Mid June and July Firecrackers Group Due June/July 2017!

[Girly922]

That makes sense gagr, I'm not so fortunately endowed in that department. Lol.

The umbilical cord tie I ordered came today. I really didn't like the big plastic clip with DD so I'm looking forward to using this, and it's a cute little bear. I'm hoping to go get more bits for my birth bag tomorrow, I still need to pick up maternity pads and big pants! I have washed baby's first outfit though. I think we'll try and do the birth pool trial run this weekend.

 

[Gagrlinpitt]

Had my appointment today.. doc is sending me for a bilateral breast ultrasound just to make sure there is no issues because of the blood. I'm only measuring a week ahead now and my blood pressure was really good today. Had to sign the delivery consent and got my Tdap vaccine. My arm is so sore now though 😞. One more two week appointment and then it's every week.. getting real lol.

 

[Weebles]

It's been almost two weeks now and a lot has happened. I hope everyone is doing well and getting excited to meet their bundles!

On 5/30 my water broke at 35w4d. Labor did not start naturally and I was induced just over 24 hours later. She was able to have two steroid injections to help develop her lungs. The induction was not successful. Even though I couldn't feel the very small contractions I was experiencing I felt like I was sinking, like I couldn't breathe. I was fine, I think I was experiencing what my baby was. Nurses rushed in, I was given oxygen, my position was moved, she was okay. I was scared and my Dr said not to worry, she probably just was on top of her chord. But it happened again and again, with every contraction, and the contractions weren't even regular or strong. I couldn't feel them and I was only 1cm dialated. Emergency c-section. I knew before they told me but Inwas still scared. The anesthesiologist was a wonderful man, asked me to tell him what I was afraid of. "Being tied down and cut open." He gave me something for my panic attack. I wasn't restrained. My husband held my hand. My best friend waited outside. I could feel it but it didn't hurt. My daughter was born, I couldn't see her but then she cried. They were doing things with her. She was brought over, my husband held her, a nurse took a picture as I touched her sweet face. She had had to go to the NICU. I couldn't see her for hours because of the surgery, I went as soon as I was cleared. So many wires on my baby. Be careful of the IVs. Her breathing is too rapid, this can go either way I was told. I pulled down my gown, she was placed skin to skin. She listened to my heart and I listened to her breathe. I watched the monitors, her respiration decreased, it was slower and slower. And then it was normal and there it stayed, she just needed her Mommy. Skin to skin is real. I nursed her, or tried too. She was still very sick, back in the box, the nurse said it was amazing. I went to see her every three hours for 30 minutes for feedings. It took too long for nurses to come wheel me in a chair. I walked. I was discharged on Saturday, my baby in the NICU. Someone was in the parent room for their baby leaving the next day. I'm sure I got special treatment because I work at the hospital. A bed was ordered, the isolation room wasn't in use so I stayed there for two nights. The parent room was free after that so I stayed there for two more nights, my husband was allowed to stay in that room as well. That second night my baby was with us! No more wires, no IVs! I was scared at first, I was used to the monitors telling me she was okay. They still took her before feedings to monitor and test. I held my baby for hours. I cried tears of joy. She came home the next day. I think when my water broke she couldn't handle the pressure of the contractions due to her umbilical chord only having one artery instead of two. It was scrawny and scraggly when it was examined. She is small for her gestational age, I believe had my water not broken early she'd have been diagnosed with IUGR at what would have been my next ultrasound appointment.

*****I want to tell you all her name. I will edit it out later so please don't copy this post or mention her name in a reply. *****

My baby girl was born on 5/31 at 10:25pm. She weighed 4lbs10oz and was 17in long.

 

[Girly922]

Huge congratulations Weebles! It sounds like things got a bit scary but I'm glad you're both well and home now

 

[second.time]

Wow, weebles, what an intense birth story! I can only imagine how tough it was to have her in the NICU, but what a sweet moment when you were able to hold her. I'm so glad all's well and hope you both continue to get stronger. Beautiful name too!

 

[Gagrlinpitt]

Oh weebles I'm so excited for you!! I'm sure things must have been so scary but I'm so glad everything worked out the way it was supposed to.

 

[Catalyst]

Catalyst we will be having the babies the same day by c section. Hunter will be here on the 19th too.

That is awsome why are you having c.section? The twins might decide to show up before that but it will still be a c section.

