November 2013 Babies!

I signed up for the TENS class next month. I would love to go no drugs but I am just not sure I can do it.

My mother had no drugs with me and she said it sucked BUT she had drugs with my sister and there were a ton of complications with mom and with my baby sister. Mom said if she were having one more she doesn't know which she would choose.

I feel like we as humans do mess with the natural process a little too much. I would like to try and leave it alone but there might be a breaking point in there for me too. I am going to take it as it comes and see how I handle it!
 
Rockin: I love the pics, you guys are too cute. I wanted to do a maternity shoot, grrrr

Whit: A lot of women have swelling during pregnancy and it doesn't necessarily mean you have preeclampsia. But ask about it tomorrow. Drink lots of water in the meantime.

MissJenn: You are looking great as usual. Always so happy.

Have you ladies decided on your birthing plan yet? I can't even think about birthing plans considering the situation I'm in now. I'm thinking I may have to get a C-section which I'm concerned about because I like to workout and I've heard stories about it being hard to workout once you've had a c-section. I guess everybody is different, it may not be bad. Who knows.
 
I agree with Want, I think we all can go natural if we want to. But I'm going to be honest with you guys, those contractions hurt like hell. So if you can't take pain, then you may need meds. I had no choice during my 1st pregnancy because I had preeclampsia and the contractions were making my blood pressure super high, so the Doc said I had to get an epidural. Now that I think back, if I was allowed to walk around during the contractions, I think it would have been cool. But nooo, I was on strict bed rest, there was no getting out of that bed. I was on another website yesterday and this girl posted a video of her doing squats during her contractions, so that can be an option for you guys to mask the pain.
 
I watched a video of a women give birth on an exercise ball! I want that kind of movement!
 
I needed to ask you guys something....Im not sure if its BH or just baby. Its high on my tummy on the right side, really close to my ribs and for a bit it gets super hard, not painful, but VERY uncomfortable. So i get up, rub my tummy and in a minute or so it goes away. I always thought BH your whole stomach would get hard? Can it just be the one part? I dont like it, lol and I think Id feel better if I knew for sure what it was....any thoughts?

I forgot to respond to this. But BH can happen on one side, believe me I experience these all day. They are not painful but sometimes take my breath away. I don't know if you are experiencing BH or the baby balling up, but just make sure you drink lots of water and empty your bladder often. I usually get them when my bladder is full. The Doc says not to worry about them unless you get 6 an hour. I'm thinking they are common during the 3rd trimester to get you ready for real labor.
 
Stacey - welcome! We like newcomers. The more, the Merrier. Hope all is well with you.

Want - yep, I'm a nurse but I haven't worked since my pain so took off. I wwas just working pt though, doing rn visits to pts homes/facilities in hospice setting and home health. I told my supervisor I can't work with my pain and thankfully, she's more than okay with me being off. Plus, there is a newhire, so my pts went to her.

Whitt - definitely bring your swelling up to the ob tomorrow. In the meantime, keep drinking that water and raise your feet uuuppp! And relax at the end of the day/when you get a chance.

Concerning bh, I have been getting them a lot throughout the day, especially towards night time. But that's probably because I started drinking red raspberry leaf tea to tone the uterus (and it's so healthy and beneficial). I plan on drinking this during pp also to enrich the milk and lessen the bleeding.

Birth plan? Well...I want a natural birth, no meds whatsoever, just like with dd. But of course, I will keep my options open. Never know what may happen. L&d is very unpredictable. I think that's the best outlook on birth plan. To go in with an open mind.

Wow, I've never heard of labor/delivery while doing squats and bouncing on the ball. What I've seen on video was a baby being born still in the sac. That is amazing!
 
Rockin: I love your pictures! My sister wants to do some maternity photos of me we just haven't gotten around to it. Hopefully we can before the baby is born!

As for birth plan, I plan to do this natural with no medications. However I am keeping an open mind in case there are complications where some medication or intervention is necessary for the babies health. Oh and I plan to have a safe word just in case for some reason I absolutely cannot handle things. But I am planning on being up and moving during labor and going to try and do this naturally. I tend to be stubborn and don't get meds for other things, so I have a feeling as long as I have coping stuff I will probably hold out.

I have my GD test tomorrow and a midwife app. Hopefully all goes well!

Also on a side note, does anyone else's baby really love a particular persons voice? Samuel seems to really like his daddy, like last night he was talking to my belly and Samuel started poking him in the face, it was so cute. :cloud9:
 
My poor DH thinks I am loosing it. Our DD will be moving around and kicking away and when DH comes to feel her she quits.

It is nice when I want sleep I wake him up and say "here feel her" and she is quiet as a lamb but I feel bad for DH. I think he has really only felt her move 3-4 times and we only have 61 days left until she is here. Something about him just touching my belly calms her down.
 
My poor DH thinks I am loosing it. Our DD will be moving around and kicking away and when DH comes to feel her she quits.

It is nice when I want sleep I wake him up and say "here feel her" and she is quiet as a lamb but I feel bad for DH. I think he has really only felt her move 3-4 times and we only have 61 days left until she is here. Something about him just touching my belly calms her down.

LOL, its like the exact opposite over here with Samuel. He will do all sorts of things for me or DH but if someone else wants to feel, he stops.
 
My poor DH thinks I am loosing it. Our DD will be moving around and kicking away and when DH comes to feel her she quits.

It is nice when I want sleep I wake him up and say "here feel her" and she is quiet as a lamb but I feel bad for DH. I think he has really only felt her move 3-4 times and we only have 61 days left until she is here. Something about him just touching my belly calms her down.


