anyone else due around January the 19th ?

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Just wanted to find out if anyone else is due around January the 19th ☺ and what's going on with their pregnancy ☺ x

How wonderful elvi and well done you! That sounds perfect!

Congrats elvi so pleased you got the birth you wanted! Still no movement here, was so disappointed this morning, plus had lots of friends contacting me asking if there is a baby yet...its nice they are thinking of me, but just reiterates my waiting... elvi I think I'm where you were feeling last week - I live in hope that you now have your baby boy with you! I'm hoping to get spoilt rotten by my parents this weekend to distract me, as I'm bored of waiting! Even tempted to risk Ikea on a Saturday or is that just plain stupid?! will the stress of parking and navigating the store be helpful for labour or stress the baby....? (Leave my dad gardening at home tho I think!)

phizpop - had my first sweep last Friday at 40 + 2 - was long (3cm), firm and posterior. Second sweep was at 41 wks and only change is that cervix has shortened to 1cm so she could perform a proper sweep. As you know I felt disheartened after the first one but tried to distract myself by preparing self for next sweep - raspberry tea, daily sex, bouncing on ball, 'crabbing' up the stairs, daily walks. Absolutely - go to ikea! I went to oxford street last weekend. The whole of Pregnancy is stressful so I doubt the baby will be effected by some potential trolley rage. Have you been offered a second sweep?

Aw congrats Elvi. Hope everyone is ok.
LG born this morning 1:15 am 7lbs 10. Had a difficult start - HD to have induction gels X 3. Contractions were horrendous and spent Thursday and Friday day an emotional wreck. Started with just some paracetamol but by Friday afternoon I needed gas and air, had remifentanyl once my waters broke
Spontaneously and I kept saying "I can feel her in my Fanny" they checked me and I was
Fully dilated And she was
In
Fact crowning. Remifentanyl before pushing and it saw me through.
Found pushing relatively easy. Got a few stitches. To be honest she's
Here safe and well and is absolutely beautiful. I'd happily go through the three times over. Midwifery team on the birth unit were amazing.
As I pushed her head out she had aright old cry which then made me laugh for the rest.
Good luck to everyone

Congratulations anneliandbetsy - sounds like you did an amazing job!! Ha can't believe you laughed when your little girls head popped out - only because I was screaming so much at that point ha. I def found pushing the worse - not least cos felt like was giving birth to a massive poo too and I was crying saying that I have baby coming out one entrance and a poo straining through the other - i think I would have coped so much better if that wasn't happening! sorry tmi but was no laughing matter (at the time, kinda funny now thinking about it).

Anyway, so glad that the pushing wasn't too horrendous!

This is my first baby and I'm sure I'm going to have lots of worries and concerns and wonder whether anyone would be interested in joining a new forum to support each other/ask questions about life after giving birth? Or is there one already set up? In the meantime, I'm definitely going to be popping my head in and out of here until every last baby is here! Looking forward to hearing about how everyone is progressing over the final stages of pregnancy and waiting for more birth announcements!

I'd definitely be up for that elvi, I've been reading some of the sleep and infant feeding forums but there is a huge range of ages on there and it's difficult to find shared experiences quickly. There is a section under Being a Parent called Postnatal Clubs where I assume we can just start a new thread.

Congratulations to all the babies and mums! Coming through thick and fast now. Well done to you anneli, my responses at that particular moment of labour were a lot more like yours elvi!

Great - let's set up January babies club there then (and of course any early Feb mums who want to join as no doubt some Jan babies will be overdue). I'm not very mumsnet savvy but will try set up later today.

Made a thread! Trapped under sleeping baby so made myself useful.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/2555261-January-2016-Hello-babies

👏 you star!

Congratulations annelie!
Still no sign of baby wanting to come out for cuddles! Second sweep on Thursday if nothing by then! Had a good walk/waddle around Ikea, but seems quite content inside! Hope all your new mums are coping ok with your little ones! And those like me still waiting have had a good day!

Hey.. Can't wait to join the new thread, but hope everyone still waiting is ok.. I'm really hoping we're all set for Tuesday.. But they could push me to Friday (when I'll be full term), so that could be D day..

And anneli you are amazing! I'm so glad so many people had the births they hoped for!

Congratulations to the new arrivals!

Congrats Elvi and annelie :)
How is it today Phizpop? I called hospital about my skin, they had me come in and tried a sweep. Cervix not quite open enough, so have booked me in for induction on Tuesday. I'm nervous about it, but Elvis birth has given me a tiny shread of hope it will happen naturally between now and then. Will be eating hot food and having a big walk all tomorrow..
Hope everyone's happy and enjoying whatever stage they are at :)

Had an uncomfortable night, tightness coming and going but stopped at 5am, and nothing regular, and not much since... Went for a walk this afternoon (as far as I could manage, before pelvis starts complaining!). Had so many texts asking if I've had the baby, will have to remember to text them all when baby finally arrives!

rpj16, if you do need to be induced you'll be great. It's all a blur now and all though it wasn't what I'd really wanted - I was in great hands x

rpj16 there is definately still time for things to happen, but anneliandbetsy positivity is spot on. I know it's easy for me to say now but having got the birth that I wanted, but before I went into labour I became far more accepting of being induced and lots of people's experience have been very positive. Plus, when discussing with my friend she said that a year ago , after I miscarried and so desperately wanted my baby, I would have done anything to be in the position I was in last week, and the prospect of being induced is/was such a minor thing in comparison. It's completely natural of course to want your birth to go a particular way and in no way selfish or silly, but what she said reminded me that the way in which my baby was going to arrive wasn't so important. We all know that of course.

