Chat thread from 8/9 until... - Page 2

[adventuregirl]

Christi, I have had those thoughts fleetingly as well, along with, holy crap, I have to GIVE BIRTH to this enormous thing inside of me! I think we would be completely abnormal if we didn't have moments like these, we'll do fine.

Jen, when my SIL was here we did all the old wives predictions for fun, including the ring, and got all girl. About two nights later I had a dream it was a boy, hahaha.... Can't trust any of it! Hope the test goes well tomorrow.

Heather, how exciting that your mucus plug is on its way, oh boy!

Danielle, Happy Birthday to your little dude!

Abs are useless here too, and BH happening a lot more often lately.

Can someone describe how it feels to drop? I'm feeling more pelvic pressure, but am not quite sure if this qualifies, maybe a stage before dropping? Dunno...

Getting rest today, got the full day off, really hoping I can kick this thing over night...

[mum2tori]

35 weeks

AB muscles... what are those?? I feel like a turtle on its back trying to turn over . :LOL :LOL I know DH enjoys watching my try to turn over. He's started helping me roll over the past weekend. :LOL

Anyone else walk like an 80 year old man shuffling around whenever you first getup and start moving?? :LOL

Radish has a foot FIRMLY planted against my lower right rib. And he likes to PUSH occasionally, just to remind me he's there.

No B-H lately. My feet decided to swell up this weekend. David has been so sweet and been rubbing my feet and calves a lot to help ease the fluid out. I spent a lot of the weekend on the couch with my feet up to try to get the swelling down. Radish has moved down "slightly". He is still riding high.

Saturday there was a big get together at the Galleria mall for World Breastfeeding Awareness Week. I went with Jack to show my support. Jack weaned a couple of months ago (I still feel badly that my supply disappeared on him) but he's been looking down my shirt more lately and occasionally patting on breast then smiling at me. He might start nursing again once Radish is here and I have a milk supply. I'm definitely starting to feel a little more fullness (David said he can tell a difference too ) but I still can't express anything. Anyways it was so nice to see so many nursing moms sitting around enjoying the day.

I have an OB appointment tomorrow. I think he might check me, I'm not sure. David is getting ready to go to Austin for 2 weeks for NG AT. Still no word if he's going to get deployed... most of his unit has been though. Luckily they are really good about if I was go into labor while he's up there for AT, they'll release him. The drive is about 2 hours so hopefully he'd make it back in time. I'm not really worried about going into labor early. Both Tori and Jack came on or within a day of their due dates.

Pam- Tori has gotten really cuddley about the baby lately too. She comes up and hugs my belly and pats it. She also tells me "Baby needs to come out". Keep telling her soon but not yet. Glad to hear that you are all moved.

Sarah- Yeah!! That Jack had a much better time at school today.

Christ- don't feel back returning the stuff that you don't want/need. It was the thought that counts. Get stuff that you will use and need.

Now breathe in and out... in and out... it will be okay. Totally agree with Plantmommy.

Every so often it hits me... I'M GOING TO HAVE THREE CHILDREN!!!! AAACK!!! :LOL I remember turning to David in the car on the way home from the hospital with Tori... "they just let us leave... she's really all ours... no one stopped us..." :LOL David says sometimes it still hasn't totally set in that we are parents and we have been for over 3 years. :LOL

Danielle- Happy Birthday Donny!!!

Sarahb- That is so awesome that your OB is supportive and has confidence in you. I know a lot of women don't get that with OBs. What a wonderful blessing event too.

Heather- sorry to hear about the $$ woes. Its so stressing.

Ellen- ugh about the vericose vein!!! Glad to hear the H&M is over. I feel your pain... I think I'm falling apart too.

[chrissy]

Originally Posted by mum2tori

AB muscles... what are those?? I feel like a turtle on its back trying to turn over . :LOL

This is exactly how I feel too!

Sarah, I'm so glad to hear that preschool went better for Jack today. I'm sure you were a nervous wreck until they called.

Sheryl, Good for you for taking the day off to heal yourself. So now only four more days of work, right?!

Happy Birthday Donny!!

Well, I was hoping to get a nice long post in but I hear my boy fussing so he must be ready for me to take him to bed.

Happy Sleeping,

[JenInMpls]

Hooray for cool fronts! The wind is blowing like crazy and it's 64! And it's supposed to be in the 60s for the next 3 days! I'm loving it!! No sweating or swelling! Bliss!! The weatherman keeps complaining about "The Summer That Never Was" - he can keep his summer! This is great!!

