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40 weeks - bloody discharge - Consultant today said I am 2cm and cervix very thin! I hope this is my LABOUR THREAD!

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pgwithnumber3 · 02/02/2009 19:13

Been getting pains all evening, just been to loo and wiped and there was bloody discharge (aware could be because of internal) - Consultant was convinced I would be going soon when he did internal today - I am praying that tonight is the night as I am fed up!

Did anyone else have bloody discharge (not a show) pre-labour?

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pgwithnumber3 · 03/02/2009 22:13

Thanks Poledra, washing I can cope with!

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LackaDAISYcal · 03/02/2009 22:14

oh arse for you pgNo3

LackaDAISYcal · 03/02/2009 22:18

lol poledra, I noticed the same with washing after DS2. I think it's because as well as three changes of pukey baby clothes I only get one day's wear out of a pair of trousers and often have to change midday as well due to baby puke hitting me as well

The hardest thing for me is the 17 month age gap as DD still needs lots of attention and her tantrums can be.....challenging. If she is upset when DS2 is I feel torn over which one to attend to first.

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pgwithnumber3 · 03/02/2009 22:42

In 1.5 hours I will officially be overdue. I find it strange how I was 2 weeks early with my first and late with second and third. Oh well, not a lot you can do!

Lacks - I know, it is a bummer but I am not too bothered because it is extremely important we sell the house. It will be a huge struggle come May/June if we don't sell it. Fingers crossed everything goes though okay but I won't settle until contracts are exchanged. Life can start again for us once the house is sold.

Your DD is 20 months now, how has she adapted to the new baby?

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LackaDAISYcal · 03/02/2009 22:50

sorry you've had to sell the house. Has DH found another job? I'm sure things will work out well for you.

DD is great.....when she wants to be! she didn't like it all to begin with, but now tries to "help" and likes to tuck his blanket around him and wipe his chin when he spits up etc. she has bouts of jealousy though and always wants cuddles when I'm feeding him, but is generally OK with him. i think they'll be great friends as he already follows her round the room with his eyes.
She calls him "bumble" which is really sweet as she can't say Finlay. Sounds nothing like it, but it's kinda cute. We all call him bumble now.

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pgwithnumber3 · 03/02/2009 22:58

Our plans are for DH to start up again with some of the equity from the house, we will save the rest for a deposit for a house to buy when market stabilises and hopefully we are better month to month financially. Shit happens hey!?

Your DD sounds so sweet! LOL at bumble! DD2 is my bundle of joy. I cannot imagine another one taking over her as the baby. Makes me feel a bit sad to be honest. Feels like she hasn't had much of a chance of being the little one. She refuses to say Mama or Mummy though, it is comical. She grins when we ask her to say it! Says Daddy and Grace perfectly but not bloody Mummy! "Oh dear!" is her favourite saying atm. Don't they melt your heart?

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psychomum5 · 03/02/2009 23:04

((I am joking BTW))

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pgwithnumber3 · 03/02/2009 23:09

I will be getting midwife to stitch me up so not as much as 1 little swimmer will be having fun in my cervix pyscho! What makes it all the more strange to end up with 3 is that 10 years ago we were told we would never even have 1! How's that for proving one of the best infertility clinics in Britain that they are wrong!

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LackaDAISYcal · 03/02/2009 23:12

they do indeed. Your DD2 sounds very sweet; I'm sure she'll be fine after an initial protest. I've had it a lot easier than some on my PN thread who have older toddlers. I doubt DD even remembers a time before bumble now.

You have the same age gap between your older two that I have as well. DS1 will be seven in May.

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pgwithnumber3 · 03/02/2009 23:12

God I am being OTT with exclamation marks tonight.

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pgwithnumber3 · 03/02/2009 23:14

There is exactly 4 years and 11 months between DD1 and DD2 and there will be nearly 17 months between DD2 and DD3. How strange we have the same gaps.

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LackaDAISYcal · 03/02/2009 23:17

!!!

hope you can get some sleep before it all kicks off and that it kicks off soon.

night

psychomum5 · 03/02/2009 23:17

I too was told at 18 that die to PSOS I had less than 5% chance of ever falling pregnant.

DH asked who it was that told me, so he could sue her once...............

her 5% turned into 5 of the things (his words!).

he was joking.

