Due March 2008- Alright everyone, let's see those babies!!

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New thread to fill with birth stories

oh that's a horrid shock littleducks. its all clumped together nastily for you i think. if i was in your situation i would unpick it this way, do feel free to ignore if this is presumptuous.

1. belt on bump. i was in car ++ yesterday and can't help but think that head of baby is so far protected now that they will only get bumped in much less important places

2. besides which, i should hope your scan has been ordered for reassurance or they would have sent you to a place with an active service out of hours

3. the hurting hasn't continued past a couple of hours - sounds like your bump did its protection job well and is recovering.

4. having to arrange your own care. you've too much on your plate to do this without support. Call the midwife team your MW belongs to. Tell them how you feel, don't be brave, ask for help making appt and getting results interpreted? It is not your responsibility when in need of help to ensure the NHS can talk to itself about what it should be doing. Insist on MW help.

5. you cannot second guess docs saying things like 'small for dates' or 'not very active'. One doc will say this about your measures, another will shrug it off as normal for you. Try and push it away as aworry or let it drop in a hole at your feet until someone has a convincing, clear explanation.

Thinking of you very much, wishing you much strenght xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

littleducks ...oh that's awful! But, as MB says, if they were that worried they'd never have let you go home?
Cricketsmum - the text I got said it was a boy!! Hope you can keep her at bay til the decorating's done...send the labour vibes round here if you don't want them!!!

Oh littleducks - poor poor you. I know how scary and overwhelming this sort of thing can be having had a fall a few weeks ago which necessitated a late night trip to hospital, so I really feel for you this morning.

Firstly, I echo everything merry says, particularly in reassuring you about how good the cushioning is in your tummy. That amniotic fluid really is amazing stuff (plus your baby's head also had the pelvis protecting it now if your bump is so low), and if the doctor was really worried last night there is no way he would have sent you home. Plus if he said the scan can be today or tomorrow that again says to me that he doesn't think there is any immediate worry. I know that won't be much comfort to you this morning as you'll still be shaken but I do think if it was serious then you would still be in hospital.

With regards to getting your scan today, your doctor last night should have written everything up in your notes and signed it. I would take a look and quote his name to the ultrasound receptionist and the specific details of what happened last night including that he specifically said you needed to get an appt today. If the doctor was a junior doctor, he should have got his decision confirmed and signed off by the senior doctor on duty last night so you may also have that doctor's name in your notes and I would quote that as well.

If you find the receptionist is unhelpful, then you should definitely get your midwife team involved. If at this point you still have no joy then I suggest that you and DH get down to the hospital and stand in front of the receptionist. You will need your DH to be the assertive one for you, as from my own experience I felt quite fragile for a good day or so afterwards and couldn't have been assertive on my own, but if you are both stood there with your notes from last night detailing the need for a scan and you say you won't leave until you get one then you are much harder to fob off. I really hope it doesn't get this far though and that they are able to sort out your scan without you having to press too hard for it.

Good luck, and let us know how you get on.

littleducks can't add anything more to what's already been said so well, hope you've managed to get hold of someone by now to help you through the maze. {{{hugs}}}

after yesterday feeling very depressed about the whole thing, decided to go whole hog on the natural means of induction. Got halfway on the first hurdle but having difficulty with positions to get there fully! .

Spent 1 1/2 hrs in the birthing pool this morning to try to relax a bit more, and have just demolished 1/2 fresh pineapple with core that was thoughtfully included in my organic box delivery this week Added grapes to that should get my insides going more effectively than any curry .

Cheering myself up with thoughts that if MB is finally on the way to giving birth, i may catch up soon Meanwhile, waiting in for m/w to check my bp again and trying not to get pissed off with MIL for phoning up to see how i was when they only left here about 6ish last night. Listening to lots of baroque music now as that's supposed to lower bp...though better if played directly through earphones into navel.

little ducks - lots of good advice posted, hope you manage to get some reassurance today x

LITTLEDUCKS, thinking of you, echo what others have said and i know its hard not to , but TRY NOT to worry, if the hospital had thought ANYTHING was untoward they would have kept you in!

