*October Bumpkins*2014* 43 Babies Born!

[newlywed2013]

I like Emily Sophia

 

[jmandrews]

I've been feeling a lot of movement the past couple of days but there's still quiet days too, can't wait until it's proper kicks every day

Hospital birth for me if I make it! Lol with dd, I arrived at the local hospital to be checked over before we drove almost 2 hours away to the larger hospital (was due to give birth at larger one as dd had a 2 vessel cord) and she was born 15 minutes later! All being well this time though I'm allowed to deliver at the local one so I should hopefully make it there!

My DD had a 2 vessel cord too I've not heard of anyone else's baby ever having it.

 

[Kittycat155]

Oh 1DPO!!!! Good Luck!

 

[vickyandchick]

I am so relived that I am not alone with feeling baby move! I seem to be getting more and more worried getting closer to my gender scan since I haven't been able to feel baby move and it's been almost 3 weeks since we heard the heartbeat.

In terms of the birth we will be a hospital birth. I need to have a c-section because of my back problems. We also wanted to have it scheduled as well so that our families can both be here for the birth and my doctor agrees.

Here's a little mini poll for you ladies which do you think sounds better/cuter:
* Emily Sophia
* Sophia Emily

OH and I cannot decide which we like better.

I like Emily Sophia best

 

[CharlieKeys]

I agree - Emily Sophia

 

[Loopy Laura]

I think both names are lovely. Emily is one of mine so I would also go Emily Sophia.

 

[kiki28]

Thanks everyone for the home birth advise definitely going to look more into it now and see what I can come up with!

 

[Laelani]

I am so relived that I am not alone with feeling baby move! I seem to be getting more and more worried getting closer to my gender scan since I haven't been able to feel baby move and it's been almost 3 weeks since we heard the heartbeat.

In terms of the birth we will be a hospital birth. I need to have a c-section because of my back problems. We also wanted to have it scheduled as well so that our families can both be here for the birth and my doctor agrees.

Here's a little mini poll for you ladies which do you think sounds better/cuter:
* Emily Sophia
* Sophia Emily

OH and I cannot decide which we like better.

emily sophia!

But then emily has always been a favourite for me
Do both first names on their own go with the last name you will be using?

Yes it does though I think Emily Sophia works best but OH likes them flipped.

Yes make sure her initials don't spell anything. We were going to do Parker Michael, but then realized his initials would spell PMS.

ESC or SEC so nothing too horrible. Maybe with the initials ESC she would become a computer programmer or something Only a few more days until we find out for sure it's a girl or not.

LaMere thank you! Im sure I will have lots of questions closer to the time. Im trying not to think about the birth tbh lol

I have had 2 drug free births at hospital.
I had a drug free birth by choice and it was okay however it did hurt a lot more than I expected so when it came to my next baby I stressed to the midwife numerous times that I wanted pain relief but I would try water first and see if I could do it with just that.

well....my waters broke and labour never started I was overdue by a week or round there so they gave me syntocin (I think thats what it is called) and I couldnt do a water birth

I begged the entire time for pain relief and she kept telling me to wait until it was bad and then during an internal she said I wasnt fully dialated so i had to wait and I screamed at her that she better get me some pain relief (mid internal) so she pushed my cervix over his head and said "too late start pushing"
I just cried and cried, she was just awful!
Having an induced labor with no drugs was terrifying for me it was 10x worse than my drug free birth beforehand.

so then I had twins after that and that obviously had to be at hospital with an epidural I chose what I felt was safest for babies, also being under ob care as opposed to midwifery care made me feel better about being at the hospital, however the aftercare treatment was awful!! Im not even going to go into that part.....I was out of there after 2 nights with the twins, I couldnt handle another night there.

so....for me being at hospital has always been stressful, I end up leaving as soon as im allowed to, the longest stay was 2 nights with the twins, the others I left the next morning.
Going drug free again does scare me tho as I really only have that induced labour in my mind!
tho I know with the one before that I was more relaxed as I mostly laboured at home, I literally walked into the hospital and started pushing.

does water really help with pain?? And have you tried the tens machine thing?

Wow I'm so sorry you had that experience, that woman sounds wretched. I am not a fan of pain myself either. With my first, my water broke at home and as soon as I got to the hospital I made it clear i wanted an epidural ASAP.

I am so relived that I am not alone with feeling baby move! I seem to be getting more and more worried getting closer to my gender scan since I haven't been able to feel baby move and it's been almost 3 weeks since we heard the heartbeat.

