Due in July 2005 - Part 5 (The Last??!!)

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OK everyone, here it is. Who will be first to post their announcement I wonder?

Oooh, lovely Designers Guild sales are one of the many things I miss about London. Paddy's Market just isn't quite the same

HC - It is so encouraging to hear a nice birth story about induction. It's also lovely to be reminded that one doesn't have to give birth squatting on a bean bag made of knitted placenta to have a good experience! You sound ecstatic, as anyone with a 15 minute 2nd stage should be!

Congratulations to Lovinit, Whimsy and Panda (again!). Wonder how AussieSim is.

Hello Ladies!

Resigned to the fact that I will be induced on Tuesday now, so I am no longer waiting impatiently at home. Spent today watching Live 8, dancing around the house, also having a manic cleaning frenzy - I've now been nesting for 4 weeks and the house is practically spotless! I won't be able to keep up with it all when the little one arrives!

If only the phone, mobile, e-mails would stop coming - I am beginning to feel quiet inferior that baby hasn't arrived!

Hope that you are all ok, I think the remainder of the Junies must be having their babies...it's gone awfully quiet in there!

Take care ladies,

Kai arrived on Wednesday night 29 June 11.54pm Sydney time. 4.265kg / 9lb 60z, 53cm long, 35.5 head circumference. Normal Vaginal Delivery bit of gas only for pain relief - maybe if he hadn't been so quick I would have demanded something else as well. Arrived at hospital 4.15pm, not in true labour yet, dilating slowly, considering being induced when a midwife did an internal at 10.15 and my waters broke and then everything started happening very fast. I only used the f word twice apparently. Just a little 1st degree tear. Sent home day three. Breast Feeding well - very engorged right now. The biggest surprise was his siye - no one had predicted it and I am only quite small myself. I highly recommend the use of a mirror during the birth, very motivating and involving. More later, Sim

Big congrats on Kai and your birth AussieSim !

Congratulations AussieSim!

Wow, the Julyers are popping thick and fast now! Its so exciting

Gwenybe, hope your anxious days are over soon, you can come and nest at my house if you are running out of things to do! Sounds like you are long overdue your happy moment. Good luck for Tuesday.

Hub2dee - Wednesday, wow!!!! Good luck to you and Dee. 5lbs is a good weight, and have to say they estimated ds was 7lb, he was born two days later at 8.9 lb so you never know. Hope no trip to SCBU though.

Hub2Dee - sorry, sure you have far more important things on your mind, however if I could pinch 2 mins of your time?

A while ago we discussed MOuntain buggies. Think I mentioned fact that mine gets quite a lot of punctures and you suggested a site were I could get more robust tyres from. I have done a search on the archive but cant find it. Can you give me the link again please?

pinky: Guru Nigel here

I think it is also common they have problems with people over inflating tyres. On my road bicycle, you keep the pressure as high as you can, maybe 100psi which makes the tyres super hard and helps the bike handle nicely with less rolling resistance and reduced likelihood of punctures, so the theory goes... MB wheels are rated to 20 psi but I think they suggest only 15psi for the tyres, which is really fairly soft... not quite sure if that's the way to go, but they certainly think it is !

HTH

Congrats AussieSim and also Hoxtonchick and anyone else who has their babe in arms now X

Hi all Congrats to everyone with babes in arms
I had a section on Thurday due to pre eclampsia 14days early. DS2 was born at 12:26pm, weighed in at 7lb 13oz. We have called him Oliver
Good luck to you all

Congratulations to Lovinit, Hoxtonchick, AussieSim and Whimsy on the birth of your new babies. Wonderful news!

Welcome Gwenybe - let's hope all that dancing and cleaning pays off very soon!

Hub2Dee: Sorry to hear that you and Dee have had a tough time of it recently. It must be reassuring for you to know that your little bean is a 5lber already. My son was born at 36 weeks (v small - 3lbs 15oz as I had a placental abruption - emergency c section). Just to reassure you if your little girl does need to stay in SCBU for a while I have to say that our experience of having our ds1 in SCBU for 2 weeks was so good. The ladies that looked after ds1 were so lovely and caring and they involved us as much as we wanted. They encouraged me to experess milk (however little I managed to produce!) and until he learnt to suckle I was able to tube feed him with my breast milk. SCBU do such a wonderful job. They also gave us wonderful bits of advice with regards to later bottle feeding (like don't heat up the milk - our DS1 would drink bottled milk however it was served up - it saves loads of time if you have a screaming hungry baby and you are out - you don't have to try and get hot water in restaurants or cafes to heat up the bottle! Also get baby used to noise so they can settle themselves to sleep - rather than being in total silence. In SCBU they used to play all sorts of music to the babies at night - they loved it! My DS1 has always adored music!

I hope everything goes well for you all on Wednesday. Take care and Good luck!

All being well just 2 weeks before ds2 comes by c section! Hope I manage to hang on. I have another growth scan on Thursday and to check if the placenta has moved!

xxx

Aussiesim- congratulations on baby Kai - what a big boy!

