March 2020 babies

[Jesskir89]

Any new mums about? First timer here. Baby freddie was born last Friday 13th. Could do with some company especially in the early hours!!

Anyone?

Hi lovely ☺️ how are u and baby Freddie doing? X

Hi ladies!! Glad to have found you both on here. Rumi is 3 weeks today. How are you both doing? X

Hello,

Glad I found this thread, just saw you had mentioned you created it @Jesskir89 on the birth clubs thread.

My little girl Jessica was born on 8th March. Can't believe how much has happened since then with regards to the coronavirus and lockdown etc and its only been 17 days since she was born. When she was born we were allowed visitors as normal up to the hospital and stuff.

Don't think any of us would have imagined that we'd be living like this with our newborn babies when we first found out we were pregnant.

@thankful16 my little boy was born just four days before Jessica and agree things were almost normal back then (at least compared to now). I am very grateful I gave birth a week early. It is so strange to be at home all the time with a newborn and not be able to leave the house. I was already trying to avoid people as much as possible in the third trimester, so it feels like I have been living abnormally for quite some time. How are you coping?

Hey. Baby boy born Friday 20th.

Could not love him more but so worried about the outside world and desperate for him to be able to meet family.

I’m usually a happy introvert and husband is the BEST but this is tough.

Hi all.... our baby boy arrived on March 19th. Was booked for a section on the 20th at 38+6 but he decided to make an arrival and my waters went with super strong contractions so ended in emergency but calm section a day early.
He is super chilled and can’t believe he is here but can’t help feeling a bit down that the whole pregnancy, excitement and anticipation for the birth etc is all over but can’t quite put my finger on why. Is this normal? He is 1 week today and for the first time I suddenly felt very wobbly and cried for absolutely no reason whatsoever 😩

@daniX91 me and freddie are great thanks, how about you and daisy? @sadtoday21 hi hun how you doing? Is rumi sleeping yet? I'm hoping it gets easier lol. @thankful16 what a perfect name for your daughter the best lol how you doing? Freddie hasn't had chance to meet his grandads or auntie and uncles yet :( @lividlaughlovely welcome :) and i know what you mean about worrying times atm! @1pinkfluffyelephant baby blues! I've been getting them on and off since he was 3 days old it's easing off now though, hormones are everywhere hun don't worry it'll pass. Anyone else breastfeeding? X

May I join? My little boy was born March 19th at 38 weeks by induction after a very long difficult hyperemesis pregnancy and ended up with pre eclampsia.
My birth was pretty intense but I made it! Cant believe hes already a week old.
This whole lockdown thing has been hard not being able to introduce him to family so trying my best to stay positive along with a whole new routine with a little one.
Hope you are all doing well.

@Jesskir89 yes we’re breastfeeding. How are you getting on?

@abbs1 welcome and congratulations :) lock down is tough I think we're all feeling it :( @1pinkfluffyelephant it's tough isn't it lol I've been expressing when I can so he can have a bottle in the night x

We are breastfeeding. Hence the nightshift which tends to last from around 11 pm to around 4 am. I have my nursing chair in the window that looks out on the real world. I would like to be out in the real world... Luckily my baby boy is perfect.

@Jesskir89 just so happy we have our rainbow babies! But yes, EBF and it is exhausting. I’m breastfeeding him now in fact and he constantly feeds! My biggest problem seems to be that he cries from gas/poo pains after feeding and that can go on for some time and not much I can do to help him. I express a little but still only sleeping 2 hours per night as a result. How are you doing with it?

Hi all! I’m moving across after my baby girl was born yesterday afternoon weighing a healthy 8lbs (a nice “up yours!” To the small bump comments!!!). Labour was quick, lasting 9 hours from first suspicion to baby arriving! No real signs in the days leading up, other than being two days late!

I’m currently in the depths of the second night... I’ve given up on sleep so she’s currently sleeping on me while I look for ways to stay awake!!!

Hi everyone! I'm glad I found this thread, my baby was born on the 3rd so I've pretty much been in isolation since then anyway but the loneliness is starting to set in now. It'd be nice to be able to check in here during the long nights.

I feel similar to you @1pinkfluffyelephant, I had a couple of midwives who I saw regularly throughout my pregnancy and now I've been discharged I am really missing them and being checked in on. I think it was just nice feeling so looked after and now I don't have that reassurance.

I know the feeling @atomcats! I was constantly told how tiny I was in pregnancy and birthed a chunky 8 pounder!

Hi ladies, @atomcats congratulations on your arrival :) @poppypod welcome :) @sadtoday21 have you tried bottle feeds to replace some night feeds with expressed milk? Has anyone done any safe co sleeping? I've had to a few nights but still scary

Also the poohs are normal when breastfeeding some nights I'll change him and he goes again straight away....

Sorry just catching up with this thread.

