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

[turtle23]

New thread to fill with birth stories

Jfly-Yup, the date has come and gone so he's in the clear. His name is Pascal. Really.

Hi everyone,
I'm a mother again! Baby was due 3rd March. Had elective C section (medical reasons) on 25th Feb, Lucca Edward is perfect and I am blissfully in love with my second son.
Good luck to all you other Due March 2008ers and see you on the other side!
xxx

Yay! Congratulations, thequietone!

Lovely name. Hope you are all well.

well done thequietone. that's a really nice name, glad all is ok.
I've got 12 days left to edd, but really fed up.Keep talking to lo and asking him/her to get into position and start moving. Hasn't worked so far.
Hope everyone else is getting a chance to put their feet up and take it easy.

Good afternoon everyone, it is lovely to hear peoples labour stories although i am very jealous.

Can not even explain how tired, emotional and how short my temper is at the moment.

Is there anyone else expecting twins left to give birth on the March thread ?

Very ready for these babies now even though i know i am going to have my hands full when they arrive.

Congratulations thequietone! I love all this baby news

Oh modsaluk - you definitely win the prize for perseverance if only because everyone says twins arrive early but yours just don't seem to have heard that story. I can't begin to imagine how much more tired and emotional you must be than the rest of us at this stage.

Re boobs, I'm going to see if I win the nursing bra size prize. I've just been fitted and Bravissimo are expecting me to be a 36K once my milk comes in. The biggest nursing bra available only seems to go to an L cup, so if they get any bigger than that then I'll be having to get my bras specially made. Eeek...

congratulations, thequietone! I hope you are healing well, xxxxxxxxxxxx

Still here then merry (don't whack me!!)

am super niggly today. been rescanned and baby looks 7lb already and consultant will decide my fate 2mo - YIPPEE

6 mile walk through the woods, 4 cups raspberry leaf tea, nip stim, hour's visualisation. I would eat a curry, but I think it unwise given my current state. Any other ideas other than pineapple? I know they won't work unless he's ready, but... Oh, and sex is out. Have joys of horrific thrush as well.

hello all - lovely big welcome to the new additions - such fantastic positive stories! I'm now a couple of days overdue but very relaxed about it. Desperately trying to bank sleep but of course have now taken to coughing all night and when I do sleep having nightmares which isn't ideal but nevermind! Trying to enjoy these last few days/week without having a baby in the house - about to watch crappy tv before DH comes home and we crack open a large bottle of wine...surely it can't matter now can it!
Anyway - I'm enjoying reading up even though I can't keep up. Sorry to htose feeling frustrated and in pain with the waiting and to those of you due at the end of the month- enjoy every moment as you can. it all goes too quickly in my view

OK, turtle how about accupressure? I can't find my ankle bone (or ankle for that matter) with all the fluid I've got going on, but there's a point for helping labour along on the inside of leg, four fingers width up from ankle bone. See this acupuncture.rhizome.net.nz/acupressure/induce.aspx

I've been trying the two points I can do myself the last day or so. I've got reflex scheduled for Thursday - worth a try, although I'm not sure they're keen to really jump start things until you're closer to due date. First time I went at 38 weeks, she wasn't going to help me along in that way. But it is v v relaxing none the less, and is worth it just for that!

congratulations quiet one

been having fairly strong bhs today, but doesnt look like its going anywhere. had major nest this afternoon sorting out upstairs so now have a sore back and pelvis to whinge about as well.

Is it okay/normal that my baby has seemed more lethargic the past couple of days? He is still moving every so often, but his movements are just not as vigorous as a few days ago. It seems to have coincided with the longer BHs I've been getting. I don't know if I'm being paranoid (got in the back of my head the people we know who lost their baby at 38 weeks so not surprising if I am just being paranoid) or if it is worth talking to hospital. What does everyone reckon? He is definitely moving, it's just that he isn't as vigorous as normal.

its normal for them to slow down , there running out of space. no harm in calling mw though if your worried

JFly - I had a moving things along reflex session today, she didn't think I would need another appointment which is positive but I'm still not sure how much weight I hold in all these sorts of things but as you say, very nice all the same!

I don't think anything really works to hurry them out, I have done EVERYTHING and I'm still here being very pregnant and bored!

Congrats thequietone! I love hearing all the news of baby arrivals, I wonder if we'll have a day of the month where we have a couple arrive? I have midwife appointment in the morning and she suggested that she would do a sweep, hoping it doesn't hurt too much as a friend had one yesterday and said it was awful!

Just been catching up.....

Loved your birth story derah - congratulations!

HQ my baby's movement are so slight now....certainly not being booted in the ribs anymore. My midwife said that as long as he is moving he should be fine. But the space is really running out now!

I had my last doc appointment today. As I am not allowed to be induced (medical reasons) C-section booked for 20th March (41+1) so the countdown has begun, I have to get this baby out naturally anytime before then!
I'll be trying all the tricks too turtle23!

spugs and doup - thanks! I just needed a bit of reassurance really. Baby will be even quieter tonight as I'm off to yoga and that always makes him very sleepy...

