June 2014 - eviction notices being prepared, rose hip tea, curry, shagging and pineapple at the ready!

[misshoohaa]

Hi all,

New thread and probably our last in ante-natal.

Holy crap!

Congratulations wispa and redcliff, hope your both doing well - although sounds like it was a traumatic for you both!

Happy birthday stacks, maybe you'll get a baby as a surprise present.

Still nothing to report other than occasional twinges and cramps that lead nowhere. Never mind only 14 days til cs - the countdown had began!

38+4 and I'm good to go now. Had the clary sage out last night... I can't imagine another 3 weeks of this. I didn't think in a million years I would be someone encouraging eviction. Really don't want an IOL

Hi, I popped in now and again as I was due on the 4th of July so thought it unlikely I would go in June.
I was wrong. Hope was born last Tuesday, the 10th, weighing 6lbs4.5.
We had an interesting labour. My waters broke on Sunday, after weeks of irritable uterus and on/off contractions.
I went into hospital and the contractions were still being string and regular for an hour then die off.
On Monday evening, they decided to put me on the syntocinon drip to help my contractions along. 15 hours of drip up at max, horrendous contractions that would just stop and 4 examinations later. I hadn't dilated any more than when we started.
They were telling me I probably needed a section .
I really didn't want a section because of my toddler at home too. I also had been refusing an epidural after a post dural tap last time.
The epidural had calmed me down last time enough to let me get on with it but hadn't really done anything about the pain.
I asked for an epidural. I figured that it was that or having a section. With a section I would certainly be in pain and not able to do things for a wee while. An epidural there was a risk it could go wrong again but it might just work too.
They got the head anaesthetist to do a mobile epidural so I could still feel the pressure just not the pain .
After the epidural, I went from 3 cm to delivered in an hour.
It was too quick for little Hope. She was born with fluid on her lungs. She was rushed to neonatal, in intensive care. She was on a ventilator and had tubes everywhere.
However, her improvement was rapid and surprised everyone. We got home on Friday night.
She is feeding well my nipples beg to differ and is very content.
Her big sister is just besotted as are mummy and daddy!
I've put a picture on my profile of my two beautiful girls. Love them to pieces!

Hi drama - congratulations on the birth! And glad to see that she is doing well and home now. Thanks for sharing your story, it sounds like a slog but glad everything worked out in the end.

Also congrats to redcliff! Nice to see more babies arriving. I'm 40 weeks on the dot today and the baby doesnt seem anywhere near ready to come!

I got to 16 days over last time just because the induction took ages. In Edinburgh the norm is to induce at 13 days over, then it took 3 days to have him. Induction is a very slow process if you follow all the steps and don't respond to any of them. There's a pessary, then hey leave you for 24hrs, then sometimes a second pessary and another 24hrs, then the gel, and 24hrs, then waters breaking (if they can) and more waiting, then the drip. As it was with me I went from first pessary to waters being broken (at 2cm) and the drip 3 hrs later, as DS had a heart rate deceleration while being monitored once. I wasn't even meant to be on the monitor at that point, and I do wonder how things would have worked if I hadn't been.

Bald this time I want a natural labour. Policy is though that after a section you can't have an induction. So they're leaving me as late as they can (I can probably push for longer, at my own 'risk') then it'll be a section.

Eliza You can avoid an induction if you want to, though you may have to sign something to say you're doing it against the advice given. There's a consultant here that never induces anyone, just does lots of monitoring after 42w. If baby is moving lots and you're happy to wait, you can always say you want to wait.

Panic there's no such thing as "a rod for your own back" with a newborn. They're not born manipulators, they just want comfort and have only one way to ask for it. It's not until after 6m that they may learn cause and effect enough to develop 'bad' behaviours, even then I'm personally not sure! Have you tried co sleeping? Or you can maybe try things like keeping a muslin cloth between you and baby when feeding, so it smells like you and gets warm and milky with you, then put baby down with the cloth. Also sleeping bags which transfer warmth as baby is put down, or a hot water bottle in the moses basket to warm the spot baby is out into. Not sure if that's likely with the heat just now though!

Congratulations Drama, sounds like you were fairly put through it. Lovely name, glad to hear you are both doing ok now and are home.

Drama completely missed your post earlier, I must have posted without refreshing the page somehow. C

Sigh... Nearly just 'reported' myself. I'm all thumbs tonight. As I was saying..

Congratulations drama, it sounds like you had a rather eventful labour and first few hours with your wee one. So glad to hear things are going better now. I hope you don't have any more drama for a while! This is a quiet thread so far, hoping it might pick up a bit when we move over to postnatal. There's lots of time with just one had free with a baby usually in the middle of the night. So I foresee lots more posts soon :)

Congrats Red, Panic, Wispa, and Drama -just popping in to see how many of us have popped! Can't believe my little boy is nearly 5 weeks. Hope to see you all soon on a post natal thread.

