May-bee babies - Page 5

[KKmama]

Insomnia again, so I'm trying to arrange labor CDs.

I really love George Harrison's All Things Must Pass, and I downloaded a bunch of lyrics, out of curiosity (to fill in the gaps I still can't make out)... wanted to share this one, because of course, it made me cry. It just seems to fit well right now for dh, ds, and the new one.

"What Is Life"

What i feel, i can't say
But my love is there for you anytime of day
But if it's not love that you need
Then i'll try my best to make everything succeed

Tell me, what is my life without your love
Tell me, who am i without you, by my side

What i know, i can do
If i give my love now to everyone like you
But if it's not love that you need
Then i'll try my best to make ev'rything succeed

Tell me, what is my life without your love
Tell me, who am i without you, by my side
Tell me, what is my life without your love
Tell me, who am i without you, by my side

What i feel, i can't say
But my love is there for you any time of day
But if it's not love that you need
Then i'll try my best to make everything succeed

Tell me, what is my life without your love
Tell me, who am i without you, by my side
Oh tell me, what is my life without your love
Tell me, who am i without you, by my side

What is my life without your love
Tell me, who am i without you, by my side

[PattyCakes]

That's really nice kkmama.
YAY Elfmama - glad your DH's issue is resolved and CHEAPER to boot. Have a great time camping!

phismama - I really like Silas!

As for the nesting... I WANT to be nesting sooo badly. My fingers are itching to get all over the baby's things right now - but I'm saving that till I'm done work in 2 weeks. (YAY!) It's one of my projects to do while I'm off and before baby arrives (and my Mum).

other than the baby stuff we have just about everything else ready to go- and all I really need to do is just order the diaper service and wash the baby's clothes. I think we're set for everything else. We've got our infant CPR class at the end of the month and a breastfeeding class as well.

It seems so close now - and sometimes still seems SO far away. Weird sensation. Everyone keeps saying "so you've got a couple of months left now, huh?" and I have to say - "Uh no. About 6 weeks - give or take". It makes their eyes pop. (and my brain pop).

I can't WAIT to be done work - to just do my own thing and not have to think about what's going on here. It's going to be an intense 2 weeks though cos I'll be training my replacement (who should be here any day now).

[kittymama]

It seems so close now - and sometimes still seems SO far away. Weird sensation. Everyone keeps saying "so you've got a couple of months left now, huh?" and I have to say - "Uh no. About 6 weeks - give or take". It makes their eyes pop. (and my brain pop).

PattyCakes- I could have written this myself- I feel the SAME way exactly (and get the same comments)

I am sooo excited about our baby shower this weekend. It's at my dad's house in LA (about 5 hours from where we live now), so we get to see lots of friends and family that we don't see nearly enough. That, and the prospect of finally getting some baby stuff into the house have me beside myself with excitement. The only trouble is, I have a GIGANTIC, hard, and high-stakes test to take before the shower (test Saturday, shower Sunday). Whether or not I get my teaching credential depends on whether I can show this testing board I know how to teach reading, identify reading challenges, and plan instruction to fix them. A reasonable enough expectation, I suppose, but I feel like I've jumped through enough hoops for the sate of CA already. So anyway, I'm both dreading the weekend and thrilled about it.

Phishmama- I love Silas too! Now that our search is on for middle names, I keep hearing all these "s" names that I love for boys. This doesn't work for us, because our boy's name is Avery, and our last name starts with S. I wouldn't wish those initials on anyone.

I too can see the light at the end of the tunnel at work- yay! I'm going to work up until 38 weeks- only 3 1/2 more weeks to go. It's finally starting to seem like this baby will be here soon. We really do have a lot of preparations to make also, so I'm sure the time will go by fast.

Oh, one more thing- does anyone know where to find some good info on the Vit. K shot and the eye ointment they give babies at the hospital. I don't really know anything about them, and dh and I would like to be well-informed before making those decisions. Thanks in advance for anything you ladies can offer.

Have a great weekend!

[pottermamma]

Hi Gals!!!

We keep getting closer and closer...I'm 38 weeks today...I am finally getting more and more comfortable with the transition from being pregnant to having 2 kiddos...and the whole giving birth thing in between!!!!!!!!!

Ds is doing well. He seems to be a bit less moody but is very emotional at times. Dh and I are just trying to do a lot of one on one time with him and answer any questions he has about the baby as best as possible...thanks for all the support though...I know there are many kiddos that go through this as so many people have siblings...I'm an only though so I think that makes it even harder.

No internals for us either...false hope of having this baby is not something I need right now (I'm getting closer and closer on the whole I'm ready to go NOW thing!!!). We are hopefully doing a belly cast tomorrow at our appt though, which will be cool. I didn't do one of these with Ds so it will be neat to have for this baby.