Good luck, let us know how you get on

ok, i must admit that i might have been a bit hasty in judging hosp.... i phoned up at 9am on the dot am booked in for emergency appointement at 11.40am so fingers crossed.I tyhink that the woman who had to explain the scan thing to me just didnt understand the systems put in place for mlc patients as she deals with consultant patients and so gave a bit dodgy info, i think i will just go along and sit and wait till they find someone to read scan report, im sure that as a mlc patient i get to go to the fetal assessment unit for a run through whereas a consultant led care patient would be seen in their own consultants clinic.

Am in pain though, bump really hurting, am hoping that means i have hurt MY muscles but cushioned baby.

I was expecting them to raise concerns about babies size at midwife appointement on wed and wasnt too worried but somehow having a dr take one prod at you and say your miles too small is abit worrying, i suppose when he measured it is only 4cm or so.....

Its just worry combined with no sleep really! Bt i am proud of my staying calm mode last night as my bp was 105/61, i was sure that they would keep me in for high bp if nothing else so was doing lots of calm breathing!

Littleducks - glad you have an appt today without having to fight for it. Good luck!

Littleducks hope everything is going nice and smoothly - it is horrible having to wait for the appt and results and everything when all you wanna do is get everything checked out right now!!!

Hope you're keeping as calm as possible - what brilliant advice from MB and HQ earlier... I know you don't know me but am still thinking about you Littleducks...

Little Ducks...I was kicked in the bump by a horse at 38 weeks so I know it hurts. All I can say is that like any bruising, your tummy muscles and uterus are likely to ache for some time. My baby was fine, he hardly moved afterwrds but had hardly moved before either. Hope it goes well today.

Merry Berry and Fit...have either of you lamped anyone who has asked if you are still here?!

I am now a week overdu and very crampy today. Have had some clear mucus (like egg yolk) today. THis baby dancing about all over the place as per usual.

Threas so long I cannot recall,...but someone said it was their hospital s policy to take atient LMP date as correct rather than scan date if there was less than a week between the two. Any body else heard this policy?

ouch, sorry to hear it still hurts littleducks. by my time here you should be in your scan now, if they are running to time.

oh jayne, i am really really struggling to be nice to anyone who asks. wasn't even able to talk to my dad at the w/e! and my poor mum who is here can't talk about anything else except this sodding PG. she is really struggling to leave me alone as i need (eg last night 4pm, in middle of contraction, on my own, silent, just how i need it. knock knock there she is...)

i know, this makes me ungrateful cow numero uno, and i tell her this and really big up her housework childcare help, but i swear any involvement in this labour from outside, slows things down, makes it harder etc. even DP timing contractions at one stage made them go slower!

Aww MB, I know,.it is odd isnt it? So many lovely people asking about you and you just cannot be bothered to talk about it at all. I agree with you about just need ing to be on you own...I was the same with DS and I am getting that way with this one.

You are not ungrateful honey,..you are just being very instinctive. Most animals I have ever been involved with take themselves off to dothis thing when it gets going. It is a focus thing I think.

However, I will be offering my lap top to my ewes in the spring who want to contact ewesnet when the lambs start niggling!

Am thinking about you gal. Keep safe!

Merryberry, you still here!!! - sorry i;m not being flippant, but i really thought you would be somewhere far away from a PC now!
Know how you feel about these questions....

"haven't you had it yet"
"cmon, wheres that baby"
"When are you going to give birth"
"still there then..." - normally asked when i answer the phone!

GRRRR!!

Jayne, it may have been me saying about my hospital taking my Dates rather than the scan ones. At my 20week scan the consultant said to me, as there was less than a week between mine and the dating scan, they would go by my dates..which i was fine with, until now!! I am 13 days over now by my dates, and was being pressured (i felt) into an induction....so when i saw the consultant last week, i reminded him of the discrepancy, and he has re-adjusted things (hehehe!) so by their dates i am now 9 days over. However he did book my induction for this Thursday, so am trying everything before then.......!

Whats with these overdue sprogglets!!!!!

Hey Jaysthird,...not noticed you around so assumed you were occupied! Maybe these early March babies are planning one bis spetacular entry together so as to crash mumsnet site!! Hee Hee!

Interesting re dates,...ade sense to me as DS was 9 days over scan date but only a couple over my date ( of which I was certain) Hope same is true of this bump.

Also read on a thread that in France due date is considered to be 40 weeks +10. Sadly, am in deepest Yorkshire not on the Riviera!

