May 2012 babies - so far 8 yellow, 22 blue, 21 pink!

[yazzy]

Bumpin I'm glad your baby is back to normal now. It is funny when people look shocked when you say how close your due date is.

Waves I'm sorry your dad is moving that far away.

I've just had my fitting for my wedding dress, hardly any alterations needed which is great! Bubs has been really quiet today, I've had movements but not like normal. Going to see how things go tonight but if baby stays quiet then i'll phone and go in to get checked. I just want little one safe in my arms.

 

[wavescrash]

Thanks but I'm not too upset about it. I'm not that close to him anymore and it's nothing new. He's lived further away for awhile now. I'm just irked by how he informed us and how last minute it is, especially since he's always trying to guilt my siblings and I for not visiting him often. He fails to understand we can't afford to drive 2 hours there and 2 hours back on a whim. And to now be going 15 hours away? He'll be lucky if we can visit once a year haha.

Someone online due a week before me is on her way to the hospital in active labor right now. I'm so jealous. I know she's a week further and had to wait that week longer than me and obviously her baby is ready... I'm just jealous haha. I feel icky and nauseous, sore and worn out, exhausted and achy. Can't it just be our time already!?!?

 

[frangi33]

ah let us know how you get on tomorrow waves fingers crossed for you!

Bumpin sorry to hear about all the trouble your lo has put you through. Maybe the babies just bed down around this time ready for birth? I heard that they go a little quite just before labour but maybe thats an old wives tale!

 

[wavescrash]

Thanks!

 

[zephyr]

Waves - good luck getting your sweep and I hope this time your baby is a good size but not too big! Completely understandable being nervous about having a big baby.

I am not sure if they will give me a sweep or not but I think today I am going to beg for one too, especially after last night I have woken up in the most feral of moods, vomited heaps again and I just feel tired and gross.
I woke up at 3:30am with what I thought 'may' of been a very small waters leak when I stood up but I may or may not of peed myself I don't know. I'm thinking I peed myself cos it would have to be a very small leak otherwise and I'm not sure if thats possible? In my experience I had a leak every time I had a contraction so I wouldn't know.

But then afterwards I was getting contractions every 8 minutes that started off small and got quite uncomfortable, enough to wake me up every time I had one cos I was tryign to hard to go to sleep!! They must of died off around 6am (when OH's alarm went off) Cos thats the last time I was woken up by one before 7am.
Soooo when I got up again after I peed, I thought I had a small leak again but I was on the toilet so dunno. I am so confused! I have not had this problem the whole pregnancy! I mean sure I've had a couple of accidents but I never questioned them.
I don't leak while doing anything else though just feel a bit wetter than normal (sorry if this is all TMI)

Anyways I have a midwife appointment this morning at 9 and then my consultant appointment at 1 so I will find out eventually. Today is either going to be the best day ever! Or my babies are about to make me feel very embarrassed and silly.
If it aint my waters I am going to ask for a sweep, I seriously cannot keep doing this, not after waking up with contractions this morning and thinking today was the day again.

Oh my Moby wrap just showed up too.....uggh the colour is worse than in the pic I so wanna RAGE at my OH right now!

 

[wavescrash]

Thanks zephyr. And sorry about your Moby

Good luck at your appointments today & I hope you get a sweep as well!

 

[Ems77]

Bumpin - Aww that would of been awful! My heart stops every time they take more than one try to find a heart beat! I'm glad everything turned out okay

About my moby wrap I am so freaken mad!! When I ordered it I was eyeing up girly ones cos I am the one who was going to be wearing it, floral design and a purple one and OH was over my shoulder and he says "ohhh no don't get a girly one get a unisex one" I said "Ohh for you too?" and he was like yup.

Sooooo I ordered a greeny sorta coloured one, not the colour I would of picked for myself but a colour OH said he would be okay with and guess what?! he actually had no intention on wearing it at all. He said today he wasn't wearing it!! I said what the? why on earth did you get me to choose that colour then and you know what he said? "I didn't want my boy in any girl colours, what'd you think I meant? you didn't really think I would be wearing it did you?"

Duhhh that's the impression you gave me!! so $70 later and I am wishing I spent the extra $10 and got the black one now like I was going to do before I thought about getting a coloured one.
Hope the colour grows on me and go with my clothing, its not a terrible one but definitely not my first choice. Arrr well. Males.

