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.

[NormaStanleyFletcher]

Ds1 was 16.30
DS2 they ignored me through the night, despite me saying I had the urge to push, they said it was niggles not active labour (my waters had broken 3 days earlier, and I had pain on and odd since then).

Day shift nurse came in and agreed to examine me, and said 'oh my, your having a baby.

I was thrown in a wheelchair and run sown to the labour suit and he was born at 8.45. My notes said my labour was 45 mins

DD was 2 am. The midwife chose her name (from a shortlist)

[Champagnecharleyismyname]

I gave birth at 8.08 am, midwife clocked off at the dot of 8 and 2 new midwives came in. One took over and the other observed. DD2 popped out. It was the second midwifed first shift and first eve birth.

You'd have never known , they were both fantastic.

[TaggieCampbellBlack]

I have slept and reconsidered.

It is never unreasonable to have babies. No matter what time.

In fact I am massively Broody and think I'd like a couple more of my own.

[Dogsmom]

Mine is due a week today and I plan to arrive at hospital around 7am after a nice pain free nights sleep, get settled in, have her slip out painlessly at 9am, have a shower, eat toast and go home at 11am looking fabulous.

She is a pfb and I'm hoping I'm not being a tad naive.....

[EvenIfYouSeeAPoppy]

7.20pm and 10.23am - the latter, while it may sound considerate, was on a weekend

[DeepRedBetty]

Dogsmum

Fat chance.

[elfycat]

I had my DDs at 0130 and 0150 (consistent I thought).

[EddieVeddersfoxymop]

DD was 04:17. And had a failed ventouse leading to forceps, leading to me with eclampsia and DD in NICU. Bet I was popular!

[bruffin]

Ds 22.47 and dd 22.42 and exactly the same weight.
Although ds had been 3 days of inducing and 24 hour labour failed ventuese and in theatre just in case forces failed. Dd was 4 hours start to finish.

[Startail]

laluna, I didn't, it was the poster after me who called you a nurse, but I forgive all MWs.

As I say I know the lovely one who delivered DD2 had a very long day.

I kicked the one delivering DD1 across the room into the big inspection light and she didn't flinch.

[Sleepingbunnies]

Oooooh, I must have annoyed my midwife DD2 born at 07.20!

[AScorpionPitForMimes]

Dear OP,

I apologise grovellingly for the appalling timing of my deliveries - 3.30am for DD2, 7.23 pm for DD2.

I didn't plan it that way. honest...

[HappySeven]

My DD was born at 8am just 45 mins after I'd arrived at the hospital and I've always been very grateful to the two lovely midwives who didn't hand me over but coached me through it and made it a happy delivery (DD was in distress and the paediatricians were called but not needed).

The midwives quickly congratulated me and apologised but they needed to run for the school run. I've always been sorry that I was still I shock and probably didn't get across how grateful I was at the time. I hope they know how great they are at their job.

[SummerRainIsADistantMemory]

14.53
23.57
11.47

I have a habit of looking at the clock abd thinking 'fuck this, I'm not heading into another hour of this shite!'

With dd my mw was at lunch... Thankfully as she was a right bitch and her replacement was lively. She came back when I was pushing and tutted because I was on hands abd knees so the nice mw sent her out again.

With ds1 I'd been told I wasn't anywhere near at 23.00 but o really didn't like the next days date so I had words with ds1 and he shifted himself just in time

Ds2s mw missed most of his birth as she'd gone to get a room ready... She got back in time to deliver his arse end

[Indith]

3 home births, the first 2 I dragged the poor on call MW out of bed around midnight/1am and gave birth at 5am so the poor woman will have had to go to hospital and file my paperwork etc, sorry! Number 3 I at least gave her a pretty good night and just got her up around 5am for nice quick birth so I can't feel too guilty about that. Except she told me she knew my waters had gone so she woke up every hour over night and checked her phone ot make sure she hadn't missed a call!

[JackieTheFart]

DTS were 2:45 and 3:10 am. Sorry about that

DS3 was a nice, proper working day though. Got to hossy about 9am, had him 1:50pm, was home by 6pm. Brilliant.

[QOD]

Dd was born 23:39

Poor midwife wasn't even a hospital one, was out GP surgery one who came in to help as dd was the first ever surrogate baby in the area.

Bless, day 3 after inducing she was finally delivered by emcs. Did thank her, but absolutely not enough.

She was a quiet lady, very religious and sweet and soft. Until the Egyptian anaesthetist tried to insist surro mum delivered awake so SHE could bond with baby as he didn't agree with her being forced to hand it over .... She was like a bleeding Rottweiler, dunno what we'd have done without her!

[QOD]

No idea why I felt it relevant to say he was Egyptian

[kitbit]

Ds was 10.30 am on a Sunday morning. The gynae wandered in to the op theatre (Spain) complaining loudly that I'd interrupted his Sunday morning coffee. Git.

[Shaky]

Taggie Go knit a tiara or something while the post-night shift delirium wears off

[idiuntno57]

my midwife came over to check my waters had broke early evening then went for a little nap. I woke her the next morning with a nice cup of tea.

Its give and take this birth thing

[Horsemad]

Mine were born at 15.05 and 21.15.

Both times the midwife stayed over her shift time.
DS1's midwife was supposed to be attending a breastfeeding lecture and DS2's was supposed to finish at 22.00. DS2 had to go to SCBU and she came up to see me in my room before she left for home at about 23.00.

[RobinSparkles]

I had mine at 9.14 pm and 2.20 pm.

They both sound like reasonable times but, when I was having DD1, the lovely MW was supposed to finish her shift at 8.30 but she wanted to stay and deliver her so she stayed.

When I was having DD2 they were short staffed. The MW I had was supposed to be in AN clinic so I was BU by even being in labour! :o

[TwelveLeggedWalk]

Oh dear.
I arrived shorty before handover, progressed very rapidly, was carrying prem twins at a small local hospital and they were pulling staff out of all sorts of places for the carnival that my delivery theatre turned out to be!
My midwife was jovially asking me not to 'rush' while I could hear frantic phonecalls trying to work out how long until our amazing paed consultant could get in - god knows how many speeding tickets she got that night! i also had neglected to bring my dh with me so someone had to sit with me for bloody hours afterwards.
Bet the staff absolutely loved me!
they were completely awesome though.

[MammaTJ]

May I add a message to my oldies? Please do not die at 7.40 am. Again, the paprework at the end of the shift is just not needed.

More importantly, please do not die when you have not been seen by a doctor in the last week. Even if you are 98. I feel you should be allowed to die without permission at that age, however the coroner and the police feel differently and need to knock on the door and 'investigate' the sudden death. Luckily they were reasonable and went away on our explaining the patient was at the end stages of dementia (foetal position, no life) and had simply slipped away. However, I don't want to risk it again.