Ladies... - Page 2

[wwisdomskr]

Chrysta,

[meisterfrau]

Sorry. I really wasn't trying to make it all about me. Just trying to offer another perspective and got carried away. I do that sometimes!

[marisa]

No, we needed to hear your story. mama, I'm sorry for how things turned out.

[Kontessa]

Originally Posted by meisterfrau

They'll be here when they're ready.

Yes, they will. They will not stay in there forever. As miserable asit can sometimes get, all your points are vailid and clearly you have thought much about this. I am sorry you did not get those things and yes, you deserve them. Hopefully more of us will strive for patience and try and enjoy the time we have, we might need more reminders though!

[charitycase20]

Thank you for the encouragement. My DD was born at 37 weeks, she ended up spending 3 days in the special care nursery because of juandice and BFing was really difficult. Although I don't want to go through that again, its been really hard this week to still be pregnant. Uncomfortably so. My in-laws are also coming from OK to visit on 11/9 so I am really feeling pressure to have a new baby to introduce them to. But then again I do know that my stressing isn't exactly conducive to labor. :

[GinaRae]

Originally Posted by meisterfrau

He's only now starting to be able to maintain his body temperature without being really bundled up. He's only just now really getting to where I don't have to resort to undressing him and making him cry to get him to nurse enough to gain weight. His suck was weak at first, and nursing was hard. He'd get tired out so easily. Babies who are born early have a higher incidence of jaundice, like he had. It's been a lot of worrying instead of a lot of blissful babymooning.

But my baby was a 37 weeker...considered term, considered to be at an age where his lungs should have been mature, but they weren't, yet. He needed to cook longer. My dates were not off. I know exactly when I conceived, so there's no chance he was really only 36 weeks or something like that.

I had two babies at 37/38 weeks that were 7 pounds 14 oz and 7 pounds 2oz but weren't fully baked either. Their lungs were fine, but they had terrible jaundice, breastfeeding problems, one wouldn't wake and I was told he was considered "failure to thrive" and the other couldn't get and stay warm and his digestive system was completely not ready.

Thanks for posting this, mama. I also feel like 37 weeks is too early and it scared me when the MW's said at 36 weeks I am eligible for a home birth! With the discrepencies in my due dates, I actually still could be 35.5 weeks and not 36! Scary for me since my 37 and 38 weekers were not ready.

Anywhoo, thanks for posting. I need reminders sometimes.

[greenmountainmomma]

I really needed this today.

Even though I'm due Nov. 1, I joined the November DDC instead of October because I was SURE the baby would be born in November (and quite possible well into November). But I've been feeling SO impatient that I haven't had the baby yet! It's good to be reminded that when he's ready, he'll be ready and not a moment sooner.

Hang in there, mamas -- let's do our best to enjoy the last few weeks of pregnancy.

[Ivanhoe]

Both my sons were born at 37 weeks and thought they were fine as can be (though ds2 was pretty yellow and a lady at the local hospital wanted to put him under a lamp when he was 11 days, and I run away to my trusted ped office only to be told to go home and relax...) I could never feel those last weeks "problems". I never got to be antsy or never got to nest or to prepare myself for the experience. First time it was an emergency c-section and though second time was a beautiful homebirth I really really missed the feeling of being hugely pregnant.

Tomorrow I'll be 38 weeks and I'm very grateful... Nevertheless, I'm starting to understand how someone can feel when the due date is there and nothing happens, or when the due date comes and goes and nothing happens... Human nature is really weird.

Chrysta's post really hit home in my case, a hug to you mama.