I just want to celebrate with my baby and hubby next year instead I'm wishing this one away. I know a lot of people are like enjoy the last as a twosome etc but I've had 9 Christmas with him I'm OK 
It is completely normal lovely, don't beat yourself up. All through my 20's I didn't know if I wanted children. I wasn't ready mentally or emotionally and I'd basically written myself off as not being maternal. When I got to 29yo my body clock kicked in and I thought maybe actually I do want them. But in all the years I'd been with my partner we never had a pregnancy "scare" so I'd always assumed I was infertile (I had a lot of health issues growing up). Anyway fast forward to two years ago and I decided I definitely wanted to try for children. We tried every month, tracking ovulation etc to no avail so we got in touch with the doctor to check our fertility. The week before our appointment I had a positive test. I was a bit shocked because I was so used to seeing negative tests that I didn't think it is as real. I didn't tell my husband. The next day I tested again expecting it to be negative but it was still positive. My first reaction was disbelief and excitement but then self doubt crept in - will I be a good mother? How will I cope? My life is going to change forever. I have always lived a very selfish lifestyle - travel whenever I wanted to, lazy days, just basically doing whatever I wanted. Now I was freaking out that I'd have to give everything up to look after a little person. Fast forward to last Sunday and I gave birth to the most beautiful little girl I could ever imagine and yes my world is forever changed, yes its hard work but I would never change it for the world. I am so happy I've got her and I couldn't imagine life without her and it's only been 6 days!
I’ve had both. 35 and never had a flu jab before but had this one as I thought I don’t want to be really poorly. Whooping cough is because for the first 8 weeks baby isn’t protected but if you have yours they get some protection. My understanding is there has been some uplift in the amount of whooping cough cases in small babies. I didn’t elect to have another Covid booster though.
and she’s looking well. Lots of monitoring too. but at the same time it can cook for a bit longer as it's safe inside my belly lolI loved my elective c-section! My husband and I went in the morning at 7am and the surgeon came to see us to go through everything and tell us where we were on the list. There were a few emergencies which meant I was delayed so we had a lovely morning in our room watching daytime TV and playing card gameshas anybody got any positive c section birth stories? mine's now booked i just worry about everything- which was one of my reasons i wanted an elective!! can't win with anxiety
They came to get us gowned up and my husband could come into theatre with me whilst they administered the spinal and waited for it to take hold. Everyone was lovely and chatty and we were just so excited to meet our baby. It took about 15 minutes for me to be fully numb, then they put the screen up and less than 10 minutes later I felt a weight on my chest (behind the screen) and heard a cry. As it was an elective, I had delayed cord clamping. We wanted to see for ourselves what we had, so we were just sat behind the curtain listening to the cry wondering who we were about to meet! The surgeon lifted baby up Lion King style and we saw his bits. I had skin to skin with baby while they sewed me back up, and then my husband took him into recovery to wait for me to be transferred. We were in recovery for about half an hour with some lovely midwives who helped me get him latched on and have his first feed.
I text my boss at 5am telling him what was going on and I just got aHope all works out okay! How scary/excitingat least you can finish work now if you haven't already
back…. Totally leaving when I can. Shall give inane updates cause I can and mr Wood has gone home for some sleep. Oh wow @CallMeHollywood Hope e you’re ok? I know how scary and frustrated you might be feeling as this has been o sort of my experience this week. You and baby are in the right place to be well looked after but it’s still scary when it’s early.
) so I have to go back in two weeks. He’s a chunky 6lbs already so puts him in good stead for being a monster at birth. Just me to sort out now I am extremely strict about this due to previous jobs I've had (safeguarding is top of my list with children - I know way too much about how images can get in the wrong hands) luckily the older generations of my family are not on social media. I've told others under no uncertain terms will I tolerate any images of my baby on the internet. My husband thinks I'm overreacting but I'm really not. Not only the obvious, babies cannot consent to their images being posted and if my parents had done so when I was a child I would have been very upset. It's a violation of privacy in my eyes. I feel very strongly about it, as you can seeMoved up the rung to the next bracket
I’m going to have to have the chat with my mother about sharing photos I send her of baby Wood when he’s here. She’s already talking about creating a round Robin whenever I send her things. I work in social media and am very aware of issues with posting photos, but she just doesnt get it. She also wants to send her friends all the photos, many of whom I don’t know. Has anyone else had to have this talk?
but I'll definitely have the baby during this thread 
I did have to eat it with a breast pump attached but swings and roundabouts
I’m three weeks into parenthood so still raw but honestly, enjoy it. I’ve just written a post on the new baby thread about this but I’m really missing my old life and especially it just being us. I thought we had one more Christmas together but little guy came early.Any orher first time pregnant mom's wishing away Christmas
