January 2013 part 6: the one where all the babies arrive to join their friends who escaped early!

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New thread as the other one is nearly full !

Our next baby should be pmgkt's, but I won't if any little cheeky monkey will sneak in before Thursday?

Morning happy, I've been up since 4.30 too. Used the opportunity to mark my last books for 9 months . Thanks for your good wishes bobbles.
Good luck bohoec and bugsy - will be thinking of you all day. Wow, this thread is really starting to get going - lots of Christmas babies!

Oh, best of luck, bohoec and mrsbugsy!

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Hope all goes well for you both, thinking of you. Sure all will be well, mrsb - keep up updated as to what they're doing. 35 weekers are a good size already.

Congrats pmgkt! Hope you and Edward can go home soon.

And best of luck to mrsbugsy and bohoec! Keep us posted. Will be thinking of you both.

Scan yesterday was good - placenta's still working and baby is growing well which is a relief. In fact it's a little whopper with estimated birth weight of 9lbs (though I know the estimated weights aren't always very accurate... at least I hope not!)

It's all go here isn't it! Good luck to the ladies whose waters have broken! Lots of Christmas babies!

bohoec and bugsy good luck! Waters breaking in a restaurant is like being in a film or something! At least you didn't have to deliver right there and then!!

Wow exciting news bohoec and mrsbusgy (bugsy you sure you're not just trying to get out of your last working day lol?!)

Insomnia has hit me too but I don't get it. I just get wide awake for about two hours in the early hours of the morning. I'm not uncomfortable, in pain or anything. I can't understand it. Then I go back to sleep just before DD wakes and now I'm a total zombie. How can I be wide awake in the night when I'm so tired?!

Wow what a busy night! Good luck bohoec and mrsbugsy.

bealos glad you got to keep your mw in the end.

Couldn't sleep last night as no way of getting comfy. Then when I did get off to sleep dd got up with a nightmare and then was up feeling ill. Do now ds1 has gone back to school, ds2 has the hump as he was never sick enough for day off and dd is at home! Dh will have to get the stocking fillers (he works for tesco boo )

All Xmas prep will now not be finished but hey ho! Will try to have all sorted by end of sept next year so they can't sabotage it all again! School receptionist very sweet when I went to report ds back but dd now down!

Wow nearly babies everywhere ! Not at all jealous, oh no . Good luck you two!

Apple I said I would be done by end of september this year. Hasn't happened. Still waiting for at least one thing to arrive in the post.

Had to stay in all yesterday to wait for a delivery and also weather was shit. I felt terrible by the evening, depressed, uncomfortable and miserable. Today, however, is a different day so we are going out in puddle suit (ds) to find some puddles and some ducks, then going to face the hell that is the garden centre to pick a bauble for DS for the tree and then good old maccyDs for a late lunch I expect.

Widget is riding high again at the moment so pressure off the nethers and its back to the heartburn hence the greasefest later to try and squish it all down

I'm rambling here now, supposed to be out the door by 10.30...

Wow, good luck bohoec and bugsy!

Apple and Pascha hope you get organised, but whatever happens, make sure you relax and enjoy Christmas - we often make it much more stressful and complicated than it needs to be! I have quite a bit to do as well - mainly shopping and cooking/ baking. Not feeling the energy so far today though.

Wow it's all happening. Loads of luck bohoec and bugsy. DH finishes work today until 10 Jan (or at least he is working from home rather than trekking into London) so baby can arrive from tomorrow onwards. He's got his work Christmas do this afternoon so said he had to remain sober enough to speak to his wife on phone, call for a taxi (I felt I couldn't restrict him to just 2 drinks) and operate a TENS machine if needs be!!!

Really feel for those of you who can't sleep and have kids. I too am waking up lots in night. I seem to sleep for 1.5 to 2 hours then wake for half an hour or so then go back to sleep. Anyway at least I can nap during day. Hope you can all rest a bit too.

Meeting up with NCT girls for lunch today so looking forward to that. Then I plan to make mince pies.

birdies I have the same insomnia problems - wide awake from 2am - 3am or 3am - 4am pretty much every bl00dy night. I assume baby has kicked me or something, but I just don't know.
I'm only surviving through afternoon naps - oh, the joys of maternity leave .

Exciting for those with waters breaking i a v jealous. I too am struggling to sleep most nights. Just been to see sexy dentist again!!!

