April 2012 - The FINAL Countdown - Chat and Stats

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1st April aprilfoolsbaby 1 DD,3.4
2nd April LaTristesse (36) Kent, DS - 22 mo, brewing a girl
4th April Flisspaps (29) DD,2
4th April vintagenancy (32) USA, surprise in making
5th April BeyondLimits (25), DS 10m, Newport
7th April ladyfoucault
8th April spannermary (34) S Yorkshire
11th April HollyPockett
15th April Tinwe DD - 10 mo
16th April digitalgirl DS,3
16th April bushymcbush DD,3
17th April balkanscot
17th April Bunsoutheoven (36) dd- 5yrs, ds - 3yrs, boy cooking
19th April CubTrouble
22nd April JambalayaCodfishPie (27) DD,7
24th April notso DD 11, DS 7, DS 13mo &surprise
27th April Thaleia Boy in making
30th April Nordicmom (36) London, DS - 6,5 yrs

spannermary im pretty sure your due the day after me I hope all is well!!!x

Hi everyone, hope you don't mind me joining in but I've just discovered this thread :)

I'm 29 (30 on Sun!) and I have a DD who turns 2 in May. I'm 38+6 with a little yellow bump and I too am already being driven insane by maternity leave since my DD still sleeps for at least 2hrs a day so I'm stuck indoors whilst it's lovely and sunny out. The house is all clean, hospital bags are all packed and there's only so much Jeremy Kyle one can watch before losing the will to live!

Hi Ladies,

The threads moving so fast now - cant wait to hear about our first April born!

I met the consultant today due to static growth - and had a scan. All good, baby just going to be a smaller one (7lb max), no reasons for it. Phew. Had visions of inductions and interventions and my whole birth plan going out of the window............. Im happy now after a week of worrying. :)

Also, school breaks up tomorrow lunchtime, so I'll be on holiday, although not technically on maternity until 2 days before my DD. Im grateful as I was starting to lose my patience a bit with the kids.

We're all ready for the arrival anyway, whenever he/she wants to make an appearance, we'll be waiting. Apart from socks, I need to buy socks....

Good Luck Everyone!!!

Glad your consultant appointment went well JambalayaCodfishPie - fingers crossed this means you get the birth you want :)

Good luck spanner !

Best of luck spannermary

Hello and welcome UsPlusYou

Glad all was well for you Jambalaya

Just got back from a knackering trip into town and realised I have forgotten to buy cheese an essential for dinner tonight, phoned DD (11) who is shopping with her friends and asked her to get me some, she practically cried and called me outragous for making her smell like cheese. Made me realise the babybit is the easiest part of parenthood by far!.
We went to the library on the way back where DS2 crawled round at top speed, a 'helpful' woman told me I shouldn't be lifting children in my condition, I said if she had any suggestions on how to get him off the floor without lifting him I'd gladly listen, needless to say she snootily walked off tutting.
Shame she had no solution because my back is killing from lifting him all the time!

Just read back and wanted to wish spannermary good luck! My friend had PE and was induced - she had a lovely healthy little girl and recovered very well very quickly herself.

Thanks for the welcome notso, MN is keeping me entertained since my DD is still asleep (3.5hrs later)...

The text messages and Facebook messages have begun... no I haven't had a baby yet. Had a second night full of BHs though.

Hope all is okay spanner, thinking of you.

Just woken up and can't remember anyone else to name check. Hope everyone else is ok too.

Oh yes people (MIL mainly) kept telling me I'd be early. Clearly not.

Vintage - send this link as a reply to texts and as your FB status:

www.haveyouhadthatbabyyet.com

Not that I've been updating FB with that daily for the last week already...

So I'm back home It feels good!

Thank you all for your wishes - it really made a difference to me. I went to the hospital and they checked my bp over the course of an hour. It stayed pretty high (about 140/90) but when they took blood samples they came back as negative for PE, so the Doctor said the high bp, flashing lights and headache could be a sign of migraine. The protein mysteriously vanished from my urine when they took a second sample too. The White cells are still there, so they're looking into that and will get back to me if they need to. Could be a UTI. Ankles etc all fine.

Midwife is now planning an extra home visit on Good Friday to check bp and urine again.

I felt very well looked after - although I too find the whole 'let's draw this curtain; then no-one else can hear' thing a bit bizarre!

Am now home and have demolished a portion of chip shop fish & chips, which may not lower my bp but certainly really helped. So good to know the baby's doing well. even if he's still not engaged!

Hopefully I'll sleep better tonight now. (And the snow's melting too - and our heating is back up and running so I'm much more content)

Thanks again, everyone. And sorry for the mammoth post.

Just popping in to say that I had a baby boy this morning at 3am, he weighs 8lb 5 All happened very quickly and had a water birth.

