PAMPERS JULY 2010

argh ash , so sorry to hear you were in hospital thank god all is okay.. well not that much longer now im sure you will go into labour soon and wont have to stress about being induced.remember how scared we were wouldnt make it this far and here we are , babies healthy and basically full term , i seriously cant wait for tues.

well ladies, any of you lose mucous plugs... i think i may have lost mine this morning.. this thick jelly like thing.. ( quite gross) actually , but now not sure. i know i dont hav infection was at gynae yesterday. i also dont know does this mean labour is gonna start soon. i already told my husband to be prepared this weekend... but ja , i dont know if im trying to convince myself or him harder.
i had the bloody show last week tues and now this so dont know.. maybe i should just ph gynae and ask him.. dont feel any pain yet so dont know, maybe its still coming...

newbie- we almost there.. shame you really not getting any sleep hey.. probably nerves.. mine are also starting hectically. well will spk to you all later.

Hallo ladies,

Just a quick "Hallo" we are doing fine and are home. Liam is doing great, breastfeeding is going well. Will post some photo's as soon as I have some more time.

Good luck to everyone and hope everyone is doing ok. Will catch up on everyone's post during the weekend.

hey there,

joc- wow today ... so exciting.. happy for you let us know once you are home and how it went, i know it will go well.. what was wrong , why were you admitted.

ash- where are you, hows things going with you.

newbie-we almost there cant wait.

dee- i also suffered mastitus with my first , omg is it painful. they say the only thing that helps is making baby suckle more.. so that the excess milk is out , but first time mom they didnt tell me about expressing the excess milk and how much it helps. i mean here you have these "hard balls" in your boobs that are excrutiating to touch, your breasts get hot and hard and you just sit and cry and cry i also eventually went to dr when fever started. it was so bad he had to give antibiotics and also a anti inflammatory cream to rub in. it didnt relieve it immediately but eventually my aunt told me to get a breast pump and that was the best thing i could of eva done, cos no matter how much some mommies say expressing by hand in shower or bath i never ever got relief because the more you express and without a pump its only a little- the more ur body makes.i was one of the ones that literally had milk pouring out of my breasts.. i had lots , and lots . but still got mastitus i just think baba couldnt actually drink as much as my body was making.. very strange.

newbie- wow that is a bit weird about the aquaintance hope all went well, hopefully it would be a 5 minute visit and thats that.
i had a bit of a weird experience about 3 weeks ago i was at the medic centre , standing in casuallty waiting for my urine to be tested.. and this elderly woman literally pounces out of the one cubicle she grabs my belly and is looking in absolute awe as kassie starts moving... she was eventually bending down actually spking to my stomach... very very weird.. anyway it was fine, i was a bit taken aback but didnt say anything... and she s like ah so beautiful and its moving..... then shes calling who i assume is her husband to also come and look.. and this whille hes sick and on a drip.. then as suddenly as she appeared.. shes saying sorry but i cant resist a bump...... and she disappeasrs.... i was shocked an absolute stranger.... i mean sho .....!!!!!! really now

well this morning started off with gynae appointment still no internal and im sure i have started dialating was haveing contractions from 3 am this morning and on and off the whole day.. but could just be fals i suppose.. but discharge is different today.. thick , mucousy and sort of clear -white colour. my husband cant understand why i wanted the gynae to do an internal im trying to explain to him the way that ive been feeling , the show, the tingling , the pressure and the fact she dropped and the contractions. i just want to know if it is labour or atleast early labour, so that i know if what im feeling is actually something to complain about or whether it is just the normal things in pregnancy... so the gynae was "happy" with everything.. he says shes weighing 3.1 and to be honest as long as she is over 3kgs i really dont mind. he says everything else is looking good. so we are in line for tuesday my nerves are absolutely finished.. anyways after that went to uif sat there for two hours atleast its over with for now. then we fetched our kids early from school and decided to go watch a movie.. it was cute went and saw toystory... they enjoyed it and i said to my husband once baba is here it gonna be a bit difficult to get out .. especially to movies.

well will update again over weekend

bye

helloo ladies,

well, i was admitted on monday, the dizziness was due to very high blood pressure i am now home though with NO BABY, they said that if they were not able to control the bp i would have to have baby delivered and as u guess it they controlled it, was in since tuesday and very glad to be home.

i did ask if she cant just induce today but she said no, cos the midwives would have a riote, guess they a bit strict on that but my next app is next thursday and she said if i wanna get induced still, she can induce me.
quite frank, i am no so sick of ending up in hospital all the time and i am ready now, so lets see if i can some how get this baby to come on his own terms before i ask for the induction next thursday.