KKmamma...that case you testified on sounds really wild. Good for you being able to support your neighbor though...and the whole preggo social worker thing...how odd....good thing you are so far along too so that you can provide a different perspective. CPS is such a weird thing...I'm a social worker and have made reports (I'm bound to) that really ought to at least be followed up on and they send me the lovely letter saying they aren't going to persue any action and then hear about other cases that they are so overly involved in unnecessarliy?????? I just don't get it:

Theelves...so glad to hear your hubbies problem worked out the way it did...how scary that must have been....but what a great pregnant wife you were...soooo supportive

Hope everyone keeps keepin on

[mcsarahb]

kittymama, re: Vit. K and eye drops...check out this thread:

http://www.mothering.com/discussions...t=eye+ointment

My mws' personal recommendations are to get the Vit. K (shot or oral, whichever you prefer) and only get the eye ointment if you test positive for STDs. Apparently the hemorrhagic disease of the newborn (which the Vit. K guards against) is horrible and devastating.

IMO, the eye ointment is completely unnecessary if you test negative for the things it guards against. And, it makes the babe's eyes gunky and blurry at the exact time you want her to be looking at you, bonding and bf-ing. If you decide to do it, ask if they can wait at least an hour.

Just my .02.

Sarah

[MorningDove]

Wow did I get behind! I'm so glad to hear that everyone is doing so generally well. I'm glad everyone likes Rowan Skye for a boy because that is our final choice. Our girl name is Eleena Rowan. Glad that is finally decided.

Up to now working with nurse-midwives has seemed so much less "doctory", but then there was yesterday. I am 37 weeks 2 days. My blood pressure was up a little and oh yoy did that start a ball rolling. They drew blood, tested reflexes, monitored the baby's heart rate for 10 minutes and quized me on headaches, eye splotches, etc. It was absolutely no different than a doctor would have been. My blood pressure was not up that much in my opinion. I'm trying not to let their reactionist behavior get to me. I was feeling so generally good and positive, but I'm so easily influenced to worry. My reflexes were good, my blood tests came back perfect, and the baby was an overachiever in terms of neurological activity on the monitor. Still she tells me to not walk much and not lift anything over 5 pounds. If my blood pressure is the same next Tuesday, I might have to go on modified bed rest or at least quit my job early. I am trying to work up until the 30th because we can use the money and because my replacement isn't starting until the 19th. I need to introduce her to all the families I work with. I've decided that if things are concerning on Tuesday, I will take all but 3 days that I have left off. I figure that should be enough and we will just have to afford it. I am willing to do bed rest if it means I won't have to be induced. The bad thing is my husband has to go out of town next week (over 8 hours away). My midwife seems to think this is OK, though, so that indicates to me that she is not as worried as she acts. I dunno.

The good news was that i am strep negative. Glad we've done lots of gardening and baby prep the last two weekends since I'm directed to reduce activity. I think we're mostly ready except packing the hospital bag and filling cupboards/freezers. Dh is still working on building the co-sleeper, though.

My iron is still low, even though I've been taking my mega doses as directed. I'd find that funny if it wasn't concerning to my doc. Hopefully it won't cause problems.

[mittendrin]

morningdove, welcome back, we haven't heard from you in a while...i remember around the end of my last pregnancy i had a bit high bloodpressure and my mw's started acting the same. i could convince them though that it's probably from taking the steps just a few minutes prior and i probably wouldn't agree to any drastic procedure now anyways so they could save it for somebody else:LOL try not to worry too much, you're probably just fine!

we won't do the vit k unless there's some kinda bruising on the baby.and of course we'll skip the eye gunk. this kid is gonna be so much happier than ds was when he was born, i didn't do much research on all the newborn procedures and he had to go through the whole thing, poor guy. now i'm smarter.

gotta go, ds's running wild...

[mcsarahb]

Okay, so which thread are we using?

I guess I will continue with this one...

Happy weekend, all you partyin' May mamas. It's always so quiet here on weekends. I am up early to eat and research names on the internet...

So, I'm going to go out on a limb here and offer up our latest name idea to you ladies. Please give me your honest opinions. This is a name that dh and I love, but aren't sure why, and aren't sure we should, and can't think of anything bad about it, and have hardly heard of at all. So here goes:

Delta

with possible middle names:

Delta June
Delta Katherine

Last name is one syllable, simple.

So obviously there's Delta Burke, and there's an up-and-coming Australian singer named Delta Goodrem, and there's Delta Airlines :LOL, and there's the Helen Reddy song Delta Dawn. But does the name bring anything else to mind? Anyone remember Saturday Night Live's "Delta, Delta, Delta, can I help ya, help ya, help ya?" Is that so bad? What else? We love this name!Whaddya think?

Oh, and jakobsmami- not to discourage you, but just wanted to let you know that I heard there can be absolutely no sign of bruising or any other symptoms at birth and the babe can show hemorrhagic disease a few days later. This happened to my mw once when she was apprenticing - she said it was the saddest thing she's ever had to see. Mom was fine, baby was fine during/after labor, and for 2-3 days, then all of a sudden massive internal bleeding and babe died... I don't know if this scenario is extremely rare or what, just wanted to let you know what I heard (second hand info - maybe there was bruising and no one noticed?)...

Sarah

[KKmama]

Hey gals... Kanpope started a new thread... maybe we should migrate over there? (It's fewer pages!)

http://www.mothering.com/discussions...hreadid=135017