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greengoddessagen
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18 weeks

Another year older! 31. Baby has been moving alot, probably cause of all the choccies!!

U/s booked for 19th of October.

20 weeks

well october 19 is finally here... off to my u/s in about 5 hours. I'm picking my girls up from school on the way so they can see little bro or sis!! and get their own photo. My husband won't be there so we'll be phoning him about babies health and sex .... he's hoping for a boy so I hope he'll be just as happy with a little girl. Will post tonight with the news :-)

19th october. U/S

I was at my u/s for about an hour and my little one was moving non stop!!! ......untill it came time to check for little boy or girl bits and he/she curled into fetal position and would not budge hehehe. I told my husband it was his fault for hoping soooooo loudly for a boy, this little baby is teaching him a lesson in unconditional love and patience :-)

The u/s technician did say that she was leaning towards it being a girl but could not confirm that lean!!!!!!!

She spent a long time looking at my little ones heart, about 30 mins, which concerned me a little, I have a Dr appt. on the 24th to discuss any concerns though.

My little one was 4 days bigger than EDD and its heart rate was 146. :-)

My daughters came in to the u/s and couldn't stop saying " our babies soooo cute!"

24th November

100 days to go !!!!!!!

4th December

90 days to go !!!!!!!

Well ALL I had my glucose test today and it was a breeze in theory ...... results tomorrow!

After a couple of weeks of being a little less hungry my appetite has returned ... twas inevitable hahaha, must keep reassuring myself this means healthy baby!

Over the last week I have been craving ice ...... I did this with my other two pregnancys however only at about 38-39 weeks, this ice craving is apparently a symptom of an iron deficiency so bought some liquid iron today!!! We'll see how the ice cravings go!?!

5th December

Hi! I just got back from my mw appt. and all is looking good :) My blood pressure is 90/60 which is really healthy, babys heartbeat was 142 bpm, I think she was sleeping, my iron was a little low at 9.7 but started some more iron supps yesturday. Glucose test was fine .... and, my little ones head is already head down almost engaged :0 , is anyone elses baby like this? I want to see them a bit early... but not in the next few weeks! Bubs is also measuring at 28 weeks ..... so nice and healthy :D xx

28 Weeks

In the last week I have put on another 2 pounds!!! Making my total weight gain to date a....drum roll please..... a whoping 24 pounds!! ........healthy baby....and VERY healthy mummy :D

At the end of this week hubby and I will be in the same state thank god! we havn't seen each other since I was 23 weeks so I can't wait! Bubs has been pretty active, mainly at night and early hours of the morning, been constantly on the loo as my eager little one has already dropped..... I'm sure it's from all the walking I do. I have already experienced some strong BH cxc's, I barely noticed them with my last two so this is all new. Feeling well apart from a non pregnancy related ear infection that just doesn't want to go away :(

Delayed Cord Clamping (interesting article!!!)
The Third Stage Maze highlights concerns about the practise of immediate clamping of the umbilical cord as part of the active management of third stage. The evidence in favour of delayed cord clamping to allow placental transfusion of the baby immediately after birth is compelling. The WHO officially endorsed the practise of delayed cord clamping6 in 1996 and in February 2002 the American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists withdrew its directive for immediate cord clamping (Bulletin 216).

Delayed cord clamping provides physiological benefits to the baby, and psychological and emotional benefits to the mother. These factors should compel caregivers to honour the sanctity of the mother/baby union during the moments that the newborn is between two worlds and the mother is seeing and experiencing her child for the first time. Unnecessary interference should be avoided. However, many obstetric and midwifery practitioners feel very uncomfortable about deviating from the familiar practise pathway of active management, and continue to clamp and cut the baby’s umbilical cord immediately after birth.
Delayed cord clamping allows the baby to receive his or her full blood volume and optimal iron stores (Prendiville and Ellbourne, 1989, Inch, 1983). This may be as much as 40% circulating volume and is important in maintaining haematocrit levels (Yao & Lind, 1974). Early cord clamping deprives the baby of 75-125mls of transfused blood. (Bristol Trial, 1988, and Hinchingbrooke Trial 1998).

