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

[Nessicle]

Ava's feet feel so sharp! Wonder if it's her toenails she's scraping down my uterus?!

 

[Pixxie]

Lyra has just gone down in her cot with no problems touch wood she stays there! Brew, bickies and off to bed for me

I think Lyra is small for her weight too, all her newborn stuff is too big and she was 8lb 5.5 xxx

 

[Nessicle]

Aw all the chat is about babies now and I can't join in just want my baby now

 

[Pixxie]

Aw all the chat is about babies now and I can't join in just want my baby now

You will soon! In a few days all the aches and pains will be forgotten and you will have your little princess xxx

 

[vicky84]

Also forgot to write baby is only 2lbs 7oz, but they hope he/she will put on alot more before being born, so im kinda hoping i go over my EDD now so baby has as much time inside me to put more weight on, ino its only 3 more days inside but its still something.

Those scans are not acurate at all, they said Niamh was 5lb8 at 33 weeks yet was born at 8lb 2 weeks later. There is no way she put on 3lb in 2 weeks so she was more than likely 7lb.

not read proper but u sure it werent 2.7kg? thats more norm

 

[Nessicle]

Thanks Pixxie I hope so

Xx

 

[hopefully2]

Hey girls
I haven't been posting but have been reading while feeding my little angel which seems to be a lot at the moment!! Tell me dome of our other mummies have razor blade nipples when feeding??? Oooooooh so sore but it's getting better as I work on perfecting the latch!
I'm on my way back to catch up now so hoping to read of a few more labour pains happening. Keep holding in there girls, the waiting ISA distant memory when you are snuggling your baby and I was thirteen days overdue after being told to expect to deliver around twenty eight weeks!!
Ok Juliette is mooching for a feed so off I go!!!

 

[Nessicle]

Hi Denise lovely to hear from you! Glad Juliette is doing well I'm sure some of the other girls have experienced the same with their nipples hope they get better!

Xx

 

[hopefully2]

Hey ness
I am checking all the time to see if your little lady is here. I hope it's so soon for you x

 

[Xaviersmom]

Hey girls
I haven't been posting but have been reading while feeding my little angel which seems to be a lot at the moment!! Tell me dome of our other mummies have razor blade nipples when feeding??? Oooooooh so sore but it's getting better as I work on perfecting the latch!
I'm on my way back to catch up now so hoping to read of a few more labour pains happening. Keep holding in there girls, the waiting ISA distant memory when you are snuggling your baby and I was thirteen days overdue after being told to expect to deliver around twenty eight weeks!!
Ok Juliette is mooching for a feed so off I go!!!

I must have missed that you named you LO Juliette! Awesome!

When I am chillin at home, I keep a pair of nipple SHELLS on with lanolin cream on my nipples. It helps them get some air while still being corralled in a bra. My boobs are too big to go braless.

It's going to be a long night at this rate.. J has been attached to me for going on 3 hours now.. TG I can multitask.

 

[Mincholada]

i'm a bloody yoyo... bounce bounce bounce on the ball... and it doesn't do a thing. at night i at least have a somewhat round bump and then when i wake up in the morning it's all back to flat-ish again.

can you believe that in my bored mind, i even invited FOB around the house tonight!? i mean we gotta start the talking some day, right!? well, an hour later i got the response that he was just sitting down for dinner... okay... chance gone!

good luck with your sweeps again, girls!!! another day gone and closer to LO... gonna return my xmas outfit for her tomorrow. i won't need it or it'll be way to big if she decides to still make it in time, so i might as well save the money. i have another cute seasonal outfit that is just referring to snow, so she'll be able to wear that, even if born on new years....

starting to feel bad for my parents. they're only here two more days, but what's not in my hands, is not in my hands. nothing i can do!

i think i'm gonna call it an early night tonight before i get more sentimental, so good night to all you ladies and babies on the outside and inside

 

[nikki-lou25]

Aw I hope your baby comes soon! Too bad FOB missed his chance!

Kerrie - if you get chance hun could ya please pit Alexanders name on the front page?

Ness & Sammi good luck with the sweeps! Failin that go dance nekkid under the full moon lol

 

[Nessicle]

Ha ha Nikki I'm so gonna do that tonight after my sweep! Had to get up again feel a bit achey and my cervix hurts again....dreading the sweep but what's 30 secs discomfort if it means Ava gets evicted lol!

