Due December 2015

Lol @ Lashy I also think this will be the last one for me. Getting older now also and my body is not working as well as it did the first time around

I did have contractions with my daughters birth, was hectic but it was manageable the thing about it is, it gets gradually more intense, we had the emergency Caesar cause my pressure was climbing very quickly and doc said my daughter head kept move out of the cannel and she wasn't going to put us in danger, I had no clue what to do in a Caesar before or after, it did help cause I just let them what they needed and had no expectations.

We went in at 18h00, my daughter was delivered, cleaned and given to me by 18h05. but it felt like forever for me to hear and see her. I will definitely be having an elective Caesar for baby number 2, because of my own personal fear, see my daughter came 2 days before her due date, so she was a full term baby, i was going into hospital on her actual due date to be induced, but started with very close contractions 2 days earlier, when the gynae pulled her out all I heard the gynae say was "what a beautiful baby, and there's meconium and everyone worked very fast on her after that" and I saw her being passed to the paed. The paed call hubby to come over and witness what he was doing and take pics. As I waited to hear what next, my anaethesist looked at me and said, "your gynae made a very good call to have the emergency Caesar", I didn't fully understand what they meant at the time I was just happy my baby was born and I could hold her.

Only later did I find out how dangerous the meconium is, and how babies who ingest the meconium in utero, sometimes never make it, I mean my perfectly healthy full term baby could have had such dire consequences had the delivery been delayed any further. I now know the dangers of meconium and luckily my little one passed it as they pulled her out so she didn't ingest any of it, but the reality is I have this deep fear for any further pregnancies, i will not go full term and let this come so close again, I want my second baby out a little earlier, god willing it will all go well. But it's just my personal fear. so this time i am opting for the elective Caesar.

But Lashy many of my friends even with planned caesars, had their water break or started with some contractions the week before their Caesar, maybe just maybe you may still get to experience it.........you never know.

Wow Zaza that is amazing hey. I am a softie if I had to experience all that i would be balling my eyes out...

I have to experience what it feels like to go into labour. My C-sect was so planned that the doc did everything for me lol...

But this will be my last one hey... Im going to lock it all up after this one...

You know Lashy you you mentioned yellow babies, I recall, when my daughter was born, she was 3.8kg and I had an emergency caeasar, and spent also the general 4 days in hospital, but in that time I was so dazzled by my baby I never noticed how yellow she was, even my family and friends, only now when we look at her photo's from those 4 days we see she definetly had jaundice but I think at the moment you so mesmorised by your baby I didn't notice she was yellow. lol

Her jaundice level was high so they kept her in NICU (it was the only place that had a bed for her), for 5 days, it was a very emotional experience for hubby and I, cause she was with all the prem babies, some of the mum's asked me if my baby was 6 months old and they couldn't believe she was 4 days old cause she was the giant amongst the prem babies.

Why it was emotional, I have so much respect for the parents and nurses of prem babies, the time and patience and love it takes to care for those delicate little angels, it blew me away. some of the babies were so prem that their parents could not touch them, they were being handled by a machine to prevent they picking up infections, and in the 5 days my little full term fatty was there, I learn't so much from those parents, and have so much respect for them, it was very emotional, and we were very grateful for our bundle being so healthy. I mean the baby who was next to my daughter in NICU, the mum was so excited to tell us he baby got to 1kg and she needs to go to 1.8kg before they can take her home, broke my heart and still does. we stayed in touch with the parents and now all their babies are healthy and growing amazingly.....

Nix, I am just thinking of my lil one. Last night she was sooo crabby, wanted me to carry her and rock her but I could not sit down. 5minutes was too much for me... as soon as I would attempt to sit she would start nagging..

She spent no time in NICU.. I had to get authorisation for all that in case from Med aid but was not needed.

We stayed the normal C-sect hosp stay and left.. On discharge day the paed was saying she looked a bit yellowish but nothing to worry about... so we all good to go...

@baby also having a kinda off day today, not nausea just tired and sleepy.

I am going for next u/s on Monday, been feeling a lot of baby movement which is a good sign. I just noticed whenever baby is very active and bouncing around inside me, I have a dip in energy, not sure if there is any correlation, but I get exhausted instantly when baby moves.

Hi ladies!!

WOW!! All the pics are stunning!!

Today is bad for me, was so sick this morning. I'm still nauseous. I'm sucking on lemons now, heard it helps.

Yes, we have names already, if its a girl she will be Mikayla and if its a boy he will be Damian. I love the name Khaleesi but hubby is not so keen. LOL! And you ladies?

@Lashy - Daniella was born early because she had developed a lung infection in utero so i went into labour on my last day of work and she was born the next day. Because she was a big baby my gynea wasn't concerned if she came early. I was given 2 doses of steroids 12 hours apart for her lungs and then something else to try calm the contractions down which looked like it had worked until the next morning when they were worse.
I was scheduled to have a c section anyway because I have a heart defect and she ended up being breech. Did E spend anytime in the NICU?


Thankfully for Facebook. You should sync your phone with Gmail if you have a Gmail account. All the pics I get on my phone either sent to me or taken get backed up on my Gmail account. You have to set it to do it when you are on wi fi only otherwise it will chew your airtime. You get lots of free space and you can add pics if needed. I suppose you don't need to do it through your phone, it just makes it easier. You can just upload from a pc. :0).

I had a midwife in theatre with me and I am so greatfull that I did. She helped so much and took all the pics. Nausea is a good thing :0).