Due in June 2022 - Thread 12

[PlodandPod]

@EarlGreywithLemon
@fpeg
@PeeAche2
@pregnancydiaries
@Rolledthedice
@Vimto1991
@Annabell1
@Prema112
@Lostintranslatio
@Roxystar23
@PleaseSendNoodles
@imhereforthecake
@RoseValleyRambles
@t0nim92
@Yecats22
@AlbatrossSociety
@unknownscot
@beansprout55
@MrsNT
@Letsbekindplease
@GrowBabyGrow
@MrsTwentyNine
@Flowerbug1994
@BrightSmoke
@DaimDillyDoo
@MsBubbles85
@Octoblockisadick
@C1ueless22
@CurryandSnuggle
@rathernotshare
@InvisibleDragon
@4thtimethecharm
@ALHCTPS
@RooSut25
@Jammymare
@NorthDevonBeachLover
@Clomid1

In anticipation for thread 11 coming to an end.. Apologies to anyone I have missed out tagging, have tried to include everyone!

And another one!

Baby Lyra born Sunday 5th at 9.05 at 3.31kg - 6 days early of her own choice! I had a pretty textbook labour - lost my plug on Saturday morning, 24hrs of increasing contractions, went into hospital at 7am and she popped out happily 2 hrs later! We're both home and completely besotted!

@destiEos mine are sore already - but I'm only 48hrs in so they might still be hardening up. The midwife said the latch was good and checked her for tongue tie, but I don't really know how much is normal pain, or how to stop it hurting! Did you get any advice from the midwife?

@RooSut25 Congratulations! Love her name. Mine also arrived early, but conveniently the day before my mat leave officially started so magically got my dates exactly right 😂

@Prema112 It was okay! Contractions started at 2am, in hospital by 7am. She was born at 21.56. Running on 2 hours sleep did me no favours by the end and I was too exhausted to carry on so she was born via assisted ventouse delivery. In hindsight only having gas & air may not have been the right decision for me but she's here safely so that's the main thing.

Wow so many babies over the last day! Congratulations @PlodandPod @EarlGreywithLemon @RooSut25 snd @pregnancydiaries (really hope I haven’t forgotten anyone!)

@Vimto1991 how are you getting on?

@Starbeach did you have to go into triage in the end?

I’m slightly jealous of all you ladies having your babies. I’ve still got like 2 or so weeks till my ELCS!! (37 weeks tomorrow)

@annie1994 no but I spoke to triage they said go lay in bed have a pint of ice cold water and check her movements for an hour, That was at 8 last night, I fell asleep and my partner came in and thought I'd just gone to bed early so I'm seeing how she is today.

Congrats on all the 👶

Wow, so many new arrivals!! Congratulations @PlodandPod @pansytub @pregnancydiaries @CurryandSnuggle and @EarlGreywithLemon !!

And congratulations to @RooSut25 !!

@Octoblockisadick - thanks for checking in. DH and I haven't talked about circumcision again yet. But he was extremely contrite about how unreasonable he had been in our first conversation, so I'm much more confident we'll be able to have a sensible conversation soon!

@pregnancydiaries he's absolutely gorgeous 🥰 congratulations

@RooSut25 she's lovely 😍 sounds like a fabulous labour too!

Feeding wise I still get that initial ohhh ouch feeling when she latches on, but it's moments and then feels comfortable. I was about 2 weeks in before I had a truly pain free breast feed and it was a revelation that this was what it was supposed to feel like! @destiEos the 30th is a long time to wait when it's causing you such problems, could you express more and then switch back to feeding on the breast when she's got the tie sorted? I don't envy you, sending virtual hugs of support!

@RooSut25 Aww congratulations! Such a cutie and we have the same sleepsuit collection! Is she in the newborn size out of interest- I'm wondering if my boy will be too big for them by the time he comes!

@PlodandPod So pleased to hear it was a good labour, it's so nice to hear from everyone on the other side and remember that labour is just the means of getting your baby and once they are here that's all that matters!