Oh, about ab muscles - my prenatal aquacise teacher keeps trying to get us to do dolphin kicks which totally involve abs - hahahahaha! I just laugh at her and flop around as best I can. And yes, when I get up in the middle of the night to go pee, I do shuffle like an old man.

Christi, I think sometimes I've learned an awful lot about parenting from teaching: you can still like your kid even when you hate its behavior, because deep within you, you know it is capable of being better. Don't worry about being overprotective of a baby; you will find a balance between protective and freedom-giving as your child needs it. Don't fear dirt, it washes off and strengthens your child's immune system. When you feel like you want to yell, remove yourself from the scene if you can, and count to 10 and breathe deeply. If you do yell, forgive yourself and apologize to your child. Tell a child what to do, not what NOT to do. And don't be afraid to laugh. The founder of Waldorf education said that teachers should laugh at least once a day with their classes. If they aren't, they need to change something in their teaching.

Plantmommy I loved your post too. Someone told me to sleep when baby does. I plan to do that so I guess I'll spend a lot of time napping. Is that how the dishes/wash/housecleaning ends up going undone?

Sheryl I hope you're feeling better soon.

I am going to go clean up the bedroom floor, the reading material pile next to the bed is getting a little out of control. I'm so glad that Jo's pile is on the side of the bed that isn't visible to the rest of the world! I like living in ignorance!!

j

[hjohnson]

Christi I don't know what it is like to cloth diaper a newborn because I didn't start my first child in cloth diapers until he was 9 months old. Thankfully I have a husband who loves to save money and saw the benefit behind cloth diapers. It should be quite an adventure.

[mum2tori]

Originally Posted by JenInMpls

I am going to go clean up the bedroom floor, the reading material pile next to the bed is getting a little out of control. I'm so glad that Jo's pile is on the side of the bed that isn't visible to the rest of the world! I like living in ignorance!!

j

OMG!! I'm lucky too that David's side of the bed (the disaster area!) isn't visible to the rest of the world too. At least mine are neatly stacked under my nightstand and a few on top of my nightstand... his an explosion of magazines and books that spreads across the floor.

:LOL :LOL :LOL

[StacyL]

What a relief to read this thread and realize I am having normal discomforts. This is my first baby so I feel like I don't have a clue. My BH are so strong and sometimes so continuous I feel like I am made out of cement from my sternum to my pubic bone. I can barely drive. And the way the baby moves now has gone from amusing to totally uncomfortable. Yeah, I'm a turtle too. I had no idea I would be this big and slow! It's nice to know that I am apparently normal. Why don't those stupid pregnancy books get more specific about what it actually FEELS like to be pregnant? I can't wait for this baby to be on the OUTSIDE!!

[sistermama]

What was I thinking starting pillow shams for my bed at 10:00??? Didn't I know I wouldn't go to sleep until I finished? I'll catch up in the a.m. Night, mamas.

[greenbeing]

Good morning ladies!

Sarah, I'm glad Jack had a better day yesterday! And look at you starting a project after bedtime!

Danielle, Happy Birthday to your little one!

Sheryl, I hope you're feeling better today. Only a few more left!

Christy, I get those same anxieties about the new little life who will be here soon. But, one day at a time.

And thanks plantmommy for the words of wisdom

All of you are talking about BH, and I really don't think I'm feeling them that often. Should I be concerned? I know I've felt them after exercising and after sex, they are really strong But, other than those times, I'm not sure if they're happening. I go to my midwife today, so I'll talk to her about it.

Also, I've been so weepy lately. Not that I'm glad some of you others are moody, but I am glad I'm not the only one. Yesterday, I think I really scared my dh because he came in the room and tears were streaming down my face. I think with going back to school and having to find a sub and write lesson plans and still get this house in order, I'm feeling a little overwhelmed.

I'm going to head out for a walk. It's been pretty cool here. I love weather in the upper 70's or so!

Enjoy,
Meredith

[JenInMpls]

Meredith, now that the school year is around the corner I can't imagine going back to teaching. I thought that this baby had really bad timing, coming in the beginning of September, but now I realize that I really have had it good, with a whole summer of little to do except care for myself. I would be crying too if I had to go back to school before Sprout came. Heck, I don't and I'm crying anyway! Keep your chin up and good luck finding the perfect sub for your absence!

