Hey ladies!

Well, we have been kind of quiet for a while so I thought I would just see how everybody is doing.  I have actually been feeling pretty good other then my left hip hurts so bad!!!  I don't know if it is the way the baby is laying or what but it hurts!  Also, (tmi) if I am on my feet for to long or I walk to much by the end of the day I feel like my crotch is bruised.  It is like somebody just sat all day long kicking me in the crotch.  lol  But I know it is just all the pressure and weight of the baby. 

I have also been thinking about starting to get my hospital bag together but of course I haven't done that either.  LOL  At least I have the babies room ready. 

Anyway, I just wanted to see how everybody is doing now that we are in the home stretch.  I can't believe in 2 months my little one will be here.  I am just so excited to meet him!!!!

Hey! I am doing really good, not sleeping very well, and a little uncomfortable but I know it's going to get worse so I'm feeling pretty good. Although I've totally been over doing myself getting her room ready... DH is slow as all get out so I've just started doing stuff myself. We finally have everything besides a swing and double stroller so taht's a relief.

I need to get the hospital bag together! You'd think my son being only 2 I'd remember but I'll have to go look online at a list of what to bring (haha). I am excited to meet her too!!!! I get an u/s in 3 weeks and I'm anxious to see how much they think she'll weigh.

WELL....

i have good and bad weeks...currently i am int eh bad week phase again..as being pregant this time had its so many ups and downs...not only did i conceive when i least expected it so the anxiety of the first 12 weeks coupled with severe nausea and moderate morning sickness, hair loss, blochiness, pimples and general unwellness plus nubsessiveness i have felt more moody bad and unhappy during this pregnancy. the best part of this whole pregnancy has been finding out the baby may be a girl, and the having the reconfirmations scans...and the prepartations...all my boys things replaced by girly things and buying some adorable outfits and bedding ready for her.....so week 20-28 has been more or less ok....but since week 29..the symptoms of severe heartburn, still nausea and general unwellness have not left and now this is also coupled with uncomfortableness and sleepness nights with severe severe heartburn topping it all off and making me absolutely MISERABLE.....

the irony is that with ALL MY BOYS despite their size i was absolutely fine..in almost every way...i glowed i was shifting furniture and eating everything and anything with no nausea.....yet with DS3 i was so devstated at 20 weeks onwards that he was a boy...but healthwise i was doing brilliantly...and eventually got over it...kind of just to have the perfect birth too.....

here i am with my utmost wish fulfilled miserable as ever...and completely FED UP wit this pregnany...i have seevere acid reflux even NOW as i am writing this.....

i got everything prepared and knowing she is coming is the only reason i am baring this and trying to survive it otherwsie to be honest if i had a gun i shoot myself right now i am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo fed up and uncomfrtable and  miserable.....and i am sure with some of my posts you can tell anyway...i am unbearable i know...even to myself.......i cannot stop moaning to have her now...and hoping still that i will have her in 3-4 rather than 6 weeks!!!!!

but...nesting is and was super fun and i cannot wait to have her now and use it all..hospital bag has about 6 outfits in it..as i cannot decide what to dress her in hoping after seeing her i can make that decision.....it is all packed and ready an was so 3 weeks ago!!!! so are th nappeies, vests and al other outfits...pram, cots bedding the only thing left to get is my monitor....which ia mnot sure about as i will keep her ina bassinette dowstairs during the day anyway.....but i will wait and see......

yep so my answer to the post is....THIS IS ONE OF THOSE MANY BAD WEEKS I HAVE HAD.....i am cursin every moment right now esp when in bed..as there is not one position not one moment that i have any peace..as soon as i think i am settled i have bad acid reflux...when i am finally settle baby is kicking like its having a ball in there....(i dont mind that of course but it obviously is impossible to sleep that way). so yep.....spiritually i am over the moon absolutely delighted and very very greatful to god for this baby...but physically and emotionally i am at my wits end.....the end of my tether.....i want her OUT OUT OUT......BY WEEK36-37!!!!!

LOL..LOVE YAS

Hiya,

Well after the disappointment of getting DS4, I actually feel fine!

I keep forgeting I'm pregnant as my 2 year old twins keep me sooo busy. My 4 year old is clued into the fact that I'm not so fast at the mo & is being a little difficult.... I'll soon have him back on track once mummy has her running shoes on again !!

Haven't prepared a thing though! Got his Nursery to decorate yet, I am doing a VW Camper theme.... so have bought some gorgeous Heather Ross Fabric & some fab pictures etc.... even got him a little towel & flannel embroidered with a Camper on & his name!! Bought him a new Bugaboo Bee & matching fleecy skull blankets.... just can't face any more cute baby blue!!!!!

At least we've got his name sorted now.

Anyway, I'm 33 weeks now but generally feel normal, like everyone else, looking forward to meeting him now.

