Weekly Thread Oct 26-Nov 2 - Page 3

[Megamama]

BIG hugs Amanda!! I know, I have up and down days too..especially when, like today, someone cannot believe I still have a month to go and says, "are you sure there's just one". SIGH...I was buying beads for my blessing way in 2 weeks..so she has to stay in that long anyway!! I saw that your office was closed Dawn, so I expect you are tryin' to get things going!! I will light a candle after i take a nap...I'm wiped out from going to sam's club and a bead store if you can believe that...

All these children will be out very soon, and then we'll maybe miss being pregnant..my belly cast kit came today so I have to create the memory of my last pregnancy..I think I will mourn a little that I won't be doing this again...but not a lot

[Grantsmommy]

Hugs to you, Amanda! I know how you feel. Nothing really happening here...I lost my plug 3 days before I gave birth with ds, so it could be awhile. Sigh...

Meg, we're always closed on Thursdays, so that's nothing new. Although, most chiropractors have their babies on Thursdays anyway!

I'll keep you all posted if we get more activity!

[Seeking Refuge]

I am right there with you Amanda. All I can say is that it will be over sooner than later now.

Meg,
I can't say I am going to miss being pregnant at all. This is my last pregnancy and although I love my kids once they are out, I am going to dance all the way to the doc's office when we get dh fixed because I am done with this.

I wish I were one of the moms who felt all magical and mystical about being pregnant. That must be so much fun.
I just feel sick.

One of the funny things about my nesting is that I start cooking all this food that I cannot wait to eat after I have the baby. I have stuff in the house to make about 20 cheesecakes (yes even cheesecake gives me heartburn) and ice cream malts. I am going to eat a rueben the size of my head an hour after this baby is born and I made dh get out the deep fat fryer and buy new oil so I can make onion rings and eat them until they come out my ears.

You think I am joking but really I am not, I really made dh go get me a rueben and onion rings about 20 minutes after I had ds. The nurses all thought I was nuts, but when the only thing you can eat is malt o meal and split pea soup (where is the shuddering emoticon).

I am hungry and really cranky today, can you tell? Actually my eleven-year-old is reading this over my shoulder and we are laughing but it is true.

[Megamama]

HUGS Steph...

I'm not going to miss all the heartburn either..ugh..the only thing I'm thinking is...well, it's the last one..yes, I don't ever want to do this again..but in a sense it's the end of my fertile life..so that's sad.

I'm just plain tired today..gawd..I can't wait to have the baby so I can have a drink! Yes, I'm BF..but one drink won't do anything then, whereas it could NOW..last night even beer, which I dont' like, smelled GREAT...is that weird, or what? I'm not even a drinker..but I want a drink@!! LOL...Tom has been instructed to buy champagne for our first supper after the baby is born.

I am also at the point where I looked at my belly and said, OK..it's OK for you to come out now. I'm OK with it...which of course means the kid will wait until December..oy..

[Seeking Refuge]

MMM beer. See I am not a huge drinker but I really love the taste of good beer like a Guinness or Harp. Better yet has anyone ever had a black and tan.

I know it is a little sad but I am really honestly glad to be almost done.

eta dd #1 is going to do my hair and make-up to make me feel better. We may have to take pics.

[jecaly]

totally ot, but beer has tasted/smelled/sounded even better to me during this pregnancy than it does in real life. i've had a sip of just about every beer dan has drunk in my presence. a sip does it, it's not like i'm wanting to guzzle pints or anything, but dang. yum.

[Kia74]

Hugs all around...

I've always been partial to tequila but I'm afraid of what having two babies in 20 months has done to my tolerance. I think that if I smelled a margarita at this point I'd be incoherent

[Megamama]

LOL!! I'm glad I"m not the only one who has weird cravings for booze The smell of a margarita would probably make me incoherent too!!

C'mon monica and jenna...pop out some babies...my candle is kinda low..

[Britishmum]

My midwife sent me home a couple of weeks ago after monitoring with the instruction to have a glass of wine and relax. It sounded a great idea, but somehow I just couldnt do it I think about it every evening, but am just tooooo paranoid.

Last week I was at 2cm, today I didnt have her check. I'm sure it's more now though, and she said the baby was even lower - honestly, I cannot believe it's staying in there. The contractions are still regular and steady. But this happened last time, and I walked around in labour for weeks.

I keep thinking that I need to do more about packing - I have an emergency bag packed for the hospital from three weeks ago, but havent checked it or added to it since. Nor have I packed the baby's diapers, and dd#2 keeps raiding the cupboard and wearing them, so they really need packing away where she can't find them.

I need to find some energy to do this stuff. I've reorganised the whole house in the past month, but can't seem to get around to essential stuff like packing a hospital bag or getting things ready in case I need to take dds to the hospital. I guess that although I have moments of panic, I just hope that it will be like last time and take weeks. Or I think my other prediction of having the baby in 20 mins at home is more likely, so there seems no point in getting organised.

What is wrong with me?

[TalkToMeNow]

I actually had a beer two weeks ago. I know, I'm going to mommy hell now. I hadn't even had a sip of anything prior to this and just decided to have one. Well, more like half of one. And over the course of three hours. So I don't feel bad about it and boy was it good! It was a Harp, btw. :

[Megamama]

aww..you aren't a bad mommy...I had a glass of wine way back in the early months..

