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)

Congrats BMSA
I have done a small birth announcement here

and uploaded a picture!
No obligation to visit!

Congratulations WTAP and BMSA .

Like Pepperrabbit - congratulations a lovely story - I have posted my birth announcement here

congrats to all those who have just popped ! thought it was my turn last night (due tomorrow) I had regular strong contractions every ten mins for 3 hours but it all stopped at around 3am.

now nothing seems to be happening at all, so I am in a huff.

Congrats WTAP and BMSA BMSA Just read your birth story. Sounds like all ok in the end and you have a lovely baby.

pepperrabbit Congrats, have just posted on your bith story. Lovely pic too.

Still nothing here, woke up with pants wet again but nothing since, It is not wee, smells sweet (sorry tmi) and its clear. MWs said on monday prob just a discharge, who knows! No cramps or anything else. will just keep waiting.

I'll bet that's your waters...
silly mws

hi jenwa like your waters.

Is the baby's head engaged fully? Maybe that is why you are just getting 'trickles'

Congrats to all that have had their babies

still waiting here, not due til friday but was kind of hoping the baby would make an appearance this week as its half term next week and i will have no help for that unless dp is on paternity leave

just a quick message before I relax back into baby-moon: our lovely little boy, Teemu Finn born on 17/10/08 by emergency C section weight 3.6kg and totally gorgeous, finally home!
will update birth stories etc and pictures soon good luck to the ladies in waiting and congratulations to all who've given birth since I last posted.. (will read the thread later, honest)

bethoo in answer to your question NO NO NO NEVER. Have just placed ad in local paper for maternity clothes.

Just logging in to see who has arrived, jenwa it must come soon surely. pepperrabbit does the place being on fire give you more incentive to push or were you so in the 'zone' you weren't aware of it?

off to find the post natal thread as I am barely keeping mastitis at bay here, heaven knows what I'm going to do on Mon when DH goes back to work.

Congrats WTAP and BMSA and pingviner. Pingviner I think you were due today same as me weren't you? So that you have your LO. Nuclear, Jenwa I'm still here and had sweep yesterday, a bit of a show but no contractions at all yet. MW said I was 2 cm dilated yesterday and she could stretch it to 3 so things are at least looking hopeful for the next week or so
Mum here at the moment and not sure whether to send her home (surely a guarantee that things will start) or keep her here (and then nothing will happen)
Feeling sooooo much better than I have the last few days and even seem to have stopped with the runs. Maybe this baby is staying put!

Congrats pingviner.

Smudgey - you're already more dilated than I was hours before giving birth!

smudgey Midwife coming fri to do sweep etc, does it hurt?? Sounds painful when you say she could stretch it to 3cm!

Been to town today and really achey, think head is most prob fully engaged now nuclear as was 2/5 last week and feel like it has moved down. I keep getting sharp pains in my groin like it is sat on a nerve [ouch emotion] and walking in town today was not at all comfy but no more trickles! When I told my mum she said its prob a bit of urine it did not smell of it and surely if it was wee I would be like it more often, also having 3rd degree tear last time I had no leakage so would not want to start now!

myjob I sort of want to go to check it out but also dont want to sit about waiting and then go back home waiting for something to happen or not! Just want baby to come now!!!

pingviner Congrats to you and your new baby boy.

hi all

ooh smudgey sounds promising.

Had MW appointment today and she thought baby was breach cue major panic and off to hosital for a scan - talk of ECV (?) and sections.

But he is still head down thank god!!!!

No more pains for me...seems like everyone is moving along but me (still in a huff!)

Congrats to all with their new arrivals. My due date tomorrow and despite 2 whole pineapples and 2 curries, nothing moving here...ho hum....

breech

Nothing moving here either. But, my new sitting room curtains arrived (have lived here since April 07 and took me this long to choose them) They are soooooooooo beautiful - should be they cost more than my car . Will enjoy sitting feeding baby and gazing at them in adoration.

Also struck a deal with DH as suddenly had a panic attack about how I would cope with 2 kids and a little baby. He is going to get the girls up and dressed each weekday and give them breakfast so I only have to worry about baby until 8.30am when I take the eldest to school. This is brilliant as will get an hour or so extra in bed if nights are tough. I have always done all the 'nightwork' anyway so not fussed about that in the slightest.

hello all,
just a quick note to say baby was born on the 13th ! had an amazingly short labour, will write more later.

A quick congratulations to all the new mums.

It has been so busy here and William still hasnt settled into much of a routine yet. He just doesnt seem to understand if the lights are off it is sleep time. I am knackered.

Bethoo, no bloody way, are you mad woman

I am already broody for another and haven't had this one yet. Praps this one will cure me. The plan is to get a puppy next year instead. DH does not want 4 kids and I think I am getting a bit too old for it all.

A puppy! great idea. im suggesting that to dh if he even thinks about talking about a sibling for ds. thanks, flum

how is it going jenwa?

Morning
Wow star imagine you were up feeding at 1:30!!!
I am ok, still nothing happening! Wet again this am! Starting to think maybe I am wetting myself!!!! I am seeing MW tomorrow but may call today but really dont want to go in to hospital especially as DD at inlaws for the day and looking forward to a rest again/housework without the thought of spending however long in hosp!!!

firsttimer08 Congrats on your new arrival.