MSE Pregnancy Club 27

Mrs_T_M

1. mincepiemonster - 14th January 2014 :female:
2. jemb - 23rd January 2014 :female:
3. Fran-o - 28th January 2014 :male:
4. Bambisbelle - 28th January 2014 :female:
5. Faerie - 5th February 2014 :male:
6. 9ja4life - 6th February 2014 :male:
7. durham_girl - 7th Febrary 2014 :female: - Induction 23/01/14
8. Birdie85 - 10th February 2014 :male:
9. Mrs Bunny - 21st February 2014 :male:
10. Jenni_fer - 25th February 2014 ?
11. Emz118 - 26th February 2014 ?
12. Smartcat04 - 26th February 2014 :female:
13. Crabapple - 26th February 2014 :male:
14. Becca0417 - 3rd March 2014 ?
15. Kynthia - 3rd March 2014 ?
16. SmlSave - 3rd March 2014 :female:
17. Faithhope - 3rd March 2014 :male:
18. Sidney88 - 8th March 2014 :male:
19. Squ1rrel5 - 14th March 2014 :female:
20. blondy24 - 15th March 2014 ?
21. LannieDuck - 17th March 2014 :female:
22. Claire16c - 23rd March 2014 :female:
23. Sjlou - 26th March 2014 ?
24. LushLifesaver - 28th March 2014 :female:
25. Lulu75 - 29th March 2014 ?
26. Con1888 - 29th March 2014 ?
27. Hannah27 - 29th March 2014 :female:
28. Eiteews - 5th April 2014 :male:
29. faith2009uk - 8th April 2014 :female:
30. Luella-14 - 10th April 2014 :male::female:
31. Twigpig - 14th April 2014 ?
32. Debs0778 - 17th April 2014 ?
33. McRach - 20th April 2014 ?
34. mancbird - 20th April 2014 ?
35. Sexki11en - 5th May 2014 :female:
36. jen_1985_04 - 8th May 2014 ?
37. 1DayATT - 17th May 2014 ?
38. Samtoby -18th May 2014 :female:
39. mysecretalias - 25th May 2014 :female:
40. stsarina - 25th May 2014 :female:
41. mrshappy - 30th May 2014 :female:
42. sophiasmum - 30th May 2014 ?
43. sunshine81 - 15th June 2014 ?
44. Mrs_T_M - 16th June 2014 ?
45. moonbabe58 - 20th June 2014 ?
46. Faith2009uk - 23rd June 2014 ?
47. TigerLilley1980 - 21st July 2014 ?

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:female:misscoupon - 16th December 2013
:female:Amyloofoo - 23rd December 2013 17:12 Inara Beth 7lb 9oz
:male:Ellie3009 - 1st January 2014 05:32
:male:Rummer - 2nd(?) January 2014
:male:Jox - 8th January 2014 12:49 Mason 3lb 14oz
:male:TeamLowe - 11th January 2014 19:26 Thomas Andrew 6lbs 9oz
:female:kerri_dfw - 11th January 2014 21:47 Isabella Antoinette
:female:nickit1978 - 13th January 2014 16:27 Paige Georgia 8lb 5oz
:male:firefly369 - 15th January 2014 2.87kg
:male:bigzippy - 18th January 2014 9lbs

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lippy1923 - 22nd December 2013 :male:

CONTRACTION MASTER TIMER

Please post your birth stories here when you have time/energy

con1888

fran-o wrote: »

Hi all, welcome newbies!
I wrote a longish post yesterday and lost it!

Just to join the discussion re injection to help deliver the placenta, the benefit of not cutting/ injecting to deliver straight away is so that nutrients continue to support baby in his first few minutes. I really like this idea and in an ideal world would leave new baby on cord (on my tummy) until placenta delivers naturally, this is what's in my birth plan. However, if I've just had a long or stressful labour I can see that I might prefer to have the injection so that the placenta is delivered quicker and easier and the birth experience is over sooner. So it's in the birth plan to leave it but to discuss with midwives at the time.

Hip has been sore last few days, aggravated I think by lots of walking: had a good trip to asda/ high street on Tuesday, met a friend for shopping/ lunch on Wednesday, went for coffee and wander round a nearby town with mum on Thursday. Have found a hot water bottle on my hip really soothing and waking up this morning it feels better than it did.

Baby is due in Tuesday and I'm already getting lots of texts/ emails! It's lovely that people are thinking of us but I might struggle next week if baby goes overdue (my prediction) and the messages continue.

Had a chit chat with hubby the other night re baby's first few days... I am concerned about feeling overwhelmed if we have lots of visitors quickly, and in particular hubby's sister who is special needs and will have excitement levels/ lack of understanding of a young teenager. I usually need a bit of patience to get on well with her, and so would prefer to have just the grandparents while I'm recovering but I know his parents do very little without sister tagging along... I think we'll just have to play by ear, depending how long we're in hospital, how my recovery is etc, at least I have told hubby how I feel. I just don't want to be putting off a visit from his parents because I can't deal with his sister... I find it surprising how people on tv so often seem to have their whole extended families round the hospital bed as soon as the baby has arrived, no thanks!

