UmmuFarrah:
Congratulations to our new mummies and babies. God's really good.
Please I wanna ask what you guys think about chicken pox during pregnancy coz what I saw on Google is really disturbing me. Although I'm already on medication as I've been to the hospital but the thing keeps coming out more and more. I'm really afraid, I hope it won't have negative effect on my baby.
Also, both my breast is so full, heavy and painful as if I just started weaning ( the same feeling weaning gives) coupled with cold and slight temperature. What can I do again apart from the medications I've been using. We're 22 weeks now. Please I'm in pain

Hi mama, sorry to hear about your chicken pox. Please do NOT Google it anymore. I had mine when I was 17weeks, and it was a rubbish feeling. Chicken pox is a viral infection so I had all the symptoms you mentioned, cold, fever, swollen tonsils, painful breasts, sore achy joints and all, it will pass with time.
Glad you're already taking some medications too. As for the effects on the baby, honestly the risk is very low, mine was fine and I pray yours will be as well. Aameen. You can go for extra scans when the spots has scabbed over. I had monthly scans until 36weeks, just to check the baby was OK. Hope that helps.
On another note, my consultant told me, second trimester is the best time to get chicken pox so you and baby will be fine. Efokanbale. Prayer always helps as well

Omakraid:
BS! BS!! BS!!
Get ready, it's going to be a verrrryyyyyyyyy long ride...

Been TTCing since we got married but we had issues with doing the do as hubby was a V (innocent bro) so we just dropped baby issues jare until people started asking questions (his people o) so we resumed trying. Fast forward to 2020 around August, I missed my p and ignorantly washed off my baby with the delicious, well flavoured zobo I prepared myself .. I had terrible cramps and passed out tissue, the blood wasn't here (that was the last time I tasted zobo till this month).. I had infection, treated it and we continued trying...

Nov 2020, started having weird dreams of bleeding. Like I would dream I'm sharing the good news of pregnancy with hubby and in that same dream I would start bleeding and the next day in real life I would start bleeding (the exact consistency and volume of blood would be just as it is in the dream) . Didn't take it serious that Nov until it happened Dec, I started waking up in prayers, Jan same and I told hubby and we started battling it together, Same February (what's going on we've been praying na) but we did not relent. March came and it was as if my prayer would never be answered but God did answer. I had a dream where I was on a bed in a strange room and while wondering why I was there I saw ropes on the floor and a candle lit by the bed.. I decided to burn the ropes gradually with the fire from the candle but while about to do that a strange hand grabbed the rope and was holding what it called my womb, turned it upside down to drain the content and was trying to tie it in my presence. I started praying and calling the blood of Jesus in that dream and the hand dropped all and disappeared. That was our victory though I know there'll always be battles.

God answered us with my March LMP/April ovulation but hubby and I treated Staph Aureus just after I ovulated (I told the doctor that I just finished ovulating but he said I shouldn't worry) and took very strong injections which I think caused the MC I had in June, I also had recurrent fever (which I was scared to treat) so I don't know which one in particular caused it. The foetus dropped in my toilet after terrible hours of pain and I dipped my hand, brought it out and took it to the hospital where I was sent for scan which showed remnants that needed to be expelled (I remember also asking questions and posting the picture here). After the painful evacuation, I didn't even have power to cry or brood though my heart was heavy, I just wanted to move on and I gave thanks to God because He did it and would do another. I went to work the next day as I didn't have strength to sit and let the devil bring in unholy thoughts into my heart even though I was still in pain from the evacuation but anything asides sitting at home was better for me.

‌My mind was also made up to start immediately even though Google said whatever. I went for a scan which showed infection after I completed the antibiotics given at the hospital and I got another set of drugs which cleared me and we started again. God came through with the July LMP and here we are..

First trimester was with mild symptoms, no vomiting or spitting except that I was always feverish which I ran quickly to get a test done at 8 weeks and it was discovered to be typhoid but my doctor treated both typhoid and malaria and also placed me on duphaston.... Around 11 weeks I started going everywhere with two food flasks, it was as if I would die if I didn't eat. Also had this terrible cough they would cause pain in my ribs, drugs didn't work but thank God, honey and warm water did. Registered for antenatal at 16 weeks and I was given Amalar, prenatals and my first TT injection and that was when my woes started.. The prenatals got me into a vomiting spree (I think it's cos I used them together instead of using them at separate times) and even when not used. Sometimes I'd just be feeling sick and feel like putting my hands in my throat to empty my belly.. My appetite also dropped from 2 food flasks to 1 and I was also managing myself while watching my weight cos I was almost breaking their scale at the hospital (me that use to be tiny)... The doctor would also wondered why I don't usually have complaints whenever I meet him cos plenty scans even before pregnancy said there's fibroid somewhere (but e no concern me, me I no get am) and he said the fibroid he thought would disturb me isn't disturbing, I didn't even answer as I know I don't have it. Heartburn was the order of the day cos rice o, swallow o, fruits o, even water o gives me heartburn.

