Due Feb/Mar after MC 🌈 🙈 Thread 2

[MooBugz]

New thread following the almost full last one! Sorry if I missed the tag for anyone 😬

@Ally256 @madeinthe80z @Lmcc88 @OceanbreezeSun @doingitalllagain @RedElleJ @STom2 @WonderWoop @LittleLottle @Skylark1990 @Rubes1234 @Hagster @JoKB @Gamergirl84 @Franklin321

Huge congratulations @oceanbreezesun that's wonderful news and I'm so pleased for you having such a positive experience. My induction is booked for the 8th so I'm glad to hear such a positive induction story too!

Good luck today @doingitalllagain, hope you also have a positive experience.

Hope you're ok @drV, sounds like a very dramatic day! How are you feeling?

@Hagster i am continually leaking water and have a bad back ache.. can't feel the baby move much as I am losing waters.. otherwise I am ok..

Got my first shot of steroids and antibiotics.. I am being monitored 4 hourly and all ok atm

Just internally freaking out like crazy.. I thought I still have 3 weeks to go.. baby is in a hurry to meet her mum and dad 🥰

Baby was born this morning but unfortunately is having some breathing difficulties and has picked up an infection probably from my waters breaking. I had a 5 minute cuddle and he was whisked away and transferred to another hospital. I can't go with him today, I'm hoping tomorrow they let me. I've done nothing but cry. This is so hard

Eek, more babies coming from this group! Good luck @drV try and get some sleep if at all possible, even though it's very hard in hospital!

Hope everyone is doing okay. I'm off to pack my hospital bag, I've been threatening to do it all week but all these updates are making me pull my socks up, I'm 37+3 now!

@doingitallagain I'm so sorry that must be so hard you poor poor thing. When will you be able to go and join him? Thinking of you 💐

Congratulations though and well done, this little bump in the road will be over soon x

@doingitalllagain so sorry the baby is having some difficulties.. hope he will be fine soon🙏

congratulations, you have done well💐

I can't join him until I've been discharged, I was supposed to go with him but apparently mum being with baby isn't a priority so an ambulance can't come today. Just so painful not being with him. He is beautiful, 6lbs, just scrumptious. I can't wait to hold him

@doingitalllagain Congratulations on your beautiful baby boy!

im so sorry you can’t be with him! Hoping you’re back together very soon for lots of cuddles!

sending you love

@doingitalllagain oh 😔 sorry to hear your little one isn't in your arms properly yet but hoping you will be with him soon enough. What a rollercoaster you've been on but he's in the right place and we're all thinking of you ♥️

@drV wow so sudden! But very exciting too, hope all goes well in the days to come!

Sending love to all you mamas were all so close now X

@doingitalllagain Congratulations that your beautiful boy is here. Sorry there's some initial difficulties they are treating. I'm frustrated on your behalf that you've not been able to stay with him. Has your partner been able to go? Are you recovering okay yourself after the section? x

Oh @doingitalllagain that's so so hard. Can your husband be with him? When will you be discharged? Sending love

@drV good luck for tomorrow!

@OceanbreezeSun huge congrats

@doingitalllagain Congratulations on the arrival of your beautiful baby. I’m so sorry to hear you haven’t been able to go with him, that must be incredibly difficult. You will have him in your arms soon ❤️
thinking of you both x

@drV wow! How exciting! Good luck and I look forward to hearing your good news very soon x

So sorry you don't get to be with your little one right now @doingitalllagain - I can only imagine how difficult this must be for you. I really hope you are reunited soon and can have all the newborn snuggles - sending lots of love x

@doingitalllagain Congratulations on baby but so so sorry you are going through this. I saw your other thread and have sent you a PM as didn't wan to read and run, it sounds really traumatic. Hope you're OKxxx

@drV best of luck for today, hope it all goes well xxx

Hello all 😊 our beautiful daughter has arrived safely through c section this morning💖 she latched and fed and now snoozing!

Similar to @doingitalllagain s story, they are suspecting infection in my baby girl too, she is being given IV antibiotics in SCBU of same hospital twice a day..

Hope everyone else is doing well!

Big congratulations @drV ❤️
I hope you & baby are both doing ok, hopefully you will both be back home soon

@doingitalllagain Thinking of you & your little one, I hope you are reunited very soon.

Huge congratulations @drV, what lovely news! Hoping you get to go home soon and she's ok. Keep us posted.

Thinking of you @doingitallagain, hope you're reunited soon.

