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

I just rang the hospital agin and got her bleeper number. I paged her and she should ring me in 20 minutes time.... Watch this space - haha

Oh - dd is still crying

Well it won't be long before you're jogging again STM. You should get one of those groovey jogging strollers.

I'm feeling pretty good - considering. Just trying to relax and enjoy myself by doing whatever I feel like, ordering DP around and eating whatever I want. Just did some research on premature rupture of membranes and have reassured myself that I'm doing the right thing by not going into hospital.

Beattie: BIG HUGS!

Good - Luck Katts... can't be long now! Lovely to hear your at home as long as possible.
{{{hugs}}} Beatie... this prolonged delay a total downer I was flipping through previous threads of the Sept club and saw that Franch (i think) posted a link to the Active Birth site and an article about going overdue... I've found it very reassuring and printed it off so DP could read it and understand I'm not putting baby at risk by not agreeing to an induction immediately (I'm 12 days over-due today)... Hoping the present bout of rolling contractions will pick up pace and rhythm and I'll go into spontaneous labour in next 24hours
Good Luck everyone

STM isn't it typical that when you find someone to have 'us' time with it coincides with the imminent arrival of an extreamly demanding other! on the up side though you've potentially got some wonderful support in the form of your new man and will both love baby in a very 'together' way... he does sound nice STM x

Thanks Cabe - I will go and have a look for it. I am not sure if I have the courage to go over 42 weeks.

I'm just desperate to be checked and 'swept' today so I feel like I have some news and something positive to hold on to. I'm sure, like all the other 'ntaural' induction techniques, that a cervical sweep will only work if I'm ready to go into labour but doing nothing at all is certainly the worse option at the moment.

The midwife rang me. She sounded very nice actually but hadn't been expecting to ring me or visit me today I can see they have good communication going on in THIS community team (haha!)

Anyway - she sensed my distress and is going to speak to my midwife and see if I can go to the labour ward and have the sweep done there. There's only one community midwife on rounds today and she has 6 postnatals to see - and apparently they are a greater priority.

Oh at last something more positive for you Beattie... hope you get the sweep The web site I was looking at is www.activebirth.org and the pages are Janet's e Journal Article One... hope you can find it either from this or Franch's link

I've found it from Franch's link. I'm just going to read it now. Thanks

Hmmm - this is interesting for me:

"You may request not to have the membranes ruptured as a matter of course, when being induced with prostoglandin or syntocinon, as intact membranes provide a protective cushion of amniotic fluid around the baby�s head.

Rupturing the membranes often stimulates the immediate onset of very intense contractions, and may increase the need for medical pain relief. It also increases the risk of an ascending infection, by removing the protective barrier of the membranes."

I really, really don't want to have my waters broken because last time I was induced that immediately put me into unmanageable pain.

beatie - i think lack of communication is the only similiar thing about all our different health trusts...noone talks to eachother, it;s appalling.

Cabe - how far over are you now?

katts - already bought one, just waiting to have someone to put in it lol.

Yes, your experience of having membranes ruptured sounds exactly like my sisters experience... the intense pain brings on the production of adrenelin which in turn stops the labour progressing so baby gets distressed and the medics panic!!! Great! Sis ended up with very traumatic emergency C section and I cried all the time she was in the theatre - brutal experience!
I've found the article has armed me with a very self assertive attitude - hope it helps x

Twelve days STM!! my reikki master's coming over this afternoon to realign my energies! hope that'll get baby swimming out!!!!

12 days? o how must you be feeling, i'm due wednesday and hating it soooo much...

I'm doing just fine really - have found MN and this thread so helpful though DP and I live miles and miles apart for our respective careers so find it very lonesome at times, esp whilst I'm not studying - uni starts again on 26th Sept and kind of hoping it wont be much later when I get a chance to catch up with the beginning of term. DP will be re-arranging his working hours when baby's here so I'm looking forward to that too

Doesn't sound like fun! Am hopefully going to start uni next year...do my nurse training...depends though....if living with parents i can but with anyone else probably couldn't afford it

is he going to be there for the birth?