Sorry to hear about your mc last year Elvi. :(

Your message got me thinking about my friend who had a very difficult birth and her baby very nearly died shortly after (alright now, but could have some form of future disability because of it) and I remember thinking to myself, 'I just hope my baby is healthy' - of course her baby is LOVELY and the awful outcomes her doctors were suggesting would happen were so far off, as her baby is perfect and gorgeous now. But what she went through was horrendous. So, yes, I must focus on positives.

I can clean house today and prepare cot, our bedroom etc, do a last load of washing, spend a last day alone with DP today and prepare. Also I don't have to look out for 'signs'.

And it's not such a terrible thing to be induced. I'm mainly nervous about the drip if I have to have one. I think after my sleep last night, I should just go for it even if they say that's the first method.anneli did you have the drip and did it go in arm or hand?

Rash is worse today than yesterday, so I'm feeling more positive about labour tomorrow - I think my skin will be better once its not so stretched. AND the pain of contractions will overcome the itching!! :D not sure whats going to be worse! haha

Sorry Anneli, just re-read you had the gels! Your induction doesn't seem so scary to read! (I was feeling so negative yesterday! much better this morning)

ok.. (feels stupid) just looked up Remifentanyl. Ok sorry, arm or hand? I'm happy eitherway.just want to know! x

Ah its early, I mean, I know its a pain killer, not a method of induce, so questin actually doesn't apply, does it? its early and I'm not being coherent, will try and get some more sleep in a bit so I make more sense! haha

Hi Rpj16 when I was booked in to be induced the first step was going to be a pessary which I understand is some sort of tampon thing they insert vaginally to stimulate contractions - I think this works the same as and is an alternative to the gel? Anyway, it really didn't seem to sound a big deal at all and mw said that I could still end up having the 'active' birth I wanted and use the birth pool etc. I think if this step isn't successful, you may be attached to the drip version, but again my mw assured me that although I wouldn't be able to use the pool, I certainly wouldn't have to be confined to the bed. Sorry, you are prob aware of all this and I'm babbling onabout something I don't have first hand experience on! just think, IF is happens you will be able to go into labour ward all calm and collected, having had a nice brekkie and hopefully a good nights sleep!

Rpj I thought I'd replied .... Maybe I replied on another post !! Ha I had prostaglandin gel. The first two were unsuccessful. However they did give me contraction that were sore. I used codiene during this stage. They did give me this (they do an internal and apply to the cervix), every 6 hours - first being at 2pm then 6pm then midnight. The third worked, managed with codiene until 11:30 pm and they gave me gas and air. I got my playlist on and did some hip rocking used some yoga positions. At this point I rang my mum to come after work which I wasn't going to do!! They then gave me an internal that afternoon and I wasn't dilating but I was in a lot of pain and nackered as no sleep. Gave me pethidine and I went from 1cm to 7 in 90 mins. They moved me to delivery room at about 6pm. I then started remifentanyl (via self administer - Canula in hand) and gas and air. IUnfortunately it ran out for an hour - but I managed with gas and air (and shouting all sorts of stuff). My waters broke spontaneously so I didn't need this doing but that would have been the next stage. Honestly if I hadn't had the pethidine or remifentanyl I don't think I'd have relaxed enough to start dilating.
I used the things that I wanted to - ball, music tough positions, breathing. My partner and mum were amazing.
I delivered at 1:15 so once I got going it really wasn't that bad. 7hrs 20 of active labour.
Take home comforts with you pillows, flannels, anything you think will make you comfortable. Trust your instinct and speak up for yourself. In the early stages I had a bath and walked around no problem.
If the gels hadn't worked they would have rested me 24 hours then used sycontin hormone drip.

Elvi's advice was the same as mine - you can still have an active birth!!
Try not to worry - you will be amazing!!

Managed until 11:30 am sorry on 22/01

Oh my goodness, each and every time I look on here now there's new babies!

Congrats to fourlegs and anneli and anyone else I've missed! The ladies in my NCT class are all starting to produce their babies now - scary and exciting.

Am still convinced my baby will go to 40w+as she is happily tucked and wriggling in there. I've not had a Braxton Hicks never mind a proper contraction yet and my due date is Friday!

Anyone else more tired than a big massive tired thing? I've got to do all my "jobs" between the hours of 8am and midday at the moment as I can't muster any energy for anything beyond that time. Neil the sofa sloth from Gogglebox ain't got nothing on me.