Pregnancy after Long Term TTC - Jan 2008

[lismith25]

Lenny - I agree rest up, this is one of the few times left that you will able to be completely self absorbed and look after yourself

Marcellus - I cant believe you are on maternity leave wow that means its close, I have 9 weeks left and counting hehe

I tried to sort our car seat out yesterday and to my utter distress it doesnt fit, we have a nissan navara and I said to dh that the back seats were smaller than normal cars but he wouldn't have any of it. Think it may have to go in the front passenger seat until it can be turned round the other way. I am just not having any luck with these baby purchases. DH just said to me we will get it right with the 2nd one......I just looked at him.

On a happy note my parents are absolutely giddy over their 1st impending grandchild and are flying out from the uk on 24/05, very excited as havent seen them for 2 years. Mum hopes I will be late, so that they make the birth...I think everyone is hoping I am late except me.

Hope you are all doing well, I cant believe how close we are all getting

[traceylee]

Hi Ladies,

Lenny, Satya, Marcellus - Thank you for your understanding when I think no-one does.

Satya - hope the eye is ok. How cute little man is in sympathy for you.

Marcellus - congrats on the maternity leave. You wont know yourself. You will start nesting now, how nice. Enjoy yourself and take your time with everything. Enjoy the peacefulness until the big day. Spoil yourself!

Lismith - how precious your family is flying out for you. You must be stoked. I was told that no car seats can go in the front because of the airbag situation. Maybe you should check this out just as a safety precaution.

Me - DH took me away for the weekend to get me out of the house. It was ok but on the drive back home last night I started to feel like I was driving back into that fog again. Its another quiet day on the home front but at least the sun is out and I have a heap of washing to do to keep me busy. I think that's the key to keeping spirits up, busy busy busy.

I got a note in the letterbox about a lady in our street organising walks 3 times a week for 45mins. Im going to go and I am looking forward to it. I think some exercise will help lift my mood and I will get to meet some ladies in my street. Its amazing how things happen when we need them to.

Thanks for your kind words again, girls xoxo

TraceyLee

[Lenny]

Nic - love the new av!
Lismith - it'll be great to see your parents. Carseat is a dirty word in our house. Bugsy is still transport-less! It's an expensive decision and we are STILL undecided! We are useless! I can barely decide what clothes to put on in the morning and what to cook for dinner - carseats etc, are just too hard!
Marcellus - had a swab last week too, but no internals at all (thankfully). I'm pleased that your maternity leave has started. I am only doing part-time now. I enjoy it still - and i am quitting permanently to have bugsy, so it seems quite hard to actually leave. It will be strange not to 'have a job' although i'm sure i will be busier than i could ever imagine!
TL - the walking group sounds great. Being busy sometimes helps, but don't ignore your feelings either. I wish i had some wise words for you - but i am thinking of you and i hope the fog lifts soon.
Kimbe - you still in preggy-land - or are you in baby-land already?!

[kimbe]

Am home with my beautiful girl Jenna Michelle, born 29.02.08 at 6.24pm. Weighing 3170grams, 51cm long and absoltuely gorgeous. I am truely in love. Go the clary sage oil!! Am tired after a long few days, will inform you of more tomorrow.

[Lenny]

Ohh, how wonderful to hear from you Kimbe - congratulations and i hope you are all wonderfully well. I will wait eagerly to hear how the birth went, but i love that you are in love with her - another happy mummy.

[monnie]

OH MY GOODNESS KIMBE!!!!

WOWOWOWOW!!!

That clary sage oil is potent!

What fantastic news!

And a little leapster baby...how cool is that!

Welcome little Jenna!!!

[nic]

kimbe - Congratultions!! Looking forward to hearing the details

Lenny - Yeah, got my preggie AV! I like it now, looked quite funny at first LOL!

Lis- I think Tracey is right about baby car seats not being allowed on the front seat. Hope you can sort out something with it. We are going to have a similiar problem with space. DH and I are going to see if we can fit the seat in the middle of the car until he goes back to work and I'm driving around and not sitting in the passenger seat with it all crunched up.

I have been scrubbing the walls, ever so slowly mind you, in the spare room for DH to do a built in cupboard and painting, for DD to move into. It was my room as a teenager, so has stacks of sticky tape from hanging up posters and glow in the dark stickers all over the roof and walls. It is taking me forever to do as the glue remover makes me feel just yuck if I spend too long in there. I try to do a section at a time, so only have 2 and a half wallls to go. Trying to get it done before DH finishes work on Thursday morning, so he can prime it with some paint this weekend. Things going pretty good otherwise.

