Weekly chit chat February 14th-20th - Page 3

[Thursday Girl]

tak good luck.

sounds like evryone is doing pretty good..well a lot of anticipation for the momma's who haven't had their babies yet. I remember that well. My last baby was due in dec and three of us from that club all went Jan 1.

Juniper my Luviper and I are doing well. She is a week and a day. ON Valentines we went to a wedding and her cord fell off. She has nursing down so well and seems to be getting big so soon. I am feeling amazing. I am ready to get back into my routine. I even want to clean and stuff. Crazy. I am amazed at how quickly i bounced back, good way to end my child bearing.

[LionTigerBear]

Good luck tak!!!!


Courtney, Juniper is adorable.

[cagnew]

Happy Birthing Day! I hope everything goes perfect and you have your baby in your arms soon!

I wish it was my turn....

[firefly mama]

Good luck tak!!!!!!!

Oooooooh, how I wish it were my time too.......

[DreamsInDigital]

Lucius is two weeks old today. He's doing so well! He's got an appt. tomorrow so we'll see how much weight he's gained and such. It sure feels like a lot!

[JesiLynne]

I started a thread on what's going to happen today
check it out.

[Nillarilla]

Good luck Tak!
I have a feeling this babe will be staying in until next weekend. My original guess was the 20th. I am 40wks 5d. I have a NST on wednesday which reminds me I need to arrange childcare. The mw said she would try again for a sweep and stretch but I've been checking and there's no way she's going to be able to reach. I had a fairly good sleep last night. This little girl keeps changing positions. I think I should try to get into the chiro tommorow as I was having some hip pain yesterday. Maybe one more session of acupuncture will do it? I'm actually feeling a little more relaxed about it all now. I will not be pg forever. My mother in law arrives the 24th which will be 13 days over but I have a feeling she will arrive before then and if not then I have built in childcare for the birth.

[LionTigerBear]

More JesiLynne.

So tak started this thread and now she's in labor . . . so if I don't go into labor by the 20th (heaven help me) I am SO starting the next thread!!!!

[Mal85]

So, how many of us are still pregnant?? I'm beginning to feel outnumbered and little left out of all the new baby/possible labor excitement.

I'm still pretty boring as far as labor symptoms go. I have a contraction here and there, but nothing much to report. I'd almost rather be going through the roller coaster of contractions and "this might be it!" nights than be sitting here feeling like I'm going to be pregnant forever because nothing seems to be happening!

I have a feeling I'll be one of the last to give birth with the due date so close to March. Where are my fellow end-of-the-monthers??

[BathrobeGoddess]

I had a bunch of contrax yesterday, from about 1pm till 11pm...about four an hour...had a MW appointment today and low and behold, baby has changed to a perfect birthing postion! Yippee! So, as long a this kido stays this way, I am happy!

[monkaha]

Yay BG! Hooray for good positioning!
Go Tak! Happy birthing and ELV to ya!
Mal85, I'm still here, still pregnant, and REALLY uncomfy today. I think he's dropped a bit, though I thought that before and the OB said she was almost concerned about how high he was. But now I have the bladder capacity of a gnat and my hips are killing me. I know that the end is coming, trying really hard to put aside fears of induction and feelings that my body is just not gonna start labor. (1st pregnancy augmented with pit after SROM, 2nd induced, so maybe I just NEED the pit to get going?) surely not though, right?

Mal85, could you have a bit of an amniotic fluid leak? Or is it more like pee? Maybe you're having more ctx's than you think, and that fullness feeling is a contraction?

[dooney]

*warning - rant below, may be offensive*

We started going to this new playgroup the 1st and 3rd Monday of every month at the church in the gym at the same time they open the doors for people to come and walk. So the kids play in the center, and the (mostly old) people walk around the perimeter. Kalten and I went four weeks ago for the first time, then we missed the next one because Coen was only two days old, and we went back today.


I came in and set Coen's bucket down. I started to get him out, and this older lady came up and asked how old he was. I told her, and she started to come around to where she could see him better. Then she goes, "oh, you're one of those mothers who believes in the pacifier," like it was the worst thing in the world. I was a little flabbergasted that she'd be that judgmental to someone she's never met, so I said something dumb like, "we didn't want to give him one..." and she shoots back, "well why did you?" At that point, though, the playgroup leader had come over to talk to me, and Old Ms. BetterThanYou walked away. If I had been thinking, I would have said, "oh, and you're one of those old bats who think that how I raise my children is their business."


I don't like him to use the pacifier, and he won't even take it a lot of the time. Maybe it's been centuries since she had young, perky boobs so she doesn't realize that mine don't hang to my knees like hers do, and I can't just toss one over my shoulder to the back seat to comfort him while I'm driving. Sorry that I prefer he has something to suck on instead of screaming his head off. It's a bit of silicone, not a bottle of whiskey. It's not going to hurt him. I never would have tried it if nursing wasn't already going really well, but I'm almost constantly being sucked on between him and Kalten, and sometimes I need some sanity time. Plus, K won't go to sleep easily if I'm tandem nursing him and Coen because he wants to pat and poke the baby. When Co has the paci and the crocheted blankie he can wrap his little fingers up in, he's happy as a clam to sit in the swing and watch whatever's going on in the room for a few minutes while I get Big Brother to sleep. It works for us.


