Thread for mooching around on and whinging about being overdue PART 2 by popular demand

[FrannyandZooey]

Come here and obsess about mucus, etc.
Have fun.
Try not to swear too much.
Oh actually, go for it.
The phrase "any news?" is BANNED. Offenders will be sat on by the most overdue woman present.

Well done Franny and congratulations, I can stop lurking now. But good luck to everyone else and hope your wait isn't too long and hideous.

Hatrick
just had to look up dystocia (def difficult labour) was it shoulder dystocia? if so my reading suggests spending the rest of your pregnancy on all fours just in case of a repeat performance

Boys often do get themselves in undesirable positions from around 14 months old until death I presume!!

Have some more congratulations and and from me over here too

And lots of good luck wishes to all of you still waiting

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Yey for Franny. We can all get going now - it just wouldn't have been polite otherwise.

Hatrick - I think mine is in bad position too. Had same with DS (v long complicated labour and 12 days overdue with intervention in the end). DD was a dream birth 5 days early6 hours from first twinge.
Feeling extremely glum and hopeless...

Hatrick I ahve been 40+ at least 10 with all 3 and feel justified in my opinion that I most definately should not be over with this one! I am worried because my only sister is on her 6wk hol to Cyprus and my 2 sil go away on Tues for 2 1/2 wks aswell, that only leaves my lovely dad to help my sixteen yr old dd with ds's aged 2 and 3 . Please don't mentiopn my in laws for fear I might spontaneously combust !!

im so jealoussssssssssssssssssss!!! and os happy for u!!!!!

so who si next?

Forget to add I will ask for a sweep if I am favourable ( I thought begging for sweep mw would assume I was favourable) but I think they mean my cervix !!

Congratulations Franny.
Hope you're OK, Hatrick.

Oh, oh, oh. I've just seen the good news Franny. Congratulations, and welcome to the world Lucien. I'm so glad everything went well for you.

Now the cervix opening vibes need to be directed towards Hatrick and Umlellha

Good luck to Hatrick and other soon-to-poppers

The collective MN birthing vibes are more concentrated now aren't they?

congrats to F&Z and welcome to Lucien

Yeeha - well done Franny and hello Lucien.

where is Hatrick?

Can her abscence be a sign do you think?

hmmmm... there are a couple of hugely pregnant ladies missing at the mo, I think.

LOL I see my suspicions about the Lucien / Lucian spelling were correct
we are not sure which is best tbh, and I can see whichever way, he will spend his life saying "no, with an --"

thanks all for lovely wishes and I hope this releases a tide of prostaglandins onto the thread
wish all you ladies-in-waiting much luck and love and hope you will be holding your babies soon

Lucian It is lovely whichever way you spell it

You know Franny I often get people spelling my ds's name with an e

yes I agree I think it is lovely spelt either way.
dd2's name (you know the one ) - well half the time ( I mean that literally) it is spelt incorrectly.
I don't think it matters tbh

I think with an 'e' more likely to put emphasis on last syllable, with pronounced 'e'.

Did that make any sense?

LU-cian vs.
luci-ENN iyswim

I agree with the others - both spellings are lovely, but luciEn is pronounced more loo-see-YEN.

when can we see pics of him in all his perfectness?

I see Lucien as the French spelling (hence French pronunciation), Lucian as the English. We know a Lucien, we know no Lucians. Tricky with the spelling, isn't it.

How are you pronouncing it?

Isn't there a Lucian in ER and they pronounce it Looshan?