@sadtoday21 I'm coping okay thanks, can't really complain as my partner, baby and I are currently staying at my mum and step dad's house. We were due to move into our new house literally just before the lockdown started. We got the keys 2 days before Jessica was born and just had to get floors put down and blinds fitted (its a new build) which we luckily managed to do before lockdown started but still need to get a few things sorted and move so have just decided to stay put at my mum's just now so we're luckily that we've got a bit of extra help. How are you coping with everything? Has it helped in a way because you were already avoiding people during your third trimester or has it made it seem even longer now because you've been doing that?

@Jesskir89 Haha I thought you would approve of the name. Yeah I'm doing good thanks. We were lucky that Jessica got to meet quite a lot of my family before things started going crazy. We had all grandparents come and visit us in hospital - she has 3 sets due to me having step parents - as well as my 2 sisters and brother and my best friend and once we got home a few of my aunties managed to get over to visit so I really can't complain but still feel a bit sad sometimes that we can't be out and about visiting people or having visitors like I previously thought we'd be doing before everything happened but on the positive side it just means its given us loads more time to spend together on our own and not have to worry about making excuses when we can't be bothered going out or having visitors lol and we'll make up for it when things start going back to normal. Did Freddie get to met some of you family then before everything started? Have you been able to facetime his grandad's and aunties and uncles to introduce him?

@1Pinkfluffyelephant Your little boy was born on my mum's birthday. We were all joking that my little girl might come then though as much as it would have been lovely I was hoping that wouldn't be the case as it would mean she would be 11 days overdue lol! Luckily she was very punctual and came exactly on her due date on 8th. I think the way you are feeling is totally normal. I felt a bit like that for the first week or two and couldn't quite put my finger on it, I wasn't sure if it was all the things you described or because of all the talk of the coronavirus or a mix of both. I think it was definitely a mix of both. All the news about the coronavirus was making me feel really anxious but I have flt much better this week about everything. I also had a good cry on day 3 when I got home from the hospital, like full on sobbing and, again, I wasn't quite sure where it came from but it was definitely needed! How are you feeling today?

@thankful16 that's great you've got your mums support at this shit time :) freddie got to meet our mums, my grandma, 2 of his aunties and 2 friends that's all. No visitors were allowed at hospital x

@thankful16 that’s so wonderful that you have some help and a lot of your family got to meet Jessica. Sadly my family are all far away overseas so the lockdown has prevented them from coming to meet Rumi. It’s just the three of us here, which is tough but as you said also kind of nice in a way. I’m definitely possessive of him and I would probably worry if I had a lot of visitors! Coronavirus has made me really anxious though, especially since it has been so hard to get good deliveries, and I also feel it has made me miss out on first time mum things - like a nice coffee with mum friends or a walk in the park with the pram. We haven’t left the house in three weeks and I was only leaving once a week max before he was born. I had an mmc before this baby so I wasn’t taking any chances on my rainbow baby. Just feel like I never have the normal pregnancy experience, although I did have a really good fast labour with only gas and air! Maybe there is no normal really.

@1Pinkfluffyelephant I cried on day three too! It’s the hormones and milk coming in. I just cried all day for no reason and the next day was fine. Do get help if it lasts longer than this, but otherwise perfectly normal!

Thanks @Jesskir89 it was much better last night. I got a much better pump that was expensive but so worth it because now I’m expressing twice as much. DH was able to feed baby last night until 3 am so I got five hours of sleep! An absolute miracle and I feel so much better now. He also slept in his crib for the first time for an hour or so. How are you and Freddie doing?

Is anyone else strangely horny after giving birth? DH thinks we should wait to dtd until six weeks, since I had stitches for a second degree tear. It seems like a long time to wait, but I don’t want to risk infection right now! Maybe I’m crazy, but I also think I want to start trying for second one, is it too soon though? I read that ebf prevents ovulation/fertility from returning, so not sure how realistic ttc is anyway right now. And I definitely don’t want it to happen during this corona outbreak or to impact my milk supply to baby Rumi. Any thoughts on this?

@sadtoday21 glad you got some sleep. Bottles in the night have been my saving grace. We're not going to have sex yet as I had an emergency c section so I wanna wait til 3 or 4 weeks in. I would probably wait due to your tear tbh but maybe not 6 weeks. Also where will baby be when you dtd? I don't feel comfortable doing it with him in the room...

I wouldn’t TTC until corona was gone. Bought 90 condoms when we got home from hospital as had EMCS and told to wait two years ideally for next pregnancy - had apocalyptic visions of getting knocked up too soon and having a rupture in lockdown. Not that I worry, of course...

Really struggling still with not seeing family, or baby groups, and stressing about germs.

@lividlaughlovely I was told the same after emcs but also that the had to tear under my bladder so I'll never be able to have a vaginal birth.... Awaiting a debrief to see what happened. I'm struggling too my mum cried on facetime to us yesterday that was hard x

Hey guys congratulations to all you mammas!

Mine was due 25th March still no sign! Had a sweep today bishops score of 2 so not looking positive booked in to be induced on Sunday not happy haha xx

@jellybobs89 good luck hun keeping everything crossed for you x