March Mama's! 2012 :) - 33 pink , 24 blue and 17 yellow bumps! 33 Babies!!

[Nicnak282]

OOOH all these potential 'mother's day' babies!!!!

Good luck to Loo, Mitch, KKL...and anyone else my poor addled brain may have temporarily forgotten!!!

FT your OH's aunt sounds mental (no offence!!)

AFM - just had a little cry feeling really weepy (and I've felt really positive for the last few days) and fed-up with having these contractions/ tightenings that are just not going anywhere! I really wished the midwife had not said that I was in latent labour and that she expected it to kick off in upto 3 days. It just raises hopes...

Also just charged my I-pod (for labour...yeah right, whatever!!) and it is corrupted - just spent over an hour trying to re-install etc and nada!!!!!!!! I usually take these things on the chin but not today...it's all too much.

Sorry for the downer guys...will try and shake myself outta it and be back later.

PS If any other bloody friend bloody face-books/ texts me asking 'any news yet' - I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MY ACTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhh...and breathe Nic....

Lots love xxxxx

 

[firsttimer1]

mama bear..... love it

i keep wondering if all the spurs footy games ive been watching and all the F1 im about to, PLUS all the reading of sports stories ive done (to the bump) will set digs off on the right path of decision making. If ive done my job well they will be a supporter of those previously mentioned.... if not, they will support arsenal and alonso and we will all know that ''communicating with your bump'' is a load of TOSH!!!

(OR it works..... but digs always intended to defy me as some sort of evil mastermind baby )

wonder how our induction ladies are getting on... hope thet are all OK... was alot at once!!!

Joanna -

 

[firsttimer1]

kymied - haha it DEFO doesnt rain every day here, not even every week..... im afraid thats a myth lol - but a nice saying about keeping people away

Our fathers day is June 17th this year i think.

Mothers day here is always on the fourth sunday of lent... so the date always changes

Cupcake - yup you and me for the full hog hunni!!! but to be fair... another week? that sounds OK to me considering i remember having ants in my pants at 'ten wks to go' LOL

Nic - so sorry your having a downer hunni but keep faith... wont be long till u hv a as for facebook..... you and me both!!!!!!!

 

[Mrs Cupcake]

nicknak - its awful this on/off labour isnt it. i almost wish nothing would happen and we would just go straight into it. at least we wouldnt keep getting false hope.

even worse if the midwife said she thought 3 days - when will that be up?

 

[kymied]

That's the same as our father's day. Interesting.

I want you ladies to have updates of babies by tomorrow morning ok?

 

[Joannaxoxo]

So I drank a pepsi and I have felt a teeny amount of moving so I think it's worked. The baby moved ever so slightly a couple of times... so I know he's ok, its just really reduced to what I'm used to. Got period type cramps started so maybe something is happening. No BH or contractions yet, so not sure if it's anything or not.

 

[Nicnak282]

Thanks FT & Cupcake xx

The midwife said this on Wed eve...hubby keeps saying that we're not outta time yet...PAH, whatever!!! It just doesn't feel imminent .

Sorry I know I'm not overdue or anything but I think I really got my head around it after she said this (after being quite relaxed about the whole thing!!) and now I just feel really . Also most of my NCT buddies have all had their and I was due before them and are all arranging to meet up for coffees and talkign about how brilliant it is!!! I truly am pleased for them all and know that bump will come out when she is ready but still...so sorry I'm such a whinge-bag/ selfish so and so today!!!! I will get better later promise!!

I am gonna treat myself to a glass of guinness tonight and some Lindt...baby or no baby!!!!
take care lovelies xxxx

 

[firsttimer1]

Joanna... it sounds like labour COULD be close then.... but even at 38 weeks i had days of less movements.... other days more etc so try not to worry hunni YAY for the pepsi working

Nic - enjoy that guinness! I shall be having a few sips myself

I have just developed the MADDEST craving for fish and chips.... covered in salt and vinegar.... YUM.....

ladies - i just read a post on third tri by a woman panicking because shes only had 10 BHs today.... er.... how many do you all feel a day?

