October 2013 - Calling October babies: come out, come out wherever you are!

[MrsHoratioNelson]

Stats sheet here

New arrivals here

Key:
SC - still cooking (pre EDD)
SFW - still f*ing waiting (post EDD)
OWT - on way to theatre (CS)
IP - induction in progress
SWIL - somewhere in labour
LIT -lost in transition

Tucking thank you for your ace summary!

Glad to be of use GT!! Lol. Rarely happens...

Flyer why don't we agree to go at the same time? I will probably just cry with rage, frustration & stupidity if you have your's before me. So... when suits you? You ready to make a start tomorrow??

Deffo I've had 6 cups of raspberry leaf today, cervix should be nice and ripe....lets get this show on the road

congrats again serious! so happy for you and your little girl is adorable. You really took us by surprise with this one I bet you will forget the pain in a few days and at least you didn't have a drawn out exhausting 30 hours+ labour! enjoy the cuddles

MoN glad you have a helpful midwife around you and good to hear Eliana is stable. Hope you can be with her soon x

gt your DS1 sounds so cute

pink I need advice too and am having the same problems... despite my best efforts to give him all the attention and make everything sound positive, my 5 year old has turned into a 2 year old today... had about 5 major tantrums this afternoon and was exhausting... i also worry how everything is affecting him. He seems to have more problems paying attention and listening at school... if anyone has any advice, help us...

I am also ready for this baby to come now... it's past midnight so 37+3. I'm officially beginning the operation baby eviction...

PS. if I end up being the last one to have a baby I will cry my eyes out... don't leave me on my own at the back of the bus!!!

I've been eating dates, bouncing like a lunatic on my gym ball, considering sex. But am not actually sure my body is up to it. I really don't fancy performing a BJ for the prostaglandins bleurgh

Don't cry Clapham you can join in the "at least 3 babies Friday" tomorrow. I can't really start til lunchtime tomorrow as have a meeting with someone from the Care Inspectorate regarding the Playgroup I'm on the committee for (don't get involved in this sort of thing in future, it is more stressful than I ever could have imagined when I got roped in), then we are having lunch with one of DS's little friends. I don't mind starting to labour at their house, provided I can drive my lovely new car home safely!!

My 2.8 year old is so testing at the moment. And I am so lacking patience. We are not making each other very happy right now...

sounds like a good plan tucking - I'm in. Had a really long walk today (a lot of it up the hill) and sex tonight (sorry - I've never shared so much with anyone before... now I do with about 100 people!). Tomorrow I'm planning to cook the hottest curry my body can take, at the risk of killing DP, and invest in some dates, raspberry tea, primrose oil etc... I take no prisoners

I'm also seriously running out of clothes and am surviving only thanks to this mild weather.

6 and 1/2 hours after getting here I can finally say IP!! took them a while as they've been chocka, but finally been seen. cervix still high and completely closed so she's put the long lasting pessery in, hopefully should soften things up in 24 hours!! now if only I could sleep, got to be on monitor for 45 mins then hopefully will be able to rest!!

can I just say ouch this hurts already! ! ha, I'm right at the beginning and already its very painful!! just like really really bad period pains!! had two codiene and two paracetamol up the bum (lovely) which I'm told is the best way to have it. but I'm counting myself lucky as the woman opposite me was induced 20 hours ago and its done nothing so at least mine seems to be working!!

Congratulations Serious and Mon on the birth of your baby daughters.

S.C here at 37 weeks today. It's 3.45 am and wide awake which is really annoying. Not sure whether it's baby on the move keeping me awake or general anxiety about forthcoming birth.

I packed some more of my hospital bag today (baby sleep suits etc.) Also tens machine arrived. I think it brought it home to me just how close I'm getting. I also had a midwife appointment and trainee midwife said DD is back to back and now panicking wondering if DD will turn. Also depressingly was weighed (after promising myself I would not weigh myself) and it turns out I have gained the best part of 3 stone which is probably partly self inflicted as I have not eased up on sweet stuff during this pregnancy.

