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!

Damnit!! Not a peep since and they went over 5 hours ago !!! I'm thinking along the same lines as super and nurse about it being hind/ fore waters, else her head must be blocking them. Am leaking a teensy tiny bit if I strain (sorry ) ever since. No contractions - was on the throws of labour by now with ds. Have cleaned whole house. Hmm now making me question if I'm going mad/ imagined the whole thing. I'll have to in in the next day for infection control I suppose. Think I'll ring and ask actually.

Damn you third labour!!!! (shakes fist)

Sorry for being so me, me, me - will catch up with everyone soon. Off to see how kara is getting on.......

Labella with cake like that you should have joined us earlier . Sorry that you've been put off a day for the induction. Best of luck tomorrow (maybe wave some of that lush sound cake around your knees to tempt your LO out).

Great news about your exam results Barbie. Oh and Whoop about your waters going.

at your mug dilemma PP, though a bit grr for you about your consultant.

How are things going this evening Kara? hope your next post includes news of your snuggly new baby.

I think today was the first time I've left the house since Sunday. I'm just so tired I spend all my spare time in bed. Poor DH is saying he wants the baby to come because he's bored! (mind you after being a zombie for 2 months, this is actually a good thing, just his timing sucks ).

Joanne I've been getting crumbs in my bra for months. today I just had them all down my front, as bump stops them falling back to the plate.

AC some people just don't learn do they? How annoying about your back. I'd be turning my phone off if I were you.

Barbie sounds like you LO is trrying to spread your joy out a bit.

Sorry if this is an inappropriate time to ask this question but has anyone ever had a simple straightforward third labour? I'm starting to think that even when something does happen I'll still have a LONG way to go?!

Long time no post. Have been busy feeding, looking after a toddler and newborn. Doesn't leave much time for mumsnetting. Boo.

Barbie fingers crossed things get moving soon for you.

I forgot that I asked a similar question back in January and didn't realise so many had continued to post but for anyone about to have their third labour, this might be of interest...

Millie was just thinking the same thing myself. Thanks a mil for the link - off for a good read..

Thorny what a lovely post about little Tegan - gorgeous name too

Congratulations on your fab results Barbie you clever thing!

Whoo hoo Kara and Barbie - get those babies OUT!!

At least you got your bag back almightycitrus but how selfish of her to focus on how bad it all was for her, and not apologise or offer cash for you to fund a replacement!

Prisoner hope the show means that things get going really soon for you

Still here!

Nurse, I suffer from eczema and like Joanne I use HC45, GP said it was safe to use during pregnancy, I also use E45 itch relief as well.

Joanne - yep crumbs in bra over here too How's your DH?

Confessions - your 'friend' sounds like bloody hard work....

Not in established labour yet!

Sod the batch cooking, I get so much food down my top nowadays I think I'm just going to freeze my bras .

I want some babies this weekend - get going on your labours everyone!

Birth plan done, I now have permission to go into labour. Don't think its gonna happen yet though.

Jasmine Ive always had trouble with crumbs in my bra - just ate a cornflake cake and got half of it in my bra!

Just had fajitas for tea as thats about as spicy as I can go so fx for tonight lol!

Barbie I got excited when i read about your waters breaking - good luck!!

Nurse Hope you manage to get something to help the itching - I had some unknown skin problem in January and it itched like mad. Docs provided me with a huge pot of cleansing cream and it seemed to help!

Kara Hope you have your baby soon!

Prisoner Woooo for the show! Does everyone have a show or can you go into labour without having one?? Im just hoping my labour will start at any point but still haven't had any signs!! grrrr

Joanne I ALWAYS had crumbs in my bra, and a shower of them on the floor when I took it off at night! Good news is: not one since giving birth. Like achey hips, indigestion, bad sleep, swollen hands and ankles, total exhaustion, the crumbs will magically disappear once baby appears.

Prisoner Exciting show news! Hope it's the beginning of something for you...

Barbie Very excting waters news... I"ll be waiting to hear your updates. When mine went I started having contractions immediately.