I am just a paranoid old lady so I am freaked out to have a drink now..an old friend of mine who was a midwife said that back in the 70s/80s when their home birthing moms were getting preterm labor they'd prescribe a vodka and bed rest and it worked almost every time. I read about it in spiritual midwifery too...however..I'd be just too paranoid..heck, I'm afraid to take tylenol sometimes too!

[scheelimama]

Had my appt. today and I broke down and had my mw check me. I've had so many pre-labor signs in the last 4 days that I just had to know. So, I was around 3 cm, about 50% effaced and baby was nice and low in my pelvis. My mw was very encouraging and said she would see me this weekend as I was leaving (I don't have another appt. for a week ) I'm being rather pessimistic and don't really think that I'll be having a baby this weekend, since 3 cm means nothing really and I don't want to get too excited. But, my body has been having contractions constantly over the past 3 days so it's gearing up at least.

ETA: And I only measured at 35 weeks (I'm 38 weeks along). I'm not really sure where this baby is hiding, but I really think it will probably be of average size. My mw thinks it's going to be a little baby, but dd was average size and I only measured 37 wks at 41 (born at 8 lbs. 5.5 oz.). Anyway, I was kind of shocked to measure so small.

[lilylove]

Did somebody say Champagne??? OHH I want some.
Lets all raise our imaginary glasses to those in labor and in babymoon.
It is sometimes hard to believe but our turns WILL come. Then our candles will all be low, our glasses empty, and our hearts overflowing.
Sandy

[Grantsmommy]

Don't feel bad about the drinking...before I knew I was pg, I had some flavored vodka at this Russian restaurant, I had dental bite-wings, I moved a heavy playground set, and I was running every day! When I realized that I was pg, my mw recommended limiting my running and no sex for the first trimester because of the miscarriages! I guess this baby just really wanted to stay around - Yeah!

39 weeks today. Didn't sleep worth beans, but I'm going to relax all morning while ds is at Montessori. MW said to rest and eat well because it sounds like birth is "imminent." (is that how you spell it? My brain is not working this morning.) I do feel kind of nauseated and crampy, and the bloody show continues! Bring it on!!!

[TalkToMeNow]

I was having such strong contractions on Wed morning... they faded away and now I'm just having little baby 34 weeks type contractions. I don't understand why... all my imminent labor symptoms have dispappeared. I think the baby changed its mind! My husband says its the calm before the storm, but I don't believe that. You don't actually get to rest before you go into labor. It has to happen right as you get into bed on the evening you are the most tired you've ever been, right? Or am I just a huge pesimist?

I just keep thinking that if I keep straightening up the house everyday and getting plenty of rest, the baby will never come!

I really want to copy the list of due dates onto the begining of this thread like they do in the Oct. due date club and then put in who has given birth. It won't fit on my calender. Maybe later...

[Megamama]

I think you guys are rubbing off on me..I had contx all night last night and then just one this morning and it's done..of course, I don't want the baby out until after the blessing way in two weeks dernit.

My biggest baby is 18 tomorrow..she called last night to announce she's going to be moving over the summer to San Francisco, where she will enter the California Culinary Arts Institute in the fall...So I told her she can come home at T-giving and cook for her Mommy and the new baby I feel so old, and yet, I feel kind of young, too

I'm anxiously awaiting some GA homebirth babies so I can hear how it all went!!

[TalkToMeNow]

Okay, I edited the first post in this thread to reflect all our due dates and list babies who have arrived. Let me know if you have any suggestions. If the person who starts the weekly thread each week would copy and paste it to their first post and then edit it, we could easily keep track of everything.

[Seeking Refuge]

Thanks Amanda, that is helpful.

Meg,
That is cool about your daughter. Riley will be 12 soon, I need to start teaching her to cook so she can cook for me.

Speaking of feeling old, we took the kids to a John Kerry rally the other night and the surprise guest was Jon Bon Jovi. My girls didn't even know who he was. There were sure a lot of excited 30 something to 40 something women. Riley got a kick out of the fact that her ELP teacher ran down to get pictures of him.

So add leaking boobs to the copious list of things I have found to complain about this week.
Really I am in a better mood today.

I hope all our symptoms turn into babies over the weekend.


I still have candles going for Jenna and Monica.

[mamasboys4me]

Originally Posted by MabelsMama

Okay, I edited the first post in this thread to reflect all our due dates and list babies who have arrived. Let me know if you have any suggestions. If the person who starts the weekly thread each week would copy and paste it to their first post and then edit it, we could easily keep track of everything.

great idea!!!! I was getting confused at who and when were they do, etc!! lol

[jecaly]

hey meg, i went to cca and still live in town, if your daughter needs a friendly face in sf!

amanda, thanks for posting the list at the beginning of the thread--man, we are making lots of girls, aren't we? i've been suspecting all along that this one is a boy, mostly, but had an idle thought yesterday that went like this: the baby could be born on the birthday of my cousin, who was killed in a motorcycle accident ten years ago, and we could somehow work my cousin's name in there. then i thought, "oh, but that won't work, it's going to be a girl." what the heck? my brain is doing weird things.

so far my mood is pretty much my only labor sign, though--well, that and some occasional very mild crampiness and braxton-hickses. it's so neat to hear about you guys who are really on the verge, like amanda and dawn! not to mention jenna and monica, who are likely in actual labor right now. go candle go.

oh and! it's my birthday today. i was due on my mom's birthday and was 12 days late.