June 2016 #10 - the one where it's a pre and post natal thread

[iamdivergent]

Since we only have about 15 posts remaining I thought I'd make up the new one.

Lots of babies have arrived already but still plenty of us pregnant too. Here's to our June 2016 babies

I'm hoping that dc3 will just slot in here too

Course they will! hysterical laugh

I'm awaiting DC3 too here (waves)
Still more evening BHs but no sign of baby. 39+2.
Dd1 born at 39 weeks 11 years ago today! DS born at 39+5 2.5 years ago

lovelillies Are you due on the 16th? Me too! No signs of anything happening here but this is dc1 do probably wouldn't know anyway!

Aw, nice that you've got a little helper with your 11yo lovelilies. My boys are 4 and 2 so not quite as useful!

Ha ha, helper you say? She's just asked if we can sell her brother to buy her a pony!!
Yep due on Thursday

Welcome PissPot awaiting DC 3 here too. Getting more & more nervous as the days go on!
Having another sweep today, providing the mw can get to me. Hopefully this one does a better job!

Fingers crossed for you Ilovepies x

Good luck Ilovepies! Hopefully this one works

Thanks clarish & spock Looks like I'm off to the hospital. Mw came for sweep, got high bp, trace protein and swollen feet so need to be monitored.
Sweep went well though! So if i have to be induced hopefully that'll help

Good luck everyone!

Speaking of helpers, my six year old nephew lives across the road and he called over yesterday saying, with a very serious face, we are having dinner now so I can carry the baby over to our house for some dinner if you like.

Oh no pies good luck!!! Hopefully that sweep will help you along at least!
Thank you for all the good wishes! This is a fly by post... Wow 40 out of 80 and we are only a third of the month in!

Don't want to jinx things but been to a museum and into town with DS and DP this morning, BH have ramped up a notch and I'm extremely irritable!
Just having a lie down now while DS naps... Meant to be going out for dinner with friends this evening so we'll see if I make it or not!
Good luck ilove... Keep us posted!

Just got home :) bp had gone down & protein had gone by the second sample. Coming out on Wednesday to check my bp again & induction booked for Friday!

Hope things have started for you love!

Nah.. All stopped again

Feeling a bit crap here tonight can't wait to head to bed!

Glad all is well ILove.

Hope you managed to make it out today love. And if not, hope you are getting some rest at least.

Rishi sucked on my boobs a few times today!!! Wooohooo! To put it into perspective, he wasnt even recognising my nipples as something that can be sucked until this morning and then suddenly tonight he went on and sucked a few times. Granted he still came off but he sucked a few times at least. And not once or twice but each time I put him on.

I am sooo excited. Gives me hope that he will suck for longer and longer until one day he lasts for an entire feed. Lets see what happens tomorrow. handed him to DH until midnight and off to bed.

Oh good luck all those who are still to pop. And lovely news Nehrag. I hope this is the break through you've been looking for!

Matilda is one week today. I totally oscilate between calm, serene, reasonable and despair., Hysterical cryjng, confusion. So weird. My problem is not really feeding: latching is improving daily, nipples are slowly healing after initial days bleeding and agony, and Matilda is certainly enthusiastic (ie all the bloody time). I just can't work out sleeping arrarrangements. This is our 4th night at home and have fallen into cosleeping as most pragmatic and restful and instinctive, but actually DH and I talked about it and we're not really happy with the risk, so trying to use Chicco next to me cot properly. Trouble is she only really sleeps when she's been fed and then it's desperately difficult to move She Is currently asleep in the bed as j have fed her and I am desperate trying to stay awake so I can see if she is asleep deeply enough to move her. It's utterly counter intuitive but so scared of getting it wrong. what are other people doing? No idea what to do. I think a dummy would work for self soothing. But all the books say not to for a month if breastfeeding. Aarghh...

Geneva we used a dummy from day 6 and DD breastfed fine for 8 months. At this newborn stage thy don't really get into deep sleeps like we would. Is it possible that she is cold in the crib? A friend who had a winter baby said they used to put a hot water bottle in the crib while the baby was feeding then take it out to put the baby back in so the crib wasn't cold. Seems more unlikely in the current weather but you never know! It took Dd a few weeks to even start getting the hang of day and night. Just remember the mantra "this too shall pass" all these phases they have, despite feeling helpless, will only be with you for a short time before a new challenge comes along! That used to help me through the sleepless nights!

When getting dd2 used to going into the moses basket, she'd be lay on a cover/fleece/muslin while feeding then I'd just pull her across into the basket. It also helped if I lay on it through the day and leaked all over it so it smelt of me/my milk.

We waited about 6wks before I gave in to the dummy as she was just chewing. She loved her dummy until she was 2.5 and it really helped her

Hi Geneva, I agree regarding the hot water bottle, and making the cot / Moses basket cosy. With my two, I bf them and like your baby, they only really slept properly then. For the first couple of weeks I let them fall asleep on the boob, then waited about ten minutes or so (with my second one when I was a little more 'relaxed' I would actually let myself doze too, but making sure he was propped so he couldn't come to any harm) before moving them to the Moses basket on the floor next to me. In my experience, although I appreciate all babies are different, once properly asleep they're actually harder to wake than you would think. Keeps hand on baby's back if she stirs, and just be confident with your movements as you pick her up and place her in - I always managed to make a pigs ear of it when trying to go slowly and quietly!
I never used a dummy, but I believe it can really help if you have a constant feeder.
Definitely worth persevering with though, as they are different as newborns-they've only been used to being close to you, and so letting them sleep on you and moving them while they sleep is probably the kindest way of going about things if you don't want to go the Co-sleeping way (I never wanted to). As dolly says, phases pass!

neha fantastic news!!
geneva if I were you I would also make sure your bed is set up for cosleeping so you don't terrify yourself when it does happen v occasionally. I'm like you, it takes a few weeks to get the baby to transfer into the sidecar cot without waking up

Hi Geneva
It's early days yet so I would not worry. Go with your instincts and just make sure your bed is set up for safe co sleeping.

It might be something you do for a few weeks or months on a full time or part time basis but there is nothing wrong with it if done safely.
This is a great resource https://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/isis.online/pdfs/ISISbed-sharingg_2014.pdf

www.isisonline.org.uk/niceupdate/

www.isisonline.org.uk/image-archive/

We had a co sleeper cot and used it for 12 months until DS moved into his own room. We also co slept on a part time basis until DS was about 2. Wasn't intentional but DH swears we got more sleep than other parents we know. Sleep is important to me so I went for the easiest option!!! From 18mo/2yo he slept through 7-7 so was not a burden for our backs (as some people would have you think)