Third trimester knocked with pelvic pains, plenty heat, blackness on my neck with plenty rashes, cough and little cravings... I never get satisfied if what I eat is not what I'm craving but I managed around it as money was overflowing to be eating cravings up and down (irony). Mind you I was still very active at work with climbing of stairs as the order of the day.. FF to 36 weeks and I had this terrible cough induced Rib-like contractions, i couldn't do anything but groan like one in labour (mhen what kind of labour happens in the ribs), had an x-ray done, there was nothing so I was given injections and pain reliefs..
Was very hopeful that labour would start before 40 weeks but for where, no show oo. Zeal to exercise went down to zero though i still took walking serious, dem say pineapple and dates dey help, me na so so mango I dey buy, how I go con do na? Doc said he'd sweep me at 39 wks, I no remind am thinking labour will start before 40wks, lailai. I had the sweep at week 40 and was hopeful of positivity. 40wks 2dys, saw mucus plug and was left hanging again. Did all I could do so I don't end up getting to the 41 weeks but it seemed my baby was enjoying the taste of the mangoes I was always taking. Took dates, pineapple, zobo yet there was no painful contraction just the braxton hicks... I called my doctor he said I'll come in for induction that Saturday but we couldn't go in on Saturday so we went on Sunday @41wks 1dy as I didn't fall into labour at all... That morning I was feeling this deceitful painful contraction and I called the doctor, he told me to come to the hospital that I'm not going back home without my baby.. Hubby and I left in the evening. On getting there my vitals were checked and my cervix was checked, cervix hasn't started opening (Yeeh), The doctor lectured DH about induction and how it sometimes ends so that he can be open to the outcome, he then broke Misoprostol into 4 and put a very tiny piece inside somewhere I can't remember the name after which he told the 2nd doc to check for dilation by 1:30am (Monday after 6 hours). I went back to the ward, I was exercising while gisting with hubby and when I was tired I laid down.. Wanted to pee but discovered I couldn't so I told the 2nd doctor who inserted my catheter and a urine bag. Lest I forgot, I also saw blood while in the hospital there.
Baby's heartbeat was also being checked frequently and it was consistently OK until around 1am when it was checked again, it started well but suddenly started dropping and becoming faint. My gynae was called and he came in immediately checked me and I was only 2cm dilated after 6hrs of groaning, he checked the heartbeat too and we all heard it. He told us we have to go straight into the theater as the baby’s life is very important right now.... Sharp sharp I was shaved and headed to the theatre even when hubby hadn't finished signing the consent form(since he had consented with his mouth).. Entering the theatre and lying down, everyone got busy that was when Gen went off, the doctor shouted what happened (the one who ought to get fuel didn't remember to get it, their solar too didn't come on and I heard him tell everyone one to bring out their phones. I was given general anaesthesia so I didn't know what happened again.. Hubby witnessed all cos I had already spoken to the doctor thinking it would be VD and I had also told him to behave himself so he's not sent out. So he was allowed to stay and watch through the curtain partition in the theater.

I woke up in the ward feeling dizzy and asking for my head and hand to be adjusted, I was seeing hubby faintly and he was telling me the baby is here with joy oo but I kept requesting for adjustment. I forgot I was there to give birth, it was later when my brain processed the whole thing I remembered and asked him for a picture of our baby which he showed.. It was when my brain was clearer that he told me of how the baby was brought out not breathing and the doctor had to start blowing air and tapping her seriously. He said the doctor repeated the action again and again until she cried or is it whimpered but with the way she was breathing, her respiratory tract had been blocked by whatever she swallowed and on her own she cant supply her body oxygen that will go round so she needed to be assisted using oxygen. She finished up 3 small tanks and continued with the biggest oxygen tank as her level on and off the tank was being monitored, no food or glucose water sef cos they said they didn't want anything interrupting her airways due to the was she was breathing.. She was just getting skinny and skinny, always crying that I had to use pacifier to keep her calm sometimes (baby that came out weighing 2.5kg oo)

