October 08 - A spoonful of sugar* (*not recommended as a first food)

[CantSleepWontSleep]

Have done shortened stats this time, just for those of us who seem to still be around.

10th Sept (Due 1st Oct) - loulou33 - Boy - Joe Louis David - 6lbs 12oz - Induction due to rhesus sensitivity, G&A.
16th Sept (Due 8th Oct) - Ksal - Girl - Emma Rae - 6lbs - Just beat induction for PE!
21st Sept (Due 5th Oct) - myjobismum - Girl - Naomi Caitlin - 5lbs 10oz - Fast and furious hospital birth.
22nd Sept (Due 10th Oct) - Lozza70 - Boy - Sander Gene - 7lbs 5oz - Em C-Sec due to raised BP and high ALTs from liver.
2nd Oct (Due 12th Oct) - star6 - Boy - Quinlan - 5lbs 15oz - 36hr labour, ventouse and stitches.
3rd Oct (Due 26th Sept) - purpleflower - Girl - Rebecca Jill Erzsebet - 8lbs 10.5oz - Homebirth with paramedics due to meconium.
4th Oct (Due 30th Sept) - Aubergenie - Boy - Stanley - 7lbs 12oz -
5th Oct (Due 4th Oct) - hedgepig - Boy - Oliver - 6lbs 3oz -
5th Oct (Due 29th Sept Oct) - CherryChoc - Boy - Ryan - 6lbs 11oz - 3 day labour with natural birth in hospital
8th Oct (Due 6th Oct) - ronshar - Boy - William Dexter - 7lbs 11oz -
9th Oct (Due 17th) - Marthasmama - Girl - Martha - 7lbs 10oz - Elective c-sec
10th Oct (Due 1st Oct) - CantSleepWontSleep - Boy - Duncan Elliot - 8lbs 4oz - 4 day induction with 1 hour established labour!
12th Oct (Due 4th Oct) - pistachio - Boy - Thomas Fraser - 10lbs 2oz - Homebirth.
13th Oct (Due 15th Oct) - mum2jakeyroo/jrsqueak - Boy - Joshua - 7lbs 2oz - Delivered in car by dh!
16th Oct (Due 17th Oct) - rowanmac - Girl - Anna Ruth - 7lbs 2oz - 2 hours ARM to placenta delivery.
16th Oct (Due 11th Oct) - heather1980 - Boy - Alexander James - 9lbs 5oz - Homebirth
17th Oct (Due 10th Oct) - pepperrabbit - Girl - Jessica Rose - 7lbs 15.5oz -
24th Oct (Due 29th Oct) - Ekka - Boy - Matthew - 7lbs 15oz - Home water birth with gas and air.
26th Oct (Due 20th Oct) - jenwa - Girl - Phoebe Jasmine - 9lbs 2.5oz -
1st Nov (Due 22nd Oct) - SmudgeyDoodle - Girl - - 8lbs 2oz - Hospital water birth.
5th Nov (Due 29th Oct) - Honeymoonmummy - Girl - Poppy Grace - 6lbs 15oz -
5th Nov (Due 30th Oct) - MamaG - Boy - Harry James - 10lbs 9oz - Em C-Sec. Back to back and knotted cord around neck. 24 hours of labour first though, and don't you forget it!

[Marthasmama]

Is that the one with Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn? I like Sean Penn but not Nicole Kidman. The Channel No.5 ads put me right off her! God nothing's really happened in this film. BOOOOORRRING!

[Marthasmama]

Ha ha ha! I mean Chanel! Bloody hell I should know how to spell it I bought so much of their make up when I was in my early 20's. Dh is meant to be massaging my feet but he's too distracted with the film. Shal I give him a kick?

[Honeymoonmummy]

Yeah, kick him, then send him round here to do mine

Yes, that ad is very irritating!

I posted a new thread and everyone telling me to carry on with the drugs. I could still take it tonight I suppose. I just don't know what to do. I don't think DH would be happy with me taking it as he's convinced it's caused the sickness in Poppy too.

