November/December babies

[monkey]

Hell, I've just found out I'm expecting No. 3 mid November, and am very excited. A bit scared too - I can't remember a thing! How can I possibly have done this twice already??? Hope more of you can join me soon!

1stimer,
Good news about the diabetes.
I can fully uderstand your worries, but as you can see we are all worrying now about coping with two+ children! I think it's standard to be anxious but don't be. Just take it a day at a time when the baby is born and you'll amaze yourself with how capable you will be. I remember being so worried that I wasn't cut out to be so patient and that I wouldn't be able to cope - it was fine (a bit exhausting and sometimes painful, but soooo worth it) - so much so that I'm doing it again voluntarily.
Tha only thing I wish I'd been told was not to try and be supermom - not to get stressed out by a messy house and cooking dinners etc - concentrate on getting enough sleep and looking after your babe, everything else will fall into place.

I can't believe so many of you are experiencing BH and other "late pregancy symptoms" - we're really getting close aren't we! I haven't had any yet

1stimer - great news about the test results.

I had a prem labour scare a few weeks ago that was horrible involving my midwife insisting we race across to the hospital in the middle of the night for tests etc. Very very scary but seems to have been tummy bug and heat related and luckily everything calmed down. Still don?t know exactly what caused it all to start or stop again which concerns me that it could happen again but my cervix is officially closed and have no intentions of opening shop for another 9 weeks.

Interesting to see that some of you are also having problems sleeping - I am waking up so frequently through every night and am so tired. My brain just won?t switch off and can?t get comfy at all. Oh well, enough moaning. Got a wedding to go to in a few hours so had better start getting organised and put on a less grumpy face and start cheering up a bit.

Roll on November.....

the insomnia seems to have just started for me - again - like earlier on, I fall asleep fine (mo problems with comfort, thanks goodness), but wake up about 3 or 4 and then the mind clockes on - dh has decided he has gone off our chosen boy's name, so i'm back to thinking about that - I was just about to fill out the form, so it's lucky he said something!

Otherwise, feel pretty bouncy - I've even had several people comment on how small my bump is & how I've not put on weight! That's good - only wish mil was here to hear it, she keep going on about me being "enormous".

1sttimer - are you managing to hold off the choccies.

Blimey, stripeymouse, sounds like a mad panic - and in the middle of the night. Glad you managed to hold on! Saw a programme yesterday about a baby who was 9 weeks prem & it really helped me feel less impatient.

Hi there
Just been catching up on the recent postings here. I'm nearly 28 weeks now and have reached the stage where people think I'm enormous and I feel really embarrassed to admit I've still got 3 months to go! And getting a bit paranoid about whether I'm going to have an enormous baby....but I do remember feeling this last time and ds was a very manageable 7lbs.
Just a few BH so far - much much fewer than last time when I was aware of them from around 20 weeks. Not sleeping well though, which has made me become very intolerant of ds disturbing my sleep. Have to say the broken nights are definitly my biggest fear.....toddlerdom holds no anxieties at all, as ds (21 months) is truly enchanting at the moment, and I can't imagine an easier toddler (hope I haven't spoken too soon!) Much much nicer stage than the awful blob like baby phase (say 3-7 months). Slightly worried about surviving maternity leave with marbles intact, already making a mental note of who to put on my 'social contact survival list'!! But really really excited about the new babe too - still feel like the luckiest person alive!!

Glad your so happy elliott

Just a little update, have now stopped work for maternity leave with 7 1/2 weeks to go, feeling slightly self indulgent but I guess I won't have a chance like this again when bump arrives in the world.
Monkey - I am managing to stay off the choccies at the mo, just!
Elliot I have the same as you I feel giant and most people are commenting on the enormity of the bump, so yeaterday I went into town in a t-shirt saying 'Does my bump look big in this"! and I felt a little more comfortable Also had another scan recently and apparently bump is within 'normal' size, so I guess its all fluid retention
Starting to get a little anxious about bringing baby home, but my mum is flying over from the UK (I'm in NZ) for 5 weeks which will be nice as I haven't seen her for over a year and she will help - hopefully and not get in the way!
Ahhh - not long to go now everyone, I am looking forward to the next chapter in my life even though there are some anxieties.

Nice to hear from you agaion 1st timer. What's your due date agin? I'm getting so excited. Everything is ready, I think - apart from my perineum Got dh to help out last night,. Honestly men are idiots.

My sil is going to come over, so now just have to try & guess if it'll be early or on time. I can't get the image of me going in to labour with 2 little ones and a husband out of town & the neighbours on holiday out of my head!

