Due October 08 - Moaning, Groaning and Baby-Homing

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BIRTHS
10th Sept (Due 1st Oct) - loulou33 - Boy - Joe Louis David - 6lbs 12oz
12th Sept (Due 6th Oct) - iuseantiageingstuff - Boy - Fred William - 8lbs 13.5oz
14th Sept (Due 14th Oct) - twinklytoes - Boy - Samuel - 7lb 4.5oz
16th Sept (Due 8th Oct) - Ksal - Girl - Emma Rae - 6lbs
21st Sept (Due 5th Oct) - myjobismum - Girl - Naomi Caitlin - 5lbs 10oz

LADIES IN WAITING
29th Sept perkypopsy first baby Surprise North Herts (Ware)
29th Sept WombFor1More 2 ds's 1 dd Boy
30th Sept Aubergenie first baby Surprise
30th Sept sambrads 1 ds Girl
1st CantSleepWontSleep 1 dd Boy North Herts
1st accessorizequeen 2 ds's Twins - one of each
2nd snowymum first baby Boy Near Oxford
2nd 1sttimer80 first baby Surprise. Hydronephrosis discovered. Extra scan at 28 weeks (7th July) planned. Edgware (Royal Free, Hampstead)
2nd FranMum2B first baby Surprise Kingston
2nd my3honeypies 2 dd's Boy
2nd mishkamoo first baby Surprise
4th minervaitalica first baby Surprise (unintentionally!)
4th hedgepig 1 ds Surprise
4th pistachio 1 dc Secret
4th annwoo 2 dc Surprise
5th rosebury 3 ds's 2 dd's Boy Bristol
5th BabyNubie
6th Bethoo 1 ds Girl Salisbury
6th ronshar 2 dd's Surprise (with dangly bits ) West Sussex
6th hoff first baby Boy Spain
7th belgo 2 dd's
8th kookiegoddess first baby Surprise
8th Alexa808 first baby
10th Lozza70 first baby Surprise NE London (Woodford)
10th emkay 1 dd Surprise West London (Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea)
10th pepperrabbit 2 ds's Surprise
11th staceylouisex first baby Girl
11th dooleymum
11th heather1980 1 dd
12th milfakamonkeymonkeymoomoo 1 dd Boy Salisbury
12th star6 first baby Boy Surbiton
13th YumMum22 1 ds Boy
14th tedmundo 1 ds Surprise Bristol (Southmead)
15th mum2jakeyroo 2 ds's Surprise Near Lancaster
16th moodywren 1 dd 2 ds's Boy Lincolnshire (nr Spalding)
16th bigmouthstrikesagain 1 ds 1 dd Girl Mid-Beds
16th WheresTheAuPair 1 ds Boy
19th MrsTittleMouse 1 dd Girl
19th rach010 1 ds Surprise (but dp knows!) Lincolnshire
20th 07mumstheword 1 dd Surprise Bristol
20th AandMsmum 2 dd's Surprise Bristol
20th KnickersOnMaHead 1 dd Boy
20th jenwa 1 dd Girl Worcestershire
20th firsttimer08 first baby Boy. Dilated renal pelvis - rescan at 34 weeks. Greenwich
21st hansnava 1 dd Surprise Luton
21st rowanmac 1 ds Surprise North Scotland
21st caramelbunny 1 dd Surprise Manchester
21st jess1996 first baby Surprise
21st GirlWithTheMouseyHair first baby Surprise (but written down in case of moment of weakness!) SW London (St Thomas)
21st lilbitmum 1 dc
22nd SmudgeyDoodle 1 ds Surprise Newcastle (Gateshead)
22nd wombleprincess 1 dd
22nd pingviner
23rd Sallypuss first baby Probably girl Herts/Essex border
23rd Emmsy1 3 ds's 1 dd Girl The Wirral
23rd ajm200 1 ds Girl Camberley, Surrey
24th sparklesandnowineforxxweeks 3 ds's 1 dd Surprise
24th Personanna 1 ds Boy Peru
25th Flum 2 dd's 5th June Wiltshire
26th 4andnotout 3 dd's Girl
26th mariekg 3 dc Girl
27th Rhian82 Boy
27th mybabysinthegarden 1 dd Boy Scottish Borders
27th beaufies first baby Boy
29th Ekka 1 dd Surprise
30th Jambers99 1 ds Girl NW London (Hillingdon)

Corrected Births list. Sorry for knocking you off the list Bethoo. Trust me to get it wrong!

