July/August (Summer Sunbeams) 2012!

[TTCinBC]

Thats great news about his weight DHime! He wont be long now! When does he get to go home?

Its amazing what out bodys know to do. Protecting baby before he/she can get sick.
Was there anything that could have been done to keep baby in longer had it been caught?

 

[DHime]

Tey could have put me on antibiotics. That would have fixed it right up. No set date but we are hoping for late this month

 

[BrittasticTX]

Congratulation to all of the new mommies and beautiful babies! And Dhime, I'm so happy every time I read that your little man is growing and gaining weight

We are moved into the new house, though far from settled! Put the crib together last night, I am taking my finals today, everything on my "I hope I get this done before baby comes!" list is checked off, just waiting for his arrival! Every day I have some new symptom that makes me think labor is just hours away, and every day I'm wrong! My doctor had me convinced that baby was coming at 38 weeks, now here I am 8 days later still waiting! The good news is only 2 more 12 hours shifts at work before I am officially on maternity leave. I feel like I wouldn't mind staying pregnant for another 2 weeks, as long as I don't have to work anymore

 

[Cingraa]

Just a super quick update, Sprout is here and she is absolutely amazing, 8 days old already! Full story to follow, can't wait to hear everybody's updates and give the details of my amazing miracle's arrival. So, so happy at the moment, hope all of you ladies and bubbakins are well! Xxx

 

[puppycat]

Congrats Cingra!!

I'm still pregnant

 

[apple_20]

Congrats cingra x

Britt wow you've been busy, hope you've nothing planned for after baby is here as there is no time for anything really!

 

[CarliCareBear]

congrats cingra and a huge congrats to all you new momma's out there and those of you reaching your due dates. I ended up having my LO on July 28th by c section, she weighed 6lbs 11oz and was 19 1/2 inches long.

my pregnancy was awful but she is absolutely perfect and so so worth it.
wanted to say a big thanks to everyone who supported me through all of this, you girls are amazing and i couldn't have done it without you!

 

[apple_20]

wow carli sooo cute. congrats on your little girl. I'm loving seeing all these avatars turning into baby pictures!

 

[jmandrews]

I am finally on a computer and not my phone! so here is a little about my labor/delivery. As you all know I was itching all over and it was miserable. There was no visible rash. My Dr. had me come in to have bloods done to see if I had the liver disorder (cany't remember what its called) My cousin had it so I thought I might. Any way I had that done on Thursday July 19th in the morning. The itching was still horrible and later that afternoon i talk to the nurse of my Dr. She gave me the option of going ahead and having and induction or waiting for the results of my blood test. If I chose to wait and the blood test came back negative then I would have had to wait until my appt the following Tuesday to figure out what to do. Instead of waiting and being miserable I went ahead with the induction. She told me to come in at 6pm that night to start the induction. I was running around like crazy trying to gather everything to go to the hospital. Once we arrived they started me on cervidill (a tiny little looking pill that is placed near the cervix to start softening it. They would give me that every 4 hours until 6am when they would start pitocin. After they place the cervidill twice my contraction were getting stronger and closer together. I was in a lot of pain. I wanted to get some sleep but i didn't want the epidural yet. They gave me morphine first. I am normally very sensitive to medicines so I thought I would fall right to sleep. It didn't take any pain away. So then they gave me a sleeping pill. Again nothing worked. At about 2 am I couldn't take the pain anymore. I had been clinching the arm of the bed for a few hours. Finally I asked for the epidural. Once it was placed I fell right to sleep. At one point in the night I had several nurses come into my room. They told me baby's HR had dropped and so they stopped giving me cervidill and put oxygen on me for the rest of the night. I was so drugged and exhausted I didn't really understand what was going on. Eventually the nurse came in and removed the oxygen mask. By 6am I was up and wide awake and feeling good. They started pitocin. I hadn't dilated at all through the night. I was still at 2 to 3cm. At 8am my Dr. came in and broke my water. By 10am I was dilated to 5 or 6cm. My DH called our family to let them know to start heading to the hospital. By 11:45 my family arrived. My Dr. was going to come in at 12pm to check me. She had let my nurse know she was running a few min behind. Around this time I told my nurse I was feeling pressure like I had to go poop. She told me she would go ahead and check me before my Dr. came. She checked me and to my surprise she told me I was at 10! I immediately started crying. I was so excited I couldn't control my emotions. She then called my DH over to see the head. I was like you can see the head! haha First thing I asked was if she had hair and my DH said Yes! My family came in to see us before I started pushing. I started crying again... haha I was a mess. My Dr. came in and had me do a few practice pushes to see how I would do. My DH held one leg and my twin sister held the other. My Dr. told me to stop pushing because she was right there and they had to set up for delivery. I could hardly keep myself from pushing. Once all set up I began pushing. After pushing for only 17 min. Everlee Rowe was born at July 20th at 1:02pm, 7lbs 1oz, 19.5in. I was very lucky I didn't tear and i healed very fast. It was the most amazing experience of my life. Our hospital stay was wonderful. We were there for 3 days total. She weighed 6lbs 8oz when we left. BF has gone well. She latched on immediately. As of last Thursday she weighed 7lbs 5oz. She is a happy growing baby. She also will go 3 to 4 hours between feedings at night. I hope she keeps that up until she is able to sleep through the entire night. I am attaching a few pictures. I can't wait to hear about more arrivals. Glad everyone is doing well.

