Babies Born September 2007 #45

AHHHH been trying to get on BB for half an hr but it kept stuffing up, almost gave up lol.

I will try pop on this week but I have appts every day from Wednesday. Have spent the whole weekend cleaning, gardening, fertilising & basically preparing. The boys put up the huge marquee, looks awesome & actually makes it look weddingy instead of just a boring backyard iykwim. DP & I are crapping ourselves with nerves & we are so excited too. We had our combined bucks/hens night on Sat which was a good night, had a dance at the casino.

Now to the most important news, M has all of a sudden had red spots pop up all over her chest, abdomen & back...we are so scared that its pox. So fingers crossed girls, we should know by tomorrow morning. :(

MD - Have been thinking of you & wishing you all the best for Thurs.

Rainy - Definately tell us the birth story, I'm hanging out for it! Thinking of you with this hot Vic weather & all the fire warnings.

Clare - hang on whats this, you came close to permenant damage!? WHAT!? I hope they whip those tonsils out qucik smart. I am now also a twilight addict, I've almost finished twilight & will take the next one on honeymoon with me.

PAP - We get married this Sat & leave on our honeymoon first thing Monday morning.

Arte - Ohhh I am so sorry to hear of your nanna, she has lived a good life to make it to 94 just remember that. They are well looked after & cared for in a home, my sister is an aged carer & she really genuinely cares for them as do all the nurses there.

Jaz - Ohhh really, you are still young! However you are blessed with 3 beautiful girls so I can understand that you are satisfied. :)

Kate - An ear & throat infection, thats rough. Poor S, sounds like theres not much sleep in your house atm? :(

Ok fingers crossed girls for M, I am trying to be positive but I am thinking WHY NOW!? 4 days from the wedding & a month off from the vaccination lol.

Just a quick one from me tonight. Have been reading but dont seem to have to energy to post lol.

MM I couldnt get on either. I am so excited for you, Dh thinks I am weird ;) lol I hope M is ok.

Rainy I sooooooo want to hear all about your birth.

MD just in case I am being lazy again GL for Thursday.

Will try and pop back on tomorrow and catch up properly.

Hi everyone,
writing through tears after reading Arte and Pp's posts. I know how you're feeling too. My grandma has just moved into a high care unit too. My first visit I cried and cried. I 've been trying to visit her 3 times a week, and i usually leave her feeling very upset. My grandma has never been a real cuddler iykwim, but i hold her hand a play with her hair, because i just don't know what else to do. She is so sad. I think the thing that saddens me the most when i see all of them at the home, is that I don't know what their lives were like before they ended up there .... what were their interests, dreams and goals. What made them laugh, when did they fall in love etc, etc.
Anyway, great big hugs to you Arte and Preg.

Rainy - all of my girls have struggled with wind pains. Md's advice about the massage is a good one. Also, when you feed does your milk come out quite fast?
I'd love to hear about how precious Jimmy entered the world :) Stay safe.

mm - i hope m's rash isn't anything nasty. It's not a heat rash is it?

clare - that is seriously scary.!! We're so lucky that you're ok.

oz - hope you get some energy back soon.

Good evening ladies,
Finally back online. Sorry been so busy + still no net access at home, only via phone which takes forever to log on, and sometimes I lose my msg.

Rainy-congratulations on the birth of Jimmy. How beautiful. I would be honoured 2 hear your story. Every story is different.

My friend had her BOY today! Called him Denver Zeke. Interesting name I do like it.

Good luck to Noni on your wedding.

MD-good work on selling ur baby stuff! I am intrigued at the market u sold them at. I didn't know I could get baby stuff! Maybe that's a good thang! Good luck for thu my thoughts r with u.

Jaz.. Hullo! Yeah I am here. I try to keep up on every post. DH loves me on the phone when I get into bed (not) heeee.

Sorry but I must sleep now.. Hello to everyone else, I will try + do some personals soon.

Bfn....:)

Miss me anyone!? ;)

Had a day out yesterday - had to go to the chiropractor and DH had to see his bank manager to renegotiate his loan terms cause the fixed term had ended (which could have come at a better time - he's had a full 2% knocked off the rate now) and both appts were in Forbes (cause my chiro doesn't come to my town anymore and just stays at his original practice). So Forbes is 1.5hrs away. Not a bad little place to shop though either LOL, brought some winter clothes for Paige from a funky kids clothes shop while we were waiting for DH to finish at the bank. I got a new mobile phone too!! Yee haaa! My old one just up and died. So my new number is 0428184372 if anyone wants it, even if just to say hello LOL.

On the way home we took the scenic route past DH's work at the gold mine (google earth Lake Cowal and you'll be able to see the gold mine if you scroll around a bit) and OMG it's HUGE! it was just awesome to see the trucks unloading all the dirt into the waste dumps and everything is on such a mamoth scale. We could only drive as far as the front gate cause DH didn't have his gate card plus they prefer if it you formally arrange a tour. And it's only a baby in size compared to some of the WA mines.

Clare, OMG hun! If the buggers dont take them out now after this has happened I will personally come and tear them a new one! That is so serious and I'm really glad you're OK :hug:

G, has your milk come in yet? Have you tried co-sleeping just so you can get a bit more sleep? Don't forget he hasn't been in this world for even a week yet and it's usually by this time that they do have a bit of unsettled-ness as they are over the birth experience and they are a little more alert and just looking for boob and cuddles :hug: you're doing just great.

H! I hope that it's not the pox, maybe it's just an innocent viral thing that will be gone by the weekend. It's all so exciting now, having the marquee up and everything.

MD :hug: so how soon before you find out the results? and what is the next step now? I wish I was there to squeeze your hand for you. Does H know yet? WOOHOO about the market sale, that's great!

Hey Jaz, great to see you hun. IKWYM about not having anymore and just enjoying life for the moment with them. The girls sounds just too precious.

Hi Kate, I hope Sarah is 100% well again for you soon :hug:

Hey Ozstar, hope the m/s slacks off for you soon

Arte, So sorry to hear about your Nana. It's just awful to see them like that. When my Nan was at end-stage with cancer, I didn't go and see her on the last day she was alive because I just couldnt bare to see her like that and wanted to remember her the way I always had kwim? So I said my goodbyes to her and luckily she passed away the next day, cause I also don't think I could have coped if she was alive for longer kwim?

hi girls, how are we all?
well i got a text message yesterday warning about the extreme weather conditions for today, so decided to evacuate early and here i am looking out the window at rain and cold :rolleyes:
oh well, better to be safe than sorry i guess.

pap- bad bad girl telling me about babys got style. where do you think i'll be heading next???
lewis is reacting really well to jimmy. he keeps trying to shove a dummy in his mouth and loves to cuddle and kiss him. it seems to have co-incided with lewis going through a real period of independence iykwim? i've noticed now that whenever i take him somewhere he is way more interested to hang around with other people more than me - like when we're at dad's- he follows dad around everywhere and wants to be involved with everything dad's doing but doesn't really care so much what i'm doing, if that makes sense? i think it's great cos it leaves me to feed jimmy. lewis is just turning into such a little boy now, i feel like he's growing up so quickly!

sherie- your day out sounds nice. yes my milk came in yesterday and i thought i was going to pass out from the extreme pain. you have seriusley never seen bigger harder boobs in your life. i can't wear a bra or anything. my dad has just headed down to the shops so i've asked him to buy me some big loose pyjamas from sussan to wear for the next few days so i can just lounge around comfy and breastfeed. yes i have been co-sleeping, not much sleeping has been going on though :lol: he spent all saturday night just sucking and sucking to get the milk through. i was exhausted and falling asleep sitting up. i know i keep forgetting how young he is, lewis was exactly the same the first couple of weeks but you forget you know? he just seems to be having trouble sleeping flat on his back- he wants to be more upright...anyway...i'm perservering with it all, i know breastfeeding is hard to establish but well worth it in the end. thanks so much for all your support and help, it's a hard and emotional time with a newborn.

jaz- i don't think my milk comes out too fast, i don't really know! i know he's getting lots though from all his wet dirty nappies.
you nearly had me crying when you were talking about your grandma- you are such a sweetaheart.

mm- oh i really really hope it's not the pox:pray: you poor thing having to worry about that now!
what did you end up doing about your hair for the wedding? what is the weather supposed to be like on sat?


i'm going to sneak into the shower quickly now while dad has taken lewis to the shops and jimmy is having a nap xoxo
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G, LOL at your poor boobies! Did you end up getting the amby hammock or not? that is supposed to be really good for that sort of thing - Christy used to have one end propped up so they were on a bit of a recline and it helped with the belly pains. I suppose with your being so full, he's getting all this milk and his belly is just too full kwim? Plus if you have a lot, he's likelyto only get the foremilk, which can cause a few belly troubles. Express a little bit off first and see if that makes a difference. You will both have the hang of it in no time - even though you've done this before Jimmy is a different baby so you might need to try a few things to find out what works. So are you going home today? I think the biggest worry was the wind - even up here we have an alert out for gale force winds, but so far it's overcast and only mildly windy. We weren't taking any chances though and 'battoned the hatches' yesterday JIC.

hi sherie, yes i've got the amby hammock but so far it's been a bit of a fizzer! lol
we put him in it but he hated it, and he's just so tiny, i honestly thought it was going to swallow him up! i will try it again but i thought maybe i should wait a couple of weeks till he's not so fragile. he just looks like a little baby possum atm ....and it's freaking us out cos lewis looked like a wombat! i did express a little yesterday, but then i didn't want my boobs to go into overdrive and start superproducing iykwim? the boobs have def settled a lot more today though- i think by about thursday they should be fine. he had a great feed this morning and is napping in lewis' little lounge chair atm, in a semi sort of upright position. he seems happy so i'll leave him. we actually have one of those rainforest cradle swings packed away so i've asked dh to get it reday and set it up cos i think he's gonna love that.
i'll probably head home this arvo, i'll just wait and see if all this hoo-ha eventuates into anything. i rang dh and he reckons it's a bit gusty up there so i guess we'll see.

pap- i went to babys got style and i have to say i wasn't overly impressed with the boys' stuff- you were totally looking at girls' stuff though weren't you???? you are so busted!!! LOL ;)

ok...jimmy's birth...i'll keep it brief-

well first of all, i have a small confession to make....
i ended up, after much discussion with ob and dh..getting induced. i didn't want to tell you all in case it didn't lead to anything, as she said that if it didn't work she would send us home and we didn't want to get anyone's hopes up so we decided not to tell anyone. :)
i really didn't want to go to 42weeks again and i was starting to get very anxious about this baby's size.

so..on wednesday we dropped lewis off at dad's at about 2pm and headed to the hospital at 3pm. we got to the birth suites and we were the only couple there so they gave us the best room- massive in size with its own private big birthing bath. awesome!!!
the midwife came in and applied the first lot of gel to my cervix at about 4pm. justin then went out to the newsagents to get some magazines to keep us occupied. the midwife loved me and satand talked crap to me for about an hour! her kids went to the same school as me so she was sitting there *****ing about it all and didn't want to leave me. justin returned with 2 magazines for me and 3 for him :rolleyes: typical lol
we basically just sat and talked, watched the biggest loser and farmer wants a wife...they brought through a tour of pg ladies and their partners to check out the birthing suites as part of their birthing classes and i was sitting on the fitball laughing and watching tv, must have completely freaked them out i reckon!
anyway..basically nothing happened at all. the ob came to check on me a few times but there was nothing to report. a second lot of gel was applied at 11pm.
we tried to go to sleep but i couldn't sleep at all- i was starting to get some serious pains and niggling iykwim? they weren't serious contractions, but enough to stop me sleeping. we decided to start using the tens machine and it actually really helped me. i think i probably got about 1.5hours sleep in the end. the ob came in at 7am, checked me- nothing had happened again and applied a 3rd lot of gel- said she'd come back at 1.30pm when we would have to make a decision about what to do....
justin and i basically just sat there again for the whole morning doing nothing. i got a little bit of sleep but not much. i really couldn't feel anything happen and started to get quite upset. my friend rang me and we talked for an hour or so, i was getting period pain but nothing really. at about 12pm my doula rang me to see what was going on and if we wanted her to come in. i basically told her not to bother as we were either going to be heading home or in discussions about a c-section after 1.30pm. i wasn't happy at all, i was really hoping that the gels would get things going and it was clear that it wasn't going to happen.....
at 1.30pm the ob came in, she did a ve and said you're at 3cm!! i couldn't believe it. she then broke my waters and i said to justin- we're having the baby today!! after we'd convinced ourselves we were going home- it was on!!!
she then left us to it and said she'd be back to check and that she'd leave us with the midwives for a while. the contractions started coming on really thick and fast after that. there was no midwife in sight, apparantely a few other women had come in and were actually labouring by then, so we sort of got left alone. at one point a midwife came in and said 'are you guys ok? i've got this down as being your third baby right?' umm no!!! wtf??
after a while justin took matters into his own hands and got the gas out- he knew exactly where it was and how it worked as he'd enjoyed it so much last time ;)
i was having contractions and justin and i were sharing the gas for a few hours- i was in a lot of pain, he was in a cloud of stonedness lol. a midwife came in about 5pm or so and helped me into the bath and i was in the bath for a few hours having major painful contractions!! i thought i could feel his head smashing into the front of my pelvis, it just felt like something was wrong you know? like he couldn't get down there. i was saying to justin 'he's just too big, he's bigger than lewis'. justin was saying- 'you're doing really well, you can do it- here have some more gas, i'll have some too!"...
i started to relax a little bit in the bath..and started thinking 'ok, i can do this' i thought in my head i was probably about 7cm by now?......
ob came in probably at 8pm and i got out of the bath so she could check me. she did a ve and said you're still 3cm and the head is anterior. i was absolutely devestated. after hours of pain, nothing had happened. she said to me, maybe you should consider having an epidural so you can relax a bit and we can give it a chance to come down. i was more than happy to have the epidural by this stage. she called the anthesitist.
10mins later a funny little guy came in cracking jokes and gave me the epi. i lay down on the bed and felt my legs going numb. i was glad not to be having painful contractions anymore but i started feeling like absolute crap. i could hardly talk and my legs felt weird like massive dead logs hanging off me. before i knew it i was shaking uncontrollably and couldn't stop throwing up, i felt absolutely dreadful and started to just lose it mentally. finally someone checked my blood pressure and they realised that it had dropped which is why i was feeling so bad. they put some anti-nausea stuff in my drip and i slowly started feeling a lot better.i was begging them to just give me a c-section and get the f###ing thing out!! the ob said- "i can give you a c-section if you want, but you are going to be so ****ed off if this baby comes out and it's small'. she was right of course...'she was saying to me, you can do this vaginally, you can do it'.
justin stepped in at this point and was saying to me 'if you have a c-section it won't be over. you'll still be in pain in 2 weeks, you just gotta perservere now' i listened to him, i have no idea why!! and thought 'ok, i can do it. i don't want a c-section.'
i've gotta go- lewis is back- sorry this has turned into a novel! it was supposed to be brief :lol:
i'll come back for part 2 later xoxo

Don't apologise for being induced - I know how much this was playing on your mind and heck, you still haven't been able to talk about Lewis' birth, so that alone tells me how much you are still harbouring from that kwim? At the end of the day you have to do what you have to do to have the unhindered birth you want :hug: I will stay tuned for part 2, but OMG I had to laugh at Justin!

Don't apologise for being induced - I know how much this was playing on your mind and heck, you still haven't been able to talk about Lewis' birth, so that alone tells me how much you are still harbouring from that kwim? At the end of the day you have to do what you have to do to have the unhindered birth you want :hug: I will stay tuned for part 2, but OMG I had to laugh at Justin!