Stacy - if anyone wrote a book about what pregnancy really feels like, the human race would die out

Samantha - yah, exactly, that is what happens on the other side of the bed - the floor is littered with books, magazines and clothing that does not make it to the hamper 4 feet away! The funny thing is that our dear cat, Sydney, has a thing for Jo's mess... she will tiptoe around among the books and stuff and occasionally she will just slyly bend over and bite the covers of the paperbacks, putting a little hole in them with her canines. She *never* does this to my books, even when they're lying on the floor next to my side of the bed - I think because she can actually step around them. But Jo has tons of paperbacks that have little holes in the corners of the covers! It makes her SO mad, but she realizes that the only way to get Syd to stop is to put her books on the shelf! Happens once ever couple of months or so. But I don't have to see her piles now, since they're between the bed and the outside wall, and I SOOOO love it!

Syd just stretched and looked at me as if to say, "who, me? destructive? never!" She also likes to pull kleenex out of the box.

The pain in my pubic bone has become *unreal* at night when I'm trying to roll over. Holy cow! and suddenly, out of nowhere (it seems), I am once again dealing with hemorrhoids I started taking a homeopathic remedy already, I'm not waiting around this time to see if the witch hazel pads, creams and sitz baths work. My homeopathy for pregnancy guide indicates another remedy that might be better, I will have to see if the co-op has it.

Today is appointment day - chiro, mw, and visit birth center this evening. I'm kind of unexcited about the chiro because every time she does work or adjustments, the kid spends 2 nights jabbing me in the cervix. I'm not keen on spending 2 days out of ever week for the next month being poked that way. But maybe she can do something about my stinging belly.



jen

[wardermom]

36 weeks 4 days

I have an appointment with the mw tonight. I hope I can do this without having an anxiety attack.

[banana girl]

holy moly!

You guys are so freaking chatty!!!!

I've been away from my computer for 5 days.... it took me hours to "catch up" I should have taken my own advice and simply jumped in! The worst was when i realised a new thread had been started that was 2 pages long already!!! Yikes!

Well I survived the weekend... we didn't go into labor 5 hours away from the midwife as i secretly feared. Lots of Braxton Hicks..... but here I am home and safe.

We left thursday for my brother in laws wedding, which Jerome was in. Traveling was really hard on me and sleeping in weird small beds, sucked! I missed MY Bed sooooo much! I woke up thursday morning with a terrible cold / flu. Sore throat, fever cough... almost didn't go to the wedding and now almost wish i hadn't. I am still so miserable sick today, 5 days later.

The rehearsal stuff was on Friday, lots of family making a big fuss over me.. gifts and compliments, that was pretty fun. We had a huge hot tub in the hotel room which I soaked in about 5 times while we were there!
The wedding was on Saturday and i pushed myself too hard, did too much and felt like terrible later on. Had to go back to the hotel and sleep instead of hanging out at the reception.

On Sunday we went to Eau Claire, to stay at the farm overnight... did some painting on Monday and then drove back, just in time for birth class.. didn't even go home first! So it was about 9:30 by time i got to go home from the most tiring weekend ever!

Had a huge emotional reaction to leaving the farm on Monday... it was due to not having enough time to finish the painting project we had started and to the realization that the next time I was there..... I would be a mother. I would have a baby in my arms the next time I walked into the farm!!! Jerome drove me down to the river and we listened to a special birth chant and waded in the water for awhile while I cried. He washed my face with river water and held me... It was very special.

Now, here I sit in front of this dang computer, under these flourescent lights with a runny nose and cough. I'm pretty much out of paid sick leave and have too much to do. It is only about 12 days till I'm done working, but even that seems like too much!

So... anybody got some cheese and crackers... cause I've got all the whine you could ever need. Whine, whine whiney whine!

P.S. I missed you guys. I'm really glad everyone is hanging in there. Good sticky babies waiting till the time is right!

[hjohnson]

36 weeks 5 days

I just got done with the joys of the doctor. They poked my finger to test my iron and also did the Group B Strep test. I did find out that I am 1 1/2 cm dilated and 50% effaced. The doctor said my cervix is very soft. At the end of the appointment he told me that come August 27th if I am tired of being pregnant they can induce me if I want. I looked at him and said, "I was induced the first time and did not enjoy it!" He told me we won't push it on you. Ok whatever!

[JenInMpls]

Short reply, then must dash to mw appt:

Anna, I think you must have the most absolutely sweetest darlingest husband on the face of this planet.

[indiana ima]

36 weeks and, umm, 3 days? 4 days?

well, first of all, thanks to jen in minneapolis for coming to find me. blame it on placenta brain, but i forgot i used to read here all the time! i unsubscribed from an old version of the thread and then just never resubscribed to the new thread. that was probably like, what, two or three threads ago? oops!

just in this part of the thread alone there have been a million things i want to respond to.

hjohnson: i so completely agree with you: definitely don't let them push induction on you without a really, really good MEDICAL reason!

wardermom: i missed something! why do you fear an anxiety attack from seeing the midwife?!

