***August Mummies Final Hurdle! ***

[flexilexi394]

The dogs fate is yet to be decided, I know SIL was going up there today to speak to them about what will happen as she no longer can take her daughter up there with that dog still around. Luckily Frankie is only 1 so she will never remember this and she's coping really well with her arm and hand in a massive bandage so fingers crossed she will be okay, she was around all of our family's dogs today without a care in the world!

Aww I can't wait to see little birth announcements with all our babies! It is so exciting isn't it! And then all the names will be revealed then which is so nice I simply cannot wait!

The text messages of friends have started to roll in, ive had 3 today from close friends that are probably the first people along with family that I would tell about giving birth and the texts all say "any sign of baby yet?" I know I shouldn't get annoyed but it is annoying the shit out of me already, I have had a few texts like this now ahhhhh! xx

 

[Nickinakinoo]

Lexi I've had messages today asking if any things happened or just saying not long now! I'm like I no, I'm counting down the days!! Been bouncing on my ball all day it's done nothing but made my legs ache!

Full term tomorrow and I'm still not sure I believe it's real, been waiting almost 10 years for our rainbow baby so I just want him here now and safe!

So who do we think will be next?

 

[GillM]

I'll happily volunteer to be next!! One week and counting!!!! Xx

 

[Summergurl]

I've had a feeling all along I'm going to be early but knowing me ill be wrong

I don't blame your SIL lexi. But good on your niece for being around the other dogs today still with confidence.

You know what bugs me the most... the people who see me in person and say "not dropped yet then?!" I'm like clearly not!! I feel like saying oh yeah I'm still just fat as and I left the baby at home alone!

 

[flinty84]

My mum and dad are taking Sebastian on holiday tomorrow, and will bring him back once baby girl is here. Hes really excited to go, but I'm sort of at a loss as to what to do without him. I think I'm going to enjoy having lie-ins everyday, but I just have a feeling that he'll go, and I'll go into labour!

 

[Flo1]

I hate people asking 'how long now?' and answering 'Oh, that's not too long anymore!' very cheerful. I still have 4 weeks and a few days til due date and I know these will be over before I know it, but at the moment it feels like an eternity.
We had a great storytelling and afterwards just relaxed at home with a small swimming pool for DS and a BBQ with my mother and sister. Hope you all enjoyed the weekend!

 

[Flo1]

Flinty, that sounds like a really good idea, Sebastian going on a nice holiday with his grandparents!

 

[Lulie]

Definitely won't be me next, not even had a BH contraction yet (I'd know if I had had one, wouldn't i?) Haha!

Never the less, not long now girls, this heat is getting to me a bit the last few days. Feel like I just want him here now so I look after him properly!

 

[flexilexi394]

Yeah the texts and questions are gonna start rolling in for all of us now, I don't know why my close friends feel the need to ask me, when I see them quite regularly! It is really annoying lol, there's a certain girl that keeps texting me and we aren't really friends any more! We haven't been close for a good 4 years and all of a sudden she's interested in me whilst I am pregnant, and she's got two kids of her own who I barely know! God knows what that is all about.

Lulie you watch you'll go nice and early and there's us all here with twinges every few minutes and Braxton Hicks all the bloody time and it won't mount to anything!

I wrote in my pregnancy journal the other day, and forgot to write the same thing in here, its so spooky!

So, my best friend has Cystic Fibrosis and she has to go to the Royal Brompton hospital for medicine trials so I went with her on Friday.

On our way out, we sat at a bus stop across the road from the hospital and the Royal Marsden hospital (for cancer) is only across the road. This little old lady came out of the Marsden, and walked straight out in front of all the london traffic with her walking frame, as if the traffic wasn't there. It was quite funny actually, bit of a statement coming out a cancer hospital and doing that I thought.

She then came to our bus stop and sat next to me and asked me to keep an eye out for the number 14 bus.

She then looked at my bump and said "ooh how lovely, second baby is it?"
I was like "erm yes...." and my friend looked at me weirdly and I returned that look lol, she then continued to say
"And you've got a little girl already, how lovely that you're having a little boy this time!" and my mouth dropped to the floor!
We continued our conversation and she was just like this spiritual godess of a woman disguised as a dying cancer patient, really old she was.
So of course I asked her when this baby would be born! Hahah she said "If he's not here by the 4th of August I am afraid he will be 9 days overdue" and then that was it! Our bus came and we left.

It was the spookiest thing ever but amazing. It was like I had known her years but we just met at that bus stop, how cool is that!

So she knew all about him being a boy and me already having a girl, and I hope he's here by the 4th august, 5th being my due date lol, who knows! xxx

 

[Nickinakinoo]

Omg that's crazy Lexi, scary and amazing! Lulie I don't have BH either so wouldn't worry.

