Any other expectant Dads?
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LittleBigPlanet said:
LittleBigPlanet said:
36 weeks and counting here - 23/03 is deadline day!
Top tips from those a few months in?
Correction...Top tips from those a few months in?
Scan yesterday and the docs want to induce on Tuesday next week. Baby LBP has dropped in terms of percentiles (50th>30th>15th or less) which has those in the know wanting to induce and get him out.
Like another poster here, you wouldn't know that my wife was pregnant, bar the bump. We were both also small babies (6lb) so always thought that a smaller baby was on the cards. The choice is ours to move to induction of course but it seems like the best thing.
Thinking that I had another three weeks (we are 37 weeks tomorrow), I've not even produced a handover of sorts at work yet!
Weird feeling, driving to the hospital knowing this is it.
Gents, any advice for baby monitors? I've been tasked to look at them and was wondering what to look for? Best to have a video monitor downstairs, I read some have a temp gague and stuff? Do they all also need a power supply as I'm decorating the baby room at the minute and could fit both an ethernet cable and an extra plug socket near the crib if needs be.
richatnort said:
Gents, any advice for baby monitors? I've been tasked to look at them and was wondering what to look for? Best to have a video monitor downstairs, I read some have a temp gague and stuff? Do they all also need a power supply as I'm decorating the baby room at the minute and could fit both an ethernet cable and an extra plug socket near the crib if needs be.
I've got the iBaby M6S, it's good quality and the night vision is good - but I don't think it's much different from normal WiFi cameras. You can listen in, and talk to the camera and play music.. So these are positive but I've not tried them yet.
Anyone else's little one (ours is 4 months) HATE traffic? Literally slowing down to traffic lights (if he's awake) he starts whinging, if we stop he starts crying, actual traffic is a nightmare.. I think he gets it from his Mum
richatnort said:
Gents, any advice for baby monitors? I've been tasked to look at them and was wondering what to look for? Best to have a video monitor downstairs, I read some have a temp gague and stuff? Do they all also need a power supply as I'm decorating the baby room at the minute and could fit both an ethernet cable and an extra plug socket near the crib if needs be.
Just my opinion, but don't bother with any of the advanced stuff, it's just more stuff to stare at whilst fretting about every blip. Also some of the alert alarm sensors have a lot of false positives, and whilst some people think that's a small price to pay, I'd rather not move to immediate defcon 1 and s
te myself every other night thinking the baby has stopped breathing when in reality he's just arched his back off the sensor for 5 seconds. Audio is a great sense to use for alerting because as a parent you can attend to other things, so the audio-only listening devices work well enough (and are like a tenth the price of some of the whizzy systems designed cunningly to appeal to male gadget buffs who can hang out in that aisle in mothercare whilst 3 generations of the family's womenfolk talk bedding colourways). With visual media, you need to actually be looking at it, so it is a bit distracting. Jonnny said:
Anyone else's little one (ours is 4 months) HATE traffic? Literally slowing down to traffic lights (if he's awake) he starts whinging, if we stop he starts crying, actual traffic is a nightmare.. I think he gets it from his Mum
Yes. Ours did that. He'd start grumbling below 50mph and outright erupt if we stopped. We broke down once while he was like that. It was not fun. Obsolutley fine at 70mph on the motorway for hours though.
We did used to think he liked the noise (had a 3.0 Legacy R at the time) but he'd do the same in the Leaf too.
Babies are odd.
Merry said:
Jonnny said:
Anyone else's little one (ours is 4 months) HATE traffic? Literally slowing down to traffic lights (if he's awake) he starts whinging, if we stop he starts crying, actual traffic is a nightmare.. I think he gets it from his Mum
Yes. Ours did that. He'd start grumbling below 50mph and outright erupt if we stopped. We broke down once while he was like that. It was not fun. Obsolutley fine at 70mph on the motorway for hours though.
We did used to think he liked the noise (had a 3.0 Legacy R at the time) but he'd do the same in the Leaf too.
Babies are odd.
I visited a friend when my son was around 3 months old. A typical 45 minute journey involving the M25 and M4.
I got stuck going both ways.
The screaming is horrific as you just can’t do anything to help.
Revving the engine wasn’t going to fool him.
Better when there’s two people in the car as one can at least reach over to try and distract baby but on your own you’re stuck.
Luckily it’s just a short phase and seems a distant memory now.
Little one loves a trip in the car and goes ‘weeee’ when accelerating, makes car noises, points to sheep and dances along to the music.
richatnort said:
Gents, any advice for baby monitors? I've been tasked to look at them and was wondering what to look for? Best to have a video monitor downstairs, I read some have a temp gague and stuff? Do they all also need a power supply as I'm decorating the baby room at the minute and could fit both an ethernet cable and an extra plug socket near the crib if needs be.
