Thought i'd started last night, but no....

[Lorrymac]

Morning ladies!

I thought i'd started last night and got very excited, but fell asleep and was gutted to wake this morning and realise that it had stopped. I know what my BH feels like now (well, i think so) - tightenings across my abdomen, and from what i've read, a proper contraction should be a period type pain low down with possibly some back pain... Well, last night i was lying in bed getting these low down period type pains and they weren't too painful but not subtle either. Was getting some back ache too although could have been how i was lying. and this happened quite a few times within the space of an hour and a half (yes, all the while, hubby is snoring next to me and i'm watching the clock go to 1.30am.....thankfully my loyal cat keeps me company!) Anyway, i've obviously drifted off becuase at 3.20 i was up for the loo and felt nothing.

I'm only one day over and i can feel the frustration really taking hold already. I've decided to get outside today (not been out for days) and tempt fate - going to mooch around the tesco extra (i'm weird, i like supermarkets!), buy something nice for tea and hope that being outside tempts fate... We'll see!

so could what i felt last night still have been BH or could i have started?? and can this behaviour go on for weeks??

morning Nat, Red, MBoo, Psychick, Warpig et al! xx

[Lorrymac]

OMG Natalie - i'd be getting pretty excited if i was you! you're displaying all the classic symptoms of an imminent labour!!! especially the loose bowels, feeling off and feeling fluey! MBoo was a good week early wasn't she?! no reason why you couldn't suddenly go into labour today. Although, as i've said before, i'd be an unhappy bunny if you leave me here like this on my own!!! Of course though, i'd be delighted for you!!! Me, Red and Andrea would hold the fort!

That website predicted a girl but as it already doesn't agree with Andreas scan prediction i'll take it with a pinch of salt!

Oooff Natalie - if i was feeling like you i'd probably not do a shop right now and just send hubby out for a few bits and pieces. Either that or do it online and get someone else to do it for you?! I have an online shop delivered once a month or so with all the big heavy and bulky stuff (and all my BOGOF's!) and do little shops in between for the fresh stuff. we went a few days ago but have already run out of food!! a bag of bolognaise has come out the freezer for tea! (I made a load of it a few weeks ago!)

i still have NOTHING to report today. i'm very disappointed. Nat and Red you're well ahead of me it seems.....Boo me. Gonna go get some more stuff crossed off the list now to take my mind off things... Hubby's birthday tomorrow...will history repeat itself?!?!

[natalie_1982]

I've tried resting up and drinking lots of fluids, dry toast, etc etc and nothing is making me feel perkier, so I am going to hit Tesco in the hope that if it is the start of things it will kick things off, and if it's just a general icky feeling then I should shake it off. Hubby has offered to do the shopping for us, but I'm going nuts being stuck indoors so am glad to get out for a bit, evn if it is Tesco!

Oh, and if I get one more text or phone call to find out if things are happening then I will scream. Especially at those who, when they don't get a response from my moby, decide to ring the house. Agh! Be gone, evil people..... the thing is I purposely haven't told anyone (apart from hubby and mum and you guys) how I have been the past few days so as not to encourage people ringing me with "Has it happened yet?". In fact, the next person who contacts me, I am gong to tell them that as soon as mini nat has arrived I shall take out an advert in the local rag.

Phew.... feel better now - am I evil? LOL.

I shall check in again later - hope things start moving along for you Lorry - get back on that ball! x

[Lorrymac]

No, you're not evil Nat, i'm getting quite a few messages but not too many . no one knows my house number thankfully so i can screen my calls...which i have done a few times! my parents are getting inundated with phone calls too!!

how's this for naughty - had a chippy dinner for lunch!! i've never done that in my life - hubby went out for some bread and came back with chip butties and a fish to share. was gorgeous but i feel quite naughty now.

I don't mind Tesco - we don't have many good shops near us. we do have a Waitrose 16 miles away but i really can't go there too often - it's way too tempting. have you noticed that they're all white..like i envisage heaven in a way.....wall to wall yummy food....yum!

still not having much movement but baby is moving a fair bit still and pushing out in every direction!

was just trying to find out by looking on websites - what makes your waters go? apparently it only happens to 15% of women - but what makes it happen????? anyone else know?

i'll get back on my ball later - too full of chips right now ha ha!! xxx

[redcrx]

pressure makes waters break so depends on position of baby and what its doing, some waters go with a gush, some trickle, some carry a lot of water, some not so much.

