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enque:
Hello Mum

I have the following to give out to anyone who really needs it.

A pack of avent disposable breast pads
Double Electric breast pump - Bought and used it for my first child in 2016 but didn't use it for my 2nd cos I used a manual pump.
A pair of Nipple shields

enque:
Hello Mum

I have the following to give out to anyone who really needs it.

A pack of avent disposable breast pads
Double Electric breast pump - Bought and used it for my first child in 2016 but didn't use it for my 2nd cos I used a manual pump.
A pair of Nipple shields

I’d really appreciate it if I can get the electric breast pump.

Towerofgrace:
Hello mama, if it is for weeks better you see a pediatrician, when my son had cough and catarrh that lasted over a week the Dr had to prescribe some drugs/antibiotics cos it wasn't easing out and he said it was already infection, so pls see a Dr immediately but make sure to cover baby well and avoid direct fan on baby

kokaiye:
babies and cattarh/cough yi shaaaaa!!! N d worst tin is dt u absolutely cant do anythin to mk it go away immediately... U can only mm attempt to mk d symptoms mild till the catarh run its course ooo... Just get ori and baby menthol eub it on its chest, under his feet( wear socks 4 him), on his hands (wear him mittens so he doesnt rob d menthol on his eyes) n rub on top n round his nose n if u can gt nasal spray, use it 4 him... My 6months old son too have cattarh (my fault... Didnt cover him well wen we went out into d winter... Didnt know its gonna b so cold outside)... We hv bein battling it 4 3days. Unfortunately, cant get raw sheabutter here, so i use baby rub n humidifier 4 him... I am getting nasal spray today... Doing everything possible to mk him feel okay... May God help us.

Layormiii:
I use agnesia bathing soap and original village Shea butter for him. The way his skin is glowing 9 weeks now and no rashes Or any outbreak atall

ladyrachy:
Am also wondering the same tin too,seems one twin is hiding somewhere. Some people are asking if av put to bed whether its one or two. As if na dem be God, some human beings sha,I call those type womb watchers they can tell when ure in ur ninth month. Yeye witches and wizards mtcheew.

Hamzashaf99:
Slow, painfully slow. I can't imagine how it would feel to spend two more weeks like this

ladyrachy:
Baby dancing,I fit knock my hubby if he nears me oo. My belle is long and big for a ftm oo

Layormiii:
For June mamas who's BA we haven't seen yet, how's it going, how's waddling, the lord is your strength. I know how this period can be, be strong.

Mysamuels
Duduke
Slayingjo . I believe you've delivered your beautiful twins already
Abaksbaby
Hamzashaf99
Darida .........
Morrewhunmie
Jozaki
Who is missing oh

Layormiii:
B.A
Oh dear Lord, I am a mother!!!!
My baby is here! .
He was born yesterday
via emergency CS.
This is so surreal, I am a mother .

Angel2424:
I just thought to share this here. I went for my 1st antenatal yesterday. Told the doctor I have been taking pregnacare and he said if I want to continue taking it, I should make sure to also take folic acid separately as the folic acid contained in the pregnacare is not enough for a pregnant woman. So ladies taking pregnacare, you may want to check this out with yout doctors as having enough folic acid is important for baby's brain development.

mzMerci:
BA!! BA!!
June mamas, I don born o
37 weeks 1 day via Emergency CS
Details later

mumplenty:
BA(birth alert)
I hereby announce the birth of my prince
Charming by 3:10pm
Dob--june 6 2022
Edd--may 20 2022
Birth weight--5kg
The whole family is doing well
BS very soon
Cc_june and may cappo

#God of complete project

Patience is the key[color=#000000][/color]

Layormiii:
TEAM JUNE AKA TEAM FOR #SUPERNATURALPREGNANCY AND #SUPERNATURALDELIVERY #TEAMEASYDELIVERY

JUNE ROLL CALL!

June is finally here!!!! The long awaited June is finally here!! Happy new month everyone. May this month be a month of joy and laughter for all of us ijn.

