Hey ladies! Sorry I've been MIA lately, but my sister and her family and my grandma have been in town so I've been busy spending time with them. Still pregnant!!!! 40 weeks PLUS 4 days! I'm pretty adamant on not getting induced this time around, and just letting baby come when she's ready. So we'll see what happens. My sister road trips out here every summer from NC and she had planned her trip this year around baby being here on the 24th and had planned on starting her trip home TODAY! But she said she's staying until baby gets here so she's had to rearrange her plans. I feel kind of bad. But I'm loving the time I get to spend with her, and that Olivia gets to spend with her cousins. But go figure, isn't it just my luck that after worrying so much about going into labor alone and not having anyone to watch Olivia, I would go past my due date and have everyone around just twiddling their thumbs waiting for baby :laugh: Hope you're all doing great!

Destiny
40w4d

Morning ladies,
Well I've been up since 2.30am with cramps every 10-30 mins so nothing regular happening as yet. Hubby up with me as he's ultra excited, I'm trying to keep him and myself calm at the same time!
Have a great Sunday xox

Hope everything is going great!

Shoot I should have read farther! Sas - I hope you have good news when you next post!!

Well this is officially the END of my pregnancy as I gave birth to the most precious gift in the world at 7.50pm last night, little Ava Jane. This is how it all went….
2.30am I woke up with what I thought was food poisoning type of tummy ache so I went to the loo. 5 trips and number s’s later and I was convinced it was food poisoning although it wasn’t runny. By 7am I started to have a bloody show so I knew it was the start of things and so at 7.30am I began timing my contractions and put on my TENS machine. 6 minutes, 9 minutes, 15 minutes, 5 minutes…. This went on all day long, all over the place and most of them lasting between 1 and 1½ mins in length. We went for two walks to town and back and I was contracting all the time. We took Emma to the train station at 5.30pm and by this time I thought I was just being super pain intolerant so James called the labour suite and they said I should go in. When we got there we parked the car up in the car park and walked all the way into the labour suite, contractions now every 3-4 minutes and KILLING me. I went in there and asked for an epidural straight away so the midwife said she’d give me an internal to check my progress as I was way to calm. James was telling her about me being a ‘tough cookie’ and she commented ‘yeah she is, she’s fully dilated’! WHAT???????!!!!! As I type this at 4pm on Monday 30th I’m still in shock that it all happened to fast! From this point shifts changed and our new midwife came in and at 7pm broke my waters and with that I got the urge to push. 4 REALLY GOOD pushes later with immense swearing and grunting, screaming to James that I just couldn’t do it anymore and I was told to stop pushing as her head was crowning. THE RING OF FIRE!!!!!! Oh my God! Never before have I felt such immense pain and I had to hold her there until I was told to push again. This is the only time the midwife gave me gas and air to suck on so that I wouldn’t push. With the next contraction her head came out and to my utter amazement James looked down at her. The next contraction after that I pushed her body out as the midwife pulled at her shoulders.
She gave her a very quick wipe down, cut her cord and put her straight onto my chest, skin to skin with a towel over her body. Still in total complete shock we stared at our beautiful daughter in complete awe. The midwife gave me an injection to speed up the placenta and she delivered that more or less straight away. I wish I hadn’t looked down at this point….ewwwww! 
We were left to soak up our new daughter for a long time, there was no pressure to rush around. Ava had a few goes at breast feeding and although I knew she wasn’t latched on really well she gave it her best shot. We were brought in tea and toast which tasted amazing! The midwife eventually came back and weighed Ava – 8lbs 3oz! She looks so tiny!
After a while I had a quick shower and we dressed Ava. Midwife asked us if we’d like to have an early discharge and we said absolutely so by 10.30pm we were all packed up in the car and on the way home! We put Ava in one of her new sleeping bags but we felt like she wasn’t warm enough so I picked her up and put her to my chest so she could feel my heartbeat and she had a wonderful 4 hours sleep. I think I got an hours sleep at the most but I’m running off complete adrenaline and it’s the best feeling in the WORLD. I love you Ava Jane….hiccups and all xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Amazing!!! Congratulations!

Yay! Congrats! Being a mom is the hardest job, yet the most rewarding!

