Layormiii:
should i say lucky you? Lol some Los are like that ooo. My own isn't hyper hyper

shiller:


I dey this table ooo,tho am team July,the kicks no be for here,as if the bones are now strong for her to come out,when i still have 10weeks,kai

uche23:
So sorry my BA is coming in jus now. Had my baby girl on sat 7th of may via emergency C's. It was a traumatic experience. God literally saved me. I'l give a detailed bs wen I feel much better.

uche23:
So sorry my BA is coming in jus now. Had my baby girl on sat 7th of may via emergency C's. It was a traumatic experience. God literally saved me. I'l give a detailed bs wen I feel much better.

uche23:
So sorry my BA is coming in jus now. Had my baby girl on sat 7th of may via emergency C's. It was a traumatic experience. God literally saved me. I'l give a detailed bs wen I feel much better.

NeroPapas:


It's a sort of tummy discomfort in babies. It's really discomforting with some babies crying or like mine, squeezing . It doesn't stop them from growing sha and it stops by the time they hit 3 months.

Experience mamas can add to this

TOHHAN:

I don finish mine tey tey when I complain of weakness and malaria test shows negative o.
Using d routine drugs is now giving me tiring oo, I feel like not taking it atall, attyms I vomit it once I put it in my mouth self and it's jt a single dose o.
Leg swelling nko, my legs start swelling last week and it refuse to go down o. It's seriously getting me worried and annoying jare

TOHHAN:

I do feel dizzy too bt didn't bother to complain thinking it's normal since pregnant women do sleep alot, hp am nt wrong bayi

ladyrachy:

Read girls are more active than boys in the womb,na u dey lucky oo. I go flog this baby leg wen she come out,if she like make she do innocent face I won't fall for it

Layormiii:
my baby never kick my rib sef, I will now be wondering when u guys talk about it here. My boy nah gentle bobo

IamGreen1:



Colic did my daughter sege, imagine carrying baby with carrier all through the night for months just to make sure that she was not alone. I'd to seriously rebuked it when I was pregnant with my son because I heard that it disturbs male more sef and God answered my prayer. My son sleeps like baby from day 1. Mother's experience with colic is not a good one especially those that don't really have anyone with them except their husbands who is to go to work the next morning. Colic shown me pepper o but I was able to manage it beautifully sha because we slept in the day then not nights

uche23:
So sorry my BA is coming in jus now. Had my baby girl on sat 7th of may via emergency C's. It was a traumatic experience. God literally saved me. I'l give a detailed bs wen I feel much better.

NeroPapas:


So loro kan, that is to say there's nothing to sooth the pain niyen oo. Let me goan buy baby carrier then
Na now my boy dey try sleep. It is well

ladyrachy:

Ure lucky oo me that didn't sleep last night,she was taking a stroll in my tummy to my rib it was annoying. Doc says wen she has limited space,her movement will reduce. abeg till when?

IamGreen1:


There's drugs for it, infacol. It's small and costly I bought it then for 3,500 within three days it's finished because it used be given before every breastfeeding. So na money o

Nmamez:
Good day mamas, Sure you are all doing good.I'm team July, hope I'm welcomed.

Sassy256:
Teamies, how is everyone doing? Didn't see most of our responses to roll call, only starryv. hope we're doing alright?

TEAM AUGUST
NAME.................................EDD....................SEX
1. Starry v. ............................21st....................xy
2. Sassy256...........................25th.....................xy
3. Dunpredictable...............22nd ...................xy
4. Pyzdan...............................23rd............... unknown
5. Waistbead.........................28th............... unknown
6. Exclusiveoloori................. ...................... unknown
7. Novia22.............................13th............... unknown
8. Dijah07.............................. 30th ............ unknown
9. Girl040...............................15th...............unknown

voucher:
November mamas, has anyone started shopping? I got some sleep suits yesterday from instagram but i have been telling myself that it’s too early o Lool.. let it not look like this pregnancy is “sharking” me ( it actually is sha)
Should i go ahead and be getting things small small or wait till like 6 months

Layormiii:
chaii one thing I can't wait to stop doing is routine drugs, imagine swallowing drugs almost everyday since October fah.. chaii
I hope say u dey do small small Waka because of the leg swelling. And try reduce ur salt too. Mine also come and go.
It is well mama

Layormiii:
I don't think there's any cause for alarm.. Sha make sure u eat enough and u rest enough too. Still working?

voucher:
November mamas, has anyone started shopping? I got some sleep suits yesterday from instagram but i have been telling myself that it’s too early o Lool.. let it not look like this pregnancy is “sharking” me ( it actually is sha)
Should i go ahead and be getting things small small or wait till like 6 months

Comanche:


B.S. - (PT 2)

When I got home I didn’t bother going in, I told hubby to sharpaly go and cook a bowl of ewedu for me and I started climbing the stairs in our building. When I got tired I went inside to drink the ewedu, eat more pineapple and dates. Then hubby and I went out for a walk. I read that curb walking is more effective than normal straight walk. So that’s how I started walking round the community, one feet on the curb and the other feet on the road. People driving by were just giving me looks like who is this weirdo . I didn’t even look at them me that contractions was hitting back to back every 4 minutes. But in retrospect I really must have looked really weird with my big jilbab and my tamurege one-leg-up walk by the roadside .

