Okay, May Mamas... Here we go! - Page 2

[XM]

Thank you for all your sweet replies. I have comforted myself with the fact that depending on wether one was counting from conception vs. date of LMP, I got 2 different dates. My 'other' due date was May 7 so I am adopting that one instead so I will not drive myself mad waiting for this babe to show up. Xiola was 10 days late and I don't know how much sanity I will have left in 10 more days so I had better re-calculate now. I'll just be a wreck if I am still pregnant on Mother's Day.

I have been feeling so good and then the last few days all the icky 3rd trimester stuff has been happening all at once, and I know nothing will make these symptoms go away except having the baby... as if I was'nt impatient enough to have the baby already!

Jean, your little man is just beautiful, and I hope I look half as good as you after this labor, you look so peaceful and relaxed. I forgot that you are doing diaper service this month... we bought 2 dozen Premie UBCPF's and *oh* are they tiny! First dipe will probably be a snappied UBCPF with a polarfleece liner for that meconium, not sure what cover... or maybe my sole sz1 red Kissaluv? Most of my fitteds won't fit for a bit, either. My hyena'ing will have to wait a few more weeks.

I am awaiting a S Fuz Easy and a S FuzBomb, I thought they'd be here before Spawn but now I'm not sure... maybe that's what the baby is waiting for, fancy covers? Is it possible to become a hyena in utero?

XM

(due May 7 )

[Janessa]

Congrats to all the mommas that are snuggling their little ones Is it all boys so far??
I think I'll be the last one to go I'm not due till May 25. Anyone else due that late?

I've had such a wonderful pregnancy I'm so lucky, only recently have I had any of the common complaints, heartburn, sore and achy. Shiah totally spoiled me by coming early I keep telling myself this baby will be 2 weeks late so I don't get my hopes up for another early baby but it's really hard. The full moon is the 15th so maybe I'll get lucky

Take care all
Janessa

[SunnyRose]

Congrats to all the new mamas!!! I'm due Mon,and getting super anxious. HOw many full moon babies does everyone think we'll get? I have the feeling quite a few!! ( I even have the feeling I may go 3 days late...please no....but thats what other keep saying).Hnag in there gals!

[Rebekah]

CONGRATULATIONS Jean and Jenn and Lindsay!!!! Hooray! I can't wait to hear more about your births. And Jean, what a wonderful little boy--he is so cute!!! And you look great too!

Maria: Thanks so much for your words of encouragement.

XM: Hang in there! I can only imagine how hard those last few days must be. Try to be in the moment as much as possible and recognize that this will unweave in its own wonderful way.

I too have been feeling that awful pain in my pelvic bones. It is worse at night and sometimes it is soooo hard to walk. Anyway, the dr told me today that that is a good thing--means I'm getting ready.

I just found out today that I tested positive for strep B. Really disappointed and trying to figure out what it all MEANS for my labor and my baby. Not what I'd hoped for us. But I have roughly 3 weeks before my due date to figure it out.

Janessa: You aren't alone. My EDD is 5/29.

[bloodrayne]

Rebekah, are you open to herbal treatments for GBS? My midwife was talking about one that is commonly used in Sweden and known to be effective. I tested negative so I don't know much about it, but if you'd like some more info I can email her for you.

Full moon on the 15th, eh? DH wants the baby to be born on the 16th. This could get interesting..

[SpiralWoman]

hi all ~
Jean, love your page!!

good morning BR~ early morning insomnia like me or just an early riser?
I am also GBS + & always interested in more GBS info, so if you have time pls feel free to post more on the Swedish solution!
My MW mentioned a douche called Chlorhyxedine (sp?) that's being used in Europe, I wonder if it's the same thing? The Chlorhyxedine is available here in US by a brand name solution called Hibiclens, but it has alot of soaps & additives plus red dye 40 that makes it more irritating to use as a vag wash/douche.

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So we have:

me due May 22,
Janessa May 25
Rebekah May 29

Bloodrayne trying for the 16th & Xm trying for right now!

who else?
Sunny Rose~ welcome, just saw your post, due 5/13? Can't count this early in AM!
going back to bed now girls, must get more sleep!
blessings, Maria

[bloodrayne]

*sigh*

I have permanent insomnia it seems. :

I will email my midwife and ask her for more information. I usually hear from her the same day.

[owensmom]

Just want to say this thread made me smile this morning - hooray to all you new mama's and soon to be new mama's in May!!!

