I have just officially started maternity leave. OK baby, give me a week to clean this place up, then you can come.
Josh's mum - so sorry to hear about your mum and your uncle, my thoughts are with you. Great news on the scan/amnio, bet you're enjoying all those little bumps, your little one is giving you.
Hannah - With Ds1 I lost my plug only days before he was born, with Ds2, I can't remember losing it with him at all, but I was induced post dates as well.
Megsmum - nice to see you pop in
to everyone else. I know that I will miss someone if I try to do persies for each and everyone of you, so now that I have a little more time, I'll try to pop in more often.
AFM - still going along just fine, have next Ob appoint on Tuesday, so guess I'll find out from there what is going on.
Josh'smum, glad you cleared up early that all was well with baby, I immediately was worried! Very sorry to hear about all the stress with your mum and your uncle though. A very hard time for you and your family. My thoughts are with you.
Mollycat - hooray for maternity leave!
Greenslw- glad your weekends are yours again. Not too long now for you! My nose cleared itself up after threatening ear infections for around 12 hours, long enough to make a docs appointment and then sleep it off and cancel the appointment! No need to take anything in the end which was good.
Question - has anyone found that they've started getting headaches again? I can't work out why I'm getting them again. I had them til around 18 weeks or something (daily) and then they left but in the last week or so they've come back again as a daily thing. Doesn't seem to be food or weather or drink (or lack of) related. Can't work it out.
I thought this thread had died but i just found it...
joshsmum - great to hear from you. sorry about all your ups and downs. i hope things settle for you very soon!
mollycat - wahoo! i can't wait for my last day to come...long way off yet! yeah for you.
hannahd - good luck with everything.....
greenslw - you are on the work count down too...lucky you
big hi to everyone else. afm - all going well. he didn't move much on sunday and monday but is back to his normal kicking around self which suits me just fine. my tummy is getting bigger all the time and i love it. i am working long hours but seem to be coping well for now. it is such a special time having this bub in my belly. we are so lucky. hope everyone is well and happy! i turned 34 this week. getting on. mum made me a wicked icecream cake loaded with mars bars, cheery rips, boosts, bountys, crunchies and so on. then covered in ice magic - same cake she made me for my 13th. those were the days. so looking forward to meeting my little mate. be good girls!
Oh Hannah I hope you are ok I guess bubs comes when they're ready not when we are although it can take up to a week, look after yourself and yaya for the cooler weather. Hope the baby's room is done and you are relaxing.
Welcome back Josh'smum. Glad your 20wk scan went well. thanks for the cool wishes thank goodness the heat left. and without too many bush fires
Mollcat yaya for maternity leave enjoy your time off. hope next ob appointment went well.
Smallfry gald no meds and it cleared up. I get headaches on and off are you drinking enough water? that was my issue.
zstar when are you ending the dreaded work? my bubba seams to have quiet days. I get so tired did you? I think it must be growing.
ATM having a nice LONG weekend and haven't checked my work emails I'm only in work one day this week but off to an all of unit day Wednesday at the botanic gardens I don't have to do anything just enjoy great.
I've been reflecting on 3 months off and need to do some number crunching cos I"d love 6. But not sure I can afford it. and with childcare going in terms I need to decide one way or the other BUGGA not so flexible even when they are infants!
zstar, that cake sounds spectacularly tasty I turned 33 the day you posted happy birthday to us huh?!! I didn't get a cake but DH took me to my favourite vegetarian restaurant for dinner and it was so good that I rolled back to the car afterwards!
Hannahd, how're things going with you? Still waiting?
greenslw sounds like a great way to work - one day each week would be great (well, assuming it was able to pay the bills it needed to anyway!) but it certainly sounds like you need it. Not long now!
Re headaches, I think I drink too much water and that may be what's bringing on the headaches but I have ob appointment in a couple of hours so I'll ask her about it when I'm in there. I've started drinking a bit of gatorade/powerade during the day to see if that helps as I've been drinking 5 - 6 litres of water a day and another couple overnight (makes for great sleep interruptions!)