In terms of the birth we will be a hospital birth. I need to have a c-section because of my back problems. We also wanted to have it scheduled as well so that our families can both be here for the birth and my doctor agrees.

Here's a little mini poll for you ladies which do you think sounds better/cuter:
* Emily Sophia
* Sophia Emily

OH and I cannot decide which we like better.

emily sophia!

But then emily has always been a favourite for me
Do both first names on their own go with the last name you will be using?

I second Emily Sophia

Thanks.

I'm with Emily Sophia as well!! It sounds beautiful!

Thank you.

I like Emily Sophia

Thanks.

I am so relived that I am not alone with feeling baby move! I seem to be getting more and more worried getting closer to my gender scan since I haven't been able to feel baby move and it's been almost 3 weeks since we heard the heartbeat.

In terms of the birth we will be a hospital birth. I need to have a c-section because of my back problems. We also wanted to have it scheduled as well so that our families can both be here for the birth and my doctor agrees.

Here's a little mini poll for you ladies which do you think sounds better/cuter:
* Emily Sophia
* Sophia Emily

OH and I cannot decide which we like better.

I like Emily Sophia best

Thanks!

I agree - Emily Sophia

Thanks!

I think both names are lovely. Emily is one of mine so I would also go Emily Sophia.

Thanks!!


Thank you ladies so much for your opinions and I totally agree.

 

[Jcliff]

I start back to work this week. I was lucky enough to have almost a year with my daughter. But I won't be that lucky when baby #2 comes! I will probably only take 8 weeks maternity

 

[newlywed2013]

Anyone else having trouble with sleep? I keep waking up in the middle of the night- sometimes 2 am, feeling completely rested, and today, after a whole 6 hours of sleep I am wide awake.

 

[MamaMac123]

On fertility issues - I think it's 3 part why so many women suffer from infertility now. Partly I think it's the simple fact that it's so openly talked about now. I think a lot of women had unexplained infertility and there just wasn't anything to be done. My half brother is adopted because his mom could never have babies. When we were going through all our stuff I remember telling her maybe it wasn't worth it to pour money into fertility treatments, maybe I should just adopt. She got very emotional and told me to take advantage of all the medical options she never had and even offered to help us financially if that's what it took. I was blown away! But it made me think about how much harder infertility must have been when there was literally nothing you could do. Also though I think infertility is on the rise because women are marrying and having kids later in life and also due to environmental causes, food pesticides etc. I think all of it plays a factor.

Baby name - I prefer Emily Sophia as well! So cute!

Zephyr - this is my first pregnancy so obviously I have no first hand experience but everything I've read or researched says that induction makes labor sooooooo much worse! It almost guarantees you'll want/need that epidural. Honestly I'm more against induction than c section. If they say they need to induce me I'd go straight to c section instead. That said I know there are lots of women who get te epidural and induction goes fine for them but I also know so many women who were induced and just have horror stories from it. My friend was induced with her twins and had 4 failed epidurals. Her body just wouldn't take to them. So she ended up with a twin vaginal birth with both pitocin and Cytotec and was seriously traumatized by the whole experience. I think if you go naturally without the induction drugs you'll be able to do a natural birth and have a much better experience. And that midwife you had sounds like a psycho! That is insane!

On sleeping - I was up this morning at 7 unable to go back to bed and I'm usual a sleep in girl. Can't sleep in anymore now I'm pregnant. So sad!

 

[Mrs Eleflump]

Definitely Emily Sophia Beautiful name!

My sleep has been suffering for a few weeks now. I wake up thirsty and needing to pee, or just uncomfortable, or simply just awake. I seem to have pulled a muscle under my ribcage on the right, and that kept me awake for a while last night. Normally when I have pain in my ribcage it's pleuritis, which gets less painful if you lie on it, but this was worse when I lay on it, so I had to shuffle around a bit to try and get comfy. Also having round ligament pains which don't help with the getting comfy.

A couple of people at work told me I looked a bit more 'alive' than usual the other day, must have been because I slept through from 8.30-6! That hasn't happened in such a long time and I did feel so much better for it. Not been able to do it again since though! They're used to me looking shattered anyway, so it was nice to be told I looked quite perky for a change!

I actually had a non-scary baby dream the other night, featuring my own baby! That's the first time that's happened, normally it's been horrible m/c dreams. but in this one I was cuddling my little one, who was a boy with blonde hair and lovely blue eyes the same as hubby's. Hubby's hair is dark brown/grey now but he was blonde as a little boy. I'm still feeling girl vibes, as is apparently everyone else, but this is such a boy-heavy group, maybe mine's a little boy too! Only 22 weeks to go to find out!

 

[kel21]

Kitty-- Did you do fertility meds and IUI or were you able to get pregnant naturally? It's nice knowing that someone else understands the struggle. We had many dr's appointments and different surgeries and procedures.

I was married before and never could get pg for 3 years, did not do any fertility treatments. My current dh and I got surprised by my dh after 5 months of ntnp and I figured I would have to do treatments or something! So I thought #2 would be no problem... Wrong! 6 1/2 years later, countless tests, surgeries, drugs, 2 angels... nothing! We gave up, and then surprise! So I understand the struggle. And by the way my problem was severe endo.

 

[rbourre]

16 weeks today.

I had Pitocin after my c-section with my daughter. I don't remember it being bad, but I have blocked out a lot of her birth since it was so awful. I think I'd rather be induced than have another c-section.

 

[Kittycat155]

Had a dream baby came very early and was missing a bone in head and no one would help saying it was not worth it to try and save and to go have another. I looked online and found adults with the condition and ways the parents raised them to bypass the issue. Very glad I woke up then as it was not good dream and scared shit out of me.

Think baby must have been active last night cause I woke up a bit sore where it is.

 

[La Mere]

I am so relived that I am not alone with feeling baby move! I seem to be getting more and more worried getting closer to my gender scan since I haven't been able to feel baby move and it's been almost 3 weeks since we heard the heartbeat.

In terms of the birth we will be a hospital birth. I need to have a c-section because of my back problems. We also wanted to have it scheduled as well so that our families can both be here for the birth and my doctor agrees.

Here's a little mini poll for you ladies which do you think sounds better/cuter:
* Emily Sophia
* Sophia Emily

OH and I cannot decide which we like better.

Emily Sophia!

LaMere thank you! Im sure I will have lots of questions closer to the time. Im trying not to think about the birth tbh lol

I have had 2 drug free births at hospital.
I had a drug free birth by choice and it was okay however it did hurt a lot more than I expected so when it came to my next baby I stressed to the midwife numerous times that I wanted pain relief but I would try water first and see if I could do it with just that.

well....my waters broke and labour never started I was overdue by a week or round there so they gave me syntocin (I think thats what it is called) and I couldnt do a water birth

I begged the entire time for pain relief and she kept telling me to wait until it was bad and then during an internal she said I wasnt fully dialated so i had to wait and I screamed at her that she better get me some pain relief (mid internal) so she pushed my cervix over his head and said "too late start pushing"
I just cried and cried, she was just awful!
Having an induced labor with no drugs was terrifying for me it was 10x worse than my drug free birth beforehand.

so then I had twins after that and that obviously had to be at hospital with an epidural I chose what I felt was safest for babies, also being under ob care as opposed to midwifery care made me feel better about being at the hospital, however the aftercare treatment was awful!! Im not even going to go into that part.....I was out of there after 2 nights with the twins, I couldnt handle another night there.

so....for me being at hospital has always been stressful, I end up leaving as soon as im allowed to, the longest stay was 2 nights with the twins, the others I left the next morning.
Going drug free again does scare me tho as I really only have that induced labour in my mind!
tho I know with the one before that I was more relaxed as I mostly laboured at home, I literally walked into the hospital and started pushing.

does water really help with pain?? And have you tried the tens machine thing?

You're welcome! I can relate to not wanting to think about it just yet, lol. I actually find it somewhat comforting to start thinking about it early on and talking about it helps me as well.

That midwife just sounds awful! I am very sorry you were put through that! Never having anything really traumatic happen during either of my labors, I don't really get apprehensive until I actually start feeling contractions. I usually have a semi-low tolerance for pain, so pain makes me a bit nervous. Even the pain of waxing makes me squirm, lol.

I do think the water does help with pain, as I don't quite remember the contractions with my daughter being as intense feeling as the contractions with my son. Of course, I did have a much shorter labor with my son and had a "dry land" birth. With my daughter, I labored mostly in the water, walked some, laid in my bed some... Still ended up having a "dry land" birth with her as well. No, I have never used a tens machine or anything of the sort.


