November 2013 Babies!

[Nariah01]

So for the ladies that have already had there babies while its still fresh in your mind. What did you pack in your bag and babies bag that you actually used while in the hospital? I seen a bunch of lists and I made one up but it seems huge and I just dunno how much of it I will actually use in the 24 hours I will be there after hes born +however long I labor there.

 

[luna_19]

We ended up.being there for 4 days so you never know. I had to send my hubby home to get more clothes and stuff. Definitely bring lots of pairs of underwear, several outfits and blankets for baby, snacks because hospital meals are so small, camera, toiletries

 

[whittnie117]

Nariah, it doesn't sound like you did anything wrong at all. It sounds like she took it out of context and is getting emotional over nothing. A simple misunderstanding. Maybe have a talk with her and explain you didn't mean anything by it and you felt bad about accepting something that you were going to be getting anyhow. I dunno, sometimes situations like that are hard.

As for your bag, plan for packing enough for a c-section stay just in case. That's what I am doing.


AFM- The tiny bits of plug I am losing are now brown. Not yellow, brown. I'm not sure what to take that as. So, we went to the store, got our layaway out and set up the bassinet and carseat. Juuuuuuuust in case. We're washing the bassinet sheets, his birth present, and blankies right now too. I really don't know what to think

 

[Nariah01]

Nariah, it doesn't sound like you did anything wrong at all. It sounds like she took it out of context and is getting emotional over nothing. A simple misunderstanding. Maybe have a talk with her and explain you didn't mean anything by it and you felt bad about accepting something that you were going to be getting anyhow. I dunno, sometimes situations like that are hard.

As for your bag, plan for packing enough for a c-section stay just in case. That's what I am doing.


AFM- The tiny bits of plug I am losing are now brown. Not yellow, brown. I'm not sure what to take that as. So, we went to the store, got our layaway out and set up the bassinet and carseat. Juuuuuuuust in case. We're washing the bassinet sheets, his birth present, and blankies right now too. I really don't know what to think

I know she took it wrong, its just with this woman that always seems to be the case. I've tried talking to her so many times about it and now am just frustrated and confused because we are having them over for thanksgiving and I want my dad to be around his grandson but it seems like her and I always but heads.

As for your plug loss, it sounds like it could be the start of your show maybe? I've heard that your bloody show doesn't have to be bright red...maybe your getting close?

Keep us posted and good luck!

 

[The Alchemist]

Nariah - your stepmother sounds like she easily gets offended. You didn't do anything wrong in general so I'd just try to explain it best as possible that you didn't mean to offend her, obviously. You just didn't want to burden her with the things she's doing or willing to do for you. Hopefully this will pass and everyone will congee together for Turkey day.

Whittnie - since you're far along and considered term, well you are term haha, that I'd take the loss of plug with brown tinge as labor sign. Might not happen immediately, it might mean to watch out for the next sign. Orrrr it might mean to get ready for the sudden start of labor. Never know! Good thing your bag is ready and your room is pretty much alk ready for your babe.

 

[whittnie117]

Had some contractions last night, went to sleep and nothing. No more discharge right now either. Frustrating.

 

[bb1]

Just to update those not on FB Jase Edward was born on the 8/11/2013 via C section. Everything went ok, I did lose a fair amount of blood during Op but feel ok now. Was released from hospital yesterday and so happy to be home.
Jase Edward 7lb 8oz 50.5cm and HC 34cms.
https://i340.photobucket.com/albums/o339/SAMIGIRL2/JaseEdwardHafner_zps9d8a0a54.jpg

As for your hospital bag, Pack lots of underwear and comphy clothes. Also for baby all I used were Clothes, nappies, wipes and wrap

 

[wantb502]

He's so cute!!

Hospital bag: like 3 changes of clothes for you including shirts you can nurse in around family and friends. I pretty much didn't wear pants the whole time I was in the hospital.

I didn't bring undies because the hospital had them.

