March 06 - the one where we all get to hold our babies!

[munz]

ok girls, we're off and popping now so the stats are updated. i'd just like to take a minute to think about Desperate housewife as her due date comes closer and hope her and her fmaily are doing as well as can be expected. also quiet a few of our early m/c girls are now on the anti natal threads as well, so fingers crossed for those girls to.

BIRTHS Seth Peter weighing 7lb born to Angedemarche (Jangus), on 9th feb at 10am. Natural delivery.

DUE
Thell - aged 26 - due 28th feb #1 having a girl lives SE London
Rosieposie - aged 30 - due 28th Feb with #3 from IOW having a boy
Frizbe - aged 30, DH 40 - due 27th Feb, #3 (incl one SS) lives 30 mins from medow hall having a girl
Toothyboy - aged 34, DP 36 - due 1st March with #2 having ?? C section booked in for 20th feb
Ags ? aged 34 due 2nd March with #2 lives Kent (v posh! He He) having a girl
UniSarah ? aged?? Due 2nd march #?? (think having a boy)
Poppyh - aged31 induction 27th feb due 3rd March with #3 having a girl
Astrophe ? aged?? Having ?? #2
Dene - aged 34 due 6th march #2
anchovies - aged 25, DH 26 - due 4th March with #2 having a boy
Lizzylou - aged 32 due 6th March with #2 lives in Lancs (N Manchester)
oneofeach - aged 36 - due 6th March with #3
Chellebelle - aged 25 - due 6th march with #2
Chamomile - aged 41 - due 7th March with #3
Starryeyed - due 7th March
BibiTwo - aged ? due 8th March with #2
Daisy20 - aged? due 9th March with #?
expressmummy - due 10th March with #3
Cadmum - aged 34, due 10th March with #4 ( 3 previous missed m/c ) lives Canada Having??
Romilly - aged 34?? due 8th March with #1 1 prev m/c lives SW london having a girl
Jackstini - aged 33, due 21st March with #1 lives nottingham haing ??
munz - aged 23 - due 3rd March with #1 (2 prev m/c incl one last cycle)From P'mouth living in Pembs. having a boy
marne - aged 23 due 21st March with # 2 (3 SK's)
Newgirl - aged 34 due 14th March #2 - (not my friend as we'll fight over CE!) having ??
LaundryLover aged 33 with # 2 due 19th March lives Manchester way Having ??
catj - aged 35 due 21st March with #4 lives wimborne
coppertop- aged ? due 22nd March with #3
madrush - aged 31 due 25th March with # 2 (1 previous mc)
Internationalgirl aged ?? due 25th march #3 having a boy
Piffy - aged 33 due 26th March with #1 lives cheshire
Klara - aged??? due 27th March with #2 having girl - unconfirmed
Swiperfox/Zephycat - aged 28 #3 due end march.from Southampton ? (some one has to be! He He) having a girl
Spiker ? aged 35 due 23rd March with #2 from SE London (rom bud for u!) having ??
Vikiyumyum ? aged ? due 20th march with #3 having ?? is a midwife ? YAY!!!
Totally in Love aged? Due? With #2 having ?? lives??

Our March Angel

Desperatehousewife (little boy)

Honery Members who's angels sadly didn't make it.

majormoo (now on the due in Oct thread)
auntynon
Mumtosomeone
Mojomummy (now on the due in Aug thread ? fingers crossed for her this time)
Oldfool (now on the due in oct thread)
Baggybear (coat hanger) is back in college.

Wow Express mummy BIG CONGRATULATIONS two Joeseph's on the thread now

Jackstini, glad your ok!

Cadmum, well we celebrated grans birthday yesterday, but so far nothing's kicked off for me ho hum, now going with my 32 day cycle theory, so I should drop this one by Sat am!! as due dates are based on 28 days right!! Hope you have fun cleaning?!

hiya guys i'm here home now, will look later on and catch up.

Joey's doing well so far so good boobs are huge thou! lol.

anyone wanna do a quick run down for me??

Welcom back Munz! We have missed you and worried about you as well.

Glad that you and Joseph are doing well enough for you to be online. How are you feeling? How is the feeding going?

