December 2012 - Last but not least

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New thread for us stragglers!!

Congratulations 2blessed, terry and eggs!

Thanks rockability and congratulations to all the new Mummies. It's good to hear your birth stories.

I'm off shortly to hospital to begin induction. Drinking Camomile tea to steady my nerves.

Good luck silver! Will be thinking of you and hope all goes smoothly

I'm still in recovery I have an infection now so won't be on maternity ward till then

Hello, I know I've missed some new arrivals, good luck Silver! Congratulations to all the new mummies!
Congratulations emily it sounds like tou've had a dramatic time.

My own personal piece of chaos has been keeping me very busy. We had some problems with my supply and baby T lost too much weight in the first three days one of the midwives made a really big deal out of it and I got rather upset. Thank goodness the afternoon shift were so much gentler and kinder with me. So I stayed at the hospital an extra night. DP has been amazing throughout; we had a family room (had to pay for it) and it was fantastic to have DP with me. Honestly don't know what I'd have done without him

Glad you've been getting help nutella remember there's lots of experts on the breast and bottle feeding section

Baby Jamie finally arrived at 6.45 this morning after a marathon 23 hours and via ventouse. 9lbs and 5oz. so much for second labour being easier than the first! I second the praise for epidural. I am also confined to hospital due to infection .

congratulations silver, welcome baby jamie. Hope the infection clears soon.

Congratulations silver I hope you get better and come home soon.

Congratulations new mummies, hope you are all getting lots of lovely snuggles! X

Sorry bit late to update due to lack of smart phone but I finally went into labour spontaneously on Thurs 3rd at 5am and, 34 hours of labour and an emergency section later came out of theatre at 4pm on Fri 4th with baby girl Ianthe (eye ann thee), weighing 4.4kg (9lb 13oz). So lucky she was a section in the end!
I was on the high dependency ward on drips and oxygen for over 24 hours then moved to post natal. Discharged today after making loads of progress each day.
Visitors just arrived!

Congratulations new mummies!

yay for induction! I got the first pessary at 10.30 Saturday, felt first Labour pain at 2pm, transferred to Labour ward at 4pm and our beautiful daughter was born with no pain relief at all at 5.35pm weighing 8lb 7oz. after all the terror thinking about labour, it was a really positive birth experience, I laboured standing up and on a ball mostly and really let my body do what it's made for. only really lost it at the end, pushing was scary and full on. but in comparison to my other two labours which were bed bound', I highly recommend being upright!
our little lady is still nameless, so I' m off to look at the name threads!
well done and congrats to new mummies and best of luck to those still waiting for their new arrivals, hope it goes smoothly for you all.
anyone got the link to the post natal thread?

Congratulations mwah sounds like a great birth

Oh wow mwahmwah that's given me loads of hope!!! How many days "over" were you? I'll be the full 12 by Friday so I'm hoping the first pessary does the trick for me too! Congrats on your new baby girl xxx

Congratulations Terry, Silverlake, Elpth and Mwah and welcome to all your new arrivals (and congrats again Emily) Sounds like there were a couple of dramatic births but glad everyone is doing well now.

Look forward to seeing you all over in post-natal soon.

mwahmwah that sounds like a great story! Was hoping for only g&a and tens for mine, but ended up forgetting tens and having diamorphine jab, which i think might have been down to being hooked up to monitoring so not allowed to stay upright. Do you think that made a big difference?

And congratulations on new DD!

elpth congratulations and really beautiful name!

kitty I was 10 days over and cervix posterior and not thinned out at all so amazing that it worked on first pessary. utopian deck makes a difference being upright and not constantly monitored. I had much less pain standing than when I was lying down.

Elpth silver terry and mwah
Congratulations on your babies what a mixed bag of births! Just goes to show you can't plan for anything. Glad every one is well and happy x

Ps forgot to say I'm home now

Big congrats emily, Terry, Silverlake, Elpth and Mwah ... some drama filled birth stories, it sounds like you all did amazingly well. I hope everyone is recovering well from infections and the rest.

FWIW, I had a lot less pain when right over lying on my side (the position I went into naturally and laboured and gave birth in for my second) than when lying on my back as I did for my first labour (and I had an epidural for my first and only g&a for my second so the difference in pain was quite dramatic).

Glad you are home emily - is baby home with you?

Wow, I've missed so much! emily mwah terry silver andelpth congratulations on all the new babies! Love the names too!

We have colic here :( it is horrible to see him in pain and worse, it's between midnight and at least 4am (sometimes 6am) so we've been losing our minds due to sleep deprivation a bit busy :) but we remain optimistic that it will get better!

Who is still left? There can't be many....

See I'm so sleep deprived I couldn't remember for the life of me who I'd already congratulated! Gosh, I'm off for a shower to wake myself up! :)

Nutella get on post natal! We are all up at that time of night! Sorry to hear about the colic I really feel for you

Thanks Spotty I'm there now :)