Sept 2010 - Another 6 months past, it's going too fast!

[comixminx]

Our lovely new thread for the September 2010 babies. Dive in folks!

Omg i thought we would be seeing diddly on the next series of I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant then! I was so confused lol.

Happy Birthday to Jacob and Isobel! Hope you all have a lovely day!

Happy Birthday Jacob and Isobel! Hope you all have a lovely day. Sounds like you've had a hectic few weeks so hope you get to chill out with your babies today sassy34264!

One month today until Luke's birthday. I thought that you probably haven't heard of bewilderwood as it's local so I'd post a link. Last time we went we ended up in A&E as ds1 fell off a bench and cut his eyelid open :(

Is Lucy already 2 Debs75? Was thinking she was July or am I getting mixed up?

Your cake is fab diddlybop!!!!!!!

awh diddly that was lovely!!! im crying!!!!

i could re live that over and over.

phoning chloe is my bestest memory.

actual conversation-

me- hi
chloe- have you had them?
me- yes
chloe- what we got?
me- we got jacob
chloe- (screaming) we got jacob!
chloe- what else?
me- and we got isobel
chloe- (screaming) we got isobel!
mum- (in background)

lucy is the day after the twins cinnamon

Aww sassy now i'm crying! I can't wait for graces birthday this year. We're buying dolls, a pram set with high chair and car seat etc, dressing up stuff and postman pat things. Not sorted her party out yet though so need to get cracking with that. Hope you all have a wonderful day sassy!

newmum one of my best friends found out she was pg on 24th may. The gp could tell she was quite far along but couldn't get her in for a scan for 3 weeks. Instead she booked a private scan for the following day. That showed she was about 30 weeks. I spoke to her on 26th and she was saying how much pain the baby was giving her. I told her that's just what later pregnancy is like and she'll probably realise there are loads of feelings she's been putting down to other things but were actually the baby. Well it turned out she shouldn't have listened to me because she was in labour and had the baby on the 27th! She'd had no belly at all, she was having periods and had done a pg test when she would've been about 6 weeks but it was negative.

Oh god i live in fear of something like that happening to me. Having said that i hated being pregnant so it would be kind if nice to get it over with without even noticing :) was the baby ok? It must have been early?

She's fine. She weighed 3lb 6oz or something but did really well and was out when she was 5 or 6 weeks. My friend coped so well with it all, but annoyingly she now thinks pregnancy is so easy and can't understand why people complain about it at all! (That'll be me being the moaner! )

Haha she'll bloody know about it if she has another hopefully.

My friends sister found out she was pregnant with her 1st when she was in labour and her 2nd at 38weeks!

god! i look like a not so mini hipp when im pregnant, there is no way i couldnt know!

had a nice day at carvery and then cheeky monkeys play.

happy birthday lucy have a great day debs

*hippo

Here's my birth story. Its a long one so hang in there.

Tuesday 10th Clinic decide to induce me due to baby not growing. Go in Thursday.
Thursday 12th Get into hospital and they start me on monitoring then prostin. Get some pains and niggles and after 6 hours am told I am favourable for ARM but will go down in the morning. Spend the night not sleeping as othere mums-to-be on the ward are in pain and being monitored and then getting sent to labour ward.
Friday 13th 8am. Up to labour ward where they examine me and say I am nowhere near ready for ARM so another lot of prostin. Spend 6 hours pottering, bouncing on a ball and getting bored. After 6 hours MW checks me again an I am still not favourable so the consultant comes in. He decides that labour 'must' be started as quick as possible so my waters are to be broken. MW wanted to do another prostin.
5pmwaters broken, more monitoring.
7pm syntotoxin (sp) started
8pm MW changes shift with a warning not to be there at 8am when she comes back on.
Geting some contractions but am able to just breathe them out.
11pm contractions a bit heavier so use gas and air. MW seems confident things are going well. Offers me the chance to have an epidural so I take it. Contractions are getting closer together and I know it will get more painful so I pant and cry my way through having an epidural fitted.
4am have managed some sleep and wake up to find about 6 people in the room. Baby is having uncomplicated lates, her heartrate is taking longer to slow down after a contraction then they would like so they turn the drip down for a while then turn it back up. Good news is I am 4cm dilated.
8am Shift change and time for an internal and I am now down to 2cm dilated. They put something on babies head to monitor her heartrate and different consultant pops in. He decides to whack up the drip as far as it goes and hopefully baby will be out by dinnertime.
I spend most of the morning asleep whilst they top up the epidural and drip.
Midday another internal and I am about 7cm. I am bored stiff my back and bum aches.
My Doula rings and MW tells her I am finally in labour so she should try and get to the hospital. Getting contractions quite fast now and can feel them in my left side. Mw keeps turning me and tops up my epidural.
2pm getting presure in my bum, can't stop pumping, so know I am getting close.
2.45pm contractions are getting stronger and I need gas and air for a few on top of the epidural. I am shaking and my right leg has gone numb. MW puts an apron on and my doula makes it just in time.
MW asks me if I want to deliver on my side and then helps me position myself. I push twice and then she gets me to pant and tells me she can see the head and if I want to I can. I lean forward and totally forget that my leg is useless, lets go and drops my thigh on her head. She props it back up and tells me to push again and there is my tiny baby.
She is clarted in vernix and absolutely tiny, I cuddle her under my top and just gaze at her. Then the shakes kick in, they lasted for about 30 mins and at times I thought I would drop her.
Within the hour she has had a breastfeed and i manage a mouthful of toast before nearly brining it back up.
It takes a while to get some feeling back in my legs and to unhook me from the drips and epidural but I can finally get off the labour bed and stand up.

