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[tlh97990]

Counting I can't believe you are still waiting after being induced! It scares me for possibly being induced

Alice were you induced with your other children or were they just overdue? Idk how you are not going crazy..I'm two weeks away and ready now!

I think my daughter was wrong about having her sister today ive had some contractions but they're not horrible...I got in a huge fight with my sister yesterday because she has a new bf and won't go anywhere without him so she keeps blowing off plans she makes with me and my daughter..I told her I'm upset about it and she told me oh well she's. Happy...I told her I'm fed up and want nothing to do with her and not to call me when shes single...I'm sure I'm being hormonal but she lives 45 minutes away and I see her two or three times a year cuz she's too far up whatever guy she's datings butt

 

[sue_88]

Urgh tlh, I hate when that happens!!

I had some at work who I was quite close to and she was really excited about the baby and kept saying when I am on Mat Leave she'd drop in and check I was ok and we'd have dinner and stuff.

She then got a boyfriend just after I left - the weekend after my last Friday actually so immediately as I left - and she hasn't called or dropped in once, and when I call her she doesn't answer and sends a quick text saying "sorry was busy I'll call later" never does.

Means I haven't had anyone round here just to check on me to make me feel better or perhaps go to dinner with, didn't use to affect me but it's been getting to me quite a bit lately with feeling lonely and just would be nice to know I had at least 1 friend instead of none

Hopefully your sister will take on what you said and make a bit more of an effort with you all after she's mulled over her actions. Boyfriends / girlfriends even some friends come and go but family should always be there.

 

[alicecooper]

Counting I can't believe you are still waiting after being induced! It scares me for possibly being induced

Alice were you induced with your other children or were they just overdue? Idk how you are not going crazy..I'm two weeks away and ready now!

I think my daughter was wrong about having her sister today ive had some contractions but they're not horrible...I got in a huge fight with my sister yesterday because she has a new bf and won't go anywhere without him so she keeps blowing off plans she makes with me and my daughter..I told her I'm upset about it and she told me oh well she's. Happy...I told her I'm fed up and want nothing to do with her and not to call me when shes single...I'm sure I'm being hormonal but she lives 45 minutes away and I see her two or three times a year cuz she's too far up whatever guy she's datings butt

I'm sorry you've fallen out with your sister. That's rubbish that she keeps blowing you off to be with her new fella. You'd think she could make some time for her family too.

As for your question...

Baby number 1 was induced at 42 weeks, and then it took 4 days of induction before she was finally born at 42+4

Baby number 2 was induced at 42 weeks, and he was born at 42+1

Baby number 3 - my waters broke at 41+2 but then there was no progression so I had to go on the drip anyway to get things moving, and he was born at 41+3

So none of mine ever seem to be great at getting out without help!


We went to the park today. It was blumming boiling!

Jason emulated a pixie on a toadstool lol

Lydia had fun digging (yes she does have knickers and shorts on lol - it's just that her shorts are orange so you can't see them in this picture!)

Alex demonstrated his athletic abilities

and Phil and I vegetated and slowly cooked to death lol

sue - I'm sorry you're feeling lonely hun Don't worry your daughter will be here soon and then you'll never feel lonely again. Then give it a year and a half - you won't be able to go to the bathroom ever without somebody following you in haha.

 

[sue_88]

Awwww Alice looks like you had a nice time enjoying the heat at the park!! Great piccies! And it definitely was a gorgeous day!

Thanks also, I know I just can't wait for her to be here, I'm sat on my bed and actually just said to myself that soon she'll be right here and lying in front of me that's helped to cheer me up a little X

 

[abagailb14]

Congrats on the new arrivals! They are precious!

Counting

Abigail that sounds like us. We had a poor latch which in turn made my nipples crack and bleed I've been pumping for the last 4 days for her until last night when I finally attempted to put her back to the breast. She took right back to the breast no problem like she was an old pro it was nice to be able to go to bed last night though without having to spend an hour on the pump.

