my wife is expecting a baby and her due date was the 1st January and as you can imagine the baby is a little bit late. today we had an appointment at the maternity hospital and we are now booked to go to hospital 8am on friday for the wife to be induced. so come hell or high water i will be a dad again sometime on friday

break out the towels and boiling water

Davie

ps i bet you lot thought this was something to do with inlet manifolds or turbos

i was expecting manifold

Go for a nice long walk together and thing should start to happen, worked for my wife first time round, think we walked 2 miles...slowly...but got nature moving

Good luck...ps don't complain when they are in labour....they will remember and taunt you for life....

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Good luck. Ours is due in 2 weeks.
There are plenty of old wives tales about inducing labour.......

Long walks, curry, cod liver oil (not recomended now due to high levels of fish oils) and good old sex.

Give them a try, in which ever order you feel like

i had to sit and listen to a midwife today as she told me go home and get it on with the wife see if that could get things moving

Davie

congratulations,
our first had to be induced, but early due to complications,
I bet you wont get to Friday but when ever the little one decides to make an appearence, enjoy the ride on the emotional roller coaster

Also, next time go private, pregnancies on the NHS can take upto 9 months

the best way to bring it on naturaly is to go out on the wee with your mates and start to have a good time, give it 5 mins and i bet your phone rings.

best of luck fella

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Good luck. Ours is due in 2 weeks.
There are plenty of old wives tales about inducing labour.......

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Have a heart guys - having a baby really hurts ya know.



I couldn't feel my fingers for days after she'd finished squeezing 'em

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Have a heart guys - having a baby really hurts ya know.



I couldn't feel my fingers for days after she'd finished squeezing 'em

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Never hurt me - well except when she squeezed my hand too hard!

I was told a curry & a Sh*g would get the job done, but my missus produced our first 6 weeks early! So I was unrequired!

Good Luck

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I was told a curry & a Sh*g would get the job done,

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I was told a curry & a Sh*g would get the job done

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I was close at hand with both (not quite so close with the second) so that at one point (with the first) my wife got her arm round my neck and was pulling quite tightly with it. So much so that apparently the midwives had to forget about the delivery and extract a blue and semi conscious husband before they could carry on. The last I really remember is one of the girls in there TELLING her to relax and let go of my neck.

When all is done, first hope is that Mother & baby are well, after that anything else is a bonus. Good luck & don't miss the delivery, its better than building ANY car.

I can vouch for the curry and s**g method - for both conception and bringing on labour.

Stu

Nice to get TOLD to get it on for a change, instead of having to beg for it

Hey up - was in the same situation 5 months ago

Get to the health food shop and get some ' Rasberry leaf capsuels ' It might help.

Mrs was given the chemicals by the midwives stuff and at 13:00 by 5am the next morning I was a proud dad ( since then I have seen quites a few 5am's .

Oh just found the tread I started there are some tips in there

http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=71966.

Fingers crossed for the ( Nearly ) 3 of you.

Regards

Agriv8

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Be careful with the raspberry leaf tea - it speeds up labour. My wife drank gallons and nearly had the baby in the Royal Free car park!

From the onset of labour to delivery was about 45 mins.


Stu

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Bah... i was expecting to see a fancy new air filter design hehe

Surely you had some part in the proceedings

I would recommend curry and sex, or to double the effect curry and sex together, mmm!!

Good luck, we had our 3rd 2 months ago, looks like I am next for a visit to hospital.

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Ah! With the wife that's where I was going wrong!

Oh & BTW when you go for the snip the anaethstetic doesn't work - didn't for me anyway

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I would recommend curry and sex, or to double the effect curry and sex together, mmm!!

Good luck, we had our 3rd 2 months ago, looks like I am next for a visit to hospital.

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well we went to the hospital for 8 am and at 18.10 11/01/08 my second son was born . my wife was amazing and i have total respect for her (i couldnt do it was bad enough watching). we havent even thought of names as we were sure we were having a girl.

Davie

Awesome, congrats

Congratulations, glad all are doing well

Nice one.

Brilliant news. Glad it all went well for you three!

Cheers

Mike

well done davie h, mrs davie h, and new baby davie h.

Regards

Agriv8

Great, and congratulations.