Getting really excited tho. (my sweetie & booze free booze indulgence is getting out of control. I've reached the "in for a penny, in for a pund", "oh well, more fun now, a bit more work later" sort of mind frame)

Monkey - i am starting to panic too as my dh works away during the week and I have no family nearby so having visions of me going into labour and arriving at hospital with 3yo in tow!! Hopefully my mum will come to stay and baby will not be early
How's everyone else? - we are on the home strait now!!

gosh Grommit and monkey, you guys sound as if you're on the home run already, and 1sttimer - you're on maternity leave already!!
It still feels like ages away for me - another two months left of work
I've really expanded in the last few weeks - no mistaking I'm pregnant now My chest has grown in proportion to my stomach, have had to buy three new bra's over the last few weeks (each one depressingly bigger than the last). I've been breathless occasionally but not much else to complain about. Baby is moving lot's (always comforting) but has a habit of wedging a foot under my right ribs.
This thread has been quiet recently - how's everyone doing? Rachael17 we haven't heard from you in a while - hope things are going well. Susanmt - hope you kidney stones aren't bothering you too much? WWW you seem to busy on other threads - guess this means all is fine? how are your plans for a home birth? Stripymouse - hope things have settled down for you - no more scares I hope. Rhubarb how are you feeling?
DP and I cannot agree any names at all (apart from the awful meter's long double barrelled surname) but I have noticed DP becoming slightly more involved. He was pretty useless at ds's delivery a few years ago, in fact I found him annoying because of his unwillingness to get involved and he said he felt stupid doing the breathing with me (thanks pet, like I was feeling great at the time). With hindsight though I think a lot of it was due to feeling helpless and ignorant of the whole procedure - he seems to be more confident this time and I think will be better company this time in the delivery room.
I went to my first antenatal class last week and was the only person there who'd had a child already - do people only go to these for first babies?

Eefs - I'm not due until 4th Dec so 11 weeks to go but it does not seem too long considering I've done 29...I am taking holiday and finishing work 6 weeks before due date - can't wait. haven't bought anything or made any preparation - a bit superstitious! You are due before me I think?

I'm nearly 31 weeks now, blimey! I can't believe we're all so close now, it seems like ages ago this thread started and it really brings it home to me how close we all are when I see threads about babies due in MAY 04...

Rhubarb, I hope you're feeling ok - nearly all over m'dear and you're doing so well, well done.
Eefs, I found out about NCT classes and NHS ones and both seemed totally impractical if you've already got a child/ren - NCT one was at 7.30pm (ds's bedtime) - 9.30 on a Monday, cost £90 to boot and was 3/4 hour away from us and the NHS ones were 2-4pm (with school pick up at 3pm there's no way I could make it) so I guess the answer is nope, not really!

I've only just started to have to get up in the night to wee, so that's nice (sorry Monkey, know you've been doing this for a while!). Am sometimes knackered due to low blood pressure and low iron although it's a bit better since taking iron tablets. So I feel as if I veer between lots of energy and none at all. We're moving 200 miles from Devon to Bristol asap but probably in the next 2 weeks so I'm still hoping for my home birth but will be nearer a hospital if I do need it or a midwife unit if I decide I'm too scared to go for home. Cacking it about labour although trying not to think about it most of the time. I hope calm suddenly overtakes me when it actually happens once I realise it's inevitable and panicking isn't going to help or make a blind bit of difference. Going to try to find a doula and a yoga class once we've moved (Hmm, wonder how much time I think I've got?!)

Grommit, IKWYM about buying stuff etc - I have friends giving me stuff back that I lent them from ds 6 yrs ago but I haven't asked for it yet either, I keep thinking oh, it's ages away. Monkey, I hope your SIL gets there OK - IKWYM too, I've no-one to help in the middle of the night here either but once we've moved step sister will be 5 mins away and is willing to help, plus my mum is 30 mins away so it all feels a lot less scary. But you're so much further from home and with 2 too so I hope you manage to work out some back up plan!

Part of me is thinking oh it'll be great not to be pregnant any more and the other part is thinking but sh*t, then I'll have a tiny baby to deal with and we won't sleep and we'll argue and split up and I'll get depressed. Other days I think, nah, I'll be fine. Reassured to have held several small babies recently and thought ah, cute. Phew, thought I had no maternal feelings for tiny babies at all but it appears it is there, just hidden under some bad memories of new motherhood first time round...sorry to have gone on so long, congrats if you're still reading Wonder who'll be first? Who's due earliest in November? I'm not til 21st...

Piles....piles......piles......piles!