This journey seemed far, but we kept on pushing, with joy, with tears, with happiness, the day of strength, the day of no strength, finally we are here. Father Lord, we thank you for the journey thus far because it is not by our power nor might that we have come to the month of our supernatural delivery but for your mercy and favor that you have shown us, accept our thanksgiving in Jesus mighty name.

I say a big congratulations to all of us team June, e no easy buy here we are, our testimonies shall be permanent and people shall rejoice with us in Jesus mighty name.
I believe our hospital bags must have been packed and ready in preparation for the arrival of our little ones by now. Please let's also endeavor to put things in other, like finalizing our leave(for both civil and private employees), start exercising for easy delivery and oh yes we can now eat fruits and foods that aids easy birth( like eating pineapple, dates, zobo, drinking ewedu or okra) whether it works or not I don't think there's harm in trying it.

There shall be no loss amongst us ijn, we shall all go into the labor room and come out alive and with our babies alive too IJN, we shall all come back to share our beautiful BA's and BS ijn, none shall be found wanting or missing among us ijn. Our delivery shall be easy, short and painless IJN.

First time mamas like me, please no dulling o, when u see signs of labor, better to go to hospital and get checked and sent back home to come later than to sit at home and be forming pro.
Tohhan please let's hear from you. How is it going? The lord is your strength and you shall share your testimony ijn . Yaaaayyy nah u wan open floor for us o

I really appreciate all of my teamies for making this cappo work easy for me . Thank you for mentions, replies to roll calls, show of love etc
Grateful also to everyone (our experienced mamas) who have contributed immensely on this thread and made(still making) it easy for us all, may the good Lord grant you your heart desires in Jesus name.

Let the BAs and BS begin in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
May our deliveries by swift and complication free in Jesus name.

Roll call::

1. Nyphemiett

2. Mysamuels ............ June19 ...... XY

3. Tohhan .................. June 8 ........ XY

4. Duduke ........…....... June 29........XY

5. Slayingjo ............... June 3 .............. XY XX

6. layormiii ............ June 11............. XY

7. Tomblessings .......June 1..... ....... XX

8. Abaksbaby

9. Hamzashaf99 ....... .. June 28

10. mzMerci

11. Darida ..................... June 16................ XY

12. Morrewhunmie ..... June 30 .............. XX

13. LholarB ..................... June ............... XY

14. Fumbaby: ................. June 26

15. Cedarlivia : ............... June 11....... XY


Can't wait to start reading everyone's BA and BS... Chaiii my heart Is so full

Pweetiebabe:
check if u can get GINT water flask, it's expensive but very good my own do retain hot water for more than 3daysl

Comanche:
B.S. - (PT 2)

When I got home I didn’t bother going in, I told hubby to sharpaly go and cook a bowl of ewedu for me and I started climbing the stairs in our building. When I got tired I went inside to drink the ewedu, eat more pineapple and dates. Then hubby and I went out for a walk. I read that curb walking is more effective than normal straight walk. So that’s how I started walking round the community, one feet on the curb and the other feet on the road. People driving by were just giving me looks like who is this weirdo . I didn’t even look at them me that contractions was hitting back to back every 4 minutes. But in retrospect I really must have looked really weird with my big jilbab and my tamurege one-leg-up walk by the roadside .

After I got tired we made our way home, it was around 5pm at this time. When I got home I just knelt on the floor, pick needle and thread and started putting finishing touches on my baby’s coming home outfit. For my mind my baby must look good for his hospital photoshoot. Contraction was every 4 minutes now and anytime it hits me within that 40 seconds I’d fling the cloth away and pick it back up for the remaining 3 minutes and 20 seconds break in between.

Hubby kept saying we should go back every time I shouted with each contractions but I refused, I went back outside and continued climbing the stairs. By 7:30PM the cramp was just too intense for me I shouted for hubby and said oya let’s start going o.

We got there and I was hooked back onto the monitor, after my V.E they said I was at 4CM. Ye! Moku! Just 4CM since morning after all my wahala and I’m already seeing stars. At this point they came in and offered me epidural. Note that since my 34 weeks my OB has been asking me if I’d be willing to take the epidural but I always refused point blank. But with the pain I was experiencing I changed mouth and said they should just prepare it for me. That I might take it or not depending on how far I can go with the pain.

A nurse came by around 11PM to examine me and I was still at 4CM. She told me if I don’t make significant progress the doctor will have to break my water and also induce contractions. At this point I knew this idea of being plugged to the bed wasn’t working for me. All these while the nurses kept coming to check on me and offering me the epidural. It got to a stage it was annoying sef abi something else is there ni I said I don’t want . So I called the nurse and told her I want to be mobile and try to exercise. So she had to go get me a monitor with wheels I can move with, and she also got me a bouncing ball for exercise. I started alternating between walking round the room with hubby pushing the monitor beside me, bouncing on the ball and rocking on the rocking chair in the labour room. But I still felt like I could do bettter. So I called the nurse and asked if I could go out to the lobby for walk. She said she’d have to go ask if that is allowed cause it is unusual for people to be walking up and down the lobby.

She came back and said it was fine. The first thing that struck me when I got to the lobby was how quiet it was. Imagine a labour ward being as quiet as a graveyard while people were actually in labour. These people are bout the soft life o. Dem done sama dem epidural dem just Dey enjoy. Me I just started walking up and down the long lobby. In fact every nurse that saw me and hubby was always so startled like it must have been very unusual for them. They must be thinking that which kind sufferhead human being is this .

After about 2 hours of alternating between walking, bouncing on a ball, and using a rocking chair I was checked again and AlhamdulilLah 6cm already. The nurse who checked me said whatever it is I was doing I should keep doing it. I continued with the exercise but by the time it was around 3AM I was too tired and in pain. I decided to leave Superman for Clark Kent so I succumbed and requested for the epidural . And also agreed to get IV for fastened contractions and to burst my water.

The epidural was injected into my spine around the lower back and within a few minutes the pain of contractions started easing off and my leg started feeling numb. Almost immediately I feel asleep feeling so tired and relieved to be free of pain after 15 hours of labour.

When I woke up around 6 am I could see they were about to set up the line for fastening the contraction and burst my water. At this stage I only felt a slight tingle in my body from the waist down. I couldn’t move my legs and they felt bloated when I touched them. Just as they were about to burst the water, I heard the nurse telling my hubby that ‘oh look that’s her water gushing out itself’, the water had broken itself. I kept sleeping and waking up at intervals until I was finally woken around 10:AM to the news that I was 10CM and set to start pushing.

About 8 medical personnel trooped in and the lead doctor inclined my bed and placed my legs in stirrups that were attached to the lower part of each side of the bed. That way I was on my back and my legs were wide open to them. I was worried about how I was gonna push and even know I was pushing when all my body was dead from the waist down. They told me not to worry that I’d be coached.

After everything was set for labour I was told that once the contraction hits on the screen I was to talk a deep breath in then push out the breath as hard as I could as if I want to poop. Then they asked if I wanted to watch myself push the baby out. I said yes, so they brought in a tall large mirror on wheels and placed in a convenient position where I could see what was happening down there.

Then the pushing began. There were 5 rounds of pushing all together with three pushes per round. First round nothing happened, second round just blood came out. At this point I noticed I was getting more distracted by me looking at the mirror. So I stopped looking at the mirror and focused more on pushing. I was also given a towel to put under my knee and use it to pull my legs towards me while also raising my back as if I wanted to look in between my legs as I’m pushing. By the third round the head was showing at the entrance. The doctor shouted ‘mama look at the head he has a full head of hair’ I looked and truly all I could see was a little round spot with matted hair blocking the entrance of my vagina. I was so scared at how small it was because I had a funny dream a day ago where I saw myself give birth to a baby the size of a big lizard . I started thinking maybe I shouldn’t have dismissed the dream and now it was happening in reality.

By the fourth round the head moved out more. At this point all the medical personnel was giving me ginger with chants of ‘Yes mama. You can do it mama. Just a little more to go mama’. I didn’t feel the baby come out, I only heard that much talked about shrill cry of a newborn. I was scared to look at what I birthed but when I looked it was a normal sized beautiful boy flailing his hands and screaming his lungs out. His body had a reddish tinge to it and his head was abnormally shaped like a cone. The doctor said it was just from him coming out of the jajaina and that it would go back to a normal round shape. So silly me that thought his head was small like a lizard didn’t know it was only a part of the head that had being compressed by the walls of the vagina . Also his voice was kinda hoarse, it wasn’t all this sweet ‘wen wen wen’ cry. In my mind I was saying see his strong voice like correct agege boy .