Before, during and after the whole thing, they didn't even request for deposit until Tuesday afternoon when they wanted to bring in a paediatrician to also check her. Her Oxygen level increased from lass than 40 to 46 to 60 something and 70 something... The paediatrician said until we get to 93 and above and it remains consistent without her being on oxygen, we go nowhere... After much complaints of how skinny she is and that her cry that can wake a small village, I was eventually told to express milk in her cup from which 30ml was measured and she took 22ml. Next dose is in the next 6hrs (at least half bread is better than chinchin), she took 24ml at the next dose and gulped it all at the next one. I complained again abbot's the timing was reduced to 4hrs but same 30ml, I complained that its not enough that she's dehydrated and its the reason she started having fever (her temp would rise to 38.5 in the afternoon) then the pead said we should express and give her when she's hungry. I said OK but when she was hungry, I covered her with the blood of Jesus and sanctified the breast milk and gave her directly, that was what I did throughout the night, when the 2nd doctor came in the morning I told her what I did and she said okay, my main gynae came and caught us sucking then he monitored her breathing while feeding and said we should continue and that was how my angel whose body was almost drying up started regaining flesh gradually.. All this while the oxygen thingy was on and off so that her level will be monitored but she was placed on one more small tank.. Her afternoon rise in temperature still persisted and they had to change the antibiotics being given to her to some very painful ones which got us massive improvement. As of yesterday without man's oxygen, she was 93 and this morning her reading was 95. My baby is now looking like a baby. Her naming was done in our ward (we are the only occupants) this morning with just 4 of us in attendance (DH, self, MIL & our senior pastor).

Thanks to everyone who made my stay in this preggers group eventful, it was worth it..
Thanks to my DH too (we were preggy together), even in this our hospital omugwo, I comot cap for him.. Sometimes he looks at the baby especially when her vitals goes low and feels like crying but just man up, me I cried when temperature refused to go down and I was like God has given you to us and won't take you away from us and by the grace of God we will be going home tomorrow.

I pray God will deliver all mums here safely without complications by His grace and bless the womb of every GTC mums with their own testimonies..
Please manage this small story of my life...

Cc Cappo Expectantmom

Wow what a BS! Congratulations to you and yours once again, may the joy be permanent lagbara olohun! Aameen.
Your bs made me so emotional and brought back memories. Exactly what happened when I miscarried my pregnancies, after TTCing for a while.
The first one I had a dream, I woke up to use the toilet and saw blood! Which was exactly what happened. The second one, I dreamt I miscarried again and when I woke up... a fi bi edi, found out I was constipated, so I strained so hard(like I didn't know what I was thinking), and I passed my baby out in the toilet and that was it! I still can't stop blaming myself for that.
That was when dh and I realised, it was TIME to move closer to God and fight this battle. Thankfully we did, and I got pregnant with my rainbow baby, 2/3weeks after the last miscarriage! No af, nothing!And here we are with number 3!
Ehugs to you mama and to the princess. Ogun to ti she koni gberi mo lagbara olohun. Aameen.

Congratulations to all the new mamas, may God bless the little ones and make the rest of the journey easy for the waddling mamas. Aameen!

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

Interesting  , congratulations mama, Baarakah lahu feekum

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Omakraid:

Amen to the prayer ma'am. Thanks to God for taking control all through, its really a testimony..

Can you please share the name and location of your hospital as it could help those in that location. They really did a good job

Thanks mama.

It's a local hospital here in the UK

My BS
This was an eventful pregnancy for me. I'll try to keep it as comprehensive as much as possible.
We decided to start trying for baby no 3 after our youngest 4th birthday. It took a few months before it finally happened.
My first trimester was a very calm one, I had mild nausea, vomited like 3times and I could eat the food for the whole house!!
2nd Trimester came, and at exactly 17weeks, I woke up with some nasty chicken pox rashes, I had no idea how I contracted it at all, probably at work and it wasn't what I had as a child too, so it was such a dangerous one for my baby, apparently the baby can be born with so many defects because of the virus, so I was moved from my community midwife to the consultant team at the hospital, as soon as the spots scabbed over. I started having monthly scans and extra checks just to be sure my baby wasn't affected by the virus and thankfully everything looked OK. Then at 24 weeks, I caught covid again! Kolohun shaanu! It was a very horrible cold, headache, blocked nose and every joints in my body were sore. I was so sad as I didn't know why everything was happening during the pregnancy �.
Covid done and gone, third trimester came with the pains/waddling and discomforts, then I started getting extremely thirsty, like I could drink LOTS of water in a day! I told my midwife at my next appointment and she sent me for a GTT ( glucose tolerance test) and when the result came back positive for gestational diabetes, it was as if my freedom and pregnancy was snatched away from me!! My sugar level was so high which was very bad for me/ baby as so many things could go wrong during the pregnancy/ childbirth, if my levels wasn't managed. Especially when I was told about the risk of shoulder dystocia/ stillbirth and all, it was so overwhelming.
I had an appointment with the diabetic team, where I had a chat with a dietician on my diet and food that I need to start eating, I had to cut all sugars from my diet and I was given my glucose monitor, where I had to be jabbing my fingers and be checking my sugar levels 4times a day! So my freedom to eat whatever I wanted was snatched away from me at 28weeks.
I cried so much the first time I did the finger prick as it was just too much for me. Dh went grocery shopping and I started my GD( gestational diabetes) diet the next day. At this point, I asked God for strength and put everything in his capable hands.
For weeks I was eating the same food everyday, and despite everything, my sugar levels were fluctuating so I was started on Metformin and as the pregnancy was progressing, my levels started rising again around 37weeks ish so I had no choice than to let the diabetic team know and I was started on night time Insulin at 38weeks.

