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Post by Crazy on May 23, 2007 0:11:00 GMT 10
 OOPS sorry Dianne & Lisard - just re-read your posts, I didn't mean to seem insensitive 
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Post by Di on May 23, 2007 7:36:06 GMT 10
OOPS sorry Dianne & Lisard - just re-read your posts, I didn't mean to seem insensitive  Thats Ok Crazy, didn't think you were being insensitive, it would be nice for you if bump was born on your birthday.  |
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Post by CarlaM on May 23, 2007 7:59:38 GMT 10
RT, I love your stories. Your girls were both tiny. Madison, my middle one, was 5 pound 6 and they are so tiny when they are under 6 pound huh? Unfortunately Madi lost an entire pound the first week so got down under 4 and a half pound. She looked like a skinned rabbit. Still beautiful of course  WOW over 11 pound? I take my hat off to her...totally! Thats like double your girls size. My kids were: Stephanie 8lb10oz (ouch), Dylan 7lb7oz, Madison 5lb6oz, Jayden and Holly were both just over 7 pound. The last 3 were C sections though so it didnt matter anyway. Anyway I really hope for Eils sake that bubby makes an appearance very soon! I only went overdue with Steph and that was 4 days and seemed like an eternity! Cant wait for the news and all the details gosh all of this birth talk brings back memories!! Raiyne was born after 3 hours of labour she was 6lb 6oz. I had her on the toilet floor and my sister caught her just before she hit the tiles... I was screaming, my sister was choking on her own vomit and my mum was yelling she can't be born yet her dad isn't here!! Talon was born after 23 hours of labour she was 5lb 4oz. After 12 hours i told the nurse to give me an epidural or i was gona cut her throat. Epidural in, i slept for 10 1/2 hours then woke up to the nurse telling me to push... after 1/2 an hour of pushing out she came. I was crying, my sister was nowhere in sight and my mum was again yelling... She can't be born yet her dad isnt here!! oh the memories, it hurts like hell but is so beautiful. and just thought i would share with you all that my sister is 5 foot 10 and had an 11lb 3oz baby.. OUCHHHHH, and she had him toatlly natural! i must also point out that she has 6 kids!! |
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Post by Selestial on May 23, 2007 8:30:51 GMT 10
Just to throw this into the mix - 27th May is Neil Finn's birthday. D is a big fan.
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Post by Di on May 23, 2007 8:36:05 GMT 10
Just to throw this into the mix - 27th May is Neil Finn's birthday. D is a big fan. 27th is cool it is my lucky number. Hubby's birthday 27th Nov. We were married on 27th April, and I met Damien on 27th Feb  |
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Post by erinbella on May 23, 2007 9:01:16 GMT 10
i am thinking that baby bump might arrive on my birthday 26th may it would be something special to me if that happened. My father passed away last year on 26th may my 50th birthday so i would like something happy and pleasant to celebrate it this year as last year was just cancelled so come on little bump!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So sorry to hear about your father lisard.  I do hope bump is born on your birthday. If not then I hope a very special and happy event will occur on this date in the not too distant future for you.  |
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Post by lisard on May 23, 2007 9:15:11 GMT 10
thank you all for your thoughts,
i know i an going to struggle this weekend and it certainly would be a beautiful distraction to focus on if it haapens around the 26th
So Eileen give it you best shot
And baby Bump the time has come we are all waiting with baited breath
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Post by Crazy on May 23, 2007 9:48:27 GMT 10
just thought I'd add - 29th May (my birthday cmmmm...  ) was the day Jeff Buckley died  . But because we'll be having the family birthday get together on 1 June I can't go to the tribute concert  I'm so wanting to post a pic of me taken a couple of hours before M was born - i can't believe i was ever that big. J was 7lb 2oz & 51cm long and M was 7lb 4oz & 52cm long. someone talk me into it  My sis-in-law went overdue with her first girl and was very upset so she was induced after a week. I think she was 8lb 10. But then with her 2nd daughter, she was making the bed .... and it all just happened. Luckily mum-in-law was there or she'd never have got to the hospital. she was induced early with her 3rd daughter as she'd stopped growing. what makes me really mad is that I had to have c-sections, i'd have preferred to go natural - but that's life and i have 2 healthy children to show for it. but lots of people tell me that i 'copped out' by not experiencing a natural delivery. believe me, the c-sections weren't a breeze either, and the epidurals made me pretty sick.  |
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Post by olddantucker on May 23, 2007 11:11:48 GMT 10
If anyone tells you that having a c-section is a cop out you're entitled to whack them. I was in the operating theatre for my wife's c-section and it's not exactly a walk in the park.
The only reason I could see for having a "natural" labour is curiosity. After being forced to watch the birthing videos, I was curious as to how the string quartet playing the "stirring" music fits into the delivery suite. Some of those rooms aren't that big. It's going to hurt if you're told to push and then you suddenly get a viola accidentally shoved somewhere the sun don't shine. And also, how does the woman manage to move only in slow motion the whole time??
