Due SEPTEMBER thread 14 - here we go ...

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I am NOT superstitious but ..... couldn't bear the thread that took us into September to be #13 !!!

Interesting article about 1yr olds remembering the music they heard before they were born. Don't fancy the chances of settling my baby at 3am to The Libertines tho...

Have had an update about my nanna - they are taking her off the ventilator today and just letting things run their course naturally over the next how ever long it takes. Feel sad, but suppose it's for the best, as apparently after her perforated bowel there's hardly anything left of it

Ohh dear the neighbours are going to love us settling jnr down with metalica at 1 in the morning!!!!

I have a big ball and have been merrily bouncing on it all day but what is it doing for me?

A new thread .

Have had a good day with SIL doing DS looking after (both DH and I were able to be asleep in the afternoon while DS enjoyed going to the park etc. And she mowed the lawn ).

Franch, I've been married exactly 2 weeks longer than you.

Andif, I was getting excited about a full moon on Friday. I know that I'm not due until the 16th, but would like this baby out a bit sooner.

Going to the doctor tomorrow to get more ADs and iron tablets. And going to the midwife to see if she has any useful feelings on the way up of this baby. DS going to nursery, so there should be some peace (unless I join in with the loud music )

LadyLazarus - take care - thinking of you xxx

diane77 - you should be getting baby in to optimum position for birth.
I'll be using mine tomorrow - little monkey moved into back to back position for visit to mw and moved immediately back to its frontal position as I walked (waddled) down the stairs!

Its going to be 29/30 c in London tomorrow - so keep cool London and south east ladies!!

Last thing we need is hot weather I am actually looking forward to more rain as I am melting again. Crunching ice pops like they are going out of fashion

Does it have to be hot? I want maybe a bit warmish, but not hot.

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Good, a new thread (with 34 messages already!)

RedHelen & Kiwifruit see my msg on the old thread about positioning explanation and exercises.

Diane, sorry about your disappointment. Bit of a double edged sword.

Oops - congrats on your baby. How is it going? How nice of you to offer your spare stuff to the Sept thread (I won't take you up on it as I am in NZ!!).

Looks like we aren't going to have any more August babies on this thread.

Is bouncing on a birthing ball supposed to speed along the start of labour (along the lines of the "drive along bumpy roads to get the baby to bounce on the top of the cervix" type of theory?

I think the idea is that once the baby is ready and on its way, bouncing can maintain progress and encourage the baby into the right position. It keeps you upright, and the baby's contact with your pelvis.
I'm really starting to see why cats and other animals make nests and sort of go into hiding before labour. I just want to curl up and have no visitors, no builders, no excursions.

Morning, some of us were up bright and early this morning, how are you all? I was up more times than I could count last night but hey ho not much longer to go now. Feeling drained again this morning.

DD has some friends coming round to play after lunch I hope they don't make too much mess cause I have spent the last week frantically tidying up and am still bleaching all the surfaces at least once a day. Which is quite scary really they usually get wiped over with multi surface cleaner each time they are used and bleached every two days. Can't have a dirty kitchen!!!!

Hope everyone can find a way to keep cool, we will be staying in the house I think as it is actually cooler inside than out.

Its going to be 32 degrees in London today - humid later with thunder storms, oh I can't wait!
Off to the sand pit with dd before I get too hot and it gets too busy.
Hope all are well, sorry to those who had a bad nights sleep, I only managed the loo 3 times last night, an improvement on the night before anyway.
Got my food delivery turning up this afternoon, good old ocado, its been a life saver these last few weeks. Have ordered a HUGE box of choc ices so shall be tucking into those later.
Also been bouncing on my ball to get this damm baby to change position. Hoping to see the GP tomorrow to get the position re-confirmed. Also off to buy a stack load of caullophalum (not sure thats how you spell it) took this 5 days over due last time and that eve was in labour. May not of been the herbs but def going to try again as soon as one day overdue. 8 days to go and counting......

Sorry to crash this thread, just wanted to say how nice it was to meet some of you for lunch yesterday.

Look forward to seeing you all with babies!

Morning all,
Not going to enjoy today at all - it;s too hot
had a consultants appoinment yesterday to check if DB was breech. He;s not which is great, but the consultant saw me at 15:10 (half an hour after my appointment) then i had to wait to have my blood pressure and urine tested....i had to wait until 17:20 as she put my notes in the mw's pile and not the HCA's. Am not happy
Hope the sex is working for you all. Is there not a food you can eat which contains oxytocin?

