September 2014 - Where are all the girls?!

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New Babies
Topmammy - Jessica
Cookielove - Elijah
bugoven - Dexter
IlovemonstersInc - Baby boy
Teabiscuits - Emma
Kicksandgiggles - twin boys
Nazly - Dara
TwosaCrowd - Cassius
Laura2611 - Jessica
TheOnlySeven – Elizabeth
DearDinah - Evelyn
cbmb12 - Baby boy
whiteblossom - Baby boy
Redtoothbrush – Baby boy
BexBoo12 – Baby Jacob
BooSurprise – Baby boy
Dontevenblink – Baby Sophie
Iatesomeofthepies - Baby boy
CumbrianExile - Baby Aidan
Acorncat - Baby boy
Mrsfmustbemental – Baby Ben
needle - Baby Girl
Lucidlady – Baby Boy
Current Stats: 17 B : 7 G

Awaiting News
Babyfishcakes - induced Tuesday 19th August (pre eclampsia)
Frolie - section booked for Tuesday 2nd September

Now Overdue
Coolcat2014 - due Tuesday 2nd September
DizzyKipper - due Monday 8th September (planned homebirth)
ShowMeShowMeTheWine – due Monday 8th September
lilone1234 – due Tuesday 9th September

Week Commencing Monday 8th September
KatharineClover – due Wednesday 10th September
AlwaysandForever09 – due Thursday 11th September
EllaBella220 – booked in for induction Thursday 11th September
Xxmissbrightsidexx – booked in for induction Friday 12th September
Slithytove - due Friday 12th September (Home VBAC)?
HippyJess - due Friday 12th September
Topsyloulou – due Friday 12th September
Beccus – due Saturday 13th September
Serotonin - due Saturday 13th September
Cindy5389 – due Saturday 13th September
Zanashar – due Saturday 13th September

Week Commencing Monday 15th September
TeamEponine - booked in for ELCS on Tuesday 16th September (due Sunday 21st September but currently breech)
polkadotdelight - due Wednesday 17th September
KitKat1985 - due Wednesday 17th September
Mumtobeyorkshire - due Wednesday 17th September
holls2000 - section booked for Thursday 18th September (currently breech)
Inbl00m – due Saturday 20th September
Jemsiem - due Saturday 20th September
MissingCaffeine - due Saturday 20th September
Marjal12 - ?due Sunday 21st September (currently breech, ELCS if doesn't turn)
LH1981 - due Sunday 21st September
Lilmisssunshine7 – due Sunday 21st September

Week Commencing Monday 22nd September
misog2000 – due Thursday 25th September (planned homebirth)
Aisha18 - section booked for Friday 26th September
Velvetlilithi – due Saturday 27th September
Snafu33 – due Sunday 28th September

Week Commencing Monday 29th September
No one here?

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Post Natal thread for anyone who wishes to join (August babies more than welcome!

Not-so-little 9lb 2oz baby boy (name tbc) born at 12:30am this morning after a very long labour (I thought baby no3 was supposed to just fall out??)

Had the home birth I wanted but found it very hard going because my contractions were incredibly severe and no gap between them for the last 4 hours of the labour. But we got there in the end! No stitches so just a little battered and exhausted but he's a dream and I'm in love already!

Good luck ladies, will be thinking of you and checking in when I can to see the progress! xx

Just had my second sweep. Apparently there's been some progress but I'm still only 1-2cm dilated and 50% effaced. Third sweep booked in for Saturday. Apparently they won't do a home birth once I get to 42 weeks. Feeling very stressed.

Just had second sweep, contractions have stopped but midwife thinks it will all get going again tonight so I'm resting as much as I can today.

Congrats LH!

Dizzy, don't give up hope, 24 hours is huge in terms of cervical change and a ve is really only a snapshot. Best thing you can do is de stress and rest up.

3cm dilated @ 8am. Need to be 4 to get to birthing suite
Contractions have slowed right down too. Can't keep examining internally due to waters having broken ( 5 soaked pads and feeling v embarrassed in front of DH) and increased risk of infection.
So I'm stuck on antenatal ward for now. But apparently I'm coping well with the pain ( only because I want gas and air!! Which isn't available here)
Anyone else who's on the road to meeting your lil ones good luck and hope it goes as well as poss.

Congratulations LH.

Good luck to those ladies in labour, hopefully it will progress quickly now.

Had my last midwife appointment this morning, absolutely no change from last week and she doesn't think he is going to come any time soon. I'm booked in for induction on Wednesday as long as there is a free bed. Really hoping he comes of his own accord but not looking likely.

