Great news Liz.
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Great news Liz.
That's great Liz :)
Great news! How far do you have to get homebirth? 37 weeks? Or are you already there?
Oh that's awesome news Liz! Enjoy your birth preparations. :)
Stay put precious bub - no flipping for you.
Hooray Liz! Hope bub stays put! Wishing you a beautiful home birth!
Yay Liz!!! Happy home birthing :D
Yeah 37 weeks.. which is actually tomorrow, but we're close enough ;)
I think we survived the night staying head down :) Had a restless night tho, any big movements were waking me up in case bub was flipping back, and my poor old legs were aching all night. I've got a follow up scan later this morning, and my final chiro appointment today as well. Feel like I've got appointments coming out of my ears LOL. I have a followup appointment with the OB at the hospital on Monday, and acupuncture on Tuesday! After that (if baby hasn't arrived) it'll just be acupuncture and midwife tho. I'm busting to get stuck into some nesting again, but I just don't have time at the moment!
Hope everyone is doing ok in here and busy making plans :)
Tash.. still thinking of you. Hope you're holding up. *big big hugs*
Yay Liz! So pleased for you - 37 weeks is new of territory for you. ;) Happy nesting!
Tashy, hope you're doing ok. Haven't stopped thinking of you and your baby xx
Had my midwife appointment. Baby still breech, still have plenty of time though so not to worry just yet. Just strange for me as my other two were head down and engaged really early. My cervix is already soft and starting to open, I've lost a bit of plug already so maybe baby knows if he turns head down too early he'll fall out!
Alright everyone, I'm seriously stuck. Every midwife I've contacted so far, with one exception, is on holidays on 1 Jan. Surely this can't be all the m/ws close to me in Sydney? The one I did manage to get a hold of who can be there for me is too far away for visits up until the birth (I don't fancy a 3 hr round trip when I have DD at school and work 3-5 days a week).
I've contacted all the m/ws again and I'm hoping one can provide me with a list of other m/ws close by that might be able to help.
Any suggestions??? Feel free to PM me if you know someone! I tried contacting some people I know IRL too and nothing has come up yet. :(
Who'd have thought this would be such an issue? I have promised DP to keep the ob appt as a back up in case there are issues at the scan in 2 weeks, like with DD. But fx I don't need this, as I don't even want to go if I can help it. But with no m/w sorted, I won't have that choice!
Sorry Jennifer, I have no idea where you'd even look to find another m/w. I am lucky enough to be able to use the CMP so I've never been in your situation. Have you had any luck over the last few days?
Thanks Stoked. I had a great chat with a really awesome (and unfortunately unavailable) m/w who has given me a list. While I know of a few on the list who are 'nos' at least I have a couple to try. Fx!
But I had no idea it would be this hard. It's not like I live out the back of beyond or something! Maybe it would be easier if I did live someone near a hippie commune. Is Sydney just not very pro-HB or is it just that we all like our Xmas holidays too much?
I'll let you all know how I go. Still happy to field suggestions!
i think you just chose a bad due date Jen. Good luck!
sorry jen, i emailed my middies down here but they didnt know anyone in that area to recommend :(
I've booked in one in who is not close enough for me to go to her (I spoke to her previously and we kinda decided wouldn't work) but has just gotten two clients further away and is willing to come to me as I'm on the way. Phew! So she's coming to visit week after next and hopefully DP will like her. I've put the ob off until after her. His receptionist was not happy, but bad luck. Now I have to go and have u/s and blood tests end of next week and we're set. Fx!
Oh Jen, i hope that she is lovely and then you guys can really start preparing and revelling in this journey xx
I always forget that there's a home birthing chat on belly belly! Hi everyone, we're planning home birth number two, hoping this one doesn't turn into a hospital transfer again ;) my lovely midwife is very reassuring that Ewan paved the way for the next one to come out!
All the best for your homebirth Helly! I hope it is everything you want it to be.
Jenn, I am glad you have a solution. BTW, I live in hippie-ville, and a friend of mine couldn't get a midwife for her first preg because her due date was around Xmas. She had to book in to the hosp. Her DD was born on Xmas day.