Nat, next time someone calls why not say 'yes i had baby last thursday, mustve forgotten to tell you'

[natalie_1982]

Hello ladies, I'm still here - feel much better for having been up and about.

Lorry, I was naughty today too so don't feel too bad,. if you can't indulge now then when can you? I got in from Tesco and had half a pineapple but it was doing nothing for me so decided I would have a McDonalds. The thing is I haven't had a McD's in years! I can't abide them, I usually eat really really well, but all I could think about was getting as much sugar, caffeine and e-numbers inside me as possible! LOL

Red, that's not a bad idea! I don't mind when it is from the people that genuinely want to know, but it's the ones who wouldn't bother normally but are just gossip mongering.

Well, I probably won't be online now until tomorrow morning so g'night all, hope you sleep well and that things begin to happen (or not Red, depending where you are!) xx

[redcrx]

lol how starnge natalie, ive had a craving for junk all day and even ate a snickers bar, bad me!!!!

maybe they are signs lol

if you think youre having problems with gossips think of us. Mr CRXs ex wife has sent her best friend to see him at his work. Shes not seen him since just after little CRX was born and then it was just to get info. he didnt even mention the baby, but he's seriously peed off with it. Another so called friend of his phoned a week ago, hasnt been in touch for 18 months and was fishing for info.

Its not as if its anything to do with his ex either. she left him and is living with some other bloke so why should she care that we are happy

[natalie_1982]

Morning all - still here!

That would really annoy me Red! Some people do have some front. I'd never dream of doing that; I mean, why would she even have an interest anyway? Very odd indeed. I get the same from my sister in law; she has spent the five years me and hubby have been together making things as difficult as humanly possible, but since she found out she was also pregnant just before Xmas, has been contacting me constantly! It's doing my head in.

I can't believe it - it is 7.35 and my house phone has just rung off. Agh! I am going to dig myself a hole in the garden and sit in there until the baby in born.

I'm feeling much better today, still got a bit of a dodgy tummy but after cramming a McD's and a strawberry Cornetto last night I'm not surprised now! LOL. It's funny how we all craved for junk food yesterday. Would be great if it was a sign.

Hope everyone feeling ok today! x

[daffidazey]

Morning ladies! I always check here first to see if there is any news, so I thought I'd better say hello while I was here! I never had what you are experiencing. My daughter was 4 weeks early and I wasn't prepared at all! Lol! And I went in to labour with my son at 30 weeks, spent the next 4 weeks in hospital while they tried to stop my labour, they gave up at 34 weeks and at 34 +1 out he came! 6lb 14 and screaming for food! Lol! Hope you are all ok. I loved being pregnant but I don't see me doing it again, I'm happy with the 2 little ratbags that I have! Take care all of you. Daffi x

[bigmamma]

Awww , natalie love ..." dig a hole in the garden and sit in it til the babys born " , bless .
Hi daffy , babies only come when they want to alright , I went into labour at 19 weeks and they managed to stop it , I was in hospital on total bedrest for 9 weeks , and , after all that , my son arrived one day over his due date !

[andrea81]

Morning all of you lovely bumps!

Moning all x

See that you are all still here! Come on ladies, stop keeping us in suspence! LOL

Well I'm feeling a bit off today, probably over ate and my back is going into spasms a bit today! Think a bath is in order, but that would mean my son will want to join me and that turning my relaxing bath into a toy frenzy, so think I might have to wait until tonight!

Hope to hear (or read) that you'll be huffing and puffing soon, very exciting!

x x x x

[redcrx]

so, is today the day for Lorraine??

i do hope so!!

Natalie, you go and hide out hun, only answer calls that you want to and ignore the rest! xxx

[natalie_1982]

Maybe it is red - that would be nice! Unlike me who goes to bed early and gets on here early, she tends to come on a bit later in the moring I think but I am sure we might have heard from her by now?
Will keep my fingers crossed things are happening for her anyway.