I tried putting Olivia back on the breast today as well and I couldn't believe it but she took right to it! Breastfeeding is much more enjoyable without feeling like their putting razors through your nips lol

 

[tlh97990]

She's. Always been very self centered so I don't expect her to come around..she won't. Care until she realizes I'm not talking to her then she'll tell everyone how mean I'm being but oh well

Alice you must just have a cozy womb lol

 

[BeccaMichelle]

Pandaspot and Breadsticks you've both been updated on the spreadsheet as well. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtqtRkxRwwaAdG1iUl9NV3ZKWDk3T0VaS3ZHM1NrZkE&usp=sharing

Congratulations Breadsticks!!!

Sorry I was so awol the past couple of days. the 4th was go go here.

4 of us in red on the spreadsheet now....

 

[caro103]

alice, looks like you had a lovely time! glad you clarified re. your dgt's shorts though , bless!

sue , once millie is here it'll be 100x easier to make some new friends too, make sure you get along to some sort of organised class initially, maybe baby massage, parenting classes or something, anything which gets the same group of mummies back each week with similar aged kids (doesn't even matter if you're not all that interested in doing the actual activity!), having some mummy friends just really helps! I got to know my antenatal group with alex and still see most of them now, one girl I'm really close to and our boys get along great, the others we see fairly regularly too , but one of my friends who didn't do antenatal grp got to know a grp of ladies via a local parenting class offered via health visitors.

Eeek baby officially can't come until tomorrow evening now, unless it decides to come overnight, my midwife is heading to Coventry tomorrow, which is several hours from us!!

 

[alicecooper]

Pandaspot and Breadsticks you've both been updated on the spreadsheet as well. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtqtRkxRwwaAdG1iUl9NV3ZKWDk3T0VaS3ZHM1NrZkE&usp=sharing

Congratulations Breadsticks!!!

Sorry I was so awol the past couple of days. the 4th was go go here.

4 of us in red on the spreadsheet now....

oh my goodness! How did I miss that dove830 had an 11lb 6oz baby at THIRTY EIGHT WEEKS?!

Wowzers!

And I thought I was carrying a biggun! My hat goes off to that lady!

 

[alicecooper]

alice, looks like you had a lovely time! glad you clarified re. your dgt's shorts though , bless!

lol yeah you can see them better in this pic

On the digger one though it kinda looks like she's flashing her bits to the world - I assure you I don't send my kids to the park half naked haha

 

[sue_88]

Thanks caro, so far in the plan we have Bump to Baby on a Tuesday's and a meet up with my antenatal group in August. The lady with the baby who I went to visit the other day is from that so I hope when Millie is here we'll spend lots of time together.

Then we're doing Water Babies in September-November so hopefully meet new people there as well.

I will need to look into baby massage as that sounds great! And I've joined the Netmums group in Whitchurch but those organised events are usually to soft play so Millie might be a bit young for a while but we'll go along to introduce ourselves.

Sounds like I'm going to be pretty busy, just need the little pudding to show up now and help Mummy out of the lonely group!

 

[caro103]

glad you don't let her out half naked alice

sue, you'll never know how you had the time to be lonely with all those things planned! remember to also take time out for you and millie too, I def made that mistake initially last time, think we went a entire month without 1 day where we didn't do something or see someone...then I broke down , gonna be taking life a little slower this time and say no to randoms I've not seen in a long time 'just popping in' to basically get a baby cuddle then bugger off again!

 

[sue_88]

Yeah we will, there's only 2 people that live 'locally' (still 25miles away each) who will probably want to visit, other than that I don't think anybody will come round.

Looking forward to the two of us going to do a spot of shopping together, or just walking round Shrews / Chester & taking her for a hot choc at my fave cafe

 

[BeccaMichelle]

I joined Stroller Strides when I moved here and met the most awesome bunch of mums. There's always different meet ups on. You never have to go but there's almost always something to choose from. Even if it's just a playground date. Extra perk is my group uses Mealtrain.com which means all my friends will sign up to bring me yummy food after the baby is born! Exciting! LOL

It's also nice because you don't have to best friends with everyone but they're still close enough that they're happy to loan you baby gear, clothes, stroller stuff etc. I didn't know ANY moms when I had Jessie in Scotland. I went to a few baby swim classes but all the other moms were really rude. I don't know if it was because I was the only American in the class, but I found it hard to bond with anybody.

