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Yeah the oxo wipe dispenser is great. It felt so unnecessary but it is a big quality of life boost for the money. I really like the Woolino baby sleep bags. They’re long and can be used for quite a while (2m-2y and 2y-4y) and keep the baby pretty evenly warm/cool. Not as much guessing what to dress them in, especially if you have a place with uneven heating and cooling. Lastly, side snap/kimono style shirts or onesies for the newborn stage. They have such noodly necks and arms, I liked just being able to set them on their shirt rather than thread their head through anything.
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I quite like the infant gowns as well, that have the drawstring closure at the bottom. No mucking around with pants or snaps or fishing legs out of clothing, just whip the whole drat thing up at 3am and have at it with the nappy changing.
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Welp, my wife is pregnant! We found out super early, I think we're on week 4 right now. Now time to worry and panic for like 8 more weeks. It's a lot and it's overwhelming but this thread seems like a great source of info.
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My lovely wife is 8 weeks in and gaining weight faster than what appears to be normal, according to the internet. I think she's put on about ten pounds and kind of showing a bit? She goes back and forth between thinking she's just bloated and thinking that she's very early. Wondering if there's any cause for concern. Personally I think we're going to end up with twins but that's my own wishful thinking. Confirmation bias doesn't help when we type in "showing early, big tender breasts, and getting rough morning sickness." Anyways! I'm doing my best to be supportive and encouraging her to not change her healthy eating habits. I have a feeling that she's gonna gain whether she wants to or not but I wonder if anyone else has a similar experience.
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I wouldn’t worry too much. The first trimester has some intense early hormone swings and she is very likely bloating like crazy. I found across two pregnancies that my body really was on its own schedule regarding weight gain- my intake was weirdly uncoupled from when my body put on weight. I also gained and lost nearly the same amount of weight on the same timeline both pregnancies, despite having a fairly different diet and different food cravings and aversions each time. Pregnancy is weird stuff.
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I usually lose weight in the first trimester because I'm not drinking at all or working out as much, but I was definitely showing at 8 weeks with my second pregnancy. Sometimes your body just Does A Thing, and pregnancy is a time where it does a LOT of Things.
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That's encouraging! I'll try to convince her that this part of the internet says pregnancies are gonna do whatever and don't worry about the weight.
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Well tomorrow is our due date and my wife is having very early labour signs - slight contractions, very minor pains, very nervous times but I'm sitting here with my stopwatch, just getting ready for the big off!
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Time to double check your go-bag Don't forget the blanket, granola bars (for you) and cell phone charger + extra long charging cable Good luck
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I'm 31 weeks pregnant with my second, and boy howdy the Braxton Hicks contractions are not fooling around this time. I ache constantly. Like it's not pain pain, it's just... Aching. Like that feeling right before a charlie horse really sets in. It's extremely draining and I'm worried that my labor is going to be so much shittier this time given how much physically harder this pregnancy has been. Have other second + birth parents experienced this? Is this just a "idk every pregnancy is different, sorry bout your luck" thing?
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Chernobyl Princess posted:I'm 31 weeks pregnant with my second, and boy howdy the Braxton Hicks contractions are not fooling around this time. I ache constantly. Like it's not pain pain, it's just... Aching. Like that feeling right before a charlie horse really sets in. It's extremely draining and I'm worried that my labor is going to be so much shittier this time given how much physically harder this pregnancy has been. It was my first (and only) pregnancy, but I had Braxton Hicks roughly every 10-15 minutes for the last 8 weeks or so of the pregnancy. Plus every time I stood up I would get one. I didn’t notice them some of the time, and other times they were really uncomfortable like you describe. I only knew I was going into labor because they started to actually become painful. I don’t have any advice for you since I can’t compare my labor to anything else, but just wanted to send you some solidarity 
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Braxton Hicks is your uterus powering up - the muscle is flexing. So having a bunch of them may mean your labor will be shorter? I had them CONSTANTLY starting at like 17 weeks, and my labor with my second was no-poo poo 70 minutes.
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I had BH with both pregnancies starting around 20 weeks, definitely more uncomfortable the second time. Labor was 40+ hours with the first, and only 19 hours with the second, 12 or so of those hours being early (and not too painful) labor. Pushed for an hour and a half with the first, only had to push 3 or 4 times with the second.
