Jue in June -Waters breaking everywhere and not a drop of Gaviscon to drink...

[NurseSunshine]

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Congrats on Barnaby labella :-) Sorry the c-section has taken it out of you but I hope that means you've got lots of people running around after you and pandering to your every whim. on the Lola Ferrari bustage ... on that note, though, how/when did people get fitted for nursing bras. I was going to get measured tomorrow (and then order online as I have vouchers for Next) but surely my boobs are going to go bananas when my milk comes and then they won't fit?

Whoop whoop crazy sounds like you're a-popping!

Ah well. Some fuckwit barged in and gave me an anti clotting injection at 5.45 am so delivery won't touch me til 1 at the earliest, and that's only if they don't find anyone more important than me. I've not eaten since 5pm yesterday, and that wasn't much as they messed up the food order. I've just sat and watched dh eat my lunch. Sense of humour is failing rapidly, and we are bankrupting ourselves with the parking fees. I can't even watch the tv as that's £5 a day!
Sorry for the moan, but I'm so sick of waiting round. I just want to go home.

Good luck crazychic and almightycitrus
Sorry you've not been too good labelle
curioselle it's fine to buy slings from ebay (apart from ergos) - what kind were you thinking of?
Congrats Magenta

I'm a complete zombie today and feel slightly traumatised by all the crying last night. Poor baby had terrible wind during the night and cried in terrible pain from about 11pm until 3am and then again between 5am and 6.30am

She's fine now - I'm hoping we don't have a repeat performance tonight.
Am really torn between using infacol or preserving virgin gut, esp when there is no evidence that infacol actually helps.
Just don't know what to do at all - have tried everything - hours and hours of pacing, patting, shushing, massage, swaddling, slinging and she's even wearing an amber necklace.

almighty just wrote you loads of sympathies and deleted it by accident. Chin up. No one is actually more important than you :)

Sasa ds wasn't colicky but used to suffer badly with wind and I too am not sure it works. Heard good things about colief but probably the same thing.

We are going to try rocking crib tonight to see if we can get madam to settle in that. Last night she was unsettled but thinking I was just comfort feeding which is not necessarily a bad thing as trying to fatten her up but am shattered. Might try dummy when she hits one month next week and I have her weighed again.

sasa Poor little Celeste :( And poor zombie-fied you. I know it's a bit mad, but eating apples really helps with sleep deprivation. Nothing else to add that's even vaguely helpful. I am in awe that you pulled off a birthday party. My DD2 is 4 in a few weeks and has BIG plans. Shame she needs a grown up to implement them. Where's her fairy godmother when I need her?

Congratulations to all the new babies. Sorry I cant post individually as on phone.

AC that sounds bloody awful are you not allowed to eat then?

No news here really. Just feeling very hungry all the time!

nurse hope your appointment today was ok and you have got the outcome you wanted.

Lots of people on here seem to be having a hard time today. Almighty I was only waiting for 2.5 days to be taken to delivery ward when induced, and that seemed a lifetime, so I can't imagine how pissed off you are! Send your other half out for a takeaway, trashy mags and other provisions this afternoon!

MOSP I am so sorry to hear you are feeling down, I cannot offer anything really apart from some virtual hugs - can DH get a couple more days off work to be around for you a bit longer? It is DS's 3rd birthday in 6 weeks and he has equally big plans as your dd by the sounds of it. He wants a party for all of his friends, the diddies (his collective name for all my girlfriends and his aunties), and the Octonauts in our garden, with bbq sausages to eat and a big fire engine cake. I'm really looking forward to sorting that one out with a month-old on my hands .

Also feeling sorry for Sasamaxx and those other Mums who are not getting much sleep. I used infacol with ds, and I am not convinced it helped much either. Stick it out - its tough! I hope I don't get another colicky one.

Good luck this afternoon crazychic with your induction.

I have been a hormonal bag of nerves this last couple of days - couldn't stop crying yesterday from about 5pm, all because I didn't have a nap, as I took DP and DS to DPs favourite cafe/bar type place for food in the afternoon for Fathers Day, after getting up early to give him a lie-in. I then cried for about an hour this morning when I woke up and had to sort all the recycling and do all yesterday's washing up, as DP had again fallen asleep on the sofa and not done anything. Hmm, its still like water off a duck's back that I need him to do most stuff around the house now if I am to cope.

So, if anyone has a baby tomorrow, who's game for naming their baby something from A Midsummer Nights Dream? Titania? Puck? Bottom? Go on, I dare you!

Thanks Hallelouja and Mosp - apples really? Will pick some up today then thanks. I had a berocca earlier which will prob make not one jot of difference.

