wow a week since i posted and nobody else has posted yet :/

tomorrow my eldest starts kindergarten! for those in other states, this is primary/big school, the grade before they go into year 1. so she;s officially going to be a big girl not a little one anymore :( i feel a bit sad. i'm used to having them all home with me except a couple days here and there for preschool but this primary school is a lot different its not as informal....

anyway things going along well here. bub seems to ahve grown a lot. i have had colostrum leaking so last night expressed a bit got 10ml so into the freezer it went. i know i am fine to do so as i breastfed through both my last pregnancies with no issues :) i'll have a nice little stash by the time baby arrives of liquid gold :)

DH and i are having soooo many troubles trying to decide on boys names. DH wants boring plain ones that are everywhere, whereas i;d like something thats not quite as common. i dont want my kids having the same name as 4 other kids in their class iygwim? and so far, so good. but the boy we cant decide on. i need to go back to the drawing board i think.

i'll try and see if i can post a belly pic of me. its been hard as each previous time i;ve tried, photobucket hasnt been co-operative....

Love the belly pics and u/s pics!

Yes it has been a very quiet thread!

AFM I'm coming up to the 28 week third trimester mark on tuesday, can't believe how fast this pregnancy has gone! I ordered my nursery linen, curtains, etc so just waiting for that, DH is working on the nursery walls today, prepping them for sealing and painting, he's stripped all the old paint back and there's a gigantic hole in the wall from the plumber fixing a leaking pipe so DH has to pack foam around the pipes and concrete the wall before he begins painting.

So much to do, so little time. It's annoying because DH's best mate is building a shed and he's been enlisting DH's help on weekends when really DH should be getting our place ready to take a baby! And his Best mate hasn't offered to help us out in return. I keep telling DH he needs to ask but he hates asking for help so I'm thinking that I'll say something directly to his best mate. Grr!

Just popping on to say I had my cervical length scan today and my cervix is tightly shut and long yay... BUT...

They found something else that the morph scan apparently didn't show. The placenta is partially covering the cervix. When the lady said that my heart sank, I've never had to face a possible CS before and immediately I started worrying. I have to wait until Thursday next week to speak with my ob so we haven't discussed what this means yet but the lady said I still have about 6 weeks for it to move or I will probably need a CS I am hoping and praying it moves. I know at the end of the day if my baby is born safely and healthy that's the only thing that matters, but my heart was set on having a great labour to make up for DD's labour and since she is my last baby I dunno, I just feel disappointed if I had to have a CS.

SO... I will be having another scan in a few weeks to see if it has moved.

Lady said it could explain the pink discharge I've been having but she was reluctant to say more, she said my ob will discuss it with me further. Which is fair enough! She's not an ob! She must get so many questions she can't answer LOL

Good thing is we confirmed she is most definitely a girl. We saw her "bits" very clearly and its definitely a camel toe

And got some more 3d pics and another dvd. It's amazing that bub has so much more chub than the 20 week scan where she looked quite skeletal!



Belly rubs to all xoxo

slackos! where is everyone????

i'm still here. wishing more people would post! lol. bubby is going great, saw my OB last tuesday. he does scans at every visit, while he was looking he saw bubs boy bits then quickly moved the scanner away before saying 'oops, did you wanna know the sex?' and i was like, duh we;d just been discussing his dislike of circ'ing (was discussing me wanting to have stitches not staples if i am being forced to have a cs. he said yes i do stitches, only my partner- the other ob at the practise- does staples, but he also does something else that mums of little boys like, the other ob does circumcisions when they are born if requested whereas my ob doesnt<--- his words) and i;d mentioned how my baby is a boy, and yes i did just see what you were trying to hide! lol./ he was so very obviously a boy so i'm so happy its been even moreso confirmed :)

apart from that i;ve been getting near-constant braxton hicks alkl afternoon. its getting quite tiring tbh. i cant sit properly, my belly is all tight up under my ribs and nothing is fixing it. ah well, hopefully once i get to sleep tonight they'll go away

