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 Posted: 09 August 2010 at 9:53pm |
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My birth plan was simple..Let what ever happens happen. Save me a spa bath (had to use birthing pool instead) and I only wanted my MW & my mum in with me.I got all that. My actual birth wasn't what I'd wanted in my head but I got my beautiful baby thats all that matters to me now.
And I got him the Vit K injection.
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Posted: 09 August 2010 at 10:42pm |
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LOL, and that you actually *want* to be offered a drink afterward! Last time, DH got tea and toast made for him - I had been NBM for 12 hours and got offered nothing till the next morning. So not impressed. |
that sucks ! I had toast with peanut butter and a milo after having Ty and I swear to god ,it was the best frigging meal I had ever had ! 
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Posted: 09 August 2010 at 10:43pm |
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C had the Vit K injection , Ty had the oral version
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Posted: 10 August 2010 at 8:49am |
Oh eating. I was STARVING my last meal was dinner on the 7th at like 5pm. Once I'd been in hosp labouring for 10hrs I started getting hungry and it was making me weak and angry but my MW wouldn't let me eat 'just incase' I needed a C-Section  I didn't have baby til 330pm on the 8th and I ate at like 430. My friends brought me Sushi  nom nom nom then I had a hosp dinner at 530 but it was gross so I scoffed the chocolate pudding with custard insted lol
If I'd taken snacks I could of eaten coz MW would of had no choice. So it's kinda my fault as I didn't take anything. I remember at breakfast AND lunch time the hosp offering me meals but MW got grumpy and said NO!
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Posted: 10 August 2010 at 9:42am |
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i had snacks with me and my mw still wouldnt let me eat!!
is that cos of the c section thing? next time screw the mw, im eating!!
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Posted: 10 August 2010 at 9:59am |
I went 24hrs without eating much! I had dinner at 7ish on the Tues night and then didn't eat the whole time the next day I was labouring and had DD at 4.30pm. I had a few snacks bars and then when at birthcare they asked me if I'd eaten I said no and was MEGA hungry, luckily it was chicken korma for dinner that night 
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Posted: 10 August 2010 at 8:44pm |
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Our birthplan was basically a tick the boxes thing with the MW - they had a way they liked to run things (let things take their course, intervention if necessary) which was basically what I wanted anyway! Turned out what I ticked wasn't followed anyway, and I was a bit disappointed (they were basics, like pethidine being given when I didn't want it, and cord traction during what was meant to be a physiological third stage).
Food - now THAT my MW did good with! She made birthcare hold me a lunch (DD was born at 2pm) and it was delivered as soon as I got to my room.
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fire_engine
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Posted: 13 August 2010 at 2:20pm |
Just came across this about birth plans. Thought it had some nice points if you're writing a plan.
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Posted: 13 August 2010 at 4:02pm |
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Didnt write up a birth plan when i ws pregnant with jacob but thats cos at 30/31wks i got handed a new midwife and when i saw the new midwife she hadnt even read my notes so she didnt know i had gest diabetes (she did try to pass me onto OB trying to get him to deliver the baby but he said no thats ur job) anyways jacob arrived early at 35w 5d, by emerncy c-section cos scan read that he had stopped growing and he was compasting oxygyen (and they discovered placenta was a third dead when they did c-section) so they needed to get him out fast, they wouldnt induce me.
Anyways with Isabella, we started talking about a birth plan pretty early on cos i wanted to try for VBAC. So we disscued all the methods like how to induce naturally cos i get diabetes when preg so they didnt want me going past 38wks well they said they may let me go to 40wks depending on babys size and how placenta is looking etc (this was with isabella), we talked about pain relif etc
in the end i had another emerncy c-section at 31wks due to placenta apurbtion.
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Posted: 13 August 2010 at 4:28pm |
Flissty wrote:
Just came across this about birth plans. Thought it had some nice points if you're writing a plan. |
Mine is similar to that. If anyone wants it feel free to PM me your email addy.
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Posted: 13 August 2010 at 5:05pm |
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can I ask why people choose not to have the baby bathed after birht?
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Posted: 13 August 2010 at 5:24pm |
Um, there's no reason for it. And the vermix (mess!) does have some protective factors for the baby -
It serves to conserve heat and protect the delicate newborn skin from environmental stress. Vernix is also thought to have an antibacterial effect; though there is little to support a chemical role of vernix in protecting the infant from infection, it may form a physical barrier to the passage of bacteria.
They're not that messy! Dan had a quick face wipe on his way up and was absolutely gorgeous
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Posted: 13 August 2010 at 5:37pm |
Bella didnt have her first bath until she was about 3 or 4 days old. She got wiped down after she was born and she was so warm and clean 
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Posted: 13 August 2010 at 5:48pm |
I don't think Nat even got wiped  and although DH ran out of the room to tell everyone how ugly she was (oh yes, he will never ever live that one down!), she was just lovely and there's nothing like that immediate skin to skin. I imagine washing them immediately would cause havoc with their body temp too?
Fliss - Linda (back up MW) happened to be at the hospital at the same time as Heather (MW), so she went and made me bananas on toast Can't say I've eaten that since I was about 7, but was so lovely!
The only thing that went 'astray' from my birth 'plan' was that I wanted a natural third stage, but because I'd been pushing for over 2 hours and Nat's HR had been a bit all over the place, my MW decided it was better to have the ecbolic, and I was fine with trusting her. I also had wanted DH to cut the cord, but it was wrapped so tightly a couple of times around Nat's neck that it had to be cut and clamped at the neck before the rest of her body could be delivered... something I was more than happy to not argue about!
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Posted: 14 August 2010 at 4:34pm |
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My babies were bathed at about one or 2 days old .
But as for the vernix,im sorry , I know its better for them blah blah blah , but yuck , C had so much of it , I refused to hold her until she was wiped down . Yeah , even though I was covered in blood and gore myself , I didn't want to touch my white creamy baby .
With Ty he had hardly any, but I didn't care anyway .
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