Eenee - hope things are going OK! Lets hope the midwife has some good suggestions at your next appointment. :hug:
Nyigi - of course you're welcome to join in here!
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Eenee - hope things are going OK! Lets hope the midwife has some good suggestions at your next appointment. :hug:
Nyigi - of course you're welcome to join in here!
The mrs, I have read a few of the studies into Australian Hb, and they indicate decreased amounts if hemorrhage at hb's than in hospital. It's less likely to happen at home apparently. Probably because of less interference in the birthing process. The oxytocin flows. But I think it is prudent to keep syntocin in the fridge in case you need it. I got a script, but my me had some from previous births that hadn't been used so I just promised to restock her if I used hers.
Hi everyone! I haven't be around at all over the last few months. Congratulations to all the new babes and pregnancies! Things have changed so much in the months I've been away!
Firstly I should let you know that I gave birth to a gorgeous baby boy on the 17/9. He was born at home but unfortunately we needed to transfer a couple of hours later when I had a pph. Little Luca was also born very small at 2.4kg which led to an even longer stay at hospital :( the stay at hospital was quite upsetting, there was quite a lot of smugness on their part because I'd transferred. I had many comments questioning the care I received during pregnancy because of Luca's size. Funnily enough I'd gone in at 37 weeks at request from my me because I was measuring small, only to be told all was fine and refused a growth scan. I guess in the end it turned out ok as if it was discovered I no doubt would have been induced. He is a strong healthy boy, just little.
Birth was so very different this time! I'll have to write it all out.
Eenee, it sounds like you're having a really hard time :( big hugs and lots of love to you xx
The mrs, on the pph stuff. I had one this time. It happened about 2 hours after birth while I was in bed feeding. Honestly, your mw will do everything that they would in hospital. I was given a the injection and they set up a drip with fluid. The called a ambulance strait away and did that while we were waiting. Once I arrived at hospital i was put on a syntocin drip. Pph was always my biggest fear about hb, but when it actually happened I was surprisingly calm, I knew i was in safe hands with medical professionals and the medication I needed.
:baby: Babies Arrived :homebirth:
- 2012 -
Jennifer13- Baby GIRL born at home 4th January 2012
Bella29- Baby GIRL born at home 10th January 2012
HotI - Baby BOY born at home 21st January 2012
*Ash*- Baby BOY born at home 14th February 2012
loulabelle - Baby BOY born at home 24th February 2012
Cricket - Baby GIRL born at home 15th May 2012
chocorama - May 2012
...Em - Baby BOY born at home 7th June 2012
BellyBelly - Baby GIRL born 11th August 2012
Tanya - Baby BOY born at home 16th August 2012
phynna - Baby GIRL born at home 8th September 2012
lady_neon - Baby BOY born 27th September 2012
Ambersky - Baby BOY born at home 3rd October 2012
Cassius - Baby GIRL born at home 4th November 2012
Ice cream - September 2012
mirriumu - November 2012
Pumpkinzulu - Baby GIRL born at home 12th December 2012
- 2013 -
Sara - Baby BOY born 18th January 2013
turtlejane - Baby GIRL born at home 31st January 2013
Bellany - Baby BOYS born 14th March 2013
Ree*Ree - Baby BOY born 18th March 2013
Aimz - Baby BOY born at home 21st March 2013
Beatrix - Baby GIRL born at home 7th April 2013
Rubyshoes - Baby BOY born at home April 2013
Dollyroux - Baby BOY and GIRL born 29th April 2013
HomeStyleMumma - Baby GIRL born 8th May 2013
ladybirdflies - Baby GIRL born at home 23rd May 2013
Cricket - Baby BOY born at home 26th August 2013
Sepata - Baby BOY born at home 31st August 2013
WilliamsMummy -Baby BOY born at home 17th September 2013
Loulabelle - Baby BOY born at home 17th September 2013
Arimeh - Baby BOY born 20th September 2013
:bellygrowing: Babies On Their Way :bellyrubs:
Dot Face - November
Eenee - November
Sunnylove - November
TeniBear - December
*The_Mrs* - December
Jennifer13 - January
Special - January
HotI - February
Arcadia - February
Smoke Jaguar - March
Bella29 - May
Mummas of Little ones who left too soon
Glorious
Ladybug
Woah, I just felt all the blood drain out of my face when I realised there's only one month's worth of EDDs on the list until I'm up the top :lol: Getting very real now!
Congratulations loulabelle on your little boys arrival. We share our birthing days.
Congratulations Loulabelle! Glad to hear that things are well now!
Oops, sorry loulabelle, I didn't see your post. Congratulations on your little boy's arrival :D
Congratulations loulabelle! Sorry that you had to experience the trauma of transferring but glad things are ok now.
