***January Jellybeans***~ 35 BABY GIRLS & 23 BABY BOYS BORN ~***

[sar35]

Morning all, hope you are all ok x

 

[lauren-kate]

I am ok thankyou, nothing much to report - just a sore arm from the flu jab yesterday. I have my midwife appointment tomorrow, and should hopefully be sorting out everything for the homebirth. Fingers crossed baby is in the right position and stays there!

 

[millward329]

Lisa...only one thing to say - WOW! Bet you can't wait to have your body back to yourself

Glad you are going to get checked out Rachael, doesn't sound at all pleasant so feel better soon

Cool, our 7th JB is on their way and just one day off full term.

Breastfeeding workshop was useful yesterday but could have done with being 2 hours...so bored by hour 3! Still we had fake boobies and babies to play with. Learnt about the Madonna hold and rugby ball hold. Anyone know why it is call Madonna hold?

Have a good day everyone x

 

[beccybobeccy]

whats the madonna hold? Is it cause it makes your boobs all pointy?

 

[beccybobeccy]

Morning all, hope you are all ok x

How you getting on lovely? x
All good here, got midwife this morning at 11 so get to be groped in the bump for 5 mins again!!

Still having a lot of pelvic pain and sleepless nights but I've pretty much given up hope with comfort on both these points!

9 working days left til Holiday/Maternity Leave....
Anyone else having mixed feelings about leaving work?
I feel excited to finish because I'm so eager to have "Falcon" here but I'm a little sad to leave work. I've been a bit sentimental all week as they slowly take projects away from me... I'm starting to feel a bit useless!

 

[Jolene]

Morning ladies just a quick one from me. As you know I wasn't well at all on Tuesday but I was fine yeaterday. Been up a couple of hours now bong violently sick and baby isn't moving. Will be phoning either the drs or pregnancy assessment unit at 8:30 to see if I can get seen. Something isnt right as my urine is orange and I feel like crap. Will try and get on later to update you or Mr Rachael will update on my behalf

Let us know how it goes, am thinking of you.

Morning all, hope you are all ok x

Hi Sarah, how are you and little Joe doing?

I am ok thankyou, nothing much to report - just a sore arm from the flu jab yesterday. I have my midwife appointment tomorrow, and should hopefully be sorting out everything for the homebirth. Fingers crossed baby is in the right position and stays there!

That's exciting. Keep your head down baby!

 

[jms895]

Lisa - Yep I agree MEGA BUMPAGE!!!!!!!

Disney lovely bump!

Rachael - hope you are ok hun, thinking of you

I saw MW just now. HB ok, BP ok, measuring 36 weeks bang on now so have steadied off. Still looking at a 7 pound baby And he is 3/5 engaged yay!! Next appointment at 38 weeks on 21st Dec! xx

 

[beccybobeccy]

Lisa - Yep I agree MEGA BUMPAGE!!!!!!!

Disney lovely bump!

Rachael - hope you are ok hun, thinking of you

I saw MW just now. HB ok, BP ok, measuring 36 weeks bang on now so have steadied off. Still looking at a 7 pound baby And he is 3/5 engaged yay!! Next appointment at 38 weeks on 21st Dec! xx

How can they tell how engaged and how heavy baby is? When did they first tell you?

 

[noja]

Morning all, hope everyone and their bumps doing well!

 

[jms895]

Lisa - Yep I agree MEGA BUMPAGE!!!!!!!

Disney lovely bump!

Rachael - hope you are ok hun, thinking of you

I saw MW just now. HB ok, BP ok, measuring 36 weeks bang on now so have steadied off. Still looking at a 7 pound baby And he is 3/5 engaged yay!! Next appointment at 38 weeks on 21st Dec! xx

How can they tell how engaged and how heavy baby is? When did they first tell you?

They have a feel and take a guess! She reckons 7 1/2 to 8 pounds as Caine was 7 pounds 2 oz. And yes I know he is engaged I feel him and MW has a feel for the head and tells you xx

 

[Mom 2B]

Well I have just had the crappiest nights sleep EVER! Woke up literally every hour. Three times I was on my back and was panicking (sp?) Had to stay awake to count kicks and LO was not making it easy cuz he wanted tosleep. Sitting here this morning waiting for him to wake up adn move around. I tried sleeping with a pillow tucked under my bum and lower back so that I will not roll back but i guess it didn't work that well. Might have to try the couch tonight. And my back is hurrting worse than it ever has for first thing inthe morning. What a day today will be!!!!

I have a big christmas party today at the play group I take my daughter to which is goign to throw off nap time so I hope she handles it well....and i hope she doesn't freak out to much over Santa. Last year she was fine but we stopped at teh mall yesterday adn she wouldn't even go near Santa.

7 babies now! wow!

Hope everyone is well.

 

[naomicourt]

Hi Girls, not managed to get to sleep as yet, stupid neighbours upstairs let their kids run about at all hours and its keeping me awake, as if I need any help!

Loving your bump pic Regina, looks like u may have dropped. Mom2B hope you managed to stay off your back and it's not worrying you too much. Rachael thinking of you, hope everything is ok.

