rounded tums and knackered mums - bouncing our way towards June 2012

[Kveta]

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Hi all

I use the same Hypnotherapy CDs as tdw. I also have found them really helpful. I didn't escape the pain as such but listening to the CDs during labour on my shuffle really helped me focus on getting through each contraction and the breathing techniques really helped too. They seemed to help me keep calm until transition when I always lose it a bit I still used gas n air both times.

Bought my first labour bag item today, a box of breast pads. It's a start..

Need to get some nappies, think I'll bulk buy some pampers but once things have settled a bit we'll try Aldi ones. The boys have both ended up using Aldi ones and they're really good but I haven't tried the newborn ones before, they didn't make them when I had ds2.

Oh, forgot to say.. I'm all the way up in Berwick upon Tweed but I love the new thread title

DH is inflating my birth pool to see how easy it is to do and to double check it fits. It looks very good!!

I did the Katherine Graves hypnotherapy course, and use the CD. It's quite good (I fell asleep to it this afternoon!)

But also have half a mind to try one of the ones on your link, too, dogwalker - I can't quite see a single 30-minute recording being enough, as the KG one is basically a single visualisation, and I'd like something that offers a fuller range of relaxations tailored to a hospital/MLU birth...

Ooh, how exciting McKayz! Wish I was having a home birth in some ways but I know that round here they try to talk you out of it and I'm ages away from the hosp if needing to be transferred.

Am hoping I might get to use the birth pool at the hosp if the mood takes me

Chateau the natal hypnotherapy ones are good as you listen to the birth prep one but then you can get the birth music separately. This is just the backing track from the birth prep cd so you can play it on repeat for as long as you like!

Haya everyone!

Have there been an update from tea? I hope everything is going well under the circs and babytea is settling well in the new environment...
I have not been posting often recently because it was just manic in our household. So many things to do, so little time and, frankly, so little energy... but the baby is doing really well. I am also contemplating getting a hypnobirthing cd of some sort and it looks like Natal is a popular choice... but has anyone tried the Mongan without the classes? y
kayz - how exciting! wish i was low risk and could stay at home, alas! i hope i get the right support in the hospital
ssc Fab new thread title!!!

New thread time folks...

Here

Bemy, tea has updated on the fb group, so won't say too much here, but he is fine, and absolutely gorgeous! Hopefully tea will have loads of spare time to update us here soon :o

Good work with new thread seriously, will board later!

kveta I'm having a total reality check now too! Cried my eyes out when I saw baby...DH looked at my with total confusion and asked aren't you happy for her?". Hormones are all over the place and it makes it so real that we have one of those in our stomachs and that they are def coming!! I can't stop thinking about it and now makes me realise I have to hurry up and get sorted.

I am so delighted that Babytea is here...it's jsut so surreal . Think I was assuming that I had still had 7 weeks now and now it could be weeks, days or even hours......arggghhhhhh.....exciting yet scary!

Had a couple of friends round last night and one had her 16 week baby girl with her. She is such a good baby which was giving me hope and our dog just lay beside her on the rug fascinated by her but being really gentle....it was so cute to watch. Reassured now that she will be great with our newborn when he arrives.

It's Friday.....!! I have a work formal tonight which I really don't want to go to but it's a charity thing and would look bad if I didn't :( On the plus side going to leave work early to get home and get sorted. Then 4 more working weeks......

SSC I love the new thread name and I'm not a londoner . Hard to believe we will soon be graduating to the post natal thread!

Is anyone else feeling very emotional these days...I seem to cry at anything?

Waves to everyone I haven't mentioned....have read all the posts but my head is a bit all over the place today