Due sept 08 come on babies!

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space was getting a bit short

can't believe how fast our thread moves, we're all such chatterboxes!

off to watch x factor now which i sky +. think its my hormones but finding simon cowell sexy

Wooops, I thought that Foxy was Starlight because of the breastfeeding advice from yesterday. I quite fancy a namechange but just can't come up with anything that's any better than what I've already got.

Milkbeard - For God sake woman, there are some things no one should admit to, hormonal or otherwise!

Hi biglips - funnily enough the first post I EVER did on Mumsnet (6 years ago) was asking if there was anyway I could toughen up my nips - I used my real name and I was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO embarrased when they put it on the home page of Mumsnet as one of the threads!!

My nipples are very sensitive, but I really had no problems with feeding. Now I know I was lucky, but I think that it is just down to latch etc. BF groups are well worth going to.

And yes I also used reusable wipes, most of mine were just cut up flannels though which worked fine. I got a travel spray bottle from boots and put water with a little oliveoil and a drop of lavender in for the liquid - worked great.

Talia1 most of what I've read and have been told about slings is that the stretch wraps are best for newborns (like Sass's). I think the close ones get a good review. You may have a sling meet in the area where you can try them out and hire them which could be a good option. The pouches sound good (I've got a second hand one to try out) but they have to be the right size, and probably don't last long. There are lots of secondhand sites, but it seems some people are obsessed with their slings.

Oh for God sake: no one!

Talia, I'd recommend a tie on sling, you can have the baby in lots of different positions, it's comfy and distributes the weight very nicely.

For little ones a stretchy wrap is lovely and a bit easier to use for beginners. Or you can go straight for a woven wrap which you can use for ages. I've got a stretchy for the baby stage and woven wraps for the toddler stage. There are lots of different ones, try googling moby wrap, gypsymama...

Ninja - Yipeee, another reusable wipe person! I am quite enthused by it all at the mmoment, I think it is just me nesting, I'll probably forget all about them as soon as they baby is here.

this seems to be agood website for new slings

I've seen these recommended for newborns

here's some advice about choosing one

Hope that helps and doesn't confuse!!

Yay, thanks for the quick advice, time to go shopping - if only online because I'm not ready to put Anna down yet and not ready to leave the house for more than an hour. Thank god for Mumsnet!

I'm quite bemused by cross words on our lovely fluffy thread. must be the hormones... can't we all just be friends?

got the nursery finished yesterday (well paid someone else to do it ) and am LOVING it .

eandz glad to hear all is well... but sorry that you're going to have to carry on being patient like the rest of us! sorry I haven't replied to your fb message btw... will get the calendar out tomorrow.

I think carrieon and I are out by 1 day on the list so just editing it here...

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DebitheScot 4
Lollipopmother 5
Meglet 5
Hopefully 10
Lollyheart 10
Ponymum 10
Starlight 10
Biglips 13
Notcitrus 13
Mustsleep 13
Mumiyumi 14
Ellideb 15
Ipanemagirl 15
Mamamufin 16 ?
Bogie 16
Jearund 17
Milkbeard 18
Becaroo 19
MelT76 19
Munkimum 20
Barnpot 21
EandZ 21
Imoscarsmum 21
Izzybiz 21
Blimey 22
Islandlassie 22
Slinkie 22
Mellabella 22
Ninja 23
Mummytoonefornow 23
happymumathome 23
Pitufina 27
Jennylindinha 27
Pidge 28
Carrieon 29
LittleConnie 29
WombFor1More 30
Plusonemore 30

good evening, gals.
i know its been said plenty, but eandz im glad to hear all is ok.

i have spent the entirety of big brother (which is probably a blessing in disguise)trying to catch up with this eventful thread, and i only left the house around 2pm!
pheeww! all done now, and i'm so knackered that i can't remember what i wanted to comment on...err....

oh, i did want to say i'm pleased to read that all the disgruntled business about another particular thread has been resolved.

ahh, spent the afternoon on the local seaside with the units (dh & ds). as i've expressed above, i'm SHATTERED! but i had a nice time with them...it's sort of a bit of a family weekend, like taking advantage of the calm before the storm so i'm going to make the best of it.

and because if spending alot of the day on my feet, the swelling is haunting me now .
but i suspect i'll have way more fun with ds's morning poopy diaper being full of sand grains! he luvs to eat sand apparently. must get that from dh's side. hehehe

righty i really need to relocate to the fan in my room. i'm burning up still!

i hope you all had a fantastic day!!!

nite!!

one last thing for carrieon
i'm reading thru several threads where the topic is boys names... and i found you there posting a few ideas of your own.
is finn still towards the top of your list?
((i will say, its a wonderful name! good choice!)) my ds (2y in sept) is called fynn as well.

for us, we wanted to avoid finlay/finley. and preferred the shortened version. just fynn.
((we seem to aim for names that can't be shortened by others or ourselves))...

perhaps thats why we're having such difficulty this time around?!? limiting it to a short name...

anyways, just wanted to ask and mention that its a lovely choice. ((except, beware...when i was pregnant with him, i had heard the name finn maybe once or twice...but afterwards i heard it everywhere!! not to mention, we've sinced moved to a village of maybe 2500 and wouldn't ya know??! my fynn is the 3rd fynn in the wee little school! i think they are all finlays though..but still, you can imagine my shock.

its still a good name imo!

Haven't read todays posts properly as you have all talked so much! Was it just me making the most of the sunshine? I have tan lines .

I did think we might have a new birth announcement but it was not to be.

DP has been nesting and Dyson-ed the house and tidyied up his side of the bed, I can see the floor now .

I'm still here and in shock at the offense taken by some of the oct ladies...it wasn't my intention of causing offence, i'm suprised by the response
thank you foxytocin,mamamufin,eandz,starlight for defending me.... it wasn't something i expected to be reading tonight....How crap do i feel!!!

oh don't feel crap mumiyumi it's just a little standard mn hazing. it's a little weird that it happened on this thread, but better here than some other thread.

the girls on this thread are gold...every single one.

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Mumiyumi 13
Ellideb 14
Ipanemagirl 14
Mamamufin 15 ?
Bogie 15
Jearund 16
Milkbeard 17
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MelT76 18
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EandZ 20
Imoscarsmum 20
Izzybiz 20
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Slinkie 21
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Ninja 22
Mummytoonefornow 22
happymumathome 22
Pitufina 26
Jennylindinha 26
Pidge 27
Carrieon 28
LittleConnie 28
WombFor1More 29
Plusonemore 29

Thought i'd change it as i can't sleep!....can't cause offence with this

mumi sometimes people forget this is just a msg board otherwise you have to be pretty naive to think that any offence was meant.

Morning Girls - I've been awake since 5.15am, I guess I'd better get used to it.

Welcome to a new day, and any babies?

Hello there! I am HOME.
First of all apologies. My dh was supposed to post the news and with a bit more detail on thursday around 18:00 when he got home. MEN!!!!

Let's do it properly now: Lorea was born at 10:05 on thursday 28-8-2008 (I love that) She was 3.350kg, which is 7.6lb. She cried staight away and this time as it was an elective C-section there were no bruises and her face was, beautiful.

STORY: It may ssem unhappy at times, but we are both ok and we just have to learn together what works and doesn't
We arrived at 8:30 and they prepared me for surgery. I was numb by 9:00 and the surgeon was about to start when another doctor came in saying there was a lady wih preecampsia who needed an emergency C-section NOW. They apologised,I of course having been there myself understood, we stayed with a lovely anestetist with a velvety voice talking for about 45 minutes.
The surgeon came back, they check I was still numb(I had an epidural and a spinal) and 10 minutes later Lorea arrived.
I could not hold her while they were putting my bits together. My dh was holding her delighted.
Then we went to a room where we has skin to skin contact and she BF straight away. She looked like my ds when he was born, only smaller and with a more ladylike mouth.

They, then took me to the labour ward around 11:30. She slept a lot during the day. That first night she didn't, we didn't sleep and she would not feed either (the drugs made her a bit num and could not get into position) At that point, I freaked out, because I BF my ds till he was 2 and I started to see a problem coming.
I could not get out of bed (I had to stay there for 24 hrs) I had to pick her up from the cot from the bed. Yes, the MW were on call but it was taking too long for them to come (30 min), so I did my best. As a result of all that picking her up, the tube at the back came out and could not put it on completely. The pain started and the top ups were not doing the job. She was constantly crying and not eating. I started to hand express with Mw holding a siringe picking up every drop from my breast, luckily I had lots of coloustrum. Lorea took it all. We did that twice during the night.

