Homebirth General Discussion #14

[Cricket]

double post

[Cassius2]

that is so super cool cricket...i wish i met people like that with those sort of stories!!

Re: strep test. didnt do it for DD2 or DD3. Although when i went into preterm labour with DD3 I requested to only be tested once I was in established labour and it was certain that she was definitely going to come out. they tried to test me then and there but then told me that I would be on bedrest and hopefully labour would stop (which it did). so i told them that there was to be no test done until i was well and truly in labour. I took an assesment of the risk/benefit ratio and realising that if born she would be prem and we wouldnt get as good a care (ie so closely monitored and one on one) in the hospital i felt that in the circumstance of her definitely arriving that the strep test had a place. but thankfully with complete bedrest for weeks i was able to stop labour

HotI: that would of been kinda cool to lug the birth pool to the firies hahaha.

Loulabelle: woo hoo!!! so excited for you!!! living vicariously over here hahaha

Teni: oh man! i am so so happy! what a wonderful guy!! is he through your midwifery mob?? they are so so lovely over there. i did my pregnancy yoga there and they were super cool. pity that i had to stop so abruptly with the preterm labour

Eenee: it'll be here before you know it!! such exciting times...wish i had another one to plan....even after a horror night like last night of being up every 1.5 hours

I am insane lol

[TeniBear]

I know it's usually once a month we're "supposed to" have midwife appointments until later on, but since we've had our first so much earlier than usual, I'm thinking have the next around 12w - six weeks away. Do you all think that's alright, or should I be sticking to one a month anyway? Is there anything they really do this early on? I'm just going by what I remember from hospy stuff, I wasn't even booked into either hospital until around 18-20w. Before that I just went to the GP and told them what I wanted them to do... It feels like I'm starting all over again!

[meow]

I know it's usually once a month we're "supposed to" have midwife appointments until later on, but since we've had our first so much earlier than usual, I'm thinking have the next around 12w - six weeks away. Do you all think that's alright, or should I be sticking to one a month anyway? Is there anything they really do this early on? I'm just going by what I remember from hospy stuff, I wasn't even booked into either hospital until around 18-20w. Before that I just went to the GP and told them what I wanted them to do... It feels like I'm starting all over again!

I think a 6 week break at this point sounds fine. But I wouldn't keep leaving it ages between appointments. I did that with my MW and I regretted it as I was bursting to talk to her and form that bond early on... but she sort of forgot me a bit between our first and second appointments which were ages apart. In hindsight I would have paid the couple of hundred for a couple of extra appointments early on.