No signs of them showing up. Im over 37w and that means they are no longer premature! Im loving that I have made it this far. The docs said early on in the pregnancy that geting to 37 or 38 weeks is realy good only 8 days! Litle weird since I had my boys at 41w3d!!
So any day now my mum will be here and will stay a while. Will ease some stress we have like what to do if I go into labor durint the evening or night. My dad will maby come with.. it depends. He is a fisherman on a huge ship and is second in command. But he is off and during part of the summer he is a fox hunter (not the red one, more like arctic kind) since they pray on birdlife and sheeps. So he is doing that now and might not be able to come with my mum.

 

[second.time]

Congratulations on the 37-week mark, catalyst! So exciting!

Has anyone heard of eating dates to help with labor? It looks like it has some medical backing (shorter labor, quicker effacement, lower chances of needing to be induced or have interventions because of stalled labor). I'm going to try to eat six a day. I saw somebody say it didn't help because they still had a 10-hour labor ... ten hours sounds like a dream to me!

 

[bbygurl719]

Catalyst I have to have a c section because this will be my third one. I'm so ready for it to be here. I've been have contractions 5 mins apart for 24 hours but I can talk thru the still

 

[Catalyst]

Good everything went ok Weebles, sound like it was scary for a while.

Bbygurl, sounds like your in labour and wil get your c section early

 

[DobbyForever]

Sorry selfish post been sick all week

Weebles sorry to not do this justice but you are such a strong woman. I'm glad to hear that while her entry into this world was terrifying and far from ideal that you are both doing well now.

I got my new car! Lots of sales person drama but SO works in high tech around a lot of sales people/as a former proposal manager has been there done there. After negotiating we ended up at 4.5k off msrp, 3k for my old car, and an apr of 3.29 (originally tried hard to hit me with 3.97! He was like lol f* you with her credit it should be 3-3.5 gfys). But yup got my new escape! SO drove it home so driving 2 miles to work will be my first time driving it and I'm scared shitless lol

 

[Gagrlinpitt]

Sorry selfish post been sick all week

Weebles sorry to not do this justice but you are such a strong woman. I'm glad to hear that while her entry into this world was terrifying and far from ideal that you are both doing well now.

I got my new car! Lots of sales person drama but SO works in high tech around a lot of sales people/as a former proposal manager has been there done there. After negotiating we ended up at 4.5k off msrp, 3k for my old car, and an apr of 3.29 (originally tried hard to hit me with 3.97! He was like lol f* you with her credit it should be 3-3.5 gfys). But yup got my new escape! SO drove it home so driving 2 miles to work will be my first time driving it and I'm scared shitless lol

That's awesome!! I'm going to look at a car on Wednesday.. but I don't think I'm going to like it... Leh sigh.

Have my breast ultrasound today.. hopefully all goes well. Peanut and my bags are packed and they are in my car now... Ready to go.

 

[second.time]

Congrats on the new car, dobby! Hope the ultrasound goes well, gagrlin.

I had my hospital visit today and I'm glad that the hospital seems very baby-friendly. They have skin-to-skin immediately and maintain it during any possible tests or shots, etc., and they encourage and support bf'ing. The baby stays with you the whole time (I think their nursery is only for medical procedures). Plus they do sweet little things like offering a special meal for the parents to celebrate. I wasn't sure what to expect with a smaller town compared to a large city but I'm pleased with this so far!

 

[808malia]

Congrats weebles!!! Glad to hear that you and baby are doing well now She is precious

AFM: I started to have fairly strong contractions that were kinda painful yesterday evening every 10mins for an hour and a half! I was kinda worried... But I drank a bunch of water and laid on my left side and thankfully they stopped... Hopefully this doesn't mean I am going to go into labor early, I still have 3 weeks of work left

 

[DobbyForever]

Gag ditto hope it goes well!

Second That's great that the hospital in is sync with your wants . Yay!

Malia that's scary but glad it went away with rest and water. fxed baby stays put

 

[808malia]

Just thought I would update this as we are starting to have more births happen...


June/July due dates


-Hermione394- Due date June 9th, 2017

-Ellie Bean- Due date June 9th, 2017 Born May 19th 2017!

-AmbiguousHope- Due date June 11th, 2017

-4magpies- Due date June 14th, 2017

-Princess Pearl- Due date June 15th, 2017

-BABTTC123- Due date June 16th, 2017


-boobee- Due date June 16th, 2017

-Lexus15- Due date June 23rd, 2017

-Liz_e- Due date June 23rd, 2017

bbygurl719- Due date June 24th, 2017

Oculi83 Due date June 26th, 2017

x Zaly x Due date June 26th, 2017


-CanadianLady- Due date June 28th, 2017

-Catalyst- Due date June 29th, 2017

-Ad0rkkable- Due date June 29th, 2017

-wannabeprego - Due June 30th, 2017


-sil - Due June 30th, 2017


-Rockell8788 - Due July 1st, 2017



-Sambatiki - Due July 2nd, 2017

-youngmamttc - Due July 3rd, 2017

-Jlh05 - Due July 3rd, 2017



-Weebles - Due July 4th, 2017 Born May 31st 2017!


