September 2021 due date babies!!!

[Bittersweet]

Cat hope the weather is good for you! I dropped him off at nursery a bit earlier so going to have a snooze

 

[MadamRose]

@Bittersweet hope you manage to have a good nap!

@Catmumof4 hope it’s amazing!

 

[LoneWanderer]

Yay enjoy your baby shower!

 

[LoneWanderer]

Negative PCRs here. So that's a relief.
Now I just have a mardy arse mother to deal with...

Other half's last full day though, wooo! So ready for this week of half days, definitely ready for some help with the wild child - and for someone else to do all the nesting

 

[Bittersweet]

Glad it was negative lone such a fright though

 

[Zoboe95]

@Catmumof4 have a lovely time!

@LoneWanderer so glad you got negatives!

 

[LoneWanderer]

So, something playing on my mind as it seems a bit of a catch 22 thing...

If you go into labour, normally, they tell you to wait at home as long as possible, yeah? To make sure it defs *is* labour, and to save you being stuck about on ward for ages in the early stages.

But if you are scheduled for section, they say come in ASAP for the 'emergency' route. Especially as you might end up waiting around hours for a free theatre.

Which is all fine and good, like I said before they can do them right up to the last moment...

Except I've not been in labour before, so now every bloody twinge and ache is making me think 'is this it?' - when it almost certainly isn't - so now I'm worried I'll just be sat on my arse at home when the time actually comes, thinking it's definitely not it yet, and miss the window for chopping him out

 

[Bittersweet]

Lone that’s a very true statement it’s quite confusing! I just remember for my son the pains coming every 3-5 and feeling like I was being ripped in half haja!


So 9 months in I’ve finally found a cure for my heartburn and indigestion

love heart sweets!

 

[MadamRose]

@LoneWanderer they often start as period type pains but they get more frequent and last for longer. I’d get a contraction timer so that you have a rough idea. I guess the best thing to do is if there is even the slightest chance go in to be on the safe side.

 

[LoneWanderer]

Awww nice! Glad they are helping. I always eat tons of them at Halloween, left over from the trick or treaters, then can't face them rest of the year til it rolls round again

 

[LoneWanderer]

Yeah I've been all low down crampy all day but honestly I think he's just sat on a nerve or something coz it's perfectly bearable, just very uncomfortable. I'm not calling for that, can't be arsed sitting on monitoring for hours just to be tutted at and sent home again ahahaha!

Honestly I'm such a wuss that if anything actually properly hurt I'd be kicking the ward doors in begging them to make it stop, so I doubt I'll actually get caught out and miss the real deal - and hey, if I do, that surely means I had it fast and easy so won't be able to complain anyway...

 

[Bittersweet]

I kinda gauge it on if I’m in a lot of pain then that’s it

but clearly my gauge is wrong since I’ve been in three times lol.
Still not progressed lots so bouncy ball and wiggles to try and get things moving now

 

[MadamRose]

@Bittersweet im with you on trying to get things moving. We have come out for another bike ride/walk. Every time I sit down at home I make sure it’s on my ball ready to be done now!

 

[Bittersweet]

Yep! I sat on sofa all morning but trying to move around more and use the ball

 

[atx614]

@LoneWanderer so glad the tests we’re negative, what a relief!! My labor started as cramping and progressed pretty quickly into contractions. I never had Braxton Hicks or predominal labor though so I only know what the actual labor felt like. But I know it can be confusing as things get started.

 

[atx614]

Yesterday my scan went well. Baby was 4 pounds 8oz, 60th percentile. So not too big or small thankfully. My placenta moved up thank god!! And baby is head down so I hope she stays there. My fibroid did get bigger and is now 10cm but they said that’s normal during pregnancy and it should go down after. So feeling pretty good, but now to sit and wait for what seems like far too long.

 

[LoneWanderer]

I've got the crampy period pains, and like a stabbing in one spot on my lower back, and loads of pressure. But nothing I could, like, 'time', as it's all over the shop, absolutely nothing consistent. Gonna try paracetamol and a bath once other half gets home to watch toddler. Pretty sure I've just done a bit much, by which I mean I've done absolutely nothing but slightly less nothing than usual

 

[Bittersweet]

That’s great new atx!!

lonenyea rest and see how it goes

 

[MadamRose]

@atx614 glad the scan went well, it sounds like a good weight

@LoneWanderer hope you feel better after your rest

 

[Bittersweet]

Oh here’s the pains but they are feeling more at the top of my uterus? Indigestion? Taken my love hearts haha and also a chewable gavinscon