-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
Sunnylove - Baby GIRL born at home 2nd November 2013
DotFace - Baby BOY born at home 9th November 2013
Eenee - Baby BOY born at home 22nd November 2013
TeniBear - Baby GIRL born at home 21st December 2013
*The_Mrs.* - Baby GIRL born at home 31st December 2013
-2014-
Jennifer13 - Baby GIRL born at home 1st January 2014
Arcadia - Baby BOY born at home 30th January 2014
Special - Baby BOY born at home 6th February 2014
HotI - Baby GIRL born at home 23rd February 2014
Smoke Jaguar - Baby GIRL born at home 18th March 2014
Babies On Their Way
Bella29 - May
Ozstar - May
Sterla -August
Meow - August
e_p - September
Tegam - September
Squee! Exciting to be top of the list Bella and Ozstar... but jeez we have a 2 month wait? We need someone to make a last minute decision to switch to a HB and join in here
Thank you, wonderful ladies and especially to Ozstar for my BA!!
All good here, though she's a bit on the small side and my boobs are a bit on the bigger side and I'm getting a little crunched...
I'll knock up a birth story eventually, but long story short is that we had time for the second midwife to get here and she was quite awesome. I never got to meet her in the end before the birth and she had a way of saying exactly what I needed to hear at the right time I was in and out of the water to speed up contractions, but was happy to slow things down when they backed off a bit, and when she came it was so quick that my perineum preparations have been a little unnecessary! Better to have them and not need them, though...
Anyhow, it does get quiet before the next one, here, doesn't it? Plenty of build up time
I have a question what sort of things do I need to get together for post birth? I know there has been talk about arnica but what else and how do I make up these things?
Ozstar I buy some postnatal herbs from blissful herbs in Melbourne. Then just make them up like a tea and put it on pads of in a squeeze bottle to use when you use the toilet.
Clary sage essential oil to encourage the late contractions, as well as to help the uterus contract when helping the placenta come out! And geranium oil, if nothing else.
Last time I used arnica pillules, which turn out to be homoepathic, so I'm not sure about their efficacy. Panadeine is my 'herbal' tincture of choice this time! After pains are killing me!
I think I might have to look up a lactation consultant, too - she's having trouble grabbing my whole nipple and I have a ridge :/ I'm never going to have smooth breastfeeding starts, am I?? I'm not going back for another to find out!
Oh SJ I'm sorry you are having a rough start to breast feeding
Oh the after pains, I was going to ask if anyone had a natural solution to those. Boy oh boy did I hit the Panadol after DS and dd3! It's hard to get my head around that I've never needed drugs to get through birth but those after pains rip me in two. Hugs and hot packs for you SJ
Where's the fun in smooth starts, hey SJ I feel your pain though, lovely. I do hope that it is very short lived though and you can get in your breastfeeding groove Cant wait to read all about it xx
I hope the BFing settles down soon and I think a LC is a great idea. I had a hell time establishing BFing with my first two and I'm preparing for the same again. It really sucks but at least you know you've worked through it before and you can do it again xx
SJ my 2nd LO didn't latch properly to start with either. She basically just held onto the nipple with her lips. In fact I don't think she sucked for the first ten months, she literally just held on and gulped because I had such a massive let down. My Mw saw me and just laughed at how she latched. Told me not to show new mothers Are you in pain from the way she is feeding?
The pain is lessening, except on the ridges that are a little blistered, so I expect that will settle soon. My milk is coming in today and she started gulping, so I hope she can relax her grip and her jaw so that it widens up a little. The mw and I think it might be that not only was she small for dates, but not really 39 weeks, either, which could explain the latch issue. She had a thick coating of vernix all over her, to support our theory, as well as just not opening her mouth wide enough. She'll catch up and we're not too worried about it anymore. It's NOTHING on the damage DS gave me, with nipple vasospasm chucked in for good measure!
Tegam, you are so right - I'm swearing like a trooper and popping the Panadeine for these after pains! I'm taking raspberry leaf tea again and DP is out at the health food shop sourcing some tissue salts recommended by another mw colleague of my mw's. I'm going to massage in my postnatal oil blend, some of my magnesium oil blend AND whatever DP brings home to see if I can get off the tablets. I'd very much like to do a number two at this stage and the panadeine is not helping my case much!
My mw and I were discussing baby blues and that I didn't get them with DD1 and doesn't look like they're looming for this one - we seem to think, anecdotally, that HB circumvents the baby blues - what do you ladies think? I definitely got them with DS, who was a perfect birth centre birth. Staff check ups, hospy furniture, visiting hours etc...all stuff I didn't have to deal with for the last two.
Anyway, it would be interesting to read from you who have had both or only homebirths
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Cant wait to read all about it xx
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