Due in June '05 - onwards and outwards

[welshmum]

Here we are - Happy Mondays all

Awww Welshie - I know what you mean - cut ds's hair this weekend (so he no longer looks like the secret love child of Leo Sayer) and he suddenly looks very grown up - a proper little boy - infact it's only really when he's sleeping that he still looks like my little baby!

Leo Sayer!
If there's one man I can't imagine do anything remotely rude with it's Leo Sayer.

OMG just worked out I'm 29+3...next sunday I'll have less than 10 weeks to go - sh*t - things had seemed recently to slow down a bit but as I'm fast approaching the single weeks-to-go figures time will just run away again!!!

Can't believe there's already a due in December thread - isn't it too early?? Must go and have a gander...

Ha ha ha - no me neither - too short for starters...and then there's the rest of him, urgh

you got that cute way of talking....:0...showing me age now...

Red - nothing wrong with your age - it's a good age to be if you ask me !!

yes, maturing like a fine wine.....

How old are you redhead?

35...not old, old but not as youthful as I think I am!

realised as I was stomping through our local tunnel the other day with the pram and spotted some 'youths' that I'm no longer the younger generation, but a responsible parent that looks at them and thinks they're not wearing enough clothes for the cold weather...hmmm

Well I'm 41 and still consider myself to be about 29 - some would say I act in an even more immature fashion.

Red - that's the kind of thing I'd think...esp when out on a saturday night and yu see these young lovlies in little more than belts, no tight's and snow on the ground!!! Ha ha ha - you do realise that we're turning into our mothers!!!!

Welshie - I still feel like I did at 21 - I just have 15 years experience of being 21!!!!

Back to knickers When I went into labour, I was wearing some Elle Macpherson knickers. The midwives thought it was hilarious that I had my 'best' knickers on to give birth (they weren't actually that fancy imo.) But, tbh, getting dressed to go to the hospital, the last thing on my mind was what flipping knickers to wear! I really couldn't have cared less if I'd messed up a pair of brand new fancy pants or dodgy old ones

Welcome back Franni

Hmm time for Oreo's and a cuppa

A couple of weekends ago I cleared out my wardrobe at my Mums house. It was stuffed with my clothes from 'a previous life' i.e. pre-25. Dresses I couldn't bend down in, the aforementioned skirts like belts etc etc. I was horrified on 2 counts. Firstly, that I could once ever have fitted into these tiny clothes. Secondly, that I had the guts to go out in skirts so short you could see what I had for breakfast It took me back, it really did

not sure exactly what my mental image of my age is...but somewhere in my twenties I suspect...has been a great shock at work to see young women asking questions wide eyed about childbirth (pretty much me 10 years ago)

well, despite messaging here have finished damn report and am off in a min to see the MW. Am a little nervous as wondering what her attitude to home birth will be....don't want to have to be assertive today.

will have chocolate in bag as backup.

Morning!

TRIB - Sending all the best and keeping my fingers crossed for you db's meeting today - do you know how it went yet? When will they let him know? When will he find out more conclusiivley about the possible cancer Fibromyalgia sounds just awful. Poor him.

This bleeding business - I didn't realise what a big deal it might be - I thought you just bled lightly for a couple of days! So why do you bleed so much and for so long then? I'm guessing it's all the extra stuff - womb lining - that was created temporarily coming away? It's not because you're injured so badly is it?

KVG - I know that whenever I mention to dp how hard it could be for the first few weeks, he just smiles into the distance as my words float dreamily through one ear and out the other. Bless. All he can imagine is snuffling the back of Pod's neck.....[smile

Aw Welshie - how sweet - you and your notebook! I'll have to do that too.

MrsW - can't you just go home in the clothes in which you went in to hospital? Or should you go to hospital in a nightie Thanks for the tip on babygrows - do you think a pack of 6 would do?

TEA! I thought you meant you were flashed at in church! I was going to ask you if men of the cloth go commando! My friend has a lovely photo of me from last summer when I was messing with her dog. She was just introducing me to a (male) friend of hers I'd never met whilst taking some pics and her dog pulled my top right down with his paw below my unfettered boob . She won't let me destroy it.

