I was reading over paperwork from the hospital with some "quick tips" with visitors hours and what not, and I found out there is NO wifi in the hospital. WTF?! How is this possible?!
First world problem my hospital doesn't have wifi, but I mean I'll happily go without for the whole free healthcare thing
Ha, I should probably take this mindset as well considering military hospital=free healthcare.
Hopefully it's a quick labor, quick stay, and their TV service is decent!
I upped the data limit on my phone when I had DS so I could play on Facebook etc without worrying, only cost me about $10 for an extra 2-3Gb is that an option for you?
Me - 22 | DH - 32 | Married - 24 May 2014 DS - January 2014
TTC#2 - December 2015
BFP - 6 March 2016 | MC Confirmed - 21 March 2016 TTCAL | April 2016 CP | June 2016 CP | July 2016
Checking in to say hi! It was a kind of busy/crazy week so I've mostly been lurking. I'm also a 2-3x/week hairwasher but pregnancy has made my hair so dry and ugly. I normally have very straight hair but now it's got just enough wave that it looks messy if I dry and don't straighten it. When I straighten it, it looks like straw. It's awful. I have t hardly worn it down in weeks. I think one time this month? So honestly it does t matter how dirty it is bc it's always in a ponytail. I hope it comes back toward normal when this one comes along!
I was reading over paperwork from the hospital with some "quick tips" with visitors hours and what not, and I found out there is NO wifi in the hospital. WTF?! How is this possible?!
First world problem my hospital doesn't have wifi, but I mean I'll happily go without for the whole free healthcare thing
Ha, I should probably take this mindset as well considering military hospital=free healthcare.
Hopefully it's a quick labor, quick stay, and their TV service is decent!
@hp_momma I hope this doesn't offend our non-military families to say but I wouldn't say your healthcare is "free" to you. It is hard earned through your family's service and sacrifice so I say complain away about the no wifi!!! That's a real bummer!! I hope the TV service is decent and your stay is short for you to try to make up for the lame lack of internet.
Checking in to say hi! It was a kind of busy/crazy week so I've mostly been lurking. I'm also a 2-3x/week hairwasher but pregnancy has made my hair so dry and ugly. I normally have very straight hair but now it's got just enough wave that it looks messy if I dry and don't straighten it. When I straighten it, it looks like straw. It's awful. I have t hardly worn it down in weeks. I think one time this month? So honestly it does t matter how dirty it is bc it's always in a ponytail. I hope it comes back toward normal when this one comes along!
I previously had extremely long hair and I ended up cutting it off for this very reason. I was long overdue for a haircut but the pregnancy made my previously nice hair look terrible whether is straightened it or not. So it's gone and so much better now! I know my hair may take a completely different turn postpartum but I'm happy to be able to make it look a little nice for now since the haircut!
I was reading over paperwork from the hospital with some "quick tips" with visitors hours and what not, and I found out there is NO wifi in the hospital. WTF?! How is this possible?!
Oh we definitely don't have wifi either. I am actually just lucky that L&D/mother baby is in one of the few corners of the hospital that even gets cell reception! Most of the entire hospital is a black hole for any service, I was cursing it during my 3hr glucose tests last pregnancy.
I was reading over paperwork from the hospital with some "quick tips" with visitors hours and what not, and I found out there is NO wifi in the hospital. WTF?! How is this possible?!
Oh we definitely don't have wifi either. I am actually just lucky that L&D/mother baby is in one of the few corners of the hospital that even gets cell reception! Most of the entire hospital is a black hole for any service, I was cursing it during my 3hr glucose tests last pregnancy.
Yep! Hood was like this too. It was like you couldn't communicate to the outside world! We had a tv with cable in the labor & delivery room. My post partum room was the size of a closet.
I suggest filling an ipad with Netflix/Amazon downloads!
