October 2012- once we pop we can't stop!!!

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Latest list:

Babies

Babybrain - William James - 5/9/12 - 11.45pm - 5lb 11
Heymicky - Eliza Dorothy Gardner - 16/9/12 - 22.57 - 5lb 2
Pinpan - Nina - 23/9/12 - afternoon - 8lb 7
Winnie81 - Girl - 25/9/12 - 12.15am 6lb 4
MissPollysTrolleyed - Lucy - 26/09/12 - 6pm

Impatient mums to be

Rnb dc4 edd 23 sept - boy
MakeTeaNotWar dc2 edd 26 sept - Surprise
Pezzina dc2 edd 26 sept
ST82 dc1 edd 27 sept - boy
MsInterpret dc2 28sept - girl
Captainhetty dc4 edd 1 oct - girl
Newtonupontheheath dc 2 1 oct - surprise
Emiedarling dc1 edd 3oct - boy
Welliesandpyjamas dc3 edd 4 Oct
MissPollysTrolleyed dc2 edd 4 Oct
Littleplasticpeople dc3 edd 5 oct
WeeSooty dc1 edd 5th October - surprise
Gizzyboo dc4 edd 5 oct
Cakes82 dc1 edd 5 oct- suprise
Shopgal9 dc1 edd 5 oct
Bubblebell dc3 edd 6 oct - girl
FluffyJawsOfDoom dc1 6 oct - surprise
MissPenteuth edd 6 oct - girl
KPT083 dc1 edd 8 oct - surprise
DameFlatYouLent dc2 edd 9 oct
Thunderboltkid dc1 edd 10 oct - boy
Isheisnthe dc4 edd 10 oct
Thumbwitch dc2 edd 14 October - surprise
Bear1984 dc2 edd 15 oct - boy
RunningOutOfIdeas dc2 edd 15 oct - girl
Guccigirl79 dc1 edd 16 oct - boy
Elvislives2012 edd 18 oct - surprise
Kelbells dc 1 edd 18 oct - boy
ShellWeDance dc1 edd 19th Oct, surprise.
Goodsenseofdirection dc1 20 oct - surprise
Beeblebear dc1 20 oct - boy
MissRedIndie dc2 20 Oct
Pheebs24 dc1 21 Oct
Susurrant dc1 21 Oct
Doodlekitty DC1 edd 26th Oct - boy
Loopyla dc1 edd 28 Oct - surprise
TartyMcFarty dc2

Enjoy!! :)

Confratulations and Post it weesooty! It'll help you and we will be fine

Congrats, weesooty!

Beeble, I used a contraction timer called Due, it was great. Simple but effective.

Midnight feed and my god, it sounds like there'll be a full nappy for me to change in a minute...

Congratulations, Wee! Not jealous much!

Hi all, yup I was pretty nuts for going to the wedding lol! But definitely a great story to tell him when he's older. Everyone was cooing over him newton. Got some great pics of DP and DD showing DS off :)

Weesooty do share! And congratulations :)

Beeble I had one that I downloaded that was good. If you have the iphone, it's app is green with a side look at a bump.

Earnest sorry to hear that, but you're doing well to still be at it, so don't be too disheartened.

newton my dad's Mauritian! How funny.

cakes running crazypaving MsInterpret congratulations on your babies!

loopy glad you're finally on ML.

Congratulations weesooty! So pleased for you that LO is finally here.

Sofa-lovers - its certainly a day for it, innit? Just had MW do 5 day visit & all good. Now not planning anything more exertin -worthy than boobing & catching up on Sat's SCD...

Contractions app - we had the green one with a sideways view of bump that was actually just a big empty circle in her tum(!). Was free and good bc gave you the length of cx as well as interval so could see they wrte lasting a minute and also gave an average over last hr or half hr. recommend it. Just noticed it's a blue background of my home screen icon tho.

Contractions have stopped again.

Grrr. I'm getting so fed up now!!

Do babies have a growth spurt at a week old? This child has been attached to my boobs all frigging day! I've literally not been able to do anything except the school run all day

Sorry to hear some of you are struggling with breastfeeding, if you're still having issues with it do ask your community midwives or health visitor if there's any extra support available. The first week can be pretty awful but it does get easier!

Sorry to hear your contractions have stopped newton, it is really frustrating, sure they must be doing something though, hang in there and keep positive. You'll have your baby soon!

Is thumb in for induction today? Feel like I've missed loads!

I think they have growth spurts at 1 week, 3, 6....

Yes thumb was going in today... Hopefully we'll hear soon

Just been for another walk. Down the high street this time. Bought and ate two bags of frisps they are amazing!

Back on the birth ball

Oooh, love Frisps - never see them in the shops so when I do it's a real guilty pleasure treat!

Thinking of you newton - hopefully all this lengthy 'latent' (annoying term) stage will mean things move fast at the other end!? Not too fast tho - friend from my last antenatal thread due day before me has had her little boy last night I think and from wall-snooping on FB sounds like her DH might have delivered!