hi abbey. my doc/hospital, and also my previous hospital where i had the girls, wouldnt do the Cs before 39 weeks. i;ve heard some doing them at 38 but i am not sure why. my doc said they wont do it before 39 weeks,so mine is booked for their dates of 39w2d so far- well, its pencilled in becaus ei asked for a rough date due to hubby needing to [ut in for time off work. most of the time they dont book a date til you are around 32 weeks or so unless you need to know earlier. i;ve never heard of anywhere doing a planned CS at 40 weeks- its always been 38 or 39 weeks. i would assume they wait til 39 weeks so that bub has as much time inside as possible, and wouldnt do it before then to allow for the fact sometimes dates can be out by up to a week or more so if they do it at 39, and your dates were out and bub is actually only 38 weeks gestation, then they should still be ok. whereas if they did it at 38 then if your dates are out by like 10 days then technically bub would be classed as a prem iygwim? your dates dont seem too bad, he;s prob tried to look at it for 38 weeks and the actual day of 38 weeks might not be convenient so he's chosen the next available day which is 37w6d. i personally would prefer if my OB did it between 38 and 39, not 39-40 as he is- mostly because, its only a few days before my birthday and dd3's birthday and i;d like to at least be able to get up and make her a cake but at this stage i wont be able to :(

i almost always hear of mums with gestational diabetes having their planned CS/inductions at 38 weeks so that the baby isnt too big. i've seen a GD baby where the mum didnt know she had it- it was 5kg and broke its arm coming out because of its size and being a quick labour (my dd2 was in the nursery for a week, and this baby came in just before midnight when my dd2 was 2 days old, it had just been born and the poor thing just screamed for hours on end cos its arm was in pain :( i went over because i couldnt help it, the mum in you just wants to coo to it and try and make it feel better but even the middies didnt stand a chance to stop her from crying in pain)

well i scored a double electric breast pump for $50! tried it out tonight and it works so happy with that :) i got 15 mls, did a bit of each side. i also have an at-home heart monitor, its one you strap on, not a doppler-type. mostly hear bub kicking, the hearbeat it a lot quieter and takes a while to find too.

i was hoping to do some things for this baby that i havent done before- so far, i;ve got the 4d scan done and got the athome heart monitor. but i also wanted to get maybe some nice preggo shots done, and maybe a belly cast or belly painting. i thought maybe someone would throw me a baby shower- but i dont need anything lol so it would have to just be games and food which i;m fine with, but i doubt its gonna happen. hubby said something that made me think someone was, but if someo9ne is then its def not the person i thought it might be :/ he said to me one day when i mentioned having to go buy baby blankets 'oh i wouldnt go buying any more baby clothes' and i said why not? and he said 'cos i know something you dont know' and i freaked out thinking he was getting the sack= no money to buy baby clothes, he laughed and said nah its nothing like that. then i blurted out, off the top of my head 'is someone throwing me a baby shower then?' and he did ths thing he does when you catch him out trying to lie or keep a secret- he sorta squints his eyes and his smile gets so big he;s trying to half not laugh while saying no, if that makes sense. and thats qwhat he did, all the while saying no, its not that. so when i said oh is it X friend? she did get up me about how much ilve bought even tho she hasnt seen what i;ve got. and he kept saying no its not that, then we got to the shop and he;s like right lets change the subject. but i dunno, my friends here seem distant lately so it cant be that :/ so now dunno what the hell he meant, esp as the reaction he did is one where i;ve caught him out and i was right....

