August 2015

Good Morning Ladies!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.

I'm very excited for tomorrow's GP visit and scan.
But I'm also a little worried.

We've had no water at work for the last week. They've provided us with fresh drinking water, and buckets of water for the toilets, but you can imagine how the bathrooms must look by now with 15 to 20 odd ladies all using one bathroom (4 stalls).
On Saturday I started getting light cramps, mostly when I go to the bathroom, yesterday some of the cramps were so bad I could barely stand. This morning I noticed a very pale brown spotting (TMI I know..).
I'm wondering if this could be from a bladder infection, or something else.
I've had cramps before, but never this bad and never with any spotting.

Hoping it's nothing and just the bladder....

Anyway, hope you all have an awesome Monday!

so glad baba is doing well Ayesha. maybe next time hey, or maybe baba wants to surprize you at birth...

Dearhel, i cant really help on the baby blues. i didnt experience any of it. i was so overjoyed after my lb was born everything was just heaven for me. but one of my close friends had it real bad. so that she just spend her days in bed and didn't want anything to do with baby for 2 weeks. she had to take medication for it and was one the meds for a whole year as the depression can just kick in again. i listened to a psychiatrist on this topic and she said that it can kick in anything from after birth till about 18 months after birth, so its not just a risk in the first few weeks.
another close friend was diagnosed with it when her baby was 9 months old, but she didnt have it that bad, she just though she is really struggling to cope with everything, but then a homoepath made her take a small questionare and he said its definately the baby blues.

Simone, sorry about your rough few days, really praying that you will have a few good days again.

Angie, with my first pregnancy i had an internal scan at 6 weeks and the Dr did an internal check at 37 weeks to check my cervix - main purpose of this to check if your ok for natural birth. this was painful for me.
with this one i did not do the internal scan as my first scan was much later in pregnancy. she will probably do the 37 week one again, but i will ask her not to as i know that i can birth a big baby.

but this is also one of the things alot of dr's use to convince you to do a Csec - they will say you are to small down there and you will not get baby out or baby will get stuck. this is not true (in most births) and if you want to go natural then do not accept this. the bones on baby's head are effectively loose and move over one another, so their heads actually go smaller to get through the birth canal - thats why some babies have that 'cone head' look

Happyface, i will recommenced a crech/school as they have a structured program and there are always more than 1 adult around. i do not have family close by that i can leave baby with and i do not want to leave my child with a stranger (no matter how good their recommendations) unfortunately 3 of our close friends had very bad experiences with nannie/aupairs. you have no guarantee what a nanny/aupair/day mother does with your baby and if they actually stimulate your baby. if you are considering a nanny then you should get a nanny cam. or who the nanny invite to visit. and with taxi strikes, what do you do if she just doesn't pitch up and didn't let you know before hand.
well this was my personal reasoning and i didn't consider anything else as a cresh/school. and my lb is extremely happy in school and always happy to be left there in the mornings.

Lol well I certainly can say that I can wait until it's time to get examined down there lol

I also don't have a plan yet but MIL and my granny have both suggested playing nanny... I'd really prefer Nanny at home and Creche when baby is a lil older...

Hi ladies,

What a week! So glad it is Friday!

The pics of the little ones are gorgeous! Cant wait for our scan on Tuesday!

@Angie I'm also a 1st time mom. My gynea follow the same routine, but until 14 weeks he does an internal ultra sound (through down there). I asked and he said the baby can be seen more clearer then. The last time he also check from the tummy side to get a different angle (to make sure everything in the womb is ok because of the scare we had couple of weeks ago). I'm not sure if they perhaps do a pap smear during pregnancy? Maybe only when you experience discomfort of might have an infection?

Then something that is constantly on my mind these past few days, I don't know what to do with baby when I go back to work. I know its still awhile - but there's so many pros and cons of each option. Nanny at home, crèche etc. #confused What do you think or consider?

Glad you're feeling better, SimoneC. I miss chicken so badly but I can't stand it right now

First Time Mom Question:
So far all my appointments have been pee-testing, checking blood pressure then seeing baby on the ultrasound. When I browse the internet I often see pics of women at the Gynae getting vaginal examinations (I think When does it get to that stage and what exactly does the Gynae do down there?

Morning ladies

StellaK congrats on another little boy! Sounds like the scan went really well! So special

Ayesha you are really patient...by 13 weeks I knew the sex of all my kids...he he. I probably would have gone nuts not knowing by now.

Daerhel I never suffered from the baby blues. The normal....being frustrated at lack of sleep and the adjustment of a baby...but I don't think I had the baby blues. Yes once in a while I'd want to shake them until they stopped crying....but seriously never did it and think it was normal??? I'm sure everybody feels like that at some point.

Love the scan pics ladies!!

The MSA...I am going to try not to stress now, but we will still have 2 and 6 week check ups and vaccinations. Baby check ups and our own. Pay in for the c-section...the cash portion. Oi. Okay maybe I am going to stress....ha ha

Had a rough few days...yesterday I left work at 1 with headache and just feeling exhausted. Was keeping nothing down. Went to get some hot nandos and took a nap. Then a good night's sleep and I feel much better this morning.

Morning Ladies!!

Congrats on the baby boy Stella! He looks very happy and healthy.

Glad your little one is also happy and healthy Ayesha. Maybe next he/she won't be so shy.

The pics are always so cute.


My darling fiance came up with a good question last night... goodness knows what he's been googling lately... But he wanted to know what postpartum depression was, why women get it and how it works.
(Not a bad question from a man that probably will never understand what pregnancy is truly like)
Tried explaining as best I could and eventually gave him a few websites to go read lol.

Then I wondered, how many of you ladies, that have children already, have ever had the baby blues?
I remember having it slightly with my first daughter, but not with my second. It never really seemed so bad to me, I suppose I wasn't too affected, but from what we read last night, it seems some women get really bad.