Is there really no one after the September rush?
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Is there really no one after the September rush?
You girls dont know how much i wish my name was on that list, but im on there is spirit =p so jealous you have the choice and opportunity for it. /Angst rant
Oh TT40 I don't Know your background but vent away I you need! We can help you have a hospital Homebirth :)
I'm another one who wishes they were on the list :)
Interested in this 'hospital homebirth' of which you speak Tegam....
Wax, pedi and eye brows done! I'm a new women....in a broken body.
Mw appointment went well. BP 95/60, baby HR 130 and guess what.... It's 2/5ths engaged. For a 5th baby that's insane. Not meant to engage until labour (no I'm not in labour). Baby is posterior, pity but so was my first, she said it will just be a slower labour.... I know you'll think I'm nuts but after 3 births that collectively haven't taken 4hrs a longer birth sounds fine to me :) She forgot the birth pool! Have to go pick it up next week. DH away Friday-Tuesday and then he thinks he won't go away again until after bubs is here......... Woohooooooo
I wish I was on the list but no more babies for me.
Tegam: sounds good
...wow such a word filled response but that's all I can even manage, my head is tired.
I think this every time I read June 2013 and my bub isn't there. Different circumstances but feel for you, hun :hug::
Thanks everyone!! All the 2014 babies have still be born at home- luckily my little one made it out with me half way in the car getting ready to transfer :lol:
I never really felt like we needed to be in hospital but I also understood the implications of the small chance of a major bleed so the choice wasn't really there for my MW if she wanted to preserve her license and I wasn't sure not having access to those medications was a safe option either. So in the end we got the best of both worlds as we got to stay home and our MW still came in time to provide that medical support when I started bleeding after the placenta came out. I was talking to my MW today and she says she has provider guilt that I could have still gotten away without pitocin to stop the bleeding as she jumped to it rather than working through tinctures and things she normally would have gone for. But I know why she jumped to it and I don't feel bad about the decision made. If we had stalled and tried the usual slower approach then things may have been different and I may have ended up transferring in an ambulance after all. I'm glad I had no medications till after the placenta came out at least and having a small loss of blood means I'm feeling pretty well.
The birth was so fantastic! I wish I could have had quick ones all the time. It felt so wonderful to have my body so strong and powerful and just DO it! I seemed to have to work so hard in the previous births. I felt transition for a few contractions then baby dropped and engaged for two contractions then my uterus was pushing and waters then baby were crowning and birthing for the next maybe 4 contractions. So amazing. I'm in post bliss heaven.
Early labour was scary as the the hospital we were going to transfer to was insisting on IV saline and vaginal exam on admittance. I didn't want an IV but a vaginal exam is a non-negotiable "no" for me. My MW was frozen in indecision trying to work out what to do for me and it was my worst fears being realised. She said the doctor on call that night who was talking to has assisted some really great HB transfers but has also been a complete a-hole in the case of transfers where people have declined things... which is what I was doing. My H and I were having last minute talks about staying home unassisted and calling an ambulance at the last minute and our MW rang around the hospitals. She found one with a charge nurse who was totally on board and said I could decline anything and she was going to meet us at emergency and make sure to be with us at labour & delivery. I was so relieved and felt okay about the transfer after that. It was seriously at the 11th hour though! The new hospital was further for our MW and we live about half way between her and the hospital so when baby came out in the garage she was actually really close to our place and got to us about 5 minutes after the birth.
Will put all this into some sort of better written birth story soon! Enjoying our new little daughter now :)
Oh wow Ren!! Sounds like an amazing birth! How long was it all up? I remember you telling us about the long transition stages for your previous births so totally cool that it all passed so quickly this time (i love a short transition haha).
And what a champion midwife. good on her for finding a suitable back up at the 11th hour for you. That must of been a huge relief to know there was an option :hug:
You sound great Meow. So glad it all worked out for you and it sounds like the birth was amazing. Your making me excited for labour. Enjoy your little girl!!
Afm-Rant coming...If one more person asks me/messages me to see if the baby is here I'm going to lose my bloody head!! Why cant people get it, as if I wouldn't tell people we've had a baby?!?! So frustrating!!!!