With delayed cord clamping the placenta is less bulky, and more readily expelled (Dunn et al. 1966). Delayed cord clamping allows the baby’s lifeline to continue to supply oxygenated blood, facilitating perfusion of the lungs, and supporting the baby’s transition to breathing for himself without incurring oxygen deprivation. The baby is less likely to require resuscitation after birth, and less likely to have idiopathic respiratory distress. (The term Ideopathic Respiratory Distress describes breathing difficulties for no apparent reason, and is believed to be linked to interference with the delicate and complex changes in the baby’s heart and circulatory systems - Dunn, 1989; Inch, 1983)

Delayed cord clamping reduces the risk of feto-maternal transfusion, which is especially important for Rh negative mothers. (Lapido, 1971; Rogers et al, 1998). Delayed cord clamping reduces the risk of infection in both the mother and the baby because the mother has reduced clot formation if the maternal end of the cord is not clamped, and the baby has less stagnant blood left in the cord stump. Clots and stagnant blood provide an ideal environment for infection. The cord may separate more rapidly postnatally if cord clamping is delayed (Sleep, 1993).

40 WEEKS 2 DAYS

40 weeks and 2 days, I really thought last night would be the night, I was having 6-7 min contractions that I really had to concentrate through, and with each contraction I had several sharp stabbing sensations in my cervix, felt just like she had her little hands in front of her head, and as she is engaged thats a good few inches more diameter to push out.... ouchie. I'm off to the doctors today t book my induction for end of next week.... the induction THAT i WILL NOT NEED!! LOL

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LiseyB - Wednesday, 19 Mar
congratulations - and born on MY birthday! 33 years after me! Yippee! Hope you are doing well and hubby is taking good care of you. X

KaylaEEssex - Monday, 17 Mar
any bub yet

LiseyB - Sunday, 16 Mar
Thinking of you Em - hope it all goes well! XXX Lise liseybendigo@hotmail.com

butterblocksmom - Friday, 14 Mar
Glad to hear you are focused on the positives! Keep me up to speed. Hugs and belly rubs!!!

LiseyB - Friday, 14 Mar
Hello there dear friends, our little love, Avery Joseph came into our world at 1.09am on Tuesday the 11th of March - our wedding anniversay, gd insulin mum bub weighed 7.14lb (3240grams), 3 days short of 40 weeks! Went in as first timer for the prostin gel with an almost closed cervix still at 3cm long, thinking it would take a day or two, had the gel, sent hubby home for the night and within two hours was on a painful contractions roll that would send me to the floor and I had him 3 hours later. So from 1cm to 10cm in 3 hours, hubby missed the first 2 hours at home, then 9 minutes pushing, no meds not enough time! Birthed on matress on floor. Unbelievable. Birth story in coming week. Hospital stay for 2 days as had some issues with breast attachment. Home now. Coming to terms with mummying and breastfeeding. But have posted some picks on page. When i look at him I think my life has really only just begun, Ciao bellas.