I totally read the 46 new comments earlier this morning and now forget what I was going to respond too...and I'm not going back! lol Anyway, we had our hospital tour last night with our class. Has nice rooms, the NICU is state of the art, they have a nice set up for surgeries and always keep one room open for emergencies, there's a place for dad to sleep (not the most comfortable but it works), a rocker in the room, nice size shower, and everyone seemed very friendly. The cafeteria is in the actual hospital next to the birth center and they have a ton of food and apparently have won awards. There's a Starbucks in there (say what?! I can have my caramel macchiato with soy after baby arrives?!?) and if you do deliver in the middle of the night and the cafeteria isn't open (it sounds like they open for a couple of hours throughout the night), they keep sandwiches, fruit, snacks, and what not in L&D so you aren't starving if you didn't bring enough of your own snacks. She even told us to bring our own Jello and Popsicles and we can keep it in their fridge! Flat screen tvs and pretty sure there is wifi but I may double check. Al in all it seems really nice! The nurse who runs the class is very much on the advocate for yourself and have H know what you want so you can tell them no I don't want that or at least ask a ton of questions before they do a procedure you're unsure of. I really like her So, I'm feeling pretty good about it! Oh, and if you do happen to have a c-section and baby needs to be in the NICU or if baby can't go home with you yet, they rent some of the rooms for $25/night so you can stay close to baby. We may not need that, but its nice to know its there since we live 45 min-1 hr away, but my parents are like 20 min so we could just stay with them.
Okay, enough of my rambling! I feel like there was something else I wanted to say, but can't remember now...oh well! Happy Friday!
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." ~Charlie Chaplin
I was reading over paperwork from the hospital with some "quick tips" with visitors hours and what not, and I found out there is NO wifi in the hospital. WTF?! How is this possible?!
Oh we definitely don't have wifi either. I am actually just lucky that L&D/mother baby is in one of the few corners of the hospital that even gets cell reception! Most of the entire hospital is a black hole for any service, I was cursing it during my 3hr glucose tests last pregnancy.
Luckily I've been getting good reception during my NSTs which is on the same floor, so hopefully it's not a black hole over on the other side! I'm just super thankful they change the policy in January to single rooms instead of share rooms!
@PartiallyDomesticated We usually get pretty close to our data limit, so that's a good idea to check and see if I can raise it for the month!
Married 03.09.09 Sweet Baby H 12.21.11 Sassy Baby P 03.26.14 Little Brother Due 05.22.17
@BabyMC517 your hospital sounds amazing! Ours has wifi but it sucks. And the reception in L&D is no good. Anywhere else in the hospital it's fine. The last time we were in L&D H had to go out to the lobby to make phone calls.
Thanks! I'm glad it went well too! We go there for our classes and a friend of ours had her baby there 2 years ago so I saw it but never had a tour. We are there Sunday for other classes so I'm going to check out the wifi and ask about it...as long as I remember haha
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." ~Charlie Chaplin
I looked for a birth plan thread to post this, but I could only find a REALLY old one. I asked at my appointment today if our hospital was cool with delaying infant baths or if they were sticklers for getting them cleaned up right away. The midwife I saw said they would definitely delay it if I asked but that, in the meantime, they would be considered a 'dirty baby' and anyone who handled it would have to wear gloves. They would also have to go in an isolette (I guess instead of the regular open bed?) until they had had a bath.
For those of you 'in the know,' do those measures sound normal? Should I roll with it, or are those reasons enough to consider just going ahead with the bath?
I looked for a birth plan thread to post this, but I could only find a REALLY old one. I asked at my appointment today if our hospital was cool with delaying infant baths or if they were sticklers for getting them cleaned up right away. The midwife I saw said they would definitely delay it if I asked but that, in the meantime, they would be considered a 'dirty baby' and anyone who handled it would have to wear gloves. They would also have to go in an isolette (I guess instead of the regular open bed?) until they had had a bath.
For those of you 'in the know,' do those measures sound normal? Should I roll with it, or are those reasons enough to consider just going ahead with the bath?
That sounds strange to me. The normal at my hospital is to delay the bath at least 24 hours after birth. They didn't even offer a bath until that time. Baby slept in the regular open plastic tub looking thing on wheels ( I don't know what its called).
I don't know what baby is up to in my ute but all her movements are in totally different spots these last couple hours. I'm half afraid she flipped from her beautiful head down position. Surely I would have felt that? She's been head down essentially my entire pregnancy. I need x-ray vision!