Congrats again Whimsy - Oliver is a good weight for 14 days early

hi all,
think i'll stay here for the moment as we don't seem to have a postnatal thread yet. we have had a hormone-ridden couple of days, with me weeping for much of a time. i'm definitely on a comedown after the euphoria of the birth. poor dp & ds don't know what to do with me, lots of hugs being provided. dd is currently asleep by herself, a bit of a first as normally she screams when put down. my milk has finally come in, which is such a relief (was beginning to panic it never would - 5 days is too long to wait!), & her feeding has settled down a bit. she had been really unsettled & screaming, refusing to latch on, basically frustrated i think with lack of food. proper milk is being well received. she had her first bath, & promptly did a big wee all over her new towel . just hope she hasn't lost more weight & the midwife doesn't terrorise me tomorrow. i just know i'll dissolve into tears if she does.

we haven't been overrun with visitors, unlike when ds was born as we keep saying no when people ask to come over! grandparents are allowed, but that's about it. the inlaws came over today, tidied up, cooked us all lunch & left - wow. and my mum is coming back tomorrow for breastfeeding support as i kept weeping down the phone to her. we are really lucky.

ds is being amazing. he keeps insisiting on holding her, & when she woke up & rooted on his knee, stuck his finger in her mouth like a real professional. i think he'd quite like to take her to nursery for show & tell.... the only thing he doesn't approve of is when she cries too loudly for him to hear cbeebies.

i hope i've encouraged you for your induction mrsd. i can strongly reccommend taking all drugs on offer, specially if you need a synotocin drip. were your other children vaginal deliveries? if so, it shold be quite quick. i dilated so much more quickly this time, & the weaker epidural helped knowing when to push. and liking the midwife made a big difference; the one who delivered ds was a complete cow.

hope everything goes ok for dw h2d.

wow, another essay. i think it's 'cos i can't quite cope with talking to people in real life at the moment....

hub2dee - regarding weights this is what it says on the BabyCenter site for 36 weeks -

How your baby's growing: Your baby is still putting on the pounds ? about an ounce a day. She now weighs almost 6 pounds and is a little less than 19 inches long. She's shedding most of the downy covering of hair that covered her body as well as the vernix caseosa, the creamy substance that covered and protected her skin during its submersion in amniotic fluid. Your baby swallows both of these substances, along with other secretions, which will stay in her bowels until birth. This blackish mixture, called meconium, will become her first bowel movement.

Good luck for Wed

Hello again hoxtonchick - sorry to hear you've been weepy but sounds like things are sorting themselves out. Your ds sounds lovely.

Must get the kids to bed....

hoxtonchick - suggest to your midwife you would rather wait till day 10 before having her weighed again because you expect her to have lost weight because your milk has only just come in. That is what we do in our neck of the woods when babies are at home.

oh really mears, that's interesting. even though dd is a bit jaundiced? i think they were a bit more interested in me as my bp had gone up again (i have essential hypertension but my medication was stopped after delivery as i had a pph & bp dropped right down). i've been to the gp & got medicaion. i'll give them a ring in the morning.

bump, as i can see mears at the top of active convos!

yes. She will have lost weight because of the delay in your milk coming in. You will get all uptight when you see the scales. Waiting will do no harm. Keep an eye on wet nappies and poos. She should produce one over the next day.

Thanks webwoman for your good wishes, and also for outlining your experience with ds in SCBU. As this is our first, and hardly any friends have kids, I'm still pretty new to how much they weigh and how big they'll be etc. etc. I'm sure it will all work out. Good tips about exposing them to noise ! There was a CD on a magazine a few weeks ago which had a recording of a vacuum cleaner which might do the trick !

Thanks hc ! Glad you are being well-treated by those around you ! Come sob on here so we can help you out if needed !

Thanks Eulalia.

And a hello to mears who I think is a super fab person.

Sorry you're weepy HC. Even when one knows that it comes with the territory, it's still horrible when it happens. I hope you feel better soon. Your milk coming in is such a big step for you and for Florence.

Yes, my other deliveries were vaginal and quite quick, and I was induced with DS1. I, and the people looking after me, are all assuming this one will be straightforward too. I'm keeping an open mind about pain relief. I had an epidural with DS1, some gas & air with DS2 and veinfuls of morphine last year so I have tried the whole selection.

I've been getting quite panicky too - not so much about the delivery, but about whether the baby is ok. I know what you mean, HC, about it being easier to post on here than talk to friends in RL. That's exactly what I'm doing as well. It's quite enough having the "still pregnant...aren't you carrying it low..." comments without concerned head-tilts as well!

Congratulations Whimsy on Oliver's safe arrival. I'm glad the pre-eclampsia was kept at bay until 38 weeks.

Blimey, Aussiesim, that's a big baby! And you sound so chilled about it! I'm very glad it all went well. I'm not sure if the mirror suggestion is for me though - I tried to keep my knickers on when I had DS1! Congratulations, and what a lovely name. All of the names on this thread have been lovely so far - I haven't had to be polite about any of them. Just wait, the next baby will be called Fester or Veruca just to test our manners

Good luck with your scan next week Webwoman.

By the way, is a dodgy tummy, queasiness and weepiness a sign that things are about to happen, or just that I'm a 37 weeks pregnant crosspatch?

hmmm... mrsd.... sounds like hopeful noises from your corner perhaps ????

We've basically shut out RL. I put an apparently slightly snappy message on the answering machines saying something like 'Dee's going in on Wednesday, leave a message but we probably won't get back to you'

LOL.

Thank You for the continuing warm welcome July ladies! It's gone so quiet "next door" - they must all be busy with their Junie babies!

I hope that you are all well in here, I probably won't log on tomorrow as I will be preparing for my big day, going to "Milton" the whole house! Which should take me all day, as everything's taking me so long!

So I wish you all the best, and hopefully I will be posting my good news at the end of the week, God Bless

If you don't log on tomorrow Gwenynbee, good luck on Tuesday. I have an inkling of how much this must all mean to you, and you, your DH, DS1 and the baby boy you are about to meet will be very much in my thoughts and prayers over the next few days
x

Hello there
A brief message on behalf of my partner who is unable to get to a computer at present as has recently given birth to a beautiful, big, baby boy. Jacob Wellard Archer, born 2245 on July 2nd by ceasarian. He weighed in at 10lbs 1 Oz.Both are doing well. Jo will be in touch soon.
all the best
Dh

Wow OzJo, well done! Look forward to hearing from you soon