I figured some of us pregnant UC'ing mamas might want a space to just talk about pregnancy related topics.
This will be my first planned UC (my dd was an unplanned UC and my ds was an induced hospital birth) and I am very excited!
Originally Posted by puddleduck
So what sort of prenatal care are you all doing for yourselves?
I'm taking my pregnancy vits (2 days out of 3), and have ordered some DHA fatty acid tablets, i take a multimineral cell food (my ds has really bad teeth and i'm convinced its an in womb mineral deficiency), i will start drinking raspberry leaf tea at about 34/36 weeks, and start taking a herbal tincture that contains raspberry leaf, false unicorn root and some other bits I can't remember. Then about a week before my due date take I'll start taking homeopathic arnica and caulophylum. I went to see an osteopath yesterday and I have reflexology treatments every 4 weeks.
I need to think about starting visualisation / positive thinking etc
What is everyone else doing?
I watch my weight and what I eat, but beyond that it's a day to day thing. If I feel off I'll check my BP. I haven't measured my fundal height yet, but I like to sometimes poke and prod around to see where everything is. It's kind of fun playing "Guess the body part".
Beyond that I just go with how I'm feeling.
It's sort of wake up, get kicked, say "Yep, still pregnant", and go on with my day.
Originally Posted by lillake
It's sort of wake up, get kicked, say "Yep, still pregnant", and go on with my day.
That's about where I'm at at the moment!
I need to start remembering my prenatals (I have a terrible memory). Once we get the supplies, we'll check fundal height, weight, protein/glucose (I think that's what the pee strips are for lol)and use the fetoscope to spy on the baby's private conversations
How's everyone doing today? So far today I'm feeling okay (please let it last all day)!!! I'm 13 weeks this week so I feel like I'm getting close to the end of the m/s. I hope everyone else is doing great!
Hi everyone! I'm new to this thread (just found you guys)
and I'm 26.5 weeks along, I'm UP but probably not UC. (I'm a chicken!!! Hehehe.)
I have a couple of questions for everyone (sorry if they have bene asked already, feel free to direct me elsewhere!)
I'm 26 weeks, and my fundal height is 34cm!!! I don't look all that big (I'm actually sick of people telling me how small I look - my first pregnancy ended in a stillbirth and I was tiny although Angel was 6lbs something.. It just irks me to hear that). And I had a dream last night that I gave birth to twins!!! I'm not counting on it, but it's a really neat thought. I haven't gotten so pukey this pregnancy - last time, with Angel, a singleton, I puked for 7 months straight. I am sleeping for at least 10 hours a night though. I know that fundal measurements are not always totally exact, but isn't that a bit much?
Also, can anyone tell me how to feel that baby's position? My MIL lent me a book from the 70s that had it all laid out and I thought I knew what I was doing but I really didn't. Is there a website or something that gives good instruction on that?
Hmm.. I have more questions that I've forgotten (baby is eating mama's brain cells).
TIA!
Sunshinestarr -
I'm also wondering a similar thing for myself. At 13-15 weeks my fundal height is 19cm and steadily getting larger. It's been extra large since probably 10-11 weeks or so and had a big growth spurt.
I've been told a number of things: too much fluid, prior c-section, closely spaced pregnancies or just the fact that this is my third child.
Well I guess I should come out of the closet so to speak! I am pregnant again due about christmas eve! Weeee! I have so much to process and work through as this was unplanned and a total shock to my brain. Avery (my UC baby) is about 9 months old. I'm tandem nursing her and my older dd 1/26/04.
ANyway more later just thought I would say hello I'll be joining you again.
When i was pregnant with my ds about 2 years ago the midwives checked my fundal hight at each visit. Now they don't bother (I'm UC not UP), i guess its because its not very accurate in the 1st & 2nd trimester.. depending on how the baby lies can really make a difference on the size.
Last time i went the midwife felt my tummy and said - ohh you'll be having a big baby and then looked at the scan results (yes i had an evil cell destroying scan) and said - ohh its small for dates. Well the scan people think my dates are wrong but don't want me to change them... I give up, if i had thought of it before i would be having a UP, but i can't stop in the middle as it would causes problems. That was just a waffle
I have felt knakered 80% of the time during this pregnancy, i guess its looking after a toddler - i keep on waiting for that feel good phase, but at 28 weeks i think i'm past it! We have a bank holiday weekend coming up so dh will be off work for 3 days which will be nice, but i have an assignment to write for a course that i'm doing, which will take me the next 2 months of weekends to do. Luckily then i'm putting the course on hold until january so i can look after baby without worrying about study.
I have found that all the aches and pains that i had within the last month of pregnancy with ds i had within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy this time - which is why i've got a bit supplement & therapy crazy - the reflexology has really helped with siatica (sp?).
I've been reading Spiritual midwifery - which i loved reading when pregnant with ds and i do still love reading the birth stories but now i can't help but think things like "did you really need to cut that cord so soon?" and "why do all these babies need to be suctioned & helped to breathe?" A friend is lending me laura Shanleys book and a video of a UC birth. As we are TV free i don't have a video player so i'll have to watch it round my mums house - earth mother she is not - she will be horrified!
I feel the same when I read Spiritual Midwifery now. I keep thinking "back of woman and let the mother birth the way she wants to" etc.... I still like to read it though but it's through different eyes now. It was my inspiration when I was pregnant with my first. Oh and I am bothered by the little bit on circumcision in it too. They actually did/do them if requested by the parents.