Chapstick, gum, toiletries, especially your tooth brush, body wash, and deodorant, and flip flops for the bathroom. Cell charger, tablet or iPad. Music for the delivery room (I loved this) it helped me chill through the rough parts. Baby clothes in different sizes though we kept him naked most of the time just swaddled up. I had one NB outfit and a bunch of 0-3... Well he ended up swimming in the NB clothes. Baby hats! A soft receiving blanket. The hospital has tons of them.

 

[Nariah01]

Thanks ladies for the tips on the hospital bag packing, I think I got it figured out now.
Plus the nice thing is we live about 30mins away from the hospital, and DH will have to come home often to take care of the furbabies so anything I forget or need and don't have he can pick up.

BB1, your LO is very cute, thanks for the update as I am one of those not on FB!

Whit: Give it time, sometimes things can start and then stop, or so I hear. Your symptoms sound promising though so I wouldn't be surprised if they start back up again.

AFM I feel like crap today. I slept great, for once, but it all went downhill from there. We went to look at something in town and I started feeling sick to my stomach real quick plus had a horrid headache. This got worse over time and developed into Headache, Nausea, BH contractions, back pain, feeling freezing all the bloody time and now I can't feel my feet! Oh and throw in some heartburn. Its terrible, and it seems like the only food that doesn't make it worse is all junk food.

And now I am in a right proper mood and yelled at DH so many times and now that hes outside I feel like an asshole. I am seriously hoping that I feel better soon.

 

[whittnie117]

Awe Nariah feel better. And just apologize to OH and tell him your sorry. I'd offer up some "alone" time too haha. I know the last few weeks are emotional. I only get mad at my mom and very rarely at anyone else. Though I noticed I have snapped at OH a couple times and then quickly apologized afterwards.

As for feeling sick, I get nauseous if I haven't eaten in a couple hours. I, too, notice unhealthy foods are the ones that don't make heartburn worse. I hope if I ever get pregnant again that I can maintain a healthy eating plan.

Is it cold where you are?

AFM- I am excited again as I got all my newborn and 0-3 month clothes put away in our room for LO. I am working on finding a place for blankets, burp cloths, washcloths, and towels right now. It's hard because there is no space in our room left. Not since I had OH put the armoire out of our room. But it was big and I couldn't get past the bed right with it in here and that wouldn't be good with a baby. But I am happy to almost be done with his stuff for the first few months, at least until his room can be set up. They are working really hard to get the other room floors done right now. It's turning out really nice. I'll have to take pictures of our room and the baby's room once it is done.

 

[Nariah01]

Awe Nariah feel better. And just apologize to OH and tell him your sorry. I'd offer up some "alone" time too haha. I know the last few weeks are emotional. I only get mad at my mom and very rarely at anyone else. Though I noticed I have snapped at OH a couple times and then quickly apologized afterwards.

As for feeling sick, I get nauseous if I haven't eaten in a couple hours. I, too, notice unhealthy foods are the ones that don't make heartburn worse. I hope if I ever get pregnant again that I can maintain a healthy eating plan.

Is it cold where you are?

AFM- I am excited again as I got all my newborn and 0-3 month clothes put away in our room for LO. I am working on finding a place for blankets, burp cloths, washcloths, and towels right now. It's hard because there is no space in our room left. Not since I had OH put the armoire out of our room. But it was big and I couldn't get past the bed right with it in here and that wouldn't be good with a baby. But I am happy to almost be done with his stuff for the first few months, at least until his room can be set up. They are working really hard to get the other room floors done right now. It's turning out really nice. I'll have to take pictures of our room and the baby's room once it is done.

I am glad you feel a bit better! I did say sorry to DH and he understood, so that's better. It stays around the low 50s up here where we live, gets down to the 40s at night now, but for some reason today I was super cold.

We bought a shelf system for the nursery closet to put cloths and blankets and such. I put all his older boy clothes on the bottom, and the blankets in the middle, haven't figured out what to put on the top two shelves. It was awesome to get all his clothes washed. We have what looks like a lot, but I have a feeling we will end up needing more newborn stuff, we have a lot of 3month stuff, and a handful of newborn stuff, so we shall see when hes born how big he is. The first bit of my cloth diaper stash was sent out in the mail today, super pumped for when it gets here, hopefully by the end of the week so I can start prepping them.

