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Post by Firebird on Jul 18, 2012 12:25:16 GMT -5
I got a speeding ticket the first time I left the house after having my firstborn...ten days after he was born...I guess I was pretty darn excited to have lunch with my friends!! lol ;D Darn officer...even post partum tears couldn't get me out of that one! Meanie!
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Post by thyme4change on Jul 18, 2012 12:25:39 GMT -5
My five and a half pound baby, I also got a stitch or two. Clearly, my doctor sucked. Too bad singlemommy couldn't come by and give her pointers. Maybe she is just more elastic than others.
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Post by moxie on Jul 18, 2012 12:25:43 GMT -5
"My 1st was 6lb 1oz and I still needed stitches."
I had them with both...7.5, 8.4
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Post by formerroomate99 on Jul 18, 2012 12:25:46 GMT -5
I really liked the sleep sacks and swaddlers with velcro. We keep a cold house and have skinny babies, so it made things easier for baby and me.
The boppy pillow was worse than useless for me, but that is one thing you won't know about until the baby arrives.
Strollers: just give up on the idea of having one 'good for all occasions' stroller. When the baby comes, you'll be going to places like Walmart and the grocery store, which all have carts that you can put the pumpkin seat in, so you can wait until a month or so after the baby is born to look at strollers.
The snap in infant carseat was a godsend for us. We could take DS anywhere using it, keep him safe from germs, and not have to hold him all the time.
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Post by moxie on Jul 18, 2012 12:26:39 GMT -5
"Maybe she is just more elastic than others." Kegels. ;D
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Post by muttleynfelix on Jul 18, 2012 12:28:18 GMT -5
"a 10lb 2oz baby is not that big and should have required that much cutting. Most likely doctors inexperience with larger babies. I gave birth to a 9lb 14oz baby without needing a single stitch. " not that big??? She looked like a 3 month old baby well I guess the needing stitches and cutting up depends on the person giving birth too, not just the doctor. I cannot imagine giving birth to a 10 lb baby. My baby was 2 lbs 4 oz and honestly that was really hard I thought. Labor and epidural were the 2 things I was scared to death of... Bigger babies are typically easier to birth because they can assiste with their own birth.
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Post by moxie on Jul 18, 2012 12:28:34 GMT -5
I got a speeding ticket the first time I left the house after having my firstborn...ten days after he was born...I guess I was pretty darn excited to have lunch with my friends!! lol ;D Darn officer...even post partum tears couldn't get me out of that one! Meanie! lol I called my husband (he was watching the baby) and was bawling my eyes out...he said, "Awww...don't worry about it...go and have FUN!" So, I did...
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Post by Firebird on Jul 18, 2012 12:29:13 GMT -5
Bigger babies are typically easier to birth because they can assiste with their own birth. How? Pull Mommy apart like they're drawing a curtain back?
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Post by Angel! on Jul 18, 2012 12:29:55 GMT -5
We are not all superwomen/super mothers. My 1st was 6lb 1oz and I still needed stitches. I guess my OBGYN didn't know what she was doing. All her Harvard education and 20 yrs of experience didn't amount to much, huh? HAHA! I was going to say the same thing about 6 lb 6 oz DD. I needed a few stitches just from her & it wasn't a tough delivery, she pretty much popped out. I think it all comes down to the womens body. Props to anyone giving birth to a 9 or 10 lb baby. Didn't you also go with natural childbirth singlemom? Maybe I remember incorrectly, but if I recall correctly you got mad at me for saying women scream & moan during natural childbirth. That gives me the willies just thinking about a natural birth with a kid that large.
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Post by moxie on Jul 18, 2012 12:30:02 GMT -5
How? Pull Mommy apart like they're drawing a curtain back? Hahahahaha! ;D
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Post by thyme4change on Jul 18, 2012 12:30:43 GMT -5
The thing with babies - is having ONE does not make you an expert - but you sure feel like it. I remember some new mom asking advice, and I realized the child they are describing and my child acted totally different, like people tend to do. I answered "I don't know, I've only done this twice."
Seriously, if you were going in for surgery, would you want the guy that has done 100 surgeries or 2 surgeries? That is why I hate getting advice from other Moms individually. Their experience may have absolutely nothing to do with what I'm going through. I did, however, ask a lot of questions of my friend who had 6 kids. That lady had kind of seen it all when it comes to babies.
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Post by muttleynfelix on Jul 18, 2012 12:30:51 GMT -5
They can tell you within a certain tolerance (I think it is like +/- 0.5 lbs)
Any late term ultrasound can be off by as much as 2 pounds or even more.
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Post by moxie on Jul 18, 2012 12:31:21 GMT -5
lol I called my husband (he was watching the baby) and was bawling my eyes out...he said, "Awww...don't worry about it...go and have FUN!" So, I did... Put THAT on a bumper sticker!!
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Post by moxie on Jul 18, 2012 12:31:54 GMT -5
Was that "snarky?" lol ;D
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Post by thyme4change on Jul 18, 2012 12:31:55 GMT -5
The push off the back of the womb like a swimmer after the first turn.