I reckon if you're able to take 6 months off it would be worth it. I know a number of women who have ended up extending their maternity leave because they've done the math on childcare and decided it was cheaper to stay home for longer. I used to have my two in for a day a week and it cost close to $100 after subsidy from government.
AFM, ob appointment as mentioned and I'll be up for the wonderful glucose test to check for gestational diabetes. Can't believe I've hit 28 weeks now. Time flies. My daughters are loving the growing belly and give it hugs and kisses all the time to let their little sister know how much they love her already. It's very sweet. Still trying to decide on names, though I already have one picked DH hasn't quite agreed to it yet. Fingers crossed there because I already think of her as being named that!
Hi to all of you - joshsmum, twinsis, mollycat, zstar, hannahd, greenslw ... and those I've missed.
I had my 37w appointment yesterday. All still going well, but bub is not engaged yet. I asked my Ob if he would induce me, but until bub decides to engage he won't consider it.
Sooooooooooo, I'm now in the process of encouraging bub to engage, I want to deliver before my due date for a number of reasons, (firstly it's my MIL & Sister's birthdays, and I can't handle the thought of bub sharing the date with them - (shudder), I want to be home before Christmas, and as my Ob says, this is such a special baby, he can understand why bub needs to be on the outside. On top of these, both my boys were overdue, and I don't want to go overdue again.
Hannah - How are you going, must be sooo close for you now. Can't wait to hear your news.
Smallfry - wow, 28 weeks, won't be long your bub will be here.
Sorry everyone else, was going to try a few more persies, but I'm being hassled for the computer (teenagers, grrr), so I'll try and get back later.
I've just popped on while I have a quiet moment to let you all know that Amelia Grace arrived at 10:43pm on Monday 30 November. She weighed 3.53 kg (7lb 7oz), measured 49cm long and her HC is 35cm.
She was certainly in a hurry. Contractions started at 12:25pm Monday and within 2 hours were 3-4 minutes apart. My waters broke at 6:45pm and I had to call DH home from work. When we got to hospital at 8:00pm my cervix was only 2cm dilated - not encouraging since the contractions were almost on top of each other at this point. Got to delivery suite at 9pm and after only 35 minutes of pushing, Amelia was born. Her birth was completely natural, drug-free with a physiological 3rd stage. I was able to BF a little straight away. I ended up with 2nd degree tearing due to it all happening so quickly and did have gas while getting stitched up.
Mum and Dad are certainly very proud and I am so in love with my gorgeous little angel.
HANNAH = congratulations on the arrival of your beautiful daughter. I have been in torrens house without email access for a week so only just saw your news - so wonderful - had been wondering how you were getting on.
HannahD Welcome Amelia Grace and well done mummy. Wow that's a quick labor. Ppl say quick means pain hope you did ok.
Smallfryplus well doen on 28 weeks (almost 29 now) hope your glocose test went well.
Mollycat so how do you get your baby to engage early? I totally understand re not sharing a b'day. DH is on the 9th of Feb and baby will come prior to that!
ATM: recovering from a lovely baby shower yesterday. I got so spoilt. all my friends were there, mum ran a pretty good day 4 games and lots of bubbles (not for me) but it was great.
DH has been working on the nursary and it's only one coat of paint away from "let me at it" can't wait to start setting up.
Huge congratulations on baby Amelia Grace, HannahD! That's fantastic news Well done!
Baby shower sounds like it was good fun Greenslw. I've got all my friends telling me I have to have one but the only time I can conveniently have one is when I'll be 37 weeks!! Is that cutting it fine?! I didn't have one for DD1 or DD2.
My glucose test went really well. I stuffed up and put honey on my weetbix for breakfast shortly before doing the test so we were worried it would make me fail it. Thankfully it didn't, I got a sugar reading of 7.6 and it just has to be below 8 so we were happy with that. Vitamin D on the other hand... I've been told off for neglecting to take those tablets! Otherwise, everything is going beautifully, including the massive thing in front of me that it sticking out further and further every single minute!