Congrats to all of you with their babies now in their arms!

Baby Girl arrived Tuesday lunchtime. The ELCS went pretty well and was generally a really good experience. They had some issues getting the placenta out, although I had no idea until after. Baby Girl is beyond perfection. Recovery isn't too bad, and we just got home.

Can't stop grinning

Barney arrived 2.40pm weigh 9lb 3. Feeding pretty well and sleeping! I am in love!!

Aww, huge congrats LH, team and holls!

Second sweep for me tomorrow at 41 weeks after losing my mucous plug this morning (sorry!) so time to get my hopes up once more

She is here!

Olivia Annabel born at 8.12pm sept 18th, at home!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/childbirth/2186805-Am-I-in-labour?msgid=49592456#49592456

Congrats to all the new mummies

My insomnia seems to be back, I'm not particularly uncomfortable or anything I just can't doze off, it's very annoying!

No signs of labour here, but I'm only 39 weeks so fingers crossed something starts happening soon and I will at least have a reason for being up all night

congtats to lh, team, holls and slithy. great story, slithy. I was v crampy last night, but it came to nothing. am a week over due today, seeing midwife today presumably for sweep and to book induction date.

Congratulations LH, Eponine, holls and slithy - and really glad you managed to have the home birth you wanted slithy.

velvet I think MWs try to avoid doing internal examinations too often due to infection risks and the possibility of accidentally breaking your waters. With DD they only ever checked for dilation when I was in active labour and this was because I kept asking them to as I was desperate to see that I was making progress. She might check if you ask though. I think policies for sweeps are usually that first time mums get offered at 40 weeks and mums with 1 or more children get offered at 41 weeks - though this can differ depending on area.

Well I'm 40+11 today. Trying not to be stressed but I can already feel it today. Might ask my mum to come round later today so she can see DD, though not sure I want to deal with the inevitable questions. DD would love to see her though and it would help get our day going.

Congratulations on all the new babies. Am 40+2 now and feeling down, everyone joked that he would come early because he and I am so big, am miserable now.

Baby jake was born on 18th sept 22:07 PM 9lb 14 ounces! After a very long labour I eventually had to have an emergency csection as he was too big for me to push :( and was unable to get past 6cm! Congrats to all the other new mummies too!

Congrats to all the new babies .

Hope all those still waiting get to meet your little ones soon.

Welcome all new babies and congrats to new mummies. Nice to hear everyone is doing okay now and overcame complications.

dizzy At the end I even didn't ask for sweep or anything and mw didn't examine me so have no idea if something is happening down there. I just have to keep on waiting when baby's ready. At least baby is engaged 3/5, so little bit more than for last 4 weeks.

Continuing period cramps, bump going rock solid all the time, but that seems to be all for now.

So utterly fed up and in tears after today's sweep, no progress at all since Tuesday and I'm now 41 weeks. The midwife basically said that if I go to the hospital tomorrow because I'm worried about movements (which I am all the time even when he's fine) then they'll probably just induce me there and then (official induction booked for Wednesday) but I just don't know whether to do it or not. I can't cope like this, I'm getting more anxious and miserable every day and keep snapping at poor DH because of it :( I just want this baby out and safe! Ugh :(

Tis been a few more babies and progress for others so thought I'd update, hope it's not too soon since the last update (these really help me keep it straight in my head what's going on with who).

New Babies
Topmammy - Jessica
Cookielove - Elijah
bugoven - Dexter
IlovemonstersInc - Baby boy
Teabiscuits - Emma
Kicksandgiggles - twin boys
Nazly - Dara
TwosaCrowd - Cassius
Laura2611 - Jessica
TheOnlySeven – Elizabeth
DearDinah - Evelyn
cbmb12 - Baby boy
whiteblossom - Baby boy
Redtoothbrush – Baby boy
BexBoo12 – Baby Jacob
BooSurprise – Baby boy
Dontevenblink – Baby Sophie
Iatesomeofthepies - Baby boy
CumbrianExile - Baby Aidan
Acorncat - Baby boy
Mrsfmustbemental – Baby Ben
needle - Baby Girl
Lucidlady – Baby Boy
Marjal12 - Baby Penelope
CoolCat2014 - Baby Eleanor
KatharineClover - Baby Daniel
EllaBella220 - Baby Madison
KitKat1985 - Baby Jessica
Missingcaffeine - Baby Boy
xxmissbrightsidexx - Baby Isobel
lilone1234 - Baby Molly
Cindy5389 - Baby Ethan
marie1w - Baby Erin
Inbl00m - Baby Girl
TeamEponine - Baby Girl
LH1981 - Baby Boy
holls2000 - Baby Barney
slithytove - Baby Olivia Annabel
AlwaysandForever09 - Baby Jake

Current Stats: 23 B : 17 G

Awaiting News
Babyfishcakes - induced Tuesday 19th August (pre eclampsia)
Frolie - section booked for Tuesday 2nd September
Zanashar - in labour?
ShowMeShowMeTheWine – in labour?

