pregnancy buddies due in June 2009!

[happy mum]

Ethan is serinas boy!!
mines Dylan!! hes been asleep since 10am!! BIG sleep!! pity evie won't sleep too, but shes having a chill with balamory now!!

my kids always up early rubbish isn't it!! don't they know were pg and want to lie in!!

So sorry Nat - darn pregnancy brain! My memory is going!

No worries i read this link and by time i click reply i can't remember what anyone said... then worry you all think i'm being rude if don't mention anyones probs, so no worries i have no brain atm!!!

 

[ClaireyF]

what??? i thought our waters broke before labour started...i thought i was the give away!! o god...how am i going to know when its happening??? xxx

 

[Baci]

I know what you mean. I try to reply to everyone but worry that I've missed something. Now I'll be checking to make sure I've got the right names! I'm sure I used to have a good memory!

How do you do it Jue?

 

[happy mum]

what??? i thought our waters broke before labour started...i thought i was the give away!! o god...how am i going to know when its happening??? xxx

Exactly this is what i'm thinking!!
some peoples babys are born still in water sack!!! i think its only 10 % labours start with waters breaking.... so prob won't start that way!! first labours usually have a lot of pre labour. clare read some birth stories!!! but they rae all so different. i have a feeling this ones going to take days again like my first!! even with waters breaking first, i wasn't in established labour till 2 days later!! contractions kept starting then stopping, so anoying!!

 

[Baci]

what??? i thought our waters broke before labour started...i thought i was the give away!! o god...how am i going to know when its happening??? xxx

Not that I'm an expert, but I dont think your waters always break before labour starts. Although mine did and contractions followed a few hours later. I think your antenatal classes will probably cover that (mine did).

 

[happy mum]

I know what you mean. I try to reply to everyone but worry that I've missed something. Now I'll be checking to make sure I've got the right names! I'm sure I used to have a good memory!

How do you do it Jue?

i think she makes notes!!!

 

[ClaireyF]

i think she makes notes too! she'll publish a book about it all in a couple of years!

didnt fancy reading birth stories just yet as theres some horrible ones around i hope my antenatal class tells me lol xx

 

[Cariad_bach]

with all of mine waters braking was the LAST thing to happen!!!!


Nats my 3rd was exactly the same as my others TBH ... Just a hell of a lot faster!

First symptom with them all was a cramp ...one that makes you think you need to rush to the loo and empty your bowls very very quickly (IYNWIM)

So off we go to the loo but the cramps keep comming and comming faster and faster untill there 5 mins apart and its time to call OH and the MW...
with my first 2 all that took about 6-7 hours, with my 3rd it was a hour

Then there the whole checking how dilated you are and when the MW said i was 10 cm and i could push .. thats when my waters went! Katie was half way out before her sack went so she was nearly fully born in the sack!


Carol i dont know how i haven't got it all wrong before now.... im hopeless with names etc

 

[happy mum]

Gosh an hour Jue is quick!!!
my first was 3and half days from waters going, 2nd 12 hours from waters. i had no pains before waters breaking with either, evie took about a day to start contracting dylan about an hour. really don't know what to expect??? hoping the same as dylan!! so unpredictable. what you thinking no 4 will be like?? half an hour??

 

[ClaireyF]

right, well that sounds all pretty straight forward i will look out for cramps and running to the loo...sounds like BH to me!! xx

 

[happy mum]

funny how different labours are, dylans contractions were3 mins apart from the start so 11 hours of 3 mins they just got longer and more painful, didn't get the poo feeling till 10 mins before delivery. evies was just riddiculous had epi 3rd day in then 12 hours till delivery so no idea what was going on!! so no poo feeling!! hhahah!

 

[Cariad_bach]

Gosh an hour Jue is quick!!!
my first was 3and half days from waters going, 2nd 12 hours from waters. i had no pains before waters breaking with either, evie took about a day to start contracting dylan about an hour. really don't know what to expect??? hoping the same as dylan!! so unpredictable. what you thinking no 4 will be like?? half an hour??

i dread to think ... it was part of the reason for a home birth last time (the hospitals a long way from me) and i think id deffo have to have a home birth this time because id never get there on time!

Hopefully Jamie will just slide on out with out me really noticing

Claire it was like BH's but more intense and regular ... altho i didn't know that at the time because id never had BH's before!

 

[happy mum]

just been to check on dylan hes still asleep!! thats 3 half hours!!! still breathing!! should i wake him??

 

[Cariad_bach]

dylans contractions were3 mins apart from the start so 11 hours of 3 mins they just got longer and more painful,

... OMG!

 

[Baci]

An hour! Oh my!

 

[happy mum]

i dread to think ... it was part of the reason for a home birth last time (the hospitals a long way from me) and i think id deffo have to have a home birth this time because id never get there on time!

Hopefully Jamie will just slide on out with out me really noticing

Claire it was like BH's but more intense and regular ... altho i didn't know that at the time because id never had BH's before!

Hmmm i don't know what to think, i'm 40 mins from hosp. dylan labour wasn't quick but birth was v quick. was only at hosp 10 mins before delivery, scares me a bit, as left it bit close for comfort, all very dramatic at hosp. just thinking if labour is quicker, don'twant her on he way to hosp, but equally don'y want to be back and to as too far away??? hmmm i guess its hope my body doesn't play tricks, wish i could have ahome birth be so much less hassle, just to go with whatever at home!!

 

[happy mum]

dylans contractions were3 mins apart from the start so 11 hours of 3 mins they just got longer and more painful,

... OMG!

it wasn't as bad as it sounds, i have this dvd on breathing techniques, and was just trancing through them, with my tens, i just did too good a job at breathing through them and left it late to go in, i so could of had him at home no prob.

 

[Cariad_bach]

Yer i mush admit the home births are good ... everything's there ready and waiting ... you do feel a bit lost when you know your in labour and you feel like you should be rushing to hospital and all you can do it put the tellie on!

But Nats hun i wouldn't have dreamt of having one if there were any complications ... hopefully now you know what your doing and youve been there and done it all before you will be able to recognise the signs and get to the hospital a bit quicker lol xxxx

 

[ClaireyF]

im about 40mins from hospital aswell...i hope that Josh doesnt decide to come on 9th June in the evening because its ladies evening at Chester Races...

Are any of you going to have raspberry leaf tea? when do we start having it?? xx

 

[happy mum]

im about 40mins from hospital aswell...i hope that Josh doesnt decide to come on 9th June in the evening because its ladies evening at Chester Races...

Are any of you going to have raspberry leaf tea? when do we start having it?? xx

yeah i will, did with last 2, i take capsules though as hate tea. i started at 34 weeks with both. not sure if really does anything but doesn't harm!!