November 2012 - lots of babies that can't wait for November

[StuntNun]

Previous ante-natal thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1584066-November-2012-babies-arriving-early-and-impatient-mummies-to-be

Post-natal thread for the graduates: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1579907-November-2012-babies-are-here-at-last

I have horrible images now!!

Still going at 6 mins apart lasting 50 seconds. According to my App damn it.

pasties sorry missed your post. How about getting a heated airer for indoors. Lakeland sell them over here, but they are likely to sell similar things there. They cost pennies to heat, and would not need heating at all in the summer. Could you even put an airer on a balcony?

I'm meeting some friends for breakfast then I'll probably sleep.

I'm wondering if I can ask Santa wry nicely to trade any gifts for the arrival of the boy now?

Breakfast with friends sounds nice, and then rest with a full belly. Good luck with negotiating with Santa x

Turns out the less eager you are for labour to start, the more eager it is to appear.

Try that Tits!!

If that's true detective then I want it on record that I am in no hurry for labour to start and I will happily wait til 42 weeks

Well you did say you were bored detective

Good luck little

I can tell you lot are going to depress me by all having babies early! Joking aside, the best of luck to everyone over the next 48 hours.

Sorry i dont get on here much. Tbh i find the amount of posts on my return overwhelming every time lol.

37 weeks today and this baby needs out now. lol. Im so over pregnancy i want my squishy little man now :P

Ooh good luck little ... Detective, hoping it's a false alarm? If anyone would know, though, you would! Sorry to hear about your rubbish night Tits. Pasties, I second that Lakeland thing. We have a line and can't use it most of the time because of the weather. I do lots of hanging clothes on clothes horses!

Not much going on here. 34 wk GP appt yesterday, apparently there is a bit of protein in my urine which they say might be a brewing UTI? Results on Monday of that one.

MIL here today and has taken DD out so I can have a lovely shower, feed next door's cats (which I'm quite enjoying for those cat-fanciers - DH would never let us have any but I used to be a vet assistant after school and we always had animals at home - this takes me right back) and do some work trying not to be distracted by this thread which I look at every five minutes.

kirrin yes you are sensible, I know I can still see the nice mums from the play-group and their LO?s but for some reason I was listing everything that is ?changing? at the moment and it made me all wobbly! And yes good suggestion for the laundry ? there must be some sort of bathroom rig-up we could figure out. I think I just feel like a kid who has been told off and want to stamp my feet about it!!

valium oh dear it?s hard being uncomfy, but I am so happy you get to meet your little boy soon! And I do have an airer on the balcony, but I don?t like to put hand washed stuff on there as it drips down on to the downstairs neighbour?s balcony (and when upstairs does it to me it?s very annoying) so I thought I was being thoughtful (if that makes sense).

Aw ladies you are all most kind saying nice things to me about my stupid laundry ? I feel a right Dilbert moaning about it really when others have serious things on their minds (apologies if anyone has Dilbert on their names list!!) :)

Welcome nickname this is a very chatty thread!

Oh shanelle sounds like you've been having an awful time, I hope you have lots of support in RL and were always here to offer it too

detective I think that dress would be fine for a wedding and a birthday

Welcome back wellie this is a fast moving thread so will keep you on your toes

Wow little how are you doing? Sounds like things could be heading in the right direction

dective how are you feeling?

pasties hugs if you need one!!!

Sitting in the hair dressers is not comfortable! Im so grateful I manage to get an appointment at such a short time though. Everything at home is nearly sorted for little ones arrival just have some more washing to do, up clothes away and tidy round the house then hopefully can relax for abit with DP. Can't believe my baby should be here tomorrow!!! I have a scan today to check fluid levels today so hopefully there still good, I will be devastated if they want me to stay in for monitoring r anything today even though I would I'd like one last night in my bed

I've read somewhere that when you have a section it can take longer for your milk to come in, any ideas on this ladies? I'm wondering if I should take a carton or 2 of milk just to be safe?

Still going. Ow. Feck.

Poo didn't work.

nervous! Its so exciting hearing about your baby arriving tomorrow!! Enjoy your hair cut :)

Thank you pasties still in shock about it myself I was convinced I would have a 42 week belly dweller

did you do a poo detective? or did it not want to come out? Maybe you will be the next to pop! very excited for you, is your dp awake yet? Did your son get off to school yet?

I'm still at home, they spaced out again to 8 minutes apart but are back at 4-5 mins apart now and I'm starting to find the pain quite hard to cope with. But don't want to turn up at triage and be sent home so going to keep going here as long as I can. In between contractions I feel ok.

chunkychicken we could well pass each other in the delivery suite then! I was ruled out for a home birth straight away due to having a 3rd degree tear with DD. I'm after a water birth this time too if I have time. Hope you at least get that bit of your birth

nervous all the best for tomorrow. Will be thinking of you.

gt sorry to hear you've been kept in for such a silly reason. Hope you get home soon. It's so much easier to figure things out when you're in your own environment without annoying ward mates!

