Due September - Thread 15 - Babies being born thick and fast! Yay!

[KiwiKate]

Time for a new thread.

Hope the title will encourage the "reluctant" babes into the world.

Good luck to all who are due now/overdue

Morning everyone still waiting around like me

Saw mw yesterday afternoon who very kindly did an internal for me...after all these cramps and pains and "shows" thought i might be a little dilated...but no my cervix is not good apparently, very long, tough and thick. Am not happy at all, still only 2days till that full moon...

Got appt on tuesday at hospital to talk about induction and mw thinks it's a good idea for me to point out to them that they changed my date by 20days at my 12week scan...so in theory i could be 3weeks overdue by tuesday...she thinks it'll work!

out some washing on this morning and hung it out....it's just started raining....grrrrrrrr...cant be arsed to get it in..it;s wet now anyway!! going to put on a good weepy film in a bit, have a bounce and a good ol' cry...something else which mw suggested as a starter for labour.....anyone esle heard of this?

Sorry for the long post just so bored and noone to talk to at home

CONGRATULATIONS ladyL

Mummyhill why do you think that induction might fail? (I've never heard of one "failing" only some taking longer than others. Why do you automatically have to have a section if the induction fails?

STM - I heard that watching a really funny movie can bring on labour (someone else on MNet said they laughed to hard at Billy Connelly that it brought on labour)

hi and good morning everyone
ladyl, huge congatulations and welcome to elise xxx
mummyhill, i too would of been very annoyed at what your pil did, i don't think they realise how annoying they are sometimes do they.
so, who will be next? i can't wait to see.....

I too have heard it is good to watch a weepy film - I think it's meant to clear you out of all tension.

I've also heard that the film 'Three Men and a Baby' has been successful in getting women into labour.... something about hearing babies cry...

Boompi What kind of bedding do you use with your hammock?

I'm trying to weigh up whther to pop to a supermarket for a browse around with DD after I collect her from nursery. I'm going crazy inside the house.

Nikkinoo/Mummyhill - It's not just the older generation who give children inappropriate treats at the wrong time. Our next door neighbours - DD 2.5yrs and another due in Jan -are forever inviting my DD over to play which is nice but they feed their DD all kinds of crp - chocolate, sweets, crisps even chewing gum and give my DD the same (bar the chewing gum I hope) when she's round there, even when they know it's nearly dinner/lunch/bedtime. I feel really straight-laced when I tell them that DD doesn't really eat sweets etc.
Kiwikate - Had a similar incident with MIL. She phoned when they got back from hols, not to check how I was doing but to give us EVERY little boring detail of their trip to Northumberland (nothing against Northumberland, just MILs!). DH wasn't in at the time and at the end of the conversation, because she had made no mention of the fact that I am about to give birth, I told her not to worry that we would let her know when anything happened. She called later to have the same conversation with DH and ended it with "You will let us know when the baby arrives, won't you? So that we can organise ourselves"!!!!!! No MIL, we thought we wouldn't tell you so that YOUR schedule would be bggered!
On the other hand, every time I phone DM she answers the phone with "Contractions 5 mins apart, are they?" or some other such amusing (not) comment! Don't know which I'd rather have!

Midwife got me paranoid telling me about failed inductions and how that means an emergency section. Yipee (not)

The ideal would be if one person from each family phoned each day and then let everyone else know rather than having to field 20 calls and 30 text's a day.

Mummyhill - annoyed at your inlaws!!

What am I doing today.... got dd1 &DD2 to school then took dd3 to her school. The mum there due on the same day as me (the 24th) had her baby last night. Happy for her but !

Got home & sorted mil breakfast out & had mine - lots of almond croissant - yum! Looked at crossword - then the thought of car seat occured to me. Went to basement & got car seat - covered in mould am now in process of cleaning it. 4th child syndrome here!! good job I checked before dh got the car seat out to bring little one home in it!

Had to clean out the messiest rooms of the basement - sorted washing room - loads of clothes for charity, matched up all the kids too big/too small shoes, cleaned out storage room (where I found the mouldy car seat!) This must be nesting (please!!).......

After posting here will allocate all the baby clothes my sil's have given - three huge sacks!

Will soon collect dds from school & run the gauntlet of mums saying - you still here, sympathising with being so big, ahhhhhh

Home for a b'day party - have a big meal to prepare plus look after the kids. AFter bath & bed times - My mil is great at storytime - I'll sort out some of the voluntary work I do as I'm handing some of it over for a while - & then hope to do nothing - just read.

