MSE Pregnancy Club VII

Krystaltips

Ooh, I just ordered some too lol... We can be guinea pigs together Tine...

Sami, how long do you class your labour as? From the first contraction or from 5cm dialated?

redmel1621

ticklepenny wrote: »

Well hopefully I will have my baby sling, so wont be able to forget baby.... in theory :rolleyes:

Raspberry leaf.... anyone find it useful? A lot of the info says that it "reduces the level of pain in labour" and helps "prepare the uterus and the cervix" and such things..... just wondering if its true.

Also has anyone other than Weezl tried the perineal massage? and did it help any?

I am desperately reasearching ways to reduce the stress on my body... especially my bits. I have been religously cocoa buttering (for the last 6 weeks lol) and I only have 6 new stretch marks in total, and none of my old ones have gone red so I am impressed.

I am planning on taking Arnica or using Arnica cream once bubs is here to sooth the brusing of my bits, as it has always very effective on all my bruises, including ones I sustained from a car crash.

Does anyone else have any suggestions?

I haven't used P Massage any of my pregnancies, and now i'm not sure whether this is actually something to brag about:o but I have never had a single stitch...baby sizes in order were...9lb 6oz, 8lb 4oz, 9lb 1oz.

On forgetting baby....with Ds1 we went shopping in Asda when he was a week or so old, one of our first proper shops as a family of 3, and after packing all the bags at the till, we just walked off and out of the shop, it wasn't untill we were outside we looked at each other and realised he wasn't with us.....we ran back in and thankfully he was still parked up at the till:o Apparantly we both thought the other one had him:rolleyes::o

Mel x

redmel1621

Krystaltips wrote: »

Ooh, I just ordered some too lol... We can be guinea pigs together Tine...

Sami, how long do you class your labour as? From the first contraction or from 5cm dialated?

Labour is counted from 3cm dilated:D

Mel x

Sami_Bee

MrsTine wrote: »

*skips off to order her RLT capsules too*

I'll be guinea pig number 2 could be intersting... If my labour turns out to be short and sweet then it'll have helped - at least if you go by my mums historyof labours which is all I have to compare with really...

Tine I don't think your labour is influenced by how ur mum's went as my mum had an hard labour with her 1st - she needed epidural and ended in episti-wotsit and ventouse but mine was short n sweet just popped him out :rotfl:

I was 4 or 5yrs younger than mum was when she had her 1st and I don't take after her in looks though in case that could matter, both my pregs have/are diff from hers, she had no nausea and just threw up a few times but fainted often, I had "standard" sickness/nausea and no fainting this time

Sami_Bee

Krystaltips wrote: »

Ooh, I just ordered some too lol... We can be guinea pigs together Tine...

Sami, how long do you class your labour as? From the first contraction or from 5cm dialated?

The 7hrs was from the first obvious sign which was my waters going, if we are going from 5cm then mine was about 2 maybe 3 hrs I think

Ps i thought the genral "official" length was from 4cm so we've all said different! :rotfl:

SugarSpun

Ladies, can I ask a question please?

I have 20 quid's worth of Amazon vouchers and would like to spend them on baby stuff (or possibly something else entirely). We have the egg thing, a crib, a breast pump and pads, a couple of bottles, teething rings, all the clothes we could possibly need and a small library of children's books.

What should I spend the vouchers on?

3onitsway

Midwife told me it was from 3cm.

DS1 is officially down at 16hrs from 3cm. So it must have taken 10 hours to get that far - as it was 26hrs from my waters breaking!

I've no idea how they have Violet down as 2hr 40cm as we have no idea when I was 3cm - as i didn't get examined til 9cm. It could possibly be from the time we phoned the hospital?!?

redmel1621

3onitsway wrote: »

Midwife told me it was from 3cm.

That's what my midwife told me too, when we were trying to work out when Labour started:D

Mel x

3onitsway

SugarSpun wrote: »

Ladies, can I ask a question please?

I have 20 quid's worth of Amazon vouchers and would like to spend them on baby stuff (or possibly something else entirely). We have the egg thing, a crib, a breast pump and pads, a couple of bottles, teething rings, all the clothes we could possibly need and a small library of children's books.

What should I spend the vouchers on?

Something lovely for yourself!!

Sami_Bee

SugarSpun wrote: »

Ladies, can I ask a question please?

I have 20 quid's worth of Amazon vouchers and would like to spend them on baby stuff (or possibly something else entirely). We have the egg thing, a crib, a breast pump and pads, a couple of bottles, teething rings, all the clothes we could possibly need and a small library of children's books.

What should I spend the vouchers on?

Do they have an expiry on them? if not or if not for a while then just wait until there is something you want that can be bought from amazon - how sensible am I