April 2014 Thread 4 - We're almost in Trimester 3!

[LeeHandy]

Here's to fantastic 20 week scans, feeling baby move and other exciting milestones and best of all, the end of sickness!

Badfurday, your OH sounds like a bit of a hero! Hope your goes well and you both manage to get some sleep after!

Checking in .After labouring for 19hrs hoping that my baby would descend the doctor finally decided on a C Section. Dominic Elias was born yesterday afternoon weighing a magnificent 4.1kg of viking flesh. He unlike his sister knew what a boob was for and latched on without much encouragement from me. The whole birth from start to finish was lovely and i am being treated like a princess by the staff. Good luck to you guys soon we will all be enjoying these new born cuddles. The only negative thing is my DD looked really sad and I just wanted to get out of the hospital and go home to be with her..

Congratulations blessed!! 4.1 kilos is a big baby. good to know that everything was fine in the end and you are being treated well in hospital! Your DD is a star from what we've heard and am sure she can't wait to cuddle you and little Dominic!

Congratulations blessed! I'm sure you'll all be home before long and your lovely DD will have her Mum back and a cute little brother to show off to her friends! Enjoy the cuddles, and congratulations to MrBlessed and your DD too. Xx

Glad all is well blessed we were beginning to worry!
Congratulations to you and your family.
Hope the princess treatment continues at home x

Yay Blessed that's great news. Wow at 4.1kg. Glad you are being looked after and I hope you can get home to your dd soon.

Congrats blessed! So happy for you!!! Great name (it's hubby's first name and will be Ryder's middle name too!) x

Great weight! Works out to 9lb or 9lb1oz rounded up!!!

I'm sure ur dd will be fine once you're home xx

Congratulations blessed! Glad the whole experience was good, and that he is a pro at breastfeeding . Hope you get to go home soon. I'm sure DD will be fine, it's just a big shock to their little lives I think but she'll love him soon enough I'm sure. Love the name too!

Hope the tour went well bad, and that your DH managed to stay awake through it! I have my birth centre tour and assessment tomorrow.

Congratulations blessed :) these babies are really starting to,arrive aren't they?!

Nothing here except tons of Braxton hicks which are sooo uncomfortable :( also keep getting numb tops of thighs - anyone else? Oh, and back ache. But my three day headache has at least buggered off finally
Picked up loads of baby clothes at the NCT nearly new sale today and I think we're ready for her now :)

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MIL is taking the piss. We have specific instructions not to bring anyone else in to the room myself and another lady are sharing. Only siblings allowed and of course partners. Dh called her and told her that she would be welcome to come by. He would take the baby out to her in the waiting room right next to our room then send in DD to me. She would not have to see me until i get released which is Monday.

Dh went out of the room to change the baby and she snuck in. Not only am I looking like crap and am not in the mood for chit chat but my poor room mate is not doing very well with breastfeeding so there she was with her boobs all over the place. MIL takes a seat right in front of her for real?? I gave her 5 min simply because she is taking care of my daughter. I then told her to leave. I asked Dh why he let her in and he told me he didn't.The clothes we had brought for DC2 were small so she brought something that is the right size but he was only to wear it as a going home outfit not before. She loves to have her own way all the time.

She then told DH that she wouldn't be calling our son by his name but would call him Boa can you guys guess what mood i am in when she is around? Why would she want to call my son that? I told DH that it better not happen in my face. Boa indeed!!

so jealous of all these babies already here! especially as the plan had been induction before full term but they have changed their minds so could stillhave another 3 weeks. Can't complain though as have had a great pregnancy and even managed a little ride on the horse last weekend!
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blessed your mil is indeed taking the piss!
Your poor room mate!
But mostly poor you. How on earth did she come up with Boa from Dominic??
I would usually recommend the smile and nod technique for unwanted mil input but really don't see why you should have to when you've only just given birth and she shouldn't have been in your room anyway!
Have you told Mr Blessed how you feel? X

Oh blessed she sounds hard work and unreasonable x I hope your hubby has a word ASAP!

Dh is great thank God. He just told her that we won't be accepting any NN and if and when we use one then the one who went into labour will be choosing it. My boobs are horribly sore and bleeding and all she cares about is giving our son a new name, what's wrong with Dominic anyway? We will nod and ignore just as long as she doesn't sneak into our room again.

Anyway back to good news who is next? We want dem babies to come now..

