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sayitwithme · 27/01/2011 20:29
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PrincessTweetz ·
14/09/2011 14:47
Just wanted to let any of you reading know that I had my baby Monday night...after convincing myself that I was wrong about her being a girl, and the midwife must be right and she was really a he, I was absolutely overjoyed when I got a baby girl :)
She was born on the due date, I started having contractions at around 1.15pm, 30 ish minutes apart, all the way through til about 5ish...I had a contraction in the nursery picking Makenzi-Shei up, which I managed to hide very well I thought!! Iain was ath the dentist having a filling, so I had to go back to my mum's house, and wait for him there. Then out of nowhere they just seemed to get quicker and quicker, and by the time I got back to mine I didn't feel like I was getting a break from them at all. Stupidly, I thought it was more responsible to bring the washing in from outside and try and get it put away, while Iain ran me a bath, and between us we tried to get Jude n Makenzi in pyjamas and into bed as soon as possible...reading a bedtime story through contractions is challenging I can tell you, but I was still convincing myself I had a few hours before labour would really set in!! 
From getting back at the house, to getting the kids in bed took us to around 6.30pm, I jumped in the bath, and suddenly felt like I should time them properly, started realising they were around 4-5 mins apart, and told Iain to ring the labour ward, and get my mum round...as well as trying to get hold of my sister who wanted to be at the birth...then I felt pressure!! I was still trying to convince myself I was just getting ahead of myself though, at the same time worried that I'd left it too late, my sister arrived within minutes, Iain left to take the dog to my mum's house and pick my mum up, midwife returned a call to say she was on her way to assess me...I got out the bath, onto the birth ball, set the tens up, and hoped everyone was on their way back to me!!
I was still trying to tell the first midwife the details, when the second midwife came, and it was my midwife I had seen all the way through so i was pleased with that (but not the midwife that told me she thought it may be a boy!!)
Anyway, before they managed to assess me, my waters broke, nice and calmly I remamber thinking too, cuz with Jude I pushed and they popped, but this time they just kind of leaked out gently...(sorry if TMI!!)) Judy managed to examine me, told me I was fully dilated so i got onto sofa, started pushing and within minutes she was here...it was soooooo fast!! I honestly do not remember any pauses between pushing her out, there seemed to be no pause between pushing out her head and then her body, it was so quick. Judy placed her onto me, and told me I could look at the sex, I looked down, saw she was a girl, and almost cried...but in the background I heard my siter and Iain both say a boy, and my mum said a girl, and Judy had to confirm to everyone in the room that she was indeed a girl...Iain's words were, oh I thought I saw some nuts!! Nice!! :/
So my lil girl Paisley Elizabeth was born at 7.11pm, weighing 6lbs 9 1/2ozs, official labour time on paper was 55 minutes...with 14 of them minutes the time it took for my placenta to come out!!!
It was a very quick affair, but it went perfectly, and my midwives were absolutely fantastic and so in control, and both so lovely too. I'm so glad I got to have my midwife at the start of the pregnancy all the way through to the start of Paisley's arrival.
We are all doing well, everyone's adjusting well...Makenzi loves her baby sister, sometimes a lil too much (!!), and Jude climbs up to give her kisses and cuddles by placing his head on her tummy while I'm holding her...he even put his hand through the bars of the crib this morning and patted her tummmy when she weas crying...soo cute!! All of a sudden his hands seem so much more chubbier than they did a couple of days ago!! I'm just waiting for all the afterpains to go fully before I feel like I can really be there doing everything (or most things at least) that they all want me to do, but for now I can say I am definitely enjoying being a new mummy of 3.
I hope everyone is ok, and sorry if this is a manic post...I wanted to write as much as I could while I could, so I hope it makes sense!! xx
sleepywombat ·
15/09/2011 05:05
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Neeko ·
17/09/2011 21:41
Congratulations Princess. Like the name 
and a lovely birth story. You make it sound so easy 
Neeko ·
21/09/2011 20:58
hi Harverina Sorry to hear about Eilidh's allergies. That must be tough. Also belated sympathy for the loss of your dad. i was really sorry to hear that 
Neeko ·
24/09/2011 22:02
I'm good thanks, Harverina. It's my eldest's 5th birthday this week and we're having a big party tomorrow. We're both very excited!
How are you finding being back at work? I'm enjoying working part-time - 3 days a week is a good fit for our family at the moment.
As for the weather - it was sunny today!
nicnacinoonoo ·
05/10/2011 08:32
hi everyone, I've not been on here for AGES.
Congratulations princess and sleepy
Very sorry to hear about your dad harverina and about the allergies.
Kacie is a little madam now. She's reached that clingy stage with me and will have a right strop when I try to put her down if I've been holding her or even if I try to give her to her dad.
She's very funny though, loves dancing to the tv, she really likes the teletubbies and copies them when they do the 'boo' bit.
She's still have morning and afternoon naps most days unless we're out somewhere so I still get quite a break. I have started doing the 30 day shred dvd when she has her nap after the school run in the morning. It will be day 5 today, I have joined the thread on here for it.
