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Green I to have been having regular cramps but no labour. Every night for a few hours about 10mins apart. Will talk to my ob about them on weds as she does not want me to go into labour. (I secretely am hoping to in the next week so I dont have to have the CS) Good luck hope it starts soon.
Oh I had my brother and SIL here today with the new baby. Lots of snuggles.OMG my DH is so clucky. He just wanted to steal him. 2 weeks darl and you will have your very own. I will remind him at 2am about this.
Arghh, will have to go back to the old thread to see where everyone is up to.
Smithy, the biggest congratulations on the birth of baby Charlie, I hope you are both doing well.
Ella's Mum, congratulations to you too, I hope all is well, will have to read back over the last thread.
Greenslw, I hope you have news too!
Saph, not long to go either!
Hi to everyone else. I am just baking baking baking. I see my OB tomorrow and scan on Thur morning to see how the girls are doing and will know what the plan is then. I have to say that I am really feeling it, feel supersized with my belly, now it is so big I can't even sleep on my side, so spending most nights on the lounge propped sitting up. And this all over 24 itching is doing my head in, there is just no relief, except swims in the pool to cool down at 2 am and 4 am in the morning lol. I am wavering between wanting them out to and hoping I can hold on so they can put on a little more weight. At least the end is in sight.
By the way, I totally loved loved loved all the beautiful belly photo links, thanks girls for posting them, it is so nice to see what you all look like IRL.
Smithy, I just caught up, I love your pics and the video is just gorgeous, baby Charlie is beautiful, hope you are keeping well and look forward to hearing your birth story, xxxx
Smithy, I had withdrawals after seeing your beautiful photos. Such an amazing time. After I'd sworn off having any more, I was told to leave it 2 years and I would change my mind. Make that 2 months!! DH and I have already started talking about the pros and cons and going back to see an obstetrition and see what happenend with Jazzy's development and whether I can even carry again. I was told all sorts of wierd comments like my uterus was the wrong shape, my placenta was too thin and again with this comment "have you ever had an abortion?" I was asked that about 10 years ago when I had my first laperoscopy so now I am getting a bit suss. I havent had any kind of surgery other than the laps etc, and c/s. Why do doctors make such throwaway comments and then tell you nothing?
I'm not game enough to look at your birth video yet as I didn't go through the whole experience and it kinda scares me. Plus DH is in bed and it will freak him out if there's labour room noise coming from our loungeroom I'll have a look in the light of day. thanks so much for sharing those labour room photos. now I think I may paste the first one of Jazz for you. DH says the look on her face in those first hours will be etched into his memory for the rest of his life. I can't believe that I never thought for a second that she was gross or ugly. I was prepared to think that, but oh my god, does love get any stronger? I can see it in yours and Coop's eyes too. Congratulations and enjoy. Lots more photo updates
are making me cry you girls,you are all THE BEST FRIENDS EVA
murph,love you to bits hun and i would be chatting to your dr hun maybe he can give some straight answers,your post are always so beautiful and im sooo luving the pic of jazzy in your ticker
and dont worry about to much noise coming from the video as i didnt get the hole thing just the end when she came out so i hope it doesnt scare you and you enjoy it.
MM,thank you very much sweety for the congrats.how are you going ?
DEE... cant wait for you to see it too hunny xoxox
AFM... oowwwwwwwww very sore full boobies today my milk is in and it kills as im bottle feeding baby girl so just trying to keep them very tigh in my bra and trying to keep the hot water off them in the shower but apart from this were soooooooo in love (as murph says omg can my love grow any more lol) i cant stop looking at her and taking pics IM PICS MAD LOL...but wow what a good baby she sleep 6 hrs and is a breez little girl.
well must go do something i suppose chat soon girls and take care xoxo
Green hoping by your lack of imput today you are otherwise busy.
I am feeling absolutly cr@ppy. This kid needs to GET OUT. He has been very quiet today, so lets hope he is gearing up to come. I got the letter today for my admission time for the C section today, so it looks official now. This time in two weeks I will be holding him in my arms. But if he would like to make an appearance before then I can cope with that.
BDT hoping you can hold on to those girls a bit longer. I would love to send you some weight from this budda if only I knew how. He weighs almost as much as both your girls.LOL I really should share some around.
Smithy - gorgeous pics and video, how very special to see baby Charlie's first few minutes in this world - thank you!
