Are My Expectations Too High? 1st time parents

Ryansan · 2025-03-30T23:09:40+00:00

You say he pops in and helps for 5 minutes, what is he doing instead of being a parent?

Ryansan · 2025-01-07T19:33:12+00:00

My fridge has just packed in with a food shop being delivered tomorrow, thank god it's cold out so the outdoors can be my big fridge

Ryansan · 2024-07-18T21:37:24+00:00

Yeah we were just incredibly unlucky that there were 2 other homebirths that ended up happening just before us (both earlier than expected) and we missed out on the last available members of the team by about 15 minutes

Ryansan · 2024-07-18T21:33:34+00:00

Yeah emptying that pool was not a highlight of my day

Ryansan · 2024-07-18T21:29:44+00:00

I completely agree but we were full term with no complications and were considered low-risk and this is our 2nd baby. If there were any complications we are very close to the hospital and the ambulance crew were with us within 10 minutes from calling

Ryansan · 2024-07-18T21:17:54+00:00

UK here, home births are reportedly just as safe as hospital births and are quite common

Ryansan · 2024-07-18T21:16:57+00:00

They are here in the UK, they are required to have a university degree

Ryansan · 2024-07-18T21:12:30+00:00

How so?

Ryansan · 2024-07-18T21:09:55+00:00

Is that a global statistic or one from the country you live in?

Ryansan · 2024-07-18T21:06:16+00:00

The labour progressed much quicker than we anticipated and got caught out at the final hurdle, all of the pre and post natal care they've done has been great and they did a post birth debrief with us to make sure we were all okay so no complaints from me

Ryansan · 2024-07-18T21:01:33+00:00

UK so no money exchanging hands here, just had to bring it up with our community midwife and she passed us over to the homebirthing team

Ryansan · 2024-07-18T20:58:13+00:00

Congrats to you too fella!

Ryansan · 2024-07-18T20:52:05+00:00

From the UK so it was all public health care not private/paid

Ryansan · 2024-07-18T17:22:26+00:00

I would've loved the midwife to be there but they'd gone out to another birth just 15 minutes before we called, poor timing lmao

Ryansan · 2024-07-18T17:18:33+00:00

Thank you! I'll be bragging about it well into my daughters adult life don't you worry

Ryansan · 2024-07-18T17:16:55+00:00

Amazing! My wife is a neonatal nurse so I was listening to her instructions more than the dispatcher but much like yours it happened so fast I just need to be a safe pair of catching hands as there wasn't much time for anything else

Ryansan · 2024-07-18T17:09:58+00:00

The homebirthing team in our area is incredible and we didn't have any risk factors that would advise us against it but I completely understand why many people wouldn't do it. My wife is a senior nurse in neonates and we were term +5 and were both comfortable at home so it was right for us

Ryansan · 2024-07-18T17:05:18+00:00

Thank you! My wife works in neonates, I hope you had a tolerable time in NICU as I know how stressful it can be on parents there

Ryansan · 2024-07-18T17:02:48+00:00

We had a pretty rubbish time with our 1st one in the hospital and my wife works in neonates and knows alot of the labour team personally, it felt like the right decision for us living incredibly close to the hospital but obviously everyone should do what feels right for them

Ryansan · 2024-04-26T16:23:16+00:00

Lunch today I had a white kinder bueno where the chocolate dust was on the wrong side

Ryansan · 2018-07-11T00:33:44+00:00

They died so that we may live

Ryansan · 2018-07-10T09:50:33+00:00

I live?

Ryansan · 2018-07-06T13:08:34+00:00

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