Cannot She is unreasonable and difficult on the best of days but DH makes sure she stays far away from me. My greatest sin was that i managed to manipulate this well educated guy with a doctorate in physics while I have nothing. There is absolutely no way he could have fallen in love with this African poor girl. We are married almost 6yrs and she is still waiting for me to show my true colours, leave DH and take the kids then take him to the cleaners so she can be proved right. If I could write an AIBU on her people would think I am making it all up. She
is a millionaire too so it's all about her money,, great. I was in such a great mood because she has been away, now it is starting again wish me luck ladies. MIL is bonkers but I have 100% support from my DH. She tried to make him chose her over me before and it backfired. The only way to get him back is by hating me.. Sorry ladies to put a black curtain on our lovely baby thread, just wanted to offload and I feel better already..

Congrats blessed! Your mil sounds like a nightmare, I swear all mil are control freaks, I have a similar one to you, you have my sympathy! It's their whole "I know best attitude" which pisses me off. My mum is the complete opposite and has always been supportive with no opinions as long as I'm happy.

Had the delivery suite tour, didn't find it overly beneficial but husband wanted to do it. I work at the hospital so kept seeing people I know and am having moments of why did choose to have babybadfurday here , it almost too familiar if that makes sense? Is anyone else terrified? I'm excited but feel like a rabbit in the headlights at the moment.

Ooof - I am starting to feel grateful for my MiL! She is a bit mad, cannot stop talking (usually the same story you've heard 20 times before, usually slightly inappropriate) and has a special skill for saying the wrong thing. But at least her heart is in the right place: she is very kind, I have never heard her say a cruel or barbed comment. I do sometimes feel that accommodating her means my own parents miss out a bit, but OTOH she is on her own now so I think a lot of it is just loneliness.

Anyway, sounds like I should count my blessings!! So glad your OH is supportive Blessed - can't be easy for him either! Does he not have any siblings who can help share her "attentions"?

blessed your MIL sounds like a real nightmare! Although it sounds like your DH is a pro at handling her so that is good. Hope she doesn't bother you too much more in the coming days, and it sounds like just letting what she says go over your head might be the way to go! I'm lucky I get on well with my MIL, but that might be because she lives on the other side of the world

bad my birth centre tour this morning was a bit of a waste of time too (considering I already went there with my first!). I thought I was going to get to talk to one of the midwifes too but I had to make a separate appointment for Thurs. Oh well. Maybe it will be nice that things are familiar when you are in labour, a bit less scary? I'm excited and scared all at the same time!

Happy mother's day to all the already Mummies and Mummies-to-be!

Offload as much as you want Blessed! I'm sure many of us can empathise. My own MiL is equally delightful but luckily lives far away enough that I can ignore her most of the year . I'm laughing at 'Boa' though. Wtf was she thinking?? Really pleased to hear your Dh is being firm with her.

badfurday I work in my local hospital too - right next to the maternity/postnatal wards in fact. A big deciding factor for my hb was that I won't have to see any of my colleagues on the postnatal ward! What do you work as?

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Happy Mother's Day everyone! My toddler made a lovely card and I had breakfast in bed :) now bouncing on my ball and eating dairy milk with daim, while dh has taken ds to his mum's. This is the life no doubt I'll regret the chocolate later...

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happy mothers day everyone! DH made me cry by bringing me a carrycot full of gifts including ds with a little ribbon on him.

blessed your mil definitely sounds a bit too much to handle especially right after having a baby. glad your dh knows what's what!

Awww Lee your mother's day present has made me so broody. I bet your ds looked very cute.

Enjoy the chocolate Misty!

Happy Mother's Day to all the April mums and almost-mums.

delurking to say I had some spotting this morning and then this afternoon started getting noticeable contractions. pains are like having your bicycle saddle replaced with a billiard ball and your full weight is pushing down. This is my second baby and it's all flooding back now. I remember progressing much more slowly last time. It took 40 hours to get to where I am now after 4.
I've got my TENS going and that boost button is bliss once the endorphins kick in after a few seconds.

The funny thing is, it's my mum's birthday tomorrow and DS1 was born on my sister's birthday. If this one arrives tomorrow my children are going to think you have to share birthdays with family members.

very excited and nervous.

Happy Mothers Day ladies! My DH bought me a card and some flowers from bump which was very cute

Congratulations blessed glad you are both well and being looked after! Sorry to hear you MIL is being a pain!

lee what a lovely thought by your DH! How are you all getting on?

misty joining you with the chocolate and bouncing on the birth ball. Not a great combination though when I'm prone to heartburn in the evening.

Carpal tunnel is still causing me problems but seeing the doctor this week so hopefully they can recommend something to help! I've been having a lot of clear discharge today (sorry tmi!) don't think it's anything to get excited at though.

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Excited for you learn keep us updated!