Anyone due in April 2004 - part 2

[Fennel]

here we are, new thread so we can keep up to date with all the labour pains.

Well, looks like something is happening one way or another now Dot! Fingers crossed - I hope everything goes like clockwork for you!

Can't wait for the birth announcement.

Peppergirl, I was due at the weekend, Saturday or Sunday depending on whether you factor in the leap year thing or not. So I am basically around 4/5 days over.
MW told me this morning that classically all the primips she looks after are 5 days overdue, so my fingers are crossed.
I've got to turn out this cake..

gosh, i hadn't thought of the leap year - so i could be a whole day further on than i thought ! ridiculous i know to get excited about this prospect - this baby will turn up when it wants to and i don't really think there's much i can do to chivy it along.

Has the MW given you any indication of what will happen if you don't go into spontaneous labour in the next few days ?

Mrs D, my recipe uses groundnut oil.

am really trying not to get too frustrated as I haven't even hit my due date yet so it could be 2-3 weeks yet for me - it's so hard just waiting isn't it?
Had a fight with dd2 (aged 2) over use of birthing ball. this is not very mature of me. she still climbs on every time I go near it and it's really irritating me now. "It's MY ball, get off it!"

Fennel, I guess the almond oil will be similar. I think this one may be an improvement on the last one - so that's good news!
As for induction. My MW says that if I haven't dropped this weekend she will ave to book an induction for the following weekend, although it could even go to a couple of days after that - they will push it to the limit! I really don't want to go that far as I am afraid of having a "crackly" baby. Does anyone know what I mean? the baby's skin starts to dry out when you go well overdue and it's skin starts to crack. Experience anyone?

Oooh I really am uncomfortable sitting down now - cooome ooooon baby!!!!!

Mrs D - you must be getting bored, I have spotted you posting on the mooncup thread!

(they are very good btw....)

Well, I've taken my son to his playgroup easter Party, ordered the lamb for Sunday lunch, made Easter Eggs for the kids and my DH and been to my daughters end of term assembly, so baby, if you're waiting for me to be ready........I AM!!!! I wanted to make a cake with all this talk of baking, but no butter in the house! Will have to make do with raiding the kids biscuit tin!

Bang on! Fennel

'Bump!' I can't be arsed to chase this thread through the last day!!

fyi , I am 39 weeks
just got back from MW and I quote ' its a bit of a snig fit ' am 5'2 and thew babe looks like its gonna b a 8 1/2 so if no action by next thurs then i am 2 b unduced , as i think that they are worried about the babes running out of room

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Dare I say it????? Very, very quiieettely.... there is the smallest possibility I am going into labour... contractions every hour/70 mins......shhhh now, we don't want to scare them away......

Haven't been able to get onto site for some reason for almost 2 weeks. Aaaaaargh - SOO frustrating. Have just speed read this thread to try and catch up! Congrats to the new mums and am hoping Dot1 is going to be a mum anyday.

My news is that I am booked for induction April 14. This is day before due date. In fact they wanted me in today for induction. The reason? Because I'm 40 and the consultant started going on about risk of stillbirth. How upset was I at hearing that when I've had a trouble free pregnancy? Well he put the fear of God in me and has completely spoilt things. All I can do now is worry. My doc and midwife have never mentioned age being a reason to induce and having just found a midwifery site where an older mum was told the same thing in equally upsetting terms I know I'm not alone.

Suffice to say have eaten two pineapples today. Having mild contractions but no pattern to them.

I am so peed off. That plus the fact when I had a strange hour last night of contractions 5 mins apart and rang the labour ward they said they were full and I would have to go to another local hospital. Luckily baby didn't come last night as I really don't want to go elsewhere - I don't know any mums who have enjoyed their time at the other hospital.

Mrs D - go for it!

Bluecow - that is so weird I have never heard of such a thing. Am sure they don't do that in this area - around here it's all the 40-something first timers who book themselves in for homebirths. Do you want to go along with the induction? If not there are bound to be people on here somewhere who know if it's a valid reason for induction.

Hi everyone! have had really busy day so wasn't able to log on but i see its all been happening! Assume dot is now in hospital? Mrs D - I really really hope this is it for you, you've had such a crap time these last few weeks.

Bluecow, I've not heard of such a thing!!! I'm 42 & having my first . Like you I've had a trouble free preg and no one has suggested inducing me early just coz of my age. Let alone that scary stuff about still birth. Why would they say such a thing??? I'm not even due back at the hospital until I'm 40 weeks (now 38+6), so they are obviously not worried at all.Why don;t you post this as a new thread and see if you get some useful info?

OOps i forget - HD, thanks for asking about DSS. He is now a lot better but picked up an infection in hospital which he's still trying to fight off. He is profoundly disabled so he's very vulnerable to infection. But he made it, which no one really thought he would - he's a very tough kid in some ways!!! Hope his baby brother has his kind of courage

errr , rubish on the inducement front ! bluecow
I have a friend who has just had two lovely girls at the age of 40 -ish and she was never told such a thing , meanies you could try and look on the bright side that the uncertainty of waiting is over
I have been told that they want to induce me cos of mine and babies sizes ( 28 yrs ) 5'2 8 1/2 baby
seems to me that the medics are a little jumpy these days ?