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I'm 13 weeks today!!!!!!! Still wating for the m/s to hit the road. But I do see light at the end of the tunnel now!!
Oh, don't get me going on Spiritual Midwifery! LOL! But I liked reading about the hippie mamas, really only the thing I was interested in looking at in the last days of my third pregnancy. If only there was a book with stories of that natural/spiritual bent, without the over-management and controllingness of the midwife!
Originally Posted by puddleduck
A friend is lending me laura Shanleys book and a video of a UC birth. As we are TV free i don't have a video player so i'll have to watch it round my mums house - earth mother she is not - she will be horrified!
Oh, thanks for reminding me about her stuff! I was gonna send DH to her website to read birth stories to help relax him a bit more
I bought Unassisted Childbirth off the trading post here and read it in one day. I couldn't put it down. I liked it a lot. I'll probably read it again in a couple of months. I am really wishing today that I could stop myself from reading some post in this forum. Yikes, I'm getting pissed. I need to have some self restraint and just not click on the thread.
This thread is great though and I love all the positive energy on it!!! I am really enjoying being able to share this pregnancy with outher UC'ing mamas.
I think I read Unassisted Childbirth, which one was that? I think I got it from the library of all places! I get totally addicted to birth stories and books, I think for me books are more addicting than icecream!
Oh, that thread. I'm guessing it's the one that I'm not using any self control on whatsoever and wasting a lot of time replying to?
At least it's firming up my beliefs, not at all swaying me toward wanting a MW
I'm feeling baby kick more and more, being in tune with it when it's awake and asleep is pretty neat! Mine doesn't kick much at night at all, I wonder if this means it will be a night sleeper? That would be pretty cool!
Is it true that most babies are on a schedule when they're born to be awake at night and asleep during the day? Or is that an old wive's tale?
Originally Posted by littleteapot
I've gotten big REALLY fast with this one.
Really, really fast. My fundal height has already reached my navel and I'm no more than 12-14 weeks or something.
That is normal for more than 2 or 3 babies. The uterus stretches out faster. But boy, oh boy, I wish I looked that good in a bikini! You are blessed! enjoy your babybelly...
Yay! Maybe we'll have a night sleeper. I think I'm being a little naieve about this whole baby thing- I somehow have it in my head that baby will just eat, pee, and then go back to sleep at night. I've heard new parent tales that involve walking the hall til 2 am, but for some reason my child doesn't need this in my ideas
My dd had a couple of nights when she was a newborn that she cried for hours those nights. She was what you call a high needs baby though. But after those nights she just woke to eat (every 2-3 hrs) and she slept with us so I would just turn on my side put a boob in her mouth and go back to sleep. Co-sleeping allowed me to get sleep. I do believe every baby is different. My ds was/is so easy going. He slept so much more than my dd ever did that I thought something was wrong with him.
I could actually put him down when he was asleep and he wouldn't wake up screaming, that was a huge no no with my dd. Awwwww I can't wait to have another newborn, they are the most precious creatures. Oh and they smell so yummy too!!!
Originally Posted by myhoneyswife
I somehow have it in my head that baby will just eat, pee, and then go back to sleep at night.
That's what I have experienced with my two boys... I think it helps when you co-sleep and breastfeed and don't expect anything... I think many problems that parents have is that they try to make newborns sleep apart from their parents, so each time that they try to lay the baby down in the crib/bassinet (even if it is in their room) the baby wakes up because they want to be next to mommy... I have heard so many parents talk about how they don't ever sleep and how the baby wakes the moment they try to put them down... when I ask if they are co-sleeping the answer is always no...
I have really never heard such stories from moms that breastfeed and welcome baby in their bed with open arms...
I'm planning my first sorta-UP/UC LOL that is... midwife backup- I can call her if I'm feeling like transferring, goal being to avoid an unnecessary one, and I'll use her charts to track my own prenatal info.
Gracie was a homebirth with a pretty hands-off midwife, but it really disrupted my laboring just having her there, and in hindsight, she may have been hands-off, but she got me to do things against my instinct with her words... which is a big part of why I'm planning a UC this time.
Originally Posted by paxye
I have heard so many parents talk about how they don't ever sleep and how the baby wakes the moment they try to put them down... when I ask if they are co-sleeping the answer is always no...
I have really never heard such stories from moms that breastfeed and welcome baby in their bed with open arms...
I couldn't put my dd down during the day when she fell asleep. At night though since we co-slept this wasn't an issue. But like I wrote before she was high needs and that has a lot to do with me not being able to put her down during the day.
My first baby (UP/UC, co-sleeping, baby-wearing, breastfeeding, the whole-shebang) was a SCREAMER and wouldn't sleep. =)
I would walk him around our apartment complex at 4am regularly. I just thought all babies were that way =) I got used to having no sleep and waking up with him every two hours day and night and after nursing him, trying to find something to soothe him back to sleep.
He was a puker too. He would nurse until he was overly full and then projectile vomit all over me, dh, the dinner table. And then nurse some more and the whole cycle would start again. Sigh. My poor MIL was beside herself, she was sure there was something wrong with him. Again, being a first-time mom, I just assumed this was the world of babies.
But anyway, just to respond to paxye, it CAN happen. I never slept, and baby woke up screaming when I climbed back into my bed with him. And he is STILL co-sleeping with us at almost 5 years old, and breastfed until he weaned himself at 20months.
My next two have been EASY compared to #1. #3 is approaching 3 weeks old. =)
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