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

[andif]

Nothing to say really, just here it is!

Don't worry I won't abandon you all I will post on both threads for a while till everyone moves accross to post natal.

Keeping my fingers crossed for you Katts.

Welldone NewChallengeforJen

It'll be soon ladies in waiting take care xxxxxxxxxx

Morning everyone,

laurenholly - it;s my first and i'm 18.

Katts - glad you're feeling open minded, hope one of us gets going soon...we both had same 'due' date. Am off for a sweep later, going on my own

Hope everyone is ok today, will try and catch up later unles little man decides to make his way out [fingers crossed emotion]

happy due date Jessysmummy - hope you're getting some action.

RZ - have you popped yet?

Hell no. Some cramping going on, but I had that the other day too and it stopped after a good night's sleep.

We've been working on it though...

Hi All

Just ran into Katts in the DAU at UCH - she was coming in as I was going out! My BP is still high (despite them doubling my meds), but now instead of talking about induction (when I had convinced myself that I was mentally prepared for it), the registrar has decided that although my BP is high, it's steady, so there's no need for induction at this stage, just need to be monitored to ensure it doesn't go up any further. So it's back to the waiting game... However, will keep up the herbs and the accupuncture, and the lovely midwife in the DAU is going to be on the DAU when I go in on Monday and said she will give me a sweep. Have to say, apart from my bad experience in the Post Natal Ward, all the UCH staff I have dealt with have been absolutely fantastic.

RZ - herbs are in the form of nasty tasting tinctures - not very pleasant, but are to get contractions started, and have to say, they were more frequent on the CTG this morning.

Newchallengeforjen - congratulations on the birth of Isaac!!

Gald things looking a bit better for u KF.

MW tried a sweep this afternoon, but apparently couldn't reach my cervix....wtf??? an mw almost two weeks ago with really stubby fingers could reach it, she just said it was thick and not ripe. Same mw said (with her fingers inside) "the heads coming down nicely" how could she know that if she couldn't even feel my cervix?? i'm so confised and have started going into denial.....

JM - you're very quiet today, in fact silent..hope your due date has bought you lots of pain and your ticket off the antenatal and onto postnatal thread. (meant in the nicest possible way!)

I feel so bad just coming here and saying 'Good luck ladies, it won't be long' as if I wasn't in this frustrating stage just last week.

BTW ~ the postnatal thread is dead too. I don't think it is a case of purposeful abandonment, just that everyone is tied down to a baby

I'm just about to email photos to family and friends so thought I'd stop by and say hello. Alice is inbetween me and the computer desk, resting happily on a feeding-pillow.

So far she totally has her days and nights mixed up so I'm not even counting the hours of sleep I get. There's nothing to gain by knowing. I'm so in love with her though. If I hadn't had such a horrendous pregnancy (and I didn't know how wretched toddlers can be ) then I'd seriously want another one. I love newborns. Alice is just like my dd1. It's bringing it all back to DH and me and we're having such fun musing at all her little expressions and reactions and noises.

dd1 is acting OK so far. The test will be when DH goes back to work on MONDAY! Argh! I'm a bit scared but trying not to have any great expectations for doing anything other than feed Alice, feed dd1, feed myself and hope we all have a nap. Stuff cleaning, tidying, washing etc... it can wait for DH

I saw my midwife on Thursday and Friday. She said it was lucky I went on my own into labour as she'd rung to book my indcuction to be told there was no space for the rest of this week!

Here's my birth story for anyone interested.

Cheers for popping in Beatie...i feel like i'm all left here by myself today

Hello!
CONGRATULATIONS Jen and welcome to baby Isaac.
Sorry to have abandoned you today STM! Thanks for the good wishes for my due date - though nothing doing I'm afraid. DH says to tell you that we did get some "action" and thank you very much for asking!!! Didn't bring anything on though. Even stayed on all fours for 10 mins afterwards - no effect, yet anyway.
Have been out all day trying to keep ourselves occupied in the vain thought that if we forget that baby is due today something will happen. Thought I felt something pop about 1.30 this am and thought "this is it" but nothing. Am already making plans for next week as am positive nothing will happen until next weekend at least.
Sorry nothing is happening for you either STM and MW wasn't more positive. Is she going to try a sweep again in another couple of days? My mw said that they can do it every couple of days if you want though not sure that much interference would be good.
Hope you've had some good news Katts and may be all done and dusted by now.
KF - keep hanging on in there - can't be long now.
Milward - happy due date!! Are you still there? Hope you're celebrating a new arrival round about now

lol JM, you'll jsut have to keep trying. Am booked in for another on Tuesday, booking induction date then aswell...

have decided that i'm not pregnant

No STM - it's just wind and chocolate!

jessysmummy - Happy due date as well xxx !!! still waiting here!! - went to hospital with a false alarm on wednesday night!! Hope you're doing ok. I see my doc on wednesday to see how things are going. Just want to get the job done now. Sort of feel nervous about going through labour & just hope everything will be ok. Sending you lots of good luck xxx

Best wishes to all xxx

Jessysmummy & Milward - thinking of you both on your due date.

Good luck!
(Can't be too long to go now!)

Have to gatecrash...noticed somebody posting and is up like me at this terrible hour of the night...are you there

You still there ChaCha?

Morning all...once agin nothing happened overnight...in fact i had a full nights sleep i only got up once for the loo. Not sure if it;s good or bad lol.

have decided i will venture out today to church, but the first person that says "still not had it yet then?" will get a seriously hard slap!!!

Morning, sorry you feel abandoned. We aren't doing it on purpose. Had forgotten how hard it could be, made worse by having to placate two screaming kids every three hours let alone constant round of feeding and changinmg baby let alone getting the rest of the family fed and dressed.

However I wouldn't change a thing when not hungry he is one of the most contented little babies I have met (or maybe I am biased).

thanks for popping mummyhill...there's not many of us left now...gets quiet rather quickly round here atm...more thna i can say for most of houses now lol

Just popped in to say hello and thinking of you all playing that frustrating waiting game. Can't believe that this time last week I was waiting for every little twinge. Just to remind you all that it is worth it and you will love not being pregnant anymore soon!
Nell is beautiful - at first she looked as if she'd done several rounds with Mike Tyson (and at that size, I think she would have given him a run for his money....!!!) but is now looking more girly as the congestion goes.
A tip for labour - despite it being our 3rd time, we had forgotten how hungry we both would get! I packed a pack of Mars bars, but that was about it. I missed dinner on Weds night, so by the time I had given birth I was starving, with only a cup of tea on offer. Even during labour, I could have done with some bananas or something. Dh offered to go and get some, but I wouldn't let him escape that easily!!
Milk came in yesterday and felt v tearful and tired. Boobs feel like they're full of rocks - yuck! Nell has been fantastic so far - feeds then sleeps for a few hours, except around midnight when she seems unsettled for a couple of hours - wonder if this has anything to do with it being roughly the time she was born?
Good Luck girls, and keep those babies popping!!!

I'm still here - fighting my way through the tumbleweed:

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Nothing going on here. The cramping of yesterday has subsided again. Just feel tired and a bit nauseous.

I'm still here too... Realised that I haven't updated the stats thread - today is my due date (stats thread says it's tomorrow), so baby is bound to put in an appearance today .

Feeling a bit disappointed about the decision not to induce me this week. Weird, since I've been fighting it for a week, but had finally reconciled myself with the fact that it was going to happen this week, and the waiting would be over. Also like the idea of not having to worry about organising cabs in the middle of the night, or at rush hour!

Am just about to do some research into the herbs that my doula has given me to take. Took them yesterday, and they were definitely doing something, but am still not very comfortable taking them as a bit paranoid about their effect on the baby/my blood pressure, so haven't taken any of them today.

We were going to head into a photographic exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery this afternoon, then I remembered that I'm doing a 24 hour urine collection, so would have to lug in my specimen containter and collection jug - don't really fancy explaining that at the bag search !!!

Thanks for dropping in to visit us Andif and Mummyhill - hopefully we'll all be joining you on the post natal thread soon...

Hello

It is exactly a week since baby Rachel was born and I can't ever imagine a time without her!!

I know the last days of waiting are hard - but they are completely forgotton as soon as baby arrives.

Thinking of you - looking forward to hearing the stork has bought you a fantastic bundle soonxxxx

Hi kiwifruit, glad to see i'm not the only one left. Going for a very bumpy tractor ride this afternoon...so hopefully, fingers crossed that might start something!