Due Sept 2005 - the calm before the storm...

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Nothing to say really, just here it is!

evening all been getting strong contractions all evening...bit worried if i go to sleep they might die down...am so tired though i have to. will keep you posted, if it;s meant to be then it will be...not to wait now even if it's not.

Jm's been very quiet today perhaps she's popped.

Happy due date Rhumba

Hi STM. Good luck. With both my babies, I went to sleep with very mild contractions and woke up in the early hours of the morning in full-on labour. Hope it works the same for you!

Rhumba - is your Caullophylum drops or pills?

If you start with mild contractions you can take one dose (for drops that equals 4 drops, not sure how many pills) every 15 minutes for 6 doses (that is every 15 minutes for one and a half hours). After that you can take a dose every 6 hours (and repeat the "every 15 minute" dosage, if things start up again). Take your first dose as soon as you start even the mildest contraction.

When I took mine, I didn't feel any differnce in that first hour and a half, but then I went to sleep and after that I woke up in full-on labour.

If you do not have contractions yet, then you can still take a dose every 6 hours. However, I have heard that it only works once you actually start with contractions. Others say it does work before contractions start, but is MOST EFFECTIVE after contractions start.

Hope this helps.

Good luck. I am sure that this stuff really got me going (after a week and a half of stop-start-stop-start contractions I went into labour after taking my first 6 doses 15minutes apart).

BTW the dosages above were not what was on my bottle - but what was recommended by a very experienced mw, and also research on the internet

hello everyone!!!
have been meaning to post for days to congratulate daisydot and now I see Maretta and Katts are amongst the be-babied numbers!!!

congratulations to all of you xx

having to type one handed as my big but beautiful black cat has just woken Conrad.... he's just progressed to his washable nappies (baby not cat!)and have discovered that the (Perfectly Happy People) Nappy Soak gets rid of ORANGE POO STAINS... this is for the benefit of the one of us who posted ages ago about this formidable phenomenon and anyone who like me, unwisely wrapped an un-nappied newborn in a Perfectly White bathtowel... with oh so predictable consequences!

Come ON September babies... tonight's the night or you'll be October ones

Hope you're managing to keep in good spirits all of you waitees...

lots of love to you all... can't wait to find out what other beautiful names for beautiful babes you have chosen, you're all still in my thoughts, just madly busy having started back at Uni, still wondering when I'm going to get to look at my reading list - let alone read the darned books!!!

Catch up with you all soon. Cabe xxx

BTW hello to Kelli and Rhumba and good luck STM hope this is it... still not posted my birth experience yet, hoping to get round to it, maybe when DP (who is surpassing EVERY expectation!) gets here at the weekend I'll get a mo to gather my thoughts.... x

Hello all, especailly RZ, STM, kiwifruit and Rhumba. Hope at least one of you got a lovely parcel in the night.
Well, it's the last day of september and my "big ship is unfortunately NOT sailing down the alley, alley-oh!"
I'm STILL here. Had horrendous day yesterday. Had picked up DD's bug and was vommiting all day. Managed to make it to DM's (temporarily carless) 40 mins away so that she could look after DD while I just went to bed, throwing up every hour or so. Think I was having mild contractions too but didn't want to do anything to get them going as I really didn't want to have a new baby arrive while I was in that state. Yes, for the first time in weeks I was trying to PUT OFF LABOUR!!! Can you believe it?
So after having to get DM to drive me home and then take DD back with her just in case anything kicked off in the night...here I am still feeling rough and trying to build myself up to eat for the first tmie in 36 hours or so.
Now if this baby arrives in Oct (highly likely now), It'll be all my fault!
Lovely to hear from all the sept thread graduates. Nice to know you're still rooting for us.
Daisydot - sorry to hear about little grace's hips but echo everybody else's sentiments - better that it has been spotted now.
Will probably be hanging around here most of the day as mw is due to visit and hasn't had the manners to let me know a rough time (despite me chasing her). She's standing in for my usuual mw who has taken a couple of days off to get her house in order before her DD has baby in Oct. Could be here anytime up to 4.30! Anyway, it's been raining here all night so not sure I'd want to go out in this miserable weather anyway, esp as still not 100%.

morning campers.
STM, really hope this is it for you.
JESSYSMUMMY, sorry you're feeling crappy, hope you feel better soon.
Still no news from kf and kelli, it's been 3 days now, looks very promising

Wayhey - had a call from the community mw's office to say that mw should be with me late morning so at least won't be hanging around all day - although don't feel capable of doing anything today, much less give birth. She should be giving me another sweep - my last chance before I have to go in to hosp on tues to discuss induction.
Off to make myself presentable for mw...could take some time!