Hope the rest of the May mums are doing fine ! x

I am really starting to struggle now! This has definately been my most uncomfortable pg. I think it must be my age! I am really looking forward to meeting my dd & try not to let the symptoms pull me down too much. Sleep is definately a thing of the past though. I have so much cleaning to still get done but where the mind is willing the body says NO WAY! I am mainly prepared, just a few last things to pack. We haven't done a nursery as we haven't got a spare room. Hoping to extend by the time she is 6 mths.

Hope you all ok.

Yas, don't try to get baby here too soon. I work in SCBU & 35-36 weekers are notoriously poor feeders, especially those that have been fed well in utero!!! They just seem to want to sleep for a couple of weeks & have to stay in to be tube fed. 37 weeks i much better!

I cant wait to hear your birth stories. I wish you healthy babies, nice and smooth delivery.

I wish I can be in your shoes right now. Im hopeful and waiting for the right time.

mumofbluepraying4pink2:

Yas, don't try to get baby here too soon. I work in SCBU & 35-36 weekers are notoriously poor feeders, especially those that have been fed well in utero!!! They just seem to want to sleep for a couple of weeks & have to stay in to be tube fed. 37 weeks i much better!

thanks so much for the info....i think so too....i had my DS2 at 38 week exactly and he has been ok...but he is the skinniest of my other two boys and ike you said he was 9lb but he is not the best of eaters....my last DS3 as 10 days overdue, weighed 11lb and is my little teddy bear. he eats really well and has a healthy appetite so is DS1 who was 5 days overdue and 9lb8oz.

so i can see what your saying....i do think personally i should aim for 38 weeks again...or just let nature take its course? having said i am not doing naything right now and am having strong braxon hicks to the oint where i even thought on two occasions the baby is coming....

i definately do not want a baby that has to stay behind after birth so hopefully nature will decide first and formost for me....i am hoping the baby is small though about 7lb-8lb only...really dont my dd to be hige and grow up up too fast....lol...

i will give it until 36+ weeks and see how i am coping.....then maybe by 37 weeks i just try things to move a long a bit quicker...????i don't know..lets see..but yes your right the last thing i want is a tube down m babies nostrils....would tha be the case even with babies who maybe already nearing 7lb and more at 35 weeks? cause my baby was in the 97th percentile for size at 33 weeks. it measured aprox. 5lb9oz!!!!i i measured 3lb and a bit at 29 weeks so the baby almost gained 3lb in just 3 weeks. i am assuming it may be nearing 7lb by next week when i am 35w whihc is my next scan.

wouldnt a baby at 7lb born at 35 weeks still be ok and breasfeed?

hope you can shed some light on this as i am seriously struggling.......

Hi Yas, all babies are really different but as a general rule the babies who come out small for dates at 35 weeks are much likely to feed better than a bigger baby. The smaller ones seem to come out starving & just eat & eat whereas the tubbier ones seem to just want to sleep & live of what they've got so to speak.

I am in the same situation as you, I always have good sized babies & they continue to grow fast once born. Even though I exclusively breastfeed they are back to their birthweight within 1 week & then gain a lb/week thereafter. My babies don't stay little for long & I have always wanted a petite little baby that would stay a baby for a bit longer. If they were little I would probably just worry that I wasn't feeding them well enough!!

This baby of mine was also a whopper at 27 weeks, measuring above the 99th centile, I just hope she slows down a bit! I think she probably already weighs 7lb & that is an avrage birthweight but I am still only 35+1 & it is the maturity of the baby that makes the difference rather than the birthweight.

I too am struggling, I think it just gets harder wiyh each pg & I am older now! I am trying to make myself enjoy these last few weeks as this is to be my last baby but it is hard as I am so sore, can't sleep & have horrendous heartburn anytime I eat anything vaguely tasty!  

HTH, hang on in there Yas, we will soon have our dd's! Take care, Helen

hi there helen.....

i suppose it makes sense...the theory that small babies feed like crazy...casue this is exactly what was happening with my SIL's babies who came out just under 7lb and one evn just inder 6lb. their babies used to drink around 4oz of milk (neither could breastfeed) at birth 3 times maybe even 4-5 times a day and then moved that on to 8-9oz as they grew..it always amazed me how much their kids drank while mine were on breast milk my first DS1 was breastmilk up until 2.5 months then mixed with formula and then formula..but his highest amount was 7oz..and it stayd that way until he started weaning solids....mine did like their solids not so muhc DS2 who breasfed a bit loner but stayed on 6oz three times a day milk up until now....he was never a good eater though and born at 38 weeks your right he slept 6 hours ata time and beastfed 4- times a day for 15 minutes only. anothe rone of my SIL's had breasfed all her children they were all pretty avarage weight within the 7lb-7.5 range.....and to everyone i seemsd like that is ALL SH DID most of the day breasfeed.