After I got tired we made our way home, it was around 5pm at this time. When I got home I just knelt on the floor, pick needle and thread and started putting finishing touches on my baby’s coming home outfit. For my mind my baby must look good for his hospital photoshoot. Contraction was every 4 minutes now and anytime it hits me within that 40 seconds I’d fling the cloth away and pick it back up for the remaining 3 minutes and 20 seconds break in between.

Hubby kept saying we should go back every time I shouted with each contractions but I refused, I went back outside and continued climbing the stairs. By 7:30PM the cramp was just too intense for me I shouted for hubby and said oya let’s start going o.

We got there and I was hooked back onto the monitor, after my V.E they said I was at 4CM. Ye! Moku! Just 4CM since morning after all my wahala and I’m already seeing stars. At this point they came in and offered me epidural. Note that since my 34 weeks my OB has been asking me if I’d be willing to take the epidural but I always refused point blank. But with the pain I was experiencing I changed mouth and said they should just prepare it for me. That I might take it or not depending on how far I can go with the pain.

A nurse came by around 11PM to examine me and I was still at 4CM. She told me if I don’t make significant progress the doctor will have to break my water and also induce contractions. At this point I knew this idea of being plugged to the bed wasn’t working for me. All these while the nurses kept coming to check on me and offering me the epidural. It got to a stage it was annoying sef abi something else is there ni I said I don’t want . So I called the nurse and told her I want to be mobile and try to exercise. So she had to go get me a monitor with wheels I can move with, and she also got me a bouncing ball for exercise. I started alternating between walking round the room with hubby pushing the monitor beside me, bouncing on the ball and rocking on the rocking chair in the labour room. But I still felt like I could do bettter. So I called the nurse and asked if I could go out to the lobby for walk. She said she’d have to go ask if that is allowed cause it is unusual for people to be walking up and down the lobby.

She came back and said it was fine. The first thing that struck me when I got to the lobby was how quiet it was. Imagine a labour ward being as quiet as a graveyard while people were actually in labour. These people are bout the soft life o. Dem done sama dem epidural dem just Dey enjoy. Me I just started walking up and down the long lobby. In fact every nurse that saw me and hubby was always so startled like it must have been very unusual for them. They must be thinking that which kind sufferhead human being is this .

After about 2 hours of alternating between walking, bouncing on a ball, and using a rocking chair I was checked again and AlhamdulilLah 6cm already. The nurse who checked me said whatever it is I was doing I should keep doing it. I continued with the exercise but by the time it was around 3AM I was too tired and in pain. I decided to leave Superman for Clark Kent so I succumbed and requested for the epidural . And also agreed to get IV for fastened contractions and to burst my water.

The epidural was injected into my spine around the lower back and within a few minutes the pain of contractions started easing off and my leg started feeling numb. Almost immediately I feel asleep feeling so tired and relieved to be free of pain after 15 hours of labour.

When I woke up around 6 am I could see they were about to set up the line for fastening the contraction and burst my water. At this stage I only felt a slight tingle in my body from the waist down. I couldn’t move my legs and they felt bloated when I touched them. Just as they were about to burst the water, I heard the nurse telling my hubby that ‘oh look that’s her water gushing out itself’, the water had broken itself. I kept sleeping and waking up at intervals until I was finally woken around 10:AM to the news that I was 10CM and set to start pushing.

About 8 medical personnel trooped in and the lead doctor inclined my bed and placed my legs in stirrups that were attached to the lower part of each side of the bed. That way I was on my back and my legs were wide open to them. I was worried about how I was gonna push and even know I was pushing when all my body was dead from the waist down. They told me not to worry that I’d be coached.

After everything was set for labour I was told that once the contraction hits on the screen I was to talk a deep breath in then push out the breath as hard as I could as if I want to poop. Then they asked if I wanted to watch myself push the baby out. I said yes, so they brought in a tall large mirror on wheels and placed in a convenient position where I could see what was happening down there.

