***December Dreamers*** 70 babies born***

[Tierney]

In short nat, me, ness, Jenny, Mizze, NImum and Googily are still here :/(

Dont forget me, I'm still here aswell, hopefully not for too long

 

[- Butterfly -]

Hello December Dreamers

I am so so so sorry that I haven't been on before now. I had completely forgotten how demanding a newborn is!!!

I haven't read back so don't know whether you have been updated from my facebook page but I will try and upload a photo anyway!!

Rosie Mae was born by elective section on 14th December. She is now 5 days old!! She was 6lb 9oz!!! I knew she was going to be small because she kept changing position in my belly all the time. Even though I had elected for c section - it was a majorily good decision because she actually came out breech!!! I will do a birth story but will warn you that it wasn't good however she is worth every ounce of pain.

I have been struggling alot tbh. Her feeding is so random and up until this morning she would NOT let me put her down so she has been sleeping with me too which the midwives have advised me against but if it's the only way Rosie and I get sleep then I don't know what else I can do.

Congrats to all the dreamers who have had their babies since Tuesday. Good luck to those in labour and sending big fat hugs to those who are waiting for labour to start.

 

[Mizze]

Hi hun can you update me please, gorgeous baby Eva arrived 9th december thanks x x

Congratulations Lolly!! Lovely name.

I feel like a shit bag

I can't keep up with what's going on with everyone on here anymore! I'm sorry xxxx These babies are sucking me dry at the moment! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sammi brought you up to speed I think!

Minch - really good you are getting lots of sleep! Am jealous.

Hi ladies
Hope you are all well and the babies are coming!!!
I can't seem to keep up with you lot either ! everytime I log on there is about 45 pages to read through LOL
So I am sorry if i miss big news etc... but I am thinking of you all

xxxxx

Hey hon, how are you feeling? How is Noah doing?

Hmmmmm - Very very icy road might not make it out today after all - buggerit! Sky looks FULL of snow but it isnt thankfully snowing.

Better night last night thank goodness. So I feel more human.

Just been chatting to my Mum - she didnt get her bloody show until she was in labour in fact she said she had no signs at all until she woke around 6am the morning I was born and thought - oooh -this is it.

She also said Me and the waters came out in one big whooosh. My sisters waters also went really late - in fact they broke her waters with her first and there was about a 10 minute delay between waters and baby with her second.

But them my Mum had the best labour ever she swears blind the pains were no worse than period pains and that she had no pain relief.... Hmmm not sure it that helps or not! Want a labour like that but expect it probably wasnt quite that easy......


Mizze x

 

[Tierney]

Congrats Butterfly she's gorgeous! x

 

[Mizze]

Hello December Dreamers

I am so so so sorry that I haven't been on before now. I had completely forgotten how demanding a newborn is!!!

I haven't read back so don't know whether you have been updated from my facebook page but I will try and upload a photo anyway!! View attachment 147758

Rosie Mae was born by elective section on 14th December. She is now 5 days old!! She was 6lb 9oz!!! I knew she was going to be small because she kept changing position in my belly all the time. Even though I had elected for c section - it was a majorily good decision because she actually came out breech!!! I will do a birth story but will warn you that it wasn't good however she is worth every ounce of pain.

I have been struggling alot tbh. Her feeding is so random and up until this morning she would NOT let me put her down so she has been sleeping with me too which the midwives have advised me against but if it's the only way Rosie and I get sleep then I don't know what else I can do.

Congrats to all the dreamers who have had their babies since Tuesday. Good luck to those in labour and sending big fat hugs to those who are waiting for labour to start.

Hey

Lovely to see you hon, and picture of Rosie - who is gorgeous. Sorry you are so exhausted - completely agree on the sleep- what else are you to do. How are you finding the feeding?

Mizze xx

 

[Nessicle]

Morning girls thanks for popping in and thinking of us all xx you're all doing great with your new bubs!!

