*** NOVEMBER 2011 BABIES ! *** Chrysanthe-Mums - 39 babies here already!!!
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oh, my! i just looked at that chart that was posted in here recently about the odds of delivery by different days, and where i am today just went over 25%!!! That means 1 in 4 women with my due date have already gone into labor spontaneously - YIKES!! 
thanks again to whoever posted this link for us (was it qwk?)
thanks again to whoever posted this link for us (was it qwk?)
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Sorry your mw app was cancelled nyn 
wow tlh - very impressed that you're still planning to work for another week!
Fx'd your baby arrives soon drgomps!
Mummycat - hope baby arrives on his/her due date! Would be very cool!
michieb - fx'd baby hasn't turned breech, or that he turns around again soon. If he is breech - you could try reflexology or hypnotherapy or acupuncture to turn him again - they all supposedly have very good success rates for turning babies.
here a standard hospital stay for c-sections is 4 days, 3 nights.
Sorry the contractions stopped MrsAJ - fx'd they had a good effect on your cervix!
Pip - glad you don't have to be house-bound
My gynae said that the main reason for cord prolapse would be if the head is not yet engaged when the waters break (i was asking if i would have to be admitted immediately if my waters break when he removes the stitch). He said as long as the head is already engaged when your waters break, then the cord can't really slip through. So I would imagine it's the same with you - even with the excess amniotic fluid, as long as baby is engaged (even partially), it should be fine.
Fx'd your scan shows good things on monday babyhopes!
I think here (in South Africa) they would normally only routinely induce after 40 weeks - but it depends on the dr as they all seem to have their own preferences. I did ask my dr about his thoughts on induction last year and he said he only induces at the end of 41 weeks.
But for emergencies or if there's a medical reason then induction would be considered earlier - my sil was induced at 37 weeks due to pre-e.
As far as i know though (and i could be entirely wrong), it's not really that it's unsafe for mom/baby to induce before 39 weeks, I think it's more that the cervix often isn't really ready and so the induction often fails or baby lands up in distress or something (ok, that could mean it's not safe... ) and so earlier inductions very often end up as emergency c-sections (which is what happened with my sil).
BUT, at the same time, I know one lady on bnb that was induced at 35 weeks due to medical reasons and she gave birth naturally and baby was fine. So I think it very much depends on the situation etc. i'm pretty sure the dr's weigh up the pro's and con's for each individual case.
wow tlh - very impressed that you're still planning to work for another week!
Fx'd your baby arrives soon drgomps!
Mummycat - hope baby arrives on his/her due date! Would be very cool!
michieb - fx'd baby hasn't turned breech, or that he turns around again soon. If he is breech - you could try reflexology or hypnotherapy or acupuncture to turn him again - they all supposedly have very good success rates for turning babies.
here a standard hospital stay for c-sections is 4 days, 3 nights.
Sorry the contractions stopped MrsAJ - fx'd they had a good effect on your cervix!
Pip - glad you don't have to be house-bound
My gynae said that the main reason for cord prolapse would be if the head is not yet engaged when the waters break (i was asking if i would have to be admitted immediately if my waters break when he removes the stitch). He said as long as the head is already engaged when your waters break, then the cord can't really slip through. So I would imagine it's the same with you - even with the excess amniotic fluid, as long as baby is engaged (even partially), it should be fine.
Fx'd your scan shows good things on monday babyhopes!
I think here (in South Africa) they would normally only routinely induce after 40 weeks - but it depends on the dr as they all seem to have their own preferences. I did ask my dr about his thoughts on induction last year and he said he only induces at the end of 41 weeks.
But for emergencies or if there's a medical reason then induction would be considered earlier - my sil was induced at 37 weeks due to pre-e.
As far as i know though (and i could be entirely wrong), it's not really that it's unsafe for mom/baby to induce before 39 weeks, I think it's more that the cervix often isn't really ready and so the induction often fails or baby lands up in distress or something (ok, that could mean it's not safe... ) and so earlier inductions very often end up as emergency c-sections (which is what happened with my sil).