After my 36weeks growth scan, induction was discussed as they were worried the baby could get too big if I reached 40weeks and there was a risk of shoulder dystocia. We agreed on me, getting induced at 40weeks exactly but to have stretch and sweep from 38weeks. The first one didn't work as my cervix was posterior and thick, so I started walking, doing more house chores and bouncing loads on my birth ball as I was hoping that could make a difference. Fortunately, when I went for my second sweep on the 28th April, my midwife was able to give me a nice sweep and contractions started few hours later. I still wasn't sure if it was the real deal starting, so I decided to manage and see if there'll be a progress. I couldn't sleep at all during the night because of how painful the contractions were, and when we woke up for Suhur( Ramadan pre dawn meal), I had to call the maternity triage unit and was asked to come in ASAP. When I got there and I was examined, the midwife said I was already 6cm! But my contractions were still irregular and sac was still intact. When the drama started, I asked for some sort of pain relief so I was given gas and air, which took an edge off the pain. It wasn't enough for me as the contractions were getting more intense, so I asked for for an epidural and before they could call the anesthesiologist, the midwife decided to check me and saw that I was fully dilated so it was too late for any epi. My sac was broken and after pushing for almost 47mins( wallahi), my prince came out, very chunky, screaming his lungs out, weighing 3.79kg! And every pain, tears, needle pricks, insulin injections, all the aches, the tears, the fears and the emotional roller coaster floated away like it never happened. I calculated it and saw that I jabbed my fingers more than 250 times during the course of my GD diagnosis, and that's minus the insulin I had to inject on my thigh every night as well. Kasha ma dupe.
Alhamdulillah Robbil ahlameen.
I wish all the waddling mamas easy and swift deliveries. May Allah Azzawajal answer all the prayers of our gtc mamas. Gbogbo wa lama Jere omo wa lagbara olohun. Aameen
Cappo@Expectantmom.

BA! BA!
Alhamdulillah!!
My prince arrived this morning, weighing 3.79kg at 39wks 2days. I'm absolutely over the moon!
@Cappo Expectantmom and my fellow May preggie mamas, I don port o! Bs later
May Allah make the rest of the waddling easy for all the preggy mamas and grant you all swift deliveries. Aameen.

Ps: Pregnacare definitely works as he was born with a full curly hair

Omakraid:

Teamie, thank God you are fine now. Ensure you still get enough rest please

Trying to, thanks sis
Hope you're all very well too?

Expectantmom:

Sorry mama for all you had to pass through but I'm very happy little one and mama are both ok. Please take good care of yourself and eat healthy.

Thanks sis

Expectantmom:
TEAM MAY OTHERWISE KNOWN AS TEAMPERFECTION!

FEBRUARY ROLL CALL FOR TEAM MAY.

Hello teamies! How are we all doing? Please let's start talking and chatting with each other because that is the main purpose of this group and our seniors have been excellent in helping out with some concerns and advice which I know most if not all of us appreciates.

I will lead by example by providing Little one's gender and I'll like us to follow suit. I'll try as much as possible to always update our roll call till the end of every successful birth because the Lord has perfected all that concerns us, He will surely see us through alive and healthy.

I hope we have started shopping for baby's things(I have and almost done)? Please let's endeavor to do so before we become heavier which would then become harder to do. For those who are going through financial challenge, may Almighty God miraculously surprise you beyond your expectations and He will make things easy for and on us.

Furthermore, please let's take our antenatal drugs seriously and also eat healthy like eating fruits no matter how little it is.

