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

Is anybody else finding this heat unbearable.....I can't wait for it to rain I'm going to go out and dance in it like that crazy woman off the ad on the telly

I feel a cool breeze coming and yes yes rain

Thankgod someone who agrees with me! This weather is unbearable, and anyone who says they enjoy it is lying. I spent all day running around town, sitting on stuffy buses and chasing after my heat crazed 3 year old. Not surprising that a doctors appointment at 5 o'clock revealed I had high blood pressure! I can't stop sweating and all I want to do is eat ice-cubes and lie down until September. What was I thinking? Heavily pregnant through July and August, its torture. Thankfully when I am struggling with a screaming new born and a hyper toddler it will be mid-late September (alot cooler) and I will be glad that I chose November to get pregnant.

Wiltshire, I'm 28 weeks now and so far have only put on about 7lb. WEnt to the midwife and she said thats fine and the baby is 26cm from top of bump to bottom, which again is fine. It does worry you though doesnt it when people keep saying that your quite small, I'm just panicking about the end and getting absolutley huge!!!

Hi,

Thanks for all replies. Glad it's not just me having problems sleeping.

I wish I was having the not putting on weight problem. Am roughly 28 weeks and have put on three stone! I started at nine and a half and was a size ten. I now resemble a small house. Went shopping for outfit for wedding on Saturday and found it very difficult. I'm quite short - 5.5 - and look so dumpy. Nothing looked right.

I have the opposite problem to the 'aren't you small?' I'm getting fed up of people saying 'aren't you big?' and asking whether I'm having twins. I've started lying about my due date to cab drivers and the such as am getting fed up of people saying that they thought I was about to drop.

Do people generally put it on at different rates or am I destined to get even bigger? Am terrified that it will be completely out of control by August 10th.

I've got 7 weeks to go and I'm still not fretting about the birth. About this time in my first pregnancy I was in a state of depression about the inevitable birth and I think that helped me to prepare for the pain as I was quite controlled and calm. This time I've had no prenancy/birth related dreams and I forget i'm pregnant alot of the time. I'm as calm as anything and quite happy that the baby is still where it is, this makes me wonder whether I'm in denial about the whole thing. I need to work myself up so that I'm emotionally prepared for the event. I don't want this all to come crashing down on me as I'm going into labour. Has anyone else thought alot about labour yet?

Bekki, I've 9wks to go and the other night suddenly thought about labour, so I have started to read about the pain killers etc and will be ordering a tens machine. This time round I will be more in control of my surroundings and what I want, not just be led by other people.

I'm hoping for vbac this time and need to discuss more details with my mw (if she's not sick, on holiday or a bank hol - she's only available on a monday!!! i've only seen her twice and i'm 31wks!!)

I've also started thinking about packing my bags for the baby, hospital and ds. Just trying to get it all sorted out now, while i still have the energy.

Thought I would just check in and say Hi to you all - hope everything is going tickety boo for everyone. I am now 28+ weeks, and still feel completely rubbish. Get the feeling that it is not going to change before this baby arrives, but it is depressing me a bit. I get tired when I try to do anything (like walk to the shops) - so much so that I feel I just have to sit down and rest, or I will pass out. Mind you - probably doesn't help that I fractured my skull last week. Duh!
I keep having really morbid thoughts too, and getting upset about them. The other night I had to ask my husband to wake me up in the morning (before leaving for work), because I suddenly got worried that I would die overnight (!) and that my ds would then be at home alone all day and would do something to hurt himself. The following day I broke down in tears in the middle of the street becasue I thought that if I got run over ds would be all alone. Totally irrational, and not at all like me....
So, all a bit weird here, actually, but babe seems to be fine (VERY active - uncomfortably so, actually!)

Only 5½ weeks to go, hoping to go shopping Sunday to get the last but important bits & pieces, cot mattress, car seat etc.

Had a mini panic the other night, I couldn't remember how I knew that I was in labour last time. All I could remember was going shopping all day, coming home and having tea, then saying to dh, lets go. I know that I was having contractions all day, but didn't phone dh at work, otherwise he'd want to go to hospital straight away, and, I was really looking forward to gammon and chips for tea! We arrived at hospital at about 9pm, my waters broke an hour later, then, four hours after that ds arrived.

I'm worried in case I go into labour naturally. I've been having strong braxton hicks contractions since 20 weeks and this makes me wonder whether I could go into labour normally. That would be extremely unfortunate as I have organised everything around being induced at 42 weeks. With my first i had no practice contractions at all and I was induced at 41 weeks which was very convenient and the extensive use of potocin (?) meant everything was done with very quickly. I'm with you on this one Ailsa, how would I know if I was in labour? What if my waters broke whilst out shopping, or on my lovely new mattress?

Hello is anyone there? One month to go! My emotions go from excitement to extreme boredom. The impending labour is beginning to stress me out and now I've finished work and ds isn't at playgroup I'm so bored and agitated. I've got two weddings to go to this week and I look like a whale. I'll be at the back for the photos! I don't want to go into labour but I want my baby out this second. I've also got a feeling that i may go over again and all I'll hear for two weeks is "nothing happened yet?" Anyone else packed their bags yet? I don't want to look like I'm moving into the hospital but the way my bag is filling up it looks likely. Everything seems to be an essential item to me. Sorry if this is a bit scatty but I am at the moment.