Now Overdue
DizzyKipper - due Monday 8th September (planned homebirth)
HippyJess - due Friday 12th September
Topsyloulou – due Friday 12th September
Beccus – due Saturday 13th September
Serotonin - due Saturday 13th September
polkadotdelight - due Wednesday 17th September
Mumtobeyorkshire - due Wednesday 17th September

Week Commencing Monday 15th September
Jemsiem - due Saturday 20th September
Lilmisssunshine7 – due Sunday 21st September
Salene - booked for induction on 21st (due Wednesday 24th September)

Week Commencing Monday 22nd September
misog2000 – due Thursday 25th September (planned homebirth)
Aisha18 - section booked for Friday 26th September
Velvetlilithi – due Saturday 27th September
Snafu33 – due Sunday 28th September

Week Commencing Monday 29th September
No one here?

I feel the same, hippy. 41 weeks today and mw unable to do sweep as cervix too posterior. ...how can I still be so not ready for labor? am also having a lot of anxiety about movement and whether baby is ok. I think the problem is I spend one day lying on the sofa feeling a lot of movement (& wondering if that much movement is normal), and then spend the next day chasing dd1 around, have no time to think about baby and get stressed. yesterday was a quiet day and as I got up every hr to pee last night, I couldn't relax and go back to sleep until I'd felt baby move. no appointments from 38 weeks to 41 weeks didn't help either. but I need to chill out, there is no more risk at 40/41 weeks than there is at 39. I think u r within ur rights to request fetal monitoring check tomorrow, but decline induction until wed, if everything is fine.

Hello all! Just popping in to say congratulations to all the other new mummies! Also, good luck to those still waiting - especially those overdue and uncomfortable!

I'm very much enjoying being mummy - I could just sit and look at and cuddle her forever! Labour was a bit of a saga. From going in at 5pm Saturday to be induced it took until 3am to be moved to delivery to start the drip. They wouldn't do gel or anything as I was already contracting anyway. So I was knackered and hungry before I even got going! Was put on the syntoconin drip which is turned up every half hour until a max of 60. By the time the midwife change at 8am I was at 50 and still contracting but irregular and mild. At examination at 9 it emerged that my waters had not completely broken, so this drip for the last 6 hours had been completely ineffective. Waters were broken then things got going - had about 7 massive contractions in a row because the machine was so high and fell in love with gas and air at this stage. Machine had to be started again at this point. Started to progress in terms of contractions and had epidural at about 6cm at about 6pm. From then things became a bit of a blur and I wasn't progressing in terms of dilation. Coupled with a drop in baby's heart rate and off I went for emergency c section. It was quite scary for some time but thankfully my perfect baby and I are doing very well now. All's well that ends well!

At least we're not alone beccus :( am very uncomfortable this evening and achey but I bet it all disappears when I go to bed - it always does!

hippyjess and beccus I know how you feel. I am only 2 days overdue but I'm feeling so sorry for myself. I've gained far too much weight, my bump is massive, stretch marks are increasing and Im so uncomfortable. It's sore to walk now yet I still can't breathe and I stress about movement every day. I'm frightened of forceps/tearing but I really want labour to start now. Sorry to be so down, huge congratulations to everyone who has had their baby x

Think I'm gonna have to go in in the morning to get checked as babies movements have definitely decreased over the last 24 hrs. Feel like I'm sabotaging my home birth plans but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter as long as they are ok. Fingers crossed everything is fine and they will just send me home but I'll be taking my bags just in case, letting DH get a few more hours sleep before I call, no sense in us both being up all night and I am still getting movement just not as much as normal.

Hope they attach you to the monitors and then send you home then, don't they say movement reduces as labour is more imminent?

I feel like I am the only person still pregnant! 2 friends of mine who were due long after me have already had their babies and I am still pregnant!

its not fair

3rd stretch and sweep today at 10.30 and that's the last one we are going to have because they won't do more as there is too much risk of introducing infection. However we are going to sort a date for induction next week all being well so that's good

I just want to get on the postnatal thread!