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

[andif]

Nothing to say really, just here it is!

just to let you know baby Jessica arrived safe and well at 8pm thursday night weighing 6lb 12oz and is gorgeous im sooooo happy! Thanks for your support and im sure ill be on MN again soon!

Congratulations kelli22 and welcome to Jessica

Just to let you all know, Bethan was born on the 25th september, weighing 7lb1, labour wasnt the best, but who cares lmao!!!

Congratulations Kelli22 and Jofeb04 welcome to your little bundles

Jessysmummy - can't be long now and if you are last one it means you must be next!!!
Labour vibes..........

Take care all, No word from Nikkinoo for ages, hope everything's alright x

Congratulations jofeb04 Welcome to Bethan hope you are both ok, don't think any of us have had the labour we wanted so far.

Am still here too - 4 days late but lots of pains.....off to UCH tomorrow to "discuss induction" hmmmm. Hang in there everyone who is left. Off to build the garden shed while DSs are asleep - hope it has the desired effect!

Congratulations rhumba joefeb and Kellie ~ 3 more girls.... I wonder what it is about September.

Rhumba - What have you called your dd?

I'm pleased not to have seen RZ on here for a while. I hope she managed to have her baby at home and she hasn't had time to update us.

Hi jessica'smummy- I was due on the 30th but no baby yet -feeling very blue !!!!!!!!!!! When were you due ?????

Alas, no, Beatie. Am still here, still waiting, still duffed. Spent yesterday sunk into a depression, then dragged my aching and dismantling pelvis out for a (reasonably) long-ish walk to try and stir some action. Woken at dawn by much stronger Braxton Hicks than I've had before, but still no definite action. Cue another long-ish walk. Cervix rather painful, bump rather painful, lower back rather painful - but nothing I could definitely call a contraction. Peanut still active. Midwife coming again tomorrow.

If nothing happens tonight, my husband's colleagues will be very surprised to see him in work again tomorrow.

Congratulations Kelli22, Jofeb04 and Rhumba!

JM: You could look for her on the Archers website. (Not of course that I'd know there was one, because I'm not really interested in it... deny, deny, deny...)

COngratulations jofeb and kelli Two more lovely girls arrived safely.
Special hello to RZ and tiggyhop. Sorry to hear you've not "popped" yet but glad I'm not alone. Tiggyhop - hope the garden activities helped - good luck with induction appt. RZ - hope your mw is good to you tomorrow and that home birth is still on the agenda.
And welcome marinda - hoping your's will be a very short stay on the antenatal thread. I was due with #2 on 24th but DD was 13 days late so not completely surprised to still be here. Sorry to hear you're feeling blue. Stick around here and we'll try to console each other. Is this your first?
Spent this lunchtime in assessment unit. rubbish mw sent me in because I've been having a very small amount of leakage. I knew I wasn't in labour but poor DH got his hopes up thinking that this could be it. He was very disappointed when we were sent home after 4 hours as cervix still closed. Like your DH, RZ, his colleagues will be amazed to see him in work tomorrow. Now waiting for post-date appt on Tues...
DPs leave for Italy in the wee small hours of tomoorow morning so having missed the deadline to present them with their 4th grandchild and (I think) arranged alternative childcare for DD when the time comes, I can now sit back and relax...this baby will come when it's ready.
I know bumps are supposed to go quiet just before birth but this one has been kicking me like mad since we left hospital and is currently going absolutely loopy in there. Strange since it's been very quiet all the way through this pregnancy. Perhaps it doesn't know it's supposed to head south?
Fastasleep - thanks for the invitation to the oct thread. Hope things aren't getting too stressful over there - don't think they'd be able to put up with all my moaning!. Am hoping I won't have long until I graduate to the sept post natal thread, even if it is as an honourary member. Also hoping I'll have time to revisit you all on the liverpool thread soon!

Night night all - happy labours to all who need one! x

hi all
congratulations jofeb, rhumba and kelli
jm, we couldn't wish for nicer honarary members LOL, good luck.
welcome mirinda
redhelen, sorry to hear you've been ill, hope you're feeling better now
fastasleep, you hit the nail on the head when you said no one would be left alone on here
tiggyhop and rz, huge hugs for you both and hoping you won't have long to wait now xxx
LAST but certainly not least, STM, i'm sorry i didn't make it here yesterday to wish you luck but did think of you on quite a few occasions. Hope you and Noah are both thriving and i can't wait to hear how you both are. xxx

Thanks, JM. Thing is - because my midwife is independent, she doesn't care about dates as much as they might do on the NHS. She just says that they come when they're ready - and as long as all the signs (fluid level, heartrate etc) are fine, there's no need to interfere. She doesn't really expect first timers to deliver before 41 weeks anyway. She told me cheerfully once about a woman who delivered a healthy child at 48 weeks - which is great for the woman in question, but it just fills me with horror (not least because I'd like my pelvis back!). So as long as there is no reason to suspect foetal distress, the home birth is still up to me. I would just rather not have the stress of this time next week wondering if I'm doing the right thing...