Oops! Can't spell today.

all's well he's sleeping on daddy at the mo!

we're feeding roughly ever 3 hours ish he's a greedy little bugger thou! still wouldn't have him any other way! lol.

how r u doing?

Hi Munz, glad your home and all is well with you both now quick run down, yikes, TIL and ExpressMummy are also mums now!
Marne is possibly in labour, possibly suffering with lots of braxtons
PoppH having a C-Sect Today
Cadmum getting furniture today! and being induced on Thurs
I'm due today, dum de dum....
RP due tomorrow!
Everyone else is ok, bar itchy rashes n the like, think that roughly covers it!
Oh and Rom and Spiker exchanged on their houses on Friday, hurrah!

Hi Munz,
Glad you two are home and doing well - just having a quick catch up whilst Tilly naps so same as you!!!
Hi to everyone else...keep the news coming in.
Tilly's party tomorrow then roll on labour!!

hi everyone. am new member to mumsnet but have been having a real grin reading threads on the quiet at work! Started maternity leave today, hurragh, so thought it best to stop being a watcher and join in even though a little late. am due with first on 26 march and aged 36 (!) and still in denial:)am loving all the tips and nodding in agreement re sleeping and snoring, mine not his!Still, think dp putting up with my snoring a small price for him to pay, for the honour I am bestowing on him! Good luck everyone!

Welcome Manic! 36 sounds OK to me - my friend just had her second at 40 and declared she wanted two more whilst still in hospital!! Mad!
Anyone know any more details about TIL's baby girl as I can't find anything. There was mention of a section but not sure if it's fact....
My cousin had her first on Sat night, 7lb 2 boy called Ben. Sounds like a nice size to me and hope to get to see him on Thurs....may get my broody hormones going eh??

Aww LL congrats to her!

Not sure of any details for TIL??

Hi to Manicmumtobe 36 is not old!

LL hope Tilly has a great party tomorrow

Thought I'd give anyone whose looking a laugh....
Last two times I've been to MW appts they've messed up my blood results, so they did them yet again at 39 weeks........got a call from quacks tonight to go in and pick up a perscription, I say what perscription? they double check with a doc, oh your anemic! well thanks for finally finding that out for me, now that I'm overdue folkes! you gotta laugh eh! so tablets and constipation for me as of tomorrow.....

frizbe hav'nt you dropped it yet

Congrats Expressmummy - lovely news so glad all is well too.

welcome manicmumtobe! glad you have discovered the joys of mumsnet

munz - BIG welcome back to you honey. cant wait to hear all your news. sounds like you were in the wars a bit you poor thing. hope you are recovering quickly x

cadmum - join the club eh?! yes the little one is still posterior and i shall be seeing the ob. on 6th march to discuss induction if nothing happened by then. how about you?

Congrats to expressmummy and til!!!

welcome back munz! Well done you!

Hi Fairydust, no I damn well haven't its over cooked now!!

Just a quickie - am off to bed in a mo, feeling decidedly weird today! I reckon this is going to be a stop/starty affair - I've heard no. 3's often are.

Hello Munz, hope you managed to get some rest in hospital, if not - make up for it now! Would love to hear the full story some time if you are up to it.

Friz - Spatone!!! I got my blood results back today, and my levels had leapt from 10.5 to 12.9 after taking this stuff - you can take two sachets a day and there are rarely side effects. Boots sell it.

Congrats to all the new mums and babies

Welcome to the thread new people

Hello and good luck to everyone else

MIL arriving on the island tommorrow lunchtime, so I can safely go into labour then!!

night night all xx

thanks friz - full detials are found \link{http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=1370&threadid=150564\here}

Rom - don't read it if u don't wanna be put off! lol - it was actually positive even thou a bit tramatic. the m/w's were lovely.

once LO's settled in and i've caught up on sleep will post again.

Congratulations to all the arrivals!
Hi Manic, welcome - am new to mumsnet as well and today is my first day of ML as well (am due on March 20 with no.2). I had a haircut today (i can't remember the last one tbh), and i really like it. I feel like a lady of leisure - though a fairly big and clumsy one, clearly!
I can't believe it, but my dh woke me up last night at 230am to say, "love, you're snoring" .... duh, i could have punched him!

come on frizbe can't you just shoot it out have a toni's delight curry that'll get ya in labour.

