Jan/Feb/Mrch 2012 Momies to Be

HELLLOOOOO LADIES!!!

I had my twin girls on the 6th January 2012 at 8am at 38 weeks as planned!
Huda (Arabic for "Right/ proper guidance") was 3.04kg and Nida (Arabic for "a calling" or "to call") was 2.8kg. Both were 49cm long They are not identical which we knew all along as they were in 2 separate sacs with 2 placentas so in effect was 2 eggs fertilised separately (and not an egg that split). So chuffed that they managed to stay in till 2012

They werre 3 weeks old yesterday and doing so well, picking up weight nicely. The caesar itself went well, though straight after the op I started losing a lot of blood due to the size of my uterus that needed to shrink back to normal size. Luckily I didn't need a blood transfusion but was closely monitored and had the head nurse of the hospital at my bedside for a few hours! (so I am told as I was a bit out of it) Had to take iron supplements (and currently still on it) to bring it back to normal levels. I was out for most of that day - drifting in and out of sleep. Felt very lethargic. Girls latched well and started breastfeeding them immediately.

The first week home was HAIRY SCARY!!! Complete madness with a toddler as well! Sanity started creeping back in after week 2 and Haaniyah started nursery school as well. She loves it though and to this day has had no tears! Poor child has had so much change to deal with and she is doing really well. Just smiles and excitement about going to BIG school She turns 3 in exactly a month's time from today so I need to plan some sort of party for her! This week DH went back to work and luckily I felt a bit more in control with some sort of routine setting in.

Picked up 15 kgs in my pregnancy and have lost 12 kgs already - 3kg to go!

Gosh - lots happening to all you girls here as well! Have so much to catch up on!

ZELF - Congrats on your baby girl, Millay. She is lovely.
Annie - Congrats to you on having Talullah in such an awesome experience! Do we have the same birth date for our baba’s?
Amanda so glad that Vica is home and doing well.

Thanks to all the other ladies for asking how I am. I need to do personals when I get a chance!

Have a good weekend all you preggy fairies. Not long to go for many of you!

Here are some pics!

Juandre – thank you for all your advice. Since gynae appointments only made few weeks in advance, I asked my GP for eglonyl and she prescribed it to me. I took it for 3 days now, it seems to slowly starts working, milk is not flowing like a river just yet, but I already feel unusually too cheerful. Ha-ha! Well, I thought having a baby is the hardest, but I see how busy you are with a toddler, especially when she is ill. I hope it got better now? BTW, I love Tommy Tippee bottles, I tried various brands and then settled on these and got 6, they are prefect flow and durability! Nuby bottles started leaking after 2 weeks and I had to through them away.

Carol – my tummy is flat but still very wobbly and out of tonus, will have to hit the gym in a week or so, it’s not as perfect as it seems. Ahhh, looking forward to the bright future of relaxed motherhood that you pictured for me. I am so tense and like a nerve ball, constantly worried if I am doing enough, if I am doing something wrong, or if I am not doing something that I should. Going nuts over this baby. I am so jealous of all of you who are having second and third child, been there, done that. Good luck with the last few days, can’t wait to hear the news!

Simone – will take your advice and others to let her wake me up at night. I tried that another night, but when she didn’t wake after 5 hours, I was hovering over her in the middle of the night, thinking “will she die in her sleep of hunger?” I think I need a psychiatrist.

Carlene – how is it going with pain and everything? I hope you manage to make through the last few days without going crazy.

Vision – breastfeeding is still not happening with us, but Tallulah gets my milk and that’s what important for now. Swollen feet – I hated it more than anything, prevents you from running around and doing things you want to do. I rubbed 7 drops grapefruit essential oil, mixed with almond oil into the feet, and then put them up, it helped for a while.

Cookie-monster – I went 1 week overdue. On 2nd, 3rd, and 4th of January I switched on high tempo music and danced like crazy as an attempt to induce labor, on 3rd I also went for aromatherapy massage with labor inducing jasmine and lavender oils, plus acupressure points stimulation. I didn’t go to a professional, family member did it for me, we kind of just googled and figured it out. On 5th I went into labor, don’t know whether all of above helped, or it just was the right time. But then, after all that madness, Tallulah literally jumped out of me, I didn’t have time to realise what happened.

Angi – I also have light and tall baby, those long legs are sooo cute. Enjoy baby shopping, I loved every minute of it!

Pinky – I know how you feel, when everyone tells you how “small” you look, and you cannot help but feel like a hippo. Amazingly, when I got baby shower, there wasn’t one item of clothing in it, mainly bath and body care products, A LOT of them!

I got such broken back and injured wrist from picking up the baby, that had to run to chiropractor already 3 times. I’d like to “relax into motherhood”, but seem to be too worried about too many things, trying to do things prefect and do my best. I think one can kill herself like that. Sometimes I wish Tallulah starts walking and talking already, so that I stop guessing what the crying baby wants. Tallulah got into a mode of crying a lot from 5 am to 10 am and then from 5 pm to 10 pm, it seems like a tummy acne, I don’t know, probably onset of colic. Oh my...

