Turtlejane had a little baby girl at home 31/1/13!
I'll leave the details for her when she gets a chance to pop in but sounds like it went perfectly and she is so cute!
Congrats!!
Printable View
Turtlejane had a little baby girl at home 31/1/13!
I'll leave the details for her when she gets a chance to pop in but sounds like it went perfectly and she is so cute!
Congrats!!
:babyneutral: Babies Arrived :homebirth:
Jennifer13- Baby GIRL born at home 4th January 2012
Bella29- Baby GIRL born at home 10th January
HotI - Baby BOY born at home 21st January
*Ash*- Baby BOY born at home 14th February
loulabelle - Baby BOY born at home 24th February
Cricket - Baby GIRL born at home 15th May
chocorama - May
...Em - Baby BOY born at home 7th June
BellyBelly - Baby GIRL born 11th August
Tanya - Baby BOY born at home 16th August
phynna - Baby GIRL born at home 8th September
lady_neon - Baby BOY born 27th September
Ambersky - Baby BOY born at home 3rd October
Cassius - Baby GIRL born at home 4th November
Ice cream - September
mirriumu - November
Pumpkinzulu - Baby GIRL born at home 12th December
- 2013 -
Sara - Baby BOY born 18th January 2013
turtlejane - Baby GIRL born 31st January 2013
:pregnant: Babies On Their Way :bellyrubs:
Ree*Ree - March
Shells79 - March
Aimz - March
Bellany - March
Beatrix - April
Rubyshoes - April
HomeStyleMumma - May
Dollyroux - June
ladybirdflies - June
sepata - September
WilliamsMummy - September
Cricket - September
Loulabelle - September
:leap: Congrats turtlejane! Nice birthdate, My DS was born 21/1/12. (i am a bit nerdy and like number patterns)
:hooray: Congrats Turtlejane!!! Can't wait to hear more :D
Congrats turtlejane!
Congrats Turtlejane! Hope all is well with you and the little lady! Can't wait to hear all about it! :)
WAHOO TURTLEJANE!!!!!
:happyforyou:
Welcome welcome welcome little girl!!!
Congratulations turtlejane, can't wait to hear your story.
congrats Turtlejane!!!
Congratulations turtlejane! :D
Jasmine is a big sister! Sienna Jane was born at home in the water Thursday evening 31/1/13 at 8:40pm. 3.71kg (8 pound 3oz). 56 cm long.
Amazing birth! Fast, intense but beautiful! I felt her head with my hands as she emerged, and caught her myself! labour was less than 3 hours from first niggles. Jas was there for the birth, was very chilled during the labour and so excited to meet her sister and have cuddles :)
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8084/8...d86835967e.jpg
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8185/8...e237370c53.jpg
So cute, love the one of sisterly cuddles. Congrats again, gorgeous name too.
Oh how fabulous! Sienna is just delicious :D
Beautiful pictures. Such precious memories to capture like that. :) Congratulations again!
Gorgeous!
Oh Em, I've been meaning to say I loved your birth vid, thanks so much for sharing!
Meeting with a birth photographer on Tuesday, so excited! Found her through a pic shared on the BWF facebook page :D
oh wow! you are living my dream lol! i would of loved a birth photographer....and through the BWF site that is super cool. love that blog.:
I was a bit worried that DH would put his foot down and say no, he's a pretty private guy when it comes to birth. But he surprised me and is actually fine with it :D
The photo she had published was a gorgeous tandem feeding pic, right when the whole BF-in-public commotion started. She is so well priced, and studying to be a doula, I can't believe my luck!
Congratulations Turtlejane, she is beautiful. And yay to a safe and speedy birth!!
Hi to everyone else!!! 24 weeks here now, and everything is going very well, bub is growing and moving, and there is not much else to report!! Have a midwife appointment next week, they seem to come around really quick! I have to make a decision about whether to do the diabetes test. The last midwife was confident in not needing it, because of signs and symptoms but this one is not, so I am not sure what to do?? Any advice or personal experience appreciated!!
We have the birth pool a friend has lent us, and I am slowly trying to think about who to ask to come and support our children while I birth. The girls grow more and more excited each day as my belly grows, it is so incredible to share this with the children, especially the older two 11 and 9, they really have such a different sense of what is going on this time.
I hope this finds you all well, I will go and have a read of what has been happening whilst I have been away the last few weeks! xx
Ladybirdflies - look up the risk factors for gestational diabetes, as well as the effectiveness of the glucose test, and make your decision from there.
I've skipped mine the past couple of times, and my first midwife was not OK with that, but I was confident in my decision. (She said "Well, the only other person I've had who skipped their diabetes test had a stillbirth...:o Good grief.)
My second midwife said that since I was very low-risk and had no history of large babies or any other indications of GD she was fine with that.
Yay for a birth photographer Ree Ree! I wonder if I know them?!
YAY turtlejane! Congratulations on the birth of another beautiful baby girl!!!
Sorry can't post anything else I really need to go back to sleep (dh woke me leaving for work) coz its 5am here.... Yawn.
It's B. elle V. erdiglione Photography:
Hope you got some more sleep HSM!
Ladybird, how cute that your kidlets are getting so excited :D Re: the GD testing, I like Cricket's suggestion. I did decide to do the test in the end.
Getting nervous now, just about to head out to see IM.
Appt went absolutely great. She seems like a great advocate for home births and natural labour. She was asking if I wanted scans or bt, saying they weren't necessary if I didn't want them. She wasn't really for the down syndrome test, saying it causes more stress than eases it, and gd test, saying I was young and healthy and that it is very unreliable. She went on to say how much of these are encouraged to increase intervention.
She was the first professional to praise me for bf whilst pg, and even recommended talking to a lactation consultant about my future bf plans. She was saying how my body sounded perfect for natural labour, saying how all the symptoms that were worrying me were purely my body doing what it was meant to be doing.
It felt so nice to talk to someone about my pg and labour plans, who actually seemed really interested and totally ready to back me up throughout my whole journey. It's nice feeling like I'm going to have full control over MY body.
Sounds like you're onto a winner there WM, what an awesome appointment!
That is awesome WM!
Thanks for the referral hotI.
This is totally what it's all about! So thrilled for you! And so excited as well! wahoo!:
Sounds like a great MW there Williamsmummy!! I never had the GD test with any of my pg's. I did do the downs test though but thats personal choice
Well only 9 weeks left for me.. which means the supplies will be dropped off in 5 weeks and we are good to go. Im actually so ill prepared, which is unlike me but Im so tired. I need to get a second mattress which is what i plan on birthing on in the lounge room and also need to pack mine and bubs transfers bags JIC. I dont even have any type of birth plan written or really even though off... just birth = baby out!!
This is one very active child, the girls were no where like this. It wakes me up during the night with extremely powerful kicks and all day long I can feel it spinning and moving. Not head down yet completely does go that way occasionally but seems to like transverse position mainly... bum on one side and head on the other while stretching is so much fun. But im enjoying it while I can as this bubs is my last. My poor body can not handle this again.
My student midwife seems to be more excited about my possible homebirth then I am ROFL.. apparently all her friends she is studying with are jealous because its a rare oppertunity and her other 4 births she has attended have all ended in CS.. so she is praying she makes this birth on time!!
Beatrix I can't believe how fast your pg has gone! LOL at your student midwife, how cool. Hope she does makes it there in time!
AFM I started buying some aromatherapy candles for B-Day. Not sure if I should be getting calming/relaxing scents, or energising, so I got both, lol!
Also, do you ladies think I could have too many people present at the birth?
So far I have:
Me
DH
DS
Midwife 1
Midwife 2
Photographer
Mum (maybe, see how I feel on the day, but she would love to be there. As would 2 of my Aunties!)
And now my photographer knows a student Doula who would like to support me if I'm interested. I would like to help her out with the experience she needs to finish her certification, and she sounds really lovely and calming, but I think maybe I have enough people involved already? Or is a doula always invaluable, no matter who else is there? But then I also don't want the midwives to feel like I think their support is inadequate and I need someone else to help me through...
Thoughts? Experience?
I think it's really up to you who you have at your birth. I wouldn't worry about how other people feel about it too much. It might be wise though, to tell some of these people that you *might* decide not to call them, depending on how you feel. It could well be that you'll get into labour and really feel the need to be private and alone, and if you've got a crowd of people there, that could be difficult. But if you feel like you want a nice group of people there with you supporting you and cheering you on, then you'll have plenty to call on!
I would maybe suggest that there be someone who can care for your son, who won't mind missing the birth, if necessary. Your mum might be a good choice for that. He might be upset, or just bored, or whatever, and he'll also need his usual care - snacks, meals, etc., and someone who you really need with you can't be running off to do all that for him.
About the doula - I haven't had one myself, but I've heard that midwives generally like to have a doula there. Her focus is different than the midwives'. They are going to be looking a little more at your physical wellbeing and safety, as well as the baby's, whereas the doula is focused more on your comfort and emotional state. There is definitely overlap - a good midwife will also be concerned about your comfort and emotions too, obviously, but they might not be her primary concern during the birth.
All the best with getting the final details together!
Oh - about the scents - more choices are always better I think. You never know what you're going to want in the moment. :)
My midwives have been kind of the same. :) At my last birth, they wanted to call in one of the other midwives (at 3am!) who was just about to take her own maternity leave, so that she could see my nice homebirth and have some good memories before her own baby was born. I guess the last two births she had attended got complicated, and they wanted her to leave on a good note. At 3am, heavily pregnant, I think I'd shoot someone who called me out of my bed to attend a birth I didn't HAVE to be at!:
I agree. I had this philosophy both times. First time i didn't call the student because of personal happenings the day before that made me wanting less people. Second time, i did call my student. Both times it was the right thing, and both students understood that they may not be at the birth. First time, my student visited couple days later and i got to debrief a little which was nice.:
It doesn't sound like too much to me. It depends on how you feel.
