April Munchkins 2013- enjoying our wonderful babies!

[kirstabelle]

What a good big brother Tommy is! How adorable! And I can't believe Scarlett is already a week old. Thank goodness she is here though and the rest of us hormonal mamas-to-be can get our baby fix! Thank you for sharing pics with us!

Oh Steph I'm sorry your bad dreams are back. I had them all through 1st and 2nd tri and they were awful I had one a few nights ago but hope it was just a freak occurrence as I deffo do not want those back.

So, luckily we did go get the car seat checked. Apparently our car seat (peg perego) is incompatible with our car. We have a subaru and something to do with the seats apparently makes it incompatible with a lot of seats. When we were installing it last night instructions said to tighten it as tight as you could get it and still have the little level thing in the correct place and so that it doesn't move any more than an inch. We thought it was okay as it moved but it was less than one inch, but apparently not, they said the way it was moving was not really safe. They had some car seats there so they installed another kind that fits in our stroller (maxi cosi mico) and it fit perfectly, and once it was installed you could really see the difference in fit, and then when I said that the baby would probably be here before the next seat check event (its only twice a month) they told us that they had been given a bunch of maxi cosi seats as part of the manufacturers training program and they said we could just keep the one they just installed! So we just got a brand new car seat for nothing! Have to go and return the other one, which shouldn't be an issue. The only annoying thing is that I already got my car seat to stroller adapters as a shower gift so now have to try to switch them out and I didn't order them nor do I have the receipt. Going to have to get that sorted asap as well as I need those to not be a shut-in with the child. And now she will have to stay put in my belly until I get my car seat adapters Anyway, really glad we went as they gave us lots of good information in addition to the free seat. I can definitely see how those statistics of 96% of parents thinking the seat is installed correctly, when 7 out of 10 are actually installed incorrectly. Definitely recommend going to a check point if there is one in your area!

I deffo have the crampy, ligament pain and funnily enough it didn't even cross my mind that it was a labor symptom... just that it was really not comfortable!

Sorry your hoofs are back Candy. Wish I didn't live a million miles away as I have epsom salts in my cupboard for your hoofs

Looking forward to hearing what your section date is Melissa! And to find out whether your LO is a boy or girl! I have already decided Doggy Lover is having a girl - All those sugar cravings and your dead body right-side pulse has convinced me!

Off to make a pizza pie, lovely night to all!

 

[kirstabelle]

Oh yeah and as for me being so organized, don't mistake that for knowing WTH I am doing because as Doggy Lover said I am definitely in the FTM maniac camp

 

[doggylover]

Holy crap kirstabelle that is quite scary that it wasnt in ok, even though it was meeting the requirements of moving less than an inch. Thank goodness you did go to check it. It's obviously a pretty common thing then where you live to get it checked out, we don't have anything like that here really, unless you get it checked by the people at the shop where you buy it but I wouldn't be 100% convinced by them.
Luckily we have an isofix base for ours which lets you know, by flashing green lights and beeping, when the seat and base are both installed correctly, so hopefully it won't be an issue for us.

Also for a free car seat!! Amazing!

Candy, I'm not sure I could handle 27 fresh pineapples, much as I love them!

 

[ukgirl23]

wow Kristabelle!! well done on getting the seat checked!! So glad they gave you one free too!
If you live in the UK I think mothercare do the same service Babies r us did in Norway I'm not sure if it's the same here and midwifes can come to the car to help you when you are discharged if you need help x

I'm still not well I have infected my friend too :/ I think another friend infected me, she was telling me how she had hers for almost 3 weeks I done the school run feeling dizzy and on off sweating. Thank goodness it's friday!!

 

[Cherrybump]

awww uk hope you feel better soon.

lol i dont want the trickle i want the full on gush of the waters lol.

good thing you got carseat check hun. i want be in a car that often but defo good idea to get it check. ill be bring baby home in a car and that will be pretty much the only time as my sister hogs my parents back seats lol but thats ok with me means i can get fit by walking everywhere.

ive got my third class today ekk. feeling better. hopes i get few more cramps lol i see them as a good sign...

ive just went to mums nickef sone pads heehee i was running out i wear them for nights only at the moment going to get thin ones fot the day...
xxxxx

 

[ukgirl23]

Thank you cherrybump.. glad you are feeling better I hope you have fun at our class today xx

I just manaaged to record Aaron singing spicegirls in the car hahahahahahahaha blackmailing time!!!

