November 2012 - the thread where Detective's baby arrives

[StuntNun]

Previous ante-natal thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1608323-November-2012-please-form-an-orderly-queue

Post-natal thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1611078-November-2012-the-birthplosion-thanks-Peaky

Stats list: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1485512-November-2012-Stats-List

Just popping by to say we are home and getting used to life. Congrats to all the new borns and good luck to all those who are starting and waiting.

Can't wait for 5 mins to catch up x

Do you think my mw would give me a sweep tomorrow at 39+5? I was dead against one but getting desperate now!

DP has suggested we go to our fav restaurant tonight because they're doing a curry night. I can barely walk but I am dying to get out the house. Am i mad thinking i can try and drive the 6/7 miles back home if he has a couple of pints??

MM - not to be mean to your DP but he should be on hospital watch anyway and so not drinking so he can drive should your waters go in the middle of the night ... so really he should drive tonight! I'd go for a curry if I had a babysitter! Make the most of it, I would!

Good for you mrswee - always good to find out how you're doing. I have the midwife tomorrow. Thinking of asking her to just check out the state of me without actually doing the sweep!

Hurrah for being home, pikz. Enjoy, you'll get 5 mins sooner or later! We're a bit slower on this thread these days so you might have more of a chance of catching up!

That's a very valid point georgee, baby brain completely forgot he's not drinking for that very reason anyway! The alternative is a takeaway curry - might be a safer option all round having just tried to walk downstairs...

Oh grrr about your back MM. Poor you. Hope you have a great takeaway you can use - when you have a curry head on, nothing else will do!

Congratulations bryzoan and Nat :-)

mm hope your back feels better soon

Thanks all, we had planned a home birth stuntnun, but had a deadlin of Sunday night for it. Midwife said that as technically it was Monday morning we should go to the hospital. But realistically I was going nowhere. No time to fill the pool but it was a great birth as they go with no real problems. I was also so relieved to avoid induction - booked for tomorrow! Afterpains are killers though - not helped by his voracious appetite!

Congrats to the other births - and I hope those who are poorly / have poorly tots and partners recover soon.

Hoping to hear of lots more well timed arrivals soon.

New on this thread... please let me in MAJOR RANT ALERT

39+5 today and desperate to meet this baby, but apart from few-and-far-between half-arsed period cramps NOTHING going on. If you don't count itching, swollen legs, heartburn, fanny pain and dreadful discharge (TMI!!!!), wearing tent-sized rags clothes, grumpiness, waddling and expanding stretch marks, I wouldn't even know I was pregnant.

All i want is a baby, a slab of stilton on a blue steak and a massive glass of is that too much to friggin ask.

Ah what's the point, might as well go join the lasses on January December thread, I'll still be pregnant at Xmas at this rate

MM, the only thing that helped me with agonising back pain was an hour of antenatal massage on an awesome massage table with a bump hole in it, had that 3 weeks ago for 1.5 hrs and the pain is just starting to come back, so not a bad result!

Welcome sunnypie I second the glass of wine/massive slab of cheese/raw meat want!

mm I was expecting to have to presaude my midwife today abot the sweep but before I asked I just mentioned how my hips and back are sore now and making thing uncomfertable, then asked if it would be possible to get a sweep today and her replay was, yes of course I would offer you one on your due date anyway and there's not point coming back tomorrow just for that.

So I know you will be two days off your due date but def worth an ask considering how much you are suffering. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you getting them to agree.

The sweep wasn't sore really.. I wonder if that cause it is my second or if it was because I was employing my hypnobirthing skills... ?

Hey sunnypie, I'm due the same day as you and feel exactly the same. I decided to hair remove my fanjo yesterday only to find some rather hideous veins, that explains the dragging pain I've had down below! God, I'm fed up of being pregnant.

sunnypie ToManyDicks i feel your pain im exactly the same and also 39 + 5 .....could murder a glass of wine!!! starting to wonder if the little bugger is ever gonna turn up. i had regular contractions about 4 days ago, got to every 6-7 mins apart and then just stopped and have had nothing since!! feel like a beached whale and cant sleep properly as im soo uncomfortable.....these last couple of weeks have really sucked!

Yes to mummytobe, I had a crap nights sleep last night. Had a lot if pains/contractions then nothing.

Ladies, have a glass of wine. Don't have a bottle sized glass but a glass of wine will relax you no end.

My Dad likes to remind me of the night mum went in to labour with me. She was feeling very depressed as it was 11pm on the day before I was due... she had 2 glasses of wine to drown her sorrows, and boom! Labour started...I was born 12 hours later!

^see! If the midwife says so then it must be true!

It also may explain a few things about me....

Yay my waters have gone. Hanging out at home until we get some proper contractions and then off to the MLU.
They are pretty pink. Is that okay?

Hooray jenbird! Good luck and hopefully see you on the graduates thread pretty soon

pink ok - blood - get checked. good luck! one handed due to scoffing with other

good luck jenbird hope all goes well x

My waters have been slightly pink with both DC Jenbird, the colour of dilute summer fruits squash I guess. Good luck :)

Good luck jenbird - baby by morning maybe?

I'm awake. Had a few tightenings that have amounted to nothing. Sore back and feel sick - dejavu? I kicked dp out of bed into the spare room, and I can still here him coughing and spluttering from the other side of the house (and through 2 closed doors) grr

Sp hear - sleep deprivation clearly kicking in!!

Good luck jenbird!

I'm in it for the long haul here! No sign of my waters going or my show, yet I've been having contractions for 28 hrs, and they're getting longer and more intense. Just managed about 3 hrs sleep but they're too painful to keep getting up for so have come downstairs and out the fire on to get comfortable, while DP snoozes away in bed.

I STILL may be the last person on this thread to give birth at this rate!