September 2010 - arrivals already, more to come!

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Here's the new thread for the September 2010 arrivals - though some babies have already come in July and August, and maybe more to come in August before we're done with this month...

AAAAaaaaarrgh, you want to murder me bananastew?!?! I thought you were such a nice girl as well with no murderous tendencies at all. Sigh, how wrong could I be.

Hi all
Congrats LadyRabbit and Heather.
Started day with a trip to hairdressers! Tresses now ready for photos! Finished evening with my two little ones singing 'you are my sunshine' to my bump. DS2 (2 1/2!!) cant hold a tune for love or money so it was the cutest thing.
Oosa not sure about the lilt but its a definite accent!!

So after making half of you cry now I have to make you laugh. Met a guy yesterday and he was telling me about a friend of his. His friends wife went into labour and he rushed to hospital straight from work. He was about to burst into the labour room when a nurse stopped and said that he couldnt possibly go in 'those clothes' and she handed him a gown etc. Off she went in to attend his wife and 5 mins later the two were on the floor in hysterics when the poor guy walked in past them bare ass'd! Nothing but the gown on!! Poor guy but bigger fool to be down the pub telling his mates!

Cant believe I will have a baby in the next ten days! Getting really excited now.

Brilliant MammyG. It's about time one of the fellas lost his dignity for a short while too.
So.... not such a soppy film. According to DH: chick friendly. It was not. Off to bed now with my friend Gaviscon. Doubt he'll ever lie to me
Here's hoping for some news from the weekend!

hi all, just catching up on the thread, now back from wedding in Cornwall without having given birth there (hoorah). Got lots of suggestions for Cornish names at the wedding 'just in case'...! Grenville anyone... Can now relax - hoping for a nice couple of weeks off work to get things sorted at home, and catch up on some sleep during the daytime (as it's just not happening at night!) before meeting the bubs.

37+6

Oh Dixie if you want cornish names, you should hear the names my poor nephew has been lumbered with, courtesy of his dad...

Hugh Wendryn Tresinnian Godolphin (or Tresillian, can't quite remember!)

No word of a lie!

Grenville is quite tame after that!

thanks for all the congrats ladies.
we're doing well and my milk came in overnight so now i have huge boobs! it's only 2 days since the birth so i am rather tender all over. i can't wait to feel normal again..

Congrats heather - I know what you mean about huge boobs! I think I produce far too much milk as Belle seems to finish a feed and pull off and my boob is still squirting milk everywhere!

I really feel for those of you who are late... I was getting annoyed and Belle was only 1 day late (although technically my waters went at 12.40am, so she started coming 40mins after my due date!)
swordfish - I was convinced we'd have our babies at a similar time (so much in the early days seemed the same!)

I can't believe that Belle is over 1 week already! Do you think that she would be a similar size if she was born now as she is at a week... ie would she grow at a similar rate in my belly as she is out?
She's already out of newborn stuff and is filling up to 1 month pretty well! Already I think she's growing too fast!!!

park, your poor nephew!!! Imagine the sniggers at his wedding....!

i remember when i had ds1 waking up in the middle of the night thinking the roof was leaking as i was soaking wet and had water spraying all over my face until i realised that i was so engorged it was actually breastmilk spraying everywhere!! oh the joys

Pickledsarnie, Just shows you never know who you're talking to online!!

Well, we've had a fantastic day. been to my parents farm so Oliver could meet his auntie, uncle and cousin! we've been bramble picking, sloe picking, tractor riding and just general country living! So very funny tho, dh was given some chocolate, ds1 disappeared for a while, went very quiet and was found cheekily munching through a 500g bar of galaxy! Priceless! It definately tested my pelvic floor, I wanted to be cross but he was just hillarious, stood there with a butter wouldn't melt look covered in choc choc!

Morning all..... nothing from cinnamon,swordfishtrombone or monster......? I wonder if things are finally happening for you? Hope so!
I'm 39+5 and slept so so well last night that i'm actually miffed as I just don't think it's a sign of things happening. Surely I should be feeling something or can it be all of a sudden??
MammyG I just had a little weep at your 'you are my sunshine' story!

Just caught up on the thread - it's all coming thick and fast these days!! HUGE congrats to skatergrrl, heather & ladyrabbit on the arrival of your little ones.

OK sorry for this but I need to have another overdue rant, my sympathies are truly with you swordfish, cinnamon and monstermuncher.
I've been trying so hard to remain positive but I'm really struggling now.

Got very excited about having a sweep on Wednesday only to leave the midwife's office crushingly disappointed, I really thought I would be a little dilated after all the period type pains and BH i've been having, but my cervix was so posterior the midwife could hardly reach it let alone S&S :(

I know it's unwise to get your heart set on a particular type of birth but I really did want to have my baby as naturally as possible in the birthcentre preferably using the pool (Ina May Gaskin has a lot to answer for!) and I feel like I'm grieving for that experience already which seems totally unreasonable as I know rationally that having my baby is what's important whatever way he comes.