Apart from that, had a midwife appointment this morning. Bubs is head down but definitely not engaged. What are people's thoughts, should I be trying to get her down further (squatting, walking etc) or does this mean she's not ready right now??
Lady-bug: i reckon if you instead focus on position of bubs. spinning babies is awesome for tips etc. Most babies stay swimming even above the pelvis until labour: my last birth was like that and my second baby only engaged part way through. But what i found calming for me was that i had been working on optimal fetal positioning (especially with DD3 as DD2 was posterior until she flipped herself during labour lol).
I wouldn't worry ladybug as most 2nd,3rd.... Bubs don't engage until labour starts. But that's also easy for me to say seeing this one has already engaged. I do like knowing its where its got to end up.... In saying that the pressure the last few days isn't so nice :)
So maybe some gentle persuasive movement techniques will make you feel
Like you are 'helping' things...
Anyone suggest a good tearjerker movie? All that comes to mind is beaches and that's not doing it for me. I don't like blood and guts (says thè ED nurse lol). But I need a good release. DH away again until
Wednesday, I'm shattered. Need to re group before he gets home so I can think of birthing.
Finding Neverland, The Lovely Bones, My Sister's Keeper, all are tear jerkers Tegam. Can't think of any more off the top of my head right now, but now I feel like watching a tear jerker movie too lol.
Thanks ladies, I'm not overly concerned at all, I think I'll just be conscious of it and attempt to make things more inviting for her to move down and if it doesn't do anything, well I haven't lost anything. Starting acupuncture tomorrow.
Dot face I just watched the lovely bones trailer, I nearly pee'd myself. Too scary but boy looks like a good teary one!!
Oh the movie itself isn't scary :) it's quite sad and the theme is a bit confronting. Have you seen finding neverland? I actually have that on dvd might just watch it myself. Makes me cry every time almost! Such a good film, too.
Lady-bug hope all goes well for you and everyone else :).
Oh, I wouldn't watch The Lovely Bones or My Sister's Keeper at the moment. The Notebook? Sorry there is a bunch of emotional stuff at the moment Tegam and I hope your husband's return feels speedy xx
Lady bug- My baby wasn't engaged and she still had a spontaneous and quick labour. No harm doing positioning and crawling around getting baby to wriggle into a good spot though. I also find the time you spend doing those things can be just as healthy for your mind as you are setting the intention that you are ready. Spend some time inwards letting baby know that too.
ETA: Oh! Brokeback Mountain! Always leaves me sobbing. Such a beautiful love story.
Love your pics on the homebirth group!
My midwife is bringing the birth pool next week sooooooo excited :leap:
Oh kellbell that's exciting for you :) I only ordered my liner last night, express post from Perth shouldn't take too long. I also go a belly cast kit, have never done one, think DH and I will have a good laugh trying to get one done. There was a lady that does them for you but at 4x the cost I'm happier to spend that money on something else.
After a sports carnival all day yesterday, today the big girls have a dance comp all day and then the biggest girl has an inter school sports day Monday :) when oh when can I just sit down:)
Oh my God how rude of me, I just sat down and read this page properly!
Congratulations meow!!!!! That's amazing! I'm pretty sure I saw your announcement on the Facebook homebirth page and wondered if it was you then thought nah lol. You will have an awesome story to tell the kids! Well done! So glad you got your homebirth in the end!
Tegam - just make sure you use heaps of oil or lube or whatever, and trim your pubs low so they don't get caught when you do your cast. I learnt the hard way, even tho I knew that info, so I implore you to use lots on your girly bits! Lol!
Such a funny thing to read when you have no idea where the post is going....... ;):
I want to have a baby!!!! That is all.
Oh lady bug. You have been so patient. It's not fair. Your birth space sounds nice. Mine is getting there but the four little monkeys are trashing the rest of thè house as I clean somewhere. Im just at the stage where I want to place 'clean/straightened up' within a few minute if I was going to have the MW or visitors over. But will that actually happen with four kids......?
