September/October bump buddies...anyone wlecome!

[orionfox]

Congrats bing...i too did it on just gas and air. Isnt it awesome. Sounds like she wanted out quickly. I guess mommas was right that you would have a girl. Cant wait to see a picture of her. So happy for you.

 

[mommasboys2]

Congrats Bing I can't wait to see pics! Glad mommy and baby girl are both doing good.

 

[NoRi2014]

congrats bing!!!!!!

 

[jordypotpie]

Congrats bing!!!

Now if only Liam would get a move on lol! Im the only one left

 

[mommasboys2]

Hopefully not to much longer and he will be here Jordy!

 

[jordypotpie]

Still no signs of him coming! Asking for a sweep on wednesday

 

[JandJPlus1]

Hey ladies. Sorry I have been missing. My boys have been keeping me super busy. Kieran is 7 weeks and 2 days old now, it's crazy. As for the labour story if I haven't already I will update later tonight when I can get on my iPad. Now for the breast feeding questions. Use lanolin cream for the nipples and make sure he is latching properly and I promise it will get better. It can hurt for the first 6 weeks! Also, pumping is not an accurate depiction of how much milk you produce as some women's bodies just don't like pumps. And we had to supplement Kieran for the first week of his life while my milk fully came in. With my first son we had to for the first 3 weeks of his life. And cluster feeding is perfectly normal, get comfy, turn on a good TV show, and just wait it out. Any other questions feel free to ask. I breast fed Holden for 15 months.

Will upload a picture later tonight as well.

 

[mommasboys2]

Hey ladies. Sorry I have been missing. My boys have been keeping me super busy. Kieran is 7 weeks and 2 days old now, it's crazy. As for the labour story if I haven't already I will update later tonight when I can get on my iPad. Now for the breast feeding questions. Use lanolin cream for the nipples and make sure he is latching properly and I promise it will get better. It can hurt for the first 6 weeks! Also, pumping is not an accurate depiction of how much milk you produce as some women's bodies just don't like pumps. And we had to supplement Kieran for the first week of his life while my milk fully came in. With my first son we had to for the first 3 weeks of his life. And cluster feeding is perfectly normal, get comfy, turn on a good TV show, and just wait it out. Any other questions feel free to ask. I breast fed Holden for 15 months.

Will upload a picture later tonight as well.

What do you do when they have eaten and fallen asleep but still want to use you as a pacifier? Sometimes I have no problems but other times he will suck a few times and then cry if I take him away just because he wants it as a paci. I even tried buying one but he will have no part of that.

 

[orionfox]

You can get paci's that have more of a natural nipple shape to them...and try keeping him where he is and just take your nipple out and slip the paci in without moving him. It may be that being right with you when falling asleep after eating is soothing to him. For me its not my lo using me as a paci, its night time where he feels he needs to be right next to mommy to fall asleep and often fusses if he knows he isnt. So i have just adapted to help his needs while working on changing it to something more suitable.

 

[JandJPlus1]

Agreed with what Orion said. With Kieran he just wants to be smushed against my boob skin haha.

 

[JandJPlus1]

Kieran a few days ago.

 

[JandJPlus1]

As for the labour story I promised I would share Well on the Wednesday before he was born after my doctors appointment and the membrane sweep I was cramping and losing tonnes of bloody mucus. Thursday I was still cramping and losing lots of mucus so I went to the hospital in the afternoon to check on things because I knew I would have to get sent somewhere else to labour and deliver due to being a VBAC and there being no anesthesiologist at the hospital at the time. After monitoring me and baby and checking my cervix they told me that I was contracting but they weren't consistent so to go home and come back if they got consistent. I was contracting on and off all night Thursday and by 5 Friday morning they were every 5 minutes so I called my mom to come stay with my son and I called my husband home from work. I got monitored again and checked again and barely anything had changed so they kept me in the hospital for a while then they sent me out around twin to try to see some progress. At like 3 Friday afternoon after walking around town for a while the contractions were starting to get stronger so we went back to get checked again before heading home. Everything was still the same so they sent me home. I was having steady contractions every 3-5 minutes for the rest of the day and evening and by 10 pm they were starting to get to the point where I couldn't even talk or think through them and they were coming every 2-3 minutes so we called my mom yet again, grabbed everything we needed and got in the car. Once we got in the car we called the hospital nursing desk to tell them we were coming and they told us to go to the hospital in my town instead of driving the 1/2 an hour to them because they thought I might be too far along to make it there. Problem with that being that I live in a really tiny town and they don't even deliver babies at our hospital anymore but I figured it shouldn't matter because I had to be sent somewhere else anyway. Once we got there we told the nurses what was going on (it was like 1 am at this point) and they called the doc in to come check me. He checked me and determined that I was only about one cm dilated which was the same as earlier in the day but I also had 1 cm of bulging membranes. That's where stuff got serious haha. He started frantically calling trying to figure out where they were sending me because he was worried that if the membranes burst everything would just take off really fast. They finally found somewhere to send me and called an ambulance in from about 45 minutes away. When I first got there they had taken a urine sample and I was super dehydrated so at first they thought my labour would stop once they hydrated me. They hooked me up to an iv and had the contraction monitor on me as well. Once the ambulance finally got there they explained everything to the EMTs and they loaded me up. I almost had a mental breakdown because I had to go by myself so that justin could drive our car. The place that we were going to was a little over an hour away but we were driving with the lights on so it definitely didn't take that long. The whole ride I was still contracting every 2-3 minutes despite being much more hydrated. We got to the hospital at just before 5 in the morning and they checked me in and got me hooked up to machines and what not and then the doctor came to check me. I was 4 cm dilated with 4 cm of bulging membranes! After that I was labouring all day making steady progress by 8 I was between 6 and 7 cm. it kind of stalled a little after that and I was exhausted from being in labour for over 2 days already so they gave me an epidural at around 11 am so I could relax and hopefully sleep. The worst part about that was the catheter. My body tried to reject it so I freaked out because it was so uncomfortable so finally they had to come in and take it out and insert a new one covered in lidocaine gel. When they put the new one in they used a non latex one because the nurse was brilliant and figured out I might be allergic to latex catheters due to the sensitive skin in my urethra. After that I was much more calm and actually did manage to nap a little. I got checked periodically and wasn't making a tonne of progress so they decided that they would break my water and see if the contractions increased. The contractions did pick up a bit but not as much as they were hoping so around 4 they started me on the lowest dose of artificial oxytocin and that really got things going. By 5 I was telling them I needed to push and I was right I was fully dilated! I pushed for just over an hour and then my beautiful boy came into the world.

