Mother of all conception months Graduates

[gilz82]

Oh that's good you are feeling better and had a good chat with your DH Madcat

I could eat some chocolate right now, it's very weird i've never been a sweetie person definitely more a crisp, savoury person, but i could honestly eat chocolate everyday now.

I haven't even started thinging about a hospital bag yet, actually more to the point i don't even have a bag that i could use as a hospital bag

 

[madcatwoman]

i started off wanting crisps all the time, but im finding myself reverting back to how i was right now wanting chocolate. It didnt help that DH let the rest of my creame eggs roll behind the cooker!...what a waste!!!

i dont know what bag to use as a hospital bag, well, i think i only have a small wheely suit case(you know..easy to handle size), if thats big enough, i dont know?.
Question, before you laugh- i know the NHS arent a hotel chain...but i intend to wash my hair(probably) after giving birth(i just know it will be a mess)...do they have hairdryers? or do i pack my own?

 

[PeanutBean]

Morning. Glad you talked with your oh madcat. sequeena. Gilz Byron was delivered by ventouse. It depends a lot of what the doctor is used to using but ventouse is considerably safer for baby and mum, though it can still cause vaginal damage (it did me) and generally necessitates an episiotomy. The epidural really does carry significant risk of assisted delivery.

Ladies please don't worry about tearing. It's extremely rare to get a very serious tear and your odds are much improved by delivering on all fours or at least in an upright position. Water birthing can help too. It's common to have a little nick and will heal up just fine, you'll hardly notice it. It looks and feels like a car crash down there anyway!

Well I'm not doing well today. Byron kept us awake much of the night so I am shattered and really nauseous. Really unhappy because I'm too sick to get ready for Aquanatal and I'm off to Newcastle this afternoon, driving home 9pm ish so will be seriously tired. It's been really hard recently, wanting to fall asleep at the wheel, and that was with much earlier travelling time.

 

[PeanutBean]

Don't think there were hairdryers at ours though I could be wrong. I'm not sure you'll need it though, it's about 40 degrees in hospital.

Last time I had a wheelie bag for me and the big changing bag for Byron. It was enough for overnight except we didn't really have enough sleepsuits as Byron kept vomiting snot on them.

 

[PeanutBean]

Oh and my mum arrived with Moses basket and baby bath this morning from my sister.

 

[gilz82]

Oh Peanut sorry you are feeling rubbish again I'm usually in bed by 9 these days i'm so tired so don't envy you driving home at that time.

Madcat during my many frequent hospital stays over the years i've been able to get hold of a hairdryer by asking the nurses, but it's one of those hairdryers you'd be as well blowing your own hair dry instead. If you really want to dry it, i'd definitely take your own.

I will need to buy a bag of some sort for sure, the only thing we have is our big holiday cases and then my OH has a holdall for his work, but it's massive and he's always away with it

 

[madcatwoman]

ive been bad. ive jut eaten an entire small easter egg, you know the ones that dont come in boxes, god it was nice!. Baby is going be bouncing off the walls in there soon!.

Ah thanks for the hairdryer advice, think i'll take my own. im determind not to leave hospital looking like a mess, reminds me too much of my own mother im afriad.

Peanut so sorry your feeling so rotten,esp today with all your driving you have to do, i really dont know how you do it

Never found a duvet in tesco, came home with micheal mcintyres autobiography instead, a load of bread and a pack of buns.

Just went round to a neighbours house over the road, he has a million cats and doesnt look after them (we look after one whos a female, good as gold,..well, we feed her, dont let her in though as we have two of our own). but he has one smokey cat, and its forever spraying around our doors every few days, we struggle to get rid of the smell, then it got into our porch, that took over a week to clear. Anyway, the bloke is still in bed, so ive just dropped him a note to complain and ask him to get it neautured as its getting out of hand now.

 

[vbaby3]

Hi girls!!
I cannot remember anything I just read.
Madcat,there weren't hairdryers at my hospital so I brought mine and my ghd's,coz I've wavy fuzzy hair!!
I brought my stuff in a wheelie case too,one of the smaller 1's,and put all babies stuff in the changing bag.We were the same peanut,ran out of sleepsuits with shay,and I ran out of pyjamas too,even though I brought 3 with me!!
He was just puking all the time so had my clothes destroyed as well as his own!
So this time I'm bringing about 6 sleepsuits for baby and 3 pyjamas for me,but I'm also leaving a pile ready and waiting of more sleepsuits and spare pj's for me and dh can just grab them and bring them in should I need them,also a spare towel,coz after you give birth and get a shower,there'll more than likely be a lot of blood on your towel,so you won't want to use it again!
Also a few plastic bags are handy and you can send dirty clothes home in 1 with dh.

