Due July 2012 Thread

javagal · 09-06-2012 10:59am

beautiful nursery kash!
im not sleeping during the night at all. mostly i sleep in morning time when oh is up.

TwoMums2Be · 09-06-2012 11:04am

Is anybody not getting Braxton hicks? I'm 35 weeks tomorrow and don't get them at all! Starting to think I have a very lazy womb

silly · 09-06-2012 11:19am

Hi ladies! I took Friday off so just catching up on this thread.

Cyning, hope you're feeling better, like the others have said, you're in good hands and the doctors won't do anything that will harm your baby.

Kash, I love your nursery, it's fab!!

Re: nesting. I planned on doing stuff on my day off yesterday but ended up doing a big fat nothing...

Met up with some friends last night for dinner. What a laugh, I thought I would go into labour with all the laughing. Got home for half 12.

TwoMums2Be · 09-06-2012 2:56pm

I have the rest of our 0-3 clothes & all our 3-6 month clothes washed and on the line

looks very cute

kildareash · 09-06-2012 3:13pm

TwoMums2Be wrote: »

I have the rest of our 0-3 clothes & all our 3-6 month clothes washed and on the line looks very cute

It's so cute when u see all the tiny bits lined up.
My lovely sis-in-law sent over a couple of blankets and outfits with my brother yesterday and told me today she has put a parcel in the post too coz it wldnt all fit in his case. She is such a dote!
The clothes are newborn, I always feel really bad exchanging stuff but I'll get more wear out of 0-3 months. What ye think?

TwoMums2Be · 09-06-2012 4:32pm

I would think 0-3 would be more use to you esp if your baby does arrive at our predicted weights! The midwives told us not to bother with any newborn unless the baby was measuring very small

if she includes the receipt you can always exchange them for identical but just a bigger size

We have told a few people that if they planned on getting us clothes to get 3-6 months & above

you don't want to be presumptuous but we want to be able to use gifts. Those we have mentioned it to have appreciated it

cyning · 09-06-2012 4:34pm

Oh I'd exchange away: but maybe for the same outfits etc? Like realistically unless baby is very small they aren't getting much (if any) wear out of newborn. All I have in Newborn is one pack of vests and socks: Everything else is 0-3!

Sorry Twomums I'm getting braxton hicks almost hourly at this stage.... but I actually think your more normal than me! None of my friends (or family at that) had them on their first babies: I'm just convinced I feel them more because of the muscles I pulled!

I tried to sleep for an hour: and got 4 phone calls. I swear if I hadn't tried to sleep noone would have bothered to ring me

Saurelin · 09-06-2012 5:28pm

kildareash wrote: »

TwoMums2Be wrote: »

I have the rest of our 0-3 clothes & all our 3-6 month clothes washed and on the line looks very cute

It's so cute when u see all the tiny bits lined up.
My lovely sis-in-law sent over a couple of blankets and outfits with my brother yesterday and told me today she has put a parcel in the post too coz it wldnt all fit in his case. She is such a dote!
The clothes are newborn, I always feel really bad exchanging stuff but I'll get more wear out of 0-3 months. What ye think?

My friend gad a baby 3 weeks ago in rotunda
she was told 2 days befire delivery that her baby will be big -9 lb
but she was 7 and all clothes 0-3 were way to big
i read somewhere that the scan can add at least a 1lb to babies weight

I have a few clothes newborn but didnt count how many.

ps. i love napping in middle of day :-D

kildareash · 09-06-2012 5:41pm

Thanks ladies, they're from boots so I'll just see next week if they'll exchange for next size up. Tags still on but don't have receipts.

I don't think everyone gets Braxton hicks. I was having a lot more a couple of weeks ago, well I think they were BH anyway!

TwoMums2Be · 09-06-2012 6:05pm

Your right Saurelin, depending on who does the scan it can be off by a good bit!

