Its June!!!!! 20 week scan next month!!! Whos with me?

[kellie_w]

Wow so that's it, all our babies are safely here! Congratulations time, can't wait to see your update and birth story!

So do we have to move again?! X

 

[Scally]

Hey kellie! I will pm Wobbles about moving thread or might have to start another one? Be nice to start a new one and on the first page we could have when our babies were born and how much they weighed?

x

 

[kellie_w]

Ohhhh I like the idea of that, will be sad to see this thread go though!

Have you been to hearts delight with izzy to see Santa yet? My parents tried to go yesterday and said you couldn't park and the queue was right round the whole place!

Hello mummies, hope you and babies are all ok xxx

 

[Scally]

We went up to hearts delight this morning, didnt see Father christmas, the queue wasnt too bad this morning, it was about half an hour before he started and there was only a few people in it- thats madness that the queue was so big yesterday and no parking!

It will be sad to see this one go, its now 285 pages! thats crazy!!!!!

x

 

[ttc_lolly]

Hi ladies everything's going well here, not much to update really! Just about to take Millie to the weekend MW clinic for her 5 day check and weigh. Hope everyone's doing well and having a lovely weekend

Congrats time, saw your pic & update on FB and she's so beautiful x

 

[pops23]

I don't think I'm friends with time on fb, she had her baby? Xx

 

[pops23]

Ps had a rough night last night, first one at
Home and Flynn fed from 12.30-5 then wouldn't sleep in his crib so fell asleep on lees chest in bed, who then fell asleep which isn't ideal I know

He just wouldn't settle in his cot and now I'm exhausted, seriously need sleep catch up xx

 

[Inoue]

Time has had her baby?! Congrats hun!!

Pops, were REALLY suffering at night . Reimi is a night owl and stays awake and screams for hours on end. She kicked up at 10:30pm last night and it carried on till 4:30pm. I ended up with Reimi layed next to me in bed and we both fell asleep. When I woke up an hour later, I was mortified that I co-slept with her due to the dangers but I was so tired and shes only content if shes in mine or Marcs arms .

My boobs feel like canon balls although im still only getting colostrum from one and the other is mia due to the damage. The only relief is to put hot wet flannels on them, I can see me being full formula by the end if the week unless my main milk comes in very soon

Hope everyone elce is doing ok with your little newborns, I never thought it would be as demanding as this...

Xxx

 

[ttc_lolly]

Oooops I thought she'd posted in here already, sorry time! I hope she doesn't mind me blabbing, but I think baby arrived yesterday or possibly the day before. She's absolutely beautiful

Hopefully your babies will settle down a little more at night, but newborns do tend to be little night owls. Millie sleeps constantly all day and is more awake and alert at night. Try napping throughout the day to see you through the first few weeks. I got a 2hr nap in yesterday afternoon and last night wasn't half as bad as the night before. I got a lie in until 10.30 today too so I feel good now.

Just been for Millie's 5 day check and she's now 7lb 13oz so gained an oz since birth I'm very pleased with that. The MW was happy with everything else and saw us feed and signed that feeding was going well. She had her newborn heel prick spot tests and screamed throughout bless her have to go back on Saturday and then we'll be discharged from MW care and on to the HV's.

 

[Scally]

pops- Sounds like is having a growth spurt, they tend to do them day 2, 10 days and 3 weeks- we are in the middle of the 3 week one now. Poppy has nights like that too and i tend to bring her into bed now otherwise none of us get sleep x

inoue- dont worry about co-sleeping, honestly sometimes its the only way to get sleep, i do it with poppy but not dave as he isnt as aware of her and tends to move around alot. try to sleep in the day, it wont last too long. As for your boobs, they sound so painful, it does sound like your milk is coming in. The mia one have u tried pumping from it with shields? i did that with my right one when the nipple was shredded and bleeding and it kept the milk going until i could put Poppy back on it. It is so demanding, newborns are very hard, but just keep thinking its such a small phase it will pass xx

Lauryn- Thats fantastic about Millie having gained an oz since birth, well done u! awww bless her with the heel prick tests, poppy screamed for those!

x

 

[Sarahcake]

Massive congrats to time she is absolutely gorgeous! Looking forward to her post on here

I'm torn on what to do about the thread! 285 pages is crazy! Has got me through the latter half of my pregnancy tbh, would be a bit sad to see it go, however it would indeed be really nice to have the first post as info about our new babies! Still can't believe we're all sat here now with our little ones when we were all waiting for the 20 week scan when we first met!

Sorry to hear that your little ones are causing sleepless nights Logan is asleep pretty much all day, and was pretty bad to begin with at night but as the days have gone by he's gotten better at sleeping at night, and goes 4 hours between feeds now. Hopefully things get a easier for you very soon. In the meantime try and get naps during the day, even if its just half hour power naps you will feel more human for it.