Butterfly Rosie is gorgeous xx

I'm really struggling today I'm so tired I've had practically no sleep and Oh is being a total Pratt, I'm sat upstairs sobbing and he doesn't care I'm so quiet in the night when he's asleep o tiptoe around and he's like a bulk in a china shop when I come back to bed to try get some sleep. Then he's shouting and laughing getting the cat to jump around everywhere and I can hear everything. Then when I break down in tears and he asks me what's wrong and I tell him he walks away in a strop and tells me to get a grip. All I wanted was a few hours sleep he's so selfish sometimes / if I go into labour where the hell am I gonna get the energy from?!

The cat gets treated so much better

 

[mummyclo]

Rosie is so beautiful!! Gah i am so tired...i dont cope well with broken sleep it seems!
So much so ive started expressing as wll so oh can do a night feed!
I am like a feeding, pumping machine at the mo!
Hope your all ok! for those still waiting!

 

[WILSMUM]

Hello December Dreamers

I am so so so sorry that I haven't been on before now. I had completely forgotten how demanding a newborn is!!!

I haven't read back so don't know whether you have been updated from my facebook page but I will try and upload a photo anyway!! View attachment 147758

Rosie Mae was born by elective section on 14th December. She is now 5 days old!! She was 6lb 9oz!!! I knew she was going to be small because she kept changing position in my belly all the time. Even though I had elected for c section - it was a majorily good decision because she actually came out breech!!! I will do a birth story but will warn you that it wasn't good however she is worth every ounce of pain.

I have been struggling alot tbh. Her feeding is so random and up until this morning she would NOT let me put her down so she has been sleeping with me too which the midwives have advised me against but if it's the only way Rosie and I get sleep then I don't know what else I can do.

Congrats to all the dreamers who have had their babies since Tuesday. Good luck to those in labour and sending big fat hugs to those who are waiting for labour to start.

Hey hun good to c u - rosie is gorgeous!
as much as people seem to think a c-section is the easy option it really isn't - i didn't enjoy the experience tbh - my bp kept dropping due to the spinal which had me retchingm, feeling hot and faint, then ailsa got stuck so i had excessive pushing and pulling, and then i started bleeding excessively so had the whole team in super efficent mode trying to find and stop the bleed!!! and all that before u get to how much it hurts to move, cough, sneeze or blow yr nose for the next week or so!!!
and i know how u feel with the hole not being able to put her down thing my first was like that, thankfully he would sleep in his basket at night but during the day he was completely unsettled and i couldn't do anything but sit and hold him! one piece of advice i would give u is to get out to baby groups as much as u can - staring at the same 4 walls with a newborn that won't let u put them down is soul destroying!
if theres any advice or anything u want to talk about hun please just pm me and i promise she will settle, u will get into a routine and it will get easier

excuse the poor typing - i'm trying to do this one hande while feeding ailsa!!!

 

[sammiwry]

In short nat, me, ness, Jenny, Mizze, NImum and Googily are still here :/(

Dont forget me, I'm still here aswell, hopefully not for too long

Sorry



Well I slept ok from 10 til 3, went to the loo and when I got in bed had the most horrendous pain in my bikini area and struggled to get comfy so had bitty sleep until about 7 when Dh got me some painkillers. And then my mum text me at 9 to see if I was awake the pain has eased off now but having what I think are weak contractions

 

[mummyclo]

Awww Sammi, you should really try and take your mind off it. Is there anything you can do like watch a good film...so your not thinking about it the whole time?
It must be rubbish just waiting around for baby to come

 

[sammiwry]

Awww Sammi, you should really try and take your mind off it. Is there anything you can do like watch a good film...so your not thinking about it the whole time?
It must be rubbish just waiting around for baby to come

Im watching tv now but earlier I didn't want to leave bed incase anything happened

 

[Xaviersmom]

QUESTION FOR 2ND TIME MUMMYS

did ur afterpain feel like contractions? im so sore

Kirsty, are you nursing? For the first couple weeks after J was born, everytime I nursed and sometimes even just held her, my uterus contracted like mad! They say its the body going back to the way it was. DS was born almost 13 years ago, so I really don't remember the first time around.

