Jue in June - But we're already well on our way!

[NurseSunshine]

Yet another thread! Going to need to start moving to post natal soon... Eeep!

8 I think it's a great idea and I'm wondering why I have never thought of that. Beats scrolling up and down and then losing your place..

I thought you were giving us strong positive messages/ orders 8rd & FWIW I have to have 2 windows open when I post properly as there is no way I can remember more than 1 message at a time. Surely everyone does that.... if not never mind I'll join you in the memory failure gang :) hope you're feeling ok today x

Thanks all for the good wishes, live induction update is as follows....

Contractions still too strong for gel but on examination MW can only get 1 finger in (1cm) & says would be too difficult to ARM & that I do need the gel to get me going.

Plan is that I take paracetamol & have lunch then at 1:30 afternoon staff will put me on ctg again & examine to see if the contractions have stopped enough for gel.

Good news is DP is on his way from work. DP who is about to learn all about labour & delivery via the university of life :)

Sods law the contractions feel strong today, of course I would rather go naturally but I am worrying that I will go home & it will all stop for weeks again.

Okay, here's the proper version....

I am very sleepy today after a night of horrible broken sleep, have arranged another trip to the city farm with my friend and her baby, as ds is obsessed with the 12 piglets down there at the moment, and am hoping I can drag mysefl around ok .

Congratulations on your little girl sasa, I hope you're having wonderful, lovely snuggles and downtime with your new addition right now!

I am thinking of you Thorny being induced. I had 2 days of different pessaries when I was induced, and ds getting distressed then calming down again, and niggly contractions but no dilation, so I feel your pain. ARM did it in the end - I went into laboupr roper about half an hour after having my waters broken.

I also hope things are moving along nicely for Kara.

Louey very glad Oscar out of SCBU, any news yet on whether you can go home?

Petitech a picnic in the park at that stage should be no problem IMO. Its my birthday on July 1st, and I'm having problems deciding whether to bother trying to organise anything. I suppose I can always cancel if I have only just had the baby, or if I am overdue and hacked off!

Jasmine I had absoluetly no sign of any colostrum at all before I had ds. I was starting to get a bit concerned, but once he was out he was feeding by the time we got out of the recovery room, and it was plain sailing from there, with no issues at all with supply. I have noticed a bit of colostrum leakage this time around, but not much.

Prisoner eat all the bloody chocolate you want, and tell your DP in no uncertain terms that pregnant or not, your chocolate intake is your own business (but especially when pregnant!) [there should really be a hormonal pregnant lady emoticon]

Oh, forgot to say, I had my Strep B test results back yesterday by text - I am negative . This means that I do not have to have antibiotics in labour and can ask if I can deliver in the midwife led unit and have access to birthing pool. Has taken a little bit of the stress I'm feeling away...

Congratulations Sasa!!

Good luck to Kara and Thorny today!!

petitech We are going to my brother's wedding at 42+2! Hopefully we will have a baby by then...DH says we can't go if we don't. My mum will kill me if i'm not there -no pressure then mum!

jasmine I get the crustiness in the nipple department too - you can just see spots of yellow in the craters of my nipples. Have you sung to your Disney extras yet?

Prisoner I'm eating soooo much crap at the moment, I know it's all weight I have to shift afterwards, but meh...when you have horrible heart burn you eat what you like and you tell DH to p1ss off!

I have a confession... I didn't get out of bed until 11am, and then I ate cookies. . I suppose I should go and have a shower and get dressed, but I can't be bothered yet!

Update from me -

Sadly labour has stalled, it is starting to get going again, but still not in established labour.
Went in bath after MWs had been and examined me (not dilated though), then had maccyD breakfast, then a nap, then a walk. Been stood up and also bouncing on my ball, desperately wanting to speed things up. Have TENS machine on and been sniffing my clary sage as well! Yes I wasn't intending to use my TENS in the bath

Colostrum - never leaked with DS, haven't leaked this time around. The colostrum will be in your milk ducts and when your baby starts to suckle, this will stimulate further production.

Am finding I need to be stood up to stimulate further contractions, sitting down even on birthing ball seems to slow them down.

TENS is helping with the back ache, on a very low intensity at mo. Realised I was using the boost wrong, was wondering why it wasn't working for the cx!

Thorny - hope things start progressing for you soon!

8rd I think the list is very cute :)

Thanks neenewps, I might try that. It'll probably cost as much as a new moses basket but hey ho! Really glad your scan went well - always a relief, and lovely to see the LO at this stage :) My birthday is on 4th July (8 days past due date) so either the baby will either be born that day, condemning her to a life of birthday misery when she has to have joint parties with her mum , or I'll have just given birth and nobody will remember/care it's my birthday (probably including me) or I'll be well overdue and miserable and DH will be under extreme pressure to make me feel like a queen . Either way I'm not organising anything ...

