Due October 08 - The transitional thread.

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BIRTHS
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 - 9lbs 2oz - Delivered at home by dh!
3rd Oct (Due 6th Oct) - Bethoo - Girl - Maia - 7lbs -
3rd Oct (Due 6th Oct) - hoff - Boy - Oliver - -
3rd Oct (Due 19th Oct) - MrsTittleMouse - Girl - - -
4th Oct (Due 2nd Oct) - 1sttimer80 - Boy - - -
4th Oct (Due 30th Sept) - Aubergenie - Boy - Stanley - 7lbs 12oz -
5th Oct (Due 29th Sept) - plusonemore - Boy - Alfie Thomas - 8lbs - Induction, epidural
5th Oct (Due 2nd Oct) - MrsBish - Girl - Rachel - 8lbs 8oz -
5th Oct (Due 4th Oct) - hedgepig - Boy - Oliver - 6lbs 3oz -
7th Oct (Due 23rd Oct) - Emmsy1 - Girl - Amy Louise - 5lbs 12oz -
7th Oct (Due 2nd Oct) - snowymum - Boy - Rowan Michael - - Home water birth
8th Oct (Due 6th Oct) - ronshar - Boy - William Dexter - 7lbs 11oz -
8th Oct (Due 20th Oct) - 07mumstheword - Girl - Freya Mae - 7lbs 12oz -
8th Oct (Due 16th Oct) - moodywren - Boy - Hayden - 6lbs 9.5oz - Homebirth
9th Oct (Due 27th Sept) - Pidge - Boy - Arthur - 8lbs 14oz - Homebirth
10th Oct (Due 1st Oct) - CantSleepWontSleep - Boy - Duncan Elliot - 8lbs 4oz - 4 day induction with 1 hour established labour!
11th Oct (Due 3rd Oct) - usuallytooshytochat - Girl - Megan Leah - 8lbs 2oz - Homebirth with ambulance crew!
12th Oct (Due 4th Oct) - pistachio - Boy - Thomas Fraser - 10lbs 2oz - Homebirth.

LADIES IN WAITING
29th Sept perkypopsy first baby Surprise North Herts (Ware)
2nd mishkamoo first baby Surprise
4th minervaitalica first baby Surprise (unintentionally!)
7th belgo 2 dd's
10th emkay 1 dd Surprise West London (Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea)
10th pepperrabbit 2 ds's Surprise
11th heather1980 1 dd
12th milfakamonkeymonkeymoomoo 1 dd Boy Salisbury
13th YumMum22 1 ds Boy
14th tedmundo 1 ds Surprise Bristol (Southmead)
15th mum2jakeyroo 2 ds's Surprise Near Lancaster
16th bigmouthstrikesagain 1 ds 1 dd Girl Mid-Beds
16th WheresTheAuPair 1 ds Boy
19th rach010 1 ds Surprise (but dp knows!) Lincolnshire
20th AandMsmum 2 dd's Surprise Bristol
20th KnickersOnMaHead 1 dd Boy
20th jenwa 1 dd Girl Worcestershire
20th firsttimer08 first baby Boy Greenwich
21st hansnava 1 dd Surprise Luton c-section 21st October
21st rowanmac 1 ds Surprise North Scotland
21st caramelbunny 1 dd Surprise Manchester
21st GirlWithTheMouseyHair first baby Surprise (but written down in case of moment of weakness!) SW London (St Thomas)
22nd SmudgeyDoodle 1 ds Surprise Newcastle (Gateshead)
22nd pingviner Probably boy Glasgow
23rd Sallypuss first baby Probably girl Herts/Essex border
23rd ajm200 1 ds Girl Camberley, Surrey
24th sparklesandnowineforxxweeks 3 ds's 1 dd Surprise
25th Flum 2 dd's 5th June Wiltshire
26th 4andnotout 3 dd's Girl
27th beaufies first baby Boy c-section 17th Oct
29th Ekka 1 dd Surprise
29th Honeymoonmummy Girl
30th Jambers99 1 ds Girl NW London (Hillingdon)

Emkay is around unfortunately and feeling very blue! Took the day to lounge about and feel sorry for myself and refuse to talk to anyone on the phone! I'm 8 days overdue today so really keen to get going. In for yet another sweep on Monday and then it all starts getting technical around Wednesday / Thursday so fingers crossed something happens before then.