JM: when was your due date? I was due yesterday and am due to go to hosp on Monday to talk about induction - but no offers of sweeps etc for me. What is the usual practice? Sorry to hear you weren't well.

welcome to the group tiggyhop

Morning morning.

Bit dilatory in my posting here today - got waylaid in the Archers thread in the Chat section (shakes head in sad embarrassment at secret Archers fixation...).

No packages in the night. Quite a lot of contractions, but since they weren't painful, I'm assuming they were still Braxton Hicks. Bump feels very tight though.

Sorry to hear you weren't well, JM.

Everyone seems to be discussing induction and getting sweeps very quickly after their due dates - given that 38 - 42 weeks is normal gestation. 42 weeks would take me to about October 7th (shoot me now...).

Morning all,

Sprry to say last night wasn't it thought it may have been, didn't get my hopes up just in case! DNM came over to say hello and ended up getting his hand crushed quite regularly Mum and dad got an interview on Sunday (dad's a vicar) and so am going to be in hospital on my own am not happy but DNM has said he'll come as lnog i dont hold his hand

welcome tiggyhop we've all found that health trusts vary dramtically throughout the country but they usually talk about induction after 10days and offer a sweep or just internal between 39 and 41weeks.

Thanks for staying for a while...cant believe Mia is nearly a month old how you getting on with her?

Rhumba: Thanks for the caulophyllum offer. I found mine last night though. In a pile of my husband's post. There's a case to suggest that I put the envelope down and forgot to move it - but I'm blaming him anyway...

I've given up on all forms of trying to start myself off...he'll come when he's ready...or tomorrow when they get him out lol

I suppose the thing to bear in mind is that there is no way they can stay in there forever. Have just been shopping and bought jeans and trousers for some skinny person who might have been me about 10 years ago but certainly not since. Combined with 2 packs of choc biscuits from M&S which I ate while unpacking size 10 trousers, I think that the sooner this baby arrives and restores my brain to some degree of sanity the better.

My midwife cheerfully said to me the other day that she'd just heard of one woman who'd given birth at 44 weeks. Nooooooo!! The way I feel at the moment (pelvic pain, nausea etc) it might just as well be forever!

Hi everyone. STM - are you being induced tomorrow? I'll be hoping you go into labour tonight by yourself if not, good luck with the induction and I hope it goes swimmingly.

JM and RZ - There's nothing I can say except it won't be long now ....... don't hit me for saying that!

tiggyhop - I was offered a sweep and stretch at 41 weeks but ended up getting it at 41 + 3 (10 days over) Indiction would have been offered at 41 + 13. You don't have to agree to induction. If you did get to 42 weeks you could agree to induction then or ask to be monitored regularly to check liquor levels and baby's heartbeat.

Once I was over a week overdue I found it easier to cope with and resigned myself to the 'baby will come when it's ready' philosophy.

STM, your new man sounds great. shame about your parents being away, do you not have anyone else that could be with you, your dnm perhaps? believe me, you won't give a toss if they stick a turnstile there and sell tickets once you're in labour, you'll just want him out LOL.
Yes, mia is 4 weeks on sunday, can't believe how fast it's gone, but she is sooooo adoreable. she smiles too which my dd1 didn't do until around 4-5 weeks i think. she's so cute and i'm totally smitten with her. I left her for the first time last night, went to bingo with my mum, i cried all the way there and kept checking my phone. i think i done my mums head in LOL. well she said she's not coming with me again for a while. thanks for asking after her stm.
Hope you're all getting plenty of rest, and in my eyes, even if they're all born in october, they're still september bundles anyway