HI STM as far as I can tell from google search oxytocin is a hormone that does not apear in foods. Can be synthetically produced as syntocin or otherwise stimulated by sex. Pity really as if it occurrd in a food that would be much easier.

Morning morning. I can't believe it's going to be so hot today. I'd thought (from the crispness of recent mornings) that we on a nice comfortable slide into autumn. I get so fed up with summer.

Boompi: this is the article from the BMJ regarding stillbirth risks: Prospective risk of unexplained stillbirth in singleton pregnancies at term: population based analysis . As it says, this includes unexplained stillbirths - so intrauterine deaths where the cause can be established (such as a clotting disorder like mine, presumably) aren't included. Also - if you (can be bothered to) read the academic correspondence regarding to how they've calculated the figures, you'll see that there's some argument going on about whether they should have used cumulative risk (i.e. I'm in week x - what is the chance of a stillbirth from now until delivery) or specific risk (i.e. what is the chance of stillbirth in week 35, or week 37 or week 43). My husband - a mathematician - extracted the raw data and did his own table, based on the fact that he doesn't think most people are competent to examine and draw conclusions from statistics (those long winter evenings just fly by...). I can let you know those figures too, if you're interested - but from a comparison point of view, I'm not sure how much difference it makes. Their table is reached by a link about half way down.

It may not be a cheerful subject, but best to be informed, I feel - particularly when being threatened with induction.

LadyLazarus: sorry to hear about your grandmother. I think the thing about not going to a funeral, or making it to the hospital before they go, is that it doesn't feel real.

morning everyone
andif, i didn't take my mothers advice, dp won't come near me anyway as he thinks it's perverted. lol
kiwikate, wouldn't be too sure that there will be no more august babies if i were you, as i told you all yesterday, i was up all the previous night with pains. i went shopping with my friend and sister and when i got home, the pains started again. got so bad that at 10pm last night i went to the labour ward. the mw there said my cervix was "lovely and soft", thanks for the compliment, no one has ever been so nice about it before, LOL and that i was at the early stages of labour and that she thinks that baby will definetely put a appearance in today. yippee. it's bound to come tomorrow just as pils have to leave for the airport. so now i am just waiting around. she wanted me to spend the night in the maternity ward but there was no way, i only live across the road. anyway, i've just had a bath and need to sort my hair out now. sorry for boring you all.
glad the meet up went ok xxx
stm, nice to hear from you
i have a mw appt at 4 today if db hasn't put a appearance in by then, mmmmm can't wait!!!

We are going to take a walk down to Asda before it gets too hot to get some stuff for lunch. DD's friends mum has just rung to ask if we can take the kids to the park at 2pm, hottest part of the day 1/2 hour walk there and same back with three kids under 5 not my idea of fun but hey ho couldn't exactly refuse. Big hats lots of sunscreen and glasses then try to find the shadiest spot I think. On a plus point i am sure i read somewhere that a good walk could start labour off.

Living room thermometer is reading 25.2C already, it's gonna be a hot one.

Good luck bubbles

Bubbles, how exciting!
This heat is really p*ing me off!!Been awake since 4.30am, now realise I should have walked the dog then before it got so hot. Got to arrange kids haircuts, vets for dog with sore ear, birthday cake etc etc today as well as visit the homeopath for ds1's tonsilitis and the osteopath for my back. Feel exhausted just thinking about it. THEN I will be ready for this baby!
Even jumped on the trampoline last night in the dark in vain hope of bringing on labour - dh was worried about the baby, but I don't think it can do much harm - I was more worried about getting on and off.

Bubbles - good luck!!!! keep us informed!!!!!

singleteenagemum - glad baby is not breech.

Staying in today (ds at mils) its toooo hot and I don't like it one bit! Really hope it wont last!! Hospitals are really hot places to start with!

Bubbles, sending lots of positive birthing vibes your way...what was the "mantra" they taught us in antenatal class? My baby is moving down. My body is opening. I can do this.

Cheesy, I know. But I'm sending them your way.

xxx

bubbles - hope everything is going OK!

Good luck bubbles