@CurryandSnuggle How was it when your son met Ruby? I can't wait for that moment with my son 🥹

@Vimto1991 Thinking of you love, how're you doing?

@Roxystar23 How are you doing as well?

@pansytub congratulations!! Hope all went well with the birth and you are feeling good.
And to you @RooSut25, @PlodandPod, @pregnancydiaries and @EarlGreywithLemon. So many babies!!

@destiEos i also have really sore boobs so am giving formula top ups. I really want to breastfeed but if the initial latch pain doesn't improve I can see myself stopping. I don't want to dread feeds. @fpeg how old is baby now? is the initial ouch less or still the same? I have to bite my thumb and stamp my foot when he latches haha.

@Prema112 my daughter was obsessed meeting Charlie. She is completely in love, and wants to hold him all the time haha.

Anyone else's partner driving them mental haha? My husband is properly stressing about the washing and cleaning and everything, I keep telling him to leave it because it can wait but he won't.

@Octoblockisadick she will be 4 weeks old on Friday. It's not as bad as you are explaining, makes me make a face, but literally does last moments. Part of it is the muscles contracting in the breast as she latches on rather than her mouth causing the pain. It's genuinely comfortable after that moment of ouch and if she comes off and relatches in the same feed then it doesn't cause the pain. I know @destiEos expressed reservations on the nipple shields but it's no different to bottle teats in my mind and she has an expressed bottle with dad every night so I never even thought about it and not sure I'd still be breastfeeding if I hadn't used them. She's used to lots of different nipple types at this point and when I've looked at other forums (not the militant breastfeeding ones) people who started early with other tests seem to have far fewer issues with nipple confusion than those who wait until the recommended 6 weeks. I'm pro breastfeeding but I've actually been shocked at how far they push the agenda and my health visitor initially said "oh that's very sensible" when I explained what we were doing before then saying "but I'm supposed to tell you to breastfeed (from the breast) exclusively for 6 weeks and not do the expressed feed." I see so many people saying they're trying to introduce bottles at 6 weeks and having issues, so part of me genuinely thinks that this is all part of an agenda to keep people breastfeeding as long as possible. I'm probably seeing conspiracies where they don't exist but I've been annoyed by the constant and obvious agenda pushing! (Especially when I really don't feel like they offer enough actual proper breastfeeding support and solutions).

Ok rant over, hope some part of my ramble answered your question 😂 (I blame sleep deprivation on the grumpiness 😂)

Hey everyone, baby Vimto (a girl!) arrived at 6:12 this morning weighing 8lb3oz at 39+6

it was a bad experience start to almost finish but when I went up to delivery ward I had sciatica that even an epidural couldn’t fix, so I was in agony and couldn’t sit down or lie down, I was stood up from 5pm until 5am not able to sleep. I had only gained 1cm (4-5) in that time, so the consultant told me we needed an emergency c section, she just wasn’t in a good position to gain any cms and was actually under my cervix crammed against my back. When the c section surgeon said it was awkward to get her out.

her first cry was magical, so so worth it. Honestly, for such a shit journey, I’d do it all again for her.

i just wanna say a huge thank you to everyone thinking of me and rooting for me, I really appreciated it and made me feel so overwhelmed with support yesterday when things were looking rough!!

Oh @Vimto1991 sorry to hear you had such a tough time but so pleased you now have your gorgeous daughter. I’ve honestly been waiting for her arrival with almost as much anticipation as waiting for my own baby to arrive 🤣
and congratulations to all the other new mums, so many beautiful babies.
Definitely very jealous, 39+4 and have well and truly had enough of being pregnant now, but I went 10 days over with all my girls so I’m not hopeful of things happening any time soon. Thank goodness you are all sharing such wonderful pictures to remind those of us still waiting that it is all so very worth it.