BUT, at the same time, I know one lady on bnb that was induced at 35 weeks due to medical reasons and she gave birth naturally and baby was fine. So I think it very much depends on the situation etc. i'm pretty sure the dr's weigh up the pro's and con's for each individual case.
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I really don't want to be induced but if I dont have her by my appointment with my regular OB on the 7th im going to ask to be induced itll be almost a week over and itll be my first week off work so i would love her to arrive that week im off so i can have the full 6 weeks with her.
I finally had a chance to talk with my boss about next friday being my last day so they werent just waiting for a last minute phone call saying i wont be in work and she said as long as its what i want if i want to take off sooner or later its totally up to me as long as i promise that no matter what i let her know when i have the baby so at least thats settled!! And i'm officially done with school i have a couple tests ill take after thanksgiving break but both my on campus instructors have agreed to let me miss class until the baby is here and have a week or two to recover before going back. i only have one class a day for less than an hour so it wont be much to sit through
I finally had a chance to talk with my boss about next friday being my last day so they werent just waiting for a last minute phone call saying i wont be in work and she said as long as its what i want if i want to take off sooner or later its totally up to me as long as i promise that no matter what i let her know when i have the baby so at least thats settled!! And i'm officially done with school i have a couple tests ill take after thanksgiving break but both my on campus instructors have agreed to let me miss class until the baby is here and have a week or two to recover before going back. i only have one class a day for less than an hour so it wont be much to sit through
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oh, my! i just looked at that chart that was posted in here recently about the odds of delivery by different days, and where i am today just went over 25%!!! That means 1 in 4 women with my due date have already gone into labor spontaneously - YIKES!!
thanks again to whoever posted this link for us (was it qwk?)
Yes it was me! I love things like that hehe. DH and I were just looking at it as I told him our chance of delivery was increasing from a 1% chance per day to a 2% chance per day
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Thanks fides. Yes, I'm just about "ready" in practical terms, but still think I need to get "ready" mentally! I've been meaning to listen to some hypnotherapy cds and write my birth plan but have achieved neither!
I'm okay with being induced at 38w. I realise that it might mean my baby is more sleepy and less inclined to work hard at breast feeding than if he went to 40w, but given that I've already had one lazy 38w boy I don't really know any different. Main thing is that baby is born safe and healthy.
In terms of induction success, I've been told that as this is not my first pregnancy and given that I've already lost some plug, had incredibly strong BHs and some cramps it is likely that my cervix will be favourable on induction day and they can get away with just breaking my waters. If not, they will use a pessary method which means they'll only check for progress every 24 hours and if labour isn't established within 48 hours they'll do a c-section.
I'm hoping that I won't need a pessary and that baby will be born either late on Monday 7 or sometime on Tuesday 8 November. I think I'd prefer the Tuesday because the Monday will be the 16th anniversary of my first loss. Wednesday 9 would be good too as that would make exactly one month between my sons' birthdays! ALthough my DS does have his GCSE Maths exam that day so maybe I have to rethink that one!
WHatever happens I already know I'm going to be in hospital for at least 24 hours post delivery whilst they do blood glucose checks on baby every couple of hours. Only when they are happy that both our bloods are stable will they let us home. They're also going to check his weight on Day 3 rather than Day 5 because of my GD.
Pip x
I'm okay with being induced at 38w. I realise that it might mean my baby is more sleepy and less inclined to work hard at breast feeding than if he went to 40w, but given that I've already had one lazy 38w boy I don't really know any different. Main thing is that baby is born safe and healthy.
In terms of induction success, I've been told that as this is not my first pregnancy and given that I've already lost some plug, had incredibly strong BHs and some cramps it is likely that my cervix will be favourable on induction day and they can get away with just breaking my waters. If not, they will use a pessary method which means they'll only check for progress every 24 hours and if labour isn't established within 48 hours they'll do a c-section.
