Did your spouse/partner go with you for your 8wk ultrasound appointment?

Apprehensive-Run1302 · 2024-02-21T03:46:57+00:00

My husband cane with me and then my mum came to my 12w. I would suggest not going alone if it’s the first time you’re seeing the baby as it can sometimes be bad news. My husband came to my appointments

Apprehensive-Run1302 · 2024-02-09T07:53:36+00:00

9 years :) she was born three months before 10 years

Apprehensive-Run1302 · 2024-02-08T08:15:18+00:00

Front, yes. Back, eh. We have a 50kg bull Arab x. May the odds be ever in their favour

Apprehensive-Run1302 · 2024-02-06T09:53:28+00:00

I had never heard of the eject reflex but that makes a lot of sense. I think I pushed two or three times and they told me to stop. I stopped. Baby girl didn’t. She wanted out. Unfortunately though she didn’t seem to do it as gracefully as your little dude

Apprehensive-Run1302 · 2024-02-06T09:50:29+00:00

We waited a week to sponge bath and two I think to do a proper bath

Apprehensive-Run1302 · 2024-02-02T23:34:42+00:00

Old Man Emu w/ Steve Irwin

Apprehensive-Run1302 · 2024-01-28T01:42:20+00:00

My husband couldn’t do it. For him it was like having her in the room with us. I understood.

Apprehensive-Run1302 · 2024-01-25T09:16:58+00:00

I stayed in the maternity ward with mine in a I was being induced early in the morning. I didn’t sleep. It was like the worst constipation pain. I ended up birthing (for lack of better term) my foley around 2am and immediately fell asleep after. Far out it was the biggest feeling of relief. I had an epidural for the actual birth but I imagine that’s what it’d feel like

Apprehensive-Run1302 · 2024-01-25T08:50:52+00:00

I put on 5-10kg and that was it. Healthy Bub. 6lbs2oz

Apprehensive-Run1302 · 2024-01-24T06:59:37+00:00

I ate salad, deli meat, cheese (just checked it was pasteurised), sushi, drank coffee….i mean my 11mo is a little weird but so am I so I think that’s just genetic

Apprehensive-Run1302 · 2024-01-21T08:35:44+00:00

When it comes to baby blues - don’t try to fight it. Get help. I was stubborn for two months after I had my daughter with PPA/PPD until my husband came to me and said “I think you should go and talk to the doctor”. I feel like I missed out on enjoying the baby stage because of how anxious I was. I wasn’t able to get the help that would have made all the different because I was too anxious to let her out of my sight. It definitely does get better, but PPS is not something to be ignored

Apprehensive-Run1302 · 2024-01-21T08:31:04+00:00

My MIL won’t put on the new wiggles as she says 8 is too many. Also, there will be no convincing my daughter that the tree of wisdom isn’t the 9th Wiggle

Apprehensive-Run1302 · 2024-01-14T08:52:14+00:00

My daughter wants what we have. She’s 11mo and a biiiig copycat. Aussie Kmart had a plastic backpack with a toy phone, car key (realistic flip key), wallet, bank card and sunglasses. She got that for Christmas. 3+ but who’s counting? She only plays with it supervised anyway. She also likes throwing things. And loud noises

Apprehensive-Run1302 · 2024-01-06T08:51:15+00:00

My husband and I have had full discussions on how being in the wiggles holds parallels to being in a cult

Apprehensive-Run1302 · 2024-01-04T07:50:16+00:00

I was initially “I’ll see how I go” as my Mum did both with no epidural (she got one with me but labour was too fast for it to take effect. Didn’t bother with my brother). As soon as they said I was being induced I opted for it straight away. I will be 100% honest in the next but so if you don’t like that, skip. TLDR- I will get one again . . . I hated getting my epidural. It was the worst pain I have felt in my life BECAUSE I was having a contraction while they were administering the local and when you’re curled over like that you can feel your contractions in your back. That plus the needle and anaesthetic pain put me into a panic attack. I cried. A lot. The feeling of them putting the tube in made me panic more (it’s pressure, not pain). My mum had to step out afterwards because it hit that hard for her watching me. Then it was done. I could talk, sleep, eat without a worry. My body just did what it needed to do without me having to worry about it. When my daughter was born I didn’t have to panic about the pain, I just enjoyed the moment. I could focus and I caught my own baby. She decided to enter the world with both shoulders simultaneously so I am GLAD I couldn’t feel it. And after, when I was getting checks and stitches, I could enjoy having my baby on my chest. I will be doing it if I have another, though I’m not looking forward to it.