All in all not a bad labour, once I got there. It was calm as well, I did all my panicking at 4am when I didn't know what was going on.
She is doing fine now at home and feeding and sleeping well. Her sisters and brother love her although dd2 is a bit jealous of all the booby baby is getting.
Still got no name yet but we will give her one soon I promise.

Happy birthday Lucy!!!!!!!

Happy birthday Lucy! Hope you've all had a lovely day :)

Olly went all day without a sleep and without his mussie!!!!! is my baby growing up?!

Thankyou diddlybop I got halfway through before realising it was my birth story!
Lucy had a lovely day. We went to a fun day at the pub and she danced, and got a prize, and generally ran about having loads of fun and stealing peoples drinks and chips. I managed to wish her Happy Birthday at the exact time, 2.57pm, gonna try and do that every year, I'm too lazy to wake up at 1,2,3am in the morning for the other 3.
Back at home she had her presents, a cuddly Jessie and Woody like dd2 has, a trike and the happyland fairground set. When she saw them she said 'wow' and then played for ages and made us push her around on her trike. Granma came to see her and got her a new musical phone which didn't leave her side most of the night and then we had tea and her cake.
She finally flopped asleep at 8.30, no naps all day. She also had a little mini tantrum but I told her I didn't want any 'terrible two's' and she stopped.
DD2 was a bit put out, her birthday is next month and she was quite grumpy that Lucy got new presents but she didn't. She is sat in the playroom now playing with Lucy's toys.

Aw, sounds like a good day Debs. How do you think of new presents that you don't already have with so many children? And do you end up with tonnes of toys in the house?

We've now booked Orlaith and Imara's party. (I think they're destined to always have a joint party being born a week apart!) We're having it at the pub I work in because it's just so convenient (and he'll do the food at cost price for us). We're going to try and book a bouncy castle for the garden, and it'll be fine if it rains because there's a huge roof over the entire garden. I'm quite looking forward to it. We had a party at the pub last year too but I think they'll appreciate it more this year and be able to enjoy it with their little friends.

We were also thinking of having a little thing with some of their little friend's on Imara's birthday at my house. I just hope it doesn't rain or we'll be a bit squashed inside!

I think you're alright diddlybop, he will probably be extra tired today! Luke only has his mussie to sleep so if he didn't have a nap he wouldn't have it. A little boy I childmind had a terry toweling nappy as his comforter and he's 5 next month but still has his nappy at bedtime

Glad Lucy had a good day Debs75 and you if course! I wish just talking to Luke would work, we are having lots of tantrums at the moment over everything!!!

jacob doesnt do tantrums yet, isobel on the other hand..............

jeez!

she fell asleep once during one - for 2 fecking hours- and still carried it on after she woke up.

Not an Aphra birth story but a new one! Some folks have already seen on FB: baby boy Bruno was born safely at home today at 12:15 pm after a reasonably short labour compared to Aphra (cx woke me 2:34 am this morning, doula arrived about 7:20, midwife shortly after). Bruno has fed well and is sleeping at the mo. All good! Proper birth story to follow. Jx

Congratulations comix!!! Xx

Congratulations Comix Saw the announcement on FB but I wasn't sure who it was on here

ItsMyLastOne DD2 and Lucy love the same stuff so the Happyland is a shared thing. We still have a tonne of DS's toys and puzzles in cupboards so they play with them. we have noticed that some of the toys dd1(16) used to have we are buying again for dd2 and Lucy, if only we had kept them.

Cinnamon it was probably a complete fluke, I do remenber dd2 tantrumming over going to bed, I left her to it whilst I got ready then told her 'off to bed' and she jumped up and went upstairs all happy. DD1 however was a nightmare and still is

Comix, congratulations, that's lovely. Can't wait to hear more! I'm the same as debs still struggle with who's who on facebook!

4 years ago as now, I was eating Chinese at my friends desperately willing labour to begin! I can't believe my baby will be 4 tomorrow. I can remember his birth story like it was yesterday!

Congratulations comixminx, that's great news! Glad it was quick for you and you got your home birth, really lovely :)

Hope Toby has a lovely birthday diddlybop!

Congratulations comix! Welcome baby Bruno. 15 weeks or so to go for me...

25+2!