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OK just for a laugh ... place your bets on how long Miaou will be in labour this time [grin]

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Miaou · 13/07/2007 22:17

Not that I'm in labour yet but due a week on Saturday so not very long to go ...

A little background info to help you decide:

dd1 - 16 hours from start to finish - had an epidural which they reckon slowed it down.

dd2 - 8 hours and ditto the epidural

ds - 4 hours (waterbirth, no intervention)

Soooo ... m/wives seem sure it could all be over in 2 hours, I'm not so convinced myself!

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DumbledoresGirl · 13/07/2007 22:19

Well 2 hours is the obvious bet to start with.

You are not on that little island anymore are you? Fingers crossed that all goes well for you

nutcracker · 13/07/2007 22:20

You cannot be due already, how the hell did that happen, I am sure I only found out you were expecting yesterday LOL.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 13/07/2007 22:21

12 hours.

DumbledoresGirl · 13/07/2007 22:21
frogs · 13/07/2007 22:21

Erm... hopefully slightly longer than it takes the MW to locate her car keys.

MarsLady · 13/07/2007 22:22

1hr 37 mins!

If not..... 21hrs 42 mins!

magnolia1 · 13/07/2007 22:22

Ok this is not what you want to hear but my mum was 4 hrs with me, 2 with my sister, 45minutes with my brother and.......
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10 HOURS with my youngest. She was mighty pissed off

BreeVanDerCampLGJ · 13/07/2007 22:22

Bugger off, I am on my jolly 'ollies....

I leave this world. [MN World] very early tomorrow morning.

Love you lots, thinking about you lots.

But on the flip side..............I am on my Jolly 'Ollies.

God Speed Miaou......

Much love

H

magnolia1 · 13/07/2007 22:22

my youngest sister that is

nutcracker · 13/07/2007 22:23

Ok, I am saying 3 hours and 23 minutes.

nutcracker · 13/07/2007 22:23

Hi DG , yep back to nutcracker, soooo much better.

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Miaou · 13/07/2007 22:24

LOL you lot! Nope, now live on the mainland, a mere 25 miles from the hospital (and don't want a homebirth). I don't like things to be too straightforward, you see

VVV - bloody hope not!!

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Miaou · 13/07/2007 22:25

Awww, thanks LGJ - you might not have to sit through this one with me then (don't think you have recovered yet from the stress of the last one )

Have a lovely holiday!!

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nutcracker · 13/07/2007 22:26

What do we win, if we guess correctly ??

ApuNahasapeemapetilon · 13/07/2007 22:27

1 hour 49 mins

DumbledoresGirl · 13/07/2007 22:27

The thing is, how will you judge when labour has started? Actually, when I had no.4 there was quite a defined start to labour, but when I had no.3, I was having on and off contractions for about 24 hours and only went to the hospital for something to do - turned out to be in proper labour and gave birth about 4 hours later. But I wouldn't like to say when proper labour had started....

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Miaou · 13/07/2007 22:32

OK:

VVVQV - 12 hours
Nutcracker - 3 hours 23 mins
DumbledoresGirl - 2 hours
ApuNahasapeemapetilon - 1 hour 49 mins
Marslady - 1 hour 37 mins (am ignoring your other suggestion

Nutcracker - you win the right to jump around declaring "I was right! I won!" etc

DG - I thought that for the sake of clarity we will go with what goes down in my notes as length of labour. Have always had a very defined bang-and-we're-off start to labour previously.

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nutcracker · 13/07/2007 22:33

I would so do that Miaou you know LOL, really.

BreeVanDerCampLGJ · 13/07/2007 22:35

Two hours 37 and .....................we are now bringing DH's crackberry (blackberry) on hols just because I need to know.

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Miaou · 13/07/2007 22:35

ROFL nutty - I actually pictured you doing it in my head when I typed it

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Miaou · 13/07/2007 22:37

LOLOL LGJ

VVVQV - 12 hours
Nutcracker - 3 hours 23 mins
BreeVanDerCampLGJ - 2 hours 37 mins
DumbledoresGirl - 2 hours
ApuNahasapeemapetilon - 1 hour 49 mins
Marslady - 1 hour 37 mins

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nutcracker · 13/07/2007 22:38

ROFL

MarsLady · 13/07/2007 22:38

Can you start a thread congratulating the winner please? Just in case your most important day slips my mind!

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Miaou · 13/07/2007 22:40

Well naturally Mars, of course I will!

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magnolia1 · 13/07/2007 22:42

Ok I say 3 hrs 40 minutes

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