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

[turtle23]

New thread to fill with birth stories

3cm dilated, soft cervix, had a sweep. c'mon, c'mon, c'mon!

yup para, i was like that last week and week before. i am the slowest labourer in the west!

Turtle,..yours will come very quickly whilst on a shopping trip to Boots. This will secure you free nappies and bottom wipes for one year,...which is an especially good deal because no-one could have foreseen that it was triplets after all!! It will be in the local press and you will becime a local heroine for being such a trooper. Howzat?!

Hello MMH, yours will be similar to turtle, except that you manage to make it through Boots into the Jimmy Choo concession of the department store and secure free fabulous shoes for life and a modelling contract for you and LO to promote good footwear practice for girls from birth. (Never too young for a chick to have a highly developed sense of shoe appreciation.)

and me? will i go for another 2 months?

good god, i can be said to be 10 months pregnant can't i? HORRENDOUS!

Hmmm...not sure if I like the sound of triplets...
Merry-glad to hear it! Looks like we may be losing you to the other side today!

MB,..at least another to months. However, on the bright side your little darling will come out so well developed he will be doing a su doko when he arrives. His first words will be Mummy Berry, do you think that a five goes in that square?

You will also save pounds on the child care costs and also have a child old enough to not only sleep through immediately, but be able to bring you a cup of tea in the morning together with a lightly buttered teacake to boot. Not all bad for you MB. Don't rush it gal!!!

And me, please! Still here, still nothing, induction tomorrow at only 40+9 but think it is for the best as am becoming increasingly paranoid - woke up at 4am this morning convinced that there was something wrong, pains in tummy and couldn't feel the baby move. Spent an hour prodding it and wondering whether to ring the hospital. Eventually fell asleep again and everything back to normal this morning - can't blame baby for not wanting to dance in the middle of the night!

Plus DS has a horrible cold and temperature and I feel bad that I can't be a "proper" mum to him at the moment - his gran and DH are taking him to all his groups at the moment as I just can't face anyone asking... Gah!

Anyway, littleducks hope everything went well with your scan - I used to worry as DS is very physical and used to jump on me in the mornings which often ended up with a nice heavy knee or elbow to the baby, indredibly painful but the midwife said nothing was going to hurt it in there. Fingers crossed for you!

ROFL thank you, oh wisest of wise women...

goes off to post in the scary looking gifted and talented section, surelya fate worse than death

lol JayneF, am loving your stories

talking (flippantly, please excuse me) about bump injuries, poor ds1 ran at me during a contraction this a.m. and BOINGED off rock hard bump falling on his arse. The look on his little face

Oooooh MB - that is great news! Won't be long for you now surely?

Like the sound of some free Jimmy Choo action, can't wait to wear sexy shoes again! Lots of lightning and thunder here, I really don't wanna go to my mw appointment and keep having a panic that DP is going to get stuck in London and then I'll go into labour [paranoid freak].

MMH - No no no no no no no no! This LO is staying IN until Tuesday next week at the earliest so the decorating is finished and the carpets are fitted. Ideally she'll wait until Wednesday so I can clean up the rest of the house too! Am quite happy to think that I am just having BHs and LO will follow my lead of always being slightly late (not due till 18th), but will turn up before I need to be induced . No pressure LO. JayneF is you could put in a word with the powers that be via the tea-leaves to help my plan work out I would appreciate it!

Am a bit confused about the scan date/LMP debate... how do you calculate your due date based on your LMP? Is that the wheel thing that the GP used at the very start? Or is there something else (sorry if that is a really dense question)!

Littleducks - Can't add anything helpful to all the advice that has already been posted, but am thinking of you and hope everything is ok.

CricketsMum, babycentre.co.uk has a calculator - here

Am a bit gutted as hadn't been paying much attention to LMP's when I got pregnant, so didn't have the faintest idea when it was!

Oh, MMH, here's hoping! 2 more NCT people have had their babies, so it's just me and one other left to go. I'm doomed to be last!

