January Jellybeans 2013!...

[mommyof2peas]

Joshua James Gibson was born at 1:50am on 12/01/13 weighing 8lb 4oz (very good weight for a tiny baby).
Very fast 2 hour labour ending in a lovely water birth. I've posted a photo on the Facebook group if anyone would like to put it on here for me).

Quick story - went into hospital at 11pm last night with contractions 5 mins apart, soon as got to hospital they were 2mins apart. Got checked and was 3cm so they wanted me to go home (this was at midnight). Told them I would like to stay as pains were getting intense.
Stayed on assessment ward and contractions came one after the other with no break, asked if I could have some gas and air.
Got gas and air and told me they would take me to delivery ward once they had a bed.
I got urge to push and when they checked me I had gone from 3cm-9cm in an hour.
Rushed me round to delivery and I went straight into bath and started pushing.

So a very fast, painful labour but water birth was great, no tears or grazes.

The handsome little man!!

 

[mommyof2peas]

Gosh is that 3 in 24 hours?? Am I the only one left waiting?

 

[darkstar]

Gosh is that 3 in 24 hours?? Am I the only one left waiting?

Nope still here, still pregnant

 

[ARuppe716]

Congrats!! And sounds like it all went well!

Still waiting for Melly and Kaiecee... Hope they're both doing ok!

 

[snowangel187]

Hey ladies. Sorry I haven't been on to update. baby is great 17days old today. Things are hectic at my house. I'm waiting for my inlaws to leave. Which they'll be leaving Sunday morning. It's 2:30am and baby just finished eating so I'm going to put her back to bed and go to sleep myself, but I promise to catch up and give a "real" update by the beginning of the week.

Congrats to all you ladies and you're cute bundles.

 

[River12]

Congrats to the new mums.
Still waiting here too

 

[Leinzlove]

Yay Ladies! Congrats to all the Mom's born beautiful babies...

AFM: I'm still pregnant here... For 2 more days anyways! I will be updating FB and my journal. Induction scheduled for 4pm Monday. (I'm supposed to arrive at 315pm.) Eastern Time Zone US.

I hope everyone else isn't kept waiting to long! We'll all be holding our LO's soon. I cry just thinking about it... We've come so far from April/May.

 

[MsJMouse]

Congrats to all new mums.
Still pregnant here - two weeks tomorrow till due date. Very much over the heat here and hoping bub makes an appearance soon.

 

[DittyByrd]

It is 4am and my baby is nursing. Violet gave mommy 3 hrs of uninterrupted sleep tonight! It doesn't sound like much, but a block that long feels so good! Here's hoping I can get another block of sleep after her feed.

 

[BlossomJ]

Yey for all the new babies!

I wonder whether Melly is getting her section right now or whether they have delayed it?

 

[BlossomJ]

It is 4am and my baby is nursing. Violet gave mommy 3 hrs of uninterrupted sleep tonight! It doesn't sound like much, but a block that long feels so good! Here's hoping I can get another block of sleep after her feed.

I think that must be how long it takes to go through a whole sleep cycle & get some real deep sleep. Fingers crossed you get another good block!

 

[NellandZack]

Gosh is that 3 in 24 hours?? Am I the only one left waiting?

Still pregnant here

 

[ARuppe716]

Hooray for another fb announcement!! so many babies in the last 24 hours!

Also- have we heard from mammaspath?

 

[AJThomas]

4 beans overnight, all blue!!

 

[DittyByrd]

It is 4am and my baby is nursing. Violet gave mommy 3 hrs of uninterrupted sleep tonight! It doesn't sound like much, but a block that long feels so good! Here's hoping I can get another block of sleep after her feed.

I think that must be how long it takes to go through a whole sleep cycle & get some real deep sleep. Fingers crossed you get another good block!

Got about 2.5 more on top of the nap I took before bed. Feelin' good today!!!

 

[DittyByrd]

All blue beans? Violet's going to have lots of boyfriends!!!!

 

[mellywelly]

Hi everyone, well after 18 hours of contraction 3-5 mins apart, I only managed to dilate 2 cm! So they did the section as planned and we got anther boy! Born at 10.17 this morning, weight was 8lb 11.5!!!!!! He won't latch on yet, but still persevering! And he's cute as hell !!!!!!!!

https://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn282/mellaandpaul/image_zpse6a4cc13.jpg

Jake Franklin Mann

 

[DittyByrd]

Hi everyone, well after 18 hours of contraction 3-5 mins apart, I only managed to dilate 2 cm! So they did the section as planned and we got anther boy! Born at 10.17 this morning, weight was 8lb 11.5!!!!!! He won't latch on yet, but still persevering! And he's cute as hell !!!!!!!!

https://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn282/mellaandpaul/image_zpse6a4cc13.jpg

Jake Franklin Mann

Congratulations! Holy cuteness!

 

[Lilahbear]

Congratulations Melly. What a handsome wee man! x

 

[sassy_mom]

Congrats Melly!! He sure is a cutie!

Snow - glad to hear from you. I was wondering what was going on with you.

I am so frustrated right now. I didn't get to go to bed until 7 ... THIS MORNING! Don't get me wrong, I am very real about no sleep when the baby comes but something I ate has upset her stomach so she is constantly squirting out something that I need to change. I feel so bad for her because her tiny little bottom is so raw. To make things worse, she is refusing the breast. I don't know what triggered it but she will latch on and then pull off and fuss and cry and then latch back on and do this over and over. At 5 am I finally had to give her a bottle because she was so frustrated she wasn't even trying to latch, just scream. I just had to give her another bottle of formula from the hospital because of the same problem. My right breast had leaked so much, the entire front of my shirt was soaked to the point I could actually wring out some of the milk. When I put my nipple in her mouth, it was spilling out so I have no idea why she wouldn't take it. She is sleeping soundly now but I'm about at tears. Also, since I only went to bed at 7, my poor oldest daughter got up at 8:30 and I got up and went to feed Chloe, then I fell asleep in the chair with her. Lexi (oldest) didn't get breakfast. I woke up at 11:30 trying to figure out what the heck happened. Now she is refusing to eat lunch. I feel like I am failing at taking care of both of them. I know I've said this to others that formula is fine but I still have that same feeling when bf'ing starts failing when it was working just fine. To make matters worse, my feet have continued to swell. It feels like I can hardly walk on them. My bleeding has also seemed to pick back up. I'm not sure why. It was almost gone when I was in the hospital and now it is back with a vengeance.

Do any of you have any suggestions about ... all of this??? The refusing to nurse, the swelling and the bleeding. I think I may go have myself a cry.