Due May 09-Weddings,Inductions,Births & C-Sections - Its all going on this month!

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Here we go lasses

gone again!!!

starting up again. the regularity is concerning me. but not very strong at all. just feels like bad wind - maybe should go and sit on the loo??? And see if I deflate!!

Ooh divedaisy- keep us informed- sounds like it could be something....

think it's 'just' wind!! - a case of too much wishful thinking...

I have 'deflated'!!!

OK must go and get ds to bed before Holby City starts in 9 minutes!

Keep us posted, divedaisy (and interesting re: the milk thing.... I always thought it helped!! Will chug gaviscon instead!! )

Ooh, Holby City!

All you lot on Mat leave already are making it very hard for me to keep up. It takes me 2-3 hours in the evening to catchup and then write something and then I'm so tired I have to go to bed.

2 more days at work. I really feel I'm dragging myself around this week. LO is very active tonight and kicking me in all directions and its exhasting. I'm full of wind too and getting loads of period type pains. Nothing laboury yet though.

Wonder how llareggub is getting on?

I think I need bed now I won't be able to sleep but I need to stretch out.

Oh just read your birth story Reggie. Well done. Love the mooing bit. It makes me so excited for mine. Enjoy your beautiful Ben.x

evening everyone

thanks for all your hugs etc. feeling bit brighter than I did earlier. amazing what a good cry, some rest and some tlc from dh can do.

I've been keeping looby updated with our potential new arrivals and checking to see how she and matilda are doing. they had got out of hospital but have had to go back in for observation as matilda has lost 10% of her birth weight, she's been struggling with bf and the cs wound is still v sore. I think many of us have had similar probs at first and assured her she's not alone and that we'll be here when she feels up to going online.

Fi- thanks for the looby update. I might text her to tell her i'm thinking of her and that those first few days are really hard and to try not to worry.

I know looby won't be up to being online at the mo, but it might be a good idea to start up a postnatal thread now there are a few babies around. I know i found it useful with DS to know others were going through the same thing.

My name is Cote, and I'm an addict

Shopping this afternoon, I went and got another big jar of Nutella. Arrghh. I had promised myself that I would not buy it again.

I quit smoking cold turkey more that a year ago and never looked back. Why can't I quit Nutella?!?

pulapula I agree it really helps to know people that are going through the same new mum probs.. I still see some of the girls I met locally at post natal classes. our chats were much more helpful than the classes themselves!

Cote - because nutella is lush and gorgeous and smoking is manky. Easy peasy.

Good idea re the postnatal thread - but hope everyone won't forget us late May-ers!! Have visions of just a few of us dangling around, getting huffy that everyone has had their babies except us!! Plus, also very !!

cote, sausage is right - carry on with the nutella 'problem'. I'm sure it's good for you somehow, lots of protein, right ?

divedaisy, bad wind pains here too which seem to get worse with baby movement. just having probs, ahem, emptying my bowels. need to drink more water (how many times have I said this on this thread?).

sausage was it your DH/DP who had started smoking again a while back. Sorry if it wasn't (memory like a sieve) but if it was, how is it going re. him giving up?

Hi all - i'm also getting confused between BH, period pain and irritable bowel pains - think i need to dash off to the loo and don't so must be periody pains then..?!

But most importantly i've picked my ingrowing toenail and now its very very sore and can't touch it/wear shoes and i think there is still some nail in there
Can't labour with that

Momi - sorry i thought you were being induced and i think you are with me or near to me on the age scale? Apols if i have the wrong person!! I've been offered the same for term (week tomo) and am goign to go for it - was encouraged that previous internals have not been so uncomfortable as before.

The arm and hand internals made me smile - i have often wondered what actually goes on, so Belgian if you only ever use 2 fingers how do you work out the degree of dilation - sorry if that is a stupid question?!

Mmmmm Nutella - straight out of the jar with a teaspoon....

Am very impatient for llare news - she must be in labour now surely but i spose she could have been induced late in the day..?

Good luck for the ladies tomorrow and indeed rest of this week

Saus i was at the other end of the month in an antenatal thread for Lotti and was one of the last ones there - it does get very lonely indeed but worth waiting for!!!

Right off to read Reggie birth story

OK girls.. heres whats happening and I really don't know what to think..

I have really bad, and constant lower period type pains. It is sitting just above my pubic bone and is very intense. But it is constant. I have been to the loo to do a poo so it's not constipation, and I have farted often so its not trapped wind. When I had a bath (just out about 15 mins) the pains increased and then went back to the constant pain level a few times including pain in my rectum.

DH is on his way home from work as I post so I won't be alone for much longer. I'm scared to make the wrong decision about going to the hosp if it's a false alarm, however we live about a good 45 mins drive away from the hosp so I don't want to leave making the decision off for too long...

The paains seem to have settled at the mo, but I'm sitting down on my exercise ball... maybe that's the differnece??? Ive to get dh something to eat now, so I'll see how I am when I stand up.

Do I phone the hosp, or wait a wee while to access what's definately going on?????

anotherone on it;s way now...

lasted a minute and a bit

Oooh divedaisy- it might be worth a call to the hospital although i know mine wouldn't let me go in until my contractions were less than 5 mins apart. I know my labour with DD started with period-like pains (although i did have a false alarm where this happened in the morning then stopped, then started again in the evening).

My leg/hip/pelvis was so painful I ended up soaking in the bath as soon as the dcs were asleep. It feels much better now. I had some b/h after dinner and was hoping they were the start of something good, but it's all gone now... I WANT THIS BABY OUT NOW !!!!! detsy It's a little bit subjective the dilatation bit, but you make an educated guess from how far you can open your fingers. When you get to the stage that you can't open your fingers any more you feel how thick the rim of cervix is and deduct that from 10cm. If you can't feel any cervix whatsoever then the cervix is fully dilated.

cote don't worry about your nutella addiction. According to the advert it's good for you and even makes you clever . Well, at least that's what the adverts said when I was growing up...

I'm feeling a bit guilty about feeling that I want my mum to go away again now. She keeps playing games on the computer, because she can't follow the telly (it's too fast for her) and so I can't go on MN in the evening to catch up. I also find it hard to just sit and read a book, because she keeps talking to me. Half the time the stuff she says is nonsense, because she meets someone 1x and then comes out with all these statements as if she knows what she's talking about. She does the same about DH, even though she doesn't know how he really is at all, living the other side of the channel and stuff . Anyway, after a while I get annoyed with some of the things she says, because they're just her inventions. On Thurs DH will be back and then I'll feel like I can cope with her a bit better again. It's much nicer to be just with my dad. He understands that you don't always constantly have to talk when you're in the same room.

Oh, well. Off to bed now.

DiveDaisy Not sure what others think, but if the pains are regular and the bath is not easing them off it does sound like it could be labour. My previous 2 labours I felt the pain in my back and definately in my cervix (sorry if TMI) - are you feeling anything there?? Calling the hosp. will do no harm for some advice

and another one coming up...

divedaisy about a million x-posts happened in the mean time. I'd second Pula. Phone the hospital and see what they say. They might say wait and see an hour too. A minute and a half is a decent contraction, though.