I took a bump pic today so thought I would post last one (36 wks) and today's (37+5):

Blimey you have dropped! Not long now I don't think. xx

Morning ladies just a quick one from me. As you know I wasn't well at all on Tuesday but I was fine yeaterday. Been up a couple of hours now bong violently sick and baby isn't moving. Will be phoning either the drs or pregnancy assessment unit at 8:30 to see if I can get seen. Something isnt right as my urine is orange and I feel like crap. Will try and get on later to update you or Mr Rachael will update on my behalf

Saw your update on facebook. Hope everything is ok hun. xx

Lisa - Yep I agree MEGA BUMPAGE!!!!!!!

Disney lovely bump!

Rachael - hope you are ok hun, thinking of you

I saw MW just now. HB ok, BP ok, measuring 36 weeks bang on now so have steadied off. Still looking at a 7 pound baby And he is 3/5 engaged yay!! Next appointment at 38 weeks on 21st Dec! xx

Glad everything is going well.

Well I have just had the crappiest nights sleep EVER! Woke up literally every hour. Three times I was on my back and was panicking (sp?) Had to stay awake to count kicks and LO was not making it easy cuz he wanted tosleep. Sitting here this morning waiting for him to wake up adn move around. I tried sleeping with a pillow tucked under my bum and lower back so that I will not roll back but i guess it didn't work that well. Might have to try the couch tonight. And my back is hurrting worse than it ever has for first thing inthe morning. What a day today will be!!!!

I have a big christmas party today at the play group I take my daughter to which is goign to throw off nap time so I hope she handles it well....and i hope she doesn't freak out to much over Santa. Last year she was fine but we stopped at teh mall yesterday adn she wouldn't even go near Santa.

7 babies now! wow!

Hope everyone is well.

Aww my Daughter is scared Santa too. We are taking her to see him next week and have a feeling she will kick up a fuss.



Well I had my appointment today and blood pressure is fine. Baby is measuring 38 weeks so pretty much spot on, heart beat is fine, still 3/5 engaged and is now laying LOA which apparently is a good position.
Next appointment on the 20th December but, really hoping that I would of had it by then.

Edit: Here is a picture of baby's position

 

[hodbert]

Hey girls, thanks for the comments on my bump, I feel absolutely huge so good to know its not in my head! I'm only 4ft10 so you can imagine how much it's taken over. Still nothing doing down there though, but seeing doc in a couple of hours so will see if she has anything to say.

Mom2B I'm with you on the crap night's sleep, although not for same reason obviously! Stupid neighbours had me up til midnight and I think he must get up early for work so since half 5 there's been more banging about, waking me up and can't get back to sleep. It doesnt help that I am now up every hour to pee and it takes me a good half hour to get back to sleep most times. Result = hardly any sleep and a v grumpy me!!

 

[mum2be2011]

Hi Ladies thank you for all your lovely messages not only on here but also on facebook.

Baby is absolutely fine and was just panicking us for nothing. Got to the hospital and they put me straight on the CTG monitor. Took the midwife a couple of minutes to find the heartbeat but once she did it was nice and strong and regular, a tad faster than they liked but it was strong (190) after a few minutes they put the toco on and baby decided to start moving and kicking so there was a lovely graph with x's all over it from a happy baby. Toco spiked a number of times but only upto 30 (we put this down to BH's) after 45 minutes of monitoring they were happy with babies heartbeat as it had dropped to 160 and with movement went upto 180. They were happy for me to go home on strict bedrest and drink lots of fluids, not to worry about food too much and to wait for our appointment in clinic tomorrow.

Midwife checked babies position and she is still not head down, she is still transverse. Asked about when it becomes a problem and what will happen and got told that position isnt a problem till 36 - 37 weeks and that they will discuss options in clinic tomorrow. She pointed out that baby cant come out like that as they are only designed to come head or bum first. If my waters break now they dont know what part of baby will come first and the concern is that it could be placenta / leg / arm / cord etc

Came home and Luke got me some water and then tucked me up in bed. Just woke up and feel slightly better, not been sick but still feel very sick.

This morning has made me realise just how lucky I am to have such a caring bloke. Luke was so calm and tried to keep me calm as well. Phoebe went to nursery as normal but she kept putting her hand on my face and looking really sad at me as if to say "mummy, sorry you're poorly". Got a lovely kiss on the cheek from her, a cuddle and really big happy wave bye bye.

 

[lovealittle1]

hi JJ's lots of to everyone. I had a bad nights sleep filled with bad dreams, allergies and lots of trips to the loo. One month tomorrow until my EDD!!! How exciting!!

 

[jms895]

Rachael great news hun and lets hope bubs turns soon for you!!

Hope everyone gets better sleep tonight. I had a crap one too finally dropping off at 3am but just had a nice nap to catch up a bit. Getting used to these afternoon naps now

 

[LittleMrs]

well ladies I seen the dr today. he still has no idea what my weird cramping was from and said if it comes back to go back to hospital. I have not gained any weight this past week and half. Had some problems with babys heart rate. while laying on my back the HR went down to 113. but when i rolled to my left side was back to normal. Nurse had teh dr check it again and the same thing happened.

