January 2014 Thread 15-More babies to come

[Naturegirl82]

Went to post on the other thread and it was full! Hope people find this one ok.

Band I had no leakage whatsoever and now she's almost 2 weeks old, I am dreaming of the days my boobs didn't constantly leak

I wouldn't bother with the formula just in case. I'm so glad I didn't buy any as I wouldn't still be bf right now if I had. I think it's too easy to give up if it's already there in the cupboard.

tooth sorry your back on hospital but glad your coming home.

Not sure why but I've always been able to find my cervix, bit harder at the moment due to bump in the way

No boob leakage here either, glad I'm not the only one. Hope it doesn't mean anything for post baby.

My boobs never leaked pre-birth with either of my other two pregnancies and I successfully bfed both DC. I don't think it means anything.

Still waiting to be released. Apparently the dr got called down to A&E.

It took ages for my milk to come in and no boob leakage full stop. The NHS breast feeding advisor we saw was amazing and helped us to strategically use the odd bit of formula while breastfeeding got up and running.

The last 2 days have been formula free :)

I have no leakage.

i have to rant. Sorry

so mil has been around, (this isn't a rant at her, she's been lovely) she got talking to a family at the coffee shop today and they had a week old with them. The woman works on the labour ward at my hospital. Mil told her about the reduced movements and how i felt fed up. Woman tells mil that at our hospital the policy is to induce if the mother goes in twice to say there was reduced movements! I bloody knew there was a reason everyone kept asking how many times i had gone in about reduced movements. Bloody knew it!

my mom has told me to call on Monday and say he isn't moving as normal (still isn't doing so today so not a lie) and insist on an induction. Mil agrees with her. I don't want an induction, i want to be on the birthing suite, but it's really irritating. The whole thing I'm getting is that if i complain more then they would help me

Re formula I had some of those little premixed cartons in case and they were only used when I had to go into hospital after an allergic reaction and dps mum ran out of expressed stuff.
I binned the remaining ones a few weeks ago.

Have sorted things with Dp now (spelling things out helped) and have made real progress with my essay after talking to my lecturer on the phone so things no longer doom and gloom here. . Am going for a bath with a cup of tea and a magazine in a bit. Sorry for my earlier melt down . I think pregnancy has eaten my brain.

I didn't have any milk with ds. I was kept in for three days when he was born and milked by hand, they didn't get any colostrum, well, maybe just a tiny tiny amount. Not enough to put on a teaspoon or a syringe. In the end it was the midwife who told me that she didn't think it was going to happen for me and that it was ok to formula feed. I'll always be grateful to that midwife!

Thanks for the info ladies, that's good to know, I guess I just assumed after reading the books that they would leak non stop! Hopefully they do their job when the time comes.

I kinda thought that about the formula, just know how stressed and worried my friend was when her milk didn't come in, she had the same experience as you frying Although I do suppose its something DH would be able to pick up easily if I really needed it, supermarkets being 24hrs and all.

I'm kinda going in to the whole BF thing with the idea if it works it works if not at least I tried. Think I will be stressed enough without thinking my body is letting me down.

Enormouse I'm glad your feeling better. I would kill for a bath just now, just can not be assed waiting the 30 for our spit Taps to fill it.

frying, I feel for you. I'm one of these stiff upper lip types that doesn't want to cause anyone any fuss, but then you see the ranting stampy feet people getting preferential treatment

enormouse, my brain has also been eaten. I put all the towels in the washer this morning, having first measured out the detergent into the little plastic thing that goes inside. When I went to get them out again, the plastic thing was still sat on top of the machine where I'd left it! Still, I was lucky it hadn't got flung off during the spin!

I'm taking 6 of those little bottles of ready made formula with the teats just in case. I will be trying to breast feed, but I'm not going to stress about it

Huge congrats mrsr Glad u are able to recover at home.

toby my in-laws called on Wednesday to check that the baby hadn't arrived yet. I was amazed that they thought we wouldn't have mentioned it to them, but then DH said he was banning them for visiting until we're properly settled (so they might not have been wrong to call after all!)

I've had leakage and can express but only from one side. I feel a bit freakish about this to be honest - hopefully the other side will get its act together when required!

Ffs, book! It's ridiculous, isn't it.

My MIL is relatively sane but she's gone a bit mental about the baby. She's worried that because she lives 45 mins away, my family will get to see the baby before her.
Neither DH nor I can work out how it will make it any less exciting for her if anyone else has seen the baby before she does. Genuinely don't get it.

