***January 2017 mummies!*** 3rd Trimester

[millielaura]

Just currently at hospital for my Ctg monitoring midwife hada feel she thinks I'm 4/5 engaged and doesn't think the baby will be smaller then 5lb how strange when the ultrasounds show 3lb 7 that's a massive difference

Oh that's a really good weight! My baby was estimated 5lb 9 at 37+2 xxx

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[Bethanybiggin]

Just currently at hospital for my Ctg monitoring midwife hada feel she thinks I'm 4/5 engaged and doesn't think the baby will be smaller then 5lb how strange when the ultrasounds show 3lb 7 that's a massive difference

Oh that's a really good weight! My baby was estimated 5lb 9 at 37+2 xxx

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Just hope midwifes more accurate then the ultrasound

 

[Blueflower]

Wow Sprout! Nice and quick!
Where did you go out Abi? Very brave!
You can just go on the internet on your phone Papermoon.

 

[KateK]

Ahhhhh Sprout! Yay! Congratulations lovely cannot wait to hear all about it..

Robbda must be in the throes of everything now too?!

Haha Abi I am not hopeful.. Sometimes it feels like it's going to happen any second and others I feel like I could still go 6 weeks... Fantastic news about little Robert's weight gain, and of course we don't mind the baby updates! It's so lovely to hear how you're all getting on and is just making me more excited to meet my little girl Well done for getting out and getting on with things - sounds like it was a lovely, positive experience too!

Bit of a silly pregnant lady meltdown girls but I just went swimming with Poppy, she jumped in and managed to knee me right in the top of my bump She is a little unit and it bloomin' hurt.. I know they're so well protected in there but would you worry? Poor little thing her face dropped and she felt awful so have been trying to reassure her everything is ok...

 

[Laura1992]

Congratulations Sprout! We look forward to hearing from you in a few weeks

Aww Kate, I'd be really upset too. I wanted to punch a stranger for accidentally knocking my bump, so it would definitely be mixed feelings when your own Poppy did it by accident. They are very well protected in there though as you say, so I wouldn't worry at all! I think you only need to be concerned if you have a real hard impact, like falling down stairs.

Bethany, that's reassuring! I think realistically, they can't estimate weights that well and some sonographers overestimate and others underestimate.

Well done Abi on braving bf in public! Were you wearing a button down shirt to make it a bit easier? I'm not sure what the best way is. xx

 

[KateK]

Thanks Laura, that's exactly what I thought but my partner called me 'stupid and irresponsible' for letting Poppy jump in near me in the first place which has made me feel awful about it all I only wanted a little fun with my girlie.. Baby's been wriggling since so i'm deciding not to worry about it..

I went to a breastfeeding support group a couple of months back and all the mummies said the easiest thing to do was to wear a vest top underneath a baggy top.. vest top comes down and baby goes under the baggy top if that makes sense? They said don't bother with expensive nursing vests, just to get them a size or 2 up in Primark or similar so they're easy to pull down. I have a couple of huge muslins I plan to use as little privacy blankets just for extra protection! I am a little wary of feeding in public as I know some people can be awful about it, which is a real, real shame

 

[millielaura]

I wouldn't worry Kate I fell down the stairs a few months ago and hit bump and they said even then they wouldn't worry at all about baby but because I was rhesus negative to come in to get the anti d just to be super over cautious. I walk into stuff a lot and had people knocking me when shopping a few times and all was ok and didn't need anti d for that xxx

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[millielaura]

Thanks Laura, that's exactly what I thought but my partner called me 'stupid and irresponsible' for letting Poppy jump in near me in the first place which has made me feel awful about it all I only wanted a little fun with my girlie.. Baby's been wriggling since so i'm deciding not to worry about it..

I went to a breastfeeding support group a couple of months back and all the mummies said the easiest thing to do was to wear a vest top underneath a baggy top.. vest top comes down and baby goes under the baggy top if that makes sense? They said don't bother with expensive nursing vests, just to get them a size or 2 up in Primark or similar so they're easy to pull down. I have a couple of huge muslins I plan to use as little privacy blankets just for extra protection! I am a little wary of feeding in public as I know some people can be awful about it, which is a real, real shame

I've heard of the pulling one up and one down too
I think I'm gonna get a few nursing vests from h&m though as I always seem to get more boiling hot than anyone else even before pregnancy lol so sometimes when inside I will definitely need to just be in a vest top lol.
I think friends etc I'm going to feed in front of when round etc but for some reason feel awkward about it in front of my parents and OH parents so will prob go upstairs lol.

My parents still haven't tried to sort things out with OH though (they fell out last year over house decor at the house we owned but my parents lent us money for lol of all things then it just escalated hugely from there) so God knows how they are even planning on meeting her as I won't meet them without him now as met my dad last month and he wasn't nice at all ..shouted at me etc and I ended up leaving as didn't like it when so pregnant to be shouted at. Xxx

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[Blueflower]

I heard a vest is good to cover your tummy too. I am the same, not embarrassed when my neighbour my age came round when I was feeding but dreading my mum seeing my boobs! Why is that???!