My consultant seems to err on the shorter side when taking measurements - if it was me I would go further to the edge so I wonder if that's to help not get a bigger reading than she is

also makes me wonder if she might be bigger than he is predicting :eek:

Re 0-3 the midwife did say they might be a bit big but they will grow into them fast enough

If they look too huge on ours I'll send my partner out to buy & wash some newborn

cyning · 09-06-2012 7:13pm

And in other news... just back from the hosp: had a bit of a show. Baby good, and cervix closed. So home again with strict instructions to come back if there is any gush of fluid, or if I start getting regular contractions.

Midwife said she wouldn't give an internal in case it started to move things along, but doc decided to give one: they dont necessarily think I'm going to go into labour anytime soon but I might! Also I hate internals!

Was on the trace for half an hour: so was only in hosp for an hour

Also I swear I am going to tattoo on my forehead "I have graves disease treated with RAI when I was 21 I have peripheral T4 resistance not a regular underactive thyroid and YOU NEED TO READ MY NOTES"

tinkerbell79 · 09-06-2012 8:36pm

I bought all 0-3mths clothes, did the same when due the boys nd they are a little big depending where you buy them also... but they grow so fast they will fit them in no time:) (boys wer 8lb 5oz and 8lb 11oz)

I'm getting BH all the time didnt get many on first pregnancy, got a few in last 10 weeks r so on second but this time is a joke i've been gettin them since 20 weeks and there becoming more and more often!!

Also getting the period type pains on and off not sure wat causes that!!

Glad babs is fine cynin and at least your close to the end incase you do go into labour but hopefully babs will just wait a little longer:)

Mink · 09-06-2012 9:09pm

Made chocolate biscuit cake, so decadent!

Saurelin wrote: »

i fall a sleep again around 5:30 and wake up before 9
Still in bed though:-D

I was up from 4 til 6.30 then back to sleep until about 12 but I've been out of it all day & had to lay down and have a nap in the later afternoon. I've done feck all except cook and wash clothes. Ah well

TwoMums2Be wrote: »

Funny I woke at 4am also & struggled to get back to sleep...must have been some pregnant woman spell going on I refused to get up though & eventually fell back to sleep!

I normally fall back asleep but I was completely wired to the moon at 4am, I was just glad it wasn't a weekday!

NyquistFreak wrote: »

Also getting the awful period like pains, what's that about ladies? Could do without it now in fairness!

Think that's just braxton hicks

TwoMums2Be wrote: »

Is anybody not getting Braxton hicks? I'm 35 weeks tomorrow and don't get them at all! Starting to think I have a very lazy womb

Lots of women don't get them, my sis didn't get them til like a week before she had baby. I get them a couple times an hour normally. You might be getting them and not even feel them, it's just a tightening of the womb.

cyning · 09-06-2012 9:15pm

Thanks Tinkerbell.... strangely not worried at all: I think I'm still losing bits of the plug but reality is if baby comes now she comes: if she doesn't come for another month all the better

Considering I had such a freak out Thurs I'm really really relaxed now!

Ah Mink I wish you lived near me: I love choc biscuit cake! The main regret I have from my wedding is I forgot to taste the cake... :rolleyes:

Robinc · 09-06-2012 9:31pm

TwoMums2Be wrote: »

Is anybody not getting Braxton hicks? I'm 35 weeks tomorrow and don't get them at all! Starting to think I have a very lazy womb

I haven't got any BH either... had some slight period type pains this morning but thats bout it thank god!!

TwoMums2Be · 09-06-2012 10:30pm

Mink I like Cadbury Ireland on Facebook and they put up the most scrummy biscuit cake recipe ever a few months back....terrible for you but gorgeous

Cyning glad everything is ok

nice to be feeling relaxed about it all! Will you be our first due in July baby

cyning · 09-06-2012 10:48pm

TwoMums2Be wrote: »

Mink I like Cadbury Ireland on Facebook and they put up the most scrummy biscuit cake recipe ever a few months back....terrible for you but gorgeous

Cyning glad everything is ok nice to be feeling relaxed about it all! Will you be our first due in July baby

Haha I'll probably be the last at the rate I'm going!! I feel like an awful drama queen these days

silly · 10-06-2012 10:56am

RE the clothes - i got some in M&S that are marked "Up to One Month" so i got a few of them.