Sterling - Thursday, 13 Mar
Well, repeat your Dr visit story from Wednesday to yourself, pretend it's me telling you the same thing and voila, the same situation. I went to the hospital from 11am appt yesterday morning only to find the entire waiting room which is normally very empty, full to the brim with very very pregnant women. I was soon to find out that they have never had such an influx of overduers.........typical. So, when I eventually see the Dr, he does a measure with his hand and the fundus is measuring up at 44cm, but the baby doesn't feel massive palpably to him. So, I ask for a membrane sweep as a last hope chance that I can get things moving along naturally. He does his thing (yuk) and tells me that it's impossible as my cervix is tightly shut and the baby's head is not low enough for him to press his fingers against to do the sweep WHAT??? Then he asks why the hell I am coming in 10 days overdue to see him when I should have been there last week to make an appt for an induction week. I'm like 'the other obs asked me to come in today'. He explains that there may be no spaces in the ward for another induction as they only fit in 3 per day. BRILLIANT! He also said that he fears that the baby's head may be a bit too bog for my pelvis, hence not dropping only dropping 3/5 when it should be fully engaged by now (errr doesn't this sometimes happen on the onset of labour) and there may be a risk of a c-section at the end of this. Emily, I am telling you, although I have remained calm and accepting of the whole situation - this could not be any further away from the type of birth I had in mind from the very start of this pregnancy. I mean, I understand that things don't go to plan necessarily but this just takes the damned piss! I explained to the Dr that I do not want oxytocin/synontocin or any oral tablets unless absoloutely indicated and only under my full consent. So he says they will first insert the 'pig sperm' prostin gel (can't believe this) to attempt to thin the cervix, wait 6 hours and reapply if things don't happen. Then, if this stubborn frikking cervix opens they will abrupt the membranes (good). But, if it doesn't open then it's time for the dreaded chemical drip, if this causes foetal stress then it's time for the knife man to come along and grab the baby out. Now, I understand that my written birth plan may not happen but I do know that when that baby comes out, in whichever form he does, I don't want his whisked away straight away, weighed, tested, stabbed with a vit K needle and washed by some stranger. I want him placed straight onto me and left for a minimum of an hour for me to bond, breastfeed and clean with my very own soft cloth. I also didn't want the cord cut until it stopped pulsating to give him the best nourishing start. With a c-section, that wont happen. So, I told Martin that in the absence of me doing these things you better be strong and explain that you will be doing it instead. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, THE VIT K CAN BE TAKEN ORALLY, NOT JUST JABBED INTO HIS LITTLE BODY WHEN THE BABY HAS ONLY JUST LEARNT HOW THE BREATH. Granted, if there is an emergency do what they have to do, but if the baby is well I want him to have as soothing a start as possible considering how fucking far from ideal this is going. So, what time are you being indiced tomorrow? Mad isn't it how your last 2 have come on their own accord. It must be the hubby's super-stubborn sperm. So my green darling, we are both to see our darlings by the end of the weekend and I will be putting up photos galore of him for all to see. I cannot wait to hear of your story and see your little girl too. How are you feeling? At least you have some expectation of what to feel, I have no idea whatsoever and I really am trying to say positive for the sakes of the hypnobirthing techs............au naturale my arse eh! ha ha ha ha. Try and get back to me just so I know you have received my best wishes, me and you are the last ones left standing (the stubborn environmental witches, who said it was easy being green?)

butterblocksmom - Thursday, 13 Mar
Hey darlin...how are you feeling? How is baby...still in belly I see. Are you still set for an induction?

Sterling - Wednesday, 12 Mar
Wow that's interesting, I wonder if the British NHS would take that into consideration. They would probably try and lock me up if I mentioned such a thing - what's a vegetarian dear???? I don't know any 2 women who are going to conceive and birth at the same time but I accept that the higher safe so-called oversue time is 2 weeks and I find out in a few hours when the big day is. I woke in the early hours actually groaning to myself due to lower uterine pains and took on the breathing techs immediately. I was getting happy thinking 'this is it, he's coming on his own' only for them to stop after a while. I was willing for it to get stronger, no can do, my body clearly doesn't want to out me through the paces and is quite happy to make me hold out. Here Missy, did you say you are carrying a 9Iber? That's a good size for a small chick, but you are clearly made for it if the baby is that size. The bigger the better I say and have they given you a date to induce or are you refusing? This being the first, I am avoiding getting cocky about the unknown and will accept what I am told today. One thing I will be telling them is that I do not want the oxytocin drip or anything in pill form. Makes me sick thinking about chemical induction but I will accept artificial membrane abruption or the PG gel. I'll keep you informed, as I hope you do.

Sterling - Tuesday, 11 Mar
Hello lush pants how are you today? After another sleepless night I have decided to get on with it and stop being a f'ing naturopath wanting everything in the world to be without aid. If he doesn't come on his own (or should I say my body starts the process) before the big 'I' date then whatever, who am I to put my ageing placenta keeeping my baby alive at risk of failing on my child. It was the whole increased intensity I wasn't looking forward to with the induction but I have now resigned myself to the fact that if it all gets too much for me then I will ask for help ONLY IF IT GETS TOO MUCH. How are you feeling in the land of Oz?

LilbabyNo4 - Sunday, 9 Mar
hiya, i see your still here, omg.....you must be fed up by now.....ugh well i suppose baby will come when she is ready!!! I'll keep checking......good luck xxxxx

momofboys - Saturday, 8 Mar
I will say you are most likely in labor!! CALL THE DR!! Good luck & best wishes for a quick and safe delivery!

