Due April 2009 - Chapter 30: Orbit Has a Real Name AND Springy Has Sprung!! Fanjo Warriors Form Birth Battle Formation!!

[NuttyBlowUpEasterBunny]

a title everyone will be happy with may you all post and be merry

may we have many labours and births on theis thread!!!!!

Come on Girls!!!!

ooh 3 weeks, dont think id manage that emotionally, took me that long to tell my mum lol

congratulations Puzzle!!!

Bleu, you could do that, or just hold her all the time?

ooh yeah congratulations Puzzle. Lovely name.

Ooops sorry missed a page. Congrats Puzzle!!!

I see we're on to pig's willies again

Wonder where Nutty is today? Hope she's okay!

Suprise - the blood and discharege is a good sign hopefully something will start off fo you soon xx

Conker - ooohhh yay for bathroom products and more viewings!! Cheeky May Ladies!!! dont they understand we get precedence on birthing!

Lauren - how you doing today sweetheart? x

Springy - LOL there isn't a cat in hells chance i would let my MIL anywhere near my fanjo

Bumpalump - so sorry about the tear ((hugs)) you had such a great birth too xx well done and congratulations again

Boff - ooohhh good to know about the ventouse and forceps (i will be adding that to my birth plan pronto) the pool is huge i doubt i would be able to get in it in all honesty plus they only have the one and i'm not sure i would get it even if i asked tbh. How are things with you gorgeous lady??

BB - lol at your leakage Yep 4 more sleeps woooooohooooooo i cant wait!!!!!! will you stop cleaning and being all goddessy please !!

Purple - oh no sweetheart ((hugs hugs)) xxx your doing fantastically keeping it all together xx probably best to keep the mil at bay as much as you can x

WFH - ((hugs)) you have only just given birth really dont be to hard on yourself xx you will be fine with 2 when you're healed, your still recovering xx

PHD - Huge Congratulations!! well done you

Carameli - Yikes!! ((hugs))

Bleu - oh no, mastitus is a bitch it would explain the pain though, hope it gets sorted for you soon

Electra - Beautiful Name!!

right 2 more pages to go will post now .....

Ah here she is

nuttttyyy i'm okay today thank yupe, dp has took a day off work so its lovely to have him here, even though hes sat clawing through uni assessments at least hes here, (CUE OLIVER - NOW WOULD BE A GOOD TIME MISTER!!) got some wierd pains, feel like ive got a wee infection, its a cystitis type pain, i give up trying to figure out whats happening with me though

u ok nutty..? x

Schultes I can always tell if it's sales people as you get that delay before they speak so I always hang up at that point or when they ask to speak to Mrs B in that distant foreign voice! [bad emoticon]

PUZZLE Yay your back and welcome little Holly - can't wait for your story and and see how DD is loving her lil sis!

Nutts, I am not being domestic anymore - am led on the sofa with Kara and have eaten a whole Buttons easter egg (feel a bit sick but oh so good!!!)

Damn rain got my skirting board all wet in the garden grrr - sure it will be fine when it dries out though - if not DH will deal with it later! I did my bit by painting the darn thing!!!

Electra lovley name! PHD great birth story!!!

Bleu, good luck at drs this afternoon

ps. just bought dp a book take a look

Boff - ROFL at your police line

Puzzle - YOUR BACK!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!! welcome to HollyRocks!!!! xxx cant wait for the birth story!!

Lauren - you have started the farmyard stuff off again i hope you know what you let yourself in for!!!!!! you do not want to be a pig!! you get uncorked i prefer having my cherry popped personally to corkage

BB - ahh good girl buttons egg YUMMY!!! now keep your feet up mrs

Just having a snuggly dd day we have played with ponies, given each other a moisturise (palmers coco butter everywhere!! lol) and dd has been dusting for me while i repacked my hospital bag and she has repacked the baby's bag (i will tweak it later )

kara has been asleep for 4 hours - he had a quick 5 min feed half an hour ago but zonked out again - shall i wake him or let him snooze???

BB - ahhh let him snooze, unless you have a loose routine sorted already??

Sleep sleep sleep, any moment you can at this stage

Hi Nutts, as you ask, I think the antibiotics might just be working, plus DH did baby duty last night for me, as I had managed to pump two feeds, which meant I got a bit more rest and I am sure that must have helped a bit too.

About the pool, let's think it through a bit. Things that come to mind:

1. Could you clamber over the edge to get in and out with some help?
2. Would it be reasonable for them to provide a hoist to ensure disabled access equality, or would that mean allowing a disabled person in a pool that they could not get out of in an emergency, leading to increased medical risk? Or could it be argued that in an emergency you have already proved you can function sufficiently well to get out if necessary?
3. Would you be prepared to attempt foregoing an epidural intially in order to be able to use the pool later? (I have a feeling the two things might be mutually exclusive, but I may be wrong).
4. Would DH be prepared to get in the pool with you in order to assist?
5. From your hydro experience, do you have any instinct water birth might be better for your back and hips in labour, even if it means some pain afterwards? (Which they could give you heavy duty meds for if necessary, I imagine).

Also Nutty I haven't forgotten about the pain team brochure, but I realise now there's pages and pages of it and I haven't been near a meaty enough photocopier. But I'll get onto it as soon as I have a chance.

BB he really should feed every 3 hours if poss in the daytime. But it's probably not the end of the world if he doesn't tbh.

wow suddenly the thread has picked up again - great name puzzle.

mmm more easter eggs - might need to open another without ds spotting me.

this reflexology talk is very enticing - might have to look online and see if there is anything like that round here.

thanks for advice boffin... we're off in a minute and of course she's fussing up a storm... should be interesting

I would let him sleep, but then thats because I don't really like a routine at this stage so depends on what route you are going down. If you are happy to demand feed and have no routine and just go with the flow then I would leave him to sleep. But I know some people beieve in feeding at set times so they might wake him. I never woke DD up for a feed and she turned out ok! lol. At the end of the day - if it were night time, you wouldn't feed every 3 hours if baby was happy to sleep and babies don't know the differnece between day and night at this stage.

Fair enough, Soon2be, but I should add that my mw put it in an interesting way. She said that they are programmed to take a certain amount of milk in 24 hours, and the more they get during adult waking hours, the more sleep the adults might just get at night, tipping the babies favourably into more of a daytime existence rather than a nocturnal one (which is the natural state they start off in). I think there's some sense in that.

I am defo going to book the reflexology if she can fit me in before I go into labour, at a time when I have childcare for DD.

I have just eaten one of DDs easter eggs! Is that really bad? At the end of the day - she got about 10 and is only 15 months! We don't give her much at a time so that will last months if she has them on her own! That was MIL showing off buying her a whole bag full, because we didn't bother buying any!

Getting nervous about my dental work. I REALLY want it done on 29th - so it can be over and done with and then toothache will stop BUT they will only do it if baby has been born (I am being sedated) and I need to cancel 5 days in advance if baby isn't born. The next appointment is june/july and I don't want to be in pain until then!

boffinmum - that might explain why DD still doesn't sleep through at 15 months! Maybe I am not the best person to give advice about sleep . LOL

Soon2be, it is fine to have dental treatment in pg. I have had two lots of root canal treatment fgs. You shouldn't have to be in pain.