March 2016 babies! The (hopefully) graduation thread!

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Park your bums and continue the newborn chitter, and due date whinges

Love the updates,ffaux, keep posting.

And maybe, if you're reading. Keep posting. Hope they get things sorted for you today.

I've been coughing all night, I'm really starting to feel it in my stomach muscles (what's left of them!), pelvis, back.

DH has been keen to play his part in the eviction process the last few days. Let him have a go at that last night (he's been researching, apparently!) but no dice so far. Going to take pineapple to work today.

I could do with a day of sleep...

Wow, good luck ffaux, what a shock for you!

Sorry things haven't got better maybe, but it sounds as though at least an end is in sight if they're willing to induce you now. Hopefully you'll get plenty of pain relief and feel much better for it.

Nothing happening here at 40+5, but I'm really uncomfortable and struggling a bit to walk. I'm also really stressed out about going much further over. Ds finishes preschool on Tuesday for the holidays so I'll have him here full time from Wednesday onwards, and the cat has just had surgery and I'm up to and from the vet pretty much every day now, and I don't know who else will be able to do it if I go into labour now. Argh! I was hoping I'd have had the baby by now already so I had people around to help, like dh on paternity leave.

Still contracting too much for them to do anything else with me - so weird, I didn't know there was such a thing as too many contractions.

On the plus side they are bringing me peanut butter on toast :)

indom sounds like you shouldn't be at work at all
Urgh suz hang in there

indom sorry you're feeling so poorly. Coughing with a big bump is so painful; I've still got strained feeling muscles and an annoying intermitant cough from the week before Eddy was born. I found a wheat bag soothed things a bit and felt like I got my money's worth out of the tens machien once my midwife surgested using it to sooth the aches and pains coughing caused. If you have one or can get your hands on one.

ffaux glad you've been able to get mobile it's horriable to be tied up for too long.

maybe I hope you're able to make the best choice for you and your baby and that you're able to get some rest.

Sorry to hear some of you are having such a horrible time!!

Ah ffaux peanut butter on toast sounds good! None of that on the NHS, now considering sticking a jar in my bag. Snacks aside, hope things sort themselves out and your uterus gets on it with some coordinated and properly spaced out contractions! Keep posting.

maybe what a horrid time you've been having, but you must be due some good labour luck by now so hope the induction is straight forward for you, the end is in sight.

indom I massively sympathise on the coughing front, it's horrible, and standing in front of a class of kids must be a killer. You are doing amazingly! As a parent, can I say how selfless you are to keep going so that the kids don't miss out, you teachers are amazing. That said, stop as soon as you need to. No one is going to judge you for stopping work at 39+ weeks.

time I hope things feels a bit easier today, or you at least feel less alone.

Today's job for me, finish my paperback book and sort out my new Kindle which I hope will be much easier to hold whilst hopefully BFing in the next couple of weeks. And if I feel keen will bake some hot cross buns for the freezer ready for Easter weekend in case I'm otherwise indisposed then...

Wow, that must have come as quite a shock Indom, glad they're taking good care of you .

Maybe sorry to here about your continue lack of progress, you must be so frustrated and exhausted. Hope they can give you some good advice and support about inducing/augmenting your labour.

I've come to terms with the fact that I'm going to be induced, though still hoping to hold out till Friday (when I'll be 42 weeks exactly). Part of me just wants it over now, I feel so deflated each morning when I wake up and still haven't got and labour signs. It's such a shame as I was so positive about giving birth I was actually looking forward to it! but now just feel totally meh about the whole thing. Really worried that this feeling will extend to the baby when he's born if this goes on much longer. Got an appointment this afternoon for a sweep and to discuss timing of induction.

Ahhh good luck ffaux! How exciting that your baby will be here soon! It's odd about there being too many contractions though. I've never heard of that either! Hope things are moving on nicely for you now

for Maybe. Hopefully you're near the end now, and baby will just fall out when things do kick off for you.

Doc Sorry you're still here with the overduers I remember going to 12 days with DS1 and being miserable that he was taking his time. Once baby is here I'm sure you'll forget all about the long wait and just be thrilled to be able to hold them. There's still time for it to kick off naturally, but being induced isn't bad either :)

Second sweep yesterday seems to have set off another huge lot of mucus and bloody snot, which is just delightful. No other signs though so am probably here until induction as well, which I'm ok with. I'm just enjoying my last week without a newborn now, and if things happen then that's a bonus :)

How are you doing today Time?