 

[LittleSpy]

doggy/cherry -- I've been having period cramps, too, but I honestly don't remember them the first time until I was in early labor! I asked my OB if they were a normal 2nd+ pregnancy BH contraction thing since I didn't remember them the first time and she said yes. She also mentioned that me being sick could make them worse but now that I'm feeling so much better, they're worse than ever! The key, I think, is just them getting more intense and closer together. Everyone's different but I expect to not know for sure at first if it's the real thing. But like Melissa said, chances are very good that by the time you need to know, you'll definitely know.

Melissa -- LOL about the waterproof sheet. I've been thinking about putting a bunch of puppy housetraining pads down or something. I had so much fluid with Maisie, though, those things would've been completely useless.

I keep thinking I need to take a huge beach towel and some adult diapers with me to work or something just in case. Even if there is very little chance of my water breaking before I know I'm in labor, I do not want to have to take a walk of shame through this huge building and up the long sidewalk and across the huge parking lot with my pants totally soaked and dripping everywhere.

As for sex to start labor... the sperm is good for ripening the cervix but the best thing to kickstart it is orgasms! Orgasm = HUGE amounts of oxytocin = labor (if you have enough oxytocin receptors laid down at the time... that's why sex/nip stim won't do anything to start labor until your body is ready). So... you don't really need your partner.

Steph -- I'm sure a billion people have already reassured you that by the time there's a chance you'll crap during labor, you're not going to give any kind of a shit about whether or not you do. That said, no poop for me, so swears my husband. But even if I did, I'm sure the nurses see it 100 times a week and are very discreet. You probably won't even know.

sweetpea -- Thank you for all of the squishy pictures! I just love her! Soooo sweet about Tommy.

kirstabelle -- That's amazing about the carseat!! Not sure if Babies R Us or Buy Buy Baby sells the adapters, but if they do, you can return them without a receipt for store credit, I believe. I think most people install carseats incorrectly because they install it both ways at the same time (belt and LATCH). My husband fought me on that tooth & nail with Maisie. Yes, hun, it MAY very well be more safe installed both ways at the same time BUT they don't test it that way so we don't know. And then he says something along the lines of, "But, physics!" And my response to that is no. One way or the other and shut up about it!

So, baby has dropped so low it's nuts. And she's dropped onto my sciatic nerve, no doubt, because ouch! I didn't have sciatica pain with Maisie so this is new fun for me. Pretty hard to walk. And by walk I of course mean waddle, because, hey, I have a 6 pound bowling ball essentially in my vag. A coworker told me yesterday I won't make it 2 more weeks. And she's our file clerk, so she's obviously an authority on the matter. I still fully expect to go overdue, honestly.

 

[Steph82]

LittleSpy, people def tell me that I won't care about pooping in labor... But the thought of it ... It still mortifies me hahaha

I'm so jealous that you have an expert at work, that can accurately predict your labor . My dad does the same for me . I'm not sure why we have to pay doctors all this money, when we have reliable sources all around us

Kristabelle on the new car seat!!! Ron installed ours last weekend and now I'm worried

Candy, it's always good to have material for blackmailing... But careful, he will have some new material with this upcoming labor lol. If Rob got a video of me trying to get out of bed at night, I'm sure it would be worthy of some laughs lol.

Sarah, I love pineapple, but 27 ????!! I like LittleSpys idea better of not even needing to DTD

 

[LittleSpy]

Sarah, I love pineapple, but 27 ????!! I like LittleSpys idea better of not even needing to DTD

Right? I mean, you can just take care of it every morning in the shower or something.

 

[kirstabelle]

Sarah, I love pineapple, but 27 ????!! I like LittleSpys idea better of not even needing to DTD

Right? I mean, you can just take care of it every morning in the shower or something.

But maybe the same rule Candy mentioned for sex applies here... 5 times a day... no?

