Weekly Ramble/Chat for November 23-29 - Page 2

[SilvanaRose]

I can't believe all the babies that just couldn't wait for Dec!!! Sooooo exciting!!!!!

Name: Sara

Weeks/Days along: 38 weeks

Appointments: Tomorrow, and apparently DH is going to have a few words with the midwife....uh oh. I am not exactly happy with the one who I think might be at my birth.

Symptoms: Back pain, stomach pain, cervix pain, stretching pain, heartburn (still!! Was really hoping that one would give me a freakin break!), leakage (TMI), sore body, tiredness, I could go on but I will spare you all.

Food: I really want a bacon cheeseburger in the worst way and I have been craving really spicy food like Thai green curry, peanut sauce and Indian food

Exercise: Can we just delete this damn question already? lol

Body changes and other milestones: Um, I'm bigger than I was the last time I answered this question??? lol

Thoughts: Getting really nervous now. Not long I'm guessing til this baby is actually a part of our lives. Annoyed, irritated, pissy, wanting to be alone. Wanting to get things done, not having the energy. Knowing what stresses lie ahead with people in my life. Excited, anxious, happy. Wanting my cloth diaper package that I naively thought was going to show up at my door, instead getting a phone call from MIL saying "I have something that you don't!!!". Great. Now I have to wait to wash them. Why not just have them sent to MY house???????? God I don't know why that irks me so bad.

Telemarketers and people calling for anything that I deem to be stupid, which is pretty much everyone, really really pisses me off right now. I actually told someone to today . I'm extremely stand-offish right now. I swear if someone tried to enter my space bubble right now they would be shot.

[Tattooed Hand]

Beth, congrats on your new home!

Betsy, sorry to hear about losing your VBAC. Not sure what a platelet is...

And Clare, you hang in there. One day at a time. You are strong!

Weeks/Days along: 39.2

Appointments: I had one yesterday. Blood pressure and pee look good. Baby is way the hell down in my pelvis to the point that I was measuring 32 cm, even though I was 36 last Thursday. No wonder sitting in a desk chair the last few days has been total misery. Also, I am up to 141 lbs. I think I began somewhere around 112-114. Not like I really care at this point.

Symptoms: Baby head butts onto my cervix, probably also causing hip, lower back and pelvis pain. I wake up everytime I move at night now. I get crampy lower ab contractions, tons of BH, and leaky all the time, and my legs hurt, like massive restless leg bordering on and sometimes crossing into pain. The hands and feet swell up now and then. And my sinuses are growing even more stuffy. Heartburn and nausea. Sorry to catalog like this, but this is my first pregnancy. Hea

Food: Gimme it all. I have been so totally careful and healthy through this whole pregnancy and just have totally lost control the last week or two. Now I just eat what ever I want.

Exercise: I totally stopped going to yoga classes because I was so busy with finishing working and preparing and doing a conference. I did manage to walk home a few times last week, which is 30 minutes a pop. And doing stretches and squats as much as possible.

Body changes and other milestones: I've been grading papers, preparing reading to teach, writing a conference paper for the last 10 days straight. It's been murder because sitting at a desk chair (or even the ball) has been sheer hell. I had a paper to give at the last day of the conference this morning, a seminar to teach in the after noon and a meeting with an advisee tomorrow afternoon. After that I was suppose to be done. My sleep deteriorated these last few days to the point that I got 5 hours night before last and 4 hours last night and no time for naps. I got up at 6 today, went and gave the paper, went to campus, finished preparing to teach and about a half hour before class began to feel massive crampy pain in my legs and back. Also, like I was going to pass out from fatigue. And I just hit the wall. I marched over to my department head and told her I was not feeling well and going home. She was cool (though I might have given her the impression that I was going into labor) but I was ready to get fired and not care. Then I took a cab home and passed out on the sofa. I feel so much better now. I'm doing the meeting tomorrow over the phone. And the rest I'll tie up over email.

