September 2013 babies!!

[Salsa]

WAG I'll try anything to get this bub out in my 38th week! I'm drinking 2 cups of raspberry leaf tea a day. And having just 1 primrose oil tablet a day orally now. When I hit 36wks I'll increase to 2 orally and 1 vaginally at night. Will also increase to 3 cups of RRL tea next wk at 34 wks. I hear you have to eat something like 100 pineapples for any sort of change to occur. But still it's a nice alternative to caster oil which I would personally never take!!

[Wanting-a-girl]

I am def totally against castor oil! It's terrible for the baby and when I was working along side an ob you could always tell who took it... It was terrible... Babies covered in diareeha eww

[DLTAG89]

Would it not be too early for her to be that low? I'm only 31 weeks.

Just brewed my first cup of raspberry leaf tea too Really dont feel ready for this little lady but cant wait to meet her.

[Girlsway]

The painful BH stopped, I must have pick up some minor food poisoning as I didn't feel well yesterday. We are on holiday and its hard to judge what food is okay when served to me. I wasnt vomitting just crampy, so I hope I didn't hurt the baby.

Btw the Dutches of Cambridge is in labour. We will see soon if they used our name, fingers crossed they didn't.

[Southern Butterfly]

DLTAG, I agree with WAG that sounds like the baby dropping. I wouldn't worry too much especially this being your 3rd.

Girlsway I'm glad you are feeling better. Very exciting about the royal baby too! DH was hoping our baby would share a birthday with theirs but I'm not ready for it to be today.

BH are very "normal" for me from very early on in pregnancy so I pretty much ignore them unless they get painful and in a regular pattern.

Well yesterday was officially 2 weeks in this place, feels like I've been here an eternity though. It's possible they will allow me to go home at 34 weeks (next Sunday) so I'm counting down the days and hoping they don't change their minds. I still contract a lot but as I've mentioned before the medications keep them spaced out to reduce the chances of them kick starting labor again. They have gotten as close as every 3-5 minutes a few times over the last few days in which case I get a lovely shot of terbutaline . The whole time I've been here I'm always crampy and still have painful contractions I have to stop and breath through... sort of feels like I've been in early labor for 2 weeks straight. It's all worth it to buy this little one more time though.

What is everyone's birth plans? I know several of you have mentioned natural births. I don't recall anyone having a scheduled C-section, or am I wrong? Just curious!

[Wanting-a-girl]

My plan is induction on the 27th but I'm hoping to go into labour on my own before then... I would like to avoid the epidural this time cause last time it didn't take and just gave me chronic back pain... But tell me that I said this when I'm screaming for it lol... I went no drugs with ds2 and not by choice and I very clearly remeber crying and screaming for it..... I delay cord clamping ... I take everything as it comes... Labour and delivery are so unpredictable that I don't make too uh of a plan... The most important thing is a healthy baby and the delayed cord clamping is next on the list.... Also for this induction we are gonna try and just break my water instead of the drugs

[Girlsway]

Souther I am glad you are still hanging there, I can imagine how much pain you are going through. 2 wks in contractions is not fun, but you seem to have a great endurance. What we mothers don't do for our children. Fingers crossed this week goes faster for you and you are home in no time.

[DLTAG89]

I wonder if she will make an early entrance then if shes that low down already.

Hope you manage to get home for a bit too southern, you must have forgotten what it looks like. Your doing a brill job tho x

I dont really have a birth plan, just as little pain relief as possible and not give birth lying on my back. My real dilema is where to give birth. I have 2 choices and need to decide by 34 weeks. The birth centre which is really nice and where i had DS1 or the hospital which isnt so nice. I really want to go to the birth centre as its really nice but is a 40min drive away (in good traffic) and i have quick labours (DS2 was 4 hours). Also if i have a 3rd degree tear they have to transfer me to a hospital anyway. So stuck on what to do, any advice VERY welcome

[fish2012]

So princess Kate was taken in at 6am what do you reckon ladies induction?

Daltag tricky one I wish I could go birth centre, my ds1 took 25hrs ds2 2! But the distress of the car journey kept him at bay ;-) but having to be transferred after would be bad too ;-( have you torn before? My hospital has a birth centre and labour ward on one site so it's less of a big decision

[Wanting-a-girl]

Ds3 my co sleeper lol kicked me in the stomach this morning... I was sleeping so I don't know how hard it was... I had no pain... But it did scare the crap out of the baby in there... He was bouncing around for like an hour ... I just dont knowin I should worry... He's been moving around like normal all day so far and the kick happend in his back or butt