Back again
I'm going to be sporadic with replies, my laptop is being cranky and likes to pick and choose when it works (more often than not it says nope), and I hate trying to navigate and reply via mobile on this site. It finally started working tonight so I'm hopping in again.
It's a long one so I'm just going to post my main question here, at the bottom will be my boring and long update that you can feel free to skip lol
Have any of you ladies who have had kiddos before tried the Nora tea? Or even just Red Raspberry leaf, instead of the Nora mix? I hear it's good for softening the cervix and making labor easier, not inducing but making it faster because it makes the cervix thin out and dilate easier. I'm thinking of trying it now that I'm further along, but I need to order it online since my local stores don't sell it, and I'm wondering if anyone has used it and has a suggestion or even just sharing whether or not it helped you. If it works I definitely want to do it, my labor with my daughter was awful, I was in active labor for almost 29 hours and it drained me so bad I could barely push at the end even after caving and getting the epidural at 26 hours so I could nap. So if tea can help shorten that time I'll try it so I don't have another horrible birth experience.
Literati - I'm definitely feeling the breathless too. Especially when lying down he pinches off that artery or shoves up into my lungs, but I can't lay on my sides well because of my ribs. But I'll get winded just doing a quick grocery shopping trip, and trick or treating was a bear to deal with too, I was lagging so far behind because I had to keep stopping to breathe and push him out of my lung area.
Red - I'm going with a woodland theme too, but more of a blue main color since my daughter had the green room with a forest theme, and the room is already blue from when it was my kiddos playroom, I just need to paint over the My Little Pony paintings I did on the walls. But I don't have my nursery set up at all yet because my brother in law hasn't moved out yet, hopefully he'll be out soon though.
Little update with me:
I am going to be 35 weeks on wednesday and part of me is super excited to be closer to my due date to finally be done with my rib issues but I'm also so not ready for him to be here yet. I had my baby shower last weekend, and about 30 people were invited and said they were coming...3 people showed up. 6 or so gave me prior heads up to say they couldn't make it after all and all the rest just no call-no showed. I didn't have a single family member show up, it was my boyfriends mom and aunt and my friend from school, besides them it was my kids (6 and 10), my little sister (9), and my mom and gma who threw the party. We still had a lot of fun, but it stung that my family couldn't even bother to show up or even just let me know they couldn't make it. We had limited space so we couldn't invite a lot of people, and if we'd have known they weren't going to come we'd have invited others who wanted to be there but couldn't. I'm set on supplies for the most part, so I'm not upset about that, it just stung that they weren't there to celebrate the baby, especially since I have lost 3 others and this is my rainbow and last baby. My mom and MIL were livid with all those who bailed out, and my dad posted a long rant on facebook scolding his side of the family, but my mom made him take it down so it didn't start any drama.
Otherwise I'm just going about life, I am hopefully going to have access to my nursery in the next week or two when my brother in law moves out, so far everything is in a pile in my living room, which looks obnoxious. But I have everything other than some clothes, diapers and small stuff like that, and my swing. I got my bassinet, bouncer, activity seat, yoga ball, and nursing pad from a thrift store, paid about $30 for all of that and it's all in amazing shape so it was a killer deal. I'm going to be going to thrift stores and the facebook marketplace a lot over the next few weeks to track down a swing and other small stuff we need, but I'm trying to hold off as much as I can until I have somewhere to actually put it.
No success on finding a house but our house is sold. Just wish the whole stress of it was over now. Unfortunately with Christmas there isn't much movement with houses at the movement. Just got to focus on the baby now...9 weeks to go! Have the consultant to discuss labour on 2nd December. Am still thinking of having a section but we shall see. Anyone packed their hospital bag yet? I've got my bag out ready and will start today!
