Homebirth General Discussion #21

Hello lovelies!

Sterla: oh the baking is almost done! and MASSIVE YAY for getting the birth pool! I dont think i can actually get into a birth headspace without it set up...i really like to have time to nourish that space and get my mind ready to birth in that place that i have chosen. have you picked out your spot yet?

Freya: oh i so hope that you get to have the choice you want xx like you said it is early days, so plenty of time to find your feet and get everyone on board. it took me ages with DD2 to get on board and go for it...and it was sooo worth it.

Tegam: oh man, all hands on deck seems like a lot of running about...i am a waddler at any gestation beyond 31 weeks hahaha...so kudos to you for sticking it out!

Meow: those shows always make me freaky sad/angry/panicky. Thankfully i now have a memory bank of my own gorgeous births and it is so reassuring to me now that those births are not the only way. that in fact, birth can be just plain fabulous fun.

Oz: I knew it!! the HB birth has bit you!!! After i had DD2 i couldnt possibly imagine a world where i wasnt able to do it all again. it made me feel like i was in freefall when i thought that that experience was a once-off....so i had to go it again lol.

Bella: simply stunning. what a beautiful birth so magically captured :heartbeat:

I haven't been in here for a while just trying to keep up with the convo but I'm falling behind!

I have 3 days til maternity leave kicks in, and I am still unsure exactly what pay I will receive from my employer and I don't know if I have a job to return to and it's all so bloody stressful! (my service is being handed over to another service and its extremely messy)

I am looking forward to getting my head into the birthy space, reading birthing from within and watching glorious birthing videos, hoping to watch orgasmic birth and a few other homebirth docos. And getting my list crossed off, birthy buys and prep time.

SO many dramas with my mum at the moment. We haven't told our families we are homebirthing again. Bracing ourselves for opinions!

Oh wow, so close to some more lovely births and babies!

Sterla - hope you have a lovely time with DH. Sending much love as you get ready.

Tegam - hope the work goes quickly. Sounds like you need to get into baby-welcoming mode.

Freya - hope your DH comes around soon. I found meeting with my m/ws clinched it for my DP. He respected their experience and professionalism.

Phyrephly - :( sorry about your hassles with your Mum.

AFM - def still have the urge for #4, and having my cycle return is not helping. (What's with that - I'm bfing two children!) Although at least it means I feel like DTD more often. ;) I am going to have an extremely hard time convincing DP though. Juggling three (esp two littlies) is def more challenging and it feels like we are constantly busy running around after small ppl needs. Thank goodness DD1 is at a helpful, cooperative stage, although has developed an acute sense of the level of 'unfairness' in her life. ;)

Thank you everyone for all your lovely comments about my video. It is beautiful isn't it. I love it. And so lovely to see that is encourages so many. I think that it will be the kind of video lots of little Hb kids will see, and that is cool for me to think.

Little Eddie is getting settled in now. He is ten weeks old. We are getting to really know him and what he does and doesn't like now. The girls are a dream with him. He is starting to get really settled now and sleeping for long blocks in my bed in early evening as long as he is wrapped up well. He likes to be snuggled up :). I don't mind at all. I have had to go completely strictly dairy free to help him, but having done that he seems much better.

Jen, Oz, I think about no 4 too. Hubby has basically said he doesn't want another but he talks as if it is already a given that we will have a fourth. He says he thinks I just want another too much

Sterla, mine are all posterior labours. With eddies labour I let the feeling of his feet still kicking me out in front really wig me out, cos I panicked that it would take ages for him to turn, but he did it super quick. So don't let it get to you like I did. I really wished I had kept a bit more positive and more perspective at that point. However I was pretty close to transition, so it was my prerogative to panic I think :). Birth blessings to you lovely.

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.

Thinking of you

So exciting so many babies due to arrive soon!

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.

Can I please, please, pretty please have my baby this weekend... Come on bubba!

Sending lots of labour vibes your way!!

Hope the baby is listening :)

I had my appointment with my midwife today. Everything is going really well still, nothing to report - which is good!

I have been getting more and more BH, and some are getting a bit of bite to them, so my body is obviously warming up for the main event. Lots of lots of pressure this afternoon/evening too. Every night I go to bed hoping that tonight might be he start of something! Soon enough it will be I suppose :).

So, happy due date to me... or more like 'annoyed and frustrated due date'. I really thought bubba would have made an appearance by now, but I guess not.

I'm ready. Just trying not to go nutty waiting now...

Sending you some labour vibes !!.
How far along were your other babies born?

Thanks :).

DS was born at 40+8 (but that was induced with no sign of labour and ended up in a c/s). DD was born at 40+3 after spontaneous labour began at 40+1.

I hope this is your week! Any day now baby...

happy stupid random date they give us to mess with our heads! How boring to come when you are expected, maybe s/he will come now that its not expected….. Now it is going to be a LEO so i guess you had better get use to the idea that a leo only does what it wants when it wants and no amount of bribery, blackmailing or begging helps! Trust me i have TWO leo children. When they are good they are PERFECT! When they are at their worst……… they send you packing to a corner to cry LOL

Aren't i a positive little ray of sunshine! Think i have hit the "i can't keep going like this stage" Need to sort some things so i can't get a bit more rest! Hmmmm ideas hehe??

MEOW Does your ticker say almost 36 weeks EEEEKKKKKKKKKKK

My sister is a leo... so I know what you're talking about Tegam! :lol:

Should be an interesting combo with my feisty DD! Thank goodness DS is such a dream kid!

And yeah, I shouldn't be so caught up on the whole EDD thing... I'm just over it. I want to meet my bubba already!