I discharged myself from hospital and went to be with him, the hospital weren't too happy but I had to. He had taken a turn for the worst when I got here and I arrived to find him on high flow oxygen in the high dependency unit but things have calmed down and we've gradually decreased the high flow to the point of removal and he's now breathing on his own and has been for a couple of hours and he's doing ok. He was negative for infection. He's still being tube fed so I'm pumping until he's ready to breastfeed, we did try a small feed but it exhausted him so quickly. We've got accomodation in the SCBU so he's only down the corridor and we can visit as much as we like so I'm spending most of the day/night sat having skin to skin with him or atleast holding his hand. They kick me out every so often when I start falling asleep and order me to bed so I don't collapse in a heap on their floor. He's gorgeous but so covered in wires it's all a bit overwhelming and it's difficult having to ask to hold your own baby, especially when they say no! can't wait to get back to normality with him. He's improving so rapidly today that they think it was TTN as that usually resolves itself quickly so I'm hopeful the worst is over.

@drV big congrats to you and hope you guys get home and settled soon! Well done mama!

@doingitalllagain what a start to babies life bless you all it all sounds very scary and takes me back to when my wee guy was in the nicu incubator wired up to the machines. Your doing great and so is the little man. Sounding very promising that he's doing better albeit a scary start to the day. You can tell him all about it when he's older and how much of a fright he gave!

Love to all ♥️

@MooBugz @OceanbreezeSun @Hagster thank you all 🥰 we are still in the hospital due to baby's antibiotics. I have been discharged from obstetric side of business but staying for her purpose!

This hospital is quite strict about visiting hours and hence I am finding it difficult to manage on my own for most of the day.. I do desperately want to go home and have decide to ask for it tomorrow..

Baby is struggling to latch on because she is born 3 weeks earlier and her mouth is too small😂 I tried extracting colostrum but failed miserably as the pain was disheartening.. now managing with nipple shield and it's producing good results.. so clinging on it to my dear life 😵‍💫

@doingitalllagain sending so much love ❤ Sounds really hard, I hope everything goes easier for you and baby from here on out x

Big congratulations to you @drV hope baby is ok and fights off the infection quickly 💕💕💕 well done for persevering with breastfeeding, it can be difficult at first to establish the latch. Is there a lactation consultant at the hospital or a senior midwife who heads up breastfeeding support? Ask for as much support as possible, from everyone, and seek out the experts. Even though baby is early she should be able to latch if you get the right support with positioning 💖 your milk and colostrum will help her fight the infection too x. @doingitalllagain so so glad you are now with baby and sounds like it's promising that his breathing is getting better. Maybe just happened because he was quite early? What do they think caused it? Sending you lots of love and hope you can get home soon xx

For anyone planning to have a hospital birth, does your hospital leave partners on the postnatal ward through the night? Our does now, and my initial thought was "great! But I'll still send DH home at night assuming all okay with me and baby". Hadn't factored being on a ward with a bunch of others with partners through the night. Might be hectic? But also, if your partner is allowed to stay, is the expectation there that they do, so they can help you through the night (if ward is short staffed for example?)

Just went down a rabbithole reading another thread on MN about whether ppl agreed or disagreed with men being on postnatal ward through night. Hadn't even thought about it TBH until now!

@STom2 ours doesn't let partners through the night which I'm happy with, something nice about having the women around you going through similar fees. Our hospital is very flexible with visiting though and that's partners and others too.

We have other kids at home so wouldn't take up the partner being able to stay the night anyway but each to their own. I know with my first I would have loved having been there because it's scary enough just having given birth and going through the new things by yourself.

You can always phone your hospital and ask what generally happens if it's playing on your kind that's the best thing to do and they can give you their experience of what tends to happen xx

@moobugz Yes I've a final MW appointment next week so I'm going to ask her for her thoughts. My instinct is to send DH home as we have a 2 year old DS as well. And I figure better he gets some sleep so he can better deal with toddler next morning and drive me and baby home from hospital etc. DS was born in lockdown so there was no partners through night. Ward was very quiet and midwives were very helpful when I needed (I'd had a section so still couldn't move and had catheter etc in). I just read a lot of horror stories on the other MN thread about women essentially being left to fend for themselves where wards were short staffed, after c sections or very difficult labours. And were unable to pick babies up themselves etc. Wasn't something I'd even considered. Maybe my hospital is a bit better, but also unsure if it just was at the time due to lockdown and partners not being allowed through night.