Urgh this is not pleasant :( no progress since last check and still too many contractions for more drugs. Even though they are painful they are not doing anything, so waiting for doc to come break my waters. Not looking forward to that and so so tired. Can't believe people do this more than once!!

Sorry I meant ffaux not Indom below, don't know where my head is at the moment!

ffaux hope things get going once they break your waters! maybe hope things are progressing for you too!

Indom hope you're feeling better today.

Must stop watching The Middle and do something useful with my day!!

Just read back through the threads and sorry to hear you're having a bad time Time. I agree with others though that you shouldn't make any rash decisions about going back to work while your anxiety is bad, I would hate for you to regret it later. Hopefully the HV will get back in touch and offer you some support.

Ffaux and Maybe hope your contractions start resulting in progress soon. Must be so frustrating and exhausting for you both.

Thanks for the good advice Hayley, I'm coming round to the idea of induction tbh, just want baby doc here now (I'm not very good with not being in control of what's happening, patience is not one of my strengths!)

Sorry to hear things have stalled ffaux, hope they get moving soon. Also hope maybe is doing better.

Nothing doing here, so fed up of being overdue! Not even the slightest whiff of a baby. They haven't offered me another sweep which I thought was a bit odd but will see what the consultant says on Friday. God I'm so fed up and bored of being pregnant now. Was channel hopping just a minute ago and watched some of countryside 999 as had a woman who'd given birth on the toilet without even realising she was pregnant had a bit of a hormonal cry on seeing the baby as I just want mine to come now and feels like it will never happen.

indom hope you are feeling better today.

Commiserations to all my fellow overduers let's hope our babies get a move on quickly!

marmite, I've pretty much spent the day hormonal crying! I was in so much pain last night, didn't get much sleep, and dh got up this morning and went "see, I told you it wasn't going to be today", which set me off. Plus the cat had surgery yesterday and managed to get her bandage off, so spent the morning crouching on the floor trying to get her to come out from under the bed, all while my pelvis is screaming at me, and then back up to the vet. Now I'm super stressed, because I want the baby to come, but if it's Thursday or Friday I don't know what we'll do with the cat as nobody else seems to be able to handle her. Tears tears and more tears.

Sorry your induction is going so slowly ffaux, hang in there!

Suz sorry to hear about the cat, if push came to shove could she stay at the vets.. Not an ideal solution but she'd be in a safe place?

marmite I just caught the end of that, I want to go for a wee and pop out a baby instead!!!

I'm now overdue enough that everyone's asking for my induction date.. As 40+12 falls on a weekend is it wrong I may be telling them the other side of the weekend to when it actually is for a bit of peace?

vroc absolutely lie! Your sanity is totally worth it

Sorry to hear it's still ongoing ffaux, hope it speeds up (or slows down in your case!) soon!

Hoping no news is good news from maybe ...

vroc definitely lie!

Sincere sympathies to all the overduers, I'm sure it's emotionally and physically exhausting. Really hope it'll all be over within a few days for you.

Waters broken successfully even though I was shaking like a leaf, and ewwww wasn't prepared for how gross it is, and it just keeps coming!

Contractions now much more spaced apart and stronger, but manageable with breathing right now. Feeling a bit more confident in myself and nurses are lovely

But baby is back to back and in a weird position so not expecting this to be easy!

Good news, ffaux, sounds promising. I guess as a first time mum and being induced early you might expect a long ride but that sounds really promising.

vroc defo lie! I have an induction date of 28th but am being very vague when asked. People mistakenly think induction date = birth date and I can't take that kind of pressure!

magpie I started being vague but that just led to more questions so I decided to lie instead! But that's what it seems, most people seem to think induction equals immediate arrival not least my mum because it actually did with me... So have given myself 3 days peace.. I'm hoping that'll be enough!!