That dodgy place crikey that'll certainly get me in hospital if nothing else FD - Have you tried the new place in Codnor, tis lovely!

Munz, have posted on your other thread! have you started a march post natal one yet?

RP,hope its not too much of a stop starty thing and you pop soon, and very quickly Spatone, thanks for that! gona have to trek and get perscription soon, so will get some of that also, actually looked it all up last night, and reckon I've only gone anemic cause I've been tested so late! (39 wks) apparently the placenta is doing that much work by then, the majority of ladies who are tested that late also show anemic, lol eh! when normally their not......
Must also chase MW re my overdue appt, as yep not a thing happening, although I did persuade dh into some 'natural' induction last night, so keeping fingers x'd

Balancing act, you should have popped him one cheeky git! like its not hard enough sleeping when preggers as it is! he'll no doubt be waking you in a few weeks to say the baby is snuffling/breathing etc

Hope all are well today ladies?

Marne any news?

Good morning, i'm still here, getting realy fed up, keep having all the signs of going in to labour then it all stops . Keep having spotting which looks like a show, had spotting at 6am this morning followed by a few twinges then nothing. Feeling realy loose down there (sorry if TMI) think i might be slightly dilated so sent dh to have a look . Think i might be here for a while yet!

Munz, welcome home, sounds like you had a rough time.

Morning Marne - still hanging in there then. Can't blame you for getting fed up. Can you bear to manage a quickie to try and persuade your labour up a notch?!
Friz - glad to hear your dh is obliging you! Even if it does end up coming Saturday that's only 4 sleeps to go. Can't beleive your late prescription - lol!
Balancing act - I would have had a few choice words or kicked him out the bed!
Welcome to Manicmum - 36 sounds fine - I am 33 and due with my first 5 days before you
Munzie - lovely to have you back - have read your epic birth thread and lots of ((((hugs)))) for you x

jackstini!

Marne, glad your dh knows what he's looking for mine has two kids now and doubt he'd still have a clue

Well thought I'd quickly pop on here, as officially having lunch! Have done no 'work work' this am, instead have tried nesting to boot things along, have no cleared out nursery once more and re jigged it, have cleared out airing cupboard, re sorted into piles and chucked out loads of old stuff we don't use/have inherited etc.....and cleaned two bathrooms....so think I deserve a break....must waddle into town and get perscription this afternoon......

Its snowing in Devon! wow, we don't normally get snow,(apart from up on t'moor) had lots this winter compared to normal but its still a novelty.
I'm going to look at it swirling around out there and be glad I'm tucked up in the house, not out in it in a field like I would have been this time last year.
Aquanatal today was odd, I'm the next due date .... so I'm officaly the class old girl now. Bet I'll be there next week tho. Pip seems to be quite comfy where he is thank you. MW appt tomorrow , 39+6 , fingers crossed hes enguaged nicely.
UniSarah.

Ho hum, just had midwife on tel, trying to disuade me from home birth due to blood count.....which is exactly what dh wants, me in hospital........oh bugger what to do......I hate frigging hospitals.......hosp I guess, bit annoying, as have gotten everything I need for home birth now....... really annoyed tho, as if my bloods had been done correctly at 34wks, and not messed up then or when they were done again 2 weeks later at 36 wks, then no one would be any the bloomin wiser.......

How low are they Friz? If they are only slightly low, there is no real cause for concern and it may just be the hospital trying to follow their policy. You are perfectly within your right to tell them to s*d your blood count and you WILL be having a homebirth. It is normal for your count to be lower at this stage, and honestly - if it's only a bit low, there is no need to worry.

Found this link for you, discussing the implications of haemaglobin levels:

www.radmid.demon.co.uk/anaemia.htm

Of course you want to do the best thing, but you need to make sure it's not just the hospital trying to follow policy regardless, or whether there is a real risk. Don't let them bully you for no reason! Taking my "pro-homebirth" hat off now