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Ferrals: :leap: Congratulations to you and your family on the arrival of Ella! Wishing you a speedy recovery so you can enjoy cuddles and feeds with her ASAP.
Forshelby: I had a similar experience with my labour with DD: lost my mucous plug over a couple of days and then woke up one morning with mild period-type pain. I had mild regular contractions every 5- 10 minutes for quite a few hours before they got more uncomfortable (DH and I played Trivial pursuit for a while and i had a bath)! Apart from a check up in hospital after about 12hours i was home for 24 hours before I went in to hospital to labour. I hope your pre-labour doesn't go on for too long but I hope you can make yourself comfortable at home for as long as possible. Sending you very positive labour vibes.
JennaJayen: Positive labour vibes to you too!
Welcome to the thread MummyDeb and Mummytotwo. How lovely, we now have a batch of three newbies!
It felt like such a long wait to get my BFP and then another loooong wait to get to 12weeks but then I look at my ticker and can't believe i'm 17 weeks already! Three more weeks till 20wk scan. Can't wait. I've popped a bit this week: I'm finally starting to look pregnant instead of just fat!
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Welcome to MummyDeb and MummytoTwo - two BFP's yay!
Possums - yay for popping and reaching 17 weeks.
Ferals - hang in their darl, it's not easy but you'll get there. And that photo of Ella, she is divine!
Forshelby - sounds like things are not too far away at all for you.
Jenna - you too - god work on dialation and FX for VBAC. 38 weeks! That is awesome, not long now and you'll be holding your little purple girl.
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Thanks for the advice, ladies :)
So far not much change. I had 4 ctx at 10mins apart, still not difficult to manage. Since then I had a couple more at 15mins, and just niw a rather strong and long (almost a minute) one 5mins after the previous milder one. So still fairly irregular, pain is totally manageable so I'm preparing myself for this to go on for days yet. The good news is they haven't stopped in 8 hours, despite eating, moving around, having a shower and lying down.
I haven't said anything to DP through all of it, just quietly monitoring the timing of it and hoping it picks up some more. I figure it can't be anything significant if he doesn't notice, lol. Just getting another tightening sensation at 10mins since the last one, so there's no real pattern, and its clearly not stopping me concentrating on what I'm doing. Hopefully all of this is my body warming up and my cervix thinning and dialating nicely before the real hardcore labour starts.
Please stick around, pain! lol
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Ahhhhhhh!!! So exciting! Hope your doing well forshelby! Can't wait for your BA!
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more dilation vibes forshelby! Go you labour you. Thank you for the updates - I have no idea what this labour is like, so I really appreciate the blow by blow - hope you're regular 5 minutely soon :) And that DH notices!
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Well I woke up this morning ready to punch someone. This is really wearing me down. Nothing happened except for another uncomfortable nights sleep, broken 6 or more times for toilet trips. My back is getting so sore I feel like I need to do something to relieve the pain but am too tired and worn out to move. I'm such a complainy pants this morning lol.
My pelvis is getting sore, and I'm just so irritable! On the plus side, when I do have a pain its worse now, but still too far apart. The dog jumped on my belly and I yelled at the poor little bugger :doh:
Keep sending me those vibes, girls, before I really do punch someone lol. Oh and I hold the official record in my family for longest pregnancy. RESPECT!! lol
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Forshelby - it's looking better and better... and go on you for just getting on with it.... it's a very personal time and it's nice that you're just peacefully going with it. But having said that, bring it on!
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Teagam~ thank you for updating us on ferrals
Ferrals~ i hope you startfeeling better I am sorry your having problems
Forshelby~ Pizza made my water broke i was fine until i had pizza.
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Forshelby you are doing so well! This is one of the hardest times in you life to keep your head! Yes everything you body is doing is helping! Stay calm, stay focused! You can do this :)
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Ferrals - remembering Abii today and Celebrating the arrival of little Ella.
Forshelby - I agree with T, you can do this!!!
Inia's Mum - almost 12 weeks yay!
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Just got and sms update from ferrals:
She is doing much better, seems that she went the night with little to no pain relief! The ward staff thought she has a spinal so her PCA was taken away!! OMG the pain management people came and said sorry but OMG what a night for her. She is much better today, is up but feels like she has been hit by a truck! What a super strong women she is to have been thru that!
Thank you for reminding me dory that it is Abbis day today! Beautiful girl you did such a good job watching over your mummy and baby sister Ella!
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Thanks girls, I think I'd go crazy without you all hehehe.
Having ctx 10 mins apart again. Definitely more ouchy, but I'm still able to work through them without making a peep. This is one marathon pre/early labour!! 6days is just crazy. Maybe I can turn this into an extreme sport? lol. At least I can still laugh.
DP is doing the laundry atm, bless him. He gave the dog his bath for me too last night and is about to vacuum. Nesting? Haha. Our friends are coming over later on so hopefully they'll be the distraction I need. I'd say they're our best friends. A married couple our age. I used to work with the guy, and DP still does. His wife is just lovely tho, and I really enjoy her company. They would have to be the only people I would want around at a time like this. I'd have to be dying to say no don't come over lol.
Will keep you all posted! Thanks for letting me ramble about myself for a week too, lol.
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Tegam - Let ferrals know I'm thinking of her, and hoping I have even half her strength for the labour ahead of me. When it finally decides to start properly :)
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Here's a few more for you Forshelby - :bhcontract::bhcontract::bhcontract: Your doing such a great job love - hang in there! xx
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forshelby.....my friend went through what ur going through. i can only imagine......wish there was something i could do for u. Sending u labor vibes and praying ur labor gets a hurry on......thinking of u
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Forshelby - You go girl! Come on bubba! Sending you heaps of labour & dilation vibes!!!
afm - been getting irregular contractions all day... at least I think they're contractions... didn't get a single one for about 3 hours after I posted this morning, then started getting them approx once an hour, and I've now had 3 in the last 30mins, but as I said they're not regular... starts as pain low down along my pelvic bone, combined with my whole uterus going hard, then slowly spreads upwards towards the top of my belly and outwards over my hips and into my lower back... some have lasted only 10 seconds while others have lasted a whole minute... definately feels different from the usual BHs... just wish they'd regulate and get closer together.
Anywho, hubby & I had one of our rare DTD sessions today to see if we could get things moving again lol started getting the contractions closer together for about an hour, then they started moving apart again, so don't think it helped much lol
On the upside, DS had been good this afternoon/evening... apart from smashing the globe in the loungeroom lamp around 1pm and having some time out in his room (thank goodness for the little lock thing at the top of his door, or we'd never be able to keep him in there for long enough for him to realise he's been really naughty!).
Other than that, nothing else is happening.
If anything happens tonight (or anytime over the next week and a half really lol) I'll steal hubby's laptop to let you guys know before I head off to the hospital.
Hope you all have a better nights sleep tonight! *hugs*
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Thanks T-Hopes and Melster :)
I'm trying not to get too excited, but after dinner I stood up and had a MASSIVE ctx. I had to hold onto the table and be still, then couldn't walk properly after. I then had 4more at 5mins apart and (TMI) really needed the loo.
Just sitting down now to start timing properly and see how they go. The pain is definitely on a new level now, but I'm still coping pretty well.
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OMGoodness Forshelby! Sounds like things are well and truly happening :) What you're describing of them sounds just like mine, only mine aren't anywhere near as close together as your's are lol
I'll be thinking of you tonight! Can't wait to hear the good news!
