Glad the scan went well possums - fx for another week :goodluck:
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Glad the scan went well possums - fx for another week :goodluck:
possum; as kass said fingers crossed. not long now. how exciting. x x
afm: looks like almost stopped bleeding now. brown stuff still but no more red. what a scary couple of days.
chat soon
It's a girl :)
Sneaking in to say WOO HOO Kass!!!!!!!!!! congrats :)
kass: yipee! :cheer:. hope those girl germs spread to me........ lol...........
Thanks! We're so excited :)
hi girls!!!
how are you all trundling along???
JBM - tell that child to behave and stop scaring mummy.. and us! i hope the bleeding stops soon lovey. ox
woo hooo kass!! congrats on a little pink one :)
Possums - that's great news about your little one still growing! try not to worry yourself too much about the weight, you can never tell how they'll go and you can't control it. fingers crossed he keeps growing, fluid levels don't go down further and it all goes well.
hi oneday, dr and kaybee and all the girls here!
Kaybee you must be about to pop??? good luck hun.
Well can you believe that Immy is a month old today! four weeks! already! unbelievable. She is still a big girl, so she was 10lb 3oz when born (4.6kg) regained her birth weight within 3 days (usually takes a week or two! lol) and is now well over 5kg! We could only use one of our newborn nappy boxes and had to go straight up to the next size lol... and she's filling out 000 very well,,, i think she'll be in 00 within a month... Ash wasn't in them til about 6 months old! ha! So my girl is a porker... with gorgeous thunder thighs, and several dozen chins... rolls on her ankles and her wrists... just so squishably adorable. Loads of dark curly/wavy hair and blue eyes like daddy :)
oh and the 2nd time around truly is sssoooo much easier and more relaxing than your first! Your first is such a life changing event but your second is just part of the landscape if you know what i mean.
So things are going really well, haven't had any hiccups with the feeding either! which is amazing after a bit of a trial with DS.
Just couldn't be happier with Immy and so content with my lot in life... even with a cheeky toddler in tow!
oh dear, rambled on... lol... grub is back!
anyhoo, just wanted to drop in and wish you all luck!!!
take care of yourselfs and belly rubs all round girls.
oxox
Hi - I just popped back in after I posted a little while ago and now it's not there. Damn it! Can't remember what I said
Possums - it must be a pretty emotional time for you, but it looks like things are still going well. Every day/ week in there must be helping and he's still there, so that's great.
Kass - yay for a pink one! How exciting!
JBM - what a horrible scare. So glad that things seem to have settled down for you. Hope you are relaxing and taking it nice and easy.
Grub - thanks for popping back in - I was only just thinking about you. Sounds like you are truly on cloud nine. You deserve it! Congratulations! So stoked that things are going so well for you. Immy sounds adorable.
Hi oneday, DR, trishy and everyone else
AFM - I have a cold and am desperately trying to get rid of it before the baby comes. Labour with a cold wouldn't be much fun - neither would newborn life! It has also been throwing my sugar levels all over the place which I am sooo over. I have been trying to stay in a state of readiness - not that I feel like anything will happen within the next week, but it is very relieving to know that the house is clean, the cupboards are full and the washing basket is (nearly) empty. Although I am sure that chaos will have taken over again by the time he/she arrives. At the same time I am trying to relax and let my energy focus on getting rid of this cold and getting my bits ready for the 'grand opening'. AND yesterday I got a bikini wax and a pedicure - all set!
Take care ladies xoxo
Aggghhhhh
I just typed a long message and then it disappeared on me... don't you hate that!!!! I think I'll try to rewrite it in small sections and post each seperately now!
Anyway I hadn't recieved any updates that anyone had posted for a week so I did think it was odd that the forum had gone so quiet. Thought I better just check and I seem to have missed out on alot.
