Summer Peaches... going to be ripe in late July/early August!!

[kmbabycrazy]

I didn't really have pain relief with my last birth I had a couple of contractions with gas and air but it just made me tense up as I wasn't focused on relaxing which just made it hurt more and I did alright for having an 8lb 9oz baby lol. I find water births weird. I know why people would have them, I get it, but it just seems weird to me and I always feel stupid because it's like how can you give birth to the baby underwater poor baby despite the fact it's been living in fluid for the past 9 months lol. I don't know there's just something about it. Especially if you just sit there afterwards in all the gunk and what if you poo during labour into the pool.

Sorry I'm getting carried away lol.

I just hope my labour is as easy as last time I mean it hurt like hell don't get me wrong but no complications, quick, barely any pain relief and no grazing/tearing/cutting. I somehow don't think i'll be so lucky the second time around lol

 

[misse04]

yeah I'm hoping I dont need as many stitches as last time! And I have thought what if i poo in the pool, my friends sister did and their OH had to scoop it out with a cup
To be honest I'll probably end up just not being bothered to get in a pool and laying on bed!

 

[kmbabycrazy]

Oh my god that's disgusting lol.

 

[tmr1234]

I drove to and from the hospital with my 1st my 2nd came to fast and FIL took us as DH dosn't drive.

Yes All my kids b'days are going to with in a week pluss my nice is the 27th as well

 

[misse04]

Aww Connies bday is June 21st so aslong as this baby is after that, due on 23rd by my guess so should be! My brother and his fiance baby is due 8th July too

 

[molly1207]

You all seem to have had eventful labours!

I'm determined to have mine drug free, but I'm probably just the poor naive girl who thinks that until shes crying out in pain and demanding every drug going I do love the idea of a home birth and a water birth though, but as it will be my first I don't think I'd want to risk being at home. And I think I'd probably get restless in the water haha.

OH was 12lb10oz, and was only 2 days overdue which is absolutely ridiculous! Thankfully I was only 6lb10z so praying the little one takes after me. I'm fairly petite (5'3" and uk size 8) so I don't even think a 12lb baby could fit inside me never mind come out

 

[misse04]

Same, Im 5'2 size 8 so with last one by the end of pregnancy everyone was saying how big my bump is but it's where I'm short, baby had to fit in a short belly!
This is 39 weeks and i went to 41+4!

 

[irmastar]

Cute bump misse!

 

[irmastar]

I am excited to have a july baby, my son's bday is on february so it's always too cold and rainy for a niece birthday party outdoors. I am scared to not getting to hospital on time too, as the hospital I'm delievering is one hour away, with my son I got there at 5:30am and he was born at 10:13am so it was quick, what if this one ends up being quicker?

 

[molly85]

under 4 hours here with syntocin but number 2 is expected to be quick as i went from 8cm to pushing in 5 minutes. We will prob get the home birth pack delivered just incase but no thanks i know who will be cleaning up the messnot a hope in hell. Quick delivery, quick stitch up and home for tea me thinks. I think i'm going to arrange to have someone on call when OH is working MIL can meet us at the hospital and take Abs if shes not already got her.

 

[molly85]

OHH I wanted a water melon belly I'm short and very round so people didn't realise i was even PG

 

[misse04]

Last time I thought i wanted to go home the same day but wasn't allowed in the end but did actually enjoy having a night in hospital with her all to myself had proper bonding time which was nice. Would like to do the same this time but I think i'm going to end up feeling guilty, she's going to MIL ... Scary 2 babies!

 

[Newlywed2011]

Sorry it's been so long ladies. I'm just as surprised as some of you, I leave for a couple of days and have to sift through 6 pages of conversations. lol. It's really nice reading about some of your birth stories, but this being my first, I'm a little freaked out now. I know this sounds funny, but I can't imagine anything being more embarrassing then pooping during labor! I know it's possible, but is it common? Has anyone experienced this during their labor? Of course I know you can't really do anything about it if it happens, but not exactly the way I'd want to remember the birth of my child lol

 

[misse04]

I didn't poo (i made my mum promise me i didn't) but it is very common and i did fart a lot I have been told if you do they just get rid of it very quickly as you have sheets under you ..

 

[mommy2be1003]

This is my first too! And I know it's pretty common to poop during labor because you use the same muscles to push the baby out... I'm so afraid il poop, I know a lot of people do but my husband keeps making a joke saying "I'm going to laugh so hard if you poop, il never let you forget" he's a jerk lol

 

[stardust599]

I pood but it was cleaned away quickly and no-one even mentioned it!! OH hasn't even told any of my friends and he's the first to gossip about an embarrassing story

Aww misse what a lovely bump. Here's mine a week before LO was born, I was teeny - she was 5lb8!

 

[stardust599]

Anybody thought about breastfeeding yet? My LO never latched so I syringe fed her for 11 days then moved on to mixed expressing/formula and she was fully formula fed by 5weeks. I would love to give it another shot xx

 

[molly85]

yup I have a I have a bfing plan of action I make water it's rubbish so unless somethings dramatically different I'll BF in the hospital then as milk comes in wean down to Bottles we had a hideous 8 weeks of a starving baby and being constantly pushed to pump and feed and FF so not again I know what I'm doing. If it goes well then I'll just BF but I'm not pushing myself into the ground again. Oh I asked and they said I didn't poop I didn't even strain my pelvic floor so I guess I was incontrol as I must have needed to go lol

 

[misse04]

awww what a tiny little bump! very nice!

and I'm going to formula feed, connie was straight away
Will have just stopped sterilising everything for a month (connie will be 13months) then going to start all over again for another year...madness!

I know it sounds silly but anyone whos having their second, I know I will but I don't see how I will love another baby like I do Connie, it just seems impossible ...x

 

[molly85]

Ohh i'm a bad mummy i stopped sterilising a month ago and don't use boiled water any more, she was eatting my shoes yesterday