APRIL CHIT CHAT!!

[Mochagirl]

I was in tears reading your story, DM - soooooo beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing And I've said it many times on FB, but she's stunning!

[zanacal]

Aww, such a wonderful birth story DM. Thank you so much for sharing!

Dannikins! Sounds like you're going to jump the queue Were any of your other babies early?

I'm finally starting to get sorted here. I'm washing all the baby clothes/blankets today, am just about to put my hypnosis CDs on my ipod and even if I don't get my hospital bag packed today I've now bought just about everything and I do have a list!! I also have a plan in place for the children now (DS3's childminder's husband will collet the older boys from school and take them back to their house as our emergency backup plan!). I haven't done any nesting around the house yet but, to be honest, I'm happy to never get round to half the things occuring to me to do over the next couple of weeks!

Has anybody used homeopathy for pregnancy/childbirth before? I have a book called the Gentle Birth Method which goes very overboard on treatments etc. during pregnancy (you'd have to be pretty rich to do everything it recommends!) but I dip in to it for occasional advice and it talks about using Caulophyllum to soften the cervix and to help establish effeient contractions. I was just going to research it some more.

I'm really struggling with walking today - I think I overdid it with lots of walking at the beginning of the week and now I'm paying for it!

[Mochagirl]

I'm getting so excited for all you ladies who are so close! It's going to be a loooong wait for me after you all have your babies.

Question for those of you having a girl after many boys. How soon and how ruthlessly did you get rid of your boy stuff? I have a basement absolutely full to the rim with boy clothes and I'm desperate to free up some space. Obviously there's some stuff that would work for a girl, but much of it is pretty boyish and quite honestly I just want to buy new stuff for this little girl!

[Flava]

DM -she is so beautiful ! You had a great birth ! Congrats!!

[Indira]

Ah what a touching birth story Doulamama, you did a great job! Now I want a water birth even more.

Zanacal I used Caulophyllum with DS1, a small dose once a week starting at 36 weeks if I remember well and from the first real contraction with every contraction 3 globuli. It helped me to get things started with him. I was 41 weeks and that was the last day I was allowed to give birth at home so I cheated and started taking it with every BH. That worked!
I had a very smooth and easy birth (except for the pushing) with home-but it was a home birth as well.
With Ds2 I had two false starts and took Caulophyllum again but the effect wasn´t the same. And that was a painful labour-but it was in the hospital.

[zanacal]

Thanks Indira. I decided just to relax at least until my due date. I've never gone too far over before so I don't really need to be getting myself worked up - what is it with turning 37 weeks and suddenly wanting the baby to get a move on, I wasn't even thinking about it at 36 weeks! I'll keep up with my raspberry leaf tea because that's yummy (it's mixed with other stuff and, I suspect, not particularly potent but it tastes good!).

Mocha - I got rid of all my boy stuff when I got home from my 4D scan at 28 weeks

[Mochagirl]

Thanks, Z. One of my problems is that I like to sell my old clothes at the twin association used clothing sale that's held twice a year. We just had one two weeks ago, and I sold some things but was afraid to sell too much because I wasn't 100% sure the baby was a girl. I still made $150, though! The next sale is in late September, unfortunately, so I'm not sure I'll be up to tagging, packing and hauling the clothes into the sale (I don't have to stay to sell them, but I do have to deliver them there and pick up the unsold stuff at the end of the day), but if I don't sell them then I'll have to wait until the next April! I'm soooo desperate to get some of this stuff out of my house since I'm fairly sure it's multiplying somehow down in my basement.

[lobella2]

Great birth story DM. I am so glad it all went well! And now you have a beautiful baby daughter.

Z you are so close! I was the same way at 37 weeks

[tweedledeedum]

Congrats again, DM! That was a wonderful story. And she is just beautiful!

Mocha - congrats on the girl confirmation at your scan! How exciting!

I am over 37 wks now and have been contracting off and on, especially at night. I am getting anxious to have this little one now, and I feel like everything is ready for her (except my house, that's kind of a mess, no nesting so far here! ). But if the past is any indicator, she will be born 39-40 weeks. Time just seems to go by so slowly when you are waiting!

I havent' gotten rid of any boy clothes yet and I'm not sure if I will. I am still thinking about number 4 and don't want to make any final decisions for a couple more years.

[zanacal]

Sounds like your body's gearing up too tweedle! I've just turned in to somebody who walks like a duck (painfully) - I don't think that's a sign of imminent labour!!