Thanks for your bag list. Am intrigued by the syringe thingy - do they syringe your nips then?? And how, pray did you manage to kill a whole tree? Even I haven't managed that one

Hi Franniban! Not seen you here for ages! Glad you seem to be happier at work (and that you're still there!)

Redhead - really - your first midwife appt - I've had about 3! Don't know who'll deliver me though. Probably wont meet them beforehand. Hope you feel better soon. And good luck with your appt!

Lua - sorry you're down as well

If our babies are born in June, will they be young or old in their school year?? I just can't figure it out - I don't know when the cut of date is.

It's the womb lining etc etc Charley and it can last for 6 weeks. I can't recall it being much of a problem at the time - most of my body seemed to be doing stuff it didn't usually do so one more thing wasn't an issue

Red - good luck for your appointment - choc's in the bag - eminently good idea

Charley - afternoon It was a little tree - only a few years old...was ok in a tub last year...planted it in the front garden last summer, and hey presto dead??!! Just my special touch I guess

Re the syringe thingy - sorry if TMI for people - they just gently squeeze your nips to get the fluid to come out and hold a styringe to it to capture that fluid, then feed bubs from the syringe - doesn't hurt - but is odd to have someone not male squeezing your boobies - must add they only do this is bubs doesn't seem to have a strong sucking relfex when born - to get them used to the taste/smell.

Oh and Junies will be young in their years at school - cut off is around the end of August (well at leats it was when I was at school...long time ago I know!)

I think the amount of blood that can come out post-birth is just our bodies (or 'Father Natures' )way of getting it's own back after having 9 months of no periods Hehe. Well, I suppose a lot has been going on in there, lots of build up of uterus lining for baby to grow in the early stages etc. It's not surprising there's quite a lot to get rid of.

For those who have had ceasarians; is post-birth blood loss massively different (just in case I have one)?? I'm aware of the post-op limitations for about 6 weeks making you feel fragile, but do you have the same blood loss as if you had given birth vaginally?

I missed that about the syringe?? Is that for baby to take milk in the early days for various reasons?? My milk came in pretty quickly as I recall.

Charley, definitely pack some clothes to go home in, do not get dp to do it (unless he is Tom Ford or someone ) Something to make you feel good, because, yes, they'll still be maternity wear for a few days and weeks after that!!

Charley also meant to say I really wouldn't bother taking the breast pump into hospital, they have (I think) rather marvellous industrial looking pumps of their own that work far better than anything you can buy in the shops - should you need it. I didn't see anyone using one on my ward but when I got down to neo natal, oh my goodness - you should have seen us, like Daisy, Primrose and Flossie, all hooked up to our pumps, being milked.

Lippy I think the blood loss post a c-section is the same kind of amount, also you don't necessarily feel all that fragile after. I was pretty much ok from very early on, as were my 2 best friends who had to have elective sections for different reasons. Alot depends on your level of fitness going into it I think and your mental attitude

Lippy - yeah they use the syringe in my hospital when trying to encourage a 'disinterested' baby, and sometimes for premmies...generally to get them to like the taste/smell and encourage lazy suckers

Thanks for the reassurances about bleeding! I'd've so worried if I hadn't thought to ask that

I'll have to find out about hiring a hospital grade breast pump that I can take home with me immediately. If I can then I might hold off on buying one of my own until I see how I get on with it. I'm so worried about not being able to breast feed, but there's just no way of knowing how successful I'll be until I do it. Welshie at your cattle shed!!

Lippy - LOL "father" nature! so true!

Charley, I too was really worried about breastfeeding but I think information is the key. Does your hospital do a bf workshop? I went to one and it was really good. The other thing I'd get my hands on is a list of numbers for bf counsellors locally so you can call someone for support if you need to - I used them and they were really great.
I think the advice is not to use a pump if you can help it for the first 4 weeks as it messes about with supply and demand system you're setting up with little 'un.