***December Dreamers*** 70 babies born***

[Nessicle]

Hi Jenny - nearly 5am here!

So sorry about your parents not getting to meet LO I really hope she comes for you soon can't believe you don't have an induction date yet!

I feel sick constantly even after eating ugh!

 

[mummyclo]

Arg! Why cant i upload to bnb!
Hopefully Freddie will sleep a bit today so i can get some housework done!
My OH is useless, he doesn't do anything!

 

[sammiwry]

Think I've worked out what contractions feel like! AND I think they are coming every 6 mins for 30 secs but that's rough timings

 

[mummyclo]

yey thats good sammi!!

 

[sammiwry]

Cheers Chloe! Timing them properly they are every 7 mins lasting 30 secs!

Gonna have a bath and then I'll ring the hospital for advice and hopefully they'll get me to go in for some monitoring and confirm it

 

[GoogilyBear]

Morning

nice to know more babies have been born while ive been away for a day
Congrats to you

Another reason to realy hate hospitals. this could be a good rant

While shopping in what seemed like the over packed primark in hull yesterday, my mum got a phone call from the midwife, wanting to speak to me. how on earth she got my mothers number i dont know, as she isnt on my notes anywhere :s

ANYWAY.. she said,

"sarah, i have some really good news that i think you will be really happy about.."
go on...
"Hull royal only tested your urine for group b strep and didnt swab you, am i correct"

indeed she was..

"well theres a good chance that because of this you dont have group b at all, and wont need your iv anti biotics in a drip, ive had a word with one of the other consultants, ans she said if you havent been tested positive while you have been under scarborough care, then there is no reason why you cannot have your waterbirth, or have your baby in the midwife unit!""

at this point i wanted to cry. talk about messing me about. she then went on to say

"we will test you for group b on friday when you come in tho, just to be on the safe side,
but as its not been showing up in your urine for a good 6months now, and it didnt show in your last test, i dont see that there should be a problem!!"

I think that sometimes, the lack of communication between places is poor, and the fact they never told me this, or they never figured this out before is apaulling :/

Bring on friday and bring on that test. Ill bloody show them.

 

[KellyC75]

Congrats to the new mummies

Good luck to those that are so close

 

[Mizze]

Stupid fecking laptop keeps chucking me out mid post! Apologies

hi i have just quickly come on her just to say that i gave birth to my beautiiful daughter on 19th december. we have called her Adelina amanda lee and she weighed 9lb 3.5oz. we are both home and doing great.xx

Congratulations hon! Lovely weight

ness and sammi, with my first daughter I wasn't sure I was in labour because nothing really felt like a "contraction" it was more like period pains to me tbh, then I noticed they were coming every so often so I timed those and it turned out that was real labour.

I had my sweep this morning. Had my show and started losing my plug, DTD, been on the ball and been for 2 long walks - ooooh pleeeease come soon baby xx

FX'd bambikate.

Sounds like your sweep went well today Bam

Please all dont rush to the light at once, at this rate ill be having bump confo's all on my own Maybe mizzie will wait on me haha

I will be here - not much doubt of that I think!

Their attempts at giving me a sweep today were a fail.

Cervix not dilated, far back and tightly closed. On the plus side it didn't hurt and they confirmed LO is completely engaged.

Oh well, looks like I'll be going to induction...

*gives Ness' man a slight punch in the bits*

Oh Emy! Agree about Ness' bloke - stupid thing to say to a pregnant woman - ness id have castrated him!

hey ladies.... 41+4 around the corner for me...
for those of you not on FB, i had my hospital exams today. was in there for 4.5 hours. she scored 8 out of 8 on the biophysical profile (2 points are for 30 sec. min breathing practice alone) and she was also responsive to the non-stress test. i was on my back for 2 hours and it was bloody uncomfortable. how women birth like this is beyond me and now i'm dreading even more that i'll end up like that... all the hospital nurses asked me when my induction date is... my answer: i have none! shocked looks! awesome... the pitocin bags where right next to my curtain-room in the maternity triage. it was all a little scary there for me... mind me, i was all on my own and the first time admitted to a US hospital.

have my midwife appointment tomorrow morning, so hoping i'll get some dilation news or something... just a little straw to hold on to.

said goodbye to my parents tonight. they're flying back tomorrow.
i feel so alone it's unreal. didn't have many hormonal break-downs throughout the last 9 months, i think now it's starting doesn't help that xmas is right there. finally returned her xmas outfit today. got two packages in the mail for xmas, but it's all for LO, nothing for me

same hospital exams on friday again......... bla! can something please happen until then? PLEEEAAAASE?????

btw. mizze, my LO isn't engaged at all either. that fortunately doesn't mean anything. some babies just engage when the contractions push them down. fingers crossed yours gets the idea quicker than mine!

good morning to you waiting ladies in england! guess the moon didn't do any good over there either. maybe i should've joined my ex-boss at the full moon party at the ritz hotel down here... instead i walked 2 miles in the dark underneath the moon. didn't help either. my girl is just too happy inside of me... but how much longer??? she even stuck her tongue out on the ultrasound! tsk!

well, another lonely night ahead of me. cheers!