I only notice...like.... one or two..... ?!!!

 

[Mrs Cupcake]

10 braxton hicks? i probably only feel a few. occasionally though hubby has felt my bump and it has been rock hard ie BH but i hadnt noticed... i think i have them quite regularly throughout the day

glad you felt movement Joanna, you never know you might be experiencing the start of something. i think we will all be very jealous if you go into labour before us! lol

im just wondering if i can manage DTD as well as curry tonight... maybe...

i quite enjoy all the old wives tales - gives me something to do!

 

[Nicnak282]

Oooooooooh you may just have cheered me up FT!!!!!!!

Fish and chips smothered in lots of salt and vinegar.......:drool::drool::drool::drool::drool::drool::drool:

Now then can I persuade the hubby????? He's just making us a cuppa (proper one as I cannot stomach another bloody raspberry leaf one!) with a jammie dodger!!!

xxx

 

[firsttimer1]

Cupcake - i couldnt agree more... the myths are fun to try and dont forget my MW said on friday (excuse me being crude)..''the only thing that works is sex... doggy style!'' Least she is honest!!!

Nicnak - tell your DH that your DEMANDS fish&chips and you are a mere victim of their needs....

 

[Glowstar]

Wow an explosion of on the way!

Good luck to Loo, Mitch and KK and potential Mothers Day babies

Nik - sorry you are feeling down...the end is in the sight though

MrsCrow - if you need anything just ask!! I'm not far away

to everyone else

 

[citymouse]

Aw, Nicnak! No matter what, you will be holding your bubba soon... Even if it feels endless in the meantime.

It's funny, I grew up in tropical south Florida so I was no stranger to rain/thunder/lightning... But now that I've lived in the desert for 13 years I find it all a huge amount of trouble, especially with a little dog who soaks right through to the bone. It's so much of a pain to get from one place to another with umbrellas, etc. And then you've got wet clothes and a wet umbrella and nowhere good to put them...

And don't even get me started on thunder and lightning. I used to run home from the bus stop in ankle-deep water with lightning flashing all around... Now I won't leave the house if i see a flash off in the distance!

Enough whining about the rain... If it weren't for the dog I'd quite like it. He hates it, too... He just tries to sleep in until it's over. Doesn't even ask to be fed until about lunchtime.

 

[Joannaxoxo]

So have felt a few more movements, just little ones, so I know he's ok. Maybe he's just having a quiet couple of days. I had some cramps and then had a BM, but usually the cramps go after a BM, this time the cramps are still here and feel a bit stronger. Just feeling a little off, but no contractions so I'm half wondering if things are just in my head. Gosh this labour symptom stuff is hard to know whats what. No more plug loss, but discharge is definitely brownish in colour, which is different for me - not even 100% sure if what I saw this morning was plug loss, it was so small... perhaps it's coming away in little pieces, is that normal?

 

[Widger]

Oh wow - baby alert!! Baby alert!!

Mitch - so glad you trusted your instinct and went into hospital
Loo - Hope the gel works out for you this time and remember, drugs are your friend when it all kicks off
KKl - Good luck xx

Niknak - I'm sorry feeling low. I remember feeling like that too and I think you probably would have been ok if that midwife hadn't give you some false hope. I remember I was due before everyone in my NCT group and they all had twinges and signs way before me and I would just receive a message and burst into tears. Hubby would say, look, you will have baby soon enough and although I knew I would, you try telling a woman who has been pregnant for nearly 10 months the reasoning in that!! Hope you feel better soon xx

FT - I don't think I ever actually realised I'd experienced braxton hicks first time round so a woman worrying she doesn't have more than 10 is a bit alien to me. I'm much more aware this time round as they have been more forceful but still, I don't sit there and count away... I suppose it doesn't appear that frequently for me to take note?? Anyway, nothing to worry about I dont' think.