My Due date is Nov 10th, eefs - I guess I'm not officially on maternity leave as I had 5 weeks holiday stored up so am on holiday and it feels great, spring over here so its getting warmer, but not as hot as it has been for you guys in the UK!.
I'm kind of ready for baby with a few things to get before due date. Saw midwife this morning and she said I had grown 4 cm in 2 weeks eek... doesn't sound good to me I was hoping for a petite baby, but actually think that mine is carrying a rugby ball - possibly an All Black
It does feel like the home run now even though theres still a few weeks to go. Am definately in denial about the birthing thing, I know there will be pain (lots of it) but more worried about baby being healthy and then coping with a new person in our lives.
Rhubarb - sorry no sign of piles - yet but terrible indigestion if that makes you feel better and have always had to get up through the night to wee!

I'm due 13th, but kinda hoping it'll be a week or so early. i'm 32 weeks today, so 6 - 8 weeks. that doesn't seem like very much.
Dh i8s away for 3 days mid-October - I'm sure it'll be fine, as a month before due date, but ahhhrrr (or however you spell it). I can't get my head round what to do if I go into labour at night. Last time we asked our landlady (who lives right opposite) but a. she phone the hospital after 2 hours to see when dh would be comiing back as she wanted to go out!! (I was waiting to be stitched up at the time. i was, luckily for everyone, speechless. and b. We've since become aware she is sadly a major alcoholic, so i don't think we'll ask her this time. our other neighbours are nice, but Dutch (not that that in itself is a prob!) just that they're in Holland every 5 minutes. Oh well, que sera etc.

I'm so excited

Blimey, www, I know what you mean, i've been thinking exactly the same myself about due May '04 etc, makes me feel like I'm going to pop any minute!

Anyone nesting yet? I reckon I must be, Went shopping yesterday & bought 2 items of food & 6 bag fuls of detergent, new shelves to reorganise the shoe cupboard etc etc. Madness. Btw, I think I've managed about 2 nights without needing a wee since week 6, but at least atm I'm down to once per night, and also now I get straight back to sleep, so boring when you wake for a wee & spend the next 3 hours wishing you could turn your brain off.

Hello! I am finally back from holidays/broken computer/hospital etc and online again!
We had 3 fabulous weeks in Canada, the most child-friendly place I have ever been, which made everything SO much easier. We had a week in Vancouver, a week on Vancouver Island (with an old schoolfriend of mine I hadn't seen for 8 years except it felt like about yesterday!) and the a week in the Rockies in an unfeasibly large American-style camper van thingy that had dd (3.5) in raptures all week (A little house with WHEEEEEEELSS mummy!!)
My only bother was that I got to Vancouver and realised that I had managed to leave my painkillers at home (amouples of pethidine for injection!!). So we found the best doc in the whole world whe beleived everything I told him (there aren't many of them around when you are asking for opiates, I can tell you, including my own doc who is doing my head in at the moment) and was so keen that I wasn't in pain and had a good holiday that he gave me everything I wanted. If anyone needs a good doc recommendation in Vancouver .......
When we got back we had a week with my parents while dh was on a course, and then came home. Unfortunately, when we got back to the Island I had to go straight to hospital (didn't even got back to the house) as I had a nasty UTI that meant I was vomiting and hadn't kept a drop of fluid down for 24 hours, so I spent 4 days in hospital on a drip and IV antibiotics, came home and had to go back the next day with a different infection!
THen, last week I was supposed to be having a tube (they call it a stent) put into my kidney to drain the stones. But the closer and closer it got, the more and more uneasy I was. They had said that the main risk of the operations was it inducing early labour, and I just kept thinking '25 weeks - no chance' and in the end I couldn't accept the risk. I've had 3 miscarriages and got over them eventually, but I know that if anything happened this time I would feel like my signature on the consent form was a death warrant or something, so we have postponed the operation. I am sure dh thinks I am a total hormonal loony (well, maybe I am!) but he has agreed to go along with how I feel about it. I am having it done now at 32 weeks, which would give the baby a much better chance but also gives her/him (think its a her, not sure why) enough time to become unaddicted to pethidine before birth.
So I am back to the normal kidney stones every day, feeling like I am unable to look after my own kids. Luckily since we got back dd has started going to nursery every morning and they are both going to a childminder 2 days a week just to give me time to take it easy.
So now I have to look through and see if I have missed anything exceptionally important (probably not, except babies) and try and catch up with my email inbox!!!!!!!!!!

susanmt, glad to see you back and glad you had a lovely holiday but sorry your kidney stones are awful again etc. Nice to hear from you anyway. Rhubarb, sympathy on the piles, none atm but have had, yuk!

Haven't posted on here for ages, and can't believe that I'm 33 weeks now - due date is the 7th November. Glad that everyone is doing OK, but sorry that your kidney stones are still playing up susanmt.
Not organised at all, and now ds's childminder is giving up thats something else to get sorted. As I work from home I plan to work up till the last minute, and at the moment feel OK with doing that, although may have ds with me if I don't get on with phoning round all the childcare options.
SIL gave me loads of clothes at the weekend that we'd passed onto her, but they are still in the bags as I haven't got round to doing anything with them.

