Pregnancy after D&C

A friend of mine had her baby yesterday. Dont know exact details but her spinal block would not work so she had to go under and there were huge complications with her lungs and she ended up in ICU. She is fine thankfully.

JB, If I have this baby just before visiting hours I will tell everyone to leave as there is no chance I will have so many people around me like that. I am hoping to keep baby with me for at least an hour before going to my room so will see how it all goes.

Esmari, beautiful children. Stunning eyes.

Shrew, Belaine, Dinky...glad all is going well with you all.

Esmari such stunning pics! I'm loving the blue match up too
You got a bunch of lookers there hey!
And such blue blue eyes!!!
I agree with Lucy, you look so young, and so gorgeous too! Keep it up

Shew 3 girls due in July wowee!!! And then its Belaine and then me and then KLK shew! Cmon girls keep em coming!

Lucy I would absolutely love to become a personal shopper. I do it a lot for friends on a budget but would be awesome to do it for the rich and famous who have money to spend!

Regarding c-sections I can join that club too! Shew anyone ever gone natural on here?
Mine was 'elective' but not by my choice. Kaylee made that choice for me, she never turned and the umbilical cord was wrapped twice around her neck. She came out bum first which was interesting!
My actual C-sec experience was really good although if I do it again there's a few things I'd like to have done differently but sometimes the doctors or nursing staff are not negotiable on that.
The spinal block went well, and I numbed very quickly. And also took a couple hours after the birth to come back to life.
I would have loved for baby to kangacare with me in the recovery room but I dont think the hospital will allow that. Thankfully she was with her daddy for all of this time.
I came out of recovery just as visiting hours started and had the parents and inlaws waiting to meet Kaylee. But it meant there was a lot of pressure to get her breastfed and that wasn't lekker. Luckily she did latch almost immediately which was a great help but next time I'd rather have the family come in for the evening visit if I have an afternoon c/sec. And in hindsight they tend to allow grandparents outside of visiting hours on the day baby arrives.
I will still use the same hospital and gynae unless we pick up any heart issues at the 23 week fetal assessment in which case we will go to Christian Barnard Memorial Hospital where they are ready and equipped to deal with heart defects in newborns.
I had my pain medication drip put into the bend of my arm by my request as I really cant stand that needle in my hand, its beyond uncomfortable.
But they didnt inform me before the time that that would be a positional drip, iow you have to keep your arm straight for the meds to work.
So I had this awesome pethidine pump but it wasnt working cos my arm was bent, and so when they eventually told me to straighten my arm I almost passed out from about 3 doses of pethidine!
So next time I will just grin and bear and have the drip needle placed in my wrist/hand. I must say having the pethidine pump is really cool cos you can pump every 7 minutes to manage your own pain continuously.
I had a nurse try and give me a suppository orally. I eventually had her read the instructions on the box to convince her that its a suppository and not for oral use.

But my worse C/Sec experience by far is that a nerve was caught while stitching me up, and so for the entire time that I had stitches, an entire week, I was in excruciating pain and the gynae gave me Synape Forte which is an insanely strong drug and currently banned in SA due to its addictive nature.

I would really like to try a VBAC but havent raised the topic with the gynae to date.
I will chat to him once in 3rd trimester as there's no point talking about it until we see how baby is lying and likelihood of her turning.
Provided baby is lying nicely, heart is healthy and no c/sec scarring that is the major reason for repeat c-secs, I would definitely make a request to go natural this time around.

Sorry for my long post, I dont always get chance!

Shrew, glad I wasn't rabbiting on about stuff you knew!! Let me know what your gynae says. I am interested in this business idea.....good luck with it! My sister also told me today about some business she is starting with a friend.....like personal shopping!

Dinky, glad you found it useful

Esmari, you have a really good looking family. You also look really young!!! Nice pics!

Some more pics. (Sorry if i am bombarding you..... Just cant choose........)

not too much to catch up on thankfully

Lucy, klk - so nice to hear of c-sec mommies who didn't feel too much pain, makes me feel better about that option as my biggest "fear" with c-sec is the pain from the cut

klk - that is awesome! So glad it's all going smoothly

belaine you sound like me - at least you have a little longer to make up your mind. fx that we get confirmation of which team tomorrow

wow Shrew you are organised I must really get my a into g and get my bag packed (or at least a list done). I am kinda hesitating til my baby shower though, then I'll know for sure what I do and don't have. Emily is also quite "rustig" sometimes I worry and then she gives me a good hard kick and I realise it's all ok we are really close together I think - like within the same week - so is Mom2B

Es - nice about the laptop. so happy for Nadia! Beautiful pics!

Lucy - thanks for the hint about spinal vs. epidural - weren't told that by the hospital.

AFM: put on 10kgs - eek! Gotta slow down now. Otherwise not much news really. Was DH birthday this weekend so had people over on Sat eve. Working hard but only a month before I'm on leave

Gotta run - DH finished gym and waiting for me.

Love to all xxx

I totally understand Shrew........ I also want to do a cleanup. my facebook is chaos!

Heres some pics of the family............







Ag, n photoshop refuses to continue working...... Will try more later

Lucy - oh my gosh that makes sense, I didn't know that! ok going to Gynae on 9 June will chat to her about what happened and what she thinks.

Esmari - I think so, my settings changed so will have to see, otherwise you may have been an error clean up cut, will check tonight at home (on my phone is pathetic) I had a lot of moomie "friends" and I have heard nothing absolutely nothing for a year and refuse to have roofkykers, so sorry hun will go check because we chat regularly I dont have a date still, will have to start thinking about that too I guess ha ha ha. I found out Feb so really have known for 3 months (shortest pregnancy yet ha ha ha)