September 2014 - Babies are starting to make an appearance!

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A few babies have already arrived, with more due to make their entrance soon, and it's not even September yet!

I'd love a postnatal thread but can you lucky ones with babies already wait for the rest of us? It's great to have some experienced pros around while we're desperately waiting

I second that inbl00m. It's nice to still hear how the babies are getting on while the rest of us are waiting!

Inb, go mark your place on the postnatal thread- I have! Hoping it'll spur on movement!!

I'd be happy with a fb group had one from DS's antenatal group and still friends with a couple of ladies on there. I guess we would still be a teeny bit anonymous as we wouldn't 'know' each other.

Plus I'm much better at keeping up on fb than on here! so many babies coming!

in the Serotonin house nothing occurring. Had a hot chilli for dinner but have no pineapple - need to get some. got 5 days ahead of 3 school runs of a mile ish each so 3 miles of brisk walking a day!

having a clary sage oil bath tonight, then going to spend the rest of the evening on the ball tweaking my nipples

Ditto to what inbloom said :-)

I have popped onto the postnatal thread and marked my spot. I am quite happy to stay here and then we can all have a mass migration over once every one has popped!

Hi all, I am personally checking both now, the Sep2014 postnatal for babies (Posted a link below) and this thread to see how you are all doing :) so no worries, we are not going to leave, but would be nice to ask loads of baby questions somewhere...

P.S. Love to lose weight, but would be very, very nervous about milk supply so not sure how it is possible while bf? Is it??

Whole days seem to disappear into baby fog at the moment. You guys have had pages of activity since I could check in.

Sympathies to all those still waiting. For what it's worth, I wouldn't bother with the DIY eviction techniques. The hospital used the best of modern technology for two days and couldn't shift this kid one tiny bit until they brought out the big guns of c section. Instead, I'd spend my time taking long baths and doing things requiring two hands while marvelling at the ease of it all. I won't say sleep, (though if you can, you should) as that was annoying advice when I was up for a wee every hour.

Yay for birthday buddies, Blink and Cumbrian! Blink I also have some impressive bruises from where they wrestled this guy out from being wedged in my pelvis.

Congrats Acorn! What a beautiful baby.

We also have a Velcro baby, who will not sleep in his expensive bedside co sleeper, or anywhere else that isn't on top of one of us. But I think it'll pass, so fingers crossed. We're doing shifts holding the little guy and thinking of maternity/ paternity leave as getting paid to constantly get to cuddle our pfb. I've been reading about the 4th trimester concept and trying to remember that we're transitioning our little guy out to a foreign environment.

Dinah I hope that you get clarity and good news soon. I totally understand the hand expressing to try to do what you can.

To all you ladies figuring out this new mothering gig, and all you ladies waiting it out to start: You're doing a great job, mum. Hang in there!

Forgot to say to Dinah that I totally get the questioning every tiny decision!

Iate - glad someone's said don't bother with eviction techniques. We've been trying everything, long walks (flare up SPD), driving over bumps, hot curry (just made me gassey), dtd (uncomfortable), gardening, raspberry leaf tea (made me vomit)... Etc. all to no avail. Had some good contractions on Sat, but they vanished in the evening.

Just want this girl to come now (40+6 today) but I think she's on her own timetable

Hi everyone, I know this is seriously late in the day but may I join?!!

I've been a long time lurker since the first thread and have just plucked up the courage to say hi and introduce myself!!
I actually had my little boy on Friday ( Ben 40+3).

Just to give all those ladies who are waiting lots of hope I had no warning of labour being imminent just a quick onset of contractions then an uber fast labour of 4 hours culminating in a waterbith without pain relief or stitches (baby number 3 for me 2nd vbac).

Hope you all are well, you have kept me sane during middle of the night reflux awakenings (mine not baby's.. god bless Mr Gaviscon) so I thank you and I didn't want to miss the out on the baby fun so will tagging along on the post natal thread too if that's ok.

You are all fab and I feel like I know you lol!!
Lots of lovely snuggly hugs

Mrs F xx

pies thank you!
mrsf congratulations! That was a fast entry! Well done

I was happy to stay here until everyone is ready..naz there's no link can you link the postnatal for everyone so they know where we are

Oh ella that's the last thing you need, hope it clears up quickly, I'm not sure how clary sage works, I bought some but never got round to using it, was just going to inhale from a tissue?

Hi all,

Congratulations Acorn, and welcome and congratulationsMrsF.

Well I've hit the big 4-0 today, right now I'm thinking I need to relegate myself to be in for the next 2 weeks - it certainly seems that this baby will never come! I'm going to try my best not to be moody for it though, I have a plan this week to keep myself busy as much as possible. Will be planning activities for every day, today is replace tyre and go shopping day with possible baking with DD depending on how we do for time.

Good luck everyone who's still waiting, and congratulations again to all those snuggled up with their lovely newborns

Post natal thread I'm stopping here for a while too though.

Congratulations Acorn!

We also have a Velcro baby, who will not sleep in his expensive bedside co sleeper, or anywhere else that isn't on top of one of us. But I think it'll pass, so fingers crossed.