LiseyB - Saturday, 8 Mar
well greengoddess, it certainly appears as though you are not in the habit of rushing things! Taking your time to put the final perfection touches on your little ones. So funny to think back on your prediction of a early arrival for this one! My induction train is only 39 hours from now and i'm madly hoping that the train will stop and I'll get off and have a natural birth. I have the signs but unsure if I'm reading them right . Only time will tell. Hope the coming days are at least comfy for you. All the best. X

KaylaEEssex - Saturday, 8 Mar
Hey There..
HOw are you doing? I am telling you I am so READY.. and I know you are as well.. I went to the drs today.. 2.5 cm dialted and 90% effaced.. the dr told me I should have her by the end of this weekend.. I hope so.. I have this weird feeling that I will still be pregnant come this Monday though...
I hope you have your bub soon..
kayla

butterblocksmom - Saturday, 8 Mar
Does stage II involve any sleeping whatsoever??? LOL...how did acupuncture go? How are you feeling???

beepbop03 - Friday, 7 Mar
Another aussie mum! Goodluck with your labour, hope it all goes well!!

jeanette - Thursday, 6 Mar
thanks, it took me forever to write concidering all of the snuggling I've been doing lately! I'm excited for you to meet your baby too. It's awesome.

butterblocksmom - Wednesday, 5 Mar
Hello all...had my beautiful baby Jackson (JJ) Lawrence at 3:04 a.m. on March 5, 4 days overdue. Have not really slept yet, but am so in love. Did labour WITHOUT and drugs (Sterling would be so proud of me) and I can honestly say while it was challenging and difficult at the time, I am so glad I did it that way. I did acupunture the day before and had my membranes swept the day of labour starting. It seemed to work. I am so in love...will update you all later!!!! xoxo Karyn

LilbabyNo4 - Wednesday, 5 Mar
Hiya, just checking up to see all is well for you, take care xx

butterblocksmom - Tuesday, 4 Mar
check out what they have to say about the Black and Blue Cohosh as well.

Man, came back from the doc...1 cm dilated but paper thin effacement. She thinks it will be a done deal within next 12 hours. Getting MASSive contractions. Owwie, owwie, owwie....

butterblocksmom - Tuesday, 4 Mar
oh,oh, oh...I just coughed and my mucus plug came out with some fluid that wasn't pee!!!!!

butterblocksmom - Tuesday, 4 Mar
Hiya...sleep still eludes me. I went for acupuncture today at 3:30. Went to bed at 9 and was up at 11:30 with the most wicked cramps ever. It's calmed down since however this is torture. It just isn't coming to fruition. So many sleepless nights (well, 4 hours isn't sleepless I guess)...maybe I do just need to relax and let nature take it's course. I had one acupuncturist tell me it won't do a lick of good unless baby is ready. The other one I talked to said we could have the baby out in 24 hours. So, I went with the latter one! Sometimes I think this site causes more issues than it solves, know what I mean? We are all so uncomfortable and in a rush...sigh, I just don't know! I am very philisophical on 4 hours of sleep a night!!

How are you doing today? Tired? Are you sleeping well? I see my dr in the morning at 8:45, will ask her to do a membrane sweep and then back to acupuncture at 12. Sometimes I don't know if I am causing baby trauma or not. Were you like this with your first? Worried about everything? Ready to hold him before he was ready to come out?

I'll text you later to let you know of the status!

ikmg80 - Tuesday, 4 Mar
Thanks... don't worry your day will come sooner than later! I don't know why some docs let it go so long... Well good luck and keep me updated :)

butterblocksmom - Monday, 3 Mar
HiYA! They only allow us to go 10 days overdue here in Canada. Today I see the acupunturist (to induce labour naturally), then come home to bake muffins and cupcakes so I can bribe my doctor tomorrow to sweep my membranes (to induce labour naturally) and then Thursday I see my massage therapist to work on my pressure points (to induce labour naturally)!!!! I am not very patient! I just read your note on Happiness being like a butterfly....hmmmm, perhaps labour is like a butterfly.....

I figure if I start doing 'important things' like my tax return, mani-pedi appointments, haircut appointments,and child care provision research, baby will come out quickly!

'I see Skinny People'