Steph, you should see if someone around you can check yours. There is an online national search thing to find places to check them. It really was worth going. We had it installed exactly how the manual says it should be, which was the most ridiculous part. They do also tell you a bunch of other stuff as well. Like how if that plastic chest restraint part isn't at their armpit level the baby could be ejected from the top of the seat in a crash Thanks for that terrifying mental image! And you're supposed to tighten the straps every single time you put them in the seat, too. I'm not sure I would trust someone who sells car seats to check it though, like how I will never again trust the car seat manual, either. I think the system here is good. Its usually police and firefighters who have done a specialist training course, so its pretty independent. I think its such a good service. Where we live everyone seems to get theirs checked Probably because they read that same statistic I did and it made them paranoid Proof of my FTM maniac status for sure!

You dramatic ladies wanting your gushing waterfalls Gush, trickle, I don't care. I just want mine to break at the hospital so that they have to clean it up and not me I have an extra waterproof crib sheet so I am going to put that on my bed soon. Our mattress is less than a year old plus we have a memory foam thing on top as well... not interested in that getting saturated with an amniotic semen-smelling flood water

Yeah my mum said that about the poop, that they clean it up super quick and you don't even notice you did it. Which made me even more concerned about how painful this is going to be... so painful that I am going to poop in public and not notice or care. omg. I have already told DH that if it happens we are NEVER, EVER going to discuss it. Ever.

 

[LittleSpy]

Just my not-an-expert-on-the-matter opinion, but I think if any oxytocin surge is going to work, one good one will be enough. If the receptors are there, it'll happen. If not, keep trying however often you like.

 

[ukgirl23]

IF sex were to induce labour you would need a certain amount of sperm, because sperm has a hormone/chemical in it which is used to induce labour with the pessary, that is why they say 5 times in 24 hours. Also you need a big amount of sperm to do something to the mucus plug.. eewwww haha..
Nipple stimulation is painful and pointless, has to be done over hours on end many times a day and doesn't really do much.
I have tried and tested most methods and honestly none of them work, they just made me really uncomfortable. xxx

I just had the midwife she made me feel like a huge dick, I told her about my feet and the BHs and she told me I need to calm down and chill out, she said my baby isn't coming yet and I need to stop worrying.... :/ ... my blood pressure was up though so I'm admitted to hospital tomorrow for further tests. I think maybe I do need to calm down a bit, maybe I will go knit Ben a blanket to pass some of these weeks quicker.

Kristabelle on TV here they have something called One Born Every Minute and the midwife was saying how when the babies head comes down it squeezes everything out of there (poop) like a tube of toothpaste and that most women poo! lol
When you push as the head comes down it feels like you're going to poo the bed, I was trying to get to the toilet lol.

Steph haha do you get up like a 90 year old? lol .. I managed to get a big mac for my troubles

waters trickle when you lay down, gush when you stand up I also want mine to go in hospital, the smell isn't easy to get out of the matress lol..

Mothercare sell those absorbant bed sheet things, I'm buying a few of those

 

[ReadytoMum]

Whew! Family has gone home and life returns to normal....

It's been a blast having our nephew staying with us, but mum's who are pregnant and already have a little one running around... I bow to your awesomeness!

So far the results of my heartrate tests are fine... bloodwork was good, and ECG was ok, still waiting on the 24 hour holster results though. I think they'll be fine though too since I'm pretty convinced the heartracing episodes were stress induced, sort of like panic attacks, over school stuff and family visiting etc.

Re: Waters breaking... I'm SO paranoid that it will happen to me in public and I'll be soaked and mortified. I've been told that a lot of women don't have their waters break till they're at the hospital actually in labour... but that's only slightly reassuring!

I'll try to catch up properly later, hope everyone is doing well!

Oh, and SweetPea... beautiful one week old photos! She's such a cutie.

 

[kealz194]

Krista wow on the free carseat and omg on the one you had not fitting properly thank goodness you had it checked!
Boo to your hoofs candy! Hope they've gone down!
I hope everyone's doing ok!
Think I'm joining all you ladies with the braxtons! Ive been suffering with them today omg I've never really had them but my belly is solid!
Well today Stephen is off as he is going to see his uncle in hospital! So this morning we popped to Henry's house (soft play centre) as I can't go on with her, and weekends are packed! Omg she loved having her daddy play with her she was so happy and excited! Been a lovely morning! Got my baby shower on Sunday though I'm not holding my breath, salot of people have cancelled already and my mum does not sound overly thrilled about it but we hall see!
And here is a long awaited bump pic at 34+3 x