Saph - I hope your little one makes an entrance soon so you can feel better! Will send many labour vibes your way
BDT - I baked too on the weekend though I wish I didn't because now I have a house full of triple chocolate brownies that must be eaten...! Sorry you're not feeling well and can't sleep, hopefully the girls will come soon (after growing just a tad more!) Good thing you have a pool to jump on when you need some relief! Hope your appointments go well this week.
Green - how are you going? Still with us???
Hello to everyone else, hope you're keeping cool and well! No more persies sorry as
doing this on my phone so can't scroll to the previous thread!
AFM - just trying to look after a sick DH whilst staying as far away as possible! He suddenly has a terrible tummy bug and I definitely don't want that.
Feeling the Chicklet move a bit more now which is lovely, can't wait for DH to feel the movements too. And staring to put on some weight - put more on in the last week than the previous 16 weeks! Mind you, I already had plenty of spare fat/ nutrition for the Chicklet! Bought some pregnancy undies today - thought I was destined for enormous full
brief granny undies so was glad to find some made especially for bumps
well best go check on DH. Sleep well and belly rubs to all xx
Hello all. Thanks for the video Smithy - I admit I was a little bit nervous when i opened it... but it's so touching. Thanks for sharing such a special moment with us. I hope Charlie is doing well - she looks lovely in the pics.
Lise - glad to hear you are putting on weight now! I feel the opposite, I feel like I've not got any bigger at all this week. In fact I feel rather despondent. I keep having thoughts of what if I'm not pregnant anymore, I mean I have no signs of it (no first trimester signs, and no movements to reassure me). I always get paranoid before a hospital trip, isn't that illogical. I feel like they are going to tell me that I'm being silly and it's all just too much cake. When did you first feel the baby move? I have an upset stomach at the moment, and I'm full of wind, so it's hard to tell.
I scared myself to death yesterday with a wee the colour of ruby red roses. Automatically assumed I was dying. Then remembered I had two meals of beetroot in the last 10 hours. Doh!
Oh LM your beetroot story made me laugh, I do stuff like that all the time!!
Felt the Chicklet move at 17w exactly! Was lying very still at acupuncture and felt like my tummy was getting ready to rumble and felt a few twinges then realised it was the baby. Such a great feeling, I was so excited and that was the end of relaxation time!
And don't worry, I was the same as you at about the same time. I even went to my OB's clinic so the midwife could listen for the heart beat. Terribly reassuing, as you said, before the baby starts moving and if you're feeling well it's hard to know there is anything in there. If you have someone like that you could arrange a pop in visit to check up on your little one then I would definitely recommend it!!! I'm sure they thought I was an over anxious mother to be ( and let's face it, I am!) but they've seen it all before so they didn't mind at all and then I could relax.
Hope you all have a lovely day off. Think mine will be pretty quiet as DH is still not well, there goes our BBQ with friends plans...!
I'm giggling away, I've just done something completely mental. As you know, Mum's coming to visit me for a month after the birth. And I decided that it's a shame she's never been to Sydney (seems a shame not to see it) and she's a big opera fan. So I've booked her a seat at a matinee performance of Marriage of Figaro, and flights there and back in a day. I plan to go too, but not to the opera (I figure other patrons will protest at a month old screaming through it!!!) and I'll sit by the harbour with Baby G. The baby will need to do long haul flights soon enough, and a trip to Sydney from Melbourne can be our first (no luggage) test. It might be a complete and utter disaster, but might as well have disasters whilst Mum is about to help me! She'll have a fit, she hates surprises, and can't get her head round how easy it is to fly in Australia, she thinks it's always like that monstrousity (sp?) Heathrow where you need three hours to check in for an internal flight.
..... but finally my giraffe seems to be creeping out tenatively from underneath that damn tree!
mmmmmmmmmmm havent seen green around today girls...have you ??? i wonder were she might be anyways hun im sooooooooooo thinking of you and hope you are having your bubba
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to all of my beautiful pregnant girls ready to pop very soon ill be lurking your new thread waiting for some b/a .
. Plus DH is in bed and it will freak him out if there's labour room noise coming from our loungeroom
I'll have a look in the light of day. thanks so much for sharing those labour room photos. now I think I may paste the first one of Jazz for you. DH says the look on her face in those first hours will be etched into his memory for the rest of his life. I can't believe that I never thought for a second that she was gross or ugly. I was prepared to think that, but oh my god, does love get any stronger? I can see it in yours and Coop's eyes too. Congratulations and enjoy. Lots more photo updates
are making me cry you girls,you are all THE BEST FRIENDS EVA
thanks girls for your beautiful words
anyways hun im sooooooooooo thinking of you and hope you are having your bubba
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