....and its all changed!! Just navigating my way around the site and catching up.
The reason i havent been on is that i have been very busy with work, home life and....my pregnancy :-) :-) :-) so expect lots of posts from me worrying about the dog and how he feels when the stork brings the new arrival :-)

Hi freds mum ,
congratulations on the pregnancy , when is the baby expected?
I am also pregnant , due in just over three weeks , I may be needing advice myself , hopefully not bad. I'm worrying already how to give the dogs the same attention they are getting now when it is going to be hectic for the first few weeks when baby is born.
I'm having a csection so I won't be able to keep up the regular walks for a week or two.
goodluck with your pregnancy.

Thanks, am due at the beginning of Feb. Think the dog will be fine as he is good around my friends baby but i feel really guilty that he is going to have to share my attention when he's been used to having me all to himself - non doggy people just dont understand me!!!
Be very careful with taking the dogs out. My sister has just had a c-sec and literally just shuffled about for a week or two having been bedbound for almost a week. It may be slightly ambitious to aim to walk the dogs after a week or two. What provisions have you got in place for the dogs whn you are in hosiptal etc??
With only 3 weeks to go you must be so excited, and probably feeling a bit cheesed off just wanting to get bubba out now!!. Why do you have to have a caesar?

Your right maybe I am being slightly ambitious. I'm having a section due to having symphis pubis disorder , and I have spondylitis of the spine which I manage okay but the spd is quite bad and the doctors, midwife recommend a section. I'll get my date this friday at my last scan.
Can't wait now it's getting hard to move around like I want to.
Your at the nice stage which is lovely when you feel the baby move and aren't too restricted.
I have six dogs , but only five go out as my 12 year old sharpei is finding it hard now , my family are really close and will help out , but I am so independant , I like to do things myself. I have a 6 year old son , and had to have an emergency c setion with him , I was home after two days and remember moving my three piece suite back to where I like it , someone in the family had re arranged things in my front room the time I was in hospital. Don't know if I'll be quite so fit this time with being another 6 years older and having the spd mind!

I had severe back problems and SPD in ,my last pregnancy and had an elected CS and I was up and about the day after and discharged after 3 days ( well I discharged myself as wanted to be in the comfort of my own home. I was able to start walking within a couple of weeks and took the dogs out in the car to isolated areas so they could go off lead for the first few weeks.

The sooner you can get about and mobile the quicker the recovery is so long as you are not stupid and start weight lifting training or anything like that ! :-)

Congratulations on your pregnancy!  The dogs will get used to the new arrival, but I know it's a worry all the same.

Simone :)

Congratulations! :)

Oh Cani, I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news but I've had 2 sections and you will be out of action ,dog-wize, for more than a week or two.  It took me about 3 months to get up the speed and musle required to walk.  And that wasn't even at normal speed!  Remember that a section is cutting through your major abdominal muscles.  Take it easy and don't try and do too much too soon!! (If you do, you scar will start leaking, Thought that might gross you out enough to listen to an old mother!!)

Thank you everyone :-)

> Remember that a section is cutting through your major abdominal muscles

That is so true. Even if you are feeling fine and the scar 'looks' ok, it is important to remember that it is major surgery and takes a long time to heal internally. After no other surgical operation would you try and rush the healing process and it should be the same after a ceasar. Enjoy the baby but let everyone else do the other stuff :-)

all the very best for the new arrival, Freds Mum, how exciting for you! In the meantime get plenty of rest and let people look after you--though quite why I say this I have no idea since my experience was completely the opposite and I wouldn't have changed even if I could :)

Hehe thank you JAY15. Am enjoying the way its brought family closer together and the little life growing inside me. Am carrying on as normal though - still going out running a few miles each week. Will carry on doing what i can for as long as i can :-)

Running I wish , i'm waddling now (lol)

Got my date today 13th October , just counting the days now .
Enjoy your pregnancy when you look back on it at this stage you realise just how quick the time goes by.

Wow. not long to go - good luck!!! :-)  Time seems to be flying by as it is. Im feeling a mild sense of panic every time i think about what we need to do and get before the babys born then i think about all the other things going on in my life and start questioning if there are enough hours in the day to get them all done am sure it will be fine though :-)
All the best to you xxx

Its amazing how much you can get done in those last few weeks and how little you care about what has or hasn't been done when the baby arrives :-) . Good luck and Congratulations to you both

M x