Aw minch hon thanks for the words about engagement. Hope you sleep well and wake up with contractions.

Think I've worked out what contractions feel like! AND I think they are coming every 6 mins for 30 secs but that's rough timings

Woohoo! go Sammi go!

Congrats to the new mummies

Good luck to those that are so close

Thanks!

Nothing doing here -surprise surprise!

Ah well

ness xxxx

Mizze xx

 

[EmyDra]

Morning!

Oooo!!! Sammy's having contractions , think i'm going to have to be checking this thread many times today.

Mincholada - you're doing sooooo well, As long as everything remains good and well in womb-land are you planning on complete refusal of induction? I got really emotional for the first time yesterday just over my frozen central heating, maybe that shift is the start of the hormonal change that'll get these babies out

Googily - o.o Omg, I think I'd want to kill them. But brilliant, sooo glad they DID realise before you went into labour. I would LOVE it if my MW rang me up and was like 'you can have a waterbirth' but it's not gonna happen. If you take the very borderline GD out of it, I still have wierd undiagonosed illnesses from early 3rd tri and then it'll probably be an induced birth anyway (half of me would like to go past term to have a CHANCE at natrual labour) - but still. Celebrate, and be glad they actually did manage to sort out the cock-up before it was too late (though they deserve many shaking fists and angry faces )

NIMum - Just thought I'd let you know that my Nanna and Grandad's roof also collapsed o.o, pretty insane. I'm still unable to go back home until the heating is fixed.

 

[KellyC75]

This date 18 years ago was my due date for my 1st Son!

He was so comfy that he stayed put until New Years Eve!

 

[ducky1502]

For those of you with iphones or android phones you can get some amazing free apps to time contractions on... my OH used one on his iphone to time mine. Takes the stress off things because it records it all for you. But they do zap your battery so make sure you keep your phone as charged as possible or your phone will die in the hospital like my OH's did

 

[Nessicle]

Hi girls yep still here nope nothing to report!

Glad Sammi is having contractions I'm praying Ava won't be far bhond but I can see me going til after Xmas at this rate I'm losing the will to live

Can't believe I'm 5 days over it's my worst nightmare realised I really didn't want or expect to go over!

Ducky I've got an app for contractions too it's really good

Hope everyone is ok xx

 

[samantha.xo]

What app is everyone using for contractions then? I can imagine using the iphone will be much more simple than pen & paper lol. What are the recommendations?

 

[Xaviersmom]

Have any of the other breast feeding mums given a soothed or bottle yet? My husband is really missing feeding her but midwife recommended waiting till five weeks to start bottle-feeding expressed milk.

Because J was in the NICU, she was introduced to bottles and the breast. I never give a bottle, only DH. We have been doing it all along and she eats just fine from both of us.

That being said... it's a LIFESAVER! I have frozen packs of EBM so DH can give a bottle at random. Last night, she had a 5 hour cluster feed. I finally got her to sleep for a bit and went to bed.. When she got up, DH filled her up with a bottle and she slept 5 almost 6 hours in the night. I feel human today

We frequently have DH do the late night feed, or sometimes he wants to take her to a friends for a little bit, this gives him the freedom to do so... and I get a couple hours for me.

 

[Nessicle]

Samantha I downloaded the BabyBump app at the start of my pregnancy and it has a good contraction timer in there x

 

[samantha.xo]

Samantha I downloaded the BabyBump app at the start of my pregnancy and it has a good contraction timer in there x

I think I have that - is it the one with the purple background with a white bump on it? I'll use that one then if it's good Now I just need some contractions!!!

 

[Xaviersmom]

This date 18 years ago was my due date for my 1st Son!

He was so comfy that he stayed put until New Years Eve!

WOW Yaay! Anyone else in here have a huge age gap between kids??

My DS is 12 and will be 13 in April. To me that seemed like a big gap Altho... the nice part is he isn't going to go through that sibling jealousy because he is so much older

Oh and Hopefully.. I give J a dummy all the time too. Otherwise... she'd be hanging off my nipples 24/7 lol.

 

[ducky1502]

I originally said I didn't want Oliver to have a dummy but he's a real sucker! He gets a lot of comfort from sucking and if I don't give him a dummy he goes for his fingers and I'd rather he didn't become a finger sucker. He only gets his dummy when he needs it though, which to be honest really isn't often at all. He will only take the Avent dummies though, bought him some tommee tippee ones but he just spits those out!

 

[mummyclo]

I have been expressing also for a week, he breastfeeds fine and takes from a bottle.
I also give him a dummy in the evening, when he just comfort sucks....oherwise he over eats and is sick
xx

 

[Nessicle]

Yeah that's the one Samantha!

Just to update you all Sammi is now 4cm dilated and has been transferred to hospital as she's feeling very sick and tired. Will update with further news as soon as I have any!