October 2013: no pushing in from the back of the bus, please

[MrsHoratioNelson]

Stats sheet here

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?pli=1&key=0AidVHHwJSwC3dDU2VzFhWWt1ckg4dW84WkdCNzhOaFE&f=true&noheader=true&gid=1 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

Wow what a busy night!!

Congratulations mrsz, apperly, bronze and caz on your new babies, hope you are all recovering well and getting lovely newborn snuggles.

ready just to agree with everyone else, am glad your going in and no one will think your wasting their time at all.

rox Im another one who would suggest calling GP if you can maybe get a phone consultation? I ended up with a nasty kidney infection after having DS because alot of the pains in the start were similar to labour after pains so I didnt recognise that I had an infection until I was very ill. Might just be worth mentioning and getting urine tested just incase. Although hope your feeling better today and is just that you havent been eating enough!

Good Luck this afternoon georgie fingers crossed well both have babies by the weekend

Good Luck kd83

Thinking of you all this morning MoN xx

wicked I went swimming last night and got some very strange looks from the reception staff when they asked when baby was due and I said last week was worth not being at home in my pyjamas just to see the look on their faces.

Hope sweep works today untitled

40+6 and SFW, no signs since sweep yesterday and use of "labour oil" in my bath last night. This baby is clinging on tight.
Went swimming last night though and had my first full nights sleep (no wees!) in months and then had a lie in till 9 as my mum had DS so maybe baby was just letting me get some rest before she arrives... fingers crossed. It did mean I woke up to 4 texts and 2 missed calls from people asking for news though. Am seriously at the "just leave me alone" stage.

My family are moving to Brunei on Wednesday and was desperately hoping to get this baby out before they go but its not looking likely, quite gutted but mostly in a selfish way that I wont have my mum there for the day 3 blues, think thats worrying me more now than being induced and not getting my water birth. Oh well as people keep helpfully pointing out "baby will come when she's ready"

wow - lots of news today! congrats to all new mums, some lovely names, and good luck to everyone SWIL or getting a sweep today!

caz agree, what an amazing and quick birth! And it is a girl after all . Do you already have a name for her?

rox I had exactly the same episodes of unexplained and random fevers and shakes. I think I had it 4 or 5 times in the first 3 months or so. No other symptoms. It lasted about a day or so and then disappeared completely the same way it appeared... and before I managed to go to see the GP. Interesting what your midwife says about hormones leaving your body...

ready hope your monitoring goes well today and they will reassure you

and hope everything goes well today for MoN and little Eliana... such a big day for them...

I'm also beginning to think that I will end up having the last baby on this thread... just the feeling I have...

thanks for asking about my ex - he saw the specialist yesterday, they took all his bodily things for testing, upped his medications and scheduled him for colonoscopy on Monday - poor guy... this should give us some answers then. With his condition, he has a 30% chance of developing colon cancer so this is what they are watching out for... fingers crossed.

In terms of practicalities, he is definitely around until Monday so this weekend would be good for this baby to arrive! But no signs of anything happening here at 38+3. I also went to that mums' party last night and met some lovely mums from DS class and I feel more confident we would get help if really needed!

buttons your family is moving to Brunei...??? For good? How exciting and how exotic! What are they planning to do there?

Clapham I hope ex dh's results come back with good news. Fx for you all.

I also feel like I'm going to be pregnant until the end of October it's really getting me down now. My legs, hips and back ache like mad today, my bump isn't dropping at all so I still have a bum, legs and feet stuck under my ribs. I'm feeling very sorry for myself and can never ever imagine wanting to be pregnant ever again. Sorry for the Me moan.

Pink how weird, I also had a good night's sleep -
I didn't even have to get up for a wee! Lay in until 10 .

Put it down to removing the mattress-saving bed mats which I think we're just making me too hot and restless.