-stmw - Due July 5th, 2017

-Aubrey2013 - Due July 6th, 2017

-Jlh05 - Due July 6th, 2017

-Flueky88 - Due July 6th, 2017 Born May 31st 2017!

-BeckyTy - Due July 7th, 2017

-Emerson87 - Due July 7th, 2017

-Maries_s - Due July 7th, 2017

-thexfadingpat - Due July 8th, 2017

-Betty.Rubble - Due July 8th, 2017

-second.time - Due July 9th, 2017

-lesondemavie - Due July 11th, 2017


-Lunabelle - Due July 11th, 2017

-Mrstruth - Due July 11th, 2017

-808malia - Due July 14th, 2017


-aknqtpie - Due July 14th, 2017


-ALiKO - Due July 16th, 2017


-blessedmomma - Due July 17th, 2017

-Gagrlinpit - Due July 19th, 2017

-Aphy - Due July 19th, 2017

-PurplePear - Due July 22nd, 2017

-PrettyInInk42 - Due July 22nd, 2017

-vaniilla - Due July 22nd, 2017

-Girly922 - Due July 22th, 2017


-Mummafrog - Due July 23rd, 2017

-rainbowsun - Due July 23rd, 2017

-TTCfirstovr30 -Due July 23rd, 2017

-Parkep - Due July 24th, 2017

-confuzion - Due July 25th, 2017


-Thejoie - Due July 27th, 2017

-zephyr - Due July 27th, 2017

-DobbyForever - Due July 30th, 2017


-baseball_mom - Due July 31st, 2017



Angels:

-Star25-


-annio84-

 

[PrettyInInk42]

Congrats on your little girl, Weebles.

I hope everyone else is doing well.

So, I had my shower this weekend. Oh man, it was hectic as hell. I won't go into every little thing, but I seriously underestimated how long it was gonna take to get the room ready. We didn't get to the venue til like an hour before it started, and a handful of friends, my mom, BD, and I were still setting some stuff up when it was time for the shower to actually start. We finally got everything laid out and ready to go, but the room was pretty damn warm; both cuz we were under a heat advisory that day and there were like close to 40 people in the room.

We ended up getting a bunch of great stuff though. A swing, bouncy chair, activity mat, a bunch of toys, lots of diapers and clothes, as well as 9 hooded towels and a total of 43 wash clothes. How dirty do people expect our kid to be? lol. BD's mom asked me (after the shower) if there was anything we still really needed. I told her a bassinet, diaper bag, and a pack and play for BD's place. So, she emailed us today, saying she found a couple selling a pretty much mint condition pack and play (on Kijiji) for less than half the usual price and she'd cover the cost for us. She mentioned yesterday that she's not much of a baby person, but I guess when your only child is having a baby, you go into "spoil mode". lol

I don't think people took many pics at the shower. I know I was so busy running around, getting things ready and then being a social butterfly, that I didn't even take any myself. That may have sort of been for the best though. In the few pics I've seen of myself, I look like a massive, sweaty mess. When I have another baby, or if I get married, I'm leaving the sprinkle/shower planning to someone else.

In other news, I had my 34 week OB appt today. No protein in my urine, blood pressure is good, his heartbeat was between 155-160bpm, and he's very much head down. Hopefully everything will continue to go smoothly.

 

[DobbyForever]

Awww yay sorry it was hectic but sounds like you still had fun. . Love the pics. And lol 43 wash clothes is super high! That was the only nice thing about both of my showers, most of the women were in their 50s-60s so they have been around babies/showers so I didn't end up with too many of one thing/ if they went rogue from my registry they gave me really unique (but useful) stuff and/or a gift receipt. But babies spit up a lot so those washies will come in handy

 

[bbygurl719]

Hey y'all. So after 3 days of contractions I decided to go to hospital. They gave me fluids, didn't stop the contractions, have gave me a shot to stop labor, didn't stop the contractions. Sent me home with pain med and said if spent get better to come back. So 4 hours later I ended up back in hospital. And Hunter Lee Nash Kemp made his grand appearance at 9:06 pm weighing 7lbs 2ozs and is 19 1/4" long

 

[Girly922]

Congratulations bbygurl! I hope you are both doing well