On a side note: Baby was moving around last night quite a bit and I tried to get hubby to feel it, but I guess baby is still to little for him to feel yet. I could feel it where his hand was but he said he couldn't feel it. :/

 

[hopettc3]

Oh man! I am so glad I can never remember my dreams!

 

[zephyr]

Mamamac she really was insane. I would never ever recommend induction without an epi.
My epidural and induction went very well with the twins! I cant really fault my twin birth really only the care before and after the birth.
I think I wasnt informed properly with my son. She said if I didnt induce id be risking infection and scared me into it.
looking back and after reading stuff I would of waited longer to see if labour started on its own but I just did what she said as I trusted she knew what she was taking about. I do think she made it fit into her schedule tho.

La mere that sounds wonderful! I really hope the water does help, it makes me feel a bit better haha. I will have to look at hiring a pool I think. I always wanted to try a water birth but both times I had planned to it was out of my hands.

My pain tolerance isnt too bad however im not sure if this is how it is for everyone else, everything I read says otherwise but the labour that I did natural was pretty mild. I had very irregular contractions for 24 ish hours a little painful but I could still function fine.
my waters broke and then no pain or anything at all for about an hour (im foggy on times) then because I was feeling nothing at all we took the long way to the hospital to pick a friend up, stopped to get a few things, meandered our way through the hospital lol
as soon as I got to my room I felt the bearing down pushing pains so it was quite intense......they reckon that labour was very short they called it from when my waters broke.
I do hope that happens again!! I didnt like going from no pain to 'omg help' pain tho as I said, it was quite a shock to the system but being at home was so lovely.
I even made chocolate fudge and sat eating that while I had the irregular contractions at home

 

[staceymxxx]

Wow, I'm seeing all these Down's screening things coming back with really low risk numbers in the thousands...ours was still 'low risk' but was 1 in 600. I thought that was good until I saw all these other numbers I wonder why ours is like it is? The midwife didn't say anything at all about it, which makes me think there's still nothing to worry about, but 'don't worry' is easier said than done for a pregnant woman :/

My nuchal was measuring 4.3 then a week later 4.1 so no difference really, my downs come back at 1 in 280 so we have to go for a specialist heart scan on baby to make sure his heart has formed ok and if not then not sure what course of action is but if it is then still don't know whats going to happen as it could be a chromosome problem.. although nothing at all could be wrong x

I really hope it's the latter for you, Stacey, and your little guy is 100% healthy. How long do you have to wait for the heart scan? I have to have those every few weeks after week 24 to make sure my autoimmune condition hasn't damaged baby's heart. If it is damaged, baby will probably need a pacemaker for life It's a worrying time, definitely. I'm thinking of you and your bean, and wishing you both the best.

On the bright side, baby is an onion today! 17 weeks! Happy new weeks to all who have just changed over or are about to

What happens at a heart ultrasound? mine is on wednesday, ive only had to wait two weeks for appointment but a month all together which isn't that long compared to some i have to wait for lol! If anything is wrong i hope its his heart or hes got downs syndrome as horrid as it sounds, chromosome is really really bad from what i've seen with short life expectancy xx

p.s sorry for late reply ive only just got internet back

 

[staceymxxx]

Wow, I'm seeing all these Down's screening things coming back with really low risk numbers in the thousands...ours was still 'low risk' but was 1 in 600. I thought that was good until I saw all these other numbers I wonder why ours is like it is? The midwife didn't say anything at all about it, which makes me think there's still nothing to worry about, but 'don't worry' is easier said than done for a pregnant woman :/

My nuchal was measuring 4.3 then a week later 4.1 so no difference really, my downs come back at 1 in 280 so we have to go for a specialist heart scan on baby to make sure his heart has formed ok and if not then not sure what course of action is but if it is then still don't know whats going to happen as it could be a chromosome problem.. although nothing at all could be wrong x

I just had a more detailed scan at 20 weeks too, they should look for other markers too such as feamour length and Down's syndrome have the middle finger joint missing. Also I think if I remember from mine cleft palet is a marker too, all mine were looking fine but the scan still doesn't rule it out completely just cut odds by 50%, but as I said earlier it was good enough for me as was not interested in amnio, ending pregnancy or anything like that, she's have been perfect no matter what

i've been sent for a extra scan to check his heart, i had one at 14 weeks which showed everything and it all looked fine.. i've been offered amnio loads of times but refused, i just couldn't take that risk at all x