I'm hoping that I won't need a pessary and that baby will be born either late on Monday 7 or sometime on Tuesday 8 November. I think I'd prefer the Tuesday because the Monday will be the 16th anniversary of my first loss. Wednesday 9 would be good too as that would make exactly one month between my sons' birthdays! ALthough my DS does have his GCSE Maths exam that day so maybe I have to rethink that one!
WHatever happens I already know I'm going to be in hospital for at least 24 hours post delivery whilst they do blood glucose checks on baby every couple of hours. Only when they are happy that both our bloods are stable will they let us home. They're also going to check his weight on Day 3 rather than Day 5 because of my GD.
Pip x
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Such an exciting time for our little thread.......I'm due Nov 21....but DH and I just realized that Nov 11 is 11/11/11 AND our 11 year 'dating' anniversary....so how cool would it be if I was 10 days early...
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Morning!
Hope you're all doing okay!! My bump buddy had her baby last night.... but I'll let her update you with the details Nyn!!!
No news from me... contracted a lot yesterday and then slept through the night and it's all stopped!
Today is my DUE DATE!
It's official... I'll be one of our first overdue ladies... as this baby is NOT coming today!
Hope you're all doing okay!! My bump buddy had her baby last night.... but I'll let her update you with the details Nyn!!!
No news from me... contracted a lot yesterday and then slept through the night and it's all stopped!
Today is my DUE DATE!
It's official... I'll be one of our first overdue ladies... as this baby is NOT coming today!
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After contracting regularly all day, I finally went to l&d around 11 when contractions were 4 mins apart and lasting a minute. I'd also lost loads of bloody show. When I was checked I was only 1cm!!! So they sent me home, although they could see me contracting every three minutes on the monitor. They gave me an ambien to hopefully help me sleep, but really I was still getting painful contractions every few minutes, so it didn't help much. They said to go back when pain is 10 times worse. Yikes! But they do think Ill be having baby this weekend.
At this point I am very jealous of all the ladies who are able to get to 2cm dilated before the contractions even start. I was closed as of Monday and had 24 hours of regular contractions to get to 1cm!!! Yeeouch.
At this point I am very jealous of all the ladies who are able to get to 2cm dilated before the contractions even start. I was closed as of Monday and had 24 hours of regular contractions to get to 1cm!!! Yeeouch.
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Happy due date mummy cat! I guess you will get your wish to go a wee bit late 
Nyn - sorry about having to reschedule, Wednesday does seem far away when it was supposed to be on friday!
Mrs aj - wow!! You are going to have an exciting weekend then! I really don't understand this whole labor process, when you can be contracting every three minutes but not dilating?
Had my 38 week appointment yesterday! All is well. MW kept commenting on how low he is, and implying she thought it would be very soon (she was commenting n how she would be on duty for delivery on Wednesday at the hospital and she would just love to meet Q, etc). Not really getting my hopes up, but wouldn't mind November 1 or 2!
Much baby-appearing dust to all you ladies who have been feeling so many contractions!!
Nyn - sorry about having to reschedule, Wednesday does seem far away when it was supposed to be on friday!
Mrs aj - wow!! You are going to have an exciting weekend then! I really don't understand this whole labor process, when you can be contracting every three minutes but not dilating?
Had my 38 week appointment yesterday! All is well. MW kept commenting on how low he is, and implying she thought it would be very soon (she was commenting n how she would be on duty for delivery on Wednesday at the hospital and she would just love to meet Q, etc). Not really getting my hopes up, but wouldn't mind November 1 or 2!
Much baby-appearing dust to all you ladies who have been feeling so many contractions!!
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hey ladies have you all been having crazy dreams?? hte few hours of sleep i do get are filled with bizarre dreams. last night i had a dream that we forgot to feed the baby all day because she never cried and seemed happy then realized at 10pm we hafnt fed her...i hope shes a happy baby but i hope we remember to feed her too
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