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Due May 2009 Hairy Mary!... We're on the final stretch!

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Belgianchocolates · 23/03/2009 15:14

Thought I'd better start the new thread before it was too late. Here we go!

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FiKelly · 31/03/2009 21:53

belgian and 10/11 months post xmas still being busy... could be the credit crunch too... more people staying in?!

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Belgianchocolates · 31/03/2009 21:57

llare quite a few women have mentioned good football/rugby results as a possible cause to me too

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Belgianchocolates · 31/03/2009 21:58

fi could be couldn't it. Save on gas/electricity and cuddle up in bed... Shame that 9 months later the real bill arrives...

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FiKelly · 31/03/2009 21:58

off to get my bedtime milk... must think about going to sleep soon...

divedaisy · 31/03/2009 21:58

NO full moon tonight - there was something on the TV the other night about Moon Watch and it was just a wee sliver of a thing! Maybe there's no moon....

Frazzle - OK I know this is a cross post - but really do phone the LW. DOn't even try to second guess what's happening. Better to arrnge baby sitting etc while things are relatively calm. Good luck Babe xx

Spanglemaker and llareggub - how are things with you too???

momino - I was also thinking about getting my birth plan organised soon. With all that's going on at the moment on this thread we all really should be ready from now on for anything to happen!

I know we spoke about raspberry leaf tea/tablets - but I can't rememeber when it is advisable to start taking... who out there knows?

1stMrsf - glad your twins are both head down and your opting for a VB - good on you girl!!! I bf before so know how discrete it is! Just my friend taking the p*ss out of me! I already have a change bag. I did tell her about the Prince Lionheart Slumber Bear I've seen, but also I'd fancy a sling and am getting the loan of some post birth to try, so have told her to wait out for a decision!

Detsy - the Reg's attitude is a bit OTT! I think I'd mention it to your MW the next time. I'm 40 (just!!) and subconsiously recognise I'm higher risk and am being closely looked after. but him spelling it out so bluntly is insensitive (IMO)...

Chica31 - welcome - Hola!!!

flippineck · 31/03/2009 22:01

Oh my goodness, what a lot of excitement on here today. Fingers crossed that everyone is ok.

FiKelly · 31/03/2009 22:03

i think it was 36 wks we could start off taking the raspberry leaf tablets... at the min dose? i did ask but my memory has gone fussy!

FiKelly · 31/03/2009 22:04

sorry meant fuzzy?! bit of a difference in meaning there

flippineck · 31/03/2009 22:04

Isn't it 36 weeks for raspberry leaf tea/tablets?

divedaisy · 31/03/2009 22:06

oh no I've run out of mini eggs

DS has been off school yesterday and today... again! He spent most of Sunday night coughing (he has an asthmatic cough) so I kept him off Monday as we both were so tired, but then in the afternoon he spiked a very high temp (39C).. so I kept him off today and he's been playing Wii and Lego. He's still complaining of having a sore throat, but temp is normal, and has just started to bark again... I hate keeping him off school, but really don't know whether to send him in tomorrow now or not?? Suppose wait to see how he is in the morning after tonight...

Well I'm going to bed now with a cuppa tea. Could be another long night...

Blottedcopybook · 31/03/2009 22:09

I'm heading off to bed. What a blooming day! I updated my blog with hubby's birthday pavolva and creme brulee which honestly took me about four hours to make today. I'm exhausted!

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Belgianchocolates · 31/03/2009 22:10

Raspberry leaf tea. I think it's 36 weeks too. I've read lots of different things though, 32-34,... I'm just a bit worried, because it worked so well for me that if I take it too early I'll go into labour too early, so I'll stick to 36 weeks. I'm going for the tablets too. Apparently the actual tea tastes vile and I don't even want to try it.

Look now it's past 10 o'clock, past bedtime and I've done nothing that I planned. There's too much happening on here to be honest. I really should be going to bed and then stay away from MN tomorrow, but I want to know what's happening with spangle and frazzled, so I know I'll go back on here tomorrow.

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FiKelly · 31/03/2009 22:11

i'm heading off to bed too. got a busy day tomorrow and last of new born baby clothes to buy.

