daily 07/01 - Page 2

[Kidzaplenty]

I'm here. Fixing to take my daughter to her first dancing class! How exciting. I told her I would try and not have a baby on a Tuesday (her class days!).

Oh, well, I guess I can hold off until tomorrow!

[njbeachgirl]

I just had my midwife appointment, I am 39w 4d today.... or in other words my EDD is FRIDAY! I am all ready whenever baby decides to show up. I thought things were happening this morning as I awoke at 4:30 am with a desperate longing to clean the kitchen floor, and then I had several episodes of "cleaning out" after that. But then I just started feeling pretty normal and went about my business.

My appointment was good, baby really loves ROA and stuck his or her feet ALL the way out for the midwives to see. I did get (very gently) checked today and am soft but not dilated, which is fine by me. No big rush here. We are going to check out some fireworks this weekend if I haven't had a baby yet. They do them on the beach which is a lot of fun- let's see if 18mo DD likes them, or is terrified of them!

I have family in town this weekend staying with my parents. They are coming for the 4th really but I think they are hoping for a baby too. But if not they will see him or her next time.... they are only 1.5 hours away.

Not much else going on here. DH passed his engineering exam so he is now officially licensed which is great news. Now he will probably get promoted next year, and he won' t have to retake an 8 hour exam!

I'm so excited to hear about all the new babies!!! :

ETA: I lost 3-4 pounds since last week's appt.... that is a good sign right

[JunebugsMom]

Had another NST this morning and baby looks fine. The only bad thing is that my fluid level is lower (7cm, down from 9cm). I know if it gets near 5 my doctor is going to start talking about induction, which I definitely don't want. I see him tomorrow morning...off to drink 6,000 gallons of water.

I also have a pounding headache today, but luckily my bp was fine.

[sunnymw]

Well, we got our stimulus check yesterday, so I finally ordered the last of what I want/need for baby: a wrap, a pod (mostly for DS1), and a smaller bodied MT (I already have a toddler-sized MT, a RS, and a pouch). Also ordered a Nekkie Blankie

Got some Gripe Water & Rescue Remedy from the health food store. (And Dr. B's peppermint bar soap, mmm smells soooooooooooooooooooooooo good)

Paid some bills in the hot weather, w/ DS1 on my back for a good 30-40 minutes. I tried to go pretty early, but you pretty much have to do 4-5am here if you want "cool" weather, and by cool, I mean 80s. It's been a little cooler though so I didn't fall out on the pavement or anything today

The car seat came yesterday (YAY!!!!). I needed to sign for it, and I pulled up at home just as the UPS truck was pulling away, with a sticker on my store. I parked, left the car running, and took of SPRINTING down the street. Luckily she had a package for 3 doors down so I didn't have to sprint far. She said, "Lord, girl, I didn't know you was about to pop and drop! I'll bring it back down to ya!" so YAY, it's HERE, and INSTALLED.

Finally got a pair of scissors to cut the cord... I had everything but that, hehehe... and a scale (which I'm pissed about... I weigh 155 when I'm in my bathroom, but 177 in my kitchen... SAME tile!). And a blender, since no one would let us borrow theirs (understandably... placenta smoothies ).

So between that and super-nesting, I've been having occasional contractions.

GMIL is coming today, and she'll be moving in soon. She was originally going to move in at 36 weeks and stay until babe came, but I told her no, I need to nest, etc... she said ok. Well, she put her house up for sale, and no one (incl her) thought it would sell, and it sold today. So quite literally, she's homeless (she was expecting at least a few months to prepare). She has a place lined up (actually 2 possibilities) but they're not quite ready for her yet. And she's very medical-minded, was just starting to get OK with HB w/ a MW... saying "I'll just stay until the midwife gets there so I know you're in good hands." Well, we're UCing. And I don't want her freaking out and calling 911. So MIL to the rescue... she's going to come and send her away, saying "This is just early labor, you don't call the midwife until XYZ and she's not there yet, but I'm here and you can GO." Hopefully that'll turn out okay. Or hopefully if it's at night she won't wake up (she sleeps on an insane amount of medication, lol).

Anyway, I'm ready. I'm tired. I'm sore. After the UPS truck sprint I am SO SO SO SO SO sore, I feel like I got run over BY the UPS truck! And yet I can't stop nesting, LOL. So, back to cleaning, and then lunch. I'm starving!

[finnegansmom]

As for breastfeeding, I use the Boppy and read all the time. I also work on the computer proofreading and took an entire (long) online course while breastfeeding my son. I even took the final nursing him. LOL...

Boppy worked really well for me, and you can always roll up a receiving blanket if you need more support for a newborn. I'm also determined to master nursing in the sling this time...with a toddler, that will be a necessity.

[SeekingSerenity]

Flippin' baby!!! :

Well, I am 39w 5d today, due on Thursday. (DS keeps saying his baby will get here on the 4th of July.) Had a MW appt yesterday, and the little one has flipped again, is now breech. So I spent some time upside down myself this morning. That is SO not comfortable! Spinningbabies.com neglects to mention how painful it is to lie upside down with an icepack on your belly. Or maybe I just missed that part!