JenInMpls: definitely do your best to sleep when your baby sleeps, but don't fool yourself into thinking that will give you a lot of rest! babies wake up frequently, and some of them take weeks, even months to get into a convenient nap schedule, as opposed to a bunch of little 20 or 30 minute cat naps throughout the day. the house will be a mess and the chores undone because the baby will want you almost every moment of the day and night - for food, cuddles, rocking, burping, changing, etc. parenthood is a major adjustment. thank heavens, it's worth it!

mum2tori: i really hope your hubby can stay off active duty long enough to be there for the birth and a while after!

adventuregirl: the feeling of having had the baby drop is commonly described as "having a basketball/ bowling ball/ watermelon between your legs. it is probably unmistakeable.

as for me, i've always thought i would make a great "don't be a teenage pregnancy statistic" poster or (even more graphic) TV commercial. i do NOT make a good stoic.
and i have no abs either.
and i have lots and lots of contractions and i don't like them either, but i know they are doing me some good. i give birth relatively quickly and the well-agreed upon theory is that it's largely because by the time active labor starts i've been "practicing" for weeks, sometimes months! a bit like training for a marathon, really.

i think i have most of my birth supplies in the house, somewhere. but i have to find the rest of them!

more later. i think i've used up my space allotment for this msg.

[sistermama]

34 w 6 d

Heather - it is so cruel for doctors to offer induction to women! How hard it would be to say no when you are so big and uncomfortable! Glad your appt. went well otherwise.

Jen - Holy pubic pain! I feel like I'm going to split apart!

Meredith - I really didn't have any B/H with my first one either. Weird this time in that I was having a lot of them in May and June, but really none since then.

Anna- I second Jen's comment about Jerome! I missed you, glad that you are back.

Jack and I had a horrible night and morning. Dh let him nap until 5:30 yesterday : which means Jack didn't go to sleep until 11:00 pm!!! Then he woke up for some reason all irritated at 5:00 after tossing around for an hour. So I was exhausted all morning and don't they just always know when you aren't on top of your game? At least I didn't hit him (what I always tell myself after I have been a horrible mother)...

[Robertsgirl]

Jen- Patiently awaiting your report from your visit with your midwife. I hope she has some help on the stinging belly as mine is driving me nuts!!

[StacyL]

Stinging belly...

I got something in my second trimester at the drug store called Sarna Lotion for my stinging belly and itchy boobs. It helps a lot.

[mum2tori]

35wk 1 day

Had another appointment today. BP, weight and everything is good. Did the GBS test today and he checked me... nothing. I'm still pretty high or rather Radish is still pretty high. No B-H lately which I don't mind, especially for the next two weeks since David is leaving on Friday. I'd rather Radish wait until David's home again before getting fully ready to make an appearance.

Jen- I only have to see David's mess when I use our bathroom (the door is on his side of the bed). Luckily the mess only scatters a couple of feet because otherwise I can't use the bathroom and then I get crabby. :LOL :LOL So he 'tries' to keep the mess from spreading too far. I have one cat that loves to "love on" whatever book I'm reading at the time. Bot-bot my white (the Alpha Male) cat loves to lay on top of my book if I leave it on our bed. He never does that to David's books though. Just marking his territory I guess. :LOL

Sheryl- Pretty much you will KNOW when the baby has dropped. : Suddenly you will have a waddle like no other. :LOL And you'll be able to breathe... but you'll have to pee at the drop of a hat.

[banana girl]

Originally Posted by mum2tori

Pretty much you will KNOW when the baby has dropped. : Suddenly you will have a waddle like no other. :LOL And you'll be able to breathe... but you'll have to pee at the drop of a hat.

Hummm.... that sounds awfully familiar. I don't feel like there is a bowling ball between my legs though... someone mentioned that.

I had a lovely surprise today, one of my co-workers approached me about having a baby shower... next week! Seeing as how I only work for another 2 and a half weeks I guess it is now or never! After I happily accepted, and gave her some pertinent info she proceeded to invite about 100 people via campus e-mail!!!!
So, I have been updating my online registry, adding lots of "local info" to help people out. And lots of general advice about what to get and what not to get... findgift.com is great that way!

Well I am gonna take my sleepy self home to my sweet husband and the dinner he's cooking! Good night everyone... sleep well and be happy!