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Hi, I’m 11 hours into an induction for my first baby, couldn’t do a balloon as my cervix was not consistently open and was agony for both the examination and pessary. 11 hours into roughly 4-6 min contractions, and the pessary won’t be reviewed for another 12 hours. Dreading the next exam, I will have gas and air.

Tired, scared, feeling like I’ve got days ahead of me 🙈🙈🙈 induced due to my baby massively tailing off growth and some minor resistance in the cord, but movements are good.

First of all my friends to have babies and just terrified of the length of time and pain x

Hi all, not a poster on here and due my baby any day now so excuse brain fog or vagueness.

I have a 50% shared ownership on a new build in Greater Manchester - barely even a 10 min bus ride or £10 taxi into the centre of Manchester and a nice little estate. I had this go on sale in March 2026 and the property management company were SO confident this would sell in days. I explained that my baby was due in June and was really hoping it’d be sold by July-August at the latest due to maternity pay being so abysmal etc.

Not a single application of the pathetic 13 that have been submitted so far over the last 8 weeks has met the affordability or shared ownership criteria, so I’ve not had a single viewing. Every month I still own this house, I’ll be in a £400 deficit due to how shocking my maternity pay is (even though I’m a FT secondary school teacher). Of course, me and my partner prepared for some overlap, but I wasn’t expecting to be NO WHERE NEAR selling the house without even one person seriously interested by the time the baby was born.

Is there anything I can do?? I’ve suggested I retake the advert photos as they are pretty bleak, however back then the house had basic (nice) furniture so I thought it was a good representation of what you could do with the space, now all rooms are empty. I can’t use a private estate agent until 12 weeks has passed since the ad went up, which will be July when I have a newborn. I’ll also lose the £300 I spent on a bloody RICS valuation that was compulsory to the property management company.

Any advice welcome, I can’t believe no one has been interested.