Heather- I found this on the web:
Ive heard of sex, nipple stimulation and spicy food.

These are all the natural induction methods that I know. Of course, nothing will send you into labor if you and the baby aren’t ready.

*WARNING: Some of this info may be a little graphic.*

Sex. Once a day. Afterwards, don’t get up right away and elevate your hips like when you were TTC. This helps the cervix absorb the prostaglandin in the semen.

Oral sex. Either way. You can ingest the prostaglandin orally and/or DH can stimulate your clitoris.

Physical activity. Walking, scrubbing the kitchen floor, etc.

Bumpy car ride. Sit and relax while the car jostles you and the baby about.

Nipple stimulation. Sometimes just letting the water from your shower beat on your chest will do the trick, particularly if you are still bfing.
PUMP METHOD -- Apply warm compresses to your chest. Uncover one breast and begin pumping for 15 min. Then reapply and warm compress and begin pumping the other side. Continue alternating compresses and pumping until you have strong, regular contractions, then stop. If contractions weaken or slow down, resume pumping for 5 min. per side until strength and regularity resumes.
HAND METHOD -- Drape a thin, warm, wet towel over your breasts. Roll one nipple through the towel until you have a contraction or 15 min. has passed. When the contraction begins, stop the stimulation. After it ends, wait 5 min. and stimulate the other nipple. Continue for an hour. Then take a break for 3-4 hours and begin again.
(If neither of these methods work, recruit DH to help stimulate both breasts at the same time.)

Thumb sucking. There’s a pressure point on the roof of your mouth. You can also use lollipops since they’ll probably taste better!

Accupressure. Apply pressure to the spot 4 finger widths above the ankle bone on the shinbone. Do this 3 times for 10-15 seconds each time. Repeat every few minutes, resting in between.

Herbal remedies:
CUMIN SEED TEA. Add 1 Tablespoon cumin seed to one cup of boiling water. Steep for 5 min. and drink. Only one cup per day.

BORAGE AND FLAX SEED OIL, BLACK CURRANT OIL. Take 3-6 capsules orally everyday and/or insert into the vagina at bedtime. Remain lying down to keep them in.

EVENING PRIMROSE OIL. Take orally 3 times a day and insert 2 into the vagina at bedtime. Again, remain lying down to keep them in.


Spicy food, salad w/ balsamic vinegar dressing. (May cause heartburn.)

Castor oil cocktails. Take one dose, then take a hot shower. Follow with a second dose two hours after the first and another hot shower. Start with a dose of 1 1/2 oz. and gradually increase to 4 oz. if needed.
Ideas for castor oil "mixers":
-- Castor oil scrambled in 3 or more eggs.
-- Shot of castor oil followed by a shot of vodka.
-- Shot of castor oil followed by hot apple juice.
-- Castor oil blended with vanilla ice cream and orange juice.
-- 2 oz. of castor oil in 3-4 oz. of root beer.
-- 2 oz. of castor oil in a chocolate SlimFast shake.
-- 3 teaspoons (1/2 oz.) of castor oil with one teaspoon of baking soda in a large glass of orange juice.

The Midwives Salad
1/3 watercress
1/3 romaine lettuce
1/3 red cabbage
gorganzola cheese
balsamic oil vinegarette

Okay so I have tried sex, and OMG it is painful will try again tonight. Just spoke to Dr's offices and he is on sick leave till monday. My old gynie is on standby this weekend, but if nothing happens over the weekend. Then I must book for induction on monday, only to be induced by tuesday. OH MY WORD I might as well carry for another 40weeks.

I was in tears last night, all my friends that are due in feb are having their joyous bundles now and here I am stuck looking like a bloody hippo. Is this normal? I am over being pregnant now, talk about depression coming early.

Any other methods of home inducing this lazy baby to come out?

We are so far from ready... It is true, with the 2nd one you are much more chilled out!!! The room's bedding was just ordered today, that takes about 4 weeks and we don't have a lot of clothes yet... I am waiting for the baby shower, my friends are throwing me one on the 18th of february...

Are you other guys ready?

Welcome back Pinky!!!
Are you all ready for baby?

Hi there ladies...

I am sort of new o this thread... was here once when I was just pregnant, Now it is all coming so close!

Feeling very uncomfortable already, although everyone say I am so tiny, believe me, it doesn't feel that way!!!

We still have to book our c-section... I am going to push it as far as possible... about 39 weeks... Karla came just after 39 weeks, so I think he will come the same time... Not trying natural again, unless he comes earlier than that, then I'll try and see if I can do it this time... With Karla I was very long in labour and she got stuck...
This ones head is also big, dr says his development of his head is already between 34 and 35 weeks and I am just over 31 weeks now!

You ladies must have a good day!