So now im told absolutly NO SLEEPING ON MY BACK. I always go to sleep on my side but end up on my back in the morning. Dr said baby must be laying on the cord adn its cutting his oxygen off. I have to do everything i can to avoid being on my back. Could possibly kill baby. OMG!!!!!!!! Dr said to sleep with pillows behind my back so i can't roll that way. Or sleep on the couch....but even when i sleep on the couch i wake up on my back (which is weird cuz before being PG i never woke up or slept on my back) Im so horribly worried im giogn to roll on my back and not know it and hurt my baby. Any suggestions other than pillows?

Also my belly is still measuring 2 weeks small. Dr had not gotten u/s results yet but I told him what the measurments were and im giong to have another u/s at 35 weeks. Dr said as long as my measurements dont fall any farther behind then i should not worry too much....2 weeks behind is not that bad. But im horribly worried about the whole sleeping thing. Im sure im not ginog to get any sleep tonight.....or for the next 6-7 weeks.

This is going to sound ridiculous bt sew a golf ball/ping pong ball onto the back of your nightwear - then you'll wake up everytime you roll onto your back and eventually probably won't do it.

Morning ladies just a quick one from me. As you know I wasn't well at all on Tuesday but I was fine yeaterday. Been up a couple of hours now bong violently sick and baby isn't moving. Will be phoning either the drs or pregnancy assessment unit at 8:30 to see if I can get seen. Something isnt right as my urine is orange and I feel like crap. Will try and get on later to update you or Mr Rachael will update on my behalf

Sorry you're not well but glad it turned out ok. Thank goodness for lovely OH taking care of you, even though I bet he was scared too. And lovely Phoebe giving her mummy sympathy. I hope you feel better tomorrow.

Hi Girls, not managed to get to sleep as yet, stupid neighbours upstairs let their kids run about at all hours and its keeping me awake, as if I need any help!

Loving your bump pic Regina, looks like u may have dropped. Mom2B hope you managed to stay off your back and it's not worrying you too much. Rachael thinking of you, hope everything is ok.

I took a bump pic today so thought I would post last one (36 wks) and today's (37+5):

Regina, lovely bump. Lisa, my word - that is a MASSIVE bump, I now feel like I should stop feeling sorry for myself carrying around my midget bump. Can't possibly be long now!

Lisa...only one thing to say - WOW! Bet you can't wait to have your body back to yourself

Glad you are going to get checked out Rachael, doesn't sound at all pleasant so feel better soon

Cool, our 7th JB is on their way and just one day off full term.

Breastfeeding workshop was useful yesterday but could have done with being 2 hours...so bored by hour 3! Still we had fake boobies and babies to play with. Learnt about the Madonna hold and rugby ball hold. Anyone know why it is call Madonna hold?

Have a good day everyone x

Is it called Madonna hold because of some kind of religious thing - Madonna and child? Is it the traditional pose that they're pictured in? Just a thought, although I do think conical boobs would be much funnier.

Feeling very full today - LO kicked at lunch time today in the staff room, nobody saw but my stomach moved a good couple of inches and I had to laugh at it - got some strange looks for it (probably a bit weird to share a private joke with your unborn child).

Slept like rubbish last night but she made me laugh today so feeling quite generous to the bump. Does anyone else find themselves conversing with theirs or am I just insane?

 

[blessed]

Naomi - my LO is laying the same way... I can feel her hiccups on my right side too because of her position.. even though I feel so bad for her when she gets them!

 

[sar35]

glad all is ok Rachael x

 

[sar35]

Well I have just had the crappiest nights sleep EVER! Woke up literally every hour. Three times I was on my back and was panicking (sp?) Had to stay awake to count kicks and LO was not making it easy cuz he wanted tosleep. Sitting here this morning waiting for him to wake up adn move around. I tried sleeping with a pillow tucked under my bum and lower back so that I will not roll back but i guess it didn't work that well. Might have to try the couch tonight. And my back is hurrting worse than it ever has for first thing inthe morning. What a day today will be!!!!

I have a big christmas party today at the play group I take my daughter to which is goign to throw off nap time so I hope she handles it well....and i hope she doesn't freak out to much over Santa. Last year she was fine but we stopped at teh mall yesterday adn she wouldn't even go near Santa.

7 babies now! wow!

Hope everyone is well.

7 babies???
Joe and I are fine, he is gorgeous, ive got some new photos ill try and put on here, if not ill put them on fb. He pulled his feeding tube out today and has been trying really hard with the bottles. He finds it difficult to breathe and drink at the same time, apparently a typical 35weeker! But he is improving every day, when we go in now we have our own room(if its free) its like a bedsit and we can feed him in there, its much better than being in the nursery looking at everyone as he wakes for a feed then sleeps til the next one.
We are more relaxed and taking it each day, we hope he will be home Mondayish.... But have been warned he could go backwards but at the moment its all good!