JUNE/JULY/AUGUST 2014 DUE DATE CLUB - THREAD #3

[bunnywabbit]

** Further update from pumpkin: **

"First of all let me tell you that we are doing good and babies are still in!

I picked up DS from kindergarten but already felt weird. We've been to the drug store and the playground and went home when I needed to pee really bad. After a few minutes I thought something has to be wrong because the water didn't stop running and when I looked into the toilet it was all bloody (sorry TMI I know!). I started panicking and of course DH didn't answer his phone so I called my parents in law to pick up DS and then set up an emergency call. At the hospital a doctor confirmed that Milan's water broke and gave me a steroid shot immediately to help the babies lungs to mature faster. I will need another one tomorrow. I had some contractions that I didn't feel but cervix is still closed. Now I am on meds 24/7 to stop the contractions and antibiotics twice a day. Oh and bed rest of course. Only allowed to get up to the toilet and take a shower every few days. We are trying to keep the twins in until at least 33weeks, 34 would be so much better. Please keep us in your prayers, every single day matters now and I just don't want them in NICU!

I kind of felt they would be born early but I didn't see that coming!"

[GreaseMonkey]

Oh praying the babies stay in a little longer

[GreaseMonkey]

Thanks for the update Bunny!!

[bunnywabbit]

Speaking of which, does anyone think it's a good idea to have a labor buddy so that everyone is on top of everything?

If people are up for that, then yes it sounds like a great idea! Not sure how it'd be organised though - would it be a FB thing, or handing out mobile phone numbers so you can send a text message or some other way? What do you guys think?

[GreaseMonkey]

I guess whatever people found more comfortable or something. If it was phone numbers I would have to be the same country to avoid charges I assume.

[maybebabythree]

Oh no! Poor pumpkin! I hope they stay put a while longer. At least it's past 30 weeks :0(

[aidansmum]

praying for pumpkin and hoping her babies hang on a bit longer, so stressful for her! Thinking of you hun x

Grease, it is a great idea but how would we do it? Not sure if phone is a good idea because of how distant some of us are? Maybe e-mail or FB? Also a buddy would have to be a few weeks apart to give birth or both could be going at the same time and not be able to notify anybody. Maybe we can pair up by due date??? Like 2 weeks apart or so?

[dreams529]

Prayers for pumpkin & her babies hoping they stay in!

As for labor buddies I'm up for whatever just let me know.

[aidansmum]

Just need to share something ladies, it's a bit of a sad day today. Remember I mentioned my sister was pregnant with a baby girl? Well she's 15 weeks along. At the 12 week scan they found 3 markers for Downs and a bad heart condition that would require the poor little thing to go to heart surgery right after birth, so all things considered my sister decided to terminate her pregnancy. The poor thing is so upset it breaks my heart. It's her 4th miscarriage and two of those were due to trisomies (first at 6 weeks, second at 9 weeks, third at 13 weeks (girl + fetus tested and had another trisomy), then 1 healthy baby girl, and now another girl with Downs and this heart problem. It's so sad to see someone close to you go through this! And I am so sad for the poor baby and my sister and just feeling like crap

[bunnywabbit]

I am so sorry, aidansmum. So heartbreaking, and so many times... she's in my thoughts xxx