Due in April 2007 - follow the light babies, follow the light ............ there's a stealth polar bear at the end!

[EllieKthePA]

in case you're wondering, Katy44 is the Polar Bear

afternoon girlies!

hope you're all doing ok. Have just had a bit of a catch up while T is having a nap.

Come on Katy and Maveta!!! Have had a quick look at the other thread. Hope that things start happening for you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON !!!!!!!!!

CD - lol at your dh saying you're talking to people who don't really exist. Mine says "are you going to talk to your real friends now?" Meaning 1- I don't have any in RL! And 2-He doesn't think you're real either!! Men - meh!

peneloperabbit congratulations Can't wait to hear more. Hope you are doing well and resting up and relaxing and enjoying you lovely little bundle xxx

isabellymoi HURRAY!!!!! SO PLEASED for you and that you avoided the dreaded induction. Can't wait to hear all about what happened. Lots of love to you, dh and baby James xxx

char hope that things are happening for you xx

bugmum - great news!! Come on lady, you can do it!!

Love and labour vibes all round to you today. Come on we need another baby to coo over!!!

Hope someone out there (Char or Emmy???) is having a baby .....

Just popping on quickly while DH is dropping girls at nursery - then wants the computer back.....

Oooooh, Bugmum - Great stuff honey - Hope stuff starts happening for you really soon!

Come on babies - swim, swim, swim .....

Perhaps we really have scared them off with the threat of the Stealth Polar Bear!!!?

Right - back to unloading washing machine and drying up dishes .....

Hope someone out there (Char or Emmy???) is having a baby .....

Just popping on quickly while DH is dropping girls at nursery - then wants the computer back.....

Oooooh, Bugmum - Great stuff honey - Hope stuff starts happening for you really soon!

Come on babies - swim, swim, swim .....

Perhaps we really have scared them off with the threat of the Stealth Polar Bear!!!?

Right - back to unloading washing machine and drying up dishes .....

Whoops!

Ha ha haaaa! You all thought I was off having a baby! Yeah, right, this little one is just too comfy.

Just thought I would make you laugh - dh had jinxed me by putting some champagne in the fridge (he must have done it last night). No wonder I didn't have a baby last night.

Should I take it out and hide it?

No, get your DH to drink some of it so he's too drunk to drive. You're guaranteed to go into labour then.

Have just been to the co-op, they've just re-opened after refurbishment. There were balloons everywhere that they were handing out to kids. I hate balloons, can cope with them blown up and about the place but hate watching people blow them up, it's that waiting for the bang thing. Anyway, at the till, one of the girls was blowing up a balloon. I'm an adult, I can handle it. As I was being served, and having a minor contraction, the woman serving me said "See how far you can blow that up before it pops"!
Aargh. I almost asked her to stop, but managed just to avoid watching her. Which made me look really rude as I also had to avoid eye contact with the woman serving me!

maveta - are you still about?

Katy, really all that way

Can you hear ds now? He's crying for his bottle

No, cos he doesn't have a scream like a foghorn like his mum

Let's wait to see what you sound like at pushing time

I hate balloons too katy - they really scare me!!

Hello Emmy - was hoping you might be off having a baby, but no such luck, eh!!?

I cannot bend down AT ALL now - It hurts too much .....

Really hoping these minor contractions are leading to something katy - sounds exactly how my labour with my 1st started - hope that gives you hope!!

I moo like a heifer!!

Eddas - have you seen that episode of Friends? That woman who goes mmm-mmm, that'll be me
Dippy, is it back pain or abdomen pain? (and do you mind me calling you Dippy, or would you prefer 'Captain'?)
How long was your 1st labour then?

I LOVE freinds! With dd was feeling very much like Rachael, I came in first and she's off before me especially when one woman came in was examined and straight to the delivery suite, i'd been there hours by then, hours

Can just hear you, 'ermhumpf, that was a strong one!!!'

Hey ladies - nothing exciting to report here - few little twinges but well I feel as far away from going into labour as it is possible to feel I think!!!

Still, I've washed and cleaned my car - cant have the little one coming home in a dirty car!!!

Oh and I have organised some people to come round and quote for some gardening work!!!

Got a friend that I used to work with coming round later on so best get the hoover but over and some make up on else she might get frightened!!!

It's abdomen pain and upper back pain - I understand the abdomen pain in conjunction with labour / childbirth; but the UPPER back pain ....

Dippy is fine - "Captain" makes me feel a little 'gay'!

Don't even go there with my 1st labour ...... it was 40 hours, I'm afraid - I'm sure yours will be much quicker. It had a lot to do with DD1 being back-to-back and having an enormous head; also having a bitch of a MW who scared me and being on my back for the entire labour.

Ahem.

Sorry.

Have fun gmm.
Am very impressed at your car cleaning, I might be just about to start the basic tidying I meant to do this morning!

That sounds a bit of a nightmare with your MW!
But the pains that came and went were the start of something were they?

Hoovering has been done ..... and not by me!!

I take it the midwife told you to stay on your back?

Yes, the coming and going pains started at about 4am and continued all day .... they only really increased in intensity at about 7/8pm - I had a bath and the contractions went completely nuts - my stomach was contorting like something out of Alien ... and I though water was suppose to slow everything down .....

Went into hospital about 2am, only 2/3cm dilated, so they sent me home - Think my waters went just before I left hospital (had a big wee, but realise in hindsight, it was a bit TOO BIG ) Back in hospital about 5am, 7cm, into delivery ...... born at lunchtime .......

40 hours??? Dear god!!!!

To be honest I didnt mind cleaning the car - went to one of those jet wash thingys - think I amused the locals though.. 9 month pregnant lady battling with a power washer thing... still at least its done!!!

Its the baby show up here this weekend - am hoping and praying that I will be far too busy having baby/being at home with baby to attend... but at the moment its not looking promising. still there is supposed to be loasds of freebies... I wonder what I would get if my waters went there...

Well, she didn't encourage me to try any other positions and for some "goodness knows why" reason decided that it was a really good idea for me to be strapped up to a monitor for my entire labour ..... Realise now, that wasn't necessary AT ALL and I would have been soooooo much better off without the monitor on, up on my knees - Think it would have halved my labour at least .....

OOoooooh, baby freebies, GMM - You must go and gush there if you haven't already had him / her!