I didn’t really feel anything or show any emotion at that point of birth cause it seemed like I was in shock. Turns out I had a second degree tear and a ruptured blood vessel. The doctor brought out the placenta and stitched me up. I didn’t still feel anything as the epidural was still in effect.

After he was cleaned up a bit they brought him to me for some skin to skin and asked me if I want to try breastfeeding him before they carry him to the nursery. Breastfeed ke, when our coconut water was on standby in our bag . I refused and told them to please excuse us as we wanted to have some personal time as a family. As soon as they were out fiam, just like smuggled contraband hubby whipped out the feeding bottle containing the coconut water and shook it into his mouth. He sef drank and started smacking his mouth .

After that he was taken away to the nursery and I was wheeled to the maternity ward. 30 minutes later he was brought in to be nursed and I tried for about 10 minutes and It was at this point that the real madness started. The epidural had started wearing off at a fast rate and the craziest pain I have ever felt in my life hit me . My stomach was cramping as if I was being stabbed, my back from the middle up to my bottom felt like it was being pounded and my jajaina was aching me powerfully. I started shouting and crying and twisting. I couldn’t sit I couldn’t stand. I told them to return baby to the nursery immediately. Imagine me that didn’t even cry or shout during labour. I was told the stomach pain was from the uterus shrinking as I breastfed, the back pain was from the epidural, the jajaina pain was from the stitches. I was sha given some pain meds that took off the pain for a while .

Pain update: My stomach cramps stopped after the third day, back pain still comes and goes if I stress myself and jajaina pain is ever constant and pressing. Sorry for the long post, I too like gist.

The end.

CC. Uche23, Trippleblessing, tomblessings, morrewhunmie, mummytoo

Awesomejah:
Paracetamol is safe for headache during pregnancy. Before you take any other pain killer, do ensure to check with a medical personnel first.

Layormiii:
This heavy rain started and finished on my head. all because I go buy gown for photoshoot

Comanche:
B.S (Part 1)

First I give praise to Almighty Allah for giving me the grace to share this story.

So this mama had always wanted to give birth at her 41st week due to some personal reasons. My due date was April 26th and I stubbornly refused to set my heart on that date despite warnings from hubby.

So I kept pushing a lot of things that had to the with the birth forward so as not to induce labour as if I was in control of the date. As at April 26th my EDD, I had not even finished making my babies outfit and I was still holding off on eating pineapple, ewedu, and dates as advised by other mums.

Hubby finally had a veteran mum speak to me regarding my lackadaisical attitude and she advised it’s better if I start taking these things that’d make delivery easier now rather than later in case baby decided to come before my preferred date so I don’t end up regretting. I sha listened to her and went to buy 2 big pineapples and a bowl of dates and started eating them aggressively from the night of 26th. In fact I ate pineapple and dates only all through that period morning and night for my fast - not just for the labour - but more because I had deprived myself of pineapple all through my pregnancy (because I heard it might cause miscarriage in earlier stages) and now I wanted to binge eat it.

Note that on my 39th week appointment when I was already 1cm, my OB and hubby ganged up against me and said I’d probably come in for delivery before the 40th week appointment day which fell on the 28th of April (2 days after my EDD). When I kept insisting that lailai she said anyway whatever happens she won’t let me go beyond my 41 weeks day. So if the baby follows my chosen schedule I have to set a time to come in for induction on that date.

On the 26th day, I had no feeling of labour and I was feeling fly. 27th day, still nothing I was still jumping up and down . In fact by the night of the 27th day I was just running my mouth off to hubby about how he and the conniving doctor will be so disappointed by the time I show up for my appointment tomorrow morning at 40 weeks+2 days

Anyway the next morning (28th) which was my clinic day, I woke up and was having pain in my lower region. I wasn’t worried because of recent I always have pain in my pubic region when my bladder is full in the morning and I have to get up from the bed with great difficulty. Anyway I went to the bathroom to pee, after finishing my business, I wiped and ghen ghen I saw blood .

