UK SMOG Wannabes May

[Babymad]

Pinga ~ wow your babies are very good at arriving I would love an early baby so much! Mine are late and I was induced with my DS2 and 3 as I went two weeks over! So I don't think anything will be different this time gutted I won't experience a home birth either! Pleased you had a productive day, I miss my evenings, that's when I would potter around doing my stuff but by the time I get the kids in bed I am so tired and feel so crap I have a shower and get into bed and watch tv. I'm so behind on my 'projects'. We have gutted the bathroom so I can't even have a bath! My poor ankles are begging to be weight free

Deaks ~ thanks for the ideas Hun, I've had sleep probs all the way through this pg and I haven't really found anything that's helped apart from taking pills every other night - and now the back ache and heart burn have kicked in as well it's no fun. my body really has had enough this time round!!
Aren't you curious to know 100% what your little bean is? will you be having a 4D scan?

Charlie ~ pleased your feeling abit better with the anti d's. Sorry you're not ding well with the GD. Loads hugs. Everyone on the school run keeps asking me when my baby is due as I'm massive!.... Even people I have never spoken to before and then they ask do I know what I'm having......I do say boy as I'm fed up with the girl comments but no one says anything nice when I say boy.....a great conversation stopper!!!! So I have struggled with all that over the last few weeks, I get so angry and upset all at once...just wish they would all piss off!!!! Sorry that's not much help really is it! Always here if you need to vent xx

Maybe ~ yes this is a lovely group. Don't understand why people would join forums if they can't accept everyone has their own opinion!

[indigoviolet]

ladies- sorry not been around much, napping when I can in the day and early nights, the only way I'm surviving!
Think about you all and sending much love
DH is going to be away for a while so I'll be on here a lot more!

[Babymad]

Zanacal ~ love baggy wombs! mine must be as this baby changes position every few minutes Keep getting stressed that's he's head up again!! I don't cope well with the sleep deprivation to be honest- really struggled with it and feel like I am going to collapse on the school run, but I keep a brave face on carry on! You must be so excited to be meeting your DD soon I was at soft play today and a friend had her 10 mth old baby girl.....just adorable.

[deaks66]

Babymad, noone says anything especially nice about my boy number 3 either... it makes me feel so sad too. But on the upside it has definitely bought out a protective side of me towards him and no im not curious to be told 100% as i just know deep down its a boy and if i were to have a gender scan i worry i would feel the gd all over again when im dealing ok with it as it is. Im desperately hoping your little man arrives sooner than later so we can all swoon over those good looks you and your dh produce!

[maybebabythree]

Oh the hurtburn keeping you up - remember that all too well :-(

[Babymad]

Lol deaks, thats very kind
I take my hat off to you I knew this was a boy too but I personally needed confirmation. Its a very personal decision so pleased you are doing whats best for you x
Peoples reactions are so hurtful, I do feel like shouting it might not be a girl but its still my baby!
Xx

[Babymad]

Here's a question for you all. Do you have a song for your babies? Something from when you was pg or when they was born? Ds 1 was avail lavigne I'm with you as it came out when I found out I was pg with him. The lyrics sum up how I felt as I planned him but was Pettrifed of being a parent. Ds2 was I knew I loved you before I met you by savage garden as I tried a long time for him. Not sure about dave really but I'm loving the muppets rainbow connection as it's on the sainsburys advert right now and I saw the muppet movie for the first time a few weeks back. I love gushy songs. Not sure now what the family song is - welcome to the jungle by guns and roses lol! With the boys as the animals!

Well with DS1 I was mega organised (I'm a bit anal at times with organisation ) and had my birth plan typed up in detail! I had him in hospital, one week late so luckily in the home from home room. It was two weeks before Xmas and I had just been to see Love Actually at the cinema so that album has lovely memories now.
I remember desperately wanting a water birth and DH handed over my birth plan as soon as we arrived (bless him).
I could hardly walk at this point as the contractions were every two minutes! The MW told Steve I wouldn't be having a water birth as she just took one look at me and saw that I was in established labour
I had the most amazing MW deliver DS1 and he was born to Rod Stewart (who is my absolute favourite and took all his CD's along with me!) I have wonderful memories of his birth and so does DH as he was helping out as the auxiliary had rang in sick (obviously at a Xmas party ). DH helped deliver DS1 and I gave birth on all fours I wrote to the MW afterwards as she was truly amazing and said how fantastic I had laboured for a first time mum - she took the time to write back too and I still have the letter in DS1's keepsake box