No crack here today,have doc appointment tom,so will find out if baby is head down as I thought,and will hear hb again.Just doing a small bit of housework now and then I think we'll just watch dvd's for the aftnoon and relax!!

 

[PeanutBean]

I've half napped for an hour and eating again now. Hoping to be able to shower shortly and feel vaguely human.

Madcat I don't think you'll find that autobiography very comfortable to sleep on.

 

[vbaby3]

Gilz,luckily i've never had to be induced,I did have the oxyticin drip with shay though at the end.I also had an epidural with Shay and didn't need assisted delivery,I managed to push him out myself.
For every bad story on induction you hear there's also a good 1,I've friends who've been induced and have had quick problem free labour and deliverys,
Definately as peanut says research all the ins and outs so at least you'll have an idea of what you do and do not want.

 

[madcatwoman]

Peanut, did wonder if the book would be big enough to support my hips!

OMG vbaby, according to what you have said there, i dont think we have enough sleep suits!

 

[vbaby3]

With oran I only used 2,shay was particularly pukey!!
Haven't you 6 or 7 newborn and 6 or 7 0-3?
If you bring the newborn with you i'm sure they'll fit him unless he's huge!And then dh could bring you in the 0-3 if you need them.They will still fit ok,maybe a bit long but will be grand.
I'm not even bothering with newborn,I didn't with the other 2 either.Unless she surprises us and comes early!
If she does a 0-3 will have to do her until my mam comes in to visit,I can get my mam to stop by primark on the way and buy some smaller 1's!

 

[gilz82]

I started buying newborn bits and pieces and then stopped myself so the majority of our stuff so far is definitely 0-3.

I really get the feeling one of two things will happen with this little monkey, he'll either be early and small or i'll get induced in which case he'll be reasonably chunky i bet. None of us were small babies infact my twin sisters were massive for twins, one was just under 8lbs and the other 8.5lbs nearly

 

[vbaby3]

Well my boys were 8lb 1,and 8lb 9 and both went straight into 0-3.They were a bit long,but they filled them out within a couple wks,and they were into their 3-6 months sleep suits way before 3 months old!!
So I doubt this lo is gonna be any smaller.
Jesus gilz,I never heard of such big twins!!!!Your mams bump musta been huge!!!!
Maybe you'll know closer to the time if you'll be brought in early,and if you are you can buy some more new born stuff then.

 

[molly85]

Matts nagging me to do my hospital bag already obviously i need to do more shopping on the pj pront damn. primark here i come. i must have 12 sleep suits easy in 0-3 and weirdly even more in 3-6

 

[vbaby3]

Just between leaking myself and shay puking on me I had no clean pyjamas left and had to sit for hrs in the tracksuit I wore in til dh got me more form home,so better safe than sorry!!
Plenty of knickers too!!

 

[molly85]

I'v been advised dark trousers lol. got my primark pants but tried them on already big comfy pants lol so might need some more in a bigger size. I like stuff baggy so might be heading over to the blokes section just for hospital I would liek to be dressed like a human within a week of abbys birth, for my own sanity.

back at work tomorrow 4 hour day half excited half petrified

 

[gilz82]

Oh Vbaby my mum was massive by the time the twins arrived. I was only five at that point but i can still remember peoples reactions when they asked what they weighed

I'm just glad this little monkey wasn't baby 1 of two

Molly i'm sure work will be fine

Oh also was it someone on here that said Always night-time towels are better than maternity ones? I'm really dreading the whole towels scenario, haven't used them since i was 12!

 

[molly85]

I got the tesco night time ones i think they are cheaper than the mat ones to even always will be cheaper.

 

[vbaby3]

Yeh gilz I used always maxi nighttime,I found them great.
I had maternity pads too when I had shay and I found they bunched in the middle and the blood didn't soak into them the way it does with the always,so def thumbs up for me!!
I only bled for 2 wks,and it was only heavy for the 1st 2 days,it was the same for me with both babies,and I got my 1st period bang on 10wks after they were both born!!
So then gilz you can get back to your tampons!
And I got big black knickers from tesco and primark,big and comfy and you won't see the stains,and plenty of room for big pads!!