Thoughts: Now that I don't have to work and run around all day, every day, I am SOSOSOSOSOSO happy. All I have been wanting to do for the last 4 weeks and even more acutely the last 2 weeks is to sleep, eat, relax and have some time to turn inward before this baby comes. I also want to get in some exercise to work out all these stress/desk chair/fatigue kinks in my body. I am so relieved.

[carmel23]

Originally Posted by milimama

Food: waiting for Thanksgiving to pig out on my hubby's food. He is an excellent cook!
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OMG, me too! I so want to eat all the tasty food my DH will make . We're going to start making a few things tonight (cranberry sauce, pie crust) and I love cooking with him (well, watching him cook while I sip my tea).

tattooed Hand, I'm so happy you can relax now! And you are so close to meeting your little one! yeah! Just reading your post made me tired, I'm glad it is over.

thoughts:
I'm 37 weeks, and 2 cm dilated... which doesn't really mean much, because I walked around 3-4 cm dilated with my other 3 babies... for weeks. I've had tons of prodromal labor... which I am just trying to ignore. My kids have been really super sweet and I've been so much calmer lately... I guess it helps that they're out of school this week and we've just been relaxing and it was actually SUNNY today!

Anyway, I'm rambling, but loving reading all the news about the babies It's like this is really starting to happen!

[justmandy]

Well, I'm 3 cm, and the mw said I'd probably make it through Thanksgiving...that's 2 days!! AHH! I really want to make it to next week!

She also said baby is big.

It's a little weird having all my suspisions confirmed by a professional.

Sara, I wish you could come over for tea, we have so much in common. I love your sence of humor.

[SilvanaRose]

Originally Posted by justmandy

Sara, I wish you could come over for tea, we have so much in common. I love your sence of humor.

Haha tea sounds lovely, I'll be right over! We can be pregnant bags together lol

[Ruby2]

Name: Ruby
Weeks/days along: 38 on Thursday!

Mostly just thoughts this week:

Found out that the baby turned yesterday and is now facing my right side – yay! It’s been facing left for months, but it’s a good baby and listened to me when I told it to please try to face the other way!

Feeling the need to slow down lately…I hauled myself up the stairs to bed at 7:30 Sunday night thinking that I would be in big trouble if I went into labor that night because I was already so exhausted. No more multitasking until I’m ready to drop! I told dh that I don’t care if the house isn’t done, I’m done.

I’m tired of people asking me how I feel!!! How the @#$% do you think I feel??? And yes, I’m STILL at work! This is not surprising as it’s my first baby and I’m not due for 2 more weeks, which means I might not have the baby for a month. It’s going to be a LOOONG month of questions if people don’t knock it off.

I’m not looking forward to Thanksgiving with dh’s family because I don’t feel supported at all by them about our choices about birth and childrearing…mostly just harassed and condescended to. Yuck. I’m hoping to be successful at deflecting and changing the subject as much as possible.

Enough ranting though! I’m actually feeling very good about the birth and this pregnancy, just easily annoyed and stressed out. Our CNM told us yesterday that not only do we not have to go to the hospital right away if my water breaks, but we should call her instead of the hospital if I haven’t gone into labor after about 12 hours and we can talk about what to at that point. Love her! I’m getting more excited every day!

[nina_yyc]

Originally Posted by fazer6

I sort of got brave enough and put the bedding on the crib, and then put it back in its plastic bag, I didn't throw away the wrapping for the crib matress though 'just in case'. I'm not setting it up until I come out of hospital. I just can't face looking at it sitting there. I still have to sort out the bedding from the little bath Isabel slept in. It still has the indent from her head. I know I can't protect that forever but I just don't feel I can go near it just yet.

Originally Posted by yentroc

The same thing goes for the newborn period. Dd was colicky and didn't sleep, I'm sooo hoping this baby is different.

I hear that. I'm really hoping that the hormones kick in the way they did last time and I'm already up and nursing before I remember that I don't want to.

Originally Posted by milimama

Exercise: Everyday! Cardio for at least 30 minutes and weights every other day.

You are my hero!!

Well, babe is head down today! (I think....I can feel something hard and round close to my pelvis.) I really want it to engage before we have to see the OB on Friday. It was supposed to be an ECV and with the option of an induction for my transverse babe, but I'm hoping for an obvious answer to pop up before we have to face that decision. Like a baby that's engaged. Or BORN.