Drama,congratulations,your girls are gorgeous!

Stacks,I'm a little bit shocked at Ediburgh procedures!I'm also in Scotland (a bit more up north) and here is 40+12 (without any issues like high bp or swelling).Hope your little one will make an appearance soon and it will be better than your first one.

Has anybody startedthe postnatal thread?I suppose most off the ladies who already had their babies are chatting happily on fb,I must say I prefer it here especially when the pace is a bit slower-I couldn't keep up with earlier threads.

39 weeks today,DH and MIL are getting excited,I'm a bit sad that I'll lose my bump in the next few weeks.This is my last pregnancy so no more kicks from the inside for me but I'll be able to bend in my waist!

Congratulations Drama, did you know you were having another daughter?
Thanks for the info Stacks; great tip about the muslin cloth when putting the baby down.
I have sweep this afternoon, as I'm in my 41st week now hoping it will sweep it out!
Someone with a baby start the postnatal thread & I hope to see u there soon - I don't feel I can until mine comes; don't want to jinx it :)

Good luck with the sweep Eliza!

Plenty of BH since yesterday, wondering if this means anything!

Well clary sage is doing nothing. SEx is doing nothing. I've been hand expressing ebm since 36/40 with no uterine activity....

I am listening to my natal hypnotherapy though which is very relaxing

We have tried everything too Mummymidwife - so now we're trying doing nothing!

Midwife check today at 39+2 and still no further downward movement, I know it doesn't actually mean much on a 3rd but I'm still disappointed. Had some minor cramping again last night which got my hopes up again but I'm starting to think my body is just taking the piss now.

13 days til forced eviction.

And Bald I'm afraid all the BH means bugger all, I've been getting that for weeks and nada. Sorry.

Hi all.. I am 40+4 and had a membrane sweep at midwife today.. Have had them with other children but nothing happened and I mean nothing. This time I have had a pink discharge immediately after the sweep and that have gone darker as the day has gone on but also grittier. What is the grit... Does anyone know

Oh well then, will brace myself for July baby then...

Don't know Alex but have had pretty much the same as you today

Red, Panic, Wispa, and Drama congratulations on your arrivals, hope all is going really well.

Alex and Eliza good news that the sweeps have done something, Alex, not sure about the grit? Perhaps worth a call to the midwife if you think it's a bit odd?

Still here, still pregnant - in my 39th week now so hoping something will happen soon but apart from lots of Braxton's I've got nothing to report.

Head is apparently 2/5 engaged but not sure if is actually an indication of anything going to happen soon. We're trying the sex thing and I'll be doing some home administered acupressure but really I know patience is about the only thing that work bastard

I'm trying so hard not to wish time away as I know it goes so fast once they are actually here but at the same time just want to meet my baby!

Any news notsofast baldhedgehog mummymidwife? Very impressed with your hand expressing mummymidwife my nipples are so sensitive already that I don't think I could bear the agony, hopefully the baby will bring with it some courage, the thought of breast feeding is currently making my toes curl, although hopefully the pain will be short lived.

On the up side, we are trying to have sex everyday and I'm having some awesome O's. Every cloud and all that! Must be the extra hormones!

Hoping for some birth announcements soon ladies! Good luck everyone.

38+6 and nothing. TMI but I'm opening my bowels about 4 times a day, was hoping this was a sign...

On a positive, my Iron level was 10.6 at 38/40 after my iron transfusion! Happy days.

40+2 here.... and still nada. I'm in no particular rush for the baby to come but on the other hand am getting bored hanging around!

Hi ladies just sending you all positive baby vibes and hoping that you will all have your little ones in your arms soon!

Our little one is still a night owl but we are all adjusting

Will start a post natal thread and hope to see you on it soon xx

I have had gestational diabetes ruled out today, happened to mention my persistent high heart rate since booking and ended up staying in hospital for 4hrs. ECG normal, have an appt for an ECHO and 24hr tape on Wednesday at 39+6. I only mentioned it because I don't want an argument when I rock up on the birth centre.

Thought I was going in to labour over night... Ended up projectile vomiting instead

Hi all,
We've crossed over to the other side our little lady arrived this afternoon and all is well. Forgot how bizarre childbirth is!
Enjoying our new born cuddles as we speak, she was quite little in the end, 6lb 2oz but perfect in every way!

Congrats on the baby miss - very jealous of newborn snuggles!

mummymidwife good to hear the results not good to hear about the vomiting though

40+4 here now and getting bored of this waiting around