AFM, I got a BFP yesterday. Yay! Very excited, and just trying to enjoy it before the ms kicks in. Looking forward to another homebirth.
Welcome Helly! All the best for your home birth! When are you due?
Congratulations Ash! Fantastic news! X
Hi Helly! Congrats Ash! Great to see you here. Hope you have a h&h pg. When are you due?
So where is our list at now?
Hi Helly, you're almost there! Hope you have a wonderful homebirth.
Stoked, you're getting very close now too!
Congrats Ash!
Lady-bug - May :bfeedblue:
PumpkinZulu - June
Liz - June
Helly- July
~Stoked~- August
Tashybabe - October
Brogeybear- November
Bella29 - January
Jennifer13 - January
Let me know if i missed anyone.
Thanks for doing the list!
Lady-bug has had her little boy.. So PZ is next.. Woohoooo!
ETA scrap that! You're on to it!
I haven't added me to the list yet (January), but might be soon. I have an appt at a Birth Centre next week where i think they will say i am too high risk for the birth centre. I have an IM in mind, but i think i am too scared to call her in case she says she won't travel to me or is unavailable and that would be too much. On the positive side though, i have spoken to a local student midwife who has an awesome history (including 2 homebirths herself) and is interested in catching up even if we don't do a follow -through program.
I don't know if i want the birth centre, or if i just want the choice. One difficulty is that they have so many rules, that you could get to 30+ weeks and then they say they are transferring you to the hospital. They have a 10% pregnancy transfer rate and a 10% labour transfer rate. The high risk thing is bull, i copped that the first time and just ended up with red tape and assault. I don't want to play good-little-girl (GLG) this time.
Thanks for the welcome gals, yes, not long now, with all the intense evening BH's I've been getting recently I'm wondering when I really will go. I know it can go on forever even with pre labour. Hrmmmm...
Good luck HotI! Good little girls don't always get treated very well, do they? :hug: Why are you high risk?
The birth centre here has a 50% transfer rate. One of the middies I saw was over there with a couple (planning a domino birth there) and they had stats up from the previous month - 80% transfer (!!!) Gotta wonder....
I have a neuro condition that is similar to parkinson's disease, but is controlled with medication. It is quite rare (1 in 2 million prevalence) and so the drs get a bit scared because they don't understand it. My symptoms improved with pregnancy last time. It is another reason why staying home would be better because stress/anxiety can make symptoms worse. I don't see this as making me any more 'high risk' than any other woman, but getting the medicos to understand this might be difficult.
With DD, i was told (and went along with) that for your first birth, especially with your medical condition, it is really important that you are monitored and go to hospital and blah blah blah. Next time you can go along with your crazy hippy ideas. Now, i am here for the second time (and understand that the first time it was all bull), i 'proved' myself by having a vaginal birth with a posterior bub and only using gas , and people seem to be backtracking on their support for me to do it my way 2nd time around. I think i need to make a decision and start demanding support, or looking elsewhere if it's not going to be given willingly.
Post birth it took me a few weeks to recover, but going to hospital didn't help at all with that last time. The lack of sleep due to PTSD (due to going to hospital) probably made the recovery slower.
I did a tour at the Birth Centre and the midwifes were awesome, but they have to work within the system. I spoke to one of them later, and she encouraged me to stay home ('Good on ya, F*** the hospital' were her words). I liked what i saw, but i don't want to be worried about toeing the line the whole time.
Maybe they thought they'd scare the crazy hippy out of you. Lots of first time mums get that message, implicitly or explicitly, even when in perfect health.
Sounds to me like hospital is a bad idea for you. I like the sound of that midwife, though.
Call the IM and have a chat. :hug: I'm not anywhere near getting pregnant but the thought of going back to hospital gives the me heebies - if I can't have my own midwife I dont' know what I'll do.
mad: are you going again, woohoo!
hotI: find your inner hippy and hold on tight! find the support, demand the support and do not compromise yourself or you wishes again! the medical system is just to hard to fight and sadly i dont believe any one of us can change it. i had two hospital births cause i didnt know better, OB suggested homebirth for my third so with her support had a lovely mw and homebirth, interstate and baby number 4 i feel back into the medical system and even though i knew better i just didnt priorities myself or my needs/wishes. i had a vaginal birth, nothing like the joyful experience i had at home with DS. if i ever have another then it WILL be born at home.
we are all here to support you anyway we can!
