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

thanks mummyhill... hope dd has lovely time at nursery tomorrow
Night
Cabe

Oooh, all quiet over night. Hoping this means that sept babies have arrived right, left and centre, especially for those who have been on & off for a while. Either that or everyone has had a good night's sleep which can't be too bad.
Hope all ok.
Big September thread welcome to Cabe!

Hi everyone and a special hi to cabe
Mummyhill, i feel so sorry for you at the moment, it's so frustrating going over, i went 4 days with dd1(god that feels strange, she used to be just dd) LOL with mia i was just 1 day so not too bad.
STM, wow, loving the sound of your new man, he sounds like a good one, keep hold to him. i have so much respect for him and don't even know him. my dp took me and my dd1 on and he adores her just as much as mia, must be a hard thing to do. also, hopefully the start of your labour, sounds v promising
Ladyl, good luck, am thinking of you
Zubb, hopefully you have your precious little bundle now and you are too busy to post, wishful thinking
Redhelen, thinking of you, so glad you don't need a cs, your mw sounds like a right one.
Helenemjay, congratulations, will post on your birth announcement in a minute
hi to everyone else, am sure i've missed someone out, am thinking of each and every one of you and can't wait to read of all these brand new babies.
well, mia is going to meet everyone at work today, can't wait to show her off, she slept great last night, from 9-3 then until 7 with no whingeing, can't believe it as dd1 never slept much for the first 3 years of her life lol.
She's just so adorable, i'm smitten!!!

ps. nikkinoo, i loved your bitching post, i have never been able to explain how i feel about my kids but you hit the nail on the head when you said about the way your baby looks at you like only you exist in her little world. i even cried(hormones).

Hello

No news from me - had a terrible night - could not get to sleep. Going back to bed as dh doing the school run and sick of being asked if I've had it yet! Almost called the hospital at 3am to demand immediate labour!!

((hugs)) redhelen. I am dreading thew first nursery run this afternoon because I just know I am going to get stared at/pointed at and then asked all the flamming questions.

Warning - big moan coming!

I slept so badly last night. From about 8pm I started to get contractions. Tightenings that weren't too painful but did change the pattern of my breathing. They were about every 15 minutes. I decided to drink some RRL tea to help my uterus along... haha.

I went to bed around 10 really expecting to wake in the wee hours in full on established labour (haha again) Instead, I woke up every hour, to a contraction and each time I woke up I needed to go to the toilet. The baby was moving all over the place the whole night. I woke up at 6am this morning (to DDs protests to go back to bed when ordered by daddy) and all sign of contracting has disappeared. I'm left with a new level of groin pain and complete inability to walk. Ouch!

Perhaps things have progressed but I am soooooo very frustrated with my body at the moment. I really need to have this baby soon. I don't think I can stand the tiredness, pain, incapacity any longer

This morning DD asked DH if I had had the baby. Later on she came running through to me to say a baby was coming. I assumed it was an animal baby on TV but when I went into the living room, she was pointing out the window and saying the baby would come by car. Ahhh bless. Is it an omen? Or is the fact that the only song I heard on the radio this morning was Wednesday's Child ?!!?

Yes, probably an omen that I'll have the baby next Wednesday.

Sorry to moan, I know some of you are more overdue than me and have more right to moan, but today I just feel so tired and blah! I'm not sure how I'm supposed to continue functioning on this level.

Morning morning.

This being in limbo is pretty wearing, isn't it?? I'm wondering (beatie) if the new level of groin pain is because the baby's descended further, because my pelvis has got worse the last couple of days and it's certainly not because I've walked anywhere or done any exercise (who the hell was it said they were still doing yoga???!?!).

Amusingly, I would have slept perfectly well last night, despite the Braxton Hicks bizarrely kicking in at 5-ish again - had it not been for my beloved husband peering over at me every time I moved to ask if I was ok. I appreciate the sentiment, but a bit more quiet would have been better...

Had a bit of a trickle last night, but not sure if this was a small amount of amnion - or just continuing cervical effacement (helped along by an hour's ball bouncing earlier). I'm supposed to stop my injections at 'the first sign of labour' - which is a bit vague, if you ask me...

Yawn. Is it bedtime yet...?

sorry beatie - its horrid - I hope we get moving soon!!!

RZ - an hour of bouncing on the ball. Now, that's exercise to me My stomach hurts too much when I bounce on the ball. I have to hold it for support. I'm just a walking pain aren't I?

Oddly - TMI ALERT - my mucussy discharge seems to have stopped. Weird! Why would that be? Have I just run out

Btw - re broadband, PiccadillyCircus: We've used Pipex for about 2 1/2 years and only once in that time has the connection failed - and it was up again pretty rapidly. I used to work for an IT consultancy and they set all their customers up with Pipex too.

They have restricted packages as well - so if you don't download that much per month, you can opt for a cheaper package: still broadband, but with gb download allowance. We've done that and I've never hit the buffer.

Their customer services is less byzantine than, say, BT too - and they show the network status on their website, if there's a problem.