Congratulations on the Strep B test by the way - brilliant you can have the birth of your own choosing now :)

OMG thorny how annoying about the hospital. Really glad you stuck to your guns and are getting monitored though - hopefully all these pre-dilation contractions are doing something and you'll rocket up to 10cm in no time :) Glad your DP is on his way, too, and at least it'll give you some entertainment watching him 'learn'

Right, off to ring the builder it's taken 9 weeks to book and who said he'd be here at 9am and hasn't shown ... will try to remain calm and zen-like ...

How did I get disconnected? Will attempt to remember what I'd written.

for Sasa's wee girl finally arriving, hope all is well and you're

at Joanne's sleep in and at your cookies.

I fecking give up. Lost my post twice now.

s for good stuff and boo for Kara's labour stalling.

Time to make pancakes for lunch I guess.

Morning, congratulations Sasa and good luck to you Kara.
I had a third sweep this morning and apparently my cervix is more favourable. Whatever. I believe i will defy all medical presidence and be pregnant forever.
I told the mw i had a curry last night and she said the only use of a curry was to have a poo. It was a nice curry though.
Induction is looming ever closer. I'm VBAC so really dont' want to get there and end up in another C. Anyone i say that to just makes me feel shit, i dont' want a CS the last one was bad enough and it was elective, i live in a building with hundreds of stairs and i have a toddler who doesn't like to go up and down them so i have to carry her. How do all these very well meaning people expect me to carry on after a CS with a toddler and very little help after 2 weeks paternity? aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I'll do it if i have to but i would really rather not.

right i need some food.

Good labouring everyone and good luck.

I have a very dumb first timer question...what is a snuggle nest? My cousin has one which she says I can have and I don't know if i'll need it or not because I don't know what it is! Also what is a bumbo????

Labella I think it might have to be part of your toddler's new role as a big sister to walk up and down the stairs as you won't be able to carry both of them anyway will you?

Right I really am going to go and get dressed now!

8 that's so funny, I do that but I post everything I'm going to write on the notepad on my pc and then copy and paste so you're not alone :)
Joanne (note I am first timer as well so take with pinch of salt!) I believe a bumbo is like a little seat that your baby can learn to sit up in with some support, I'm sure googling would give you better explanation and I'm not sure how to post links in here.
Snuggle nest, no idea but wondering if it's like a gro bag / sleeping / swaddling type thing?!
Just BUMPED (pun intended) into my school friend in s/market who just got back from her 20 week scan, funny to compare bumps!
STRETCH MARK ALERT after feeling v smug at not having any stretch mark, several have appeared under my belly button, seeminly overnight :( Do they ever decrease in visibility?

Grrrr just wrote a long post and lost it....

labella hope the 3rd sweep works for you. How far over are you now?

ttl I think my mattress was around £20. It is quite nice to use something that has been in the family for so long. Did your builder turn up?

petitech I don't think I would be able to see under my belly button!! I have been using bio oil since around 8 weeks but don't hold out much hope that I will escape stretch marks!

joanne is a snuggle nest one of those round doughnut type things that you sit the baby in? I have heard that it's not worth buying a Bumbo so good that you are having one given to you.

LOL @ 8rd's notes

Jasmine my boobs don't feel hard or anything but they do leak a bit. Have you tried squeezing your nips after a shower? You might get something! However AFAIK it has no bearing on whether you're going to produce colostrum. And I don't think anyone ever doesn't produce the necessary so don't worry.

Petitech At the HB group a lady came in to tell us about her birth and brought her 7 week old baby. She had him in a car seat next to her feet most of the time and when he woke up she just fed him, jiggled him about a bit, changed his nappy and then put him back in car seat! By appearances it was zero hassle which was nice to see :) So don't worry about the picnic.

MainlyMaynie and Moog The homebirth group did a demo of how to put the pool up and it takes literally 3 mins to inflate (obv a lot longer to fill!) which is good to know. I've got my pool now, picked it up at the weekend. I haven't given it a trial run yet but probably in a week or so I will inflate it just to make sure there are no leaks or anything.

PrisonerZero I would tell DP to eff off quite frankly. You can eat whatever the hell you want, pregnant or not and FYI chocolate does not cause the common cold!

ThornyKate Best of luck today, will be thinking about you :)

Anyone else's bump REALLY itchy? Mine is and it drives me mad because scratching it does nothing!