[nexxjenn]

Jean, what a cutie pie you have! And you are so organized...

Congratulations Lindsey! Sounds like you had a nice birth.

Well, here is the nutshell version of mine.
L&D was long. Water broke on Tuesday, April 28th at 6:45 am. No contractions all day. Admitted at 6:00 pm that evening. They tried to induce using cervadil, which is placed internally near the cervix. It fell out after 3 hours. They put in another dose. It did start the contractions, which were totally doable. But my cervix didn't progress past 2 cm. all night. So on Weds. morning they administered pitocin by IV. That really got the contractions going, but I wasn't opening up. Around 4 pm I couldn't see my weigh through the contractions anymore. I had been able to relax and breathe through them prior to that. So they gave me fentanyl, which takes the edge off, but you can still feel them. It wasn't enough. So I asked for an epidural. That was the ticket. I finally got that around 6 pm. Then I was able to get some sleep, and by 10 pm I had progressed from 3 cm to 10, and I was ready to push. Pushing for me was the easy part. I couldn't feel any pain, but could feel the sensation of pushing. It was great. And he arrived at 10:49 pm.
DH and I are so in love...

http://www.nexxjenn.com/CooperGageWeb/

Time to catch some winks...

Jenn L.

[RachelGS]

Congrats to all! I was a May mama last year and am about to celebrate my sweetie's first birthday. I wanted to post because May mamas are particularly in my heart as I remember the end of my own pregnancy and the birth of my beautiful daughter.

Lots of love and healthy birth / new mama vibes to all of you. XM, you're particularly in my heart.

[XM]

When I got the notification for OwensMom posting here I was like, "#$@%! She probably had her baby too! Funny, I don't remember her being a May mama..." and when I saw RachelGS had posted I thought the same thing...

...I need to go make myself a cup of tea. Or a stiff drink!

XM

[SpiralWoman]

XM!

XM!

you are cracking me up bcz every time I see the notification that YOU have posted I think~ she's in labor!

And now for a pep talk:
Really, I know that you cannot wait to have this baby of yours! And hear me now: you *are* going to have this baby. It is an absolutely gonna happen thing. It's gonna be beautiful! It is going to be everything good & amazing. Now you are just waiting. It is so good to be reading your posts & knowing that you are there breathing & waiting & everything else. We are all hanging with you, holding our breath with you, going crazy with you. Know that we are. Now just take care of yourself, and say "I am ready to have this baby, this baby is coming soon, I am having this baby soon." It is inevitable. Resistance is futile! Waiting is guaranteed!
for you & Mike,
Maria

[lisamarie]

good luck may mama's! i'm thinking of you!

Love An April Mama & Babe~

Lisa& Amber:bf

[Janessa]

Hi all

I'm glad I'm not the only one due at the end of the month at least I'll have company as I go insane hee hee

I'm finally starting to feel ready for this baby yesterday I finished sewing diapers, organized clothes and diapers they are all in the drawer waiting. I can't believe how tiny everything is , Shiah wore preemie clothes for about a month it's amazing to me that she was ever that small. Tonight dh and I are going to go get the birthing tub so we can get it set up and ready. I'm glad to be over the overwhelmed I'm never going to be ready feeling but I hope I don't go insane waiting.

XM-sending labor vibes your way

Janessa

[LGSW]

typing 1-handed

Congrats Jean! wow, if we are in the same time zone (i'm in central) we were laboring simultaniously!! my water broke at 2 and my ctx got serious around 4am. I had him just before 7 but this is my 2nd child. you went fast for a first timer and i bet any future births will be even fster! (edited to add: oh, and May 3 was my edd too!!)

looove the pictures, thanks for sharing. you've got a real cutie on your hands. no wonder you're sitting around staring at him constantly! I don't get to do that w/ my guy b/c my dd is busy keeping this place hopping.

haven't read the rest of the posts yet but good luck to you mommas who are due very soon!

[crat19]

Hello ladies!! Congratulations to all the new mommies and best of luck to those still enjoying their babies in their tummy!!!

I've had technical trouble getting on to the message boards and posting, otherwise I would have shared this news with you all sooner...

