August Beach Bumps - 24 Girls, 27 boys, & 2 team yellow! 39 babies born!!

[lolpants]

Lol, you can! https://www.amazon.com/Milkies-Milk-Saver-Breast-Collector-Storage/dp/B001SMBRWO/

Wow cool thanks!

Celtic , Phoebe starts back on the 2nd. . She only goes in the morning, but I'm dreading getting her there in time! Was hard enough as it was. I shouldn't complain though, as you cope with 6!!

Lol xx

 

[Sooz]

Lol I had us three out the house for 7:30 Thursday. It was easier than I thought. X

 

[Caitrin]

Bah, this phone hates me typing long replies...knew I should have copied my post! Going to make a few smaller replies and hope they work...sorry!

Thank you everyone! Will post pics and birth story soon. I have no idea how I made such a handsome little man! Everyone says he looks just like me too.

 

[Nela]

Celtic, you available to give me lessons on time management?

Congrats, Caitrin! Looking forward to reading the birth story

Soured milk smell? Ewwwww Not looking forward to that part Lol.

I'm sitting in my hospital bed with a balloon in my hooha. Contractions here and there but nothing regular or intense enough. I have a bad feeling I'll have to have another round...

 

[HHenderson]

Ok ladies I have TIME well, 20 more minutes. Took the baby to the doctors and she has lost 13 oz. I guess because she likes to sleep and doesnt express her desire to want to feed as much I dont try to force her. And the exhaustion I was able to sleep 5 hours straight for the first time in 3 days. I got 40 minutes of sleep the first two days. AHH So I have to force feed every 2-3 hours until I have to take her back to the doctors tomorrow morning. I pray she gains the oz. IDK what happens if she doesnt.

Story, she was born Aug 22, 2013 @ 12:42pm. 7oz 13oz 19 3/4 long via c-section. At first we had issues due to hospital not knowing what they were doing. Short story-they were entering the first sonogram due date of Sept 3rd and Ive never had that date so pretty much told me my section might not happen. My doctor FREAKED and told them to listen to her shes the doctor and figured it out they had entered information wrong. Apparently you cannot have a normal section without medical issues before 39 weeks anymore. So after waiting 3 hours it happened. I was NOT nervous at all the experience was amazing. Everyone was friendly. During the section was great and funny. I wish everyone's experience was like mine seriously. During being sewed up we did skin to skin and I breastfed. She did poo inside me but is perfectly healthy. She is a MINI ME. OMG my first daughter was blonde hair, blue eyes, bald her dads lips etc. My new daughter is brown hair, dark eyes ME. Recovery was ok, I mean who likes to be in a damn hospital for 48 hours.

I love her and she is PERFECT. Will update with photos later, apparently my MIL says its time to feed again because she is 'head banging' lol

Oh yea my husband is fricken smitten. I guess when your older your feelings are more open than when we had our first at 18 years old.

 

[babyhopes2010]

seems like everyone has had their babies

 

[Baby_Dreams]

Nope I haven't!

 

[babyhopes2010]

Nope I haven't!

we can sit in the corner and sulk together

 

[JenzyKY]

Henderson, doesn't she get a few days before she really has to start gaining? My milk didn't come in til late day 3/4 so it's not realistic to have a gain before. They tried to freak me out about weight loss too. They aren't expected to be back at birth weight til like 10 days maybe?

 

[Baby_Dreams]

Sounds good to me! Hate the fact that by tomorrow I will be officially overdue

 

[lolpants]

Glad you had great birth experience in the end Henderson. Health visitor told me they expect babies to be back at birthweight by day 20! I wouldn't panic yet. My LO likes to sleep too, but then when she wakes it's a feeding frenzy! She reached birthweight by day 10!

Must be dragging for those of you still waiting to meet your babies. .. Hopefully not too much longer!

Well done Sooz! I hope I can get as organised! !

Hope things pick up for you nela!

Lol xx

 

[borr.dg.baby]

HH sounds like such a great experience. My section was also a good experience, the only thing bad was that they had to take baby away soon because of low birth weight but that would have happened also if it was a natural birth anyways. Otherwise, I feel the same way, everyone was nice and it was a good experience.

