August 2010: August is here, our babes are near!

[vitapulchra]

LIST
In Sweet Memory Of Belle, Daughter Of CazEM. Our First August Angel Was Born Asleep 21.6.10 at 00:08, 4lbs 5oz

ARRIVED
2 July (due 29 July) CherryPie - #3 BOY, Corey Owen, born 08:11, 8lbs 4oz.
18 July (due 25 July) Emster - #1 BOY, James, born 18:37, 9lbs 4oz
23 July (due 20 July) Aussie - #1 BOY, James (Jamie), born 02:50 and weight?
23 July (due 22 July) Chulita - #2 BOY, Samson William, born 01:15, 8lbs 3oz.
25 July (due 29 July) BouncingBlueberries - #2 BOY, Glenn, born 02:02, 7lbs 3oz.
25 July (due 4 August) Girlsyearapart - #3 GIRL, Matilda Queenie (Tilly), born 11:05, 8lb 10oz.
28 July (due 4 August) Kcoffin - #3 GIRL, Ruby Mae, born 14:49, 6lb 11oz.

WAITING ROOM
26 July - Anifersgirl, #1, age 33 South Bucks, 33week scan extended breech GIRL
28 July - CazzyBabs #4, Cambridge , SURPRISE
31 July - Missus84, #1, Bristol . Age 26 BOY
01 Aug - Nikalah, #1, Dorset . Age 35, GIRL
01 Aug - Bumblingaround #4, SURPRISE
02 Aug - Dibbydab, #1, Devon . Age 34 SURPRISE
02 Aug - summerymummy, #2, age 29, Berkshire , SURPRISE
02 Aug - JamieJay, #1, Cardiff . Age 29 - GIRL
03 Aug - fuzzybunny, #2, age27, Somerset SURPRISE
03 Aug - carolondon #1 North London age 37, BOY
05 Aug - RachelParker #1, age 26, Wandsworth ( London ), GIRL
06 Aug - YummymummyKJulie, #1, NW London , GIRL
07 Aug - NichyNoo, #1. Brussels . Age 30 - BOY
07 Aug - Weehector #1, Largs. Age 36.. BOY
08 Aug ? ElusiveMoose #2 Kent 33 BOY
08 Aug - DriedApricots #2, Surrey, SURPRISE
09 Aug - possiblenewmum #1, Guildford , age 31, GIRL
09 Aug ? Alice #2 Suffolk age 25, BOY
09 Aug - thecoffeelady #2, Fleet, Hants, age 32, SURPRISE
11 Aug ? CellyD #1, Walthamstow, SURPRISE
10 Aug ? SayAnything #1, Brussels , age 33, BOY
12 Aug - tunise, #4, Suffolk , age 31. GIRL
13 Aug ? Neenz #3 Liverpool (32) - SURPRISE
14 Aug - LCRLCR #1, Brighton , age 34, SURPRISE
14 Aug - Burkoid, #2 SURPRISE
14 Aug ? babyducky #2, Brighton , age 24, SURPRISE
15 Aug ? LizzieA #1 Wirral, 33, scan ok BOY
15 Aug - thedogwalker #1, age 37, Germany (originally from Halifax), BOY
16 Aug - parkgirl #1, 20wk scan fine - GIRL
16 Aug - Tah2 #3, South Wales . SURPRISE
16 Aug - Vix206 #1, Leicester , 32, BOY
16 Aug ? cakeywakey, #2, age 32, GIRL
17 Aug - Doodleydoo #2 Kent still just 34, SURPRISE
18 Aug ? Isheisnthe #3 Camberley, FPH, Age 33, BOY
18 Aug - biddysmama #2, Lancashire , BOY
19 Aug - marzipananimal #1, York , age 24 SURPRISE
19 Aug ? Bubbabear #1, Reading/Berks age 30, BOY
20 Aug - JessieEssex #1, age 33, SURPRISE
20 Aug - USMum27 #1, age 26, Wandsworth. GIRL
21 Aug - CrunchieNutterII #2, age 34, Devon , SURPRISE
22 Aug - Poncherello #2, North London , SURPRISE
23 Aug - chickieno1 #1, SURPRISE
23 Aug ? loobyt #2, age 34, Devon, SURPRISE
24 Aug ? JaysFourth #4, age 38, GIRL
24 Aug - growingbump2, #2, age 25, Isle of Man , SURPRISE
25 Aug - Sal321, #1, age 31, Essex SURPRISE
25 Aug - Sam86 #2 Liverpool , GIRL
25 Aug ? aendr #2, Huntingdonshire, 33, GIRL
25 Aug - Joey30, #1, Halifax - West Yorkshire , age 30., BOY
25 Aug - Soontobefatnat #1 SE London Age 30, BOY
26 Aug - pamplem0usse, age 26, #1, Herts SURPRISE
27 Aug - Jamiki #3, SURPRISE
28 Aug - LittleMissSnowShine, #1, age 26, Belfast, SURPRISE
29 Aug - Hildainstant #1, Sunderland , age 30, SURPRISE
29 Aug - Foxyjbro #3, age 30, Shropshire, SURPRISE
29 Aug - LilyPad72 #1, age 37, Berkshire , BOY
29 Aug - starshaker #2 & 3 Ayrshire Age 29 VIOLET TWINS
30 Aug - Sparkle #1, age 31, Kent SURPRISE
31 Aug ? vitapulchra, #4, Guernsey , 32, BOY
02 Sept - MrsZaC, #1, Glasgow , age 26 SURPRISE
08 Sept - ronx, #2, London , age 37, SURPRISE

