MSE Pregnancy Club VI

Sami_Bee

Random announcement...
I have milk :j



EDIT - In my boobies not just the fridge

helen81_2

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

How would you raise that with OH if you were actively trying for a girl?

'I want us to make a baby darling, but I don't want to enjoy it' :rotfl:

Ermm,actually yes,it was something along them lines :rotfl:

greent

feelinggood wrote: »

I'm home.

Everything is probably fine. Went on the trace thingy for half an hour, which was fine apart from when he managed to move and the alarm went off. No midwife in with me, and no-one came! I repositioned the thing, and managed to find him after about 4 minutes. That was pretty scary, but none of the staff seemed suprised - must happen a lot.

Urine had lots of things in it, blood, protien, glucose and keytones I think. Probable water infection. Have to drink loads.

Doctor suggested an internal, at which point I cried a lot. He discussed it with the Senior Registrar, who though it was probably unnessercary and I could go home. Feel like I've let the baby down though? Just couldn't face going through with it. Cried all the way home.

Worried about giving birth now, if I couldn't even handle an internal.

Glad things are fine, Feelie. Can't believe they didn't respond to the monitor's alarm (what's the point of an alarm then?) - when I was monitored in my last labour it kept going off when I moved (hard not to with contractions:rotfl: ) - and they kept rushing in to reposition it - bloomin' annoying!

Re internals - they can't do one without your consent, even in labour. You may feel differently in labour, you may not. However, I really hope you get a nice, sympathetic midwife. Do your notes state that you are uncomfortable with internals/ about PTSD? - I think they should, cos otherwise you might find yourself saying stuff over and over again when you are in labour - esp if your labour runs over a shift change.... And if it's there in black and white then no-one can argue about stuff. And maybe have something on your birth plan too?

greent
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MrsTinks

Calendula tincture isn't a cream - it's an alcoholic extract And yes calendula is very well known for it's skin healing properties - I used to make my own calendula cream and tinctures - back when I had an allotment many years ago and had room to grow all my herbs and flowers... want my allotment back!

Sami_Bee

weezl74 wrote: »

Evening! I'm still up, having woken at 2.45am. Can't work out if I'm fiercely nesting, or just scared witless!

re: the miracle post-labour cream/bath treatment,

I've answered my own question, it's here the one with calendula in it.

Might be worth a try?!

Not just useful for water births, just chuck it in your next bath after any kind of delivery :cool:

Which reminds me I was gonna say earlier to everyone, its a good idea to make sure you have a decent amount of salt in the house I don't usually have anything more that the handful thats in the grinder thingy.

I was advised to put some in the bath to help heal my lady bits after Chris and also had to bathe Chris's eye with salt water coz he had a sticky eye (breast milk is best for sticky eyes apparently but mine had dried up at that point:()

greent

helen81 wrote: »

Yes I read that too before we started TTC as we looked into the shettles method to conceive a girl,thought it was at least worth a go,tip the odds our way abit, so we had boring sex, well it was for me at least,hubby enjoyed it :rotfl:

Well this one was conceived with the cra**est s*x ever!! Even DH didn't enjoy it! It was purely for baby making! He didn't want to - we were both shattered, but I insisted!

Sami_Bee

MrsTine wrote: »

Calendula tincture isn't a cream - it's an alcoholic extract And yes calendula is very well known for it's skin healing properties - I used to make my own calendula cream and tinctures - back when I had an allotment many years ago and had room to grow all my herbs and flowers... want my allotment back!

There is a new book out called "grow your own drugs" with stuff like that in it, looked very interesting when the guy who wrote it was on The Alan Titchmarsh show I don't normally watch it honest!:D

greent

weezl74 wrote: »

Evening! I'm still up, having woken at 2.45am. Can't work out if I'm fiercely nesting, or just scared witless!

re: the miracle post-labour cream/bath treatment,

I've answered my own question, it's here the one with calendula in it.

Might be worth a try?!

Not just useful for water births, just chuck it in your next bath after any kind of delivery :cool:

I had calendula tincture after my stitches with DS1. Can't say it did it for me, personally, but I'd possibly give it a go again. I used teatree & lavender essential oils after DS2 - both in the bath and on a compress. Am planning on similar this time, I expect.

And salt sitz baths - think little hip baths - are good for healing traumatised foofs! - but not too much salt;) Think I tried epsom last time, cos we've always got lots of that in


Oh Sami - re your random comment - snap! But then again I only stopped feeding DS2 in Nov..... Thankfully I'm not at the need-to-wear-breastpads stage yet:p

greent
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MrsTinks

Sami_Bee wrote: »

There is a new book out called "grow your own drugs" with stuff like that in it, looked very interesting when the guy who wrote it was on The Alan Titchmarsh show I don't normally watch it honest!:D

I'm a bit odd - I have loads of herbalist books, but whilst I'm happy to treat myself with plants and what have you I'd never dream of applying it to someone else Mind you I only do minor stuff like scrapes and scratches and such If I really want to confuse DH I drag out the danish and norwegian books

My_Fathers_Daughter

I still have no milk! Am convinced that my boobs just ain't gonna work.

But Krystal has passed the hiccups back :mad:

Does anyone else fancy them for a while? Bubba has now been going for over 30 minutes :rolleyes: