MSE pregnancy club II

carol9uk

congrats scuffy96uk and shelvis, hope both are well

Sugarcubed

Congrats Shelvis!!

keelykat

scruffy96uk wrote: »

Congrats Shelvis and to all those who have given birth or added themselves to the lists.

Can't remember who asked about what they should buy that they won't recieve as gifts!! As for sanitary pads I know it's not vey money saving but I bought Boots thick pads I think 10 for £1 and also the thin ones 10 for £1.99. I put a thin one on then a thick one on top as it felt more secure just for the 1st few days after birth as the thin ones have wings!!

Ok quick birth story!! My waters broke 6.20am 24/12/07 NO contarctions (exactly like you Shelvis). Went to hospital @ 6.45am, examined and was 2cm dilated sent home and was told if contractions hadn't started by 8am 25/12/07 to go back and I would be induced. The back of 3 in the aftenoon (24/12) my contractions started. I coped until 5.30am 25/12 and foned the hospital who said come in. I was given an anti sickness jab straight away then on gas and air. Ellie was born at 10.03am with the help of ventouse.

I guess I will be leaving this thread now and joining the parents club. Will see you all over there when it's your turn to move on!!

Best of luck to you all
x

Congratulations!! i really am so broody now after reading about all of these gorgeous new babies!

keely.

Bun

Congrats Shlevis on Alexander!
3kids - I did reply earlier to your measurement query (I think) but I'd go with what everyone else has said. I was measuring small for dates with ds and he was just a small baby - 5lb 2oz.They kept an eye on it but I was sent for no extra scans etc. A friend was, due to placenta problems, so I know I would have been if they were concerned. Small babies run in my family, and now at 33 weeks when I ask if/when they have any idea how big she is, I am told that I am just under fundus height for dates, but no concern as still more or less average, which is what I was told before at about the same time. This time though I asked, last time I was told, so I also think a lot of it depends on who you see, how experienced they are, etc etc. I certainly got the impression that it was a bit random, as the baby's position means you aren't actually measuring them at all, and my doctor said that a lot depends on fluid levels.

ginvzt

Congratulations Shelvis!!!! It must be such a happy time for you!!!!!

Well, we are back from our honeymoon.We were 'unlucky' with the timing of it as the 3 weeks we were away were exactly in between the ovulation dates, so we are sure nothing happened while we were away. Hopefully, something might happen soon anyway! I was reading that 10 days luteal phase (days past ovulation) might be a bit of a problem for sustaining the pregnancy and normaly this would be 12-14 days. I hope this won't cause much problem though...Although, my last two periods were incredibly painful, like never before and I could barely move on the first day....

handbagqueen

Hi all,

Not wanting to add my name to the list just yet as only 8 weeks and a bit superstitious! Just wanted to ask a quick question though- first of many I imagine!
- I haven't told my work yet about being pg but will need to go to doctors appointments before the 12 weeks are up I imagine(?) I have my first appointment tomorrow and they gave me the dodgy time of 12pm so have had to take the whole day off as holiday. I live in west London and work in the city. Did anyone else have issues with this and how did you cope?!

Thanks in advance.
Hbq

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THE FINAL EVENT! - WARNING is long and probably TMI!

I went in to hospital to be induced at 8am. I was feeling a little scared but was glad that within a few hours I would be getting acquainted with my son. I do however wish I hadn't read that contractions bought on by induction are longer and stronger - eek!

When I arrived the midwife went through the procedure with me. They wanted me on the bed to be monitored for half an hour then wanted to check my cervix position and to see if I was dilated at all seeing as at this point it had been 50 hours since my waters had broken. My cervix was very very high up and it was very very painful for the midwife to find it - I swear to god it's supposed to be 1 finger inside but it felt like an episode of All creatures great and small with her whole arm up there!! Even James said he was sure she was tickling my tonsils! Anyway after all that discomfort I was less than 1cm dilated to they added some prostaglandin gel to soften the cervix and start contractions. This was to be left for 6 hours. During this time I wasn't free to roam, as I had to keep going back on the monitor to see babies heartbeat.

Contractions began and at first are not too painful. At 2:30pm I am still only just 1cm dilated so the decision is made to put in another gel. They say that if it doesn't work I will be left till the morning! The second gel however is the key one and I began contracting almost straightaway. By 4:30pm the contractions are thick, fast and PAINFUL. I got dressed and walked to the cafe bar in the hospital to get something to eat and had to stop every few minutes to contract. Once we get back to the room baby had to be put back on the monitor. His heart rate is dropping every time I have a contraction so they want to keep an eye on him.

By 7pm the contractions are lasting 30 seconds and are timed every 2 mins 20 secs. And they bloody hurt!! I really do not want diamorphine cause of how sick it makes me so ask to see when they can put the epidural in. I am told when I am 4cm dilated. They check me. I was 2cm. GUTTED. SO I try an aromatherapy bath, which was neither use nor ornament, but at least we felt like we were doing something. Then the pain started to make me physically sick and I threw up a couple of times. For this reason I decide to get a shot of morphine - yes it makes me sick but I was being sick anyway so I might as well get the pain relief! Wish I hadn't bothered really as although it took the edge off the contractions so I can have half hours sleep I was VIOLENTLY sick 3 whole bowls!! And that was wish the anti sickness jab! The midwife told James it will be hours before anything happens and potentially will be tomorrow so we decided he should go home for a couple of hours to rest and change his clothes and get something to eat. He said he was coming back at 10:30pm.

