May 2015 - Thread 9 - Babies coming thick and fast

[FeelingBlessed77]

Hey ladies. Thought we needed a new thread starting , hope this works.

Welcome wasabi and hi again gingerbread

Looking forward to seeing this thread full of lots of arrivals :)

Bought a car today, traded our three door in for a slightly newer five door small estate, real family car :D

just that's great! would be great to meet up with others too :) my drama teacher was in Northampton too

Hope you feel better after some rest Tori

Fingers crossed for the birth centre piglet

smiley shame you can't be in the birthing centre, but good that they will be on hand for the baby straight away

cuphat I reckon this thread will still be going in four weeks :) seems to average more than a month per thread?

blondie yey to being full term :)

wasabi I am living on wasabi nuts at the moment having had most treats ruled out by gestational diabetes so will think of you regularly.

kitty I will pm you re Facebook as soon as I have my laptop to hand. Want to see the baby pictures!

Made it swimming. Now slobbed out on the sofa watching telly again.

Welcome wasabi everyone is lovely here :)

longest swimming sounds like fun, last time I tried to swim (about 14 weeks ago) I couldn't stretch out far enough to swim properly so I just paddled lol

Hello All, thanks for the new thread blessed.
C-section in two weeks tomorrow, feels really real now. I cannot wait!

No we wouldn't go typical Star Wars name - someone I used to work with was Star Wars mad and they had three kids - Luke, Leah and Johan (Han)...I'm just glad they didn't go for Chewie!!

Tori We have already got some cute Star Wars themed bodysuits and a couple of marvel/dc based ones hehe I've also seen some on eBay and asda which I will probably not be able to resist hehe love my geeky side, saw a cute storm trooper outfit and how to make baby look like an ewok with a teddy bear pea suit and a tshirt hehe

apple I would love to change my car (also 3 door) but we've changed hubby's as the 'family car'...maybe I will get an upgrade next year....

Hi wasabi - welcome to the group! I'm not sure if anyone has already confirmed but the facebook group is closed and private.

apple - was that a school drama teacher? Mine was. Did you go to school there?

Meant to say we've made a bit more progress on the nursery today. Put up the curtains and curtain pole and a matching light shade which I managed to find. It's looking really nice so hoping I'll be able to share a picture v soon!

Smiley we share a car, so it was a must lol fingers crossed you get an upgrade :)

just I had private drama lessons, my teacher did teach drama at Park side school though. I went to Kingsthorpe Upper :)

Looking forward to seeing pics of your nursery

Ah I went to Thomas Becket

Good stuff re new cars. To anyone worried about it though I managed with a 3 door ford ka until dd was 1. In retrospect I should probably have chosen a pram that folded smaller but it was fine really for just the three of us.

Cute babygro ideas! I have a hungry caterpillar and tigger outfit I am looking forward to reusing and dd and I found a tiny skeleton babygro in a charity shop this week we are putting aside for Halloween. X

Can't believe we are on thread 9.

8 days til my due date

Really hoping not to still be pregnant in 8 days time though! Lots of pressure tonight and possibly a bit of a "show" although I'm really unsure!

Can't wait to meet this baby!

I know someone with a Leia and a Luke.

Thanks, Just - am now in the Fb group.

Lol, Longest. I don't actually like Wasabi taste, yuk!

Can't wait to meet this baby either (DS looks nothing like us - very fair - wondering if this one will look like him, or us! Or just completely different again.), but I just feel a little out of it. Possibly just because I have a four year old whirlwind who doesn't let me stop and think much! And despite being in my 39th week, labour doesn't feel at all imminent, I have a small bump, it doesn't feel real. Lots of nice kicks though to remind me that it is!

Thanks for the new thread feeling

Welcome wasabi and hi again ginger

I'm just popping in to check no more babies have arrived.. Will do a proper catch up tomorrow... This moving house malarkey is sooo time consuming!

Five days until section and I'm starting to have serious hospital fear. I only cried my eyes out twice having DD, once when my husband forgot my birthday and the other on my second night in hospital.

