Bella-Just watched your birth video, oh my goodness, just gorgeous!! Thanks so much for sharing!!
Tegam-All good here, getting concerned I really haven't got myself 'in the zone' yet so I'm really trying to set aside some time each day to do some reading or just connecting with bubs. Bit tricky with other kiddos. I haven't got anything ready for the birth either, at this stage last time I had everything ready to go, so I need to get myself organised I think.
I am feeling massive! Cant believe I still have 7 weeks of growing to do
Thanks meow . I'm so glad your doula seems to be working out. She will be such a massive help for you. Glad you are getting a bit of break with your older two at summer pre-school.
I still can't believe I'm next up! I am so very much in denial about how soon this is all happening!
I have mostly been feeling good - I can't believe how much energy I still have for 38 weeks pregnant! However, I think I may be overdoing it a bit. Today I am completely wrecked and wishing I could go back to bed. I really need to make sure I am taking it a bit easier from now on - I need lots of energy for the birth!
And speaking of the birth, my midwife comes on Thursday, and is bringing the birth pool for us! Finally I can set up my birth space, and maybe then I'll feel like this is actually happening!
I am really struggling to get into the right mind space. I am doing a lot of reading of positive birth stories, watching birth videos, etc, but I just can't seem to get there. I have fleeting moments of feeling like I could be in a good birthy zone, but mostly I'm not. I think it's harder with the older two around.
I also find myself obsessing about the baby's position. I don't know why - bubba is head down, but mostly on the right, and seems pretty content to stay there despite my best efforts. DD wasn't in an ideal position when I laboured with her, but she did move around in labour and I birthed her fine. Why shouldn't this bubba!?
Anyway, I am definitely getting to the over-it stage, and am very much looking forward to meeting my little bubba.
I feel pretty massive too lady-bug! I'm like "this baby isn't going to grow MORE is it??"
Will be so good to have the birth pool Sterla. I wonder if you're obsessed with positioning just as a way of having something to control? Perhaps time to release and surrender?
Sterla, DS and DD2 were highly mobile during my pregnancies, switching from breech to transverse to cephalic regularly. For DD2 (my 3rd baby), i wore a tubigrip type wrap, plus strapped my tummy for most of the pregnancy. i was careful in how i moved, and thought all was well when she was fairly consistent in position for the last two weeks.
However at 40weeks +9 days, she decided to change position and moved fully transverse (across my tummy). i started to think i would need to find a hospital...... surgery.....then just before i rang my midwife, my DD asked to go check the chooks. I walked down the backyard and played with the kids 15 minutes or so, then headed back in. as the phone was ringing for me to tell my midwife that baby was not in a good position, i felt a kick at the top of my tummy. Baby had turned again! I went into labour soon after and she was born that night.
i think she needed to do a big loop to get in a good position ready to be born.
So we finally got a house given to us which enabled me to put in my paperwork for the CMP home birth program in Perth. Hopefully theyll give me a spot. I did decide to be brave and write on the paperwork that I would refuse the glucose testing. As far as Im aware that wont affect my application so fingers crossed!
Im just plodding along waiting to get out of the first trimester and hopefully get my second wind (and lose this awful morning sickness).
Thank you so much everyone for the kind words, etc. I was definitely having a freak out for a little while there about bubba's position... but I seem to have dealt with it and moved on. I am no longer obsessively on hands and knees and poking my belly to check on bubba's position. I feel like I have made peace that bubba will just be in whatever position works, and hopefully in labour will work out the best position to come out!
I am still having trouble getting into that birthy mindset. I had a super busy weekend, and the last couple of days I have been flat out too. I think I have overdone it actually - I am now really worried I might be coming down with (another) cold . I have started feeling off this afternoon like when you have a cold. I am really hoping not!!! DS has finished his kinder days for the week, so I am planning on taking it very, very easy from now on. I might even ask my sister to take the kids for the morning or afternoon so I can rest as much as possible. I think I keep overdoing it because I am feeling so good for the most part. I need to slow right down.
Hi Ladybug
We gave Vit K IM to DD1…. oral for the rest. I did my research and found that the thing with the pros and cons that worr remember to ied me the most was the injection. I am happy with the effectiveness of the oral and i know that i will remember that later dose. We don't do Hep B. so no injections here. However i have noticed that with DD3 birth they gave me the injection to deliver the placenta even though it had it on their forms as i had declined. The person that was cutting DD3s TT day 1 (no mucking around with TT in this house) Didn't want to do it when she found out that she hadn't had the injection, even tho it was only 11hours post birth so what maybe 9hours since they would have done the injection. and she had had the oral dose…. Some people just want to make a point of things. One of the midwives in the practise i am going thru cuts TTs and has already said she is ok to do it straight away and that the oral Vit K is ok
Good luck deciding what is best for your little one and family
Thanks Tegam. I'm not nervous to talk about my problems with my MW but I feel like while I _have_ talked about it I'm not sure how seriously she understands it and how much I'll need her to be batting for me and know I'll be flipping out if we transfer and interventions are suggested/required. Luckily my kids will be at preschool during this appointment so I should be able to really talk seriously and cry so it's a good time to do it.
Lady-bug- we had oral vit K on our birth plan for our first son, with the intention of actually declining it altogether but when he was born he developing a swelling, bruised lump on his head and we went with the MWs suggestion to do the injection. Our second son we didn't give him any vitamin K. My position was that if babies are born deficient there must be a reason and we don't need to mess with it. My view has changed a bit now- I suspect babies are born deficient due to our poor modern diets. This time we have no intention of giving baby vitamin K but I am making sure to build up my own vitamin K levels. I include foods rich in vitamin K and I take alfalfa capsules, butter oil and pregnancy tea with nettles and alfalfa in it. I'm planning to continue those after birth while breastfeeding and have a placenta smoothie then do placenta encapsulation. All that said, if baby has any birth trauma we may still supplement and my MW will have the injection and oral vitamin K available if we decide to use it.
Google "Mommypotamus Vitamin K" for a good blog post that sums up a lot of information and a lot of the things we're doing.
Also google "chris kresser vitamin k2" for a great read on sources of vitamin K and why we're often not getting enough.
Re: Homebirth General Discussion #21
. I'm so glad your doula seems to be working out. She will be such a massive help for you. Glad you are getting a bit of break with your older two at summer pre-school.
. I have started feeling off this afternoon like when you have a cold. I am really hoping not!!! DS has finished his kinder days for the week, so I am planning on taking it very, very easy from now on. I might even ask my sister to take the kids for the morning or afternoon so I can rest as much as possible. I think I keep overdoing it because I am feeling so good for the most part. I need to slow right down.
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