What site did you go to? mobywrap.com is out of their black, lol, and I noticed that their mobys are 45 a piece, (about 55 for you) and you had mentioned 70.

Vaurissa yep people keep commenting that my bump is small, I guess it is all genetics as I haven't done anything different to normal.

I think it may be just that. This is my third rodeo and I have been small every time. First baby was born at 38+1 and was only 5lbs 8 oz, but perfectly fine; and she's danged 5'5 now at 13.5.
2nd was born at 38+6 7lbs 1oz. My size (or lack there of) definitely has no bearing on theirs. LOL

 

[rjsmam]

bumpin - forgot to pass on big hugs for the worry you had. so glad babba is behaving now!

zephyr - hope you get that sweep!

meant to ask how they figure out your babies estimated weight? is it scans? i've not had a scan since 20wks, never had even a guess from mw - they just measure fundal height & tell you if you measuring big/small etc........ last time i measured fairly big & they said big baby but ds was only 6lb 4oz - now i'm measuring slightly small (don't feel it!) but i bet this ones a whopper!



x

 

[wavescrash]

rjsmam - i found out what she weighed through a growth scan at 35w5d.


oh my goodness ladies, i know it's been nothing but 'whine, whine, whine' but i need to whine just once more. i feel like i say this every few days and then say it again but this is the absolute lowest LO has been. i feel movements down low behind my pubic bone and hitting against my cervix. her foot has popped out of my ribs and i see her leg moving just above my navel. it feels like she's bulging out below my underwear line if that makes any sense. i can't close my legs to save my life right now hahah. there's so much pressure in my lower belly. i think i'm going to go lay down and never move again. i don't think my hips can spread much more. labor, where are you!??!?

 

[rjsmam]

ah waves you poor thing - this girly is really putting ma through her paces!

i have the opposite problem - a very high baby giving me mega heartburn. am so annoyed - collected my prescription, i told the girl on the phone at the drs that the midwife suggested something other than a regular antacid - ranitidine i think - i friggin knew she wasn't listening, you know when you can tell someone just wants you off the phone? i had to keep telling her. collected prescription earlier and it's just flaming peptac liquid which i thinkis just Gaviscon - which isn't even touching it......... grrrr



x

 

[zephyr]

Waves - haha I love it! "leme just whine once more!!" I'm sorry shes so low! Its really uncomfortable. I'm the same way, I think we get quite desperate in these last few weeks cos of all the discomfort. I whinge a lot too so I don't mind hearing it haha

Vaurissa - https://www.mobywrap.co.nz/ it was the nz site, $70 does include courier postage as well I think it was 64 something plus 6 for postage.

Well I had my appointment and she can't feel his head move at all in my pelvis so he is right down and same as you waves I can feel it today especially! Owwies
My midwife cleared out some storage at the rooms and stumbled across a couple of packets of nappies for newborns and she said she thought of me and so I just scored 2 packets of nappies I thought that was really nice

She also said about the leaking that it is possible it is just discharge that pooled cos it can get quite watery at times EWWWWW!!!! gross, but that time will tell and to ask at my consultant appointment later today.

Which is in 3 hours. I am going to keep on my feet and clean my house again till then just in case those ones this morning were the start of something.
I asked my midwife if she thinks they will give me a sweep and she didn't sound too positive, apparently they like to monitor the babies for a bit beforehand and then do a sweep then monitor them some more, with twins I think its part of the induction process so for me I think its unlikely but who knows I will ask anyways.

 

[bumpin2012]

are you taking Ranitidine? I dont think I would have survived without it! here we can get it over the counter, so you dont need a script for it!

Baby is being right active again today. This child is in soooo much trouble when s/he arrives! I have heard that babies get a bit quieter right before hand, but Im still not very hopeful that my time is near...

Thanks for all the hugs ladies!

 

[wavescrash]

Waves - haha I love it! "leme just whine once more!!" I'm sorry shes so low! Its really uncomfortable. I'm the same way, I think we get quite desperate in these last few weeks cos of all the discomfort. I whinge a lot too so I don't mind hearing it haha

Thanks! Glad someone else can relate. My hips, pelvis and back are killing me today. I seriously feel like she's trying to punch her way out of my cervix. If that means she wants out, then bring it on already!!!

