Due July 2008 - the thread where we realise it IS July, and we mustn't be so busy talking we forget to get round to birthing!

[Polyxene]

Well, I hope a lot more of us can manage to have our babies in THIS thread, even if we will probably talk our way through it well before the end of the month!

well..poop.

Was sent home from hospital as cervix is too far back for midwife to reach comfortably. She says I am close, but just to come home and see how I get on. I could have stayed, but DH would have had to go home and I could not deal with that. So home again and we're trying to find different ways of dealing with contractions.

I guess I have to wait until contractions are longer and more painful. awesome! I'm going to try and lie down and see if I can get any rest at all. No induction for me

HI All.

Still here Had contractions all day and then they stopped at ridiulous am in the night - awake all night so shattered today. Had MW - baby seems to be in better position now so just a waiting game now! Lots of movement aqnd cramps. Am going to have aglass of red tonight to help me sleep. Tomorrow would be good for littly to arrive as DD is in nursery.

KAZ - congrats.

Hope everyone else in the throws are doing well and fingers x for the rest of us to go soon.

Night allxxxx

I like the name Gabriel too - my guardian Angel is Archangel Gabriel

Feeling for you McCheesers and Rumpel - so near but seeming so far! At least you are both on your respective ways and will have babies by the weekend! Yey!

Thanks for the Freya advice - quite often wear that brand in 'everyday' life and actually did sort of feel obliged to get one this week from Bravissimo since they were so helpful and all. So perhaps one of those and a couple of Hotmilk sexier ones... not quite sure I believe the stuff about underwires during nursing as what's the difference between now and then??

Glass of wine sounds quite nice actually and I'm not in labour!

Sorry - and Mummywannabe as well! Who'll be first?!

Good luck to Rumpel,Mummywannabe and mcchessers.

Hope things kick off properly soon and you have your new little bubbas!

My tummy tightening got worse and had horrible pains. Made worse by bubba moving around and causing allsorts of painful pressure.
Hard to time as bubbas movements in between but
rough guess every 10 minutes.

Seem to have calmed down now but still getting the painfull pressure from this wriggler!

Just had a Madras Curry for dinner... wonder if anything will happen tonight?

min I've just bought one of these underwired nursing bras. Really comfortable, and for us ladies with large knockers I think underwired is really the only way to go. I feel like a hippo if my boobs aren't properly supported!
It's not a cheap bra (but larger cup sizes never are!) but the quality and fit is excellent. And figleaves deliver very quickly. Someone did post a discount code on our last thread, but can't remember who it was(!). I think the code was EVE15 and gave you 15% off and free P&P. Anyone help us out here?!

Thanks to everyone for their nice messages about my bit of a wobble. Especially Lou for your very comforting post, thank you for sharing that experience.

I'm still feeling down, but not quite as desperate as I was. Had a bit of a nap earlier, which helped I think, and now DH is home and cooking pasta, bless him. After being very active (for me! as much as possible with SPD!) over the previous four days in the hope of getting LO moving on his own, I figured the sensible thing was to rest up as much as possible today so I'd have more energy for tomorrow. DH suggests we do something nice and relaxing tonight like watch a video, which is probably a good idea. My parents have come to stay to look after DS1, so that's one useful thing about being induced and having a known date.

Good luck to Rumpel, Mcchesers, Mummywannabe!

Really want an underwired nursing bra, just can't seem to find one that is big enough!! Hate having big boobs! Really stressing that it is gonna make BF difficult as nips hang really low, so depressing only 25 & have the breast of an OAP!!!

Good luck tomorrow Polyxene. Good idea to try and relax tonight.

MW said baby now finally in good position. Went from breech, to posterior but now perfect. Hooray.

Woke up this morning with rotten cold, so now don't know whether I want LO to come now or not as I can't breath easily! I guess I don't have any choice anyway.

I totally understand bebe! I thought I was going to smother DS1!! Babies do cope with it though. Their noses are just the right shape to squash and keep breathing.

Polyxene, I think having a relaxing evening tonight is a great idea. I tried hot bath, curry, pineapple and sex before being induced and tbh it just led to diarrhoea while I was in labour - not pleasant! Good luck for tomorrow, will be thinking of you.