Then the pushing began. There were 5 rounds of pushing all together with three pushes per round. First round nothing happened, second round just blood came out. At this point I noticed I was getting more distracted by me looking at the mirror. So I stopped looking at the mirror and focused more on pushing. I was also given a towel to put under my knee and use it to pull my legs towards me while also raising my back as if I wanted to look in between my legs as I’m pushing. By the third round the head was showing at the entrance. The doctor shouted ‘mama look at the head he has a full head of hair’ I looked and truly all I could see was a little round spot with matted hair blocking the entrance of my vagina. I was so scared at how small it was because I had a funny dream a day ago where I saw myself give birth to a baby the size of a big lizard . I started thinking maybe I shouldn’t have dismissed the dream and now it was happening in reality.

By the fourth round the head moved out more. At this point all the medical personnel was giving me ginger with chants of ‘Yes mama. You can do it mama. Just a little more to go mama’. I didn’t feel the baby come out, I only heard that much talked about shrill cry of a newborn. I was scared to look at what I birthed but when I looked it was a normal sized beautiful boy flailing his hands and screaming his lungs out. His body had a reddish tinge to it and his head was abnormally shaped like a cone. The doctor said it was just from him coming out of the jajaina and that it would go back to a normal round shape. So silly me that thought his head was small like a lizard didn’t know it was only a part of the head that had being compressed by the walls of the vagina . Also his voice was kinda hoarse, it wasn’t all this sweet ‘wen wen wen’ cry. In my mind I was saying see his strong voice like correct agege boy .

I didn’t really feel anything or show any emotion at that point of birth cause it seemed like I was in shock. Turns out I had a second degree tear and a ruptured blood vessel. The doctor brought out the placenta and stitched me up. I didn’t still feel anything as the epidural was still in effect.

After he was cleaned up a bit they brought him to me for some skin to skin and asked me if I want to try breastfeeding him before they carry him to the nursery. Breastfeed ke, when our coconut water was on standby in our bag . I refused and told them to please excuse us as we wanted to have some personal time as a family. As soon as they were out fiam, just like smuggled contraband hubby whipped out the feeding bottle containing the coconut water and shook it into his mouth. He sef drank and started smacking his mouth .

After that he was taken away to the nursery and I was wheeled to the maternity ward. 30 minutes later he was brought in to be nursed and I tried for about 10 minutes and It was at this point that the real madness started. The epidural had started wearing off at a fast rate and the craziest pain I have ever felt in my life hit me . My stomach was cramping as if I was being stabbed, my back from the middle up to my bottom felt like it was being pounded and my jajaina was aching me powerfully. I started shouting and crying and twisting. I couldn’t sit I couldn’t stand. I told them to return baby to the nursery immediately. Imagine me that didn’t even cry or shout during labour. I was told the stomach pain was from the uterus shrinking as I breastfed, the back pain was from the epidural, the jajaina pain was from the stitches. I was sha given some pain meds that took off the pain for a while .

Pain update: My stomach cramps stopped after the third day, back pain still comes and goes if I stress myself and jajaina pain is ever constant and pressing. Sorry for the long post, I too like gist.

The end.

CC. Uche23, Trippleblessing, tomblessings, morrewhunmie, mummytoo

Probably one of the best if not the best post I’ve ever read on Nairaland. Congratulations! I’ve copied and sent to my wife. We’re expecting ours any moment from now.

sugarcoatted:


Isalu is very expensive and good. That was my first choice for my hmo but they removed all of us and transferred us to solid rock, i guess cause of price. I later switched to mother and child ikeja as its closer to me.

Flourishing19:
Please, who is the cappo for team September? It seems our team does not exist and we are many o.

ladyrachy:
[b][/b]Team July aka mamas for princesses
Hello my lovely and gallant teammates,how are we all doing? Congrats to all April mamas,may God grant Team May a perfect delivery oo.Team June how far una,one month to go abi.
Team July #Team Hebrew women# Team for Swift,Smooth and Safe delivery
ROLL CALL FOR MONTH OF MAY
NAME/ EDD/GENDER
1)Pearlyboo..............8th July................unknown
2)Ladyrachy …........10th july….............xx
3)Peggygee,............19th July...............xx
4)Hibiscuss...............July.......................xx
5)Dacblogger..........17th July.................xx by faith
6)StephOkemini......13th July...............unknown
Lets try to respond to this roll call and kindly update ur info if u haven't done urz,God will see us thru.
Pls remember to take ur drugs and drink enough water ooo

voucher:
November mamas, has anyone started shopping? I got some sleep suits yesterday from instagram but i have been telling myself that it’s too early o Lool.. let it not look like this pregnancy is “sharking” me ( it actually is sha)
Should i go ahead and be getting things small small or wait till like 6 months

Flourishing19:
Please, who is the cappo for team September? It seems our team does not exist and we are many o.