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Post by muttleynfelix on Jul 18, 2012 12:32:37 GMT -5
Bigger babies are typically easier to birth because they can assiste with their own birth. How? Pull Mommy apart like they're drawing a curtain back? Think in terms of swimming. They can "swim" down into the birth cannal more easily.
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Post by Firebird on Jul 18, 2012 12:32:48 GMT -5
Seriously, if you were going in for surgery, would you want the guy that has done 100 surgeries or 2 surgeries? That is why I hate getting advice from other Moms individually. Their experience may have absolutely nothing to do with what I'm going through. I did, however, ask a lot of questions of my friend who had 6 kids. That lady had kind of seen it all when it comes to babies. So basically you're saying I should be looking to Michelle Duggar for parenting advice?
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Post by moxie on Jul 18, 2012 12:33:56 GMT -5
"I did, however, ask a lot of questions of my friend who had 6 kids." ^My mom. She came in very handy...she was a nurse too...good advice when babies had high fevers...she calmed me down and told me exactly what to do and it worked!
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Post by moxie on Jul 18, 2012 12:34:39 GMT -5
"So basically you're saying I should be looking to Michelle Duggar for parenting advice?" Or Octomom!!
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Post by moxie on Jul 18, 2012 12:36:02 GMT -5
"The push off the back of the womb like a swimmer after the first turn."
Picturing Michael Phelps...going for the Gold!!
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Post by moxie on Jul 18, 2012 12:37:16 GMT -5
"Any late term ultrasound can be off by as much as 2 pounds or even more."
Really? That is A LOT!
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jul 18, 2012 12:38:39 GMT -5
Their experience may have absolutely nothing to do with what I'm going through.Of course it does! If yours does not go exactly like mine does then you were clearly doing something wrong and must be educated so if you ever have another child you will do it right. My OB was apparently an idiot too. Despite massaging and waiting to push it was either cut me or risk a level 4 tear (I'll take the clean cut thank you very much!), I just wasn't going to stretch any farther.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2012 12:38:40 GMT -5
"So basically you're saying I should be looking to Michelle Duggar for parenting advice?"
Nope, you should be looking at yourself only. Somebody said they hated the boppy pillow, I love mine. Somebody else said they love Luvs diapers, I hate them and Huggies, I love Pampers Swaddlers. It is all depends on you. What you prefer, what you feel comfortable doing/not doing. The only expert any mom is about their own child.
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Post by thyme4change on Jul 18, 2012 12:38:45 GMT -5
Certainly I would trust her variety of experience with giving birth more than I would trust the lady who lives next to me that has one child. Her experience was a nightmare, and not representative of what 'usually' happens. But, that is all she knows, so what would she say?
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Post by muttleynfelix on Jul 18, 2012 12:40:46 GMT -5
"Any late term ultrasound can be off by as much as 2 pounds or even more." Really? That is A LOT! Yep. Really. Even my ultrasound tech told me that yeah they are just guessing at that point. The measurements they take to make the estimate, they cannot even see the entire piece of the body they are measuring once you get passed around 24 weeks. I had an ultrasound at 40.5 weeks as part of a biophysical profile and nonstress test and you can only see bits and pieces of the baby at that point, not the whole thing. DS was 8lb 4 oz BTW. The week before he was born the measurement was for 8lb 6oz. I think. It was more than what he ended up being but only by a couple oz.
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Post by taz157 on Jul 18, 2012 12:41:27 GMT -5
It's like trying to keep your kids healthy...you do what you can, but germs are EVERYWHERE...hard to avoid them getting sick. FWIW, I had a c-section and couldn't drive for 2 weeks. When I went for my 2-week appt, I took DD with me and we went to my doctor's office, her ped's office, and my work. A couple of days after that, I took her shopping to Walmart with me. I was going stir-crazy otherwise!
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Post by thyme4change on Jul 18, 2012 12:42:50 GMT -5
That is interesting, because they induced labor with my daughter because they were afraid she had stopped gaining weight. The took 4 ultrasounds before inducing, and even then I wasn't on the "emergency" list. So, maybe the problems they were concerned with were not actually weight, but something else.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2012 12:42:50 GMT -5
Bigger babies are typically easier to birth because they can assiste with their own birth. How? Pull Mommy apart like they're drawing a curtain back? OMG, I was thinking the same thing!!!
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Post by moxie on Jul 18, 2012 12:46:19 GMT -5
FWIW, I had a c-section and couldn't drive for 2 weeks. When I went for my 2-week appt, I took DD with me and we went to my doctor's office, her ped's office, and my work. A couple of days after that, I took her shopping to Walmart with me. I was going stir-crazy otherwise!
*The pediatrician told me to stay away from the malls for two months with my first baby...I did manage that (it was the holidays too), but I am sure the visitors who dropped by carried some germs in.
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Post by moxie on Jul 18, 2012 12:47:25 GMT -5
My doctors were against doing ultrasounds unless absolutely necessary...old school.
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