BIRTHS
10th Sept (Due 1st Oct) - loulou33 - Boy - Joe Louis David - 6lbs 12oz - Induction due to rhesus sensitivity, G&A.
12th Sept (Due 6th Oct) - iuseantiageingstuff - Boy - Fred William - 8lbs 13.5oz - Induction due to high BP.
14th Sept (Due 14th Oct) - twinklytoes - Boy - Samuel - 7lbs 4.5oz - Em C-Sec due to grade 4 PP.
16th Sept (Due 8th Oct) - Ksal - Girl - Emma Rae - 6lbs - Just beat induction for PE!
20th Sept (Due 8th Oct) - kookiegoddess - Girl - Reya Marie - - Induction due to OC, epidural, 3rd degree tear.
21st Sept (Due 5th Oct) - myjobismum - Girl - Naomi Caitlin - 5lbs 10oz - Fast and furious hospital birth.
22nd Sept (Due 10th Oct) - Lozza70 - Boy - Sander Gene - 7lbs 5oz - Em C-Sec due to raised BP and high ALTs from liver.
27th Sept (Due 1st Oct) - accessorizequeen - Boy twin - Felix - 6lbs 8oz -
27th Sept (Due 1st Oct) - accessorizequeen - Girl twin - Bridget - 7lbs 7oz -
1st Oct (Due 29th Sept) - WombFor1More - Boy - Harvey James - 8lbs 13oz - Homebirth, no pain relief.
2nd Oct (Due 4th Oct) - annwoo - Boy - TBA - 8lbs 7oz - Amazing birth!
2nd Oct (Due 30th Sept) - sambrads - Girl - Brooke - 7lbs 9.5oz -
2nd Oct (Due 12th Oct) - star6 - Boy - Quinlan - 5lbs 15oz - 36hr labour, ventouse and stitches.
2nd Oct (Due 8th Oct) - Alexa808 - Girl - Tienette - - Planned c-sec
3rd Oct (Due 5th Oct) - rosebury - Boy - Austin - - Delivered at home by dh!
3rd Oct (Due 6th Oct) - Bethoo - Girl - Maia - 7lbs -
3rd Oct - - Hoff - Boy - Oliver
5th Oct - Plusonemore - Boy - Alfie Thomas - 8lbs

Plusonemore - Congratulations on the safe arrival of Alfie Thomas

plusonemore congratulations on the safe arrival of Alfie Thomas
rowanmac im glad it's not just me who leaks when they are sick I hadn't had any problems with my pelvic floor until i started being sick after the iron tablets

Thanks for the welcome folks!! AJM I was due on September 27th, it's my third baby, I have two dds aged 6 and 3.5, the gender of this one is as yet unknown, and I'm hoping for a homebirth. Oh and I'm in London.

I always suspected I'd go into October, as the two dds were a week late. So I'm very relaxed about the whole thing. Rather enjoying my maternity leave actually. I worked up until 38 weeks, so am loving having time to go swimming every day, not to mention doing bits of cooking, baking, knitting and generally being domestic. That's when the kids are in school or with the childminder of course. Anyway, am very lucky to be fit and healthy and enjoying the calm before the storm!

PIDGE your dd's are the same age as mine, dd1 is 6.11 and dd2 is 3.7 also have dd3 12months and this is another girl

Congratulations plusonemore - love the name!

I make that 18 babies already and we're only at the beginning of the second week! I'm also enjoying maternity leave pidge although every time I turn up at one of DD's toddler groups everyone looks surprised to see me with comments along the lines of, 'haven't you had the baby already'? I'm not even due until Friday!

Got to pin DP down now to talk through names - we still haven't even had a proper discussion and I'm beginning to panic!! Anybody else out there not have a clue what they're going to call their LO?

Hi all,

Just quickly wanted to post that DH and I had a beautiful baby boy born on saturday 4th Oct.

Irregular contractions... followed by a lot of bleeding not mucusy. Went staright in, they did sweep because I was overdue, started proper contractions overnight (they kept me in)... was dilated enough so went to break my waters and found that my waters had broken and I didn't even know so must have been a slow leak which I didn't notice. Anyway shortly went into natural labour anyway and out 'popped' the little one!!

Thanks Pidge, I'll update your details tomorrow when I get back from my hospital appt as long as baby doesn't arrive and I get stuck in.. otherwise I'm sure someone will help out until CSWS gets back..

ah ah. Finally read this whole thread of 32 pages. Nice to hear about the babies arriving and so many natural births too. Am secretly hoping for one this time too as have and em section and a natural with an epidural and ventouse before.

Braxton Hicks seem to be doing the rounds. Anyone not get them. I have to be honest I don't hink I have ever had one and am 37 wks and had two babies before this. Would it be possible to not notice as I get it that they don't hurt. The only time my tummy seems to contract and go hard is after ahem, well you know a bit of 'hows yer father' which there is very little of due to my scary scary vaginal varicose veins turning me into elephant woman downstairs. I know tmi but I've just read about everyones gooey shows so............

can't sleep again. Is anyone else already up?

Whats the story with pineapple - how does it get labour going? Does it work?

Congratulations 1sttimer! Sorry I missed your announcement yesterday as we x-posted.

UTSTC I was up most of the night but not online. Hope you aren't too exhausted. Pineapple is supposed to help get labour going as it contains an enzyme that triggers the right hormones but you have to eat an awful lot of it. I eat two in a few hours when I was having my DS and can't stand the stuff now

Flum I hope you get the birth you want this time round. You are so lucky if you aren't noticing your BHs. So many people on here are going to be jealous. I had them almost all the time for the last two months until my baby turned breech and now they've stopped.

Everyone, please keep your fingers crossed that I come home with baby right way up and still inside this afternoon. If she turns I'm still hoping to be allowed a homebirth from midnight tonight

I'm sure I've read on mumsnet that you have to eat 18 whole pineapples for it to have any effect!

Again ajm, good luck for today, hopefully you will get your home water birth.

Hansnava you are now my c section buddy! I had mine put back til the 21st too (tho unlike you I don't want labour to begin before that). Feel so stretched I'm sure I can't last til then

Congrats to Plusonemore- fab news and lovely name

Belgo I think i've read the same somewhere- anyway- eating anymore then 1/2 a pineapple gives you that funny taste in your mouth so you'd have to be pretty hardcore to eat a whole on imo!

4andnotout - how exciting, 4 girls!! My two are campaigning heavily for a brother this time, and I keep having to warn them that it might not be. Just hope they're not disappointed if it's a girl, I don't mind either way.

emkay - we are still not decided on names, and really I have no excuse now. Maybe that's why this baby is staying put!!!

ajm - all fingers duly crossed for a baby the right way up this afternoon for you. Good luck!

I'm now 10 days over, and determined to stay relentlessly cheerful!! Dd1 will be in school and dd2 is off to the childminder, so I'm planning another swim and a bit of knitting! Lovely.

Fingers crossed for you, ajm!!!! Pidge sending strong labour vibes your way! Get that baby out!

Just wanted to say a quick Good Luck AJM. I hope they get baby back round the right way and you are home to tell us the gory details later. If not Then it will bw wonderful to meet your little one a bit early

Will be back later to catch up and say hello.

Off to soft play witha bunch of toddlers. So help me I may not make it home alive

1sttimer80 Congratulations on the birth of your baby boy. Any name yet?

Plusonemore Congratulation on the arrival of Alfie, I love the name

AJM Fingers and toes crossed that baby turns for you today.

Pidge I'm impressed at you going swimming and doing a bit of knitting I've just done an hours ironing and want to sit doing nothing now

Good morning to all the other ladies in waiting and those lucky ladies who have already had their LO's

I think I've had bit of a show this morning. Quite a bit of mucus with a tiny streak of blood. Does this mean things are starting or from Sambrads experience it could still be a while yet couldn't it? I'm getting mild period type pains low down but nothing much it'll probably all be over by lunch time

MTW It could mean that things will start soon or you might have to wait a bit longer. Fingers crossed.

Thanks everyone.. I'll let you know how I get on. BP is currently 152/99 but maybe they won't notice

ajm that sounds dangerous with high BP. I hope things go well for you today. I can't wait for you to have your little baby girl!

Baby Bish arrived on Sunday at 1150! Rachel weighed in at 8lb 8oz.

All pretty straight forward, three days after due date.

Hoping to see you all on the 'other side' soon!!

congratulations MrsBish!