[flapjack]

Here's hoping, Nina!

Baby is low, I'm comfortable and I survived an hour of aquanatal this morning and three days on the bus this week. Waiting for a friend to drop round a changing table for us, and then I'm going to sleep whether DH is home or not.

[ithappened]

Appointments: tomorrow with OB
Symptoms: see my post update here, Im so embarrassed Id rather not rewrite it all ...
Exercise: hiking and swimming everyday.

[justmandy]

ithappened, don't be embarrassed. It happenes all the time. I went to the hosp 3 times with #3 before I got to leave with a baby (you know instead of pregnant, I didn't steal a baby). I'm sorry it's been rough but you're doing great and making fantastic decisions. Good job not bowing tot he dr's wishes.

A c-section or induction just because a baby is big is silly (if you try and it's not working, that's a whole different story). You can do this. Your body knows how to birth this baby, just as it knew how to grow this baby. Your baby knows when to be born, he just has a different idea of how this should go.

Looking back, I wouldn't expect anything less from my third. He has to do things his own way in his own time. Apperently that was a trait he had since he was a fetus.

[SilvanaRose]

DH took me out for dinner and I finally got the bacon cheeseburger I have been craving for a few days. Well I'm not sure if it's the burger or impending labour or if I'm already in labour and am just too daft to realize it....but I don't feel so good. :Puke

[ithappened]

not sure if any of you need nursing bras but I just got this email from Bravado that until Nov 30th you can get 25% off your entire order using code TH09-175

[Tattooed Hand]

Thanks ithappened. I'm afraid to buy any because I don't know what's going to happen to my boobs after my milk comes in. I already jumped from a barely 34B to a 36D.

Silvana, I have been feeling nauseous on and off for about a week and a half. It was really bad yesterday afternoon and then just went away. Like these crampy contractions I have been having. My midwife told me it hormones revving things up. Great, so I feel premenstrual for like 10X longer than I ever do during a period...

[flapjack]

Thanks for that, ithappened. Fuzzi Bunz are doing 15% off atm as well.

[ithappened]

yeah Id love to order some nursing stuff but they dont ship to the EU

[bethanyclaire]

Originally Posted by flapjack

Thanks for that, ithappened. Fuzzi Bunz are doing 15% off atm as well.

Woo-Hoo! Thanks for posting this Helen! I've been holding off on placing a big FB order (my mom is getting them for the babe) and now waiting has paid off!

[Tattooed Hand]

So does anyone know how much bigger my boobs are going to get and for how long? I don't trust them and am leaning toward getting nursing tanks that can be worn under regular clothes. It's cold here and baring my torso doesn't sound nice, not to mention that there's no telling how it will look PP. They also sound like they can handle a range of sizes. I'm up to a D now, but could I go higher than a DD? (I really hope not...)

[justmandy]

Well, there's really no telling. Mine start out "pregnancy normal" which, as you know, is not normal at all then I have porn star boobs for a while and then they slowly start to deflate over the course of nursing.

Some people's milk regulates pretty quickly, for me it's months.

I think it's wise to get a tank (and for me, I need a sleep bra) they are both very generous in how much or little you'll change and then buy something fitted down the road.

I already bought mine though since I know how it's going to play out.

[ithappened]

I actually almost never wear 'real' bras .. I do love my A/B cups for that.. now that I'm pregnant I am 'almost a C' and I did decide to go ahead and chance buying a nursing tank because I prefer the stomach coverage to a bra and since I wear tanks anyways.. well.. it just makes sense..

with that being said, I have no idea how big I'll get, or won't get.. so I might end up with a really nice nursing tank in a few weeks that will be up for grabs if I end up not going up at least a cup size ..

[Tattooed Hand]

I started out barely filling a B, you can imagine my shock at having them jump to a D in the first 4 months of pregnancy. They are probably the grossest part of my body in this pregnancy, all giant, covered in veins. I am not looking forward to nursing in front of other people because I feel like you can see the veins from across the room.