Acupuncture, Meow! I was having a conversation with my GF today about her friend who had a baby in December with terrible caregivers is now experiencing better milk production since she began acupuncture and got off the meds for blood pressure and milk production. It's worth a shot
Last edited by Smoke Jaguar; March 5th, 2014 at 03:12 PM.
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Meow: oh no but as Tegam said think positive. It will be fine by then.
Tegam: yay for a heartbeat! Don't know how you manage to hide it for so long anyway...ummm maybe status updates of you've fallen off the fitness wagon and can't stop eating junk food? Lol
See GP Friday about u/s results it can't come quick enough. I'm really run down have a bad case of shingles and feeling really crappy. I feel so broken, I woke this morning feeling like death. Feeling as though I was going to die, yep that's how crappy I feel. Going to see naturopath tomorrow as well.
Two more sleeps, Eenee - you waited ages for the u/s, now it's just two sleeps till results The naturopath in between sounds ideal, I hope you get some relief.
My GF, who came to see me today, told us that we could call her when we needed her, so I think we have a family helper again, this time! She is the one who videoed and looked after DS when DD was born and I didn't know whether or how to ask if she wanted to do that again, now that we've moved almost an hour and a half from where we were. I'm pretty happy that she's offered because I would so love for her to be part of this one again, especially if we need to use the back up plan of a transfer.
I bought some overnight pads from the health food shop - they come highly recommended for leak-proofness, so I'll spray them now and freeze them (well, the first pack), for perineum healing. I bought my hand held mirror today, too. I will find a small bottle to put some arnica rub into, for them pesky afterpains (in case I forget, again, to ask for a panadeine forte script...). It's all coming back to me, all that preparation stuff I did last time that I have nearly left too late this time!
Oh eenee I don't know how you do it. Not pleasant or nice to feel that way as soon as you have woken up. And I'll spill the beans to the rest of you eenee is now moving house next Wednesday. Omg 3 little ones, unwell and a house move, I feel sick thinking about it, wish I lived closer to help you xx
Wow hearing some of the stuff you guys do as prep I feel like a newby. My theory use to be 'all I need is my boobs and vagina' but seeing this is my last I feel I'll happily let you all give me your top three tips!
No idea how I will hide it, DH has said he just doesn't want to tell anyone until after its born. You've seen my pregnany belly photos eenee and I'm not huge but even I look pregnant by 30 weeks hehe
I also started my masters yesterday, crazy I know but already had it planned and only one of 25 that got excepted. Excited but totally nervous too. I'm hardly making through the days as mummy but maybe just maybe the last few days I've felt a little bit better..... Fingers crossed I have a great 2nd tri!
Bah! I had a post and my connection dropped out, losing everything I'd written!
Long story short: I did my grad dip through two children (max time allowed!), not that I have a great transcript to show for it. I'm waiting till all kids are in school before doing Masters/PhD (Masters might be a nicer way to get back into uni, though, after what will be a big break!), because I want the headspace to get good marks (I compromised and knew I'd get mediocre results to focussing on my kids as a priority).
As a water-birther, I need more than my boobs and vagina, so Top Tip #1 is a birth pool. Top Tip #2 is soundtrack for my breathing techniques. Top Tip #3 is my perineum care stuff - mainly my spray bottle and the infused frozen sanitary pads. I now feel ready to birth, and was feeling a bit nervous for not having those pads in the freezer till tonight, as if I were tempting fate!
Thanks everyone. I have an appointment with the acupuncturist next Tuesday and I'm seeing my doctor today too so I'm really looking forward to that. He's very holistic and I know he'll get me onto some great supplements like super strength turmeric extract and the like to support my liver. I feel like I should feel calmer and more in control after seeing him. Which is not how I felt after talking to my MW. So that's concerning. I'm feeling a bit torn over that and whether or not she's right for me now. I need to talk to her. My stress did go up yesterday and I was wiped out so went to bed about 8pm. I usually deal with a lot of stress but I think I handle it pretty well and just keep moving in a forward motion without letting it chew me up so just doing the same now. Oh, I'm already drinking a tonne as I'm flushing out an early stages UTI... it never rains, it pours huh?
I'm so sorry you're having such a hard time Eenee I hope you find answers and can get treatment that helps you soon.
Tegam- masters!!! Wow!
SJ- I LOVED all my comfy pads and herbal treatments after my last birth. They really helped me heal. Yay for getting your things together
ETA- Oh, a big woohoo for us! My H recently found out that his paternity leave has been increased from 7 to 12 weeks!!! He doesn't have to take it all at once but does have to take it in the first year. I think we'll get him to take a huge chunk after the baby is born though... looking forward to a LONG babymoon!
Oh meow 12 weeks. How wonderful. Maybe a huge chunk once baby arrives the.n a few weeks in the new year when school/Kindy start? I hope your dr is great today. Yes you probably need to talk to your MW more and maybe look at all your options. Seems she did deliver the news in a not so supportive (in this together, it shall all be ok) way.
