MSE Pregnancy Club XIV

jillie1974

we are getting our cot later. think mil and fil want to buy it. so iwill pint them in the direction of the one [STRIKE] i want.[/STRIKE] we like

jillie1974

i'm lucky with bins as we have a roadway at the back of the house that the bin lorry drives down so we just have to go out the back to put rubbish out.

are any of yous getting the nappy disposal unit. is it angel?? deciding whether or not it would be of any use or are nappy bags just as useful

Glamazon

jillie1974 wrote: »

we are getting our cot later. think mil and fil want to buy it. so iwill pint them in the direction of the one [STRIKE] i want.[/STRIKE] we like

wow you really seem to be getting organised! I told OH we need to get a wriggle on but he said baby won't be coming before 2nd September - I've got to keep my legs crossed and stand on my head! :rotfl:

which cot do you want?

Glamazon

jillie1974 wrote: »

i'm lucky with bins as we have a roadway at the back of the house that the bin lorry drives down so we just have to go out the back to put rubbish out.

are any of yous getting the nappy disposal unit. is it angel?? deciding whether or not it would be of any use or are nappy bags just as useful

just nappy bags for me - tryin to minimise clutter in nursery. My stepmum had one for my sister and they need changing regularly and when you do change them they STINK!

jha

Gorgeous bump Jennynoo - i wish i was that slim - lol:o

CONGRATULATIONS HYPNO ON LITTLE AUSTIN - WHAT A COOL NAME!:) Gorgeous photos and what a lovely proud daddy!:j:T:beer:

zGAZE - an international woman of mystery - :rotfl:

congrats kkavinam on a great scan glad "henry" is doing well - lol.

All the best for the sweep today suzy

Harley - cant you get some of that ozperimole (sp?) stuff from your doc for your heartburn? It sounds really bad.

Tiaa - glad your little lady is feeling a bit better.

Gisi - glad you are feeling better

Congratulations Creditwreck and welcome

Lil miss - sending you a huge hug for you and your friend :grouphug:

CONGRATULATIONS SUGARSPUN ON THE ARRIVAL OF MOLLY ELIZABETH :beer::j:T

Carla - those photos are lovely

Looks like a 12 weeks scan kindof - mine took about 15 minutes.

Big labour vibes for nessquic as requested.

Beanie - have a look on the pet forum on mse - they might have some helpful tips for masterness (?) - lol

Hi glam and jillie :wave:

jillie1974

Glamazon wrote: »

just nappy bags for me - tryin to minimise clutter in nursery. My stepmum had one for my sister and they need changing regularly and when you do change them they STINK!

thats what i thought too. and nappy bags are soo cheap!

have seen a nice white cot in mothercare. but i;m not too fussy. i would rather pay a little more for a decent matress

forgot to say before got 2 pairs of knickers from 'emma jane' before. 1 pair are maternity and look massive the other are normal ones.

jillie1974

hi jha!!

getting organised while i can still more ok!! lol!! ad just incase baby wants to put in an ealry appearance!!

Glamazon

hi jha :wave: how ru?

jillie - i figured the nappy bags would be cheaper to.

Don't think I'll get anything from Emma Jane again - they sent me tights to review. Tights?!!! I don't wear tights and they send me 5 pairs! So I never got the reviews done :rolleyes:

jha

Fine thanks - I am nesting like mad - oh dosent know what has happend - not known for my tidy house - he thinks i have turned into some strange person singing whilst i clean the house without one complaint - i think i could give kim and aggie a run for their money - lol.

Goodness its quiet on here - i cant wait for the ladies on this thread http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1821925 to post when they feel ready / would like to.

SugarSpun

BeenieCat wrote: »

Sugar! Huge congrats, how come you needed a c/s in the end?!

Glad it all went well and you're home so soon

You missed Carla, Tia and Hypno births, Suzy still waiting, fairydawn probably had hers by now or progressing i hope!