I could have written this myself. He is always so active, but once I get OH to feel, he stops. OH just says I'm lying. :dohh:
 
That's funny! My lil boy inside can be VERY activeto the point of hurting me and oh had only ever felt him just twice in all of this pregnancy.

Man, it hurts when they kick your belly button!
 
I find it has only hurt (so far) when he kicks my bladder/cervix area. It takes my breath away. Or perhaps he's headbutting there already. Otherwise I'm just waiting for the kicks in the ribs, and bigger painful movements in the next few weeks.
 
My hubby has only felt the baby a few times too, I told him he is scary so baby always stops when he tries :haha:

I haven't written my birth plan yet but it's mostly going to be to go with the flow, I do want an epi for the delivery but will see when I actually want it started. Also immediate skin to skin, start bf as soon as baby is ready. I'm also going to put things in like how I want guidance on when to push but I don't want people yelling at me, just nice and calm. Also that we will not allow any visitors whatsoever until we say we are ready in case mil decided to just show up. Not sure about delayed cord clamping yet, I want to ask my Dr if they still do the hep b vaccine at birth and if so why because I really don't see a reason to :shrug: also need to fond out if hubby wants to cut the cord.
 
I'm aiming for a natural delivery, possibly a water birth. As water really helped manage the pain last time.
I might have some gas and air but would like to avoid an epidural.

Like mama said, labour hurts!! There is no denying that. But for me it really helped being prepared and understanding the process etc. and breathing exercises were a lifesaver! :)

Whit - I had massive swelling with my DD from about 20 weeks, I puffed up like a balloon! Lol! But it wasn't pre-eclampsia, just bad water retention. Speak about it at your appointment to flag it, but hopefully it won't be anything serious. Fingers crossed.

Rockin - your photo shoot is awesome!! You must be really pleased. We're having some family photos taken on Friday, now I just need to find something half decent to wear. Lol!

How are all of your nurseries coming along? Is anyone totally organised and got it all finished already?? :)
 
My poor DH thinks I am loosing it. Our DD will be moving around and kicking away and when DH comes to feel her she quits.

It is nice when I want sleep I wake him up and say "here feel her" and she is quiet as a lamb but I feel bad for DH. I think he has really only felt her move 3-4 times and we only have 61 days left until she is here. Something about him just touching my belly calms her down.

This is us exactly! Poor OH thought I was making the whole thing up. Now he's felt her about 3 or 4 times too. Its strange how that works lol.

Whitt- let us know how it goes today!

as for nurseries- we have NOTHING ready, the 2nd baby shower is next weekend and most of the large furniture has been bought, its just about setting it up. We have waaaaay too much to do.

Im practically asleep at my desk right now. Im so exhausted. I want to go home and take a nap :sleep:
 
We've finally ordered all the big items, just waiting for them to arrive. We ended up ordering from US amazon since everything was so much cheaper and had it all shipped to a company just across the border that will receive it for you (it's called Ship Happens :haha:) so hubby will go pick it all up once everything has arrived maybe later this week :)
 
If my DD decided to come today we are mostly ready. I am sorting through baby clothes trying to put those away that I won't need for a few months and I need to wash the crib sheets and make up the crib but pretty much everything else is here and ready to go. This morning I decided to re-arrange my whole dinning room so that is where my nesting is at this point I guess!

I need to finish packing my hospital bag, collect some movies and music to go in it and put together my diaper bag but I have (I THINK) everything already I just need to sit down and do it!
 
I can't get my nursery ready until we move in, so that probably won't happen until a few weeks before I am due. :nope:

As big of a bummer as that is though for some reason I am not worrying about it. It will probably hit me in a week or so and I will be in a total panic, but for now I am not worried. I also don't have my baby shower until like the end of the month. I do have my crib and some basic stuff, so worse comes to worse the stuff is here, just packed away.

If anything I am worried I will overdue it in the last month trying to get the new house ready for the baby. But sadly nothing can be done for that, I think my DH is going to send me away on the moving day so I can't do anything since when we moved out of the old house a few weeks ago I over did it and couldn't stand or walk for several hours.
 
My appt is in a couple hrs, so that's why no update.

We won't be able to do the nursery until they are done with the renovation. It's really getting frustrating because nothing has really been done since the last time I posted about it. I feel like neither our room, nor the nursery will even get touched by the time the baby is here. nd they won't allow us to bring in anything until the floors are done (which haven't been started). It makes me want to pull my hair out. So, right now I have no idea where the baby is going to sleep. Maybe once they realize that there is literally weeks to go, they will start getting things done. OH keeps asking if he can do anything, but his dad keeps saying no and it's really stressing OH out too. argh! Okay enough ranting. Hopefully we get a place for the bassinet to go. If we can get that done then at least we'll have a place for baby when he is born.
 
Okay so I had my appointment. My blood pressure was fine. But my heartrate was at 100 for the fourth time being taken. My thyroid test came back a little higher than normal, so they sent me for another thyroid test. Can either of the nurses here tell me what a high thyroid level means?
They also are doing a urine test to check for protein. So hopefully it comes back normal. I also got my rh immunoglobin shot today. It was in the bum and I'm a big baby when it comes to shots. I barely could walk in the grocery store afterwards. OH called me a big baby. lol Baby hasn't been as active as he normally has. I asked the doctor, and she was going to send me to the l&d ward and on my way he started going nuts, so I decided to not go in. I don't know if I made the right choice. Maybe I should have still gone in. Now I'm second guessing myself.
 

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