Possums, Glad to hear your baby is still able to hang in there and hopefully when he is born he will be one of the ones who develops quickly. When I was pregnant with my daughter I was told she was "growth retarded" and I had to have a scan in 4 weeks time to check her development. Luckily she was okay but all I heard at the time was the word "retarded". This is apparently what they now call "growth restricted" which I think sounds so much less negative. Fingers crossed he can hang in there a bit longer and develop a bit stronger before he is born.
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Lori
DD - 14
Bub due 28th Aug
Hi again,
JBM, So sorry to hear about your bleeding and scare. What a relief that everything is okay. At least is sounds like the medical staff were okay, not like when I had my 2 massive bleeds at 7 and a half weeks and was told the baby was dead and basically treated like it was no big deal, happens all the time, "that's why we encourage people not to tell anyone they are pregnant until they are into the 2nd trimester". I was so angry when the dr said that because I thought that might be fine for a normal pregnancy but when you have been going through IVF and most of your friends know you can't not share the good news of a BFP when you finally get it after sharing all the grief of the negatives along the way. Besides I'd rather my friends know so I can share the grief if I had lost the baby rather than try to go through all that alone.
Sorry I can't remember the other news
Lori
DD - 14
Bub due 28th Aug
Hi everyone,
Now for my news....
Someone mentioned going to their first birthing class this week (sorry I can't remember who it was). I also had my first class and thought I was doing it really late (as I was 4 and a half weeks left to go when I had my first class and the classes run for 3 weeks), however all the women are due within a couple of weeks of me (alot around the 6th Sept and through to the 15th). I am the 2nd earliest with one woman due 2 days before me. The one due just before me actually lives in the nearest town to me (only 8km away) so we exchanged numbers and I'm hoping we might manage to catch up outside of class. It would be nice to know someone close by with a baby so close in age, though we are in very different situations... she lives in town (not on acerage), she is married, alot younger than me (I'd guess she's atleast 10 years younger), first bub and she has lived in the area alot longer than me so sounds like she alreedy has a good support base here.
Anyway at the end of class we had a tour of the birthing facilities and I was shocked to realise how lucky my ex had been and how poor some of the facilities are. When my ex had her son we got to use the birthing centre (which only had 2 rooms). If you are lucky enough to get into one of these you can then stay in it for up to 24 hours before moving to a ward. She got to stay for 20 hours and I got to spend that first night in there with her and the baby. Then she had to move to a 4 bed ward with 2 other mums and bubs... but atleast she had a peaceful first night. If those rooms are in use you have to use a birthing room where you only get to stay a maximum of 2 hours after the birth before being moved to a ward... so there is literally no time to bond with your baby or recover before you are having to share with complete strangers and their babies and put up with other babies crying and disturbing your bub when you just got it to sleep. I was shocked that they move you into a ward so quickly after birth and it made me feel more determined to get out as quickly as possible. A friend had recommended staying in hospital as long as possible so you have the support around you but I don't sleep well when I have another person in the room (perhaps the reason I didn't cope when my ex lived with me - my first and only live in relationship barely made 2 years and really it was over within 6 months but I didn't want to admit it) so I know I'll struggle in a room with potentially 3 other strangers and 3 other babies.
When I gave birth to my daughter I had my own room for the first night and until around lunchtime the next day and then I was moved to a ward with 2 other mothers. I just can't imagine not having that first night with just you and your bub.
Anyway other news... I have my new window in my bedroom and in my daughter's current bedroom (which will become the playroom when her new room is finished). It makes such a difference having light coming in as they are aluminum sliding windows instead of the old double hung wood windows. It also means I can open the windows to get fresh air in! yay!!!! My daughter's old window was the worst because not only did it not open but the wood was completely rotten and there were a few small holes in the glass letting the cold air in. I'm suprised she wasn't sick more often. I knew it was bad but hadn't realised how bad until we started taking it out and parts of it just crumbled. The other windows have arrived (for the baby's room - replacing another one which doesn't open at all, and for my daughter's new room). I have organised for a neighbour to help next week when we replace 2 windows in my daughter's new room as we will need as much muscle as possible as in this particular spot the windows are what is holding the roof up (there is no support beam) so we'll have to work really fast to get a temp one in and remove the window and then put a permanent support in before putting in the new windows. The guy offered months ago that if I ever needed a hand just to give a yell and I appreciated the offer but told friends I would never make use of his genoristy like that... however now I really do need that extra adult (hopefully only for an hour or less) as my father and I wont' manage this part on our own.