Hence why I snaffled two bags

I'll happily plod on as I must be more than 3 cm by now so when things get going, hopefully it'll be done nice and quickly!

DH has spent the whole day trying to fit a light in DS's room. Apparently it's just fallen apart... I daren't go upstairs!

I think this bloody light is going to make DH cry... I keep hearing "FFS! This is not fair... I don't believe it! Argh!"

He's not a natural DIY-er

If it's any consolation, my stupid 'latent' phase lasted about a week, and established labour lasted 3 hours 20 minutes, 2 minutes of pushing. So it might be a good sign :o

DD1 just sat next to me and gave me a sweet, but before I was allowed to eat it she had to say 'but you can only have one, Mummy. Because otherwise you might get fat again and have another baby'.

newton yep sounds very similar to my DH

Hetty HAHAHA! If only having a baby was that easy, love the logic of a young child

Ha ha ha (ouch) that's brilliant Hetty

weesooty, please feel free to share your story, I think it is therapeutic to get it all witten down.

Newton, hope it turns in to something for you soon, I am also getting a little fed up of BH not turning in to anything.

Hetty my dd is quite confident that I still won't want to eat chocolate at Christmas 'because there willbe another baby growing in your tummy by then mummy' not this Christmas or any other Christmas for that matter DD.

So nothing happening here, 40 + 3, very fed up of being pg, but loving seeing the gorgeous babies on FB

Sorry a few of you are struggling with the sore nips with bf. I had a torrid time with ds, I could only truly sayi was feeding pain free by about ten weeks. But, with dd it was much better- some things that may have helped- only feed with both feet flat on the floor (so no lazy lying down feeds until things well established); nipple shields (I know not widely recommended but they helped me); lots of lansinoh before you think you need it; position the baby further round your side than you think they should be ( so if feeding off right boob, move their legs round your right hand side so their feet are almost behind you), an I think the most important advice I ever had was simply shove as much of the nipple into their mouth as you can!

WeeSooty are you ok? I do hope you are recovering well. Please do share your story with us.

Newton I absolutely sympathise. My latent phase lasted 6 days (stop/start, kept me awake at night), but it meant my eventual induction was quick as I'd already got to 7cm! The midwife couldn't believe it!

MakeTea hope you are not in too much pain. Mine are pretty sore too - my breast pads keep on getting stuck to little raw patches on my nipples! Ouch!

Good luck to all approaching their labours. And I hope all the newborns are behaving themselves

OUCH RnB

earnest thanks heaps for posting the link to the info sheet - it's incredibly useful. I'm taking great care that he gapes wide before shoving him on, it; not worth ripping up my nipples with a lazy latch although it is hard to get right in the middle of the night when half asleep. It's a bit disheartening as I wasn't feeding pain-free with DD until after 6 weeks so I had hoped it would be easier this time. However having fed her for a year, I know to just grit my teeth and hang in there as it does become the easiest thing in the world. He's only lost 1% of his birthweight though so it isn't in vain.

weesooty I do hope that you are recovering ok - please do share your story.

Good luck to all the imminent labouring Mums - not long now!

Waah another friend on FB has had her baby. Im jealous!! I want mine now!

Well I'm still bloody waiting elvis

Rang the mw this morning... Ended up in tears! DH was a bit surprised as he didn't think I was that fed up!

The joys of being booked for a homebirth meant she came to me (and we didn't have to arrange childcare and go to the hospital ) She gave me a thorough check over for any infection, high bp etc etc. Really glad I rang and really pleased with how helpful she was.

She thinks baby may have slipped back to back as I'm still having contractions (10-15 mins apart whilst she was here) but they're still not getting closer together much stronger apart from a few strong ones in the night.

She's coming back to do another sweep tomorrow to try to avoid induction on Saturday.

I had felt a bit abandoned as mw on Sunday had said "oh I've booked you in for induction on Saturday but you won't need it" and hadn't really asked me if I wanted that or given me an alternative! But now I'm more settled and less stressed (and contracting a bit more regularly too )

Sorry.... This is a long one but I've gone into "radio silence" mode with friends and family so need to get it out!!

Hope everybody else is ok xx

Newton can't believe you're still going :(
Hope you're ok. I'm glad the MW was able to offer some reassurance. If its any help I am sending positive labour vibes to u. And some

Thank you

I'm feeling slightly less left to my own devices today... Plus contracting fairly regularly for most of the day. I've even downloaded an app as was becoming quiet complacent with the whole thing

Hope things start moving for you soon newton!

Turns out I'm not very good at resting Day 2 of mat leave has seen me out on a 5 hour shopping trip Oh dear, DH will not be pleased as he left me strict instructions to REST WOMAN after he came back yesterday and found I'd done a mahoosive pile of ironing.

I know I should, god knows I won't be able to when the baby comes, but I just get a bit carried away

I'm sitting down with a now though & slice of cake so there's hope for me yet!