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@Silva: Thanks for the suggestion. I've read a lot of birth stories, but not very many that discuss pitocin inductions. I think that's probably a really good idea. I will do that later this afternoon when I get home from my midwife appointment

@hergreenapples: @blackbird: I agree, your midwife will stick around! My sister was transferred to an OB but her midwife was with her the whole time. When I was looking at a c-section my mw was still going to be there. As she explained to me, the care of the baby would be transferred to her right away so she had to be!

Just a little check in from me...baby girl is 9 days old. She's doing great! Eating 4oz every 4oz and only getting up once a night!! She gained 1oz and grew 1/2 inch in a week.
I am also doing really well as far as weight and stuff. I only gained 12lbs the whole pregnancy and at 9 days PP I'm down 21lbs. All of my pre-pregnancy jeans are too big which is fantastic and annoying at the same time cause now I need new clothes lol
My BP is still kinda out of whack and we are working to get that under control. But, all in all we are well.
Only thing we are working on now is getting my milk to dry up since I can't breastfeed so my boobs will stop hurting lol
Since I didn't have any tearing or stitches I'm beyond ready for some sexy time with DH so this full healing needs to hurry up lol

@hergreenapples: I'm so glad you're feeling more positive! I have the manual pump but I am a little scared to try it... did you talk to your midwife about it? What did she say?

@Pumpkinspice: Wow! Sounds like your recovery is going amazingly well.

Georgia is 19 days old now... and I'm still not even at my original due date yet. CRAZY. I'm still huge and sore from the delivery, even nearly three weeks on, and baby girl is all blocked up and snuffly and isn't sleeping well, so we're all exhausted around here!

welp, I thought maybe something was happening yesterday. I had lots of strange sensations in my uterus and belly all day, including two really intense BH (I assume not contractions because they were just uncomfortable?) about 20 minutes apart while I was in a meeting. Nope.
Still kind of crampy this morning, but sometimes its hard to tell if its crampy-ness or just pelvic pain/pressure from baby's head being so low.

off to work to bounce on my ball all day, and then yoga tonight. hopefully its my last prenatal yoga class!

@jaguar: sorry you are all so tired & that baby is stuffy. hope you get some rest soon

@hergreenapples: Good luck! My plan is to try that if I make it to 41 weeks, so let us know how it goes.

@Pumpkinspice: am so jealous of your weightloss!

Here are some pics from H's newborn shoot. She slept for about 45 mins and then refused to play ball. haha

OMG THAT TUTU. I DIE. I want a tutu. Harumph. Adorable.

I've been taking E's photos, so I'll share, too, while we're at it

@AprilFool: OMG!!! Beautiful!!

@blackbird: OMG!! Again seriously Beautiful!

Ahhh ladies - these pics are beautiful. There is nothing sweeter than fresh little bubs xxxx

Georgia is still sick, headed to doctors today, poor love. Hopefully it's just a stuffy nose and she's not got a bug.

@jaguar: I hope it's nothing!!

I'm up, again. 3:30am. Lovely.

@AprilFool: @blackbird: Those are some seriously cute babies!

SO I woke up to a contraction at midnight, and then had another one 10 minutes later. I was really excited, but knew I needed to try to sleep. I got up for about 30 minutes & nothing else happened. Fell back asleep. Still pregnant. Nothing else going on now.

Every morning when I wake up I feel my belly and remember I'm still pregnant and am shockingly disappointed! Ha!

@Silva: @hergreenapples: boo!! I had some similar stuff last night but nothing...

Just back from my BPP. Baby scored an 8/8! She's very happy in there. The u/s tech doesn't seem to think she'll come on her own, my cervix is still really long and baby hasn't really descended yet. That was a huge bummer to hear. We are now planning on her definitely being induced and I'm kind of mourning the loss of the birth experience I've been imagining this whole time.

Ladies - just popping in quick to give an update. Juliette was born on Fri Apr 12, a couple weeks early! 5lbs 9oz. I will post a pic when I have a min.

This is literally the FIRST time I've had an ounce of energy to get on my laptop to check out hellobee - not sure how you other ladies are scheduling baby shoots and whatnot. Talk about supermoms!

I ended up having a spinal headache which was a nightmare in & of itself but also made it impossible to breastfeed. I got a blood patch to fix on Sunday (after delivering Fri), which helped but the daamned thing came back on Mon night, so ended up going to the ER to get a 2nd blood patch on Wed. I think it worked (fingers crossed) although I now have a bad backache, but it was worth it to fix the spinal headache.

Breastfeeding has been really rough & stressful so far, but things are starting to look up a little. Juliette was on formula & a bottle b/c of my headache & the fact that she was underweight. The hospital pediatrician was very stern about us supplementing the colostrum with formula & scared us about it. We had a lactation consultant come by yesterday & have been practicing.

To @silva, hergreenapples and sslm - I can only imagine how frustrating your wait is, but hopefully having your baby more "baked" when they come out will help you! Juliette has been having troubles with breastfeeding b/c she's so small and my nipples are big (who knew??). I hope you're spared some of those types of dramas at least.

Will write more later but glad to be on this journey with you ladies.

@nycbee: congrats!!! Love the name so sorry you're having some troubles breastfeeding, I hope they are resolved soon!! And the spinal headache sounds like a complete nightmare, sorry to hear about that too can't wait to hear more about your little girl though!!!

@nycbee: Congratulations! What a beautiful name! I hope you're able to overcome your BFing difficulties soon - that must be really tough.

@sslm: Exactly. I trust my body and my baby and I need to just let go of trying to control the situation.

Juliette is a beautiful name! Congrats! Can't wait to see pics!

And to echo what nycbee said (and some of my mama friends)-babies who post bake may be less demanding! The consensus is that a few weeks makes a big difference! Ella sleeps really well and I get probably 8 hours of sleep a night (between 9 and 9 anyways) with two wake ups to eat (like clockwork). Maybe your extra baked babies will be mellow and less stressful, too?

I posted on the march thread about this but I really don't think we are gonna be able to breastfeed. I keep trying but girl won't take it. She gets hysterical and I feel like I am suffocating her. Bottle feeding is pretty nice, though-she eats 60ml every 3-4 hours and DH has been helping a ton. We do formula at night and I pump so she gets that during the day-plus I have a small freezer stash going. I think her being in the nursery for a week and having trouble breathing/eating (and therefore not BFing) may mean we missed the window. She sleeps so well and on a schedule that I don't want to mess it up, though. Anyways, such is life and I'm just trying to be flexible

Your experience may be different than what you guys intended and expected, but it will still be a lovely birth experience, no matter what

@sslm: Just got back. Passed both the NST and BPP with flying colours. The OB did the BPP and she literally took less than two minutes and said, "You pass. Get out of here!"

So glad to have bought a few more days Just going to call my midwife and set up a time for her to come by tomorrow and do another S+S.