 

[wishingforbub]

Oh butterfly what a cutie!
And I know what you mean about the section and noah is the same..hates to be put down to sleep, day or night... but I just do, but end up not getting enough sleep and at least once during the night, I let him sleep on my chest. Otherwise, I will never sleep LOL

xxxx

 

[Nessicle]

Sammi I hope things progress for you feeling really crampy myself and got stabbing pains in my cervix again probably won't turn in to anything though

 

[Xaviersmom]

Hello December Dreamers

I am so so so sorry that I haven't been on before now. I had completely forgotten how demanding a newborn is!!!

I haven't read back so don't know whether you have been updated from my facebook page but I will try and upload a photo anyway!! View attachment 147758

Rosie Mae was born by elective section on 14th December. She is now 5 days old!! She was 6lb 9oz!!! I knew she was going to be small because she kept changing position in my belly all the time. Even though I had elected for c section - it was a majorily good decision because she actually came out breech!!! I will do a birth story but will warn you that it wasn't good however she is worth every ounce of pain.

I have been struggling alot tbh. Her feeding is so random and up until this morning she would NOT let me put her down so she has been sleeping with me too which the midwives have advised me against but if it's the only way Rosie and I get sleep then I don't know what else I can do.

Congrats to all the dreamers who have had their babies since Tuesday. Good luck to those in labour and sending big fat hugs to those who are waiting for labour to start.

Butterfly J sleeps with me too for that same reason. We can steal an hour or two in the late evening, but during the night, she will have nothing but to either sleep between DH and I or with me on the sofa. Drs would have a fit, but they aren't teh ones not getting any sleep. I'm going to try to break her of it in a bit.. I just have to remind myself that she is technically ony a week old.

Rosie is so beautiful!! Gah i am so tired...i dont cope well with broken sleep it seems!
So much so ive started expressing as wll so oh can do a night feed!
I am like a feeding, pumping machine at the mo!
Hope your all ok! for those still waiting!

mommy moo cow! Me too! My supply of pumped milk in the freezer is dwindling so I had to start pumping again. and it feels like I have J latched on al day sometimes!

 

[sammiwry]

Sammi I hope things progress for you feeling really crampy myself and got stabbing pains in my cervix again probably won't turn in to anything though

Cheers hun, i don't think anything is likely to happen I reckon you'll go tonight though

 

[mummyclo]

Thanks Xaviersmom! I do feel like a cow most of the time! I should just walk around with my boobs out because it feels like they are out 90% of the time!
Need to pump again in 40 mins if he doesn't wake up!
Now i know how poor cows feel, being stuck to those pumps!

 

[Pixxie]

Congrats to the new mummies! Your babies are gorgeous

Lyra definitely has her day and night mixed up, she fussed and cried until 5am then went to sleep and slept until 10am Will have to stop this arrangement of OH staying up all night with her though, he's starting to get stressed with all the crying and informed me at 3am that 'She's just doing a fake cry now, I'm going to give her a dummy to get her to stop.' At this point I told him I would take care of it, if she is going to have a dummy it certainly wont be just to shut her up! So another day of cutting her naps short for me to try and get her back on track. We're going to my Nana's later for Sunday dinner but she's having a fit because I want to take Lyra out in the snow My aunt is going with me so it's not like I'll have to get there by myself, and we will probably get a taxi anyway, but Nana likes to fuss

Hope all you girls in the early stages progress a bit more soon! xxx

 

[KellyC75]

Congrats to everyone that has had thier baby...

& again, good luck to those waiting

 

[WILSMUM]

health professionals actually recommend for baby to have a dummy now to sleep apparently its opens their airways up and reduces the risk of SIDS. My HV told me that its just the action of them scucking it as they fall asleep that helps and its not like they have to keep it in the whole time they sleep so if it falls out within a few minutes of them going to sleep then it doesn't matter as its already done its job - iykwim!

For all of you that have trouble with baby having their days and nights mixed up do you have a bedtime routine for lo? Such as bath at a certain, change into Pjs, milk in a quiet (ish) darkened room and then straight into their bed?