September Babies Thread #5 - we're a chatty bunch

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Yet another thread for our September babies!

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Congrats @Dipsy77!! All very exciting!!
Haha @Megan2018 I shall have to give you my "be kind to yourself if it doesn't work out how you wanted it you be" lecture about nappies, tee hee!
Are you guys looking at local selling pages for second hand nappies, or is there a uk group or something?
I tore and needed stitches with both mine, but it was all fine after a week or so. Lots of baths with tons on salt in, lovely.
I'm v ticked by the "yummy" frozen pad meals...

So after a very early start this morning, my DS did his first poo on the potty. Havent officially started training yet as I was waiting for warmer weather but he's totally ready. Quite proud of him!

Oh wow boodles

I am so torn on what to do with dc4 and toilet training. He is 2 and a half, sat on the potty a few times but done nothing. Dont want to push it as he has big changes coming up anyway. But dont want to hold him back. My older boys were over 3 before they cracked it.

Woo hoo! That's brilliant @boodles101 !!! And really good to have under his belt before the competition turn up (although- expect regression... DC1 did a poo on DP's neck when he was on his shoulders, shortly after DC2 arrived... it passed though!)

Congratulations @Dipsy77

Dusty that is actually the funniest thing I've heard all week!!

Ha ha, it's ok happy, somewhere deep down I must know it's going to be uncomfortable for a while afterwards... just don't think my brain wants to acknowledge it!!

@Karigan195 I feel the same. I had complications from the section but a planned section seemed the best way forward to avoid chaos and trauma.

Saw my consultant on Thursday and he's already come up with 101 reasons why I should have a vbac. Now I'm just confused and scared tbh.

Quiet on here! Sorry to read some are worrying about the birth already

I'm not worrying about the birth. In fact I've kind of surprised myself by how laid back am about everything. My friend has been messaging me stressing out about bloody everything. She keeps reading horror stories about stuff online. Cot death, bad births etc. And im just like, you can read about anything and the experts will find a risk in it. Fact is, you won't know until it happens.

Hi ivegot I think the thread always gets quiet at the weekends. I'm actually pretty chilled about the birth bit, it's the aftermath that's had me slightly worried! I'm sure it will all be fine, but does soreness and uncomfortableness take away from the specialness of those first few days?

I've completely cleared all the remaining junk items from the to be nursery - found a hole where the bleeding mice have chewed through floorboards and carpet though - it's a small hole and in the corner of the room so will be fairly easy to repair but it's so annoying. The joys of country living.

It's been worse though - we once had what must have been a whole community living in the back of one of our corner cupboards - we had a long forgotten case of biscuits right at the back - they were near enough gone by the time we discovered our hairy residents!!

Oh, and for weeks we had ninja mice, they would take the bait from the traps but never set them off - I think they must have been the teeny tiny ones. Got them in the end but then I was sad. The dog is actually quite good at dealing with them though if they're silly enough to venture out across the floor when she's there.

Anyway, that was a random tangent. Just cooking dinner - we're having spag Bol, highly adventurous I know but we had some mince to use up. Just waiting for dh to get back from looking at his uncles van for him.

@kyles101 no, not in my experience. It's still very, very special just with a minor distraction if you are feeling a bit sore. You can take plenty of painkillers by then too so that helps. And for some people, there's really no issue.

It didn't stop me doing anything, could still get around but at the same time, you just had a baby! Perfect excuse to sit on your bum and enjoy those amazing newborn snuggles.

I really love this blog post about those first few weeks and fully intend to pull up the drawbridge this time!

www.dontbuyherflowers.com/motherhood/pulling-up-the-drawbridge/

Your sneaky mice sound annoying. I grew up on a farm and my poor Mum waged a constant battle with mice. Then my brother kept bringing them INTO the house and trying to keep them as pets.

@Stroan thank you for that link

I’m still burying my head in the sand about the birth bit. Occasionally come across a MN thread where the OP says they’ve been left chronically incontinent and it’s changed their life which has freaked me out some.

Had the weirdest dreams last night. Dreamt I kept having miscarriages between 6-8 weeks but with no bleeding between them. But I was in the army and they bought me a one-person jet like something out of the hunger games to get to and from the hospital. And then we bought a massive detached house near Leicester for £100k.

I’m an accountant, with a fear of flying. And I’ve never been to Leicester .

I started the positive birth digi pack last night as I realised I could already be over half way! It made me feel like csection will be the way to go, purely because most of the positive things they suggest will be removed for a natural birth with the twins. Havent made a firm decision yet but I'm definitely swaying that way.

Passing half way feels good eh boodles

Im 19 + 3. My latest born dc was born at 39 + 6. So i will class myself as past half way

@kyles101 no, not for me either. I had brief moments where I was uncomfortable but as @Stroan says, it was a momentary distraction. There are huge amount of Adrenalin and hormones around the time of birth, and shortly afterwards - it really is amazing how resilient and capable our bodies are!

Is anyone struggling with stomach pains? I remember having some round ligament pains with DD but this morning I have real cramping (and sort of stabbing) pains very low down. I did a lot of walking and lifting DD yesterday, so am hoping it's that and currently lying on the sofa with a hot water bottle but to be honest it's feeling very sore!

Decaf it feels good but scary!! Not sure I've totally processed the whole 2 babies thing. I think it will get more real after consultant appt next week as everything else so far has just been the same as my last pregnancy.

Jeeeze forthelove those are the threads you should absolutely avoid. I try to tell myself that people only really talk about traumatic births, there's probably not a lot of interest to be had in "yeah went into labour, hurt a bit but gas and air fixed it, went to hospital and 3 hour later out popped little Angelica, home in time for Corrie."

My dreams have been really vivid, but REALLY dull - one from last night was a day at work. Just a normal day, in great detail!!

Boodles absolutely a c section can be positive- my friend recently had a planned section as her baby was measuring over 10lb and she said no way was she pushing that out, also they wouldn't let her go over due to baby's size so she didn't want to be induced which I can understand as that's supposed to be harder going.

Apparently if you have already had a vaginal delivery then induction is usually straight forward

Ah that's interesting, maybe because your body has done it before? My friends youngest is 13 though, so they more or less said she'd be like a first time mother again and treated her as such throughout.

I think that was the reasoning yes! Apparently failed induction much more common with first baby.

kyles yes absolutely csection can be positive, it doesn't scare me at all and I would request to have the curtain lowered so that I can watch and hopefully skin to skin asap. It's just whether or not they would allow that with twins. Don't see why not if everything is ok with them. Obviously them being born healthy is main priority. Only thing that puts a small doubt in my mind is the recovery with 3 children and a dog to care for!

@boodles101
My friend had twin boys by section, she was booked in for one anyway but went in to labour early so she had it even earlier than planned. Both were just the right side of 5lbs which was the magic number, she had all the same skin to skin etc as a singleton birth as they didn't need any extra care.
Conversely other friend had a prem singleton by crash section and didn’t see her for 48hrs as both mum and baby too ill. All ended well though.

Thanks megan my friend had her twins 2 days ago by emergency c section after induction at 36weeks. One just over 5lbs and the other just under. Not sure why it led to EMCS yet though.

I halve had a few dreams about the baby. The latest was a couple of nights ago and i actually dreamt I was giving birth in my bedroom. I was just on my own and anytime I wanted to shouting my husband I needed to push so I just did it all by myself!

Has anyone started thinking a out how to decorate the nursery? Now i know I'm havung a boy I think I'll pick Peter rabbit theme :)