Also worried about the logistics of my mother getting here if something happens in the middle of the night (which invariably babies like to arrive at this time). Our neighbour is really good but I hate to ask them as they have a lot going on caring for their own grand children at the moment. DH says we'll just take DD with us to hospital and my mum can meet us there which isn't a bad plan, I guess if we take her they'll have to let us in and I suppose I will just have to labour on my own until my mother arrives. I know it will have to work out in the end but so stressed about this.

I am meant to be at work today - 4 working days left until maternity leave but now most likely going to call in sick - another stressor had been doing so well work wise up until this point but now thinking enough is enough. Most of my workmates talk about the possibility of me going into labour whilst at work (due to my size) which is not reassuring in the least particularly seeing the look of panic on a lot of their faces.

Putting a brave face on at school gate, work etc. but now actually becoming very anxious, its the unpredictability of it all and all the unknown. Also putting a brave face on because I'm trying to stay calm around DD and don't want her disrupted (it's as if mum is just going to pop into hospital and pop out again) which is how it should seem to a 7 year old - almost wish she wasn't old enough to realise what was going on.

Hope everyone else is getting a good nights sleep! Sorry about the epic post!

Good to hear things are progressing roofio

I'm wide awake after wee number god knows what!!

Baby was a bit on the quiet side yesterday although still moving then quiet in the evening still so gunna ring up to be monitored tommorow I think SC @ 38+4 dh is snoring next to me and I can't sleep I feel ready to suffocate him right now! I feel sick as a dog

Ugh why can't it be morning already!!!!

Nat Totally understand your concerns. Our little family unit has been a threesome for 7 years and I am struggling to imagine it any other way! This makes me feel guilty as this baby is really wanted but I am struggling to get my head around how she will fit in to our tight little unit. Have been sat supporting DD with some school work recently and wondering how I'm going to give her this little bit of time once DD2 comes along. I have always done lots of things with DD and she has had lots of individual attention she is also conscious that the baby may impact on her life and I'm trying to reassure her that most things will be business as usual (whilst secretly blocking out the realities of having to deal with a new born) I am determined to make it work somehow but I have not got my head around exactly how I'm going to juggle it all. Just want DD2 to put in an appearance now and for things to settle down and to get on with life.

DD seems to be getting on O.K with no obvious signs of major upheaval, she chatters on about school life etc. which is great. I can understand why our children could feel upset/disrupted by the impending change. I am an adult and struggling to get my head around the change which is about to happen. I suppose with DD being 7 I am at least able to explain most things (albeit it simple turns) and to talk through any concerns she has but a lot of the time I am reassuring her and putting on a calm front - whilst not feeling either of these things. Younger children must be aware that something is different/going on for mum/family but not grasp what is actually happening. I suppose it is just about lots of cuddles/reassurance/distraction in this case and then things should settle down again when new baby does arrive (she says hopefully).

Nat cross post - sorry to hear that you too are wide awake and feeling sick. My DH also seems blissfully unaware that I am up and about. Decided to get out of bed and come downstairs (after lots of trips to the toilet). Big sigh....... and will make a hot drink in a moment, it's dark and raining outside.

Just had a cuddle of the woman in the opposite beds baby boy. It was lovely. She's worried that his crying is what's keeping me awake but it's not. It's just the post baby adrenalin. I didn't think that would work when my baby isn't actually here.

Dp sent me a text saying how much he loved and missed me and the girls a while ago and said that he'd broken down in tears when he left to go home and he saw all the families queuing up at the ward doors for visiting time. I burst into tears (again) thinking about him being so upset.

I googled Tetralogy of Fallots with Pulmonary Artesia earlier and it is the most severe form of Fallots. I'm scared to read too much especially in my emotional state so I think I'll just wait and ask the experts at Yorkhill all my questions. That's if they are prepared to be honest with me thus time.

Mon sending you hugs. Soon you will be reunited with your family. The middle of the night can feel like the loneliest time but it is nearly morning and you will be able to have more contact with Yorkhill and gather more information and see some of your family soon. It is not surprising you feel emotional, giving birth plays havoc with the hormones anyway let alone all that you have been through.

Try not to google as often there is worst case scenarios on there. I know it's easier said than done have done it too many times myself.

