MSE Newborn to 1 year Baby Club 1

Gillyx

I wasn't induced but did end up on a hormone drip in labour.

Just stay calm if you can, and remember your breathing. Also patience as it may take a while or it may not. Good Luck you will have your baby boy soon xxx

katiechoc_2

I was induced due to my waters breaking but not contractions. Not sure there is much you can do to prepare really, just get as much sleep as you can! Also be ready for a bit of hanging around before it gets started - if they have a busy morning with lots of ladies already in labour chances are you'll be at the bum end of the queue, I was waiting for a good few hours before they even started me off. Take snacks!

Best wishes, hopefully see you back on here very soon!

safesound

I was induced (in the end lol) and I can honestly say that having someone with me was the biggest help, oh and taking something to snack on that wont make you sick like those glucose tablets to keep your energy levels up.
A woman on the maternity ward I was on came in to be induced, was put on the drip, was taken an hour later to the birthing suite and had her baby within another hour so for some people it can work really fast.
However and I don't want to scare you but some women it doesn't work for AT ALL (me for one). Please don't let them keep you on the hormone drip for 18+ hours doubling the dosage every 2 hours with nothing happening like they did with me. There is no shame in needing a caesarean if your body isn't cooperating. In fact by the time my husband insisted on it, I was so happy to have the spinal that I practically hugged the anaesthesiologist.

EL.Smith

Hi Ladies, do you mind if I join you? I was reading the pregnancy thread a bit in the last month or so but never managed to keep up with it enough to post.

I had a baby girl at 11.30pm on 1st Oct so she will be two weeks old tomorrow. She was born at home in the birth pool and I didn't even use the gas & air that the midwife had brought to the house a few weeks before my due date.

My DW has taken her two weeks paternity leave but is going back to work on Tuesday so I will probably be on here trying to keep myself sane!

DD has just fallen asleep so it's time for all three of us to go to bed.

Emma

sunshine_1988

I wasnt induced but good luck moneypuddle and exciting you get to meet your baby!!! Come join us soon

Highchairs, we have a bonito bebe feed me now, cant post a link as on phone but we love it and so does my little man.

Well, got back from my mums and was sat watching x factor while OH was upstairs and for some reason I got very emotional! I was thinking about how soon I am back at work, 19 Nov, and I just burst out crying. I dont know how I will do it, I really dont. I hate hate hate being away from him, its worse at the mo as he is such a mummys boy and is very clingy with me. Earlier at mums he wouldnt go to anyone and was just screaming for me.
I then start to think is that my fault? Have I made him so clingy and so dependant? I over analyse everything when I get upset.
I will miss him so much, I know I have been lucky as would have had almost 10mnths off and I know some people have to go back alot sooner but I cant stop feeling so sad.
At the moment he wont even go my sister or mum so my worst thought is day one at nursery him screaming once we pass him over. I am welling up thinking of it now.

Sorry ladies what a sad old post. x

mozzyc

EL.Smith wrote: »

Hi Ladies, do you mind if I join you? I was reading the pregnancy thread a bit in the last month or so but never managed to keep up with it enough to post.

I had a baby girl at 11.30pm on 1st Oct so she will be two weeks old tomorrow. She was born at home in the birth pool and I didn't even use the gas & air that the midwife had brought to the house a few weeks before my due date.

My DW has taken her two weeks paternity leave but is going back to work on Tuesday so I will probably be on here trying to keep myself sane!

DD has just fallen asleep so it's time for all three of us to go to bed.

Emma

Welcome hun! x

mozzyc

sunshine_1988 wrote: »

I wasnt induced but good luck moneypuddle and exciting you get to meet your baby!!! Come join us soon

Highchairs, we have a bonito bebe feed me now, cant post a link as on phone but we love it and so does my little man.