Jasmine Well done for taking charge. Hope you feel better for it.

All good here, listening to baby snuffling in her moses... she's very well behaved I must say. Though I didn't say that, ok (don't want to jinx things). However, she did do a projectile poo onto the wall earlier. Nappy off, just cleaned up and along came a sneeze. I've never seen such a powerful jet!

Right DP is hanging washing, making tea, clearing kitchen, sterilising bottles... and I'm starting to feel guilty. Best help out!

crazychic you can lose your plug and not notice it (eg when you're on the toilet)
lol at BPrincess's poo story - my baby weed all over the midwife's trousers after she did the guthrie test today

I've just opened a bottle of Moet in a belated birth celebration

Someone just sent me this so I thought I'd share it with you all...

The 'Middle Wife' by an Anonymous 2nd grade teacher

I've been teaching now for about fifteen years. I have two kids myself,
but the best birth story I know is the one I saw in my own second grade
classroom a few years back.

When I was a kid, I loved show-and-tell. So I always have a few sessions
with my students. It helps them get over shyness and usually,
show-and-tell is pretty tame. Kids bring in pet turtles, model airplanes,
pictures of fish they catch, stuff like that. And I never, ever place any
boundaries or limitations on them. If they want to lug it in to school and
talk about it, they're welcome.

Well, one day this little girl, Erica, a very bright, very outgoing kid,
takes her turn and waddles up to the front of the class with a pillow
stuffed under her sweater.

She holds up a snapshot of an infant. 'This is Luke, my baby brother, and
I'm going to tell you about his birthday.'

'First, Mom and Dad made him as a symbol of their love, and then Dad put a
seed in my Mom's stomach, and Luke grew in there. He ate for nine months
through an umbrella cord..'

She's standing there with her hands on the pillow, and I'm trying not to
laugh and wishing I had my camcorder with me. The kids are watching her in
amazement.

'Then, about two Saturdays ago, my Mom starts saying and going, 'Oh, Oh,
Oh, Oh!' Erica puts a hand behind her back and groans. 'She walked around
the house for, like an hour, 'Oh, oh, oh!' (Now this kid is doing a
hysterical duck walk and groaning.)

'My Dad called the middle wife. She delivers babies, but she doesn't have a

sign on the car like the Domino's man. They got my Mom to lie down in bed
like this.' (Then Erica lies down with her back against the wall.)

'And then, pop! My Mom had this bag of water she kept in there in case he
got thirsty, and it just blew up and spilled all over the bed, like
psshhheew!' (This kid has her legs spread with her little hands miming
water flowing away. It was too much!)

'Then the middle wife starts saying 'push, push,' and 'breathe, breathe.
They started counting, but never even got past ten. Then, all of a sudden,
out comes my brother. He was covered in yucky stuff that they all said it
was from Mom's play-centre, (placenta) so there must be a lot of toys
inside there. When he got out, the middle wife spanked him for crawling up

in there.'

Then Erica stood up, took a big theatrical bow and returned to her seat.
I'm sure I applauded the loudest. Ever since then, when it's show-and-tell

day, I bring my camcorder, just in case another 'Middle Wife' comes along.

Very cute millie My DD1 just took in a few photos. The dramatisation would be something DD2 would do. I am hoping that she forgets about the 'placenta print' she made at 2.30am on Tuesday. (Yes I have a piece of paper covered in blood attached to my pinboard.) barbie I'm pretty sure all my waters went in one go. It was immediately preceded by a weird bubbly popping sensation. I can't believe it hasn't triggered labour. Poor you. You asked about whether I killed anyone when I went over with DD1. Well consider that those 22 days were 20th Dec to 11th Jan so everyone in the town knew I was expecting a Christmas baby, you can draw your own conclusions. I have never told anyone in RL my due dates since. I was very unwell with milk fever yesterday. Temp of 39, all red and puffy, and achy and shaky. Feel much better today, but cannot be upright for very long. We travelled to Boscombe today as SIL is getting married tomorrow and I had to get out of the car and throw myself to the floor as I felt so faint. DH reclined my seat as far as it would go for the rest of the journey. I'm now snuggled up with Percy in a huge bed. The other 3 are sharing the other room in our 'suite' (an unexpected treat) and DH is having a small drink in the hotel bar, catching up with family. I'm sure we'll have a great time tomorrow. The DD'S have never had such an exciting week! PS as I typed my user name I recall that Percy snorts beautifully :)