Good to see so many people posting here again. Susanmt, sorry you've had such a tough time but glad you could enjoy the holiday.
I'm at 33wks, due 11th Nov. Since I last posted I have developed SPD - thankfully a mild form but still very painful. I'm not able to walk very far at all and am meant to spend as much time as possible lying down. So I'm only working mornings and stop work completely mid-October. Dd is in nursery until 3.30 most days so it is wonderful being able to come home and lie down for an hour or so in the afternoon - a real luxury. But a bit frustrating to not be able to go out much, even for a walk in the park in the wonderful weather we've been having.
Dreamed I was in labour a few nights ago - very scary! Haven't thought at all yet about what to do with dd when I have to go to hospital (grandparents are 700km away). And dh absolutely refuses to discuss names: "Oh, there's plenty of time still", even though it took us 9 months to agree on dd's name! So I waver between thinking I've got tons of time, and panicking that I'm totally disorganised and the baby will arrive before I'm ready.

I always seem to stop this thread cold whenever I post here! Hope you are just all enjoying late pregnancy so much that you don't have time to post.
Susanmt, hope the op goes OK.
Well, six weeks to go for me... and the good news is that we've just got broadband at home, so I can indulge my mumsnet addiction without wasting the little time left at work.
The bad news is that I've just discovered that I have Strep B, which is freaking me out a bit, and that the results of my glucose tests were abnormal, so I've just spent the morning at the hospital with needles stuck into me, trying to find out if I've also developed gestational diabetes . Trying to keep calm until the results come through, but not very successfully. Starting to realise how easy pregnancy with dd was 3 years ago, and how much I'd sort of assumed that meant everything would be fine this time.

Sprout, just so you don't think you killed the thread Sorry to hear about your glucose tests and GBS and the SPD. How did you find out you had GBS? Have you had it before or did you just ask for the test? I'd sort of decided not to be tested but maybe I should. No, I'm enjoying late pregnancy for one, 7 weeks to go and we're moving on Weds so surrounded by boxes. Want to be settled etc asap and then I don't want to be pregnant any more. Hope everyone else is OK. Rhubarb, how's your blip?

That should have read "I'm NOT enjoying late pregnancy!"

Sprout - you haven't killed this thread yet . Sorry about the Strep B - how was that discovered?
My baby is due in 9 weeks and has been breech for quite a while - hope he turns! Having scan in 3 wks to check placenta has moved up - everything seems to be pointing to a C/S at the mo! Hope everyone else is OK

WWW, grommit, thanks for the encouragement. I found out about the strep B because my doctor included it automatically in my last set of blood tests (they do them on a monthly basis here in Belgium for toxoplasmosis and CMV etc, and for my underactive thyroid). I didn't even know she'd tested it til she told me the results. At the moment I think I suppose it's better to know, if you are positive, than not, but I haven't had time to really think through the implications yet. I was planning a hospital birth anyway, but was hoping for a slightly less interventionist one than last time. But at the moment that bothers me less than the overall risk to the baby.
Grommit, sorry to hear the baby is still breech, as well as the low placenta. How do you feel about probably having a C/S at this stage?
Good luck anyway.

hi sprout, I meant to post after your last post but somehow life keeps getting in the way....feeling a little overwhelmed by everything at the moment (no major crises, just too much to do and feeling like a wheel could fall off at any time!) I've lost track of when we are all due and keep meaning to check back and do a due date list....anyone else out there with nothing better to do?
Grommit, I thought we were due the same time - surely its more than 9 weeks to go! EEEK!!
Can't say I'm enjoying things much either - just knackered and trying to keep focused on what I have to get done in the next couple of months. I think I really need to stop work so that I have a bit of space to re-orient myself to the coming arrival - planning to finish at the end of October. Also just not looking forward to the whole physical upheaval of birth/breastfeeding again....
sorry to sound a bit moany. hope everyone else is doing ok!

Saying I'm enjoying ilate pg would be an overstatement, but I feel OK. I don't feel too uncomfortable, but I jinxed myself last time I posted becasue I said I was getting back to sleep when I woke in the night - of course, since then, I've had raging insomnia - mainly bacuse my nose is blocked so I can't breath, and sleeping with my mouth open just makes me thirsty and gives me a sore throat. So I'm very tired. Any tips for a clear nose at night? I've tried sleeping with a ton of Vicks, but no good.

Anyway, this is pretty minor compared to some of your problems. WWW - it not too bad a time, moving now - at least it keeps you occupied, then once the madness is settled you'll have a couple of weeks of peace & tranquility to rest up
sorry got to go - ds2 drawing all over floor w. highlighter.
good luck all