Ok so not had my baby yet but thought when you ladies move into this forum it might be interesting to find out the following (just call me nosey lol) :

What was you're EDD?
When did baby arrive?
Weight of baby?
Type of birth had?
Length of labour?
Most remerable labour moment?
How was you're birth partner?
First thoughts about your bundle of joy?

alice xx 39 weeks today

Good way to introduce

Babies Name - Ethan George C*******
What was you're EDD - 7th Dec
When did baby arrive - 4th Dec
Weight of baby - 6lb 9.5oz
Type of birth planned - Water birth in MW led unit
Type of birth had - Doctored maternity ward, Normal bed labour - some G&A
Length of labour - 1hr 7 mins (according to hosptal)
Most remerable labour moment - All of it, some for good and bad, but i'll never forget any of it.
How was you're birth partner - Ethans Dad - he was brill
First thoughts about your bundle of joy - Just amazed he was here, and what we'd made, and that he was healthy

Marie x

What was you're EDD? 24th dec
When did baby arrive? 6th dec
Weight of baby? 5lbs 7.5
Type of birth had? forceps in hospital
Length of labour? officially 1hr 12mins but 12hrs 12mins from when waters broke
Most remerable labour moment? asking if he was stilla boy!
How was you're birth partner? my wonderful hubbie John
First thoughts about your bundle of joy? overjoyed he's here!

Hello :\)

What was you're EDD? 1/12
When did baby arrive? 02/12 1.35am
Weight of baby?7lb6
Type of birth had? Induction.
Length of labour? 13 hours
Most remerable labour moment? Feeling the warmth radiating off baby when he was placed on my chest,
How was you're birth partner? perfect done just as i asked ie not touch or talk to me only when asked ha ha
First thoughts about your bundle of joy?love watching his facial expressions and watching him watching me. learning new things about him each day. Feeling such a stronge urge to protect him from everything.

Nikola and Joe xx

What was you're EDD? 6/1/2010
When did baby arrive?4/12/09
Weight of baby?5 pounds 5 ounces
Type of birth had? Induced vaginal
Length of labour?water broken at 1pm, put on the drip at 3pm and baby born at 5:45pm. Was a very very good labour or I am very very tough don't know which.
Most remerable labour moment? The nurses having to wrestle the ukmbilical cord off her to cut it lmao.
How was you're birth partner?He was very calm he is used to it Amy is our 3rd.
First thoughts about your bundle of joy?Just oh my god she is tiny.

What was you're EDD? 1st dec 2009
When did baby arrive? 6th dec 2009
Weight of baby? 9lb 6oz
Type of birth had? normal hospital birth
Length of labour? 5 hours from first contraction
Most remerable labour moment? missing our turning on way to hospital!
How was you're birth partner? great nice and calm
First thoughts about your bundle of joy? finally nice to meet you little man!

What was you're EDD? 19th December
When did baby arrive? 5th December
Weight of baby? 5lb 14 1/2
Type of birth had? Home Birth. Had done natal hypno course, used ball to bounce on and listened to music. No pain relief.
Length of labour? Not sure really. Waters broke 6:30am, slept through till 11:00am, called midwife at 3:00pm who arrived at 4:15pm. Pushing stage less then an hour, baby arrived 6:31pm. Waiting on notes from birth centre to have a read through.
Most memorable labour moment? When midwife arrived she explained that I wouldn't be able to have a home birth as they were under staffed and would have to go to the midwife led birth centre. Then she wanted to examine me to see if I was dilated (was expecting 1-2cm) and found I was fully dilated - so had to call for another midwife straight away as they didn't want to move me
How was your birth partner? BP was husband and he was fab, even though I held his hand really tight and almost bit him at one point. He gagged when I had my show though!
First thoughts about your bundle of joy? She's much smaller than we expected and a GIRL, we were convinced she was a boy. She's also just so pretty and really snuggly. :\)

mrs_ed and Tess

What was you're EDD? 27th December
When did baby arrive? 2nd December 11.31am
Weight of baby?8lb4
Type of birth had?induced vaginal (first gel 4pm waters broke 10pm and then drip)
Length of labour?19 and half hours
Most remerable labour moment? Telling my husband when high on gas and air that if labour didnt speed up i would get his brother to take me a spin in his car!!!
How was you're birth partner? Very good though i swear everytime i looked up he was asleep!!!!!
First thoughts about your bundle of joy? Had a very tramatic birth included haemorrhaging and baby going straight to SCBU i didnt see her til she was 24 hours old.

