MSE Pregnancy Club IX

got-it-spend-it

Gorgeous pics hun, really clear. Not sure I can see a winky though, but then I'm no expert at these things! x x

skintchick

I can;t see anything to tell the sex from on those - you're safe!

Cheapskate

Re breech babies (sugarspunsister?) - all my children were breech until the last week or so, then turned & came out the right way! The last time, I went for MW appt, she was on hol & saw a locum MW, she said 'right, I think baby is breech, need a scan & def C-section', about 34 weeks. Scan showed baby head down (I knew he was anyway!), radiographer flummoxed, saw own MW few days after & we both shook our heads! :rotfl:I can appreciate why they are cautious, but my MW said that most babies turn the right way round, even if it's only during the last 48 hours or so. My sis lives in the US, where all breech babies are automatically C-sections, then if you've had CS, all subsequent PGs are CS as well - you have to very persistent/bolshy to get normal deliveries, sign medico-legal forms etc., never mind home births etc. Sis had to have 3 CS (got 3 kids) & now has problems with scar tissue upon scar tissue. Think we're much better off here, even though we moan about being pressured about intervention.
Slightly different tack, changes in our maternity services mean that if you're having your 6th (or more) baby, or any complications, then you have to go to maternity unit in the next town, home birth not an option either, unless you 'accidentally' leave it too late! Got a smashing birth centre in our hospital, though, so keeping fingers crossed that no probs with this one - don't want him/her born in 'foreign parts'! :rotfl:
A xo (Sorry, all this seems long & boring!)

searching_me

ello ladies ... went out to b&q and kfc ended up at my mates for a few hours few newbies i see congratz and welcome ...
also the people who got there HIPG when did you put in the form, mines going in my ML savings for bubba after ive had him but would like to know when its in so i can transfer it over x

Cheapskate

Oh, labour lengths - #1 = 4 hours; #2 = 45 mins (born in casualty!); #3 = 3.5 hours; #4 = 2.5 hours - all from first signs to baby's arrival, I kid you not! Just to make you all green, no morning sickness with any, no stitches, injections, epidurals, just gas & air!! God will punish me this time, just to even things up, I'm sure.

tarajayne

Cheapskate wrote: »

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Slightly different tack, changes in our maternity services mean that if you're having your 6th (or more) baby, or any complications, then you have to go to maternity unit in the next town, home birth not an option either, unless you 'accidentally' leave it too late! Got a smashing birth centre in our hospital, though, so keeping fingers crossed that no probs with this one - don't want him/her born in 'foreign parts'! :rotfl:
A xo (Sorry, all this seems long & boring!)

Policy in most places, was warned about having no.5 at home.

Can't make you go anywhere though, providing that all is ok with bubs I will stick to my 2 MW's to myself at home thank-you. Far to selfish to share. :rotfl:

searching_me

cheapskate your lucky zoe was nearly 17hrs x

3onitsway

helen81 wrote: »

I can't stop looking at my scan pics, Ive convinced myself I can see a winky but surely 12 weeks is abit too early for there to be one there already?!
Im going to make spaghetti on toast for my tea then I'll put pic up for you to look at.

I was convinced there was a white dot og a willy on my scan pic, as was everyone else. But no, she's definately a girl.

And Jillie - we found out she was a she, but kept it our secret. It wasn't too hard, although I did call her she now and again, but I just remembered to follow it up and call her 'he' in my next conversation with that person.

As someone said before, it was nice that we had our little secret, when pregnancy makes you public property in some peoples eyes. :mad: Also, when anyone asked about names, the boys name was always going to be dads name anyway, so I always gave that, followed by our choice of girls (which changed hourly!!)

Also, the dot on the scan had everyone else convinced he was a she - so that helped.

Hugs to everyone.

Well Done AM - he's beautiful! What does big brother think of him?

Extra Hugs to Mrs Moc - I can't imagine how hard it must be being stuck in hospital - but thank god for hospital internet!!

MrsTinks

Come to think of it - I found it so weird referring to Roo as an "it" before we knew I called her "he" - when people looked surprised I just explained that I couldn't deal with referring to my baby as an object and as we didn't yet know I just decided to call it "he" Everyone accepted that quite happily... And then ofcourse it turned out that she was a she and not a he :rotfl:

Cheapskate

searching_me wrote: »

cheapskate your lucky zoe was nearly 17hrs x

Oh poor you! :eek: I have a very low pain threshold, maybe the man upstairs realised that, but still think things will catch up with me this time. I can't be that lucky again, can I? Friend went 60 hours with her little lad, & might have been longer if they hadn't used forceps! :eek: Trouble is, I then had problems with my older 2 kids when they were teenagers, so it did balance out! Now would rather have had long labour & angelic teens! :rotfl: