MSE pregnancy club II

Pink_Princess_1

Just returned from my hospital checkup was there for over 3 hours as my BP was so high they wanted to admit me - much to my panic as I havnt packed my bags yet!! anyway they kept checking and eventually it has gone down enough to come home but I have to go back next monday

cathie_3

Hello
My lovely little girl finally arrived yesterday at 1700 - just the 10 days overdue.
Alice was 7lb5oz and has been a delight so far. Even the birth wasn't as bad as I was expecting I managed to do it with 2 paractamol and a TENS machine - no time for gas and air as I started pushing as soon as I got to hospital.
Cathy

cathie_3

pinkmilkplease - 26th Jan 08
Marvalous - 12th February 08
Melly74 - 17th February 08
miss_be - 20th February 08
Loopy-loo73 - 21 Feb 08
Bailey - 22 February 08
alison6692 - 24 February 2008
PiscesPrincess - 24th February 2008
Ella29 - 27th February 08
3KIDSNOMONEY - 28th February 08
Dougggie - 2 March 08
Doobees - 4th March 08
svmitche - 4th March 2008
Purplegirluk1 - 6th March 2008
Elliesmum - 8 March 08
mandy2383 - 9th march 2008
Samantham06 - 14th March 2008
ukbBandit - 15 March 2008
Heavenleigh - 24th march 08
Melg1973 - 24th march 08
Newleafer - 27th march 08
stepneythebluebellengine - 28th March 2008
Pink Princess 1 - 29th March 08
tranquil - 2 April 2008
Girl And The City - 5 April 2008
redflame705 - 8th April 08
snugglepuss - 9th April 08
gemsygem (Sheel's daughter) 19th April 08
MonkeyLady - 20th April 08
JojoB - 20th April 2008
PinkPrincess 21st April 2008
machairs - 24th April 2008 (may change after scan)
cluuuuur - 25th April 2008
debecca - 26th April 2008
Kelsi-Blu - 27th April 08
Katgoddess - 29th April 2008
mandycutiepie - 1st May 2008
lostbuckaroos - 2 May 2008 (although doc thinks that could be 2 weeks out!)
rjh090384 -3rd May 2008 (changed at 12 week scan)
Traveller -May 3rd 2008 (but probably 10th as always a week late!!!
Knotty29 - 16th May 2008
magan- 18th May 2008
destiny_star2006 - 22 May 2008 (or could be 2 June!)
jb - 27th May 2008
clarkey1000 - May 31st 2008
Harding 1985 - 9 June
nik2108 - 11th June 2008
Nicifer_noonoo - 13th June 2008
aggiev - 1st July 2008
honeybe21 - 2nd/3rd july 2008
sunday_girl - 6th July 2008
skyeandeviesmummy - 13th July 2008
I love my Pomeranian - 15th July 2008
Jak - 18th July 2008
bethom - 20th July 2008
skintnutta - 21st July 2008
Blink_Blink - 3rd August 2008
ParadiseKidd - 6th August 2008
grad_gal25 - August 11th (My Birthday This was so not planned!)
Carol9uk - 13 August 2008
Sarahrey1 - 20th August 2008
LindseyandMatthew 23rd August!
wotnext - 27 August 2008
Scottish-Diva- ? August 2008
Chutzpah - 8th September 2008 (we haven't had a dating scan yet)
foreversomeday - 27 September 2008 (May change after scan)
BargainAholic - 27th September 2008 (may change after scan)

TTC LIST
Daisykate124
Cookiesncream
witchyroo
sjm
Fishcake_random
Lesleydejager
jo_jo
picklesmum
durham_girl
likabu
Pooky
emptypocketz
Miss_pink & Mr Pink
Boobylou
lilmrsmullen
jiblets1
Lillian06
ginvzt
Uisge10
CHARLIE54
keelykat
jpwhittle
lwcus78
bloomin freezing
coleys
Andrea78
AnnieM

BIRTH LIST
Shelvis - Baby Alexander Robert born 2:45am 6th January 7lb 7 1/2oz
nicola1982 - Baby Stephen Andrew born 12.37am 7th Jan 7lb 4oz
flis21 - Tomas at 7.42pm on 7th January (13 days late!!) weighing 7lb7.
Strawberry laces - Girl 7 January 2008, emergency c-section
Slapps - Charlie Allen born 12.02pm on the 9th Jan weighing 7lb 10oz
Yorkshirechick - Taylor James Quarmby born 12:32am on 12 January weighing 8lb 12oz
chocaholic110 - Thomas Jacob born 4.08pm 18th January by emergency c-section weighing 5lb 8oz
cazscoob - Charlie Morrison born 08:41 on 19th Jan weighing 8lb 8oz
Ella_ella_ella - Baby Natasha Grace Hughes born 22nd January at 22.40 weighing 7lb 7oz
Curly_em - Jake Michael born 22.42 on 21st Jan weighing 8lbs 11.5ozs
liley9 - Erin Grace born on 24th January at 5.45pm weighing 6lb 2oz
Bun - Annabeth Charlotte arrived 2 1/2 weeks early at 3.44am on 7th February, weighing 5lb 9oz.
Cathie - Alice arrived 17 February at 1700 weighing 7lb 5oz

