MSE Pregnancy Club 24

BB1984

I've bought a large net that should cover the cot, pram or moses basket. The main reason for buying it was actually to keep insects off if I want to take baby out into the garden with me. Also there are lots of trees which have a habit of dropping small twigs/apples/plums etc!

BB x

emsbet

RebekahR wrote: »

Ah ok ill head to boots today then! Are they papery? Don't want them to rip when I bend over :rotfl:Yea I find that with their sizes too. Infact right now the best pants are the plain black. White ones they do with lace round the top instead of elastic. As I find elastic really digs in my bump. Can't recommend the lace enough I think the lace is heart shaped? Or something similar like that.

Just had a look, they are not papery but kind gauze like IYSWIM but I bought the 14-16 and they are a bit small :eek: but that's probably my huge ever expanding @ss that's to blame!

xx

dizziblonde

With the knicker thing - I actually just took all my laundry-crisis pants of last resort in and used it as an excuse to treat myself to some new pants that actually had some elastic left in them! Normal size fitted me just fine and apart from the first day - the much promised pant-apocalypse never occurred. Same with clothes - I forget what the hell I laboured in - but I know the trackie bottoms I was wearing when my waters broke emerged unscathed and I don't remember anything getting trashed - even the stuff I'd bought with the intention of chucking away.

Think I avoided anything lacy or itchy to wear - but yeah I just murdered the dregs of my knicker drawer (it needed a clearout).

BB1984 the bits of twigs dropping made me laugh - I took the baby and the dogs out for a walk at the local nature reserve at the weekend - had the baby in a stretchy wrap (LOOOOOVEEE my Moby btw) and the poor girl kept getting leaves landing on her!

fluffnutter

norabatty wrote: »

Any suggestions on how to get over the moses basket conundrum gratefully accepted! She falls asleep in my arms in no time, when I put her down in the moses basket, she starts whimpering after about 3 minutes. Will usually make plenty of "crying in her sleep" noises for anywhere between 5 and 30 minutes before she resorts to full on crying.

Congratulations nora!

I'd just go with it personally. She's only a few days old - plenty of time to establish a routine. The world's a bright scary place and it's no wonder she prefers snuggling in your arms to lying in a moses basket on her own. She'll soon settle down. Just consign yourself to no sleep for a few weeks! Thing to remember with babies - no phase lasts for long. She'll be in her basket next week and you'll be asking for advice about something else!

Can you explain about the different bf techniques you were shown? Sounds interesting and I want to know which one worked.

fluffnutter

Re. knickers, I'm just going to wear the ones I've been wearing throughout my pregnancy (they weren't my favourites anyway) and ditch them if they get trashed. *

Baby or no baby, I refuse to wear pants made out of paper. I do have some standards.

* Just realised that this sounds like I've worn the same pair of knickers for nearly nine months. Rest assured, I mean style of knicker, not single pair.

MrsManda

Morning all, one day until my due date and he's still not engaged looks like it's going to be a while until I get mummy cuddles - unless anyone has a sure fire way of getting him to engage?

Congratulations Nora, sounds like a rough ride but getting your baby girl must make it worth while My friend's little girl has only just started to sleep properly in the moses basket (after 6 weeks) so it may just take time. One thing which the MW suggested to my friend was that baby may be getting too warm so my friend stopped dressing baby in anything other than a nappy and it seems to work.

*hugs* to LLM.

I've finally finished packing my hospital bags (one for me, one for baby). For baby I've packed nappies, cotton wool, a couple of bodysuits, a hat and a shawl.
For me, a couple of pairs of pajamas which are old enough that I don't mind destroying, sanitary towels, breast pads, disposable knickers, lanolin cream, slippers, dressing gown, face cloths, muslins, toothbrush, toothpaste, comb, brush, Simple shower gel, hair bobbles and hair grips because my hair is long and will irritate if it gets in my way.

Haven't put something to come home in because I'm likely to be in a few days and the hospital is just around the corner so will get my OH to grab something once I know where I'm sore.
Also have phone charger, pack of cards, prescription strength paracetomol and codeine tablets in case I end up having to go in early and the mws are too busy to give me drugs, camera with a large SD card, notebook and pen, dextrose tablets, a couple of lunchbox sized orange juice cartons and mints.
Unique to my bag is also my antiepileptic medication and a watch with alarms to remind me to take them.
Just need to shove in my notes, purse, phone and keys before I leave

Had to use my breastpads for the first time last night - I was quite violently sick and apparently that's a good way of getting my breasts to leak impressively

sexymouse

Congratulations on the birth of your baby girl nora - hope you're recovering from the birth well and not too sore.