Over the moon x

Yay!!!!! Congrats!!!

Congrats aprilfools !! Our first confirmed April baby!

Good news spanner - very jealous of your fish & chips. I miss them!

Waves at due-date buddy Fliss. I will definitely start using that link .

Congratulations aprilfools! And good news spannermary must be such a relief for you. Let's keep our fingers crossed it's not long for all of us now!

Congratulations aprilfools, lovely, lovely news, ahhhhhhhhhh

Grats guys!

Aprilfools. Congrats. Wonderful news!!

Congratulations aprilfoolsbaby!!!

April Babies

11th March BushyMcBush - Baby Girl, Martha, 3lb4oz
14th March RiaMay2011 - Baby Girl, 6lb1oz
20th March Boomerwang - Baby Girl, Anya, 4lb13oz
21st March LaTristesse - Baby Girl, 7lb1oz
25th March UglyMush - Baby Boy, 6lb7.5oz
31st March Pitmountainpony - Baby Girl
4th April aprilfoolsbaby - Baby Boy, 8lb5oz

28th March newmummyvicky (28) N somerset surprize in making
4th Flisspaps (29) DC2 ?, DD(2yo)
4th Cutelittlecatlover DS, 2
4th vintagenancy (32) USA, surprise in making
5th BeyondLimits (25),Newport,DS 10m(nearly 17m now),DS2 cooking
5th Bearcrumble (38), DS 2y, S London, having a girl
5th Sandychick (31), DS 4yrs
6th El32 (33),Wimbledon, cooking a boy
7th ladyfoucault
8th Emsgale, surprise bump, DD - 2 years
8th Spannermary (34) expecting DS1
9th mummylivmade (30) DD3
11th HollyPockett
13th Scoobysue expecting DS
13th dreamc (31) 1st munchkin
15th Tinwe DD - 10 mo
16th digitalgirl DS,3
17th balkanscot
17th Bunsoutheoven (36) dd- 5yrs, ds - 3yrs, boy cooking
18th Marshmallowpies (35), expecting DD
18th LaPampa
19th CubTrouble
21st Bananna1 (42) DD16, DD14, DD11, expecting a surprise
22nd JambalayaCodfishPie (27) DD,7
22nd gimmegimmegimme (33) DS1-4yrs, DS2-2yrs expecting boy no3
22nd Thepuddingchef ds 6yrs dd 4 yrs expecting a boy
23rd Nordicmom (36) London, DS - 6,5 yrs
23rd Twittle - DS (19mo)
24th notso DD 11, DS 7, DS 13mo &surprise
24th WhenDoISleep DS - 3yrs, expecting DS2.
25th confuzed90 (21)-DS 2and a half, expecting DS2
25th lizmarshall (28) Glasgow having a surprise!
27th Thaleia Boy in making
28th Justhayley (27) Ds1
28th Lorrainbow (28) Cooking our first boy
29th JackieJay (29) Suprise!
29th Elizabethtailored (28) expecting DS1, London
30th Diffedagaindachs Expecting a girl.

Congrats to pitmountainpony and aprilfools.

DS and I had a lovely afternoon with a friend and her little boy. The boys played well together and I got to snuggle with her baby girl who is ten weeks now - I had forgotten how lovely, soft and squidgey babies are at that age!

37+1 for me now and still not ready although things are progressing - managed to get the baby clothes out of the loft at the weekend and am slowly getting them washed, so at least the baby has something to wear now. Still not got the crib - but have now actually ordered it. Not that much of a disaster though if the baby comes before the crib as our pram carry cot is suitable for sleeping and the cot is down in the nursery as well (although in bits, plus I really think we need a new matress). TBH, if things did happen before crib/cot matress arrive, DH will be on the sofa and baby and I will co-sleep.

I must pack my hospital bag as well this weekend, but I have been saying that for the last month.

spannermary I told you you'd be fine Very pleased that it's not PE.

aprilfoolsbaby Massive congratulations :) Our first April 'April' baby!

Vintage the downside to me posting it every day is that as soon as I'm any later than 6pm posting it on FB people think there's something happening Still, as long as I get on there and do it then it keeps the annoying well meaning questions at bay!

Feel very zen today - think it's because only 5% of babies come on their EDD, so I knew there was only a 5% chance of having the baby today, and therefore it was Not Very Likely.

Congratulations April!

Congratulations aprilfools, what lovely news! And I'm glad it was positive news for you too spannermary, hope you feel better soon - the chippy chips should definitely help! ;)

I like that 5% stat Fliss - I will have to remind DH of that as he's worse than the lot of them!

Congrats april

Glad you are home spanner

I had little baby girl this morning at 2am lyra Lilly, weight 6.5lb.
After being in a long labour since Sunday. Had a lovely Water birth and only gas and air. Sooooo happy to have her a week late. :-D