anyway, nothing much happening here. TMI alert, but this week i swear i thought i had a 'hindwater' leak... i know my bladder isnt that great, but this was different feeling to the bladder... i woke up one morning damp but i hadnt wet myself, and it wasnt CM it was fluid. then for the next few days i felt constantly wet all the time, was wearing liners, they werent getting saturated but were getting wet through the day. and then a few times i;d be sitting down or standing up and would feel some fluid bubble down out of my hoo-haaa- def not fro my bladder. but it wasnt a giant amount? anyway i;ve heard a hindwater leak can repair itself, which would seem correct as today it was much much better, nearly no dampness well not like its been since wednesday, for today. been too freaked out that i;d be asking tmi or that i;d be jumping the gun, to ask anyone about it.... i did go to the nurses station while up there last week but chickened out when nobody was there

oh and hows this for a big change. my maternity unit i'm staying at, has only got 6 beds. yep, 6. and only 1 labour room. and then there is a specific room for changing and bathing babies- seriously its as cold looking as an operating room- all metal and shelves etc. then there is a room where they 'store' the babies (i.e. like a nursery) but it has all the linen and towels etc. of course the middies stay with the babies at all times. they do have really good rooms though, max 2 per room and a nice lounge room for visitors/mums, and also a fenced playground for visiting families. so its not all that bad, this is compared to my previous maternity unit- it had, 14 rooms. out of those, only 1 was a single room. the rest had between 2 and 4 beds,(i know that at least 5 were double only rooms. the rest had 4, so you get my drift- a lot more beds!) they had 4 showers, 4 toilets. the nursery could cater for about 8 humidicribs plus standing room for the cots if need be, plus it had 2 lounge area;s for expressing and feeding, and an area to bathe babies plus a kitchen for all bottles/expressing equipment etc. and the labour ward had 6 rooms, including a birthing suite and 2 observation rooms which could turn into extra labour rooms if need be....

where is everybody???

well afm, i am going ok. baby is now measuring- by ultrasound- 2 weeks bigger! so going to be a big boy we reckon. wonder just how big though lol.

i have been having on and off painful bh and one contraction the other week (wel it turned into 3 but then nothing) anyway had to see my ob the next day so he did my lower vag swab then instead of at 36 weeks just to make sure no infection was causing them. i also had a blood test for RH- antibodies, and then my anti-d shot. so i was poked prodded lubed and stabbed lol. everything seems to be going ok. baby is also sitting with his legs straight out, instead of bent up which is why i am so uncomfortable.
i got all of my baby stuff off layby last weekend so i have no more baby shoppung to do :) all my xlothing, 3 and 4 zero, all packed away. baby bag packed for hospital. i bought a 2nd hand change table, and its not packed with baby things. had 2 boxes of newborn nappies. just need to pack maternity bag and get maternity pads and i'm set, oh and clean out his cradle as its got sfuff stored in it at present lol.

oh and my friends threw me a surprise baby shower almost 2 weeks ago as well :) i was in a very dark week, very emotional, and they had decided to have a pub lunch as i whinged i only do things for the kids and nothing for mummies. turned up and it was a baby shower apparently it had been planned for weeks! but had to change dates. i was so happy i started bawling lol. got some cute little things, but the girls did whinge they had a limited choice as they knew i;d been on a shopping spree and didnt know how much or what i;d bought :) i had also been ordering some twilight modern cloth nappies from a fb page, i;d ordered some from them before and it only took 3 weeks but the lady said when my name came up for customs,. it would take 8 weeks. i didnt ask questions just assumed she was really busy/ turned out my friend found out about my order, and got the lady to say it cos she was in fact paying for them and giving them to me as my baby shower git, only i got to design what i wanted by doing it this way :)

anyway, i best get going. baby is making things mighty uncomfy atm and i'm sooooo tired and worn out, hubby is working pretty much every day lately and hardly ever home so i'm exhausted and said i want a 2 day babymoon kid-free (and hubby free) before bub comes./ so hubby is apparently going to do overtime and give me some spending money so i can go do something on a weekend in the school holidays by myself. i'm thinking, dinner and a movie maybe, and then stay in a hotel where i can sleep in!!!! and some window shopping maybe lol

