Heyhey ladies!!
Firstly welcome to our latecomer-newbie Emma!
congrats on your pregnancy and look forward to chatting more!
Dont worry about the baby weight thing as i am in the same boat and been told to expect a 10lb'er lol! but we cant change that now can we so i have decided to just go with the flow!!
Sezzy.. hopefully by the time i have finished this post you will be out the door!!
HAPPY MATERNITY LEAVE!Dont feel guilty about stuff, whats done is done, and now you can focus on your lil babba!
Kate.. Thanks for keeping the chart going! You're doing a grand job hun! Hope you and Ben are ok, how are the dizzy spells at the mo?
Jo.. Thanks for popping on and wishing us luck! Nice to 'hear' from you! Hope you and the children are keeping well.
Amy.. What you been up to today then? are you still feeling like its a day off or are you getting used to the leisurley life!
Well my day went something like this...
Took Abbie to schhol, Holly & Jord off as they are still not feeling too well, went to asda and did a stocking up shop for incase i acually miraculously have this baby on my due date
and then went home, had some toast but felt a bit shakey and sick so downed half a bottle of pinapple juice..(why??!! I dunno,)
Then i was soooo tired i went to bed at 11.00 told Dh not to let me sleep past 1.00 as my clinic appointment was at 2.00 and i wanted a bath before i went, I never actually thought i would sleep that long but woke at 1.15 feeling pretty painful.. all my hips, pubic bone the whole thing was throbbing and i couldn't walk, it was agony.. the only thing i could think was that his head had engaged,, after a few steps i was ok but it was still extremley painful.
For some bizzare reason i HAD to hoover the stairs- in my cripple state aswell yes!
Didn't get chance to have a bath, and got to clinic for 2.00.
To cut a long story short, the consultant that was there knews nothing about me, hadn't looked at my notes and asked me why i was there.. asked how i felt and when i said i was tired now and had enough he asked why, and had i been taking my iron!!
He asked me how long i had left and when i said i was due tomorrow he went, 'oh yes..we will see you next week then' I sat there a-gasp..
My MW wasn't there and i saw the same one as i had at my antenatal lastweek who didn't know much either..
so i said to the consultant, 'so going overdue and the baby being big also risk of SD etc is that not an issue??' to which he knew nothing about and i ended up telling him about 34 wk scenario, and all the other scares.. he looked at my chart where baby is down as being above 97th centile and he said, 'ok i suppose we should do something,,'
He then told the crap MW to book me in for induction for 41 weeks,
I had to wait outside so that they could take next lady in, and low and behold!!!! MY MIDWIFE walks around the corner!! I could've kissed her!! she had been on a course that had finished early so she had come to help out, she knew isomething was wrong with me, so took me into a room, i explained my worries and everything else on my mind and she said 'right, i'll do a sweep!!' Woo-hoo, now we were getting somewhere!
Anyway when she examined me she said i was 3cm dilated and completley effaced!! she actually said 'paper thin cervix'! I couldn't believe it! she said i will go anytime possibly tonight and to go home and get rocking on my birth ball!!!! I hope she is right, she also added as i was going out the door that her sweeps never fail! so we will see if she is as good as she says eh?
Ok, so i didn't cut a long story short! Hope you are still awake if you got this far!
Just had my curry, and finishing the rest of the pinapple juice then i am off to do some serious hip rolling and get this baby the hell out!
Hope all the labour imminent ladies are well and can get back soon to let us know what the news is!
Kirsten... if you are still pg Happy 40 weeks hun, if not get your booty on here and tell us all about it!!
ok, will try update if any progress later if not i shall be back tomorrow!
Emma. x
I just wanted to wish you all the very best of luck as your due dates are now upon you. 
BABIES DUE JULY/AUGUST 2008
