October 2012 Babies

Nice to see you around.

Just booked a whooping cough vaccination - apparently if you have it done now then it protects the baby as well for the first six weeks before they are old enough for their first vaccinations.

Hi ladies,

I'm a bit of a late joiner, been on the Huggies website til now, but realised how great OhBaby is (actually a kiwi website and women).

So I'm Rach, almost 30 (in two weeks time!), married hubby earlier this year, and then we were lucky enough (and excited!) to find out we're expecting our first bub! We live and work in Oamaru.

Am just over 25 weeks, due October 27th, and finding the second trimester much more enjoyable than the first! Got an ob appointment tomorrow, to talk about any risks / ramifications of having had a LLETZ procedure late last year, and need a second scan at 28 weeks to see if my placenta is still low lying or has moved. But otherwise pretty normal pregnancy.

Looking forward to sharing the rest of the journey with you all. How do I join the facebook group?

Rach :)

Hey all, welcome Rach :-)

I didn't think you could have the whooping cough vax until 30 weeks? Can't think where I read that. Will have to check..

Rach, what's LLETZ?

Hi Rach29,

I am from Ashburton so not to far away!  I also got married early this year but a bit older (33), and I am due 18 Oct so similar situations! 

Glad to hear things are progressing well and hope the OB appointment went well!

Louise

I'm due on 18th Oct. I'm new to this, I'm 25 and going to be a new mum so very exciting and scary. I'm having baby at waitakere, we have a hospital tour this wk so quite excited about that. We still can't agree on names, i really hope I can think of something before baby comes. Has everyone picked out there names? Xx

Edited by Hannah e stead

Not long to go now - 7 weeks :-)
My 6 year old has expressed a huge desire to be there at the birth, despite having all the facts laid out, she is quite adamant she wants to see her brother born. She has also acknowledged she can change her mind at any point and that would be ok too. My gut feeling is that she will handle this quite well.

My 8 year old has no desires whatsoever to be there and would rather wait at grandma's house. My feeling here is that she has made the right decision for her.

My mother and hubby to some degree, are not agreeable that the youngest should be there. I am of the opinion however that it is her wish which we can accommodate, and we are able to do all we can to ensure she is supported whilst with us at the delivery room.

Blimey, if I suddenly dropped at home with no chances of getting to a hospital, I won't be telling them to go wait in their rooms - they would be at my side if that is what they wanted....

What are your thoughts?

"Luker" I was in this group originally but lost that baby at 11 weeks preg,...am now 11 weeks 1 day preg again and all looking good this time- due March.
We plan to have a homebirth and to have our 6yr old there because she wants too. Shes already been asking loads of questions and we have showed her a few pics about what babies look like when they are born,...where they come out etc.
When she was 3.3 years we planned a homebirth for #2 and had my dad oncall as DD's support person to take her to him place if at anytime she was finding it all too much or I was finding it too much having her there. Mum and DH where with us too,...and when she got too much for me, wanting to get into the bath with me while I was trying to concentrate on the labour- Dad came and took her and she went to his place and had a bath to be like Mum, lol. She came back about 1/2hr after DS was born.
I would say just allocate someone as her support person that can talk with her about whats happening and take her into another room or out of the house etc if needed.
I had a friend look up "nice" birth videos and pics on youtube which we showed DD to prepare her, and we practised "birth noises" and positons, so she knew what would be happeneing.

Goodie /snack bags are a good idea- espceially with a little juice or water bottle etc, and have them in your hospital bag so that snack and activities are all ready for them and u dont have to worry about it in labour!

I pack a hospital bag even tho planning homebirth, cos then everything I want for labour is all in the opne place, and if we do have to go to hospital then we dont have to try pack then,....we had to go to hospital last time as when the waters broke there was muconium,...and we had the hopsital bag I had packed,...but forgot the camera!

Thanks Bky