MSE Pregnancy Club 18

choccybikkie_2

Aww, congrats Agutka, he is beautiful

Well done Fernli,bonus!

Just nomming some extremely buttery toast and washing it down with a RLT (made with 2 t bags )

Got MW at 11.30 and having my sweep............hopefully!!!
does anyone know will she do a sweep if head isn't engaged? Last week head was on the brim, it feels like it has gone down cos I keep getting a crampy bladder and going numb at the tops of my legs but I know it's not fully engaged yet??
x

Bufger

Fingers crossed for you choccy! sorry i have no clue what you're on about but im sure one of the other baby machines may be able to advise (maybe pigpen? she must have had something similar in one of her 9!)

All the best for the birth

SkintGypsy

Seeing my name second under all those ladies who are overdue now really focuses the mind! Ten days to go for me, and I am bricking it. Have done this once before, and it was not pretty. Still, keep telling myself it's only one day out of my life, possibly two, and then I have my baby boy. He still has no name cos husband and I cannot agree. Not sure what will happen when he comes. Can't see anything changing even then!

Quick question, anyone given birth at the Borders General in Melrose? Am going to stay with inlaws from Saturday so I can give birth up there but don't know anyone who has birthed there.

xmaslolly76

Choccy i dont believe it matters if the head is engaged or not as some babies dont engage until you are in labour :-)

smartie12

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....

I have some stretchmarks and I'm only nearly 22 weeks and I never had any with DS and DS was asked by someone if I have a bump yet and he said "yes mum is very fat" and DH was asked at work and he too said I'm very fat and I have to deal with my belly button and and and...

*sob*

...I'm now dealing with "scenes from Alien":eek::eek::eek: Surely I shouldn't be dealing with "scenes from Alien" already??? It's like bean wants to escape already!!!:rotfl:Do you think all of the above are signs that he's gonna be early???


Congrats Agutka... what a cutie!;):)

xmaslolly76

Smartie i thought that with the last one but he only came out 4 days before his due date so i wouldnt worry to much he could be a big one though bubs was for me in the big scheme of things he wasnt huge just big for me :-)

smartie12

xmaslolly76 wrote: »

Smartie i thought that with the last one but he only came out 4 days before his due date so i wouldnt worry to much he could be a big one though bubs was for me in the big scheme of things he wasnt huge just big for me :-)

DS was a diddly 6lb 6 so I think anything is going to be big for me too!!:rotfl:

Isn't it strange how 2 pregnancies can be so completely different?? With DS I had no sickness, no bump until 6/7months, no problems until a few weeks before due date (pre eclampsia) and no stretchmarks!

This one has caused me nothing but problems from day 1, sickness, stretchmarks etc. I wonder if it's because it's a girl or just because?

fernliebee

Smartie- it's probably because it's your second bubs. Some people pop out much quicker with the second baby. Also position the baby is in can make a difference to your size and shape, as well as other factors like how much water you are carrying, pre baby weight etc etc...

All the Dr's/ MW charts like you to believe babies grow in a very smooth even curve but not always the case, they grow in spurts too so they may be bigger for middle trimester than your DS, but end up at a similar weight- it's all a guessing game!

What I'm trying to say in a long, waffley sort of a way, is that those signs alone, don't mean baby will be early (if you are worried about them being prem) but statistically second babies aren't as late as first babies (although again, your guess is as good as anyones my mum had me first and I was 2 days late, and both my younger brothers were 2 weeks late so.......)

ETA: this is my second time too and I was exactly the same as you! First time round was a breeze this time has been looooong (and still 6-8 weeks left ) and had lot's more issues.

xmaslolly76

I have to go with the girl theory myself. With DD1 i was sick constantly for about 6 months my bump felt like it was constantly going to burst, for the last two weeks i had a head to toe heat rash and the labour was horrendous. With DD1 & 2 pregnancies were easy and labours were too in comparison. With this one which we have been told is a girl i have been suffering with sickness, tireness, Constant backache and she kicks the carp out of me every night. Im just hopeing the labour will be easy this time i couldnt stand a repeat of DD1.

smartie12

I know about the 2nd baby thing but 1st was 14 years ago so surely it's like my body is doing it for the first time???

I'm at risk of prem baby cos of various health problems and medication so it is on my mind.

I have had a "feeling" right from the start that it's gonna be early!! Now I've said that I'm going to go over 2 weeks now aren't I??:rotfl: