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The Pregnancy Chat Thread!
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Oh hospital notes... hospital keep those cos I'm public
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I have slippers, dressing gown... have a disposable camera somewhere that I'll need to put in the bag... sponge is another good one, but he won't touch a sponge cos he's afraid of them!!!0 -
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My auntie just had her baby! I've seen him twice for about an hour each time and he sleeps through the whole thing! Awake for a few hours each night and slept through about 10 family having a loud lunch! Madness.
Congrats all!
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CathyMoran wrote: »I shouldnt be saying anything as we just found out (and anything can happen, we are not expecting to be lucky this time) - we are pregnant! We were only trying for a month so it is totally unexpected!
Congratulations Don't worry, we won't tell anyone 0 -
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Hi Ladies I'm going a little off the subject here but I hope you can offer some advice. Myself & my husband want to try for a baby but I only started a new job 2 months ago. I am in a managerial position and I don't know how my employers would take it if I got pregnant so soon after joining puls their policy is not to pay full salary until I am in the position 2 years which would mean I need to wait until this time next year to even begin trying. Should I just go for it and risk them being annoyed and take the BIG salary drop (I'm sure once I have a child I wont be too worried about the drop in income)????? All advise welcome
Can you discretely check what their policy is regarding maternity leave? I actually started my current job at 5 months pregnant with my last child, as a result I couldn't claim their fully paid maternity leave, hadn't been there the full year. They can't hold the pregnancy against you, but maybe waiting a few months would make things easier on yourself in the long run? And it's when the child arrives that you'll need the extra income!! Good luck regardless! 0 -
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Ok so, while my little princess is asleep (thank god...) I'll tell you about the birth...
So my waters broke at 6am on Thursday morning and I wasn't sure if they had or not, so my boyfriend checked my pj's and said he thought that's what it was. Rang the hospital and they told me to come in, so packed the bags into the car and off we went. Arrived at the hospital and the midwife hooked me up to the trace and I was having mild contractions, baby was very sleepy (hello, it was 8am in the morning, she was always sleepy round then), so they sent me for something to eat. Went for food and came back to be hooked up to trace again and got an internal. He told me my waters had broken but I was not in labour. He booked me in for the induction and sent me home, told me to come back if pains got stronger.
Pains eased off around 4pm, so the next morning, back to hospital for 8am and hooked up to trace again, baby sleepy again (lazy witch), so was hooked up to trace for nearly 2 hours!! Doctor came around and told me my waters had only broken from the back so she needed to pop the bag... ouch... that was painful! They told me to walk around for a bit to see if anything started happening but nothing did.
So at 12.30pm I was hooked up to an Oxytocin drip and contractions started, weren't too painful, but then they got stronger and got the gas and air. Ladies, you'll think you're a comedian... I was cracking jokes left right and centre and talking complete jibberish according to my boyfriend!
Gas and air stopped working so got the epidural, this is when they noticed that Addie's heart rate was dropping with every contraction I was having, so they were monitoring me a lot closer. Check her oxygen levels (poor thing had sores on her head from this
) and said she was happy. An hour later she still wasn't, so they decided an emergency section was best option.
Brought me into the theatre and tried to top up my epidural but it stopped working. Tried a spinal block but that wasn't working either, so had to be put under general anesthetic. Woke up with my beautiful baby girl lying beside me.
I was very sore, couldn't get out of bed for two days. Made it very difficult to look after Addison in hospital but the midwives were great. The third day I was a bit weepy as she was getting sick after every feed, ended up having a bit of a cry in the hospital and the midwives looked after her while I got some sleep.
She's not sleeping at night at the moment, but think that's cos she's sleeping too much during the day.
But she's gorgeous and I love her and would do anything for the little witch lol.0 -
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