Homebirth General Discussion #3

[Tegam]

marcellus TMI now i dont feel like i can eat ice cream think about your placenta all squished! Go and buy a bigger container, for me, please!

[onthefly]

Sorry about that. I've been enjoying my icecream and haven't thought about placentas at all....

[Tegam]

Just promise me it wasnt raspberry cream swirl and ill be ok!

[onthefly]

errr....

nah, it's vanilla

[Tegam]

ahhh all i could see were chunks for red in my nice white ice cream LOL! Cant remember what we did with the placenta, is that bad

[meow]

Look away now Tegam, I have a good placenta/icecream container story... My aunty & cousins came to help look after my little boy (though they missed the birth and arrived afterwards). My 9 year old cousin apparently found the placenta because he said to my H "I wondered why you had an ice cream comtainer on the bench so I looked inside to see if the ice cream was melted but it was full of blood and guts!:

I'm well thanks Tegam. Yesterday was yucky... had the teary, milky blues and cracked nipples. But Helen came & helped with attachment and today I feel better & feedingis improving heaps! Went to the chiro today and my hips & pelvis needed a lot of adjusting... funny that! Little baby barely needed adjusting though The resting is going great... not lying down ALL the time but going slow, no lifting etc and I'm feeling really well. I was shattered after my first so I'm really happy to be doing so much better now.

AE- so glad you're feeling good about the birth... and excited! I'm excited for you Would love you to keep sharing your journey with us.

[Tegam]

Yes i was thinking about AE and her/you saying that you had to leave the thread. This is a homebirth thread but no where does it say you have to have or have had a homebirth! Its also where alot of us come to get our natural reality of birth and support others trying to make the decision where to birth their baby!


Oh meow: I was doing so well this morning and you did say look away but now i feel off! Time for dry toast! You would never guess im a nurse and i love to see a good placenta after a birth but right now....it all just seems too.....real!

Nice to get the teary day out of the way! Glad that you are all realined. You had a water birth? I have already forgotten? Found out there is a bath in one of the labour rooms at the hospital.....wondering if the thought of birthing at hospital can have the sting taken out of it by the thought of a water birth???

Has anyone every heard of anything going wrong with a water birth as in the baby taking in some water?? It just occured to me that DD2 cried before her body was out. The OB, MW, mum and i were so shocked???

[Arimeh]

AE- so glad you're feeling good about the birth... and excited! I'm excited for you Would love you to keep sharing your journey with us.

Oh thanks! I'd love to keep posting in here, if its alright with everyone else of course. I think you guys are the best

And about placentas - I didn't see my placenta last time, and don't know if I want to take a look this time. I suppose I *should* simply because I won't get a chance to look at it ever again.....

Hey what does everyone think about your mind inhibiting labour from starting? I was thinking about previous pregnancies, and I know I was scared of going into labour when I was pregnant with DS because I had an elective c-section at 39 weeks booked, and I started losing my plug at 36 weeks, which freaked me out because I didn't want to go into labour!!!

Then with DD1, I wanted to have her naturally but was sooooo scared of going into labour then I think I held onto her till 42 weeks when she absolutely had to come out because she would have died otherwise - so maybe I knew that I wasn't ready for labour yet?

And with DD2, I only went into labour after admitting to DH that I was scared about going into labour and having a huge meltdown the night before...

So maybe this time I won't go overdue if my mind is without fear and my body knows what its doing? What do you think? Am I talkin "crazyyyy talk"?