[Honeymoonmummy]

I'm off to bed anyway. I'm not taking the drug tonight. Night all.

[Marthasmama]

Sorry Hmm. I wasn't ignoring you! I was reading the other thread you started to see what others had said. And I also came across your thread about Poppy's birth! Your BO was through the roof, mine was through the floor! Maybe we should have added ours together and split the difference. M's birth was ok but the aftermath was NOT. I'll tell you about it one day but I don't want to bore everyone on here!

[Marthasmama]

Oh dear!!!! I really should check before I post, BO??? I meant BP! My BO was through the roof after M was born as DH kept forgetting to bring me frangrance free deoderant!

[star6]

MM I'm still anaemic. The dizzy spells sound like exactly that. Floradix helps a lot. I had an iron level of 4.8 at one point in pregnancy (you win with the 4.3 !) and most of the time it fluctuated between 6 and 8. last time I had a blood test (2 weeks ago, it was around 8, which is much better than the 6.8...etc that I was having for so many weeks post birth). My GP is stumped. Iron tabs just constipate and dont really help. I tried spatone for a few weeks.. it was ok, but still not near normal levels, floradix works the best, but still havent boosted the level as much as I need to, when they figure it all out, I'll let you know. I have to get a blood test every 2 weeks - just to see the number

[star6]

oh, and I eat all the right things to get iron along with orange juice or kiwi fruits or bell peppers to get the vitamin C to help absorb it. I tire easily (good thing Q is a good sleeper!) and when I have dizzy spells I usually have a juice or something as it also has to do with a very low bp.

Q has been sleeping like a superstar! Last night he went to bed at 6.50pm and he's still sleeping now! starting to move around/wake now. I only had to flip him over onto tummy once at 4.30 he prob would have settled himself, but I wanted to come out and express milk in peace by myself. I'm growing to like the 4.30am express time because it's time I have to myself and it's quiet and peaceful. It's actually quite lovely. Also, if I just do that one express every day over my 2 week holiday and bf Q the whole time otherwise, i'll have saved up 16 9oz bottles of frozen ebm by the end!
I usually don't need to use frozen, but there's the ocassional day when he takes more milk than I've expressed the previous day while I'm at work so it's nice to have.

[star6]

Myjob - I express about 9oz total each morning at 4.30am (best expressing time - 4.5oz each side)with a double electric pump (medela pump in style). Then about 4 oz mid day at work and 4 oz again at 2pm and I feed him usually over lunch, before I leave for work in the morning and as soon as I pick him up (3.45pm). It takes 10-15 minutes each time. I love bf but hate expressing!

[Honeymoonmummy]

Jeesus Star, 4.30?!? 9oz?!?

It is a rather impressive story eh MM?
Ooh, I want to know about your postpartum story now!

Poppy was not so bad yestrday but has vomited loads today, she's pretty much vomited up all feeds since 1pm and she keeps pulling off and crying now

She has dry skin on her legs (per doc) which ([per doc and HV) I've been putting E45 on, I've just noticed it's looking more red now, particularly on her thighs.

[Marthasmama]

Eczema hmm? E45 cream doesn't help eczema. M has horrible eczema patches and has it on her hands. Does is seem itchy? My story is quite good too but less gushing blood!!!

