Due in October part 8- still plodding along, this time with copious amounts of raspberry leaf tea

[Londonmrss]

Surely this'll be the last one before moving to the postnatal section?

Due Dates:

Sept. 24: Lisbethsopposite DS2 by planned induction
Sept. 25: Squidkid DC1
Sept. 26: Elpis DC2 by ELCS
Sept. 27: Planktonette DC1
Oct. 1: FjordMor DD1 by planned induction, Gigglewhizz DC1(?)
Oct. 2: Firstbubba DC1, Milk DC2
Oct. 5: Yomping DC1
Oct. 7: Crazypaving DC2
Oct. 10: WantAnOrange DC2, MrsConfusion DC1, MidgetM if induced
Oct. 11: Smileyhappymummy DC2 by ELCS
Oct. 14: Hufflepuffle DC1.
Oct. 17: Smorgs, DC1
Oct. 18: Bella2012 DC2, Beccus DC1
Oct. 19: Shellwedance DC1
Oct. 20: Beeblebear DC1, MidgetM if ELCS DC2
Oct. 21: Dosomethingmutley DC1
Oct. 26: Londonmrss, DC1, Zara1984 DS1, Liege07 DS1
Oct. 28: Kyyria DC1, Loopyla, DC1
Oct. 30: Cherrychopsticks, DC1
Nov. 1: Londonlivvy DC1
Nov. 8: Mickey DC1

Actual babies:

Sept. 20: Velo - Max 2.35kg
Sept. 25: Angelico - Mini Angelico, CWest30 - Naomi Louise, 4lb 10oz

And Kyrria so with all the babies appearing so glad I have a due date buddy to share the jealousy with Now don't you be early too otherwise we may fall out

Hi

Baby squid born at 5.30am this morning after my waters broke midnight on Friday. It was a very tough and long labour but I did it all and delivered at home this morning. On paper it was a good birth - at home, did it all on TENS and gas and air, didn't even tear - but I massively struggled and thought I was going to die!! Around midnight I was begging to be taken to the hospital for epidurals and sections and anything else I could think of...!

I am totally sleep deprived but here with baby Jess in my arms and that makes it all ok. She is breastfeeding beautifully already. Yes I had a little girl... she is 7lb exactly and totally gorgeous, looks like her dad. She has black hair same as I did as a baby.

More details to follow. So tired.

Congratulations squid and jess so happy for you. happy you got the home birth you wanted despite the momentary cracking, everyone does that I think

No chance to catch up properly as at hospital on my phone but didn't want to miss a birth announcement. Managed to get some kind of raging infection who would think running around after 28 kids would make a pregnant woman ill eh?

Good luck Wantan hope things start kicking off for you.

Ah Squid congrats! So glad it finally happened and you sound like a proper trooper. You should be very proud that you got the birth you wanted, particularly when it sounds so tough.

Oh and hope you're OK Midget, poor you.

Angelico started reading Baby Whisperer on Friday so glad it comes recommended!

Congratulations Squid!!!!!!!

My waters went four hours ago and nothing else has happened yet! I am getting worried, and fed up!

wantan what have the hospital said about that? I thought once your waters break they often just tell you to go in..

Well I'm planning a home birth so hopefully won't be going to hospital at all but, they said if nothing happens naturally they would send the midwife this afternoon to check that my waters have actually gone (as if it's just a random leak! ) and then if nothing has happened by tomorrow I'll have to go in and be induced. I really hope it happens naturally.

ah wow squid CONGRATULATIONS! That is wonderful. Well done for getting through a difficult labour. So glad you got it all the way you wanted after all your worrying. Glad bf is going well so far too.

wantan really feel for you! You must feel so strange knowing it is coming, but not sure when things will start! We are all here for you if we can be of any support while you wait for things to get going xx

midget you poor thing-what infection? Are you ok?

Yay for squid and keeping everything crossed for wantan x

Wow, congratulations Squid, and welcome beautiful baby Jess! Such a lovely name. You must be over the moon
You were our first real surprise I think! Hope you get some rest and recover well over the next few days and we'll look forward to hearing more details when you've settled in a bit more.

Wantan!!! Good luck! Hope your contractions start ASAP, and bubs slips out painlessly in the next couple of hours! Will be thinking of you.

Feel better soon Midget!

