April 2012-ers, THE TIME IS NOW!

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The First Trimester

The Second Trimester

The Third Trimester

Final Countdown.....

POSTNATAL!!

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, Lilou, 7lb1oz
25th March UglyMush - Baby Boy, 6lb7.5oz
31st March Pitmountainpony - Baby Girl
4th April aprilfoolsbaby - Baby Boy, 8lb5oz
4th April newmummyvicky - Baby Girl, Lyra Lilly, 6lb5oz.
4th April El32 - Baby Boy
5th April bearcrumble - Baby Girl, Marianne, 6lb.
9th April digitalgirl - Baby Boy, Franco, 8lb12oz
10th April mummylivmade - Baby Girl, Emilia Sophie, 7lb14oz

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 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
11th HollyPockett
13th Scoobysue expecting DS
13th dreamc (31) 1st munchkin
15th Tinwe DD - 10 mo
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.

Just realised the dates wrong for your lovely arrival Spanner. Will change it next time we have an update! Sorry!

congratulations spannermary glad ot all went ok ans quickly!!! welcome baby bill!!

Wonderful to hear your news Spanner and that it was all so quick. Well done to you, your DH and baby Bill :)

Fliss, hope you get to have the odd nap today if little (or big!) Frank lets you!

Jambalaya, who is going to be our stats updater queen when you pop??!!

Omg I've missed so much! Congratulations to everyone who has had their babies!! Every single one that I've just read brought a tear to my eye and a lump to my throat!
Iv not got much to report, except the irregular tightenings and period pains since saturday afternoon, babys head is resting on cervix. When I have a contraction, my whole belly goes so hard and the period like pain is ssoo intense and actually makes me tear up and can't get my breath..just wish they'd regulate a bit more.

congrats spanner am very for you. It's nice to hear all the arrivals, at least I know I will have a ickle baby soon that is one thing for sure, not sure how he's going to arrive or when!

Congratulations Spannermary and welcome home Fliss!

My lovely daughter was born last night at 9.44pm at home after a 2 1/2 hour labour! We don't know the weight yet until the mw comes later as it all happened so quick the second mw didn't make it with the scales! Name not decided yet. I'm sore but over the moon, absolutely besotted with her!

Sending labour vibes to all those still waiting xx

Congratulations Cute and lucky you on the speedy delivery! Wonderful news and glad all is well :)

Amazing cute: it's the season for speedy deliveries!!

So glad all went well

Congratulations Spannermary - truly amazing!!

Haven't slept much last night as still trying to get my head around the c-s but feel more content now. I never forget what one of the MWs said to me: a perfect birth is when both mum and baby are happy and healthy. So it's almost selfish to either endanger him or feeling like I failed because it didn't turn out the way I thought it would. After all, there might be a reason for the breech. Just need to read upon it now to be not so clueless, didn't pay any attention to this part in the classes at all as - of course - that would not happen to me.

Still, will try to turn him naturally with all techniques available and doable (Indian Bridge is therefore out). Am I mistaken or is it just me having a c-s in April?

Thanks for your encouraging words, really appreciate it.

Congrats to you as well Cutelittlecatlover!!

Bananna I'm trying not to think about it - I've gotten a bit anal precious about it!

Congratulations Cutie - let us know the weight and I'll update!

Ok. I'm starting to get jealous of all the newborns now !!!!

Congratulations cute! Hurrah for such a speedy delivery!

Congratulations Spanner and Cute, lovely names Fliss.

Was woken up at four this morning by a really weird squelchy noise, wondered what it was for a min then realised it was my waters breaking!
Kind of hovered around in a crab position while I woke DH up as didn't want to soak the bed or the new carpet!
Then gave myself a painful and unexpected brazilian by putting a maternity pad in sticky side up.
Pottered around secretly leaking water everywhere whilst trying to maintain normality for DC, didn't want the older ones to be in school worrying all day.
Older two in school, youngest at Nana's, DH has popped into work for a couple of hours as I have only had two contractions and a bit of bachache so far.
Just had a lovely, long shower and am going to try and get a nap in.
My bump looks mini now the water is rapidly disappearing, mat clothes are baggy again
Feeling excited and unprepared, am noticing loads of things I should have done ages ago!

Will be staying in hospital after birth until they are certain baby isn't jaundiced, as don't want to be in an out like DC3, it was too upsetting for other DC and stressful for me.