Just catching up- many congrats to sher- what a beaut!
Good luck to you ffaux, what a shock, but hope things are progressing for you now.
I'm also hoping no news is good news from maybe.
I am with you marmite and suz with the hormonal crying. I should be making the most of the gorgeous weather with DD but just have no energy at all today. We've been running errands this morning so have got some fresh air, but I've been getting pelvic pain this afternoon and that coupled with DD acting up meant tears from me She kept running away from me when I told her she needed her nappy changing, meaning I had to practically drag her to get it changed, when she then started kicking me. I just sat on the floor and sobbed for a few minutes, feeling awful about dragging her, and feeling knackered and in pain DD did let me do her nappy then gave me a hug and a kiss and said sorry just hope I've not emotionally scarred her for life now

Ah I wish I'd thought of that Vroc! I've told people the ACTUAL date so will no doubt be inundated with messages now! Getting so fed up of people asking. Do they really think we would have had the baby and just forgot to tell them? Also annoyed with all the ''funny'' remarks about how I should be in labour now, and why haven't I had him yet and I should try eating a curry/pineapple/raspberry leaf/have sex/bouncing on a ball/thinking positive. Oh should I?! Well bugger me why didn't I think of that?! fuckers

Charley Ah you won't have scarred her. She has probably already forgotten about it! I think we've all been/are in the hormonal crying club. One day we will laugh it off. My hormones were cray yesterday! I cried because I saw a really cute puppy, then I cried because the film I was watching was the funniest film I'd ever seen (despite having seen it several times before), then I cried because I realised how much I love my husband. It was a fun day lol

Hope Ffaux and Maybe are well on their way to baby cuddles now!

I tried to be vague hayley but it didn't really work, people just press you for a date. I've had loads of messages too, mostly from family but one from a girl I work with (so they've clearly all been talking about it). I'm only five days late!!

afternoon everyone.

faux- hope it is all going well. i remember when my waters broke. it feels horrible doesn't it!? hope your holding your baby now.

other half phoned work this morning and they where really nice they told him to take today as holiday and to phone tomorrow morning if he wants tomorrow as well. today has been so much better. she is feeding every three hours between 1-3 oz. still a tad concerned about her weight and struggling to know when she is full. I am guessing it is when she seems content and looks settled instead of rooting and irritable. I always try to wind her when she is irritable during a feed and then if she still is after I offer her more of the bottle. Anyone else's baby suffer with hiccups? mine gets it after most feeds. doesn't upset her but they last anywhere up to half hour.
little one is four weeks old today! she is still sleeping a lot but having some brief awake moments. no smiles or real interaction with me yet though. what do you do with them when their awake? I just kind of talk to her but theirs not a lot else I can do. she doesn't even look at me yet.

Here she is though. I might be biased but I can't believe something so beautiful is mine.

health visitors phoned me back today and where very helpful. coming to see me at home tomorrow.

hope everyone with newborns are not to tired and to everyone still pregnant hope your all feeling as good as can be and not to fed up

aw lovely pic time! try not to stress about her weight too much; but if it's really bothering you then you could always take her to a baby weigh in to put your mind at rest. you could ask the health visitor about it tomorrow, but honestly if she is doing lots of wet and dirty nappies then she's doing great.

hope me is getting on better and hope all the other newborns have given everyone some sleep last night!

my BH completely disappeared today and I felt like crap like my body isn't even trying to get ready to get baby out! but past half hour or so they have come back with a vengeance. Just wish they would turn into some actual contractions. I was so bored at home today. made some flapjack which I overcooked.. so disappointing really did feel like it was the end of the world! but hoping that I go into labour in the next few days NOW PLEASE so that I can eat them for labour energy.

DP is playing football after work tonight so I am going to walk to DDs nursery to pick her up. really hoping it kick starts things off but been walking/active/whatever for days now and no joy.

Ugh to everyone being asked their induction dates! very frustrating! I've been quite lucky with people not asking me about induction - though tbh if anyone asks me the response will be 'I'm not having one' haha. well, we'll see what the consultant says on Friday but for now I'm operating under the assumption that I can get away with monitoring - my pregnancy is low risk, I'm not that old (30), my BP was great in last MW appointment and baby very active/strong heartrate (MW's words). So I think I can make a strong case for 'there is no medical reason for me to have an induction'. FX I don't even have to have that conversation!

Time She's gorgeous, no wonder you're so proud of her, and you sound much happier today which is lovely to hear
Thanks for the reassurance Hayley. She promptly fell asleep afterwards and I took advantage too so we've both benefitted from an hours nap! I love your reasons for crying though, didn't make me snigger at all I promise
Totally agree about people suggesting things to bring on labour- like we haven't tried them all!