homebirth general discussion #9

[Maruschke]

Congrats Cricket Enjoy your newborn snuggles.

[PumpkinZulu]

Beautiful name! Congratulations!

[meow]

Beautiful!!!

Congratulations Cricket

[Tegam]

Wonderful wonderful wonderful. Congratulations


Iooookopllkd

[Jennifer13]

Congrats Cricket! You are a birthing goddess!

Em, not long now. I'm jealous of YOU lol because I would love to give birth again! Although not just yet...

[e_p]

Congratulations Cricket!!! Welcome earthside baby Anna!

Em - hope you're hanging in there ok. Not too long now

[chocorama]

Hi all, congrats Cricket on your little Anna! Welcome Earthside Anna

My little bundle was "due" on mothers day but as we all know that's a very rough guesstimate so I'm not really expecting any movement at the station for another week or two yet. Everything is ready to roll now, just chilling out enjoying the last little bit of having a big belly

[Jennifer13]

Oh yes, chocorama, not long for you too then! So exciting when we have mummies to stalk.

[HotI]

Yay, i was looking for your posts this morning chocorama to see if you were still around. very exciting to have new homebirthed bubbas again.

Congrats Cricket! I am impressed you have posted your birth story already. ( still haven't posted DSs)

[Shanti]

I would love a home birth for number 3 but need to convince DH first.

I have had two wonderful births in a public hospital (small one, very pro bf, pro natural) and both natural, no intervention.

First one was posterior labour and 2nd one was shoulder dystocia 10lb 6oz !!!! No complications, needed help coming out, mw's hands lol

Apparently there is the chance of another shoulder dystocia birth if I have had one..... that makes me think would home birth be ok????? Anyone?

[Cricket]

Thinking of you, Chocorama and Em! Hoping you've got your babies in your arms soon.

Shanti - I think different areas have different policies on shoulder dystocia. You'd have to check around with the midwives near you and see what they say. There is a slightly increased chance that you'll have another dystocia, but I don't think that necessarily needs to rule out a homebirth for you. Hopefully you can find someone to work with you!

All is well here - I'm feeling great, and Anna is being very easy on us so far. Lots to be thankful for.

[Ambersky]

Congratulations Cricket! xxx

[Jennifer13]

Shanti, I'm pretty confident most of the m/ws I know through my home birth group would know how to manage shoulder dystocia and would happily attend someone with your great birthing record. Ask around. I will ask them at our next catch up what they'd usually do.

[BellyBelly]

Hello everyone, been a while since I checked in so popping in to say hi!

Cricket - congratulations! Lovely to read your birth story yesterday.

My birth plans are going well, have had no complications at all, everything spot on for what it should be, even blood pressure which is a surprise lately Not enjoying the rib pain much, and not able to do as much as I used to, so I get so frustrated! Running around after kids, working, cleaning... it just can't all get done and I hate it!

I'm 29 weeks Monday so time has well and truly ticked along, looking into birth pool options and starting to buy more baby clothes. Does anyone know if Amby hammocks are safe for overnight use? We have very limited space and my partner isn't keen on co-sleeping (but I am sure it will happen to some degree ) so there will be either a bassinet or something similar for overnight sleeps. Apart from that, we're not that much more organised, we're not having much luck with spending time looking for names, but from the very few we do have, there is a boys and girls name that I really like. So see how we go - my man wants more to choose from but I don't see much more action happening lol.

Starting to get really tired and really hungry all the time now, got that third trimester thing going and I am fighting it as best I can! I've been eating so healthy and so well, that I don't want to ruin it, and I don't want to be wide awake going to bed so haven't been napping during the day. Makes for a grumpy mummy and partner at times though lol. So maybe I will give in soon. I feel like a starving zombie lol.

Glad everyone is going well, loving all the homebirths going on and being planned - such a great little space of BB over here

[ummAadam]

kelly, i wanted to cosleep but DH is a heavy sleeper and i was scared he would roll onto the baby so i did this with my cot and was kicking myself that i hadn't done it sooner!

[e_p]

Kelly, we've also done the cot as a side car thing and it works perfectly for us. DS is in there for most of the night, an arms reach away (I held his hand through the whole night last night), and comes over to our bed and sleeps in my arms after his 6am feed

[BellyBelly]

I dont know if we'll have room for a cot which is why I was looking at something smaller. It looks like we'll have my partners son back here next year so will be very .... cosy Will do the bassinet if we cant use the Amby overnight.

[lady_neon]

Congratulations Cricket!!! Loved reading the birth story! Your Anna has the same middle name as me

So how long does this take.. argh only half way! LOL but I am feeling ok so can't complain really.