Dec Mums - Christmas is coming...the Dec ladies have got all fat...time to have our babies...the novelty's worn flat

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Here's a new link for us all - think it needed doing asap as running out of space!!

Wow can't believe how full the new thread is already! Just bookmarking myself to catch up!

Chutney huge congratulations!!! Look forward to hearing all about it soon.

Turnip sorry to hear about the strep result . A friend of mine had it with her first child but managed a fairly non-interventioned (word?) birth and all was well with her and her son.

Re people in shops being experts on when babies will come - I went to M&S today to get fitted for nursing bras.

According to the woman who fitted me, I'll be having the baby very soon as my bump has got so low...a couple of days she reckons! Hmm

Have an appointment with the consultant on Friday to discuss my VBAC - is anyone else a VBACer? Wanted a list of questions to ask..ie if I will be allowed to move around etc or if they will strap me up to monitors..will do an archive search, but any ideas on this would be great..

Hatty- i have a friend who had a VBAC 10 weeks ago and actually started as a homebirth, all went well she could walk around etc, but when her water broke there was meconium in it so they took her in to hosp for the last bit, baby came out fine with limited monitoring (i think they just used one of those dopplers on her for the heartbeat) and she just had a episiotomy to expedite the baby coming out as they wanted her out fast. One of the registrars wanted to use the ventouse but the MW ran him off saying it was unnecessary and she could do it as quick with the epi. All was fine, she didnt een use gas & air and apart from the ladt bit was free to move about as she wished.

Just had a lovely bath with plenty of Clary Sage. I'm not sure about the encouraging labour but it sure makes BabyKayz wriggle alot.

Trace This is wierd. Ihaven't noticed any hot flushes before and it could be the bath but I have just had one!! I thought of you straight away. So you aren't the only one.

evening all, just reportin the arrival at 2.24 this pm of a little girl - no name yet as we've only got up to F in the names book... all went very fast, contractions came thick and fast and she was born in the pool as there wasn't really time or inclination to get out! will be back tomorrow, now time to have some tea, am utterly starving as the contractions came too quick to have breakfast. Ladies in early laboiur, make sure you eat!!

evening all, just reportin the arrival at 2.24 this pm of a little girl - no name yet as we've only got up to F in the names book... all went very fast, contractions came thick and fast and she was born in the pool as there wasn't really time or inclination to get out! will be back tomorrow, now time to have some tea, am utterly starving as the contractions came too quick to have breakfast. Ladies in early laboiur, make sure you eat!!

Congratulations JJ!!!!
Another lovely little girl.

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Great news jj

So glad you got your water and home birth

so good i said it twice!

hooray JJ well done, another home birther!!!! I'm gonna go ack and check when it was you mentioned you were having feelings.

wow JJ so quick you wrote at about 8am and just after about your gloop at 3.30 and your 5min apart crampy pains and your Doula sofa advice.

i can't remember was this your 1st? i'm so excited we had another homebirth, did you MW's and Doula get there in time.

SL hope your puncture got repaired

Wow jj, that was quick! Well done & congrats on your new daughter.

just checked you were due in exactly 1 week, we seem to have a pattern of early births here, better tell DH he is def at home from next monday.

DH wil prob have to go to London on wednesday but the Crawley job is off so it will only be for the day and then he home until the EDD as far as we know. yay

congratulations JJ and Chutney.

mibbes hope all is OK with you.

Beans-agree with the others re signs of labour. With my DS had a show the night before he was born and very gradual build up of contractions during the following day. By 8pm knew it was time to get to the hospital as no mistaking the force/frequency of contractions (he was born around 11pm).

We are planning to get our tree soon. Usually I love planning Christmas but this week I am so grumpy and tired just not in the mood. Had a horrible dream last night that I was going to be hung (maybe as still considering the name Tess if the baby is a girl!) and had to tell DD. It was horrible.

Keep telling myself to enjoy last few weeks/days of being pregnant but finding it hard. People keep ringing me and I have barely got the energy to talk to them. Hum-must summon up a bit more energy for labour

Evening girls! Wooooo who saw Eastenders then!

Congratulations Chutney can't wait to see a picture!

I've totally forgotten what everyone else has been saying!! DH turned round to me yesterday and just did this strange mouth opening and closing action.....I didn't know what he meant until I realised he was miming a goldfish as in the diminishing level of my intelligence!!!!!

Rosmerta Glad you are hanging on in there..sorry you've been poorly.