BTW DH thinks i'm nesting as i made him build the crib last night so i could clean it properly. Today i washed most of DS's linen for it and i actually said i was relieved to be not moving so i could concentrate on getting our place all tidy again! DH is usually the obsessively tidy one so he was in a bit

divedaisy · 31/03/2009 22:15

Oh I meant to say Fi I'm pleased things have worked out for you on the home front. Pity you missed out on the other house, but sometimes things work for the best!

FiKelly · 31/03/2009 22:20

divedaisy i agree... in the long run it make much more sense financially for us to stay put... at least until our apartment is back up in value a bit and won't cause so many problems theat the huge change in our equity v mortgage ratio has done at this time...

FiKelly · 31/03/2009 22:20

oooo too many typos... def time for bed!

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LoobyLou36 · 31/03/2009 22:27

Evening ladies.

Blimey it's all kicking off on here isn't it? Hope everything okay with spangle and frazzled.

Went to Parentcraft class tonight with DH. Was very informative I am now sh*tting myself. The cmw that was taking the class said that I would probably be induced early as they don't like gd mums to go past 38/39 wks.She gave me a leaflet about what happens during induction.

Seems like the birth plan I had in my head (labour as long as possible at home, water birth, etc) has gone out of the window .

She went through the various pain methods and we had a look at one of the Delivery Suites.

llareggub · 31/03/2009 22:32

Looby they've said that to me, too. I was induced with DS and it wasn't too bad, and like you I had my heart set on a lovely waterbirth. I found it wasn't something that bothered me once I had him in my arms. Have you had your insulin yet?

I have an appointment with my 2 consultants in the morning, and have a list questions to ask them about what they think is going on!

Right, I'm off to bed. Night all, no more dramas through the night, please!

LoobyLou36 · 31/03/2009 22:33

Really beginning to regret not starting ML earlier as I feel like I won't have much time to get everything sorted before LO arrives.

LoobyLou36 · 31/03/2009 22:36

picking up my insulin tommorrow llare

then got appointment with dr and consultant on Thurs
think I will write a list of questions to take with me

pulapula · 31/03/2009 22:39

loobylou- it might be too short notice to change your ML plans (you need to give 4 weeks notice) but do you have any more AL you could use in advance? I did this last time, as I planned to finish work in mid-June (38 weeks) but found it too tiring towards the end, so took a couple of weeks AL so I finished end-May instead.

frazzledoldbag · 31/03/2009 22:51

Hi ladies, just a quickie - I've been upstairs putting some useful stuff in a pile for a hospital bag (should one be needed quickly) and got sidetracked into tidying my wardrobe and sorting out lots of washing and stuff. Decided it was best to keep busy and moving and not sit there timing the tightenings as I had been earlier. They have settled down a lot although am still getting the odd one now and again. Not ever 3 mins any more and not very painful now either. Am really not keen to go rushing into hospital at this time of night (would have to wake MIL up too to get her over here as she goes to bed very early) - unless anything more serious happens. Either way I'll call my m/w in the morning and see what she thinks (assuming all is ok). It's all just been really odd but I do wonder if it's just my body freaking out slightly in response to the stress (lots of) I've been through today.
Thanks for all your advice - I do appreciate it (and I know I've so far not taken it) but had things continued as they were for much longer or got any worse I'd definitely have phoned the labour ward and DH would have marched me out into the car whether I wanted to go or not!
Anyway sleep well all, thanks belgian and good luck getting your presentation perfected. Off for a bath and hopefully a decent bit of sleep now.
Night x

LoobyLou36 · 31/03/2009 22:55

I'm off to bed too - night all.

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Belgianchocolates · 31/03/2009 22:59

detsy I had a look on the Midirs data base for articles about induction of labour because of maternal age, because it has been nagging me for a while and your question has spurred me on to look into it a bit more. I can't read the full articles, because I'd have to order the paper version of them and that takes a while, but I can read the abstracts and there seem to be a number recent and different pieces of research where they come to the conclusion that either very young mums or older mums (i.e. over 40) have an increased risk of stillbirths. Funnily enough they don't induce young teenagers routinely. I can't see why this would mean you need continuous monitoring though if you were to go into spontaneous labour. Generally intermittent auscultation, if done correctly, should pick up any problems that justify continuous monitoring. Induction itself is however a reason for continuous monitoring, because it is an intervention. I tried the Cochrane database too, but couldn't find anything.

Right, now I'm reall really really going to bed, because it's late.

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