Anyways the midwife is coming over to give me another sweep today and although they wanted to induce me tomorrow I've managed to hold off my booking until Wednesday when I will be 40+14.
Please - does anybody know anybody that has gone over 11 days overdue and still gone into labour naturally??

41+4 or 40+11

Oh BooStar Poor you. My friend had her little Dd in May and went into labour on the 13th day overdue. The night before she was booked in for her induction!! Things were happening slowly though so she was still about to have intervention but her waters broke as the mw was just about to check how dilated she was.
Try to keep positive as anything can happen and once he's born you won't care how long he's been settled in your lovely tum for!

Still here beaditAli!

I know how you feel Boostar, I have been crying so much the last few days! It really is grief and as you say you never really had it so how can you be sad to have lost it. I don't know if it makes you feel better but at my hospital they have a birth pool and if you go into labour from prostin alone you can still use it, so I'm focusing in that as the most positive outcome of induction. I know several people who have gone into labour the day before they were due to be induced, there is always time. Try to keep your spirits up by I know how hard it is, I have so many expectations from this labour as last one wasn't what I wanted and dh doesn't want anymore children that it I hard to remain positive.

Hope everyone else is well

41+5

I'm sorry for all of you who are staring induction in the face. I hope you can avoid it. I was induced with DD and i went on to need my waters breaking, the hormone drip thingy and then an emergency c-section. Not a good birth i suppose, but i've never had a naturally one, so i don't really know what i'm missing. I was 14 days over when it happened.
I've noticed from being on this thread though, that there seems to be a big percentage of interference. I think that it is because they count your gestation from the last period, but you only get pregnant (roughly) 2 weeks later. So in my laymans perspective you are really 2 weeks less pregnant than the doctors say. So when you go 2 weeks over, you are actually 40 weeks pregnant. I might be wrong but i'm sure i read somewhere that they have done this on purpose because the placenta doesn't work as well after 42 weeks and it has reduced this.

On another note, it is my EDD today. So my babies are term. To celebrate they have decided in the last 48 hours to take it in turns - one sleeps while the other is awake and vice versa. JOY of JOYS!!!!!!!

Boostar, one of the mums at ds school went in to labour naturally at 42+2.... she didn't fancy being induced and said the hospital were really good about her going a few more days over the 'norm'. Also my midwife told me last week of a lady who was on the large side that, so much so, the hospital thought it would be riskier inducing her or giving her a section so it was the hospital who advised her it would be safer to wait until labour started naturally with expectant management after 42 weeks. Well she went on to give birth at 43 weeks (midwife said albeit a 10+ pounder!). But all was safe and well.

You have to take in to account that scan dates are not always accurate and in some countries like France they class your due date as being at 42 weeks before you are officially overdue.

I'm still waiting - have a sweep booked for 41 weeks (this Wednesday) if nothing has happened before then. Feeling a bit waiting... Feels like forever I've been pregnant now and would rather it all happened on it own. Sending positive labour vibes to the overdue ladies.

40+4

It's started! My waters literally exploded at 4.00 am which totally freaked me out. Contractions are now coming regularly, went in for assessment and m/w advised me to stay at home as for long as possible so here I am just waiting for them to pick up speed then I'm going back in. Luckily we aren't too far away from the hospital.
Best of luck to the others who are playing the waiting game :)

Great news Monstermuncher, hope things pick up soon for you!

Congratulations to Ladyrabbit & Heather!

Hope the ladies that are nearly there have your little ones soon. FX

Boostar I know just how you feel. I was determind to go full term this time after a painful induction with DC3. When they told me Lucy had stopped growing and had to be delivered that week (36) I just went with it. It was after she was born that Ifelt like I was mourning having a full term September baby. It took nearly 3 weeks for me to stop feeling low about how things went.
What you have to remember is babies come when they are ready and your LO obviously is enjoying it in there. Try not to stress yourself out about it and things will happen.

Congratulations to the new babies

Good luck monster for all I know your LO has arrived by now!

How exciting - come on little man I want to meet you too!! I'm not even overdue yet and I'm soooo impatient!!!

Oh, that's great monstermuncher - were you already awake when your waters went at 4am or did it wake you up? Hope things are progressing well for you now!

My c-sect is tomorrow - am both excited and terrified. DH keeps asking what we still need to do / get organised and tbh all I want to do is mess around on the internet and not think too hard about anything!

My mum arrived yesterday to help look after the boys while I'm in hospital so that has been a big help already - think the boys are a little unsettled but quite excited too, they keep talking about coming to the hospital to see "new babies".

Good luck to anyone who's in labour - thread seems unusually quiet today so I reckon there might be a few more new arrivals soon!

39+3

Oooh good luck bella hope it all goes well just think this time tomorrow you'll be holding your babies!!!

Our babies might have the same birthday bellabelly, if my induction starts an proceeds at a reasonable rate! Hope all goes well for you tomorrow and I look forward to seeing your news :)