Our nursery has everything in it, just doesn't have anything where it is meant to be and has a few additional things that need to be moved out of it. I figure I'll get it done as soon as possible rather than when I'm too huge to move around easily. I washed two huge loads of baby clothes the other day and thought it was everything done but then discovered a massive box of clothes that I'd forgotten about. For some unknown reason I kept pretty much everything from DD1 and DD2 when they were little. So, more washing to do and then I'll start sorting everything out into sizes and re-store the bigger clothes. My sis laughs at me now and then and says it would be really funny if she turns out to be he! It would... but not funny in a good way!
Wish I could say I lurk on a regular basis but unfortunately I have just emerged from the self-inflicted cyber purgatory of having to catch up 2 months plus of the PAML thread while inflicting endless guilt on myself on a weekly basis for not being able to keep up better – let me be the poster girl for the cyber impaired communicator
So much fantastic news to congratulate people on –
Mollycat – lovely to hear your Matilda is with you now – a name with a lot of character
HannahD – what an amazing labour – the fast and furious ones just take your breath away don’t they! Welcome to Amelia Grace! I hope you have great joy in your journey together
Zstar – when they want to come they just come – fantastic to hear Billy is doing so well – you just have to marvel at how ferociously emotional such a little baggage can make you
Babymiracles and WTH – sorry to hear that you have both been battling with silent reflux with your little ones – Sabriyya (DD) had that and a very unpredictable gut and it was not fun – I remember the fretful feeds and lack of sleep vividly now – which is funny (sadly) as at the time it was more an uncomfortable blur – I hope both your bubs respond well and come to move on from the condition quickly
Erybery and Chappas – seen you doing the odd lurk – hasn’t time passed so quickly? – hope your first Christmas with bubs was a hoot!
Welcome to all of the amazing, brave women I missed the privilege of travelling with on this incredible road – Indi1, Tina R, Twin Sis, Tanya, Rachie, josh’smum, Kellym, milly 5, Sunny09, cantwaittobeamum, Cherished1, tashybabe and eliselouise85 – it is so hard sometimes in the earlier days having faith and just being in the moment – and the more we try and comfort ourselves with information – sometimes the less innocent and accepting it can make us. When I look back at my posts and blogs in the first trimester last year – they are full of me reliving the previous miscarriage and the fear that its shadow cast over my new pregnancy – I felt (and still do feel a bit guilty now) guilty that my thoughts couldn’t be exclusively with my growing baby and them alone – but it was a part of my grieving and the letting go – and until you go through each sad ‘milestone’ of the previous m/c/s and get beyond it – it seems that that is when many people feel their faith renew and relax into the experience as genuine and of its own integrity. My heart goes out to people who have experienced late losses as this is a real challenge of strength and I hope if this is the case for anyone here they have the love and support of many positive people in their lives.
Appreciate the progesterone issues – I could fall pregnant but a shortened luteal phase (care of low prog) made it difficult for me to stay pregnant – I had to work hard to extend that luteal phase raise the levels to a good strength to keep my last pg – good luck to all here working with this – it is so worth the effort!
Greenslw – wish you had a cooler run for the last trimester – it is seriously not fun – I remember the few times I visited rellies in Adelaide it could be brutal in summer and freezing in winter (esp. in the Barossa) – must be those fierce Southern winds – hope your time off work allows you to get done what you need to do nesting wise – I always get caught out one room short of being organised! I don’t go back to teaching part-time until next January but we will be seriously povo in the meantime – my last bub so I just can’t think of missing out… Squeak is going to have such a great mum in you!
Smallfryplus – I really enjoyed hearing your jellysprog is an active little girl – I sympathise with the sore feet – I had really sensitive feet this last pregnancy and unfortunately it has continued with the bf-ing keeping the softening hormones in the building – not fun when I jump up on the tiles in the morning but it passes as the day goes on – Hope something gives you relief or it disappears on jellysprog’s arrival!
Josh’smum – I am sorry to hear that your mum has been diagnosed – my partner’s mum has been in treatment for breast cancer for two years now and is on her last two treatments before check-ups and hormone therapy – I hope that the prognosis is good and she responds well
Tashybabe – good luck with your homebirthing plans – it is always a challenging choice as it is interesting how other people receive the news. I hope you have a wonderful relationship with your midwife. My DD (now 4) and DS (4 months) were born at home with two different but equally talented and compassionate midwives and I had beautiful births (full on but just such an initiation into womanhood) which I will always treasure and which my daughter was lucky enough to experience and be a part of (she gives great backrubs and is a great water runner). I hope your experience is a rich and fulfilling one.