AFM: I only have 7 days before my little man is here! Can't believe Tuesday is the big day & that I'll have Logan in my arms! I was worried about getting everything done, but it looks like it's all going to get done in time. The downstairs is almost spotless, just have to sweep/mop the kitchen & dust the livingroom. The carpet lady is coming in less than an hour to do the carpets and couches. Hopefully she can get all the stairs out from my 2yr old =P... Upstairs is pretty much done too, just have to spend some time on the bedroom moving stuff around to make room for the bassinet etc. Getting so excited!!

This group is getting quiet. Where'd everyone go? How's everyone feeling?

Have my 3rd Trimester ultrasound tomorrow. Just got my results back from the glucose and iron tests and I am negative for gestational diabetes and anemia!

That's great news! ... Are you excited for the ultrasound ... 5th or 6th ultrasound on Thursday. I love getting all the 3d pictures. Might have to buy a new scrapbook before Logan gets here cause I wont have any room left =P

Have my 3rd Trimester ultrasound tomorrow. Just got my results back from the glucose and iron tests and I am negative for gestational diabetes and anemia!

That's great news! ... Are you excited for the ultrasound ... 5th or 6th ultrasound on Thursday. I love getting all the 3d pictures. Might have to buy a new scrapbook before Logan gets here cause I wont have any room left =P

I love them! I bought a frame for the wall that has spots for 1st 2nd and 3rd trimester ultrasounds. This will be my 3rd "official" one although I've done two others with a 3D/4D place for the gender determination and the 3D scan. Not sure how many they do in the 3rd trimester, I think it depends on each person's individual situation?

Congrats Sas - sounds a great labour (yet very painful), well done. Glad Ava settling in.

Faughorn - good work on your tests. We dont have any glocose test etc here (just urine at each midwife visit + bloods x 3 throughout pregnancy). We have a scan at 12 & 20 weeks and thats it unless any problems. Im wanting to put my pics in a frame today.

I have my 38 week appointment so they will check my BP, urine, measure my bump and listen to baby. Hopefully all will be well.

My plans for today are to walk dogs, do a bit of washing and ironing and finish the baby room. I started to feel like I was doing it too soon (i know Im due in 2 weeks) but thought I might tempt fate! Think my brain playing tricks on me. Have you all sorted your baby rooms?

Helen
38+1
Up 32lbs

my ice - our u/s clinics here are also seperate but you need a requisition form from your doctor to get one. For whatever reason I've had lots of u/s considering I'm low risk and they've been unconcerned about me for the most part. I had a dating scan at 8 weeks even though I told them I knew EXACTLY when I conceived, one at 21 weeks then another one at 23 weeks because they were remeasuring something. My ob/gyn does one in the third tri so I got one at 29 weeks. I had also booked a 3d one at 28 weeks long before I knew I was going to get all these other ones. Now I have one scheduled for tomorrow because she thought he was breach at the last appointment. Most women here get two otherwise, one at 12 and one at 20ish weeks.

helen- we've got the nursery 75% done. It's done just enough to make me feel somewhat prepared. I have to get the baseboards back on, curtains back up and the crib is still in the garage but our house is so small that I"m leaving the single bed in there for now just for a few months until all the visitors have come through. My sister made an IKEA run last week so she'll bring my new dresser up in two weekends and then I can put all the little clothes away! I'm excited to do that. Right now I've got 6 bags of random baby clothes that were given to us just sitting on the floor. I should really go through them and sort them by age but I've become quite preoccupied watching the Olympics!

I'm feeling a lot of pressure to get the rest of the house purged and cleaned but I just don't have time. I'm at work all day and have some committments in the evenings not to mention just wanting to sit with my legs up for a bit! Maybe the baby will be late and I'll get some time to do that seeing that I start my mat leave that week.

I finally had to take my wedding band off yesterday. I haven't been able to wear my engagement ring for quite some time but yesterday I lubed up my finger and got the band off. ugh! it was tight!!!!

I've cried every single day watching the Olympics :laugh: nothing like being overly hormonal and watching all these athletes achieve their dreams. Good thing nobody sees me cheering and crying I look like an idiot.

Had my 38wk doc appt this morning.. Blah. Well, I'm 90% thinned out but we went back in progress.. back to a 1cm from the 2-3cm last week. However, Nick will be home tomorrow for the weekend, which is perfect timing for my birthday on Saturday, but I don't think Miranda will make her appearence this weekend...

