*** NOVEMBER 2011 BABIES ! *** Chrysanthe-Mums - 39 babies here already!!!

[MummyCat]

Oh Robin honey! hope that you get some rest from the pain but that the contractions do more for dilating!

Qwk... that sounds very promising hun!

Happy 39 weeks aly!

 

[DrGomps]

wow...Robin...sorry to hear its so painful...hopefully you start progressing faster.

Happy due date mummy!!

yay Qwk for Q being low...still waiting on Josie to engage...I think she might be lower then she used to be...

 

[sherylb]

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?

It sounds like she was effacing still. You have to be effaced before you can dilate. Luckily for me I am 1-2 dilated so my labor shouldn't be as terrible and long.

 

[Tish5478]

Happy due date Mummycat!!! shame in a way you won't be one of the 4% that have the babies on the due date!!!

Nyn - poor you Wednesday seems so far away doesn't it? I have my next sweep booked in for then and it seems so long away!!!!

Mrs AJ - it's so unfair that some women have all those contractions and don't get anywhere! Did they say the head was low or anything? Perhaps do some bouncing on the ball or walking up stairs sideways (both aimed to widen your pelvis and get that head down!). Hope you start progressing soon or that it all stops and lets you get some rest!!!

Qwk - am very jealous of your little one being so low. I have been bouncing and walking etc for ages and I have an achy pelvis but no more than before - am praying he has started to get lower!! However, have just started having horrid heartburn the last two days which to me suggests he's moved further up if anything

To everyone else that I've forgotten about hope you're all doing ok and fingers crossed, we see a mass baby delivery in the next few days!!!

 

[k8y]

Although I am loving having my baby girl here, and how crappy my final few weeks of pregnancy was, and how much I wanted it to be over. I am still reading about all of you ladies waiting to have your babies and all the excitment and feeling sad that its all over for me. Try and enjoy the last little bit ladies you will miss it when your babies are here, however much you love and adore your new bundle of joy, there will still be a part of you that wishes you could be doing it all again. its madnes ! hormones I guess !!!

 

[sherylb]

K8y if it helps we would gladly trade places with you and have our little ones safely in our arms.

 

[qwk]

tish & dr g - yeah i think i just got lucky that Q has decided to go low. dunno what is up with him, but he has desperately wanted to be way low for a long time. ever since maybe 35/36 weeks, i periodically feel him trying to tunnel his way out... maybe because i am really short torso-ed and he is just trying to find some place to stick his head also despite his extreme lowness i still get heartburn, so i wouldn't necessarily take that as a sign!

my SIL was 4 cm dilated when she went into labor and had a 50+ hour labor so... no guarantees in this game! i don't think the numbers mean much unfortunately.

k8y - i'm sure that's true, it's just such a sudden change to NOT be pregnant after so long...

 

[Mrs. AJ]

Well its been 38 hours now...about 3-4 minutes apart, just over a minute in duration each and much much much more painful. Thinking I'll head back in to l&d in a little bit to get checked again because the pain is near intolerable at this point! If they say 2cm, I swear I might have to slap someone! ha!

 

[MummyCat]

Good luck Robin!!!

Another November Mum has gone into labour.... here's a post from Huggles' journal this evening!

Turns out i'm not having pizza afterall, having a baby instead! Surprise!

was showering before packing to go to my mom, when i lost my mucous plug. Got out the shower and realised my waters were leaking. Lost more plug and waters went more. Came straight to hospital as stitch had to come out. They agreed it had started. Dr came, took stitch out. And now we wait.
Contractions are coming hard and fast, every 2 min approximately. When he took the stitch out i went to 3cm dilated. He told the mw cervix is paper thin so i'm assuming that means i'm fully effaced. Baby was only t level 2 tho, so not fully engaged yet, but i think he engaging fast.

 

[repogirl813]

heartburn really has nothing to do with it, when i went to the hospital in labor i had horrid heartburn despite them saying her head was sooo low and the heartburn continued all night long through labor and still had heartburn during my c-section, so i really do not believe heartburn and baby being high or low has anything to do with it!!!!

 

[repogirl813]

ohhh mrs. aj and huggles i am hoping this is it for you ladies and it goes nice and smooth from here for you both

 

[repogirl813]

k8y i will have to disagree with you, i do not wish to be going through my last 2 weeks of pregnancy right now, i was so uncomfortable and horrid feeling (though was still working 55 hours a week) am soo happy to be home with Kyleigh despite being sore and tired still from the c-section

 

[qwk]

Ohhhh fx for mrs aj and huggles!!

 

[DrGomps]

wow...Mrs AJ and Huggles...Labor

 

[MyTurnYet]

Qwk, I'm a little late to the party, but have been reading posts on my phone and saw your nursery and have to agree that it's amazing. I think I want to live in it. Are you a designer by any chance?

Best of luck to Mrs. AJ and Huggles!

How is everyone else feeling? Dr.Gomps and I are over here in the Northeast US getting snowed on! Maybe the snow will bring some babies.

 

[Tish5478]

oooooh good luck Mrs AJ and Huggles - hope it goes well for you both and can't wait to hear your good news

 

[tlh97990]

yay two more babies will be here soon..im thinking i will be induced on the 7th or 8th if madelyn doesnt come on her on before then but we will see

how is the snow in the northeast i saw on the news there could be up to a foot in some places good luck with that ladies dont go into labor while youre snowed in!!

 

[qwk]

Qwk, I'm a little late to the party, but have been reading posts on my phone and saw your nursery and have to agree that it's amazing. I think I want to live in it. Are you a designer by any chance?

Thanks hon! And sadly no, I'm a lawyer! I would love to do something more creative though... Maybe one day!

 

[alybel]

All the best to Mrs AJ and Huggles, hope it goes smoothly for you both!!

Well I thought I would post my last belly pic in here, 47 hours until my c-section (not that I am counting down or anything ).

https://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y189/alybel/39weeks.jpg

 

[fides]

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

i love that chart - i came down to check it.

Morning!

YAY!!!!

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...

awww! that would be neat!


and a few ladies were talking about baby engaging - i completely forgot to update our good news! Bur baby hadn't dropped at all as of my 38 week appt, but as of this past Wednesday's appt, this baby is engaging! Odds of it going transverse again are low, and there's also no more fluid between its head and the uterine wall, so it's no longer floating (forget what she called that).

2 days left until November - who is going to have the first November baby in here?!

to those dealing with health complications and the stress that comes with that...