MSE Pregnancy Club 26

claire16c

kerri_dfw wrote: »

Well my birth plan is written, it's 3 pages long and just needs OH to check it over. Right, hospital bag next then...

Any tips?! I can only think of about 3 lines!!

con1888 wrote: »

When do you get advised to write a birth plan ? It hasn't been mentioned to me but I have a few months to go.

I haven't even thought of it tbh.. just want to go to the hospital when the times comes and see how I get on... I don't have a 'plan' so to speak.

Yeah I don't really know either just stuff like
1. Hopefully stay in midwife led unit
2. Have a water birth (unless I get in & hate it)
3. Try to only use gas & air as pain relief and possibly get a tens machine to try off a friend
4. If I change my mind on the above at the time, & it's not just me having a small whinge, wheel me down the corridor for an epidural in the delivery suite!

I don't really know what else to put?

claire16c

Zippy I'm getting pains in my thighs but not really my shins. I feel very achy though especially in the mornings and I wake up in the night with hip pain so who knows if my shins are next!

Supposed to be going to a pub quiz soon but my bump aches, my legs ache, my back aches. Not sure if I can sit on a wooden chair for 2 hours!

Gillyx

Just delurking to say, I think it's important to make your birth partner aware of your major do's and dont's with birth plan. Realistically most midwives have no time to read birth plans, and it really is good to have someone fighting your corner, about things you feel strongly about as sometimes when contractions are coming and going its hard to communicate well.

/relurk.

con1888

I don't have any major do's and don't's lol.

Plan on giving birth in hospital and having everything available but starting off with nothing.. if I need x,y,z then I want it there but not set on anything as I have no idea how I will cope with it til the time.

I want OH there and that's really as much as I am clear on. Don't want a water birth but also don't know what 'position' I want to be in..

TeamLowe

Con that sounds like my birth plan just want to be as relaxed as possible and for me that means going with the flow
I have heard that women tend to go through several positions in labour to find the most comfortable for them so I'm sure you'll be inspired once little one is attempting their escape

MrsBunny

Anybody having trouble sleeping at the mo?

I was falling asleep on the sofa earlier (830-9), came to bed as was yawning my head off too and now an hour later I can't get to sleep!

Last couple of nights I have hardly slept at all which is so not like me.

Counting sheep here I come.....1,2,3,4.......

MrsBunny

kerri_dfw

I've got things listed under headings:- Birthing Environment
- [FONT=&quot]Birthing Positions[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]- [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Monitoring / Progress Checks[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]- [/FONT][FONT=&quot]During Thinning & Opening Phase[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]- [/FONT]During Birthing
- Following Birth
- Special Circumstances

I've got in there things like how we've been trained in Hypnobirthing so we want as little interruption as possible. I don't want to be given an internal unless there is foetal distress or a real medical necessity as I'm planning on getting there as close to birthing as possible and I already know how to check myself for dilation or can instruct my OH as it's not that hard. I can't think of anything worse than transferring from my nice relaxed house, to the hospital, to then be forced to lie on my back and have someone insert their fingers into my dilating cervix....but that's just me. Also that we would like to receive our baby by ourselves if possible, and that OH would like to cut the cord. Under special circumstances I've put for OH to stay with the baby whenever possible and for him to give the skin-to-skin if I am separated from her.

Kynthia

Becca, I've started to feel extra sensitive to smells again, particularly perfumes and spicy foods. Very strange.


Anther strange thing is I'm currently sitting here watching my belly bounce up and down. I don't know what baby is doing to make that happen so quickly?


Kerri, wow well done writing your detailed birth paln. I don't know what to put in mine, so I'm going to wait until after my NCT classes. It doesn't help that due to having to see a GP for the 22 and 28 week appointments I haven't seen a midwife for nearly 3 months, and even then I only saw one at my booking in and one at the 16 week appointment. However a couple of people have told me to put in that you may have an epidural unless you really really don't want one, as otherwise when you say you want one they just put you off saying that it wasn't in your birth plan. I also know I don't want pethidine as it made both my mum and sister feel terrible and vomit.


BigZippy, I don't know what shin splints feels like. I strangely seem to get a stitch pain in my side when I've only walked for a few minutes which makes it hard to get anywhere.


Glad it was good news today fran-o.

mincepiemonster

Hi Claire just a quick one if you did want to get a TENS machine - I used this place when I had DD - they were really good. The price includes a return envelope so you can just stick it in the letterbox after baby has arrived. I think I got it at 37 weeks - really simple to use. I need to get mine sorted this time around actually, just realised with the Xmas post etc it might take longer to arrive! It worked really well for me, I got to 7cm dilated with just a TENS machine and 2 paracetamol - although I did then cave and have an epidural :rotfl:

claire16c

mincepiemonster wrote: »

Hi Claire just a quick one if you did want to get a TENS machine - I used this place when I had DD - they were really good. The price includes a return envelope so you can just stick it in the letterbox after baby has arrived. I think I got it at 37 weeks - really simple to use. I need to get mine sorted this time around actually, just realised with the Xmas post etc it might take longer to arrive! It worked really well for me, I got to 7cm dilated with just a TENS machine and 2 paracetamol - although I did then cave and have an epidural :rotfl:

That's the type of thing I can imagine happening to me! The only thing is the whole needle in the back thing really scares me, I guess it will depend how bad the pain was as to whether the fear would put me off enough not to have one.

The only thing is I think I'd like a water birth so might start with tens then obviously I'd have to take it off.

It's just hard to know. One friend loved the tens and had a partial water birth.

My other friend said the tens felt like ants crawling on her and just being in a bath for a bit she hated!

So I'm prepared to be quite flexible.

Kerri that's the type of thing I haven't even thought about.