***January Jellybeans***~ 35 BABY GIRLS & 23 BABY BOYS BORN ~***

[snowy-willow]

Snowy dont listen to the horror stories its a beautiful experience xx

It seems horror stories are the only ones people want to tell me about - what happened to nice stories of easy painfree births!!!!

 

[Jolene]

lol Snowy. Childbirth is an amazing experience but what stories are out there about easy painfree births???? I suppose if you have natural with an epidural, sometimes, perhaps.....

 

[LittleMrs]

Snowy, I've been chatting to loadsa mums recently and nearly half of them appear to have had no pain relief at all. The horror stories always seem to be 'a friend of a friend' of someone who has never had children. The thing I hear most often is it's not great 'but it's not as bad as you think it will be' which is good enough for me. I'm opting to go pain-relief free at the moment and, after the initial hippy comments, people have been really supportive.

Smiffy, we've got a bath tub which is actually the shape of a bucket so not really anywhere for the baby to slip to - I watched an online demo video of it and read some reviews and stuff - apparently it's a very good shape of tub for releasing trapped wind (nice way of saying it, I thought). It's called a Prince Lionheart Bathpod. Pretty snazzy.

 

[smiffy85]

Thanks for all the giggles at me girlies! It just seems like there is so much to learn! Gosh I'm starving.....xxx

 

[mum2be2011]

woohoo 27 weeks today, finally in 3rd Trimester.

Hope all you lovely ladies are ok.

Smiffy - It seems like there is loads to learn at the moment but once you have baby in your arms you will know what to do. If you get me, it seems to just happen from no where. Before you leave hospital ask a midwife to show you how to bath your baby, how to feed etc if you need help. That is what they are there for and the majority of them are more than happy to give a hand and show you.

snowy - As JMS said dont listen to the scary horror birth stories. Every woman is different, and alot of the stories you here are over-exagerated. I cant remember anything about the pain although I know I had pain. All I can remember about the birth is what a lovely experience it is bringing a little person into the world, and the feeling of warmth and joy when you look down and there is a little baby looking straight back at you.

 

[Jolene]

Congrats Mum2Be

 

[playgirl666]

hi im on the list im due on the 23rd of jan thought i would update u all im havin a lil boy this time

 

[Faff&Fidget]

Congrats Mum2be!!

LittleMrs, I have seen those bathpods! They look great! Although it did have me in stitches looking at the pictures..

Snowy, try not to listen to the horror stories. I was my sisters birth partner for her second baby, well I was chief back rubber and brow mopper. It was the most amazing experience. I cried so much! Read the positive stories. Keep talking to the amazing ladies on here. We are all here to support eachother

I was just looking at the first page of this thread. There are a few days where the beans are predominantly one colour! Particularly the 11th and 12th! There's going to be alot of pink balloons and cards sent on those days!

x x

 

[mum2be2011]

congrats to you too faff&fidget for yesterday . There are so many of you due the day before me.

 

[jms895]

woohoo 27 weeks today, finally in 3rd Trimester.

Hope all you lovely ladies are ok.

Smiffy - It seems like there is loads to learn at the moment but once you have baby in your arms you will know what to do. If you get me, it seems to just happen from no where. Before you leave hospital ask a midwife to show you how to bath your baby, how to feed etc if you need help. That is what they are there for and the majority of them are more than happy to give a hand and show you.

snowy - As JMS said dont listen to the scary horror birth stories. Every woman is different, and alot of the stories you here are over-exagerated. I cant remember anything about the pain although I know I had pain. All I can remember about the birth is what a lovely experience it is bringing a little person into the world, and the feeling of warmth and joy when you look down and there is a little baby looking straight back at you.

I agree with this! I know it hurt but you literally forget the pain straight away and its a weird positive pain! Believe me screaming and getting into a state would do nothing for you and keeping calm will make it happen faster x

 

[jms895]

Snowy, I've been chatting to loadsa mums recently and nearly half of them appear to have had no pain relief at all. The horror stories always seem to be 'a friend of a friend' of someone who has never had children. The thing I hear most often is it's not great 'but it's not as bad as you think it will be' which is good enough for me. I'm opting to go pain-relief free at the moment and, after the initial hippy comments, people have been really supportive.

Smiffy, we've got a bath tub which is actually the shape of a bucket so not really anywhere for the baby to slip to - I watched an online demo video of it and read some reviews and stuff - apparently it's a very good shape of tub for releasing trapped wind (nice way of saying it, I thought). It's called a Prince Lionheart Bathpod. Pretty snazzy.

LittleMrs - good approach, I was the same. Yep it hurts but your not gonna die and you will have a gorgeous baby at the end of it, its good pain!