MrsH I also removed mine last weekend as couldn't sleep with them. Much better without them.

flyer I feel exactly the same . Do you think we feel so fed up because there have been so many babies born already and there seem to be only a few of us left now? Even this thread is slowing down a lot... I wonder how much this plays on our mind... I'm also hurting all over this morning - was standing for over two hours at mums' party last night, as everyone else was standing, and last night felt like my legs and back were on fire... so got next to no sleep again... I'm really paying for all this standing now.

may have a warm bath in a minute... also planning to buy the new Bridget Jones book on kindle. Need something light, entertaining, and not requiring much brain to read...

I've still not had a chance to catch up on everyone's news. Being at hospital takes up all our time.
I can't stop clock watching. We're going to register her birth in a while so hopefully by the time we do that and make the journey to hospital it will all be over.
She'll be on a ventilator again for the first day and if it all goes to plan she'll be in PICU for 4 days, on to the ward for 9 days and then home. We've been told the first 24 hrs are crucial as there is a chance the shunt can block and they'll have to operate again.

hope all goes well MoN - will be thinking of you and your little girl xxx

Flyer and Clapham, I'm with you on being one of the last to go. 12 days till my due date.

I Feel terrible today, might go get in bed and watch Grey's Anatomy and try and get into a book I bought about 6 months ago and haven't touched yet.

Will be thinking of you mon. Good luck and remember that little girl of yours is a real fighter and a tough cookie. I send you positive thoughts.

Clapham you hit the nail on the head, I think because it seems like a lot of the old regular posters on the thread have popped it makes you think "when is my turn" very selfish that sounds. Yes the thread had slowed down a lot in recent weeks.
Excellent idea with the Bridget Jones book I will download it onto the kindle, brilliant suggestion. To us all sfw and sc xx

Thinking of you MoN. Positive vibes being sent your way.

It's no fun being a rebel on the back seat of the bus anymore when all the nerds on the front seats have gotten off. We've no one to throw our chewing gum at

they've abandoned us flyer... noone to bully and noone to throw spitballs at... I feel really depressed....

smitten what are you reading? or rather, planning to read?

Lots of best wishes and good luck MoN

Sorry to hear you are feeling fed up Clapham, Flyer and Smitten - strangely enough I feel soooo much happier since my EDD has been and gone. Even losing my two due date buddies hasn't dented my mood or made me feel too jealous.

I think the worst time for waiting is 38/39 weeks when you just don't know if baby's arrival will be tomorrow or is still weeks away.

I have my induction date now (19th Oct) so, even though I'm hoping for earlier, at least a definite end is in sight.

oh, we love you bridget... and won't throw spitballs at you. You are so right about this being the worst time - I remember this is when all the others were most fed up too. It's this "almost there" but "perhaps not" feeling... x

Oh, can I ask a question/pick your brains over thank-you presents?

The plan is for DD to go to a friend's house and the dog to go her dog-walker/holiday home. I'd like to get presents to thank them for having them and being on call for weeks on end, but don't know what is appropriate or how much to spend?

We are a bit strapped for cash at the moment with all the baby expenditure but I don't want to look tight either (especially as I'm so very grateful). A nice box of chocs or biscuits seems rather unimaginative, but I'm struggling for ideas...

What are other people doing? I never got a present for the midwifery team last time (never crossed my mind) but it seems from mumsnet that this something people do too.

I'm still here ladies! 38 + 6! Getting plenty of twinges aches and pains but nothing to get really excited about! Told DH that he needs to step up later and do his bit, bought him some cooked chicken from asda, and some ky jelly for later! Do I get an award for most random shopping basket of the day! I had an amazon voucher for my bday so may well download Bridget Jones too, I'm too nerdy for the back of the bus cool gang but I'm up for joining the book club Will try and post more to keep thread full but just feel like I'm bumbling along with not much to say!

Hope all is going well MoN will be thinking of you for this stressful 24 hours xx

Glad your feeling a bit better about getting help after last night clapham My Dads in the army so they've been posted abroad for 2 yrs, he asked to have flights after the 19th just incase baby was late but the latest they'd let them go was the 17th and typically baby is late... My mum says is just a good excuse for them to have to come back but cant help being overly emotional about not having my family their for support will just be all DH's family.