Congrats loulabelle!! What wonderful news. Sorry you had to deal with smug mw's :(. Not good at all. It just reinforces why most of us prefer to avoid them. Glad your little man is ok tho. And tiny is adorable! I kinda wouldn't mind a tiny baby. After all my big girls. But only a healthy tiny baby.
Afm, is it just me or did anyone find the idea of their second birth( third but second vaginal birth) more daunting at times than the first? I am feeling a little scared when I try to look forward to this baby's birth. I think it may be because I know what I have to do this time and that is lots of hard work.
It may also be because I am feeling so terribly flat with m/s and first tri exhaustion. That my be coloring my perception of things.
Loulabelle, that's gorgeous news :) Not nice to deal with misconceptions about homebirth when you've just had one - what the hell do they think they'll achieve by doing that to a hormonal and vulnerable woman? I guess many of them forget that's who they're dealing with :( I'm starting to spread the idea that going to a health care giver is THEIR privilege, and not the other way around. When I said that in a roundabout way to my GP (when I thought I'd changed practices in our house move, only to revert to my other one at week 11) she thought about it - instead of ploughing on with her agenda and self-importance - and said it was a good point to remember. Sometimes they need sobering with that thought, and whilst it's too late for your stay, I reckon I can pass it round liberally on behalf of mamas like you, while I've still got the energy ;)
I wasn't going to book into a hospital, but the mw I'm going with works at one that people from my area reasonably book into as well, so it won't look weird. There is one closer to us, but my mw doesn't work at that birth centre. If I need to transfer it will be to the closer one. I wonder if it would fly, in that instance, that I only last minute decided I wasn't going to be forced into a car??
I've had a horrible head cold for a few days and today I can breathe - I also had a nap for a couple of hours while the kids ran around like lunatics on their last day of holidays.
I got a Belly Bandit Upsie Belly in the mail this week, which is pretty awesome for the PGP and it much more discreet and streamlined than the band lent to me by the osteo! That one is now my back up, for when this one's getting washed. My MiL also brought round some mobility aids, so I feel like a granny, but I can get around the house when my pelvis flares up :)
Congrats loulabelle - sorry the hospital wasn't very nice to you. As much as I didn't want to transfer because of the expected attitudes - all the midwives were really good to me and were really supportive of home birth. Even the one who told my friend how lucky I was to be alive.
Bella - yup I got that through the pregnancy and my one before that. It went towards the end of my pregnancy though so don't pay it too much attention xx
Bella - I had a 3 year gap between my first two and I was paranoid that I was going to forget my HypnoBirthing techniques, even though I was doing revision exercises and added mantra music to my labour plan! I needn't have worried - I kept all my kick-arse training in my subconscious and it came back to me beautifully at crunch time. I knew I was going to be ok, even though the labour was quicker and more intense and I left it to my body to do the work while my brain concentrated on breathing. By the time I felt my baby's head coming down with my finger I knew I was home free for that vaginal birth :) Intense, but home free.
Once your body has done it once, all those muscles know even better exactly what to do. It's up to what the baby is going to do and how you let your body do it, if all is progressing normally. If things aren't progressing normally then your MW will know in plenty of time for a transfer - she'll know the signs even if you don't.
Thank you everyone to the response about hemorraghing. I've spoke with my midwife and she carries pitocin and methagine just in case so that makes me feel better. I think I just have anxiety over the unknown of it all. I got really tears eyed when I told my midwifes helper midwife about my fears and she said she had no problem making daily visits to calm my nerves
Question about sitz baths? Did you find them helpful? Did you take one after with baby?
I used a bottle that I squeezed and it had holes in the top that let the water out. I got some nice herbs from blissful herbs to make into a soothing mix and chilled that and would spray it on my bitz when I went to the loo to stop the burning. Blissful herbs has the bottles for sale in their post natal care pack.
I didn't, but I made a herbal solution that I soaked maternity pads in and froze, about a month before I was due. They were the bees knees! I googled the recipe and it turns out I had all the necessary oils at the time. Some of my oils went missing while we lived at MiL's (she stashed our things and forgot where she put them...including my expensive aromatherapy products!), so I may well have to stock up again.
Congratulations Loulabelle!! Another wee man to add to the family! That is so crap about the treatment at hospital...especially considering their lack of judgement when you first presented prior to labour :rolleyes:
The_Mrs: that is relieving news at least that your midwife carries that with her. I had a PPH at 5 weeks (!!) PP. it was for retained placenta. i was surprised actually by how calm i was. we called an ambulance (after calling my IM to confirm) and away we went. it was scary, but calm all rolled into one IYKWIM.
Teni: oooohhh it is creeping up!! exciting exciting :dance:
Bella: i was pooping my pants way more this second HB time around...for me it was because i now knew how awesome having a baby at home could be and i was scared even more then of having to miss out and go to hospital.
Is it possible to get spd after 36 weeks? I'd have thought it would occur earlier? I'm hoping this is just pelvic stretching pain or something :/.