Due May05-part2

[northstar]

I live in Ireland, due May 12th. V happy SAHM (36)to ds 2.5yrs. Heard baby's heartbeat today, scan end november.

Hi all and welcome babydot. Brighteyes, glad your sickness is gone thats great news but be careful eating too many sweets - It is really quite easy to develop gestational diabetes during pregnancy from eating too much sugar I got it when pg with ds my gp said it was probably from drinking way too much 7up (7cans a day !!!) She had developed it during her 5th pg as she had sweets in her pocket all day and she's a GP but was too busy to eat properly. Sorry to be such a misery but would feel bad if i didnt say anthing

I hope not for your sake Brighteyes...my last baby was 10 days late. I was seriously hacked off at the end and doing everything imaginable to shift him! I was 24 hours away from buying castor oil

northstar, you've really reassured me with your 7up story! Every day I crave a can of coke and I've been giving in and wondering if it was a bit naughty. I really need to cut down on the sweets though.

Oh no - bang goes my decaff diet pepsi - but being diet maybe it doesn't have too much sugar?

And I suppose the two fresh Tesco raspberry trifles I ate yesterday (the big ones) might be a bit naughty too!!

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Brilliant news Myermay!!

Myermay, you can always join me and we can be thread straddlers together. Had a nuchal scan yesterday, and she gave me a date of 29 May. So, I definitely belong on the May thread. But, I've grown to like both threads, so I'm going to straddle.

I am hoping for a caesarean, so that should definitely put me in may, as I think the usual practice is to do them a week or two before the due date so as not to risk you going into labour.

Anyone else planning a caesarean?

I just can't stop eating crisps and chocolate either.
myermay and uwila, I hope you two stay on this thread too

I am really hoping for a totally natural birth but given how late I was last time and that the hospital induces at 11 days over, I am a bit worried. I've read that being induced starts a cycle of intervention. Has anyone here been induced before and can reassure me?

Good news Myermay!

I am soooooo happy for you, I have been worried sick literally this morning about my scan this avo but you have really calmed me down now.

Did you get a pic of our bubba?

They are trying an ultra-sound but think they will have to do an internal so am currently downing lots of water, fit to burst! he he

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!

Good news Myermay!

I am soooooo happy for you, I have been worried sick literally this morning about my scan this avo but you have really calmed me down now.

Did you get a pic of our bubba?

They are trying an ultra-sound but think they will have to do an internal so am currently downing lots of water, fit to burst! he he

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!

I went over last time by two weeks. I had a sweep (yuck, ouch!), then was admitted that night to start induction. Progress was slow. To make a long story short, I ended up with an emergency caesarean 36 hours after the start of the induction.

Sorry, I know this isn't what you wanted to hear. But, the reason for this was because my little acrobat wrapped the cord around her neck TWICE, and around her body and foot. So she was literally tied up and notheing was going to send her down.

When the contractions were induced, it tightened the cord around her neck and when she went into fetal distress, we headed for cesarean. There was no hesitation on my part. If it weren't for the medical technology that today gets such a bad wrap DD (and probably me too) would be dead.

SO, I hope you don't read this as a horror story. I see it as a very happy ending. She had a very good apgar score after birth, and I didn't find the recovery from caesarean to be bad at all... oh, and I never had to sit on a ring. AND, I won't have any incontinence issues as a result of the things that get torn and otherwise damaged down there the "natural" way.

I totally understand that some people find it very important to go the natural route. But, if you end up in caesarean, it is probably for the better.

However, all of that being said, I think second babies tend to show up sooner than first ones.

Thank you so much for sharing your story Uwila! PLease don't think that I am anti c-section because I'm not. After 36 hours in labour even with no complications I would have been screaming for a surgeon I can tell you If the baby is in distress, you get it out. Lots of my friends have had c-sections and heartily recommend it. I am just terrified of operations! I am convinced that my dates were wrong tbh because ds didn't look like a late baby when he came out.

Uh, what does a late baby "look" like?

Don't mind sharing my (our) story. It's a bit ironic, actually. I went into the hospital with the logic that I had two sisters and a mother who collectively had six children, and no one had ever had any complicationas at all. So it would therefore be the same for me. I didn't even consider cesarean when I went in. But, you are so right. When you are lying there with a needle in your back, and they start calling the consultant in because the baby's heart rate is dropping... you can't help but freak out.

I do remember that they handed me a consent form to sign, I signed. And then I started wondering who was who as all these people started appearing out of no where in the theatre. THEN, I started askingpeople what their role was... like I was going to interview them or saomething. AFter about 20 secends of these conversations I just thought to myself I must be bloody whacko if I think I'm going to approve the operating team. It's kind of funny now to look back at how I behaved.

So, this time, I'm planning a caesarean so I don't have to go through the emergancy routine again. Just hope the consultant goes for it!

Myermay, thats great, scans are brilliant aren't they and it'll be great to have you still on the May thread.
Brighteyes sorry to hear they are giving you loads of work at the moment - I expect thats the last thing you need right now, hope the pressure eases soon.
Thanks for the story Uwila, it's good to hear a good story about c-sections, I've been scared of having one as I've heard it can be really painful after and make things difficult with a new baby, but it sounds like your experience wasn't bad fortunately, which is reassuring.
Welcome babydot. I know what you mean about drinking loads of water - I had to drink 1 1/2 pints and they kept pushing my bladder during the scan - was really worried about holding it in !

