MSE Parents Club Part 12

CAFCGirl

God right, cant remember who'd written what questions now LOL I blame my drugs

Beenie - Thats ok hun, my mum turned up with one, but it might be carp so bring yours too LOL or if you know anyone else who would benefit, pass it on to them, but be cool if you wanna pop round next week anyway and say hello and we can sow the seeds of friendship between respective babbies Let me know anyways.

RSA - My madwife is hilarious so I dont think she'd moan at me too much, she seems to live in the real world.... yet the staff at the hospital would just leave me alone for 6 hours with baby next to me, yet I'm not supposed to lift, or bend.... but all the carp for changing him is in a cupboard below knee height.....etc etc.....
I made sure today I was having a quieter day though, so no walkies today, plus I begrudgingly had to put my dvt stockings back on after taking them off to wash them and winging 2 days of not wearing them...... and no amunt of outfit planning can make these stockings look good!

Gill - Thanks, its all going ok so far, although I've been left on my own now LOL Mum has gone back to sisters house to pack her stuff and then they are both coming round here to watch the football (im tempted to go to bed), then my mum is trekking back down south (300 mile journey) and my sister is staying with me till DH gets home from work about 9:45pm..... although with my sister its like the blind leading the partially sighted. Landen is the first baby she's held, so we have to give her a bed pillow to lay him on :rotfl:till she gets more comfy.....

EA - I've not posted my birth story, mainly because I cant remember half of it, well actually probably 80%..... I can tell you I went in to be induce, had drugs, an epidural, spazzed out and wasnt breathing and then had a emergency c section, but anything else, you'd have to ask my mum and dh at the moment.....:A
Part of me also doesnt actually want to relive it. I know I spent 5 hours petrified that something was happening to him and noone was telling me, i threw up so many times as well my throat was burning...so Im living in a bubble of complete ignorance and just glad he's in the world :T

Becles - Its a variation on the American football/soccer player Landon Donovan (who scored in their match yesterday btw LOL).... I didnt like it with an "o", people kept saying it too much like London with a chavvy accent.....
in terms of meaning it means from the long hill, and is actually an english name, but is mainly used in America.
Started getting a bit annoyed with the hospital staff especially of a certain age not listening, and when they asked his name, I told them, and then they say "Brandon" and Im like "no Landon" - how difficult is it to pay attention!!!

Added my facebook link to his photos for those not on my friends list from the preggers thread
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=443181&id=633390116&l=ed79f058d2

gill_81uk

Aww glad you're doing ok. If you do start getting your memory back re the birth then I would definitely advise you to either talk it through with someone, post it on here or write it out for your own benefit. I found Thomas's birth very traumatic (nothing like you went through tho) and totally blamed myself for things that had gone wrong, until Dh was able to rationalise it for me. I found that posting it on here and reliving it that way was a major help in getting my head around it. I'm the sort of person who keeps things to myself and dwells on them for ages, and I think you maybe are too so thought I'd just tell you what had worked for me x

Also take Beenie's chair as well as the one you've got and see which one Landen (and you!) likes best as T really isn't too keen on his unless the dreadful music or sounds of the sea are playing lol

CAFCGirl

I did think that as well, I'll probably write it out for myself iff I ever regain enough of my memory to make any sense of it.....

I havent hit the point of blaming myself for how it went yet. Freakishly when we had follow up appointment with consultant after week plus of being sent to day assessment for bp profiles, I said to DH that I knew I wasnt getting a straight forward birth.... call it sixth sense or whatever....DH thought I just meant being monitored, have to have waters broken etc.....
But like you said, I'm pretty similar to you, so when I have THAT day of feeling like Im total rubbish at all of it, I potentially will end up thinking I was to blame....
But Im prepared to know that day will most likely hit, and I'm ok with that. DH is worried that I'll try to carry on too much, and not discuss it. I did point out Im unlikely to trigger a conversation about it but if he asks me, then its easier for me to open up, then to try and start the conversation.
I think everyone is worried I'm going to get PND which I'm classed as a risk for.......and having the birth we had only adds to that likelihood according to the madwife

Krystaltips

Afternoon folks, welcome CAFC. I remember you the first time you were on the pregnancy thread, so glad to see you here You've got the same RL name as me too lol, Landen looks gorgeous in your pics!!!

CAFCGirl

we have the same name!????

I've never met my name twin!!!!

Krystaltips

Only first name lol...

redmel1621

Oh and hello CAFC:)

FIL has been and gone, he brought a cute little dress and a jacket for T, chocolate and Toy story 3 for the boys and a big box of Roses chocs for me:)

Things are calming down here....ds1 gets a bit upset everytime we bring up the xbox thing.....He is such a lovely lad, I really don't think he realised exactly what he was doing. I feel bad for telling him off so much, but i'm not telling him that. At the end of the day if he had read it properly, or come and checked with us first then this could have all been avoided. Still going to make him pay the money back with his pocket money, at least half of it anyway.

xx

searching_me

well park was ok but not great as we checked out a new one we saw as we were coming home yesterday .. lets say it was lacking compared to the other one but it was so hot and zoe was moany so we didnt bother going the other one and came home instead ...

doing corned beef and rice for dinner but wishng it was a BBQ x

musogirl295

Welcome and congratulations CAFC! Sorry you didn't have an easy time of it. My birth didn't quite go as I'd hoped but nothing like yours sounds.

Beenie - hope you can get your floorboard sorted! You've completely put me off the coil now! I'm currently delaying my decision on what to do in that respect. They won't give me the normal pill cos I'm overweight but the mini pill sends my moods all over the shop! To add to that I'm not good with needles and the like so running out of options!

Enjoying the weather but keep having to remember to put sun cream on Holly. She's going well overnight now. I'm waking her for a feed at about 11pm and then she wakes for one at 4am. We're finding it hard to get to sleep in the evening tho. We started the bedtime process at 7.45 last night but she remained wide awake until 10 by which point we were losing the will to live!

Any views on when I should start increasing her feeds? At the mo she's having 4oz bottles that she finishes most of the time. She's having them every 2-3hrs during the day.

Krystaltips

I think the general rule of thumb is once they start draining most bottles then start putting an extra ounce in... Don't quote me on that though lol...