Duchesse's childbirth thread...she hopes

[duchesse]

After about an hour of painless contractions every 3 mins, waters just went. Had forgotten quite how bloody much of it there is. I sit back and await labour...

[pixiestix]

Good luck duchesse, thinking about you xxxx

[turtle23]

Good luck!

[PlumBumMum]

goodluck

[3cutedarlings]

Good Luck Duchesse xxx

[JustKeepSwimming]

Good luck from me too

[audreyraines]

good luck, hope all goes smoothly. x

[mrswee]

all the best to you and baby!

x

[duchesse]

So here I am in a very nice single room at the hospital which is soooo much nicer than I could possibly have expected. Lovely midwife from lovely midwife team came and sorted me out. I was only 1 cm dilated and not effaced so they have begun the induction with a propess pessary. Apparently it can trigger labour by itself in quite a few women, so am crossing fingers that I am one of those women- would mean I wouldn't need continuous monitoring and could stay a lot more mobile... Have been having a fair few twinges in the cervix which is a good sign!

Will attempt to update later but secretly hoping not to have time for a ball by ball commentary...

[cazboldy]

Wishing you lots of luck xx

[tadjennyp]

Good luck! x

[3cutedarlings]

Aww sounds fab duchesse!!!

[PlumBumMum]

duchesse I had that with no2 and didn't need anything else so fingers crossed for you

soon you'll be contracting like mad hopefully

[OracleInaCoracle]

oooh, well done for updating. crossing everything for you (and hoping you wont need to )

[mama2leah]

bounceeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! bounce n bounce..and walk i did this with y induction, an dmanaged not to have waters broke, or drip!

bounce gallll!

[oopsacoconut]

Good Luck Duchesse, 1 pessary was all I needed to get me going. Kept upright and bounced. Fingers crossed for a smooth short labour.

[Pinkmumma]

Good luck! Hope baby will be here soon

[WhereTheWildThingsWere]

Oooh a live hospital update!

Good luck, fingers crossed for you that the pessary is all that is needed for baby to be on the way.

Well, baby is on the well already obv. but you get my drift.

[Hangingbellyofbabylon]

well done, hope it all gets moving now.

[OnlyWantsOneDoesntLikeDM]

[Chrysanthamum]

Best of luck Duchesse

[Picante]

Waiting for news...!

[duchesse]

Not masses to report I'm afraid. Woke up leaking loads at about 1am, was so starving had to go and grab a sandwich from the fridge thing, went back to sleep at about 3 and slept reaaly well until mw came to monitor the baby which seems to be asleep! Hoping cx pick up when I get up cos not much happening at moment...

[belgo]

this baby is certainly keeping the whole of mumsnet you waiting duchesse! Hope things happen today.

[WhereTheWildThingsWere]

Good morning duchesse, glad you are getting plenty of rest, finders crossed that todays the day.

[MmeLindt]

Good luck today, Duchesse. I hope that labour kicks off soon.