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)

oooh all this talk of babies being born - I am crying - I am sooo looking forward to meeting the new man in my life.

congratulations!!!
all is slow here. still not got going properly so could be in for a looooong night contractions 5 min apart but only lasting 30 secs. mw just left and handed me over to the night team.

Hi all. Congrats to all who have their babys. Will try and catch up on thread in a min. Came out of hospital yesterday afternoon and baby is doing great. We have still not decided on a name though!! Will try and do my birth story when other 2 dc are in bed. Nice to back on mumsnet. Thanks for everyones advice on Monday. I still can't believe he is here. And he is so good (for the minute anyway)

Congratulations Rowanmc

I can't wait to have my LO here

Congratulations rowanmac. Glad to hear that I was totally wrong about the likelihood of them agreeing to ARM!

Congratulations Rowanmac! What a fast delivery after such a long wait. Well done.

Congratulations rowanmac and well done!

Nothing happening here either - went in today to discuss plans for induction and had another sweep. Still 3cm dilated but that's been the case for days now. Have to go in on Monday for another sweep, get the lychal fluid levels checked to see if I'm suitable for admission as an outpatient on Wednesday to have prostaglandin induction... then if that doesn't work I'm in on Thursday for everything else that they can throw at me. All a lot to take in but still really hoping things get going naturally before then.

Maybe babe realises we haven't decided on any names yet and is holding fire until we do!

Congrats rownamac Glad all went well.

hey everyone ang congrats to all those whove had their babies..

3days overdue today for me and really cant wait for this baby to pop out..have been having lots of pressure and lots of pain but i dont think its labour quite yet. midwife coming over tomorrow to do a sweep but not sure if ill agree to it yet.

Maybe aerobics videos are the way to go... been getting contractions at about 7 mins since 7pm. Have put the tens machine on as I need to get the pool setup and get DS off to my friends. Just need a midwife to confirm now...

Good Evening everyone - congratulations to all the ladies with their babies out.

I am due today but despite lots of tightening back pain and heaviness in groin I am not convinced that she will arrive before midnight!

Midwife appt went ok and baby is 3/5 engaged and in proper position so all my bouncing on the birthing ball is making some difference! Both prev babies were back to back and that hurt so I am hoping for an easier delivery and another homebirth. Fingers crossed it is soon though I am quite done with being pregnant now and hate asking dh to put my socks on for me! Good vibes to all who are feeling like they are about to go into labour.

Annoyingly thrush has come back with a vengence so I am faced with using pessaries I feel wierd about that with the baby being so close but the mw was quite insistant and the cream doesn't seem to sort it so I will be a big girl and use them - lovely

Off for another pot of delicious raspberry leaf tea (ick).

Hello again
Since posting on Mon eve, life has been too much of a rollercoaster to keep up with anything, let alone get 5 mins to myself to mn.
Thanks for all the advice, which I've just read and would have helped me calm down if I'd had time to see it before
Just had to concentrate on building up my milk supply as dd was looking a bit dehydrated. ds1 was admitted into hosp after loosing over a 1/3 of his body weight in 6 days, so dp and I were both really anxious to get the bf established right this time. So extra expressing and topping up in between feeds until last night. And dd weighed in today at 3.6kg, only 100g less than birth weight, and having put on 100g since tuesday when she was 3.5kg iyswim. I'm probably rambling again, sorry. Longing to read back over the last 6 pages and see who's had babes and how everyone who has is getting on with them. But now I need to eat, then bf. There's just not enough time in the day with a baby and a toddler - it's definately a

Congrats Rowanmac! I'm a bit jealous of all these babies arriving, but still 2 weeks to go (in theory)....

Good luck ajm - lets hope this is it for you!

Our birthpool arrived last night and we put it together about midnight, so I spent a panicked night, worrying that I might go into labour, and have a completely useless, empty birthpool. Luckily baby held off and the pool is now full - I just have to keep my legs crossed till the water gets to the right temperature .

Had a mw appt today and she said that baby's head appears to be very low down and that baby appears to be a reasonable size (which means what exactly?!?!?!) so I'm now at the stage of just waiting to see when baby decides to appear. My mum is coming tomorrow, which is a good thing as I can barely hobble along at the moment and feel as if I'm coming apart at the joints

Anyone have a birthpool in a box and can tell me what the white rubber mesh sheet is?

Erm noooooo. Could it be to stop you slipping around? or to scoop birthing goo out with? How r the contractions? Could tonight be the night.

Congrats and welcome to new babies!

MW confirmed its all happening. Bag of waters bulging and will go anytime now.. I'll update when she's here.

Off to bed in a tick, so good luck if tonight's the night ajm.

Good luck AJM

Meaning the baby not the MW...

ajm thought you were being optamistic about being on mumsnet whilst in labour with the midwife by your side! You could however get the MW on here on your behalf

Glad I'm having a homebirth. The labour ward is chaos tonight. They are looking after 5 ladies each and have both on-call CMWs there and supervisors delivering babies. She's checked me out and gone back to help out. That suits me fine. I'm all on my own now... lights down low, very relaxed. Down to 4 mins apart but very little pain... guess it won't last though

Good luck AJM. Look forward to birth news in the morning. Had my bubble bath am clean and fresh incase tonight is my night. Am naked surfing and looking at my big round bump. I will miss it. This is my last baby, only 3rd but makes me feel a bit nostalgic - like I'm moving into a new era. I think the whole economic crisis is focusing the mind too. Big changes are afoot!

Good luck AJM. Look forward to birth news in the morning. Had my bubble bath am clean and fresh incase tonight is my night. Am naked surfing and looking at my big round bump. I will miss it. This is my last baby, only 3rd but makes me feel a bit nostalgic - like I'm moving into a new era. I think the whole economic crisis is focusing the mind too. Big changes are afoot!

hey ladies, just finding it hard to keep up! congrats to all the babies born, so amazing! still 5 days away from due date here, so annoying going to bed every night thinking (hoping) this'll be it and nada but many trips to the loo!

back to trawl through the thread....