Wish my maternity leave was starting now :( I'm back for 8 days after xmas to train my replacement, and my line manager wants me in an hour earlier than usual the first day back so I can let him in. I'm already struggling with my existing hours so I'm really not looking forward to it. I'll be 8 and a half months by then :(

Still in hospital, i had some mild contractions in the night but had codeine and now seem to have gone away.

Not sure what is happening now, everyone i speak to tells me. Something different

Poor you mrsbugsy surely if waters have gone baby will follow fairly soon? Sending lots of luck.

Wonder how bohoec is getting on?!

Dd all tucked up on sofa, dosed with calpol and trying to sleep in front of the muppets. At least if she sleeps so can I

Aw bugsy it's still so exciting though. I guess they are just waiting and seeing by not really taking any action. If baby is ready then he/she will pop out anyway, regardless of whether they do much to try and stop it. As long as you're being monitored then that's the main thing. Your baby might be fully cooked already and just ready to meet mummy!

Keep us posted!

Very exciting that babies are starting to appear and labours are kickstarting. Wonder if anyone will have a Christmas day baby?

I think I have finally done all the Christmas shopping. A last minute dash to Westfield armed with a list and a strict time as to when I had to be back to get ds1 meant that I'm feeling much better about it all, if somewhat knackered!!

Best wishes bohoec and mrsbugsy, hope they give your decent update soon, so frustrating

Bealos count me out for Xmas day baby

Oh wow!How exciting!good luck ladies!
Was my last day at school today,I bloody did it!!38wks preggo,must be mental! But glam as had a lovely day n got some nice pressies inc a HUGE wheel of stilton for after bub is born lol!

Ive got a feeling our threads gonna go off the scale this wk with lots of crimbo babies.Im an xmas eve baby (born at 11.47pm so almost xmas day) n not that keen I must admit,BUT it is also j lovely,special time of yr too so not all bad...think im be more gutted if I was in hospital for too long over crimbo as just spent a fortune on yummy food!

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Glad not glam! DEFO not glam lol x

Just wanted to say how proud I am of all of us ladies finishing today - it's been bloody hard work and at times we didn't think we'd make it but here we are Now bring on Christmas, New Year and the babies!x

Hello, I'm still here. Earlier today I was told that they would try to delay labour for a week or so. I was given codeine to slow contractions and the contractions stopped. Then a senior consultant came and said that actually baby is safer out than in and wanted to induce 24 hours after my waters went, which would have been tonight.

I wanted to give things a chance to kick off again naturally and we've now compromised and decided that we will give it 48 hours after my waters broke or else I will go on a drip . I have to stay in tonight for monitoring but figured either things will get going again, or at least I will hopefully get some sleep first as I was up all night last night. Does this sound sensible to anyone with any experience ? Given that this is dc1 and I was due to start antenatal classes in Jan I am making this up as I go along

PS I was 2-3 cm dilated when measured this morning and was having manageable contractions every two or three mins.

I was emergency birth partner for my friend who went into labour at my house at 35 weeks. All progressed very quickly though - different to yours - waters broke around midnight and she had the baby by 7am. Baby was fine, if a little slow to feed at first, but this improved greatly once they were out of the hospital and back home.

Another friend also had her baby today at 38 weeks. Her waters went over 72 hours ago and she'd been putting off being induced, but I think yesterday afternoon she gave the go ahead for intervention.

Think the most frustrating thing for you bugsy must be the different advice from different doctors and midwives. If baby and you are being monitored regularly and nothing is coming up as risky - apart from their protocol - you should follow you gut instincts.

Oh Mrsbugsy I can so relate to your situation... I had premature rupture with DD1 and was induced, though it was 37 weeks and I also had pre-eclampsia. What is good is that you are having contractions - that means your body is getting ready for labour. At 37 weeks I had no contractions and was put straight on the syntocynon drip and then it was turned up high. Based on my experience what I would say is that if you are being induced on the drip you may well need an epidural. It is a less 'natural' birth and, in my case, there was no space between contractions.

I am only relating my experience and others will probably have had different experiences with syntocynon, but I wish someone had advised me not to hesitate to ask for an epidural. If I am being induced on the drip early again this time, I will be demanding and epidural upfront.

I did get an epidural, at 7cm, and it was bliss. DD was born naturally with a little help from a ventouse. I felt nothing when the midwife did my stitches and I healed very quickly afterwards.

Good luck whatever happens.