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Post by Crazy on May 23, 2007 11:30:21 GMT 10
If anyone tells you that having a c-section is a cop out you're entitled to whack them. I was in the operating theatre for my wife's c-section and it's not exactly a walk in the park. The only reason I could see for having a "natural" labour is curiosity. After being forced to watch the birthing videos, I was curious as to how the string quartet playing the "stirring" music fits into the delivery suite. Some of those rooms aren't that big. It's going to hurt if you're told to push and then you suddenly get a viola accidentally shoved somewhere the sun don't shine. And also, how does the woman manage to move only in slow motion the whole time?? wow -a sensitive male  love ya yup i was in the delivery room for 2 days with J and there was only one sympathetic midwife - a male. all the female midwives would come in and stick their fingers up you know where and say "can't even feel the baby's head" and walk out of the room as if to imply the 3 minutes apart contractions were all in my head. the male midwife would stroke my head and go "there there, don't worry, this baby will come out somehow". then i was put on oxytocin to whack up the contractions. after a day a female midwife walked in and took me off the oxytocin and didn't even tell me why. it took my obstetrician to come in later and tell me that my uterus had been about to collapse and i was off to theatre  . i passed out both times on the epidural - not funny when you're already laying down. But after all that - according to some mothers that i know, i failed in the initiation of motherhood. oh btw - in my case, i had The Beatles playing - hubs thought it would relax me. Helter Skelter would have been a good one to deliver to!!!! |
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Post by Roxy on May 23, 2007 19:50:05 GMT 10
This has turned into a birth story thread! ;D So I may as well throw my 50c worth in! Compared to all your stories.....Mine was a walk in the park!! My contractions started at 2am...(didn't know it either) I thought I had a tummy bug as I had to keep getting up. Then I remembered what a friend had said about the tum going hard and realised that mine was! So I tell DH that I think I'm in labour..and he says..oh ok, go put the jug on!! So I did!!! by the time the cuppa was ready, my tum was getting harder and harder, so I went back to the bedroom, and yelled at him to get up!! I went off to shower and thought I'd better start timing the contractions...haha I couldn't they were coming too fast. We head off to the hospital and get there at 5.30am, and I had my daughter at 7.15am!! The nurses and doc were suprised as it was my first, and said that the next time I had better book in a day or two early!! I hope Eils has an easy birth like mine! ;D |
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Post by astrokath on May 23, 2007 21:12:49 GMT 10
I was induced with my first as I went a week overdue, laboured all day and was only 2cm dilated, so went for a c-section. I was really lucky because I had no troubles with the op, although my son had an exomphalos (basically his guts hanging out where his navel should be, plus in his case, his bladder was open instead of a closed bag) and he was taken to another hospital for the op to close him up. After the birth I had pelvic Xrays and the Dr said I would only ever deliver a small baby. The second time round he offered me a trial of labour which I rejected - let's go straight for the section - and just as well, with my second son being 9lb 15! What do doctors know |
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Post by gj on May 23, 2007 22:15:11 GMT 10
Sorry I must have been too young dont remember too many problems - I was two weeks over (I think bump will be the same) - threatened with inducement so decided to get on with it on my own ...........not too much hassle and 8lb 1 oz.........boucing baby boy.....
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Post by dededom on May 23, 2007 22:18:25 GMT 10
My first was also overdue by 5 days (I had the flu) but I laboured from 2am till 8.30pm and it was a disaster .. ventouse extraction, bad tearing, damage to baby's neck *shudder*. Hard to believe I went back and did it all again ... and again ...! *never again!!!! * |
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Post by Crazy on May 23, 2007 22:23:36 GMT 10
although my son had an exomphalos (basically his guts hanging out where his navel should be, plus in his case, his bladder was open instead of a closed bag) and he was taken to another hospital for the op to close him up. - i worked for a while as a medical photographer at Great Ormond St Hospital in London. i used to see things like this. i'm pleased all turned out okay in the end for you. it's actually remarkable how many babies are born with no problems with J everything was plain sailing through the pregnancy. with M, at my 12 week ultrasound they were sure she had Downs Syndrome so i had tests which showed she was fine. then at 18 weeks i was taken aside and told my baby was very small and to expect the worse. my obstetrician laughed it off and was right, M grew just fine and was a very healthy bub. but i never gazed at her u/s pics in quite the same way i did with j's. |
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OOPS sorry Dianne & Lisard - just re-read your posts, I didn't mean to seem insensitive 
) was the day Jeff Buckley died 
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love ya
. i passed out both times on the epidural - not funny when you're already laying down. But after all that - according to some mothers that i know, i failed in the initiation of motherhood. 