Our son Giovanni Bryan was born 10 days early on April 25 at 12:40pm. I awoke to labor contractions at 3:02a, where they quickly progressed from 8 minutes to 5 minutes in three contractions, labored in the bathtub for 2 hours when we decided to call the doula and head for the hospital with contractions at 3 minutes. Progressed very quickly from 4cm to 9 cm in about 3 hours then got stuck at 9cm for 4 hours with urges to push (but couldn't of course...!) After that last cervical lip disappeared, I pushed our little man out in 15 minutes! He was born at 12:40 pm on Friday April 25 weighing in at 6lbs. 15oz and 19 inches in length. We went home the afternoon he was born!

He's just beautiful and has been an absolute angel. He's sure making our transition into parenthood easy...he sleeps about 4-6 hour stretches each night and does wonderfully during the day. I'm looking at my dh and ds sleeping together next to me as I write this message...It's so WONDERFUL!! And I'm in love with TWO men now! ok, I'll stop hijacking this thread!! Love to all of you!

[Rebekah]

Congratulations Carey!!!! I've been wondering where you were, and if you'd had your baby yet. YEAH!!!!!!!!

[nexxjenn]

Yipppeeee Carey! Congratulations!

XM, have you tried acupuncture to bring on labor? I personally didn't do that, but living in the Santa Cruz, CA area, I know that a lot of ladies here have done that, and it usually helps. Like Maria said, it's inevitable. The waiting is the hardest part. I guess since my Cooper was a week early, I got lucky and didn't have to wait past the due date.

My labor was long, and I did really well with the pain of the contractions, until the pitocin was over-administered and I couldn't breathe my way through the pain any longer. (At one point they had the dose so high that I wasn't even having any rest in between contrax. Ouch. Major ouch. But the reason I bring this us is as soon as I got out of my own way mentally (and with the help of pain relief), the rest of the birthing process went so quickly. I dilated from 3 to 10 cm in 4 hours and pushed him out with 5 sets of pushes. The whole mind over matter thing is amazing.

Open, open, open. Sending open thoughts your way XM.

Birth can be so empowering. As Jean said it was the most painful thing I've ever endured. But, oh so worth it. After all was said and done, and looking at my baby, I forgot the pain. It's amazing.

Just say yes.


Jenn L.

[XM]

Wuh? Anutha baby on thuh May thred? *hiccup* Lalalalalalalalala, I can't heeeer yooo! *hiccup*

You know what is just *killing* me is that once labor starts, I know I will meet my babe in a matter of hours. Xiola's labor was only 12 hours and had she been born at home (no time wasted travelling or being harassed by nurses) it probably would have been half that. I pushed her out in less then 10 minutes with no tear or episiotomy. So LABOR I can deal with, I know once it starts I will know what I need to do, and OPEN is my middle name. It's this waiting that is just driving me nuts. I went 10 days over with Xiola and I just don't know how much sanity I will have left after another week of waiting for this baby.

We are having a masseuse come over tonight, I know Mike is as stressed as I am, perhaps more becuse he is still working and everyone is asking him if the baby's here yet (um no, Brain Thrust, if the baby was here he would be home with it). So we are both going to get massages and then go soak in the hot tub again and see what happens. Hopefully we can get ourselves mellow enough so that the baby will decide to arrive, we've been so stressed lately that I would'nt want to show up either. I am at the point of being interested in acupuncture (I hate needles though!), if the baby does'nt come this weekend I will make that my mission this monday to find someone to poke me.

Also it occurred to me how difficult labor must be for the father, you're in such an intense place while laboring and birthing and there is really only so much he can do for you. Mike is Bradley trained and he *still* felt like he should have been able to do more for me even though he was doing so much last time. I am trying to remember that and be compassionate about how difficult and scary (with our previous loss) this must be for him, he's being so strong for me but I know this is really difficult for him too.

It's so annoying... my body is SO ready! The baby is so low it hurts, my cervix is burning, my hips are so loose I can't even roll over in bed anymore, I poop 10 times a day (probably because I eat 12 times a day) and I am just really ready for this to begin! When you think about it, really, I have been expecting a baby since 2/14/02, which was Xiola's original due date. So at this point I am not feeling days overdue, I am feeling *months* overdue and very anxious to meet my child already.

Actually, maybe it would be less fustrating for me to just throw in the May towel and put my energy into being the first June Mama :

And congratulations to all the mamas with new babes, sorry I am not being a very good sport about this!

XM

[Touch of Sunshine]

You're keeping us all on edge XM!! Hope baby gets here soon for you@!