Due July 2012 Thread

Congrats Mamaheidi!!!

Congrats Mamaheidi :-)

Mink I love my maternity leave too but Im getting slightly bored. I sorted all warranties, stationary, and cards today ;-)

Both my pregnancy apps have changed to congratulations.

boy,were they erased!

notsobusy-2nd July - *Boy* - BORN 27th June, 7lbs 2oz
Tinkerbell4484 - 4th July - *Girl* - BORN 25th June, 5lbs 3oz
Mamaheidi-8th July - *Girl* - BORN 14th July, 7lbs 6oz
Cyning-8th July *girl* - BORN 7th July, 7lbs 15oz
Barremic -9th July *boy* - BORN 17th June, 6lbs 14oz
Javagal-9th July - *Girl*
Robinc-9th July - *Girl* - BORN 3rd July, 6lbs 15oz
Kiwi2011-12th July
Kash-13th July - *Girl* - BORN 14th July, 9lbs
WWC1 - 13th July
minibear - 13th July (scheduled induction) *Girl*
Nyquist Freak -14th July - *Boy* - BORN 10th July
KildareAsh-15th July Girl - BORN 22nd June, 7lbs 8oz
Twomums2be - 15th July *Girl* - BORN 10th July, 8lbs 8oz
Feest - 15th July
Silly- 18th July
Fri.Day - 18th July - *Boy*
Mmm...chicken - 21st July
Trions - 22nd July
Saurelin- 22nd July - *Girl*
March11 - 24th July
Ginny - 25th July
Tinkerbell79 - 27th July *Girl*
Mink- 28th July - *Boy*
Jennytightlips - 29th July
theg81der- 31st July - *Boy*


Yay mamaheidi. Two Bastille Day babies!

Baby Amelia arrived on Saturday morning, weighing in at 7 lbs, 6 ozs and 20 inches long.

My story is slightly dramatic and I don't mean to scare any ladies waiting to deliver. Skip it if you're sensitive, but there is a very happy ending!

My waters broke on Thursday night. By Friday night contractions were regular and 5 minutes apart so OH and I headed to the hospital. I was only 1 cm dilated, but allowed to stay in to see how we progressed through the night. The midwife on duty said I would progress slowly and would probably end up being induced the next morning. No sugar coating it, the pain grew so intense. By 5:00am I begged her to exam me. I think once she had an induction in her mind she was hard to sway to think baby may have other plans. Well I was then 4 cm dilated so brought into a birthing room and an epidural was called. It didn't hurt *at all*. Within 30 mins the epidural was in effect and lovely. This is when it got scary though.

A midwife came in mentioning that the baby's heart monitor had malfunctioned. OH and I were happily munching on M&Ms at that point and barely took note as she didn't seem concerned in the least. She replaced the monitor attached to the baby's head and immediately ran out of the room. She was back in seconds with an Ob/Gyn and they ran a quick ultrasound and all chaos broke out. I was moved onto a gurney while being told the baby was in distress and that I needed an emergency C-section. I looked back to OH and he had already been moved out of the room. Within 90 seconds I was in an OR surrounded by surgeons, on my way under general anesthesia. I had no idea what was going on or what went wrong.

The next thing I knew OH was holding our baby above me and told me it was a girl, then I was brought to recovery. For 8 hours I was in and out of consciousness not knowing where OH and Amelia were. The recovery staff did find out that she was healthy and doing fine, but they weren't allowed in to see me.

I was finally in a room with OH and baby at around 4 pm, while Amelia was born at 7.05 am. I was in bits from the meds, pain and just emotional stress of the day. It was also horrible because I felt so detached from the baby and could barely move in bed, much less tend to her or even hold her for long.

Sunday morning the Ob/Gyn came to my room to tell us what happened. The baby's heart monitor had shown a spike so high that they assumed that the machine must have malfunctioned. The rate had ranged normally between 120 - 160 and jumped to 250. The new monitor showed the same reading and the ultrasound confirmed that baby was nearing a coronary attack. In less than 3 minutes she was out of me and has since tested absolutely perfectly. We were so close to losing her. The Ob/Gyn just chalks up her near attack as a freak one of those things and nothing to indicate future problems.

I'm in tears every time I even think about the whole situation. The staff was brilliant and literally saved my baby's life and she is so, so perfect and lovely (and now in a happy milk coma on my chest). I didn't have a "perfect" birth scenario in mind, but I never anticipated a problem or delivering while unconscious. Thankfully my OH was able to be with the baby immediately, cut the cord and dress her, and then spend the whole day bonding with her. Amelia and I had loads of bonding time over our days in the hospital and we're all happily home now in a permanently loved up state.

Thanks for reading; this was cathartic to write. Hope all you other mommies and mommies-to-be have happy and healthy babies!

