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

Half past, there or there abouts, waiting for the taxi now.

Aha, it is here, got to go, see you all later

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good luck nj
((hugs)) mygirl

For what it's worth those who are facing a sweep. When i was first examined in the hospital the midwife did a sweep while she was doing it for good measure and it was neither uncomfortable or painfull and the contractions did speed up a little so maybe it will give your bodies that extra push to put you into full labour?

Good luck all

Well she wouldn't do the sweep. I honestly don't know how I made it home and in the front door before I cried!

When I first asked about it she said she wouldn't even want to try because she didn't think at 38 weeks that she would even be able to reach the cervix, which I accepted obviously she knows better than me, so no problem, then she went on to say about how if the cervix had started to come down and started to soften I'd have lost my show... erm HELLO????? So I told her I had been loosing it for weeks now, and she looked at my notes again and said oh yes so it says here, then she turned to the student midwife and said, once the baby is engaged, and pushing down on the cervix from the inside, it will then push the cervix far enough forward for me to be able to reach.... erm HELLO AGAIN?????? Look at my bloody notes woman - the baby is engaged!!

So basically she was saying once the baby is well engaged and you start loosing the show she will probably be able to reach, so she turned again to the student and said we would have to check the lady over completely first (and gave an example of why that was needed) so they did all my checks then, confirmed baby is now further engaged, everything was fine and clear, so I thought she she would then do the sweep, but nope, she then decided that she wanted to wait another week, just to see if the same starts again as last night but turns into something....

If there was some medical reason as to why she didn't want to do it, then fine, I would have accepted that no problem, but to hold it off for another week just so she can see if anything kicks off tonight.... GRRRRRRRR!! She even said she could feel my uterus contracting, and with everything else that has gone on she doesn't expect to see me back at the surgery next week, but the m/w last week said more or less the same then.

I really don't think I can take much more of this. When are any of them going to put their money where their mouth is and actually help me?

Sorry if that makes no sense, I can't even be bothered to check it for typos so you will have to put up with them as well!!

oh nj so sorry i still think today though something is going to happen for you just a feeling xx ((((((((((((((((huge hugs ))))))))))))))))))

I've had midwife this morning too. Measuring 42 weeks instead of 39 but midwife not too bothered. Everything absolutely fine though.
If no baby by next week have sweep booked for Tuesday but fingers crossed I wont get that far.

for you NJ

It is usual for a sweep to be done before your due date then ? I always thought it was something to be done if you were overdue

Thanks Debbsy, contractions are just starting to get quite niggly again so who knows?! But, I won't hold my breath!

FHLH, Glad M/W went well. I don't think it is the norm to be doing sweeps before 40 weeks, but it isn't unheard of, don't forget it isn't like an induction that is very medicalised or anything. She said she will happily do one next week if I am still waiting then, she just wanted to give it another week, for some unknown reason!

Hi all

Congrats again to new baby owners - commiserations to the rest of us. My MW revealed that she is going on holiday next week - and there is no one to cover at the local clinic. She suggested I waddled to a drop in session again (you have to get there early as it's only an hour long) - it'll take me most of an hour to get there. Next MW appointment is after the due date - I'm hoping I won't require it. Oh well, I'm seeing the consultant again next week so hopefully that will do. I have a few tight bump moments and managed some tidying up - not as tired as yesterday, but no other signs of LO making an early appearance. I'm also starting to feel a little depressed - Pity I don't know anyone round here (well no one available) I think I'll ring my lil sis as she always cheers me up..

Good luck girls.. Sorry for being such a moaning minnie LA

Hi all, congrats on birth of babies, I seem to have missed a few - did I blink?

I had midwife appt this am and she thinks that I'm a week ahead of scan dates, which would put me back in line with my original calculated dates , so maybe my lo will be a Nov babe after all? (Original EDD was 24/11.

