MSE pregnancy club II

Sarahsaver

BTW get ready cut carrot sticks LOL;)

Millie's_Mum

Sarahsaver wrote: »

Millie's mum don't worry re. the party, when mine were little it was sandwiches, sainsburys economy cakes/mini rolls/jam tarts, jaffa cakes, breadsticks, carrots and houmous, and plenty of tat from poundland. The kids will enjoy themsel;ves whatever is provided!

I know, its a pathetic thing to lie awake at night over isn't it? I decided ages ago that the sandwiches would be Ham, Jam and Dairylea cos I see no point making anything more complicated.

Its the 'dessert' thats complicating matters, OH said Jelly & Ice Cream but Millie doesn't like Jelly and Ice cream but then I started wondering if they would want more than just choccy biscuits and mini rolls for afters, anyway whatever, thats all they are getting!!

And ready cut carrots is a genius idea!

candygirl

Millie's mum what about mini pizzas?My DD and her friends used to love them when they were little:D I used to love those parties, she had one every year from age 3-14:eek: :eek: :eek:
Good luck to all the ladies ready to pop, and looking forward to all the gorg baby pics to come:D

Millie's_Mum

Candygirl,

Thanks for suggestions but trying to stay away from things which need cooking cos we don't have access to a kitchen at the leisure centre so would need to cook things here and then transport them and because I stupidly booked the party for a day when I am having my hair cut and coloured in the morning I will only have a couple of hours in which to 'do' the food so apart from the sandwiches I need things which just require the packet opening!!

Fritha_2

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Which brings me to thinking that Fritha hasn't been around for a day or so wonder if she has given birth yet?

I'm back!!! And when you posted that I hadn't given birth, I was two hours into the most delightful epidural!I have to warn you, well, if someone had told me this is what would have happened beforehand I would have freaked out, doing it: not so bad!

Contractions started 11pm 24th every five minutes! Got to the hospital at 11am, contractions every two minutes 6-7 dilated (go me!) baby still back to back so well, it was a bit on the painful side but my word it was nice when the contraction eased! Asked for an epidural which I highly recommend, not nearly as scary as I thought! Waited around playing eye spy for a few hours (time passed so fast it was amazing!) Then I was fully delighted (I nicked that off a midwife).

Contractions at this point decided to completely sod off! Pushed as hard as I could for an hour but we were getting nowhere. Had a hormone drip to try and boost the contractions (also a bit scared of that but it was actually completely fine) did some more pushing but she just wasn't up for getting out so the doctor decided we needed to use the forceps.

I was actually pretty scared at this point, there were two doctors, three midwives, a paediatrician, me and my husband (but still not flipping baby!)! But, I didn't even notice him doing the episiotomy (I just thought he'd got a bit devil may care!) and when he actually got the forceps in it really really helped me to push her out. In fact half a push for her head, and on the next push she was out!

Baby Celia was born on 25.09.08 at 20/30 weighing 7lb 12.5oz!

The next bit got a touch ridiculous. I had two doctor staring and staring at my nethers and occasionally sticking a finger up my bum (seriously, you'd think I'd be mortified but they were so matter of fact about it that it just seemed a perfectly normal thing to do!) as they thought I'd torn my back passage which would be a bit fun to sew up! After a lot of debate they decided I hadn't and sewed me up (although he took ages, I think I've got the Bayeaux Tapestry down there!).

Meanwhile over in baby corner someone had decided she didn't like the outside world thank you so they tried skin to skin with her and me but she was still unhappy! During labour I'd had a really rather high temperature and now so did she so they decided to send her down to neo natal. DH went with her and they took a load of fluid out of her tummy which cheered her up no end so after a couple of hours she was allowed back to me and she had the most enormous breast feed.

That bit was lovely it was finally just the three of us in a nice dark room. We had to stay in hospital for two days as they weren't sure what caused my temperature so I needed anti-biotics just in case but we're home now!

She's absolutely gorgeous and sleeps like a trooper.... during the day, not a chuffing wink at night which is rather hard (to put it mildly) but we'll get there! Stiches were sore but are healing nicely!

So there we go, sounds very scary but actually it wasn't so bad when I was doing it and midwives were absolutely superb. I'll grant you, not my favourite way of spending a Thursday but I wouldn't be as scared to do it again :-)

Fritha_2

EDD
Orange29 - 18th September 2008
worriedyoungmummy - 18th September 2008
m_dorph - 20th September 2008
Emjem - 21st September 2008
JPWhittle - 24th September 2008
Sarahsaver 24th September 2008
foreversomeday - 29 September 2008
CJ2405 - 2 October 2008
Jmarko's wifey - 4 October 2008
Mell242 - 7 October 2007
heather38 - 11th october 2008 changed after scan!
madcasey500 - 12th October 2008
BargainAholic - 14th October 2008
Danielle_Kenzies-Mum - 20th October 2008
Pisces - 20th October 2008
Doodledoodle24 - 22nd October 2008
pollyanna24 - 22nd October 2008 - changed my date
Sarahh112 - 24th October - C-Section booked and we know its a boy!
Daisykate124 - 28 October 2008 - C-section booked
sarahriley53-1st November 2008
Sammie0782 - 6th November 2008
rachelleblondel - 7th November 2008
levers81 - 9th November 2008
emmaBZ - 10th November 2008
icklepiggle - 12th November 2008
kaza - 13th November 2008
Emms - 14th November 2008
MrsY - 18th November 2008
Lwcus78 - 19th November 2008
redballoon - 21st November 2008
rosies_mum - 21st November 2008
Toto - 24th November 2008
Sammiebmouse - 28th November 2008
Poppyjoe - 3rd December 2008
LashyLashla - 4th December 2008
Avfcforever - 7th December 2008
Paddington- 9th December 2008 - a girl!
miss_corerupted - 10th December 2008
giger - 5th December 2008
Skylight - 14th December 2008 - Whey-hey its not Xmas Day!
SeptemberBaby - 17 December 2008 (boy!)
Bonniethemadcat - 22nd December 2008 (this may change at dating scan)
Rara32 - 22nd December 2008 (this may change at dating scan)
SallyCinnamon - 25th December 2008
Ladyra - 26th December!!
sooz - 5th Jan 2009 30th December 2008
Spendaholic13 - 31st December 2008