I hope those who are waiting don't have to wait much longer

 

[bella21]

hey ladies, having a hard time catching up as I've been in some pain and still recovering from my c-section, wanted to post my birth story

contractions started at 9am tuesday morning lasting 10-15 mins apart. around 3 they started getting much stronger and closer together so called the hospital around 4 and went in. On the car ride there my water broke. went into triage they checked my i was only 3 cm still. we waited about 3 hours i made it to 5cm and needed to get the epidural. After that things started to slow down. after 4 hours i finally made it to 6cm, they started pitocin to induce and it caused babys heart rate to slow down. They did the pitocin 5 times and every single time his hear rate would drop, they had me on oxygen, all fours, all different positions to get blood flowing and nothing worked. Finally on wednesday at noon i made it to 10cm. we waited an hour before i pushed to get the babys head down further as he was only at -1 the entire time. an hour later i pushed, 3 times, and his heart rate dropped again. I had the choice to keep pushing and risk his heart rate dropping and not coming back up or get a section , so we decided the csection. OH was by my side the whole time which was great and the c-section wasn't anything i expected, it actually went really quick! and once i heard his amazing little cry nothing mattered after that. I didn't get any skin to skin right away which i was a little upset about but i did get to see him while they stitched me back up.


made it home yesterday morning, i was still in tons of pain from the section and was really hard to move around and care for chase like i felt i needed to. luckily i had OH and my moms help. Chase kept us up from 2-7am last night screaming and crying, we think he had a belly ache but it was heartbreaking he seems to feel much better today and were about to give him his first bath tonight

hope everybody is feeling great!

 

[HHenderson]

Henderson, doesn't she get a few days before she really has to start gaining? My milk didn't come in til late day 3/4 so it's not realistic to have a gain before. They tried to freak me out about weight loss too. They aren't expected to be back at birth weight til like 10 days maybe?

I really dont know. Tomorrow she will be only 4 days old. I gues due to the fact that Im breastfeeding its a big deal. We will see tomorrow what they have to say. Ive been feeding every two hours on the dot. Tonight might be a little harder because she tends to sleep alot at night. My annoying alarm is set though. I pumped milk today for 10 minutes each breast and I kind of know how much comes out of each and from what I see if she does eat every two hours she should be gaining now. I let her sleep in last night and didnt realize I should have woken her. I needed the sleep though, didnt sleep for DAYS.

hey ladies, having a hard time catching up as I've been in some pain and still recovering from my c-section, wanted to post my birth story

contractions started at 9am tuesday morning lasting 10-15 mins apart. around 3 they started getting much stronger and closer together so called the hospital around 4 and went in. On the car ride there my water broke. went into triage they checked my i was only 3 cm still. we waited about 3 hours i made it to 5cm and needed to get the epidural. After that things started to slow down. after 4 hours i finally made it to 6cm, they started pitocin to induce and it caused babys heart rate to slow down. They did the pitocin 5 times and every single time his hear rate would drop, they had me on oxygen, all fours, all different positions to get blood flowing and nothing worked. Finally on wednesday at noon i made it to 10cm. we waited an hour before i pushed to get the babys head down further as he was only at -1 the entire time. an hour later i pushed, 3 times, and his heart rate dropped again. I had the choice to keep pushing and risk his heart rate dropping and not coming back up or get a section , so we decided the csection. OH was by my side the whole time which was great and the c-section wasn't anything i expected, it actually went really quick! and once i heard his amazing little cry nothing mattered after that. I didn't get any skin to skin right away which i was a little upset about but i did get to see him while they stitched me back up.


made it home yesterday morning, i was still in tons of pain from the section and was really hard to move around and care for chase like i felt i needed to. luckily i had OH and my moms help. Chase kept us up from 2-7am last night screaming and crying, we think he had a belly ache but it was heartbreaking he seems to feel much better today and were about to give him his first bath tonight

hope everybody is feeling great!

Aww it took almost 3 days for my daughter to realize how to far and get rid of all that gas. Good luck tonight

 

[Barhanita]

Bella, I am glad all is well at the end.

 

[Sooz]

HH my daughter lost 12oz by day three, that was 8 percent of her birthweight. They don't like it to hit 10 percent. They expect them back at birthweight by 10-14 days. X

 

[HHenderson]

Engorgement sucks. Ugh I wanna cry!

 

[amethyst77]

seems like everyone has had their babies

I'm still waiting too x

 

[ZooMa]

I feel for you all still waiting to meet your LO's! I know this thread now seems focused on feeding and sleeping (or lack thereof). But hang in there! And remember the "due date" is not accurately named - it's just an average of a two week window when babies arrive. However, some studies now believe the 40-week average is not even accurate - add up to another ten days, especially for ftm's! I tend to buy into it since my baby decided to come at 40+10. Ha!

 

[CelticNiamh]

seems like everyone has had their babies

I'm still waiting too x

wont be much longer let us know though