Well that was another long post, hope everyone's well x

I can understand you worrying about feeling overwhelmed. Were a big but close family so usually when baby's arrive there are a lot of us at visiting . Usually my parents, 3 brothers , 2 sis in laws and 2 nieces. (5 and 11) which in itself I'm fine with, however then have to consider OH family who I love and am also fine wit BUT his parents are both remarried so it's gonna be busy ! They might sort out between themselves that one set come to evening visit then other to day time but who knows !

kerri_dfw

re: placenta/injection - I asked the MW for the injection as I wanted the birth process to be over, but by the time the cord had finished pulsating and I was giving her the first feed with skin-to-skin sat on a birthing stool in the now empty pool, they told me to try to give a quick push to see if I could birth the placenta, and with one big push and some gentle tugging from the MW the whole thing arrived completely in tact. OH examined it with the MW afterwards the weirdo! He said it's a thing to behold, but by then I was tucked up in bed with my little milk monster.My apprehension before with the injection was that there's a risk of the placenta breaking up and not all of it coming away, and also that you only have 10 minutes to birth it.


Re: visitors - I was completely overwhelmed when my Mum, Dad & sister came up on the Sunday (10 mins after we arrived home). They took the baby off round the house taking photos of her, with me trailing round behind feeling like I was about to pass out and looking white as a sheet. I wish we'd told them to just hold her in the living room looking back and limited it to 15mins as baby didn't sleep that night until gone 3am and she was so overtired by the over-stimulation. We've not had another episode like it since.

sjlou

I'm hoping to have just the 3 of us at hospital (unless I'm in a long time). Then immediate family can visit when we get home. Not sure how long I'll be able to hold off on the in laws though!
MIL has booked a weeks holiday for the week baby is due! No pressure eh!

jenni_fer

I've made it clear to OH that I don't want anyone else in the hospital (unless we have to stay in for any reason) and that I don't want his wider family meeting our little one before my immediate (his family are all local and mine are 200 miles away), how well that will work in practice though I'm not sure!

Trying to sort out my car insurance today and having a nightmare - I don't know what the right answers are! At the moment I have no kids and am working full time, the policy will start 3 days after my due date so in theory I'll have one child and be on maternity leave - no idea what the right way of filling things in are!

Kynthia

jenni_fer wrote: »

Trying to sort out my car insurance today and having a nightmare - I don't know what the right answers are! At the moment I have no kids and am working full time, the policy will start 3 days after my due date so in theory I'll have one child and be on maternity leave - no idea what the right way of filling things in are!

Don't worry, just answer the questions accurately as now. Plus being on maternity leave doesn't change your employment status, you are still a full time employee even on mat leave.

fran-o

Thanks for your feedback on early visitors, glad I'm not alone to worry about this! I think I get extra annoyed/ sad about this because sister in law will likely get upset if she doesn't get an immediate invite (and I know it's not her fault that she can't empathise well but it's still tough to deal with when you're frazzled!), whereas my sister lives in Australia and I have no idea when she'll get to meet baby, quite likely not til the end of the year earliest... Her youngest is two in a month, and I've met her once

Whatever we do I think it's a good idea to let social convention go out the window and be kind to ourselves... Ask people to make their own cups of tea and let them wash up after, invite them to come for just an hour and tell them to go early if we're tired, if we're not happy handing over baby for cuddles then invite visitor to come sit next to us and stroke baby's hair instead etc.

twigpig

claire16c wrote: »

Sounds good.

Can anyone remember what the wipes were called that people were talking about on here a couple of weeks ago? I know people said they were hard to get hold of but really good.

Me maybe? - they were the Huggies Dry Cotton sheets, a bit like a roll of dry baby wipes. Great for the first few weeks when you're not supposed to use baby wipes.... I'm still struggling to get them too - neither Wilkinsons or Boots had any and they're officially discontinued now as of December

claire16c

twigpig wrote: »

Me maybe? - they were the Huggies Dry Cotton sheets, a bit like a roll of dry baby wipes. Great for the first few weeks when you're not supposed to use baby wipes.... I'm still struggling to get them too - neither Wilkinsons or Boots had any and they're officially discontinued now as of December

Oh no! I had a look last night and found some on ebay no where else had them.

If theyre discontinued I might order them off ebay now to get enough to last for a few weeks.

SmlSave

Hi everyone,

MW appointment went quick with everything being ok but still no decision regarding the birth centre yet. My notes only got to the ‘right’ person this week so have yet to be looked at.

Managed Third Stage (Injection) – last time I didn’t have it and didn’t find the process stressful but did lose a lot of blood so this time I’m having the injection but asking for it to be delayed for 10mins so baby get delayed cord clamping.

Visitors – We have a blanket ban from anyone visiting us without prior arrangement so that we can turn them away without guilt if we feel unable to cope. I’m sure we’ll be fine and have visitors everyday though.

It worked well last time because we’d pre-warned everyone.

It’s worth being aware of what your hospital procedures are in regard to visitors imo.
Ours allows 2 birth partners only and if you end up staying in the there’s 2hrs in the morning where 4 family members can visit and 2hrs in the afternoon when 2 people can visit (friends or family) Not knowing this caused tears as we’d assumed that 4 people were allowed in the afternoon too and had to turn Mum and Dad away.