@fpeg ah for me it's every time he latches even if in the same feed. Its like he's biting me when he first goes on, but is fine literally 5 seconds later. Yeah I'm not waiting until 6 weeks, hes had the odd bottle of cow and gate, and some expressed milk too. The cow and gate we used the hospital bottles that come with the teat, the expressed in a mam bottle. So far no issues switching between the bottles and breast. I might pick up some shields to try.

Yay @Vimto1991 massive congratulations, shes beautiful! You did absolutely incredible and I hope you are really proud of yourself. Give yourself time to recover and look after yourself ❤

Oh my goodness so many new babies! Congratulations everyone! It's so exciting to see all of our journeys coming to fruition after all these months!

I'm also on the latch nightmare - I've been to see 3 different midwives because it was just agonising - I was dreading feeding her because it hurt so much and have been in tears. This was followed by her having lost 10.4% since her birth weight and so needed to spend 24 hours feeding her non stop. Luckily when she was weighed again the day after she had gone down to only 8.2% below birth weight and we now have another weigh tomorrow so fingers crossed she's gained again. Needing to feed her has definitely helped - it still hurts but it's getting better every day and I can imagine a point in the future where she won't hurt at all! Also having had 3 different midwives show me different approaches has helped as I think I just didn't know how to latch any other way at first so if anyone else is struggling too I would really recommend asking every different midwife you see for help because they all have different advice.

Re: those discussing nipple shields etc - we were told we HAD to top up every feed for 24 hours with 40-60ml of breast milk (literally if I wasn't feeding her I was pumping - i literally felt like a cow 😅) which was obviously in a bottle so I wouldn't feel too guilty about switching to a bottle and expressed milk if baby has tongue tie! She's also not confused at all by the different ways of getting food - she's had shields, 2 different kinds of bottle teat and of course my actual nipples and she's happy to go on any of them. I would 100% have given up and gone to formula by now if I wasn't allowed to use bottles and expressed milk!

Has anyone else been hit particularly hard by hormones? I've cried every day since day 3 (probably not helped by this nursing nightmare) and generally feeling very emotionally fragile :(

Yay baby vimto! So glad it's over and she's here. Well done for pushing through - that sounds horrendous.

@mrkb in doing alright from a hormone crash pov this time, but it was horrific with my daughter. It does get better though, I promise! With my daughter I went on the mini pill due to breastfeeding, which actually made things worse as it can affect your mood. Stopping that really helped too, so consider your contraception when the time comes.

Yay for baby vimto! How are you feeling @Vimto1991 i suspect you’re rather shell shocked from your ordeal? I’ve got a sweep tomorrow and I know the midwife will want to book my induction date for next week, but your experience is really making me have second thoughts!

congratulations too @RooSut25

@Vimto1991 woooo congratulations! You’re definitely hardcore pushing on through all those days, I would have begged for a c section within a day or so 😂

Congratulations everyone❤

I spent all morning in hospital just to find out my little madam is hidden behind the placenta 🙈

Congratulations to new babies, thank you for sharing all your stories, they've made me feel better- I don't know if it's my hormones or the pain and exhaustion from working but I have been crying for the past few days and arguing with my mum.

I cannot cope at work anymore, im not sleeping more than 5 hours a night. I am exhausted and feel like im heading to a nervous breakdown (I don't know what those really are like, I just really feel like one). 😢

Welcome to the world baby vimto! And what an awesome mamma you have in @Vimto1991 💕

Congratulations to all who have had their babies it's amazing to see! I'm 37 weeks and 2 days today and picked up my birth pool for a home birth.

@laurenGame I've been really emotional and getting into confusing stressful arguments with family too!

@laurenGame im sure it’s hormones and discomfort making you teary. It’s so hard to be positive and all happy and smiley when you’re so tired and uncomfortable. When do you finish for mat leave? Can you use annual leave to go a week or 2 earlier? You may find as soon as work is out of the picture you feel better in yourself.

These last few weeks of pregnancy are f*ing tough!!!!