April 2013 Part 8: Welcoming our Easter Chicks & as Alex & Evan hopefully go home!

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Over here Ladies!

I hope you don't mind me starting this thread too.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1689714-April-2013-Part-7-As-our-miracle-Alex-continues-to-grow-the-one-that-sees-us-reach-TERM

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1560543-April-2013-stats-thread

Wonderful news for today as we welcome babycandy and little Charlotte and hoping that this thread sees little Alex and Evan home very soon.

How many more babies will this thread see?

Congratulations tea and not! I've been thinking of wishful too as she was my DD buddy. Hope all's ok.

Congrats on all the new arrivals, sorry I can't name check on phone.
Hope everyone still waiting are not too uncomfortable.
Baby Max Ethan arrived on 22nd at 9.23am by elcs weighing 7lb 13 oz.
He is gorgeous and the image of his big sister when she was a baby. :)

Congratulations monkey love the name!

Hello everyone!
What a few days! I've not had time to post, but I have been logging on and watching the babies roll in- congratulations to everyone!!

I'm fine- baby Peter arrived on Saturday evening weighing 7 lb 15- he's amazing! Birth was fairly traumatic - emergency stuff towards the end and I've been in a fair amount of shock with it all. But I feel better about it with every day that passes- not quite ready to write about it yet though! But Peter is healthy and perfect, and my bits will heal eventually I'm sure!

Good luck to those still to go- I'm cheering for you!!
Xxx

Congrats monkey and wishful

Hope a quiet day on the boards yesterday was because lots of lovely squishy babies were popping out :)

I'm still here (40+14, hello rivergirly) and looking likely to head in for induction tomorrow night. I wil be scanned and bubs' heart rate monitored at the hospital today - it will be good to know everything is ok. Good luck to everyone still waiting!

Wow Edin 40+14, you must have the patience of a saint!

Congratulations wishful and monkey blossom!

I too am still here 40+6, DD arrived at this stage.

Had all the pains again last night, was tracking them with an app, proper burning contractions got to 4 mins apart tonight and over a minute long, propped my self up, still coming, stand up and they stop. Think I will call the midwives in a bit as I am so knackered an confused, with DD these pains ramped up when I stood up.

Huge congratulations monkey and wishful!

edin, good luck tomorrow if baby doesn't arrive today. Despite my worries induction was fine and as soon as baby arrived labour was a distant memory. We're so utterly in love with our little teapiglet I can't believe we made someone so perfect.

Morning everyone

Congratualtion monkey and wishful

Good luck tomorrow edin although I hope something kicks off for you in the next 24 hours naturally.

kelle It sounds like things might be begining for you but not fully, have you got a sweep booked in? Let us know what your midwife says.

I am off for my first sweep today, I'm really hoping firstly that she will be able to do it and secondly that it has some kind of effect!

Remember ladies fingers crossed, legs open!

Good luck everyone

40+7

Hi all,
Firstly. I should apologise for lurking for so long.
I'm due to have an elcs on Monday (29th) with DC2.
Just wanted to have a bit of a moan somewhere as I think DH is sick of it. Pregnancy has mostly been fine but now have pelvic pain so it hurts to move just about anywhere and midwife has said that I just need to rest. DS, age 2 wasn't listening!
Anyway I know that it might seem pathetic but I'm just fed up and want it to be over. Trying to be excited about new baby arriving but can only think that at least I won't be pregnant any more.
Sorry for the rant. It's been lovely to read about new babies arriving so good luck to everyone.

yay wishful finally, I'm sorry you had a bad experience but glad your baby safely here

god luck to those still waiting, can't be many people left now....

By the way I'm 38+3

Thanks so much ladies. Was in hospital for monitoring this morning. Baby's heart rate and movement all fine, so no worries about having delayed the induction, but fluid levels starting to drop a wee bit so feeling good about decision to go ahead with it tomorrow. Feeling mostly ok about the induction, but also very emotional - have just been in floods of tears over a burglar alarm sensor and a dirty floor (not much looking forward to when the baby blues kick in if I'm like this now!). Mw has warned that it could take as much as 48 hours to kick things off as my cervix is still firmly shut, but at least the end is in sight! May well update over the weekend if things are dragging on. Whatever happens I will be checking in to see how the rest of you are doing, and thinking of you all :)

Hi Helens. Welcome to the April thread! Moan away! I think many who are in pain find this a great outlet.