so yes i did notice this..although my babies come out huge looking like they are 3 months after a a month or so they avarage out... in size...my eldest was arund 95th percentile for height weight my seond was under 25th as he came out long and skinny and has been liek tha since. my DS3 came out 11lb and alhough he breasfed for 8 months again only 15- 20 minutes at a time 3-5 times a day his weight and height avaraged out in the fisrt 6 months.

they were all big bbies seem to gorw bigger in the first 3 months then all become avarage...but i nver had the long baby phase where they are and appear small..they all sat at 3 months, cawled at 5-6 and walked their first steps arund 10months.....so i know they did well....but none of them grow like they didn in utero......

i am retty certain that i have had gestational diabetes with aall my sons but just under the level at which they monito me so hence my babies all grew too large due to it..it is only in this pregnancy where they detected it and just by a margin of .1 higher. had it been been 0.1 lower they would have not deemed it necessary to monitor me....

so i do know now that the growth in utero must be related to GD.

my worry as i am writing this is that i am feeling her weigh down really heavily now..i am kind of concerned since after what you have told me to have her before 37 weeks....i obviously don't want her to have problems feeding from mybreast ut i do feel she is gainign too quickly..i am controlling my sugars but there is nothing muhc left fr me to at if i cannot even eat bread based products like toast and bread sandwhiches as o cannot eat whole savoury meals at all in this pregnancy....DH ordered pizza hut yesterdaya dn after days of eating or picking moe like at small sandwiches ith toppings etc..i enede up having 6 slices!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i never bothered checking my sugar afterwards as i knew the levels must be hitting the roof!!!!

but now it is worrying me...i am 34weeks and 4 days today...it is wednesdays i turn a week so will be 35 weeks...today i am feeling heavy pressure down there and i had several strong braxton hicks contractions in the early hours almost like the real thing with intervals.....so either it is uin my head and i will just be going lke this for another 5-6weeks or i have a nagging feeling this DD is going to appear very shortly...just pray she doesn't appear before 35 weeks even before 36 weeks..if she appeared say by the end of the cming week i will be 35w+ and she weighed 6lb+ do you think she will be ok? i know i know about the lungls but i thought when women go into labour slightly perematurely don't doctors administer a drug into the unborn baby to allow the lungs to mature while labour is progrssing? or is there exceptional circumstances where they do this?

i am really walking like she is about to pop out....i want to wait now..bf=efre you tld m what you did i would have welcomed her arrival tomorrow.....but now i am gettin scared....just praying she hangs in there for at least the wednesday after next!!!then i will 36 weeks on the dot!!!!

thansk for your well wishes......

love yas

Yas, babies that come after36 weeks usually do ok, they may be a bit sleepier & more prone to jaundice but they don't need much help. With reference to the babies lungs, steroids can be administered to the mother to speed up lung development but this isn't necessary after 34 weeks as the babies lungs are usually mature enough & producing enough of their own surfactant ( A substance produced by the lungs to help them be more easy to inflate.) A baby that comes spontaneously usually doesn't struggle as much as a baby brought early eg by planned c section. That is why it is best to let nature take its course. So if you do go into early labour, don't worry, baby would maybe need a bit of help to get feeding established but that is likely to be all. Sometimes term babies need a helping hand though so it is really hard to generalise.

I too get lots of braxton hicks which sometimes are a bit painful. I remember getting them with ds 4 though & they are no worse this time. They are always worse on a night too.

HTH, try not to worry, dd will come when she is ready.

Helen  

Hi all. I have been on Ingender for a few months now and I JUST noticed this forum. I feel like a dummy!

After reading how everyone is doing I though I could write too.

TMB- I think your daughter will be fine when she comes. Looks like a healthy sized baby you have there. I also know what you mean about packing so many outfits for baby. I haven't packed a hospital bag yet, but I've been trying to decide what I want to take to the hospital for my DD to wear and I just can't decide, so I think I'll take several outfits too.

It's so different having a girl, because I know I didn't do this with my boys, plus people have given me soo many things for her that there are just too many cute things to choose from.

I am also having a lot of braxton hicks too, but my baby is NO WHERE near as big as yours, so I'm not having that pressure you talk about just yet. My DD has started shoving up into my rib cage for long periods of time now and sometimes I can rub her and gently push her to get her to move and quit being a room hog, but sometimes she is glued there and I can't get her to budge.

I also had Acid reflux that made me want to die with DS1, but not with DS2, or with this pregnancy. I have started having bad heart burn A LOT lately though! But it's not the kind that makes me throw up and want to kill myself thank goodness! It does make it hard to sleep though, and sometimes nothing seems to help it, because no matter what I take it comes back within minutes.

We have all of the babies stuff ready and I just can't wait to have her and put her in all of her cute clothes, but I know we have to wait out these next 6 weeks still (maybe less, maybe a few days more). I just sometimes wonder if my body is gonna let her stay put that long though. I just don't want her comming out so early that we have to leave the hospital without her. That would break my heart!