DUE DATE
Leilabei BABY#1 DUE 1/5/12 - BOY!
Kristinaa (Kris) BABY#1 due 1/5/12
Raff (Rachel) BABY#2 due 1/5/12 - GIRL!!
Abbey+Cohen BABY#2 due 8/5/12 = BOY!
klest1234 (Katie) BABY#2 due 3/5/12 - GIRL!!
Tash2083 (Tash) BABY#2 due 10/05/12 - it's a Suprise!
Crystelle BABY#1 due 22/05/12
Yolanda BABY#4 due 24/05/12
Mel3105 BABY#3 due 24/05/12
Ame71a BABY#1 due 27/05/12

APPOINTMENTS
Raff - 2/4/12 scan to assess placenta previa
Raff - 3/4/12 ob appt to discuss scan results and book C/S if needed


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lol raff. with dd3, she was due the 28th may but i ended up going over and was the very first june mummy :) but, because this time i have no choice, i am having a ceasar on the 29th may. so will def be a may baby lol. just wish more mummies would post, cos i mean when all our bubs arrive, i really dont wanna be the only person in a may mums and bubs thread! lol

i cant wait for bubs to be here. all i wanna do is have a legit excuse to look at his baby things, call him a 'he' with my parents (they dont wanna know the sex til its born) and all of that. right now i wanna just look at it all lol.

yes he;s a big baby. in the course of 4 weeks, he went from being 1 week ahead, to being 2 weeks ahead. with my glucose test, it was 6.9 result- so very borderline for the next test. so i am partly wondering if thats affecting his size :/ oh well as long as he;s healthy thats all that matters. onto fortnightly visits now

my parents were here this arvo, they dont visit much as they live an hour away, but i was very good at calling him 'it' and even dd1 didnt slip. she blurted it out to the old lady next door the other day, who had said she didnt want to know.... so i made sure she knew to not say it so she kept saying to them 'we dont know what the bubba is' lol

thats no good they couldnt get a good measurement raff. with dd2, my placenta was only 2cm from the cervix at my morph scan, but at my 34 week scan it was 4cm up and they said thats fine :)it had only shifted 2cm but was enough to satisfy them

so, busy week the past week and a bit. had dd1's 5th birthday party on 1st april :) had my appt with my OB on monday 2nd of april./ he did a scan and baby is now 3 weeks ahead :/ at this rate, he will be 5 weeks bigger by the time i hit 40 weeks. so once i hit about 35/36 weeks he'll be the size of a 40 week baby :/ i see my OB again next week on the 18th and get given my Cs date- if bub doesnt come on his own before then. and i have a ultrasound tomorrow at midday to check his kidney.

Then she (Zoe) turned 5 on 5th april :) last day of school for the term for her too. then we went to dubbo zoo on friday- was all good, walking around at a good pace and resting when i felt like it- then dd2 said she needed to poo urgently and nearest toilet was a bit of a walk up a hill so i kinda powerwalked and hubby pushed the pram. well, not such a good idea as it sent me into labour! we were only half way round the zoo, on foot. so no choice but to walk back to the entrance- took another 3 hours, which when having [painful contractions, is not great. agony comes to mind :/ then another 3 hour trip home in the car. i felt every bump! thought i just pulled muscles and if i rested they;d go away, so hubby drove. but nup, i knew as soon as i felt pain on bumps, it was labour. got home and hubby dropped me straight at maternity. went in and they did cervix swabs to see if i was going to go into full-on labour, came back neg. but i was in agony so they decided to keep me in and even offered me morphine drip but i thankfully didnt need it as they went away after a bit of rest. then i needed to pee, got up and they started back with a vengeance grrrr....

anyway i was in such pain i expected to wake up saturday feeling bruised but i didnt :) they said i irritated my uterus, esp as my contractions were pretty small but causing me a lot of pain all over my belly. so went home, then hubby drove us to pick up a birthday gift for dd1 from his parents. then sunday stayed home did some house stuff- hubby made me rest a lot but i have been gradually doing more and more. but feeling better now :)

anyway, cant wait, get to see bubba D tomorrow :)