We have a velcro baby here too. Last night wouldn't go down at all anywhere but DH. I've been completely unable to comfort DS since he was born. DH had sat up with him until 4am the previous night for the same reason so was utterly exhausted and has been constantly taking him to calm DS when he gets works up during the day. I don't think its helped that I reek of breast milk and because he is next to me in the co-sleeper he is not resting there either.

In the end I said enough was enough at midnight and sent DH to bed whilst DS screamed as it just couldn't continue like that. I made a point of having a good wash with a smelly body wash to try and stop DS going nuts. Its been the first night I've felt able to really cope with doing anything as I've been so sore and DS being distressed has upset me so much. (I've had to get DH to take him out the room when he's been crying on a few occasions). DH was beside himself thinking it was all his fault he'd become like velcro.

I spent a good hour hugging DS on his side or back, but refusing to put him on his front as he seems to have got into the habit of it. He screamed constantly, but gradually started to calm a little before 1am when he was next due for a feed. I was pretty much at my wits end by this point, so woke DH to do nappy change then feed. And thank God it did seem to work as DS settled after that.

Amazingly he slept until 5.45. We did a 45min change/feed and he went back to sleep too. He's still out for the count. So all in all its been the first night both me and DH have had anything like a decent night's sleep.

I've no idea if its pure luck or anything we did different last night. I'm just relieved. If he's a nightmare tonight I don't care. We just needed one night to recover a bit.

Oh poor you Red! Could you try wearing your DH's day old clothes so you'll have his scent on you? That might help DS get used to the mix of your own smell and DH's, then you can gradually wear less of DH so he gets comfortable with you?
I hate the idea of a tot crying, and would never advocate 'controlled crying' when there's someone around who can help comfort the baby - my mum always said they don't cry for no reason! It's just finding out that reason is so hard in the early days... Is he gassy, or colicky? Is he tired/uncomfortable/overstimulated/cold/hot etc? It's so hard to know when they can't tell you?
Purely a suggestion, and don't mean to teach granny to suck eggs if you've already tried it, but have you tried car journey or vibrating seat or a swing? A friend of mine who's wee one got very attached to her whilst in the sling has found a little swing seat works wonders! And when ours was in that full on crying mode, I used to take her outside at night and the temp change seemed to help. I think she just ran hot and needed to cool down every once in a while!

Morning ladies. Gosh iate I am with you with the baby fog swallowing up whole days! I'm on my own with baby today as Gareth is at work. So far for myself I've managed to get up, go to the loo and have a quick strip wash! Jessica has had lots of boob and had a massive poop nappy change. Going to attempt to get us both dressed in clean clothes now lol. Then I will try to do some housework whenever Jessica is asleep until lunch time, then I'm going to sit down and maybe nap if I'm lucky It's sunny though so feel like I should be making the most of it really.

I would join a fb group if people want to. I'm on the August fb group, but it has meant I think that the August mn group slows down a lot.

Congrats to any new mummies that I've missed! And I agree with red where are all the baby girls?!

Morning!
I am with IAte in a cloud of baby fog! Both myself and DH are first time parents and sometimes, particularly in the early hours of the morning, its very daunting when Aidan is crying and we can't figure out why! Seems his appetite is picking up lots now though, as bottles seem to sooth him most of the time! He will sleep on his own fine during the day, but at night he needs cuddled to sleep

Congrats to Acorn and MrsF

Congratulations Acorn and MrsF (and welcome!)

Baby fog here too! Sophie only wants to sleep on us, which doesn't surprise me as 2 out of 3 of her siblings were exactly the same. As she is our last I am just determined to try and enjoy it all as much as possible though, even though I am utterly exhausted!! This newborn stage does pass really quickly but that is really hard to remember when you are totally sleep deprived... I co-sleep at night when I have too and although it means I don't get much sleep it does mean I get some! Iate I agree with you about the whole 4th trimester idea, it is such a big thing for a baby to go from being rocked and curled up inside you to being expected to sleep on their own (although it is possible as ds1 proved!).

I don't think it is helping that my insides feel like they are tearing when I move as I have so much bruising from my C-section Coming home from lots of rest at the hospital to being pulled about by 3 other children has been a bit of a shock to my body I think and have had to dive into my bag of pain relief from the hospital today...

Hope those of you still pregnant are doing ok and we see some more new arrivals soon

Marjal, car journey works a treat but as soon as you try and take him out, he's off again.

I think the idea about DH's clothes is a good one though.

I hate the idea of controlled crying too; but last night we didn't have much choice but to try and wean him off DH!.

Really the only differences between me and DH that we can work out is possibly his heart beat or how warm DH is or the smell of milk from me. DH can pass DS to me from being calm and he just screams until he goes back to DH.

DH goes back to work on Wednesday, so we have a couple of days to work out why and try and find a solution.

Red - the MW who did our antenatal classes said that sometimes babies will settle better for dads because mum smells of milk & it keeps them awake. She didn't suggest a solution other than dad putting baby to bed though. (Sorry, seems like unhelpful, though it could be the reason why?)