Other than that, just hanging out, trying to breathe and running last-minute pre-baby errands that I have no energy for. Today I get to take DS to the doctor to get a new prescription for his asthma meds, and then to Walmart (joy) to pick up his new glasses and a few food things. It's hot, and I just have zero willpower to do these things, what with a hard little noggin in my ribcage restricting my breathing, but ya know. Gotta do what you gotta do!

The good news is my babies are usually born right around their due dates, so any old time now I expect my little one's arrival. I only had one go 12 days over (incidentally this was my other July baby) so I hope this one stays with the trend and shows up in the next few days.

[nubianamy]

Yikes, triple?? That's amazing. I was looking at my credit card bill the other day and noticed my $7000 loan has entirely been eaten up by not having renters for too long. But now we DO have renters, yay! So we should be fine at least for a year. Whew. Hopefully they will PAY the rent.

I don't remember having trouble nursing & reading the first time, either. I used a Boppy religiously for about 8 months. But if you need something to hold the book, how about one of these? http://www.bookmatestore.com/book-holder.htm

Man, I am so sick of my daughter hanging on me. "Mommy, mommy, you're not sleeping? Mommy, I want to nurse. Mommy, I want uppy. Mommy, let me climb on your legs? And jump off?" I got so frustrated today and snapped at her and it was so lame of me. When I get angry she says "Mommy, see my smile?" or "What's your face look like?" to see if I'm still angry. I feel like such a bad mommy.

Of course, DH is no help. He always sleeps in at least two hours later than I do, has a leisurely morning, reads on the toilet, has a shower, etc. before heading off to work.

Enough of this pity party. My daughter's sleeping; I should be, too!!

[Lorette]

39 week appointment update:
I weigh 199 pounds (down 1lb from last week)
Fundal height 36cm (I was supposedly 37.5 cm last week-- different mw)
BP: 122/74
Baby's hb: 140
I love the mw I saw today. I hope she is on call at the hospital for my birth.
She will be there Thursday for the day shift so I am hoping to go then!
There are 3 mws I don't like and it is causing me some stress thinking that one of them might be attending my birth.
It's strange, with my last pg, I liked them all.
I think now that I know more and have discussed more issues that are important to me with all of them, I know which ones are more on my wavelength.

Our anniversary (4 years) is Thursday also, so it would be nice to have a baby that day.

I'm drinking rrl/ nettles iced tea with lemon like it's going out of style.
I didn't feel like drinking rrl for months and all of a sudden about a week ago I started craving it!

I am really thinking about eating my placenta now.
I am contemplating placenta smoothies
I wish dh would help me make it but I don't think he will.


Lorette

[devilish_fetish]

: for all of the birthdays and anniversaries!

Dh's birthday is tomorrow, and I think we'll be holding our breath. Dh was born on his mom's bday, and I PROMISED the babies wouldn't come, even if it meant keeping my legs closed! I think they are going to come around the 18th, though I *really* wouldn't mind keeping them in till August!

Other than that, I'm not feeling too bad, just tired. I'm still on modified bed rest temporarily, but that shouldn't last too much longer. I've only been on it since friday because my blood pressure shot up 20 points in a week due to family stress. It's not been high all pregnancy, so me and mw aren't too worried about it.

My MIL is getting us carseats which really takes a load off of dh and I. My parents have been asking for weeks when we were going to get them, and FIL/SMIL were like "well, you ought to have them" even though we explained that when we could get them, we would. : MIL has actually been the only family to ask us (since our baby shower in april) if we needed anything for the babies. Totally ironic that out of our three sets of parents, she ends up being the most supportive, because she's the one we've had the most issues with prior to being pregnant!

Dh has been being really supportive and low key lately. He is kinda "high needs" so it's been nice not having to worry about him as much.

As far as reading during breastfeeding, dh has been finding me audiobooks, because we're presuming I won't have a hand free if i'm tandem nursing the twins. I'm going to put some on my ipod, and our ipod player has a remote, so it'd be easy for me to change to music if i so wished.

I've been feeling SO unprepared the last few days, but also completely unmotivated to do much about it. I know we still have to put together the baby swings etc, but that requires not spending all day in bed, which, besides the modified bed rest, seems absolutely impossible because of how tired i am. I feel so lazy sleeping all day long, but i'm too lazy to do anything about it.

Nubianamy, I joined your pity party! I feel a case of the grouchies coming on, which means it's nap time.

[Ligeia]

I like this daily thread idea much better! I was too overwhelmed by most of the weekly ones to actually post very often.
So the babe has gotten A LOT more active over the last couple of weeks and when he moves, it make my uterus contract. So he'll be kicking from the inside while it's tightening in and it hurts! I just don't want to do anything but sit since it seems to feel a little better when I'm not moving around. With my dd I remember her activity slowing down in the weeks before labor; it just seems odd to me that this one would be running out of room and wriggling around more. Maybe he's uncomfortable and he'll want to come out early.
Anyone else feeling super fatigued, like they could sleep all day long?
Oh! My midwife home visit is tomorrow! I'm terribly excited. It just makes the due date seem that much closer.