Naomiee, well done girl, sounds like u had a amZING BIRTH cant wait to see the pics, excuse the caps LOL dont know what happened.

well ladies, i am exhausted.
hope u all well and i havent missed anyone, have a great weekend, i plan on staying in bed besides tomorrow i am taking chloe for a girls day out and to watch the new shrek

Hello ladies,

Wow seems like I've have missed so much
Congrats to Naomi and Jo c.... sounds awesome and you ladies are making us all jealous LOL

Newbie - I also had an emergency caesar the 1st time and the recovery time for me was quick and not as bad as expected. I was up and about the 2nd day, it was only day 1 when I was a little out of it because of the pain meds, and hardly remember much, but I did b feed, that I know

yes there was some pain after but there was just so much going on that I hardly noticed it. Like for eg the mastitus issue, changing nappies, bathing, and the lack of sleep all took precedent over the c section pain I honestly can hardly remember it, and it happened not too long ago

Vicky, I actually also JUST registered for tax a few weeks ago LOL hubby has been begging me for yrs to go, and the only reason I went now was because it was needed for us to buy our new house, I am lucky because our company sorts out our UIF for us hey, we just need to go in one time. Newbie think it was you who said you now need to go in once a month? Well it may be a little late now but with my previous baby, I went through a company called Moms UIF Assist, you can google them, basically I gave them all my forms, and they sorted out EVERYTHING and they ensured that the money gets paid into your acc every month, it was R500 upfront though (and that was last yr). You may want to look into it?

As for my ID, well yesterday was supposed to be d day LOL but my LO got sick at daycare so had to pick her up and spent the day at home with her. She was absolutely miserable shame and had such a hugh fever the entire day. Needless to say, as most of you, I also did not have a good nights rest. She was up every hr or so, crying and clingy ... I hate seeing her like that ;-(

Anyway after the pead visit today turns out she has a middle ear infection as well, however sghe does seem better today, and is keeping me on my toes the entire day Sooooo therefore no new ID for me just yet and doubt I will have time next week as I want to have my hair, nails and feet done.... and this is purely just to spoil myself before the big day

My mom and mom in law all start arriving the weekend as well, so full house again.......

Other than that, because the focus the past day has been my LG, I (surprisingly enough) am not suffering too much today LOL

So what are your plans for the weekend?

Its my last gynae app tomorrow......eeekkk

Also the reason why I got mastitus as well was really jusy because of lack of knowledge. What I should have done was see a lactation consultant at the hospital already, to help me pump the excess milk... instead I waited till it was too late and the fever started before I sought help.... so word of advice is if it doesnt feel right, have it checked out

Hi guys!!

I am a mommy...again! You can call me Jasmine's mom from now on, thank you very much!!

Oh my Good luck Jo for today!! will be thinking of you!

Well..where to start? This baby is just something else, so on Tue, I went for my gynae's appointment, I get there...she does an internal exam and says I am 4 cm dilated, mind you, I was feelin nothing but a little back ache, didn't know till then what labour pains felt like!! Anyways, I was admitted immediately... the nurse did another internal exan ouch! and said I was 6 cm dilated... Everything went by so quickly, gynae went out to do whatever, anyways she was called back about 30 minutes later as baby was crowning already... this is less than an hour since my ast internal with the nurse, DH got there just in time to see baby being born...the contractions were HORRIBLE, TO SAY THE LEAST BUT didn't last long...with a total of 3 pushes baby was born...weighing 3.7 kg.

I tore pretty bad, but I'm healing nicely, at least I can sit and chat with you guys
She is breastfeeding nicely, but cries a lot at night, but she is soo adorable, she gets away with it, she just bathed now and is napping. The pic's are on my cellphone, DH doesn't want me to post them on FB..issues I guess, I just need to find my data cable so I can load them on the pc and load them here...she is so pretty you guys!! I am in love!!!

Jo all the best!!

oh wow Jo, congrats, so u next in line then me.. That is super... Goodluck..