Your talk of packing hospital bags reminded me of one funny anecdote from birth with DS...lying on the bed after the event, a young pretty (slim) midwife assistant cleaning me up, she got the disposable knickers out of my bag and then spent a good few minutes trying to get them on me. In the end she gave up and got me some of the massive hospital ones. I don't know why I thought I'd be able to snap into some size 10-12 ones but there was some seriously undignified levering and strange positions going on before she admitted defeat!

wahoooooo JJ I hadn't got your post!!! Congratulations!!! xxxx

oh MM you poor thing that dream sounds disturbing.

Tess is a great name.

yay, JJ and Chutney - how exciting for both of you!

am REALLY fed up with work now. want to get it all over with - although i only work 3 mornings a week (bow down and worship those of you who are still doing a proper job this far gone). i have this week, and then a couple of mornings next week and then i am freeeeeeeeeee!

have started washing the baby stuff we've got so far (not the stuff that could be returned if needs be, though) - wondering when my maternal instincts will kick in - i mean, they are cute, but my heart strings haven't been tugged yet. dh, however, is another matter (he sobs at the mere mention of babies/small animals).

we survived the parents in law visit - but dh suffered through finding them so so difficult, reflecting on his upbringing (sent to boarding school at 7), hoping he isn't going to turn out like them (which is when i reminded him that was why i was here and i wouldn't let him), and worrying about them dying befor he's had time to really connect with them. like many families, tehy seem stuck in their designated roles and rarely really speak to eachother with spontenaity and true interest. as an outsider, i have the freedom to joke and cajole and challenge and sometimes i feel like the oil which lubricates them. if you know what i mean...

all this birth really does make you consider your own and others' mortality, doesn't it? i sobbed all night the other night, worrying about what would happen to dh if i died in childbirth. sorry to raise the thought, but...

anyway, back to the babies. well done all - enjoying hearing about them.

WG i wasn't getting that into baby stuff, i guess being in toddler land makes it difficult. I kept hearing these lots talking about the Christmas outfits they wanted to get for their babies and just wasn't feeling it. then last week i walked into Mothercare and they had all the baby christmas outfit and i suddenly melted and got a bit teary, even think i might get a little reindeer outfit for him.

Haven't read the new four pages on the new thread - just briefly popped on to say am back in hospital with my yellow baby after all . I got quite worried about how lethargic she was getting this afternoon and decided we needed to get her checked. I'm glad I did, as her levels were up - but it's only just over the treatment line, which means she should respond to phototherapy quite quickly (fingers crossed).

oh and Oli i went for the large disposables hoping that will be big enough.

Hello you lovely, lovely ladies!

Mille congrats to our dear Chutney and Jump! Hurrah! Jump, that was so flippin' fast! And also to Lal (dying to hear your name) and to the other Tuesday girls, Daisy and Verso (though I think you were a Monday girl in the end, weren't you Daisy? I saw your message when I was getting my knickers in a humungous twist last Monday night). I like the name Frieda, Verso, was it chosen for its literary credentials? I guess you are keeping with the Germanic theme SO glad it was all better for you this time around and hope it has slayed a few demons.

Thank you all so much for your wonderful wishes. I have loved reading the thread even when I haven't been in a position to catch up, it's such a comfort. As for leaving you and starting up a postnatal thread, you've got to be joking. We should all stay here until the very last baby is born. It's one for all and all for one, even if we are still all here mid-Jan . As for my pic in the theatre, I can reassure you that a) there were two photos of me in there and I didn't send you the one where my double chin was clearly and lavishly in evidence and b) I had two hours of sleep last night, I feel a bit poorly and therefore I now resemble the death mask of Oliver Cromwell (but minus the wart and with specs on, I can't be fagged with my lenses tonight).

More in a mo, chicas xxx
I am going to do a higely self-indulgent birth story post in a mo but before I do, I too haven't been visted by the Secret Stork, but having been visited by the real stork I guess I can't complain too much

And KMP1, I would love to be there to leap in if anyone gives you grief about your cs. LadyBaby was in a funny position as it happens but quite frankly I was fully intending to have a cs anyway and it merely saved me the job. DO NOT let anyone bully you [fist shaking emoticon] and same to anyone wanting any kind of birth.

Oooh, sorry to hear you are back in the hossie, Verso. Hope you are both out soon.

Verso Sorry to hear you had to go back to hospital. But as she is only just over the level it should clear up pretty quickly.

LadyT It is great to hear from you. So jealous though as I can't wait to meet my little man.

I have just somehow broken a fingernail. It has ripped off really badly and hurts like hell. so I am now feeling sorry for myself.

Just popping in to say congrats to JJ and Chutney, and very impressed with all the new mums coming to join the thread so soon, very impressive. Can't believe how many babies there are already.

Verso, hope you get home really soon.