Sounds like Millie is doing brilliantly!! The heel prick test broke my heart Logan screamed throughout! What am I gonna be like hen it's time for his jabs?! Lol weight gain is fantastic though, well done you, clearly doing something right eh x

 

[time]

Hello everybody!! Thanks so much for the lovely messages, so sorry it's taken so long to write anything on here I've been pretty delirious to be honest and wanted to update properly. Because I had the 2 nights of no sleep last week wed and Thurs and then went into labour fri I had no sleep until lastnight so it has been mad. So here's my labour story, sorry it's so long! I went to the midwifes fri am and she gave me a sweep, I was 2cm. I had no more show or pains etc after so I just went back to work. Then fri evening the contractions started again, 10 mins apart but by about 6pm they were 5 mins apart and so regular so I called labour and delivery.. They said if I was coping well at home to stay until they were more painful or 3/4 mins apart as I only live 3 mins away. I just sat bouncing on my ball and breathing through them and thought I'll stay here as long as I can but then it got to 10pm and they were no stronger and still 5 mins apart so I wanted to know how dilated I was etc.. So headed up. I was checked and was 2cm. I almost cried as I was 2cm that morning at midwifes, and had had hours of strong contractions. She did another sweep and sent me home (11.30pm) I got home and had another few hours of 5 min apart contractions that I presumed were still getting me nowhere, so got in the bath took some paracetamol and the second I got out I was hit by much worse pain. They were coming 3 mins apart lasting a minute so I got dressed and we headed straight back up to hospital. It was now about 4am, and there were record numbers of women in that night (10 babies were born when normally 4/5) so I was put in an examination room rather than a delivery one. There was noone free to bring me any pain relief/check me as they were so busy that I was just in there hours but my contractions were getting no stronger and because I was coping so well I didn't kick up a massive fuss. At 8.30 am the shift swap happened and my new midwife came to check on me.. My contractions were still 3 mins apart but no stronger but I was horrified when she said I was only 4cm still. I was terrified as if this was only 4 there was no way I could cope all the way to 10. Anyway to cut a long story short this is where things got mad.. While checking me she accidentally broke my waters.. And within 2 minutes (she was still in the room) I had an agonising twist in my back and the urge to push came from nowhere. I screamed out and said I need an epidural NOW, I think because I'd been so calm and quiet until then she was a bit worried so came over to look what was going on and screamed to my husband to pull the emergency buzzer.. The baby was coming now. Within 2 minutes of my water breaking I got to 10cm from 4 and baby had also turned back to back so I was in absolute agony and had had no pain relief yet bar 2 paracetamol! Loads of midwifes ran in and one dragged a portable gas and air machine (I was still in the examination room haha had not even been placed in a delivery suite) so after about 5 pushes with gas and air in between baby was born at 9.07 am on saturday. I had a very small tear which didn't need stitches as she put her hand up to her face on her way out! Baby wren isabelle weighed 7lb 7 and I am madly in love!!! Cannot believe she is finally here.. I would have been in for induction today! Although it was painful I feel so lucky that the birth was so easy and quick and that I'm recovering so well.

I came home sat night as rob didn't want to spend the night away from us, as well as there being Sooo many people in the hospital.

I am stingy and sore down there but drinking lots of water and having baths with tea tree oil is really helping. This may sound silly but as for bleeding, is there an amount that's not enough? I know sarah you said yours was really heavy well I have hardly any and it's not like blood red so I'm worried there may be something stuck etc if that makes sense?!

Just having a quick read through all your posts, so sad reading your birth story pops bless you that must have been awful and Sarah you poor thing with the catheter really hope it's sorted ASAP and you can start returning to normal. Logan is worth it all I know but it doesn't make it any easier to deal with.
Hope baby millie is okay lauryn she is so gorgeous!!
Will have to add you inoue and also pops on Facebook!

Sorry a few more quick q's.. Any advice on what will help when I have my first bowel movement (sorry guys!!) but the midwife mentioned it can be painful so don't want tonnes scared to go as I'm already sore. Also how long after birth did you head out and about? I feel housebound right now I'm so achey!

Moving the thread would be nice or starting again! How exciting

 

[ttc_lolly]

Wow time that's pretty impressive!! Well done you on handling it so well Millie was back to back too, but from very early on so i got chance to get an epi! I'm glad it all happened quickly for you so you didn't have to suffer too long. Wren is absolutely perfect, you should be very very proud!

As for bleeding, as long as it's not too heavy then that's absolutely fine. I only has around 1-2 days of ''heavy'' bleeding and it's barely there now. It should die down to a brownish/clear discharge colour too so sounds like you're doing just fine

I have only been for 1 BM since last tuesday but I got some lactulose from my doctors to help soften things up taking some more regularly now to try get myself to go a bit more. Maybe ask your MW or GP for some? If not, eat lots of fibre and drink prune juice.