For my girls they were specifically not bathed because they could not maintain their body temps. They slept in their cribs (the plastic tub thing on wheels) and everyone touched them without gloves. They just got a bath about 2am today (born Tuesday). Not being bathed was a DH split decision based on the info he was getting from Drs at their birth. I'm annoyed they call your baby A "dirty baby":/ babies are far from dirty! I suppose you'll have to make the call once your baby is here. It seems a bit strange to me the way they described it
At our hospital parents give the first bath, usually the day after birth and they are handled normally until then. I'd be annoyed if my dr would've said something like that.
Me: 38 DH: 36 Married 8/27/2011 BFP #1 9/28/2011 DS born 5/22/2012 BFP #2 4/24/2013 m/c 4/25/2013 at 4w BFP #3 1/31/2014 DD born 10/14/2014 BFP #4 1/20/2016 m/c 2/12/2014 at 7w2d BFP #5 8/19/2016 DS2 born 4/29/2017 BFP #6 3/7/2018 EDD 11/18/2018
I have long hair and while it isn't thick, there's a lot of it. Its a pretty normal texture, not fine but not real frizzy. It also holds water you like wouldn't believe so it takes a good 45 min to an hour to blow dry.
I used to wash daily, I thought my hair was nasty on the 2nd day. Then I got tired of blow drying it every day so I'd skip a day on the weekends. Well, I noticed if I used mousse when I blow dried (looking for volume!) that it wouldn't seem greasy on the 2nd day and I attempted extending into the 3rd day. I did that for a while and pushed it to 4 days and now 5. I cut the mousse out years ago and around when I was doing every 3 days. It just doesn't get bad/ greasy any more until about day 4. Day 4 or 5 I'll do dry shampoo or baby powder. Now, with pregnancy I notice it definitely needs dry shampoo on day 4, its harder to go as long. Honestly though, your body just stops producing that oil as frequently after time. I also rarely blow dry it now. I go to bed with it wet on wash days. Sometimes it's still to damp in the morning and I'll have to whip out the blow dryer.
I miss my wedding ring so much My hands swell no matter what when its hot and well, this is Arizona so it's been off for weeks now. I'm hoping it can go back quickly after the baby comes.
@emilyalso: My recollection with my son is that he didn't get his first official bath until at least after the first full day. I'm pretty sure that's standard practice here. I would've been mortified if anyone from the medical or nursing staff called him a dirty baby. He wasn't at all! He got wiped off immediately after birth and we snuggled skin to skin and it was the furthest thing from gross, and he was the cleanest, softest, sweetest, most heavenly scented baby ever!
@starphish18 That's an interesting Q! I don't know that they do move much during contractions specifically BH. But I think the purpose of the true labor contraction is to move the baby down but not sure if it's voluntary on the babies part. I do recall during real labor contractions with DD she had the hiccups for like 20mins and those little movements along with the contraction intensified the discomfort so much! But I guess that would be involuntary movement anyway.
@erinh2005 Interesting. I'm curious because I felt like I might have been having a BH contraction, but I wasn't positive. My belly was definitely more firm and I felt a little crampy, but it was different from the previous BH I thought I had. I did notice, however, that the baby stopped moving during it, and then started right up again once it was done.
@starphish18 I have Braxton Hicks all the time and I never feel baby move during. Not only that, I was having a ton of Braxton Hicks yesterday pre-surgery that they were picking up on the monitor. I couldn't feel baby moving at all during them but he/she was super active in between.
Shucks, I just found out I'm strep b positive. It makes me nervous!
I was strep b positive with older daughter. No big deal, you just get some antibiotics during labor. You're going to get an IV placed anyway (assuming you're delivering in a hospital, I don't know about birthing centers.) so, no extra needles even.
Has anyone found anything that helps rib pain? My ribs have been so painful off and on the past few days. There was a couple moments when it took my breath away . Warm showers help a ton but I cant always hop in the shower.
@lrwardrop let me know if you figure something out! I don't have it all the time but when I do man does it hurt and nothing seems to help! Warm bath did a little, back rub from H, I get on all fours or hang over something to try and get him to move so he's not up against my ribs. Maybe that will help? Or maybe get some icy hot or tigers Balm if it's more of a soreness that way. I keep forgetting to pick some up! Tigers balm worked gear for my lower back at the beginning! I had the patches.
