Due Feb 06 - what flavour baby??

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Well ladies - I certainly want to know Amanda's result, so figured I'd kick off a new thread straight away. Hope you like the title - seemed appropriate as several of us are hoping to find out over the next few weeks.

Quick stats update as it's always useful to have at the beginning:

Teuch, Due 28th Jan, Baby # 1, Age 27, Lives West Lothian (Inner Hebridean Island from Jan), mm/c previously
Hotmama1, Due 1st Feb, Baby # 2, Age 38 (DP40), Lives Nottingham,
3K, Due 2nd Feb, Baby # 1, Age 28, Lives Gravesend, Kent, IVF conception
Tabs, Due 2nd Feb, Baby # 1, Age 32 (DH39), Lives N Herts, mm/c Oct 04
Kando, Due 3rd Feb, Baby # 3, Age 32 (DH35), Lives Holland, DVT last time. Heparin injections.
Lulu68, Due 3rd Feb, Baby # 4, Age 37 (DH40), Lives ???,
Yeahbut, Due 4th Feb, Baby # 3, Age 30, Lives Holland, IUGR in previous pregnancies
BarefootMama, Due 6th Feb, Baby # 5, Age 37, Lives ???, mm/c previously
Popadopolis, Due 8th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 26 (DH30), Lives Bedford, hyperemesis early on - tablets to control
JuA, Due 9th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 31, Lives Chorley, Lancs, 1 m/c prior to DD. Expecting twins!!
SmallHouseDragon, Due 9th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 39 (DH 37), Lives Devon, induction then emerg c-sec with dd
Womba1, Due 10th Feb, Baby # 3, Age 30, Lives Eastbourne, Baby 1 stillborn
TicTac, Due 11th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 29 (DH 42), Lives Horwich, Lancs,
Ixel , Due 11th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 31 (DH 42), Lives North London,
Spacecadet, Due 11th Feb, Baby # 5, Age 33 (DH 37), Lives Cambs, m/c in March, underactive thyroid, dvt after delivery of last dd
Marite, Due 12th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 30, Lives ???,
Popmum, Due 12th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 32, Lives Broxbourne, Herts/Essex border,
RachelRog, Due 12th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 33, Lives Chesterfield, Derbyshire, mm/c in March
Chloe55, Due 13th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 24 (DH 27), Lives West Yorkshire, 2 previous m/cs
Kyliefan, Due 20th Feb, Baby # ???, Age ???, Lives ???,
MrsDoolittle, Due 21st Feb, Baby # 2, Age 32, Lives Oxford, but soon to be Newbury,
Morgan, Due 22nd Feb, Baby # 2, Age 37, Lives In Dubai from Jan, Ectopic Jan 05. Heparin injections
Flamesparrow, Due 23rd Feb, Baby # 2, Age 24, Lives Bournemouth, Waterbirth for no 1. Hoping for homebirth.
Amanda1, Due 23rd Feb, Baby # 2, Age 34, Lives Leeds, Recently single. Breast cancer treatment last year. Heparin injections.
Frizbe, Due 28th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 30 (DH40), Lives Ripley, Derbyshire,
RosiePosie, Due 28th Feb, Baby # 3, Age 30, Lives Isle of Wight,
angedemarche, Due 1st March (c-sec 14th Feb), Baby # 2, Age 27, Lives NI,
Scotsbird, Due ???, Baby # 2, Age ???, Lives ???,

Afternoon girls. I believe that is common for even first births to be home births in some parts of Europe but we are more institutionalized.

I think it best to have an open mind about what you want. I planned to have a water birth with little intervention but ended up having gas & air, diamorphine, epidural, forceps and 4 pint blood loss with DD1 - but I am still planning to have little intervention this time - but will have an open mind.

Just don't be disappointed if the birth doesn't go as planned many don't - but investigate the possibilities - being prepared can only be a good thing can't it?

All stories stopped now. Promise. We need to decide a new title so that we can put them all behind us.

As far as shoulders getting stuck - they are trained to deal with it... when was the last time (if ever) you read about a waterbirth going horribly wrong with something like that?? Or one going wrong in general? If there is a problem then they will yank you out.

I think that was one of the good things about mine Hotmama - I had no birth plan whatsoever.

I wanted to give birth in Bournemouth rather than Poole, so epidural was out instantly (midwife unit, so no-one to give eps), but I had the option to transfer if I was needing to. I decided to just see how I felt at the time.

The only thing I did say was that I wanted DH to hold DD before me, as I'd got to do all the carrying during pregnancy, and it was one of the few things that he would be able to do first... didn't happen though, I cuddled my baby in the water for a while before we were seperated. Luckily it was my plan, and DH wasn't all that bothered by it in the planning stage, so didn't feel like he'd dipped out.

Thanks guys.

I'm definitely going to keep an open mind...after all, this is my first! At the first sign of a contraction I could be begging DH to take me to hospital, knock me out and cut me open!!

I've just started reading The Water Birth Book by Janet Balaskas. It's a good one for blokes I think, because the first chapter is about the history of childbirth culture and medicine, and shows that the medical move back towards use of water etc was instigated by male doctors and scientists, not mad witchy types!

Little beanie has strted becoming very active just before I go to sleep. Everyone told me this would happen. But last night it felt like she was trying to escape! She was kicking downwards, onto the bottom of my womb and presumably the cervix! Very odd sensation. Glad DH was not in the mood for romance !

Yeah I'll be keeping an open mind too - not keen on an epidural but then I don't know what to expect so I too may be begging for everything!

My little one got something stuck (presumably a foot) under my rib last night - it didn't hurt but was very odd, I had to wriggle about to try and get him to move it!

Just to let you know that TicTac is in London with work until Friday so she won't be posting on here for most of this week.

Here we are ladies - new thread - went for flame's suggestion for the title, as no-one out of us fussy lot seemed to object!