My really good friend is due to give birth in 6 weeks and she is not even attempting to breastfeed just straight on to formula and actually believes that baby benifit more from formula!
How can people in this day and age be ssoooo uneducated? Ok fair enough if you were taking medications or some legitimate excuse for not breastfeeding but then we have milk donors don't we?
Something which I think more people need to learn about and more people need to donate, I will be if I can!
I just hate how people think giving your baby the best start in life is just an inconvenience, oh people said it hurts to start with so ill just bottle feed ARGH!!! I don't have much else to say without this going around in circles and me rambling but does it annoy anyone else how uneducated people are today and how they just don't care that breast is best and don't care what they are putting into there baby?
Don't get me wrong I know everyone is entitled to there way of doing things and own choices but why would you not even try the better, healthier, cheaper way first?
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
24 weeks today - my thoughts and fears
Today marks week 24 of my twin pregnancy and the time is very quickly ticking away! We have everything we need for the babies except I still have to arrange capsule hire and we still need to buy a new car that will fit our new family of 6 in.
Now that the end of the pregnancy is in sight, I am becoming terrified of the birth yet excited. My last birth ended up in an emergency c-sec and it was horrible - not so much the procedure or even the recovery but the feelings of failure that I couldn't do what my body was meant to - birth my baby.
I also suffered from PND afterwards not sure if it was related but they do link the two.
The plan with the twins is a VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Caesarean) but I am keeping an open mind that IF and only IF the safety of my babies or me is jeopordised then we will opt for a c-sec. Hopefully I will be doing a calmbirth course or hypnobirth. I just have to find someone available and find the funds for it as the courses although worth it are quite pricey.
I also plan on breastfeeding something else my body or rather my own mind has failed at. Both my girls were never fed past 3 months mainly because I listened to everyone else not myself. This time i WILL do it, we will succeed. Yes it will be hard, very hard! But I am willing to jump those hurdles and not look back.
My main fear that has come to light lately is jumping from 2 children to 4 all living at home full time. I have my days now where with 2 I feel I cannot cope so it will be interesting to see how this unravels!
Anyway I best go and do the school and day care run (today is my youngests day in day care where i run around like a headless chook trying to get everything done!)
Pic to come soon :)
Now that the end of the pregnancy is in sight, I am becoming terrified of the birth yet excited. My last birth ended up in an emergency c-sec and it was horrible - not so much the procedure or even the recovery but the feelings of failure that I couldn't do what my body was meant to - birth my baby.
I also suffered from PND afterwards not sure if it was related but they do link the two.
The plan with the twins is a VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Caesarean) but I am keeping an open mind that IF and only IF the safety of my babies or me is jeopordised then we will opt for a c-sec. Hopefully I will be doing a calmbirth course or hypnobirth. I just have to find someone available and find the funds for it as the courses although worth it are quite pricey.
I also plan on breastfeeding something else my body or rather my own mind has failed at. Both my girls were never fed past 3 months mainly because I listened to everyone else not myself. This time i WILL do it, we will succeed. Yes it will be hard, very hard! But I am willing to jump those hurdles and not look back.
My main fear that has come to light lately is jumping from 2 children to 4 all living at home full time. I have my days now where with 2 I feel I cannot cope so it will be interesting to see how this unravels!
Anyway I best go and do the school and day care run (today is my youngests day in day care where i run around like a headless chook trying to get everything done!)
Pic to come soon :)
Monday, February 14, 2011
Bit of a catch up!
As this is new I thought how about a post with the start of my pregnancy to now as there is some dramatic changes!
I am currently 23 weeks and 5 days pregnant with twin boys and what a rollercoaster it has been!
So heres some pics to marvel over:-
4 weeks & 4 days - October 2010 showing 2 empty SACS with no yolks and no foetal poles
7 weeks and 2 days Baby A's heartrate: 160 BPM Baby B's heartrate: 154 BPM
11 weeks
12 weeks
13 weeks
14 weeks
16 weeks
17 weeks
18 weeks
20 weeks ...... We discover they are both boys!
21 weeks
22 weeks
and almost a week ago at 23 weeks!
It is so scary and so exciting to be expecting twins a miracle i never imagined would happen to me but now that it has I wouldn't change it for the world (except minus the extra back and joint pain caused from it!)
I am currently 23 weeks and 5 days pregnant with twin boys and what a rollercoaster it has been!
So heres some pics to marvel over:-
Pre Pregnancy
It is so scary and so exciting to be expecting twins a miracle i never imagined would happen to me but now that it has I wouldn't change it for the world (except minus the extra back and joint pain caused from it!)
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