*~* May 2013 - Spring Babies*~* 117 Jelly Babies - 22 Boy's & 19 Girl's - 5 Babies :D

[Sass827]

GL JT! Lucky girl!
The waiting game isn't fun at all. I feel like looking back, I get really big signs every Sunday night. Must be that I'm going much harder on the weekends. It just really stinks to have signs only to have them disappear. Very discouraging.
Afm, Dylan is so low my pants are riding down and my maternity shirts are not staying down. After 2 very quiet baby days, she's being crazy today. And there's still mega fire in my poor little pooper. And my face is really starting to swell.
Good point on the TWW Kezz. So odd to think it was just last summer I was stressing ttc and the tww and here we are, two weeks from delivery!

 

[Sass827]

Are you icing your bbs ttc? Heard it can help a little! Thanks for the update!

 

[TTCBean]

Yup, been applying cold and hot compresses! It really helps!

 

[Sass827]

Good to know! So nice you're a bit ahead so you can be the guinea pig!

 

[Babee_Bugs]

Congrats cupcake, jtink, jules and LP x x

 

[Foxycleopatra]

Dont forget me!

I cant believe Ziva is already more then a week old. So far things are going well. We have had a few bad nights but last night she was a dream, she feed at midnight then slept till 440am then slept till 9am!!! lets hope that she keeps that up

Her jaundice is almost gone. We had our first check up with the community nurse yesterday and she got a clean bill of health (and she peed on the nurse ).

good luck to everyone else, i keep stalking for more announcements xx

 

[poppy13]

Hi ladies, sorry I've not checked in for a while. I've been a little busy with having our beautiful Oliver! He was born last Thursday and as he was footling breech it ended up an emergency c-section. Quite scary as he didn't breathe straight away. We're home now & I love being a mummy!!

congrats on all the babies that have arrived.

When I get chance I'll post a of Olly.

Xx

 

[Hann12]

Congratulations poppy!

Ttc - time is flying as it doesn't feel like a week since you gave birth so that's a good sign for me still waiting! As for the BF yes even if your latch is perfect it can still hurt as your breasts aren't used to being wet and stucked on hour hours every day so they need to toughen up, also there is a reflex which gives you pain like a stabbing sensation for the first week or so. Push through it and suddenly you'll be feeding and realise it no longer hurts, it won't be long!

I am seeing my friends dad today as he is a top consultant in Malaysia, I'm hoping he'll tell me a bit more about how the baby is positioned and how I can get it in a better position for birth. I might also get him to estimate the weight too as I'm a bit nervous but then he could tell me it's a 9 pounder then I'll be more worried lol so maybe I won't!!

 

[kezziek]

Wow congratulations Poppy I can't believe all you first time mums having your babies so early - I'm well jealous. Mine thinks it's staying at a five star hotel I think.

Glad to hear all is going well foxy hope the good sleep continues xxx

Hann hope it gos well at the appointment- I ak 99% sure your baby wont be 9 lbs after your little first one - I'm guessing no more than 8 lbs and thats if you go right overdue. I am predicting 8-10 lbs for myseld though but I am absolutely massive and I did have a 9 lb baby first time round so it's in the genes or the undiagnosed GD lol. X

Ttc hope the breastfeeding pain eases up- I must admit I loved breastfeeding my last but those first few weeks are hard going for some of us (I think the paler/ sensitive skinned seemed to struggle a bit more from what I have been told). I'm seeing every lactation consultant I can this time to get my latch perfect as it can be toe curling that initial latching on pain. This time round I have startsd moisturising my nipples more frequently in an attempt to have them in good condition before babes is born but I doubt it helps just makes me feel like I'm doing something in prep x

 

[Hann12]

Thanks Kezzie - funnily enough a friend just sent me a scientific study where the mum predicted their baby's weight before birth, as did a mw through feel and an ultrasound, the most accurate one was the mothers prediction! I have tr same measurements as last time with DD so no bigger, I don't see how it's suddenly a huge baby! I'm predicting 7-7.5 myself. I hope I'm right!!

 

[Sass827]

Congrats poppy! Can't wait for pictures!
Very interested to hear what this doctor says today Hann.
Nice to know about the bf Kezz. I had no idea it was so hard til I was preggo and women started filling me in. I'm trying lanolin 1-2 times a week now.

 

[Lady H]

Congratulations Poppy, can't wait for a picture xx

My stretch and sweep,doesn't seem to have worked. I'm pretty upset but that's just the way it goes I suppose.

 

[Sass827]

Did it hurt lady h?

 

[Lady H]

Not as such, it was like a rough smear. It didn't last long and it wasn't the nicest thing, but I'd have another again if offered. I bled a little straight after and had some brown spotting yesterday but that's it.

 

[Hann12]

Sorry to hear that lady h, i know how disappointed I was when I thought I'd get a sweep last time at 39 weeks and I couldn't have one as my cervix was too high. I really thought it would just start labour from what everyone says about them. This time round I know a bit better to know it won't work unless you are ready for labour but I'll still be disappointed if I have a failed attempt at 40+4.

 

[Lady H]

Thanks Hann. At least she said my cervix was soft and favourable and at 1cm. That's something I guess!

 

[missmayhem]

It's may ladies the month our bumps are due. Eeeeek! Exciting!

Hann has the bio freeze helped any?


Congrats poppy I'm getting super excited now

 

[kezziek]

Sass better if you are expecting breastfeeding to not be easy as I think then you can have a more realistic go at it and more likely to stick with it especially as for so many it is actually really easy and they have no problems, I think I'm one of the rarer ones but it still hasnt put me off doing it again. I love knowing I can feed baby anytime and anywhere

LadyH don't be disheartened not everyone gos into labour straight away after having a sweep, my midwife told me to expect 48-72 hrs even so I would just keep walking, ball bouncing etc and baby will come eventually. I'm not offered a sweep until I'm seven days late but my cervix is hard to find so I'm not pinning any hope on it this time just willing to give it a go just incase. With my first she did a sweep which she said didnt work but I can remember at the time finding it really painful nonetheless and then 3 days later I was in labour. It doesn't feel like it when you have waited so long but eventually these babies do come out one way or another xxx

 

[pinktiara]

Ugh one more week I feel like I slept curled up in a ball last night my whole body just kills and I feel like I'm gonna throw up. I see the dr tonight I know it's out of her hands what the obstetrician does but I want this baby out already. I can handle anything this baby had thrown at me from the gallstones which was the worst pain I have ever felt to the gestational diabetes and the insulin but I'm over it I feel like death.

 

[Hann12]

Well just back from seeing my friends dad, he has delivered over 50,000 babies so really knows his stuff! He said that the baby is 1/5 palpable so very low and ready to come out. He said it is lying to the right which isn't as ideal as lying left but he thinks it won't cause any problems in labour as didn't last time, and he doesn't think it's a big baby at all - his guess was 6 pounds 4. Feel very relieved and happy to have spoken to him!