A month to go? i wish.... Still got about 10 weeks, and am fed up of being pregnant. Feeling whale-like already, so goodness knows how i'll feel come the end!

On a happier note, I weighed myself this morning, and I weigh a pound LESS than I did before I got pregnant! (I lost 5 lbs during the first 3 months - have put on 4 again) And I went shopping on-line today and have ordered a lovely selection of nappy wraps! Such fun!

We're all getting close now, mind not bl*y close enough is how most of us feel I bet.

I sympathise with the whale like comparison, am now 33wks (just) and weighing just over 11 stone eek! (don't believe I admitted that). NOTHING fits anymore and I don't believe my belly can stretch any further.

Braxton hicks getting frequent, amazing how your belly goes rock hard, dh finds this bit quite strange.

Hope everyone is well though

Is it too late to join in?

I've just discovered mumsnet, very interesting discussions and I'm hooked already! Dh keeps pointing out how long I've been online for, but I think its just because kids are running riot.

I'm due on 24 October with my third. Completely different experience than the other times. Bled off and on throughout the other two, went overdue and had boys. This ones apparently a girl, no bleeding but throwing up instead! Any chance she'll come early......?!

Never been pregnant during the summer before and never ever will again.

Welcome samAcon and congrats on a girl, this will be my 2nd dd too. Dh's soon get used to us on Mumsnet and invariably end up on it themselves at some stage

Poor you mind throwing up still !! and in this weather, NEVER EVER AGAIN IN SUMMERTIME repeat after me everybody.

My braxton hicks are getting incredibly frequent I hope this doesn't mean babe will come early, does it? Is is normal to have 5-6 a day?

OOOOOoooohhhh this heat is killing, I went into town today to buy a fan, bl*y sold out everywhere!

I'm now 33wks but there must be some of us here due to go soon, so who's first???

I'm 30 weeks and still vomitting...terrified of being admitted again for hyperemisis...

I posted on this thread right at the beginning but that was it as nothing has gone normally...

Oh well maybe from now on eh?

There seems to be alot of us though:

Due Dates:

Cha: 1st Sept.
Bekki: 6th Sept.
Bagelpie:6th Sept.
NQWWW: 8th Sept.
Wallythecat: 8th Sept.
Gingerbabe: 10th Sept.
Crazynow: 17th Sept.
EmmaTMG: 21st Sept.
Angelmother: 25th Sept.
Dnnib: 25th Sept.
bells2: 27th Sept.
Woodge: 1st Oct.
forest: 2nd Oct.
Wiltshire: 5th Oct.
Brookstone: 7th Oct.
Ragtaggle: 10th Oct.
Oakmaiden: 12th Oct.
bluebear: 15th Oct.
ME!!!! pie: 16th Oct.
jewelee: 19th Oct.
SamACon: 24th Oct.
lisalisa: 29th Oct.
threeangels: 30th Oct.

Apologies if I missed anyone out or put the wrong date.

gosh - just went through the whole thread to see who was on here and when they are due. There are LOADS of us - 28 I made it! The September ones are:
Cha - 1 Sept
Ailsa - 2 Sept???
Bagelpie - 6 Sept
Bekki - 6 Sept
Wallythecat - 8 Sept
NQWWW - 8 Sept
gingerbabe - 10 Sept
crazynow - 17 Sept
Ange22 - 20 Sept
EmmaTMG - 21 Sept
Angelmother - 25 Sept
Dannib - 25 Sept
Crazymum - late Sept
bells2 - 27 Sept

Ack - you see!!! Great minds, Pie! Took me blooming ages to do that list - you seem to work a bit faster!

Well done on the list ladies v.fast indeed,

Congrats Issymum of course you can join the thread but you're not allowed complain about the heat....only joking

I think second time around we all seem to take it in our stride easier but must admit I do feel a little panic starting to creep up on me...

Hi Issymum! What a good idea joining us on this thread, it must be very exciting, is there a baby ready for you to adopt or is it a quick process near the end where you will find out? I'm even more apprehensive about ds2 arriving because I remember exactly what labour and babies are like. But at least I'm more prepared this time and so it should go a little bit smoother.

WOW Oakmaiden amd pie I am impressed at your dedication to our September club.

I'm even more impressed that your brains still work so well to sort it all out. Mine is a soggy lump of..... who knows what.

I wonder who will be first in our club?

Doh! read the title Emma......it's Sept and Oct club.

Silly me but I did just tell you all how my brain doesn't work anymore. See I wasn't lying

I just need to moan for 2 mins so humour me please....My dd has had me up since 6am, I've had horrendous back pain since early yesterday evening and my neck is starting to go (a recurring problem of mine over the years relieved only by physio and anti-inflammatory tabs which I can't take), I feel awful and know this will be the hotest day yet.......oh yes and constant cramp in my left leg since yesterday too.

Dh is working all hours he can get and is gone by 5am not back till 7pm sometimes, he'll also be away all this weekend.

I have never said this and think it awful but today I would pay serious money for someone to take dd off my hands so I can go back to bed......
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Ok I feel better already rant over