Meantime babies heart rate was continuing to drop after every contraction - which were still 2 mins apart. I ask again about the epidural and I was told the anethatist was upstairs on an emergency on ward and then there was a lady in front of me who needed an emergency caesarian so I was third on the list. Grrr. I can't get up and about to encourage my cervix to dialate because I am hooked up to the monitors for little baby.

By 10pm they had started to get very concerned about the babies heartrate and said they thought the cord may be round his neck and cutting off the oxygen supply so they needed to get right inside me and take a blood sample from the top of his head. Oh. my. god. I will NEVER complain about a smear test ever again no way never. She had both hands in there trying to get capiliary tubes up inside to get his blood and it was very painful as she was at it for around 45 minutes – by which time James had turned up. The results came back fine and he wasn’t in any danger from the tube thankfully.

Things started to get even more painful now and I enquired AGAIN about the epidural. He was on his way (blah blah blah) and I was getting furious. I had to go onto gas and air although the ladies did give me a small shot of pethadine which did nothing at all and was a waste of time. They couldn’t give me a proper dose as baby was already in distress so couldn’t risk it seeing as pethadine crosses the placenta.

At about 1am something very different started happening and as I was getting the contractions my body started pushing all on its own. The midwife told me to stop as the epidural was on it’s way but it woudn’t stop. She checked me and I was 9 and a half cm dialated so too late for an epidural by then as the baby was coming! They kept saying not to push and I was trying my bloody best but my body was doing it all on it’s own and there wasn’t anything I could do! At just before 2pm the midwife came in and we started down proper and pushing the baby out was one of the hardest things I have ever had to do. It was pushing for just under an hour in the end. I felt the head which was very odd. James before we went in had always said he wanted to stay up the top end and not see what was happening at ground zero. Yet when the head was crowning he was in there having a look and then stayed to watch the head being born. The pushing was really really hard as I could feel myself almost splitting in two. The contractions lasted long enough for a good 2 and a half pushes and were really a strain. In the end I had to just go through a whole new pain barrier to get the head out and I think I may have passed out a little after that because it all goes a bit hazy. I just remember pushing the body out when I wasn’t contracting as I just wanted it over with. The most bizarre thing I do remember is the midwife delivering the baby commenting on the fact she couldn’t believe I still had my eyeshadow on after all those hours and I was telling her about the stuff from Urban Decay that I swear by!! This was between major contractions!

But when they delivered little Alexander onto my body all the pain went away. He is beautiful. He never cried he just stared up at me with his beautiful eyes. They gave us a good 10 mins before they whisked him away to be cleaned over and weighed etc. He is 7lb and 7oz, his head circumference is 35cm and he is 52cm long. I was so tired I was frightened of dropping him. I had a go at breastfeeding but he was hungry and I was tired and I kept falling asleep trying to hold up my breast so we decided that James was to give him his first feed by bottle and he seemed to be really pleased about that. I even refused a bath I was grey and ashen with sleep deprivation, blood loss and entonox fog. They took me up onto the ward and both baby and I slept through all night till 9am. Other babies were crying all night but Alexander slept well.

I do feel like my lady parts have gone 5 rounds with Mike Tyson. I have a couple of stitches at the bottom where you normally tear but I also have 2 huge grazes down each side which I think were caused by all the messing about in there and the midwife says I am very swollen and bruised – and I can feel it!! I can barely sit down but I would do it all over again tomorrow if I had to.

Anyway here is the first picture of us both.


These were taken about 11am

keelykat

shelvis wrote: »

THE FINAL EVENT! - WARNING is long and probably TMI!

I went in to hospital to be induced at 8am. I was feeling a little scared but was glad that within a few hours I would be getting acquainted with my son. I do however wish I hadn't read that contractions bought on by induction are longer and stronger - eek!

When I arrived the midwife went through the procedure with me. They wanted me on the bed to be monitored for half an hour then wanted to check my cervix position and to see if I was dilated at all seeing as at this point it had been 50 hours since my waters had broken. My cervix was very very high up and it was very very painful for the midwife to find it - I swear to god it's supposed to be 1 finger inside but it felt like an episode of All creatures great and small with her whole arm up there!! Even James said he was sure she was tickling my tonsils! Anyway after all that discomfort I was less than 1cm dilated to they added some prostaglandin gel to soften the cervix and start contractions. This was to be left for 6 hours. During this time I wasn't free to roam, as I had to keep going back on the monitor to see babies heartbeat.