Lastly, God Almighty that has brought us this far will see us through. None among us shall die nor have a still birth. We shall carry to term and people shall rejoice with us very soon in Jesus name.
NAME...........................GENDER....................EDD

#teamperfection.

Thanks for the mention Cappo and Aameen to all the prayers. Hope you're all OK too?
Sorry I've been so quiet, it has been an eventful few weeks, had chicken pox, then Covid but baby is healthy/kicking Alhamdulillah and I'm much better too.
Sex is XY, I've started shopping in bits but hopefully should be done in few weeks.
May Allah make the rest of the journey easy for us all. Aameen

Expectantmom:

Eyin temi bawoni se wa elelelelelelele se wa. May mamas how are we doing and hope little ones are baking well? May Almighty God make it easy for us and give us the strength to carry to term.

Hi sis, please add me to team May Edd is 4/5/2022.

zaynie:




Nostalgia.......
It's been 2 faithful years.
Hbd to Niyyah's independence baby
Hbd in advance to our October babies

How time flies ehn, thanks sis, God bless you

Mama zaynie, pls i am still waiting for the feedback, kindly check your whatsapp

phlakkeys:
B.A.
This is to announce the birth of my ebony princess but then, The Lord gives and takes.
I thank God for me being alive.

Big thanks to my e-family.
I appreciate all the mentions, prayers and the e-love.
Will give full details when I come back to join, or when I see isues like mine raised.

So so sorry dear, may almighty Allah give you double for your loss, affliction shall never rise again In Shaa Allah , take heart pls, may God be with you and comfort you.

Graciouscharis:
Good morning everyone.
I had my baby around 7am on the 11th.
I typed my BA several times but the mobile network in the hospital was very bad. Just got home yesterday night. Will send in my BS soonest. Thank God it ended in praise.

Cc phlakkeys

Congrats dear, may God bless your lo

spiceeamiee:
*sobbing*.. I want my old life back!!! . Thank yoh all for the kind wishes on my BS. Wish i can mention everybody. For the remaining July mamas, easy peasy delivery.

Still Preggy mama's, enjoy each moment now o. Nobody tells you anything about the stress of vigilante. In all, we bless God. I have a few questions so mama's if una wake up, make una respond o.

1. Mama's that had CS, how long before your tummy started going down? Did you use a post partum belt/abdominal binder? If so, when after CS did you start using it and what brand(s) did you use? Also did your legs remain swollen after your surgery? How long before my legs no longer feel like tree stumps? Cc @hunniesuzzie and other mama's that had CS.

2. My baby can suck for Africa! I stopped formular feeding two days ago and now my nipples are the most painful. It was so painful this evening that i could not give her to suck. I had to go back on my word and give her formular and now my husband won't talk to me, says why should I give her formular , that i should endure . I have Lasinoh nipple cream and I apply every 2/3 hours but my nipples are still sorest sore. What can I do?

3. I wasnt given any drugs for my baby from the hospital, asides from the few drops they gave her after delivery due to the trauma she encountered. Now my mom, sister and sister-in-laws won't stop pressuring me to buy this vitamins and that vitamins. Please should I buy ? They said Abidet, Baby Vitane, Panda syrup, gripe water etc. Which and which am I supposed to buy? I called my doctor and he said best practices dictates not giving medications to a child unless it's absolutely needed but the people around me dont want to hear, even hubby sef so make una advice me abeg.

PLEASE DON'T JUMP AND PASS O!

Lol at old life back , sorry dear, for the cs stf, other experienced Mamas would give you inputs on that,
I also experienced the sore tips thing with my dd, but all I did was to continue to allow her suck and that was what healed it, although the nipple cream also helps too but you still have to keep putting her to breast, would be painful but it will heal,its a phase that will pass too

I was also told at the hospital too that u don't give drugs unless it's absolutely needed, my mum even bought all the said drugs but I refused,i mean y should she be given those drugs when she's okay, you just have to try and convince them pls. The only thing I think you might need for now is the paracetamol(panda) for immunization ish, other sabi Mamas would help too.

Sansa143:
I am here 2day only bcus of His love,i am alive 2day only becos He kept me!Dear mamas join in singing praises to the Lord!This is my 29th year on earth,it can only b God and am also blessed wit dis cute dude,I couldn't have done it on my own!Thank you Lord!

hbd mama, more prosperous years to come In Shaa Allah.

spiceeamiee:
This is exactly what happened to me just slight difference. Please dear, don't see that 15k as waste of money. If your Lo did not move on the scan machine or CTG, no be that 15k matter you go dey talk. Just tjank your God.bLet me kukuma use this opportunity to share my BS.

