as i filled the last post on old thread it seemed only polite to start the new one. hope i've done it right 
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Fantastic, fabulous 40+ Mums-to-be! Part 4
rosiedays · 01/05/2013 09:30
Morning all. Still here. Baby still refusing to budge.
Sparkly hope you got some sleep in the end. It sounds as though your DH is getting there - even small progress is progress.
I don't think they should be allowed to guess the baby's size - there are so many where they were out by several pounds. My sister's 5th was her biggest and they kept telling her it was going to be enormous and she was 7lb 4oz, born on her due date. 
. Not exactly huge!
I was re-assured to hear that when my sister was induced at 36 weeks with her first, it was all very fast and manageable - no extra intervention at all. There are so many stories of inductions taking ages and then a EMCS after 72 hours of labour, I was getting rather freaked out by the whole thing. But my sister was given the pessary early evening, they sent her husband home and he got the message to go back to the hospital as he arrived and my nephew arrived at 2 am. Fingers crossed that it's a genetic thing 
Apparently in the family archive there is a photo of me in this hospital aged 5 months, looking through the window of the special care nursery at my cousin who was born here at 30 weeks in January 1971. My Aunt said I look huge and he is small and red and wrinkled. He is now huge (and I'm small and wrinkled, if not red!). A baby at 34 weeks, 42 years later will be a breeze for them 
.
Thanks, Animol
34+3 today. Sometimes you forget the good stories because you hear so many awful ones!
Well, I'm still around! I got taken up to the labour ward to be monitored just as someone came in and had a baby in 10 minutes flat, so I ended up hanging around there for about 2 hours before they found the drs to do the pessary. I used the time with the feeding support worker learning how to harvest colostrum, which was cool. I managed some then and some this evening on my own, so that was good.
I'm now waiting for a second pessary as the remains of that one fell out. Hopefully that will start to shift the baby! I feel as though something is happening, but in a very desultory manner! Not really developing into anything at the moment!
Good Luck Cycle hope your LO arrives safely and soon. My sister who had her first at 41 was induced and gave birth 3 hours later with just gas and air and was up and about very quickly afterwards. Good luck 
Ladies, could I ask your advice please? I am 5 +3, I will be 44 in June (eek - how did that happen 
).
DP and I are thinking about getting a private scan done at about 8 wks to check if everything is where it should be although not sure how I go about doing this. Do you think it is a good idea? Has anyone done this and found it reassuring?
I have also been reading about what tests you can/might get and have been reading about the Harmony test. Has anyone had this test or others done that they would recommend?
I have made an appointment at my GPs but assume I don't need to do anything else?
Feeling a bit clueless as my first! Thanks..
Cycle....good luck!!! 
Green I had an early scan at 9+0weeks and it did help me to stop fretting so much ( still am actually).
I also considered ( with dh of course) going for the harmony test but as my nuchal test was very good in measurements I waited for the letter ( it said -low risk). So we did nothing:)
Otherwise we would have gone to London for the harmony test
Xxxx
Thanks all .
Still nothing happening - in fact even less happening than before! Last night I lost another swoosh of waters, which shocked me slightly - I though that having lost them a week ago, it would just drip till it arrived with the baby. Oh well, it's all a learning curve!
Trying not to freak out at the thought of the drip this afternoon. I've never had a drip for anything in my life!
The colostrum harvesting is to build a store so that if Tiddles needs extra or can't suck well to start with, it doesn't miss out on the colostrumy goodness. I was amazed to find that I could actually extract some. Not a lot (.8 and .9 ml yesterday), but apparently that's pretty good for a first effort. You massage the breast a bit, then express by hand. Very odd!
Hi cycle your doing fab. I've just scan read through posts please don't worry, i'm sure you'll be fine. great that baby stayed put for these extra days. so drip today and maybe baby by tonight?? the to top tips i remember for coping with my (incredably short so not sure it they count) labours were ' pain with purpose', and my all time fav, 'this too shall pass' wishing you all the best Cycle
Waves to All and welcome to newcomers. will have a good read later.
been a LONG LONG weekend, got home yesterday and have to go back down tomorrow. it's been Awful. i've done far to much, hurt everywhere and need to sleep for days...... this too shall pass!!
cycle that's fantastic colostrum production! when T born they said he only needed 1ml for first feed. it increases with feeds but so will your production. colostrum super rich protein (like body builder shake 
) so little goes long way.
keep strong this afternoon. not sure if this is true but hopefully will be strong and quick or lazy and slow: same pain distributed differently; both have heir cons and pros.
will be checking in lots and sending unscientific but we'll meant strong thoughts.
Baby boy Cyclecamper arrived at 2348 last night weighing 4lb12. (I think)
All a bit hazy - first midwife said she'd only known 2 women manage labour on a hormone drip without an epidural and they were both Dutch. She ruptured the membrane, then found another one to rupture, which confused her! I was totally freaked out at the idea of an epidural, having had a bad back that has made me feel ill every time I've had to lie still on the monitor, and really didn't want a needle in my back to make it worse and limit my movement if I could help it. Obviously, having a premature baby meant that pethedine was a really bad idea.
The contractions were really, really intense - at one point they were 6 in 10 minutes, without a break, and they had to dial the syntocin down to be be able to give me an internal. I'd given in on the idea of having an epidural about as the anaesthetist went awol . By the time he'd turned up, it was too late and I had fully dilated so I managed to evict the baby on nothing but 2 co-codamol for my back and somewhat industrial quantities of gas and air. More gas and air for the stitch as the local anaesthetic started to wear off (I had told her this would happen! My dentist knows to give me double quantities - I was shrieking and giggling and crying and saying 'told you so - I love being right!' all at the same time!) So about 5 hours, start to baby with my husband and sister there and me mostly in a world of entonox on my own!
I'm sitting here with a baby up my nighty having some skin-to-skin .
They have given me a private room because of his prematurity, and it's at the antenatal end of the corridor with the staff I know .
Happy, happy, happy!
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Morning all. Firstly apologies, I've neglected this thread dreadfully (NC'ed from SarahScuba) I'm now the big 40 and due date is 30th July according to scans.
Hi to everyone new and waves to Eagle Hope all is ok with your LO
Cycle congrats! Sounds like a roller coaster of a week. Hope all is well today
Another positive vote for an early scan - I had one at 6 weeks and it helped me relax knowing at least everything was in the right place and looking good at that point. Well worth £99 IMHO
Hey Mummy cycle well done you! sounds like you did an amazing job.A private room is a god send, peace and quiet for cuddley baby time. hope your enjoying those magic first skin to skin cuddles. A BOY!!! congratulations i'm jealous How is DH? 4.12 is a good weight, (and no SCABU!) he will be a little baby for so long. DD didn't get to 7lb till nearly 3 months, she still looked like a new born.
remember are you an pro diver?
Animol Love your top tip, going to add it to my as yet unwritten birth paln ! ( i talk to bump all the time)
thanks for all the Amira votes, unfortunatly DH is pretty stuck on Summer. still have a few weeks to change his mind.
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