Last few births

:female: SugarSpun - 4th August 2009 at 7:15pm, Molly Elizabeth, 7lb 3oz (emer c/s)
:male: carlamagee - 5th August 2009 at 8:47pm, Christopher Robert, 7lb 11oz
:female: tiamai_d - 6th August 2009 at 9:21am, baby girl, 6lb 15oz
:male: HypnoNu - 7th August 2009, Austin Stanley, 6lb 6oz

Thanks beenie - and congratulations ladies on your arrivals! And everyone else. I'm so tired I can't see straight, but I just ate two homemade cookies so I'm feeling a bit talkative.

Note from halfway through: what follows started as a brief "this is what happened" and is fast turning into my birth story. So I'll go with it.

I was induced on Tuesday morning. After the prostaglandin gel, they sent me off for an hour and a half to walk. Around the hospital gardens and the streets surrounding. I came back for monitoring after 90 minutes of solid agonising exercise and some contractions, the most memorable while attempting to buy a bottle of water - the shop assistant was petrified. During the monitoring my waters broke. There wasn't a lot, and at first I was concerned I might have just wet myself.

Unfortunately, there was so little fluid remaining that there was pressure on the umbilical cord, so they put me on a saline drip. They'd already started the oxytocin at this stage, and I'm inordinately sensitive to it apparently. I was getting contractions once a minute, lasting a minute. So the wonderful anaesthetist turned up and gave me an epidural, and I believe I gave him a cookie and told him I loved him.

Four litres of saline solution later, nobody had bothered to catheterise me and my bladder was assuming epic proportions. And the baby's heartrate dropped to 60 from 140-150 from the pressure. Sadly, this we only know in hindsight; it happened three times (me on oxygen and turning/being helped to turn from side to side) before anyone realised what was actually going on. By that stage there was an amount of fluid in my bladder that humiliatingly overflowed the bag they were storing it in and I was being prepped for surgery while inhaling a superdose of oxygen and trying to explain that my husband had gone up to our room to eat and could someone call him please? I'd left his number in my pants pocket on the other side of the room, but between the pain and the panic and the mask I'd forgotten how to speak German and just kept shouting about my pants.

Eventually the English-speaking midwife figured it out (I had a team of two doctors, five midwives and an anaesthetist all there at this stage) and they called him. He was there inside 30 seconds and I can't imagine how terrifying the scene he walked into was - oxygen-masked wife being wrestled into anti-DVT thigh-highs while someone else is using disinfectant soap to remove her down-there hair and someone else is monitoring your infant's ever-dropping heartrate. Once the pressure from the bladder was relieved her heart went back up to normal, but by that stage she was pretty much sitting in sludge, and all the forcible turning me from side to side had dislodged her from the exit position. So we went straight to the operating room and she was born inside 15 minutes.

I felt a lot of pressure and pulling and pushing, and then Husband, who was on my side of the modesty sheet and peering over to get a ringside view of my insides, started laughing. Apparently they held her up for him to see and she immediately stuck out her bottom lip at him. Then they made her peek at me over the modesty sheet and took her off to be looked after (first Apgar 9 despite the low heartrate; the oxygen and the deep breathing as soon as I knew what was happening worked magic). He went with her, and I just drifted till I was all sewn up.

They brought the baby over to me to see her while I was still being sewn up, and she just kind of hung out there and stared wide-eyed at me. She's gorgeous. Then they took me off to recovery and told Husband he'd be able to come later on. The recovery nurses were absolute b!tches - we figured out the problem; I'm publicly insured but we were paying an excess for a family room so we could all room in. They saw "public insurance" and treated everyone else first. I was the first person in this four-bay room and the last to be seen, the only one not to get offered extra painkillers and at one point I asked if they'd call my husband and said he was on the top floor in our room. The nurse responded that there was no way he was up there as those rooms cost €200/night. I was too wiped to argue, but then he turned up with the baby and we did skin to skin time and I announced that I want to do it again. They then kept me there till 6am instead of letting me up to our room (the way they did with the other mother...) thus wasting €200+ of our money. Husband wasn't allowed to stay with me or with the baby, so we were all three alone in different places. One of the nurses did a belly examination so rough I was actually wailing and the doctor grabbed her hands and stopped her touching me.

Note: we brought homemade cookies to say thank you to the staff and only the recovery nurses didn't get any. I feel this is totally appropriate.

She's perfect. We're home. I'm so in love.