DP is being very good and even DD seems to have sensed that Mummy is not to be messed with at the moment so we had a strangely peaceful day!

had a lovely home water birth baby boy born today at 12.47am no cuts or bruses and he weighed 10lb...

oh and no pain releif just a tens..more details when ive recoverd..good luck to those waitin

Emkay, I'm sorry to be another person wondering if things had happened Hope things get going before Wed and glad that you've had a peaceful day! Yummum that sounds fab. Congratulations on your baby boy and pass on some quick birth vibes to the rest of us who are still waiting. I can't remember who else was saying that they thought their LO was waiting til they had a name before it arrived. I hope ours doesn't or I don't think it'll ever come out!

congrats everyone recently, sorry, am really trying to keep up but also keep myself busy to get stressed about not having my baby yet (and I've still got 3 days to go til due date!)....especially yumum - sounds fantastic and can't wait to hear about it all!

am really down in the dumps tonight, DH has gone to his sister's wedding in coventry (we live in london), I was going to go but her daughter got chicken pox so I couldn't go, am hormonal and miserable, miss DH and really want my baby now please

congrats everyone recently, sorry, am really trying to keep up but also keep myself busy to get stressed about not having my baby yet (and I've still got 3 days to go til due date!)....especially yumum - sounds fantastic and can't wait to hear about it all!

am really down in the dumps tonight, DH has gone to his sister's wedding in coventry (we live in london), I was going to go but her daughter got chicken pox so I couldn't go, am hormonal and miserable, miss DH and really want my baby now please

GWTMH - don't say that you want your baby now when your dh is away, in case you get what you've asked for!

Congrats yummum.

No worries Smudgey, I just keep telling myself that everything's fine, baby's moving lots and at least I know for certain I'll have him or her here this time next week. Trying really hard to keep positive, as you can tell!

Yummum - sounds great, well done!

Pooy you, emkay! sending labour vibes your way.

Yummum well done! wow, cant wait to read your story.

gwmh be careful baby stays in until dh gets home

dh came home hours ago, I can't get to sleep - is this my version of the energy burst?! sod's law will go into labour on friday which is the only day I'm not guaranteed a homebirth due to staff shortages, did anyone else become an insomianc at this stage? would prefer to get as much sleep as poss!

morning-
ive given up trying sleep ne more today. i have from 11.30pm to 4.00am my not so dp knicking all the covers so i keep waking up freezing then my not so dd gets into bed with us and for some reason cant use a pillow like normal people she has to use my head then coz shes in the middle she kicks all the covers off so then me and not so dp end up freezing. then on top of all this its now two days before my section and thanks to my lovely nephew my dd has come down with a terrible cough so im now paranoid im gonna catch it and they wont give me section.

congrats caramal and yummum

Woke up with tummy cramps and feeling poorly too (sore throat and snuffly) DH oh so kind and is still in bed whilst I get up wtih DD all he said was oh exciting maybe baby coming.......!!!
MEN!!!!

morning all

still nothing happening over here although for some annoying reason EVERY time I lie down to go to sleep at night strong BHs kick off for a couple of hours and are stopping me sleeping so I am knackered. It is odd though if I lie down and sleep in the day they don't happen ! It would be ok if I could sleep standing up

Congrats to all that have had your little bundles. I haven't had time to catch up on the thread and read through but it looks like those babies are coming thick and fast

I am trying to stay upbeat and enjoy these final days of 'peace' with just DH and DS but I am getting more and more impatient.

speak soon
xxxx

Just caught up, congratulations to all and sympathy to those still waiting, CSWS I thought Jessica Rabbit as well, the ARM/IOL thing was to do with staffing. ARM done on labour ward, prostin etc done on ward so it depended on busyness. In the end I was clearly unwell so they got on with it.

Home Friday, feeding going well but sore nipples and bad afterpains which are now settling will of course carry on but i can see why people don't. Refused all visitors yesterday and had day at home with the 4 of us. DS off to Singing Kettle this pm so am balancing Anna whilst making pirate outfit as you do!

Will check back when I can. ajm and pepperrabbit I hope you are now feeling as well and upbeat as I am again, its amazing how fast you recover isn't it.

You have excellent taste in names tooshy!

Congratulations yummum although am very very about your beautiful home birth.

what's jessica rabbit? sorry... had a very sheltered upbriging...

she was in that cartoon in the 1980's - Roger Rabbit

So many new arrivals! Congratulations on all the new babies!

Yes - here she is.

congratulations to all the new arrivals!! gosh lots of us has home births didn't we? mine was amazing, much better than in hospital.

well we've finally come up with a name - alexander james. it's only taken us 3 days!
and my milk came in yesterday, ouch ouch forgot how painful that is, could hardly sleep with the pain and looking like jordan.

congratulations to Pepperrabbit and Caramelbunny

Hi everyone, slowly catching up. Grabbing a few mins of PC time while Amelia feeds and DS watchs Mr Maker,

Feeling great now. Difficult to believe I only gave birth 2 days ago. Went out today for the first time as a family of 4 to get Amelia some premmie clothes as newborn re too big and rubbing.

I'm going to post more details of my homebirth in the birth announcements.

Congrats to all!

I'm not due until the 29th but I've had mild diaorrhea for 4 days now and for the last 2 days the braxton hicks have been kicking in. I've been "nesting" like you wouldn't believe for the last 3-4 days (especially at 4am) and I'm 3/5 engaged. Oh and I've had really bad mood swings today!!

Do you think the baby's likely to come sooner than the 29th (10 days)???

aw nuclear I know how you feel - it's crap isn't it? especially as it then makes me think maybe I'm in early labour even though I'm not which makes sleeping even more impossible!