Welcome to the thread Jodie! Ask away about anything you want to know about having a home birth or water birth with your first - I did it, and it was brilliant, couldn’t do it any other way other than home now.
Nightkd! Great to see you here again - though I’m sure you never really left. ;-)
And welcome imagine13
Wow I’m so excited for all our new mums to be - it is great to have you here!
The post partum can be totally different for everyone hey? My experience, was that I had major muscle ache is places where I didn’t even know I had muscles! And the bleeding after was for about 12 days… then stoped, for just under 2 weeks, and then I had my normal period. (I was breast feeding, and I know lots of ladies don’t have periods for ages after, but my normal periods last about 3 days… and it was the same.)
I lost an estimated 150ml post birth. But this is something that I will always ponder??? I had a syntocine injection about an hour after, and I will never really know if it was effective or not, or if my uterus was already contracted down? Unanswerable. I will be refusing the injection this time, unless there is any signs of bleeding becoming a concern.. I only had it last time because the MW were getting twitchy about how long I was taking - and to be fair to them they thought there was a slim chance it might help get the placenta out and avoid me going in with a retained placenta. With hindsight, I now know this prob made little difference, as the separation blood any already been seen, and the cord had lengthened considerably, it was the squeezing it out which was taking its time = I should have taken baby to the breast sooner, rather than starring into her eyes for far to long… and then considering placenta delivery as something separate to me being with baby.
I won’t be doing that again! To the breast in 30min is my new moto!
It is great to see your notes again, can really make you see things - well worth the £10 to at least go and view them and take lots of paper and a pen - or fork out the upto £50 for your very own copies.
I hope that you don’t encounter problems getting notes copied at home - they are always the property of the NHS, even though they are in your possesion.. But you know what they say about posession and the law. The trick is, if they are actually in the hands of your MW, they don’t have a duty to give them to you for 30min while you scan or copy then in.. it could be negligent for them to do so - and esp to a third party.. Even if you say it is ok. I would hope your Mws would take a common sense approach, but their jobs are on the line for the mishandling of information relating to a patient EVEN if you ARE the patient. I’m sorry but I wouldn’t hold out hope for you or any person being able to copy your birth details at the time. Really hope you get further than this!
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