July Mums!- popping all over........

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Was gonna post so I thought I'd follow wallace's suggestion of a new thread. x

deblaca-congrats to you all and welcome to Edan.

Go Bloss go hun!!!!!!

Love to everyone else still waiting.

xxx

Morning ladies!!!

Feeling a lot better this morning,Saw mw who did my sweep.Said my cervix is thinned out and soft so swept round a couple of times so heres hoping.

Will post if anything happens

Good luck bloss and hope things start moving for you algach. Kbaby - i'm also due today. Been out for a good walk and lunch with my mum, so we shall see... DH has promised to come and tweak my nipples later

Well it looks as if bloosom is getting some action as she hasnt posted today. Fingers crossed for her.

Algach and wallace - Im still here to keep you company even though I know we would all prefer to be on the other thread.

DH phoned today and had a telling off that if he thinks hes ringing me every day to see how I am he can look out. I also gave my mum a heart attack by ringing her in work to ask what time to drop dd off tonight. She said she was ready to run to the train station and come home! talk about being a bit dramatic.

DD's with Mil TODAY AND THEN MY MUM TONIGHT SO HOPEFULLY ILL GET A FULL NIGHTS SLEEP. DD has decided that its fun to wake 3 times a night, just what I need.

Hi guys. This is my annoyed font.

Backache was unbelievable and lasted all night so by 5am I pnoned the delivery suite to ask what they thought, as I was not having contractions. The sister said I could be labouring quietly away through my back and as it was my second pregnancy it may suddenly turn into full blown labour and I'd be 40 minutes from the hospital so to come in and get checked especially as I'd had the sweep.

So got all bags in the car, off we went, but when they checked me I hadn't dilated any more and was not in labour! The baby had moved onto a nerve in my spine causing the pain and they sent me home. So pissed off. Luckily the baby has now moved and we spent the day in the paddling pool, and my MIL (who rushed up this morning to take care of DS) has been here helping out so not too bad a day after all, just SO FRUSTRATING!! I don't think I am going to believe any of the real signs when they do rock up now after all this!

I think having had DS early I had convinced myself this would be the same and going over has really thrown me. So it's back to waiting for any signs.

Good luck Maewest, KBaby, Algach, your sweep sounds positive, who will be next.........??

Bloss

xxxx

PS, my induction is booked for the 8th August!!!! Please tell me I will not still be pregnant by then........

PPS, heard today that August is due to be as hot if not hotter than July

How frustrating blossom! I really feel for you lot still waiting.

Sorry to hear that blossom hope things get moving for you soon.

Had a pleasant due date - went out to country estate place for nice walk and lunch with my mum (treated myself to a Magnum, yum). Then had roast chicken dinner in the evening. Only bad thing is that phone calls have started - you know, the ones that start 'I'm just calling to see how you are, any news'. And of course there's no news - I didn't have the baby last week and am just keeping quiet about it! Trying to remain calm. MIL phoned last night, spoke to DH - they want to know the minute things lick off so they can book a hotel and come down. Am trying to persuade DH that it might stress me out for him to be giving progress updates on the phone when I'm in labour - also that things have a habit of starting and stopping. I would be much happier calling people when the baby is safely here.

So now I can't sleep (been up for an hour, no point staying in bed wriggling). Maybe I should tell DH that ILs are bad for my blood pressure

Morning ladies

After my sweep yesterday i had niggles all afternoon and evening(same as last time) and had 2 big shows last night too.Managed to have a goodish kip and still having little niggles.Just a waiting game now to see if things get going now.If not my mw is seeing me on Monday morning to discuss a new paln of action.

Anyhow off to Asda in case it does kick off later.Need to get a cake for my sons footy presentation that he's going to tonight.

Was raining here when i got up so hopefully will keep cooler today.Take care and hope we are on the post natal thread soon.xxx

any news Algach?????????????

Hi Blossom

No news yet,baby is actually a bit quiet today.I have just had some fizzy juice and a sweet but it's still not doing anything much.I'm thinking about phoning the labour ward to ask for advice.This happened the last time with dd and when they hooked me up it was fine but i worry about everything.

what do you think?

Congrats to all those of you that have your babies and hopefully it won't be long for those of you still waiting.

Hope that you're feeling a bit better now it's a little cooler. BF Alex is a little easier now it isn't as hot. Boobs felt like hot watermelons strapped to my chest

Alex and DH are both passed out at the moment. thought it was meant to be me having a rest when baby does

Take care of yourselves, your bumps and babies

Finally got round to writing up Alex's birth announcement. Will try and post a photo too when I figure out how too

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Algach - I think the baby going quiet is a good sign that something is about to happen. But if you haven't felt ANY movement, then deffo phone the ward, i would, that's what they are there for eh?

let me know.

xx

iamblossom- Sorry it didnt kick off for you.

