Due in November - Part 6 - The Ring of Fire is approaching !

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Here you go girls - somewhere new you for us to discuss our burning bits

Don't let the m/w get to you 40weeks, hopefully you won't meet that one again.

Sara, I hope you start to feel better soon

Saralou: Hope you feel better soon. It must be awful to be unwell on top of everything else!!

Late babies - perhaps there is a national conspiricy/policy to give everyone early due dates that came into play just in time for us, - so we're all gonna be late?? - or maybe it's something about this time of year? - air pressure (we have been having unusual weather) or the moon or something!?

NJ: I'm worried about your greeny! You're sure it's not baby poo is it? This is my first so probably no nothing of these things, - but I would want to get it checked out (although not by 40weeks' midwife)!

LOL Beth, air presure???!!!! LMAO

And yes I am certain my 'greeny' ( I think that is worse than snot!!) is not baby poo!! I have seen DS's first baby poo, and green is the last word I would use to describe it!!

Thank goodness its nearly home time and the weekend can start - are any of you on ML yet? I dont start for another 3 weeks so till getting that Friday feeling....I wonder what news next week will bring!!?
Have fun everyone x

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I really hope someone is still around, and I am too confused for blushing now so I am just going to come out and say it! Just had some more stringy snotty stuff come out, this time there was a very small amount of blood as well, but apart from a few BH on and off through out the day nothing else. Bearing in mind it seems you can have a show weeks before anything else happens, and it is now evening so it would mean a trip to the hospital for anyone to check me over, with DS, and DH isn't even home from work yet, but put all of that against the fact that I am only 33 weeks (34 weeks tomorrow) should I be looking at going to the hospital, when it is really quite unlikely anything is happening?

How bad is it for the baby to be born at 34 weeks?

40weeks, - I go on ML in 3 weeks too (edd 19th Nov). Bought myself a chocolate advent calendar and eat the chocolates backwards counting down the days til I'm on leave.

I was get another counting down the days to the birth (and hence getting two chocolates a day for a while) but my husband put me off by asking if I thought I was going to give birth to the second messiah?

nj im here the midwives last nite that spoke to us were adament that you can have a show weeks before labour starts its just your body,getting ready.You do sound concerned though so why not ring the hospital unit just to put your mind at rest hun.Have you been having any stronger braxton hicks than normal? i wish their was some advice i could give you but as im a first time mum i really am a bit clueless (((((((hugs))))))))

nj, why don't you ring up the antenatal ward for some advice over the phone xx

To whoever can make new threads, please can we have a new one? My connection is so slow and it took me 20 mins to download all of these 500 odd messages!!!!

NJ: Can you phone the hospital and explain that unless they think it is REALLY important that you come in, practically it's almost impossible - see what they say!

I think Bubs born at 34 are generally okay, - just need a bit of help with their lungs. Also, - in my class last week, they said the 'show' could appear at least two weeks before the action, so it might be more like a 36 weeks bub, and my m/w told me yesterday that they consider any time from 37 'term'. I'd try not to worry!

Give the hospital a quick ring though.....just to be sure. Also, - if you think the person on the phone is giving you ridiculous advice you can always ignor it!!!!!

yes we can do what title shall we have?
What about November babies the homeward run or more like a waddle
i know November mums to be waddling on the homeward straight.
lol

Sorry to be crude - but a lady in hospital the other week had a show and described it as like "an egg being cracked in your knickers". Is this what you are experiencing NJ? Have you rung your antenatal unit yet? 34 weeks is early (I am 34 weeks today) but would be ok if born, may just need a bit of time on special care. I am sure it will stay in for a bit longer though!

I'm waddling!!

November mums to be always needing a pee!

I'm not anxious or concerned or worried or anything really! I really don't feel like anything is happening, and I really don't want to drag us all to hospital for them to tell me the same. There is no point in ringing them unless something really starts, it would send my blood pressure soaring if I tried to get through to them, and then if they asked me to go in, they would think something else is wrong! LOL

I started a thread and so far answers to the babies health at 34 weeks have varied from being quite fine, to being hard to feed, and a bit of a problem regulating the babies heart, which sounds a lot worse than it is.

