November 06 - oooh the suspense.

[Hattie05]

Babies born:-
Welshgal - girl, Maddy born 16th October weighing 5lb 12oz
MeAndMyBoy(s)! - boy, Sam George born 21st Oct, 6lbs 4 1/2oz
CattyB - girl, Katherine Rose(?) born 26th Oct, 9lb 2oz.

Babies due:-
Youngmum21 due 29th Oct #1
Mummy2Toby due 30th Oct #2 has DS having a girl - Romford, Essex
Tinasan due 31st Oct #1 having a girl
Dpind due 1 november #2
Chubley due #3 on 3 November flavour unknown, DS (3) DD (16 months). West Yorkshire
Berthablatherwick due 4 Nov #2 Has DS 22m Flavour not known
TwoCatsOnTheBed due 4 Nov #1 Missed M/c last year
Eeyoreuk due 4th Nov #1 Leicester
Camgirl due 4th Nov #1
Debz99 due 5th Nov #1 having a boy
PinkMagic1 due 5 Nov #2 has DS, having a girl
Zink due 5 Nov #1
Delia due 5 Nov #1 flavour not known. Birmingham.
HopingCat due 6 Nov #1 flavour not known, Preston Lancs. Prediction born 4th Nov, 7lb 12oz
Lebe due 6th Nov #1 having a boy
AussieInLondon due 6 Nov #2 has DD
Emom due 7th Nov #1
Novis due 7th Nov #1
Rarrie due 7th Nov #2 has DD
AwayFromHome due 9 Nov #2 has DD
Spinach due 10th Nov (but will have cs weeek earlier) #2 has DD, having a girl
Jodypops due 10th Nov #2 has DD
Staceym11 due 11th Nov #2 has dd 16mth, having a boy Surrey
Velcrobott due 11th Nov #3 has DS and DD
Mower due 11 Nov #2 has DS having a boy
Jamcrumpet due 12 Nov #1
Mygirllolipop due 13 Nov #4 (a girl) has DD1 (7), DD2 (5), DD3 (1) homebirth, predict 9th just under 9lb
Tamula due 14 Nov #2, a girl, has DD (age 13.5mths)
Kif due 15th Nov #2 has DD aged 2, having a boy
Schmizaj due 16th Nov
Sighkotika, due 17 nov #1 having a boy.
Fatbetty due 18th Nov #3 has DS1 & DS2 (age 3 and 21 months)
Podglet due 18th November #1, m/c Nov 05, flavour not known, Colchester - Essex. Prediction born
20th Nov 9lb 4oz
Kaybee7777 due 19th November #1 having a boy
Flowers1 due 19th November
Bethbe due 19th November #1 unknown, h/b 140, prediction: 2nd Dec @ 8lb 12oz, Herts/London
m0m due 20th Nov #2
Joules1234 due 20th November
Foghornleghorn due 21st November has DD aged 23 months
CharleeSunnysunsun due 21st November #2 has DS 22 aged months, scan says having a boy
Littlemermaid due 22nd Nov #2 has DS
Hattie 05 due 22 Nov #2, a girl, have dd aged 3
Harrogatemum due 24 Nov #3, has DTs aged 18 months. Harrogate (!)
Frangosa due 24 Nov #2, has DD aged 18 months
saralou100 due 24 Nov #2 has ds 17months flavour unknown Bournemouth, dorset.. predicts born on 30th weighing 8lb 4oz
NatalieJane due 25 Nov #2 has DS age 4, Accrington, having a boy. Predicting: D.O.B. 2nd December, weighing 8lb 9oz.
MommyUpNorth due 25 Nov #4 has DD (5), DS (3), DS (1)
Martinemorris due 25 Nov
amyjade due 30 November #3 Have 2 Dds. Having elective C section at 38 weeks(Flavour unknown)
LadyAnne1sttimemum due 27 November #1 flavour not known, Plymouth, Devon prediction - baby born early and very long in length.
Debbsy 1st time mum due 27th Nov a boy. Staffordshire
Calsworld due 1st Dec #1

Cor, it is worse than it looks out there! Brrrr, fire is on for the first time this year!

Look on the bright side girls, it is nearly Saturday, and you know what that means? X factor I must admit, the only time I pray I don't go into labour is while that is on, and I don't know why because we watch it on Sky+ so DS is in bed so we can watch it whenever we want, but I love my Saturday nights!!

DS is very pleased with himself, he got a certificate again today, this time for excellent table manners and best behaviour at lunch time LOL The simple things!! The problem I have is the first time he got one at nursery, we made a really big deal out of it, went and got a nice frame for it, he had a pressie and a McDonalds, so of course now he thinks every time he gets one he should get the same, except since he has been at school rather than nursery, he has bought about 5 certificates home, and I might be tight, but he is not having 5 McDonalds in 2 months!! He is very lucky if he has 2 McDonalds in 5 months! LOL

SaraLou, I am with you on the ciggarette and a proper drink!! LOL I joked to my neighbour the other day that I was going to give birth in the pool and have DH there waiting to pass me a ciggarette and a southern comfort and coke! LOL

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LOL Mygirl, I have said to DH every Saturday night since the contractions started that we should make the most of it, because it was likely to be the last peaceful Saturday night we had for a while, and yet here we are...still!!

ooh, xfactor.. something to look forward too! i love it!

nj that sounds like a good idea.. give birth then get pissed!!

