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

The reason I think it'll be a CS, is because my brain (having had a still birth and a failed induction) assumes that any intervention (and I do mean any, from a sweep, to an induction) will just fail, start the cascade of intervention, and therfore end up as a CS.

I just never thought I'd go post 40weeks.

Beccus - ask to have a check up. My midwife is coming over tm to Doppler baby as my mental state is deteriorating by the hour.

Dd died at 39+2 and every day I go past that, I feel like I'm tempting fate.

And I'm so sorry for talking about still birth on this thread, I don't really have anywhere else to turn but I know you all have fears too.

Congrats missing and kit kat. Wow another baby Jessica, excellent name choice if I do say so myself

I think it was a Dinah? talking about a bruised woo? I'm 5 weeks pp now and my woo nearer the front still feels odd maybe like bruising. Hurts most when I sit on the loo strangely like it's being over stretched. It's very odd!

Good luck to those of you still waiting to go into labour!

Try arnica and lavender baths mammy

I just want to go and hide in a dark corner and cry :( I am pathetic

slithy Im so sorry you have been through stillbirth. My good friend and an old work colleague have both been through it and because of that I too am terrified. Its come too close to home for me. Can you request an elective section on the basis of your history so you can have your baby delivered under controlled conditions sooner rather than later?

I could but I don't want another section. I'm trying for a home vbac, because I've had two terrible hospital experiences and I need to heal mentally.

It's very important to me and the pressure that my mum and midwife are (accidentally) putting on me is causing my feelings, nothing else. I would be happy to go to 42 weeks with monitoring as I know this baby is healthy.

But daily comments and questions about when will baby be here are wearing me down.

Yeah, people mean well but my god its frustrating. FIL has to restrain MIL from ringing every day, hes got her down to every other and the phrase 'any news' makes my blood boil now! I wish there was something useful I could sy but if there was you'd already have heard it/be doing it x

It's my mum, she is meant to be on holiday in Spain today and decided off her own back not to go, as I need childcare. Which is lovely, but she keeps asking when baby will arrive and can she book flights etc.

She should have just gone.

I will feel so guilty if baby is over a week late and she could have gone. Which isn't what I need to feel right now.

How frustrating, you'd think she would realise that babies never do what we want them to do and Im guessing she is your best bet for childcare right now. My MIL has decided she is coming down on Thursday to spend the afternoon with me, DH reckons shes hoping I will go into labour then, Im now even more desperate to go into labour before then!!

slithy, I really feel for u, u r totally stuck between a rock and a hard place, wanting baby to come asap but not wanting intervention. please don't apologise for talking about ur still birth, this forum is here to support everyone, whatever experiences they have had or are having. glad u r seeing mw tomorrow for some reassurance. Rationally, I think everything is ok with baby and have been relaxed up until now. dd1 was late and my body made a very feeble attempt to get her out, so I am pretty sure I will be late again and need some intervention. ...but that's ok, better the devil u know. baby has been his/her normal self today congrats to all the new mummies!

Ok, so my waters have just gone. Not got any contractions yet. Due date today. Do I need to call MLBU now or wait a little while to see if anything happens?? I know you have to let them know if nothing happens within 24 hours.

Any advice welcome, thanks.

You can actually wait up to 72 hours....
Anyway. No internals, no sex, no baths, no products down there and all will help to reduce the risk of infection.

Are the waters clear?

I'm sure contractions will start soon, so perhaps make sure your bag is packed and get some rest!

Waters are clear, some small amount of pinky blood when I wipe, but that may still b my mucus plug which I've been losing last 24 hours anyway.

Think I will try and get some rest. Typical that my car headlight went today and DH's car has just got a puncture. I am sending him outside to put his spare tyre on just incase we need to go to hospital before it gets light.

Cindy It's recommended to call midwife or labour suit at hospital you'll be giving birth in. They might want you to come in just check if you're water is really gone and check colour (to be sure there's no meconium). Or they'll just tell you and advice you next steps and when to come in. Depends probably on your hospital. I've been given this information from my mw

*your water, not you're

I wish my waters had gone and something finally started. Tried clary sage oil massaged on a bump last 2 days, also pumping breast milk and once put TENS machine on as that's also said it might bring on contractions. My hubby's been working nights for last 4 days so no chance for sex . Nothing happened though. Baby isn't ready, I guess.

