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)

argh just re-read, good luck AJM - hope homebirth works out hun!

Good luck ajm!

MW has had an awful night on the ward. She's decided that I'm coping well and may still be a while so has gone home for some sleep. She only lives 10 mins walk away so can be here in a hurry. Hope she's wrong as these are 3 mins apart, to strong to walk or talk through and I have the tens on 5 already.

Off to get a bath, relax and then lay on the sofa and try to nod off.. don't think sleep is likely though.

exciting!! I'm thinking of you durng our 3am feed. I hope you are feeding your precious LO too.

And you were nice to let her go rest...dont think i would have with cntx 3 min apart

Baby yet, ajm? so excited for the news!

News ajm?

Hope Ajm is having a lovely homebirth right now... I am hoping for one as well.

As I am officially 1 day overdue today I am getting a tad impatient and having regular mild contractions for the last 12 hours has not helped as I am tired and impatient and not sure if dh should go to work or not - I want him to stay - but feel guilty keeping him here if I don't go into proper labour - arrrgh.

morning all ... gosh it all got going last night didn't it?

will be checking in on and off all day.

think i set the world record for wees last night - feel exhausted today.

Good luck everyone who is busy labouring and sending birthy thgoughts to those who are getting impatient ...

well after i posted yesterday, i went to bed for a nap. woke up about 5:45 with the most almighty pain, called mw back as i wanted some g&a, she got here at 6:15 by which time pains were on top of each other and i'm 8cm dilated! and at 8:24 baby was here! baby boy (no name yet) weighing a healthy 9lb 5oz and 58cm long, small tear but nothing to worry about.

Congratulations heather1980! Does that mean you slept through initial contractions? I thought those were so painful!

How fantastic all the babies are coming along thick and fast.
Well done to the ladies who delivered yesterday.

I was in the middle of posting yesterday morning and bloody laptop died. Proper collapse. Anyhow.

Popsy had her little minipops. 15th October, 10.52pm. Stella Frances, 8lbs 14oz. Mum doing really well. A very proud Mum and Dad..

Congratulations to everyone who has given birth!

AJM - hope all is going well.

I gave birth to ds at home in the birthing pool on monday morning 13 October. All is fine, ds is gorgeous, a healthy 8 and a half pounds and breastfeeding well.

I lost a lot of blood afterwards and have to take it easy for a little while - quite how I'll do that with three children I don't know! DH is being great and dd1 and dd2 are very happy with their baby brother.

Good luck all of you who are still waiting.

Hi

just popping in to let you all know i had a beautiful baby girl on monday 13th october at 8.22pm, she weighed 6lb 11oz, no name yet.
Had ok birth just gas n air, small tear & no stitches.

Congrats to all who have there babies while i have been off MN.

Fingers crossed for you ladies in waiting.

congratulations Rach, same birth date as my ds

Hi all, I havent time to catch up but congrats to all!
I've just been for my 38 week appt and the midwife told me the baby is right in the pelvis and couldnt go any further down, but then wrote on my notes "3/5 palp" - wouldnt she be 5/5 engaged???

I'm going to be soon! Waters broke last night, but my contractions are still really mild and irregular. The midwife came out and examined me (I'm having a home birth), and just told me to call them when my contractions were five minutes apart for about two hours, or if I had any concerns. Oh, and she told me not to have sex - because that's exactly what I was going to do to pass the time, with a huge bump and amniotic fluid leaking out of me!

He's a little early (due date was 27th) so it's a bit of a shock (this is our first as well!), but now I just want my contractions to hurry up and get going so I can meet him!

Just a quick note to let you know that Amelia Caitlyn was born at home at 8.15 this morning after 2 days of latent and 12 hours of stop/start active labour. She weighs 7lb 2oz

Good luck to Rhian, sorry way to tired to read the rest of the thread but will catch up as soon as I can.

Congratulations to all those who've had babies this week! AJM - hope it's going well for you.

Nothing doing here - pepper I'm thinking of you too. Look at all these ladies leapfrogging us! What's going on!?

Going for acupuncture this afternoon to see if that helps, trying lots of power walking too...

Cross post AJM - many, many congratulations!

Congrats AJM!

Congrats to AJM, Heather, Popsy, Belgo, Rach and hope things are going well Rhian. No sign of anything really happening here but have real pain walking and DS wants to be carried lots at the moment. He's in bed at the moment and I'm weighing up the pros and cons of going to playgroup - free entertainment vs 2 mile walk (round trip)
Can't believe how many people are having home births. When I talked to MW about our car, she did say "Have you considered a homebirth" but I think she was joking!. Good news on the car front that we've found someone local to do it and we should have it back by next Friday (2 days after due date!)

Congrats ajm, belgo, rach - I have a feeling I am going to be waiting a while longer for my labour to start. Good luck Rhian