Im fed up of people seeing me and saying 'still here then' theres only so many times I can put the smile on and say ' yes hopefully wont be long now'

At least its raining today and lovely and cool.

I know what is is about "still here then?" Surely they can see that without asking. I even had someone say that to me on Thursday (2 days after ds2 was born!) I had to say "Er, no - there is a baby through in the sitting room!" It was one of dh's friends, and he went on to say that he wouldn't have been able to tell I'd had the baby if I hadn't said! The cheek - of course I have a belly still, but I don't look 9 months pregnant!

Hi all
I went to labour suite to have some monitering and baby immediatly perked up and started to jump around and moved loads so all fine.

Little niggles and twinges have all but gone so nowt happening now.Will a mw do more than 1 membrane sweep? Hope so,want to have this baby at home so much.

Morning Algach, KBaby, maewest, anyone else waiting.

Algach, yes they will, I am due to have another on Tuesday when I next see midwife. I still haven't had a show from the first one I had, or the internal I had on Friday morning, so I just don't think this baby is ever coming out. MIL is on her way home this morning having come up for the false alarm on Friday and stayed since then hoping something would happen...so annoying.

Anyhoo, off to fill the day and amuse DS. Catch you all tonight.

xxxx

Have a good day Blossom

MW will ring in the morning if i havn't gone into labout by then so will try and see her tomorrow for another sweep.

Going for a longish walk with the kids today so maybe that will help.

I am really starting to worry that after making all the homebirth plans,inflating the pool etc i am gonna end up in hosp being induced.Dp keeps saying "be positive,it will happen".He means well and wants to help but i just want to bite his head off.Grrrr

Anyway off to get kddies organised

xx

We're all rooting for you algach - really hope things kick off for you soon. I'm only just over and the waiting is already starting to get to me. Good luck with mw tomorrow. xx

Evening gals.

What a trying day. DS was sooooooo whingy and whiny all day, saying DaddyDaddyDaddy over and over again and driving both of us absolutely insane. I took him to the playground first thing to play in the sandpit and he opened the gate and pegged it off across the green, so I had to lumber after him like an elephant calling him, and I was SO CROSS with him when I grabbed him as it could have been a road or something that I smacked his bottom for the first time ever and I feel totally terrible about it as I always vowed I never would and couldn't even bring myself to tell DH I had done it.

My inner thighs right at the top are really killing me, like they are going to give way at any moment, and my back is still really painful. Every time I bend over for anything I have to walk my hands back up my thighs to get straight again, and all I seem to be doing is MOAN MOAN MOANING, I'm start to hate myself.

Tried to take a nap when DS went for a sleep and the phone rang four times from people asking me for news, so I abandoned all hope of a kip. DH is barely speaking to me as I am so moody. This ain't fun any more.

Sorry for being such a whingy whiny old boot.

Algach, I do so hope you get the home birth you want. It would be very unfair after all your efforts to have to go through it all in the hospital, I am keeping my fingers crossed for you my love.

DS in bed, new day tomorrow, (my sister's due date, the odds are increasing that we will be in the same hospital giving birth at the same time!!) good luck Maewest, KBaby, Algach.

Love Bloss

xxxxx

What a happy bunch we are I think we're all fed up and stroppy. I seem to be biting everyones head off at the moment esp dh's and DD's

I thought things were kicking off today. I got to my mums for dinner and had a really bad back for 1 hr but after taking paracetomol it went. Then we took DD to the pub this evening and I felt as if something was bulging between my legs. I was almost afraid to stand up. I went to the toilets and did a quick check and couldnt feel anything but I was worried in case it was my waters bulging and they would go in the pub. The sensation seems to have gone now and i feel back to normal.
Im hoping something may start tonight as its my dads birthday tomorrow and he wants the baby as a birthday present but I doubt it.

Do you all find it strange that your sitting there feeling normal but thinking for all you know in 1 hr you could be in labour, I find it such a strange idea that it could all start so quickly.

Algach, hope you get your other sweep tomorrow.

kbaby 40+2

Thinking about you girls a lot xxxxxxxxxx Good luck.

Hello Lovely ladies and lovely babies.
Congrats to all the new mummies, and GOOD LUCK to all the ladies who are going to pop soon.

Its been ages since I even looked at Mumsnet, and I will have a lot to read in both the pre and post natal threads to catch up.

Just wanted to let you know that my darling baby girl finally arrived on Thursday morning (27th). She was induced at 41+5, then when labour stalled after 9 hours, delivered by emergency c-section. It was not quite the straight forward labour I was hoping for, but I am glad to report that both Ivy Laura and I are safe and recovering well.

Fab news Chat2Ali and welcome to Ivy Laura. Try and take it easy hun.

Come on ladies !-it is officially the last day of July and we want you all to be joining us on the July postnatal thread!

Sending positive labour vibes to those remaining few. Can't be many left now.

xxx