Due July 2012 Thread

Tinkerbell4484 wrote: »

hi girls,just a quick post,i was kept after my clinic app on monday,baby is very small,measuring at 34weeks (im 38†1) and wighing 5lb so im having a section next wednesday.
my 1st section so any advice appreciated

Hi Tinkerbell,

I had an emergency section on my daughter. From the time they decided to do the section to her being born it was about 20 minutes. Super fast and they talk you through every step. Was bed bound for a few hours after the birth but hubbie was there to hand her to me. You'll be a bit groggy from the drugs and the next day your tum will be tender. The nurses will make you get up the next day and advise you to try n stand as striaght as possible so the wound doesnt tighten. Just take it slowly. Don't be afraid to ask for more pain medication if you need it. You'll feel a bit sore, but you would whichever way baby comes out :-) Every day makes a huge difference and once you're up on your feet you'll be very taken up with your new little one:):):)

One small piece of advice, bring a cushion of your own pillow to put against your tum when getting in and out of bed.

Oh yes, bring something for going home in that doesn't have a seam or band that will rest just above knicker line.

That's all I can think of at the moment...if you've any questions ask away
xx

Kildareash what are you trying to do to me...we are due on the same day!!!!

Best of luck and I hope all goes really well for you over the next day or so Not sure re the room but it's worth asking!

Tinkerbell good luck for Wednesday - I can't tell you anything about a section but it's looking like I'll be having my own experience soon enough

Kildareash: here I know (because I asked) you can't use your health insurance for a private room if you've gone public for the consultant... there's no semi private option it is either private or public so that might make a difference?

And oh my god I'm so excited for you: it's all starting now When visiting hours are over you might find people are a bit more inclined to be a bit chatty... but often they aren't Get someone to bring you in books/magazines/puzzlers anything to keep you entertained. And earplugs if its not too late: they do make a difference at night.

I've realised I never got my proper antenatal appt because they admitted me: so now I still don't know when they are planning to induce/section me, if they've changed their minds (and if they have there will be cross words), the plan to have doc there when baby born just in case: one thing I've learnt over the last fortnight is notes aren't read at all. GP tomorrow and back there again next Tues so I 'll see then

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Wow I haven't been here for a week or so and suddenly 2 babies are born!
how exciting!
Congrtaulations Barrimec and Kildare Ash!
A boy and a girl aahhhhh...
Makes ya wonder.... who's next!?!?

Well that's two of us gone 3 weeks early on our first babies, so I guess so far the general idea of going 2 weeks over on your first has been abolished

OH had a small freak out when I told him another girl gone 3 weeks early, I told him that'll be me in 2 weeks time.

Needless to say I think the cot & changing table will be assembled this weekend without fail.

Mink my partner hasn't slept very well when Barremic & Kildareash have gone into labour...it freaks her out a bit! Last night she spent the night dreaming about walking hospital floors with me

If this keeps up she will shattered by my turn

Ginny wrote: »

Mink knowing our luck we will be here till August!!!

Oh I'd hate that to be honest.

My ideal would be to go maybe 39 or 39.5 weeks. That gives me a week of maternity leave to chill but I won't get too bored if you know what I mean.

having some back pain so im on the ball, my oh is behind me sorting out our bill and important document file asking me fifty questions.
*i Will not kill him, i Will not kill him*

theg81der wrote: »

Congrats Kildareash!!! can`t wait to hear all the details!

Is it just me or do you all feel like crying when you hear someone has their baby? weird....

ha ha i told ash on Facebook this morning i did cry lol

Sure I'd cry at anything these days! Can't believe the second July baby is here already, contracts Ash!

Lads in totally non pregnancy related news, I went out to our dodgy extension where the washing machine and freezer live last night and nearly stepped on a dead mouse with his head stuck in a trap in the middle of the floor, let a scream out of me, ran back into the kitchen, boyfriend freaked out thinking I was falling down in labour, I'm in floods of tears all hysterical like (hormones and shock and sheer disgust don't mix!) and can't tell him what's wrong, so we both freak out for a little while til I manage to point in the general direction, say something like deaaaaaaaaaad waaaah! And he goes off to have a look, comes back visibly laughing at me, which doesn't help, takes me away into the front room and goes to dispose of the poor little yoke down the field. My landlord thought I was nuts insisting there were mice ages ago, but eventually came along with traps and poison to humour me or prove he'd catch nothing or whatever, they were terrible traps, clearly. Half the length of the house that mouse ran with the trap on its head. ick! So now I feel like the mousey Hitler, and all night I had nightmares about the mice taking their revenge.
Talk to me about humane traps here people, and ways to keep them out, cos I really don't like the idea of poison down on the ground to be walked in around the house when the little man gets here.
Also, pile of laundry be damned, I'm never going back out there again!

notsobusy wrote: »

We had a mouse in the kitchen ages ago and we put down poison and traps but nothing worked for ages. it ate the poison but no dead mouse.....then the trap got it and OH left the mouse in the trap in the kitchen because he thought I would want to see it!!! On top of the counter near the dishwasher so there was no way I would miss it. I was not impressed.

Oh dear god, if I'd have had the stomach for it your OH would have been slapped round the head with that there mouse! Yucks! whatever about in a dodgy extension THAT I CAN TOTALLY AVOID FROM NOW TIL THE END OF MY DAYS (washing machine be damned) in your kitchen?! bah! I'm of the impression though, where one mousey gets in, there's ALWAYS another mousey not far behind...my landlords going to LOVE me for the next few weeks, fill the place with petrol and set it on fire. Its the only way.

Over-react? Me? Never!

girls i am so fed up and bored now waiting around.

give me something to do please!

javagal wrote: »

girls i am so fed up and bored now waiting around.

give me something to do please!

Well something I've planned for when I'm on mat leave is getting loads of photos printed & doing a collage type thing, putting together a scrap book for baby etc. At least it's something you can do sitting.

Every since the arrival of the digital camera, people rarely have actual printed photos around their home. My photo albums all end around 2003 which is when I got a digital camera for the first time.