Ok I'll tell you - everyone else can ignore this, I'm not trying to compete - .
Right, c-section went fine (apart from me having a panic attack when I had the spinal which actually numbed me up to my neck). M fed fine all lovely in the recovery room. Got back on the ward, all ok, DH went off to phone while I looked at my lovely girl. DH came back M seemed hungry so DH passed her to me. Then I started to feel very wrong. DH took M and put her back as I thought I was going to pass out and wandered off to find someone. He came back to find me konked out on the bed. He called a nurse - I was totally unresponsive and when I came round was really confused. There were LOADS of people in my room. Pulse was 140, blood pressure was so low it did not register. Passed out again, totally unresponsive. More people arrive DH sent away. Wake up, get jabbed loads have iv fuilds squeezed into me. Start to pass out again, but this time fight to stay with it. Wheeled into the delivery suite, hooked up to ECG (heart monitor thingy whatever it is called!), blood pressure still not registering. Heart rate still 130 but not a cause for concern. Blood gases taken, drip put in my elbow more fuilds. When BP registers it is 48/31, but at least it is registering now. Starts to pick up but is still very low. Back to the ward. Dangerously low bp and tacycardia continues for three days during which I am FORCED to get out of bed (later told by head MW that I should not have got out of bed and MW is surprised that I could even stand let alone get to the shower). Was so pale my freckles really stood out. Eventually take my blood HB = 4.3 (and this is when the situation had drastically improved) - given two units of blood and more fuild. In all (not including the blood) I had 5 litres of fluid put in me over three days! Tada!

[Honeymoonmummy]

WOW [HMM goes off to embellish her labour story]

[Marthasmama]

But yours had flowing blood! That's cool traumatic!

[Honeymoonmummy]

Actually, it was more gushing than flowing... well more of a torrent really...

[CantSleepWontSleep]

Sounds fun MM . Do they know what actually caused it though?

Ds miserable before tea, refused to eat, and has a temp. Given him calpol and he's asleep now, but worried that he might be coming out with slapped cheek too .

[Honeymoonmummy]

Poppy is finally taking her first proper feed since 1. Sorry to hear that CSWS.

[Honeymoonmummy]

Where the heck is everyone today?!?

[Marthasmama]

Aww poor D, CSWS? Not like him to be off his food eh? They think I just lost a lot more blood than they originally thought. It's hard to tell with an elective c-section apparently because the waters and blood mix together, so they tend to guess.

I've been round my mum's having a roast today. M has another cold so is all snotty. I'm meeting some local MNers tomorrow!! Yay!

[star6]

ahhhhh nooooooo!!!! I absolutely thought that giving birth (aside of that last bit where I got my beautiful boy) was the most traumatic experience of my life... every time I hear another sstory like that it makes me even MORE sure that I do NOT want to do it again. not ever ever ever!!!!! That sounds horrid, MM! Im so sorry that happened to you.

[star6]

ugh, I wanted a sad bunny!

there he is!
Sorry to hear that CSWS... poor D! I hope it's not slapped cheek. Q has never refused food, so I'd be concerned if he didn't eat, too!

[Honeymoonmummy]

I've just joined Twitter, not really getting it tho...

[Marthasmama]

I told you not to look! Thanks Star, but really, there was no lasting damage, it was a short-term issue. I'm fine now . I'd do it again!

[star6]

12 hours after having Q I was walking down the hall to go to the toilet in the hospital (this, after a long talk with my "neighbours" in their hospital beds, trying to sort out what we do with the baby when we need to go to the bathroom and them agreeing to listen for Q while I was "away") ... anyway, I was walking back to my bed (my iron level was very low as well and had lost a lot of blood and not yet eaten a speck of food - so that made over 48 hours, no food or drink)... a MW saw me and said, "are you ok?" I remember looking at her and smiling and saying "of course, I'm fine, thanks!" the next thing I knew I was on teh floor and they were waking me up to bring me back to my bed. They must have all totally thought I was some freak of nature.

[Marthasmama]

You sound like me Star. I really tried to put a brave face on it, I always do! I'm sure you thought you were feeling fine, it sometimes hits you like that. I remember early on the third day, I thought I was feeling good (I was in for four days in total). I was getting about more, finding it ok to go to the toilet. But in reality every time I got up I thought I was going to pass out. I held on to my drip thingy for dear life (I had to take it with me everywhere!) and it took every ounce of strength to get myself sorted after the loo. I was telling the nurses I was feeling much better and they just wouldn't believe me. I went to look in the mirror and I was blue! I just think women are tougher than men. We seem to be able to cope with a lot more.