Nic

[lismith25]

Congratulations Kimbe and welcome baby Jenna, glad to hear you are so in love with her....I cant wait.

ooooohh its getting so close for everyone, it must be a race now between Marcellus and Lenny.

Lenny - cot is the dirty word in our house, if dh doesnt take me to a decent shopping centre in the next month im just going to get one of the tetra snuggle beds for the poor little mite.

nic - good luck with the walls and yes no baby seat in the front as we have an airbag, dh had a look at it yesterday and said he would sort it!!! So i am stepping away from the car seat, just hope he doesnt leave it till we go to hospital!!

My teaching course has just started again, got one module to do before the birth, god help me with preggie brain, it has just taken me 3 days to remember where I had put my glasses.....work has been very interesting as a result!!!!

2.5 weeks till easter and 8.5 weeks till maternity leave not that im counting

[nic]

Lis, we had a tetra snuggle bed with DD. DH knew someone who was getting rid of theirs, so picked it up for us, I had no idea what they were at the time. It was fantastic, DD was a summer baby, so we usually just laid her on it with a singlet on. When we moved her from bassinette to cot, we put the snuggle bed in the cot for a few days until she became familiar with her new surroundings. Was helpful when we went to my parents as well, just threw it on the floor or in her portacot. I got rid of it, but it is on DH's "Must buy" list! Gosh, my DH sounds like he is addicted to babyshopping... Hope your DH gets the seat sorted out for you.

Nic

[mako]

WOW Kimbe. I haven't been on for a couple of days and look whats happened lol.
A HUGE Congratulations to you on the arrival of your precious little leapyear bundle. I bet Jenna is just gorgeous. Well done hun. Can't wait to hear all about her birth

[traceylee]

Hi Girls,

Kimbe - BIG CONGRATS KIMBE ON PRECIOUS JENNA MICHELLE!!!! Hope you all are feeling okay and everyone is healthy. Rest up and enjoy every minute.

Lismith & Nic - best friend had a tetra snuggle bed for her 3 bubs and wouldnt be without one.

Me - feeling better this week though bub wasnt moving and so I went to the hospital on Tuesday morning to get monitored for movement and heartbeat for half an hour. A bit scary being in a delivery suite at 25.5 weeks. All is fine and Bub is very active. My placenta is still anterior (right at the front) and because of his position I couldnt feel him for a few days. They taught me to lay on my side, have something really cold like ice to chew or a really cold drink, get in a dark room, concentrate and relax but dont sleep. Bub should start moving within an hour. He has been moving since and he is fine. Thank goodness.

Have a great day girls, the weather is beautiful in all states today!

Tracey

[monnie]

Hey TraceyLee

I had an anterior placenta too...so it was harder to feel movements at first...and therefore, easier to get worried!!!

The sonographer who I saw for the 13 week scan said to me to remember how much I could see the baby moving around (but not feel it at all)...so that at later on in the pregnancy (around 20-25 weeks) when I still couldn't feel much, to just remember the 13 week scan movement.

That helped!

Glad to hear that all is okay.

The good thing about an anterior placenta is later on in the pregnancy when bubs is doing massive kicks, you have some cushioning!!!

Lenny and Marcellus...the race is on!!! Hope all is going fantastically!!!

Satya, Lissmith, Nic...hope all is going well!