Not that I need to justify myself to her or anyone, but it makes me mad that no matter what other choices I've made, I'm automatically "one of those mothers" just because I stuck a paci in my kid's mouth so he wouldn't be sad on the way to playgroup.

[birthworks]

Dooney- your post made me laugh because I feel the same way. I have had a lot of people make comments to me after the birth of each of my kids about the ol' pacifier. Just because I am a home birther, people assume I would be totally against pacifiers. Well, I have sweet little 1 1/2 day old laying next to me. He is nursing wonderfully, my milk has already come in....and my breasts are heavy and hurt and my nipples are on fire- very near bleeding! (Latch is perfect- I have cracked and bled with each baby and they have all had zero problems nursing, perfect latches according to our midwives and lactation consultants....I must have really sensitive nipples. Anyway, I am so going to send my husband to the store tomorrow to pick up some pacifiers!!! These girls need a break!

[Mal85]

Originally Posted by monkaha

Mal85, could you have a bit of an amniotic fluid leak? Or is it more like pee? Maybe you're having more ctx's than you think, and that fullness feeling is a contraction?

I've wondered about an amniotic fluid leak. It's weird because I feel much leakier than I really am. My underwear are just slightly damp with an occasional tiny wet spot... not like discharge I had earlier in pregnancy. I keep thinking it could also be pee, but then I go to the bathroom everytime I feel like I'm 'leaky' and don't really have to go, but she has dropped and is sitting pretty low so I guess I could just have less control whether it's full or not?

I'm beginning to wonder about the contractions. I expect them to be painful and I've had BH since the beginning of my second trimester, so I keep waiting for them to feel different than that. I frequently get bouts of low pressure, feels like her head is pushing down really hard in my pelvic area. It's not painful, there's just a lot of pressure... sometimes I get the tightening all around like BH and sometimes not. I'm wondering if the pressure I feel is actually a contraction. I wish it would happen while I'm at an appt with my midwife so she could tell me what it is, but it hasn't yet.

I'm gonna be one those women sitting at home going back and forth about whether or not I'm really in labor... I just don't know what I'm doing!

[Nillarilla]

Dooney I hear you,
I actually had a grocery store clerk take the soother out of my ds's mouth when she was checking us through. Saying "I can't see your smile with that yucky thing in your mouth". At that point I wished my son was a screamer and had let one rip. Instead I just took the paci back and put it in his mouth and went through the till without saying anything. I was so shocked. I should have said "you can't see his smile because he isn't smiling at you you awful lady!"

I saw this shirt once in a store here "My mommy doesn't want your advice!" I have to go find it and buy it. It epitomizes what I believe. Keep your parenting advice to yourself unless you know me and my children.

[Mainstream Hippie]

My kids never took too a pacifier, but we tried them after nursing was established with both kids. They prefered sucking on my upside-down fingertip.

Anyway, if anyone gives you crap for being one of "those" moms, just smile say that you weren't going to, but the SIDS studies regarding how pacifier use has been linked to decreased incidence of SIDS convinced you.

[Mainstream Hippie]

Was trying to get caught up. Forgot to update on me, for what it is worth.

40w3d here, still pregnant. I had my 40 week appointment this morning- my pee strip was great, lost a pound since last week, my GBS results came back negative. I am off antibiotics as of yesterday. I had an adjustment and muscle therapy this evening.

I had some great contractions Saturday, but it wasn't labor. Probably partly because of Valentine's Day sex.

I expect to have this baby before next weekend. If not, I will likely be climbing the walls. Actually, if I don't go into labor in the next two days, I imagine it will start driving me a little batty, but give myself through the weekend to go completely nuts.

I don't think I have any plans this week. Today was a big, full day.

[Queen of my Castle]

Originally Posted by Mal85

So, how many of us are still pregnant?? I'm beginning to feel outnumbered and little left out of all the new baby/possible labor excitement.

I have a feeling I'll be one of the last to give birth with the due date so close to March. Where are my fellow end-of-the-monthers??

I'm here, Mal! I'm due the 24th. I expect to hang in here a little longer!!

Tak- how exciting! I can't wait to hear the news!

Last night I woke up with cramps and back-ache and crazy BH. I fell back asleep after a couple hours- I did NOT want to be in labour! I need to wait until Wednesday when my sisters get here and after my last LLL meeting!
All day today I've had radiating back ache and cramps though. : And bad BH. Hang on baby! Not ready yet!

[firefly mama]

Originally Posted by Mal85

So, how many of us are still pregnant?? I'm beginning to feel outnumbered and little left out of all the new baby/possible labor excitement.

I'm a mid-month mommy, but still hanging on. My local OBs would have induced me yesterday (at 41w, which is wrong but they'd have used LMP and induced based on that). Good thing I have an awesome midwife and get to make up my own EDD. I had STRONG cramps all day today, with lots of real, definable ctx thrown in. And now it is quieting down, of course. Bah!

[firefly mama]

Okay, after my whining yesterday about wishing it were my day, I think TODAY is my day.

Ctx are waking me up. About 5-8 min apart now but short. And got some bloody show. I've never had bloody show this early in labor before. Never got it at all with my son, and with my daughter it was right before I started pushing. Gonna try and rest/sleep some more, as it is in the middle of the night here.