Due Dec 2007 - All I want for Christmas is a baby!!!

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Hola

Still not able to eat much in the evenings - although a mouthful of Mylanta does help. However have discovered that generally OK to eat a biggish mean midday - which is just as well with all these Xmas lunches!!

Overall I've gained about 14kg I think (circa 30lb) which seems OK by comparison to last PG when I gained about 20kg! Am also relying on having a cupla extra kgs of amniotic fluid

Here's a due date calculator if you want to see the impact of longer cycles etc calculate

Oh and it's Americal so you have to put the month first!!

Furry, doing a quick calc if they say you're due 10 Dec, then on a 28 day cycle the first day of your last period would have been 5 March right? If then put in 37 day cycle this moves your due date from 10 Dec to 19 Dec - quite a difference!! It also estimates a conception date of 27 March vs 18 March which might help you line things up?!

skid - At both of my scans due date was 14th, lmp date is the 10th according to m/w. 40 weeks from my lmp is actually the 8th. M/w said if they went with that then they would use my scan date. I'm not sure where they got the 10th from and I think I am confusing you all as well as myself I kow dd's don't really mean all that much but am just concerned about being induced too early than necessary iyswim?

Buzzy - Thanks for the link, as with another calculator I have tried when I put in my lmp and 37 day cycle it gave me EDD of the 17th. That would actually mean if I was to be induced then I would only be 41 weeks rather than 42. Am sooooo confused

Buzzy - X-posted with you. My last LMP was 3rd March, that's why I'm confused with the 10th December as an EDD even if I had a 28 day cycle. Maybe I'm missing something . You are right, there is quite a difference in dates which is what worries me.

Furry my DD by LMP is 24th December (full moon!!!), by my ov dates I work it out as 29th and by scan dates it is 27th (from 6 week scan) or 28th (by 11 week scan)! MWs have been using the date from the first scan though. I think its all very inexact anyway. With DS2 my cycles were so long that my date from LMP was sometime in October and he was a January baby! He was 9 days over the date they gave me at the first scan but TBH he did not look overdue - no long nails or cracked skin or any of the other signs friend's late babies had. I find it very hard to believe that all babies are exactly the same size at 12 weeks or whenever they do the scans!

Melly & Furry - I hope my cat is trying to tell me something but I don't think baby arriving is imminent! Neither does MW! Baby is apparently posterior today which she cheerfully told me often means a longer labour. Also baby's head is just resting on the pelvis "like an egg in an egg cup" so no signs of engaging yet either! That will please DH, he wants to go banger racing this weekend! BP is slowly creeping up too, have not had BP this high for about 10 years! Thankfully it is still low at 115/65 but it is normally 80/55.

I don't think they can make you be induced Furry, as long as the baby is happy then I'm sure they will let you go a bit further if you insist.

Thanks everyone for your reassurance on sweeps/dates/induction etc - basically they just date us to make it convenient don't they? It's all so vague this is a baby, nature, not a machine yet the medical profession seem to want us to conform and fit into an exact time frame!

Totally agree Beckle that all babies are surely not the same size at the 12week scan. When I first went to docs i had worked out from my 32-36 day cycle that I would be due between the 13th and 15th Dec and the doc agreed, but when i had scan they said baby was bigger and gave me the 7th as my dd!!

Also agree that def. want to try and avoid induction at all costs, i truely believe this LO will come of it's own accord when it's good and ready! (even if the waiting is driving me slowly crazy!!)

furry - you don't have to be induced anyway but if you tell them about your long cycles and your DD according to your scan then I'm sure they will be very happy to let you continue to see if s/he arrives naturally - bit wierd that they're not using your scan dd anyway...

beckle - my goodness your baby doesn't half move around!! One day breech, the next posterior - you'd think s/he would have run out of room by now..!

My mw has just been round. She was actually quite nice this visit and was v. sympathetic about my pelvic pain and actually wrote on my notes that I would prefer not to be induced - never had my preferences noted before - thinks the baby will be late though and is talking about post- rather than pre-Xmas... ah well like cazzybabs says - easier to be pg than to cope with 2 or 3 at home, chin remains firmly up...

cazzy - hope your bp comes down, and beckle hope yours doesn't go up anymore. Mine sounds similar - is now 120/75 which is fine but is usually much lower

Think I will mention to my m/w at next app on Monday about my concerns re dates etc. She already said they would probably want to take me in a few days before 42 weeks for induction as induction date would be Xmas eve and wouldn't probably do it then.