Welcome Katia!

Thanks for the great tips, Angelico. Sorry I can't help about the pain/scar, except to say get lots of rest (like that's possible!), eat plenty of fruit and veg and...er...drink lots of water. That's my mum's solution for everything, so you'll be right as rain in no time

Lots of shopping, walking in the pool swimming, and cooking of fabulous roasts for me today. Pleasantly tired.

Good luck with everything for tomorrow Fjord, MrsC and FirstBubba. Hope it all goes fantastically, looking forward to hearing all your news.

By tomorrow, nearly a third of the thread will have had their babies, and it's only October 1st

Right, off to bed for me. Busy week at work next week - open class, so all the mums are coming to watch their little darlings. Whose great idea was that?

Night all.

WantAn!! News please! Thank god you?re not here in Norway ? recent advice we?ve all been given says if your waters break before contractions, you must lie down immediately and get an ambulance to hospital ? something about potential cord complications or something ? but no-one has ever heard the like of it before. My instinct would be to pop a pad in and drive myself but please don't take advice from me, I'm an ignorant nobber .

squid - congratulations!! :) You?ve done amazingly! What a hero! Welcome to baby Jess and please let us know how you are and more about it when you?ve had a good rest x

Attempting a proper catch up (and it'll be a two-parter to save your sanity!) since I have nothing to do but sit at my computer the day before my labour to try and avoid feeling tense as I?m feeling quite ?uncomfortable in my own home? today with the DSDs here and don?t really have anywhere else to go. I?d kill for a bit of ?space? just to get zen, think positive and look forward to meeting the LO but right now I just feel depressed about what kind of life I?m bringing her into.

Anyway, so if some of these responses are old, I?ve gone back to the previous thread to make sure I didn?t miss any comments I?d been hoping to make.

midget - Boo to your infection!! Can?t believe you?re a) still working and b) did that party for DD. You are a total legend for a not so young bird! Hope your hospital visit isn?t a long one. I?m always inspired how you?ve taken so many ups and downs in your pregnancy in your stride?or at least in good humour.
Thanks as always for your encouraging words before. I seem to have stopped being zen fjordmumma ? I now feel like incredibly down, very miserable ?fjordnotreadytobeamumma ? atleastnotherenotnownotunderthecurrentcircumstances? ?or something . DSDs and how we live they are allowed to live are really getting me down. I so wanted a day to relax and chill and gather my thoughts about my impending birth and now I just feel like I?ve got nowhere to go and crowded out of ?my own home? by indifference. This is not where I imagined I would ?be? the day before giving birth. I want to keep her inside to protect her somehow . I was trying to take solace that the sudden drastic change of mood might be a hormonal swing indicating imminent labour?but no such luck and now I?m glad and feel like kicking and screaming and refusing induction tomorrow . Anyway, enough ?me, me, me? ? get out of hospital soon please and feel much better (and no more overdoing it!).

londonlivvy - sorry to hear that DF is being a bit of a nobber about the wedding prep. It is my experience of most men that whilst they?re perfectly happy to get married, nothing to do with the arranging of the day leaves them other than cold (other than the odd, strange control-freak kind of chap?the same kind that wants to buy all a woman?s clothes for her). Hope the rest of the course went well.

yomping - I am in awe and very of how involved and organised your DH is being. Mine even promised to translate my birth plan into Norwegian but hasn?t finished it yet ? and it?s tomorrow and his kids are here so I guess I?ll have to cope without one (sorry ? feeling on a downer about having this baby at the moment ? perhaps I shouldn?t be posting at all?). Hope the aching fanjo of doom is not bothering you too much. I have some days where I know exactly what you mean with that, but thankfully, not all days.

Kyyria - I hear you on the name issues. DP doesn?t even make the time for me to sit down and discuss it properly with him although he asks me at moments when we haven?t got time to discuss it properly, then gets narked that I won?t talk about it then. It?s so important to me as I want to name our LO after my late father?s mother as I feel like there is nothing left of that side of my family but I have worked out a way to compromise so the name is ?Norwegianified? and he has the choice of the 2nd part of it from a (very) long list and perhaps to use his mother?s name as a middle name?

Part 2 on the way...