Hope everyone has a good day xxx

Well, emergency gas man came, announced that we do seem to have a leak behind the cooker, but then got very jobs-worth and said his job was just to make safe, not mend it! So now he has turned off the gas, and I can't get anyone to mend it before tomorrow (when I may not be here anyway.....!)so no hot water=no comforting bath=very stroppy andif
Have just cancelled lunch with friends as am so tired and figured I ought to try and get some sleep in case it all kicks off tonight!
Sympathy to those with PIL probs - I have the opposite of an interfering MIL - she has joined a sort of cult based on past life experiences. Once she was meant to look after the kids when we were moving house, but had to cancel as she was having trouble dealing with something she'd done in a past life So despite her being brilliant with the kids, we rarely hear from her now unless she wants something and she spends all her holiday deep inside a mountain somewhere in Italy......Sorry to blabber on, but the whole thing has been really annoying me recently and thought it might amuse some of you who would gladly wish your PILs deep inside a mountain!

andif - sorry about the hot water problem - things like that always seem to go wrong at the wrong moment. Not on the same level as your probs - but I've managed to break my second mobile phone in two weeks! - so I'm driving around the countryside with no way to contact dh easily in an emergency. Hopefully I'll get my third phone this evening - don't know what I'm doing to them?

God knows my MIL isn't perfect, but there have been no adverse comments re the birth, birth timing, or indeed, the birth plan - which is more than can be said for my own mother... She even rang my husband the other day to say that she was going out with her brother, but that she was still on call if we needed her. She's taking the dog for the duration.

Mummyhill: because your midwife is really going to encourage you into labour by stressing you out about failed inductions, isn't she...???

I think I might make some fairy cakes. That'll take my mind off my cervix and bring a smile to my husband's face...

...in the absence of more 'vigorous' amusements...

Just noticed on birth announcements that baby helenemjay now has a name so big September thread welcome to Olivia

Oh Andif, what a time for your gas to be turned off, not surprised you're !
It's lovely watching all your post everyone, haven't been feeling half so alone these last few days.
No experience of in-laws; dds grandparents not 'of this vibration' as my mother would put it! and DPs father as yet to enforce his influence/oppinion on the coming event... It's my Dear Mother who's manipulating and attention seeking... current feeling between me and my sister is that baby will be born saturday - full moon - Mothers birthday! and we'll get a garbled emergency phone call half way through the second stage (something along the lines of 'I can't move... think I'm having a stroke!') before you ask, or suddenly think this is very bad taste - yes she has used this one before!!!
Andif, DMs a spiritualist too so kind of get with your frustration at MiL being off on another cloud doing her Cult thing - what is it with them?

Hello All. Am still here an waiting like the rest of you. Felt exhausted yesterday and spent the day with the television remote, like only those of us waiting for our first baby can do! I am hoping it was the calm before the storm. Am on broadband for the first time today so can enjoy many hours of mumsnet now without feeling guilty!! Is anyone else permanantly hungry at the mo? Off to have lunch now, which DP is currently making. Bless him.

Well i watched a weepy and bounced for the duration...nothing happening though

Thankfully i have no MIL to interfere...what a blessing me thinks

Seeing if mars bars are good inducers...tried snickers...but have found they are scientifically not suitable....

Jen - re: your comment on the stas thread...you need to copy and paste what everyone else has written

I've had lunch at least once already today... just thinking what I feel like next!!

I really dont have an appetite at all...only had weetabix today and that was about 9:30am. Guess i should eat something, but really dont fancy it...

Do the Mars and Snickers not count as food...??

Just had a really deep sleep for an hour or so and feeling better, but hoping it hasn't all ground to a halt... Baby much quieter (felt like it was tunnelling out earlier), no cramps, but big BH. Can't face it if it all stops now for a week or so like last time.Heartburn v bad at mo, so not even in the mood for chocolate - aaggghh!

RZ - yea but not a meal....and it;s not for hunger just for scientific purposes

Awake again!!!

Have some cheeky misleading cramps reappearing - I shall ignore them I wont be fooled again!!!!

singleteenagemum - glad you are doing some great scientific work for expectant mothers everywhere - I think nothing gets a baby out quicker than a milky bar!

Oh no here comes dh - he'll make me drink Rasberry lt etc etc to shift baby!!!!!!!! quick hide!

Glad girly babies are so far in the lead!!