Also agree that thread has slowed down and cant believe how many babies have already been born and its only the 11th October!!! I feel like Ive missed out on the bullying the front of the bus as was at the bloody front and baby has just forgotten to come :(

Glad you had a good night mrsH I do feel slightly less emotionally unstable than I did yesterday so maybe I just needed a good sleep. Also think the more engaged baby gets the less uncomfortable I am which is helping.

38/39 weeks were bad but I just feel like Ive been playing the constant waiting game for 3 weeks now, also getting more anxious about not knowing where Ill give birth depending on whether I go into labour naturally or not. Maybe Im just a massive control freak but having a date for induction has definitely helped my sanity a little bit.

I am with you on feeling like it could be any time and hopefully looking for signs but also feeling it could be many weeks still (SC at 38+5). It's limbo time.

Just been to the hairdresser who asked me if I thought it would come early. How the hell should I know?! Pregnancy brain was out in force again as I didn't have my credit card and my back up debit card as declined because I used the wrong pin and I got all flustered. I said I would have to go home to look for my credit card but then found it had just fallen out in my bag once I got to the car park.

Waddling around waitrose for a few lunch bits I realised just how slow and immobile I am now. It is one of our best friends surprise 30th birthday party tomorrow night in shoreditch which I was hoping to go to just for the beginning but I don't think I will be able to handle public transport after all or all the standing that it would probably involve. Is probably a bit too central to attempt driving from the other side of London and parking to so won't be able to go . Would feel a bit less pathetic about not going if I had a decent excuse like being in labour.

I'm here too! 39w today

Bronze congratulations! Good to know you had a good experience at the Whittington. I hadn't realised you were going there too. Did you wave to Pseudo?
Pseudo How are you and your naughty BP doing? Have they let you out yet?

Bridget we're now Induction Date buddies (though let's hope we both drop naturally before then)
re: presents, last time I just gave a 'nice' box of chocs to my fertility squad when I dropped in to show off the produce of their labours. I'll prob do the same this time. It may not be imaginative, but you can't really go wrong with a good box of chocs/biscuits/bottle or perhaps an M&S orchid (half price at the mo.....) imho.

I'm feeling a bit similar with all the stuff I've been lent- a lovely bag of girls clothes was given to me yesterday, most of which I will actually want to keep. I gave her a few things for her son in exchange but is that enough thanks? And the woman who lent me an enormous bag of maternity clothes...(not that I could fit into many )
Has anyone else got themselves in that awkward situation where you've accepted someone's kind offer of 2H baby stuff only to find it's a pile of cr@p not quite what you would have got yourself?

ps- I think the acupuncture session did do some good. I still have some hip pain, but it's definitely better than it was and I got a really good night's sleep too.

Oh- and what books are we reading? I've got a whole stack to get through now that I've finally been released from GoT.

I was ok for weeks38 and 39 as I was convinced the baby would arrive before my due date. I spent most of my due date in tears that it hadn't happened, not helped by SPD, acid reflux, insomnia etc. Now I am back to being happy knowing that at worse case scenario, I only have about 2 weeks to go until I get a nice, squishy baby to cuddle. I think that because I have never gone over before, I had my heart set on not going over this time (if that makes sense?)

Clapham it was remembering what you said that prompted me to take them off.

Flyer don't forget there's still one nerd from the front of the bus here :(

Everyone in RL seems to have an opinion about what will help to move baby along and whether or not I should have the induction - especially those whose babies turned up early . I think DH is getting it at work as well. He told me that if he pauses anywhere for more than a few minutes he gets questioned or offered "advice". He can't even make a cup of coffee or stop at the urinals in peace - at least I can turn off the emails and ignore texts/calls...

I have cleaned my oven this morning - how sad is that - and I can recommend the Oven Pride in the orange box. It wasn't all fume-y which was good.

Orange I'm sure being a week shy of DDay is enough of an excuse

MoN thinking of you and Eliana this morning sending super-skilled-surgeon-vibes your way x

well it was labour - as yet nameless baby girl was born at 11.24pm. All happened very quickly (although not as quick as caz) will do a birth story when I can. 8lbs 14oz.

Congrats tip all the other births and hope everything is going ok for everyone else. Have only been able to skim read the thread I'm afraid.