I had to give Mason formula as I was in theatre, but as soon as I could I got him latched on. The hospital provided Aptamil at my request, but did say we may not get a choice of brand, so I think it is worth having some ready made cartons just in case.

I did have colostrum already though and had only stopped breastfeeding dd2 in September. We have a six pack of the ones with teats in the cupboard from when I came home, just in case I needed a break and couldn't express.

Could you invite all the parents around at the same time so you only have to do it once and nobody "wins" by seeing the baby first?

DH wants to ban all visitors for the first couple of months. His parents are down in the west country and his lovely mum cried when she realised she wouldn't get to see the baby very much, so it feels a bit harsh to stop her visiting IMO.

My mum is baby mad (she had 6 of her own), and if I'm not careful she might pinch this one (if it ever turns up)!

My mum will be at the birth. Everyone else is banned from the hospital until the baby is actually born. Then we will call MIL first and then everyone else. We are agreed that we will not pander to MIL's insanity because it makes no sense at all. If she gets there and I have other visitors, of course she will get priority and we'll turf anyone else out in favour of her. But we're hoping the baby will be born outside visiting hours anyway! We've also told MIL and all of my family that visitors are not allowed on labour ward.

I'd love to ban all visitors for a good spell of time. But it's just not feasible (or fair, really). So we've told everyone they have 24 hours to see the baby. Then we want a few days with no visitors at all.

I'm already dreading everyone wanting to hold the baby and clamouring over it. There will be a lot of tongue-biting, I think.

I sat dh down to do Asda shopping. I made him come up with the meal plan and shopping list and now I'm making him do the actual shop. Normally this is all done by me, and I'm playing on the laptop. Feels bloody great!

congratulations mrsr.

wow there are babies being born left right and centre now aren't there?

toby I am with you on the first 24 hours for visiting and then everyone can get it out their system and leave us to it .

I havn't bought any formula this time as I breastfed my other 2 dc's but I will introduce formula at bout 4 weeks so dh can help and to be honest I'm not planning on bf'ing for more than a few weeks as it's always really hurt me and my back.

Well I dropped dh to the pub at 2:30 so he could go for a couple of pints with his brother and mate and he's still not back. Hmmm how long do I leave it until reminding him our baby is due in a bloody week and could decide to come at any time. I'm trying so hard not to nag him and he did buy me a new bag in town today .That was clearly to soften me up though!!

Back to bouncing on this bloody birthing ball.....

Sarah not good that he's not back yet! Make him pay!!

I ended up taking over doing the Asda shopping, just at the very end, because ds was kicking off and dh went to soothe him.

So now i'm watching Criminal Minds again. and trumping. My gosh the trumping. It's actually awful. I absolutely stink! Which means i'm probably going to get raging diahorrea again tomorrow. Such fun

Congratulations mrsr baby boris sounds lovely :)

I also tried to find my cervix last night but couldn't feel anything and gave up as the cat was watching me was going to ask dh to try but he wouldn't know what to feel for (neither would I really)

I've also got no leakage but the couple of times I've had a squeeze I've had drops of clear sticky stuff come out

I hadn't even thought about when family come down, although when we said goodbye to my mum after Christmas she said next time I see you it'll be in hospital. I just assumed everyone would see us at home after, I have no idea really

sarah my dh is also out and seems to be constantly at the moment, I've tried explaining that I need him here to support me including lots of tears to this affect but he still doesn't understand. It might be because we used to go out alot together so maybe he isn't going out more but feels like it because I'm not? It's making me very sad to be honest but I don't know what I can do to make it change?

The clear sticky stuff is colostrum. It's what the baby drinks until the milk comes in

mrsv atleast you know your not the only one .I text him to see when he was planning on coming home and he said he has stopped drinking about 45 mins ago and to not nag him, charming. He hasn't had a drink all xmas due to working away but I don't see why he cant wait until after the bloody babies born. He is over the limit to drive me to hospital now anyway and to be honest I don't want alcohol breath breathed all over our newborn . bloody men , they don't get it.
I hope your dh comes home soon!

frying I assumed colostrum would be white so good to know :)

sarah mine said that to me when he was out last night 'I've only had lemonade so what's the problem?!' The bloody problem is your heavily pregnant wife is home alone again! Tonight he's planning on watching the cricket which doesn't start until 10.30 so god knows what time hell be back

aww mrsv I so know where your coming from. Extra breathing techniques needed for us I reckon haha to stop us twatting them between the eyes when they walk in

Sounds like a plan ha ha