Smithy Yay to beating the induction!!! Welcome Charlie! Cannot wait for pics!!
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Wantbaby - we had a sonographer like that too. We had to actually ask at end of scan if we could try and see his face. Which she huffed at and gave us a twenty second view! The best sonographer we had was one who used to be a midwife. They tend to be more interested in the actual baby and not just the technical side of their job.
mitf - Japan is my favourite place in the world!!! DH and I regularly go there. I speak japanese though so it makes it a bit easier. Last time we went we hired a car and drove from Tokyo to the southernmost island to visit my host parents down there. However even if you don't speak Japanesee the Japanese are very hospitable and they have everything set up for comfort. You go into a restaurant and get looked after straight away (hot tea and towels in winter and cool water and cold towel in summer!) japan is the last place on earth with good customer service (in fact excellent service!!). Hotels are good (although I would recommend looking for Onsen spa hotels, usually only Japanese go to them so they are cheap and a real cultural experience with the hot baths etc......look for the little hot spring symbol on a map and there will be at least two or three there.) The Japanese love babies so you will have no trouble there. Japanese children and babies get treated like little kings and everyone you meet will love to see a western baby! I wish I was going!!! Can I come as your guide!!!??
Green - labour vibes!!!! I hope those BH are like mine and are actually real labour (my midwife dismissed mine right up until she saw the baby's head!!!!) and they are doing most of the work of cervix dilation so you don't have sooo long in the labour ward. My advice...you know what your body is doing....don't listen to them. I knew I was in labour and I knew my pains were doing good work but I listened too much to a person who had no idea what MY body was doing. Remember your body is doing what it needs to do to get your baby into the world. Regardless of what some medical person calls them. BH or contractions your body is getting ready for your baby's birth!! Each pain is a step closer. It is happening!!!!!
AFM - just come out the other side of a....wait for it.......24 hr feeding frenzy!!!!! Yes my little man has been on the boob continuously for exactly 24hrs. I think there was a break of about half an hour and maybe give or take ten or so minutes for nappy changes etc but literally he would go on, come off after twenty minutes and then cry to get on again five minutes later. I think it was the 10 day growth spurt. Good news though...my midwife is happy with me and bubs and he has lost the right amount of weight and then gained the right amount and she has asked me to give a breastfeeding demonstration to her antenatal class on Friday. Schnim and I have been practicing our demonstration technique.........brush top lip with nipple...wait for open mouth and shove it right in!!!!! Not sure the antenatal ladies want to hear about the 24 hr feeding frenzy though!!!
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