 

[orionfox]

Wow what an eventful story...makes mine seem so boring lol. I wouldnt know what to do being back and forth like that.

Figured I might as well share my uneventful story:

Sept 1st in the afternoon I had gone to the washroom and realised I had lots of mucus with blood in it. Now I had done tons of research into what to expect when labour starts, so at that point I had a feeling that it was the "show" happening. At that point I had to talk myself out of getting too excited just in case and had to say the same to hubby. I immediately made mom aware of in case. So fast forward to night time. By 12 am contractions started. I had fully expected them to be not consistant, but figured i would just time them to keep watch. Right off the bat they were fully consistant. Then by 7am I had to wake hubby up as they were every 4 mins and slowly getting longer. I kept in close contact with my mom for when it was time to go. By 9:20am they were very intense and I couldnt get out of bed anymore or barely move. We knew we had to get going at this point. So we get to the hospital at about 10am and they ask if my waters had broken and I said no as I never seemed to have felt it. They check me out and find out im already 8cm. None of us could believe it. They even had to keep asking if this was my first lol. I had progressed super fast. I get the gas (sooo good) and soon enough i was 9.5cm dilated and i needed to start pushing. So they decide to go ahead and break my waters. The nurse then goes "boy your membrane is very tough" as she kept poking trying to break it. She gets another nurse to give it a try and then they realise it was the babies head and my waters must have already broken. So then i start pushing and 30 mins later he was born. Complete labour lasted 12hrs. Little man did have scratches on his head from the poking, but he is all good now. So I managed to luck out with a super easy labour. But it wasnt without pain as it was mainly back labour.

 

[JandJPlus1]

My labour wasn't so bad and I definitely could have kept going without the epidural but I hadn't slept in 3 days and they were worried I would be too tired to push. I tried the gas and it didn't do anything for me at all.

 

[mommasboys2]

Wow you guys seem to have had pretty interesting labors compared to mine.

I went in at 6 am to be admitted for my induction and was in my room being hooked up by 7:30. When I got to the hospital I was still at 2cm and 80% effaced. My doctor came in after the medicine had been going about 30 mins and broke my water. I then was in labor for 7 1/2 hours and still only at a 6 and my contractions were 1-2 mins apart lasting almost a minute each. I was then to the point when I decided I wanted an epidural and couldn't do it all natural. The doctor came in at 2:30 Pmand gave me my epidural and by 3:30 pm I was at 9 cm. Amazing how relaxing helped me to dilate so much faster. I then started pushing at 3:55 I pushed once and his head came out. His cord was wrapped around his neck twice so the doctor had to cut his cord because it was so tight he couldn't get it unwrapped. I pushed the second time he came right out but to our surprise his cord was also wrapped around his body also. Not exactly sure how he got himself all tangled up but it definitely scared us a little. Our little miracle was born at 3:57 pm just as perfect as we had imagined he would be. He is definitely a mommas boy and want me holding him all the time.

 

[JandJPlus1]

Oh man, Kieran too haha. I swear he would be happy if I never put him down.

 

[orionfox]

Rylan at least lets me put him down most of the time so I manage to get lots of stuff done around the house. He isnt too fussy and sleeps when we are out running errands together.

 

[mommasboys2]

Maysen is fine as long as we are out some where and he is in his seat. When we are at home though I'm lucky if he sleeps 30 mins in his bassinet or awing before he starts crying wanting me to hold him. He will only be little once though and I am not having anymore so I am going to enjoy it.

 

[jordypotpie]

Water broke! On our way to the hospital now!

 

[orionfox]

Yay so glad you dont have to wait any longer. Prayers that labour goes ok for you. Cant wait to see a pic of liam.