Right, someone convince me it's not long now...please!

[MidnightinMoscow]

I am 38+3 with DC2. Hoping for a VBAC after an EMCS for DC1 with who I got to 9cm's with.

I have had period cramps for over a week, two lots of plug coming away and last night lots of tight feelings high in my bump. The period like cramps are really painful and often are alongside sharp pains down below.

I have a week to go into labour, otherwise I am booked for a CS. I am so fed up of symptom spotting and being in this 'is it- is it not?' place. I went into labour at 38+4 with DC1.

So someone come along and tell me lie to me that todays the day.

hi everyone,
hope you dont mind me joining....am 39+1 weeks on 2nd baby.really hoping you can help to keep me sane as am really fed up of waiting now :(

I'm still here too. I still feel a bit crampy and heavy down below but cant be that bad as slept thru the night, didn't wake me up. Plan today is to go stare at my friends baby in the hope that might stir some kind of labour hormones in me.

Hi princesswelcome. Were very slow to get moving on this thread so you may be here for some time yet!

hi feekerry
how far along are you?

Welcome Princess hope you're not waiting as long as us!
I'm 40+5 today
Joy and Feek sorry to hear you are in the same position as me! I also plan walking and bouncing today. Woke up fed up, but DH gave me a lovely pep talk which cheered me up a bit
Just off for a walk with DD who wants to go out on her scooter. Thank goodness for her otherwise I'd be in bed feeling sorry for myself!

daydreamdolly you poor thing!its so hard isnt it?
does anyone know how far over due they'll allow you to go if you've had a previous e.section??

40+3 here today. Sigh.

hi there; 40+5 today. DD1 slept for 13 whole hours last night, which meant I got nearly 8 and didn't even wake up. Feeling mighty positive today; mahusive show this morning, and carrying on now ( had been having a bit since thursday) seems that sweep might have had an effect on something!

Right... DD at nanny; Dh at husband; gonna straighten my hair and put on full makeup( not going to do that for a while) then going to bounce like a mentalist to rizzle kicks,

did midnight post yet?

Fuckity reporting for duty, nothing to report. Also had a good night, must mean something.....

40+10 here. I'm losing the will!!

Think bump might actually just be a giant hot cross bun!!!

40+7, can't quite believe I am typing that, after finishing work at 39 weeks I thought I wouldn't have time to do everything, who knew I would be bored out of my mind 3 weeks later...

I slept great as well, and had a few BH this morning so I feel like my body is doing something at last.

BAby girl!! At 8.10 this am.

Got to 10cm in three hours, hardcore labour.
All went pear shaped, emergancy section as she was very distressed. Very scary but all fine now.

Come on ladies, yOu can do it. Xxxx

Oh weight, 9lb 120z!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! So sorry to hear you had another scary experience but so glad you are both ok. Welcome to the world baby girl! And you weren't tooooo big
So pleased for you xxxx

I take that back, I read that as 8lbs 12oz! What a lovely whopper!

So pleased for you !

9 12!! Blimey. Congratulations, see a 3 hour labour, deffo a result of all those niggles. Well done you Midnight :) Now let's see some of this domino effect please. Dp's colleague is lending me a TENS this evening so that's good, but I just want this over with. I slept so well last night for the first time in forever so I do feel all ready now. I've had a massive walk in some very public places this morning to try and tempt my waters to go, but nothing.

great news! congrats midnight! sorry to hear it got a bit scary...
no contractions here, massive show still; been having a bounce on the ball, and a walk... c'mon
x

Wow midnight, what a shame it ended in EMCS but you are indeed hardcore!! It would be terribly un-PC to say to say at 9lb 12 maybe better a CS than a VB and mahoosive tear wouldn't it?! Are you going to tell us her name midnight? Feel all emotional there is a brand new little girl in the world today

(while on the subject of tearing flisspaps (we were in my head anyway), at my hospital for twin VB they want an epidural in, full monitoring and syntocinon drip up as soon as twin 1 born, plus an interval of no more than 30 minutes before delivering twin 2- all things that seem likely to me to increase risk of assisted/ instrumental delivery and re-tearing, plus I don't want to be induced again. And no matter what position twin 2 is in at the start of labour, on delivering twin 1 they can always move. So I feel it's a different kettle of fish for me! and I'm totally shit scared of tearing again ).

I reckon at least one more of you is having a baby today, I can feel it in both my waters

Midnight massive congratulations

Dreaming You're absolutely right that all of those things increase the chance of assisted delivery and therefore tearing (as well as then increasing your chance of retained placenta and a PPH!) so in your shoes absolutely I'd have gone for ELCS - it's so different with one and not having to fend off the hospital's demands for synto, epidural and whatever for twin 2, especially if you give birth to twin 1 without any assistance at all! I'd be on the phone to the hospital at the first sign of labour in that case, as they'd have you in for EMCS at the earliest opportunity if you're already booked for ELCS.

Then again, if both babies are cephalic I don't see why the need for all the intervention 'just in case' anyway - isn't the risk usually if one is cephalic and the second one is breech and 'needs' to be turned?

fliss, it is still a choice. And if you go in in hard labour progressing fast there isn't the time for an epidural. I met a twin mum yesterday who had both naturally, no problems, no time for epidural, just had monitoring and synto after twin 1, 9 min between deliveries. She said she met someone who had twins 2 months after her, and had a VB then EMCS, so it's just luck of the draw! however, if twin 2 was head down but flicked into transverse and I'd refused an epidural (mine keeps going head down to transverse and back as it is!) and they then couldn't turn him it could go to a GA section. Or if the placenta came away while delivering twin 1, you want them out then before they get a hypoxic brain injury etc etc. Small chances, but all possible. And I'm very twitchy about these things- I work with disabled children, see loads of twins (mostly result of prematurity to be fair, but some bad-birth twin 2 ones), plus a colleague had twins, and her crash section was too late to save her twin 2. As much as I know that statistically this isn't likely to happen, in my head it is still a good possibility.... And again, I'm just frightened of anything going wrong, and think neither delivery particularly worse for babies, just recovery from CS probably worse (than straightforward VB certainly) for me, so I'll take the CS!

crikey, check me out, trying hard to justify opting for major surgery!!!!

There's no need to justify it to anyone - as I say, in your shoes I'd absolutely have gone for ELCS too (and I'm speaking as a planned-homebirth-against-medical-advice-with-a-pool-and-hypnotherapy girl this time!)

Ultimately, they're all coming out one way or another (do you hear that babies, you're not all staying in your respective comfy wombs forever, whether you like it or not!) and we've all got to do what we've got to do to try and make that as safe for ourselves and our babies as possible :)

Fliss this baby could come out of my nostril at this point, if only to stop the endless chocolate scoffing I have done so well this pregnancy to avoid so much excess weight gain as before, but these last few weeks has seen my resolve crumble and my thighs double.

Well done midnight, I hope you're not feeling too shattered. 9lb 12 is big... I still beat you at 9lb 15 for mine (and emcs as you know)

Is anyone more overdue than me and bertie at 40+10 each?

Whoop whoop whoop to midnight. Xxxx

Ladies I need help: 4 text messages today from "well wishing" friends asking me if I have had the baby. No I fucking haven't.
What amusing but firm message can I send back / post as Facebook status so that people get the message to bugger off as I could feasibly have another 2 weeks (small whimper/ cry).