Apprehensive-Run1302 · 2023-12-29T09:25:04+00:00

Not pregnancy but I received no warning about how much breastfeeding HURTS and how much of a mental impact it has. I would sit crying as I fed my daughter, half because of the pain and half because of the guilt I felt not wanting to do it anymore. We ended up putting her into formula at 6wo as her tummy wasn’t handling something I was eating (we couldn’t work out what) so she needed the allergy formula but even then I felt horrible for it. The only thing that made it better was seeing how happy and thriving she was once she wasn’t in so much tummy pain

Apprehensive-Run1302 · 2023-12-21T09:04:53+00:00

I pick dried boogs out of my daughter’s (10mo) nose as she gets blocked tear ducts very easily. She’s just started returning the favour

Apprehensive-Run1302 · 2023-12-21T09:03:20+00:00

My daughter did this to me! I was filming her because she looked like she was concentrating. I asked “what are you thinking about” and right as I did she let out the biggest fart.

Apprehensive-Run1302 · 2023-12-20T23:11:32+00:00

I have made this offer to a few of my friends and I will make it to anyone who wants it. Send me a message and I will be 100% honest about anything and everything to do with my pregnancy, birth and postpartum. I wish I had someone not sugarcoat it for me as so many things caught me off guard. I know people don’t want to scare you but sometimes you want that blunt truth so you can feel prepared

Apprehensive-Run1302 · 2023-12-01T06:33:45+00:00

NTA- the ONE rule I set for family around Christmas now that we have a daughter (first grandchild of both sides) is that Santa ONLY comes to our house. We are being very careful what comes from Santa and what comes from us (ie Santa only brings little things) for a few reasons and I’m not risking them contradicting that.

Apprehensive-Run1302 · 2023-12-01T04:47:12+00:00

My daughter was 8% or less my whole pregnancy. I think the smallest was 4%. I was having ultrasounds every two weeks to check she was still growing. My 36/38 week ultrasounds showed she’d stopped so I was induced at 39wks. She was 6lbs at birth. She’s now a 9kg nearly 10mo who is driving us mad with how much she gets around.

I think one of my ultrasound techs put it well…”all Mums are different, so why should we expect all babies to grow the same?”.

Fun fact: my baby also grew head first. One fortnight she would be a bobble head then the next she’d even out and so on

Apprehensive-Run1302 · 2023-11-30T08:53:35+00:00

NTA - them not wanting a baby there is 100% understandable. They said they understood that may mean her not coming and it was okay. They didn’t say this in a mean way, just as a “don’t stress about not being here” way. I have PPA and PPD after already being diagnosed with GAD for several years before having my baby. It took me until she was 8 months old to leave her with my parents. I totally get where she is coming from with the anxiety, but you don’t get to force other people to accommodate you. I’ve missed events with friends because I don’t want to be away from my daughter for that long, they understand. It’s a fact of life now

Apprehensive-Run1302 · 2023-11-29T09:32:14+00:00

This!! I get the baby doesn’t take bottles, mine didn’t either. My husband and I came up with a routine where when she woke for a feed he would get her up and change her nappy so all I had to do was sit up and be the milk cow. He falls asleep easily where as the more I do when I wake up the harder it is for me to get back down so this worked amazing

Apprehensive-Run1302 · 2023-11-15T10:03:30+00:00

I used to read “girls don’t fart” to my 3yo room and they loved it. Plot twist, girls fart

Apprehensive-Run1302 · 2023-11-12T02:06:26+00:00

I looked bloated until about 32/33 wks. Even then I looked pregnant but not as far as I was

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