September 2010 - arrivals already, more to come!

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Here's the new thread for the September 2010 arrivals - though some babies have already come in July and August, and maybe more to come in August before we're done with this month...

monster, take nappies out of pack, and if you work on using 6 a day , you dont need to take the whole lot. Plus if you DO happen to need a few extra hospitals do carry them!

wow, i think i have posted three times today.... i really dont have any kids around do i!?

HI

Jumping on the new thread. Think I might have overdone it today. Was feeling a bit better with some energy and went with DS to the playground, and have been waddling behind chasing him around, picking him up and generally doing things Im way past doing and am now suffering. DS is happy though and sat quietly watching some TV giving me a rest.

Ive packed a very scanty hospital bag, as planning HB. So really is just a rucksack with 1 of everything (including nappies!), should I pack more just incase?
Please bear in mind that DP had been given the job of buying some new towels and came home yesterday with what I can only call sick yellow (he says pumpkin ) and eye blinding green. Dare I leave extra clothing choices open!!

On the up side do have everything ready for HB and packed in drawer under bed.

Am going in for some photos doing tomorrow with local photographer. Did some with 1st pregnancy and DS when he was 2 week old
baby

ooh! Nice new thread!

Horrible day here. Woke up tired after 5 toilet trips! Then just found out that my Auntie who's been fighting cancer is being sent home as there's nothing more they can do. I just feel emotionally and physically exhausted & have a day of crappy in laws to look forward to tomorrow who expect to be waited on hand & foot! ugh! I might just go out & not tell anyone!

Jaysfourth You have email; thanks so much for this xxx

Hi everyone. Congratulations Sassy On your twins, will read back a few pages and find out how you are all doing.

Here's my birth story. Its a long one so hang in there.

Tuesday 10th Clinic decide to induce me due to baby not growing. Go in Thursday.
Thursday 12th Get into hospital and they start me on monitoring then prostin. Get some pains and niggles and after 6 hours am told I am favourable for ARM but will go down in the morning. Spend the night not sleeping as othere mums-to-be on the ward are in pain and being monitored and then getting sent to labour ward.
Friday 13th 8am. Up to labour ward where they examine me and say I am nowhere near ready for ARM so another lot of prostin. Spend 6 hours pottering, bouncing on a ball and getting bored. After 6 hours MW checks me again an I am still not favourable so the consultant comes in. He decides that labour 'must' be started as quick as possible so my waters are to be broken. MW wanted to do another prostin.
5pmwaters broken, more monitoring.
7pm syntotoxin (sp) started
8pm MW changes shift with a warning not to be there at 8am when she comes back on.
Geting some contractions but am able to just breathe them out.
11pm contractions a bit heavier so use gas and air. MW seems confident things are going well. Offers me the chance to have an epidural so I take it. Contractions are getting closer together and I know it will get more painful so I pant and cry my way through having an epidural fitted.
4am have managed some sleep and wake up to find about 6 people in the room. Baby is having uncomplicated lates, her heartrate is taking longer to slow down after a contraction then they would like so they turn the drip down for a while then turn it back up. Good news is I am 4cm dilated.
8am Shift change and time for an internal and I am now down to 2cm dilated. They put something on babies head to monitor her heartrate and different consultant pops in. He decides to whack up the drip as far as it goes and hopefully baby will be out by dinnertime.
I spend most of the morning asleep whilst they top up the epidural and drip.
Midday another internal and I am about 7cm. I am bored stiff my back and bum aches.
My Doula rings and MW tells her I am finally in labour so she should try and get to the hospital. Getting contractions quite fast now and can feel them in my left side. Mw keeps turning me and tops up my epidural.
2pm getting presure in my bum, can't stop pumping, so know I am getting close.
2.45pm contractions are getting stronger and I need gas and air for a few on top of the epidural. I am shaking and my right leg has gone numb. MW puts an apron on and my doula makes it just in time.
MW asks me if I want to deliver on my side and then helps me position myself. I push twice and then she gets me to pant and tells me she can see the head and if I want to I can. I lean forward and totally forget that my leg is useless, lets go and drops my thigh on her head. She props it back up and tells me to push again and there is my tiny baby.

She is clarted in vernix and absolutely tiny, I cuddle her under my top and just gaze at her. Then the shakes kick in, they lasted for about 30 mins and at times I thought I would drop her.
Within the hour she has had a breastfeed and i manage a mouthful of toast before nearly brining it back up.
It takes a while to get some feeling back in my legs and to unhook me from the drips and epidural but I can finally get off the labour bed and stand up.