Good luck edin hope things start moving quickly.

Jacq I really hope the sweep does the trick!

Good luck for tomorrow edin. Are you going in in the morning?
Mine is tomorrow night and dh will have to go home as soon as I am settled as no visitors on ward overnight. I am quite scared as last time I was induced I was in full labour after 3 hours and don't want to be on my own when it all kicks off. Also had a cry today think its completely normal.

Good luck to everyone else still waiting

coco good luck when I was induced at night I sent DH home when the pessary was in so at least one of us would have had some sleep I didn't realise by 3 in the morning contractions would be every 5 mins and I wouldn't be able to sleep all night, at 6am I called DH in tears telling him to come back to the hospital. It was hard being by myself for so long, but I appreciated DH's support even more when he did come...also I found the mw are much more supportive if they see your by yourself. Do you live far from the hospital, how long will it take your dh to get back once your in labour?

Hi Helens welcome to the thread. Moan as much as you need to, I had a minor breakdown the other day becasue of the huge amounts of spd pain I'm in, tiredness from getting no more than a few hours sleep a night and general over due misery...You have my sympathy but it will come to an end, just keep holding on to that thought

Good luck edin I will be thinking about you tomorrow morning.

Well looks like I may be having a May baby...My sweep was a failure, my cervix is closed tight shut and so far back that the midwife nearly couldn't reach it

She had a bloody good go at it though, she kept apologising for hurting me and boy did it hurt but explained it was because she was doing everything she could to give me the best chance of setting off naturally.

So she had a really good poke and prod of my cervix and said it is closed tight but is soft and feels like a pouty pair of lips

She said she hopes she is wrong but is pretty certain I will need the induction and has booked me in for Tuesday at 8am. She said there was no point attempting another sweep before then.

I have been to the loo once since the sweep and when I wiped it was pretty heavily blood tinged but I'm not suprised considering how rough she was.

I'm now on the official countdown to Tuesday and full induction, funnily I feel more relaxed about it all now I can see the end.

Ah poo jh and edin, if it's any consolation I was 1cm dilated on Monday with my first sweep and still 1 cm dilated Ystradgynlais for my second. Both times they could stroke the baby's head but nothing has progressed any further. I've just eaten half a pineapple so if nothing else I should have no problem going to the toilet!

It was almost worth it being late today. I was queuing in the bank and the man in front causally said "not long for you now?" When I told him I was overdue his face was a picture and he called out to the cashier to get a move on :-D

I think my predictive text had outdone itself that time....

Good luck to those still waiting and congratulations with new borns! I feel better now than I did last few weeks of pregnancy and that's after a 16 hour labour with baby stuck in pelvis followed by emcs under a general ! I actually have more sleep with 3 day old too!

jj impressive! :)

I have updated the MN Stats here

We have 28 Girls and 29 Boys and only 1 where I still haven't heard if it's a boy or girl. Making 58 arrivals so far.

There are 2 stats that I've taken from the FB group but don't know the usernames on MN so I've left them anonymous.

coco I am tomorrow night too, 5.30. It was to be 9am, when they were going to send me home with the pessary, but now that they've decided I have to stay in they seem to do the inpatient ones at night. Even though I am bracing myself for the pessary alone not to work, I am worried about being without DH too! In a way I think I'll be fine by myself, as if I'm in pain I tend to go into my own little bubble anyway, what I'm worried about is that I can be a bit of a pushover and can imagine myself 'not wanting to bother anyone' without DH to speak up for me.

jh don't worry yet, there's still time. Last week one of the girls from my NCT group had a sweep on Thursday where the mw could barely reach her cervix and she went into labour naturally on the Saturday, avoiding her Monday induction appointment. Since I resigned myself to induction, and stopped stressing so much, I've definitely had more tightenings in the right place (confirmed by today's monitoring) so as trite as this advice is do try to relax - getting wound up can only make things worse says the pot to the kettle!!!

Hey kellestar, how good are you updating the list! Must have taken you forever!! I had a baby boy on 4th April, 6lb 7oz, I did announce on fb page but don't think I announced it on here. Hope all you ladies overdue do not wait too long for your little bundles...I got to 40+16 with dd1 so my sympathies are with you believe me !

My waters have just popped everywhere. What a lot there is!

Thought the pains tonight were more intense than last night! Lets hope this is it eh!

Ooh kelle! I couldn't believe how much there was! Have you told the label board?