 

[apple_20]

Aww lovely pictures. Love the expressions babies pull don't you?

 

[DHime]

cingra - congrats
jm - simply beautiful. i am so happy for you.
carly - congrats. she so cute!

 

[NellieRae]

I love seeing everyone's adorable baby pictures! So many of us are moms now - Congratulations to everyone with their little ones!

Puppy, I'm with you - still pregnant. Trying to enjoy the little moments of peace & privacy I have for the time being.

 

[Torz]

I sware this baby/body just wants to tease me! Woke up at 2.30am to go to the loo, got back in bed & started getting strong pains & tightnings from back to front radiating through my hips. i was even using the contraction app on my phone to time the pains & they were roughly every 4 minutes or so.I really thought it was it! I went down stairs after an hour or so as i was fidigeting in bed & disturbing OH (didnt want to wake him till i was doubly sure it was happening). I got down stairs & after half an hour everything grind to a halt. So disapointed, i really thought i was going to meet my baby today.

I'm happy to still be pregnant, i'm trying to enjoy every last day i can of this pregnancy & enjoy the time it just been me & OH & DS & i did say i wanted to get past my EDD this time. But its just so disheartning to keep going through all this pain, be kept awake, loose sleep & then it all go away!

 

[buttons1]

I feel like that torz there has been a few evenings this week when iv started getting tightenings and sharp pains down below iv said a couple of times this could be it and then I go to bed and then nothing and am right as rain again in the morning. She is such a tease I didn't get anything like this with my dd1 I'm due Tomo and have resigned to the fact that I will prob be over due now. This week has flown by though so the days aren't dragging too much yet

 

[apple_20]

im sorry to hear your LO are tricking you two. it must be hard because you cant get the sleep you need still it wont be long a matter of days...

 

[lolalei3]

Congratulations to all the new mummas! Love seeing the pics of all the beautiful bubs!

I'm still waiting here too, wow these last few weeks really drag on! Getting a bit impatient now! My back is definitely done being pregnant and is protesting with some pretty severe pain, hurry up baby!

 

[buttons1]

So it's my due date today and I'm still pregnant don't think baby will be coming today so will prob be going over due. My dd was 3 days late I can cope with that just really hope I'm not still pregnant this time next week. Can't wait to meet our new little lady

 

[DHime]

hang in there ladies.

AFM = my LO graduated level 2 of the NICU since he now takes bottles. one step closer to home. we bought a stroller and car seat yesterday and realized they sold us the wrong bar to attach the car seat to the stroller. no biggy except it is a 2 hr trip to this stroe. lol

 

[puppycat]

I love seeing everyone's adorable baby pictures! So many of us are moms now - Congratulations to everyone with their little ones!

Puppy, I'm with you - still pregnant. Trying to enjoy the little moments of peace & privacy I have for the time being.

Sorry chick i had my rainbow on the 9th! Has been pretty crazy so have had difficulty updating all the threads on bnb but he's so worth it!

Hope you overdue ladies pop soon. I hated the wait!

https://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j369/puppycat72/IMAG1702.jpg

 

[buttons1]

I had my little girl in the early hours of this morning after a crazy half an hour labour