Jenushka – hope everything is going well for you and your family!
Meg's mum - I loved hearing how you are going - you were always so positive and such a great support!
Oh and Cherished1 – I don’t think you’re a hippy – I did a sage smudge after my m/c in 2008 and before I fell pg in Jan 2009 to try and free the house and myself and that process did help me feel that my new pg was essentially an independent, fresh event deserving of its own happiness – even though I had those dark moments from time to time.
AFM – Joss is now 4 months old and attempting to dive bomb off anything raised and spends most of his days cracking himself up (and us for that matter) – he looks like a little old man when you put hats on him and we have discovered he looks good with a velvet butterfly sitting on his bum (sorry – mum’s been doing some ‘creative’ photography – but he is a good-natured model) – Sabriyya is running around the kitchen tweeting at 9 o’clock at night because a yellow honeyeater has flown into the kitchen from the patio – otherwise she is looking forward to Kindy next week one minute and is clinging for dear life in the next trying to be a big girl but still wanting to be our baby. My DP did the mowing this arvo with Sabriyya on his shoulders and Joss in a sling on his front – do I need to say more… And somehow I actually feel much saner this time – although how much of my brain has disappeared with two placentas is a concern – recently four of us (all mums – taught on Palm Island and travelled o/s together – haven’t been together in 7 years) sat around having dinner a few weeks ago and not one of us could think of the word for those candle thingies that go on walls (Target later taught me it was a ‘sconce’) – so it is all good
I promise to lurk more often – I’m waiting for the rest of our thread crew who went through together to have their little ones and then I promise I will stop bombarding these epics…
Happy and healthy pregnancies to everyone here and huge family hugs to everyone who has that blurry, sleepless laden joy and bewilderment that makes our children so incredible to us!
I'm not sure how long I will be here (hopefully 9 months!) but I will stick my head in and introduce myself anyway.
I have been lurking for a couple of days, ever since I started getting nausea and tired last week and I realised that we were UTD again. AF is due today, but so far has not shown herself. The 11 (yes 11!) positive pregnancy tests done over the last few days is probably why! My DH keeps wondering why I am doing test after test when we already know the results, but I need to keep seeing that line getting darker.
I have had 3 miscarriages and have 3 healthy children. The last miscarriage was a blighted ovum back in September and due to other things, we had to wait until now to TTC. Well it has happened again (getting pregnant is the easy and fun part) and I am SCARED TO DEATH!!!!!
Mily, you could be in my head with your last post. Every time I go to the toilet I expect to see blood. I look at the paper in every light just in case it is just a smudge. I just know that it is going to be there. With the last miscarriage, we got to 9 weeks before we found out that there was no baby. There was a sack and a placenta, but no baby. As there was a placenta my HCG results kept going up and I had all of the symptoms. I thought at 9 weeks I was home and hosed.
The first miscarriage was a missed miscarriage at 6 weeks which wasn't picked up until 11 weeks, and the second was a scan revealing at 6 1/2 weeks that the baby's heartbeat was slowing and then stopped. Testing of the material revealed chromosomal abnormalities with this one, so although I was upset, I knew it was just mother nature taking its course.
This time however, I am a mess. I am crying all the time. I am yelling at the kids. Every twinge or pain is the end. I really wanted to just switch off for another 8 weeks and deal with it at the 12 week mark. If the baby was there and still alive then I would acknowledge it. But with the MS and tiredness, it is hard to forget. And just because I have symptoms doesn't mean that it is all OK. I had wicked MS with the last one right up until the D&C.
I guess I am just relieved to know that I am not a head case for having all of these feelings and that there are others out there going through this.
Hopefully I will be here for the long haul, but the voice in my head says to not get excited.
nice to see you pop in
look after yourself and yaya for the cooler weather. Hope the baby's room is done and you are relaxing.
but off to an all of unit day Wednesday at the botanic gardens I don't have to do anything just enjoy 
I turned 33 the day you posted 
Welcome Amelia Grace 
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to all of us who are going through this.
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