DS1 is now 8 and I've shown him who Rod is and I tell him that he was born to his music....makes him laugh

I really enjoyed thinking of all those lovely memories Maybe - thanks xx

[auroara78]

Maybe,

"All of my Love" by Led Zep & "You're my best friend" by Queen are songs that remind me of DH & I when we first started dating/our first years together. "Baby, I'm amazed" by Wings always makes me cry when I'm pregnant, because it's so romantic and Sir Paul seemed to love his 1st wife Linda so much....it's so heartfelt, I feel.

When I was pg with DS1, I wasn't really listening to music a whole lot, just the soft music that came on the intercom at the job I had. The only I remember coming on a lot that I kind of grew on me was "Cherish Our Love" (I don't know who sings it.) Once he was born though, his favorite song that I sung to him was the kids song "I-2, I Love You"

When I was pg with DS2 and once I found out he was a boy, I was really into listening to Jon Bon Jovi's "Young Guns II" soundtrack and for so reason was really into the song "blood brothers" and it made me think a lot about the relationship between DS1 and 2, if they'd be close, (which I hoped), how they would play together. Then during my scheduled C-section, he was delievered to while the OR was playing Bon Jovi's "Living on a Prayer." Being that I heard Bon Jovi/Jon Bon Jovi all his pg and then heard it in the OR was kind of funny.

This preg. I've been listening to mostly classic rock stations and the song "Dream On" by Aerosmith makes me tear up, because of what it says, and the way I've been dreaming of having a girl for so many years and it's actaully happening, the song just gets to me (in a good way.)

[Sunset]

okay i feel really stupid now but i honestly did not know there was a may thread because no one had put any reference to this new thread in the old thread so thank you deaks, without your suggesting people come here i would still be refreshing the page on the april thread and wondering why the heck no one has written anything in days I'm off now to put a link for the may thread on our old thread just so no one does the same mistake i've done.

I've had loads to catch up on now that I realised there was a may thread up.

Maybebaby ~ fx you can come off the bp medicine completely soon!

Zanacal ~ i'll keep my fx you get to have a 2 hour labour

Babymad ~ have you got a bump pic?

Charlie ~ happy to hear the medicine is helping a bit.. i know what it's like to be tired in pregnancy though.. i dont suffer depression but i struggled to stay awake in my last pregnancy and had to have a short nap everyday which is not easy when you have kids to look after lol

Deaks ~ yay for feeling kicks! it's such a special feeling have you got a little bump now?

indigo ~ hope you're ok

Pinga ~ that bruise is pretty nasty looking! i don't know about the glucose test.. i've used 2 different hospitals in my pregnancies and they both did things differently but the whole 2 hour test is not routine, but is something you get sent for if there is reason to believe you might be diabetic.

AFM ~ i need to drop all my prejudices i've learned recently! ds1 is doing brilliantly at his new nursery and is much, much happier than i've ever seen him at his old nursery and even though his new school is in a "worse" area it just seems so much better run. I feel more informed, ds1 is happier -i haven't once had him tell me that someone's hit him which was a weekly/almost daily occurance at the old school. So yes, i'm all happy now and thinking i probably won't be looking to appeal anymore. ds1 has already made a friend at nursery and his birthday party is on sunday to which we've invited his new nursery friends i'm buzzing

[zanacal]

Sunset - glad DS is getting on well at nursery, it's great to be able to relax and know they're happy and in good hands.

Auroara - Cherish by Kool and the Gang?!

Babymad - that sounds like a fantastic birth, I hope the next one is as wonderful!

AFM, baby is head down so we're all systems go. My scan took 10 minutes and then I had to wait over an hour for another lady to confirm that everything was ok - errr, I knew that because I saw it on the screen at my scan! It was really impossible for me to see what was what in there. I asked for a shot of between the legs but we couldn't see anything! I'm so paranoid about another back to back baby that I've been doing some 'balancing' exercises from the spinningbabies.com website each night and so far she's not back to back which is great for me! Her back is to the left also which means she's less likely to turn back to back in labour (more likely if the back is to the right!).