Have you been induced with other LO's?

jayne - by my lmp i would be due 4- 6 days before the scan date. there not supposed to change it here if its less then a week. but the scan person did and wrote unsure beside my lmp dates even though i had told her they were definite!cnat help but hope that im right and shes wrong as im there fore due 18/20th instead of 24th.

merry - my early labour contractions with dd2 were just like that. i had them all night, not too painful but i couldnt sleep through them. went into hospital in the am to see what was happening and the gave me a sweep which made things hurry up. so you nver know it could be early labour!

littleducks - hope your scan has gone well x

hi to everyone else, i get all excited when i come on this thread now as i keep on expecting someone to have given birth but it seems were having a bit of a slow start to the month. hopefully we wont end up with too many april babies!!

Haven't been around as havent' wanted to be a depressing bore, going on about how bloody shit all this waiting around is....!!!!

I was induced with DD, waters leaked for two days, with no dilation, so got tied down to the 'mechanical midwife monitoring machine' and drip etc etc, ended up with epidural and stirrups delivery... just what i wanted with a bad back and bad SPD....

DS was 9 days over, but no induction with him, very different - although he did have shoulder dystocia.....

Third time round i want to be heard!!! with people listening to what i want, not what they think i should do, but i guess i can only push it so far!

Aww Jaysthird, come on over and have a good old moan gal!! You are among a host of overdue bores here! Your pattern suggests births get better each time,...so from Gypsy RosieJayne, I predict for you Wednesday 9.30 am (thereby avoiding induction), gas and air only, two hours contractions and Baby 3 slips out like a bar of soap so no stitches, in time for morning tea and a bacon sarnie. That do ya?!

Very interesting about hospital policy re LMP and scan dates. Not heard of it before,..so am happier so might not be a week over afterall

hello fellow depressed mums2be

BP was up to 92 today, not helped by me bursting into tears on the poor m/w as soon as she got in through the door! But she was lovely and reassuring when i talked through circumstances with her. Have appt to see consultant on weds pm, taking DH along to make sure i don't cave in under pressure.

And yes, jaynef, am ready to kill the next person to text me, but more likely to be MIL who just can't leave me alone.

Am off to have a panic now about what needs to be sorted should i end up in hosp...haven't worried until now about dogsitter and transport (dh doesn't drive) but had better get contingency plan in place

liking the sound of my labor, thanks!!!!

No problem Jaysthird, happy to oblige. Just made another cup of tea...so Fit, can now predict your birth pattern...

Starts with Police visiting you to discuss alledged assault on middle aged woman with same surname as you,...you claim diminished responsiblility and extreme provocation at which point they boys in blue agree, they whip you to delivery suite via the nearest tesco express for emerbency chocolatisation and a bottle of fiz for after... you arrive in a sugar fit of mini eggs and in the time it takes to open the third bag you have dilted effortlessly to a point where the only pain relief you need is to bite down on the cork of the Moet (helpfully ripping it out at the same time) baby flows out into a read made champagne reception and has instant skin to alcohol contact. MIL does not recover very short term memory so never realises from whom the left hook ca Perfect!

Anybody else overdue want to cross my palm with silver (ie silver foil off a creme egg will do) and get their birth plan in advance?! Hee hee

Jayne-not overdue but could certainly use an accurate prediction of when this little terror is going to come!! How is it possible to hav BH every few minutes for 2 1/2 weeks and counting?

Urrrghh this waiting mullarkey is SO dull. My predictions are that the following will have had babies by the weekend (I know, I know, I'm picking people who's dates mean they can't go much longer anyway!):

Me
Jaysthird
JFly
Imjin (Haven't heard from her for a while, maybe she has popped?)
Merryberry
CricketsMum
Fitnfortyone

I think we're going to have a flurry of new babies as we can't go on being preggers forever!

My hosp policy is to go from LMP dates if less than seven days in between. Hence why they changed my EDD!

Hello

My last MW appt said baby was 4/5ths engaged and I could go any second so get that emergency number stored in the mobile!!! Since then, I have had at least 3 sleepless nights of major Braxton Hicks which were convincingly painful but have since stopped COMPLETELY.

LO seems to have turned itself around and is no longer in the optimal position for delivery (although still seems head down, just that my belly button is disappointingly dipping as if it has turned back 2 back...)

Are you all feeling/being sick a lot of the time when the "Braxton Hicks" ie painful contracting kicks in? I feel like throwing up pretty much all the time just now but no signs of a "show" or anything like that...

Just wondering...