Christmas crackers: due in December!

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Maybe this will really be the last one... until the postnatal one.

It's different with every child I think. I bf my daughter for as long as she wanted which was about 9months. My son, I stopped at 6 months because it was just so hard with all the infec. and cracks. I was in agony at times and it just wasn't worth it. My little guy has allergies to dairy and soy too, so I had to radically change my diet and then he had to be on special formula for a long time...

This time I just don't know how it'll go and I don't want to spend time worrying about it really, but I liked to bf because it was special time for just babe and me. With our third, it might be the only special time we get!!!

Had another slight wrinkle -- my sis. has decided to get married in March in a tropical location and could I/would I come??? Of course - but a 3 month old baby, a 2 year old in the middle of the terrible twos and a 4 year old on a plane for most of a whole day?!?? *%$#@! I'M going to need some serious drinks to get through that!!

well after all the fuss i'm still here! Early labour diagnosed, got the old favourite line 'take 2 paracetamol, have a bath and get some sleep' translated it into 'have a glass of wine, put the washing on, and watch the telly!' So could still be hanging around here for a while, hubby predicts Sunday morning, i'm still firmly rooting for Monday!

nearlythere - too bad! I had all my stuff crossed for you that this was it!! Well, now I'll root for Monday too!!

Hi guys, well I'm still here too. Funny that me and nearlythere speak the same language - just sneaked in a small (tiny) glass of wine (well, the bottle needed finishing) and have got the tele on, but, to be fair, I have also had a bath and several naps today to prepare me for another night of bugger all sleep. The due date is only hours away - will LO be one of the tiny minority that makes it on time!?

If it does, I'll never hear the end of it from work colleagues, the comments will be along the line of my son/daughter wouldn't have dared be early or late (I can be quite fierce at work at times! )

Well, battery stock all replenished by DH this afternoon so Tens is running well and staving off the back ache..have found talking to myself sharply whilst having a contraction does help me to cope, even if I do sound like I've completely lost the plot!

Hopefully this won't go on too much longer, night and day seemed to have merged into one big blur since it all started on Tuesday and there can't be much 'show' left either.

Well, sausage, fried egg, waffles and baked beans for tea tonight - another v healthy meal for LO .

Contractions are beginning to ramp up again so going to make myself comfy with all my cushions and blankets and watch lots of crap on tele...hope all is well with you lot and sorry for not catching up on your posts......

Hang in there calsworld -- sounds like the real deal to me!!

Here it is, 1:30 in the afternoon, my little guy having a nap and the girlie off with Grandpa for a while and lo and behold, I can't nap myself.... how unfair!!!

So I guess I'll join the laundry crew and watch telly too, unless there's someone out there to chat with.

Because my baby certainly isn't on the way....dammit...

Just for informations sake, I was doing some investigating of at home induction methods, old wives tales and whatever might move this baby along.... I read that stimulating your nipples for an hour 3 times a day is supposed to work...

I haven't tried it, and apparently it will only work if your body is basically ready to go into labour anyway, but it may be worth a try for any mums who are very close or at their due date.

nearlythere might know - its too bad she's kinda busy getting ready to pop tonight or very soon...

believe me i have no plans to pop tonight!!!
On the nipple stim thing- my considered opinion is that it keeps you amused but unless you are very dedicated to the cause it will do bugger all! It increases the production of oxytocin which helps to ripen the cervix but once the cervix is ripe and starting to efface (can be anything up to two weeks before delivery) the whole nipple thing does nothing as there is already a fair bit of oxytocin knocking around, it can tip you over the edge if you are very close but seems like a hell of a lot of hastle to bring labour forward by 12 hours!! I prefer the sex method- far more enjoyable and works somewhat better, just off to change the washing over then i'll post a list of some of the things we've had over the years as methods of home induction- hey they could work!!

Cool! Seemed to me like a lot of work too. I popped off (pardon the pun) to change up laundry, answer email and make a cuppa but back now as everyone is still asleep but not me!