[lorelei]

Dh is in Ny state this week doing Waldorf teacher training at Sunbridge- and having an awful time finding food etc, I warned him! Nobody listens to me. He did have a rotten flight up and then a million things went wrong, instead of arriving at the school at 7pm-ish as he should have, he didn't get there til 3 am the next morning, after getting dropped off a bus somewhere on the NJ turnpike at a rest stop!

We still have fleas- despite me washing, vacuuming everything constantly and 2 separate trips to spray by Orkin. It is making me insane!!!!!!



So- on a bright note (whining out of the way, lol) I had an appointment at the mw's this morning and she told me good things.
1) From here on out I am ok to deliver at the bc, she feels I'm far enough along and we could be off on dates, so she's considering me term- but letting me go til 28 July w/o inducing.
2) I am no longer anemic, hurray!
3) Although I'm not dialated more than a fingertip, and the cervix is still somewhat posterior, my cervix is very very soft, and the baby is engaged! She said she didn't want to get my hopes up, but that if she were I, she'd make sure bags were packed and everything was ready for baby, just in case.

After the last month, it's really good to finally have some good news!

[yamilee21]

Originally Posted by Ligeia

...Anyone else feeling super fatigued, like they could sleep all day long? ...

Me! In fact, that is what I did yesterday. I woke up a bit more energized this morning, but not enough to get a whole lot done today.

[firespiritmelody]

Things here are going pretty well overall. I'm 40 weeks today! And thankfully, there has been a break in the horrid heat wave and it's much cooler today. Still sunny, but nowhere near as hot as it was.

I'm a little dissappointed that I haven't had the baby yet. DD#1 was a frull week "late" and with #2 I went into labor on her due date, so I wasn't really expecting to go early, but for some reason I really wanted this little one to have a june birthday. No reason in particular or anything, it just seemed nice. But, I'm resolved to the fact that I could still have two more weeks or so to go.

It's odd because there is still so much I'd like to get done before she gets here, so it's not like I really wanted her to be early or anything. It's a weird feeling and I"m not really sure how to process it.

It's funny to, but the only people I'm getting really questioned by as far as "any sign of labor yet" type stuff are my MW and my doula! Both called me yesterday morning just to make sure everything was still normal and to make sure I had their cell phone / pager #'s etc. It was kinda weird. I was hoping it was a sign that labor was on its way... but that obviously wasn't the case!

My iron is up though, and thats a very good thing (still really anemic, but much better then before) The pills I'm taking seem to be helping and I can stomach them better then the floradex but they're still reeking havoc on my stomach, so that kinda sucks. But, even though I'm still low, I've been give the green light for birthing at home, which is a HUGE relief. I've been really stressing over that so that feels great.

I lost two big globs of my plug last week, but both were a creamy yellow color - no blood or anything. And I've lost a few smaller bits since then, but that's all. I've been having off and on boughts of BH - very uncomfortable, but nothing worth timing or really paying much attention to. I know that they are sllllooooowwwwwllllyyy helping things to move along, but I do wish things would strat really moving!

My girls keep asking when the baby is coming out now too, soon guys, soon!

[DawnaRose]

I'm late in the day for this thread

39 weeks today! Had our weekly playgroup at my house this morning, about 15 moms and about 20 kids, good thing I have a huge shady back yard. I love hosting playgroups but they wear me out when pregnant. Usually because I'm an over achiever and usually end up making up a bunch of treats and snacks and drinks and such, I was baking all morning, heh. Oh well, it makes me feel good to do lil things like that.

So the good news is our checking acct is no longer in the hole, I ended up selling a ton of yarn today and made enough to cover the acct and then some, which-- while it was painful to sell my good yarn (some of it organic, most of it things like three irish girls and LTK yarn) it did feel good to not have an over draft looming over my head. I hate that! :

Bad news is, not only do we need a new stove this week, but my washer seems to be broken again! ugh! So I'm stressing out over not having a stove to heat water and cook, and not having a washer to do laundry... I totally think this stress is stopping me from going into labor, I had some great contrax last night that seemed to stop once I realized the washer wasn't working ::

Saw my chiro today, she gave me some great advice, "don't stress over the things that are out of your control" so I'm focusing on that. If we don't have a working stove (well ONE burner works) we can use the camp stoves and even the grill burner to heat water if needed.
If we don't have the washer, we can just take stuff to the laundry mat or even down the block to my moms house... sigh.

Hopefully DHs paycheck will come tomorrow due to the holiday, usually his checks come a day early on weeks with holidays, but with our luck lately I'm not counting on it

[delightedbutterfly]

I love that the daily thread has gone on all day

Something new to read every time I log on!

DD is being cranky today. It's hurting my nerves. She's tired.

But it's been an ok day. Except for when DH tried to tell his mother that she wouldn't be called for the birth he changed the words again... *sigh* but she was still miffed....

He told her we would call if we needed her... ummm nope she's not getting called at all and I want her to know that. And that she might not see the baby for a bit (1-2 days) until we are ready. But still was still miffed at just being told that we would call if we need her. Somehow she seems to think that the minute I'm in labour we should call so she can be here.