BABY COUNT
Boys - 22
Girls - 17
Surprises - 30

TOTAL - 69

Oh vita next time you update the list could you change my age to 27? My birthday was the 7th (we didn't really do anything to celebrate and I keep forgetting!).

Omg what a morning :( DH went to sainsburys last night to get some immodium (on my suggestion) and took it around 11pm.

At 5am he was in the bathroom feeling v sick and with bad diarrhoea. Then I heard this almighty crash and he didn't answer me so I went in and he was curled up on the floor breathing really heavily :( :(

Called 999 and he came around and was able to be assessed on phone. They think the immodium caused the problem and we have to go to out of hours doctor at hospital in a couple of hours. He no longer has a fever and is trying to sleep. I am bricking it and really feeling guilty! He is never ever unwell this is such bad luck, and if I get this we really will be in trouble. And what if I go into labour over the weekend? He's my birthing partner :(

Gosh Vix how awful, do hope he's ok - let us know how you get on and I'm sure you'll all be ok but it's not a worry that you need right now xx

Us tell me about it and I am now 4 days overdue, it's unbearable. Might just lie about my due date next month to stave off the enquiries? I know people are being nice and it's lovely to be in their thoughts than not but we are apprehensive enough without having to explain ourselves.

OMG vix! You poor thing! Your poor dh! Hope everything turns out ok honey

aloha from my bed where a sound asleep little blonde boy is sprawled across my chest

Congrats alice!

Stay strong cazem, sorry there was no definite answers but good to see you being rational & realistic. You've done brilliantly coping & grieving so far - keep putting one step in front of the other & look to the future. Belle is always going to be your first baby but I have a gut sense that you're going to grit your teeth & look to the next pregnancy with the same love, optimism & proactiveness you've displayed so far and be holding Belle's little brother or sister soon. I've always been conscious you were my due date buddy but i'm going to sound like crazy hormonal lady here, but I feel like you're acting as a sort of guardian angel for me...your posts always pop up at my weakest moments to give me perspective & remind me that whatever baby related mini meltdown (late pregnancy hell, going overdue, your last post came as I was
sitting on my hospital bed sobbing because Ally had lost too much weight to get home because we are crap at breastfeeding) I'm having, I'm incredibly fortunate to have a healthy baby.

vita happy birthday..will take a slice of that amazing sounding cake for breakfast.

Sympathies to Elusive , LCR and the rest of the Groundhog Day gang..it is truly shit living each day scrutinising every 'sign', getting more & more worn down & then having to start looking at sweeps/inductions. For what it's worth, LCR...I found both fine. Only thing I'd do differently on going overdue is to ask more questions up front & revise my birth plan for an induction route. I was open to whatever necessary but was so focussed on going naturally (and the odds are still good) I wasn't sure how long to push for allowing me to progress spontaneously after ARM for example (I negotiated 2hrs after a lot of bargaining, my team wanted to go straight for the drip/epidural straight after ARM or prepared to make the decisions on epidurals at the same time as the syntocinon - I didn't expected it to be so managed - all fine tho).

