This question keeps popping up in my mind and I keep forgetting to ask on Sundays! Out of curiosity, can you still feel the baby wiggling around during delivery? I've never read anything either way and they never mentioned it in class either. This feels like a really stupid question...
I was totally wondering this! Also, does the baby squirm/move when you are having contractions? Not necessarily during the contractions but during labor?
How quickly can you go back to sleeping on your stomach? I know the bump hangs around for a little while, but is it an uncomfortable bump to sleep on? As you can see I really want to go back to stomach sleeping!
I was on my tummy again the night he was born. It was HEAVEN!
This question keeps popping up in my mind and I keep forgetting to ask on Sundays! Out of curiosity, can you still feel the baby wiggling around during delivery? I've never read anything either way and they never mentioned it in class either. This feels like a really stupid question...
2 unmedicated births later, and I don't recall feeling lots of movement, but I wasn't exactly "looking" for it either. My mind was on contractions.
Post by Girlymama79 on May 10, 2015 17:04:16 GMT -5
I used reviving blankets to tuck in around baby in the car seat and while they were in the swing. And for spit up. They are not near as important as people seem to think they are.
Eta: by everyone I mean random people who buy gifts.
This question keeps popping up in my mind and I keep forgetting to ask on Sundays! Out of curiosity, can you still feel the baby wiggling around during delivery? I've never read anything either way and they never mentioned it in class either. This feels like a really stupid question...
I think it depends on the position of the baby some. And some babies do shift during labor. I don't think it's typically a lot of playful moving. It's more turning and twisting to get out hopefully. DD was head down and in perfect position and I don't remember feeling much once things got more intense. During lighter/beginning labor I did feel some though.
MH and I were organizing LO's drawers, and he randomly held up a receiving blanket and asked me what it was for...and I have no idea. I have a bunch, but seriously, what are they used for?
Like some others mentioned I always had 1 or 2 with me in the diaper bag and used them even in the summer to wrap around baby when we went out b/c air conditioning would be so cold in some stores and it was like 100* outside... I also kept one in the car at all times just in case. In addition I would take one out if we went somewhere and I just wanted to lay her down. Like a friends house, I would put one on the carpet to lay her on top of it instead of directly on the carpet.
I also used a muslin blanket (A&A knock-offs) to drape over the carrier or stroller to shade it when we were out. Really if I didn't have one with me I always wished I had... I had a spitter upper too though (happy spitter) so we often went through 1 or 2 a day easily just because of that. Also in the summer I often used our small receiving blankets (otherwise useless) just to drape over my arm while holding her because she would get hot and stick to my arm and it was uncomfortable for us both.
Any STM+ moms that experienced a slow "leaking of their water" vs the big gush? I know water breaking isn't as common as the movies make it seem, but I just wonder about having a slow leak and not knowing it, because my vagina has been leaking like crazy for 8 months. How do you know the difference between normal discharge and a slow water break? Is there a difference?
I had a slow leak with my first. I honestly thought it was bladder problems for a bit. But it didn't stop and even took me 4 hours to call a doctor who told me to get immediately to the hospital. It's super watery, and soaking through to even make my jean shorts wet all the way through fairly fast. As much as I didn't believe it was my water breaking, I knew pretty quick it wasn't as normal fluid as I thought it might have been.
Since I've been leaking for 4 weeks... mine started off feeling kind of like I wet my pants a little, especially because I was blowing my nose. I waited and laid down, when I got up to go to the bathroom I felt a tiny little gush, just enough to wet my underwear about a baseball sized circle, but not enough to really wet my pants too much, just a little. When I went to change my underwear I didn't put my pants back on and instead called the doc, and laid down again in just my underwear. They said to come in to get it tested and when I stood up I had a bit bigger gush and it was a pinkish brown liquid and it just trickled down my leg. I would say if you're questioning, put a panty liner in, and if it's a pinkish brown color it's most likely fluid. They can always test with an Amni-Sure test.
This question keeps popping up in my mind and I keep forgetting to ask on Sundays! Out of curiosity, can you still feel the baby wiggling around during delivery? I've never read anything either way and they never mentioned it in class either. This feels like a really stupid question...