Minch the bouncing is good to bring LO down further and great for backache! Also good for early labour but don't think it brings on labour. Don't feel bad for your parents it's not like you planned to go overdue hun xx

 

[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!!!

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?

Butterfly and Willsmum you photos are gorgeous

I really wasnt prepared for a C Section or how I would feel afterwards, as it hadnt occured to me that I might end up having one!!!! The pain from the stitches, the pain from the wind (TMI I know!!!) and the fact that I was stuck in the house as I couldnt drive was really weird............ but luckily I had agreed that my MIL would visit every day so that I could get some sleep or a shower - and the midwife/insurance company have said that I can drive now, but its snowing really hard now!!!!

I give LO a dummy to go to sleep with and once she is asleep she no longer wants it - she doesnt have it any other time either. As far as sleeping goes, I am trying to keep her on a 4 hour feed routine..... which works most of the time (especially at night) - but if DH had his way he would feed everytime she wakes and has a little cry

We keep the light off in the hall, and put the dimmer on in the bedroom opposite so that its fairly dark in our room

i know what u mean about not being prepared for a section, I was exactly the same as you with DS and as it was done under a general I think that made matter worse for me, all of that was a contributing factor to me wanting and having an elective this time, just so I could guarantee being awake and having some degree of control over the situation!!

And I know what you mean abotu being stuck in - when I got home with Ailsa the next day was when we had the first cold snowy snap so DH wouldn't let me out for fear of me slipping and hurting myself so I was stuck in for 10 days!!!!!

We do the same with Ailsa but being 4 weeks now shes settled into more of her own routine! She goes 4 hr between feeds for the first (sometimes 2) feed of the day then goes 3 hrs between feed for the afternoon and evening feeds and then will go 6ish hours over night! Shes meant to be having a feed now but has taken 2 oz and now zonked out! Gonna change her bum to wake her up a bit!!!

Im not sure, she hasent been weighed since she was 3 weeks old and isent due to be weighed again untill the 4th. They have changed it from weighing them every 2 weeks to every 4

Lozzy do you have bathroom scales? If you do weigh yrself then weigh yrself holding Niamh, that way it'll give you an idea of her weight until the HV weighs her - Ailsa isn't due to be weighed till 6th now but I got on the bathroom scales with her yesterday and shes around 7lbs now.

 

[Nessicle]

OMG im having excruciating cervix pain again I feel like screaming and swearing at the top of my voice but whimpering like a baby cos ofthe pain!! Why does this keep happening to me?! Oouucchh! Did/does no one else get this?

 

[bambikate]

Oh my goodness. Thunder lightning sleet and black ice today what's going on??? Got sweep booked tomorrow at 10:15am I will be 40+5 wish me luck please girls I soooo want my baby now

Ouch ness sorry about your cervix pain hope it's a good sign maybe you're effacing? Xx

 

[Nessicle]

Good luck Hun I've got my sweep today but dreading it cos of how sore I am in my cervix it's babys head grinding on my cervix causing the pain it's agonising been going on for over an hour and painkillers don't do anything for it

 

[bambikate]

Good luck Hun I've got my sweep today but dreading it cos of how sore I am in my cervix it's babys head grinding on my cervix causing the pain it's agonising been going on for over an hour and painkillers don't do anything for it

Good luck too Hun. Oh my gosh sounds horrible. Hopefully a few seconds of pain will get things moving for you and will stop the pain when you start dilating xx

 

[Pixxie]

Ness it sounds like you could be dilating?

Lyra had much better night last night. We had a bath together then dressed her, fed her in the darkened nursery, put her down at 11.30pm and she went straight to sleep. She only woke once for a feed at 3.30am and then we got up when she woke for her feed at 6am.

Midwife is coming again today to check on us because on the Friday and Sunday visits Lyra was a little jaundiced. I think she looks a little better today though. Once she has been I'm going to take her out in the pram for the first time to get some shopping xxx

 

[WILSMUM]

Ness it sounds like you could be dilating?

Lyra had much better night last night. We had a bath together then dressed her, fed her in the darkened nursery, put her down at 11.30pm and she went straight to sleep. She only woke once for a feed at 3.30am and then we got up when she woke for her feed at 6am.

Midwife is coming again today to check on us because on the Friday and Sunday visits Lyra was a little jaundiced. I think she looks a little better today though. Once she has been I'm going to take her out in the pram for the first time to get some shopping xxx

sounds like shes doing really well - won't b long before shes having that feed at 11:30 and then going 6 hrs through the night which is pretty much what Ailsa is doing now.