Due March 2010 - One Born Every Five Posts

[Arcadie]

Welcome to the thread, before the thread, before the final thread where I give birth.

And in case you're needing it here is the Post-natal thread

Afribaby It's just you and me now love....
And you're about 30 seconds from being in labour.

Which leaves.... oooohh.... errrrrm....

Just me.

Arcadie, you know we can't see you, right? You could just tell us you'd had your baby and we'd never know if you hadn't really! So you could just come over to PN, make the appropriate noises (ouch, my nips are so sore, my baby will only sleep on me, isn't he/she CUTE etc etc) and join in the 'fun' til you really DO give birth! 'Tis only a mad theory...!

Oh, I love a good conspiracy theory!

What would Dave the trucker to with RL tablets??

Oh Arcadie i am sure you will start up really soon. This is the first time I'm doing this, but I have this idea that it would be easier to just START proper labour rather than lingering in this weird limbo of nearly but not quite...but am thinking of you. It feels like i'm still going to be here for days. So you are not alone!

And do you have news of Henrietta - has she sprogged?

Just had a lovely call from my midwife who made all the right encouraging noises. I do love midwife-led care.

The occasional contraction this afternoon, but nothing strong or regular. Might attack another packet of Haribos and watch some incredibly awful German TV.

By the way, pacific you are quite clearly bonkers and it's just great having you on the thread. Always make me smile.

Glad to be of service.
Even if I cannot spell... What would Dave the trucker do with etc etc... obviously, doh!

Are you jogging around your house yet, Afri?

Poor you Afri - hope everything happens for you soon.

Arcadie - don't give up hope, your baby IS coming. It IS possible to go into labour any day. You won't be pregnant much longer whatever happens. FWIW I was utterly miserable and had no warning whatsoever that I was going into labour so it may happen sooner than you think...

I'll keep my fingers cross for you ladies!!
Good luck!
Jogging, walking, cleaning the house, climbing stairs... are meant to help, but to be honest just rest and enjoy the peace before the little ones are born ((says someone like me who only slept 3 hours last night))

Come on babies! Last day of March tomorrow [disbelieving emoticon]

If it makes you feel any better, I have spent the day halfheartedly wiping cleaning sick off the sofa and then changing a spectacularly leaked pooey nappy (all down one leg, through clothes; then transferred to other leg, feet and -somehow- stomach. Is it possible to remove pooey baby clothes without getting poo on the baby? I'd seriously like to know )

C'mon babies.......you are DUE IN MARCH, d'ya hear me? NOT April. So get on with it.

Right, you babies, we expect NEWS in the next 24 hours, you hear??

Night-night, I am off to bed whilst DS4 asleep on DH's manly chest...

Just wanted to pop in and say "C'mon!!" to all these outstanding March babies!! I'm really looking forward to hearing the lovely birth stories of the March babies yet to be born

Looking forward to when everyone is over on The Other Side so the thread can all be together again

Evening Arcadie - don't feel too sorry for yourself. One of the headgirls had to be last to close the thread - well done you! You must be makin it too comfy in there!!

See you on the otherside v sn where updates are far less frequent as you will soon find!

Dave here.

Lying in my wi-fied truckers cabin just off the A59 scratching my distended belly and dribbling Special Brew down my grubby white vest and eating pineapple. Oops. may have blown the cover there. I'm really a hormonal 33yr old Kentish bird. Sorry.

You lovely lovely ladies are keeping me going. Don't stop.

Off to see MW tomorrow for second Stretch and Sweep.

Spent the evening scrapbooking with my superchum in front of One Born every Minute. Crying in places. Relieved I'm not going through it atm in others.

Afribaby For all I don't wish to be left sitting here on my own I do wish you a speedy "getting on with it".

Dave - a truck birth would be kinda cool, we haven't had that yet have we?

13 hours left of March...

Any twinges?

Hey Arcadie and Afribaby... Just to let you know that I've been lurking and on the lookout fir news from you two... I know how frustrating it can be - last time I was due on the 27th of October (already last on the list) and ended up not giving birth until the 10th November by which time everyone else had long gone (

so sending you both speedy labour vibes and Sending up the odd swift prayer between nappies, feeds and tantrum diffusion...

Db
xx

Arcadie, your last post sounds like a blues song (in my head anyway)..

der ner ner ner ner
Lying in my wi-fied truckers cabin
der ner ner ner ner
Just off the A59
der ner ner ner ner
scratching my distended belly
der ner ner ner ner
and dribbling Special Brew down my grubby
white vest
der ner ner ner ner
Oh Yeah...
I got the overdue pregnant trucker blu-UUUES!

Ahem. I've obviously gone a bit mad myself.

As you were

Anna not a twinge in sight.

DB thanks for the prayers and general chin up. Wasn't on MN fr DD's birth but had an EDD of 28th Nov and EVENTUALLY had her dragged out kicking and screaming on 11th Dec so this is not a new situation in which I find myself.

I can't quite pin down why I'm so unutterably miserable about it. I think I just assumed that THIRD time round I'd manage to go into labour by myself.
I know that DH and a few (childless) friends are quite bemused as to why I want to bring on the puking, screaming and sleepless nights any sooner than they have to be there and I do see their point. I'm just fed up of thinking "is it today? Is that a twinge? Is that BH a little stronger?"

Saw MW today who administered second S&S which felt even less painful than the first and therefore possibly even less useful. Cervix doing NOTHING but getting softer and softer. Baby's head still high. No dilation, no effacement and still posterior. She tried to make me feel a bit better by saying that the cervix would be very favourable for an induction and that the baby's head is a little lower than last Friday but I know she's just trying to keep my chin up. So no March baby for me.

I have a hospital appointment for next Weds to see consultant or registrar. My agenda for the meeting is:

1. Get very thorough, extremely rummagy, put me straight into labour S&S.
2. Ask very nicely if I could possibly not be induced just yet but wait and see. At least until Term + 16ish.
3. AOB
4. Date of next meeting

Their agenda will be:

1. When can you come in for induction? Is tomorrow too soon?

Come on girls. Cheer your favourite trucker up this time!!!!!

BusY X-posted..... See that's JUST the sort of thing I come on here to read. Not some blithering idiot tellin gyou about her cervix. Thanks LOTS

Afri? AAAAAAAaafri?

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Bugger. She's gone into labour.....

Hahaha Busy, brilliant overdue trucker blues!

Arcadie - my mum is a maths teacher and she will happily teach you that not everyone can have an average pregnancy or shorter, as then the average wouldn't be the average.

She told the health visitors the same thing back in the day when my youngest sister was fatter than average although excl BF. In fact she was so fat that the christening outfit passed down generations would not fit her. (She is now 30 and not fat.)

Anyway my point is, if you're happy and baby is happy, there is no reason why you have to be induced? You just cook 'em a bit longer...

How does it work, do you have to be monitored every day if you choose to wait?

But if you did have an induction I'm sure that would be fine too!

We're all thinking of you.