It is nice to know that we have neighbours who are willing to help out like this though.
He is currently not working so I guess if I was desperate I could always ask him to drive me to the hospital when I go into labour but then what happens when we get there as I definately don't want him in the room with me!
Lori - 38
DD - 14
Bub due 28th Aug (and still no closer to choosing a middle name or making up a first name)
dreamrise: thanks. i was lucky with the staff, they don't wanna be on the news like some of those hopitals where women were just left waiting while they were bleeding. thanks again. yeah for classes. i don't know if i will do any ??. prob not. yipee for some new windows. not long to go for you now. i realise how lucky i was with all my boys. all birth centre babies. i stayed only one night in bc with ds1 but i wanted to go home next day. i stayed 2 nights with ds 2, my choice again to go home, but with ds3 i staye for 5 days as no one else needed the room. lucky me and DH got to stay 1st ight with all babies. good luck to you.
kaybee: wow you're SO SO CLOSE NOW, i am so excited for you. not for the bikini wax though. ouch !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. hope your cold goes soon.
grub: thanks for popping in to see us preg ladies, wow one month already, i love how you describe your little buddah, lol. sound so so cute !. :-) yes second is much easier as we 've done it beofre and i think are less stressed about everything. my 2nd was a gat baby and i seemed to have less trouble with everything !!. good luck to you and your cute chubby little baby. x x
afm: still spotting !, so annoying but i am feeling kicks so that is good, i have another scan on friday to check baby but at least i am not so scared now.
all is good and i did my measurements and i have gained 4 cm around my tummy and none anywhere else. we don't count boobs as they're enormous. LOL
chat soon to all
thanks so much for your support everyone and sorry I haven't been doing personals lately...although I have been reading all your updates....
We were back at the hospital today for more monitoring and also to see the on call Ob.... he had a chat with us and said he thinks the time has come where our little boy will be better out than in...he is worried if we wait too long he will become weak and an emergency c-section would then be the only option. He said better to act now, while he is already getting skinnier/using his own reserves, but is nevertheless not showing signs of huge distress. So I am heading in tomorrow night to be induced...gel to ready the cervix, then overnight in hospital and they want me and the baby monitored every few hours as well (they are very cautious about the baby being distressed at all)...and all going well, labour to start on monday morning. He warned us again about our higher than normal chance of having a c-section too and of our baby being pretty small and skinny, but that hopefully he will pick up strength and fat quickly.
So this is it!! We are excited and also nervous...just processing everything, since these last few weeks have been a bit stressful. But wow, in two days we will have our baby!!! It's amazing to think of that.
sending you all the very best, especially those who are also so close now, and I have asked a fellow BB lady to post a birth announcement for me
Possums: oh how exciting !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
good luck to you for no C section. as doc says if it is better for baby to be out and then get some of that good brest milk will fatten him up in no time. lots and lots of best wishes to you. x x x
Hi Possums,
Best wishes for tomorrow night and Monday. Fingers crossed that regardless of whether it is an induced vaginal birth or a C-section that everything goes well and your little boy is safely beside you soon. I didn't realise that he had actually been losing condition recently so sounds like it's definately the best thing for him to be out and hopefully able to start putting weight on.
Lori
DD - 14
Bub due 28th Aug.
Possums - This is it! I will be thinking of you heaps over the next couple of days luvvy! I have everything crossed for as little intervention as possible, but more importantly, a healthy baby in your arms at the end of it all. Wow - what an emotional, intense couple of days for you! :hug::hug::hug:
So much goodluck to you possums!!!!! how exciting you get to meet your little man so soon! All the best hunny xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
good luck possums!!! snd 36 weeks great you've done a great job. so exciting, treasure this time oxox