Well, got back from my mums and was sat watching x factor while OH was upstairs and for some reason I got very emotional! I was thinking about how soon I am back at work, 19 Nov, and I just burst out crying. I dont know how I will do it, I really dont. I hate hate hate being away from him, its worse at the mo as he is such a mummys boy and is very clingy with me. Earlier at mums he wouldnt go to anyone and was just screaming for me.
I then start to think is that my fault? Have I made him so clingy and so dependant? I over analyse everything when I get upset.
I will miss him so much, I know I have been lucky as would have had almost 10mnths off and I know some people have to go back alot sooner but I cant stop feeling so sad.
At the moment he wont even go my sister or mum so my worst thought is day one at nursery him screaming once we pass him over. I am welling up thinking of it now.

Sorry ladies what a sad old post. x

Ah Sunshine.....bug big hugs hunny. What can I say....use just kind of learn to manage, and are so focused on forming a new routine and making the time you do have together count, you just get on with it. Promise you'll be ok. I felt exactly the same, and now I wouldn't have it any other way (well ok, maybe a 3 day work week lol), coz Charlie is just having soooo much fun at nursery. He cried the first day, but now he gets well excited lol.

What you're feeling is natural! Your a mum! Big hugs! And am on my phone, so cant send you a big hug smiley, but will do tomorrow
xx

Aimless

moneypenny21 wrote: »

Hello - gatecrashing here again

Can any mummies recommend a highchair? Looking for something around £60 but £100 is the maximum price really. Would like it to be height adjustable and have washable everything but apart from that I'm open minded. Anything I need to think about when buying one?

Thanks in advance

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0037NYU3A/ref=asc_df_B0037NYU3A10112443?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&!!!!!googlecouk06-21&linkCode=asn&creative=22206&creativeASIN=B0037NYU3A

We have this... very plain looking, but easy to clean and the seat pad isn't that hard plastic that cracks and gets dirt wedged in all the seams!

We're going away at the end of the month, other half has just told me the place we're staying has a cot we can use. Am I being a bit paranoid not liking the idea of using a strange cot mattress? And would getting a mattress pad to put over it be enough to make it safe do you think? The people are friends of my other half, but it is a hotel cot.

Gillyx

sunshine_1988 wrote: »

I wasnt induced but good luck moneypuddle and exciting you get to meet your baby!!! Come join us soon

Highchairs, we have a bonito bebe feed me now, cant post a link as on phone but we love it and so does my little man.

Well, got back from my mums and was sat watching x factor while OH was upstairs and for some reason I got very emotional! I was thinking about how soon I am back at work, 19 Nov, and I just burst out crying. I dont know how I will do it, I really dont. I hate hate hate being away from him, its worse at the mo as he is such a mummys boy and is very clingy with me. Earlier at mums he wouldnt go to anyone and was just screaming for me.
I then start to think is that my fault? Have I made him so clingy and so dependant? I over analyse everything when I get upset.
I will miss him so much, I know I have been lucky as would have had almost 10mnths off and I know some people have to go back alot sooner but I cant stop feeling so sad.
At the moment he wont even go my sister or mum so my worst thought is day one at nursery him screaming once we pass him over. I am welling up thinking of it now.

Sorry ladies what a sad old post. x

Ah Sunshine, all of those feelings are completely normal, you are his Mum. He is more than likely going through the 6 month clingy period at the moment which is only intensifying these feelings for you.

Nursery will be great for him, think of all the babies and children he'l get to meet and play with and all the things he'l learn he'l become so sociable and brilliant at interacting. He'l also get to play with loads of lovely toys without them cluttering up your house In the beginning he may be upset or cry, but I did when I went to primary school! but I loved it after that first initial day.

I find A if he does get upset can be quite easily distracted and consoled with other things, the ladies at the nursery will be experts at this too

The time you do have together will be extra special. Hugs xxxx

katiechoc_2

Aw sunshine, big hugs. It will be hard but as mozzy said, it will get easier. I can't remember - are you going back full time?

We're on the first feed of the night at the moment, which is brilliant after the last few weeks of being up 4-5 times.