I was calm, so I called out to hubby in his sleep and said start packing it’s time for the hospital. Poor guy was confused thinking it was clinic, I said oga na the real deal be this. We are going to the hospital not the clinic.

Note that I already got some heads up from a neighbor of mine who gave birth 2 months ago in the same hospital I was to use. She labored for over 24 hours trying V.D before they had to do emergency C.S for her. When I got to the emergency section of the hospital, a wheelchair was brought for me but I refused and said I wanted to walk in. At this point I had started regretting holding things off and was looking for every means that would make labour easier for me. Even if na that small walk upstairs that’d help baby come out faster. But the attendant refused and said it was hospital’s policy for me to be wheeled in. At this point I hadn’t started feeling painful contractions. I sha got on reluctantly and was wheeled into a labour room.

Then I was told to take off all my clothes and put on the hospital gown then lie on the bed. I asked the nurse that se everything including pant? She said yes. I said but I’m still seeing blood so she gave me a white towel to put down there like a pad.

A medical personnel later came in and examined me and she said I was still 2 centimeters and all we have to do is wait. So she connected me to the monitor and I could see my baby’s heart rate and my contractions on the screen above. Then she said If I have any questions or need help or have any concerns I should dial the line for the nurse. At this point my people, I have started getting painful menstrual-like cramps every 6 minutes .

Hubby had gone out to buy coconut because I have read and seen mums whose babies were affected by colic. After doing a search through Nairaland for preventative measures I could see that coconut water had the highest vote. But we didn’t want these medical personnel to know cause they are funny they could decline and maybe even put you under watch/radar for baby abuse. So hubby and I had devised a plan for giving the baby the coconut water as the first liquid after birth.

I got to the hospital by 9 am, when it was 1:00pm and still no movement from 2CM and pain was getting higher I called hubby that I want to go back home and start walking and climbing stairs o. This one these people just put me on top bed as if I dey bedrest. I don’t want this labour to lead to a C-section. Hubby agreed. So I called the nurse and told her to inform the doctor I wanted to leave for home.

About 5 medical personnel walked in. My people, turns out my conniving clinic doctor was also on duty that day in the hospital . She was one of the doctors that came in to attend to me and had a funny look on her face as if to say Se I no tell you, then she said smiling “darling here you are, turns out your baby wants his own date and not mummy’s date” . Me I was just like wo I don’t have time for story Abeg discharge me fast fast.

They sha talked to me and said I don’t have to go if I don’t really want to, I said no o I will go o. So they gave me 4 signs to check out for and come back if I notice any of it. 1.If my water breaks 2 If baby moves less 3. If the contractions are too intense. Then my conniving clinic doctor said “Who knows your baby might hold off till May 3rd” . I no even look her face, I sharpaly signed the consent form for discharge and quickly vamoosed outta the hospital. At this point, I was still stuck on 2cm, contraction was coming in every 5 minutes and lasting for 30 seconds - Omo that 30 seconds be like jahannam (hellfire) - and I wanted to quickly go and apply fire brigade approach at home .

Layormiii:
happy new month wunmi mama

mzMerci:
June people, abeg, am I the only one with feeling of heaviness in my vagina I had the feeling in my first trimester and it’s back now.. feels there is weight on my vagina

Omakraid:
Hi ma,is it that the ewedu helps to prevent tears as well?

Comanche:
Hey mums,

I just saw a post on Instagram on how okra helps prevent tear and baby literally glide out of the Jajaina (probably due to its slimy nature). Can mums share more insights into this and how it’s used.

Layormiii:
My June mamas how una dey? Chaii e no easy ooo. Just checking on everyone ni jare.. me sef just dey low-key

Nyphemiett
Mysamuels
Tohhan
Duduke
Slayingjo
Tomblessings
Abaksbaby
Hamzashaf99
mzMerci
Darida
Morrewhunmie
LholarB
I love all of una