What was your EDD? 19th Dec
When did baby arrive? 8th dec 6.21pm 11 days early.
weight of baby? 8lb 1
Type of birth had? Natural hospital birth
Length of labour? They say it was Quick even though it didn't feel like it! pushed for an hour.
Most memorable labour moment? whilst having gas and air saying to the midwife "some people love it and some people hate! BUT I LOVE IT" LOL that made her laugh.
How was you birth partner? My husband was a brilliant BP, very supporting!
First thought about your bundle of joy? How much hair she had and how gorgeous she is.

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What was you're EDD? 10th December

When did baby arrive? 6th December

Weight of baby? 6lbs 7ozs

Type of birth had? Natural - gas and air, no tearing

Length of labour? 6 hours

Most remerable labour moment? Sounding like Darth Vadar using the gas and air and oh playing me his sound from his iPhone and needing the loo between contractions, walked out of room to be faced with about 10 couples on their sunday walk around of the unit!!! MOVE i need to get to the loo and back before the next contraction!

How was you're birth partner? Perfect - just wanted to hold his hand when I had a contraction, he even saw DS come out and cut his cord which is really thought he didnt want to do but found it mesmorising.

First thoughts about your bundle of joy? He looked like a little fraggle with lots of dark hair but the most perfect thing on the earth.

Curly & Luca 8 Days x

Here is mine

What was you're EDD? 25th december 2009

When did baby arrive? 14th december 2009

Weight of baby? 8lb 12oz

Type of birth had? PAINFUL!!! induced vaginal

Length of labour? 2hours 53 minutes

Most remerable labour moment? Hitting the midwife who wouldn''t let me have an epidural saying millions of women managed without one and that i would just have to manage


How was you're birth partner? fine until the head appeared then sais "oh my god its a baby coming right now" no sh#t then nearly passing out from looking at blood

First thoughts about your bundle of joy?
he is wonderful and well worth the suffering perfect in our eyes in every way

rachel & oskar 6 days

What was you're EDD?
12th December according to midwife, 15th according to scans, 19th according to our dates! lol

When did baby arrive?
1.38am 17th December!

Weight of baby?
6lb 10 1/3 oz

Type of birth had?
Hospital, natural, gas and air only. No real intervention.

Length of labour?
Well from first contraction until birth, 26 hours, but waters started leaking 16 hours previously.

Most remerable labour moment?
Enjoying the gas and air and not understanding why my voice sounded funny only to me!!

How was you're birth partner?
Amazing. Did everything perfecly. And he's now the most amazing daddy to his little girl (and keeps the house clean!! lol)

First thoughts about your bundle of joy?
She's so laid back, has so much hair, is beautiful, and want to cuddle her all the time!!!

C & Bethan (5 days old)

Good idea...

What was you're EDD? 23/12/09
When did baby arrive? 17/12/09 (induction)
Weight of baby? 6lb 8oz
Type of birth had? Induction but natural labour
Length of labour? 3hrs start to finish
Most remerable labour moment? Going from 5cm to pushing in 3 contractions!
How was you're birth partner? Hubby was shocked at speed of labour but happy I didn't have to suffer for too long
First thoughts about your bundle of joy? He's so tiny

I'm so jealous of some of you!!

What was your EDD? 3 Dec

When did baby arrive? 13 Dec at 9.50am -- 11 days overdue

Weight of baby? 7lb 15oz

Type of birth had? Started off in maternity unit at 4cm dilated but had to be transferred to hospital by ambulance when failed to progress and membranes showed meconium - after being in labour for so many hours I was really upset. Got epidural at hospital and put on drip to speed labour up. Delivered vaginally

Length of labour? Contractions began at 4.30am on 12 Dec, went to maternity unit at 5pm on 12 Dec and was 4cm dilated. Was still 4-5cm at 11pm that night so went to hospital and baby born at 9.50am on 13 Dec after 20 minutes of pushing

Most memorable labour moment? So many - and most of them not good! Probably the male ambulance driver who came to pick me up to take me to the hospital who said 'God, you've got a HUGE bump!'. As I was not contracting at the time I managed to say 'Thanks very much, that makes me feel SO much better'. He didn't talk to me after that...

