This is it. That's the post. Drink water. A lot. Buy Gatorade. Buy coconut water. This made me go from 3 ounces in my best pump to 4-5 at least 2 times daily. My baby boy drinks 21 daily and I am almost getting free from formula. 9 weeks postpartum, just keep going mamas!
For those who had postpartum hemorrhage and this end up affecting milk supply, did the supply go up while you recover?
Currently 6 weeks pp, producing only half of what LO needs and triple feeding.
My LO and I are having a difficult start with breastfeeding due to he being a lazy eater. I just stayed 1 hour breastfeeding him to see if he would get happy with the amount, and even with my best time of the day the amount that is early morning when I pumped 3 oz he got fussy and I had to give him a bottle. When he is not sleepy he is crazy fussy because I have a low supply. Right now I am breastfeeding for 30 minutes, giving him a bottle and pumping right after for any time he allows (usually 15 minutes to 30 minutes). This is getting me crazy and I started considering EP but I hear people say how difficult it is, and I feel a lot of pressure to continue to nurse him directly from family and midwife. I just want to be able to sleep more and be a better mom to him.
10 pm and he refuses to sleep so I give up. Usually he loves his crib so I put him down and I go to my phone. 20 minutes later I take a look and he is sleeping this is crazy. We never sleep trained him. Usually he would eat, do some skin to skin and sleep on us. Eventually we need to use the rocking chair to put him to sleep. This is absolutely amazing 🥹🥹🥹
Currently 3 days PP and I can't believe what a crazy week I had. This day last week I was on my second day in a row of latent labor (I was 39+6) with my first labor ever. I had contractions every 10 minutes apart that would never turn to active labor. On Friday the midwife confirmed I was 1.5 dilated two days before I was 0. This continued until Sunday 3am when I was losing my mind from the very painful contractions that would not go anywhere. Called my midwife and basically she said that there was nothing she could do, that I should go to labor and delivery to get morphine to sleep. I did, even tho I would wake up from contractions and we decided that it was time to do something. My induction started that day at 11am, I dilated until 5.5 and my water broke but the baby never dropped enough to go further. By 11 30pm I was sent to the c section with an exhausted uterus and almost lost my mind. During the birth I hemorrhaged from my tired uterus, couldn't stop shaking because my body was in breaking point and got a 39.5 fever from a bacteria that I got when my water broke. I thought I was going to die on that table, I was awake for days, unable to sleep though contractions, and tried everything to have my baby boy with me. He was born a healthy and giant 57 cm baby (22.4 inches long) with 3780 kg (8.3lbs). After this very traumatic birth I assumed my mom is correct and I am the third generation in my family that fails to deliver vaginally, no VBAC for me for sure but super happy to have a way to have my precious boy with me.
Obs: no I was not diabetic, baby was in the 95th percentile the whole pregnancy and estimation said he would be 4kg+ baby by 40 weeks. They were quite close, turns out my baby was more of long than really fat. I am also the third generation to deliver a big baby like this one via c section.
Pretty much what the post says. I have been researching this topic for the last 17 weeks since my baby boy received 95 percentile and remained there the whole time. Last scan at 36+4 showing 38+4. I already read all the article in evidence based birth probably a thousand times and concluded there is probably no reason to induce my baby by 39 weeks, it doesn't seem to change the final result even if a shoulder dystocia arrives. So why do obgyns continue to indicate that?
I ask that because I have a midwife but every time I need a scan I need to go to the local hospital and talk to the obgyn that is there, it is so hard to hear conflicting opinions about this. They don't want this type of trouble arriving? Are midwives more qualified to deal with this type of situation?
I am based in Quebec/Canada in case this is relevant.
Yesterday I went to a prenatal massage and the massage therapist mentioned that my hips were too rigid for a natural birth. I never heard of it. I look for it and I can't find anything. I am not saying she is wrong, because since my pelvic pain started with 30 weeks I became unable to do all the yoga movements to hip mobility (specially internal hip rotation). I don't know what to do anymore. I have a 95th percentile baby and apparently bad hips to give birth. I already do physiotherapy and went to a chiropractor. It helps, I am functional, before I couldn't even walk, but I cannot do those exercises without pain. Any thoughts would be highly appreciated.
My baby is in the 95th percentile and I am currently 34 weeks. 3 weeks ago I started to have severe pelvic pain that now is much better after giving myself some rest from exercise + pelvic physiotherapy. But now I realized that it has been 3 weeks and I barely did anything, and I am that kind of person that once fails has problems fixing things and just thinks it is too late. To be honest even tho I feel better I am huge and tired as well, the maximum I can do is 20 minutes walks.
I do not have gestational diabetes but I know lack of exercise will affect my baby's weight as well and I am feeling the worst mom in the world because of that.