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Koivunen posted:I had BH with both pregnancies starting around 20 weeks, definitely more uncomfortable the second time. Labor was 40+ hours with the first, and only 19 hours with the second, 12 or so of those hours being early (and not too painful) labor. Pushed for an hour and a half with the first, only had to push 3 or 4 times with the second. This was me almost exactly. For my first pregnancy I was super active and healthy, did All The Right Things, and had a month off to prepare before birth. My water wound up breaking without starting labor, and I had to get an induction. 40 hours later (with 3 hours of pushing) we got him out via a vacuum extraction, narrowly avoiding a C-Section. For my second the BH was worse, I had morning sickness through 36 weeks, and when that went away false labor started. I was too busy at work to take much time to exercise, and by the end of it couldn’t even change my toddler’s diapers because it was too hard on my body. I took off work at 39 weeks exactly and labor started at 1 AM the next morning. 19 hours later I had a baby boy- no epidural, 15 minutes of pushing. Only the last hour or so was actually difficult, and at hour 16 I was still convinced that the baby was going to take another day or two to arrive. We even booked a hotel for a last-minute date night. Oh well, we’ll get time to ourselves in…2 years or so. One thing I will say is that, even though I felt great after giving birth the second time, recovery actually took longer. I think the combination of having another kid to care for and not being completely exhausted by the labor and birth pushed me to over-exert myself. With the first I don’t think I even changed a diaper for the first week or so, but with two kids I was basically running around from the moment I got home. I wound up with post-party preeclampsia and some pelvic floor issues that I think could have both been prevented if I had taken it easier after birth.
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Echoing all of this. I thought I had a lot of Braxton-Hickses for my first, but my second had way more, way sooner. I always said that with the amount of practice my body was doing, if this baby didn't shoot across the room with the second push I was going to be very surprised. It wasn't quite that extreme, but pretty close. Probably didn't help the BHs that I couldn't really do what the books recommend and lay down and drink water whenever they hit, because the ol' firstborn was always raring to go.
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Thanks, y'all, that makes me feel a lot better. I'm both more sedentary and more exhausted this pregnancy due to winter/covid and the toddler. I was wondering if my previous pain tolerance had just decided to completely vanish. Good to know it's just How Stuff Is!
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Welp, we're at 40 weeks today and got on the schedule to induce tomorrow. Gonna try a foley(?) balloon in the morning and then a medical induction tomorrow night if that doesn't jump-start labor on its own. Advice? E: lol our doula: "Please have sex today, pretty please 🥺😭." C-Euro fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Mar 16, 2022 |
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C-Euro posted:Welp, we're at 40 weeks today and got on the schedule to induce tomorrow. Gonna try a foley(?) balloon in the morning and then a medical induction tomorrow night if that doesn't jump-start labor on its own. Advice? I was induced with a Foley ballon at 41+1 weeks. They put it in and told me to go home and come back when it falls out. I was in a lot of pain on my way back to the car and by the time we came home, it fell out when I went to the bathroom. We got right back in the car and went back to the hospital. I was then given the induction drugs and waited until they had a room available for me. By around 11 pm (12 hours after getting the balloon inserted) I finally got a room and my water broke on its own. I was in a lot of pain by that point, so I got my epidural shortly after. The epidural let me sleep and then by the time I woke up, my OB was there and it was baby time. Half an hour of pushing until she was out. Just under 24 hours from Foley ballon insertion to baby. Expect that it could take a while for the ballon to fall out, or it could fall out right away like mine did. Just be prepared to spend a lot of time in the hospital either way. Bring food for mama to eat before getting any induction drugs. You aren’t allowed to eat after you get the IV. In my case, the cafeteria was unavailable due to Covid because my husband needed an escort that they couldn’t spare, so the only thing I could eat until I gave birth was a vending machine chicken salad sandwich. I hate chicken salad sandwiches. My husband went across the street and got me a McDonalds breakfast after I gave birth, but the nurses gave him heck for leaving a coming back too often. He met up with his dad at the McDonalds, even though his dad couldn’t come to visit me. I don’t know what the food situations are in hospitals right now, so just be prepared for anything. I’ve heard chicken broth in a thermos is something you can have with the IV.
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Thanks, the balloon went in this morning and didn't trigger anything too severe. My wife was actually able to remove it on her own a couple of hours ago, our induction was scheduled for an hour ago but they didn't have any room for us until just now so I guess it's go tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime E: taking my 3DS with us to the hospital would be a bad look right 
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My husband played a lot of video games at the hospital because there was literally nothing else he could do there. I brought the Switch to play some Animal Crossing myself.
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Well shoot, I'm already here and without my 3DS lol. Might have snuck it into a bag but I suspect that my wife overpacked our hospital bags (yes plural).
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wife just had the 39w checkup this morning, our due date is tomorrow, and the waiting game has started. C-Euro posted:Well shoot, I'm already here and without my 3DS lol. Might have snuck it into a bag but I suspect that my wife overpacked our hospital bags (yes plural). on the other hand, because I'm in Not the U.S., the local hospital rules are I can come bring the bags up and then they'll have her call me to come back when she's I think dilated to about 10 cm or so? so about an hour-2 hours before the birth should happen, and then I can stay for two hours after the birth. After that, she comes back about 5 days later, which is pretty standard, so I have a few days to
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Been about 24 hours since we officially found out our first child didn't have a heartbeat. My wife was at 35 weeks and just had had an appointment with the OB the other day and that went well. So obviously this is all a shock, but we've got an incredible support system on both sides of our families. Not to mention our religious beliefs are pretty much keeping us afloat right now. Feel absolutely crushed to lose him, but know he's in a better place and doesn't have to suffer even a minute on this messed up world. Now we're just waiting at the hospital for my wife to start contractions so she can actually birth the poor little guy. I know once he comes and we have our family come see him we'll all be a wreck, and not to mention the funeral and burial, but I'm glad to know he's so loved by everyone. I'm trying not to think about what we could have done differently but that's obviously not going to answer any questions or help the process. I am not looking forward to inevitable counseling and therapy but know it's the best thing for us. My wife and I have shared a lot of emotions today, most of it either crying or being thankful for support or cracking jokes to cope. I'm glad I have her. I just had to vent this one time since all I've seen is either nurses or my emotionally wrecked family. cage-free egghead fucked around with this message at 13:45 on Mar 19, 2022 |
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So so sorry, be kind to yourselves.
