all fours, with a feed bag full of curry and pineapple (er and having lots of sex and nipple stimualtion).

The only bit that really appeals to me is the curry though

Pie, I am really sorry to say this as I know it must have been awful. But your post about wheel falling off/getting stuck made me giggle. As I am sure you will be telling this story over dinner with great mirth one day.

I couldn't sleep last night and decided to re read the GF book. Found it boring so came on mumsnet and decided to read the threads on it. Some months back on this thread I started a conversation on it without realising that there were other discussions. It took me an hour to read them all. The people on this thread must have thought I was having a laugh. She has caused some controversy. I will end this on that note though as after reading for 1 hour am bored with it now.

I've been having cramping in my vagina all day...sorry for the info, but this is leading somewhere...anyway I had a little feel and I can feel the baby's head. I mean not hair or anything, but like the wall of vagina is all thin (though the cervix is higher up) and I kinda poked her head and she kicked me.

It is well freaky.

Anyone else want to have a fiddle and tell me that this is normal for the final month?

Gosh, that last sentence doesn't read well. Not fiddle with me obviously, but tell me that its the same for you, iykwim?

Can I add that the pain in my vagina is short stabbing...is anyone out there???? What could the pain be?

I've been getting those sort of pains for a little while but I'm not brave enough investigate myself. 'Fiddling about' down there always make my stomach turn........DH's job I think.
Hope it's a good sign for things to happen soon, it's my EDD tomorrow and I'm getting just a wee bit impatient.

Emma, I don't think DH would feel if I held a gun to his head!!!!

I've been getting a similar sort of pain too - not a lot, just now and again over the past week or so. Haven't really investigated - although since my leak a couple of weeks ago I have been diagnosed with thrush (oh joy). Mind you this is completely symptomless (unless the pain is for me a symptom? But I doubt it) but it puts me off investigating!

Maybe it means there is not long to go??? wishful thinking?