Guest guest Posted May 26, 2005 Report Share Posted May 26, 2005 Congratulations, Filippa. What a lovely way to be born! He's a lucky baby. Daphne > Our baby was born on Friday 20th May at 2:10pm at Flynn Hospital. We did most of the labour at home and transferred for the final stage where we had a beautiful, natural, drug-free waterbirth in their luxurious new birthing pool. I brought him slowly to the surface of the water where he took his first breaths. He was totally alert, peaceful and awake looking around and taking in the new world around him. We had fantastic support people through the whole labour which was long and hard but worth it! Our special thanks go to our beautiful midwife beth Moen, our dear friends Annette Lewington and Anne McCoy (I couldn't have done it without you both!), the gentle acupuncturist Matt O'Hara (who sped things up when we were beginning to despair), the gentle hospital midwife Anne, and our amazingly wonderful obstetrician Dr son who just patiently let it all happen how we wanted it to happen and of course our beautiful baby who is so calm and happy. > > We haven't named him yet but his nickname is Kuki-chan. " kuki " is pronounced " cookie " and is short for Kookaburra because when he does cry (which isn't all that much), he sounds just like a kookaburra. He weighed 8 pounds 7 ounces at birth (3860gm) and measured 53cm. > > We're now resting at home enjoying our " babymoon " with our new little family member. > > Love > > Filippa and Kosuke > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 21, 2008 Report Share Posted July 21, 2008 Lana Gibbons wrote: > Rose arrived today, 07/21 at 6:14 AM EST. Woohoo! Happy Babymoon! --s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 21, 2008 Report Share Posted July 21, 2008 Wow that is awesome, Lana! Congratulations! I love the name . My baby nursed just like that, too. :-) Ann Marie On Jul 21, 2008, at 12:56 PM, Lana Gibbons wrote: > Rose arrived today, 07/21 at 6:14 AM EST. I didn't have any Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 21, 2008 Report Share Posted July 21, 2008 my son popped out in 3 pushes (doc didn't get the head control he wanted). son pee'd happily, then nursed. and such is our mom- preschooler sleepytime routine: go pee, then we'll nurse. enjoy the babymoon. -jennifer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 21, 2008 Report Share Posted July 21, 2008 > Rose arrived today, 07/21 at 6:14 AM EST. I didn't have any Whoo hoo! Welcome to the world, little ! I'm so glad to hear it went well for you. Enjoy the babymoon! KerryAnn http://www.cookingtf.com/ - American and Australian TF Menu Mailers http://www.tfrecipes.com/forum/ - Traditional Foods forum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 I honestly didn't do anything special - I didn't even take breathing classes (we did do a childbirth course, but we missed that day). I also didn't take my Thorne prenatal vitamin regularly (only about 2 months worth over the 9 months), no Vitamin C in any dose yet no stretch marks. I didn't start the raspberry leaf tea until a few weeks prior to her due date - although, it tastes so good I think it'll be my iced tea from now on - yesterday while at the birth center I inadvertently discovered that frozen ice cubes of unsweetened cranberry juice are awesome in it, as is the local orange blossom raw honey. -Lana On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Blaidd <blaid1@...> wrote: > CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!! > > > > > > Wow you had an easy birth compared to mine =) Did you do Bradley or > anything? Maybe it was all the raspberry leaf tea! ! I am going to start > that right away. > > > Dawn > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 > > Lana, that's great! I'm glad to hear that it went smoothly - a > tribute to your good health. Though I have to say I've never heard of > a stand-up delivery for babies > > I thought the traditional position was squatting? > Well, technically, I wasn't quite standing but I wasn't quite squatting either. It was something sort of in between with me holding my weight up with my hands on the bed because my legs were starting to shake. I probably would have been better off with a full squat - as I did manage to tear in two places (and both were bad enough to warrant a few stitches - but only skin tears AFAIK). Then again, if I had been capable of listening to their suggestion of putting my hand down there to protect my front as Sam popped out, I probably wouldn't have torn as bad... I just couldn't figure out how to redistribute my weight to do something like that! (Looking back I find it quite amusing that something as simple and normally instinctive as redistributing weight totally vacated me at that moment.) I labored in the car on all fours with my head in DH's lap and as soon as I stepped out of the car all I could think about was how much I hated gravity! I definitely liked all fours for the labor and may have considered it for the delivery if Sam wasn't so impatient. > That certainly sounds like a good sign that you won't have any > problems breastfeeding. > My milk came in late last night, I could tell because she started sucking differently. I'm glad she was satisfied by just sucking before my milk came in - I was starting to feel bad that she was sounding hungry every time she cried. Now I'm just waiting for her to let me know how often she wants to eat! She's been napping for what feels like ages (maybe 4 hours?) and I've tried twice now to wake her to eat - she's taken the offer but fallen asleep a second later. Oh well! ... speaking of her - looks like it might be mealtime! > Thanks for letting us know. Be sure and put some photos of the baby > on Flickr, or start a blog > I'll post some when she's resting again. -Lana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 Pics here: http://pics.livejournal.com/dreamresonance/gallery/00001se5 -Lana " There is nothing more useful than sun and salt. " - Latin proverb Thanks for letting us know. Be sure and put some photos of the baby on > Flickr, or start a blog > > I'll post some when she's resting again. > > -Lana > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 What a lovely baby! I like the one you called " Snoozing " - so cute! > > Pics here: http://pics.livejournal.com/dreamresonance/gallery/00001se5 > > -Lana > > " There is nothing more useful than sun and salt. " - Latin proverb > > Thanks for letting us know. Be sure and put some photos of the baby on > > Flickr, or start a blog > > > > > I'll post some when she's resting again. > > > > -Lana > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 --- Lana Gibbons <lana.m.gibbons@...> wrote: > Pics here: http://pics.livejournal.com/dreamresonance/gallery/00001se5 Lana, baby and mom look to be doing well. Thanks for sharing. Looks like has nice hair. My daughter only had peach fuzz for hair for months it seemed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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