Rumpel - aww really thought you would have gone by now, I ahd so may false alarms with DD2 it's so disheartening, still you've got to think you are going in the right direction

mcchesers - poor you as well, hopefully things will ramp up in the next few days

polyxene - sorry you are feeling a bit down about tomorrow but by tomorrow night or even the next morning you will have your LO out and snuggled up in your arms with that lovely smell and little floppy head and all this will be a distant memory. Induction isn't that bad you will be fine.

disney and purplejenny - hope you both are recovering well and have your babies with you, can't wait to hear from you both xx

EEC - glad baby is in the right position but about the cold, I ended up on antibiotics for sinusitis last week of my pregnancy with DD2, I think she waited until I had started getting over it before coming, if you do go into labour once that adrenaline kicks in a wee thing like a cold won't matter.

jacobsprincess - thats a nice bra, I got two from figleaves and they were good for delivery. I got a soft sleep one and a plain white one, am definitely going to treat myself to a few hotmilk ones once my boobs settle down again, I hate those horrid M&S or Mothercare white things that go grey and lose their elastic after the first wash and they are just ugly. I will probably only be about a 34D or DD when feeding, not of great boobs like some of you ladies!

Mummywannabee - 7 minutes apart wow will keep everything crossed for you too, looks like the 9th or 10th going to be a bumper baby day!

libralady - sorry to hear about Luke's tongue-tie but in way I suppose it's good to finally know what it is and why you have struggled to feed him. It beggars belief that MWs aren't trained to look out for it and poor women and babies have to suffer before they get it diagnosed and corrected. I wonder how many women give up BFing due to it?

Right today I have massaged my specific reflexology points for 5 mins each x 3 (Rumpel correct me if you can I only read this on the net), bounced for 30 mins on my ball (not easy with the SPD), taken my 6 RL tablets and am going to convince DP to have relations tonight. Baby going mad so hopefully she is realising she has outstayed her welcome.

Just wondering if you'd all seen this - handy for checking if your BHs are getting more regular and longer

I couldn't open it Aggie although if this labour is anything like my last two I won't need it, this timing contractions is totally foreign to me, I get one it's just going away and the next one is starting.

I logged on to see more birth announcements - but nothing! Come on girls!

The figleaves code is EVE15PC and gives you free p and p and 15% full price stuff. (If it still works!)

SK Thanks for your reassuring words. The HV did say that MWs used to check for TT @ birth and if necessary did the procedure there and then, but now they've apparently lost the funding for this.
In my minds eye, surely it is more expensive for us to have to be referred and then have an additional hospital appointment to have this corrected? I am so that it's taken 15 days to have this diagnosed.
I have a stinking headache tonight and have just had to take a second lot of painkillers. Don't know whether it's the lack of sleep or tension because of the TT. Not helping that DH isn;t around as much as I'd like

How costly can it be to train MWs to look in a babies mouth when they are born? I have heard a few stories on here about problems BFing due to tongue tie it seems so unnecessary, anyway once you have him "snipped" hopefully the BFing will pick up, you have done great with the expressing and protecting your supply.

its www.contractionmaster.com if the link doesn't open

Oh it's on now! After a tearful return to labour ward, I was told I was dilated 2cm and 2/3rd effaced whatever that means. MW reckoned I'd be back in the wee hours of the morning and hopping in the pool for some good ol baby hatching!

This has made me feel so much better. The contractions are good and productive. She felt my baby's head?! wow.

Mummywannabe - what's the news?

Sweetkitty- big hugs to you. xoxo

Right, I'm off to shove DS1 out of my bed and then settling down to Big Brother. Please don't chat too much more ladies - I'm fed up of having to catch up on 3 new thread pages every morning!!
But hopefully I'll be too busy tomorrow - it's my due date!!

Oh mcchesers you are going to have a baby really soon, you will be back at that labour ward before the morning I think, can't believe they let you out.

I was 1cm with DD1 second time I went in and they let me stay on the bed with the lovely gas and air (told me I was too nosisy) anyway she was born 4 hours later, I don't think you will be long, v excited for you x

Poly - good luck for tomorrow! Hope you're feeling a bit better now

McChesers - good luck! Hope it all goes well!

Hi everyone. A bit late, but this seems to be the only time i can catch up these days.

Happy due date to me (and Charlie)!

Well, had Charlie been born today he would've weighed 8lb 9oz. He is also 55cm long which is the 98th centile... he's a tall baby.

mccheesers - this is very exciting!! make sure you let us know the result as soon as you can!

love to you all. xx

Poly - good luck for tomorrow!
McChesers - good luck! Hope it all goes well! It's looking very good.
Peanut - Happy due date. Sounds like Charlie is doing really well.

Heffa - Love the new name