Last night I did have something weird happen, I had some blood when I wiped but only a few drops and a little bit of plug (that wasn't bloody) but it was red. Just assumed it was part of things starting, had period pains in the night but nothing too bad and there has been no more plug or blood since but I asked on Facebook and some people have said I should call in because red blood isn't normal. I have the Dr in a few hrs so just going to wait to ask her but now I'm worried. Baby boy still wriggling about and the period pain has gone.

All this weird stuff happening to me and not knowing what it is is freaking me out!

 

[Nickinakinoo]

And I'm full term - baby get out!

 

[Lulie]

Lexi that is so spooky!! Let's hope he is out before the 4th then otherwise you are in for a bit of a wait!

Feel very lucky to not have had heartburn until now but it started up yesterday, and it's miserable! Think it must be have been the red onion in the salad I made that did it, curry and onions to be avoided from now on I think!

Little man is squirming around like mad today, does anyone else feel like their little one has no routine?

 

[Summergurl]

Welcome to full term nicki!

Wow lexi how amazing meeting that woman. I love stuff like that. I never believed in any of it until I saw a psychic once at a party that told me something that only 2 people knew who weren't at the party. Fingers crossed for the 4th for you!

 

[Toni1]

Definitely won't be me next, not even had a BH contraction yet (I'd know if I had had one, wouldn't i?) Haha!

Never the less, not long now girls, this heat is getting to me a bit the last few days. Feel like I just want him here now so I look after him properly!

This is exactly how I feel no signs that I'm even close to delivery except losing my mucus plug a little at a time. With my last three my my mucus plug went the day of labor.

I'm so tired of counting kicks/movement I now just want my baby here so I know he is good.

When you ladies are on your ball, what is it that you do?

 

[Flo1]

Wow Lexi, that's so weird... Hope your boy comes the 4th then!
Nicki, I don't think you should worry too much. People saying something isn't normal can just mean they haven't had it themselves, doesn't automatically make it dangerous. Just mention it at your appointment.

I'm feeling so weak today. Cleaned 3 small windows and now I'm lying on the sofa, totally exhausted! I wanted to do the bigger downstairs windows too, but don't think that will happen today...

 

[Nickinakinoo]

Go appointment has left me sore and deflated - 2 jabs - whooping cough and b12 and baby head is no where near to being engaged, she thinks it's a long way off until he'll be here. I kinda knew this but hearing her saying has left me feeling sad!

Toni in the ball I just bounce and rotate, I wasn't sure exactly so I watched some YouTube vids x

 

[Lulie]

What did she say about the blood Nicki?

I'm gonna get myself one of those balls tomorrow, can't hurt to try I suppose!

 

[flexilexi394]

Haha we will see eh!!

Nicki I hope everything's alright but I believe blood is alright as long as it isn't loads of it, it was probably part of your plug but good luck with the doctor anyway, as long as baby is wriggling around that is what matters.

I find that my baby doesn't have a definite pattern of movement, only that he's mainly active in the evenings. During the day I barely notice his movements partly because I am busy, but I also think he's asleep most of the day! Only sometimes do the movements wake me up at night but I can guarantee before bed I will get the majority of movements then!

I am soooo glad it is the summer holidays I love having my little Sofia at home, she's my little buddy! She is reading books in her bedroom and playing teachers she said! xx

 

[Nickinakinoo]

Nothing to worry about unless it turns into something major but I've had nothing since. I have no patterns in movement he's active all blooming day and evening, I don't mind though I panic when I can't feel him!

Aww Sofia sounds like such a cutie, my little buddies are my doggies! Alfie is guarding me (asleep on my lap), he's very clingy at the moment. Lola is on daddy's chair looking out the window waiting for him to come home but he's going to be late so I'm lonely.

I was brave today, I volunteered to go to a focus group for a mummy support group they're just down the road and was planning on going to their coffee mornings once the boy had arrived. They're the local group that support post natal depression and as I'm a high risk for that i might be useful. Doesn't sound much but I don't often leave the house without Steve and I have major anxiety around strangers but I need to get used to it, if I don't then the baby will never leave the house or meet other babies!

 

[KirstyLeigh88]

Well done Nicki, sounds like a big step going to that group and you did it

My little man has no pattern either, I just get lots of feet trying to escape out of my belly at the moment, my oh described it as watching an alien and said it must be weird feeling all this movement inside, I said it is, but I prefer to feel the movement!
It does feel like he has tried to escape out the proper way a couple of times as well, with properly sharp twinges that are too irregular to be anything!
Lexi how spooky with that woman? I hope she is right and you have your baby on the 4th.
My dogs are also my little buddies, I am really looking forward to spending some time with them before bean comes along to break the silence... Charlie has been amazing with my bump, he is always cuddling up to me and bump x