I called my dh and asked him to take my ds to the nursery the following day because I had not slept and could not take care of her.He came at 10 for 2 hrs (they visitors are not allowed till 2:30)He came back at 2:30 till 5:30 when he went to collect ds. By then I had developed a very sharp pain across the chest and shoulder, which makes you thing you can't breathe. More top ups and we managed to sleep 4 hrs, she started to BF and we both woke up feeling better.

They took everything out, cathater and tubes at 11:00 am on the 29th. Went to have a shower and I was pleased to be able to pick her up and walk with her. THE ARNICA WAS HELPING.
We came home yesterday , very late. I decided to come come because it was very very hot in the hospital and we were ok. The other ladies who had the C-section on the same day also left . Yesterday, we arrived at 21:00 and Lorea has been awake, and this is completely true, all night like her first night. She is now sleeping on top of my dh on the sofa while I write this. Ds is still in bed.
The good news is that she is gorgeous, healthy and now my milk has come up and we are out of that hot hospital she is BF.
The first thing I am going to do is to go to Boots and buy some dummies. I have always been against them and never used them before, but my maternal instict is telling me she needs some comfort when I transfer her to the cot. I swaddle her and she manages, little madam, to get her hands out trying to suck them and once they are out she is awake because of the moro reflex.I have not used the snuggenest, because I can swaddle her there. See how it goes tonight.

My ds loves her sister and was very excired when he came to see her. He looks so big now. He ended up going two days to nursery and was a star.
HE is calling us now,has just woken up. I have Lorea in my arms now. giving her lots of kisses.ALL WORTH IT LADIES.
Thanks for everything, Sassafrass, you are doing a great job, trust yourself.
Have to try to put her in the crib now and go to see ds.

morning everyone.

ninja, sorry to hear you've been up that early! i, myself, was awake at 645am to my ds saying "open gate, open gate" so there was no chance of a lay in this morning. ahhhh, no worries. hopefully you will get the change for a nice nap later today to make up for it as well?

so later today, we're driving out of the area to visit dh's nan & father...as well as for him to sort out one of his computer clients. seeing as i'm 37 weeks now, i'm thinking i should play it safe and throw the hospital bag in the back along with my pregnancy notes. am i being silly about this? ((we're driving maybe an hour away)).

at what point will you all start carrying around your bags/notes? ((if at all))

poxtola
awwwww!!!!!!!
thanks so much for sharing your story!
i can't imagine having to pause my anticipation during C/s! sounds like you handled everything very well.

Also, i'm happy to hear the your ds is getting on with the idea of a baby sister. (its a big worry of mine, well....with my own ds of course hehehe))

anyways, well done, hun!

Congrats on Lorea Potxola and welcome home.

I'm so pleased to hear that you're doing ok even though the hospital visit sounds difficult.

I tried a dummy with Katie since she loves to suck but she refused, only the real thing will do. So I just let her sleep with me in bed, that way we both get good sleep at night. I'm hoping that I'll be able to move her to her cot in a couple of weeks time.

mumi i didn't think you wrote anything offensive. don't feel crap as you,ve done nothing wrong

ninja my dd woke at 4 and we've been awake on and off since, am totally exhausted, not really sure how i'll cope with 2! must be dd way of getting me use to having little sleep

poxtola lovely to hear things went ok. can't believe midwives took 30 minutes to come , you were very understanding about delay in birth. enjoy your first day home with lorea x

Welcome home potxola and Lorea.

this is a great link on how to swaddle with any old blankie.

the pictures are near the bottom of the document. I never used a swaddle blanket and swaddled dd till she was over 5 months old.

Oh, this is kiskidee with a daft name.

Hello

Didnt really sleep again and up since 6am

Going back to bed for a rest when dh takes ds swimming in about an hour. Hurrah!

Have a good sunday ladies

....(and eandz I agree with you - every single poster on this thread is lovely)

Talia - I got a moby wrap - my ds was very tiny when he was born and stayed that way for a long time so got one that you can use for small babies just in case!