So far I've only had 1 official ultrasound - they did a really quick one just to make sure he was head down, and then a BPP when his heart rate was doing weird things (they thought). That one they didn't really let me see though, and we didn't get any pictures.

I went in this week and they scheduled me to be induced tomorrow at 6p, but didn't tell me. L&D was super nice when I called in about it. I find that L&D is usually waaaay nicer than the actual clinics I end up at.

I was disappointed to find out it was for 6p, because that probably means I won't actually have LO until August 4th, and 2 friends already have that birthday. (I seriously flipped out.) DH has been helping me work through it. I know that is so petty and trivial of me, but I am still a bit peeved. I also feel upset at my body for not starting naturally, and myself for not walking more, and medical science for making me have a date I don't want for my son. Basically I'm just in bother and probably need to go take a walk.

Sugar- Don't worry, putting in a carseat is super easy ... As for the list I was told: clothes, toiletries, pjs, something to keep you buys like a book/movies, slippers/shoes, camera, phones. And for the baby, clothes, blanket, carseat, nuk, diaper bag..... Be worned about your weight =P I was just told yesterday that the last month baby can gain 1lb to 1.5lbs a week! I was shocked! I thought was was only 0.5lbs a week, boy was I off!

Bru- Don't worry. Your lil girl will come when she's ready She's just giving you extra time to do the things you need to get done & the things you forgot to do that you'll think of still lol... I'm still remembering things I haven't done yet, woops!

Dragon- The scheduled you without tell you???? Did they just let you know last minute or what? That's horrible!... Hey, that means you'll be induced in 2 1/2 hrs if you're in my timezone! Good luck girl! I hope everything goes smoothly for you! Don't be upset hun, child birth is suppose to be something the woman does naturally but I only made it to 32wks with my 1st boy because of complications. I was so mad at myself for not doing something that I should have been able to do but couldn't. Took time, but I just had to realize, it's not something you did wrong, sometimes things just happen and our bodies need help ... Once you hold your little baby in your arms you wont even care about the birthday anymore, you'll just be happy that you have him

mpederson- Don't worry about the size of his head. I've been told that no matter how small or big your baby is you still dilate to 10cm! Wish my 1st i had problems and they needed an emergency c-section and I told them I wanted to try to be induced first because if he's going to be tiny then i wouldn't have to hurt so bad, they said you dilate to 10 either way. Funny how our bodies work.... The part of my leg that cramps up horrible while sleeping is the back of my shin. It just kills me when it gets SUPER tight. I think that wakes me up more than having to pee does =P


AFM- Only 4 days left! I can't believe I'll be having my baby Tuesday already! Wow time went fast. Which is funny that I'm saying that since I had my 1st at 32weeks and now that I'm almost 37 you'd think time would have seemed to drag even longer! But I can't believe this pregnancy is almost over. I'm going to miss feeling him move inside me, but it's okay because holding him in my arms and getting to see his sweet face will make me even happier. I can't wait for our 2yr old to meet him too! He doesn't fully get the concept, so I think he'll be pretty shocked to have a new addition to the family! =-D Still have a few things to do before the big day, cleaning a few rooms in the house still, bring up the baby stuff, and pack the hospital bag... Seeing as I'm getting a c-section I'm really NOT looking forward to the healing process, but getting to meet my new little man will be all worth it

Good luck girls! You're all on homestretch now! You can do this! Not much time left, enjoy it while it lasts

Hi all

I had my 38 week app last week and all looking good. I measure ave and baby heart beat good. So was BP etc. I go back at 40 weeks unless something happens before then - but I doubt it.

Ive had a busy week, doing housework and pottering about. I plan on a quieter one this week. My neice is coming round tomorrow (age 15) to help do a few jobs.

I will catch up with everyone tomorrow.

Myice - wow - not long left at all! Pleased all gone well.

Helen 38 + 5
Up 32lb (but will weigh again in a few days :-/

Hi all

My Ice - Good luck - Hope all is going well and Logan is on his way.

Not much to report here, had a bit of a 'show' today - no other symptoms though, so will see if anything progresses. Ive managed to fit the car seat base today and will have another practice tonight and get my boyfriend to check it is done ok.

Going to go and get a little snack - apple & satsuma I think.

Check in again later to see if anyone about.

Helen 39 weeks