Looks like they've done pretty well in a recent Which? report too.

I was watching the previous night's 'Spooks' and lost track of time. Bounce bounce.

Perhaps the discharge has stopped because your cervix is done effacing for the moment and doesn't have any more cells to shed...?

((hugs)) beatie. It's horrid being overdue and just waiting and wondering with every little twinge or niggle. Still feeling really peed off with the hospital as I am finding it difficult to get in a comfy postion for my spine. Best is on my front which I can't manage till I have baby. I am also waking up regularly with intense pain in my hips and can barely walk when I eventually get out of bed in the morning and baby is still only 2/5 engaged, has been for the last 6 weeks.

"Perhaps the discharge has stopped because your cervix is done effacing for the moment and doesn't have any more cells to shed...?" That sounds like a good thing? I was hoping for that kind of answer.

Mummyhill - My baby's head has been 2/5ths engaged for about the past six weeks also. I had a midwife appt. yesterday which confirmed that. I can only hope that last night's activity has made the baby descend more - as RZ suggests. For subsequent pregnancies it is supposed to be common for baby not to fully engage until you go into labour.

When DH was woken up by DS and me this morning (at 7:30 we go and bounce on Daddy) he said he was convinced the baby was coming last night. I had to let him know he was wrong .

Why is it when DS wakes up at 6:30, DH does not hear? As he is at nursery today (DS rather than DH) I felt it was probably fair enough for me to get up with him, although part of me was thinking just a bit.

Got midwife appointment at 10:40. I predict it will be (a) running late (b) my BP and sample (if I ever manage to produce one - am drinking lots of water right now) will be normal and there will be nothing exciting happening.

My only vaguely hopeful thought is wondering what a 10p size lump of very jelly like discharge could be? Just discharge or some mucus plug type stuff? With DS, didn't have anything like that so have no idea really.

10p size. That sounds promising PC. Ask the midwife and she might confirm you've lost your plug

Morning everyone
Oh Beatie you getting the horrid trapped nerve pain too? I put it down to baby (or the tummytiger as dd has named him lately, v descriptive of the frantic belly wiggling that's been going on!) being deeply engaged - no I can't walk when it's happening either... dd (The Noop) asked if I wanted a hand or a winch to get me off the ball at breakfast this morning - think we'd better be rigging up the winch!!! especially if nothing starts happening soon
Ooh Tesco delivery coming... probably the only delivery I'll see this week so better make the most of it!
I'm waddling off to the M/W later, I've been offered a 'sweep' as I'm a week overdue now - can anyone who's had this proceedure before offer any likelyhood of it working? don't want 'prodding about' if it's not going to work - they didn't do a 'sweep' 13 years ago and Noop went overdue by 14days!! (I'm in for the long haul aren't I?!?!)
Much sympathy to all of you who've had bad nights sleep - RZ your poor misguided beloved!! that made me giggle... sure it's what my DP would do if he ever ventured into my bed anymore!
Cabe x

Hello everyone

I cant believe that we are all seem to be going through the same range of emotions and pains and stuff. I was speaking to a friend yesteday and she said that I might have a double pelivs, because I feel as though I am having massive contractions nearly every night and the discharge stuff that keeps coming out on a daily basis.

Anyway i thought that it might be worth mentioning to the midwife, i just cant work it out why this pregnancy is so very painful than the others i have had.

At least this site shows that your not on your own and that it is hard dealing with the anticipation of the imminent arrival.

hello, will read the thread to catch up later, but just to tell you all that Joseph Frederick arrived on Monday afternoon, in just under an hour from the first 'is this a contraction?' to birth! Like last time I only had 5 or 6 contractions, and he was born in the bath as I couldn't get out in time!
He was 9lb 2.5oz and 57cm long!
Dh made it back with 10 minutes to spare, but at least we had a midwife this time!

I wonder how many of us are sleeping alone at present. It's going to be a shock having DH sleep in my bed again, it's so long since we slept in the same bed. We're both light sleepers and he'd be getting no sleep with all the kerfuffle I cause to turn over at night - plus the many loo trips.

Morning Cabe

I have never had a sweep, but i dont know, even the name of it sounds aa bit weird and ooh I dont know, just v kind of hmmm.

With my DD they gave me my date of inducement and she came that very night. Which was funny cos the midwife said that the babies normally come when she does that it was like fate really.

I dont know what i will do if i go over and have to be induced or a sweep or anything, take no notice of me tho cos I cant even bear to have a smear or anything (i am a bit of a wuss like that)

Oh my! Zubb, congratulations. Hmmm, are we allowed to have you banned from this board on the basis that you've had another short labour Was it scay or sort of what you expected after last time?

Love the names. BILs have been suggesting Frederick as a first name if we have a boy - funnily enough they seem to be going through the whole England cricket team and derivitves of them.

Congratulations Zubb.

Lovely name sounds like you had a great labour, were you in your bath at home?

Cabe - I am booked for a membrane sweep on Friday when I'll be 7 days overdue. I haven't had one before either.