still sprogless
and midwife has arranged induction for next friday, so I'm hugely unimpressed - local healthcare authority won't even consider it beofre then. midwife is fairly sure I'll go as far as next friday without having him.

so I have probably got 9 more days of getting bigger and angrier, just in time to welcome my child into the world. I plan on throttling the little bastard as soon as he's out.
( ascorbate, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 13:10, 24 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

*Puts through a child protection referall*

(PsychoChomp, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 13:12, Reply)

Pictures or we won't believe you.

( girlinthehole, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 13:21, Reply)

Yeah
but 9 more days isn't long compared to the 9 months it's been already. Think how glad you'll be he's out and the pregnancy is over. Not long. Plus you do get an extra 9 days of reasonable sleep before he's keeping you up all night, every night. Then you'll want to throttle him.
(berk, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 13:24, Reply)

you would think that
but I'm actually managing about 1-2 hours sleep a night, which prompted mr vit c to wince and go 'bloody hell, you look rough' this morning. I am likely to get more sleep once sprog is here than i am at the moment, unless he NEVER sleeps!
( ascorbate, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 13:28, Reply)

It's going to be like picking a really, really big bogey
One where it's all crunchy as it comes out, scraping the inside of your nose with a long tailing sticky and stringy bit that you can feel travel the length of your nostrils before catapulting out and slapping your finger, leaving you free to breathe the delicously cool air for a while before getting bunged up again.

That's what it will feel like. Yeah.
(stimpy, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 13:28, Reply)

Serves you right for having sex!

( Peej, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 13:33, Reply)

is the due date that is given exactly 9 months after conception?
do they have some kind of formula to work it out?

It's not the sort of thing I would put any faith in anyway. Maybe accept it as a ballpark figure, but certainly not as an absolute.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 13:45, Reply)

Due dates are always a rough guess anyway
but generally 40-42 weeks from the missed period.
( Peej, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 13:46, Reply)

so what you are saying
is that expecting the baby to come on, or even a day or so either side of that date is like expecting a bus to arrive on time
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 13:51, Reply)

Yup.
My wife was a week early, my sister a day late, when my mum had my brother he was a week late. They won't induce until you are two weeks over.
( Peej, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 14:32, Reply)

I was two weeks late
and proud!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 14:37, Reply)

nope
it's calculated as 40 weeks from your last period. Conception happens when ovulation occurs (textbook time for this is day 14 but not many women are textbook and it can be earlier or much later). Implantation happens about 7-12 days after that (though could be a few days earlier), and then gestation isn't a precise length of time either, so there's plenty of room for variation.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 13:49, Reply)

^this
except we know when conception happened, so know the 'exact' due date. although as with all biological systems, there is a lot of variation, so in theory there should be a due date range of 5 weeks from 37-42 weeks post last period.

that said, once you hit 40 weeks, you lose the ability to count past one, and every day lasts about 13 years. especially if you're on maternity leave and thus bored shitless by having absolutely fuck all to do.
( ascorbate, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 13:52, Reply)

Oxytocin
is the stuff they inject you with to induce labour

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxytocin

I think you can buy it on the internet as well, if you are as desperate as seem to be. Although i would never condone meddling with mother nature, obviously.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 13:58, Reply)

May I ask how you know the "exact date"
Cos spermsys can take up to three days to reach their eggy friends and then the egg could have quite far to travel.

Of course you could have had ready fertilised embryos implanted and i'd be a fool for asking.

p.s. I meant "last" when I wrote "Missed"

Regardless of exact dates and stuff how many week has it been since you last period?
( Peej, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 14:12, Reply)

I say 'exact'
as that is how it's perceived by medical profession. plus scan agreed with it, but scan was in states, and uk midwife decided not to trust it. not sure why, but have decided not to arge.
and 40+3 weeks since period (why am I giving this information out on t'internets?!)
( ascorbate, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 14:24, Reply)

If you're 40+3 they should induce
Bastards.

I'm presuming you are giving the info out because you trust us implicitly and know that we are all mature adults here.

p.s. try to poo before you go to hospital! Pooooooo ahahaha
( Peej, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 14:37, Reply)

no
standard policy is to wait until term +10 or 12 in most NHS trusts - so it's not that unusual to have to wait!
but I did try and look very pathetic at the midwife this morning in the hope she could change hospital policy - it didn't work...
( ascorbate, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 18:09, Reply)

When you say +10 or 12 I presume your talking days rather than weeks
In which case My original statement of inducing by 2 weeks over still stands. Unless they've changed it in the last 18 months since my daughter was born.
( Peej, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 0:00, Reply)

fucking hell
a 'friend' has just emailed me this - uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090923/tod-indonesian-woman-gives-birth-to-8-7-1b01ae6.html

I think I'm going to a) vomit and b) not eat anything until my baby arrives.
( ascorbate, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 14:02, Reply)

Put your feet
up and get your fella to bring you lashings of tea and look after you for the next few days. Cos once sprog pops, you'll have no peace for 20 years.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 16:32, Reply)

You do realise that you're either going to have to reach a computer once you've popped
or make Mr vitamin c post on your behalf because we're all waiting now to know about your baby!

Good luck - hope it happens soon.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 18:00, Reply)

I know!
well, flirting with badgers is on our 'email as soon as possible once sprog arrives' list, so she may let people know - but I will do my best!

in other news, (and quite frankly in the 'FAR FAR too much information to give out online, but fuck it, I'm going to anyway' category), I did have a bloody show about half an hour ago, so hopefully a long walk and a warm bath will speed things along over the next few days!
( ascorbate, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 18:11, Reply)

Quick Exits
Just be glad it's not all over in a blind panic - Coopsprog #3 was unusally prompt in his arrival - the other two being 10 days overdue and induced - so Mrs.Coops didn't really know she was that far into labour when we arrived at the hospital.

Arrived in car park 03:07am - Baby born 03:37am.

She's quite proud that the only pain relief was two paracetamol and and episode of the Apprentice.
( HSDriver was probably still at work on, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 18:44, Reply)