 

[ukgirl23]

kealz that is a gorgeous bump! Glad Paige had fun at soft play Aaron loves any excuse to go in the ball pit with them, I usually get dumped with the shoes I'm hoping the baby shower goes well for you on sunday, its not nice that so many have cancelled or seem uninterested xxx

readytomum - yay for normal test results!! Well done for surviving the family visit! now you can relax xxxx

 

[kealz194]

Readytomom I had to have an ECG done a while ago as my heart rate was 129 bpm!!! Even now it does it! I haven't had the results back no one has contacted me so in assuming all is ok! I just think it happens sometimes! If I have a hot bath my heart beats extra fast! Glad all went well with your nephew! Lol it is a struggle but you learn to manage and I have to say, having a lo around already takes your mind of the pregnancy! It's made it o so much quicker, felt like my pregnancy with Paige took aggggges! Lol
Thanks candy! I thought I was huge but people keep saying its quite small considering I've only got 6 weeks to go and I was a lot bigge with Paige! X

 

[doggylover]

Littlespy, whoa I guess the woman who I used to work with who predicted I wouldn't get to the end of feb has transferred to your work to annoy you about how you won't make it just prove her wrong, because it felt so good when I left last week and the woman had to admit she'd been very wrong! not that I would ever gloat of course!
Interesting about the oxytocin surge coming from orgasm....

Steph: I'm pretty sure I will still care if I poop in labour. Plus Simon would NEVER let me live it down! And honestly, I would take 27 pineapples over dtd right now! Although I am interested in this not needing it to be sex business...

What's breaking: I have my "maternity bed sheet" on already. Basically a giant puppy training pad re-marketed. Sod's law is it'll happen when I've rolled onto dh's side of the bed! And seriously candy...the smell?! !!

Candy: screw your midwife, rude bitch but I'm glad you are getting the bp seen to tomorrow, hopefully it's nothing serious.

Kealz: lovely bump pic! Sounds like you've had a lovely day with the family, and exciting about Sunday, anyone who cancelled wouldn't have been any fun anyway, so better off without them!

Afm, went into town today and got my nightie to wear when I am pushing this beastie out! Primarks finest I also treated myself to some new converse as I've needed some for ages and want to have a nice comfy pair of (clean - my current converse are filthy!) shoes for plodding about with the pram and when I got home my dress for my friends wedding had been delivered. A maxi dress and OMG it makes me look enormous. If I make this wedding I will need a whole pew in the church for myself!!!

 

[ukgirl23]

Lol doggylover yay for primark nighties... you dont need to spend loads on something thats going to get bloody and skanked up hehe.. I got mine on ebay for a pound .. Welldone for re inventing the puppy pad! Clever thinking missy!!
Yes... the smell.... sickly sweet.. bleachy.. raw meaty smell.. sexy
My midwife was meant to call me with an appointment time too but she hasnt so Im going to have to book myself in tomorrow now :-\

 

[LittleSpy]

IF sex were to induce labour you would need a certain amount of sperm, because sperm has a hormone/chemical in it which is used to induce labour with the pessary, that is why they say 5 times in 24 hours. Also you need a big amount of sperm to do something to the mucus plug.. eewwww haha..
Nipple stimulation is painful and pointless, has to be done over hours on end many times a day and doesn't really do much.
I have tried and tested most methods and honestly none of them work, they just made me really uncomfortable. xxx

You and I talking about 2 different things. I'm talking about oxytocin, it's the chemical that triggers labor. You're talking about prostaglandins, which "ripen" the cervix.

I personally didn't need the cervix ripening with Maisie since I was almost fully effaced and 3cm, I just needed the oxytocin. Things other than sperm also contain prostaglandins -- like EPO.

If you were being induced, think of Cervadil as the prostaglandins and pitocin as the oxytocin.

 

[LittleSpy]

Uh, and by "chemical" I mean hormone. I mean, it's technically a chemical but yeah...

Oxytocin makes you feel good. Pretty much anything you enjoy causes its release. Hugging, kissing, orgasm, nipple stimulation, even chocolate causes it to be released. But, of course, orgasm causes the release of a whole lot of it for most folks. Far more than nipple stimulation or chocolate.