Does anyone want to share a pic of there birth spaces I need some inspiration :-)
Mine would be rather uninspiring :) it's our master bedroom (but we use it as a spare room as it's too far away from the kids rooms). So it's a large room with ensuite. I have a queen bed, the babies stuff a space for the pool and some fairy lights put up :) but it's clean and looks like I'm going to have a baby soon so it makes me happy to be in there. I have my little pink, little blue and neutral clothes all sorted in different drawers. All my cloth nappies washed and ready..... Getting here.
no real birthspace here yet - I have grand plans of setting it up during early labour as it's our dining area that we still use multiple times a day....my last birth was 42 frikking hours so if it's anything like that I'll need something to keep me occupied lol...it won't be much anyway, just the pool and some candles & fairy lights :) If it doesn't happen I'm not too fussed...as long as there's a pool I'm ok with that
still no baby here...though I'm only at 40wks tomorrow so still plenty of time. I'm going to bed each night with the house clean (getting sick of mopping) and everything ready to go...had a few big tightenings overnight but it all fizzled out. As much as I want to meet this baby I'm pretty pleased s/he has stayed put until spring - DH, DS and I are all spring babies so we're keeping up our trend! That is, unless this baby comes in the next 3 hours....not likely
Lady bug, phyreply & Tegam - thinking of you all in your last days/weeks xxx
Meow - how is your babymoon going? I looooved reading your story and seeing your pics on the FB group!
I've never set up a lot for a birth space. Last time was our master bedroom with ensuite that we didn't use because it was too far from the kids too (why are houses made that way??). I really wanted orange so we painted a feature wall behind the pool and cleared out my husband's desk that was usually in there but no extra trimmings. This time it's a different house and I was just having a pool in the corner of our bedroom. I hung a mobile up nearby that a friend had made and that added a nice energy but that was all I did. All the stuff we needed was just in a box in the wardrobe to pull out during the birth.
I'm going well e_p. Those photos got a lot of likes! I'm so glad we have them and I was able to share about our birth... it was a great experience and it really adds a (virtual) spring in your step post-birth to be able to be excited about the birth. Babymoon is going well. I pulled a neck muscle while giving birth though and with the baby carrying and feeding it's taking a while to get better so I'm in some pain. Would love some chiro or something but I can't really leave the house yet. I had a second degree tear which I didn't get stitched so I'm stuck in the upstairs of our house keeping my legs together. Which means my husband is literally doing everything for me and I jsut put in food orders for the kitchen. Which is awesome! First couple of days my husband looked way too tired though as he was also up at night helping me with painful breastfeeding latches and crying. But the past couple of nights baby has been sleeping 4 hours stretches and I can feed her on my own so he's more rested and I feel like we're doing better as a family. I'm the happiest I've ever been postpartum. No milky day blues or tears. Yay for a better diet and consuming the placenta this time around!
So excited to see more babies on the way soon! xx
Your garage looked perfectly set up meow :)
After me yelling "get towels!!! We're over concrete!"
See how romantic is that :) who needs fairy lights at the end of the day we just want our babies in our arms!
(note to everyone reading that was a off handed comment, not a 'all that matters is a healthy baby' put down)
I was missing a lovely warm pool at that point though :lol:
Or in fact anything comfortable to birth on rather than the concrete! I think she will love her story! Who had the boys in the end?
Haha meow, that's exactly what I was yelling to DP on the tiled floor of the ensuite. You rock, meow!
Such a cool birth story!
Went to a birth empowerment workshop last night . Wow am learning so much
Arnt strong women and and birthing just amazing it blows my mind . Such an amazing energy in the room
I feel so blessed I'm on this journey
I think things are moving, lots of 'sensations' but feeling good, happy to DH home.
Oh yay lady-bug!!!!!!! Will be thinking of you and sending you birthing bliss xx
Oh happy days Lady-bug! Today is my first DDs birthday...a lovely day indeed to welcome a baby into your arms, I can attest! sending you lots of love and birthing vibes!
Lady bug I'm going to light a candle for you when I get home. Happy birthing