As for my parents I don't know if there is any fixing the damage that occurred over the weekend. I know they will still come for turkey day, but I think its just going to take time for things to simmer down. we shall see.

And whit glad I could cheer you up! You guys on here are like my only friends right now as my only other friend lives hours away and we've both been too busy for anything. So to all of you!

 

[Nariah01]

how many of you are or did use a stool softener for after the birth? If you did was it helpful? I am slightly terrified of that first poop hurting, as I hear it can be pretty bad because it usually doesn't happen right away, and since I do have mild hemorrhoids I don't want to take any chances. If you did use them what brand or kind did you buy?

 

[luna_19]

My first poop was fine. I was scared but it didn't hurt at all. I've had mild hemrrhoids for ages but never had a problem with constipation. I had a big clear out at the beginning if labour so didn't need to go until the next day.

 

[The Alchemist]

The morning after I birthed my dd, the nurse gave me stool softener. It made my still a little loose but easy to pass. It did hurt to poo for me though only because I had an aggravated old hemorrhoid that swelled up from an hr of pushing. So, it stung to poop but my hospital gives us perineal spray that cools/numbs the area down their so it wasn't too bad. It did take me a week for the swelling to go down.

 

[Diddums]

I'm still hanging in there, waiting for the little lady to arrive. I have mild lower back ache yesterday morning, but that disappeared and nothing since.

Although you ladies have reminded me to pack toothbrush and deodorant into hospital bag lol!

for baby i've packed three newborn vests and two baby grows plus a going home outfit, two 0-3 vests and 0-3 baby gross, in case she is big, a wooly hat, nappies, nappy cream, wipes, cotton wool, and a blanket and a single pod

 

[Rockinmomtobe]

Sorry Ive been MIA ladies, this baby stuff is hard!! Ill try and catch up soon, just wantedt o check in and see how you all were doing. Struggling to BF and get LOs weight back to birth weight, but other than that we're all doing well, just exhausted Hang int here, not much longer for most of you now!!

 

[Nariah01]

Hang in there Rockin! I hear it gets a bit easier once you get the hang of things.

AFM why do things like laundry detergent have to be so complicated?
I've always used the seventh gen. lavender scented laundry soap, never had a problem with it. Well we moved house and it was still doing ok, about a week ago the clothes when they came out of the wash had kind of an off/burnt smell almost to them. After a cycle in the dryer you couldn't tell, but as soon as they get wet again the smell comes back! I have no idea whats going on. I cleaned the washer really well thinking maybe it was that, but it still smelled weird after the clothes came out. So I had some ALL free and clear lying around and ran a load with that thinking maybe its the detergent, well the smell is gone! WTF!

So now I am left wondering what happened and why the detergent isn't doing its job anymore. I am going to do one more wash with the old stuff to see if the smell comes back if it does I am going to have to get rid of a whole bottle of the stuff which sucks because it is not cheap detergent.

But I guess on the upside, our bassinet comes today!

 

[The Alchemist]

Nariah - must be some kind of chemical additive/ingredient that is causing that weird smell. I've never encountered that before though. I've always used Target brand detergent. Well, I use target brand almost every household items. Love that store! And yay on the bassinet! How exciting is it when we get something new coming? Even if it's not really yours, baby will be in it lol.

ASF - Nothing much here. Just taking it easy each day, taking care of lo and the house. I had to redo my hospital bag list as it is different from regular vag birth. Just trying to decide what elsee I may need. But I think I got it down. I am nervous though....about the pain and worsely, if the anesthetic doesn't work I'll feel everything...ugh, horror story status there! I think I should think like that lol. I am really just nervous about the recovery pain, about the healing time of incision (like will it heal or form a keloid?), the gas pains, pooping/peeing, and effect of section on breastfeeding if any. I should probably right my concerns down and take it with me to the dr's office this Friday for my appointment. He will discuss the whole ordeal.

