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wow lisa 11lb well done you carrying a buby her size bet you were in agony?. my dd was 6lb6 and I moaned and groaned! she was 10lb at 10weeks. I am 5 foot 10 too!

Here she is at 3weeks Id say around 7-8lb



and other DD was 6lb11oz here she is at 3weeks in her basinette.






and while Im at it DD2 11weeks so prob around 10.5lb

Girls rock - no, wasn't in agony at all! Had no I was going to have such a HUGE baby lol. I was still running the day before I went into labour (up and down stairs no less) and I wasn't uncomfortable at all!
A customer came into work today with her 1wk old bub. He was 6lb5oz at birth and omg he looked soooooo tiny! I get so clucky seeing teeny babies cause I kinda skipped that stage! lol. DD was out of her basinet after 3wks cause she was too big (she was actually too big from day 1 but I was in denial) and was out of her capsule at 10wks (but was a real tight squish from about 6wks lol).
I have to mention tho - said customer had a C-sec and LOVED it! This is her second and last child. Had a VB first time round and was raving about how much better she feels this time round after having an emergency c-sec due to fluctuating blood pressure. She even drove to our work to show bubs off! Only one week after! She looked great

*gush* thanks for posting the pics ladies! I never got to hold either of my babies until hours after they were born (one was a premmie, the other a crash GA CS) so it's so lovely to see the skin-to-skin happening. Precious precious moments and you're all so lucky to hold your darlings straight away! (Yes I'm a teeny bit jealous!)

Its funny you mention that, I saw my MW today and she said they like to do that. I'm guessing I would like that but can see your point and maybe I wouldn't so will definitely be mentioning in my birthplan. I found the birthplan worked really well for me, it was flexible and not really finished as I didn't want to set myself up for disapointment if things didn't go the way I planned, so it was written for me and then I made sure DH knew what was in it and what I did and didn't want, that way he was prepared when I made a request and knew what I was on about.

Sooooo... long story short will keep that in mind and let DH know that if it's not what I want he can take action for me.

I only had skin to skin in recovery as I wasn't fully awake until then due to long labouring.

I had an epi last time but found it to be great, fast acting and had really quick recovery, had CS at 8.30pm and was up and hobbling round next day, but I had been given the epi several hrs b4 the CS and didn't need a top up, was fairly mobile above the tummy too, arms were working fine and even legs had some movement in them, but I was seriously tired after a couple of sleepless nights with contractions then labouring for 7hrs with syntocinen (sp?) which made contractions quite full on with no let up, but no bubz either, lol. So fell asleep on the op table and missed the show, much to everyones amazement, and hubbys horror (he thought something was wrong poor thing). Woke up very briefly when they put DD on me but was too out of it, so hubby had first real cuddles until I was more awake 15mins later in recovery. Nobody suggested that it could have been the epi, but who knows, never realised it could do that.

Anyway MW yesterday said that a spinal is the way to go this time so happy with that. I read your post in other thread GR, its sounds so traumatic, this is the exact reason I am happy to go for another CS. I hope time has healed.

I am hoping that no one will respond in a negative way to this but I want an elective C/S for my first birth. No complications, no medical reason, I just feel that this is the right decision for me. Anyway, I have gone through the public system so far with a hospital MW and am now at 28 weeks. My decision at this point is either to continue with the public system and fight my way to an elective c/s (not even sure if that is possible) or to go private and pay $4300. In an ideal world I would like to stick with the public system and just pay for my elective surgry (which I have been told is around $1800). Has anyone done this or do you have to go private for a completely elective (no medical reason) c/s? Thanks

I think discuss it with your hospital MW but you might want to set up a meeting privately. To be honest though even the private OBs are not big on electives for no medical reason. About the cost, we had a private OB (and ended up with an elective C) and I plan on going back to him if we have a second pregnancy - worth every cent in my opinion!

Thanks for the comments. I haven't discussed this with my MW yet so I will bring it up next week and see how it goes. As for going to a private clinic just for the birth, I asked one in Mount Eden about that and they said no, they have such a high number of patients that they can't just take on surgeries. I'll let you guys know how I get on!

bump for isabel with beautiful twins on board