Well done Kirsti on the birth of Masyn! Hope all was well, 6lb14 is a good weight as Kate says so hope you are both doing well xx
Angel - hope your bóóbs have settled down now your milk's in! Mason's a greedy baby then LOL! Make sure you find a minute to tell us your birth story - you've got us all intrigued here!
PObs, well done you on getting into town but please look after yourself, you've only just had major surgery after all and you're no good to anyone if you tire yourself out.... ok motherly nag over with, glad you're having such a good time with Scarlett and the feeding adn that she's such a good girl for you! And the sleeping - I'll have one of those please LOL!
Kate, poor little Ben and grrr to that blumming GP who fobbed you off a few times. And your poor DH, blaming himself, not good. HOpefully things will settle down for you all now in preparation for the birth. Re: the birth ball, I already had one... but it was a 75cm one not a 65cm one so was too big for me.... so I wasn't really using it so serves me right BEanie's gone back to back! I went straight out and bought a 65cm one (£4.99!! Why hadn't I done it ages ago?!) and TBH it's so much more comfy than the sofa anyway! And I've been religious about sleeping on my LHS even though I prefer the RHS, and went swimming Monday and yoga Tuesday (Which was lots of being on hands and knees). So Beanie's being given every opportunity to turn LOL! I can do no more!
Amy, IKWYM about the sleeps, seriously, I think I have been bitten by a tsetse fly, I only have to sit down for 5 minutes and I'm off! The other day I thought I was asleep for about 1/2 an hour from about 3pm, and when I opened my eyes and thought about getting up, DH walked through the door after work at 5:30pm! I've found my mornings and lunchtimes have been quite busy and about 3pm I get really tired. I've been drinking the raspberry leaf tea as Angel says it really helps with the 2nd stage of labour, I'm on 3 cups a day at the mo and when I get to 37 weeks (Friday) I'm going up to 4 cups a day which is the maximum. And get you being 3/5ths engaged - I don't reckon you're going to be long my girl!
Thanks Sampain and Liz for your words of encouragment, sure my little Beanie will turn for me!
We've decided to try for a home birth as I really want to labour in water and the stand alone MLU only has one pool for 5 rooms. The MLU attached to the hospital only has 1 pool for 6 rooms, even worse! My Birth Pool in a Box arrived today, so I'm really excited! Never say never, I'll probably have one contraction and be screaming to go to the hospital for an epidural LOL, but the good thing is we have that choice in the UK. Was talking to a South African today who couldn't believe I could be so undecided at this late stage! Well, I am decided on the home birth but I will change my mind at the last minute if I need to.
Aaanyway, hope i've caught up wiht everyone who's been on and LOL to you mums and bumps who haven't been on for a while, are there more babies in the offing I ask myself?!! Am in denial that I will be carrying a full term baby who could come any day as of Friday LOL! Still think I'm about 20 weeks LOL!!
Righto, that's enough from me, I'm at least 45 mins late for me snooze and it's a very important one as it was our 3rd wedding anniversary yesterday and DH is taking me out tonight so I need my beauty sleep!
See you all tomorrow
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