The Pregnancy Chat Thread!

Thumby wrote: »

Where exactly is he getting 18 hours from? Fair enough my first was that long (i went naturally) but i was induced on kacie and they were tellin me i was looking at min 18 hours again if not longer because it was an induction. They couldn't have been more wrong! They broke my waters at 11.35pm after having to pull the cervix down (i wasn't dialated or effaced at all). By 11.45pm i was in active labour and 3cm dialated. She was born at 4.37am, five hours two mins later. It would have been less but i ended up getting the epidural and they said that added at least an hour onto labour and delivery because 1 i kept going back to sleep when they were waking me (i don't like people waking me) and 2 i couldn't feel a thing when i was pushing.

he was pulling it out of his ass! Its my first pregnancy so obviously no clue what will happen...i could as easily go early and have a super fast labor or i could go over and have a marathon labor! he was saying that because he said most women on thier first baby tend to have longer labors...doesnt make me feel any better though! never know what might happen!

( and they had to PULL your cervix down?? holy crap that must have hurt!)

Pulling my cervix down was a bas**rd alright. That was worse than anything else. If i was you i'd make arrangements to have someone bring you in just as a back up plan cause ya never know. Any labour particularly the first/an induced labour can be extremely hard to predict.
I knew my last labour was going to be a quick one. I kept telling them once ye break my waters thats it, i'll be in the heigt of it. It was my gut feeling and thats what we need to listen to not a man, who, no matter how experienced he is at delivering babies, has never been in labour/given birth.

On my son, my first, I was in actual labour (dilated) for 3 hours. I was having regular strong contractions from 8.30pm so 4.5 hours. So in total from first big contraction (that woke me and had me jumping off the bed) to birth it was 8.5 hours.

Oh dear jebus on having the cervix pulled down. Seriously I'd plain, outright refuse. It just sounds so against what your body wants to do or is ready to do.

Glad you got sorted Thumby! Came out of a meeting there to find a can of lucozade and a marks and Spencer's rocky road slice on my desk!!! Happy days

Just heard the nurse who fell for that prank the two australian DJs pulled in the hospital Kate Middleton was in committed suicide this morning. Absolutely tragic

Two Australian djs rang the hospital Kate middleton was staying in and spoke to a nurse while impersonating the Queen and Prince Charles. They obtained "sensitive" information about the duchess. Sounds ridiculous but they did it somehow. Media had a field day over it.

Poor woman committed suicide this morning, unbelievable really.

Chicken roll has lead me to think of chicken balls...chips...curry sauce...then maybe a caramel sundae for desert..

Moonbeam wrote: »

I bought ginger beer and sweeties for when the kids go to bed:)
My reward for doing the shopping:)

I've never ever tasted ginger beer! It just sounds so wrong! Plus I hate ginger lol I didn't even know it was sold here!

I cannot wait for Christmas Dinner is eat turkey all year round!

Hehehe moonbeam. I do the same. We're such bad mammies :-D

hi ladies just a quick question.. has anyone ever had a slight pinkish discharge? its not much.. not that worried just wondering wat ye think or has anyone had it? im 30wks

Thanks moonbeam might do that, as i said not that worried as im getting kicked around the place all day babs is full of he's fun feel like he's trying to punch he's way out

had a lovely nap on the sofa- that's crazy about that poor nurse! I feel so bad for her family, so close to Christmas. And I feel really bad for Kate as well...It must be so hard to be under constant scrutiny and pressure like that! I know I couldn't handle the stress of it and knowing that someone trying to get information about me caused someone else to end their life? Just a sad sad state of affairs!

has anyone else been watching one born every minute:what happens next? I'm not sure how i feel about it....every episode has me crying and also slightly scared about life with a child...I think it might just be wise for me to only think about getting baby here and not actually worrying too much about what happens when baby is here since I'm completely clueless!

Thanks thumby! makes me feel better...its so intimidating and all my years retail doesn't help because you see the worst of kids behavior a lot of the times lol!

question....last night at around 3:30 I woke up to use the bathroom(as usual!) and got up and had the WORST pain around my torso....like above my belly button, middleish section, all the way around my back. It was like someone had taken a belt and tightened it so hard!It hurt so bad I nearly threw up! I couldnt stand up or sit down, leaning over felt ok. It hurt for a long time and then I had about an hour of pain/cramping. And then i was fine! Was that a contraction? Like a real one? I am kinda walking around on egg shells this morning wondering what in the world that was and if its going to come back!

Thumby wrote: »

Thats the thing about retail rach we only see the little fecker side of kids. My lo is as good as gold most of the time ya wouldn't even know she was here, but i bring her into dunnes and you'd swear she was being bet black and blue! There is just something about bringing her in there starts her off!
As for that pain with it being that bad def ring the hospital. They'll probably just tell you take it easy and drink plenty of fluids but with ya being so close they are better off knowing. Have you any other signs yet? Mucus plug/slow release of waters?

ah balls I was too scared to ring the hospital that they might say come in! silly i know! slow release of waters? no clue about that one...i've had a lot of light discharge (tmi! sorry!) but if there was any waters mixed in that i couldnt tell you! no mucus plug either, which is why I was thinking what the hell could this be the start of proper labour? I mean, i feel so silly asking because everyone says when you have a real contraction you'll know but I'm definitely not in the know! :rolleyes:

I had similar pains like that getting up rach, like maybe two or three times over the last week but I didn't ring the hospital, I just put it down to getting from vertical to horizontal too quickly without my back/spine having time to catch up - it seems I am remote controlled when I have to go to the bathroom at night. It normally eases up by the time I whaled myself back to bed though in my case, if it prevents you from sleeping it may well be the start of it. My midwife said you know you're in labour (or having a real contraction) when you can't eat, talk, drink, or sleep through it. But call them just in case, after all you could get early and you been wanting to get it done with before your mam gets here after all!

I'm a bit scared of missing some signs myself, I read about women who don't feel their contractions until very late and my BHs stopped about 2 months ago (or what I think were BHs). I have a very high pain threshold it seems - some years ago I had a ruptured fallopian tube and the hospital staff refused to operate on the basis of me not being in enough pain. I had to fake pain to get the operation - it just has me wonder ...

GP yesterday said the pains in the leg are the head engaging, so with this knowledge tonight was much easier on me than the previous nights.