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y'all see it, right? boquiabierta fucked around with this message at 10:38 on Mar 26, 2022 |
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Yep, but v faint so do it again in a few days to be sure.
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Yeah, my first positive test result was super pale 4 days after a missed period, and 3 days later the second test had a very, very noticeable line.
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I'm 3 weeks 6 days today. With my first pregnancy I had my first EXTREMELY FAINT BUT VISIBLE pregnancy test at 3 weeks 2 days (which I honestly did not think possible before, having worked in abortion care and done a LOT of pregnancy tests and pregnancy options counseling etc). I guess I have a shorter cycle than I realized or something, idk. The human body is weird and irrational. anyway I'm happy even though I'm also terrified, my two-year-old is being extremely two years old and I can't believe we're going to add a baby on top
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You can do this. My son was being moderately 2 for my pregnancy and graduated to severely 3 shortly before I gave birth but he managed to pull his head in a few weeks after delivery and is actually being quite sweet now. We've settled into a new pattern and it's been without the abject chaos I was anticipating.
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You will be okay. We had our second when our first was 2 years 3 months. It was more about comforting the toddler on arrival of the newborn than getting used to a baby. You’ve done that part already. I will say that my first was hard work at first but wow at least she didn’t rip poo poo apart like the second does constantly. I had no idea how easy my first kid was until the second got mobile.
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Thanks y'all. Mostly right now I'm freaking out about what we'll do with our toddler when I go into labor and also if there are any emergencies before that point. We live in Spain and don't have any family here. Thinking we'll ask my in-laws, who are retired and happily nomadic these days, to come and live with us a few weeks before the due date with no return ticket. It might drive me up the wall to have them here indefinitely but it'd be a huge relief to know we have someone who can be with our son if husband and I have to rush to the hospital. Plus the help will be invaluable when I'm huge and immobile. e: also I know this is extremely premature and a million things could happen before that point including obviously miscarriage. it's SO early but #anxiety
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My son was born on the 19th of this month and he's super cool...except he hasn't pooped in the last 24 hours and I'm not sure if that's normal. He seems to be completely normal otherwise; he's eating and wetting his diapers at a steady clip, he's not in any sort of discernible distress, and I even lived dangerously and checked his temperature rectally which was a perfect 98.6 F. He's at least farting, do I let him poop on his own time or can I massage him or something to help things along?
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It gets to the point where they poo poo way less often than they do the first few weeks. If he doesn't seem bothered at all I wouldn't stress about it.
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C-Euro posted:My son was born on the 19th of this month and he's super cool...except he hasn't pooped in the last 24 hours and I'm not sure if that's normal. He seems to be completely normal otherwise; he's eating and wetting his diapers at a steady clip, he's not in any sort of discernible distress, and I even lived dangerously and checked his temperature rectally which was a perfect 98.6 F. He's at least darting, do I let him poop on his own time or can I massage him or something to help things along? Especially if they're breastfed, they can go days without pooping. Ours went 3 days at week 3. So long as they're eating and peeing, they're fine.
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C-Euro posted:My son was born on the 19th of this month and he's super cool...except he hasn't pooped in the last 24 hours and I'm not sure if that's normal. He seems to be completely normal otherwise; he's eating and wetting his diapers at a steady clip, he's not in any sort of discernible distress, and I even lived dangerously and checked his temperature rectally which was a perfect 98.6 F. He's at least farting, do I let him poop on his own time or can I massage him or something to help things along? You're almost 100% fine Google "i love you massage for babies" and you can enact that ritual and it might make you feel better Babies poop on their own schedule. I would raise an eyebrow around hour 72, and maybe call your advice nurse at that point Or just call your advice nurse, they're pretty cool and it's free and they can talk you down from the ledge on whatever issues you may/may not have. We recently called the main line for the regional hospital (baby puked 4x in 24 hours, this freaked Mom out) and asked to be transferred to "the advice nurse line" and that got sent to voicemail, but some nice lady (an RN) called us back within 10-15 min and talked my wife down from the ledge about 3-7 times in one day being "moderate" etc. You should have gotten an advice nurse/newborn hotline number in the giant packet of stuff they sent you home from the hospital in, but if not calling the hospital works too, and is free Hadlock fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Mar 31, 2022 |
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