Recurrent Buns Graduates - Pregnancy and Beyond

[Glitterybits]

Thought it was about time we had a new home for all those lovely ladies who used to frequent the original Recurrent Buns thread, or anyone else who has been through the hideous journey of miscarriage, recurrent miscarriage, infertility, testing etc. and now finds themselves either pregnant and in need of hand-holding (or better yet) with their long-awaited bundle(s) of joy.

I know it perhaps seems a little inappropriate to start a thread in the miscarriage topic but it still seems the most relevant spot for those of us who haven't yet completed the journey - and nowhere else really seemed right or fair to everyone.

I do hope you'll come along and say hello. I do miss you all!

[mumatron]

Oh lf how sad about the dream :( hope L is feeling better.

glittery sending good luck vibes your way.

frazzled I can understand your fears about F's length. My cousin had all 3 of her lo's early and her ds1 was about the same gestation and weight as F iirc. He is still small but not so much he gets picked on or anything.

And obviously it's not your fault!

I'm exhausted today :( E was awake from 1.45am until 2.30am. Then up at 4.45am for the day. She's been a right grump today aswell.

Off to try and sleep. Will try and check back for glittery's news as much as poss

[ALovelyBunchOfCoconuts]

Delurking to check for news.

All ok my end, glittery if you are in labour good luck :) :)

[mumatron]

[ALovelyBunchOfCoconuts]

Back again..... I'm never going to get anything done at this rate

Have been having a read of the original thread. Very lovely (IYSWIM) to read of all your stories. justmee and grumpyfish were original posters on the first one too and I'm pretty sure I came on later towards to end. I'm only just beginning page 5 though.

Have had a busy week so far and have knackered myself up so planning to have a quieter day today so will come back and do a proper catch up later hopefully. Will be lurking here and there anyway for news of our imminent arrival!

Oh how I wish I had a posh phone to check while I'm out and about!

mumatron A cigar? What's that for?! haha! They make me vom!

[mumatron]

Not much of a cigar fan myself tbh, what can we have instead?

I've got blueberry muffins and chic brownies not long out of the oven if you fancy?

[ALovelyBunchOfCoconuts]

Oh I love a blueberry muffin :)

[mumatron]

I've made 12 choc cupcakes, 6 blueberry muffins, 6 choc chip muffins and 18 choc brownies.

I have 2 slightly burnt cupcakes left.

1 choc chip muffin left.

2 brownies left.

:(

thanks dp and ds

[ALovelyBunchOfCoconuts]

Pigs!!

[mumatron]

After baking all of that I am now in a overpriced cafe in town buying dd a muffin!

Anything for a bit of peace and quiet around the shops.

[MummyAbroad]

[Glitterybits]

Hello you lovely lot. I've been trying to get on the sodding computer for the past 24 hours, but things have been ever so slightly dramatic to say the very least. So, to put you out of your misery...

DD is here! All 9lb 5ozs of her. Ended up having an unplanned homebirth, because she came too damn quickly. Phoned the hospital at about 3am to say I was going in and they fobbed me off, saying I was clearly not in active labour as far too calm and composed. Have I EVER been too calm and composed?

An hour later I was hollering and whooping on all fours on my bathroom floor (thought I was literally dying - poor DH desperately trying to remain calm all the while as I wailed like a deranged loon) and screamed down the phone at them that we were coming in. Stupid woman at the birth centre told me to take paracetamol and eat something when there was practically a person hanging out of me. Managed to get out of my bath, but that was basically the end of my ability to move. Waters went with a bang that I both heard and felt and the idea of a car journey was completely impossible. Poor DS woke up and started asking why Mummy was sad at this point which is, I think, the only reason why I was still hanging onto the baby. So, emergency ambulance, two paramedics and a pretty annoyed midwife all dash out to us at about 5am yesterday morning and, they wouldn't let me deliver in my bath because it was a medical emergency by that point, apparently! Managed to find enough air to yell that if they'd let me go into sodding hospital in the first place instead of patronising me, it'd have been a lot easier!

Finally delivered at quarter to 6 in the morning yesterday on my bed. Baby was back to back and arrived with her arm stuck up by her head, which would explain the intensity of the evil contractions and my inability to birth her easily. Despite midwife's panicking about another retained placenta, it came away very easily, so the only concern for my high risk status was utterly invalid in the end!
She is called Isobel and she looks like a little Chinese sumo wrestler. She has the thickest black hair I have ever seen (don't have a clue where that comes from) and I am in total and absolute shock, but deeply in love with her. Coconuts FWIW the bond was there immediately. I expected to breakdown straightaway, but was too damned amazed at everything that had happened. I haven't cried yet, though I'm expecting the floodgates to open at any minute.

I cannot thank you all enough for your love and support over the past two and a half nightmarish years. I literally couldn't have got here without you.

I keep expecting her to disappear, or something to go wrong, or the world to end, or something - but for now, I'm just going to hug her and squeeze her and try to work out where this little person who looks nothing like any of us has come from.

Back for a proper catch up when I'm slightly less mental, emotional, hormonal etc. and I've bought a new mattress and a stock of new towels! Unplanned homebirths are a bugger to tidy up after!

Lots of love to you all. xxxx

[mumatron]

well done you. massive, massive congrats to you and Mr Glitterybits.

love the name.

make sure you give her a great big squeeze and a big sloppy kiss from me.

xx

[stillfrazzled]

Am typing badly through tears. So glad everything ended well and Isobel sounds perfect and beautiful. We will get to see a pic won't we?
Congratulations, you are superwoman to get through all that.
Love to you all and welcome baby Isobel! X

[ALovelyBunchOfCoconuts]

OMG I actually log off to go to RL as I expected no news and look what happens!!

I am actually with tears here!!! Actual tears DH even said congrats!

Huge huge congratulations, Isobel is a beautiful name and she sounds perfect :)

Hope DS wasn't too traumatised and you've really made me feel like I might get to the end of this :)

Homebirth sounds lovely, if not a bit expensive! Glad the bonding isn't an issue also.

Massive hugs to you all :) :) :)

[mumatron]

I need to see a pic.

[ALovelyBunchOfCoconuts]

Me too!!

I really want a HB now....

[mumatron]

I really want another baby now!

[ALovelyBunchOfCoconuts]

Mum's the word

[MummyAbroad]

WHOOOO HOOOOOO!!!!!


Glittery well done!!! I love your birth story! (I also want an HB now and a placenta that comes away easily!!) Oh, I am so pleased for you, and in tears here too. Wish I could give you a big hug in real life

Welcome to the world baby Isobel!!! xxxx

[LAF77]

Wonderful news glittery what a dramatic story, but so glad for the happy ending. Funnily enough I was just thinking about the name Isobel.

Much love to you and her...