I have now started to get some of the symptoms you've all been mentioned (that's the handy thing being due at the end of the month, I get to see what's coming!), my ankles are swollen by the end of the day and overnight, my fingers swell and in the morning it feels like I've got arthritis but then it goes again until evening when the cycle starts over....also having pain in my pelvis when I walk and am now def. waddling! I feel like a penguin, but I'm not complaining as I know I've suffered far less than the rest of you.

NJ - I find it weird reading how much you are going through when I'm only a couple of days behind you - I've not lost any show and have only just started to have BH, but these aren't painful really, just feels tight and makes me breathless. Makes me feel a) lucky and b) even more convinced my baby is going to be late, despite midwifes comments this morning!

DH came with me this morning and the mw showed him how to feel the baby's head (completely not unengaged (is that a word)) and a heel...his face really lit up and I feel so pleased, he's missed loads of the movements because baby goes still as soon as he talks or touches my tummy - hope that's a good sign for afterwards - he can do the night time settling!!

I promised myself I'd try and do some work on the house but am just so tired....someone reassure me that maternity leave is for rest not housework to make me feel less guilty?

Sorry for long ramble, am not used to not having anyone to talk to and feel quite lonely....

NJ - Sorry you didn't come out of there feeling like you hadn't been helped much.

MW appointments are such a big deal now, I really didn't think the home stretch would be quite a fraught. I'm going in Friday for 40+1, may not make it but think I will.

Youngmum - So so pleased for you. You really went through the mill so great that it is now all over. Congrats and enjoy the LO!!!

Had cramps last night and thought something may be moving but nope. Just normal again today.

Just been watching Birth Stories on Living TV. Haven't been able to face it for a while but was interested today. Anyone with any experience of waters being broken during labour?? I'm going to a very 'natural' centre who don't believe that it has much benefit and are happy to leave them. Told it can make contractions more painful but not neccessarily shift things along. But they seem to do it in all of these programmes. Anyway waddling along with maternity pads in should they 'go' at any second!!

Crikey - just re-read that and confused myself....baby's head is not engaged...and am not even going to attempt to correct the rest of the garble! Sorry, bad nights sleep!

Schmizaj, I was watching birth stories too and had to stop, every time I saw a lady in labour in pain I burst into tears - don't think its doing much for my confidence at all!! Think I might also need more sleep...

I think I'd rather my waters were left alone, unless I'd been going for hours and really wasn't making progress and was beginning to wilt - I don't want to feel like I'm on some kind of conveyor belt and that they just want me out to get someone else in....

Anyone else going through a weepy stage (don't forget I'm only 37.5 weeks so if you can remember back to then, that would be helpful!). Just not sure if this is my depression starting to be a problem or if this is normal....no-one's really mentioned it for a while....

Hi everyone,

Schimaz, with my first dd my waters didn't break until i was pushing her out, then the mw broke them. I had a 6hr labour so wasn't particularly long because of waters being in tact or anything. I guess if i'd have been in early labour for a much longer time i'd have been grateful for any attempts to speed it up - e.g. break the waters, but as it happens it wasn't necessary. Babies can actually be born still in the sac which i think would have happened to my lo if mw hadn't popped at v end.

NJ sorry your appt didn't go to plan! i'm wondering if it could be a bad idea to do sweep until overdue, because it could cause your contractions to become more painful but still not start labour off iykwim.

Hi Calsworld
I have been feeling a bit weepy too, I am guessing it's normal as it's such an emotional time! Whenever I think too much about the whole labour/birth thing I feel like crying as I am scared of the prospect of so much pain. In saying that though, I am really looking foward to bubs making his appearance I am due on Sunday so this week just feels neverending.....
Other than aches and pains in my pelvis, I am not really suffering from any major twinges or BH and am worried he is never going to come out!! Maybe I will just have little or no warning and labour will just start......