I think

LackaDAISYcal · 03/02/2009 23:19

oh, and I have five years and ten days between DS1 and DD and five days short of 17 months between DD and DS2.

sweetkitty · 03/02/2009 23:24

Oh how exciting just seen this thread

go on PWN3 am rooting for you

Like poledra (waves) I am six and a bit months into having 3 and it is fab, I love 3, it seems like a proper gang, the other two adore their sister and although it's hard work it's great fun, I have 18m between 1 and 2 and 2 1/2 y between 2 and 3 so 3 in a few days short of 4 years.

Would second the laundry though, it never stops.

Sex did nothing for me (I mean when overdue) it just kept giving me loads of BHs and false labours, gave up in the end.

Come on baby Camille don't keep your Mummy waiting

SnowlightMcKenzie · 03/02/2009 23:26

pg3 I'm very tired and a little tipsy so this might not make sense.

DS: Full hospital. caring but inexperience mws. in 10 hours I had 4 different ones. VERY odd labour. Baby badly positioned. I wasn't listened to. Traumatised by the pain. Pethedine without consent and so refused waterbirth. Made to push too early and on my back. Sent to labour ward for instrumental but they refused me. Registrar called but never turned up. After 3 hours of pushing without urge, given local in fanjo and student doctor blasted DS out by jumping on my tummy (wasn't supposed to do this btw).
Notes record textbook labour

DD: Relaxed, 'fairly' painless. Doula support. No drugs. Gave birth within 1hr 45mins of arriving at unit. Waterbirth. One mw who never ever touched me.
Notes record textbook labour

BTW 'thinking' about no.3

Lulumama · 04/02/2009 07:25

morning chick ! will see you a bit later for gossip birth talk x

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pgwithnumber3 · 04/02/2009 08:57

Lulu - morning! - I will text you in a bit, got to go and see my Mum this morning (have to get out, am going stir crazy) but will be in after school if you want to pop in with your two? Sorry to be a pain but if I sit in this living room with poor DD2 for one more day I will be sectioned! If not, I will be here for the rest of the week.

Snowlight - good lord, I feel sick reading your first birth story. That is - how you managed to go on to have another I have no idea.

at kitty - still nothing happening I'm afraid, few twinges here and there but zilch on the proper stuff. Lovely to hear these stories about 3 being enjoyable. I think everyone goes through some anxieties near to the birth about how another baby will fit in but they just do. They have no choice not to!

Pyscho - how weird you and I are both mothers to broods after being told we wouldn't. I only ever wanted children, we started trying when I was 22 and I to say I was devastated to be told it would never happen, well, you can imagine. So I feel fulfilled with having 3, I wasted my brain by not going to school so if I hadn't have had children I would have felt like I had wasted my life.

Becca, PinkTulips - anything happening with you?

MKG hope you are well.

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PinkTulips · 04/02/2009 11:20

nope

due today

have never hit my due date before and it's creeping me out a bit.

how inadvisable would it be to try and give myself a sweep i wonder?

glad to hear 3 is managable... i can't leave the house without massive difficulty anyway with the ages i have so won't affect me in that way. my dd has just turned 4 and ds is 2.5 and still in nappies so feel like i'm packing for a week away evey time i pop to a friends!

fingers crossed the twinges turn into something for you pgw3..... i'm liking the theory of eating cake to evict lo..... may have to attempt that.... purely in the interest of research you understand

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pgwithnumber3 · 04/02/2009 11:55

Pinktulips, I know how you feel, I remember getting to my due date with DD2 and thinking WTF?!

I have been having contractions sporadically but getting painful this morning. Probably feck all though. I am at my mum and dad's so got my feet up and being pampered. Lovely!

I don't think your arm will be long enough to do a DIY sweep!

Let me know how you get on, these last few days really drag.

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LackaDAISYcal · 04/02/2009 11:58

pg, I was still telling myself "it was nothing" and that it would stop again even when my contractions were every three minutes

I hope this is it

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pgwithnumber3 · 04/02/2009 12:00

They are making me wince Lacks, just had another one. They are probably every 10 minutes or so. We'll see, I have had enough false starts to not get excited.

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PinkTulips · 04/02/2009 12:05

hope it's the real thing this time PGw3.... know what you mean about not getting excited after so many false starts though.

twiddle those nipples every time you get one to make them stronger and longer (contractions, not nipples )

Poledra · 04/02/2009 12:21

Oh, good luck PGWN3, hope this is it.

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pgwithnumber3 · 04/02/2009 12:30

They are coming every 10 minutes like clockwork! I really hope this is it.

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