BS! BS!! BS!!
So Thursday 6th of July, woke up feeling normal. Went to work in the heavy rain. However, I noticed my LO's movement was very light. More like flicks and flutters. I can fairly predict her movements as I have been keeping count with Kickcounter App since 25weeks so the App has given me a fairly accurate description of her movements which works. However on that day, the whole thing was just somehow. Hours on end without movements and when she would move, it was so light that i could have missed it if I was not paying attention.

So I closed from the office and was contemplating going to the hospital as the next day was my ANC but I decided to go. Got there and saw the doctor at emergency and told him. He said it's normal for baby's not to move regularly in late trimester but just to put my heart at rest, he would check. My sister's, that's was where the devil lost the battle. Doctor checked with that their horn thing and the Doppler. Nothing. He did not find any heartbeat. He was trying to assure me that everything was fine but I could see he wasn t so sure. He called one of his colleagues and that one asked us to come upstairs. By this time, I called my hubby to start coming. The second doctor checked, nothing. Two senior matron checked, nothing. They dragged the scan machine upstairs and checked. My people, no heartbeat was found. The scan machine did not pick my jewel' s heartbeat. See me, I was crying like a baby. One of the matron told me to start praying and declare that i can't come this far to go back empty handed. I just started saying there shall be no loss over and over again. I don't even know what to pray. Then one of the doctors suggested (I'm Yoruba) that they should go in on me but the other one said he wont because he thinks it's an IUD (intra uterine death) but that instead they should give me something to push out the baby. The other matron then responded God forbid (God bless her soul) and she started saying this woman will have her baby. They were saying all these in Yoruba but I understood perfectly. By then i and my husband were a bumbling mess. The doctors then called their CMD. He had already gone home but they told him its an emergency and he came. This was 3hours later. No heartbeat found for 3hours. The CMD then came and checked again with the Doppler and the scan machine. He checked for over 15mins and he was just sighing and sighing. As he was about to turn off the machine, he saw something flicker on the screen and then he started to count it but it was so irregular. He said madam, I have to go in on you now. I don't like the count of your baby's heartbeat. If we havent been able to find it for four hours, I wouldn't want to wait any longer. I just said please do what you have to do. Just save my baby and that was how I entered the theatre. After she was brought out, they had to run series of tests to make sure she was really fine and Monday while we were being discharged, the CMD told us that if any of his colleagues had told him that they delivered a healthy baby that had no heartbeat for four hours, he would have thought they were exaggerating and just said we should thank our God.

My dears, whatever stage your pregnancy is, if you feel something isn't right, it probably is or isn't but don't joke with it. Have it checked out. The hours between 6-10pm of 6th July is not what I would wish on anyone. I could have given my heart and left breast just to be told all was fine. In all, I'm just grateful my baby is here, sound and healthy.

Congrats teamie, may God bless and keep her always and may she be a source of joy to you and your family .

Loisemm:

This is the true son of his father.
Well done, Benny.

Niyyah , I love that cute smile on your baby girl. Congrats. As for your toddler thinking she is a teddy to play with, na their way.

:Dthanks sis

Deezou:



Congratulations dear sis,may Almighty Allah bless your dds

Ameen, thanks dear, how have you bin? And your ds too?

eksbabe:
Congrats teamie, but i missed baby's picture oo. Share again na

Thanks sis,done

Mzleemah:
Niyyah barakallahu fihi, that smile is heavenly to her

Ameen, jazakillahu Ayran sis

Prettyhurts:
Niyyah your daughter love Nigeria oo, see the way she's smiling. Awwn... She's blessed. Congrats dear..

Congrats customised87. May your lo be a blessing to you and your household.

Ameen, thanks mama

Liftedhands:
Awww niyyah she's smiling already? She's cute congrats.


Customised87 congratulations and yeah I can so relate to that labouring and cs ish! It is well all the same. My love to your little one

Thanks ma

Goodmorning Mamas, thanks for the best wishes and congratulations to those that have given birth, may God bless your Los and answer all our prayers too. I am very sorry for the late bs, it hasn't bin easy, taking care of an hyperactive toddler and a newborn with little help.

Bs.

