Pregnancy post mc: Totally's grads continued part 6...

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Tuesday's list

toomuchteaching - baby#1 41+4 wks EDD 5th January - awaiting news!!
Dorcas111 - baby#1 38+4 wks EDD 28th January
Ba8y1 - baby#1 37+4 wks EDD 4th February
Lotta123 - baby#? 36+5 wks EDD 10th Feb
Clareanna - baby#2 (1DS) 36+4 wks ADD 10th Feb
Muser - baby#1 34+2 wks EDD 27th Feb
Northerngoldilocks - baby#1 31+3 wks EDD 18 March
Magic8ballhastheanswers - babies#3&4 31 wks EDD Anytime!
Lia - baby#6 30+3 wks EDD 23rd March
Hopefully - baby#2 29+4 wks EDD 2nd April
stuffedmk - baby#2 29+1 wks EDD 4th April
Osch - Baby#3 28+2 wks EDD 10th April
Ivysedai - baby#2 26+5 wks EDD 21st April
PenguinsMummy - baby#3 26+5 wks EDD 21st April
VivClicquot - baby#1 25+1 wks EDD 2nd May
Loopymumsy - baby#4 24+5 wks EDD 5th May
Tigerbear - baby#1 22+6 wks EDD 14th May
Caribou - baby #2 (DD, 3yrs) 22+6 wks EDD 18th May
appleblossoms - baby#2 19+3 wks EDD 11th June
crochetcircle - baby#1 19+3 wks EDD 11th June
LittleMiss - baby#1 17+3 wks EDD 24th June
Wobblewatcher - baby#2 17 wks EDD 27th June
Inbetweener - baby#3 14+2 wks EDD 17th July

Waiting to join the list:
emmywoo
Purplehibiscus
Nickstermum
Lucysnowe

The babies are arriving! Huge congratulations to:
Totally with daughter Faith Juliet, 9lb5oz born Tuesday 16th February 2010
Amyboo with son Matthew James, 4.714kg (10lb3oz) born Tuesday 30th March 2010
Hoops with son Benjamin Scott, 7lb4oz born Friday 2nd April 2010
Memorylapse with daughter Olivia, born Friday 16th April 2010
Jacanne with daughter Lotta Eliza, 8lbs 5oz born 20th April 2010
Becky78 with son Thomas Christopher born 22nd May, 9lb 1oz
Meita with son Ianto born 23 August, 7lbs 4
Boodleboot with daughter Alice Elizabeth born 10 Sep - 8lbs 2oz
LeeWT with son Andrew Anthony born 28th Sept 7lbs 14oz
TFLS with son Charlie born on 30th September, 6lbs 8oz
SamB with daughter Ruby Mae born 19th October, 7lbs 10oz
Effilump with son Arlen born 16th October, 8lbs
Sarahlou8 with daughter Emily Isabella born 21st October, 7lb8oz
Unbuffy with son James Anthony born 3rd December, 6lb8oz
HappyGirl with daughter Ciara born 10th December, 8lb2oz
Malteser1981 with son Eli born 18 December, 8lb 6oz
Zayja with daughter Winona born 19 December, 7lbs 11oz
Sparklyrainbow with son Alex born 28th December, 9lb 7oz
GoodLuckBear with son James born 25th December, 8lb
BunnyBaby with son Daniel George born 5th January 2011, 10lb 1oz
AlbaDeTamble - with son born 10th Jan 2011, 8lbs 10oz
Gilda - with son Ren born 10th Jan 2011, 8lb 4oz
WestYorkshireGirl - with daughter Hester Rose born 14th Jan 2011, 6lb 4oz
Redheadgal - with daughter Cecily Anne born 13th Jan 2011, 8lbs 13oz

In our thoughts and prayers:
Louise with daughter Georgie born asleep on 10th October

We share the pain and mourn the loss with:
Jollster, Cheepz, Freezing, BarrenBrook, MsJL, LadyBee, Banana87, BatteryHen, HairyTriangle and Waterplate

Gosh thread is quiet recently.

More regular bh since about half 5pm.

Hope everyone else is well. :)

Hopefully those really are just for practice Lia and that your wee one hangs on a little while for you!

Pretty, all the best for tomorrow pal - looking forward to hearing your good news x x

still ongoing. Just gotta pop out and collect ds from football, then gonna try a bath.

I'm not ready, this is just practice

pretty also acho carri on good day for you tomorrow. :)

Lia here's hoping they didn't get any stronger in the car . Looking forward to your post saying it all stopped and you had a lovely relaxing bath... but... if N's with you by now and it's all happening tonight, I'm sending very relaxed, quick, easy labour vibes for you...

Helloooo everyone, Lia hoping they are just for practice and nothing more..

clare hope you are getting on ok with the two boys at home xxx Hows feeding going?

moo Hope wee man is not kicking the hell out of you too much, and youre getting a bit of respite from work....and time to put up your feet xxx

muser how are you and the wee one getting on? All well i hope :)

I am 15+5 today and WOW cant quite believe how i have got here, the time seems to be flying by now. 16 week check and bloods on monday (bean wasnt behaving for nuchal) so hoping of course for low risk.

