Homebirth General Discussion #10

[turtlejane]

Hi everyone, I'm 8weeks with my second bub, due late Jan / early Feb planning another homebirth after having a wonderful birth with DD at home 2.5years ago!

Hi Jennifer! nice to 'see' you here!

[Cricket]

Welcome Turtlejane! Congrats on the new little one on the way!

Yes, it is funny how people look at homebirth. I was reading through a birth story on another forum, and was thinking the whole time "This would have been so much easier if you had just stayed home!" The birth went fine, over all, but every difficulty was hospital related - packing up the other kids and dropping them off, driving to the hospital and encountering bumpy roads and traffic troubles, trying to get up to the labour and delivery floor in hard labour, trying to answer admitting questions while in transition, being required to lie down for monitoring, having to hold still for blood work, having to wait to push until the doctor got there, etc., etc. If she had stayed home, everyone would have come to her, and the whole business could have been much easier!

We're doing well here. DH got fifth disease as well, but he's over it now, and Anna has thrush and we discovered she has a femoral hernia, but that's no big deal right now, and should close on it's own. She slept so well last night! Only woke up once between 11pm and 8am.

[Jennifer13]

Welcome turtlejane and congrats! Good to get a 2013 list underway. I think I know who you are, but since I don't usually call you turtle, feel free to enlighten me!

Em, birth is hard work but it sounds like you put in a great effort. Looking forward to reading your birth story.

[Tanya]

Welcome newbies I hope your pregnancies are I eventful

My birth pool arrived today

Also got to have a snuggle of Em's beautiful little squishy! Oh my he is so very sweet! Lucky I am already pregnant! Lol

Have been getting a bit of pain in my right SI joint but itisn't too bad at the moment. My last pregnancy I was in a fair bit of pain at this point, I am hoping to avoid a chiropractic appointment.

[Mirimum]

a little old lady with a wart on her nose, a cackle and a rusty razor

I laughed my arse off

[HotI]

"Simply Birth" on facebook are selling La Bassine birth pools today for $100 incl postage due to storm wetting the boxes.

[Tanya]

D'oh, could have saved a few $

[Ilithyia]

"Simply Birth" on facebook are selling La Bassine birth pools today for $100 incl postage due to storm wetting the boxes.

Oooo!! Will check it out!!

Thank!
xx


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[Cassius2]

darn it! time difference did me in lol. i so would of bought one!!!

[Ilithyia]

I missed out too


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[HotI]

Sorry, i think they were probably gone by the time i posted. i just saw it and posted straight away without checking how many were left. Good deal for those who got in early though.

[PumpkinZulu]

Damn, that would have been awesome.

[Ilithyia]

Yeah people went nuts! One woman wanted 3!!

How much are they normally?


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[Cassius2]

i think they are normally around 165 for your standard, but loads more for the 'professional' ones....

[meow]

Welcome to the newbies!! Love seeing more HBs being planned!

How did your scan go Cassius? No triggers and a positive experience I hope

[Cassius2]

the scan went awesomely!!! we have another beautiful baby girl baking away!! the scan place was awful...right smack-bang in a filthy, dark hospital as part of the maternity section. there was no colour or even pretence of trying to make the place look 'homely' like they do in aus maternity hospitals. and the poor women were 6 to a room with all the doors open so you were totally on show and babies are taken to nursery as the norm and THEN they call your NUMBER (you are alloted a group number!!) and off you all trot in your wee group to go and see and feed your baby i kid you not! i was ready to run out due to the horror. thankfully my calmbirth training has been useful beyond the birth and i was able to visualise myself outta that place lol. and the sonographer was a real number i tell ya, actually TOTALLY apologised with sincerity to MY DH that we were unfortunately (his words!) having another girl! it is the first time i wanted to punch someone really hard. how dare he. so so happy that i am staying at home for this baby and have a wonderful beautiful team behind me and my family.

[Tegam]

Wow that is just horrid I'm sorry you had to face that. At least it's got to make the cost of Hb feel worth it!
So is the baby never with the mum in the room?

[Jennifer13]

I hope you get through this pg with a h&h babe at the end too, Sara, boy or girl. (And a beautiful home birth as well!).

We swayed for a boy, because DP really wanted a boy. Now I get to be with DD1 as she's growing up, I can understand why he'd want a boy. There's things she and I (and DD2 as well, when she's older) get to share that he doesn't 'get'. And because he hasn't seen it from having a boy, he doesn't know what he'd miss out on if he didn't have a girl. ITMS. Part of me wonders what having a son would be like, but I don't really dwell on it, so I can't say I'd be disappointed not to have one.

Frankly, I'd be happy to have half a dozen and chances are eventually I'd get both genders. (Although we do have a friend's sister who had six girls in a row... number seven was a boy - and no, they didn't 'keep trying for a boy'! They just wanted a big family). Since DP doesn't want half a dozen, he's going to have to love what he's got.

And my girls are two of those odd children who sleep, so maybe I shouldn't mess with that!