Anyway. Night all. I'll hope that the hard thing I can feel grinding against my pelvis is a head desperately trying to find its way out (hmm... wonder if I should send in a compass and diagram...??)

This may be it - 5 mins apart and painful - let you know !!!

How exciting Marinda! Good luck
RZ - my yoga instructor had all 3 of her children at 44 weeks. I think it's exactlyright that they should follow the signs - liquor quantity, movement, heartbeat etc - rather than have an arbitrary date for induction.
Glad you've got childcae sorted JM.
And hope all others waiting don't have too long to go.

morning all, and what a great one it is too.
only had 2 hours sleep and was just changing shifts with dp when i got a txt off my very good friend. She was due to have her baby tomorrow and had a little girl (my god-daughter) YIPPEE at 1:39 this morning. i'm so excited. she weighed 6lb10 and is called Libbi.
good luck marinda

Sorry to hear you're still here RZ and JM.

RZ ~ I suffered from mild SPD but in the end tried to get out and walk every day once I was 41 weeks gone. I figured the baby would never find its way out if I did not lend it a hand with gravity I managed to adopt a lunatic asylum shuffle which meant I was hardly separating my legs at all. I expect the countryside walk helped a lot the day before I had my sweep as that was walking on uneven ground and up and down slight slopes. Get yourself out to the country again.

Congrats to you bubbles on your new god daughter!
Good luck marinda - looking forward to hearing your news.
RZ - very wise mw. As I've said, now that DPs are off the scene there's no pressure for me to produce and I can just wait for this baby to come in its own time. Thing is if nothing happens in the next couple of days I will have to go into the hospital every day for monitoring and don't know if I can cope with that.
Anything happen in the night, tiggyhop?

Ooooh, very quiet...bodes well for RZ, tiggyhop and marinda ...sadly, I'm still here!

No, no - just to reassure you, JM - am still here. Just tidying up before the midwife comes. (And tired and grumpy from being woken up by bloody Braxton Hicks at dawn this morning...)

Oh sorry RZ - right, that's it now - I'm going to stop asking whether you've gone into labour because everytime I do, up you pop to prove me wrong and I must be jinxing you or something!!
At least Braxton hicks is something - I've had absolutely no indication that this baby is intending to make a move any ime soon.
Only person sleeping worse thatn me in our house at the moment is DH. He was awake at 4 this morning (assures me it wasn't because I was snoring!) and then went off to do a full day's work at 7.30. He's just rung me in hope that I might be feeling some kind of movement. Bless, he's so disappointed.

Do we know what has happened to Kiwifruit? Has gone v quiet - have I missed something?
Keep sending labour vibes to all those reluctant babes .....
Congrats to new arrivals - I can't keep up!!

Andif, I've also been wondering about KiwiFruit. Hopefully she's had a baby and is fine and just too busy to post. She has not appeared on the post-natal thread either.

Good luck to all who've not yet had their babies.

I know of a women who had 4 babies at 44 weeks each. I won't tell you not to be impatient - because I know that is impossible. Try to take care. I found that keeping busy (if I had the energy) was good to distract me when I was overdue. In the end when I was too uncomfortable to do much, I must admit I just veged out with videos (in between short sessions swimming at the pool - I'm sure everyone was astounded at how large I was, and they must have worried I'd pop in their pool at any minute! must say, that concerned me a little, but only briefly)

Yes, I've noticed the absence of kiwifruit too. Looks like the acupuncture she was having had the desired effect. Hope baby arrived safe and sound.
Have hospital appt this am. Pretty sure they'll do a sweep (providing it is in line with their policy/protocol/whatever!!!!). And probably book me in for an inductioin later in the week. Undecided whether I'll go fo that or just leave well alone if all ok...we'll see. So if I'm not back later on I'll be in soft focus in a candle lit room somewhere draped in white and flowers with classical music playing in the background while DH mops my brow...or something like that!
But I have a feeling I'll be back before then.

Morning all.

Feeling much more chipper after the midwife's visit yesterday. Apparently I'm looking more 'ripe' - whatever that means (I thought she was suggesting my face had got fatter!). My systolic blood pressure has gone up too - which is supposed to be a sign of imminent labour. She has suggested that a couple of weeks ago, peanut was a little on the small end of the spectrum - but has used this extra time to bulk up a bit - which is great for the peanut, but has done nothing for my stretch marks (and I was doing so well!).

I was aware that different ethnic groups have different average gestational lengths, but it seems that being white, having my first child in my '30s puts me in the longest gestational category. Now she tells me...

Beatie: LOL at lunatic asylum shuffle. I've developed one of those. Although - I don't have much problem separating my legs when sitting, or the such like. Turning over in bed is the worst: last night I just couldn't make my right leg do what I wanted it to do - until my pelvis gave an almighty click. Very disturbing.

KiwiKate: am just imagining the pool sign they could come up with for not popping in the pool, in line with the 'no weeing in the water' signs that some baths have...

JM: Good luck at the hospital. 'Draped in white'?? Is that wise? You'll never get the stains out...