Due in October 2012 - Part 9...the final few waddling uncomfortably and hoping things start moving soon!

[Kyyria]

Just getting us sorted with a (hopefully) final thread before we all decamp to the PN thread!!

Congratulations londonmrss!! I think it actually is a full moon at the moment.

Well its 4am and im awake. Ive been awake since 1am. I am uncomfortable and cold, but i dont want to go downstairs as i will wake the dog up and she will think its time to go for a walk. Lucky i have my harry potter book up here...

mickey I'm awake too. Been having contractions since going to the cinema last night! Sore, but manageable, so figure I may as well let DF sleep. I keep thinking it'll peter out. The cat keeps nagging me for breakfast...

Congratulations cherry and londonmrss wonderful news! Please try not to feel bad that things didn't go exactly to plan, as my ob/gyn said that is the world of obstetrics, it rarely goes to plan. You did an amazing thing and should feel very proud no matter how the baby arrived.

Still thinking of all of you counting down the last few days! Come on babies!

Baby Tom was born this morning at 1.55am. 7lb 4 oz. Labour was scary and fast after second gel, 1-3cm in one hour then 3-10 in another hour. He swallowed meconium and needed resuss. We are on postnatal ward now, have been left to it by midwives. It took me a couple of hours to feed him. He is asleep now but I am so tired and confused, this a whirlwind

I love him so much though, he's beautiful!

Will post more later... Shattered now... Do I try and sleep?

Oh bless you Zara, you poor startled pet! Congratulations and well done, be very proud of yourself. Yes, try and sleep every second u can. You will awaken to baby sounds when you need to xx

zara you poor thing that sounds intense, yes do sleep now if you can. You can sort it all out in your head later on. Congratulations and hugs xx

Huge congrats to Cherry Londonmrss and Kyyria!!!! Welcome little ones!! Apologies to whom I hav missed while being AWOL, you hav all done a great job!! I know it's a cliche, but as MW said to me after, it's not called labour for nothing!!! Xx

zara many congratulations! Yes, try and sleep if you can, Tom will let you know if he needs you and there will be midwives pottering about keeping an eye on you both. You've done brilliantly.

YAY for safe arrival Zara, that's great news. Sleep when you can seems to be the motto of every new mum so I hope you have managed to nod off and are feeling a bit less OMG.

Contractions still going over here - now about 12 hours in - regular, sore but not horrifically painful. Called the hospital to let them know but I think it'll be a while. DF thinks he probably shouldn't go off to uni to his study group. I'm inclined to think he should just go as it could be hours yet.

bouncing on the ball, breathing away... but I'm thinking that within a couple of days we should have a baby! Excited but a bit scared and a bit daunted.

Ooh livvy exciting! Sounds like things are moving but probably right not to get too expectant as it could still be a while. Will be thinking of you xx

delighted to be able to say that my son William was born this morning at 5.10 after a surprising and dramatic delivery! He is utterly delicious and I am so in love. More later when I am not quite so shellshocked!

Good luck livvy and mickey! Xxx

Oct. 16: Liege07 DS1 by planned induction, Orenishii DC1
Oct. 18: Beccus DC1
Oct. 19: Willowtree DC1 by ELCS
Oct. 21: Dosomethingmutley DC1
Oct. 29: Ayeasha DC1
Nov. 1: Londonlivvy DC1
Nov. 8: MickeytheShortOne DC1

Real live babies:
Sept. 20: Velo - Max 2.35kg
Sept. 24: Lisbethspposite, Paul 6lb 11oz
Sept. 25: Angelico ? DD Mini Angelico, CWest30 - Naomi Louise, 4lb 10oz
Sept. 26: Elpis ? DS 3.2kg
Sept. 30: Squidkid ? Jess, 6lb 14
Oct. 1: WantAnOrange ? Artemis Lily 7lbs 2oz, MrsConfusion ? DD 7lb 0.75oz
Oct. 2: Planktonette ? DS Planktonini, firstbubba ? DS babyfirstbubba 9lb 2.5oz
Oct. 3: FjordMor ? Ida 8lb 3oz
Oct. 4: Crazypaving ? DS 8lb 3oz, Smileyhappymummy ? Melissa Rose 3kg, Milk - William Andrew 7lb 8oz
Oct. 12: Katla ? Erin Rose 7lbs 12oz
Oct. 16: Midgetm ? Master Midge
Oct. 17: Hufflepuffle ? Snuffly Huffle Boy 9lb 3oz, Lizzietow ? Imogen Rose
Oct. 18: OctoberOctober ? Max 8lb 1oz
Oct. 19: Beeblebear ? Baby Bear 7lb 10oz
Oct. 20: YompingJo ? Alice Jessica 9lb
Oct. 21: LoopyLa - Prince Loopy 6lb 10oz
Oct. 22: Shellwedance - Amelie
Oct. 24: Smorgs- Frederick 2.9kg,
Oct. 26: Kyyria- Baby boy Kyyria 9lb 12oz, Cherry- Little Cherry Boy 6lb 6oz, Londonmrss- BabygirlLondon 8lb
Oct. 28: Zara- Baby Tom 7lb 4oz, Bella- William

Good Luck Livvy!! I really am going to be left on my own now :(
Any news from Beccus? Hope you are snuggled up with your lovely new arrival. I am majorly jealous of you all!

Ooh and congratulations Zara and Bella!!