 

[Ems77]

Zeph, I was wondering because the wraps are cheaper on the US site (ie the dot com) but with shipping it came to the same thing. LOL

 

[wavescrash]

https://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2yeyescr41qzzo2fo1_500.png

Top is 37w (taken this past Thursday)
Bottom is today at 37w4d.
She'd better be engaging!!!!!!

 

[zephyr]

Well its my turn to be hooked up onto monitors and stuff now golly gosh. My blood pressure was up slightly and when she checked the babies heart rates one was racing and the other was real slow so of course when i mentioned water leakage they got me laying down to check uggh and they dont think any has which is great. They were ment to do swabs last weekk anyways and bloods which they havnt so no loss there ju not pleasant. Now they gunna monitor babies dunno wwhy. She said they would if my waters were broken but now they wanna do it anyways. Then maybe a scan and maybe a sweep. Oh i hope so tho asking for one seems like such a hassle. Will update later when i finally get home.

 

[KendraNoell]

zephyr maybe you'll get lucky and they'll induce you LOL and you'll be out of your misery!

wow waves big difference in the bumps there! you look a lot smaller! hopefully that's a good thing!

i am feeling miserable as well. i am so so so swollen but my BP is just fine so I just get to be miserable. hard to walk around and my hips are just crazy sore right now went to the beach with OH yesterday since it was unusually warm out and i'm regretting it cause i'm exhausted! i don't know how much more i can work.. i'm still working full time right now

 

[zephyr]

omigosh I am seriously worried about these people delivering my babies! What a mickey mouse afternoon! I have just got home from the hospital I didn't get monitored at all.

I got sent upstairs to delivery which freaked me out cos one lady was screaming and then later I heard she gave birth to a 10 pounder no wonder she was screaming. Waited there for ages for them to find two monitors. They couldn't find one and the doctor seeing me got called away to an emergency so I got left with the midwife and no one knew anything about what was going on or what was meant to be happening.

I even said I got sent up here to be monitored and then a sweep done to the doctor who FINALLY gave me a scan to check fluid levels.
And she was liek "What the heck are you wanting a sweep for?! you're only 33 weeks!!!" like basically yelled at me and so I said "urrm nope I'm 37" she went away and came back and apologised to me saying it was very busy today and she thought I was another lady.

Anyways they did not monitor the babies or my contractions at all like they said they would.
The midwife tried to give me a sweep and I tell you there is nothing more awkward than having an old lady with her fingers up your vagina cracking up laughing because your babies head is so low that she cant even get her fingers behind it. She did try her best though and says hopefully something happens but I could not do a proper one because your babies head is in the way and your cervix is behind his head, I am sorry.

My boys head being this low explains the fluid leakage though cos I actually cannot feel myself going to the toilet now at times?! wtf??

Anyways I got sent back downstairs and they were like why did they scan you upstairs?and I shrugged cos they're meant to be the doctors. Then I was told they would phone me with an induction date and I said "nope I was told that last week, I need one now I need to plan my stuff" So they booked me in for Tuesday the 1st of May 7:30am

NO JOKES......in the time it took me to drive from the hospital to home they had rung and left a message saying "Nope we have had to change to Monday the 30th now so we will see you then"
I am so mad right now. I understand they were busier than normal but all the fussing around? it was rediculous and all I can do is trust these people who dont even know what the heck is going on. I just hope I go into labour overnight, get this over with.

On the upside though less than a week till I am induced, 6 more sleeps!

 

[anti]

Zephyr keep us updated when you can. Hugs!

Waves I hope you feel better soon/labour comes quick.

Will have to update properly when I get into the computer! I didn't get much sleep last night. Got a sore throat and ears and I just want it to go away. I can't handle another cold!!!! really want Thursday to hurry up so the midwife can tell me if bubs is engaged now. I certainly feel like its dropped loads!!! Still struggling to believe that in a months time I will have a newborn in the house!!

 

[zephyr]

Oh and I have been havign contractions all day, I was hoping they would put the monitors on and see that because the lady downstairs said they would and if they were regular they might put a drip in to get things moving. Got my hopes up for nothing I still don't know why they didn't though, kind of worrying.