October Baby Bus - Part 5

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Another thread!

And congrats bubalie sorry just woken up from nap and not at all with it!!!

Congratulations Bubablie x

Bloody hell I'm just as bad bubalie!

Congratulations bubabelle & groovyrach welcome babies!

Im crap too, been decking garden weekend so hectic. All done in a weekend tho, hot weather too. Looks like my body practicing again as been getting regular pains for couple hours now and still there despite bath. Just period like pain in waves, not breath taking crawl on floor type (yet) lol.

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Congratulations Bubalie and Luka!! - Excellent news.

Loving hearing about all these brand new babies coming into the world.....

P.S. mumtobee here - have worked out how to change my nickname now - so will be pinkpainter from now on...

Groovy, Bubalie congratulations, lovely news.

congrata bubalie!

sceh sounds like a pain about the visitors, do you have stern words with them? It's hard when everyone means well. Also was the jaundice obvious in baby? It's something that I worry about not picking up when baby's at home.

Interesting discussion about the placenta - a lot of people in my family have buried them under trees and it's not uncommon to do so here, I asked my MW and she said 50% people keep them to bury them. I don't know whether the stats would be similar in the UK but know here that it's influenced by the Maori culture in NZ which may account for the higher rates, and you can buy little tags to put on the tree with the baby's name as well as a biodegradable placenta bag. I know this as an aunt gave me them as a baby shower gift!

Not sure if you remember me posting ages ago about wanting to use a name my sister also wants in case she has another boy (she has one DS already), and how she was upset about the idea of me using it. As a disclaimer I feel the need to state she's not being a dick about it and is genuine in her distress at the idea. Anyway we've pretty much 90% decided to use said name now I have to decide how to tell her! Any advice?

Enjoy Groovy and Bubalie

penelope tricky, how did the conversation come about. If you mentioned it first then it's hard but tough luck for them. If they mentioned the name then I'd hide for a long time. Otherwise all you can do is say sorry, you know she must be upset at it, but you have decided to...

I brought the last few labour bag bits, minus food. Wrote some birth plan bits and have things to look up, then I'll rewrite it proper in the relevant section of my notes. Me and DH finally thought about childcare arrangements and have concluded I'll need to do a few hours on my own at the hospital while my DM travels over. He and DD will wait outside though, so will be onsite.

Our Mum actually suggested the name to her when she was pregnant with her son last year, and while sis loved it her DP said no and they chose another. When I got pregnant early this year Mum suggested the name again to me, but DH and I decided we liked it - I didn't realise how upset sis was about the idea until I was about 15 weeks and she asked what our shortlist was, and we mentioned the name then. It was at the point she said that her and her DP had decided to use the name if she had another boy in future.

Water broke at about 9pm, went to hospital to confirm, sent home to labour (only had 2 contractions by then). It's about 1.30am now and they're about 4 minutes apart. Looks like it's time to go back in. Fingers crossed for a birthing pool available, wish me luck!

Good luck monkey hope all goes well for you. when will it be my turn

I can't sleep again and just know I'll be exhausted in the morning.

Welcome to the world baby luka

Good luck monkey:)

Congratulations bub and baby Luka, looks like the boys are starting to turn up now!

scheh could you be "asleep" when the visitors turn up hours late? and then not answer the door, or when they say they are coming at a certain time just politely say you have to be at x place by blah time?

pene wouldn't you think wild animals would dig it up though, can you imagine coming downstairs in the morning and finding a soil covered placenta on the lawn, it would probably put me off my cereal:) I remember your dilemma with the baby name and I think most of us thought you should just use it in the end. Your mum was on your side, plus seen as she was the one who suggested it to you both anyway. What about just leaving the situation now and not talking about it to her anymore and once baby is hear saying "we have called her .." is your Sis really going to have a tantrum once the baby is here?

morning everyone.. am i the only one up at this ridiculous hour??? Congratulations to bub and baby Luka!

I'm now one day overdue with my 3rd :( and not feeling any indication that anything is happening any time soon.. combination of feeling frustrated, tired, emotional etc etc.. feel like we're all in limbo at the moment.....

Hope everyone else doing good xx

Good luck monkey!!!

penelope i would personally take a shortlist of boys and girls names as if you do have a boy he might not suit the name - ds was supposed to have one name and it just didn't suit him at all so I ended up choosing the name I'd point blank refused to have because it was just right for him! Anyway I'm gabbling but if you have three possibles for each you can say to your Sis it's on your shortlist and current favourite but you won't know which name you'll pick until he or she arrives.

