*** March Mummies *** 29 Boys, 34 Girls, 8 Team Yellow! 46 babies born!!

[Shell'sAngels]

hi girls whats perineum? and if it helps tares i wanna know bout it hahaah had 2nd degree with both mine!

Anyone doing RLT this time? im not sure wether to bother it didnt help with the other 2.

As of next week though i shall be requiring hubbie's semen lol i am addiment if they induce me that i will be 'favourable' so they wont have to use the gel just break my waters.

Well i think its safe to say my baby has gone head down and boy has he!!! i could barely walk earlier hes proper in my pelvis now which is great but also dam uncomfortable and spd has returned!!

 

[2nd time]

perineum is the bit between your vagina and your bum the massage is supposed to make the skin more strechy so it dosent split there are some good instrucyions online lol i was cut last time and hope thati wont be this time

 

[blessedmomma]

hi girls whats perineum? and if it helps tares i wanna know bout it hahaah had 2nd degree with both mine!

Anyone doing RLT this time? im not sure wether to bother it didnt help with the other 2.

As of next week though i shall be requiring hubbie's semen lol i am addiment if they induce me that i will be 'favourable' so they wont have to use the gel just break my waters.

Well i think its safe to say my baby has gone head down and boy has he!!! i could barely walk earlier hes proper in my pelvis now which is great but also dam uncomfortable and spd has returned!!

shells- i feel the exact same way about making sure my body is ready to be induced. my DH told me when i got home from hospital yesterday, maybe we should just abstain til after nathon gets here. i said your crazy!!!!! we gotta kick it up! want my cervix ready to go so hopefully i will just need pitocin to get things started. when i was overdue that was all i needed and things went really quick. will have the epidural too so if they break my water they will wait til im good and numb, yay!

needless to say, he was all about that. he said just give me the look and its on... my 36 year old DH is like a teenager when it comes to it, LOL!

 

[rottpaw]

Blessed! I think they are all like that. My hubby is 42 and he hasn't lost any of his...momentum in that department!

to all! It does sound like we'll have a couple of February babies! I don't know what to expect myself. No one at my dr. has said anything about expecting our little guy to come early, but he is consistently measuring a week ahead on scans (first at 25 weeks then at 33). We get another scan at 35 and I will ask then if they think he might come at least a week early because of that. And Lord I hope so because I'm alraedy so huge I can barely move!! I swear I can see him getting bigger every single day. And I don't mean I'm getting bigger - he is! Even coworkers comment on my belly getting bigger every day LOL!

I'm REALLY hoping I don't go past 38 or 39 weeks. I'd feel safe then just becuase I know he's ahead of the curve on development.

 

[blessedmomma]

i hope you make it to 38-39 weeks angela! i know they are all different, but my last one always measured a week ahead and i started to lose my plug with him at 37 weeks. my water broke and had him at 38+6. i wanted this one to make it to 39 weeks, but after hearing all the stories of 37 weeks being ok, im coming to grips with it. i think i watch too many of those baby story shows where they do an amnio and lungs arent done yet at 37 weeks. maybe its more rare than they show though. gotta keep my faith!

to the ladies in their pj's after work, i live in mine. go everywhere in them. for a while i was at least getting dressed for church and my appts, but last couple weeks i just wear them everywhere. i have 3 pair of the stretchy drawstring ones and since i stay home and laundry is done every day i always have a pair to wear.

 

[readynwilling]

Ready--we use the coconut oil for perineum massage as well--works great--just run the jar under some warm water to liquify and then pour in a small bowl and you can use it just the same as almond oil Both are excellent choices!

Thanks! I'll give that a go and save the trouble of keeping 2 different oils. I read to start about 35 weeks. so thats why im starting now... im not sure how its gonna go i haven't attempted it yet but i figure anything i do is better than nothing.

 

[blessedmomma]

Ready--we use the coconut oil for perineum massage as well--works great--just run the jar under some warm water to liquify and then pour in a small bowl and you can use it just the same as almond oil Both are excellent choices!

Thanks! I'll give that a go and save the trouble of keeping 2 different oils. I read to start about 35 weeks. so thats why im starting now... im not sure how its gonna go i haven't attempted it yet but i figure anything i do is better than nothing.

cant you just spray some pam on there right before delivery? just kidding, anyone seen the movie baby mama?

 

[msarkozi]

Cathryn, that sounds pretty much like what I have going on....feeling great still right now...it wasn't until mid morning that it started yesterday....so we will see how today goes! I go see the doctor in half an hour.

 

[rottpaw]

Cathryn and Melissa S, hope you both feel much better soon!