Definitely try a couple different groups though. I went to a few different ones and it was only when I found the stroller strides group that it really meshed. I've also met some moms from J's gymnastic classes that are really sweet too. It's seriously hard to hang out with people without kids after you have them... it's like a whole different world.

off topic: Buying new phones with unlimited data plans tonight!! we've been suffering on 200mb a month!! lol can you believe it? We're both getting the samsung 4s. Hopefully I'll make the learning curve before the baby comes. I've had an HTC inspire for the past 2 years. Just waiting for hubby to finish work... honestly... when he works from home he seems to work sooo much longer!

 

[dove830]

Pandaspot and Breadsticks you've both been updated on the spreadsheet as well. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtqtRkxRwwaAdG1iUl9NV3ZKWDk3T0VaS3ZHM1NrZkE&usp=sharing

Congratulations Breadsticks!!!

Sorry I was so awol the past couple of days. the 4th was go go here.

4 of us in red on the spreadsheet now....

oh my goodness! How did I miss that dove830 had an 11lb 6oz baby at THIRTY EIGHT WEEKS?!

Wowzers!

And I thought I was carrying a biggun! My hat goes off to that lady!

LOL, thank GOD it was a c-section!! I thought they were lying when they said the weight, lol

 

[Libbysmum]

Hey I thought I would jump on while I have a spare moment to fill you in on the birth of young Ethan.
It was about 2.30pm and was in the middle of baking DH's birthday cake on Monday when I started having contractions. I waited an hour before calling DH cause I wanted to be sure they were "real" not just BH's. As they were getting stronger and closer together I called him to say could he get a ride home ASAP.
By the time he got home it was about 4.30pm and he had called my mum to come watch Libby for us. While waiting I jumped in the shower and got dressed then Mum arrived and we grabbed my hospital bag and headed into the hospital. I was sent to the pregnancy assessment unit and lo and behold a friend of the family who is a midwife was on shift so she booked me but left the examination to another midwife to avoid any awkwardness which I was happy about. At the initial examination I was already 5cm dialated so they put me straight into the birth suite.
I called my student midwife and she came in about 15mins later. She stayed the entire birth and actually caught Ethan which was her first ever baby catch so she was super excited.
So the labour itself wasn't too bad at first so I just had some gas and sat on the birth ball but once my water broke holy cow it was rapid and intense! I asked for more pain relief but the midwifes were saying I could do it without an epidural etc etc. So I got up on the bed on all fours and pushed my best but then ended up on my back after a little while with the mirror so I could see baby crowning. He kept sliding back inside which was super tiresome and finally they were saying if he doesn't get his head out they were going to use a vacuume. I didn't want the vacuume but ended up having an episiotomy to get his head out and the rest went quick and before I knew it he was crying on my belly! So YAY I got my endorphin and VBAC!!!
But sadly I had to go to surgery because of a retained placenta! GRRR! WHY ME! Then lost a heck load amount of blood from the surgery...I was not happy at all! So 2 blood transfusions later I ended up in recovery begging somebody to express some milk/Colostrum to give to Ethan.
Thankfully the midwife in recovery cooperated and took two syringes and fed him then put him on my breasts for about 20mins for a feed. I was pretty tired from surgery. Will let you know more later as DH has made nachos for lunch.

 

[counting]

I wanted to let you all know after an awesome,12 hour labor Joseph Isaiah Steven Turner was born today at 5:53 pm weighing 7 pounds 5.8 ounces. More updates later but to hold you over:

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[tlh97990]

Congrats libbysmum

Yay counting finally!

I'm at the hospital now with contractions 6minutes apart..waiting to see if ill be admitted!

 

[Vankiwi]

Wow it's all go in here! Libby's Mum sounds like it went pretty quickly, glad you got your vbac.

Counting - yay finally!! He's so cute!!

Tlh - good luck, hopefully this is it!!

 

[tlh97990]

Contractions are now 2-5 minutes apart and they're talking about sending me home since I'm dilated 1-2cm still but still thick! Do they realize I live 20 minutes away and my in laws are 4 hours away