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." ~Charlie Chaplin
We were moving stuff around in the nursery, well H was, so that I can organize tomorrow and o had him see if the k'tan size I got would work for him too...yeah it didn't
grrr I wanted to upload the picture I took but mobile bumping is not working still!
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." ~Charlie Chaplin
Re: Randoms & Questions 4/17-4/21
DS - January 2014
TTCAL | April 2016
CP | June 2016
CP | July 2016
https://www.scarymommy.com/signs-you-are-going-into-labor/?utm_source=FB
Married:09/14/13
Baby 2 - Due: 5/4/17
May '17 labor memes
I suggest filling an ipad with Netflix/Amazon downloads!
Okay, enough of my rambling! I feel like there was something else I wanted to say, but can't remember now...oh well! Happy Friday!
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." ~Charlie Chaplin
I'm just super thankful they change the policy in January to single rooms instead of share rooms!
@PartiallyDomesticated We usually get pretty close to our data limit, so that's a good idea to check and see if I can raise it for the month!
Sweet Baby H 12.21.11
Sassy Baby P 03.26.14
Little Brother Due 05.22.17
Ours has wifi but it sucks. And the reception in L&D is no good. Anywhere else in the hospital it's fine. The last time we were in L&D H had to go out to the lobby to make phone calls.
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." ~Charlie Chaplin
For those of you 'in the know,' do those measures sound normal? Should I roll with it, or are those reasons enough to consider just going ahead with the bath?
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." ~Charlie Chaplin
Married 8/27/2011
BFP #1 9/28/2011 DS born 5/22/2012
BFP #2 4/24/2013 m/c 4/25/2013 at 4w
BFP #3 1/31/2014 DD born 10/14/2014
BFP #4 1/20/2016 m/c 2/12/2014 at 7w2d
BFP #5 8/19/2016 DS2 born 4/29/2017
BFP #6 3/7/2018 EDD 11/18/2018
I have long hair and while it isn't thick, there's a lot of it. Its a pretty normal texture, not fine but not real frizzy. It also holds water you like wouldn't believe so it takes a good 45 min to an hour to blow dry.
I used to wash daily, I thought my hair was nasty on the 2nd day. Then I got tired of blow drying it every day so I'd skip a day on the weekends. Well, I noticed if I used mousse when I blow dried (looking for volume!) that it wouldn't seem greasy on the 2nd day and I attempted extending into the 3rd day. I did that for a while and pushed it to 4 days and now 5. I cut the mousse out years ago and around when I was doing every 3 days. It just doesn't get bad/ greasy any more until about day 4. Day 4 or 5 I'll do dry shampoo or baby powder. Now, with pregnancy I notice it definitely needs dry shampoo on day 4, its harder to go as long. Honestly though, your body just stops producing that oil as frequently after time. I also rarely blow dry it now. I go to bed with it wet on wash days. Sometimes it's still to damp in the morning and I'll have to whip out the blow dryer.
1st Baby 5/12/17, Henry
1st Baby 5/12/17, Henry
@nda_roxybabe - so when you were doing mousse did you apply it everyday or only the first day?
Married 8/27/2011
BFP #1 9/28/2011 DS born 5/22/2012
BFP #2 4/24/2013 m/c 4/25/2013 at 4w
BFP #3 1/31/2014 DD born 10/14/2014
BFP #4 1/20/2016 m/c 2/12/2014 at 7w2d
BFP #5 8/19/2016 DS2 born 4/29/2017
BFP #6 3/7/2018 EDD 11/18/2018
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." ~Charlie Chaplin
Me:31 DH:32 Married 11/06/10
DD: Born 8/23/13 (clomid+ovidrel+IUI)
BFP 9/9/16 EDD 5/19/17
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." ~Charlie Chaplin
grrr I wanted to upload the picture I took but mobile bumping is not working still!
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." ~Charlie Chaplin
@RainyDays86 yay for going home! Being able to sleep in your own bed is the best.