Labella I'm a vbac-er too. I really hope the sweep works for you this time. I didn't get one this morning cos cervix has gone posterior again. Grr. Not actually overdue yet, but it is very stressful thinking about having a section. Joanne if you have 2 babies, you take one downstairs and then the other. It's way too much walking post-op. jasmine the removal of the placenta from the uterus wall stimulates milk production initially - stay calm!

Just put together the moses basket stand. With DS's 'help' so he can tell LO he helped make it's bed. It looks so small!!! and ready for a little baybeee (I'm not normally the squealing type honest).

Now if I can just convince DS to have a 3 hour nap (and still go to sleep tonight), so that I can nap... And if some chocolate fudge would just appear on my bench. Well dreams are free and all that.

Joanne I loved my bumbo and so did ds - a safe seat for them they can't fall out of once they can sit upright and before they can walk. I can't enlighten you on what the snuggle nest is sadly...

Petitech your stretch marks will fade to thin silvery lines rather than purple welts (if they are anything like mine) over time.

Google reveals that a snuggle nest is a little tray you can put the baby in if you're co-sleeping which keeps him/her safe in your bed - i.e. you can't roll over onto the baby/get the pillows over him/her etc. I think.

There's a thread on MN about it here

I'm a bit worried about sleeping, actually. We're using the moses basket next to the bed (thanks so much neenewps, I ordered a mattress to my measurements for £16.99 from that website - brilliant!) but I'm afraid that I'll fall asleep during night feeds and I don't think our bed is very safe for that - we have a duvet, it's only an ordinary double bed, and there's no protection on either side (and nor can there be without major room alterations). Going to have to get a TV in the bedroom I think!

PS forgot to say to prisonerzero that I agree with nurse. Your DH needs a good telling off . There must be something in the air - my DH is positively my feeder (every time he goes to the shop he buys me my favourite treats, and he's constantly making sure I'm stocked up on anything I fancy) but yesterday he got all grumpy because I'd drunk too much orange juice . Weird! Maybe it's their version of nesting or something :)

And nope, no sign of builder. He's only 7 hours late though, and we've been waiting for him to get his act together for 9 weeks, so maybe 7 hours just isn't a lot to him ...

What's this about DH's bringing back pregnant wife treats etc? My husband only buys treats shit for himself (and tries to hide them!!!).

TTL That looks interesting...I was just planning on co-sleeping to begin with and then putting the babbit in it's cot if it gets too wiggly.

My DH doesn't bring me treats either, but I am getting cuddles on demand so I can't really complain. I spent this afternoon sorting and tidying up the baby's room. Now only our bedroom left to go. It's become a bit of a dumping ground recently. The only problem with a home birth is that i'm feeling the need to get the whole house sorted out and tidy! Oh well, maybe i can ask DH to help me this evening. I'm really beginning to feel chilled out now and the cough is much better, i'm almost ready for this baby now! 38+4 today, it can't be that much longer can it! The first baby from our NCT class was born yesterday, they were only about 4 days ahead of me! Eek! I'm having a baby soon!!!

Prisoner remind your DH that chocolate can stimulate the production of oxytocin which is good during labour!!

Nothing much happening here, have stated a thread in chat.

Nurse - glad your HB talk went well.

At 6-7 weeks old babies don't need or do much so shouldn't be a problem for your picnic, Petitech!

ooo Kara I didn't know about the chocolate and oxytocin thing - hmmm maybe that's an excuse I can have to munch loads tomorrow!

Petitech I'm suppose to be going to a picnic on the 26th June so if I go over by two weeks the baby will only be a week old EEEKKK!! I'm hoping that baby comes on her due date (ie TOMORROW) then I might be able to go to the picnic after all!

Hmmmmm.... am I queen of ambitious social-life planning? Due 22nd June, DS's best little friend's birthday party 26th June, friend's baby shower at a health spa 27th June, my birthday 1st July, birthday boat-trip up the river to tea rooms for cava, cake and cucumber sandwiches 2nd July... shall we have a sweepstake for just how many of these engagements I miss?

very impressed with the social plans 8!! I'll put my money on you making 2/4 engagements, any takers?!!

Hope the labouring going well for those in it and congratulations on all the new arrivals! I'm feeling very tired and woolly headed at the moment so struggling to keep up!

I've been having significant tightenings since yesterday lunchtime and an upset tummy, but not sure if it means anything. Everyone keeps telling me that I'll KNOW when its contractions so I'm hoping this is true and am just ignoring things for now. Its making me a little nervous to carry on with plans I've got for the next few days though! No sign of water breaking but from what I understand that doesn't always happen until just before the birth anyway. Am feeling very confused as a first timer!!