Good luck monkey!

Pene - I think what BB3 said - tough situation though, I feel for you. My sister is pg as well we're 8 days apart and we've had to step away from a few names we like as she and her DH have them on the list or have something similar in mind.

Scheh - good to have you back. Agree with Cheshire about being asleep when they don't arrive on time. Blinking rude of them!

Got very excited on Saturday had all sorts of periody cramps, back ache etc. Really thought this LO was on it's way but it all died down again. Went for walk yesterday and have only made SPD bad, no twinges . Really would like my baby out now (along with everyone else on here I know )

Off to spend day sewing more elephants on cot bumper (taking forever) and to eat lots of pineapple....

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Hope all ok with Monkey and u got birthing pool

As I suspected pains all died down overnight and got some good sleep after couple of paracetamol. We've still not firmed up on name choices but shortlist now at least. I love all the 'ily' ending names but also put off as so popular so vearing to traditional ...

Oooh - how exciting Monkey - good luck, and looking forward to hearing the news....

Anyone else having trouble sleeping? Awake from 4 until 5am - so annoying as I know I'll be really tired during the day today :(

We have our girls name sorted, but for the boy it is the one we would have had for DD and my husband wants to ready through the name books and see if there are any better alternatives...I'm getting so frustrated though, just want to have both firmly decided now, and I'm perfectly happy with our original choice!!

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Morning all,
I've not posted for a while, sorry, and now here I am looking for advice.

Before I do that, though, congratulations to all the passengers who've had their babies - I've been avidly following despite my radio silence!

At 1am today my waters broke but no obvious sign of contractions. Hospital monitored for a couple of hours and sent us home with an appointment to go back in tonight with a view to induction. I'd really like to avoid this as it'd mean abandoning the plan for the midwife led unit, pool etc.

I've been getting strong cramps ('period pains' but mine were always pretty bad!) since then at random intervals (15mins, 3 mins, 1 mins). Is this a sign of things getting moving?? . If not, please let me have any good tips on encouraging things to progress (already on the ball, drinking pineapple juice and swallowing raspberry leaf tea tablets!).

Thanks all!

Sorry, the last time should've been 10 mins not 1! Have had a 20 minute break since the last one now anyway...

sounds like your in early labour, which means if left alone could take a day or nearly a week. Hopefully that then means you need very little induction

How exciting, all these new babies. Congratulations to Bubalie and baby Luka. Good luck Monkey and Ferino(hopefully you are in labour already and won't need inducing, it's the one thing I really want to avoid.

Penelope I think you should call the baby what you want. No one has exclusive rights to a name (it's not as if she has called her son that name already and she may never have another DS). I would just tell her once your baby is born and you have decided for definite and say sorry we share good taste.

So today is my first proper day of Maternity leave. DH is very pleased to see me home after 14 months of me working away during the week. He did something very romantic and asked a florist to make up the heart shaped wreath from our wedding day with roses and lilies and put in up for when I got home on Friday night . It was really beautiful and the brownie points make up for him threatening to encourage baby to call my mother BFG yesterday. We joke that the baby should not be allowed to call our mothers Big Granny and Little Granny as they both want to be known as Granny and his mother is a little bird and mine is average height and cuddly:) .

Also I have been putting on a horrific amount of weight 8lb in the last 4 weeks, hoping some is water retention, i'm at 2 st, 1lb now with another 3 and a half weeks to go. Is everyone else in the same boat?

Thanks for the responses, ladies. Hopefully you're right and things are moving in the right direction to avoid lots of induction work. Like you, chocolate, I really want to avoid it if at all possible. Hopefully if I remain infection free they might let me see how it progresses on its own.

The flowers sound lovely - what a great idea! I'm very amused at the BFG conversation too - my MIL and FIL already have established names, but my parents haven't told us what they want to be called. They'd best decide soon, eh?!

I wouldn't worry too much about the weight - sounds like you're still well within 'acceptable limits', so to speak. My weight gain has definitely eased off in the last week or two (I'm now at 38+2) and I gather that's relatively common.

Congratulations to groovyrach and Bubalie! And glad you got home at last, scheh - how are you feeling?