MrsConfusion - how are you getting on with the baby monitoring? I do think of you a great deal since your diagnosis. From your comments thus far it sounds like you?ve taken it pretty much in your stride and are coping very well. I had much longer to come to terms with managing my ?complications? ? I think you?ve taken it amazingly! :) (Top parents you have btw!).

hufflepuffle - I?m so sorry about your work situation! I can?t even imagine?I usually avoid commenting on people?s work stuff since I?ve been unemployed for a long time (after leaving my job to move to Norway then ending up caring full time for my dying father) and feel scarcely qualified to pass comment. I have dipped my toe into a freelance career here and am likely to be self-employed and I do relate to the fact that if I had a lot of work coming in, I wouldn?t be able to turn it down, however I felt or possibly watch my business and client base go under. I hope your locum makes a speedy recovery!

In fact my thoughts go out to everyone still working?I think you?re all legends. As a knackered unfit old bird I have no idea how I would have coped! Also thanks to everyone sending me sympathy etc about my fall and nobber DP ? sorry not to name check you all but I do read all your posts and feel very comforted by your thoughts and support! :)

Zara - I bought a secondhand Baby Bjorn bouncer here after being told by so many people that it was the singular best baby buy they had made! I?m already convinced it?s going to be a godsend for my incredibly active baby who can bounce and dance in it until she sends herself off to sleep!

Angelico - a friend lent me the baby whisperer book who had found it really helpful so I?m going to use it as a guide. Seems to have a lot of good, intuitive advice. Nice to hear some of the tips working for you first hand! Sounds like you?re getting the hang of things with Mini Angelico very well! :)

Katla hello :). That does sound like a ?back to front?, good position. If you get a hard bulge sticking out occasionally that?s probably a butt/hip.

Right ? off back to hide in the bedroom and wish some mysterious play date would materialise and take the DSDs out of the flat. Actually have just heard MIL is back from her weekend away early, after worrying about me - awwwww - so might quietly insist DP drop the DSDs over there for at least a few hours.. so I can attempt to find some positivity/calm/zen before what might be a marathon induction session. Sorry for epic catch-up post à la me. But not sure when I?ll meaningfully get on next (later on probably but after that??).

P.S. I am a bitch stepmother...and I know it but hey, it's hard to cope with kids you have no jurisdiction over yet get to run your life.

Fjordmor Me and DH are having at good laugh at "lie down and call an ambulance!" My waters went first in my first labour too, think it's just the way my body does things. The only risks I'm aware of, are the risk of infection.

I am still waiting. I have some very low level back ache and occasional contractions that feel more like BH. Might go for a walk up and down the street, see if things hurry up.

Am very anxious about things not happening now. I don't want DS to have to stay away to long. He was whisked off to grandparents this morning.

Many congratulations squid, and welcome to Jess - so proud of you for battling through at home. You're amazing!

midget boo to being in hosp and infection, hope it clears soon and you're home.

wantan hope the walk speeds things up, all very best, will be thinking of you and all the other induction buddies today/tomorrow.

About to leave for hospital, think I'm packed but can't quite work out what will be needed when. It all still feels rather unreal but me and DH are talking well, and will try to stay in our own bubble...

Love to all. X

good luck fjord mrsC and firstbubba. Will be thinking of you all tomorrow! Xxx

Congratulations Squid!!

Thinking of all the inductions tomorrow. I honestly think there is a lot to be said for having certainty around when your babies are coming. I hope your births are as quick as my induction was and that you have those babies in your arms soon. I will be sending you all good vibes from midget towers. And can't wait to hear how you get on as I am still hopelessly undecided on my birth options.

I am back in bed with DD, antibiotics and pain killered up to the hilt. No certainty over what infection is but bloody painful and urine off the charts,so waiting for the lab results which takes a couple of days. Have to go back if the pain gets worse or start contracting. At the moment pain more like period and back so hope I can stay away. Thanks for all your well wishes.

Wantan very exciting, hope you can get it all moving and avoid a trip in. Come out baby orange your time is up.

Fjord you deserve some r n r today. That makes you a good mamma not a bad stepmamma. Totally natural. I do hope you can get some peace and rest your mind. I am so knackered and feel like pants that I have been forced Into entering an uncharacteristic zen like state so I am sending some of it your way does watching the fix and the hound with dd in bed count as zen?