I saw little headlines speaking about life expectancy and decided I didn't want to know monkey.

MoN I agree, try to resist google if you can but ask loads of questions tomorrow. Really pleased you have a sympathetic midwife, that would be great if you could stay at park hill instead and nice to have updates of what is going on with Eliana.

Congratulations serious!

SC at 37+5 and my last day of work today. Hoorah! Ankles and hands swelled up last night and can barely walk with back pain now which I think is pgp, DH hopes is a long slow early labour so about time really. Might try the tens machine later after going out for a celebratory meal with DH. Starting to imagine symptoms now too - went for a wee this morning and instead of the usual strained trickle it was a big, long whoosh and I wondered if it was my waters but almost certainly just a wishful thinking wee as been no more.

Yorkhill. Random autocorrecting going on.

Mon I know it's not much consolation but the hospital are on to it and it is not being left/undiscovered. Remember consultants are not often known for their bedside manner but there are a lot of clever ones about.

I never met the surgeon who saved my mothers life after emergency surgery on her stomach but now she lives a pretty normal life.

Naughtily I googled and found this from a website: In the hands of a surgeon with a lot of experience in pediatric heart surgery, the surgical repair of tetralogy of Fallot is fairly low-risk, although of course all heart surgery entails some risk. Following surgical repair, it is reasonable to expect that children will have normal heart function and probably a normal life expectancy. A google habit is hard to break (will make that a new years resolution)

Don't know if all will be O.K but surgery has come a long way and probably will continue to do so. Will be thinking of you.

Going back to bed for an hour now. MT

Congratulations Serious that's great news.

However, it would really be very helpful if these babies could just form an orderly queue - someone people from the back seem to be getting to the front quicker

40+1 and SFW

Has anyone had funny twinges just on one side of their bump? It's not like a contraction, but a slightly nauseating pulling sensation. It comes on for about an hour then goes again. Started about 4am and I managed about an hour's sleep in the break since.

I'm going to have to call the day unit to go be monitored aren't i? Urgh. I suspect if it's enough to keep me awake I ought to get it checked out. Baby is active though, thankfully.

MoN - I can't begin to imagine what you're going through, but you should be so proud of your attitude. Eliana is a lucky young lady to have you fighting her corner. Hope you get to be with her soon.

Morning Ladies, I'm so sorry some of you were up in the middle of the night again.
Monkey you echo so many of my emotions at the moment, it sounds like we've been through a similar journey these last 6/7 years. I don't know about you but I ended up putting up so many emotional shields to protect me from the expectations and disappointments of fertility treatment that at times i struggle to believe that this movement inside me is really a baby. And at 38w today she really is going to come out and be a new addition to our family soon.

I think that's why I'm finding it difficult to know what to say to DS. Having spoken to someone I think I've said the right things (they said he might be comparing himself to a perfect new child that hasn't had the chance to do anything wrong yet), but like you, I'm struggling to come to terms with it all myself. In 6 years I've forgotten so much about having a baby, and have (finally) got used to having one child. I need to remind myself of all the reasons we felt a second was important (mainly for DS in the long term). When Madam arrives I'm sure all this will be forgotten and we'll all be overwhelmed with love (and lack of sleep!)

Sorry for long post. Sometimes this thread is a good way to work through unspoken emotions.

anything I've not felt anything like that. MW prob the best call.

clapham are you sure you're not part rabbit? imho DTD is impressive at this stage!

I've had breath-stealing BH since 6am. Sometimes I think Madam is just finding the most awkward position to cause me discomfort. Moving in bed is becoming a military operation.
38w today!!! (better get those bags packed!)

Monkey It's not the Tetralogy of Fallot that's scaring me now, It's the Pulmonary Artesia. It makes it so much more ccomplicated and in some cases they can't even operate.

Morning all,

Sorry u found some not so good stories online MoN its so hard to stay away from google isn't it!! Isit likely u will be able to visit Eliana today?

Have been having reduced movements since yesterday so just waiting for day assessment to open so I can go in to be monitored

SC @ 38+4

Will catch up with everything else shortly x