Babies due June/July onwards

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Here is promised thread jessi! Congratulations too Ellasmum and jessi - Ellasmum, my due date will be about 20th July I think. Haven't seen any midwife or doctor yet - trying to remember what I did when last time!

Chears mears- I did the same hopefull night timing with DS1 and DS2! It will come when it's good and ready!

Hi - how's everyone doing? I'm nearly 38 weeks now, and have got one and a half more weeks of work to go! I know, I'm mad!

Quick question for anyone medically minded - I'm used to the 'being uncomfortable in bed', but last night I felt REALLY terrible - every time I lay down I felt really sick, really dizzy, like I was going to faint. Is this likely to be on account of the baby, or something else? I'm fine this morning, having had a pretty good night's sleep for once!

I ought to add, this was when lying on either side - I know about not lying on your back, because that was my immediate thought.

Sounds as though you are needing to be propped up more, even when lying on your side. There is an incredible weight inside your abdomen when you include baby, water and placenta. It can cause disruption in blood flow whichever way you are lying. Hope you managed to find a comfy position in these last weeks.

Hi Bron, I am up for membership. Now 6 days overdue and have tried every old wives tale there is- every day,literally. Instead of now thinking each twinge is the onset of labour, I just get up in the middle of the night and do practical things such as the ironing and just see if it develops into anything. Sadly, after 2 nights of certainty that this was it, I had no baby, just a really clean kitchen. I know just how you feel and even today marvelled at my new way of using the dustpan and brush without feeling like a weeble. Hope yours comes soon.

Hi ya everyone!!!
Well ive got NEWSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!

I saw the consultant at the hospital yesterday and they are inducing me NEXT FRIDAY!! (july 11th, my expected delivery date anyway!!!). She said im more ready than i was last week, my cervix is softer and the head is engaged, and that things have started to happen naturally anyway. She doesnt rule out that he could come on his own anyway!! I have to go to hospital on thursday at 7 pm and they will apply the gel, i sleep while it works overnight, and on friday morning ill be taken to the delivery suite, even if they warned me i might not have Lucas till saturday morning!!

I have more or less the same risk of a cesarean than if i went overdue because of Lucas size (im measuring 41 weeks, 2 weeks ahead!!). There is also a risk of forceps or ventouse, but then there is the same risk in a natural delivery!!! So im not scared, im very happy that I know when he is coming and i can plan my chaotic life now!!

The removals co. are coming on july 14th, so if i do have a cesarean on friday or saturday, of course ill be in hospital when they come. So im gonna leave all the stuff i want to leave behind packed already so that karl knows wot to forbid them to take lol !! Fortunately my MIL offered to lend us a microwave and a fridge for that week we will be in an empty house!! (we are travelling to germany on july 21st) She is also giving us the silvercross pram so that i can send the travel system, travel cot and pushchair with them!! (we are travelling by car with the baby so there is no way we can take more than a couple of suitcases with us, in the boot!). Also my friend Maria offered to lend me some baby stuff for those days, such as a moses basket, sheets, sterilizer, bottle warmer... so i can send most of our stuff with the removals!!!

We have SO MUCH to do before Thursday but at least i know where i am now, its such a relief!!

Well lots of love take care and good luck to all of u!!! xxxxxxx

Lisiti - How exciting! Good luck.

Will you be taking a lap top into hospital so you can keep us all informed?

Glad to hear you are feeling more positive Lisita. Hope it all goes well. Are you planning to give breastfeeding a go? If so you could cut down on some of the things you might need to pack...

I'm 38 weeks and feel like such a lazy elephant that I'm hardly going out of the house - consequently the scales are going up and up!! The baby is still pretty active and giving some good kicks - sometimes I think It's going to kick it's way outahere! How is everyone else feeling? BTW: How long is it left before they induce you and how is it done?

Good luck Bron, if its any comfort I too had a sweep at 41 weeks, was also in a terrible temper and went into a fast and furious labour 24 hours later!

bron- inconsiderate b@£$%$@ds!!

Hope that your rant speeds it all up and needn?t be attached to any nasty machines again. Good Luck.

Stripymouse has put it the best way, I think.

Feel distinctly guilty about own early birth now!

Bron - sympathy!!! I went in to be induced with ds, and had to be monitored for half an hour before they did anything. Anyway, half way through, the pad slipped and started picking up my heartbeat, so I buzzed the midwife (who was incidentally a student...!), and she started panicking and saying 'The baby's in distress', to which I was saying 'no, it's my heartbeat'...anyway she went to see the doctor, dr said move pad, she found baby's heartbeat again with a 'oh that's good, it's recovered...', but then I had to have another half hour on the stupid monitor. By which point I had gone into labour anyway (having pretty strong contractions every 4 minutes). After over an hour's monitoring, student mw decided to induce baby anyway!!! Which resulted in me going from 0 to 7 cm in an hour and a half! But, because I was on the ward, not the delivery suite, there was no pain relief available. So, after buzzing student mw again, she said 'oh they're rather busy down at delivery...' - needless to say, when she discovered I was at 7 cm I was taken down there pretty fast.

Next complication - baby really did have some distress, so they took some blood samples out of his head, to check blood oxygen levels. BUT the machine was broken!!! So they had to take 3 more - poor ds had scabs all over his head when he came out.

Guess why I'm having a home birth (hopefully) this time!

Sorry - wasn't meant to be a rant - but you just reminded me of it all Bron! Hope things happen for you soon.

Why did you have a sweep - was it a conscious choice?

I really hope you have an easy and straight forward labour.... as a doula I advise against sweeps because it is an induction and it can make labour unnecessarily painful... Let us know how you get on..... this is exciting!
Will be thinking of you!!!

Bron- I had a sweep today too and nothing happening so far, been abit crampy but hey whats new! I am now a week overdue and am booked in for induction next week, really hope that it happens naturally before then though. Fingers crossed for us both..

good luck jessi and bron. I had a sweep with DS2 (as had induction 2wk late with DS1 and felt sweep is far less intrusive than ARM and cyntocin drip!) contractions started 12 hrs after sweep and DS2 was born with only TENS for pain relief.

Hope all goes well and starts soon

Thanks KMS, that sounds really encouraging. I look at my Tens machine longingly every morning and can't wait to use it! Sad eh?!

This thread has gone very quiet. sure there is a few still not delivered. how are things going? I have 9 days to due date, feet now very swollen and SPD bad that I am now on crutches this heat is hard to bear. hope things happen soon.

You are right KMS, I think it's gone very quiet as most of us have delivered and it gets (at least for me...) very hard to come online with a few weeks/days old baby to look after.

I have personally had problems establishing breastfeeding, but it's now going a lot better, ds now finally prefers breast to bottle and have managed to cut down a lot on the amount of formula (see my other thread "how much is too much"

I am glad I did not give up, I still give him the odd bottle at night so my dh can help out and we can have a quiet night sleep.

Jessi, Bron and KMS, I know it's very hard with this hot weather to be huge and still pg, but what you get after is incredibly rewarding.
I never thought I could love someone the way I love my little one

Happyspider - great to hear that breastfeeding is going better. Mine has gone the opposite way, mostly caused by the stress of dealing with DS1 - so am pretty much bottle feeding now.