Due April 2008 - the one where Mollyfloss does not have a rat!!

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((((hugs)))) to knitter. 'Twill all be OK x

Yes please VS to looking at your birth plan? My email is [email protected]

I know it'll all be fine in the end!

Can they still put the baby straight onto your chest if you have a c/s? even for 5 mins?

Happy birthday Suze.

Knitter - not sure if it's the same everywhere, but midwife told me I can get baby put on my chest immediately if I want, I just need to tell them in advance. Mine will be planned, so I'm not sure if it's the same if it's emergency one.

eeek @ all chat of births

Millie is very quiet today too...have just had cake so maybe she will move soon.

i am ignoring anything to do with a CS - am naively thinking it will never happen to me. i do think i should read something about it just incase, shouldn't i?

Lunch today was houmous & roast veg sarnie, cake. will hv banana later.

Yes you can have baby put to your chest, you can ask for pretty much anything you want to make the birth more suitable for you, it is not the surgeons choice no matter what they say, and I assume your DH would be there to help you hold baby anyway? That's the only issue really, you may feel a bit wobbly, I know I did, but my XDP's mum was with me and helped me hold DS.

Sent the birth plan, ignore the stuff about the scar as you dont have one!

Angelina Jolie said in a mag article that she had a cs and breastfed 30 mins after, and I don't imagine super-stars have, like, super-breasts or anything necessarily so must be possible to have skin-to-skin contact and bf straight after.

Thanks VS, just trying to open it!

poor knitter - sorry to hear you're upset - perfectly understandable, having a baby is stressful. It will all become clear at the time, and I expect that the things you care about now in the cold light of day will matter less then. The worst part for me was waiting for the scream / first breath when the MW took the baby (which had been quite distressed) as soon as it was born - those seconds felt like the longest ever, and I didn't care about holding the baby, what sex it was, how much I'd torn - anything. And then when it came to it, I couldn't hold the baby anyway as I was throwing up so much. I think the best preparation is to be prepared for the unexpected- you don't know what will happen and how you will feel.
I was on a drip for a long while, and the baby was being monitored, so I couldn't move for hours - but there is no point worrying that mobility is best - it's evidently not best for you and baby at that point. The MWs will know how best to get the baby out....
Try not to worry - at the end, you will have a baby, and that's what counts. It's just one (or several!) shitty days getting there...

Happy Birthday suze!

Lol@super breasts!
If you can't open it knitter (its a word doc) I can paste it to a normal email and send it that way.

I want super breasts!

don't we all!

actually i would just like breasts when not pg!

Oooo, that's good!! I'll sit DH down over thw weekend and get him to help my write mine. Thankyou!

I took most of it from various birth plans I read on the web, this one is where I got most of it from, I think it has more stuff relating to GA's etc on it.

Oh, and staple your birth plan to your notes, makes sure when you go in everyone reads it, and make sure DH has read it word for word so he can make sure it's followed, often they go out of the window in emergency situations so the most importnat bits need to be memorised.

Oh FUCK.
It's started.
I have noticed my boobs have had a bit of milk for a week or so, but only when in the bath.
Just noticed my top is wet
And here we go again....

Ah mine did that afewd ays ago too

At elast we know we're getting to the end though eh?

There's LOADS of it Peachy, I feel like I'm feeding again already!

knitter & Denny I'm still up for a Meet up when were on ML. My first day off is the 4th March and I don't really have anything planned so any date is cool. Denny aren't you warrington area? Knitter where abouts are you?

I'm in Warrington, and one of you's in Frodsham but that might be you Sheds! Not a Wednesday for me cos that's when all my clinic appts are.

Suze -- My feet grew a lot wider during pregnancy with DS and never went back to normal. Virtually none of my old shoes fit (and I had very wide feet before, so now I find it virtually impossible to buy shoes to fit at all, and have to buy what fits almost regardless of aesthetic considerations). It's another one of those "things they don't tell you until you're actually pregnant and it's too late to back out".

P.S. Last day at work today . Although I think I'm going to come in on Tuesday morning to clear out my desk rather than try to get it done this afternoon.

Hello everyone,

Who the hell are you you maybe thinking, i used to be a regular poster on the conception boards back in my stressed out days of struggling to conceive no2.

When 15 long months later we got lucky I kind of dropped of the radar for a long time.

I found the first 3 months v.stressful this time as the baby had been so longed for I was v. paranoid something would happen. I was also quite sick this time in early stages compared to having no MS during first pregnancy.

Anyway not without some considerable trepediation I am now booked in for an elective c-sec on 25th April (due date is 3rd May).

My first was breach and after 2 attempts to turn him by ECV failed he was born by elective c-sec which I have to say for me was a very positive experience at the time as he was out in just 20 mins, i had skin to skin contact straight away and i breast fed him in the recovery room about an hour after the procedure started and no i don't have super breasts just ginormous ones .

Although it was all very positive I am slightly freaked out by how much they go on about the risk factos of repeat c-secs but at the end of the day they said that if i opted for a natural birth which lets face it is not risk free there is a 20% to 30% chance of me ending up having a c-sec anyway and my worst case scenario is going through hours of labour and then ending up with an emergency c-sec so i think i have made the right choice

I don't know if i am having a boy or girl as i like surprises

Hi to scorpio and tslm who i recognise from when i used to post

Its only a couple of hours since leaving work and 3 more pages to catch up on!!

hi bobbydazzler nice to have you here.

Knitter sorry your feeling sad, does your hospital have birthing balls? you can sit and wiggle on those without moving too far from the bed, or kneeling/standing and shifting weight from side to side, you wont have to move too far with those but still keep you active. Hopefully you'll manage without the section. I bf both of mine after sections, DD was moving my legs and able to sit up within 10 minutes of being in recovery so was able to sit up and feed her, with DS took several hours to get sensation back but kind MW helped to latch him on whilst lying on my back.
Could we do the Mon or Tue? so the 10th/11th ish - havnt got a calender in front of me so not sure of the dates. Sheds how far is middlewitch to you?

Lennsuey - I was told to lay on my back with pillows under hips so hips about 10 inches off the bed to stay for few mins and to do little and often during the day. Cant say it worked for me but was 38/40 when they discovered mine so less room to move.

DD wants PC to go on cbeebies now so will catch up again later.