Skid - Glad you had a good m/w app and she noted your preferences

Beckle - Your baby certainly does wriggle a lot. How encouraging of your m/w about longer labour Hope your blood pressue doesn't go up anymore. Mine was lower than normal at my last app but I don't think they are too concerned with low blood pressure anyway.

My leg still hurts even to walk on

Yes this baby does move around a lot! I tend to carry quite a lot of water so I guess that must give baby more room to swoosh about? Or perhaps I just have a baggy uterus after 2 previous big bubbas!!!

Your MW sounds nice Skid! I had another of those today who writes "feels well" on notes whatever you say!

My friend who had her DS recently went 11 days over the date she was given by her scan but by the date that she BD'd (only one day that month as she had been really ill) she was actually a few days early. The medics would not have it though!

Cramp is a bugger isn't it Macdoodle, the sore muscle afterwards is sometimes worse than the cramp itself.

So my blood pressure is superhigh (160/90)...I have to go in to the day assessment unit ...better to be safe than sorry i know, but I am not going to be allowed my homebirth!

So sorry Cazzy, not sure what more I can say . Like you said, better to be safe than sorry but must be a diaspointment for you. Are you just going in for monitoring?

Yes - every binking pregnancy I get sent (tis very annoying)...

I am not that gutted about the homebirth (well a little) but I had thought is seemingly unlikely from about the middle of the 3rd trimester.

Can see why it's annoying though. So when do you have to go in? Will you have to stay?

Sorry to hear things not going to plan Cazzy

Everyone doesn't want to be induced - I can't wait - is that wrong? I'm soo ready for baby to be here, but I know what you mean about shifting them before they are ready.

hi just to let you all know i can now migrate to the post natal boards.
i was taken in for induction on thurs and my DD was bornon sat night at 20.04 weighing 8lb 13oz. she was just under two weeks early.

hope everything goes ok for everyone else due in the rest of december

Ambi - I don't think it's wrong and I completley understand what you mean about wanting baby here. I am not against induction at all, I'm just concerned that for me personally I'd be induced at aroud 41 weeks because of my long cycles etc instead of 42 weeks and if given the time baby may come of own accord.

Had a really long, not fantastic labour with DD, ended up with ventouse delivery, all sorts of pain relief that I didn't want but felt pressured to have that did nothing for me and felt completley out of control.

I think with induction the rates of an assisted delivery go up and I really want to avoid another ventouse/foreceps delivery as much as possible. It took me a good few weeks to recover down below and was in agony, it was hard enough with a newborn but will be even harder this time with a 2.4 year old as well, so as much as I want baby here I'd prefer things to take the natural approach rather than tell baby when it should be ready IYSWIM? I hope that hasn't caused offence to anyone, it's just how I feel at the moment and if I needed to be induced early because of risks to baby etc I'd have no problem with it at all

Saying all that, I wasn't actually induced with DD anyway, just was an awful labour

vnmum - Congratulations Glad all ok and well. Fantastic weight too

Ooh, poor you Cazzy, shame about the homebirth. Hope you feel ok.

vnmum - congratulations!! How lovely for you. She is even heavier than my boy, at 8 lb 5. Did you have an easy delivery? (or as can be hoped for anyway).

Yes Skid, my name does refer to the state of my breasts - they are very festive in that way!

Oh i've had my first experience of piles today. I've never felt pain like it!!! Can't bend, sit or stand without being in agony!!! Any suggestions??

Ozzy - join the club. It's great fun isn't it. Anusol and soft loo roll. . I've moaned about it and once you bring it up it is amazing how many other people admit to having them.

wizzka - keep the soft loo roll for afterwards too - major blessing when having a wee - I managed only a graze and no stitches but still - weeing stings a tad

No other babies yet? Cazzy - poo about no home birth but better safe than sorry I suppose? Fingers crossed all goes swimmingly however things happen for you

Off to Tesco's now - exciting life this motherhood bit although at least I have a bit more energy today - DD2 (how cool to be able to type that at last) is feeding at 3 to 4 hrly so at least I managed some sleep last night

Keeping my fingers (and now also legs!) crossed for you all