HotI: i too booked into birth centres with this last pg. my PTSD though really disagreed lol! i found the environment and all the rules a massive frikkin trigger and just kept having panic attacks. it wasnt until i actually had an IM in my dining room chowing down on choccy biccies with me, DH and DD that i realised that i wasnt a freak, but just needed to take a different route to bringing my baby earthside. it was instant how 'right' a fit having a HB was. it is the most miraculously, awesome and yet, normal thing to do ITMS. you will never regret a decision to go down the path of a planned HB that's for sure.
so i guess the gist of my story is get calling! call a whole bunch of IMs! and pick the one that really gels with you. you will know when it happens it is instant! i turned down 2 before i found Nic :)
HotI, I went thru a BC with my DD. It was all of the restrictions and rules that had me so stressed in the end and left me feeling like I had to fight everything. I didnt realize that I would be simply unable to do that during labour. Anyway the point I am making is that BC's are great if everything goes perfectly and terrible in their own ways because the midwives don't really have any autonomy. They are forced to tow the line most of the time and I never expected them to endanger their livelihoods for me, which they would have in order to face off against the dr's. It is not because the midwives aren't lovely, it is just because there is a major power imbalance in hospital care. Anyway I am sure I am preaching to the converted! Lol.
Afm well I am looking into midwives ATM. I find myself strangely reluctant for some reason tho. Not sure why. When I got pregnant in feb, I had a MW booked to chat to by 5.5 weeks just before the mc. This time I am more worried plus I think I have watched a close gf interview lots of the local mw's since then and a lot of them were quite fearful of birth in their own way. I know I am gonna have lots of my hubbies fears to deal with as well as my own issues about the last birth and struggling to believe in myself. I don't need a midwife who is scared to trust a woman to birth her baby iykwim? Anyway it will all work out in the end.
PZ, how you going honey? Are you all excited? Can't be long now :)
Hi girls :) just copy and paste from my belly buddies thread cos I'm lazy ;)
We've had a girl!! Can't post link on my phone but I've done our birth announcement :)
To put it simply, this was going to be a homebirth whether I wanted it or not lol. Little miss arrived in just 40 mins! Weighing in at 4.29kg, hc 34cm and length 53cm.
I had actually spent the day sick as a dog. Throwing up for a good 6hrs or so in the morning then dozing all afternoon trying to rest and rehydrate myself. I had only a couple of ouchy BH's in that time. Had couple in the evening then at 8.30 realised my waters had broken. It then came on hard and fast. Active labour we've put at 40mins. I have to say short labour is bizarre.. One minute I'm pregnant.. Next it's out! Lol.
We are doing well tho.. No complications. She's got a great suck on her.. Tho she's bruised my nipples already :/ Aah well.. We'll survive.
Hope you're all doing ok :) only reason I'm awake right now is cos I slept so much yesterday being sick. Hopefully I'll do some catching up over next couple of days :)
Wowee Liz that's amazing!!!!! Grats again!!!
Hi to everyone, been reading but not posting - bit stretched for time these days!
Hope everyone is well.
Congratulations Liz!
:loveshower: Liz!
wow Liz, that's awesome! I've always been paranoid about being sick and in labour at the same time, but I guess the body just does what it has to do! Well done!
i have to agree!:
Congratulations! Will have to look at your BA to see her name! Hope the old boobie survive!
Cant wait to hear more! enjoy your babymoon!
PZ your next then Helly :leap:
Mel....busy with four - get out;)
Congratulations LIz! Must be really surreal!
Congratultations Liz!!!!! another wee little girl to add to the brood :loveshower:
man, i thought M's birth was short! but that really takes the cake! hope that you feel ok after that speedy arrival xx
Congratulations Liz! Wow.. So fast! You certainly don't mess around ;)
Enjoy your beautiful snuggles with your baby girl xx