And to those that are in early labour, good luck and this is going to sound a bit peculiar but enjoy. I never really experienced early labour signs and would have liked to so I could have been more prepared. Having said that i will probably end up with a horrendously long labour this time round! None the less its all exciting times

littlelolly bless you, if you feel its getting too much for you, you can try a warm bath, or a shower pointed on your back, or sit on a chair that is around the wrong way and rest your arms on the back of the chair, and rest your forehead on your arms, use books to lift your feet up to a comfy height, if your dh/dp is to hand he can give you a very very light and gentle massage (although they say dont actually massage just sort of stroke over your partner with finger tips). a head massage is also supposed to be nice.

eliza i didnt have any early labour either, its so exciting to hear about other peoples experiences.

Horsey this is my understanding and may not be totally 100% scientifically accurate. When you have your first baby your uterus is shaped like an upside-down pear. As your baby reaches full term the head (usually, sometimes the bottom) goes down into the pelvis (engages) because the baby is running out of space. The baby's head doesn't go into the pelvis before this because there are ligaments around that area of the pelvis that loosen and stretch in late pregnancy. Engaging is often called lightening, as you've experienced, because you suddenly get a bit more breathing room and your stomach isn't so squashed.

When it's a subsequent baby your uterus has already stretched and will be rounder in shape so (1) there's more room for baby to move around in a sphere than in a pear-shape, and (2) if your baby's head does go into the pelvis there's more room around the head so baby can just move up and out again.

I can't believe there is so much activity on this thread - birthing activity I mean. I sometimes imagine us all in one room and it makes me giggle. That one ranting, that one having contractions, someone over there crying, someone else chasing a mental cat and so on. Noone else understands us like we understand us!

little and detective how exciting! Mind you, I know detective, that you were crossing your legs so fingers crossed for you that this is just a wee practice. I have a friend who was told to 'get in the bath with a nice glass of wine' by her midwife when she went into early labour. Sounds like a plan.

I do have a question about timing contractions. I have heard that the very early ones are irregular so you should not get too worked up but still time them. How can you do much else if you are timing contractions? If they get to every 4 minutes or so surely you are just sitting there with your watch. Also, do they speed up if you go to sleep? If you advised to try to sleep what if they become much closer together and you end up much further on that you would really have wanted?

These are stupid questions, I know. I am a bit freaked out though by knowing when things are actually kicking off. A lady at my yoga group went into labour so quickly that she gave birth before an ambulance could get to her. She described her husband as 'catching' the baby when it came out. Now, as effortless and tempting as that sounds I am not sure it is a very good idea

Sorry Nervous I missed your post. It may take longer for your milk to come in after a section (although it didn't with mine) but you will still be producing colostrum which is very high calorie and will keep baby happy and well fed. I found with my two that I had a few mls of colostrum for the first few days then I suddenly had loads of milk and my breasts were quite 'full' (i.e. HUGE), then it settled down. New baby's stomachs are the size of a marble and won't stretch so it doesn't take much to fill them up and they feed frequently. After a couple/few days their tummies are bigger and stretchy so they can take more milk and go longer between feeds.

Lol pass would be hilarious if we were all in the same room together!

Good luck to those having contractions, may even get two babies in one day!

Stunt - that would make sense. I only see the uterus when were planning cancer treatments. As you say it's pear shaped (upside down) but obv the stretch is greater if you have subsequent pregnancies. I was thinking that the sheep and pigs show more in later pregnancies, well we say drop more but it's a different type of dropping. They actually show more, I guess like humans can.

Good luck if you are in labour guys!! My mat leave doesn't start till the 27th but I think I'll be about week late. With absolutely no scientific knowledge behind it what so ever!!

Bought the pacapod!! Think I paid slightly over the odds for it, but actually would have paid a lot more on eBay so maybe not??!! Anyway I'm happy!!

About the room idea, in theory it does seem strange the idea of us all together in this, a bunch of random women from all over the place, but it's really valuable. DH and I were lucky enough to go out for high tea at a hotel in Gullane in East Lothian yesterday as a final little date (voucher had been a 40th birthday present from November last year and I thought we ought to use it while we had the chance) and I ended up chatting to him about stuff on the thread (not the gory stuff, just where people where and what their situations were, latest news). I think he thinks I'm a bit mad spending so much time in cyberspace with a bunch of other women I will probably never meet but it's so important isn't it, the feeling of all going through it together.