Easter is approaching, and the PESH are laying all over the place!

[maamalady]

Antenatal fred fun for BESH graduates

CRESH

Faith - pinky faithlet arrived 14th April 2013
Pinkr - suitably pinky one arrived 25th August 2013
Jethro - blue one arrived 23rd September 2013
Noks - pink one arrived 12th January 2014

PESH

Frankel - EDD 4th March ANY TIME NOW
Sinky - EDD 18th March
Merks - EDD 21st March
Driz - EDD 7th June
Draf - EDD 19th June
Kat - EDD 20th June
Winks - EDD 26th June
Dor - EDD 18th August
Ginger - 20th August
Euro - 28th August

PESH-in-hiding
Bugs - EDD approx 21st October

bugs the bruised feeling sounds like a fissure to me. Have you had any blood?

Fybogel is a bit grim until you get used to it. You need to add the water and stir it and then neck it fast before it starts setting horribly!

Morning hags!

First, so so sorry about your pup bugs. I was offline for a fair bit of the weekend, so seriously behind the times. You did the right thing. Sneeky squeeze.

Then onto poo-matters. I have had it badly but I found that a prune yoghurt a day kept some movement. I heavily invested in dried fruit, fresh fruit and veg.

So sorry about the difficult or bittersweet days yesterday. It's over for another year and it may get more sweet, less bitter every year. I saw some of you post something beautiful on fb, it turned out the house was very dusty...

Which it was because we shifted a lot of excess crap strange how you can remove 30 boxes of stuff and still have a full house to my parents to aid a) the selling of our flat and b) accomodate a bed for Lembie.

I am getting all weak kneed by the tales of (tough) first days. It sounds exhausting and magical in equal measures. Sorry stuff is difficult, frank with HWHNN's job and posting. I am sure you'll manage, just get all the help in now, while you're getting used to eachother.

Enjoy the scan kat. Why do you have another one? Is it growth?

I had my 30 week appointment at the midwifes and according to her I measured perfectly but I noticed it was only 27cm so I spent a frantic night googling to conclude that I do have a bump that is slightly small, but well within normal boundaries. I did have a quick weep, as she asked about the insecurity that I mentioned when I got Lembie checked out after the painful scare a few weeks ago. But all is well, Lembie is head down, which makes my sides less sore, but my lungs are getting acquainted with his bony bum. I think he takes after his dad. My bum has expanded with my bump and I now struggle to fit half my (inherited) maternity trousers, skirts and dresses for the next ten weeks...

I get three growth scans as I am increased risk for growth restriction. However I had no problems last time and appear to be growing well this time, the clexane must be doing its job well. Towards the end they are also checking the placenta is holding up OK in case early delivery is indicated. It will be nice to get another look anyway and we are making an afternoon of it and going out for lunch :)

Hope today's scan goes well Kat.

Well we survived the night! E had a good night, only waking for a feed 3 times but the upshot is my boobs felt like they were filled with concrete when I got up at 7. I'm hoping they settle down soon as it naked latching on pretty painful.

Drizz I don't mean to scare you! I won't lie, it us bloody hard work and the hormones seem to exaggerate everything, but it gets easier quickly and the newborn snuggles make it all worth it

Morning folks. Good work on the house clearing driz. Are you moving or just making room? (You're in a flat, right? You have mentioned moving before I think..)

Got through another night here. Massive feeds at 9pm and 1am, and minisinks has been a trooper. The washing machine filled solely with his wee covered vests/babygrows/blankets plus the one waiting to go with my bed sheet will not be mentioned....

For those with boys, any nappy ideas? I think, because he still has a cord stump and so we're folding the nappy band down, that wee is just coming out (and generally over his right shoulder. Good party piece). Looking at it, I think the cord will come off soon, but before that, are there any tricks to keep wee in the nappy?!

Oh frank. Tell me about it. Midwives had said that women sometimes rang for advice, afraid their boobs would explode. How amusing. Except it does feel like that, right?

