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lass and if i had paid 300 for these classes i would be mighty upset it s definitely not worth that amount of money so we finish the class and a couple of weeks after i finish the class i m at home on my ipad looking at pregnancy apps and come across a really interesting app that i proceed to download i download the babycenter birth class application this app is amazing i wish i came across it before i signed myself up to attend the antenatal classes because this app went through everything the antenatal class went through and for me in better detail i can t rave on about this app more first of all you have someone who talks you through the classes so you re not having to read i am so over reading i feel throughout this whole pregnancy there is just more and more stuff to read the app is broken up into sections so you can refer to areas that you really want to know about now or you can just go through the class in order the app is very thorough in covering all aspects of labour as well as post birth they also have a section where you can jot down notes there is also plenty of references to links for further information on certain topics what i also loved is that they did include various birthing videos of various mothers and their stories around labour so labour with pain relief labour without pain relief a c section and i watched all the birthing videos i guess it s because i was more prepared that i was about to watch a birthing video and i was intrigued to see the various labour stories the videos used in my antenatal classes was from the 90 s they were so old the other things i loved is that you can do the app at your own pace and also at a time that suits you and your partner the both of you can watch it at your own pace pause the video if you need to discuss something and when you close the app and open it again it starts where you left off if i had known about this app before signing up to the antenatal classes i would not have signed up to the classes and stuck to just using the app and the best thing the app is completely free to download and because its made by babycenter you know it s a reliable source of information and seriously the app has been put together amazingly i was really impressed so my suggestion if you and your partner are time poor don t want to spend hundreds of dollars and want the flexibility of learning at your own pace and time then i highly suggest downloading this app as it really has all the information you need the only suggestion would be to take a hospital tour which they usually do in the antenatal classes and if there is a breastfeeding class i would also suggest attending that only what are your thoughts on antenatal classes worth attending have you done any online ones such as the babycentre app antenatal classes babycentre app birth birthing video breastfeeding class first time mum ftm labour pregnancy pregnant 2 comments 23 jun 2014 entering the dreaded 3rd trimester posted in third trimester by ftmguide so i have to be completely upfront about this post and confess that the title is misleading when it comes to my own personal experience in regards to my third trimester and my pregnancy in general now that i have finished my pregnancy and have had my little one i would like to let all newbie mothers know that you don t have to expect the worse i entered my pregnancy expecting the worse i swore i was going to be a massive whale by the end of my pregnancy i had only put on 8 kgs please note i m not a skinny person i am a healthy size 12 pre pregnancy i thought i would vomit everyday i didn t vomit even once that i would suffer from heartburn and reflux didn t happen even once that my feet would swell up and i wouldn t fit in any of my shoes my feet remained the same size and no swelling up until delivery date that i wouldn t be able to sleep properly up until i began my contractions i was sleeping 8 9 hours a night but i was getting up several times a night to go to the bathroom and that every part of my body would be sore my back was the only sore area and this only happened in the last few weeks of my pregnancy my third trimester wasn t any of the bad things you hear about i was still sleeping great right up until the end i didn t have any swelling on my legs or feet and the only pains i was getting was on my back and that was because my baby was posterior and really it was only in the last few weeks of my pregnancy the one thing that i did notice in my last trimester is that i didn t have the energy that i had in the second trimester as the weeks went on i didn t have the will to do much going to work was such a hassle every morning and i was so looking forward to my maternity leave i was planning to work up until 3 weeks before my due date but i literally couldn t last at work during the day and found it so hard to wake up in the mornings that i ended up finishing up a week earlier luckily my work was really flexible and was ok when i asked to finish up a week earlier than planned another thing i would suggest you do in your third trimester is getting as much done as possible before baby arrives all those admin things you haven t had a chance to do things you still need to buy for the baby basically anything that needs to be done do them even if you don t feel up to it because trust me when i say this you don t get much time to do anything once baby arrives my little one is 19 days today and i struggle to get much if anything done at times having a shower is a feat in itself so whilst i know many women out there have had a really hard third trimester and pregnancy in general i wanted to let mums to be know that its not always the case that you have a difficult pregnancy just the same way as you don t always have to think you will have a hard labour every women s bodies are different when it comes to pregnancy and labour something i definitely learnt with my first bub baby first time mum ftm help i m pregnant pregnancy pregnant third trimester leave a comment 14 jun 2014 my labour story a lesson in not being in control of everything in life posted in labour by ftmguide we have a girl so i finally had my little angel on the 4th june 2014 at 1 15am she weighed in at 3 04kgs and was 51cm long i have been mia for this reason and i have other topics around pregnancy that i will go back to but i wanted to post about my labour before i forget about it if you think you get baby brains when pregnant i think it actually gets worse once you have your baby my ability to remember things is ridiculous so i went into this pregnancy initially thinking i wanted to get a c section my preconception of going into labour and giving birth was of utter horror and never could i imagine myself going through that kind of pain and agony when i brought this up with my partner we had a long discussion around natural vs c section he wanted me to try and go through a natural birth as he thinks it is the natural and normal way for women to give birth he agrees with a c section only if its needed and required i sat thinking about this dilemma of being scared to death about labour and birthing and doing what i thought was right for my baby everybody has their own concept of what is right for their own child my partner convinced me start researching about labour and births and to find some good stories around labour as opposed to holding onto the bad stories i had heard so i did i googled and looked at blogs and spoke to other mothers to get a wider