[kimbe]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for all the positive vibes. And yep, Jenna and I are both doing really well - particularly now we are home. She is amazing and her labour story proves it.
I mentioned feeling like some indigestion last Friday morning, and that lasted all day, the period like cramps accompanied by Braxton Hicks happening intermittently, but definately not unbareable or anything and lots of toilet visits for #2's. I spent most of the day looking up "pre labour symptoms" and "how to bring on labour" not even realising i was in fact in my bodies form of labour!!
At 3pm, i decided the cramps where seemingly more frequent, but not long, though i should time them and yep, they were between 30-50secs long with 3-5 minute intervals. DH arrived home at 4pm and i told him about it, showed him the monitoring and he said, 'yeah well, if you think it's something, ring the midwives, i'll go have a shower'. I rang the delivery suite and they weren't too concerned until i couldn't tell them the last time i felt bub, so they said to come in for safe monitoring, as they could always send me home. At 4.45pm i was put on bub monitor and midwife left the room, with that, another cramp like contraction and the waters broke. Midwife came in, checked dilation and unenthusiastically told me that i was 2cm's therefore had another 8hrs to go, 1cm an hour, but she would put me into a delivery room. Well by 5.20pm in i went, onto the gas with contractions getting stronger and me in complete distress that i had to actually go through this for another 8 or so hrs (AAARRRGGGHH! what had i done??) Due to all my breathing noises and moans, the midwife came in at prob 6ish and again said she'd check the dilation and offered some stronger pain relief to which i said yes!, but upon saying yes, she said, sorry Jane your baby is coming, legs and knees up nice and high and push when i tell you! 6.24pm Jenna Michelle is out and on my chest, i am exstatic, DH beside himself and the midwife repeating over and over i can't believe it, that was so fast, as i delivered the placenta (actually felt great! Can i even go as far as to say orgasmic?!) and she then gave me 2 stitches.
There were some complications which surfaced an hour later when the midwife tried to rush me into the shower and out of the delivery suite. I had a heamatoma develop from uncited internal bleeding which then ruptured 3 times over (torture and back on the gas). I was rushed into theatre for 1.5hrs of internal stiching under a general anasthetic followed by 2hrs recovery. DH spent the entire time alone with Jenna which has resulted in an incredible bond already.
But the moral is the labour was a blessing and the female body is an incredible healer and of course only Jenna's health and happiness mattered in the immediacy of the situation. And now we are home.
Anyway, long selfish post but i feel so much better for writing Jenna's birth story, even if it should be in a different forum.
Will now go and catch up on everyone else's progress until now...though i do know Lenny and Marcellous, you guys are next woo hoo!

[monnie]

Beautiful Kimbe...beautiful!

Sounds like you were absolutely amazing...as was your DH...and of course, JENNA!!!

Sorry to hear about the complications...hope it wasn't too much of a scare and that you are healing wonderfully.

Due to my c/s, I had to be in recovery for a little while, without Felix. Like you, it ended up being a wonderful bonding experience for DH. I think it really boosted his confidence in dealing with Felix...especially in those first few days.

Anyway...in NO way was yours a selfish post...I've been regularly checking BB to check if you had put any more details in...

Just so thrilled for you.

Hope it's going well at home...just remember, trust yourself and your mummy instincts!!! You know Jenna better than any book, person or internet site!!!

Looking forward to hearing more.

[lismith25]

Wow Kimbe, now thats a timeframe I would like to aim for and though you had a rough ordeal at least it provided quality time for dh and Jenna and you sound just so happy

I keep reading about the onset of number 2's during labour...is this a totally normal thing which I had never heard of before!!!! I guess if you are severly constipated like me, it would be a definite sign........I must remember to make a note of these things

[onthefly]

Congratulations Kimbe! Great news on the safe (and faster-than-you-expected) arrival of Jenna. Hope you're healing up nicely from the complications.

I thought I'd be stumped for things to do but we've had a house guest since Tuesday night - he's here for a week - so am flat out.

Lenny - how are you? I looked quickly through our belly buddy thread and you said you were finding out today whether you had to have bugsy early.... hope all is well with you both! Sounds like you'll be beating me at any rate.

We're fine. Hope you ladies are all doing well - will try and post properly soon

byee

[Lenny]

kimbe - thanks for taking the time to write your birth for us. I'm sure you are busy now that you are home. Those complications sound nasty, but the birth sounded great. Well done. I have heard from others that their DH bonded amazingly when the mum was taken into surgery or whatever, and it becomes an amazing time (if not a little nerve-wracking) for them.

Well, ob says bugsy's small but fine, and because he is such a wriggler (Still ) then there is no need to worry yet. He is almost totally engaged, which is great to know. He reassured me and i feel so much better, and i am going back to work tomorrow He said he never trusted the scan that said bugsy was big - and someone has to have small babies - it may as well be me! Fluid is low, but not getting worse, so i'm happy larry again. Especially as DH is not around. So, we're back to waiting for bugsy to make his entrance in his own time.

TL - my placenta is anterior too - it takes longer to feel those first few movements. I find that if i have a cool shower then bugsy always moves - i found this out purely by chance because it started to get pretty hot in melbourne when i was around 22-26 weeks and cool showers help with those swollen feet!

Marcellus - keep thinking of you each day and i can't wait to hear. Is someone doing a BA for you? Does DH have instructions to text someone on BB!!

ETA marcellus - i just read that your doula is going to let us know - yay...I will be so excited to hear!

[Astrolady]

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