If I didn't have high BP before, i certainly do today. Went to MW appt and they hadn't written it down, so MW was leaving for the day when I caught her to say, um, I have an appt. Told her my whole story of needed my BP taken and since she was leaving she told me I'd have to go to day assessment.

So I called them, and they are very busy, and were annoyed with MW for leaving me in the lurch. They've told me to come in this afternoon, though. I offered to tell them my BP's from other day and have them look up my bloods and urines, but they said no, I better come in.

So, that should be fun!

Littleducks hope your scan went well and you get some reassurance.

MB I wish your LO would just get on with it. I'm going to have words with it when it arrives.

And can I just lodge a complaint about this weather. Bah, it's awful.

/end rant/

Thanks ibblewob
Anyone any idea as to whether LMP calculation is likely to be more accurate than scan dates? Hope not at that would put me as due on Sunday... which would scupper my carpet fitting plans!!

1 day over now... the hottest curry I could find at Tesco was NOT that hot!
Cricketsmum, I'll take your place in MMH's predictions for babies to arrive before the weekend!
Come on babies!

LOL Jaynef is this what the effects of entenox build up does to you?

Sod the Moet, we splashed out on a bottle of Tattinger in tesco on saturday, it's sitting there in the kitchen looking at me.

Knowing my luck, alcohol will still give me horrible indigestion after the birth so i won't be able to drink any of it

Ibblewob,...your will be extremely quick,...possibly between between back to back episodes of trash TV on UK Gold, so that you do not miss out. But I also predict that you may even be clever enough to time it with an episode of Homes under the hammer and just as the hammer falls for a small flea pit in East Gateshead for £35,000, your LO pops out shouting "Sold to the Lady on the Bed!" This jolts you into a massive reality check and you ditch your TV and start reading Jane Austen novels. You call your baby Heathcliffe instead of Jeremy-Kyle.

MB = That made me laugh. However, picture the scene in a day or two when DS1 repeats the experience but this time sinks blissfully into your wobbly airbag like belly like a duckling on a Dunlopillo bed!

Missing Heels- forgot to add to your prediction the effect of the dramatic wetaher. It does indeed prevent DP from immediate attendance, but in so doing, you are left alone, dazed and confused with all the housekeeping money, looking for a pair of sling backs that will match the colour of your birthing ball. With beautiful aplomb you get them just in time as DP waltzes through the delivery suite door to take THE most glam photo of post baby joy ever.

Crickets mum,...just polishing my ball (crystal, not birthing) and willadvise soonest

and yes, what's with this weather?!? How am I supposed to go for long walks when I'll just get blown in to the river?

Fit,...nothing for it then, just go and start making eyes at the bottle NOW and ravish it if necessary,...would be such a shame to waste it.

Cricket,...it is no good, you will need to go into Hospital on Sat and stay there for at least a week feining severe PN depression - which miraculously lifts a week later when DH/DP has had all carpets laid and wallpaper hung in the interim. You come home to a showroom type house, good enough to feature in Hello! magazine, where your brave story is read (and copied) by hundreds of other overdue mothers.

you know what, I can work with that!!

I was also wondering if any comparative research had been done on LMP dates v. scan dates. DS was only a couple of days after LMP date but 9 after scan date. He did have a HUGe head (98th centile and weight 25th,...still has a bighead at 17 mths).

I wonder if the dating scan takes a head measurement for age. Any body know the answer?

ok am back now

baby heartbeat and measurements fine
umbilical vein flow (not correct term) low but not imminent danger low

am 38 weeks tomorrow so will be monitored and poss induced if i get to due date

the painful bit is bruising but on me not baby so obv not great but not bad news

was seen in fau in the end as sonographer said i should be seen before leaving hosp and they were only people who could, seemed miffed that they were picking up cases not scheduled for them (sudden influx this am) but were lovely to me about it

sorry for this being bit disjointed but am so so tired now