Am going to join in with the general feeling of fed-up-ness... we've paid (my dh's inheritance from his nan) to use a private birth centre with independent midwives as I was really nervous about everything and wanted to be able to guarantee a water birth if there weren't any complications but dh wasn't happy about home birth. Am supposed to be having weekly mw appts now (and have cancelled nhs ones) but for the second week in a row my mw has just cancelled on me because someone else has gone into labour so she has to go and be with them. Which I completely understand etc etc but I haven't seen a mw for ages now and I want the reassurance that everything is ok. DH is spitting about levels of service and I just want to cry - it all feels a bit too much. Should have had the confidence to stay with the nhs. Plus the house is still in a complete state - dh installing hall floor as i type - so am praying the LO doesn't come early whilst also hating feeling knackered, achey and having horrid reflux. No one ever tells you about this aspect of pregnancy in advance do they?! Whinge over

congrats quietone!

Well, after this morning's bad start, then saw my holistic person who gave me reflexology instead of kinesiology and that certainly got me feeling things moving! However, then had an hour to kill before antenatal checkup and made the mistake of phoning home. My dad now seems to want to drive over when we give them the go ahead (instead of a flying visit), leave my mum behind and he'll go home after a couple of days. Except he wants to bring his tool kit to repair things which will drive me loopy so i told him no way.
Got to checkup, and my bp had rocketed to 150/100 so had to spend this afternoon at the hospital being monitored to make sure it came back down to normal levels. Bloods were checked again and everything else was fine, baby very happy where he was (even with minor contractions during his monitoring) Don't think it helped that it was a brand new midwife whose first words were practically "ooh, it's your first baby and you're going for a home birth? You're brave!"...
Poor DH dashed out of work thinking i was in labour cos i was too upset to tell him on the phone why i needed him home, so now he has to back in tomorrow to change his out of office reply!

Sorry for the whinging, but have to let off steam somewhere! We'd only just got home when MIL phoned as she'd been trying us all afternoon and thought it was good news. I only spoke to her at lunchtime yesterday and am so fed up with her not waiting for us to call them...

and {{{hugs}}} to everyone else in need of a good whinge

congratulations thequietone and welcome baby Lucca

sorry to hear so many of you guys are super sore and emotional. things OK here, just enjoying being off work, although did get a call earlier

finally, finally went shopping for things for the hospital bag and the baby, so I can do some packing at some stage and also have lots of things for washing me and washing a baby, plus various kinds of pads.

HQ i"m a bit further along than you (39 weeks) but I definitely have days of very little movement. Yesterday was one and I was a little bit concerned, but then today it's back to a lot of wriggleyness, so completely reassured.

doup - it must be nice to have a date by which you know the baby will be here. hoping for you it comes beforehand obviously, but I'm sure if you're still waiting on the 20th you will just be happy to meet the baby at last.

MissingMyHeels that's encouraging that your reflexologist thinks she doesn't need to see you again. I wonder how she knows? Fingers crossed for you that she's right.

spugs - good for you having a nest. still no sign of that around here.

JFly - I'm impressed you can touch such acupressure points. My bump is so ridiculously sticking out that I would really struggle. Bending over is a thing of the past for me.

imjin - I'm pretty chilled out too. Due on Saturday and happy enough not to go early and not expecting any sudden developments at the weekend. I guess I'm just assuming one way or another the baby will be here around Paddy's day. Don't quite have doup's date with destiny, but I imagine I'll be induced around then if still nothing going on.

mumofmonsters - best of luck tomorrow. 7lbs sounds a nice weight for a baby. that's what I'm aiming for

merryberry I will always be grateful to you for "rattling the cutlery" :O genius. if that happens to me I'll tell them to put away their knives and forks and let me push

modsaluk gosh those twins of your really didn't get the "twins come early" message did they ;) hope you're surviving the end stages OK and they make their appearance soon.

delcymru - I've only 5 () days, no sorry make that 4 () days to go and I've nothing much going on either. wow somehow I hadn't thought if it in days left until now. I'm a little freaked out. thanks ;)

the rest of you who are around - wishing you relief from aches, even temperaments and imminent labours

over and out.

As long as we're all in whinge mode, to add to the RUBBISH I've had this week I now have piles. Somebody somewhere is having a good old laugh.
Big hugs to all those not feeling very happy this evening.
And gold medal to Merryberry.

gold medal? is it choc inside the gold?

(looks lethargically interested)

am contracting away painlessly +++, swollen hand is going down, pizza is on its way, ds1 is in bed. house is clean, thanks to our miracle brzilian ladies. another lovely totter round the sunny oarks this pm. great weather, ds1 thrilled by short bast of snowfall.

i should go for some of this reflexology malarkey. just can't imagine leaving the house for a trip like that, will go google visiting ones in london, methinks.

Yes, Merry, it is.
OK, have realised that there is no food in house. Can anybody tell me what to eat for my dinner? Have enough energy to make it to Sainsburys but not to decide as well...

Thers just no way i can catch up with all you gossipers, so apologies in advance!
Caongrats to thequietone, i love the name Lucca!

My whinge alert***
I called my MW this morning as i had felt less movements over the past three days. She thought it best i get checked out so took myself to the Mat assessment unit. Wired up for an hour or so, all ok, baby is fine and heartbeat sound. As i have a consultants appt booked for tomorrow, MW tried to get consultant to see me today......he had gone home early...just my luck. I did press her ( rather than the Consultant tomorrow) to do me a sweep, which she did, however, she tells me i am only 1 cm,cervix is high and still very thick...ahhhhhh great stuff JUST what i needed to know.
Anyway, will see if anything comes of it, oh and am off for third acupuncture session in about half an hour.....

Turtle how did your sweep go? it was today? or am i on another planet!?