I know I just have to get through it and I know I never have to do this again but I just don't think I can hack the post natal ward again. The noise, the lack of support. The fact DH will have to go and get DD means I will be alone. Last time I had a woman opposite who phoned everyone she knew and told them her birth story in graphic detail. Next door had her entire extended family there to sing a song they had composed. On the other side they had a curry delivered at 2am.

I know giving birth is a 24 hour process and people will be admitted in the middle of the night and they will have partners with them. And there will be noise. But I just feel sick at the memory of how entirely broken I was last time.

All being well I know I can go after one night but I don't want to assume that. Nor do I want to assume a private room might be available.

Do other second timers have this anxiety caused by knowledge of what lies ahead? Or am I just being hormonal and winding myself up unnecessarily?

Totally understandable, Bean, but if you need a CS, then hospital is unavoidable, and I think you just have to focus on the end result, and that your little stay is a means to an end. You did get through it before, and you will again. Doesn't sound like it can be much worse than the other inmates you had last time!!!

Indeed. I know it's such a small part of the journey. It just always strikes me as bizarre that the absolute worst place to be after an operation is in a hospital! How I wish it was like the old days when they took the babies to a nursery and wheeled them out for food:-)

The postnatal ward is my main fear too. It was hell last time. It was the nights that were worst for me. I didn't get even a minute of sleep. Babies were crying non-stop. There was a woman having a tantrum at the staff for giving her a catheter as she couldn't go to the loo and they wouldn't discharge her until she did. I felt under pressure to keep DD quiet and I'd never dealt with a baby before. I was struggling to feed her (to be fair, the midwives really helped me with that). They kept coming around to check my blood pressure. I was scared DD would stop breathing so couldn't sleep even when all of the above stopped for two minutes. I wish it was like the old days with nurseries too, except that would mean a much longer stay (I'm also having a section).

That's my fear too bean I had to staybin for 48hrs after having dd and it was awful, I hated it the girls on the ward with me ranged from 16 to 21 and to say they were rough would be an understatement I cried both nights and just wanted to go home, I have to stay in again this time if I have a natural birth or CS and I'm starting to panic about that now but as wasabi says it's a means to an end and as long as my baby is ok I can cope with anything... (She says in a slightly optimistic tone!)

And I don't mean that all young mums are rough it was just that they were all from rough parts of my town and had all their family members in (about 10 each) and were fighting most of the time it was a horrible experience..

All this is making me hope that I can avoid an epidural and can then go home pretty quickly...

Hope you all have a better experience second time!

Shattered this morning, she was wedged in my ribs most of the night, so it meant that I woke up nearly every hour feeling sore. Also need to ring the docs as think the antibiotics have given me a bit of thrush, need to nip that in the bud. So annoying that I can't just pick something up from the chemist

Ooo new car, that's exciting Apple! What did you get? Am trying to convince DH that our mini isn't practical with a baby!
longest good effort on the swimming front!

I hope you have a far more positive postnatal experience this time Bean and can get a private room.

Apologies for the TMI post but I'm a bit confused. In the middle of the night I went for a wee and when I wiped it felt very slippery. I turned the light on and (sorry I hate this description, I know it's gross!) there was quite a lot of discharge/mucus which had the look and consistency of snot. It was a creamy/greenish/brown colour but no blood. This morning there was more, but it was paler. Is this the plug? Does the 'show' have to have blood in it? Anyone had this as a labour sign? Sorry again for the graphics!

Hi Blondie I was told in NCT that the plug doesn't always have blood in it if that helps :)

We got a Renault Clio Estate, so pleased with it as it's 2 years newer than our previous car, car tax is only £20 a year and it's a Diesel :)

I'm glad I'm not the only one who dreads the ward! I think it would be so much better if everyone played by the rules. I would be horrified if DH started wondering about but others seem to see no issue with it. When you are half naked, bleeding, boobs out, in pain etc you really don't want random men in your face. If it were any other ward there would be no question of it with visiting hours enforced, no mixed wards etc. But in maternity it does seem that anything goes...

Blondie your description sounds just like the plug, I think 'like snot' is a typical way to describe it! If you have a strong stomach you could google image cervical plugs to see if yours was similar.