Blessed, thank you! I will defer to my doc of course but I feel pretty good at the idea of him being born anytime 37+, because if he's already a week ahead developmentally, his lungs should be too. Last appt I told my dr. he's having hiccups all the time and she said that's great sign, his lungs are already pretty strong. Yay! Did your little one have any issues being born at 38+?

Mostly I just feel huge and can't imagine going another 6 full weeks. I know it's probably possible, I just intuitively don't think I'll get quite that far. We'll see!

 

[readynwilling]

i didn't know hiccups were a sign of good lung development! thats good to know, because she gets them almost everyday (sometimes 2x a day). I really hope i go to 40+ weeks. I know that everyone is ready to go sooner, but im not in pain, i don't feel huge, im not waddling, i have no crappy symptoms - i just feel like myself with a belly. So i really want to hold out as long as possible.

 

[blessedmomma]

melissa- good luck at dr's today! hope things settle down too.

angela- he had no problems, but was at the end of 38 weeks, 1 day before 39 weeks. he almost weighed 8 pounds even already. i did have one at 37+6 weeks and she was very sick. maybe thats why i have such reservations of going so early??? they had all these pediatricians in to see her and she had to stay for 3 days. they commented i might have had either an infection or pre-eclampsia though so maybe that was why. they never gave me a good answer as to what was going on with her, or me.

 

[blessedmomma]

i saw my baby doing the practice breathing actions on his scan and asked if that meant he was gonna have good lungs already and the sonographer told me it wasnt an indication at all. she said it just meant he was able to do the breathing action when he was born, but his lungs could still be underdeveloped. i didnt ask about hiccups though. i hope that is right cuz mine has hiccups all the time.

since his fluid is low they cant do an amnio to check before he comes to see if he is making surfactant yet

 

[braijackava]

My msp was horrible last night, i barely slept. Don't even know if it is worth mentioning to my doctor. Is there even anything they can do?
i think i will go with the spray pam idea, haha. I waa cut with my first but no problems with the other two so not to worried.

 

[codegirl]

i didn't know hiccups were a sign of good lung development! thats good to know, because she gets them almost everyday (sometimes 2x a day). I really hope i go to 40+ weeks. I know that everyone is ready to go sooner, but im not in pain, i don't feel huge, im not waddling, i have no crappy symptoms - i just feel like myself with a belly. So i really want to hold out as long as possible.

I did the same with E. At 40 + weeks my dr. started to do the induction paperwork and I was like "slow down". She looked at me totally suprised and said that she didn't think to ask me cause most women are begging for induction by 40 weeks. I was enjoying the last bit of pregnancy and was scared of parenting so keeping him in sounded like a good idea.

E was born on exactly 42 weeks.

 

[braijackava]

Once again stupid phone, was meant to say s p d

 

[readynwilling]

I guess a lot could change in the next few weeks and i will change my mind. LOL. I really feel for everyone who are at their wits end with the pregnancy and thank my lucky stars i've had it so easy. I just want everyone's bubs to come safely regardless of when it is

 

[readynwilling]

Once again stupid phone, was meant to say s p d

Have you seen the site damnyouautocorrect.com

 

[blessedmomma]

My msp was horrible last night, i barely slept. Don't even know if it is worth mentioning to my doctor. Is there even anything they can do?
i think i will go with the spray pam idea, haha. I waa cut with my first but no problems with the other two so not to worried.

i was cut with my first two, but dont know if it was even needed. nothing with my last 2 so im not worried about it either. dont remember it being such a horrible thing healing from the episiotomy with the first two so if i need one, i need one. with everything else your healing from, it was probably the least of my concern

i hope you get some better sleep too hun. might as well mention it to them. i got a good nights sleep for once and i am full of energy today. i thought i was gonna miss out on nesting this time, since mine usually kicks in around 38 weeks but maybe not. i am all over getting bag finished and making a list of things still to do last minute. maybe something psychological since i know its coming soon?

 

[blessedmomma]

I guess a lot could change in the next few weeks and i will change my mind. LOL. I really feel for everyone who are at their wits end with the pregnancy and thank my lucky stars i've had it so easy. I just want everyone's bubs to come safely regardless of when it is

amen to that hun! i wanted this one to stay in as long as possible. im not too uncomfortable since i stay at home and can sit on my butt a lot and might be the last one for me, so wanted to enjoy the pregnancy a bit longer...

you are gonna be a great mom!

 

[MumtoJ]

Melissa, J was born at 37 weeks as was fine - he was 8lb 11oz though so in no way under-developed.

I think it just depends on each bub, as they say there is no such thing as normal so some at 40 weeks still have breathing difficulties and others at 33 weeks don't you just never know til they come out.