MSE Pregnancy Club 27

TeamLowe

Mrs Bunny good to hear he was just being lazy, it's clearly exhausting being a fetus so he was probably just catching up on his sleep lol

Becca an outdoors shoot sounds lovely, I like these pictures http://offbeatfamilies.com/2009/10/seattle-maternity-photos-from-jenny-jimenez and there's quite a few articles of different maternity/newborn shoots on there if you're collecting ideas

Samtoby sounds like a lovely day to me I'm going through a phase where I can't quite believe I'm having a baby- feel like she's part of me and I just can't imagine her being outside my body

I've just had a dream that Claire posted to tell me off for saying I didn't like new born shoots and that I'd tried to get her in trouble by PMing something to her boss cos I was jealous that a blog had taken off without me. Clearly I'm on here far too much lol
Then again, I also had a dream that Zack Morris was a musical genius and wrote a concerto that killed people but meant they could escape planet earth before it was destroyed to go live on another planet.
Who needs TV when you have the bizarre vivid dreams going on? Lol

mincepiemonster

Aah MrsBunny that's a relief! I am pretty big now and sometimes I can see the baby moving but not really feel it which is crazy! Hope little one has wiggled lots for you this morning too.

Becca that style of shoot is lovely, I need to remember to take a picture this weekend. Hope you manage not to pay too much! One of my friends had a Venture photography shoot as a present (when baby was about 3 months old)... all the pictures were so adorable that they ended up spending £1000 :eek:

Wow TL those dreams sound pretty crazy, can't believe you're dreaming about us lot in RL :rotfl:

DH's birthday today :T Hoping to have a lovely lazy day and out for a curry tonight. DD didn't get the memo and woke us up at 6.45 lol.

claire16c

TL that's so funny! I'm always having weird dreams too!


I see what you mean about unnatural pose of that baby, I like the newborn shots but that particular one is rather weird!

kerri_dfw

My mum did some bump photos for me the other day, the only one I liked was of OH and I having a joke with each other, even though I have about 5 chins in it. It's lush because it's so natural.

I ended up in tears last night, the BH didn't stop until after I went to bed.they were every 3 minutes and 1 minute long. OH told me I definitely wasn't in labour as I'd "know". Having never done this before what if I don't and it all just feels like BH until I'm crowning?? Did some research this morning and looks like other women who had ThyCA before pregnancy have also had days/weeks of contractions before either being induced or going into labour so that might be the cause.I've got tummy ache this morning

Mrsbunny - glad you got movements after the tea, they say never to leave it when you feel reduced movements. They'd rather you go in for monitoring than wait just in case.

Oh !!!!!! BH have started again sorry ladies ina poor example of an overdue woman. I would be so much happier if I wasn't having any hopeful symptoms. I Just feel like my body doesn't know what it's doing

claire16c

Kerri one of my friends had I guess were contractions for about a week, but she kept getting fobbed off that anything was happening and I guess because 'proper' labour never really started there wasnt much anyone could do anyway.

Anyway when it did properly start, and she got to the hospital I think they said she must have been in 'latent' labour for that week as she was already a few cm dilated?! So then she knew what she had been feeling had been real. I dont really know enough about it and I cant remember the details now but I just remember her telling me she'd been in labour for a whole week!

faith2009uk

MrsBunny wrote: »

Hi ladies,

I'm getting a little concern about my little man....not felt him move much today. Didn't kick at all till after my tea when I felt 2 quick kicks and that's it. Normally he is so active at night. Tummy is really tight too so maybe not much room to move in there?

Think if he doesn't have a disco party tonight I will phone the hospital in the morning, I am hoping I am just being abit over protective and he is having a very lazy day.

So pleased he started moving round again MrsBunny! My little one was quieter yesterday still kicking but wasn't as strong and generally seemed a lot quieter. Queue me starting to panic but in the morning I'm sure that she turned around as my belly looked like it was going to pop! So may be she was just turned around so I couldn't feel it as hard as usual?

This morning she is still moving around and giving slightly harder kicks which has chilled me out more. May get some caffeine though in a little like suggested.

TL - Love your dreams! I have had some wacky ones recently but yours are really strange.

Fingers crossed it's not too long now Kerri x

TeamLowe

Kerri I've also heard stories about people being in the latent phase for days before active labour, maybe that's you, although it does sound frustrating for you, you have my sympathy

Mincepie I clearly have very little going on in my life right now, finished work, nursery ready, bags packed, I'm literally just waiting around to go into Labour which could be another six weeks if I need to be induced at 42 weeks!

kerri_dfw

Thanks ladies it's really frustrating. Claire I think you might be right.I'm going to go for a long walk I think, OH can get stuffed with his "not in labour" attitude as i think you're right about the latent stage.I'm feeling slightly more up beat, just checked and my cervix is now anterior even though I've been lying down :dance: and I can feel baby's head. I think it's about 2cm so the stupid BH must be working. Hoping the walk will at least encourage some more dilation, have just laid here for an hour visualising the uterine muscles working in harmony with each other like we were taught in hypnobirthing.

sexki11en

Hi ladies,

Another 12-24w refugee but i'm only a week early as i'm 22+5 today so hoping I can join?

I've been lurking for a while so feel like I know you all already and I recognise some of you from my early days on the TTC threads and various others.

As you can see from my sig, it's been a looooong journey for us but now we've passed the initial 12w (which were painfully slow) I've been surprisingly relaxed and am loving every bit of my pregnancy. I feel lucky every single day.

SK x

LannieDuck

kerri_dfw wrote: »

I ended up in tears last night, the BH didn't stop until after I went to bed.they were every 3 minutes and 1 minute long. OH told me I definitely wasn't in labour as I'd "know". Having never done this before what if I don't and it all just feels like BH until I'm crowning??

If they're a minute long and get stronger in the middle and then slowly weaker until they're gone, and if they're only 3 mins apart... that's the start of labour Especially if they're making you cry

As you say below, it sounds as if you're in the early stages 1-3(?)cm rather than active labour, but not far off. It's the stage where women in OBEM start showing up at hospital and being sent home to wait a bit longer!

I definitely felt a change with DD1 when I decided I needed to go to hospital for pain relief. Up until then I'd been breathing through the pain, but it got to where I needed something a bit stronger than paracetamol. Can you still talk through the BH/contractions? I think the midwives use that as a bit of a test for whether you're ready to go in...

Not long now...!