Rainy - all power to you sister! Am loving the story unfolding. Like Trill OMG I am laughing at J. Sounds like he came through with the support and the direction you needed when you needed it though! :)

Rainy- am loving the story!!! and J is hilarious!!!!! your ob sounds fantastic!
ps ha ha ha at detenctive rainy with the oobi stuff - i did like the boys though you are right there wasnt that much. though i like the little red and blue overalls and also the bear jacket. i didnt say i had bought much.....

You didn't need to say it PP! Ha! We're onto you ;).

ETA - LOL that reminds me of the time I made some comment about girl guides and quick-eyed Trill twigged straight away we were having a pink party. LOL

pap- you are so busted!!! i love that little bear jacket but they didn't have either size that i would need. how annoying! some gorgeous girls' stuff though ;)

ok..jimmy part 2
alright, by now everyone had talked me down off the ledge of madness. the ob said she would leave me to relax for a while and come back and check soon. the midwife came and checked on me constantly, they dimmed the lights and justin and i just tried to relax. ob came back at about 11pm and checked on me- said everything was going well, cervix was dilating but we weren't quite there yet. she said she was going home for a bit (lives 10mins from hospital) and told midwife to let me start pushing at about 12.30am if i was ready and she would come back about 1am.
12.30am midwife comes in and gets me to start doing some pushing- quite weird as i can't really feel much but i just go with it and pretend i'm doing a poo. after 2 contractions she says 'ok, just leave it there for a minute, i'll call the ob'. she goes off to use the phone, comes back in, has another look then calls in another midwife as back up, just in case the ob doesn't make it back in time. i'm starting to get a bit confused about what's going on at this point..but no-one seems too stressed..
the ob comes in...has a look..says 'Oh my god!!' puts on her gloves, tells me to push. i do one push and jimmy pops out!
he looked so tiny, i couldn't believe it! they did a quick check then put him on my chest. i was looking down on him and kissing him and telling him it was ok. i couldn't believe all his hair. everyone was saying 'what's his name?' and justin was saying 'he's little jimmy!'
the ob checked me out and said 'there's no tears, there's not even a graze, you did so well!!!'
after they weighed him and cleaned him up a little i lay on my side and breastfed him. he just felt so little, after breastfeeding lewis until he was 14months you know? it felt like i was feeding a tiny little possum :)
by now it was about 2am or something, justin sent text messages out, while he was sucking on his gas pipe..jimmy slept in the bassinette next to us and i lay there waiting for the epidural to wear off and watching over jimmy. we didn't get much sleep, we were just so happy and amazed by everything.

I shudder to think what those txt messages said if he was still on the gas at the time PMSL! Beautiful story hun, I'm so happy youve shared it :hug:

rainy - that is such a beautiful story! and you tell it so well!!!
well who knows if i am busted - only about 19 wks til you find out LOL!

Hayley ...
all the best for Sat-day, hope it is a lovely day.
Yeah its a bit insulting but yeah.
Oh no on the spots. Hope its just a rash.

Kate:
i agree, it does make it more validated & the further it is from that day the more it frustrates me TBH, weird I know.
How is Sarah?

MD:
Good to hear that you were able to sell the majority of your baby stuff. Now that Jack's out of bottles & Alex uses single sheets, I've started putting the baby or excess stuff away. I didn't realise how much you accumulate!

Arte:
Sorry about your Nana. :hug:

Rainy:
have you tried his tummy. It was the only way Jack would sleep comfortably.
I just read the birth story, omg, what a journey (sorry, mine were c/s's with no labour etc). Thank you for sharing it with us.


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Alex is starting to say "please" for things. Like yst we walked into the bank & he saw the kid chairs. He says "chairs", I say "no, he says "please" so after that I had to let him go.
Jack is teething, bottom right back molar. He screams & doesn't sleep much at all.

Sitting here all day looking for an excuse to take them to the pool but its been so overcast its not funny!, so now my lounge room is a disaster zone!