What are your opinions about Spa-tone? My energy levels are shot.. shattered constantly, in bed for 8.30 pm each night. Should i look for an anaemia test or just take spa-tone every other day to see if i improve a bit?

Hope everyone else is great xx

Hi everyone

Nicks - I was the same re falling asleep by about 8pm until about 20 weeks. Remember thinking that surely the 2nd trimester was supposed to be the best and if this was as good as it got it didn't bode well for the next 20 weeks, but suddenly I felt ok again. I didn't have low iron - compulsive spinach eating seems to keep mine quite high, it was just something that passed for me. Obviously speak to your midwife about it too though. At 36 weeks I'm still feeling pretty good though - no where near as exhausted as I felt in the first trimester - can stay awake until 11pm these days! - although am feeling a little more physically tired in spin classes - think its the extra 10kgs I'm carrying around now though rather than anything hormonal!

Still here, Thank god, bh continued on and off all night, had to get up couple of times but nothing too uncomfortable so am hoping just my body getting ready and when it does happen it'll be nice and swift.

Going to a 40th tonight and have to say I'm a teeny bit nervous about dancing, but am just gonna think, hey what will be will be eh?

12 more days it has to stay put.

nickster my mw recommended spatone, although cons said they will keep you at an even keel but won't bring iron levels up. I'm tending towards mw info to be honest and am taking 2 sachets every day.

nothern SPIN CLASSES!!!! good for you, takes me all my time to walk to my bedroom at the top of the stairs, :)

jolls give us a bit of yer brie, usrely a tiny tiny bit at this stage won't hurt.

magic where are you? Am hoping you are birthing babies somewhere peaceful and comfy. :)

I have written dh a list of stuff he can do to help for the hb, ie don't ask me meaningless questions, just offer me food/water etc, that kind of thing. Did anyone else who had a hb do this for their dh? I know mine is at a bit of a loss if he feels stressed and giving him jobs and responsibilities will destress him (she hopes)

Liking the 'list for HB' ideas - will have to discuss these with DH. Also need to stop being 'in denial' and get the pool out of its box and check it - also look for sheets for the floor etc, was worried that the baby might be early so didn't see any point in preparing for a HB as wouldn't be able to have one - but as long as it stays put for the next week its a real option.

Fingers crossed for PV

northern..... SPIN CLASSES....?!?!?! I dont have the energy for those not diffed RESPECT! I wasnt tired at all in tri 1 but lately i just seem exhausted!

loops having the quads done. will talk to the MW on monday. Dont want a home birth [terrified emoticon] but just some energy would be good.

Think you are both very brave home birthing... and you must have a fab high pain tolerance

lia happy shuffling on the dance floor...

Goodness, i feel like a right wizzened old lady compared to you spinners and dancers

My sister is very into HBirthing and has delivered two bruisers with no pain relief. I dont birth babies very well at all and had a hideous time with DS resulting in SCBU for 7 days (term plus 6) so even if i wanted a HB DH wouldnt let me! I would love to think i was strong enough to HBirth and have watched some wonderful hypno water births recently...so i might think about hypno CD's or something.. relaxing during labour is not something i did very well, so need help there!

Envious of those who can birth with no pain relief, thats what i meant by brave

Nickster Spatone is great stuff... but you do have to take it when you haven't eaten for a while and you're not going to eat for a while... tricky whilst pregnant and permanently hungry! In a glass of fruit juice because the vitamin C helps absorption.
Worked really well for me getting iron levels up mid-pregnancy.

Lia good to hear you're still on track for lovely relaxed homebirth and given you're likely to labour quite quickly, your DH will probably be kept busy all the way through, rather like mine was. But agree the list is a good idea.

agree with loopsy hospital freaks me out and makes me want every intervention there is

northern (can't be arsed to find list) when you due? I haven't tested pool yet as like yourself not much point before next week. Will get dh to do dry run once we properly into wk 36, so anytime after next Weds. If it happens before that it'll have to be hosp anyway.

Things on my list for dh are

Do not talk about unimportant tv programmes, other unrelated stuff within my earshot (with other people there, ie doula and mw's )

Offer me food and drink, do not ask If I want it, produce it, If I don't want it, you'll know :)

As loopsy said, do not touch any part of me unless asked to

Keep lighting low and mw's in other room to do their writing etc

Give me something to smell regularly, ( I have a thing about coal tar soap and have applied it to a wash puff, I want to sniff this )

err, there's more but can't think off the top of my head right now. Obviously, fill and check pool regularly, know where notes are, baby things, towels etc

nickster I have only ever birthed once out of 5 without pain relief and that was unintentionally I had asked for epidural but ds1 had other ideas and arrived from slightly uncomfortable to completely out in 2 hours following induction.

