Due July 2012 Thread

Grrr! Apparantly, Limerick maternity has a bed crisis, so some of us may be sent home until tomorrow.

As to who stays and who goes, no one is able to tell us yet! I'm getting very frustrated with it all

my plans for a walk turned into a sleep and cake!

that's so exciting kash,you.ll be great!

Aww that sucks Kash...

Chinese food stat!

oh kash u must be so annoyed. treat yourself to something yummy for dinner and have OH spoil u for the evening - when do they want u to go back in?

It's pretty manic in here...I have got the impression they are at pretty much full capacity with a bed or two kept spare for emergency cases!

Hand expressed today (think cow milking) to try get my milk in earlier and to have a little supply for when she needs a top up & have to do lots of full on skin to skin (me naked her naked) which is great fun with peep popping their head in every 30 mins or so :rolleyes:

How are you getting on Jen?

Good luck today java, I'll be hanging out of the phone waiting for news!

Twomums, you really do have to leave ur dignity in the carpark. It felt like every nurse in the hospital seen my boobs and the ladies who clean and do the food. It felt like every time I was getting ready to feed N or just finishing someone popped their head round the curtain!

Although it was almost worse when I got home, felt like she wanted to feed every time a visitor arrived to the house!

They didn't do the gel at all yesterday, just a trace and an internal exam to check that I wasn't about to pop on my own.

In any case, they called me an hour ago and told me to come back in today so that I am here when a bed becomes free, so i'm back in the admissions waiting room.

Hopefully it won't be too long a wait - and they won't be cruel enough to send me home again - I think if that happens I will need to go to the psych ward with severe depression and/or murderous rage!

Kash I hope you get a bed today!!

In regards to OH's taking time off. I sent him home at 4am after the baby was born to sleep, he got up at 7am and milked the cows then slept all day and came into me in the evening for a few hours. He did this every day I was in hospital.

I am really lucky that the farm is beside the home place and he's always about. In and out during the day and if the day is really manky he will generally be inside catching up on paperwork so he minds baba and I can go off to the shop or have a quick coffee with a friend!

He's really stressed at the moment with the farm, grass isn't growing and the cows have dropped their milk production by half. This weather is just not helping. Ugh! I can't wait to start working again, just to help take the pressure off.

Kash keep us updated, today will be the day!

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I am really lucky that the farm is beside the home place and he's always about. In and out during the day and if the day is really manky he will generally be inside catching up on paperwork so he minds baba and I can go off to the shop or have a quick coffee with a friend!

He's really stressed at the moment with the farm, grass isn't growing and the cows have dropped their milk production by half. This weather is just not helping. Ugh! I can't wait to start working again, just to help take the pressure off.

That's a great set up to have that he's near & can spend that bit of time with baby while so young.

We often don't think of the farmers who then struggle when there's not enough sun. I hope it picks up, more so for their sake rather than me wanting a tan!

Kildareash you're dead right, take all the rest & naps you can with baby. I'll probably become a pajama girl & won't get out of them all day!

Oh good Java - dilating already? Sounds very fast alright
How long from sweep to show?

I`ve got a rare spurt of energy today so Ive done all the windows, washed all floors, washed every last bit of laundry, cleaned the bathroom from top to bottom even did the skirting boards now I`ve the ironing to do and that`s it I`m catching up on 10 episodes of "one Born" for the afternoon...

I'm so jealous of you Kash, im due tomorrow too and nothing is happening :-(

Fri.Day i had to stop watching that show and I was obsessed with it. think il do a bit of bathroom cleaning now keep my mindo of this baby that seems to want to stay in me till xmas....

Fri.Day wrote: »

I`ve got a rare spurt of energy today so Ive done all the windows, washed all floors, washed every last bit of laundry, cleaned the bathroom from top to bottom even did the skirting boards now I`ve the ironing to do and that`s it I`m catching up on 10 episodes of "one Born" for the afternoon...

That's impressive. I'd be amazed if I even got one thing done off that list. I have very high hopes for my mat leave projects but I think I'll end up on the couch a lot.

Sounds like you went into serious nesting mode there. The amount of women I've heard of who go into labour after doing a mad dash of cleaning and scrubbing when on mat leave!

Best of luck kash!

Java - great news! So delighted for you. Hopefully you'll be in labour in no time.

There seems to be just no evicting this lazy baby of mine! The constant texts and calls from family & friends are starting to drive me potty as well - only so many times I can say "no, not yet. I'll let you know when we have news!"

Yea, have been sitting on the ball for the last few days so hopefully it's doing something!

So happy for you though - keep us posted!