I think I will wait for DH to get home - he doesn't know anything about the show yet - and see what he says, he knows me inside out and will know what to do.

me too Bethbe
hg im 34 weeks today too.

ill google for you to see what i can find on it.

No egg cracking going on, so sorry for this but this is just like when you get a really yukky head cold and cough and when you cough up the phlem (sp?) that greeny colour it has, is the same, except it is a lot stringier than than that, and last time there was a bit of blood in it.

I am sorry, that is totally disgusting.

DH has just pulled up, will be gone for a bit - don't panic!!

Cant do links but nj lots of websits have said they have had shows weeks before labour started but some also say they rang the hospital to double check.

Or 'Plans for the left-over Gaviscon!'

Hey NJ - I had show for weeks before babes was born last time - at 16 days late I kept getting excited but nothing happened. I didn't bother anyone about it as I wasn't getting any other symptoms. Hopefully your babe will stay snug for another 3 weeks - but do get in touch with your mw/hosp if anything seems to be happening. At 34 weeks baby should be ok but they would still give you steroids to help mature the babies lungs before it is born - and the sooner you receive these the better.

We are going to leave it for now, I think I would be much more on edge if anything was happening, although I haven't started labour naturally before, I am sure my body would know what was going on and act accordingly, as it is, nothing!!

I am of to have a beer it is Friday night after all!!

Have a good weekend everyone Oh, if you do start a new thread, make sure there is a link to it from this one please, I am no good at finding new threads! TC xxx

I vote for:-

November mums to be always needing a pee!

lol loved the plans for the left over gaviscon bethbe. My vote is for the November Mummys the homeward waddle.

Welcome 40weeks - your midwife really does sound like she'd got her knickers in a twist! ratty women.

NJ - when you hit labour you will know you are in labour. I started having measurable contracts about a week before DS was born - i went into be monitored because he was having this funny shivery feeling and while I was being monitored they recorded regular contracts over the entire 30 mins - I couldn't feel a thing mind you. My very personal opinion is that the body does a lot of prep work prior to the actual day that you go into full blown labour and that is all that we are all feeling at the moment. Bits of snot and BH all being part of the process .

Charlee I'm glad the consultant seems to be getting some information and getting things sorted for you. Glad you've got the stronger painkillers as well - now feet up and relax it's the weekend so hopefully DH will be home for the next 2 days and you should be able to chill out and relax.

Well, contractions started as usual last night, they went on for a good few hours and I was waiting for them to go before getting into bed, which led to me finally getting in the bath at about 11.30 to firstly try and ease the pain and secondly to see if they would stop all together, the pain did ease but they have carried on all through the night but only like mild period pain and tightening, probably 3-4 in an hour, and also loads of pressure in my bum (sorry) when I sit down I can actually feel the chair pushing back against the baby and the contractions. Which all sounds very serious and something to be thinking about, except, I still don't think anything is happening, I think I would know for sure if something was happening, I have sent DH out to work with him wanting to stay here just in case, but he can't stay home for the next 6 weeks!

I think your theory is right MAMB, I should think my body is quite confused, with being induced last time, my body didn't do any of what it is having to do now, so although it knows how to labour and give birth, it doesn't know what to do to get going properly!

The only thing I am a little bit worried about now though, is if I do suddenly find myself in labour (whether that is going to be tomorrow or in 6 weeks time, who knows?) but because I seem to be having these false starts, it makes me wonder where the exact point is going to be that I am in actual labour, and does it make it even more likely that DH will be hours away and no one will have been lined up to get DS from school?

I wish my mum was at home, she is in Turkey for another week, DH is fantastic, or he was until last night when the contractions were getting stronger, I think he thought that that was it, now he has crumpled, my mum is the only other one who is there enough for me, IYSWIM?! My sister is my best friend, but I daren't ring her because she flaps at the slightest thing, and that wouldn't do my nerves any good at this point!

Sorry for going on, I have had all of this going round and round in my head all night, and it does make it clearer to get it all written down, I really cannot believe we could have anything up to 8 weeks of this.