 

[Laura1992]

I was worried about my dad and brother being around when I'm feeding, but actually I just chuck a large muslin to cover boobs and it's fine. Other than that, I've surprised myself but not being very bashful about it at all in front of female family, but I am nervous about feeding in public. Anyway, we've mostly ended up expressing and bottle feeding.

What I really don't like is that how I am feeding my babies feels like public information! Everyone seems to ask "are you breastfeeding?" and we are probably 75% or so on breastmilk now (though mostly from a bottle) but I just think it's such a loaded question and not really anyone's business. Perhaps I'm being oversensitive.

Kate that's mean of your OH, perhaps he was having an off day and felt really protective of baby and took it out on you. Not fair though, hope you're feeling a bit better now.

Thanks guys for the baggy top, vest top tip! I ordered some clothes in the sales because I've been living in loungewear through pregnancy. It's nice to have some new bits and feel a bit smarter! xx

 

[Bethanybiggin]

Managed to get my baby shower today before hospital on Monday!
Super tiring day not stopped but was brilliant!
Back ache like mad and constant leaking boobs think she's getting ready even though I'm only 35+4

 

[BlondeP]

I only went to the hotel for food where I used to work.... We are still a bit awkward with our positioning and I thought I'd times feeds ok but he got agitated so I had to feed him. Everyone was very helpful about it but I wasn't overly keen. We've been to my parents and oh parents since where I've fed again and I'm feeling better the more we do it. I wear a BF best as I can't stand bras atm then like others have said a baggy top over it so jobs can be a little hidden. xxxxxxx

 

[Robbda]

Hello ladies

Scarlett-Rose was born friday 13th (gulp) by emergency c weighing 7lb 1 oz and i have no idea how i will.ever get anything done ever again as i just want to look at her all day and night forever! No idea.how to put a photo up once ive sussed it i will!

How are we all.doing? Millie?? How you getting on doll?

 

[BlondeP]

Hello ladies

Scarlett-Rose was born friday 13th (gulp) by emergency c weighing 7lb 1 oz and i have no idea how i will.ever get anything done ever again as i just want to look at her all day and night forever! No idea.how to put a photo up once ive sussed it i will!

How are we all.doing? Millie?? How you getting on doll?

Congratulations!!!!! Lucky for some obviously! Hope you are both ok ? How come the emcs xxxxxxx

 

[KateK]

Congratulations Robbda that's wonderful news - hope you're recovering well! 13 is my lucky number

I felt the same way Laura in regard to judgy people, especially when it came to feeding. I felt like writing "THIS IS BREASTMILK" over my bottles! I know I was a little sensitive as I was a younger mother and felt like I was being stared at the whole time but nonetheless it was very real.. people just cannot help butting their noses in..

That's good that you managed to have a baby shower Bethany, glad you enjoyed it..

Hope we're all ok today, I'm feeling a bit pants again.. positive thinking from the start of the week seems to be dwindling!

 

[Bethanybiggin]

Tomorrow's D day
Will I be induced tomorrow or not? Hate not knowing

 

[Sprout]

Ahh congratulations Robbda! You just beat me, Camille was born at 00:15 on the 14th.

So...I had a sweep at 2pm that day, came home, bounced on my birthing ball a bit then got really drowsy and decided to have a nap...woke up about 5pm, stood up and felt a bit of a trickle...went to see what had happened and I'd lost a load of plug. Didn't think too much of it as I'd been losing plug for about a week...

Over the next hour though I had a few more trickles and started to wonder if waters were going slowly, so I called the hospital, more to ask how I could tell really, and a lady who doesn't normally work there answered and just said to come in...so we loaded the car with hospital bags, got my little girl off to nanny's house and went in...only to be told that it didn't seem like my waters and to go home.

Got in the car, got about 5 minutes from home and started talking about if we should pick Anna up and then walk to the shops and home to help get things started...then felt a big gush and decided walking about wouldn't be the best idea! Got out of the car and literally soaked through my pad, underwear and trousers...wasn't too pleased that I'd been told it wasn't waters going!

So we got Anna and decided we'd put her to bed at home, have some dinner and then see what was happening. OH spent a little while getting her to bed and I was losing looaads of fluid the whole time! I have to say, it's so much more convenient to have them go once you're already in labour haha.

I think at about 9pm I started having mild, short but 4ish minute apart contractions and was kind of at a loss at what to do. I wanted to labour at home as long as possible but they were so close together and obviously waters had already gone that it seemed like we ought to go in...so after deciding against watching Sherlock and waiting to see what would happen we got my mum over to watch Anna and left for hospital about 9:30.

Arrived about 10pm, had various checks in a very hot, claustrophobic room. My pulse was pretty high as I think I was getting a bit anxious about being there. Midwife checked me and I was pretty disheartened to find I was 2-3cm...although something told me it still wasn't going to be long. Had a contraction while she was checking me which was really unpleasant. She then told us to go for a walk around the hospital corridors for about an hour to see if it'd get things started, and if it didn't I'd be admitted to the ward.

