December 2012- mass eviction.

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Babies are coming out fast!

Hope this one works for you Gils, did the mw tell you anything when they came round or will they assess you just before pessary?

Willyule, my Hubby works for local authority so lots of others there and they are no better. He is taking additional unpaid leave when the baby has been born and his boss has said he may need to ring him most days to get advice on stuff. F off is my thought. He needs to switch off when he comes home tonight and turn off his phone. They have had notice of it so they need to deal with it.

Glad it's not just me. I may smash his work phone in a mid-labour tantrum if they ring!

WillYule YANBU. Fact.

Though have they tried to find cover, or just sat on their arses with their heads in the sand? If the latter, I'd tell them to F-off and deal with it. They should be able to put in the extra hours instead of your DH. If they've tried to find cover and can't... it's still their responsibility to cover for him, but I'd tell them to F-off in a nicer way...

They have started to look for cover - this Wed when we found out I was being induced tomorrow. They thought it was going to be Monday and have known this for 12 weeks. He's home now and has told them there will be no more 15h shifts! To add insult to injury the bosses wife has written on Facebook "Feel like a work widow, will (DH) ever come home?". It's their profits and she's not having a baby! Rar!

Yes I'm emetophobic too mrsmiller, I'm having this baby on my own too as dad not interested so gotta get over it somehow

Hope the 2nd one works gils and things get moving!! Not nice in hosp I know too well but at least you'll be leaving with your bubba

gils good luck.
willyule totally not your DPs problem, I hate take the piss employers and they really deserve to be let down this time, 30 weeks is long enough to put a plan in place for a short absence. Hope your DP has the balls to turn his phone off and ignore them until he's due back to work.

willyou YANBU at all. I'd smash the phone!

YANBU willyule!

Thanks all, off to try to sleep now. Getting a little nervous!

Good luck to everyone else

Leobear- DC2 here, went to 40+2 with Dd.
still here with no signs
I am very peed off at the potential for another four weeks of this.

2nd one not needed, I'm already at 4cm so midwife just did a sweep instead. She hopes that will get my cervix to thin out a bit more. Gonna be a long night

Good luck Gils

Hello all!
Can't remembers last post as it feels like lots has happened!

So DH & I proud owners of brand new baby boy . Name tbc but a lot of pressure from me will hopefully / probably be Kit (from Christopher.) TBC!

Birth story rather horrendous & don't want to be voice of doom amongst so many good stories but I certainly proved many of the first timers theories correct;
Overdue by quite a while & examination / sweep showed still miles off being ready.

Decision for induction made.

Induction methods really struggled against my body's refusal to go into labour, so got more & more full on methods, either incredibly fast or suddenly stopped altogether if reduced.

Epidural suddenly stopped working so was thrown into intensely powerful contractions when on cytocin drip.
All this happened throughout last night But by morning time had had 2nd epidural, fully floated & ready to push. Also com

... Completely exhausted by craziness of previous night with so many intensive contractions (obv did not abuse gas & air for hours when waiting for anaesthetist to return, and end up completely high, in agony but strangely happy)
This morning spent 3 hours pushing exhaustively whilst behind the scenes Drs & midwives organised EMCS in theatre, as they already knew my enemdeavours hopeless as LO & I back to back. I had no idea.

Rushed into theatre for forceps / CS, & ended with c section this afternoon.
Completely thoroughly knackered & bewildered. Did all stages of labour except give birth. But now struggling to move or properly even cuddle LO.

Soooo in love with him though, all totally worth it & DH proved himself a star (& a guaranteed baby bore )

Sorry if TMI & I think mine is unusual in that things were unexpected & a few things went wrong that don't generally. I guess

My biggest moral is trust your own judgement
One midwife told me my contractions were pessary 'twinges' thus terrifying me of what an actual contraction would be like. I was 4cm dilated

I knew something wasn't quite right about 1st epi but anaesthetist didn't listen as in a rush.

Congratulations queen sorry you had a hard time hope you're looking after yourself

Congratulations queen and well don't on getting through all that.

Thanks so much spotty feel bad for writing in such detail, & hope that others aren't upset by it.
We all survived (in fact thrived - he's a total piglet & latched on for 2.5 hrs immediately after birth!!) & it's just going to be part of my history now.
Next time abit less medical perhaps!

Wishing everyone the very best with last few days of symptoms, cramps bed-turnovering etc. words can't explain the wonderfulness of the baby at the end!!!
See you on the PN thread -gosh!

Congratulations queen, hope you get some rest and enjoy those snuggles.

You are probably in shock from all that its good to hear that your ds is doing so well

Congratulations queen, glad he is out and happy, and although a bit medical am choosing to see your story as positive - they do come out, by one means or another!

Congratulations Queen and welcome Kit I mean BabyQueen!

Hi all. I hardly ever post (so fast moving!) but hope it's OK to add myself to the list. 2 more sleeps until my ELCS. Congratulations to those who've already had their gorgeous babies, and hope the rest of you aren't hanging around too long!

Gilsbubbles 03/12/12
Rudolphtherednosedgiraffe 07/12/12
Stacks 09/12/12
Cherrypiew3 10/12/12
Yuletopian99 15/12/12
JoJoB77 17/12/12
Knottyhair ELCS 17/12/12
leobear 18/12/12
annelid 20/12/12
MrsMiller81 20/12/12
MyDaydream 20/12/12
WillYuleDoTheFandango 22/12/12
2blessed 23/12/12
Equimum 24/12/12
Ellliebelle 24/12/12
BuntysFestiveCollocks 28/12/12
emilyeggs 28/12/12
pmgkt 28/12/12
RockabillyKitty 30/12/12
Terrywoganstrousers 31/12/12
Hormonalhell 15/1/13

Congrats Queen sorry it was hard work but all worth it in the end

I'm off to be induced, think I'm in a little bit of , hopefully return to news of lots more babies