mother, that sounds really horrid. What is milk fever? Do you think you might have mastitis? I sometimes get what I can only describe as a kind of headache/hormone rush, starting in head and going down boobs and back, accompanied by a kind of aching, as if the start of flu or something. Does anyone else have this?

Well, I'm on the night shift. Anyone else out there?

I'm here bprincess!!! sooo tired and yet not asleep. I seem to have discovered that I can only sleep after sex ?!? as obliging as dh is, not sure he would appreciate being woken up at half 3. ugh.
am also curious about this milk fever? I think those who are proud parents should be handing over handy tips and vital info to us 1st timers, what should we know?

I'm awake too. I woke up and remembered my washing was on the line and then heard the monsoon outside the window. The I started to cough and felt sick all at the same time. Then I started to panic so I though it was best to get up and do something. I know it is slightly irrational after all this time, but I began to panic about all the "naughty" stuff I ate before I knew I was pg and what it could have done to the baby. I know it is unlikely and not worth worrying about but at 4 am you can't turn your brain off can you.

mosp I'm glad Percy is a proper little snort pig! I wonder if he will like the Percy Pig sweets from M&S when he is a bit bigger? They are the best sweets maybe in the whole world (plus the piggy on the packet is very cute)... And they are all his! How cool is that!
Curiouselle I know what you mean about not wanting to wake up your DH (no not about only being able to sleep after sex!). Mine just will not moan about me being a hormonal hippomonster which makes me feel really bad.

omg I actually have not been to sleep at all!!! joanne morning if you are still around!

Urgh I hate that not sleeping all night feeling! when the sun finally decides to come up you feel like you have lived through an ordeal! I'm still here, still feeling pukey :( They should give us a [vomit emicon] for all the pg ladies! I know this it totally TMI for morning but I think I might feel better after having a bit of a puke...but I can't. DH is snuffling away in his sleep and i'm

I'm here too, although it's a fairly normal time now of 6:30. Been awake all night, i probably got about 2 hours sleep. Sleep deprivision - Just what i need as i trot off to be induced today. I am utterly shitting myself about what is going to happen.
So much for my spontaneous labour. Had a show yesterday and got really excited, then probably made too much adrenalin at the thought of going into labour that nothing happened.
I wonder if Kara & barbie had their babies, i do hope so.
Well i'm going to have a look though my bag for the 50th time and check i have everything. I'lll update you at some point on how it all goes, i really am looking forward to meeting this wiggler.

Good luck Labella

BP and curious Milk fever is when your milk comes in really fast and some of it gets into your blood stream so you get am immune response against it. Please note that any fever after birth must be checked out as mine is the least serious of the possibilities. Mastitis is accompanied by a hard lump and/or redness on the breast. It requires antibiotics. Retained products (in the uterus) comes with tummy pain and heavy blood loss and will probably require a trip to hospital. Here ends today's lesson on horrid things that may happen after you give birth :)

Oh dear girls, you won't believe it - I'm still here and looks like I won't be having a baby any time soon .

First of all thank you all do much for your lively, kind messages and the excitement you were clearly showing for me.

mother I'd never heard of milk fever either but it sounds horrendous. You poor thing, I hope you're ok.

labella wishing you the very, very best for today, I'm sorry you didn't get your spontaneous labour but hurray! You'll have your baby very soon will be thinking of you.