Mink · 10-06-2012 11:18am

Anyone not on the FB group who'd like to go to the Pre-baby meet up this coming Sat 16/6 just PM me and I'll give you all the details. Likewise, if you want to join the FB group, PM me.

Mink · 10-06-2012 11:25am

I'm positive now that baby is head down, back facing out my left side and little feet poking out my right side. I got some very sharp pokes last night which I'm sure have to be heels and toes. So cute!

I have that What to Expect for the First Year book and it says newborns have a reflex where if you push gently on the soles of their feet, they'll push back so I think that's what happens when I push on his wee feet. Aww!

My chocolate biscuit cake came out awesome

TwoMums2Be · 10-06-2012 11:30am

Very cute, I guess that's what happens when my partner rests her head on my belly as she is always getting a foot in the face

You have me in the mood for making chocolate biscuit cake now!

The first year book is def one you want before baby arrives...lots of good tips in it for baby prep

Mink · 10-06-2012 11:32am

Yeah I realised a few weeks ago that I'm well aware of what happens during pregnancy & birth, but I need to know what to do with the product of all that

trions · 10-06-2012 3:03pm

Saurelin wrote: »

Kash lovely nursery :-)

When one of our friends told me that she dont like name Alice for a baby I told her I dont care. She get ofended :-P

finally weekend.

my plan is to do nothing and sleep a lot.

Trions how is new house and new car?

Hi all,

Saurelin - house is going great - love it! Car - still feel like I'm driving a bus - it's so much bigger than what I'm used to! Is this your last week in work? If so let me know if you're free for a coffee any evening? If any one else is in the Dundrum area and would like to join you're very welcome....

Hubby away for the weekend, so my parents were drafted in as minders - apparently I'm not allowed stay on my own anymore :rolleyes: Had a lovely time.

Kash your fab nursery photo's have motivated me got get off my ass and sort out ours.. Re. baby clothes I've bought all 0-3 months aswell, figure he/she will be out of the newborn size in no time....

Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend

tinkerbell79 · 10-06-2012 4:24pm

Kash love the nursery it looks so professional!!:D

kildareash · 10-06-2012 8:54pm

Oh I'm exhausted!!!
Went out to see a friends band play in town last night, they were supposed to be on at 10, but it ended up being much later and it was nearly 2 when I got into bed. Had to be up at 8 this morn for my nieces confirmation.
Been on the go all day, my feet are swollen now this eve. Just got home and put them up. Dreading work in the morn.

Also on and off today, been having those kinda pre-period pain aches. I'd normally get them a day or two before my period wld start. Don't know if that means anything.

notsobusy · 10-06-2012 9:09pm

I've been getting them too KA and I know this is TMI but quite bad diarrhea not what I was expecting when I started on the Iron tablets last week!

I am supposed to be working tomorrow as one of the girls quit so I am more full on but I was so exhausted on Friday evening that I am going to reconsider the work. Just going to do tomorrow and tell the boss I can't do anymore. He's a prat anyway hence my friend quite. He doesn't seem to realise I can't do much I have to remind him I am 37 weeks pregnant.

I had a baby shower on Sat which went great and I had a ball. Loads of yummy food and great chats!

Oh and I have started drinking raspberry leaf tea, apparently it brings on contractions and helps with the labour :P not sure how true it is but we'll see!

Saurelin · 10-06-2012 9:50pm

Notsobusy few of my friends who already had babies mentioned that diarrhea can be one of signs of labor.

but i had it few times during pregnancy and I'm still 2in1 ;-)

notsobusy · 10-06-2012 9:59pm

I think it is a sign but not immediate labour, more like 2/3 weeks before actual labour!

NyquistFreak · 10-06-2012 10:31pm

notsobusy wrote: »

I think it is a sign but not immediate labour, more like 2/3 weeks before actual labour!

I hope so! Been getting a touch of the same, but I only just started on iron tablets too, I'm only 35 weeks yesterday so still not ready for THAT yet! How do you do that terrified face thing from the phone? that.

notsobusy · 10-06-2012 10:47pm

It's funny i would be ready to go tomorrow if it happened! But with my luck i'll be overdue. going to keep an eye on everything and if i have any other symptoms i'll call the hosp. I have a dr's appointment on Tuesday.