SJ I'm only doing one subject a semester this year. I don't want to get poor marks as then I won't be able to do my doctorate later.... I use to think Ps means degrees and was only lucky I did better than that as you had to have a GPA greater than 5.5 to get in. Sadly I marked we'll in all my practical stuff and the academic side wasn't pretty. No idea what I have gotten myself into yet.but my first 3hr Skype lecture/tut was inspiring. I want a water birth or labour this time so ill add pool to my list.......
In my MWs defense she did say things like she still visualises me having a homebirth, it'll all work out, just breathe etc. But she told me stuff like it takes 5 months to clear when it can take just a few weeks and she didn't actually give me facts that felt like they held up to the optimism. So we'll see.
Doctor went well though he wasn't crazy encouraging... I guess no-one can predict for sure this will show up negative on a blood test before the birth He has given me a good treatment plan though and we'll re-test and see if I need "ramp things up".
The school year actually starts here in Aug/Sept right around the time I'm due so my H will certainly be doing school drop offs on his break and I think it'll be a really nice special time for him. Then I was thinking we could take a holiday to Hawaii later in the year or something. Bliss
Meow, have a chat to her about how your comfort levels with her are going. If you still feel like you're not comfy then look at someone else. I hope the acupuncture gets you kickstarted to feeling better
Tegam, I did one unit at a time for most of it (why it took so long!). I was never one to subscribe to the Ps = Degrees, myself, but copped the compromise. It was silly, really - I enrolled for the Grad Dip and on a parallel universe we also decided to start a family...not sure what I was thinking! But I did the psych really as an offshoot interest to my Anthropology, and whilst I'll not have the marks for Hons in Psych (meh!), my aim is to take my Anthrop further, and I could go straight into PhD, but will be kinder to myself, I think, when the time comes! I don't want to mess around with my Anthrop, hence waiting till I can give it my fuller attention (the Grad Dip suffered through the first and second pregnancies, SPD with both, the passing of my FiL, selling and moving house, living with my MiL for a while after that, then moving to a shed on our farm and settling into a completely new community with DS starting kinder and school during that time and learning all of those ropes!). So, if it's 'just' a little one to work around I think you'll be fine, especially for the first year. DS went to uni childcare at 20 months for two days, which helped, too.
Photo shoot today - then this baby can come! But not on Friday or Saturday, because my parents will be here and I couldn't think of anything worse...
Done! This baby can come now!
I'm not sure if this baby is dropping or just torturing me. My pelvis is doing well but my difficulty in walking is coming from a distinct feeling that this one is burrowing deep into my uterus and trying to bust out? At one stage I was holding onto the walls to get to the other end of the house. Just. couldn't. walk. And it wasn't my pelvis' fault! Tightenings all day and the trip back from the beach for the photo shoot was quite uncomfortable. Pleeeeeeeease be sooner, rather than later; I've had quite enough discomfort and pain for one pregnancy!
Yay SJ, nearly there! Sounds like bub is almost done too.
I did half of my Masters after DD1 was born (the other half beforehand). So glad it's out of the way. I enjoyed it but just wanted to get through so was very pleasantly surprised when I ended up with a Masters with Distinction. I didn't even know such a thing existed. I aced my last few subjects, much better time mgt skills post-baby! So it's certainly possible.
My top three things, hmmmm... Fit ball, definitely. Didn't use much else this time. Lol Maybe my Blessingway counts, that was vital prep for my headspace, and also reading Ina May. I didn't end up needing many practical things with the speed and relative ease of delivery. Apart from several good debriefs.
For DD2 the birth pool, for sure. And wheat pack and fit ball.
Another thing, and this is where I get into TMI territory because my belly buddies group defected to FB and I didn't, is bowel movements. I haven't had to take psyllium husk lately and it's a LOT easier than it was for months before hand (where my pelvis would pay for it if I didn't take the psyllium husk!). It is starting to feel impossible that this will go on for 3 more weeks, but knowing my luck it will!!
Fit ball - I have one on loan here that I haven't inflated, but I think I will (and risk the kids doing something dumb with it...). It helped with DS, I didn't really have time for it with DD because I rocked and swayed hips leaning on furniture for a while before hopping in the birth pool.