So, about 11pm, we left the labour suite to start walking and I immediately burst into tears and started panicking, I was suddenly really anxious about having to labour in that tiny room, about not getting to use the pool and about the possibility of having to stay overnight on the ward...I ended up begging OH to insist that he would stay! As we started walking around, I calmed down though, the corridors were much cooler and eerily empty and I actually kind of started to enjoy just wandering about with OH!

OH was timing contractions as we walked and very very quickly, they were coming about every minute, lasting a minute and getting more and more intense with each one. As each contraction came, I would panic for a moment at the intensity, then remind myself to relax my face, relax my body and think about Anna...every contraction I would think of all the funny little things she does and it helped immensely.

About 11:30 I realised things were really ramping up and we were a fair walk from the labour suite...so I told OH I thought we should go back now as I'd like to ask if I could use the pool...also because I was fairly sure birth was imminent but I didn't tell him that! We walked for another few minutes and then I realised we didn't seem to be getting any closer to the labour suite, so said again to OH that we should go back and he seemed to have totally forgotten I'd said anything!! I realised then that we were actually on the wrong floor too, which is why we never seemed to get any closer but I had no memory of walking downstairs!!

So we get buzzed back into the labour suite, we go back in and we're just stood in the corridor for a bit and no one is around...and I absolutely know at this point that this baby is coming quickly and I'm wondering why no one is rushing to get us...though obviously they thought we had a while! I start having another contraction and moaning loudly and the midwife appears and says it seems like contractions have intensified!

She gets us into our room and I ask for the pool which she says is fine and they start running it...she says it should be about 20 minutes. She then asks to put a cannula in my hand as I hemorrhaged last time and they want to be prepared. I'm now standing up but face down, leaning on the bed, having insane contractions...while she's faffing about with my hand. Initially she puts the needle sort of in my wrist, then she sounds a bit panicked and says something like "Oh no, we don't want blue"???, apologises, takes the needle out and then spends ages applying pressure to stop it bleeding...I think maybe she got an artery by accident which kind of made me panic...didn't need that in full blown labour!! So she eventually gets the cannula in somewhere else and then says we can walk across to the pool room as it's nearly ready.

Across we go, and I'm standing up, making very "pushy" noises with each contraction...the midwife keeps saying "We're going to have to get those trousers off now..." and I'm just thinking "Why don't you get them off then?!" as I really didn't feel capable haha. Eventually OH pulls them down but leaves my knickers on haha so I somehow summon the ability to take them off...midwife then notices that baby is crowning!

About 2 pushes later his head is out, then there's a little while before the next contraction where I reach and touch it and suddenly remember we have a cord tie, so somehow manage to tell the midwife that!

Next contraction comes and I remember being told how shoulder dystocia is more likely in big babies and being absolutely determined not to have that happen...put in the most effort I have ever mustered and out came Camille at 00:15. (which was weird as Anna was born at 00:18!)

I was so so relieved and overjoyed! They handed him to me and took me over to lay down and deliver the placenta. It came away really quickly so I was even more relieved - had a retained placenta last time. At this point everyone is commenting on how big both baby and placenta are, which I thought was funny because he looked so tiny to me.

Then I did have a bit of a bleed and a load of people rushed in but it was so much more pleasant and calm than last time, they just calmly explained everything, hooked me up to a drip and me and OH just looked at baby and tried to get him latched on the whole time.

We then went through to the old room, everyone kept apologising that I didn't get to use the pool which I found so funny because I was just so pleased it was all over so quickly. Baby was weighed and was a whopping 9lb 13oz! He latched beautifully and is pretty much obsessed with my boobs haha.

OH managed to stay with me the whole time, even snuck onto the ward overnight, and we were home by 3pm. All in all, I couldn't have asked for a better experience and I'm just so happy!

Really didn't intend for that to be so long, sorry! Well done if you read it all!

 

[Laura1992]

Hi Sprout! I read with interest, what a great labour story and so pleased for you that it progressed so quickly and went so smoothly. Also well done you on pushing out 9 pounds 13oz!! Beautiful name, look forward to seeing a photo if you post one

How was Anna's first meeting with her little brother?

 

[Laura1992]

Congratulations Robbda! I hope you recover quickly, I felt crap after my csection for a week even on the painkillers. Still need them at the moment, but things have massively improved quite quickly. Tell us more about your labour when you get round to it! Beautiful name and lovely weight too xx

 

[Sprout]

Hi Sprout! I read with interest, what a great labour story and so pleased for you that it progressed so quickly and went so smoothly. Also well done you on pushing out 9 pounds 13oz!! Beautiful name, look forward to seeing a photo if you post one

How was Anna's first meeting with her little brother?

Thank you! Honestly, I'm a little bit sad about how their first meeting went - the in laws asked if they could come and visit the day we were getting out of hospital so we said they could come to my parents' house at 4. My dad picked us up and we arrived at their house at 3:30, and the in laws pulled up moments later...my dad then helped me out of the car, picked up baby and headed in...so he introduced them and then in laws followed in and Anna went all shy and overwhelmed and was more interested in the presents they brought than the baby...

Trying not to be too disappointed about it but I'd been looking forward to that moment the whole pregnancy so it's a bit of a shame...she's so sweet with him though, if a little rough, it's lovely!