All in all not a bad labour, once I got there. It was calm as well, I did all my panicking at 4am when I didn't know what was going on.
She is doing fine now at home and feeding and sleeping well. Her sisters and brother love her although dd2 is a bit jealous of all the booby baby is getting.
Still got no name yet but we will give her one soon I promise.

Jaysfourth Maybe not: email has been returned??

I've been having a mad craving to crunch ice for the last few weeks! Is this normal? I just love it.

Also, everyday when I have a shower i have to pour Source shower gel in lavender and T-Tree onto my sponge and inhale it for ages. I'm totally addicted! Its like a desperate need. I actually get really excited about using the shower gel. Getting though it so quickly.

Bizarre!!!!

Have posted a pic, will do some more as they aren't brilliant and I am too tired to faff around.

Up again, can't sleep!!!!!!!!! Just impossible to get comfy and am being kicked so violently I swear he's trying to Jackie Chan his way out!!!!!!!!

I know what you mean, mellymooks - I feel like the baby is trying to come out from the side too! Had a 38 week GP appointment yesterday and the baby is more engaged than previously, so all signs are good, but it really is quite striking.

Had a practice contraction on Wednesday - it did feel quite distinctive, which was interesting, but as it was just the one I've not built my hopes on it quite yet.

38 + 6

Lovely photos Debs! Congratulations again. The birth sounds a bit epic - A pretty unpleasant Friday 13th eh?! Glad she was born on the 14th instead.

I think I might have to give up on sleep for the next few weeks. My hips ache unbearably at night. They are absolutely fine in the daytime though. So weird.

Saw the m/w yesterday and all is well apart from baby being a bit posterior. Next appt will be 40wks so I'm hoping not to make that one. I'm going to get a full blood count today as last time I was only 10.2 and they like it at least 10.4 for a homebirth. after the amount of iron tablets I've been knocking back it should be about 20! Homebirth kit being delivered on sunday morning.

I'm feeling like things will happen soon. I've even put the ironing board up so I can iron the baby clothes for the emergency bag - it will be the only time baby experiences ironed clothes though, unless my MIL comes to stay! I might even iron my pillowcases for the bed after I've given birth. Ooo the luxury!

38 + 1

Swordfishtrombones My best friend is Czech and they iron all babies clothes to make sure they are sterile! Funny how different cultures do things differently, I didn't start ironing DS clothes until he was moving around so wasn't just laying on them all time making them more screwed up.

Went out for a curry with a friend last night and was worried about how my stomach would cope with it but it was lovely and had no adverse effects.

Am already fed up of people asking if I'm having any signs of having the baby! Maybe its because its a second one so they assume it will be early. Don't feel any different at all and baby is still not even partially engaged so I think I will be saying no for a long time!

38+3

Swordfish I have the nighttime hip thing too - so painful at night, then just disappears during the day. I can usually get about 4 hours before the pain becomes too much to sleep, then after that it's turning from side to side once every 10 mins! DH not impressed. Only thing I've found that eases them after that is to sleep pretty much sitting up, propped with pillows behind me. That gets me another hour or so...!

Hey, does anyone else ever get a real numb/burning sensation on their bump? It's right at the top, just in a small area just below my ribs. Comes and goes. I'm assuming it's to do with muscles stretching and/or baby pressing v.hard with feet on some nerves or something! Had MW this morning, but didn't think to ask, and it's just come on with a vengeance.

First antenatal class this afternoon - quite excited! And will be my first time in the hospital too as we moved to new area at about 24 weeks. Hope it's nice...

Was wondering if it would be nice to add the names of new babies on our thread master list? Such lovely names so far...what do you think?

34+5

Hi ladies,

I'm afraid I'm going to rant a bit...

I'm feeling a bit annoyed/pee'd off today, as I went to see the obstetrician (sp?) at the hospital. And he sat back and comfortably declared that as I'd had a large-ish baby last time (3.99kg, 12lb 8 3/4 oz) combined with a forceps delivery, it may be better if I change my birth plan and have it at hospital because "by the looks of things, this one is measuring bigger, so will be bigger, and you'll need assistance. My recommendation is that you have a hospital birth"

WTF?!

I had excess fluid last time, it was hard to measure DS unless through a scan, so that blows that one out already - I have no idea how big this baby is, but it's comfortable. Also, it's not a given that if you have assisted delivery for a first birth, that you'll need assistance for future babies either surely?! Plus, I had a virus, and DS was back to back, and no matter what I did, or what position I was in, I couldn't push him out. Then finally he got distressed, poo'd, and then the decision was made for either forceps or EMCS. Hence, forceps delivery! Believe you me, it wasn't for lack of trying that I couldn't push him out!

And I could cheerfully throttle DH, as he sat there agreeing with everything the flipping consultant said. Some help he was!

