Meredith: Congratulations again on the arrive of your beautiful daughter Holly - what wonderful wonderful news to log on and see
Karen Van: OMG how exciting - sounds very close. Wishing you a wonderful home birth and look forward to reading your birth announcement very soon
LizJessie: Lovely to see you in this thread. I remember you from the Belly buddy group. Glad things are going well - not long to go now
HannahD: hope you are feeling better - I wonder if you are having braxton-hicks contractions - I get them all the time (from about 25 weeks) but they are not really painful so not sure. Rest up. WCH is a great hospital - I am sure you will be in excellent hands there with the midwifery clinic.
Megsmum: so nice that you are still popping in even though I imagine you have got your hands full with little Emma. Hope all is going really well
Juleswa: congratulations on your bfp and welcome to the thread. Wishing you a happy and healthy nine months ahead. It is so nerve wracking, especially in the early days isn't it, but hang in there - one day at a time is all I can suggest
WTH: not long now - hope you doing ok
zstar: sorry about the uncertainty on your NF scan - will pray all is okay. Take care of yourself. When is the amnio booked for?
Bimboo - welcome to the thread. Sorry to hear about the loss of one of your triplets. I think all of us in this thread understand the worry you are feeling. Take it easy and one day at a time
Easha: any news yet?
erybery, pash, lee, mrzbaby, chappas (and little Daniel of course) Hope all is well for all of you
AFM: 38 weeks today - very ready for baby to come - just want to see her in person now and make sure all is okay. Feeling settled in my new/old house and loving the extra space here and the fact that I have my nursery set up and ready to go. Baby's head is low and I keep getting very wierd groin cramps (not like period pain - more in upper inner leg/groin area) that sometimes make it difficult to walk around. Hoping that is everything just stretching in preparation - has anyone else experienced this - they last just a second but sometimes one after another for a few minutes.
babymiracles - Thanks I remember you too I am the same as you personally - though I've got a little longer than you to go! I just wanna meet the lil man that's giving his mum plenty of kicks and knees and elbows and fists Good to hear you've got your nursery all set up. Ours isn't because we've been waiting for my inheritance money to come in and now that we're waiting for it to clear in the bank, we've got a small list of stuff we still need to get for the nursery (eg. Change table, an extra set of drawers - or two!)
to everyone else. Got my MIL and FIL coming to help me with cleaning today, although I've already done the dishes, took yesterdays washing off the line, put in a new load, moved a few things around in the nursery, and collected all the dirty clothes and put them in the laundry.. I'll be surprised if there is anything left for them to help me with when they get here!
Babymiracles - just wanted to let you know had lots of the 'OMG need to stop walking as gripping pain afflicts upper legs/groin' - particularly for me on my right side where my dodgy hip was - it happened a lot in the last month of this pg although it wasn't such an issue last one - think bub was sitting on something sensitive this time - had fun freaking out random shoppers in the dairy cabinet at the supermarket when I had to reach over and grip shelves until it passed (Sorry, twisted bunny...)
Welcome to Bimboo - hope everything goes well and good luck Liz in the last part of your pg!!!
Well - Joss Tait arrived yesterday with a bang!! Waters broke at 6.30am but day was full of irregular fluffy type sensations so I relaxed a bit thinking it would be some time before we met bub - should have known better! At 6pm, like a lightswitch, suddenly burst into full active first stage - rang midwife, rang friend and by 7.30pm both were at our place and I was echoing down the street apparently By 8.15pm was getting ready to push and clambered out of bathtub to give 6 great heaves and our DS was born in our loungeroom, like his sister, at 8.37pm - very healthy, no real trauma for me and we finished up with mimosas and groaning cake while the washing finished and the bed was made up - still stunned but you get that
Thank you to everyone for their wishes, especially for our homebirth and support - it has been wonderful - I hope to keep popping in to see everyone hold their little ones!
Karen Van Waters broke? Contractions! Joss Tait is here?!! I can't believe it all happened so fast. And you make it sound so easy with your chatter about the cake & the washing! Show off No seriously, congratulations! You've done a wonderful job. xoxo
Easha, can't wait to hear your news too.
Welcome Juleswa. I'd go and get the beta HCG tests every couple of days too. I don't think I'd have th epatience to wait a whole week. But then, if you do them all now, it's a long wait to the first scan. So maybe spacing them out is good too. Dunno. Hope this is a healthy sticky bub who will stay with you for life. xo
Question for anyone who's been through labour (or is in labour): Do contractions feel like leg cramps only on the belly? Do you get leg cramps while in labour?
Hi Ladies
Meredith - Huge CONGRATULATIONS on the birth of little Holly well done
Karen - CONGRATULATIONS on the birth of little Joss and well done for your home birth.
Would like to thankyou all for your kind congratulations after the birth of Daniel. He is doing really well and we cant believe he is a week old already.
Am eagerly awaiting the next birth announcements and am wishing you all the best, looks like Easha may be next.
Congratulations to the ladies just joining us, hope you all have happy and healthy 9 months.
Sorry for lack of persies at the moment as you can imagine has been a busy week.
Pash - with DD, my waters broke and the contractions came on strong, close together and straight away. When the contractions came they were breath-takingly intense and I could not walk during them. They took over my entire body, but were mostly centred on my stomach and back. Many hours later we found out I was having "back labour", as DD was in the posterior position. I spent most of my (drug-free) labour in the bath and shower - it really helped. This is only my experience, but for me it was not the build up of contractions gradually getting stronger and closer together over some hours that I had anticipated. And unlike a leg cramp (which for me is a sudden pain that comes out of seemingly nowhere), I would feel each contraction coming on and building like a crescendo, then tapering off. Just thought I would share
erybery - Thought I'd pop in here.. Been meaning to
Karen - Congrats on the birth of Joss
pash - I've got no idea myself, but its something I'd like to know too - because I've been told about all these Braxton Hicks and how they feel like period pain, but I've had none whatsoever. Never being in labour myself, I'd find it pretty interesting
so nice that you are still popping in even though I imagine you have got your hands full with little Emma. Hope all is going really well
I remember you too 
Good to hear you've got your nursery all set up. Ours isn't because we've been waiting for my inheritance money to come in and now that we're waiting for it to clear in the bank, we've got a small list of stuff we still need to get for the nursery (eg. Change table, an extra set of drawers - or two!)
(Sorry, twisted bunny...)
By 8.15pm was getting ready to push and clambered out of bathtub to give 6 great heaves and our DS was born in our loungeroom, like his sister, at 8.37pm - very healthy, no real trauma for me and we finished up with mimosas and groaning cake while the washing finished and the bed was made up - still stunned but you get that 
No seriously, congratulations! You've done a wonderful job. xoxo
to everyone else. Sorry, no time for persies.
well done 
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