Well I've just spent the morning trawling the internet for white bedroom furniture for the nursery/spare room that has solid bottoms to the drawers (as in not the fibreboard that we currently have that bows and ends up not fitting). Has anyone come across any nice white bedroom furniture on their travels? We're not fussed about it being children's furniture, as we'd like it to be able to be used for the long term. We were given some money for our wedding last year that we'd like to use towards it, so it doesn't have to be the cheapest of the cheap, but at the same time, we don't want to spend an absolute fortune on it either. I've had a look at the provence range on pine solutions, and that seems to be quite good, but wondered if there was anything else out there?

sexymouse xx

BB1984

sexymouse, have you looked at ikea? Some of their slightly more expensive ranges are really good quality. We've got Leksvik(?) drawers and bedside tables and haven't had any problems with the bottoms bowing despite being jam-packed! (although they are fibreboard I think).

I personally like the Hemnes, Vallvik (v similar to Leksvik) and Aspelund ranges

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/categories/departments/bedroom/10451/?pageNumber=2

BB x

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jovichick123 wrote: »

Afternoon ladies,

Hope you all well? Am posting from my hospital bed atm and feeling very sore lol just wanted to let you all know that Max Hedley John was born this morning at 9.52am. He weighs a tiny 3lb 12oz as there were some undetected issues with the placenta and he was not putting on weight, he is in neo natel at the moment and is expected to stay there for a day or two... He's got a good set of lungs on him, an excellent grip and huge feet! I will post a piccie as soon as I can work out how to off my phone

Hope everyone ok,

Jovi xx

Congratulations jovi!!

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norabatty wrote: »

Morning all - I'm another one who didn't get much sleep - although I have a very good reason. I gave birth to the most beautiful little girl on Monday morning!!:j:j:j after 30 hours of labour :mad:. I don't want to freak all the lovely pregnant ladies out but I think it's fair to say that I was unfortunate and had a rather painful one. Being a first timer, my body took a long time to figure out what was happening so even though they started out only 3 minutes apart, it still took 14 hours of having contractions every 3 minutes at home before my waters broke and when I got to the hospital, I was still only 2cm dilated. A low blood platelet count ruled out the water birth I was hoping for, and it also ruled out an epidural which I would have used because the process just took so long. By the time I was 10cm dilated, I had been in labour for over 26 hours. After two and a half hours of seriously determined pushing, the baby just couldn't make her head around the bend so I was sent to theatre, given a spinal, an episiotomy (along with the large tear I managed to get while in labour/pushing) and a forceps delivery at 8.30am.

Couldn't believe it when they announced it was a girl! I've been convinced for the last 9 months I was having a boy. Anyway, I know all mothers say this, but she really is beautiful. All the midwives in the labour ward commented that they'd never seen a newborn with so much hair!! She looks absolutely nothing like me or DH either! I'd do it all 10 times over because she's just so adorable!

Anyway, I got home Tuesday evening after pretty much insisting on it - they wanted me to stay another night but I couldn't handle another night of listening to other people's babies crying and constantly checking if it's yours. You can't sleep in a communal labour ward!! Breastfeeding was a real chore the first few days and was ready to give up but a community midwife visited yesterday and showed me a much easier way of doing it than I was taught in the labour ward and we've been feeding every 3 hours or so since. She's great during the day, she's not a fan of the moses basket though - she sleeps fine in your arms or lying on a pillow on the sofa during the day when someone can watch her but it means I ended up giving up on the idea of sleeping around 4am and have been watching her sleep on the sofa for the last three and a half hours. Going to wake her up now for a feed and then let DH take over on the babysitting front so I can catch some sleep.

Any suggestions on how to get over the moses basket conundrum gratefully accepted! She falls asleep in my arms in no time, when I put her down in the moses basket, she starts whimpering after about 3 minutes. Will usually make plenty of "crying in her sleep" noises for anywhere between 5 and 30 minutes before she resorts to full on crying.

Congrats Nora!!