In early labor I remember feeling movement still between contractions but it was more of the slow pressing movement, not kicks and things, more slow and rolly... as they got closer, even 5-8 minutes apart I don't remember feeling as much movement, and of course as my contractions were really close that's where all my focus was. Once they got to 1-3 minutes apart I wasn't really thinking about or paying attention to movement anymore!
Unless you had heartburn before pregnancy it goes away after birth. I actually used receiving blankets for swaddling but this is my second preemie so they were both small enough you. I really don't think you need more then 4. I like to keep one in the diaper bag to lay between baby and the public changing table. I also used it to tuck over DD legs in the car seat. Or I would lay them in the bouncer/swing because DD1 spit up a lot. I haven't gone back to my stomach yet not because of my boobs but because I had a C-section and tubal and that shiz still hurts. I don't remember how long with DD1.
Heartburn - how quickly does it go away? After another night of waking up gagging and coughing, I'm terrified this is my new normal. Please say that heartburn is gone once the baby is out!!
ETA: Happy Mother's Day!
Mine went away right around week 35, so hopefully you'll turn a corner soon!
Any STM+ moms that experienced a slow "leaking of their water" vs the big gush? I know water breaking isn't as common as the movies make it seem, but I just wonder about having a slow leak and not knowing it, because my vagina has been leaking like crazy for 8 months. How do you know the difference between normal discharge and a slow water break? Is there a difference?
One of my best friends had a slow, slow leak, and didn't notice.
Receiving blankets are the bomb. Burp cloths, putting them down on the changing table (at home and in public bathrooms), a lightweight blanket (particularly while changing after a bath at first), nursing covers, and large ones can be used for swaddling (only had one package that was big enough)... Given the change to a fabric vs pleather couch, I'll probably drape them over a pillow before feedings/burping. When this baby gets a little older and I'm not washing per ~3 a day, I may convert a few into diaper liners. (ETA: maybe not "necessary", but I find them useful. Half of mine were second hand.)
Had a c-section, so I couldn't sleep on my belly or even my side for a while, and once I could, I'd soak the bed with milk if I laid on my belly.
I could feel DS wiggling up until I had a spinal (he slowed during contractions), and I felt them pull him out. I never progressed past 5 cm - whether the baby would slow down after that point or whether his wiggling contributed to labor not progressing, I don't know.
Heartburn - how quickly does it go away? After another night of waking up gagging and coughing, I'm terrified this is my new normal. Please say that heartburn is gone once the baby is out!!
ETA: Happy Mother's Day!
Idk how many answers you got on this because I just started looking through this thread but I had heartburn DURING labor (seriously? So dumb.) but as soon as he was born I don't remember having again at all... And I ate pizza that night!!!
And while recovery from delivery can present some new symptoms that take a while to recover from, all of my unpleasant pregnancy symptoms (including heartburn) disappeared after delivery.
Omg, I hope this goes for itching too. I am now an itchy mess from toes to belly. I just spent $75 in various anti-itch lotions and am laid out on the couch trying them all, one by one, praying for relief. So much for my magical unicorn pregnancy. This last month can suck it.
I couldn't sleep on my stomach again for a while because it hurt my huge, engorged boobs, not because my stomach hurt.
+1. I also had a CS, so it wasn't really possible, but my rock hard engorged porn star boobs would never have let me stomach sleep anyway. Ouch!!
+1 to this. No way I could sleep on my stomach the first month with the rock hard huge boobs! But I at least was able to sleep on my back and not on my side anymore
And while recovery from delivery can present some new symptoms that take a while to recover from, all of my unpleasant pregnancy symptoms (including heartburn) disappeared after delivery.
Omg, I hope this goes for itching too. I am now an itchy mess from toes to belly. I just spent $75 in various anti-itch lotions and am laid out on the couch trying them all, one by one, praying for relief. So much for my magical unicorn pregnancy. This last month can suck it.
Assuming that the itching is due to stretching skin, it should go away post labor.
All I remember when DD was born was that it didn't matter where or how I slept... So long as I slept. I could sit up and fall asleep. Nursing her made me so sleepy I wasn't worried about sleeping on my stomach lol. But once she started sleeping consistently things were better.
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