How was your birth partner? He was fantastic and let me nearly break his hand when needed! He let me do my thing and didn't crowd me but was there when I needed him. He also really surprised me by having a look down south when Hugo's head was delivered. I thought he was far too squeamish for that!

First thought about your bundle of joy? He was so tiny after everyone commenting about the size of my bump! And how he clearly looked like my husband

Peeptoe and Hugo Edward (9 days)

finally i can answer my own questions!!

What was you're EDD? 12th Dec

When did baby arrive? 26th Dec

Weight of baby? 9lbs 14oz

Type of birth had? Induction leading to emergency forceps delivery

Length of labour? In total classed as bout 12 hours

Most remerable labour moment? Saying 'f**king hell' when he was out and on my chest! lol

How was you're birth partner? Brilliant considering he was scared stiff he was going to lose us both!

First thoughts about your bundle of joy? He wasnt crying and was blue with the cord round his neck so first thought was 'omg what's wrong with him!'

xx

What was you're EDD? 5th dec 2009
When did baby arrive? 14th dec 2009
Weight of baby? 8lb 12oz
Type of birth had? induced normal
Length of labour? waters were broken at 5:10pm baby was born at 7:40pm
Most remerable labour moment? i kept saying sorry for squeezing OH's hand and MW saying ur in labour luv.
How was you're birth partner? he was very good and even had a look when babys head crowned
First thoughts about your bundle of joy? omg hes big lol
April x.

What was you're EDD? 20th December
When did baby arrive? 13th December
Weight of baby? 8lb 4oz
Type of birth had? c section
Length of labour? 27 hours on gas and air before emergency c section
Most remerable labour moment? needing a poo and telling DH sorry but I have to go and he has to hold my hand lol!
How was you're birth partner? DH was mine and he was great. My mum took over for 3 hours so he could have a nap too and she was fab too
First thoughts about your bundle of joy? Scared as he was whisked off to SCBU but when I saw the picture I though the had a big head! xx

What was you're EDD? 24th December

When did baby arrive? 16th December

Weight of baby? 8lb 13oz

Type of birth had? c-section

Length of labour? 24 hours with gas and air and epidural, then a emergency section

Most remerable labour moment? The Gas and Air..Wow!! Constantly asking DH and MW if I was talking with a man's voice when using the G+A!

How was you're birth partner? Amazing, although pretty tired after 24 hours!

First thoughts about your bundle of joy? What a big boy!!!

What was you're EDD? 9th December

When did baby arrive? 7th December

Weight of baby? 7lb 15oz

Type of birth had? natural ended in kiwi vacuum cup

Length of labour? first contraction at 3.25am on Sunday morning and delivered at 2.57am the next morning. But the hospital have it recorded as 11 hrs from me arriving at the hospital at 4pm but i was 4cm dilated at that stage.

Most remerable labour moment? i leapt up out of bed and started ripping at my nightdress trying to get it off as I demanded an epidural that i knew i was never gonna get at 9cm! I think it was because of the pethadene (sp?) that as i was dosing and i heard the midwife saying that they would need to get me into a gown i thought she meant that i would need to get into a gown there and then!!! Took them a minute to calm me down!

How was you're birth partner? My DH was unbelievable. I really couldn't have done it without him! He kept saying that he felt useless but he did everything absolutely perfectly exactly when i wanted him to.

First thoughts about your bundle of joy? Thank God thats over!! Are you sure he's a boy? (just makingsure they had got it right at the scans!) Crying and telling my husband and new son that i love them both.

Em
xx

What was you're EDD? 19 December 2009

When did baby arrive? 4 January 2010 -16 days overdue!!!

Weight of baby? 8lb 4oz

Type of birth had? Emergency ventouse delivery following artificial breaking of waters

Length of labour? about 115 hours in latent phase which was torture (was supposed to be induced partway through but hospital kept putting it off due to bed shortage) plus 10 hours in active labour (from 4cm onwards) so about 125 hours all up.

Most remerable labour moment? Lots of bad ones which I would rather forget

How was you're birth partner? Amazing - I could not have done it without him.

First thoughts about your bundle of joy? Thank God he's out and OK!!

Charlotte & Toby (5 days old)