The update from Weehectorland is that we finally got home today - we're both fine but finding breastfeeding a bitch & was kept in an extra couple of days because of his weight loss. My breasts are just too big (32j before pregnancy) & Ally initially had problems sucking, then was sleepy & now has problems latching as I has to cup feed him expressed milk to turn the weight loss around. He's currently too lazy to take it from me & goes schizo when I try. So deep joy here but trying to
remain unemotional about it & taking encouragement from the fact that my milk supply is great. We will crack this! It is amazing being home though...no blues here yet & we're just besotted with our boy. Ally is the spit of his dad & it is just the best thing ever to see them together. I'm falling in love with Mr Weehector all over again.

Oh agree with Aussie re the stretchmarks run of the draw. I'm free of them but wasn't particularly diligent either.

And a final few words for those still waiting and getting worn down with the late pregnancy symptoms - despite more stitches than all Edward Scissorhands' girlfriends put together & no sleep all due to feeding & winding, it's infinitely better to feel as if I have been hit by a truck for a day & then start to recover quickly than I felt putting up with being immobile, insomnia, heartburn, restless legs, hot feet, etc for weeks on end. Definitely take the head off the people who tell you to get your sleep in, relax & enjoy, etc...they're talking shite, there's light at the end of the tunnel, I promise!

He's fast asleep now, I'm just panicking about all possible scenarios over the next few days and have started hoping baby stays put until after the weekend now to give him enough time to recover!! Talk about timing :(

Ps lovely to hear from you weehector x

Feck vix cross post there. Breathe... sure it'll be ok...one of those things that ends as quick as it comes on. Hopefully he'll be send home with some rehydration salts & orders for a day in bed. You can cuddle up with him & by tomorrow you'll both be rested, another day closer & ready for the big game [hugs emoticon].

so sorry about that vix, I freaked out a bit last week cos DH had a headache and some swelling on his head but hadn't banged it. Got me imagining nightmare scenarios and we phoned the out of hours doc but after a good night's sleep he was absolutely fine. I hope it's the same for your DH - everything's so much more worrying when you're 9 months preg!

weehector I hope Ally takes to feeding soon. So jealous of those with babies to cuddle!

Thanks girls! I'm letting him sleep for now and when he wakes we'll get him to the docs. Oh the drama!

vix that's so crap :( I hope your DH picks up really quickly. At least it's over the weekend so you don't have to worry about phoning work and he can get some rest. And don't feel guilty about the immodium, we'd have all done the same in your shoes!

weehector stick with the bfing - we're still struggling 4 weeks on but it will get better. If nothing else once they grow a bit and get stronger they find it a lot easier to latch on. I'm just hanging on til Samson's about 8-10 weeks and then hopefully we'll have crossed the tricky bit! [grits teeth] It is seriously worth it once you get past the hard bit :)

Quick one from me.....
Vix I'll keep my fingers crossed for you that everything is fine.... make sure you explain to the out of hours Dr your position (even if it is plain to see!) - maybe will help them be a bit more proactive in terms of any treatment.

weehector you do make me smile.... at the 'taking the head of people' bit :) hope Ally starts feeding better soon and well done for persevering.

vita Happy Birthday. Though I cannot imagine what a PITA it must be to try and do anything 'fun' for your birthday at this point.....!

xxx

Yes its a good job its the weekend because as its only the 2 of us running the business it would have been a real nightmare for him to be ill. Obviously I would insist he stayed at home but the pressure to go in and get orders sent out would have made him feel awful. I'm going to go and check on him now and see how he is.

I'm really paranoid now, every tiny little gurgle in my tummy and I'm thinking 'oh do I feel sick?' and chances are I may do anyway because lots of people do before they go into labour. I can see I am going to drive myself mad on this one! x

Congrats on baby Frederick Alice!! Glad mum and baby are both doing well :)

Pample - "build up a stock of sleep before baby comes". I too will smack anyone who says that!! It's not like it's even a real thing, you could sleep for 48 hours straight but it wouldn't mean that you wouldn't need to sleep for a week. Ah, I know people mean well, but they should just sympathise when a heavily pregnant woman complains!!

Vix - Oh no, your poor DH, that all sounds terrible and very stressful. My DH point blank refuses to take pain killers or cough medicine or anything at all unless you literally force him to. And it does my head in!! If you have a temperature and feel like you're coming down with the flu, have a nice hot shower, a big glass of orange juice and a couple of aspirin. Don't just lie on sofa, shivering and groaning! Men need to take better care of themselves... Hope your DH feels better soon and the out of hours doc is able to give him something so he is able to fulfill his birth partner duties...