Oh mickeyI'm not convinced this is going to happen any time soon. Still having contractions, which are now a bit more intense, but no real sense of urgency yet. Oof. I am not a patient person and this is doing my head in!

Congrats Bella. So glad your bean arrived in time to be presented to the whole family.

Just wanted to send my love to the final few. Big hugs.

Sending eviction vibes to the last ladies left standing.

Oh bloody hell this labour stuff is much, much harder than I had realised. After 24 hours of contractions, gradually getting more intense, my waters broke. Hospital said to come in for a check, which we did. Only 2cm! Boo. So back home and in the bath, fighting the pain and wanting to cry from exhaustion and disappointment.

How anyone does this on gas and air is an absolute mystery to me. Hats off to all of you. I shall be asking for their best drugs on my return. Ow. Ow. Ow.

oh livvy good luck! And thanks for your congratiulations! And you too mickey. I am going to keep on coming on here so you are not alone mickey and so you get at least one congrats too when yoiur bean comes (which can't be long!) so don't fret xxxx

Bella congratulations, so glad William made it in time to meet the family! Sounds all very sudden though

Congrats LondonMrs! Another birthday buddy for Little Cherry boy, it was obviously a good day to be born. I've read your birth story on the other thread, but will write a decent reply when I have more time to concentrate. I had a little cry when I read it, sounds like you really went through it.

More congratulations to Zara! Sounds hectic, so glad it all ended up ok though. Definitely sleep now as much as possible, while he's quiet for the first day. No chance after that. Enjoy

Good luck Livvy! I thought the same as you - I never expected the early stages to be so painful. Have whatever pain relief you want/need. I went to over 8cm with nothing at all then ended up having to have an epidural, so complete waste of time. Anyway, more on that later...
Looking forward to hearing your news

I try to read and post here every day but like everything else I try to do every day (shower, eat, breathe...), scrummy baby girl usually interrupts with a demand that needs meeting RIGHT NOW MUMMY!

She is 9 days old today, I am and feeling a lot more comfortable (forceps and episiotomy, will put whole story on post natal thread eventually!) and we are starting to feel like we speak our little girl's "language" now, can usually tell when she is hungry, windy or agitated because she wants her nappy changed. We are doing tag team parenting, I am the Catering department and DH is Costumes and Changing. I go to bed after a feed in the evening and he sleeps in the spare room with her until she next needs feeding, then he changes her and passes her over to me for rest of night. No patterns established yet but it's going ok. It is the hardest thing I have ever done (I thought pregnancy was hard, but labour was much harder and being an actual parent, trying to learn to breastfed whilst getting not enough sleep and recovering physically and mentally from the birth, tops the scale!) but we love it, she is a total bundle of joy! We have ventured out with her a couple of times, great fun but fraught with anxiety as we are typical new parents and worried about everything!

So, wow, how many babies? Massive congratulations to Bella on the arrival of William, to Zara for baby Tom, to LondonMrss for Baby girl London, to Cherry for Little Cherry Boy, Kyyria on the arrival of your little boy (wow, 9lb !!!) and to Smorgs for Frederick.

Livvy, hope things are progressing faster for you now and you have news soon!

Beccus, how are you doing?

Midget, not so long to go now, hope you are coping with the frustration of the final couple of weeks.

Mutley, sending eviction vibes your way!

Any word from Liege ?

livvy not sure if you'll be reading this but if it helps I went in for induction after two nights of pretty regular strong contractions which then stopped during the day. I was sure I'd be a few cm dilated but no. Not even fully effaced. After 4 hours on the oxytocin drip still not fully effaced so they recommended (and I gratefully accepted) an epidural. One hour later I was 6cm two hours later 9cm. It worked in exactly the opposite way to how I imagined (ie slows everything down) and was bliss and meant I had loads of energy for pushing. Good luck, you can do it, ill be thinking of you!

Thinking of Londonlivvy and hoping all progressing well xx
Bella , congratulations!!! Well done you

Sorry, no time for more!
Xx keep going ladies, nearly all there xx

Hello lovely ladies! Sorry for long silence on my part.. my little DD was born on 16 October by induction as planned at 38 weeks 4 days the labour was v intense lasting 7 hours from first pessary (no need for second) to birth but retrospectively I feel good about it. she was 3.05kg and in v good health. I will write the birth story later.

She is a very calm baby sleeping up to 5 hours between feeds at night and easy to settle during the day, breastfeeding going well and all really going very smoothly.. though I have had a few niggling feelings/fears about attachment and bonding as I don't feel very strong emotions for her... it is very strange I do everything for her with love and care and I like doing it but when I look at her I don't have that gooey loved up feeling. I spoke to DH and Mum about it and they both agree it will come and grow over time and I am sure it will but in the meantime I feel quite sad that I don't feel head over heels in love with her as many others do..

I am so happy to hear all the good news from all of you, I read the whole anti-natal and the post-natal thread last night while feeding, it is such a nice feeling to think of you all out there doing the same thing as me.. but I am sorry to hear of all the struggles too, especially with breastfeeding and getting over a traumatic labour... I hope things settle down soon and we can all get some proper sleep... (wishful thinking probably!)

Things progressing, albeit slowly. Was 6cm at 1030. Had pethedine so am in less pain. Thanks everyone for through support. I have really really appreciated it.

Great to hear from you Leige Look forward to hearing about your induction when you get a chance.

LondonLivvy Good to hear you are progressing - you are over half way there now. I bloody love gas and air can you have some for me?