She's been able to say 'dog' or 'doggy' for a while now but unfortunately refuses to learn any other animals names so they all get called dog. Even the kitten that we got in the summer holidays.
She says 'mummy' all the time now too, as well as 'thank you', and 'hello' rather than 'hiya'. She can also count to three but this is sound rather than being very clear, although the 'two' is clear. She also says 'baby', 'juice', 'cheese' and 'no'. There might be other words but can't think of them right now.
We've taken the dummy off her now apart from naps and through the night. Can be quite difficult sometimes as she has definitely hit the 'terrible twos' early with her tantrums.
sleepywombat ·
13/11/2011 12:48
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PrincessTweetz ·
13/11/2011 20:04
Hi Sleepy....I've got a non-talker in Jude as well..he says bah for ta (thank you), yeahyeah for Lola (our dog), bye, and buguppies for Bubble Guppies (his fave show!!) He can make animal noises for different animals, and I got in the habit of constantly comparing him to his older sister who was a right lil chatterbox by his age, but now I've realised he is perfectly fine, we can all communicate amongst ourselves and like your Noah, he has no trouble understanding us so he will blurt out real words when he is ready :)
I've not put Jude in a bed yet...but again Makenzi-Shei was in a bed by now, and it only took a couple of nights of returning her back to the bed before she stayed in there without messing around...but I feel Jude still isn't quite ready yet, and with Paisley being a lil snuggle bunny around the older two's bedtime, I know at this point it will just create a cause for mayhem. I'm going to wait until me and Paisley are in some kind of (any kind of routine!!!), where I can put her down after a feed, knowing she will settle comfortably!!! At the minute I have her constantly attached to me in the evening...the second I lay her down, she wakes up. She uses me for comfort at the minute 
I don't blame you for wanting to make the most of your sleep!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
Oooh, and Jude is also completely off his milk, although I do give all 3 of them vitamin drops as reccommended by my health visitor. I have also just started to sneakily mash his vegetables into potato etc, cuz he would rather fling them at the dog!! He's a very good eater otherwise, and is constantly getting shouted at by his big sister for taking food off her plate when she's not looking, I love the way they are with each other :)
Well our two sound very alike!!! :) xx
ilovesprouts ·
14/11/2011 09:45
hey im going to be a grannie again dd is due a baby in july her ds1 will be 26m then cant wait [hope its pink ]
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harverina ·
21/11/2011 16:45
Hi everyone,
Princess, Paisley is goregous! What fab pictures! Hope that you are well.
Sleepy, Eilidh isnt in a bed yet. She sleeps quite well in her cot and we have had no issues with her trying to climb out or anything so we arent going to hange anything just now. Our only sleep issue is that Eilidh cannot selff settle. She has to fall asleep on someone before bed and her nap. She is no bother - her bedtime is 8pm and she usually goes to bed no bother and sleeps all night, but I'd love to be able to put her in bed and leave the room and for her to self settle. Eilidh breastfeeds morning and bedtime so I think that its linked to that as she has been used to feeding then falling asleep. I'm not sure when we well stop breastfeeding...my DH and were chatting about the bed situation the other day and we think that we will wait till after xmas before we think about converting the cot to a bed.
I am really excited about christmas this year! I love christmas anyway but I think that Eilidh will be soooo excited when she sees her presents this year, whereas last year she didnt really notice! We have finished buying Eilidh's presents. Havent bought one big presents, just lots (too many!) smaller presents. We have bought her ELC happy people and have asked other people to buy some things from it too, its adoreable!
Eilidh still likes a cup of (soya) milk at breakfast and during the day. She eats non stop! She is pretty tall and skinny though - she literally eats on and off all day, but her diet is pretty healthy. We have had no other allergy incidents, thankfully. I am still really nervous in some situations but we cope pretty well with it I think overall. Eating out is a major issue though.
nicnac, I have a little madam too! Eilidh makes us laugh so much with her dancing and nonsense! She went through a stage where she had major tantrums but that seems to have passed...for now haha! Eilidh is very clingy with me too...its funny, she will leave me in the house and go out with her dad no bother, but if its me leaving she gets hysterical. Sometimes she screams even if I leave the room, even when she can see me through the gate in the kitchen!
I am on weight watchers at the moment...have lost 24.5lbs in 13 weeks. Im finding it ok and have had alot of nights out etc during that time....felt as though I was never out for lunch, dinner or drinks and now that I have started weight watchers I seem to eat out most weekends. Suppose its that time of year...although my DH, Eilidh and I have been to MacDonalds the past 3 weekends in row 
....no excuse for that!!! I do feel soooo much better about myself and I am very motivated, especially monday-friday. Being back at work helps in some ways although there is often lots of fattening food in work...pancakes, scones, chocolates...but I resist! I am determined to get to my goal weight this time, for EIlidh's sake more than anything.
Eilidh talks constantly. Her speech really surprises me. I have no idea how many words she can say, but it is alot. She pretty much chatters all day long!
sleepy, hope you are ok...I miss being pregnant!!! I loved sitting subbing my bump :)
Hope you are all well...its nice to hear from you again.
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