Ginny · 10-06-2012 11:01pm

Baby has had hiccups at least twice today, poor little thing!!!

javagal · 11-06-2012 12:16am

tis ohs birthday so sitting in his brothers house being taxi driver again.
i know its his birthday but im sooo fed up!

cyning · 11-06-2012 12:46am

Saurelin I love that: 2in1!! Exactly how I feel these days!

Java don't blame you... I'm often designated driver cuz I don't really drink that much and sometimes you just get sick of it

Ginny I know what you mean about hiccups... I always start rubbing my belly when she gets then: I'm not sure what rubbing my belly will do but I always think my poor little babs!

Lidl have Disney vests, baby grows, bibs & rugs tomorrow, and thermometers and baby sleeping bags tomorrow too... It seems very pink vs blue though so you might want to know girl or boy... I wanted to go buy stuff but I still don't have one girly item so I think I might wait

Exhausted all day and now can't sleep... Murphys law

Also can I seriously reccomend to never ever watch a Kerry/Cork match in a house full of Kerry/Cork people: they seriously totally lose the run of themselves altogether: and the next person who shouted at me for moving in the way of the tv while getting up to pee needed to get something thrown at them!!!

javagal · 11-06-2012 2:41am

sorry for potential tmi but has anyone else had the feeling they've started to dilate?

i have this odd sensation, kind of a dull,stretching pain down there but inside and higher up.
wonder maybe am i becoming effaced.

barremic · 11-06-2012 8:57am

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Lidl have Disney vests, baby grows, bibs & rugs tomorrow, and thermometers and baby sleeping bags tomorrow too... It seems very pink vs blue though so you might want to know girl or boy... I wanted to go buy stuff but I still don't have one girly item so I think I might wait

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They also have in lidl today a ear and forehead thermometer, just grabbed one and its quite good, very easy to use. Measures liquid temperatures too, and a lot cheaper than some.

Ginny · 11-06-2012 9:33am

Got a Thermometer myself too this morning...:D

So tired today I think baby moved position again, was in the loo 3 times last night and was awake every hour or so...:(

TwoMums2Be · 11-06-2012 10:13am

How are you this morning Javagal? Haven't had that feeling but I guess with everything else you have it could be early labour! If you're not already at the hospital

give them a call!

cyning · 11-06-2012 10:17am

Java I wonder is that babs just moving down? I'm definitely not dilating but getting the same sort of feeling: baby wasn't engaged sat but was heading that way?

I'm getting real proper period style cramps they are wrecking my head: Im really rethinking my no epidural stance!!

Mink · 11-06-2012 11:11am

I slept the whole night without having to get up to pee - 7.5hrs, amazing! I think as well it's cos I was so knackered. Didn't walk out my front door the whole weekend, was so out of it & tired. I definitely think wee man has had a growth spurt as I'm riddled with even more stretchmarks below my belly button & generally my bump seems way harder (ie more baby & less water).

kildareash wrote: »

Also on and off today, been having those kinda pre-period pain aches. I'd normally get them a day or two before my period wld start. Don't know if that means anything.

I'd say it was cos you overdid it a bit & needed a good rest. I get much more crampy when I'm dying to sit down & chill

notsobusy wrote: »

Oh and I have started drinking raspberry leaf tea, apparently it brings on contractions and helps with the labour :P not sure how true it is but we'll see!

Let us know how you get on with it as I was planning to drink this from 37 wks on

Saurelin, haha 2 in 1, I'm stealing that.

Why is it that we feel sorry for baby when they get hiccups, I'm the same - I give him a rub & try to figure out a way to stop them!

javagal · 11-06-2012 11:37am

TwoMums2Be wrote: »

How are you this morning Javagal? Haven't had that feeling but I guess with everything else you have it could be early labour! If you're not already at the hospital give them a call!

im grand two mums! its not a pain that comes and goes like contractions its more like a dull feeling-exactly like Cyning! im in hospital Thursday so ill mention it then !

mink I've gotten a lot more stretch marks too,like in the last 3 days especially
. my belly button hasn't popped but at the top kinda pokes out, its like some deformed thing!