I don't want to waste another 2 or more weeks of my maternity leave without baby in my arms. If it wasn't my stupid job (and stupid boss), I'd have never gone on leave so early (at 35 wks).

I was forced to at 36 weeks so I know how you feel.

I'll be taking sick leave and then resigning at the end of my maternity though. Fuck them.

I'm so sorry to hear that slithy, and I second Beccus - we're here to support everyone, please always feel welcome to talk about what you need to here. Would directly asking your mum not to keep texting help at all (assuming you haven't already?). There is definitely no way you should feel guilty or responsible for your mum missing her holiday if the baby is late, that was her decision to make and given Sod's Law almost guaranteed for the baby to then not come!

From what I've read Cindy a lot of hospitals seem to automatically start induction procedures if after 24hours there's still nothing happening, though as slithy says you can wait for longer. Their reasoning is that going over 24hrs increases the risk of infection, though medical interventions do come with risks of their own and imo it's a decision each mum needs to think about and come to on their own. This is one of the issues I keep thinking I need to do some more research on.

So still here, still pregnant...

Morning all! Im not sure if my waters have started going or if Ive leaked wee this morning! Currently sitting with a pad and waiting to see what happens before I pick up the phone but I'd be mortified if it was wee!

Haha polkadot don't worry I think midwifes see a lot of people who think it's their waters when it's really wee! I wish something would happen for me! Looks like my DH has picked up the d and v bug no idea what would happen if I got it and wen into labour, am hoping it's just something he's eaten cause he probably wouldn't be allowed in if I was to go into labour now

Hugs to Slithy. Please feel free to talk. Sorry for everything you've been through.

Cindy where I am they tell you to call labour ward if waters go so as they can examine you even if contractions haven't started yet as once waters go the risk of infection starts, so they usually give you 24 hours to go into labour before inducing at this point.

Hope labour starts soon for you other ladies.

Just to say I read messages since yesterday and when I mentioned about labour being 'pain-relief free' it wasn't meant as a boast or a put down to anyone else on here who had pain relief, and had nothing to do with bravery, purely there just wasn't time in the end because she was born so quick. My intention had been for an epidural! I hope I didn't offend anyone. x

I wasn't offended kitkat, just jealous that you had beaten me to it!

Thank you all for being lovely to me :) I was a right grump the last 2 days! Have woken up much better today thank heaven.

I've had the midwife round, baby has a lovely strong heartbeat and is a nice size. I'm 90% effaced and 2cm dilated, so a good improvement from weds. Had a successful sweep producing a bit of bloody mucus, so let's hope it starts things off. Going for the worlds record for bouncing on a birthing ball in the meantime!

She was also very reassuring in that even if she is away, her midwife partner is of the same mindset as her, that as long as baby is healthy, I can have a home birth up to 43 weeks, they want me to avoid the hospital and intervention too. Her partner is coming over later to meet me and reassure me too. So all in all I feel much more positive that the ticking clock has at least been slowed down.

Thanks again for being so supportive, and sorry for bringing the thread down the last couple days.

Congratulations all new mummies!

slithy -great news from the mw. I am so pleased for you.

does anyone else find turning over in bed a bit of a nightmare? I resemble a whale and basically flomp from one side to the other.

also getting v nervous about thursday and section. hopefully will feel better when have had pre op tomorrow. I also have this panic about if I went into labour naturally before then. totally irrational. also can't quite believe that this baby is coming in days. which is also stupid of me.

my family live abroad and mum and my stepdad were meant to be coming over. only my granny has dementia so will need to go into a home for respite whilst they are over and can't find anywhere so god knows what is happening. DH has a weeks holiday for paternity leave as has only just started new job so in laws have invited me to stay with them when he goes back to work but can't say yes till know what mum is doing. AND BREATHE!!!!!

Have a lovely sunday everyone.

How did I miss the thread??
Congratulations everyone who have had their babys

Katharine how was your bleeding this timr? Iirc you pph last?

Anyone heard from blossom?