to implore you not to push out ypur babies at 7.20 am?

[TaggieCampbellBlack]

It's all very lovely but it is such shocking timing when you've been awake for too many hours and hoping to be in bed by 8.

If you catch a dear little squidgy pink baby at 7.20. Then you have to wait for a placenta. Then cuddle. The write it all down coherently and legibly.

So if you could get it done an hour or so before 7 that would be super. Thanks.

7pm not good either. Then You get shoved out and sent home, tired, hurt and bewildered at 2 am that's brutal. Nothing seems good at 2am especially new parenthood

Um, no, sorry. 7.25am for DS.
DD was an afternoon person and still is.

So a case of DON'T call the midwife!

I had my little cutie at 5.05am. No one else on the ward and I had everyone else's breakfasts. Happy days.

He was Taggie but he wasn't really cooked. I had the flu and I think he bailed out early because he was sick of the coughing.

I had the twins at 07.27 & 07.41

DD showed up at 4.19pm and DS 2.56am. Awkward timing???? Possibly. But personally I was past caring by then and was offering cash to DD to come out already

Aspie was that to spite the midwife?

He wasn't cute and squidgy either, he was early, jaundiced and very pissed off.

Turned out OK though.

12.46pm here..considerate or what

Lunchtime is most civilised. But only if you get a full night sleep beforehand. Then home for tea.

Baby rush wearing off now. Time to sleeep.

Night night Taggie.

I had my third at 06:25am. Can't remember with my first two, is that bad? I can't even remember if it was morning or evening, sure it must be written down somewhere .

I was particularly good then 10.37am and left to go home at 2.30 :)

I had mine at 8.30am. As it was a home birth, I ended up with three lovely midwives, as one had just arrived to start her shift and two were already there. I ate all the NHS's resources for a bit.

Hmm, well I waited until just after 8.00, after giving the new midwife and trainee time to settle in. I didn't see them until after the birth, as I had my eyes shut, facing the wall.

Makes me wonder if the first midwife had a plan - she thought dd was going to appear by 7.30 but kept leaving the room 'just to check / tell someone something' etc. It really stressed me and slowed me down, as I didn't want to get to a really crucial point when she wasn't there. The result was that, by the time I needed to push, contractions were only every five minutes and diminishing. Not impressed by her.

I didn't get to hospital until just after 7:30am on a friday morning, had an EMCS 2hrs later. Consultant "ooo, we were having a boring morning until you turned up" .

oh sorry. dd came at 7.15 and we required the full crash team. bet that went down well in the staff room.

DS1- 14.37 pm
DS2- 10.40 am
DS3- 3.55 pm.

Still got their tags with the times on otherwise I'd not remember the first two.

especially as the hospital had me for 27 hours before that too

is 4.50am convenient?

DS2 was at 11:52pm. I was told not to press the buzzer and try not to push cos they were busy. I was out of it on gas and air, and my body pushed during the MW checks.unfortunately my waters hadn't broken and the whole thing exploded in the MW face. She screamed and grabbed a pad to stem the flow. 2 minutes later DS2 was born looking for food! I wondered why the MW had wet hair.....then it dawned on me later! Lol!

6.58pm for DD1 Oops! Should have let me have the csection instead of maulling her with the Keillands

I had my 3 at 22:50, 12:30 and 22:46 . The midwife with DS3 was pleased, she thought I'd be there all night even though I told her I'd have him in 2 hours.