So far I have: dh, ds, 2 midwives, student midwife, and a friend (who'll be videoing it). I'm also considering to invite my SIL so she can watch my ds. But if this labour is anything like my first, I won't really notice anyone but my midwife and dh. I kind of go into my own zone.
I was thinking of inviting my mother, because she would love to be involved. But in the end she's not very well, and I don't want to have to look after her or worry about her whilst I'm in labour.
Hi Everyone!!
Ree Ree like the others say, it is up to you. THis is part of building the birth team, asking questions and getting a few plans in place that may or may not happen. A doula will mean that your partner will be more supported and if she is good, the midwives will feel supported by her too. No amount of people is too much, it's totally up to you. Even having a conversation with the midwife about the doula is part of you building trust with her which happens as you get closer to birth, the depth of you dropping and trusting those around you deepens and the birth team keeps shaping right up until the day of the birth. We have quite a team lined up this time. Each child (three) will probably have their own support person, and then two midwives and of course my husband. We also have offers of people to come after the birth to clean up and take children and cook. That is if everything goes to that plan, if it's the middle of the night we won't call the helpers probably. My births have been super quick in the past, my longest has been two hours from first contraction, so i just want the children and hubby to make it!! Last time I wanted no-one supporting, but this placed a whole lot of stress on DH and he really found it difficult to drop in and be present with me when he was worrying about our girls, heaters on, water in tub and all the other little things.It was then that I realised how important it is for him to feel supported so he can stay present next time. Go well in the next few weeks.
Plodding along here myself. 25 weeks and feeling pretty tired this time still. I keep waiting for that burst of amazing pregnancy glow. and whilst I feel pretty good I am just not as spritely as I have been in the past. I guess that happens when you keep having babies?
I have a midwife apt in the morning so I am going to talk to her in depth about the diabetes testing, I am not getting a clear yes or no about what I should do, so I guess I will gather more information and wait for the answer to drop in. We have the birthpool collecting dust in our spare room, I am just so excited to be able to use it, I love that part!!!
Hope everyone is traveling well xx
Rae rae- for this birth we have so far being there... DH, the 2 midwives, student midwife, my 3 kids, my mum and possibly my MIL (my mum is my girls support person) I havent asked MIL yet cause Im slightly undecided, she is a lovely lady but labor sometimes makes me feel very vulnerable and not sure yet.
My midwife app is wed, then I think I will be on fortnightly ones for two weeks then weekly ones.. which means I guess its getting closer. I am yet to organise the mattress as well for my lounge room so I better get onto that!! Gonna see if any friends have a old mattress they wish to get rid of.... before i hit the classifieds
Bea - can you not use your current mattress and just put a protector on with some plastic sheets underneath?
Aimz- i have brought water proof protector for my bed.. its just I want to not worry about my sheet etc (will buy cheap sheets for spare mattress) and then have my clean fresh bed ready to crawl into after a shower.... plus not to mention then everyone will be crowded into my bedroom for the birth whereas the lounge offers more space, rights next to dinning room where others can sit and let me do my thing while monitoring me and my fit ball is on the lounge too
Hi everyone :hello:
I haven't been in this thread since I was pregnant with DD3 - and she's nearly 2!
I am considering a homebirth for this one, but there are a couple of things stopping us at the moment. First is cost. Its so exxy up here in Queensland to have one! It was $2,000 for my independent birth centre births in tassie, including everything - appointments, birth, after care - everything!
I've looked up a couple of midwives but they all say around 5 grand is their average figure. So I thought I would contact the Sunshine Coast ones - does anyone here have any experience with them? One of the groups up there have my old OB on staff, and a midwife that saw me through DD1's devastating c-section - so that attracts me to contact them. I don't even know if they DO homebirths or just hospital care.
Plus, I'm worried that I'm too high risk now, even for an IM. This is my 5th pregnancy, 3rd VBA2C - plus I lost 800ml after my birth with DD3 (something I have been told that will not be looked upon favourably with any IM's). I asked my midwife in tassie if she felt like a holiday in Queensland in September, but I'm pretty sure she will be a bit busy running the birth centre, as nice as that thought is. However, she would be fine doing a homebirth, if I still lived in Tassie.
I have a student midwife (a friend) who can see me through my pregnancy at Caboolture Hospital, but I really really really don't want to birth in hospital. I've had basically 2 homebirths, and I don't want to be pressured into something nor have to fight for what I want.
Argh. Any advice? Anything? LOL