The thing I find difficult about being 'post dates' is that information is very hard to come by, relating to my clotty thing. I've had three different opinions from two consultants and a registrar. Having done my own research and knowing what my own blood profile is, I can't see that there's any greater risk of stillbirth than the next average person - but the bloody witch woman I saw for the growth scan preys on my mind and her implication that intra-uterine death can happen in a second, with no way of monitoring placental sufficiency. The fact that she was extremely misguided in some of her other information (if not downright wrong) - plus she could come up with no evidence for her opinion - doesn't stop my being less relaxed than I might otherwise be.

I've stopped speaking to my parents because they can't be trusted not to ring up to bully me, without a single fact at their fingertips, about going into hospital etc. Which I really don't need at this point.

My midwife, I should stress, is perfectly happy with peanut's condition: amnion levels, heartrate etc. My husband isn't stressed about it at all (or if he is, he isn't telling me). It's just difficult sometimes retaining confidence in your own judgement and gut feeling.

Glad Mia doing well.

RZ sorry to hear you're going through it a bit at the moment...just remember 'mum knows best' not your mum but you

Cant wait to be enjoying my bundle, not long

yes i'm going into hospital tomorrow evening at 7ish, be put on CTG check everything is ok, will be settled and then the fun begins at about 8:30...hopefully will work first time but you know he's got to come out and tonight will be my last night at home without a baby....[scared emtion]

Cabe - cant believe you're on your own there, hope all is going ok though. Am looking to start my uni course in February...when my maternity leave runs out.

STM - if you don't go into labour tonight then try and do something enjoyable that you won't be able to do for sometime. The night before I was induced DH and I went out to dinner.

RANT WARNING
How long would I get for GBH of a MW? Stupid bleep! Arrived this am, very efficient (not my usual community midwife), pronouncing "You're booked in for a sweep - can I see your notes...oh, I didn't know that you were booked in to THAT hospital...I won't be able to do a sweep as they have a different protocol." I nearly cried after feeling so horrid for the last couple of days, I was really counting on this to get me going. I told her that her colleague had performed a sweep on Tues but that just went over her head. Anyway, BP is normal but I have protein in my urine - hardly surprising after D+V all day yesterday. She's booked me into my GP at 4pm today, though since he refused to prescribe me antibiotics for an IU infection when I was BF last time I can't see him doing anything more than telling me to "take plenty of fluids". Useless MW is coming on sunday am again to check protein in urine. Other than that I'm booked into (apparently the wrong!!) hospital for tues when I'm hoping they won't have any issue with a sweep. Was really counting on having baby this weekend as my DPs go to Italy on monday, leaving me with all sorts of childcare problems for DD when I go into hosp. Plus the fact that I would like them to see their new grandchild before he/she is 2 weeks old. DM is now threatening not to go which I don't want either.
STM - hope all goes ok tomorrow. Gosh in less than 48 hours YOU WILL BE A MUM!
Welcome to tiggyhop! I was due on 24th but as everyone else says, the protocol for induction and/or sweeping varies from place to place and your own preference. I've been desparate for one, only because it's what got me going at Term +12 with DD. Last time I was quite happy to wait but this time with DD everything has become much more complicated. Have you got any other children?
Bubbles - glad to hear mia is thriving!

Little one born on monday - everything going well. Labour only about 30mins. ds was 4.600kgs!!
Love to all about to have their babys xxx

Sorry to hear it didn't go according to plan JM...big hugs coming your way.

Bear moving lots today, really painful kicks...he's getting to big for my tummy...and i cant fit into any of my non-maternity clothes now...grrr

Congratulations Milward...

STM - i've had my baby and can't fit into any non-maternity clothes I'm that you have been able to wear regular clothes thus far gone! Ahhh to be young again.

JM - sorry, i can really empathise as i was meant to have a sweep on a friday and it didn't happen till the monday because of stupid midwife. don't they realise how fraught women get towards the end.

oht - one handed typing.