Mink · 11-06-2012 12:15pm

I'm still putting the oil on my belly cos I figure it might lessen them slightly??

Picked up pure almond oil (for massage purposes) in health shop over the weekend for the perinium massage.

My OH calls it sphincter oil, I tried to explain that I'm not trying to stretch THAT particular orifice. As punishment I made him go buy the oil and he had to explain to the lady at the cash desk what it was for as she needed to know if he needed oil for internal or external use :cool:

Kash · 11-06-2012 12:18pm

My belly button is doing the same - it's still an inny but it gets more compact by the end of the day. Hubby has nicknamed it a flattie, because there is very little in and no out.

My heartburn has become a lot worse in the last few days - it's practically a constant now.

I'm starting to freak out about the birth a bit now, questioning my ability to cope. I'm going to listen to my hypno birthing cd more often, but i'd be lying if I said I was relaxed about it! At the same time, I really want to have the baby asap.

kildareash · 11-06-2012 12:18pm

Notsobusy, I'd love to know how you're getting on with the Raspberry Leaf tea. I am willing to try anything to start labour naturally. I really don't want to have to be induced, if they can't allow me to go over my dates.

We had to move around our offices in work because our old office was a health and safety hazard (it has been for years, but we didn't have enough buckets to contain all the leaks in the roof last week!) and now I'm under the bosses nose. Apparently, our desks were even facing one another, but he changed them!

And, I stupidly left my blood testing kit in my sister's house yesterday! Grr!

But, only three weeks left in work! Woohoo!

notsobusy · 11-06-2012 12:18pm

I'd forgotten about the oil for the perianal massage! Must get some. I've loads more stretch marks in the last week. Pretty much the whole lower area of my tummy is now covered in them. The ones on my breasts have lessened loads though.

javagal · 11-06-2012 12:23pm

I've upped my kegels to about a hundred a day too.

my sister in law said she didn't do them for her first two babies and had bad tears and for the last two she did them and didn't tear on either of them.

Ginny · 11-06-2012 12:39pm

I'm just using normal durex-y stuff for the massage. Although I keep forgetting to do it!

Pineapple juice, raspberry leaf tea, spicy food, hot baths, sex and a certain foot massage will be started as part of Induction plan this week!

cyning · 11-06-2012 1:01pm

Come Saturday I'm starting all those things: at this stage if babs stays in for another week she won't automatically have to go into an incubator when she's born!

Mink I'm so jealous of the not getting up to pee: 7times last night for me

Kash · 11-06-2012 1:25pm

For the people doing the perinneal massage, are you doing it yourself? Or is your partner doing it for you? I'm finding it very hard to get in a good position for it, so hubby is doing it most days.

Mink, I am also jealous of your uninterrupted sleep - I woke up 6 times to pee and another 3 or 4 just to roll over.:rolleyes:

My bladder has gone all weird in the last few days though - when I go from sitting to standing, I get pressure real low like I've been needing to pee for hours. Even after peeing, once I stand up off the loo, I get the same pressure/discomfort. it goes away after a few minutes, but it's really odd...

silly · 11-06-2012 2:36pm

Kash wrote: »

My bladder has gone all weird in the last few days though - when I go from sitting to standing, I get pressure real low like I've been needing to pee for hours. Even after peeing, once I stand up off the loo, I get the same pressure/discomfort. it goes away after a few minutes, but it's really odd...

yes! I have this..I literally leave the bathroom and just turn around and go back in again. The pressure is something fierce!

Can someone send me on some info about that massage, I had tears when i had my daughter 11 yrs ago, she was 8.2 and i think this baby might be bigger. What oil do i need to use, can i use baby oil??

Met my good friend at the weekend who is a trained midwife. She told me that she will give me a sweep if i need one....:eek::eek::eek:
I thought she was joking, i was like "nah you're alright girl..." she was serious, said she did it for another friend!!

Ginny · 11-06-2012 2:40pm

I'm doing it myself, but I'm probably not doing it hard enough. I'd love to meet the woman who could contort enough at this stage to get her 2 thumbs in there!

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