My guesstimated, 2 sizes up from 38 weeks bra is no where near big enough. The bravado soft bras go on, but the waist band is sitting on boob unless I get the position just right. I'm hand expressing a little prior to feeding or poor minisinks just bounces off

Make sure the willy is pointing down!

dor, I try that! but he's such a wriggler... I'm going to change him in a sec (fruity farts, but mainly to try to wake him enough to feed) and will make a concerted effort!

Can you cut a little notch out the nappy for the cord stump instead of folding. When you used to be able to get Huggies newborn nappies they had a cut out bit. Definitely point the willy down! What size nappies and what brand? The boobs will settle down soon enough, idstick with soft bras and get fitted again in a few weeks.

No worries about scaring me, it'll make me feel more normal when it's our time, frank. I explained to SB last night that he would not be allowed to go to a stag do if the little man had arrived and if he hadn't he was to stay reasonably sober and be ready to come home, if things started moving.

The willy down is a golden trick, once it works speaking from experience of six nephews, not my own of course.

We're house clearing for a move, but only by August, and meanwhile to fit in here whilst we stay. The flat is tiny when you factor in baby-stuff.

Hope all is continuing to go well kat. Hurrah for clexane doing its magic.

kat I'd heard (on here?) that some nappies had notches, but I've not seen any in real life. I'm using pampers newborn (size 1 I think).

His stump is very shrivelled though, so I'm hoping for a drop off soon!

Next feat to work up to is the bath... I've been avoiding this. He hates being naked for changes/poonamis so I'm dreading getting him naked and wet. Maybe tomorrow... (With warmed towel and cuddles at the ready)

Huggies aren't sold any more. Anecdotally many people say pampers newborn are a better fit on girls so you could try a different brand. I would leave the bath for now and stick with a sponge wash until the stump is gone. Mini kit hated baths at first but at 8 weeks he changed his mind and has loved them ever since.

Sinks we didn't give E her first bath till she was almost 2 weeks. We obviously cleaned her bum at every change and washed her milk splattered face every morning and evening. She's not a fan if bath time yet (3 so far) so we're pretty much just dunking her and swooshing her around in the water for 30 seconds or so, no soap or baby wash yet. I've shampooed her hair a few times over the sink which she quite enjoys! I'm going to attempt my first solo bath tonight, I just need to be mega prepared with everything to hand!

On the nappy front I think Huggies were the only brand that had a newborn cord cut-out but you can't seem to buy them any more.

The one thing I found about bathtime is the water needs to be warmer than the near freezing temperature that is recommended. Otherwise they will scream the bloody house down.

Sainsbury newborn nappies have the cutout I think. We've binned pampers which were too big and not absorbent and are using sainsbury own and boots own, the latter are a better fit on E

Will have a look around. Pampers seem a reasonable size and fit round the legs. Any brand suggestions for boys?

Not seriously thinking about bathing yet. I think It would finish the 3 of us off. The only reason it came up was I'm still getting daily midwife visits and yesterday was told I didn't need to wait for cord etc if I didn't want.

We have used Pampers all the way through - the New baby ones until he got to big and now we use Active Fit in the day and Baby Dry at night.

I'm working my way through all the nappy supplies we bought/were given before E arrived! We've had standard Pampers, Sensitive Pampers, Boots own, Tesco own, Asda own and Aldi own. I'm not liking the Boots or Tesco ones. The Panpers are good, but the Aldi ones are just as good and a fraction of the price! I've only just started on the pack of Asda nappies so will see how they go.

Just seen midwife and as a result have managed to massage out several, blocked ducts... Bliss!

How is the healing going sinks?

Fine. Stitches out, off regular meds (was only on paracetamol and diclofenac anyway). Managing short trips out. If only I was a bit less anaemic I might feel normal!

I have nothing to compaire to, but c section healing seems a lot easier than episiotomy (compairing myself to friends)!