I firmly said, I'm not making a decision now, I'm all set for home birth so I'm sticking to that plan as long as possible thank you very much.

So I have to go back in 3 weeks, to be measured again, and "we'll discuss further then".

Time to stock up on the ol' raspberry leaf tea, and pin DH to the bed me thinks!

PS, lovely photos Deb she looks gorgeous :)

35+6

Lovely to hear your birth story Debs - Although I hope that mine is quicker!

Off on holiday today... only 2 hours away so hopefully will make it home if labour starts!
Am begining to wonder about my sanity though at 38+1 and will be 39+1 when I get home!

Had nightmare day yesterday... DS, 7, fell down the stairs and split his head open. Couldn't believe the blood! Anyway I managed not to go into labour and his head is now nicely glued back together (wonderful invention).

So I lost my afternoon of packing and so now have to dash around like a mad thing and do it... but instead I'm catching up on our new thread!

Be back next week.

38+1

Hi everyone! debs great to read your bs and glad it all went well.

bananastew sorry to hear about your aunt - that is so sad. Hope it's not too stressful looking after the in laws this weekend! I am so antisocial at the moment - we have friends with a ds that want to stay over a couple of nights when I'm about 39 wks as they are flying to an airport near us from holiday and want to catch up. I'm dreading it and when all our ds (ages 4, 4 and 3) get together they are insane plus it's the waiting on too and tbh I couldn't think of anything worse than if I went in to labour with friends in the house as I'd feel like I'd have to hibernate to the bedroom (I'd be so embarrassed!).

jodeylea yes I also love crunching ice! I fill half a cup with crushed ice from our fridge, then fill with sprite and eat all the ice while I'm drinking it

I'm hoping I'm not waiting too much longer for this baby now but probably will...!

37+2

I agree with you parkj83 it doesnt mean because you've had assisted delivery you will have another one. I was induced with first and was doing well until a midwife had me pushing for 1 1/2hrs (felt the urge to do so but DS was back to back), change of midwife and internal revealed I was only 5cm dilated so had to stop pushing, this caused my contractions to slow and I didn't get past 5 cm without sytocinon drip. When I questioned the consultant about it this time he said that your body knows what it's doing and your uterus will continue to contract stronger and stronger no matter what with the next labour. Being at home, comfortable and mobile will help baby's position and I would stick to your guns or at least ask for a second opinion. My DH was the same in my first labour, felt he was doing what was right but just agreed with everything and didn't back me up. Had strict instructions with this one. Wish I'd been brave enough to go for a home birth but we are too far away from the hospital and I wouldn't feel comfortable.

Thank you for your story Debs75 it's good to hear how others cope with things. Glad your little girl is safely with you and look forward to hearing her name :)

catbus.... [email protected] - sorry

Hullo
newbie here
my due date is 2 Sept,but hospital midwife has me booked in for a sweep on Wed 25...so fingers crossed!Have had two episodes of one strong contraction in the night this week...also two days where I felt she was sitting really low and ready to come out whenever I needed to pee! First child was by emergency c-section and I've never had my waters go... or got to the pushing stage!It all seems new to me!
Also we don't really have a solid plan for babysitter---erk!!!

Jaysfourth Done!

Park that's total rubbish and good for you for sticking to your guns, I'm sure they push for you to go in cause it's easier for them.

I too had forceps delivery last time after starting off at home hoping for homebirth but had meconium in my waters so we ended up in hospital and then she wouldn't come all the way out because of the cord round her neck, but despite this my MW's have no problem with me wanting to have this one at the local maternity hospital which has no more facilities than a homebirth would.

I think consultants seem to enjoy yeilding their power!!

Had my hair cut and coloured today - what a treat and have almost finished packing my bag, it's nothing short of a miracle

Oh I do miss talking about my bump.
I can only sympathise with you all on all the lovely pregnancy symptoms.
For you having consultants sticking their beaks in I know just how you feel. I felt like they were taking over my birth with more often then not a 'just in case' attitude. It was their faffing which meant the drip was turned up and down so much. So glad when a different consultant decided to push ahead.
At the end of the day tho they usually only see dificult births so always factor that in.

baby is doing well, she likes to sleep a lot so I am getting some rest.

Blimey it's taken me a while to catch up - great to read your birth story Debs - great picture too. Glad you're getting some rest Debs.

No real news here - I've repacked my hospital bag today, and been to the midwife - head now fully engaged, everything else on track.... I've started drinking a few cups of raspberry leaf tea each day, and bought two fresh pineapple today (i'll try anything).... going back to the midwife next friday.... if nothing has happened before then... in the meantime i'll continue to bounce on my birthing ball.

Is anybody else living in pj's? or is it just me?

oops, sorry forgot 38+2