Can't catch up anymore as on my phone so can't scroll back. A third of babies already and we aren't even into October? Bloody bloody hell!

Yay squid!

Now I am the top of the list...

squid congratulations! So glad baby jess is here, well done you on a long labour and getting through it. Glad feeding is going well, hope you get some sleep at some point today. You have done brilliantly.
wantan hope something starts happening soon and all goes to plan at home, will be thinking of you today.
angelico took quite a while for scar to stop hurting for me last time and had bruising all over my stomach - but wasn't a straightforward section so may be better for you. Think the best advice I can give is to keep up with painkillers and laxatives so you stay on top of pain and don't get constipated!
bella had a fab day in York, was too knackered and sore to do much walking so didn't see much of the food fair but did go to the viking centre with dd ( have a years pass, she is obsessed with it) and to Betty's for tea and cake (I am obsessed with tea and cake!)
firstbubba hope you're feeling better soon and hope you get chest sorted, miserable to be poorly especially now.
zara glad you enjoyed your baby shower sounds utterly gorgeous!

Yay!!! Another bean!!! Congrats Squid and Baby Squid :o So pleased for you that the waiting is over - and for goodness sake be kind to yourself, don't expect yourself to be super-human and take every scrap of help that is offered, especially if it gives you an hour to sleep - it will save your sanity x

Wantan what's happening?! This is so exciting!!! Another imminent bean!!! Ditto Fjord, MrsC and firstbubba - hope that's everyone, good luck!

Midget hope you are okay?

Thanks for CS tips ladies - Elpis whatever you are going through I feel your pain, literally! Sore today - maybe because I did some of those post-natal pelvic tilt things. CWest how are things going with you? Hope all is well.

I love checking in here, it's like a 5 minute reminder of my old life...!!! Hugs to you all xo

Thanks Smiley, I don't even feel the incision, it's all higher up that hurts. Mum (former theatre nurse) gave an eye watering account of retracting hooks in abdominal surgery...

Yay squid!!!!! Congratulations! So glad ypu have your little one n your arms. Can't wait to hear the whole story.

Midwife just came round and agreed that waters have definately gone. Still nothing else happening though, so the plan is to go in and be induced tomorrow, which is a pain but she told me what would be happening and I feel ok about it. Going to order a curry and watch X factor, and try a get some decent sleep (last chance!).

There is a still a chance it could happen naturally tonight.

Who else is being induced tomorrow?

Oh squid well done you! That's tremendous news and a home birth too. Hats off to you.

fjord thanks for words of encouragement re wedding planning. Will need to get on that tomorrow. I feel for you. Step parenting is a tricky, tricky thing.hugs. Hopefully birth goes ok and a wonderful new bean will win everyone round. And re names, you can always discuss post birth? I am hoping to be in a strong negotiating position at that point (him having seen what I have to do to bring his daughter into the world) to get my first choice from our agreed shortlist....

Good luck too to Mrs confusion and first bubba
Hope it all happens soon wantan

angelico my mother is known for sending laxitives to friends who are about to have a baby, to facilitate that first movement, as it were... glad she isnt totally mad! And I bought the baby whisperer back in June on someone's recommendation (i forget who, sorry) and found it the only book that made sense to me. I must re read it tho!

I forget who it was who's working 12 hours in a shop (am on phone so tricky to check and baby brain limited) - mickey? Midget? but you're a bloody legend!

I was so tired after my course yesterday that I didn't even have the energy to take my coat off before collapsing on the sofa. I went to bed at 9. Rock and roll. This morning I set off to walk to the station and then had a OH GOD moment as I remembered there are no trains that early so ran back in, woke DF who said to take the car to the nearest town. I then had to find the station (we've recently moved you see) and work out the parking and now am on my way back to see if I screwed up andx have a massive fine. Fingers crossed!

I am delighted to have finished the course and think the exam went ok. Just the rest of the coursework to do and send in before I am fully qualified. Oof. This was a tough call this late in pregnancy but I'm glad I did it as really don't know when else I would be able to do it.

The post natal yoga stuff has been a real eye opener for me. Ladies, if you are sporty types then please please take it very steady and gentle when you start being active again. No running til your internal muscle support system is functioning again!

Sorry to anyone I've missed. I wanted to check in on the way home so that I actually invest some energy in DF when I get home as he's been so supportive this weekend.