We've got a Motorola video monitor, picked up in the Black Friday saleIts all I've known, so vs an audio only one I can't compare but then I know that when I was a baby everything was audio only and I'm probably fine.
We don't tend to actively watch it as much as we used to, its on when we're downstairs and we listen out for it, but we can look over and see what she's doing if she starts to make noise, most of the time we can satisfy ourselves she's self soothing and all good, if she makes noise and then stands up, we know to go and see her.
KTF said:
SunsetZed said:
On point 2 just ask them why they didn't do a better job of getting their kids to sleep / behave well enough to allow them to sleep?!
Haha, good luck asking anyone with a small child why they don't do a better job of getting their kids to sleep... Because its a super easy thing to achieve, right?
Waters broke at 0130 this morning after a 2nd sweep yesterday morning at 1030.
Wife is having 1 minute agonising contractions every 4 minutes.
We did go the hospital this morning who had her on a machine to measure the contractions and tested to make sure the waters had gone but said take an hour walk around the hospital at 0530 but my wife wanted a bath and we only live 1 min away.
I’ll keep this updated if I get signal I guess to give an insight of what some of you have to come.
Wife is in excruciating pain atm. Will be taking her back the hospital in a minute.
Wife is having 1 minute agonising contractions every 4 minutes.
We did go the hospital this morning who had her on a machine to measure the contractions and tested to make sure the waters had gone but said take an hour walk around the hospital at 0530 but my wife wanted a bath and we only live 1 min away.
I’ll keep this updated if I get signal I guess to give an insight of what some of you have to come.
Wife is in excruciating pain atm. Will be taking her back the hospital in a minute.
CharlieH89 said:
Waters broke at 0130 this morning after a 2nd sweep yesterday morning at 1030.
Wife is having 1 minute agonising contractions every 4 minutes.
We did go the hospital this morning who had her on a machine to measure the contractions and tested to make sure the waters had gone but said take an hour walk around the hospital at 0530 but my wife wanted a bath and we only live 1 min away.
I’ll keep this updated if I get signal I guess to give an insight of what some of you have to come.
Wife is in excruciating pain atm. Will be taking her back the hospital in a minute.
ah good luck!!! It is a bit of a waiting game right now unfortunately. Hope she's good to go by the time you get back in.Wife is having 1 minute agonising contractions every 4 minutes.
We did go the hospital this morning who had her on a machine to measure the contractions and tested to make sure the waters had gone but said take an hour walk around the hospital at 0530 but my wife wanted a bath and we only live 1 min away.
I’ll keep this updated if I get signal I guess to give an insight of what some of you have to come.
Wife is in excruciating pain atm. Will be taking her back the hospital in a minute.
Well it’s been a hectic few days, but our new baby girl made it into the world on Monday after being induced Sunday. We were delayed being induced by a day as like Blown2cv our 3yr old son caught chicken pox a few days earlier (timing). That was horrible to go through, didn’t fully appreciate how unwell it can make kids feel on top of the itching.
We had a protracted couple of days as the inducement actually did very little, as did a manual water break early Monday morning. As nothing was happening after a couple of hours OH went on the dreaded drip to kick off contractions, which really got her down as she wanted to avoid it. However things then went from 0-100 in no time and active labour was about 20 mins (caught the midwifes by surprise!) Best analogy I can think of is it’s like jump starting a car with NOS. It was also a fantastic surprise to find out it was a little girl as everyone was convinced boy, OH really wanted one of each so she’s delighted.
Anyway we’re safe at home now, going through the trials of trying to breastfeed properly. Catching up on the thread I see others are going through being induced, feel free to tap me up for any info. Exciting times lay ahead!
And good luck CharlieH89!
We had a protracted couple of days as the inducement actually did very little, as did a manual water break early Monday morning. As nothing was happening after a couple of hours OH went on the dreaded drip to kick off contractions, which really got her down as she wanted to avoid it. However things then went from 0-100 in no time and active labour was about 20 mins (caught the midwifes by surprise!) Best analogy I can think of is it’s like jump starting a car with NOS. It was also a fantastic surprise to find out it was a little girl as everyone was convinced boy, OH really wanted one of each so she’s delighted.
Anyway we’re safe at home now, going through the trials of trying to breastfeed properly. Catching up on the thread I see others are going through being induced, feel free to tap me up for any info. Exciting times lay ahead!
And good luck CharlieH89!
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