Oh and maternity leave is definately for rest and not housework so don't feel guilty!! You may get that nesting thing closer to your due date anyway!

x

Hi Calsworld - I'm 38 weeks and getting depressed and weepy at the drop of a hat - I ended up in floods of tears when Steve Wright played a piece of classical music just before the remembrance day service on Sunday. My baby is engaged and has been for at least two weeks - it seems to vary between 2/5 and 3/5 - MW doesn't reckon it'll engage any more until birth. I'm not wearing a pad because my waters might break unexpectedly - but because my discharge is so heavy (has been throughout, TMI I know) I've been told it's nothing to worry about though. I'm not sure I'm going to know when the waters break - bump seems to be all baby and as I said I have such a heavy discharge - it's could be hard to tell - I'm waiting for the show as a guide instead. Incidentally my not-so-little sister didn't have her waters broken until she was in well established labour - to be honest - she didn't even know she had gone into labour! She had a bit of a backache and realised she hadn't felt the baby move so they took her in and had a look at her and she was 6cm dilated! Jodie was born within the hour - apart from the fact my sis threw up a little - that sort of labour sounds fine to me!

see ya LA

Thanks Kaybee - crikey, Sunday....can't imagine how you must be feeling...I'm not wishing for my due date at all as am really quite worried about the whole labour thing, but really looking forward to meeting LO.

Do you get much opportunity to put your feet up?

Bad luck NJ you could try DIY with a vibrator - only semi joking Did it myself when od with dd1! also evening primrose oil is full of prostaglandins, draw your own conclusions

good luck to the rest of you, I take it no one has heard from youngmum?

I am alternating between putting my feet up doing nothing, and rushing around as, my Dad was here from NZ (though he has gone off to Dublin and Paris now for a week).
I figure I might as well get as much rest as possible now, so am sleeping in in the mornings and mostly just slobbing around the house. Though i think I might start trying brisk walks to encourage something to start happening!
This whole waters breaking thing is enough to put you off going out, but like everyone keeps saying, half the time it doesn't even happen until you are already giving birth....... I haven't had any show or anything either, but do get period type pains and some backache, so maybe something IS happening in there!!

Thanks for all of your thoughts. I am still getting very niggly contractions, feels more like period pain at the moment with very slight peaks in it every now and then, they don't seem to be regular peaks or anything. We are nipping to Tesco tonight so hopefully that might help things along.

I have reached the point where I quite frankly don't give a shit where my waters go as long as they go ASAP!!

LOL Purpleluce, I daren't do anything like that, might see if I can get DH to have a good old rumage around down there though LOL I am sure he won't mind that much...!! And YoungMum had a baby girl, it is a little further down the thread now

NJ,

Have you tried blackmail? - Try suggesting that it is 'how' rather than 'whether'. Either she does it in a medical and sterile environment, or you'll do it yourself in the public loos with a screwdriver!

Obviously I'm joking, - but there must be a strategy of this sorts that you can use to move her along!? - The screwdriver suggestions will certainly demonstrate how strongly you feel about it!

LOL Bethbe I'm not seeing her again till next week now, which is when she said she will do a sweep if I am still there by then.

She did say she thought that raspberry leaf tea could help, I said I thought it doesn't bring on labour it just tones the uterus, and with all of the contractions I have been having surely my uterus is about as toned as it is going to get, she said she has known it to have more effect on the muscles of the uterus and that it may well be enough to pull them in to a more helpful position. So as soon as it stops raining tomorrow I am off down to Hollands and Barret! With that, the walk, DH's contribution and rumage, things might start on their own....

Afternoon all - congrats to YoungMum - great news.
Been into town to get some snacky food in case labour starts as the mw said I would need energy so went to M&S - also in the hope that if my waters DID break, apparently they give you £2000!!!! Not sure if thats true but worth a try! Have planned to take my nephew swimming tomorrow and have made plans til the end of the week to keep me busy - I am sure people will understand if I have to cancel last minute! Due on Thurs but it feels like the longest slowest part of the pregnancy really, esp as people keep ringing to 'see how I am' - as if I wouldnt tell them if I had had the baby!!!
Thinking of you all though and hopeing tings start moving for those of you that are in pain. I have been taking Eve Primrose Oil and having rose oil in my bath and NADA. Baby will come when its ready I guess, although my sisters psychic friend did say it would be this week. Hmmmm, although seeing that the baby's due this week, she is hardly Poirot......