Yay well done Cute, hope you were ok with a quick one, I know mine scared me a little as I felt pretty out of control... Better than knocking on for hours though i guess! like last time

Go Notso, you next by the looks of things!

cute congratulations

notso good luck

So happy to hear your news, Spanner - you really deserved to have a nice, quick, straightforward birth after all the worries. Congratulations on the birth of little Bill!

Lovely news, Cutelittlecatlover - sounds like you had a wonderful birth. I so pleased for you.

Best of luck, Thaleia and notso.

Aww, congratulations cute and spanner!!
Very glad you both had straightforward deliveries :)

I'm now tempted to not argue about induction at all I'm jealous, I wanna meet my baby!! While I'm there, I'm def going to ask if there is any reason why I can't have the pessary then go home again as I'm booked for a home birth....?
One of my main concerns has always been the memory of a woman being induced next to me in hospital, sixth child, over two weeks over, and four days later, still no luck...

Oh well, we have 23 hours til my appointment. Going to watch the football tonight, hope that might inspire a pitchside delivery by St Johns Ambulance

Congrats to Spanner and Cute! Also good luck Notso!

Congrats spanner you deserved a nice short labour after all the worrying of the last week. I hope you found it a good experience (well, as good as labour gets!)

cute fantastic news and another short labour

notso good luck -hope things have kicked off nicely for you by now. I'm actually a bit jealous as we share a due date, and tbh, I'm pretty resigned to still being sat here hugely pregnant as we trundle into May.

thaleia it must be difficult for you that everything you were expecting around the birth has changed at the last minute but I think it is the right way to go. Personally, in your situation I wouldn't opt to try and turn him as the process, given his position, sounds pretty brutal and neither would I try to deliver a breech baby vaginally, unless I could guarantee MW's with extensive experience of delivering babies in that position and unfortunately they are not that common these days, as most women go for the ECV or c-section. How long will DH be able to help you afterwards? Are you able to get any family help or if not, would a post-natal doula or mother's help be an option once DH is back at work? There is lot's of experience and help on here don't forget - quite a few of the ladies that have already popped had c-sections, plus there are lot's of threads over in childbirth that discuss what to expect during and afterwards.

nordicmom when are you flying to the US?

beyond excellent temptation for baby to put in an appearance tonight with you making plans like that

Whendoisleep , flying on this thu afternoon. DS still at school today and tomorrow . We're only half packed if that , still getting last minute supplies, doing laundry etc. Also had the builder in today ( was useless so have that to look forward to when back and a bunch of other things to fix in our house too grrrrr...) . Am running around tomorrow on errands and doing the schoolrun when I should be packing really .Lots of loose ends untied here so I bet we'll have various people wondering where we are. Been really emotional recently , very stressed and nervous . To be honest not at all exited and worried how the hell l'll manage after since my illness has been bothering me more ... In that sense I do worry about bonding with etc. it's crazy but I'm actually feeling quite tearful now and can't even blame the hormones. ...

Whendoisleep , flying on this thu afternoon. DS still at school today and tomorrow . We're only half packed if that , still getting last minute supplies, doing laundry etc. Also had the builder in today ( was useless so have that to look forward to when back and a bunch of other things to fix in our house too grrrrr...) . Am running around tomorrow on errands and doing the schoolrun when I should be packing really .Lots of loose ends untied here so I bet we'll have various people wondering where we are. Been really emotional recently , very stressed and nervous . To be honest not at all exited and worried how the hell l'll manage after since my illness has been bothering me more ... In that sense I do worry about bonding with her etc. it's crazy but I'm actually feeling quite tearful now and can't even blame the hormones. ...

nordicmom I would say that it is hormones - it's been a long hard road for you to get to this point and now that is is almost here you will be feeling all sorts of emotions, which is completely understandable.

I guess you still don't know how long you will need to stay in the US for? Will DH/DS be with you for all the time or does DH need to come back for work?

If it drags on DS is going to be picked up by Grandma who will then with Grandpa move in to our house temporarily and look after him so he can go back to school. DH works for a company luckily that has offices in New York ( he was already there twice while I did the IVF ). So that at least won't be a problem. It'll be very expensive living there but I'm pretty familiar with the city having been there lots of times before .
Returning to this country depends on how long it takes to get an entry permit which is officially up to 12 w! Lawyer says it won't be that long in his experience. I'm praying for weeks not months...

Home from football, just about to pack my back to take to hospital...
A quick google has told me they won't induce and send me home cause I would need continous monitoring. Great. Oh well, if I get to meet my baby tomorrow, I guess its not the end of the world :)
If baby is born and clearly not overdue though, oo, they'll hear some I told you so's from me!!

still has 11 hours overnight to go spontaneously...