January & February Mummies 2008

Charly looks like Hannie had a great party!! Love the cake too.

LB please please take it easy!!!! I always feel rotten when I have a temperature and can never actually do anything, do rest up when you can. Is it tomorrow you have the appointment and get your results back?

Happy birthday Issy!!!!!! Glad she had a great party too. Yeah it never got really fine here - it stopped raining but was still grey (and the ground was wet), but the kids didn't care and still had a ball playing in the dirt and water.

LB what does 'gennel' mean?

Harry's finally really getting into the 2 word sentences which is cool, most of what he says are 2 words now. So funny this morning, he was telling me something in gobledee gook about daddy, so I asked "What did daddy do?" and he said "did farties!!!!" and cracked up laughing lol. He's so loving having him back.

Ohhhhhh yes of course! I was trying to figure it out, should have said it out loud then I would have got it..

Gentle would be my guess, too.
SO cute!

And LOL at Harry and his "did farties"
Poor DH, can't get away with anything now
Are you doing anything special for DH's birthday on Tuesday?

And I agree, take it easy, young lady! Mind you, pottering about outside on a nice day is pretty relaxing. Just make sure you get time for yourself

I have my MW tomorrow at 1. I'm looking forward to it. Not the palpation, that's just uncomfy, but I'm looking forward to the doppler coming out

Bed time for me!
I hope you've all had nice weekends!
I've posted more than most of you, after saying I wouldn't be onlline for a few days

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ISSY!!!!

I love Eimear and Aoife!!

Tehe, farties, Maddi just calls it 'noise!"

Aww cute! How cool it must be to be a twin

When you have a baby you can get away with farties. Well if you have a baby like mine at any rate. Her's can match an adult's ones any day.

We got the vege garden today so now I'm planning what to plant in it. So exciting (I'm sure that will wane later) but I can't wait to get going with it.

Off to look at FB photos.

That wasn't very tactful of your MW given that you don't have a choice.

It is hard to think of it this way but you know that it definitely wouldn't be best for baby if something bad happened to you.
I think it's really good to recognise you feel this but also don't forget it would be selfish to risk your baby and Harry not having a mum - what if you bled out?

Hmm I'm probably not being very tactful or helpful either. Sorry I don't quite know how to put it.

But I do understand the feelings of guilt. Lord knows I've had them with this baby although I'm happy with my birth.


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Oh I didn't realise you could still do a VB. I thought they were pretty much making you do a C. Still 25% is a pretty high risk.

I'm probably not the best person to even say anything about it given I never had a VB but trust me I'm not bias toward C-sects.

When I had to decide whether to try flipping Rowan prior to birthing her I was really undecided about what to do but I found talking to an OB, my MW and people who had been in that situation enabled me to make what I felt was a very informed decision and I think that helped me not to feel guilty as I then felt I had done everything I could to reach the decision I did. I felt really empowered in the end.

Could you talk to some people about the risks/ benefits and then weigh it up from there?

A friend of mine tore really badly with her first child (3rd degree) and less so with her second (2nd degree) and now she's having a home birth for her third which I think a lot of medical professionals would be upset about but her MW is supporting her with her decision.

She probably wasn't quite as torn up as you - I don't know what the ratings are - but if you wanted to speak with her about it I know she'd be happy to.

Hugs Liz. I had an emergency c-sect and I still feel guilty about it so I think regardless, you'll probably feel a bit guilty to some extent. It'll get easier once bub is actually here.

I'm just picturing how freaked out and stressed you'd be feeling about the labour and birth if you were going to try for another natural birth and that could probably be worse for both you and baby than anything.

I don't think I'd want to be risking fetal incontinence at that high a possibility either. You wouldn't be much fun for you kids if that happened.

Livvy thinks they're funny but still calls them poos.

I'm having some Monday morning blues. I slept alright but still feel really tired and blah. Think it might just be a come-down from the busy weekend.

We went looking for a bed for Livvy after swimming yesterday just to price it up and we're looking at about $800 for a trundler one. My thoughts are that the second child can use the trundler bed as it's bed when the time comes We're not going to be able to save that up for a while though so will probably have to HP it. But I really think Livvy will sleep better once she has a bed. She only has an inch or 2 at her head and feet when she's laying down flat in the cot.

eta, Charly, my lilypie pregnancy ticker was always a day behind also even though Livvy's one was always right. I got sick of it and that's why I ended up with the BabyGaga one, at least it's right each day.

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