Massive, massive congratulations to jumper, cumh, tabitha, labella and crumble on the safe arrival of your little ones. Wow!! Things are really heating up now. jimper sorry to hear your dh missed it and you had a rough time, hope you're ok.
nurse I feel so so sorry for you right now, that itching sounds horrendous 
no advice as I've never experienced it but am really hoping Jasmine makes an appearance soon.
mosp sorry to hear Percy is having some problems and 
at stupid doctor. How are you feeling yourself now?
crazy, sending huge sympathises your way, really hoping baby appears soon. I was induced with dd1 and hand on heart it was a much, much better experience than this time round.
So, if anyone's interested, here's my story:
Woke up Sunday morn with mild, irregular(ish) contractions (btw, someone was asking - my contractions with all 3 were completely localised to my lower bump and were very strong period/tightening type pains). As per the "Tuesday induction plan" I was ignoring them and telling myself nothing was happening. By 7.30 Sunday eve they were stronger, every 20 mins and I knew it was definitely "it", not unbearable by any means mind, and i Pottered about tidying/ washed my hair etc. went to bed with dh about 11pm but by half 12 they were every 7 (ish) mins apart and quite strong (I really couldn't speak through them and had to move about), didn't want to go into hospital but dh begged me as he was nervous about delivering baby at home 
Rang my mum to come and stay with kids, and by the time we got to hospital (30min drive) Contractions were every 5 mins. This was about 1.30am.
Got booked in and put monitor to trace babies heart for 20 mins. Examined at 2.15am and mw tells me I'm not any where near in labour, not at all. I was absolutely shocked as I would have sworn on everything I had that I was. (contractions were showing up on monitor btw). I argue with her and insist I am, she argues back and keeps repeating , quite sternly, that "I am telling you - at 2.15am on the 13th of june you are not in labour". Tells me to go home, I start crying and telling her I don't understand how I could be getting this so wrong on number 3 and why on earth was I in so much pain. She tells me that I'll have to calm myself down before I can go and that I could always come back tomorrow if i felt anything, I'm now and (stupidly) say "nope! I'm not setting one foot in here until Tuesday morn - I'd rather have the baby on the sitting room floor because if you are telling me I'm 100% not in labour well then I just don't trust my body anymore at all and won't believe it"
She looks a little nervous at this and changes tone slightly and says "don't be silly, you don't want to have your baby on the sitting room floor" then added "look, I've loads of beds, if you really want to stay, you can, we'll see - the doctors at rounds in the morning might decide to induce you seeing as your booked for induction on Tuesday anyway. Your husband has to go home though, as your not in labour I'll put you in a ward and he can't stay there".
I say ok (crying), brings me down to wards where night mws (5 of them) are at the station and she patronisingly tells them "barbie here was having a few niggles but is definately not in labour and we're going to see about induction in the morn because she's worked herself up
a bit" cue patronising nods and sneers. Luckily enough they give me a private room as it's quite and there's a few free. Dh goes down to get my case from car and is told to go home (approx 3am). Was left in room on my own, its really dark as all dimmer lights are on, My contractions were really coming hard and strong. About 5 mins after dh walks out, i walk to ensuite and have a small gush to the floor. (what I think are my remaining hind-waters) followed by a substantial amount of blood.
I walk down the corridor to mw station, where they are all drinking tea and tell them I'm sorry to bother them again but I'm bleeding. They openly look at each other and are really making it obvious that they think I'm just carrying on. Ask me "yeah and what do you want? A pad?" I say no, I have one but thought they might need to know, they tell me to go back to bed and someone will check in on me in an hour or so.
Back to room, contractions are really strong, I'm trying to be quite as im not in a labour ward and dont want to wake people, am trying to wipe the mess up from the bathroom floor. Contractions are every 2 mins, am completely my own and am thinking I'm crazy - don't want to call anyone as I'm being repeatedly told I'm not in labour. Start vomiting.
At 4.20am a mw happens to be passing my room and probably heard me moan slightly (again, am trying to be quite), asks me if I'm ok and I tell her no, I dont think I am, tell her they are every 2 mins. I ask her to examine me and to please not try to
Tell me that I wasn't in labour. Tells me I'm 4 centimetres, I ask her to stop exam as I'm having another contraction and my waters break all over her - she literally ran to door of the room and shouted "she's 4, waters have just gone and it's a 3rd baby" all come running with a wheelchair, I ask her to ring my husband (bearing in mind he's not gone 1.5 hours yet). I get to door of room, put my hand on wheelchair and have a contraction and have to push, all asking "why didn't you tell us/ call someone??" to which I reply "because you all kept telling me I wasn't in labour!!!"
Am rushed down to delivery room, mates head was coming down, no time for gas and air etc, was pushing and could here mw on phone to dh, telling him I actually was in labour, to cone back in but there was no rush (she later tells me that she knew he just wouldn't make it and didn't want him to speed unnecessarily). Kate is born at 4.33am 
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Sorry for this being so so long and rambling a bit, also sorry for being negative but it's really helped to write it down. Kate is fabulous though and worth every last second obviously, I am completely, completely besotted!!!!