On the 6th of July, been my dhs birthday, I decided to give him an early birthday present with jigijigi with his preferred style (reversed cow girl-i am never going to try that
during pregnancy eva again),fast forward to 30mins later after the jigijigi, I started having contractions, frequent but painless so I thought it was bh contractions and I ignored it since I was only 38wks+ and I actually had my first at exactly 40wks. That same day been my antenatal, the doctor decided to check me Cus I told him I was contracting, Lo and behold, he said I was at 4cm and I should send for my hospital bag that he was going to admit me(that was around 11am),I told him okay and left the hospital with Dh,i dropped my dd at home with her nanny and my sister, so Dh and I started walking, we trekked for almost 2hrs and I also did my squats too, around 5pm, we decided to go bk to the hospital, I was at 6cm when I was checked but the contractions were really irregular with mild pain, and the sack was still intact too, I was admitted and was told to lie on my left for faster delivery, then I was given the almighty oxytocin but I wasn't really feeling much pain(God really answered my prayers) as I was gisting with Dh and the nurse, fast-forward to something around 8/to 9pm,the doc came and said I was at 7cm and my membrane was ruptured, that was when the contractions with pains started coming in waves but it was really bearable probably because Dh was with me encouraging me and massaging my back when the contractions came, around 10pm I started having the urge to pee and poo at the same time, I jumped off from the bed and I peed on the floor, then I refused to go back to the bed, the matron was begging me to please lie on the bed and not push while standing and that I might have plenty tear if I push anyhow, I told her to get her hands off me that is it her bombom that will tear? Dh too was begging me, and I answered him with a stare of life, then he left(he actually told him he has never cin that deadly stare before that he got scared and had to leave).
I was forced to the bed,then asked to push when the contractions comes, after like 4pushes with poo of life, my princess came out crying her lungs out, I was stitched because she gave me a little tear. I want you all to please help me bless and thank God on my behalf as the whole pregnancy and labour was hitch free, no Ms, no complaints ,fasted through out Ramadaan, And healing has been great too. The only thing left now is how I can control my dd, cus she thinks her sister is a teddy that she can touch and poke anyhow.

All thanks to the amazing Mamas on this thread especially the ones that keeps the thread very active and alive,may Almighty God bless and reward you all abundantly. I have and will continue to gain a lot on this thread even though I belong to the peepers association.
Supernatural delivery to the remaining pushing Mamas and may Almighty Allah in his infinite mercies grant all the heart desires of our atc sisters too.
Cc capo phlakkeys, God bless you sis.

BA

Alhamdulillah robil ahlamin,my princess came yesterday(also dhs birthday) at 10:27pm weighing 3.5kg via vd with little tears. Bs later.

Cc capo phlakkeys

phlakkeys:
Yippee! Its our month of PERFECTION.

If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, now may #TeamJuly say;
If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us:
Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.

TEAM JULY ROLL CALL
1. oyinmama -------- EDD 26/7, Port to 9/6, Bouncing Baby Boy, BA&BS seen. Hello our #TeamJuly first mummy! How are you &LO?
2. maureensylvia - EDD 3/7, Port to 12/6, Bouncing Baby Boy, BA&BS seen. Hello ma! Hope you and LO are fine.
3. mojeco ------------ EDD 5/7, Port to 21/6, Bouncing Baby Boy, BA seen. Waiting for BS. Congrats ma. How is vigilante going?
4. nneejima -------- EDD 9/7, Port to 26/6, Beautiful Baby Girl. BA seen. Waiting for BS. A big welcome to 1st #TeamJuly Queen.
5. clinik -------------- EDD 4/7, Port to 27/6, Beautiful Baby Girl, BA seen. Waiting for BS. Welcome our 1st Princess. Congrats ma.
6. lululuv ----------- EDD 9/7, Delivered 1/7, Bouncing Baby Boy, BA seen, Waiting for BS. Thanks for opening the month ma. Congrats
7. spiceeamie ------- Team XX, EDD 29/7
8. eksbabe ------------ Team XY, EDD 19/7
9. Bbglory-------------- Team XY, EDD 14/7
10. chocome ---------- Team XX, EDD 17/7
11. phlakkeys ------- Team XX, EDD 31/7
12. nana228 --------- Team XX, EDD 20/7
13. Niyyah ------------ Team X? EDD 15/7
.

Thanks for the roll call cappo ,God bless you, Ameen @prayers and supernatural delivery to us all.

missmalachi:
B.A
My princess came in this morning 2nd july.

My due date according to scan was june 26 while lmp was july 1st.i was hoping for a june baby but at the same time scared of passing my due date since it happened with my first.
I went for lecture july 1st towards d end of the class i just remembered that i haven't felt kick at all.i left immediately and quickly drove home then took my bath and pack my hospital things in d car since hubby is not around n my mumc can't drive shld incase.on getting to hospital, doc examine d heartbeat and it was ok but that he will have to admit me since am due and movement has reduced.on getting to labor ward,the doc der checked me and said i was already 3cm.i  was given a room and i and my mumc started gisting.an hour later doc came in again and checked that i was 4cm and that he will allow labor to progress on its own till morning. By 1.30am a nurse came to wake me, an Enema was done and after 5min i went to download poo of life.an injection was given to me in other to make contraction stronger but contraction refuse to be strong (note i was busy praying that i will contract without pain and declaring the prayers in d e-copy of supernatural birth book i have).