Apparently late babies are wrinkly because they've been in the water for so long according to my MIL! She's convinced that my dates were wrong too.

rotfl at you interviewing the theatre staff Uwila! It must have been very scary and surreal. I think that I would ask for an elective this time too just in case. One of my friends had a similar experience in that after 20 hours of labour they decided that the head was too big and did an emergency c-section. She had an elective the second time around and discovered that the 2nd baby was smaller and would have fitted but who would take that chance? Not me.

If anyone wants to hear about a fairly boring, textbook birth, let me know Actually, I did have a complication afterwards in that I didn't lose any blood at the delivery but started haemorrhaging (sp?) 3 hours later. Earned me a 2nd jab of syntometrine and a fetching hospital gown and string knickers ensemble because I had soaked every item of clothing I had brought! Hope no-one is eating their lunch

Hi Girls!

Well the first scan to detect my dates and I am only 5 weeks he he. Well Dot truly is a Dot!

Long time to go yet but I don't care, it is funny how looking at a fuzzy screen can make you feel so happy.

Suppose I should be on the July group but I think I will stay where I am he he

The scan is lovely isn't it, babydot?

So, has anyone tried any gender prediction tests/old wives tales? I've done the needle test and the chinese test which both say boy. The online tests say girl but I'm convinced that it's a boy. I'm carrying all out front and only a boy could make me feel this miserable

Hi Babydot, glad your scan was ok, they're amazing aren't they.
Logic, as far as predicting I'm not sure - the Chinese chart says boy, but the pendulum/ring/needle test says girl, if boys make you feel rough I expect it must be a boy! There definitely is only one in there though!
I really don't mind, but I think dp would rather have a boy as he thinks he will relate to him better and be able to take him fishing etc. I think he'd be great with a girl to though.

I tried asking at yesterday's nuchal if she could tell the sex. She said "oh no, not this early". But that's not what my baby book says. I am definitely not one of those mums who "just knows". Afraid I have no idea. Oh well Ill have to wait for the 20 wk scan.

good news about the scans ladies. FWIW I'm an imposter here too, as my official due date is 26th April. But all my scans have put me at about 3rd May, and ds was 12 days late.

What did my late baby look like? covered in shit (apparently quite common for a late baby). Actually, this has been something I've found to stress about recently. I reckon I had a fairly good birth last time - mainly cos we took it as it came and had no expectations, therefore we saw most things positively (and it was a fairly easy one). But recently I've started thinking "what if my waters don't have meconium in them? then I won't have the labour accelerated etc. etc." In other words, I have started to have expectations that this birth will be like the last. I just train myself out of these thoughts!

Last time I was so convinced it was a boy. At first it was a joke (based on when & how we had conceived him!). But by the time I was in transition I just knew. This was partly because his heartbeat, which was constantly monitored, was apparently male. This time I haven't a clue. I am guessing male. Hopefully all will be revealed on 14th December - next scan (mind you, if they say it's a girl, I'll probably not believe them and think it's just a boy with a tiny willy!). Do any of you have any hunches this time?

Would love a girl because my parents have 3 grandsons at the moment and would be over the moon with a grandaughter but deep down I think I'm having a boy. Don't know why I feel so positive about it but when ever I think of the baby I think of it as a boy.

Saying that in my dreams I always have a daughter.

We not going to find out from the scan, both dp and myself have decided to keep it as a suprise.
We've already got names selected for a boy and girl so at least we are prepared on that front.

Fisis - Go on tell us ....... how and when did you conceive him/her? Mine was a surprise, just realised the st's/tampax pack still unopened on shelf for ages so did a test to prove i wasnt and i was. Must've been at home as we hadnt been anywhere for ages

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Good mornin' everyone. Ah, the hospital saga. Well, it has a happy ending. After Kingston and West Mid turned me dow, my GP called to say I may have to consider St. Peters, and I said "no how, no way!!!" (or something like that). Anyway, so she suggested I may need to consider London, and I said that was fine. She asked if I preferred Westminster or Queen Charlotte. And I said "Queen Charlotte, please". So, she referred me and I got a letter from them less than a week later saying I had been accepted for "Consignment" and an appointment for a booking in in Mid December.

The funny thing is, if someone had said to me two months ago that I could go to any NHS hospital in the country I wanted, I would have said Queen Charlotte as my first choice. So, I had to jumpt trhough a lot of hoops and possibly endure a bit of what I consider to be unnecessary stress. But, I got what I wanted. So, I'm a happy patient now.

My advice to anyone who ever is assigned to a hospital where they really don't want to go is to simply stand up and refuse very early on. They can't make you do anything against your will.

Oh, and yes, I'm hoping for an elective c. But, of course I am well aware that I need to convince a consultant to agree to this. One of the reasons I wanted to go to Queen Charlotte is because they have a high elective c rate, and so I hope that they will be open to my desire for another c. I'm aware that some (but not all) consultants regard a previous c as valid justification for another one.