nesky99 - 4th January 2009
ladybirdintheuk - 5th January 2009
onlyroz - 7th Jan 2009
Flipper_72 - 8th January 2009
Madmoobag - 10th January 2009
Bekkki1 - 12th January 2009
boredjellybean - 13 January 2009
r.mac - 24th January 2009
Lday77 - 1st February 2009
Jamz (well Mrs Jamz) - 7th February 2009
3onitsway - 9 February 2009
sampainter - 11th february 2009
lucifa73 - 11th February 2009
cazscoob - 16 February 2009
durham05 - 17 February 2009
MrsHayes - 20 February 2009
bargainbird - 21 February 2009
voodoozoe - 23rd February 2009
Mikeboy-28th February 2009
My Fathers Daughter - 2nd March 2009
happytails - 3rd March 2009
carrieparkinson - 4th March 2009 (ish)
Millie's Mum - 7 March 2009
new mum again - 10 March 2009
Redmel1621 - 12th March 2009
angelfairy - 13 March 2009 - Fri 13th it is so NOT happening on that day
CanadaBound - 14 March 2009
Snuffilin - 15 March 2009
olliesmummy06 - 16 march 2009
bathbabe - 17 March 2009
crazyaboutsaving - 18 March 2009
Cookiesncream/cookie304 - 19th March 2009 (could change though!!)
JanineGr - 19th March 2009 (by my reckoning)
taney-19th March 2009
Choccie - 22 March 2009
candygirl's daughter - 26th March 2009
mrsctobe! - prob march 2009 but having a little confusion over due date!
jakesmummy - 31st March 2009
angchris 1st april 2009...april fools day
bloomin freezing - 2nd April 2009
slscarborough - 12th April 2009
sismith42- 15 April 2009
Cat4772 - 22nd April 2009
xredwebx - 22nd April 2009
sparkle03 - 22nd April 2009
astonsmummy - 28th April 2009
Ems2 - 01 May 09
Claire Jones - 3rd May 2009
Kathy72- 5th May 2009
MrsTine - 16th May 2009
skintchick - 17 May 2009 (but I reckon it will be more like the end of the month)
Icklebeans - 18th May 2009
Sami_Bee - 4th June 2009 (am I jumping the gun abit adding myself so early?)

TTC LIST
witchyroo
sjm
Fishcake_random
Lesleydejager
jo_jo
picklesmum
durham_girl
likabu
Pooky
emptypocketz
Miss_pink & Mr Pink
Boobylou
lilmrsmullen
jiblets1
Lillian06
Uisge10
CHARLIE54
Andrea78
AnnieM
Wondermum07
Melvis
Janec08
Helen79

BIRTH LIST
Anm - Baby Girl - 6th August at 12pm - Madison arried 11 days early 6lb 4oz
LindseyandMatthew - Baby Girl 14th August 10.04am -Sophie - 10lb 4oz!!
Saver Raver - baby Girl 16th August -Katie May.
wotnext - Baby girl - 3rd September at 4.20pm - Rose - 8lb
jennywren1976-Baby Boy-12th September at 11:03 -Ross Steven,10lb 5.5oz
SUPERJULES- Baby girl 15th September at 9.28am- Emma Olivia- 8lb 10oz
Keelykat-Baby Boy-16th September at 4:27am-Elliot William John,6lb 8oz
LolaManCity - Baby Boy - 17th September 2008 at 1.45am - Jake Luca, 6lb 13oz
Fritha - Celia born 25th September 2008 at 20.30 weighing 7lb 12.5oz

PROBABLY GIVEN BIRTH BUT TOO WORN OUT TO LOG ON LIST
Usually allow 2 weeks after EDD before transferring to this list...
Mrs dj_jenns - 2nd September 2008
Trish 123 - 6th September 2008
Chutzpah - 8th September 2008
jessbrown100- 10th september 2008
gyinnit - 12 September 2008

shellsuit

Awwwww Fritha, Congratulations to you and your husband!! xxxxx

My_Fathers_Daughter

Oh Fritha - so good to see you back!

What a fab birth story...well not what happened but the detail (you should be a writer it's a proper page-turner!)

Glad that you and Celia are safe and sound back at home.

Now - we want piccies!!


PICCIE :j :j PICCIE :j :j PICCIE

Millie's_Mum

Fritha

Well Done, what a great birth story, you sound really positive about it all which is nice to hear and epidurals are great aren't they?


So glad Baby is OK, it must have been scary for you when they took her away.

Celia is a beautiful name, quite unusual nowadays but very stylish. (and one I had on my list but it won't go with our surname.)

Hope you are getting used to having baby, isn't that a weird feeling when you get home on your own and the world expects you to know what to do! And hope you are leaving the housework and sleeping in the day when baby does!

keelykat

Big congrats Fritha-i keep coming back to check for your news! My stitches are only just feeling better and swelling gone down-ouch!

Hope to see a photo of your little one soon! x x

ps-Elliot seems to wake up at night!