 

[mum2be2011]

Snowy, I've been chatting to loadsa mums recently and nearly half of them appear to have had no pain relief at all. The horror stories always seem to be 'a friend of a friend' of someone who has never had children. The thing I hear most often is it's not great 'but it's not as bad as you think it will be' which is good enough for me. I'm opting to go pain-relief free at the moment and, after the initial hippy comments, people have been really supportive.

Smiffy, we've got a bath tub which is actually the shape of a bucket so not really anywhere for the baby to slip to - I watched an online demo video of it and read some reviews and stuff - apparently it's a very good shape of tub for releasing trapped wind (nice way of saying it, I thought). It's called a Prince Lionheart Bathpod. Pretty snazzy.

LittleMrs - good approach, I was the same. Yep it hurts but your not gonna die and you will have a gorgeous baby at the end of it, its good pain!

Couldnt have put it any better myself JMS. Once you have baby in your arms, everything you went through just disappears. Your right it hurts, but one thing i kept telling myself was 1 contraction down, 1 more closer to meeting my baby. If you are in pain then dont be afraid to ask for pain relief. I only had entonox once i got past 6cm. Giving birth is an amazing experience, after I gave birth I turned round and told the midwife I couldnt see what the fuss was about and i do it all again tomorrow. Midwife did point out its probably best i dont repeat that to another mum as they might kill me.

me and OH still laugh about it now, I am adamant I wasnt in pain. But he tells me otherwise.

 

[jms895]

me too! I know it hurt at the time but seem to forget

I stayed at home till 6/7 cms dilated too and then gas and air is fab, tho OH kept stealing it off me

I am just dreading a quick labour this time as last time was 12 hours from waters dripping to baby out! I went from 4cm to 10cm in a couple of hours

 

[mum2be2011]

My labour was very quick 5 hours from waters going to baby being delivered. I caused an argument in the delivery room between the midwife and dr. Will never forget it, the midwife was adamant that the dr examine me as she could see i was ready to push and the dr turned round and said I only checked her 30 minutes ago and she was 6-7cm. She gave in and checked me and I was fully dilated and ready to push. 3 pushes later and my daughter bounced down the bed. Thank god I had a good midwife that listened to me.

 

[jojo-m]

Sounds like you ladies had some good experiences, I had morphine in labour which turns out I'm sensitive to and literally vomited every 3 minutes for hours, I was exhausted by the time pushing came and took 1 hour 45 mins to push him out. Opting for water birth this time no morphine!!!!!!! Saying that the labour part was ok, not half as bad as I expected, all pretty text book, whole thing was 20 hours from first contraction but only hurt for 7. Oh and baby was coming out withs waters on his head like an astranaut which probably didn't help. No one realised not all waters had gone lol x

 

[lauren-kate]

me too! I know it hurt at the time but seem to forget

I stayed at home till 6/7 cms dilated too and then gas and air is fab, tho OH kept stealing it off me

I am just dreading a quick labour this time as last time was 12 hours from waters dripping to baby out! I went from 4cm to 10cm in a couple of hours

That's one reason I want to have my baby at home this time around. I only went into hospital when my waters broke and I was 9cm dilated! If my waters hadn't broken, I'd probably not have gone in at all. By the time I was there, I was only allowed to have gas and air for a short time (and it wasn't THAT bad). My waters broke at 6pm, and I'd had him at 8.37pm.

 

[lovealittle1]

Thanks for sharing the birth stories ladies and for the positive reinforcement.

What I am going to keep remembering in labour is that it is pain with a purpose and once you are done a contraction you never have to do that one again!

 

[LittleMrs]

Yeah, I agree with you all - good pain. At least, that's what I've read. I'm almost looking forward to it, to be honest, although I'm having trouble seeing me with a baby. So there's a new problem - I'm not too worried about labour - every pregnant lady does it (although some have told me they were sick during labour and I don't relish that thought), but I can't imagine after that. Actually having the baby there - I'm a bit scared I won't feel what I should do. Am I being nuts?

JMS - you may have a valid concern, when my mum had me I think her labour was about 12 hrs. With my sisters they were much much shorter - less than half again each time. Less labour before baby though, which can only be a good thing, right?

 

[millward329]

I know what you mean Little Mrs and don't think you're nuts. I can't imagine actually having the baby in my arms because it's just bump at the moment. I guess the labour prepares you though because you know it is going to come out.

 

[LittleMrs]

You've got a fair point Milward - guess once you're in labour you're pretty certain what's happening. I just can't visualise having a baby - not in the giving birth sense, in the being a mum sense.