So nothing at all happened yesterday eve, I told dh to head off to a gig he was playing and that I'd be fine (my mum lives next door), was waiting for things to start up. Couldnt understand why I had no more gushes or real loss of water except a slight , slight trickle when i changed positions, decided to go to bed at 9.30 but said I'd ring the labour ward first just to find out what the policy on infection control was in respect to a time frame. Explained to lovely midwife on the phone what happened and how odd I thought it was - she said it was very possible, often happens and that baby's head was probably blocking the flow. Had expected to be told to come in in the next day or two, she told me to come in immediately, asked could I wait for dh to cone home, she said no way, had to be "started" between 12 and 24 hours if waters had gone. She said anyway, at this overdue we're likely to induce you anyway - bring my bags.

Cue getting my poor (really excited) mum to come down to drive me and arranging/ waiting on an aunt to come over to sit with kids. Hospital is 30 'mins away, left message for dh to follow us over at 12.30 after gig.

Went over, when i explained they decided it was urine, I insisted it wasn't - it was a cup full - on the floor, thick, clear, slimy and sweet smelling, examined me and said nope, fore waters were in tact, that maybe, possibly it was hind waters from my description but that didn't matter as they can redeem and replenish and the fore waters were the important ones for labour.

Policy is to monitor baby for 20 mins before letting me home. Mw gets me to drink couple of glasses of ice water during as baby appears very sleepy (maybe because she needs to come fucking out soon?). I have 2 strong contractions whilst on monitor, which show up - mw exclaims "ooh you're having some significant contractions, aren't you?" I tell her yes to which she replies "ok that's great, will see you tuesday for induction" and packed us off on our merry way.

Had about 6 more large contractions once home (which in fairness were likely to be as a result of internal).

I'm so so frustrated and upset, partly with them (unreasonable pregnant woman), partly with myself - I thought at 42 weeks they would just keep me and get things going - I wouldn't opt for induction loosely but at this stage I think it's necessary. My mother was really shocked and reckons it was (I was sent home) because the consultant was finishing her shift and wanted to go home.

I'm worried now too. I'm the type of person who hates to put people out and feel really bad for getting my mum and aunt out for absolutely nothing. I cried for about an hour once i came home last night out of pure embarrassment and frustration. I'm just going to leave now ran it this time, I'm ignoring everything until Tuesday, when I'll have my baby.

Millie 3rd labours, to me, are as I'd heard - awful, unpredictable and stop/ start. I cannot believe I had a show on the 3rd, what I'm adamant was (some?) waters breaking on the 10th and that I'm still sitting here with nothing happening. Hope you have a much better experience.

Oh and midwife helpfully pointed out how massive my bump was, was I sure we could actually get that huge baby out, only to add after feeling "nope, it's ok, you'll just have a lot of dieting to do after thus...."

Very selfish, me, me post again all, I'm really sorry, I'll get over myself later and will catch up with you all.

Oh my sil is due today - there was 2 weeks between our dates. She's using Kate (our name) as a girls middle name if it's s girl, which I didn't think I had to worry about, given the span between dates

(barbie kicks and punches the floor in tantrum type manner)

(scuttles off to see if baby Starbuck is here yet...)

Good luck labella I really hope things go well for you, and pleased the end is in sight - being so over must really suck!

MOSP milk fever does not sound fun, although the suite does! Hope u have a nice wedding. Loving the name Percy too.

I'm really struggling with names, we've got them picked but I just don't love them. If someone else chose them for their babies I'd think they were great but I always thought is be really set on my babies names and think it was the most beautiful name ever.... The ones we've picked I'm not completely in love with. Oh well, maybe when I see the baby the names will click more.

Have a nice Saturday all, hope there is baby announcements from kara and barbie today!

39+5 for me, getting close to my due date but still feel as if I'm in some kind of dream and this is never actually going to result in a real baby! I think it's comparable to waiting to get pregnant, although with that side of things, despite all the symptom spotting you might not actually get that positive result. With waiting on the baby side, all the anticipation is real and it's hard to comprehend that yes there will be a baby in the next few weeks, and all the last 9 months and months before that where your waiting to get pregnant are finally going to climax.......
Probably sounds Completely daft to you all but my heads in weird state of limbo at the moment, where the days are passing but I kind of feel I'm not really doing anything other than waiting!