Due in June '05 - onwards and outwards

[welshmum]

Here we are - Happy Mondays all

I cannot believe there is a Due in December thread

Charley - Weshie is right about knowing where to get information to help you with breastfeeding, although I think I got to a point where I had too much information and was just pain confused!! Find out where your bf groups, counsellors are, when they run, before hand so that if you need them you know where to go. I hope it works for you

I am looking forward to bf again, even though it can be horrid at times. I might try and keep it going for longer this time...

CHarley,
I know nothing about what breast reductions do to you and how would it affect you bfing...
But as all say having the right support is really important! Since you might have a spetial situation, it might be worth to locate before hand someone that can give you taylored advise IYSWIM....
The worst for me was having to call around to find out a bf consultant when I was crying my eyes out for being such a failure.... Once she came I felt so much better!!!

LOL, Charley I've just re-read your earlier post, and will every time I'm in church now at the thought they're secretly commando, ha ha ha! How awful about your photo too...friends eh!

Ooh where is everyone, one, one, one...(echo tails away....). I'm having to post on other threads to keep myself amused which is just not on I've even resorted to actually doing work this afternoon, which is definitely not on

Anyone out there for me to play with??

I'm just about to leave sorry tb, I think we're having a quiet day today.

I'm here! >

Was just popping back in to see if anyone had posted - it's not like us Junies to leave it so long between posts. I assumed everyone had gone for a nap or was busy eating chocolate.

Well I'm busy eating some ginger snaps does that count??

Bye Welshie - have a good evening

I'm half way through an apple. That definitely doesn't count. The girl I share an office with has gone out, leaving a large plate of chocolate cake (her birthday cake) unattended. The fool....

...very foolish indeed - so now then how good are you at innocent faces, so that when she comes back and it's all gone you can say straight faced it must have been the fairies, he he he!

well I would probably stuff the whole thing down and deal with the consequences afterwards (by leaving early perhaps??) but then I am sitting here munching my way through the leftovers out of ds's lunchbag so I am not really a food role model.

Mrs W if I remember right you didn't ask what sex the baby was...do you have any ideas yet as to what it may be?? What does your ds say? Before we found out if I asked my ds then one day he's say he wanted a brother, then the next a sister, but mostly he wanted a blue dinosaur! He seems happy enough about a sister now, although he's been informing me that the toys in the house are his and not the baby's - talk about marking your territory early

LOL KVG tiny bites . Mrs W you have to do that just for the look on your friends face...see how long it takes to dawn on her what's happening. Sshhh I've done that with cake in our house and I didn't want dh to know I was secretly munching it...just cut little sliver slices so that he doesn't notice straight away

actually KVG I can just imaging him doing that, ha ha ha. Agree tho about being putty...he doesn't leave our friends dd alone (she's 8 weeks now) and he has to be whereever she is...even asking to help with the nappy changing...unfortunately I fear this helpful streak may wane by the time his own sister arrives and I'll be left to do it all by myself

Charley - I would say take the breast pump. It really depends what hospital you go to as to if they have equiptment for you to borrow. The hospital I would have had to deliver in in Cardiff didn't have breast pumps and also they didn't clean the maternity toilets/bathrooms properly. All the people my mate was in with were complaining at how disgusting and dirty the ward was. They had people complaining there was blood all over the floor, It was really bad in that case though and hopefully Southmead will be cleaner fingers crossed I don't like the idea of using a breast pump someone else has used anyway - feels like buying second hand socks... shudder

My friend had a ceasarian and says that the bleeding is the same but you don't have the stitches down below making it all worse I'm told.

I hadn't considered how big the hospital bag needs to be. I have this huge list and have realised it isn't going to fit into one of those small handy weekend bags. Also - the outfits I have selected for the photo's will be taking up a bit of room...

Teabelly - did they have a laundry in the hospital? I know most people say to take at least 6 sleep suits because they get dirty from poop and changing the first few times. Or did DH take the stuff home to wash?

I am just worried that I won't have anyone near to bring things on tap - My friend will have a spare set of keys to bring things but I can't expect her to bring stuff in every day. I'll have to ask the midwife tomorrow.

Did anyone find that arnica pills helped? I have to get some of those...

Southmead was OK, Pink - no blood on the floor anyway. They don't let visitors use the loos on the ward (they're for mums only) and they and the bathrooms were clean. The ward itself could have been better, they cleaned round the cubicles as each person left, but not while you were in there iyswim, so will be taking my Flash wipes and getting MIL to do the necessary when she visits this time .

Great cake stealing tips ladies!

She's probably not going to be back before I leave, then she's not back again until next Monday, so I could just look blank when she mentions it.

Teabelly, when I asked DS the other day if he wanted a girl or a boy he said he wanted a 'birl'. His gender awareness is not brilliant though - I'm still called a 'naughty boy' and even though we've explained that he is a boy because he has a willy, he still calls himself a girl. Bless him - he even pulled my pyjamas bottoms down the other day to look for my willy . He still says I have a monkey in my tummy, not a baby.

Me and DH are completely undecided now about what it is. For ages we both thought it was a girl, but now we've both decided it's a boy (some of the kicks are far too brutal to be a girl, surely!).