Bluecow, that sounds outrageous! If you don't want to be induced the day before your due date, then you shouldn't have to be. I really don't see why your age is a reason.
MrsD...ssshhhh!...hope things are happening for you....
Wonder how dot's getting on?
Must have been really scary when your ds was in the hospital, Lesley. I thought I had it bad in the second trimester when I got a bad cold/virus thing and we were in the middle of an extension - not the same though.

Dolbear, I think you're right re the medics being jumpy.

Bluecow, I had my (second) baby at 40 last year, and nobody (except my MIL) turned a hair at it, or at my (successful) plans for a home birth (in fact when I mentioned my age to my midwife, she laughed like a drain). Sounds very VERY bizarre to me.

Hope she's Mrs Doingalot by now!

morning
had a funny night last night , nothing to put a finger on mind
ooooo mrs d , positive vibes to u

Bluecow,

I'd echo what the others have said - never heard of being 40 as a reason for inducing before due date! I'm almost 36 so an older mum too.

Who was it who asked when we are all due? - was it Peppergirl. I'm due on 19th April so a week and half yet.

Hewlettsdaughter - thanks for asking how my afternoon went with dd on another thread (re her behaviour). Not too bad was the answer - I think I am developing strategies to outwit her!

I expect Dot has her baby now - I wonder when she or her dp will post the news.

Hi everyone. I'm still here! Keeping busy doing lots of things around the house, sorting out cupboards, bookshelves etc. Dh is at home helping, which is always nice.

Plumber is here doing second fix on bathroom, which hopefully means it will be finished today..........only about 5 weeks late (sigh).

Have made no exciting plans for holiday weekend. We had assumed ( correctly i'm afraid) that I would be too fat and tired to feel like going away.I'm very impressed Fennel at your trips out with the children. I find that after half a day of activity I'm totally exhausted (must be old age). DH works away a lot so is quite happy to potter around the house on the rare days he's not working. Gosh we sound very boring and middle aged.................which we are ............... Although we are still persevering with the prostoglandin treatment

I'm feeling more pressure in my pelvis, which i assume is the baby's head becoming more engaged, is that right? Nothing else. Not one single BH. Am resigned to being overdue, but resolved to be cheered up by the expected good news from Dot & Mrs D.

What's happening with the rest of you?

HMC - read on the other thread about how your DD is driving you up the wall!! I have a 4yo daughter so all i can say is that they DO seem to go through phases of being completely intactable for no apparent reason! Naturally you think its because the baby is on its way, but it might just be because she's just being a stubborn wee monster!!! Or to put it another way, its just a stage in her development!!!

Its also SOOOO much harder to cope when you are at this stage of preg, because you can't just pick them up and march them out the shop/up the stairs and your patience is wearing a bit thin.Well I know mine is, especially by 7pm (the witching hour) when you are exhausted from the day, pick ups from school/nursery, making supper, bathtime etc and some little monster is refusing to go to bed without a certain toy or because its the wrong duvet cover on the bed or she wants another /different story etc etc

Not sure if this really helps, except to send hugs and sympathy and say hang in there............

hi

no exciting news here. Lesley it's not that I actually want to do exciting trips with dds. but feel a bit guilty sending them out with DP and others every day then just snapping at them when they come near me. today we went swimming which was nice but I am now so tired. Tried to sleep, dd1 found me and wistfully asked for a book, then dd2 found me and had a fit cos DP tried to keep her away so I could sleep. but how can I sleep when she's having a tantrum outside the bedroom door because she just wants to see me. aagh, guilt.

HMC, I saw you posting about your dd on another thread too but have no helpful hints. maybe it's to do with the approaching baby, or maybe just because toddlers are like that. dd2, aged 2.5, had a stage a few weeks ago when she was awful, loads of tantrums. Then she got 2 new back teeth and was much better. Thank goodness as I am so low in tolerance just now. But it was teeth not baby or even stroppy miserable pregnant mother.

Hi Everyone. I've been quiet of late as I've been a) really really busy, and b) have got the same horrid cold that a few of us here seem to be suffering with atm which is consequently making me feel miserable I keep checking here though every so often to see if anything has happened and I can't wait to hear dot1's news. Also Mrs Dootlittle hasn't posted today so maybe she is in the labour ward !!!

Its another 10 days to go for me. I've grown out of most of my maternity wear (how did that happen??) I can wait a few more days for baby's arrival as I am not looking forward to the labour with this horrid stinky cold which I can't seem to shift. Last night I had a curry and was promptly put off as half way through I realised the chicken looked a bit dodgy. Thankfully I seem to be OK so far.

Glad to see everyone is doing well. Fennel I have to say I am seriously impressed with your ability to be coping with days out with 2 dds ! How do you do it ??