Yes... Providing my labour isn't lightning quick!!
I've told him he'll have to put the blue lights on his car if things start all of a sudden!

Getting to uni sounds like an excellent plan - don't worry about the financing too much, there's loads of support through NHS and the university access funds too and with housing and council tax benefits available to single parents and child tax credits it should be possible for you to fund yourself through uni... It's darn hard work but well well worth it

That's interesting Beatie - I hadn't thought of induction without breaking membranes. I was in slow labour with ds2 and only had epidural because they wanted to break the membranes, so would like to avoid it this time, even if I'm induced. As I'm strep B positive it would be good to keep membranes as long as poss to protect baby from infection. I will go to the consultant this afternoon armed with this info....watch this space!

Thought I'd put a link to that article here so everyone interested can access it more easily!

Think I will be asking if it possible to have an epidural prior to breaking my membranes if they feel that this is the best way to go then.

congrats to redhelen + family! hope you're resting up and being looked after!

get well soon andif!

ych - your description of breastfeeding sounds v.v.similar to mine! I was in tears about it, and felt like such a failure to have to do top-up feeds. However, now the hormones have passed, I feel much better about it, at least Elise is getting some nourishment and is settling. It's tougher than I thought to breastfeed! Nipple shields helping, but she'll only feed for 15mins usually, but then will guzzle from bottle! Tried the breast pump for the first time last night, very slow going, and definitely felt a touch bovine...

certainly sounds like there are a few more little people on the way by the way everyone's talking hang on in there! god, it seems like forever ago that i was in labour, and it was only last monday night / tuesday!

{{{{Hugs}}}} Beattie - hang in there!

STM, your man sounds absolutely lovely

Katts - all sounds good for baby's imminent arrival. Hadn't thought about a 2nd opinion, but might look into it...

Have just got back from the hospital again. BP seems to have settled, although still a little high. No protein in my urine today, so that's good. MW thought the baby had turned breech ! So had to go for a scan - turns out not breach, just has head well down, and is LOA, which is great news. And estimated weight is just over 7lbs (DH sounded disappointed about that - think he was looking forward to people saying 'what a whopper' to a 9lber! Very easy for him to say... ). Going back on Thursday to see the consultant.

Still waiting for the nesting thing to kick in - showing no signs of appearing yet. Think I might have to go and lie on the sofa and wait for it to show up...

Back from hospital having been stretched and swept. Not as bad as I was anticipating which was a pleasant surprise.

Blood pressure has decided to go up (140/105 the first time the mw did it and then went down to 130/90). So a mw should be coming round to check it tomorrow (although I am fully prepared for this to be at about 5pm, with a fractious DS). Ankles are a bit swollen, although no protein in wee and no headaches, blurred vision etc.

DH is in bed. He has a horrible migraine and had to keep stopping on the way home to be sick . But he is going to be around for most if not all of this week which is nice .

Beatie, I really hope you manage to see someone soon (ie today) and that your baby comes out very soon as well.

I also have a date for induction - 28th September when I'll be 12 days over.

DH has decided to have the day off with us tomorrow so he can take us to and from nursery in the car if I have my way!!!! Going in on Wednesday morning so DD is going to stay at my mums from tomorrow night. It allways feels odd when sh isn't here I find myself checking her room before I remember that she is sleeping elsewhere.

Mummyhill - know exactly what you mean. Have been thinking, "Gosh DD is quiet...wonder what she's up to" or "DD has slept a long time, not like her" all day before I remember that she's at nursery. Not used to being home alone.
Have just woken up from a 1.5hour nap after having said I'm not tired. Feeling a bit more positive. Think was just a bit fed up - everyone talking about induction, sweeping, etc and I haven't even reached my due date yet. Just so of you all. Sorry about moan.
Kiwifruit - glad BP settled.
PC - hope the stretch and sweep helps.
Beatie - hope you get to see a MW soon. Seems you've been doing a bit of chasing.

hi again everyone...have been bouncing all afternoon, it's hurting alot now so think he may have moved down again....yay

JM - we've not got long to go now...we may only just make it into October thoutgh

Thanks for the link Andif, i tried finding the site earlier ubt to no avail...will go and read it now