7 days til due date!! No signs of impending labour, of course, but meeting a friend for a curry this evening so in a dream world, I'd come home, my waters would break, I'd somehow make it to 6 or 7cm before I even needed to go to the hospital and by tomorrow morning I'd have the baby. LOL. Well there's no harm in hoping!!

weehector - I am also large of nork....with dd1 I used nipple shields to help her latch on and it seemed to help (although I used to hide them from the midwife) - the others have not found it has hard to feed though although still used them for dd2 and 3.

Vix, what a nightmare. Hope your DH gets better soon. How scary having to ring 999 .

weehector - good on you re the BFing, I love your determination! Just try to stay as calm as poss when lathcing him on and he will get there. Have you tried lots of skin to skin contact? That helped with me and Daniel when he wasn't latching on in the first couple of days. Also it might be worth starting a thread in Breast and Bottle Feeding asking for advice about how to feed with big boobs (I don't have that problem altho my sister's are massive (!) and she has BF'd, I think it helps if you hold your boob in a certain way...?). Have you seen ? They can be good for tips on latching a baby on. Good luck!

Hello ladies

Lovely to hear from you Weehector

Vix when i was in labour with DD, DH had food poisoning so i can sympathise.

I too am struggling with feeding now. Was all going a bit too well, now i pour with sweat and have to bite my lip when feeding because of the pain. DH is out getting me some nipple cream and think i am going to get nipple shields. I expressed last time, so this is kind of a middle ground.

Belated Happy Birthday Vita

Dogwalker - as my due date buddy I have noted your absence and I hope it means you're now cuddling up to your little man

Well I didn't wake up this morning until 11am, I have no idea how that happened as I've been lucky to sleep past 7 recently. I woke to find that DP had been to the paper shop for me and left the newspapers next to the bed. Just wobbled (my general walking action at the moment) downstairs to discover that DP is missing and on checking the garage so is his motorbike. I'm starting to wonder if he slipped something into my ribena last night.... hmmmm

Vix hope DH is feeling better soon x

Alice big congrats!! fantastic news on your lovely frederick! very jealous :)

pample how annoying is it when you complain about getting stretchmarks and folk say - i didn't get any, I moisturised!! what do you think I've been religously doing for the last 9 months twice a day at least! and currently upwards of 4 times per day I should have taken out shares in bio oil I've used so much of it!!! I don't have that much really just underneath my belly, hopefully since they appeared late they will disappear early (wishful thinking). Sorry to hear about your hospital troubles, I think the differences in care from hospital to hospital are astoundingly shocking!!

littlemiss you poor thing darling, have as many baths as you can and if you feel like you need a glass of vino, you have one! it might mellow things out a little for you.

Lots of sweeps planned, hope this has results for you lot :)

vix OMG what a fright you must have got with DH!! I'm sure he'll get better soon and will be fighting fit in time for the bday. So try to relax as much as you can and keep you chin up sweetie, you will have your lovely baby soon who will make up for everything :)

Lovely to hear from you weehector sorry your having trouble with Bfeeding, at least you have lots of people on here that sympathise and can offer you support :) (the benefit of being towards the end of the queue!)

Had such a busy day yesterday and totally pooped myself out. Went for lunch with the bosses from work, which was lovely, we went to Jamie's Italian in Glasgow for 2.5 hours ! Then I showed a lady round the flat who has now agreed to rent it out paying in cash weekly for 6 weeks starting tomorrow! which is just fantastic news as it will help with the mortgage & bills whilst we wait for baby to make an appearance. We also have 3 viewings today in the same flat so fingers crossed everything will come together and we'll finally get a buyer!! The downside was one of them wants to view the flat we are currently living in which ment bogging it out top to toe!! luckily my male friend came round to help me and did the hoovering, took the rubbish out and dusted, brilliant and not bad for man cleaning. I still had to scrub the bathrooms and the kitchen but all clean so hopefully It won't all be in vain!!

Ran out of wool just before the end of my crochet'd blanket - doh!! this knitting lark is expensive business!

love to you all ladies, will catch up later!

oh and happy bday vita!!

Happy Saturday everyone - still no word from elusive I see - fingers crossed she is having cuddles with baby.