Congrats Feest, glad you are recovering well & your wee girl is doing good, looks like she is a smiler from the photos, very cute!!

jennytightlips wrote: »

hi ladies
sorry i havent been on in a while
my little boy Dylan was born on the 13th by c section weighing 6lbs 7 ozs and all is well. Hope everybody is doing ok

Congrats jenny! Loads of birth announcements today

wow busy weekend
congrats jenny and bubs:)
also you feest ....sounds very scary though im wrecked so not sure if iread post properly but ye must have gotten some fright,,ends well though:)
have ye got the anglecare after that drama i dont think id sleeep again till babs is 18


sorry to queue jump(but at the same time hopefully i do)
but ive been having contractions since 11 last night ,20 mins apart for 5 hrs then 10 for 4 hours then 5mins for aboout 3 pain is bad but not killer but went to hospital at 8 this morning out of pure tiredness....

labour has started but no dilation(afetr 12 hours) yet so they sent me home:mad:
on the upside as they said im defo in labour so was able to put on tens machine when i came home..its an absolute godsend
few tears during the night and zero sleep but since im using it im managing mini 4 minute power naps .
anyway ive been 5 mins apart for 7 hours now so theres a good chance ill still be here on sat .
now i know what robin meant about being happy to have epidural in the eye:) id buy it in a back alley now if i could...


hope every1 else is doing well....any word on java?

Morning all, just to check in and let ye know I'm still alive! I had a post written out yesterday to keep ye all updated with things, but phone ate it. Feest your birth experience sounds kind of similar to mine only my baby didn't go into distress, something happened with me that I can't really remember much more of than having my head and arms held down by midwife and surgical assistants, completely panicing and being sedated, and some other stuff I don't really want to think about any more. I was completely out of it for that whole day after, remember very little and only really got to make friends with my little man about 3am, 12hours after he was born. Just wanted to let you know I get what you mean about the disconnect from the baby and how hard you must be finding recovery compared to the other women around you, I'm a week down today and I'm only starting to settle. I couldn't make the connection between baby in my arms (who's lovely and placid and Ive taken to looking after better than I thought I would) and the one I carried for months in my belly, I think I even grieved him a bit, its been strange anyway, and last accidental deleted post probably described what I mean a bit better but anyway. I know myself I could still do with a debriefing or a chat with someone who was there or something, I was unconscious for the actual birth too but apparently I wasn't supposed to be, I don't know they wouldn't tell me the whole story of it anyway. You're probably dealing with it a bit better than I did too by the sounds of it, but if you ever need a chat or a rant about it feel free to PM me, not that I'll be any help but I know where you might be at with some of it I think. Mind yourself for the next few days, especially day 4/5. Finally really starting to bond with the little man too, its good. Its just very different to how I thought things would be.
Anyway, hope the rest of ye are doing well

notsobusy-2nd July - *Boy* - BORN 27th June, 7lbs 2oz
Tinkerbell4484 - 4th July - *Girl* - BORN 25th June, 5lbs 3oz
Mamaheidi-8th July - *Girl* - BORN 14th July, 7lbs 6oz
Cyning-8th July *girl* - BORN 7th July, 7lbs 15oz
Barremic -9th July *boy* - BORN 17th June, 6lbs 14oz
Javagal-9th July - *Girl*
Robinc-9th July - *Girl* - BORN 3rd July, 6lbs 15oz
Kiwi2011-12th July
Kash-13th July - *Girl* - BORN 14th July, 9lbs
WWC1 - 13th July
minibear - 13th July (scheduled induction) *Girl*
Nyquist Freak -14th July - *Boy* - BORN 10th July, 8lbs 2oz
KildareAsh-15th July Girl - BORN 22nd June, 7lbs 8oz
Twomums2be - 15th July *Girl* - BORN 10th July, 8lbs 8oz
Feest - 15th July - *girl* - BORN 14th July, 7lbs 6oz
Silly- 18th July
Fri.Day - 18th July - *Boy*
Mmm...chicken - 21st July
Trions - 22nd July
Saurelin- 22nd July - *Girl*
March11 - 24th July
Ginny - 25th July
Tinkerbell79 - 27th July *Girl*
Mink- 28th July - *Boy*
Jennytightlips - 29th July - BORN 13th July, 6lbs 7oz
theg81der- 31st July - *Boy*


Wow I can't keep up with these birth announcements! That's nearly 1/2 of us gone!!! Congrats Jennytightlips, eek your due date was day after mine!

Congrats Feest & all the other recent mammies. Hope the rest of you are hanging in there - it really is worth the wait. Java I know you must be going cracked at this stage but it'll all be worth it. Just hope you've thought of a suitable reply for the 'it's not long now' and 'are you still waiting' questions' grrrr

Decided to do lots of cleaning so no chance to be on this, of course that's when loads happens.... Congrats mamaheidi, feest - glad ur both ok after that!! And Jenny hope that's everyone!!