***August Mummies Final Hurdle! ***

[Flo1]

I feel the same, Roxy... I'm constantly worrying if i'll be able to give them both the attention they deserve. I 'm sure it will be alright when baby arrives, there are so many people with 2, 3 or more children and they manage somehow so we will too!

 

[Flo1]

Flinty, that's so sweet of him!

 

[Kholl]

Actually waters break before labor only 10% of the time! It's SO much more bearable having an intact bag of water during labor as there is a cushion between baby's head and cervix. I've done it both ways (water broke before my first labor started, then with my second water broke while he was half way out) and I am praying my water doesn't break until way later on again because that was SO much better.

I am just 34+3 so still have a long wait. I'm expecting to go to or over 40 weeks... But I'm watching you all! So exciting!!

Oh and here in Oregon the summer has been so cool and mild and I am incredibly grateful. Usually I also love the heat but it makes me feel useless now when we have hot days!

 

[flexilexi394]

Kholl in england we barely touch on the heat you guys have, I am from Texas and it is half the temperature here in England than it is over there, England tends to have a very humid heat that is very uncomfortable but it certainly isn't anything like some of the temperatures in the US!

I also feel nervous about having 2 children, I am looking forward to seeing Sofia with her little newborn brother but she's one of these children that sometimes needs a little time to get her head round or adjust, she won't be forced into doing things sometimes. So I am worried she won't want to come to the hospital and visit or she won't actually want to come home etc, it just worries me because I don't want her dad just having her more because she makes a fuss about it or something! Don't even know if that makes any sense!

I am also worried that I won't love the baby as much as I love my sidekick! I find it hard to imagine life with two kids and giving them equal attention and stuff, of course these things work themselves out but my sister in law quite clearly favours her 10 month old over her 3 month old and really makes it quite obvious! which I think is really sad, especially for the 3 year old, he is lovely, he just craves his mums attention and she just ignores him or shouts at him and always says she will send him home with one of us! Not good parenting in my opinion, what a way to push a child out!

I do not want to be like that.

I am also remembering how gross the first few days of recovery are, the aching vijayjay, the stinging when you wee, the first poo you have being torture, the bleeding, the difficulty in sitting down comfortably, etc! It is a difficult few days and I remember it being really tiring and hard work, let alone with visitors scattered around!

 

[Mictho29]

I've officially had enough of the heat now!! Just got back from.school run and came over all dizzy and couldn't put the key in door my vision was that blurry!! I'm. Dripping in sweat and feel pants!! Got work at 11 debating whether to call in sick but then I'll feel guilty ��

 

[flexilexi394]

Mictho tell me about it my eyes are burning from sweat dripping from my forehead into my bloody eyes! I've stupidly agreed to help one of my friends put together furniture in her new house and I don't want to do it at all! I'm too shattered! Xx

 

[Summergurl]

That's a shame lexi that your sil treats them so different but I'm sure you seeing that first hand will defo help you not to do the same. It just be so daunting for you guys having your 2nd with toddlers around.

I dug out the baby's bath yesterday filled it with cold water and stuck my feet in it whilst watching TV, was lovely.

I'm 37 weeks today. Full term. I'm willing this baby to get a shifty on now! At work today tomorrow and Thursday and that's me done! Maternity cannot come quick enough.

Defo call in sick mictho.
Hopefully you'll friend will have a cool house lexi!

 

[Flo1]

My aunt is just the same, Lexi. She's always talking about what a miracle kid her youngest is, while he's just as ordinary as his brother and has a really ugly character now cause of the way they always favour him over his sibling. My niece doesn't feel attached to her second child, who's already 3 now! I really don't want any of these for my children... yesterday I was making a cheesecake with my son and it was so nice, him sitting next to me, stirring the mixture, adding sugar and talking. Somehow I can't imagine that with 2. I'm a teacher at preschool (or how do you call that? It's at school but just before they really have maths and reading lessons etc.) And I know it's possible to bake a cake with even 10 or 15 children, but I also know how different that is. We'll have fights over who can stirr next instead of calm questions about why the gelatine needs to be soaked in water.

Kholl, I'm only a bit further than you, we'll be waiting together end of august. I'm 34+5 with my original date or 35+4 with my last date. However things are starting already. I hated it with my first, always panicked it would happen. Now I expect it to just be preparations and I enjoy it, slowly building up to birth... Last time it meant a short labour and with every hour of painful BH now I can simply think about that.

 

[KirstyLeigh88]

Hope you aren't all suffering too much! Mictho I hope you called in sick!

I am on my rest days for work, currently sat under the big umbrella in my garden sucking on ice cubes, although it has been great getting Bean's clothes washed and out on the line... makes it feel so much more real and scary at the same time!

I can't stop watching old One Born Every Minutes, and find myself crying every time the baby comes out, even if I have found the family to be a pain in the arse! More tears of happiness that it's going to be me in a few weeks than anything else!