variety of stories i also began our antenatal classes which was also very informative and factual about birthing and labouring until one day after all that researching and listening i felt confident i felt confident that i could do it and i went from hating the thought of it to looking forward to this once in a lifetime experience i also had my partner by my side who gives me the strength and support that i need so there it was i had made my decision to go natural i began looking at ways to give birth i wanted to have an active labour i practised positions to help me through the contractions looked at various positions to give birth was adamant that i would labour at home as long as possible according to what i read it makes for a faster labour so 11pm on monday night 2 june i had my first contraction it felt like a bad period pain and i hadn t had that kind of pain throughout my pregnancy i remember just holding my tummy until the pain went away i had no idea at the time it was a contraction i went about my business when about 30 mins later the same pain came back i knew something was going on i went to the bathroom and had some blood show i freaked out at that point and called my hospital at this point in time i was 41 3 days so i knew labour was imminent as i explained to the midwife the pain and length of it she then said to me that is a contraction even though i knew it was going to happen any day now hearing those words still sent me into shock it was actually happening now she said to me feel free to call me as they get stronger and closer together we recommend you come in when the contractions are 1 minute in length and 5 minutes apart so began my labouring at home since it was about 1am i thought i could get in a sleep before the contractions got worse so i went to bed the contractions were getting stronger so while i was laying down and trying to fall asleep a contraction would come and i would slowly moan through the pain obviously this would wake up my partner and i thought there isn t any point for the 2 of us to get no sleep so i went to the living room the contractions began getting stronger and closer together and i started recording the time they started coming and the length my partner couldn t sleep anyways as he was worried about me and i guess the reality of a baby really coming hit him at the same time so he came and checked on me throughout the morning finally at about 1pm on tuesday 3 june the contractions were about 45 sec 1 min in length and 5 mins apart we called the hospital and let them know we were on our way so that turned out to be 14 hours of labouring at home the contractions were definitely stronger and more painful and i was gripping and groaning harder to get through them i was convinced that given how long i laboured at home i should be about 5cm dilated and shouldn t have long to go to deliver my baby we get to the hospital and the midwife plugs me into their monitors and checks baby heartbeat which was perfectly normal and strong i just wanted them to check how dilated i was as i needed to call my parents once i was 5cm the midwife checked me and said you are about 2cm dilated i was shocked i said to her that can t be right but she was adamant and i knew she obviously knew what she was talking about but i was really upset knowing that i was so far away from delivering this baby and i was so exhausted already since i didn t get any sleep the night before and with the pains stronger and closer together now there was no way i could get any sleep the midwife suggested having a warm bath and walking around more to get the labour going so that s what i did the midwife said she would check in on me in a couple of hours and see how i was going by this time i had to start using the gas to get through my contractions and it helped to get the edge off the contractions at the beginning at about 7 30pm the midwife came back to check on me and it was 4 hours later from when she first checked on me i was convinced that she was going to say 5 7cm dilated i was anxious to call my parents but kept on waiting until i heard i was further along she checked me again and she said you are barely 3cm i wanted to cry at this stage from the frustration pain exhaustion and pure anxiousness of why things were not moving along even though i felt i was doing all the right things the midwife called my ob and told him my status he spoke to me on the phone and asked how long i had been labouring for by that stage it was 20 hours he said he would come into the hospital and check for himself how dilated i was as after 20 hours i should have been further along by this stage the pain was much worse and the gas was not giving me the kick it was before but i was still holding on and trying to get through them my ob checked and confirmed that i was only 2 3cm dilated he said my options were a break my waters and induce me or b go for a c section now i looked at my partner and whilst i was tempted to take option b i thought we have come this far along we might as well try option a first he warned me that the pain after breaking my waters and inducing me would get more intense and so i requested an epidural because i knew i couldn t handle the pain much worse than now my ob broke my waters and said he would check back on me in 2 hours and see how much i have moved so the pain was at the point where i really really needed an epidural the anaesthetist was in a c section delivery and wasn t going to be able to get to me for another 45 mins 1 hour i take my hat off to those women out there who have been able to go through a drug free birth because for me personally it was one of the most excruciating pains i have ever been through finally the anaesthetist arrives and i worry that because my contractions are so close and i m in so much pain that i wouldn t be able to sit still for the needle i ask the anaesthetist if this will take the pain away he assures me that it would and that i would even be able to sleep for a bit which is what i really need after being awake for over 20 hours the needle goes in and he says it should kick in within the next 10 20 mins and so i wait i had 2 or 3 contractions that tapered down and i thought finally it is kicking in then the 4th contraction comes in and its even worse than all the previous ones and more and more contractions come i m telling everyone at this point that its not working and the anaesthetist puts up the dosage and nothing still the contractions were even more painful and closer together the anaesthetist couldn t believe it wasn t working and didn t really know what to do next the epidural failed by that time over 2 hours had gone by and my ob came back to check on me to see how dilated i was once again he checked and confirmed what i didn t want to hear you haven t dilated since i last checked i just wanted to cry at that point by that time the ob checked on the baby and saw some distress and made the decision that i needed a caesarean as he didn t want to put the baby under any further stress so off they want to prep me for surgery by that time my only concern was the baby and the need for me to go through a natural labour went out the door i just wanted a healthy baby any which way they had to do it a feeling of calm came over me knowing there was some sort of solution and that it was going to happen very soon they took me into surgery gave me a spinal tap and i couldn t feel a thing my eyes were wide open and f...
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