You can start taking her out straight away it's up to you. We went for a little walk to test out our double buggy on our first proper day home, have been food shopping and also had to go out to the clinic at hospital too so that's 3 trips altogether. Might go out a bit more this week too x

 

[time]

Aww thanks lauryn, really put my mind at ease.
I have some dulcoease or something which is meant to help so may take one of those and just keep up the water intake to try help.

And I may venture out in a couple more days I want to test the pram out!! Feeling much better already and they do say walking is really good for recovering quicker.

 

[Sarahcake]

Omg time! I can't believe how fast that all happened! So glad it was fast though, especially as you were doing it all on paracetamol! Your amazing, well done you

As go the bleeding, i don't know if there is such s think as too little, I think the less you have the betterin the eyes of the midwives and drs but you should be seeing the midwife a few times over the coming days/ weeks so if you get worried then defo ask

I didn't manage to go for a no 2 till about 4 days after, it was uncomfortable but not painful and that's with stitches so hopefully you should be ok once you manage to go. If the Dulcoease doesn't work, defo go see about lactulose - that stuff is fair potent!

Congrats again chick, she is beautiful x

 

[Scally]

Congratulations Time- glad it was a quick one for you, and no stitches!

I know mine is a different situation because of c section but i have had very light bleeding since getting out of hospital, still have it but its hardly anything. As for BM ouchy! I went a few days after and it was not pleasant but has got easier each time.
Same with going out and about, our first trip out was day 5, and it almost killed me, but each trip out has been easier, and now i get cabin fever if i stay in! (mind you thats because my 3 year old starts climbing the walls if she doesnt go out!)

Hey Sarah and Lauryn!

The HV came today and Poppy has put on 7oz this week- she finally made up her birth weight and an extra 6oz! woohoo! She now weighs 7lb 8oz. She definitely looks like she's filled out!

x

 

[kellie_w]

Wow time, your birth was amazing! Huge congratulations, especially doing a back to back labour on just gas and air. Wren is such a lovely name, very unusual and pretty! I'm so glad things went so well for you, especially after waiting so long! Your bleeding sounds normal to me, mine completely stopped by 10 days, I only had a few days of red blood before it went brownish. Definitely go for some kind of laxative, whatever you do dont get constipated! Also, it can help if you just fold a wad of tissue and hold against you when you go, that helped ease the pain for me when I first went.

Has anyone thought about contraception yet? I'm so nervous about getting pregnant again, cant get in to my doctors for 3 weeks so being very very careful but not sure what to go for this time. Pretty much set on no more children so thinking depo again but not sure!

May be a bit tmi, but I really need some advice. I found a lump last night on like the inside lip of 'down there' it's black, raised and the size of a mole. A quick Google scared the life out of me as cancer was the first thing that came up but then I saw about how you can get blood blisters if you have a fast labour. Has anyone else heard of this?

Hope you are all ok, lots of love to all babies!! X

 

[kellie_w]

Wow time, your birth was amazing! Huge congratulations, especially doing a back to back labour on just gas and air. Wren is such a lovely name, very unusual and pretty! I'm so glad things went so well for you, especially after waiting so long! Your bleeding sounds normal to me, mine completely stopped by 10 days, I only had a few days of red blood before it went brownish. Definitely go for some kind of laxative, whatever you do dont get constipated! Also, it can help if you just fold a wad of tissue and hold against you when you go, that helped ease the pain for me when I first went.

Has anyone thought about contraception yet? I'm so nervous about getting pregnant again, cant get in to my doctors for 3 weeks so being very very careful but not sure what to go for this time. Pretty much set on no more children so thinking depo again but not sure!

May be a bit tmi, but I really need some advice. I found a lump last night on like the inside lip of 'down there' it's black, raised and the size of a mole. A quick Google scared the life out of me as cancer was the first thing that came up but then I saw about how you can get blood blisters if you have a fast labour. Has anyone else heard of this?

Hope you are all ok, lots of love to all babies!! X

 

[pops23]

Ladies sorry I have been Mia, the days just seem to be flying by and I'm so exhausted as Flynn doesn't like to sleep at night! I'm exhausted, hoping things will get better in terms of night time feeding and sleeping

Time wow well done you! Add me on fb tori Rubin, need to see pics!

Xxx

 

[Scally]

pops- i hope things get a little easier for u soon xx

kellie- not sure about your lump, i'd say go and check it out with your doc, but u cant get in for 3 weeks! how mad is that?! Contraception for us at the moment is a 3 year old and newborn baby! haha! I think i am going to go back on the pill again, mind u i cant do the combination pill breastfeeding so will do the mini one- definitely do not want anymore children!

x