Live homebirth thread.

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Anyone up...my waters just partly went.....

Morning! I was hoping to wake up to read about you being all finished - no such luck. Yy to the ice lollies!

TENS attached...not sure about it yet. CTX are all over the place atm. Currently devouring cheese and tomato toastie. MW called. Salesman came to our back door offering to cut our trees, told him I was in labour right now and he carried on with his spiel....I said: "I don't think you heard me: there's a baby coming out of me right now!" The look of horror on his face....gotta get my labour kicks from somewhere, right?

I have toastie envy. Good work on the salesman scare- imagine he won't be back in a while

Oooh, this is exciting! I'm 39w with DC3 and going for a HB this time so watching avidly! Come on baby, out you come! Have you got a ball to bounce on? I'm paranoid about baby being back to back because he's shifting around so much still so as soon as I go into labour I am scrubbing the skirting boards and floors to keep me on my hands and knees as much as poss.

Hi Pink You still at it I'm afraid I fell asleep at 5.00. Had dreams of babies swimming everywhere.!!! ha ha.

Checking in after the hell that is swimming lessons . Hope all going well!

Hope the TENS is working for you, pink, & the contractions are building.

Just had the midwife over. Everything looks great and she'll be back later. Ctx have gone off a bit, probably because Im tired. Just had a triple peaking ctx -joy!! Id forgotten how much this hurts!

Ivy got the tens on 12 right now....how strong do these things go?

Hope you're doing ok in this heat!

I agree with resting/napping now if you can - you're doing great

Ice lolly. Ctx 1.5 minute cycles for last 30 minutes. Not too hot. Tens sux.

Sorry I disappeared, had to go out hot a few things. Sounds like things have moved on a bit

Tens usually go to about 15 or 20 and have 2 levels (a kind of medium and high) so you can escalate quite a bit. The secret is turning it down between contractions to a comfy level and then cranking it up during them. The comfy level will go up as things progress! However, at 1.5mins you're moving on apace and its def best early on and with time to get used to it.

Did those ice lollies arrive? Best of luck!

Just to add regarding the potential for a back to back birth... DD1 was back to back. Didn't notice any discernible difference in pain and the labour was only 4 hours (first baby too). She turned as she was passing out, I felt it (bone grinding against bone) but it wasn't painful strangely at all, more a relief!

Any difference in pain when I had DD2 not B2B

This is the first live birth thread I've read since I became pregnant, it's so exciting!

How are you feeling now Pink ?

Oh good luck OP! Hope things progress quickly for you :)

I feel like SHIT!!!! Ctx lasting up to 3 minutes and getting worse. Called MW. Getting in the pool. Might disappear for a bit.

Sounds like things are moving along nicely. Keep up the good work!

Best of luck Pink

Make sure you post a cute newborn picture for us all to coo over

Good luck OP

Good luck!

Good luck! Rooting for you! X

Just to let you all know that labour is going really well so far. Contractions coming thick and fast and increasingly stronger. Gas and air is helping though :) From birthing partner