MSE pregnancy club II

Dormouse

He's absolutely gorgeous CG

Slapps

congratts 2 all the new mum's and baby's xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

becky_sleaf

Evening all!

Congrats to all who have now had their wee bundles of joy! And a BIG...you can do it to all who are due!

I'm sick of having a foot in my ribs & constantly needing to pee! Thankfully not to much longer to go! On the plus side i've only put on 10lbs on up to now! :j :eek: Not sure what'll happen in the next 6 weeks! x

SeptemberBaby_2

Oh how cute is your baby CG?!? Many congratulations to you, OH and DD on the birth of Danny! :j Hope you are recovering well xxx

Many congratulations Rince on the birth of Sophia!!! PS: definately agree with you on the epidural! Pure bliss even if I had to have 3 attemps! PPS: Rince. when you have a min, you may want to edit The List as it says 11 Nov instead of 10 Nov! xxx

And, many congratulations Hippychick on the birth of Seren!!!


Hope everyone else is well x

Rince

Thanks September baby, my brain has gone ! was looking at the date below mine and typed the 11th !! Muppet.

ab7167

OMG I'm 4th on the list. Congratulations to all of you lucky, lucky ladies who have had the babies - I want mine to come! Can't wait now, baby has had growth spurt and I feel like a whale. Or something equally large and unwieldy. Also hormones have kicked in in big style and I am spending a lot of time in or very close to tears for no apparent reason.

Does anyone else feel that they are a burden on their OH? Mine is mostly a money thing, I think - I just feel guilty that now I am on maternity pay, he is having to support me. I know that this is what happens, I just can't shake the feeling of guilt as I have always been self supporting since university. Wasn't too bad until I started crying all the time, now I just see myself as not only having to be supported financially, but emotionally as well.

I know that this is what being a family is about, and it is probably hormones not helping, I just don't know what to do. Then I worry about it and get upset again. Plus I am convinced that the baby has turned and is now breech, which is also worrying me as I only have 12 days before due date. I'm sure I can feel the head under my ribs. But have appointment with MW this afternoon, so I'm sure she can put me at ease. Also have had horrible headaches the last few days, but I guess this is probably down to the excess emotions!

Sorry for ranting, I don't have any pregnant friends, and most of them don't really understand, I don't think.

A

Hopeless_Cook!

Just checking in.... again. I'm still here, 6 days overdue and not even a twinge to get excited about

What a gorgeous baby CG. Can't wait to meet mine, whenever that will be! :eek:

Agutka

I've been putting off posting for ages, as lots to tell, but here you go. This is a brief account :rolleyes: of my birth thingy. Please ignore if you have chores to do.



I went overdue and here is what happened.
Thursday (40+9) I go in to clinic to discuss induction. I get a time for Sunday and a doc tries to perform a sweep – but cervix tucked up out of reach. Big fat ouch. They notice my BP is high (even though the previous day GP said it was fine) so I had to go in everyday for monitoring. On Sunday night I toddled off to hospital, completely unaware of the procedures awaiting…:cool:
Three hours of monitoring (baby looked tachycardic sp?, but decided it was just normal for baby) and a painful sweep and a prostaglandin gel later I was left to rest for the night. I got no sleep, as worried and had niggling period cramps and back pain. In the morning I was checked and achieved a pathetic 1cm dilation! Cervix still tucked away. But midwife said she could feel baby’s head:j, which was cute. The monitor showed I was contracting, so I was not given any more gel, but told to walk around:rolleyes:.
By the afternoon they decided to put me on BP meds and to carry on with the next procedure – breaking the waters.
So we toddled off to the delivery suite, where I was passed over to a midwife with rather large hands:eek:! Not happy. Over the course of the next six hours I was strapped to a monitor, as four different doctors donned gloves and tried to break my waters. And it hurt loads each time. In the end they decided I had no fore-waters and baby was right on the membrane thank you very much. Gas and Air did nothing for me! That was the worst bit of my birth experience really.
Then, because I had made to a giant 2 cm dilation, and they were sure my membranes were popped, so decided to go ahead with the oxytocin (is that right?) drip.
Cannula (yet another foray into pain and discomfort) was fitted and at midnight (Tuesday 16th!) the midwife was reasonably happy with baby’s hearbeat to start the drip. I was by this point rather erm… tired as hadn’t slept since Sunday morning.
I was feeling some cramp like contractions before the drip was started, but soon they got rather... stronger. And I am ashamed to say I laboured for one solitary hour before screaming for an epidural. The midwife was helpful – I’d recommend it, she said, as you’re only just starting the process! I was only 2cm, and it was only gonna get worse. So a very handsome man :Dwas called and soon he was poking at my spine (through four contractions – keep still my bottom!) – although I was disappointed how long it took to act – 15 mins. There was general merriment in the room as I turned from evil swearing thing to happy floating cloud! Then I just got to lay there as my body continued to give birth… Why doesn’t everyone do it this way?
I got to have some sleep that night, although MW kept waking me up to change positions. Hubby got a bed to sleep on too. Excellent birth experience.:T
Unfortunately, although I managed to get to six cms by 7am, that seemed to be my lot. Baby didn’t seem in distress, but was moulding to the 6cm hole. And I had a scare at 10am when the epidural stopped working.:eek: Different handsome man came to sort it out thankfully. Lots of docs came in and out with ideas, but really it was all heading in one direction. At 11 we decided to get it over and done with and signed some forms (after checking surgeon’s hands weren’t shaking!). By this point my medical notes looked like War and Peace!
Joseph was taken out of me at 12.13pm (excellent timing CG ). Apparently my dear son was back-to-back, which the five midwives I encountered on my journey knew about but couldn’t mention, hence the stupid pain, and the poor mite couldn’t turn, so got stuck at the six cms.


I then spent two looong weeks in hospital as they tried to get my bp stabilised:eek:, it was then that I lost my mind and will to live. Absolute torture.



I wish you all a better or shorter experience. Good luck!!

Dormouse

Blimey. :eek: Most importantly, how are you feeling now, Agutka? :grouphug:

But hey, all these handsome men - can't have been all that bad? The only handsome men at both my labours were DH and DSs. :happyhear

Oh yeah, I did see a male doc during my first labour - he came in to stick the drip in, as MW couldn't do it, having mutilated my arms and making me look like a junkie. :eek: Anyway, I digress, the male doctor looked and sounded like Dr Nick from the Simpsons - "Hi everybody!" :rotfl:

beakerange

Anyone any good ideas on how to get a breech baby to turn?
I'm 35+2 and midewives said yesterday she thought it was breech.
Do they turn themselves or do they need a little help?