 

[Mictho29]

I went in was only 11-2 and I managed to sit down lots had MW appointment and she said it's the heat and hopefully it won't last BP was fine so no concerns sat inside under the fan atm trying to drink lots

 

[flexilexi394]

Kirsty since i have been pregnant I have watched every single episode of one born and I am tempted to give it a re run again until this baby comes out! Lol I also cry when the women deliver, it is so beautiful and emotional isn't it!

Well I did a lot of physical activity putting furniture together today with my friend in her new flat so I am hoping that will kick start something haha here's to hoping!

Everyone had a good day although the temperature has been through the roof? xxx

 

[Summergurl]

Before I got pregnant I couldn't even watch somebody in labour on a a programme let alone for real then one day thought I'd give obem a go and was hooked. I've watched every episode I can on sky catch up and TV lol

Yes my temp was unbearable. I was close to tears. I was sticky, sweating, my ankles were huge I just couldn't cool down. Thankfully it's beginning to cool a bit now. We headed out to the hoe for a bbq for dinner and there was a lovely cool breeze! Never been so happy for wind in my life (and I hate wind!)

 

[fcroxy]

I wrote a really long post and then my phone died.. Annoying!

Weather has been so hot here, we went down the harbour for lunch and then sat on the beach for a few hours this afternoon. I'm feeling knackered now tho and I haven't done much?! Think were gonna have a day in the garden after play group tomorrow. At least then I can keep popping indoors if it gets too hot.

Anyone else with kiddies already noticed a difference in behaviour since its been so hot? Harper has been so grumpy and tired the past few days. Having meltdowns at the smallest of things which is then taking her ages to settle after. She's also started trying to bite me a lot, which is new for her, and when she doesn't succeed she's biting herself instead! I'm hoping this is because of the heat and she's more tired etc and not a new phase she's going through as really couldn't handle that just as baby is due! Xx

 

[Nickinakinoo]

Evening ladies,

I went to lunch today with some friends and it was kinda my baby shower which was lovely but other than that and tearing my garden up looking for my escaped tortoise I've done nothing. I bought a gro egg room thermometer for the nursery that came today so I plugged it in downstairs to test and it's still 26.7 in my front room

Baby bath of cold water is a genius idea, I'm doing that tomorrow! My feet and hands have swollen today
I've seen a few obem but they make me cry and anxious about birth so I stopped, I'm still going with the 'ignorance is bliss' mindset xx

 

[Flo1]

Did you find the escaped pet in the end, Nicki? We had 28 degrees inside today, sounds like the temperatures over there are similar to ours.. we have a performance for toddlers tomorrow and wanted to go by bike as it's not too far but will take the car just incase I don't manage biking with the heat (oh insists I don't take the risk of fainting).

Roxy: My lo is also really tired in this heat and more whiny, but not biting luckily. He did have a phase when he bit himself or others every few days a while ago. It just passed after a few weeks. Hope it will with Harper too! I think simply ignoring it helped best with Ilias.

 

[flexilexi394]

Morning ladies! Well I am going to chill out this morning and then I am meant to be going to a picnic at lunchtime with one of my best friends and her little 5 month old daughter then I am going to the midwife at 2.15 for general check up and hopefully get my glucose test results that I had last bloody week and no one can find the results for! Bit late now if I have Gestational Diabetes, Im due in 2 weeks!

Roxy and Flo my daughter is half asian, so her temperature handling is amazing. She copes brilliantly in the heat, and sometimes she's better in it than me! She doesn't hardly sweat or anything she's so lucky, and she is very olive skinned so she never burns either, of course I still slap the suncream on but she has always handled the heat well, even as a baby! So I guess I am lucky in that sense that the heat doesn't affect mood or anything, thankfully!

I am loving being on mat leave I am going to have a total day off tomorrow! xx

 

[Nickinakinoo]

Yeah found here asleep under a bush!

It's hot today but I have grey sky down South, don't think it's going to rain though! Hope you ladies have a good day, only thing I have planned is housework and maybe a nap!

 

[Summergurl]

Let us know how you get on with the check up lexi and your results. Strange they've done a test so late on!

Glad you found your escaped pet nicki!

I have one more shift tomorrow at work which is only 4 hours long and then maternity leave will begin! I can't wait.

It's still very hot and muggy here and I've got to go home and bake cakes and tea and then come back out to get oh for our last antenatal class so no chill out for me today. I've left all the blinds in the house closed hoping that helps with the temp for when I get home!

 

[Nickinakinoo]

Yey for 4 hr shifts and mat leave! How have you found antenatal classes? I have my first one tonight and I don't want to go!

What you baking cakes for? I used to love baking but never do it anymore.

I've got achy pains in my bump today and I have no idea what they are, there not constant but annoying.

 

[Lulie]

Hope you are all handling the heat OK, it's warm here in Norway too but not in the 30's like you guys have had it luckily!

I'm with Nicki, watched a few eps of One Born when I was first pregnant but now it's too close for comfort, I think it would just make me nervous!

Was at the docs yesterday for my weekly blood tests to monitor liver values, not really too worried about it as all itching has now subsided, but worth keeping a check on anyway to make sure all is fine.

Not long now ladies!