LOL Sara I might need to, I actually got in the pool last night, which was a bloody task in itself, but to get out of it after just giving birth, I am going to need something... a crane would probably be best! LOL

God I have got horrible heart burn today, I seem to go a few days with none and then have a day with it really bad.

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im going to miss x factor tomorrow as have to be at hospital for 8 so will miss most of it damn i love x factor!!!!

Mygirl, he might have to do!! I am with you with the phone thing, my sister is ringing at least twice a day and texting about 5 times, my mum rings every lunch time, how many times I have said I will ring them when things start happening I don't know...

YM, you will have much more important things on your mind (or hopefully in your arms!!!) by then!

i wont be having her till sun for some reason ive got to go in sat nite!!

I had to do the same when I was induced, they put the first lot of gel in on the Sunday night, second lot went in on the Monday morning, that kicked everything off and he was born Monday evening.

It is because the gel is to soften, or ripen, the cervix, so they can then break your waters, they know that especially with first timers, the first lot of gel won't be enough to kick start labour, so they do it the night before so you can sleep over night and hopefully not spend all night in labour. That's what they told me anyway!

yeah i think she sed sumthing along those line i dont like hospitals though and how am i going to sleep when im not in my own bed i love my bed and there wont be any cuddly dp to snuggle up to which im sure he wont be complaining bout he prob be glad of the quiet as i wiggle around to much !!!

Think im just going to have to try having sex to nite it my last chance to get things moving!!!
poor dp the things he has to do for me lol

Actually yes I do agree with the sleep thing. I was put on a sort of side ward, with three 'older' mums who had all had kids before, each of them were there because of something going wrong with their pregnancies. One was bleeding after sex (and really didn't mind who knew), one was on complete bed rest, and the other had probably deafened her LO with the language that was coming out of her! I was scared stiff!! And then someone who had obviously been in there with them brought their new baby in to show them and they were all sat round laughing, or rather cackling, at his 'funny shaped head', I ended up shutting the curtains around my bed, and listening to the hospital radio through the head phones most of the night just so I didn't have to listen to them! LOL

I would suggest take your MP3 player in, and a puzzle book or something.

youngmum, sympathies to dp, it's the poor men that suffer in all this isn't it goodluck tomorrow.. and don't forget they repeat xfactor on sunday, so you should be watching it with your new baby hopefully!! i never slept in the hospital after having ds.. i just lay there staring at him!! (which is why i wanna go home asap this time)

my best friend and birthing partner has just phoned with some requests of days not to give birth!! cheeky moo, as if i care about her social life or work meetings lol

Seriously hurts tummy gone rock hard again and feeling v v sick blurghhh and pressure worse than ever

do ya think your in labour? ooh very exciting!!

oh god that sounds terrible nj i really hope that doent happen ill be crying in seconds!!!!
I dont think i will be home till mon as will prob stay in one nite for the rest and so lo can get checked by docs before we come home not that i want to but dp has insisted bloody men!!! !!!
Well as long as he doesnt try and invite everyone to the hospital i really dont want any visitors especially if it a long labour he doesant seem to understand the part where ill be tired and i want lo all to myself for as long as poss!!!

Saralou wouldnt know this is our 1st just know i dont feel well

LOL Sara, I think that is incredibly selfish of you actually, your birthing partner is going to be putting up with a lot from you on the day, the least you could do is make it a day to suit her!!

Debbsy It is horrible isn't it? Any chance of you being able to get in a nice relaxing bath?

nj will try feel to ill at the minute though this has just come on me

YM, you might feel very differently when you have LO, I couldn't wait to show DS off after the nine months of me asking DH not to let anyone in the hospital!! But that was the next day because we didn't get back up to the maternity ward till gone 10pm, so I was feeling much better by then anyway.

Try walking around a little, it might just be LO laying on something, or if it is the start of things, the walking will help anyway.

debbsy poor you maybe try and lay down for a while if you can!!

Afternoon. I'm now obsessed with signs and signals of when labour could be starting. But Debbsy sounds like something could be shifting.....

Having done ante-natal class and talking to my neighbours about birth stories I've realised how long it can really take from having a sign to birth so I know I need to chill out even when something does happen. Just wish I knew!

I was grilling midwife today for any predictions but she wouldn't budge, nothing to indicate either way. Do you get a 'feeling' about when it will happen do you think? I just don't feel like this is going to happen soon. I feel good and not pissed off with being pregnant at all which makes me think that I'll be sitting around until I am sick and tired of it! Ohhh the suspense.....

LOL It is always the saem, one saying lie down and relax, other saying get up and move about!

In the week when I had the midwife out to do my BP, she said to me in the space of a minute 'The best thing to do is lie down with your feet above your heart as much as possible' and then the very next thing was 'gentle excerise can also be good for swelling' I might be good, but not good enough to rest up and exercise at the same time!