Jue in June -Waters breaking everywhere and not a drop of Gaviscon to drink...

[NurseSunshine]

Here's another :)

I've spoken to the hospital and the clicking is because of her tongue tie so I'm off to see my GP tomorrow to get a referral to have it snipped as soon as possible.

supersunny I was nervous about being induced too but actually it was a really positive outcome and a positive experience for me! Dont be too worried about it if it comes to it!

Hello everyone, sorry that it has taken literally days to catch up on what I missed. Edith is now just over 2 weeks old, she arrived on 18th June weighing 8lb 4.5oz. I desperately need to sit down and write my birth story before I forget, but managing to get a shower and clean my teeth is enough of a daily success at the moment!

Congratulations to all the mums and babies and I look forward to keeping up with you all better from now on.

And good luck to those who are still waiting x

I think it all may have kicked off here - intermittent back/lower bump pain woke me up a couple of hours ago. It's sod's law, as I filled the car with things for the charity shop yesterday and was going to take them this morning. Have left DH sleeping for the mo, but think he may finally get that day off he's been hoping for!

Best of luck tinyk!

Congratulations Daisyfields

Morning all. Good luck Tinyk......
Can i ask a question fot those bottle feeding and those with experience.

We are trying to introduce a bottle just once/twice a day.

1. How and when do you prepare the bottle.....i am demand feeding and DD is unpredictable, i dont have time to wait the 30min etc after the kettle has boiled.
2. She doesnt get any milk from the bottle, doesnt know what to do. We use a medala calma teet for her meds in 20ml expressed milk, but thats hard work and needs same technique as BF so she wont take more than 2oz and wants to go the breast. Any tips

millie good luck at the gp, hope you see the consultant asap!
Quibbler congrats on baby Elian' what a fab name! Btw Cara will give him a run for his money in the gassiest and fartiest baby stakes
Tinyk fx for you today's the day!

Lisascat, Couriselle thinking of you too.

oh i think Flo wins the fart competition.......never heard anything like it, must take after her dad

Maisie is a contender for the noisiest farts! Didn't no babies could make noises like she does!

supersunny my dp was allowed to stay with me the whole time even tho he wanted to go home and sleep! I think it depends on the hospital policy! At my sweep they said I was completely closed and that's why I needed the induction but then on induction day I had got to 2 cms so I think the sweep must have started something off!

O and they offered me the epidural but I wouldn't take it so just managed on gas and air! ( which the midwives were very impressed about with it being an induction!)

Not a contender for noisest farts here, but DD has already learnt the trick of waiting until her bum is all clean before squeezing another poo out. Up to 3 times per change!!!

Good luck TinyK, fingers crossed you don't go the stop start route.

And Congratulations on your little boy Quibbler.

Dare I mention we're nearly at the end of another thread?

COAF DD also has that trick, i do keep pointing out to her how much each nappy costs but it makes no difference :)

oh yeah that's one of DD's favourite tricks as well COAAF and Moomin She has a slightly dubious sense of humour!

Come on Tinyk!!

Supersunny, try not to worry about induction. i found i helpful to google 'positive induction stories' as you don't tend to hear them so often.
lol at me being an old hand! I'm fine really, just get the odd 'omg how can i possibly look after this baby' moment, and get a bit weepy in the evening. Am sure this is normal and will subside

Hello all, tis me!
I promise I will catch up on posts later but I'm just squeezing a quick update in between the boob munching sessions.

William Robert George was born on Friday 24th June at 05.50 weighing 8lb 1oz (so much for being warned to expect a low weight baby!)
Very brief birth story.....waters broke at home on the afternoon of Weds 22nd. Contractions only weak through the night (enough to keep me awake) and at 8am on Thurs I went to hosp to get some IV antibiotics. They wanted to induce...I said to give me another 12 hours and I'd stay in hosp and be monitored instead. After 10 hours, still nothing significant so they did a sweep...nothing. In the end at 6pm on the Thursday I agreed to a very small syntocin dose to see if things kicked off...it did but stopped once they backed off the syntocin. They tried again and again things stopped. So I had what was described as a syntocin managed labour ie contractions were controlled by the syntocin level managed by me. I could move around and use all the toys in the labour room so was happy with that. Labour progressed well with no pain relief needed and at about 2am on the Friday I was 10cm and pushing. I did ask for an epidural at that stage but it didnt work and was too late anyway so I wasnt too bothered. Unfortunately the pushing lasted 4 hours and was a pure test of stamina. My LO was stuck behind my pelvis by his elbow (which was up by his ear). He was monitored and the doctors said he wasnt distressed so as they were busy with emergency cases, if I could manage it, the best thing was to keep moving and keep pushing. Well, thats what I did and eventually our gorgeous bundle of ginger haired loveliness was born, perfect in every way.

William is graded as 'suitable for novices'....he's been so good and patient with me through the first 48 hour breastfeeding nightmare and on now through the 'how do I entertain a newborn' days. DH is totally in love and cant do enough for us and I just want to eat Williams face every time he smiles!

I hope those of you still waiting take heart that there are 'inductions' and there are 'inductions' - properly managed I have positive thoughts about them and they are not to be feared...which is a complete turnaround from my views before this experience.

Anyway, LO wants boob again. Will be back shortly once I've read every one elses news
x

good to see you again Jasmine and welcome to William. You will be ages catching up if you have missed a few days.
Only a few people left now.......so come on ladies only 30 messages left in this thread

Congratulations Jasmine, William sounds like an absolute delight, and your labour sounds like it went smoothly which must've been a huge relief

Hi ladies
I have HORRENDOUS internet probs just now so apologies for v irregular attendance. Works v sporadically. New router coming this week tho so should be sorted soon.
Will try to trawl through what I've missed as long as connection lets me.

Celeste is fine but really struggling with colicky/windy probs. Last night it was 5 hours of screaming between 10pm and 3am. It's very hard to cope with - the pharmacist has given us colief today so really hoping for an improvement for the poor girl. She will be 1 month old tomorrow - can hardly believe it

Moomin on your first bottle feeding question - we use the 200ml ready made cartons of formula for Ethan's top ups because how much he needs at each feed is quite unpredictable. Once you have opened the carton it can be kept in the fridge for 24 hours and any that he has started in a bottle but not finished can be put back in the fridge and used within 2 hours. I often just pour in 20 -30mls at first and if he finishes that and is making more hungry signs then I'll pour in a bit more. It is more expensive than the powder, but he only uses 1 carton a day and so it isn't a significant cost.

I don't have any advice on your second question I'm afraid, Ethan drank from a bottle with no problems straight away. By the time the hospital suggested that we use a bottle for feeding him EBM instead of using the pipette he was so hungry I think that he would have taken the milk in any method we had tried to use to give it to him.

Jasmine your post has me all .

DD decided to show off her pooing skills for the MW today. thankfully we had her bum covered at the time, but it was a close call as she was weighed in between bouts of How Unlady Like Can I Be? To be fair though, she was an absolute angel at the supermarket right afterwards.

And to prove how far behind the times we are in the Confessions household, we have finally ordered a new pushchair. So DD is only in the old rust bucket until the weekend.