Oh and as for the midwife comment - my friend said at her antenatal appointment her woman took all the women aside and said 'pineapples, sex, hot curry - forget it all. The only thing that will work is a bj and swallowing'. She said it was after their very first session and they were all really gobsmacked Suffice to say, she didn't tell her hubby because she just knew if there was anything he'd remember from the session - that would be the ONLY thing he'd remember

Citymouse - I'm a scaredy cat when it comes to thunder and lightening

Edit - Cupcake - and to the ridiculous comments/texts. People just don't get it do they?

Joanna - Sounds like something could be happening. Even though I went through this before, I still am symptom spotting this time round I lost my plug half way through labour so can't be of any use I'm afraid

 

[Glowstar]

Was the Midwife a MAN by any chance

I'm bored trying to persuade my OH to have sex

 

[Widger]

Glow - I've not had sex in soooooooooooooooooo long. Didn't work last time so just keep thinking no, won't bother.... but maybe I will tonight. I'm not sure what he will think of me instigating it though after nothing for ages. He'll either be shell shocked and won't be able to, or will be gagging

 

[lozza1uk]

Kymied - I think Manchester is like Seattle where it actually does rain most days even though the rest of the uk has declared a drought this week!

Been out for coffee and cake for my friends birthday this afternoon, one brought her 4 week old baby now weighing 9.11 - scary to think I could feasibly have that inside me now, can't see how it would fit!!

I've been lucky on the FB front, the only person ringing every day is FIL, and I made sure I declined his friend request on FB along with the rest of inlaw family!

 

[emera35]

Ladies in hospital, good luck and hugs!

Ladies with "latent" labour, cramps, contractions going no where etc. I truly sympathise!! seemed like it went on for ever for me! on the plus side, labour or not, it all counts! Everything is your body revving up and working its way towards the final goal!

Ladies with no signs at all, relax, enjoy and ignore all forms of communication!! The txts calls and comments are maddening in the extreme eh? I just had a text template saved which said "yep had baby 2 days ago, told everyone apart from you! " and sent it to any really stupid repeat txters on a daily basis! Oh, and you know you are going proper overdue when people just stop asking!

Hannah - with engorgment its best not to express too much, as that just signals the breast to make more milk. If she won't feed from one side, first try expressing a little bit to soften your nipple so you can shape it to make it easier for her to latch. Also you could try a rugbyball hold if she is having more success feeding facing in one direction (try googling for pictures of different BF positions, it should be in there) beyond that call the midwife and ask for a BF support worker to come show you some different positions, and also ask that she is checked for tongue tie if she hasn't been already xx

Well i've been feeling a bit dodgy, passed some big clots and nearly passed out earlier. Had the MW round and she thinks I might be developing an infection boo hiss. Getting some anti-biotics. X

 

[MsCrow]

Oh Emera, I'm glad you got some MW help as clots are worrying. I'm occasionally getting rid of bits of placenta and when it happens I'm inspecting the bits like mad in case it's a clot. Take care.

Nicnak, if it cheers you up a little bit, we've had a blast with the inkless printing fits getting prints of Ediths hands and feet. Comical really as she preferred making fists even though she was asleep. We're using the prints to make thank you post cards as we've been deluged with flowers and gifts.

I'm mentally pacing the floor for all you in labour or about to enter it and keeping everything crossed.

Joanna, glad you've felt some movement but....if it were me, I'd still go and get checked out as it's not what you're used to.

Waula, it was comforting to hear your OH has been going through the same and you're right, when the blues hit you both at the same time, it's really hard! Snap, I had the breastfeeding support worker visit too and I was grateful for the chat to be honest. It's going ok, I have good feeds and painful feeds but I'm gradually working out when to leave her be because it feels ok and when to unlatch her and try again, even if she's determined to stay on. I've tried the walking fingers thing but it pees Edith off and she either unlatches or holds my fingers. So I end up doing it in between short feeds, a massage, a wind, back on the same breast.

Today is a better day so far, partly because we managed three hour sleep stints between feeds last night and ended up with 8 hours overall as we didn't get up until the midwife came to do the heel prick test. Edith was totally cool with that and has been easy since. I'm not saying it'll be the same story this evening.

OK, chill out time, Edith and I are going to watch the rest of the rugby. MrC's gone up the pub to have a coke and watch it there for a break.