Christmas and the New Year will bring with them a flurry of sneeze births and we Brook No Argument! (part 14)

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Thought I would treat us un a festive thread

Waters broke an hour ago! Bouncing on my ball waiting for my jacket potato to cook - no regular contractions at mo! Nervous but very excited - get brooking ladies!

yay olives I'm so excited!

ooh Olives that is brilliant news I think it must be the day for brilliant news good luck!!!!!!

How exciting, Olives! Will look forward to reading about your sneeze birth overnight!

That is brilliant news Olives!!
Brooking for a super quick sneeze for you x

And congratulations to Cru

Ooo, lots of brooking in your direction Olives!

Big time Brooking here for you Olives. How exciting!

Just on way home from ante-natal assessment unit, they wanted me to come in so they could "check my waters had gone" but after making us wait around for 1.5 hours try just tested my wee and blood pressure and listened to baby with sonicaid then gave me the same advice that Id already been given over the phone!
DH has just nipped into Tesco for emergency big pants (have soaked 3 pairs already despite Tena night time pads!! ) Contractions have started so just want to get back home and get Tens on and bounce this baby down on my ball! Hope they'll be some good news by the morning!

Oh Olives that is fabulous news, good luck.

Teen boo did really well in his tests, my 2 new favourite words of the day .......... no change

Glad to hear lots of positive news from my lovely brookers.

Checked in just in time. Hope you are getting newborn snuggles already Olives. Can't wait to meet mini olives. If it's a girl will you call her Olivia?! Hope it's a sneeze either way.

Ooh olives great news

That's brilliant news boo!
Still bouncing and loving my Tens machine!

Ooh Olives I am so excited for you :):) I loved my tens when I had toddly, hoping to use one again for booby!!

Sorry for that rather abortive post, I was just checking in while #3 was on the potty, but #4 started crying as he announced he'd done a poo and the phone rang.

So, upshot, brooking for olives.

Ooh, good luck Olives!

Any news olives? Knowing my children's tag team sleeping patterns, I'm likely to be up most of the night!

I need more brooking! It would appear that my body is fairly shit at labour just as it was last time. Contractions every 5 mins or so, painful but not increasing, have been going all night so Im knackered and despondent Got checked at hospital at midwife, wasn't dilating and no chance of using the birth pool at any point as its been condemned due to leaking!! If no progress by 4pm today (24hrs since waters went) then they'll want to start induction drip - I really don't want that but if I have to I think I'll have to have an epidural This is so not what I wanted.

Meant to say got checked at midnight (although obviously it was by a midwife!)

Oh Olives brooking for you like bilio you are doing brilliantly!!!!

Keep your chin up, olives. You are going to have your beautiful brooking baby in your arms soon so try to focus on that. If you can have showers and baths at home in between tens machine does that help? Hope you get dilating before 4pm today. X

olives, I will do lots of brooking for you, but if you do end up with the drip and the epidural, don't get too disappointed. I was really surprised about what a positive experience it all was. I'd definitely recommend the epidural before the drip. If I need to be induced again, that's what I'd do next time. It was kept nice and light and could have been turned up quite a bit more if I'd needed it.

What is the plan now? I'm hoping that all those contractions are doing something. Do you have to go in at 4pm to be examined again?

Not long before you have your lovely baby in your arms though! Keep your eyes on the prize!

Yep, back in at 4 unless things become unbearable before then. Just had a bath which was nice and feel more relaxed now that DS has gone off to school and we have the house to ourselves (mum and step dad stayed in spare room so we could dash off if necessary)
Tired and tearful but trying to stay positive, thanks for the brooking and I know its not important how this baby arrives as long as its safely.

Thinking of you Green, not long til you've got your baby in your arms xx