Oh ladies....wish me luck!!! I'm nervous! Scared...anxious about meeting my baby, EVERY emotion. Ugh...I am also so scared of the aftermath pain on my pelvic! Lying there on my back is not good at all and it might make it worse. I have to face csection pain AND pelvic pain. I'm shuttering at the thought of it all...

 

[Nariah01]

Nariah - must be some kind of chemical additive/ingredient that is causing that weird smell. I've never encountered that before though. I've always used Target brand detergent. Well, I use target brand almost every household items. Love that store! And yay on the bassinet! How exciting is it when we get something new coming? Even if it's not really yours, baby will be in it lol.

ASF - Nothing much here. Just taking it easy each day, taking care of lo and the house. I had to redo my hospital bag list as it is different from regular vag birth. Just trying to decide what elsee I may need. But I think I got it down. I am nervous though....about the pain and worsely, if the anesthetic doesn't work I'll feel everything...ugh, horror story status there! I think I should think like that lol. I am really just nervous about the recovery pain, about the healing time of incision (like will it heal or form a keloid?), the gas pains, pooping/peeing, and effect of section on breastfeeding if any. I should probably right my concerns down and take it with me to the dr's office this Friday for my appointment. He will discuss the whole ordeal.

Oh ladies....wish me luck!!! I'm nervous! Scared...anxious about meeting my baby, EVERY emotion. Ugh...I am also so scared of the aftermath pain on my pelvic! Lying there on my back is not good at all and it might make it worse. I have to face csection pain AND pelvic pain. I'm shuttering at the thought of it all...

Yeah I have no idea what happened with the detergent. But as long as I found something to replace it and its actually cheaper works for me! Well I thought the bassinet was coming today but it looks like its just the sheets since they shipped them separately. So I still have to wait on that, but no biggy. I got my tucks and a few other last minute things to pack in my bag, got a nursing tank top to try out. I really wanted to try out the nursing bras from target because I heard good things about them, but I think I will wait to buy any more nursing wear until after he's born. You like target though, have you tried their nursing wear?

Good luck with your section coming up. I can understand your fears, and I think it would be a good idea to write the stuff down and go over it with your doctor at your appointment. As for feeling everything...I would say that's probably pretty rare, take it from someone who has trouble with anesthia working properly. Besides they shouldn't start cutting into you until they know you can't feel any pain. And lots of people have sections these days without problems. But its still ok and normal to be worried.

 

[whittnie117]

Sorry for not posting for a bit.

Nariah- Is it the same washer or a new one? They have two types of washers now and one type of washer needs a particular type of detergent. It's an energy efficient detergent and it's quite common. If you have an energy efficient washer and are not using energy efficient detergent, then it will cause issues. I don't know about vice versa.

Isn't it exciting to know you'll have the bassinet all set up soon. When will you get your bassinet in the mail? Hopefully soon. I got super excited to set mine up and now it has its sheets and stuff inside. I love it!

Alchemist- I understand your concerns. Now I'm worried my doctor is going to tell me she doesn't want me to even try vaginally and go straight for a c-section. I've done no research. But the likely hood of feeling the procedure isn't that high, so try not to worry about that part. I would definitely write down your fears, concerns, and questions to go over with your doctor when you see them next. That way you get the best advice/information you can.

I am scared too of just a vaginal delivery, lol. But that's because I really don't know what to expect. I'm sure I'd have the same fears if I get scheduled for a c-section. But just think, you get to hold your baby in 6 days! 6 days!

AFM- I had my perinatal appointment this morning along with a NST. They said baby wasn't moving as much as he should have been, but he passed the NST. I believe he was just sleeping and couldn't be bothered. I was also having measurable contractions on the monitor. Irregular, but they're there. During the perinatal appointment they told me that his abdomen is large and it is connected to polyhydromnios (too much amniotic fluid). He doesn't know if my doctor is going to want to have a c-section or let me try a vaginal delivery first, but said that I should be able to at least try for one. It's really up to my doctor and I when we talk to one another on Thursday. I hope I'll be able to try for a vaginal delivery. I really don't want a c-section if I don't have to. It's always something it seems.