Listening to her in pain is infinitely worse than the sleep deprivation but they are a bad combination for me as both make me emotional and upset
Poor thing - I'm going to massage her tummy regularly today to see if it helps.

sasa we used infacol for about 4 weeks.....it helped her to burp but didnt help with the trumps which is what causes her the most pain. She is now able to burp herself and we have stopped the infacol. We actually think it started to make her trump pain worse.........
We still have lots of problems but it is getting a little easier....:) she is 13 weeks ( 2 weeks post due date ) today :)
My sympathies are with you, i regularly cry with her when she is in so much pain.....it breaks my heart that i cant mak it better

Good luck Almighty and Crazychic

Hope you're alright Barbie, don't blame you for feeling a little upset even though you're obviously over the moon with Kate. Sounds like you had a really upsetting experience and it will take you a while to get over it. Be kind to yourself :) xx

Poor Celeste :( Hope her pain eases up soon and you manage to get some rest Sasa

Congratulations Magenta

Joanne Hope you're OK :)

I had my appointment with the consultant today and he advised induction. So am booked in for thursday morning. Am quite scared as am thinking worst case scenario but very excited about seeing my baby :) Am off to google positive induction stories!

Thanks for the sympathy ladies
Poor wee Florence Moomin really hope her pain eases off soon as well - it's totally heartbreaking

That's really exciting Nurse.
Don't worry about induction - I had one with DS and it wasn't that bad - here is a quick recap:

Waters broken at 9am
Onto drip at 9.20ish
Continual monitoring (strapped to monitor the whole time) and on drip so can't walk around/use birthing ball etc - this is possibly one of the worst things about induction.
Contractions accelerate and intensify very very quickly - this can be pretty hard to cope with and is why inductions often end in epidural. I had some morphine which did help. Contractions made me v shaky and feel quite out of control.
11.30am fully dilated
Long 2 hours of pushing - possibly because completely out of my face on morphine.
Baby born at 1.30pm
Have to stay on drip for certain amount of time - no idea why - but pain stops completely.

So - I would say quick, immobile labour. No horror story really - just not the most gentle of births. I wouldn't panic at the thought of another induction, but I wouldn't be over the moon about it either.
I hope that puts things in perspective a bit for you

Sorry for all self indulgent posts. It's difficult typing on my phone and crap reception. Doctors now refuse to do anything til 6pm because of the injection. I'm allowed to drink water. Of course there's no guarantee anything will happen at 6 as they may again be too busy.

Almighty That's it, I'm coming over to virtually give your doctors a very hard virtual slap along with hormonal stompy feet and a bit of tearful shouting too. So sorry you are having such a crap time x

MOSP you know where I am if you need anything when DH isnt there - happy to pootle round Waitrose for you looking for treats....farmers market tomorrow, all those things I'm still not allowed to eat and you can now!

Labella I LOVE the name Barnaby, thats so cute.

re the Midsummer names...I really dont think that with a surname of Field we are going to be able to oblige...Bottom Field? Puck Field (errr, wonder what that might get changed to at school!)

oooo, gotta dash, time for another 'get this baby out by pushing any buttons you can find' reflexology session.

Citrus is that all cos they gave you the injection this morning? Not surprised you're p'd off Really hope something happens at 6 xx

I've just popped some clary sage into my aroma stream (electric fan oil diffuser) and it's woken baby up but I think that's probably all that's going to happen. I do feel quite hot but I've been getting hot flushes anyway so I doubt it's related.

I forgot to say earlier Labella that Barnaby was our choice if we were having a boy - great name!

Thanks Sasa :) I've found some old threads on here with some really positive stories so am feeling a bit better that induction doesn't have to be horrific!

Nurse my induction is so boring lol! I'm still waiting for a labour room but the staff are really nice up here!

Congratulations Magenta!

Sorry you're having such a hard time of it Almighty. Hope things get going soon.

Good luck with your inductions Crazy and Nurse.

Joanne, I'm hoping your absence means that things progressed and you're busy snuggling your LO!

40+3 today and nothing happening at the moment. I'm not sure whether I've had a couple of false starts or whether it was just my BHs becoming very intense and regular (combined with cramps and other pains). Lots of signs of things getting there, but nothing necessarily imminent, so I'm trying to be relaxed about everything as I could still have a bit of a wait on my hands. I had no idea how slow these last days would seem...

Sorry for not posting more individual responses. I am reading and thinking of all of you, and am very of those who are done with this pregnancy and labour business and on to chatting about your LOs!

Ah poor you Crazy :( Have you got DP keeping you company? Have they given you the pessary? Hope it's not too long before things start.

Thinking of you Perpetual It's weird but it feels more like it's never going to happen when you go overdue than it did 3 weeks ago!

I decided Currant Bun would follow it's Big bro in one of 2 ways. Either It would go a week late, putting it arriving on Sat, or It'd arrive 9 months after conception, putting it in the middle of next week. I've decided it needs to go for the 9 month mark. DH's health is back sliding badly and trying to get hold of a the fucking shrink is an utter joke. It's probably just a case of needing his meds adjusted again, but no one other than the shrink can do this. It's so fucking annoying because I would love to wanting this baby out now and having my body back to some semblance of normal, but no instead I don't want it to arrive. At least it helps that I don't feel like LO is ready to come yet, but still.

No nurse they havent given me the pessary didn't need it so I'm just waiting for them to find me a bed on labour ward so they can break my waters! Seems pretty pointless being here seeing as I haven't seen anyone since 12 but they won't let me go home seeing as I'm 13 days over! It's so boring! I have got dp here with me but he is bored too!