Homebirth General Discussion #19

[Lady-bug]

I had the baby blues bad on day 3 with DS1 (em c/s) and nothing with DS2 (homebirth)

[Special]

I've been slack in the catching up, but a huge Congratulations, SJ.

[meow]

I had baby blues with both babies, the birth centre and the home birth. I found the early newborn and hellish breastfeeding issues pretty much just as bad both times.

[Lady-bug]

Gorgeous name SJ!

[meow]

Beautiful name! We're narrowing in on R.ose for a middle name

Lady-bug- are you planning another HB? You would be due around the same time as me!

[Smoke Jaguar]

Love ya, Tegam For various reasons I think this is where I fit best
The other kids are O scar and T allarah, so I had to come up with something with significance and intention for this one, or she'd get lost in the colour of the other names!
We had the maternal nurse over yesterday and she came with some assumptions about homebirthers, which was interesting, though not confronting - she was very nice, actually. She thought I may have been railroaded to use the service, as we aren't on their records for the other kids, so I explained that we moved and had kind of flown under the council radar after leaving our other MCHN service. She quickly asked if we immunised, as if bracing herself and went a bit quiet when I said we did. I really liked her and the co-sleeping thing was a non-issue! When she arrived I had DD on the chamber pot, so we talked about that a bit, too.
We still haven't been anywhere, even though DP seemed keen to send me off to DD1's ballet...but he didn't get here in time for me to have a shower and he went instead. That was lucky, because one of the siblings there had a drippy cold! I think he sees why I'm reluctant to get 'out and about' so soon. That and as much as he gets up early to milk cows, I'm getting up every couple of hours for a feed and change (the changing he used to do with the others, but that was well before the milking days). Safer for him to come back from the farm to do things with DD1 than for me to drive around in a haze with two of our children!
We still haven't cooked a meal and I received a beautiful package in the post this morning filled with containers of homemade biscuits - I pinch myself that I have such a gorgeous spread of friends and well-wishers!
Are there blessingways being planned by our next installments?