PROBABLY GIVEN BIRTH BUT TOO WORN OUT TO LOG ON LIST
Usually allow 2 weeks after EDD before transferring to this list...
Phatmouse - 12th January 2008
Sunny Angel- 14th January 2008 (I think!!)
curly_em - 14 January 2008
tbourne - 20 Jan 08
Ciara111- 22 Jan 08
pinkmilkplease - 26th Jan 08[/quote]


Hope I have done this right

traveller

CONGRATULATIONS CATHIE:j :j :j I'm glad it went well for you and that the little one is doing fine.

miss_be

Congratulations Cathie - very well done for doing it effectively drug less. That's magnificent.

Mandy - if I've done this right you should see my positive birth painting below. It's basically something that I've painted to look at during labour as I would have been looking at a rather uninspiring magnolia wall. Much as I love magnolia I thought that a lovely, inspiring painting of how I want the birth to go was far better. In it are my man, my mum, me (all stylised) the midwife's hands at the bottom and Ember getting ready to come out in the right position. There is also a huge amount of glitter and an energy line going down the middle made of glitter too. It was a lovely thing to do as it focussed my mind on the coming birth and it also made me quite emotional (in a good way) about the amazingness of birth and how many women do it - apparently when you are giving birth there are over 300,000 other women giving birth too. What a strength there is in that alone!



3 Kids - How are you doing? Do you feel anything getting nearer?

Keelykat - are you feeling anything?

Alison - what about you?

Dougggie - anything for you?

I'm just curious. I've been getting slight movements. The other night I had loads of energy and braxton hicks going on. I waited for a while to see if they were contractions. Once I woke up I realised that they couldn't have been! It's quite difficult to know when it's all starting and whether things are contractions or not!

I've got so much energy at the moment too. I'm sure it's my mummy hormones kicking in and getting ready. I could only sleep for 4 hours last night and it took me ages to get to sleep. Compare that with how I was at about 3 months and I was falling asleep all over the place! It has to be getting close - doesn't it? Anyhoo. I'll keep you posted. x

3KIDSNOMONEY

Congratulations Cathie

Miss_be - my tummy sometimes feels uncomfortable for don't know if it is due to braxton hicks.

Constipated at the moment (TMI i know!) and not sleeping very well at all. Legs are restless and i have carpal tunnel in my hands and basically can't sleep.

Loads of us due about the same time which is exciting - i'm hoping to push in front of a few of you!

Hope your BP stays down pinkprincess.

mandy2383

Congratulations cathie :T

Thank you miss_be for telling me what a positive birth picture is, its really really good its fantastic you have made the picture, something i would never have thought of. You should be really proud its really good and like you said something you can focus on and have as a keepsake after to be able to show baby ember when she is older.

miss_be

3 Kids - I wonder - does it all immediately stop once you've popped?

I've been waking up some nights with my fingers all asleep. Sometimes it's just my middle fingers. I also get hot legs, which are really annoying. I think it's something to do with the bed being covered in a shower curtain - just in case I leak (tmi!) - it makes me all hot. And doesn't it take effort to turn over? I find hoofing myself over is the only way of doing it - of course that ruffles up the shower curtain though (it is under the sheet) so that when I wake up I have shower curtain ridges all over my body.

Mandy - I got the idea from a book that is all for the idea of drawing positive stuff. I didn't think I'd actually get round to doing it but am so glad that I did. I'm not sure if it's a picture that I'd keep up in the living room once I've given birth though. It's a bit much, the idea of people coming round for a cup of tea and being confronted with my stylised hoo hoo on the wall! lol.

Happy baby vibes to anyone in need...x

wondermum07

Congratulations Cathie I was due a c-section (DD(twin b) passed away inutero) but was heavily dilated by the time i got to hosp so ended up pushing on parcetamol too! Although i cant imagine doing it with a 7.5lb baby! Very well done

Our due date has only just passed so its nice to see everyone reaching theres with these big babies. i cant imagine being pregnant all this time, yall must be desperate to have them!

Not sure if im asking on the right forum but does anyone know about claiming DLA for an infant? Or would i be getting carers allowance or is that for something else? I gave up on the rude woman in the job centre, but was basically told i could claim once DS was 12 weeks old. I dont know if that means 12 weeks past our due date? DS has been in hosp almost 13 weeks now so do you think that would count? Is there any other benefit available for when your child is in hospital for such a substantial amount of time (90 odd days now!) ? I was travelling 80 miles per day (mainly in taxis) to be with him so ive run up debts now and im getting a lil stressed out! thanks in advance for any ideas!

alison6692

Congratulations Cathie x Its nice to hear such a reassuring birth story! ha ha

Alison x
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