December 2012 - Last but not least

[annelid]

New thread for us stragglers!!

You look like I did too Emily - 5'3". Mine was a nice tiddly 7lb 4oz

I would love to see your bump pics and add my own but on my phone... although my bump has been consistently small. I'm about 5'8" and not slim but MW measured me a week ago and bump was 35cm wonder how big baby will be...
Very bored of being on trace.

Ha ha! I just winced because I was sitting in an uncomfy position and DH flew into action! Lol think even he's getting impatient

emily i love getting that reaction out of my husband...I have to get my kicks somewhere.

I'm looking forward to the next stranger who asks me when i'm due as i'm sure they'll look at me as if i'm a ticking timebomb when i reply "last Thursday".

Just popped over to see how everyone's doing nutella your 'poke me in the cervix' comment made me choke on my tea! Can you get your DH to describe it to the dr... Just for general amusement all round?!! [evil emoticon]

Good luck to you all. Can't wait to have us all back together on postnatal :)

'poke me in the cervix' did make me laugh! I asked the community mw outright at 40+3 and she was fine with it, although obviously didn't work as i went to 40+12. The mw on duty in induction gave me what she described as 'a cheeky extra sheep' after I'd had my bloody show, during a routine internal, so think show doesn't affect it.

Emily i was going on house viewings at 40+8 and scaring the he'll.out of estate agents, great fun!

Cheeky extra SWEEP not sheep!

Honey Making DP describe a sweep would certainly be a lot more entertaining than me just being considered the insane English woman you know they're going to be talking alllll about it at every handover / shift change

Honestly if I thought sheep could induce labour I'd tackle one right now! But I am having light contractions... I think. FX they keep going.

Otherwise nothing much to report. Any update from Daydream ??

Congratulations annielid.
Good luck nutella, fingers crossed for you.
Elijah was born this morning at 8.10 by forceps 20 hours after I'd had my waters broken. He's an ounce off 8lb and very long, all a bit dramatic in the end but he's a total star and let me and DP get lots of sleep since his arrival. Just waiting for the Dr to okay my transfer to the post natal ward.

Congratulations Daydream!!! Another boy! Blimey

Congratulations daydream, great name!

Congratulations mydaydream love the name x

Congratulations annelid and Daydream.

I've just had a sweep (ouch) and i'm 2cm. I'm booked in for an induction on Sunday if nothing happens before then. Since i'm 2cm the induction would be a matter of breaking my waters and then sending me for a walk for a couple of hours to get things moving.

Hopefully that will work but will i be the last one left on this thread!?

Congratulations mydaydream

Silver lake- I had a sweep this morning too, 2 cm dilated and baby turned a bit round so more hopeful for him/her being anterior by the time I actually go into labour! Fx

Congratulations daydream, fab name too. My fave but DP disagrees.

Had my sweep this morning - second that ouch! silver, t'was worse than a smear - and induction booked for Friday. She didn't mention if/how much I'm dilated... . Cervix is posterior. Bit confused about this induction malarkey, I have to wait to hear from the hospital on friday to find out what time to come in. Was that the same with anyone else. I was hoping I would have got an appointed time to go in....

Congratulations Daydream and welcome Elija .

Congrats, daydream!

2blessed from my experience (limited!) it's a little strange that they haven't given you a time but perhaps since it's not urgent they are waiting to see how busy they are. She might have written down in your notes how dilated you were.

My midwife did pause "mid sweep" to talk about my cervix being neither posterior or whatever....but really.....i wasn't really in the right frame of mind to be listening right there and then!!!

For DD1 i was told to come in at 8pm - monitored, given the pessary and after some montoring left overnight for progress to happen and then they broke my waters in the morning when i guess it was now possible to do so. This time i've been told to come in at 8am and they'll go ahead and break my waters as they are already accessible and then send me for a walk for a couple of hours.

2blessed I was booked in for my induction but had to ring at 6pm to check they still had a bed for me (as it would depend on how many other women were giving birth that night). They did, so I was told to have my dinner and come in about 8pm that night.

Thanks ladies.
My notes don't make a great deal of sense, think its because I can't read her handwriting. Managed to make out " sweep;- firm consistency posterior but shortening." If I've not heard from hospital by 11am on Friday then I'm to ring them.

She had to give me 2 go's on the sweep it was so uncomfortable. Feeling a bit rubbish really about it.

2013 baby it is then!

Hi all glad i found you!
Congratulations to new mummies and little ones hope you are all getting lots of lovely snuggles,
Hope everyone else doesn't have too long to wait!!

Our exciting news is that Thomas is off the monitor!!
And on his way home, probably at the end of the week,
He will need to be part tube fed, as he really struggles to finish his bottles due to his heart defect,
He is on special milk which is a high calorie milk to build him up for his op in June, I took the prescription to the pharmacy today, (luckily our Dutch health insurance pays for it) as 20 bottles x 250ml costs almost ?150.00!!!
So we are being trained at the moment to tube feed him,
Which is fine, we just can't wait to get him home,
It was such an amazing feeling yesterday walking on to the Scbu and seeing him off monitor! I literally picked him up out of his cot and did a lap of honor round the unit, just cos I could! Lol
I am so excited I could burst!!

Sorry cant read the thread back. Just to say, was about to go home for the night when my waters suddenly broke. Now contracting hard about every 5 mins.

Wishing you all a happy new year!!

Alison that's great news!! So pleased for you

Yay Nutella!! Hope to have news of a baby by the morning!

Aw lovely news Alison hope you have Thomas home ASAP

Ooh how exciting Nutella new year baby