This is my first time au naturel and I have to say when I get the really strong bh, I do shit myself worry a little bit :)

I do think Dh will be like yours alba and he was fab on the day so am keeping that image in my head.

Lia - I'm 36 weeks now so as long as i get more into next week I'm good to go at home.

Nickster - as this is my first I'm in the 'totally obvlivious category of what it will be like - which is where I'd like to stay for now. Am lucky in that I'm booked with a fab homebirth team of midwives and they all seem lovely and the hospital is really close by if I do want / need to transfer.

I was adamant I wanted a water birth and whilst available in hospital they're not guaranteed. Probably means I'll never get in the pool at home!

Nickster definitely do some hypnbirthing. I did a course after NCT classes made me fearful of labour and feel much more relaxed about whatever sort of hospital birth I have!

Just had a membrane sweep and when I used the breathing and relaxation technique I could feel it go from hurting to not hurting at all.

Fingers crossed the sweep works. Midwife said cervix was ripe. I think.

Hypnobirthing is excellent. I used the Natal Hypnotherapy cd and the breathing exercises really helped me manage contractions and stay calm. Not a painfree birth, and I was using the gas and air a lot. But I never felt I needed anything more than that.

Everything is going ok here. Been having issues with feeding and jaundice but had a long session with the hospital breastfeeding midwife and are working on sorting it out. These early days are bloody hard work. I think we all focus so much on the birth we forget that's the easy bit! So stop worrying ladies, that baby is going to come out whatever you do.

For the list, she weighed 6lb 12oz. I'd really rather not put her name on the list for privacy reasons. MN is a bit public sometimes. Although if anyone is dying to know just msg me!

Oh magic I hope it's not too much longer for you...really feel for you with such a lot of 'baby' inside! My great aunt had twins 50+ years ago.... one was 8lbs and the other 9lbs!! (something like that anyway) eek!

It does sound like things are beginning to move Lia....here's hoping baby stays put and stops scaring you like this. Tis just not fair on the old nerves!

oooh, 16 weeks for nicks! hurray hurray. It was after that appointment my MW told me to start believing I really was pregnant...still took a while, but it is a real reassurance to hear that heartbeat. FX it all goes well. And good luck with the bloods, hope they give you a nice reassuring result.

What's with all this energetic behaviour going round? Spinning classes?! Think my body would collapse at the sight of them when not pregnant....dread to think how it would cope if I went to one now! Walking with DS to the shops is my exercise

I second the respect for the homebirth brigade....and I'm taking encouragement from it all. I had an epidural with DS, but would quite like to try without this time. They've changed the birthing options here, so I have to go to a new hospital as the local one is only MWled... but the new place has this whole new unit where the MWled unit is on one floor and the normal delivery suite is on the floor below, and I'm hoping to spend my whole time in the MW bit.......but will have to go downstairs if I need an epidural again. So all this talk of homebirthing successfully is making me hope I can survive in the MW unit.... phew, what a ramble!

Sorry, brain's a little awol today. Had a funny turn this morning, had to call DH home from work to look after DS, luckily I had a friend with me until he arrived. I came over really faint, kept feeling like I was about to blackout every time I moved. Lasted about two hours, then I fell asleep and woke up feeling much better. Any one else experienced anything like that?! Don't know whether it was exhaustion, or baby lying in a funny position. Blood pressure was fine, and I'd eaten plenty so wasn't that. Who knows eh?!

and muser glad things are going well, apart from the feeding, but it's good you've got the support there. Makes a real difference.

Any news from pretty??

Hi ladies, not up to writing much but thought I owed an update!

Induced Monday for various reasons and went into labour straight away so all good. Anyway after a long time stuck at end of 1st stage and then in 2nd stage with no progress ended up with emergency CS Tuesday afternoon.

So now the good news! Baby boy born Tuesday 15th January, 8lbs 11oz - got home yesterday and he is absolutely beautiful! So pleased he's safely here I couldn't care less how it eventually happened!

Hope everyone else is doing well?!

Congrats Muser!

Take care everyone!

Ba8y Congratulations on the safe arrival of your little baby boy xxxxx How wonderful xxxx
Hope you are at home recovering and enjoying him xxx

muser just gas and air....wow :)

Ok will fess up... i thought homebirthing meant NO pain relief! [dumb emoticon] My labour was very very long and i think loopy the longer it went on the more tense i became and therefore round went the vicious circle! I ended up with a lot of drugs and epidural, and lots of intervention. I would love to avoid all that hideous crap and i would never have had the heroin (DM) had i known it doesnt last long! (although from memory it was quite nice cos i was totally off my tits!) Not only do i have MC issues to worry about I am also fretting a little concerned about a similar experience.

Def hypnobirthing just for relaxation this time as thats where i struggled last time... have watched some really lovely ones. Will have a look out for that CD thanks muser This time i am having a very structured birthing plan and hoping its nowt like the first :) Thanks for the tips :)

lotta good stuff re the ripe cervix, FX crossed.