Contractions began and at first are not too painful. At 2:30pm I am still only just 1cm dilated so the decision is made to put in another gel. They say that if it doesn't work I will be left till the morning! The second gel however is the key one and I began contracting almost straightaway. By 4:30pm the contractions are thick, fast and PAINFUL. I got dressed and walked to the cafe bar in the hospital to get something to eat and had to stop every few minutes to contract. Once we get back to the room baby had to be put back on the monitor. His heart rate is dropping every time I have a contraction so they want to keep an eye on him.

By 7pm the contractions are lasting 30 seconds and are timed every 2 mins 20 secs. And they bloody hurt!! I really do not want diamorphine cause of how sick it makes me so ask to see when they can put the epidural in. I am told when I am 4cm dilated. They check me. I was 2cm. GUTTED. SO I try an aromatherapy bath, which was neither use nor ornament, but at least we felt like we were doing something. Then the pain started to make me physically sick and I threw up a couple of times. For this reason I decide to get a shot of morphine - yes it makes me sick but I was being sick anyway so I might as well get the pain relief! Wish I hadn't bothered really as although it took the edge off the contractions so I can have half hours sleep I was VIOLENTLY sick 3 whole bowls!! And that was wish the anti sickness jab! The midwife told James it will be hours before anything happens and potentially will be tomorrow so we decided he should go home for a couple of hours to rest and change his clothes and get something to eat. He said he was coming back at 10:30pm.

Meantime babies heart rate was continuing to drop after every contraction - which were still 2 mins apart. I ask again about the epidural and I was told the anethatist was upstairs on an emergency on ward and then there was a lady in front of me who needed an emergency caesarian so I was third on the list. Grrr. I can't get up and about to encourage my cervix to dialate because I am hooked up to the monitors for little baby.

By 10pm they had started to get very concerned about the babies heartrate and said they thought the cord may be round his neck and cutting off the oxygen supply so they needed to get right inside me and take a blood sample from the top of his head. Oh. my. god. I will NEVER complain about a smear test ever again no way never. She had both hands in there trying to get capiliary tubes up inside to get his blood and it was very painful as she was at it for around 45 minutes – by which time James had turned up. The results came back fine and he wasn’t in any danger from the tube thankfully.

Things started to get even more painful now and I enquired AGAIN about the epidural. He was on his way (blah blah blah) and I was getting furious. I had to go onto gas and air although the ladies did give me a small shot of pethadine which did nothing at all and was a waste of time. They couldn’t give me a proper dose as baby was already in distress so couldn’t risk it seeing as pethadine crosses the placenta.

At about 1am something very different started happening and as I was getting the contractions my body started pushing all on its own. The midwife told me to stop as the epidural was on it’s way but it woudn’t stop. She checked me and I was 9 and a half cm dialated so too late for an epidural by then as the baby was coming! They kept saying not to push and I was trying my bloody best but my body was doing it all on it’s own and there wasn’t anything I could do! At just before 2pm the midwife came in and we started down proper and pushing the baby out was one of the hardest things I have ever had to do. It was pushing for just under an hour in the end. I felt the head which was very odd. James before we went in had always said he wanted to stay up the top end and not see what was happening at ground zero. Yet when the head was crowning he was in there having a look and then stayed to watch the head being born. The pushing was really really hard as I could feel myself almost splitting in two. The contractions lasted long enough for a good 2 and a half pushes and were really a strain. In the end I had to just go through a whole new pain barrier to get the head out and I think I may have passed out a little after that because it all goes a bit hazy. I just remember pushing the body out when I wasn’t contracting as I just wanted it over with. The most bizarre thing I do remember is the midwife delivering the baby commenting on the fact she couldn’t believe I still had my eyeshadow on after all those hours and I was telling her about the stuff from Urban Decay that I swear by!! This was between major contractions!

But when they delivered little Alexander onto my body all the pain went away. He is beautiful. He never cried he just stared up at me with his beautiful eyes. They gave us a good 10 mins before they whisked him away to be cleaned over and weighed etc. He is 7lb and 7oz, his head circumference is 35cm and he is 52cm long. I was so tired I was frightened of dropping him. I had a go at breastfeeding but he was hungry and I was tired and I kept falling asleep trying to hold up my breast so we decided that James was to give him his first feed by bottle and he seemed to be really pleased about that. I even refused a bath I was grey and ashen with sleep deprivation, blood loss and entonox fog. They took me up onto the ward and both baby and I slept through all night till 9am. Other babies were crying all night but Alexander slept well.

I do feel like my lady parts have gone 5 rounds with Mike Tyson. I have a couple of stitches at the bottom where you normally tear but I also have 2 huge grazes down each side which I think were caused by all the messing about in there and the midwife says I am very swollen and bruised – and I can feel it!! I can barely sit down but I would do it all over again tomorrow if I had to.

Anyway here is the first picture of us both.


These were taken about 11am

He is gorgeous! (my hormones are all over the place right now so it brought a tear to my eye, how silly )

All the waiting and hard work was obviously worth it!

keely.

chocaholic110

Glad it's all over, shelvis!

The pics are gorgeous but how I wish, with only three weeks to go, I'd scrolled down and looked at them without reading the rest!! I nearly wanted to cry for you!

JoJoB

Oh he is beautiful. It sounds like you've been through a war!