I was hoping to go out for a walk but it hasn't stopped raining yet! Weather is miserable here :-(

[Psychick]

Hi ladies, trying to catch up on whos doing what at the moment as Ive had internet problems and now Im lost! lol

I take it natalie and red are still here but no Lorry yet? Or has she actually gone into labour?

natalie, those vision things you said about, I have had them twice since baby was born. The first time I was sat watching tv and when they started I went and laid on the sofa and they soon went. It happened again just over a week ago when baby was having her hearing test. I was supposed to be reading something and then signing it but couldnt even see it to read! Again though, they soon went and I havent had it since. Did they say what it couldve been?

[Lorrymac]

Morning Ladies, Sorry but need a whinge this morning. I'm just so fed up, my body is just mocking me. Yesterday i had LOADS of pressure and pains and tightenings and realy thought it was starting up - went on for hours but nope it all stopped when i finally let myself go to bed at 2.45am!! i must have had almost 5 hours of intermittent pains but for a few hours was getting regular tightenings coupled with period type pains plus i felt sick as a dog. So i stayed up thinking that it was going to ramp up but it didn't so i went to bed, had a few more pains that made me get out of bed to see if i could walk them off and of course, they stopped and i fell asleep. Humph, i'm not happy!!

It's hubby's birthday today, bless him i feel so sorry for him. i'm miserable, he's fed up waiting, the weather is rubbish, i don't feel like moving.... i did promise him a birthday cake though and he's a chocolate fiend so that will cheer me up...not that i can lick the bowl :-(

Sorry, pretty down today, don't mean to be so self-centred and spread my gloom.

Natalie - is someone calling you at 7.30am?!?!?

Anyway, good day everyone, lets hope it brings progress for one of us! xx

[natalie_1982]

Psy, the midwife said it could be labour approaching (bit late for you LOL) and that the increased in hormones makes the lenses in your eyes swell up which is why you get the raindrop type thing right in front of your eye. I guess your hormones are probably still getting back to normal though so I guess could be plausible for you too?

Awwww, Lorraine I feel the same way today and am not due until next week so it must be horrendous for you hun. I think the weather makes it even worse because you can't even get out. I just want to go for a wander round the block but it's piddling down and my coat doesn't do up anymore so I'd get drenched. I feel for my hubby because he gets in from work and all I do is moan. It's hard because I have nothing to talk to people about!

Yes, someone did call at 7:30. I emailed her later on and said that I had been in the bath and asked her was everything ok, she said she was just checking in with me and whether baby had arrived... I wrote back and told her actually I felt a bit under the weather, in the hope that she'd stop ringing so often but she called back at 11 to see how I was feeling! Agh!

I am still gettng aches and pains down there but nothing fantastic to report sadly. I am bored of it all now - want my baby here! X

[Psychick]

lorry, if you think things are starting during the day, keep active. If you think they are starting in the night, rest as much as you can .

[redcrx]

6 hours left of today lorry, get walking up and down stairs xxx

[natalie_1982]

Evening all, just signing off LOL, no news from me!

Hope things are moving for Lorry and her hubby gets a lovely Birthday present.

I'm going to watch Corrie now - night all x

[Lorrymac]

Fraid i've got nothing new to report. Baby has been wriggling all day - it seems as though it is desperate to get out but just can't find the exit!!!! However, i don't generally get much movement during the day so no doubt things may kick off soon and i'll be up again till the middle of the night again till i give up.

Sorry i've not been very chatty today, hopefully i'll wake up in a better mood tomorrow!!! night all you lovely ladies xx

[Lorrymac]

Morning! (yes, look at me...something must be up right?!)

I haven't technicaly been to bed actually! did go to bed at 1.30 but got some cramping immediately and was then woken every 8-12 minutes for over 3 hours till i gave up trying to sleep and have been sat on my ball since half 5. I am now timing things and they're happening every 8 minutes although not lasting that long - maybe about 20-30 seconds or so but definitely occuring every 8 minutes without fail since i've been timing them. Even my poor kitty having a seizure 15 minutes ago haven't stopped them! not has drinking water, going to the loo, walking around and sitting on my ball.....could this be it?? or the start at least? i hope so! cos i'll be one tired bunny otherwise and because kitty woke my husband up he's now sat beside me with a pen and paper in hand eagerly waiting for me to say i'm having another one...

So, what could this be then ladies???