DP had a tanty tonight because I was asking questions about his plan for the birth pool filling (I mean, where do I get off???). I suggested that adding hot water in buckets may not be quick enough and he may need to plan to fill straight from the hot water tap. Then I asked which taps and hose he would use. He didn't like it and threatened to leave the loungeroom, saying I was being nasty. Never mind that I wasn't being nasty, unless 'nasty' means still wanting answers to questions I've asked and not wanting to be fobbed off? I mean, I made him come to ONE antenatal appointment at the hospital (he wasn't entirely happy about feeling compelled to come with me, boo hoo) and I've done everything else - crib assembly (I need his allen key set to firm it up and it has no linen because it's all back at the farm), sunroom set up, hammock frame cleaning and assembly (except for that spring he still hasn't asked him mum to look for and he wouldn't let me buy a spare one going on eBay a few months ago), buggy clean up and assembly (it had been out in the shed for a couple of years and was dirty as all get out) and I reckon I'm on my own for folding the flat nappies (I have a GF searching for her small size MCNs, as I only have a handful, being that I'd borrowed a stash of small Peapods last time from SiL that haven't been offered again and mine are all M size). And where will I PUT the flat nappies and clothes? In a book case he needs to collect but is doing the same thing about - when I bring it up he gets all antsy about it because his time is so precious he can't be driving around collecting things for me. For ME? Not...like...us and the baby?? I mustn't have done enough so far to deserve some more thought about the birth pool filling and effort in collecting a piece of furniture that will make things easier for all of us. But he gets to have a tanty and opt out of the conversation because it's all a bit too hot for him. It would be nice if he could man up about it, instead of acting like I'm trying to outshine him. If that's the resulting effect then it's because he's left, oooh, just about everything to me to organise?? We didn't just accidentally have two fantastic births - I worked damned hard for them and then made it look easy...great for me, bad for me I want to kick him in the shins. AND he's clearly never heard the tenet "never let the sun go down on a fight". But I bet he tells his boss that I'm a whinger again :/
Vent over. Time for bed.
Wow SJ that sounds really tough I hope the two of you work it out soon xx
As for study, I finished my 4th year/some masters level subjects of my degree last year. I've been finishing off the degree one subject a semester FOREVER. I am so looking forward to having a baby with NO study to do
Ah study and babies....totally doable...but afterwards oh so lovely not having to do it hahaha. i did my PhD fulltime and had my first two amongst it all. in many ways it worked out ok as you can choose your hours pretty much with a PhD, but it also sucked as i was so darn tired all the time that my traditional work time (at night) just wasnt there. i was too tired to read anything but bad teenage vampire novels hahaha.
Meow: hhmmm i do suspect that maybe the hep a was there for some time. you guys did have that rough trot with that cold and may have been part of it? It seems to be so similar in effect on birth planning to the GBS....if you know about it it can impact on your plans, whereas if you are just aware that it could be there then you are attentive to all signs and symptoms. Now that you know, i just hope that it passes soon and that you are merely on the tail end of the virus
Smoke J: oopha. that is really worrying that your H is still not really stepping up. Does birth/babies in general seem to freak him out? is he maybe fearful of the changes that are comign with the arrival of a new human being? I know that my DH can be a bit of a moron once bubs is here as he still has some freak out about the whole new baby thing (i had a shocking time with PTSD after DD1 that left some emotional scars on him i think).
on a more practical level: do you have anyone that could drop the drawers off? Are you able to speak to his mum about the spring? it does suck though that he is not taking part in this wonderful, special journey. ultimately his loss, but still, you want and need that support from your closest.
Sounds like you and baby are certainly getting close to birthing! i would think that filling up hot with hose would be best while pots of water boil on the stove.
Tegam: hhmm top three....
1. birth pool
2. Birth affirmations
3. Calendula tincture (for all things grazes/stitches/swollen nethers. i would put some on my pads and it would help heal and relieve the area.
but then again, i would also have to add Arnica. I had it in two types of dosages: a 200cH for immediate post birth (single dose) and then a much milder dose that could be repeated as needed in the following days).
Hello again ladies.
I'm back in here with a bubba on board. Hooray. (For those I haven't met yet, I had a HBAC a few years ago and lost a bubba last year). So I'm really in denial about this one, I can't seem to 'get it' that I am pregnant even though I have had a 12 week scan and heard the heart beat. I constantly feel like I'm going to lose this one too. I figure if I put it out there it might help, I've got no real physical symptoms (I had bad ms with both boys) and that's odd for me, I kind of wish I was spewing all day.
Anyways congrats to all the new mummas and mummas to be. Looking forward to sharing the journey again x
Hi lady-bug! I think you are due inbetween me and meow! Congratulations.
A phD wow cass!
Oh SJ that's tough and very hard to deal with!
Not that I think education is the only means to measure ones intelligence but wow there are a lot of us that have done or attempting further studies and we are the ones accused of not doing our research when it comes to home births....
SJ ill have 5 kids and no husband for 4months this year..... I think I'll have plenty of excuses to not do well, I'm just lucky I'm a Taurus and are far to arrogant to think any of that will stop me hehe
Just did my first fallen off the fitness wagon Facebook status! Just for your suggestion eenee triple choc, raspberry brownies.... Looks yummy but I just want to vomit
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but as Tegam said think positive. It will be fine by then.
The naturopath in between sounds ideal, I hope you get some relief.
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