Many congrats to alice and to cakeywakey can't believe how the arrivals is getting ever bigger and waiting room is going down. Am very sorry to littlemiss and to vita for queuejumping and can't help thinking I have let you down mrszac will you forgive me (especially if I offer you this lovely chocolate fudge cake?!)

vita if you accept my apology (hopeful emotcion) please can you add Isabelle's weight to the list 5lb 12oz.

Thought I'd quickly post birth story - I had a few shows (whoever was asking about shows - that was exactly what I had) on Friday and Saturday followed by another on Monday which was streaked with blood - went to hospital who did a quick scan as they thought baby was breech again and it turned out it was so deeply engaged they couldn't feel the head. Monday 5pm contractions started - managed to sleep through till 1130pm.

Contractions were about every 10/15 mins until 9am when they were more constant and frequent (about every 5 mins lasting 90 secs). At this point DH asked - "if you have 10 mins please can you show me how to fit the car seat?" And we can imagine what the answer to that was!

By 1100am we were at hopsital who said I was 4cm dilated. Birth plan discussed - 'get it out as quickly as possible with as many drugs as possible!' Gas and air eventually followed by pethadine.

DH also had some gas and air when no one was looking and proceeded to collapse into his chair giggling like a little schoolgirl!

Next check 4 hrs later and was only 5cm so they set me up on the drip and an epidural (loving the epidural!) Checked again at 11pm and was 9cm and started pushing at 12am - Isabelle was born at 12:54 back to front and with a huge sneeze (from her - not me obviously). Sustained a 2nd degree tear and 2 hours of suturing although I cannot remember any pain at all. It was amazing - I never ever ever thought I would be able to give birth naturally as I am such a wimp) and here she is! Would so do this again - even with the stitches pain and sleepless nights and feeling generally hormonal.

Thank you for all the congratulations and Good luck to the rest of the women who are waiting - if I could get them out for you I would!

Weehector welcome to the rubbish at breastfeeding club! I also have huge norks and thought I'd had a bit of a breakthrough yesterday. Realised I was latching G on differently whenever we were out and about - when I'm trying to be discreet, I latch him on more from the bottom rather than coming straight on ifykwim? So he's not strictly tummy to tummy. He's slightly more turned out or facing up, which works better for my big droopy boobs!

Thanks everyone for your well wishes. We went to see the out of hours doctor who was horrified when he saw me and realised how pregnant I was! He basically said the idea of a homebirth (if I go into labour over the next few days) is very questionable because DH has a virus which is contagious and he expects him to feel very weak and unwell for at least the next day or so, and doesn't think he will be up to being a birth partner. Poor DH reluctantly agreed and is very upset at the thought of it being 'his fault' that I have to go into hospital.

But what is worrying me is that the Doc said if DH is still ill he wouldn't probably be allowed in with me whilst I am in labour, and probably not even to hold the baby. This is our only planned baby, I am so upset at this thought I can't tell you :( I am trying to hide it because I know DH feels awful.

The doctor told us to stay away from each other as much as possible which is hard since we only have 1 bedroom and neither of us is fit enough to sleep on a 2 seater sofa in the lounge, or the floor. Our families are too far away and we don't have any close enough friends that would want either me heavily pregnant or DH while he has diarrhea! I asked the doctor what would happen if I had this bug whilst in labour and he said 'you don't want to think about that situation' which has made me feel very worried indeed. Oh dear... Sorry to be me me me and moany, I just can't believe this has happened now when I can't even remember the last time DH was under the weather, let alone really poorly!

oh Vix you poor thing but do try to keep chin up...I'm no medic but doc sounds very doom and gloom and I often think doctors play fast and loose with the word "virus" when they really don't have a scooby what's going on? I don't say that to undermine your very real concerns but just in the hope that doc is being pessimistic and your DH will soon be right as rain and it's not as bad as all that? Perhaps doc being super-careful in light of your very special circumstances. Rest up both of you and hopefully all will work out, sending you healing vibes.

Just had a blissful reflexology session with a lovely lady who came to the house - really hope it gives LO a sufficent wake up call to get things moving! Come on baby, Mummy wants a cuddle!

Well done sparkle, sounds a bit ouch but no complaints from you - makes me excited!

Hi ladies! just a quick one to let you all know Erin Ava Howells was born on 19th Aug at 9:55 am. It took three days if start stop labour to finally meet her but it was worth every minute - she is beautiful! Will catch up with everyones posts soon and post a birth story as soon as I can.
Good luck to those still in the waiting room - not long now!!!