19th October Ladies ... **5 Births Already**

[Phantom710]

Hello ladies

EXHAUSTED. Spent Yesterday cleaning the kitchen, 2nd bath and living room. Now today am helping roomie pack. Cannot beleive how excited i am to finally have a room to put baby's things in. LOL

So for those of you who don't have a gender yet, are ALL your clothes white/yellow/cream? Cause I totally bought a little blue zip up jacket and pants set. I realize "blue" is boy, but i see nothing wrong with putting my girl in it? Am i crazy? hahah. I also bought a little pair of overalls that are brown with pooh, and i think it'll be fine with both? but hubs laughs at me.

 

[x-TyMa-x]

girls or boys can wear any colour hunny , its your baby and tbh there are plenty men about that wear pink!! so why cant a baby girl wear blue dress your LO in whatever you like, either way he/she will look like a total cutie pie xx

I am desperate to start buying too lol some things i see im like ooo look, like there was this adorable little red polka dot minnie mouse romper i saw and i was like oh i want it ...but to be fair i actually do think a boy would of looked daft in that hahaha!!!

 

[sam#3]

Evening ladies
I am addicted to buying things already.... not good!!!! I am hoping to have a lush girlie nappy stash this time

I am planning a home water birth, i have already had two homebirths but planning to have a water birth this time too... im soooo excited to give birth again i absolutely love it!!

 

[x-TyMa-x]

omg sam ...how brave i would be waaaaaay to scared to have a homebirth!!!

 

[sam#3]

i think its brave to want to go into hospital... i cant think of anything worse than having a baby in hospital!!

 

[x-TyMa-x]

I think a water birth sounds nice altho i duno if i could do it.... ..altho maybe

How were your homebirths last time ?? x

 

[sam#3]

They were amazing... with LO#2 i laboured in the bath and had him on the bathroom floor.... under an hour later i was tucked up in bed with the MW's having cleared up, made us a cup of tea and left us to it.
LO#3 - i laboured in the birth pool but had to get out due to presentation issues.... i birthed him into my arms with my other 2 children there, my lo#1 cut the cord and then within about an hour i had showered, the MW's had cleared up and me, oh and all 3 kids were tucked up in bed with tea and toast

 

[x-TyMa-x]

wow sounds amazing!! really relaxing your deffo brave hehe

 

[sam#3]

lol thanks babes!! i def think you are the one with the birth balls though hehe

 

[x-TyMa-x]

Lol thanks haha x

Well ladies how are you all today x

 

[Phantom710]

Sleepy Sleepy. ANd trying to get used to my new contacts. I've been old school til now, and have never in my life had anything i purposely put ON MY EYEBALL. they are not uncomfortable---just odd as sometimes it seems like it takes a second to focus when i look from one thing to another. any of you wear contacts and can offer.....any sort of words? hehehe

You?

 

[x-TyMa-x]

sorry cant help on the contacts situation ....i do know they look very uncomfortable tho!

Im good altho i have a really bad headache & i am also sleeeeepy! xx

 

[Phantom710]

i have noticed that no matter what i do here this last week or so i'm just EXHAUSTED. dunno how you do it with one kid already. hahah

 

[x-TyMa-x]

lol it is tiring but i think if i didnt have tyler i would spend my days in bed fast asleep lol so its prob a good thing i do have him haha he get me up in the morning xx lol

 

[Phantom710]

oh i could so easily do that, except for the i enjoy having money so i must go to work part.

 

[x-TyMa-x]

haha yeh thats a good point actually....i probably wouldnt stay in bed all day as if i didnt have a child already then i would be at work

what do u do for your work ?? xx

 

[Phantom710]

I work as a Clerk in the local hospital. Handy, as it's where my doctor's office is also located, and where i'll give birth. My water will probably break at work knowing my luck. Sorry Boss, gotta run.. baby coming. Hahahahaha

 

[Phantom710]

Sorry for the double post but i decided to ask you ladies all a tough question. If you don't feel comfortable responding it's fine, just curious and no judegement coming from me at least on whatever you answer:

The nearest doc to me that does the 12 week NT screening is 3 hours away, so i opted not to have it done. Did you ladies? Also, i'm sure you all had the same discussion that i did with my hubby--- what if?

We talked long and hard and decided what was best for not only us- but the baby as well, we would not terminate the pregnancy but we would more than likely consider adoption--as both of us feel it would be better for us and baby.

While we are currently financially able to pay for baby on our own w/o state assistance, we wouldn't be able to devote the time/resources needed for a baby with severe special needs. (Down Syndrome, etc). My question to you-- should you baby have/ had of haved something like this, what were your thoughts?

I find myself thinking about it a lot lately as my anomoly scan approaches.

 

[Mary Jo]

I wear contacts and have for - hmmm, lemme count... nearly 16 years. I love them and did from day one because I have much much better sight compared to glasses. mind, that could be because I haven't actually had new glasses since 1999 and they are pretty useless now!

as for the NT scan - we were offered it and decided to accept because I just needed to know if we'd be at a higher risk than going on my age alone (and as I am 37 my risk was automatically pretty high). I don't know what we'd have done if it had come back at high risk, I guess we'd have had a CVS or amnio... and after that? it's possible we wouldn't have carried on with the pregnancy. my husband had strong feelings about it and nothing I could say would sway him from that. but who knows? we didn't face that dilemma, thankfully, my NT measurement was a reassuring 1.1mm and combined with the blood tests, my overall risk went up to 1 in 4,600. which is a lot higher of a risk than with my son, which came out at 1 in 17,000, but I was 2 years younger then.

I am really tired a lot of the time at the moment, as well, though I am sure some of it is depression over losing the buyer of our flat and having to find a new one quickly or lose the house we want to buy. fortunately Adam is wonderful at taking naps (touch wood it carries on) and so I settle him down, wait 20 mins or so till he gets into a deep sleep, then sneak up and go to bed myself (we share a room, hence the stress over the house situation). I've been able to get 1-2hrs nap in most days, and that makes a massive difference.

 

[nypage1981]

We did the NT scan and I thought I may not continue with the pregnancy if it was confirmed to have downs. I am not for sure though about that, as I am not sure if i'd have been able to part with the baby inside me for that 12 weeks even knowing it had something so it's something I will never know what we'd have actually done. My measurement was .9 so it was very good and I was never told the number risk but they said very low. Also, we did the 16 week blood test and that was good as well.

Its a personal thing, but it takes a lot to raise a child with needs like that and I see a lot of them working at a hospital who have no sort of a life to speak of, so that is sad to me. Of course, there are still things that can happen during birth but knock on wood .

Headaches! Ugh, mine are bad again today too