Girls, my waters have gone!!! I'm just waiting for contractions to get going and then off to the birth center!!
Hope everyone is doing well!!
im going for my c sec 2morrow..............!
WTF , this time 2morrow i will be a mum again
The RD version...typing 1 handed
2 am water broke
6 am drove to birth suite
hypnobabies & nap
9 am got in birth pool
ate cinnamon rolls, drank juice, hung out
labor was totally managable until transition and pushing---those hurt like hell. No meds, interventions or cervical checks in labor!
Cord around neck 3x
Baby born in tub at noon, 10 lbs!! 21.5 inches! Healthy. Lots of hair. No tearing or stitches.
I went into shock after--so the birth endorphins were a little delayed, but now I am so proud of myself!!
Name is Aislinn Elisabeth.
Good luck this weekend girls!
oh congratulatons! i have been waiting to hear news! sounds like you had a rough time, i am so glad little jude made it here ok, well done you!
one more to go! xx
OMG! Congratulations everyone!!!! I am so sorry there has been radio silence...I had a catalogue of disaster, but Jude Santiago is here, alive and well and was born on 24th Feb!!!!
Here goes -
went to hospital for routine check up on Wed 23rd at 3pm - Blood pressure through roof, protein in urine - they wouldn't let me home!!!
Bany's heartbeat also through roof so they couldn't start the induction and consultant said perhaps we would go down the road of an emergency section.
Staff changed - change of opinion.
Just as I got the first pessary (can't spell it) for emergency induction my phone completely packed in with ALL my numbers and contacts!!!
Monitored from the word go so no birthing pool etc.
Ted got to hosp around 7.30 and was kicked out at 9 - labour started properly around midnight.
From midnight until 10am I had no pain relief - midwives were about to give me 3rd pessary???????? when, lucky for me, a doctor passed and realised I was contracting hard and often. Examined me there and then, told the midwives I needed the labout suite, not another pessary, so off I went.
From 10am until 8pm I sweated it out with gas an air - and diomorphine in the middle of that somewhere which wore off....baby got stuck at 9cm dilated for 3 hours....then I had an emergency c section!!!
After that my blood pressure hit sky high and I have only just got out of hospital - it went from 112 (my normal) to 205 and I have some heavy duty bp meds to take!!!
I am only home ands will post again soon....Jude is so delightful I would do it all again.....I kept looking on the board for Kathleen's name but did not see her! The hospital is pretty big and there are so many rules that I was reluctant to go searching too much!! Hopefully we will hear something soon.
I am so delighted for everyone - I am so nervous about being home too - catch up soon lovely mummies!!! xxx
Aw Kathleen she is beautiful and love the name! Sorry u had such a scary time, must have been so frightening for you, I'm glad she's home and well now!
Sophia try not to get disheartened, I think every breastfeeding mother thinks the same at some point. Juliette also lost a lot of her birthweight-12% which is so much that apparantly she should have been taken back in to hosp. I was told to express after each feed and to top her up with the extra with a spoon or cup (although unused a bottle) and she put on weight really quickly again. She also had jaundice so midwife said to put her cot in front of a window as the light would help it go.
We have a busy weekend here as it is dd's 4th birthday on sun so we are going to the cinema and bowling today and have presents and party for 20 kids on Sunday. All with no sleep! Wish me luck!
Will post more pics of juliette when I'm on the pc and not on my phone!
Xx
Lexi has lost 8oz of birth weight too, so its perf normal.
She also has jaundice, but i too am keeping her near the window and it should lift soon enough.
So whats your routine with feeds?
Im bottle feeding which is probably much more structured that yous who are BFing.
lexi gets about 60 - 80mls every 4-ish hours
10.30
2.30
6.30
AM and PM...........
how scary is the first night home? i kept checking her to see if she is breathing!
Also.......... i suppose we should move..
We are no longer Pregnancy after a loss..
Where to now ladies?