Home induction methods tried and tested (to varying efficiency!):
Coshosh (black or blue, tablets or tea)
caulsophylium (or something like that also tablets)
Rasberry leaf tea (as much as you can pour down your throat!!)
FRESH pineapple (i've heard tales of pg women eating tins upon tins of pineapple chunks and all it succeeded in doing was giving them the runs!)
walking up and down the stairs sideways, helps to ease the baby into the correct birthing position low in the pelvis and makes the baby's head rock gently on the cervix- thus producing prostoglandins which will bring on the contraction side of things.
A glass of chardonay
nipple stim, apparently a breast pump works better than manual, functional stimulation produces more hormones than sexual!
shagging!!!
book into a phenominally expensive hotel- even if you don't go into labour (which would be sods law!)you'll have a bloody good time!
castor oil- no longer recomended but i do have some fab recipes (taste awful!) that work a treat if anyone is brave!!
Bumpy tractor rides
marriage proposal
weddings of any description
buying a brand spanking new car (waters break bringing it home from the garage- seat f**d!!)

I might add that out the list i will only be walking up and down the stairs sideways- i know that one works (at least the medical theory does!!) Oh and RLT of course!!

Oh, that's rich!!

I drank so much red rasp. leaf tea with my first that I STILL gag just smelling it....fat lot of good it did either, she was 10 days late and a medical induction from hell!

My second came on his due date after having the membranes stripped at my OBS appt.

This one, I've been jinxed by my OBS I think because she has been concerned that when it's time, it'll be fast and she suspected I would not go to due date...which means that I will and may even be late!!

I'm going to try the sideways stair walking though, because I'm pretty sure LO is not where he/she should be... way to much action on my hip bone!

Elibean - congratulations!!! I finally managed to track you down.

I hope you recover soon but I'm so glad you safely have your DD2. Lovely name too.

Ok, I'm due tmw and I've been feeling terrible for the last day or so but as I've never done this before I've absolutely no idea what contractions are like-I haven't really had any BH. I'm pretty sure it's just normal late pregnancy symptoms and I'll be waiting another 2 weeks yet! Everyone says I will know when it all kicks off. But I have to ask all you experts.... are really strong period-like pains and severe flatulence anything to start getting the Tens machine out for?...or just what is to be expected when you get to full term????

Think that was my first taster of false labour. At least it made DP put a change of clothes in the hospital bag, at last, and we got the Tens out and gave it a go-quite nice actually The pain is still there but it eases off when I walk around.
Hope everyone is sleeping away!

hya
just joined, am a 'old' pregnant mum, dont know how to start own page sorry for interupting

Hiya Karma-welcome!
What do you mean by 'old'?
Are you due in December too?
If you want to start a new thread, just click on the New Thread link above. But if you want to start one in another area('behaviour' or 'relationships' for example), I always open an existing thread and then click on the new thread link.
I'm sure there must be an easier way though!

Older (like me) or wiser, like others on this thread who've done this before?

Morning guys...Anna, sounds like what I've been doing since Tuesday...hope you're managing OK and progressing nicely!

My waters finally broke this morning so there is every possibility that baby will arrive at some point today - just need some contractions to come along and do something useful!

Hopefully speak soon, but also, hopefully, will be too busy!

Cal

Morning!
Great news about waters breaking calsworld!Anyone heard from Magnolia? She should hopefully have had DS by now.. .. The news on the Jan thread is of a really good sale on the Vertbaudet website so am going to try some early morning retail therapy.. .. .. apparently they have some excellent BF pjs on there.

Morning everyone!

I have been awake since 2.15am all manner of horrible thoughts in my head mostly around D nd protecting her. But also how to keep MIL in hand from tomorrow onwards without actually offending her. She's already been on the phone saying she's bringing her own landline phone (can't use our - but dont worry about the disruption to our quick-dials etc) and pillows . Just be calm - all for DD, all for DD, and breathe!

Any way have come down with DH to see him off to work and have a hot choclate etc see if that sends me back to sleep.. Only problem is now I have switched the PC on I will be well and truly awake - so that's me until bedtime tonight! Plus if I go back to sleep now I will be really grumpy and tired when DD wakes up and I want to have a nice last day with her before nanny arrives!

Hi Karma - when are you due?? We were all December babies and from now on will be, but some lucky so and so's got there's early

Anyway I am gonna book my Christmas Tesco Delivery and will check back on here in a while for any other early birds.

Aww, Bailey's, I think you're having late pg nerves on top of everyhig else. While MIL is there just keep saying to youreself She means well, she means well..."

Saw on the Am I in Labor thread that cal is 2 - 3 minutes and her dh is filling up birth pool.

Saw Cal on there but was contemplating going back to bed - as you can see, contemplation is as far as I got.

Taking DD for a long walk in to town this moring, to tire her out and hopefully bring on my labour - 8 days early, but we can but hope

Hows bubba?

OMG! I have been on here an hour already!

I am gonna be so tired!