By 5am d nurse came to check me and i was 6cm and that d cervix ws thick and baby head was still far and that she will have to gv me d almighty hot drip.around 6am she brought d drip and administer it,Immediately the pain came from no where and i just reminded myself that i can't feel pain cos i wanted supernatural delivery.when ever d pain comes i hold my mum tight and start speaking in tongues and praying.15min later i told my mum i want to poo that she shld press d bell for the nurses to come.she did but non was coming so she had to go and call them.i told them baby was coming and she said its is not possible that i shld calm down let her check me....b4 she could bend i already push d head out and d next contraction d body came out.
Glory to God...no tear no episotomy


This is how we do it way back 2015.....b.a comes with pix

Awww Lil cutie with plenty hair Congrats dear, may God bless and protect her, may she be a source of joy to you and your family.

clinik:
BIRTH ALERT
Thank God our cappo said porting is allowed,i bless God for d grand entrance of my princess at 12.03am....mum and baby are doing well,just a bit tired.

Congrats dear, may she be a source of joy to you and your family

phlakkeys:
Big congrats to Team June mamas.
Who are we that God is mindful of us, that He heard us when we call Him?
Jehovah overdo, we say big twale for keeping us this far.

Its certain that some of us will port to this month and we are glad.
We come against any form of loss e.g. life, blood, etc. and pray delivery shall be complication free IJN, Amen.
We pray that whelther we port or wait till our July, mother will be alive, baby alive and father rejoicing with plenty money.


TEAM JULY ROLL CALL FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE 2017.
1. spiceeamie ------ Team XX, EDD 29/7 How are you doing ma? How far with the rhogam injection?
2. eksbabe ----------- Team XY, EDD 19/7 How far mama? I hope you are still walking straight with your big bump? How shopping?
3. nneejima ---------- Team XY, EDD 9/7 Hello ma, how is the contraction been managed? Pls, try to rest more. You're in my prayer.
4. Bbglory------------- Team XY, EDD 14/7 Yhello mama, how is the ministry going? Hope you are keeping strong.
5. chocome ---------- Team XX, EDD 17/7 How are you ma? Are you still feeling heavy? It will soon end in praise.
6. lululuv -------------- Team XY, EDD 9/7 Hello ma, how is the shopping going? Were you able to get the sebamed oil and soap?
7. phlakkeys --------- Team XX, EDD 31/7 To God be the glory. In all, I still have joy.
8. nana228 ----------- Team XX, EDD 20/7 Hello mama, how are you and how is the ministry going? It is well with you ma.
9. Niyyah -------------- Team X? EDD 15/7 Yhello! how are you ma? You didnt respond to last roll call. I hope you are fine ma. Its well.

Thanks cappo mi for the mention,God bless you,we are doing very fine o,counting down in days already,alhamdulillahi,how have you bin too?sorry that i dint respond to the last roll call jare,i don't know y i haven't bin getting my mentions,Seun pls epp!na team surprise i dey o @gender.
Ameen @prayers,May we all deliver with ease In Shaa Allah.
nneejima i thank God for you teamie,there shall be no loss In Shaa Allah.#TeamJuly#

phlakkeys:



@spiceeamie, someone wan use you to enter through the back door
@customised87, I beg enter swaggaliciously and register for #TeamJuly, by providing us your EDD and lo's gender

@Our April mamas, who don offload, we say congrats

@missmalachi, we are patiently waiting for the 4D scan , hope you are good. Pls, how is our mama @Niyyah doing?
@divie, we are waiting for next scan too. Hope you are good
@niphmmy, I pray God will make ways where we least expected
@lotannad, how are the twins and your small bump , I pray God will see us through successfully. Pls, come update us with gender.
@nneejima, Niyyah, Enkaylala2, Burntcoal, and hernyhorla, how is the ministry going? It's been a while we've heard from you. Hope all is well. Pls come and update lo's gender.
@all#TeamJuly mamas, how are we doing?

#TeamJulyforstrength, #TeamJulyfornoloss, #TeamJulyforsharpsharphebrewwomendelivery.

Thanks for the mention cappo mi, God bless you. we are very fine o ,Alhamdulillahi, I have just been too lazy to type
I am going to update los gender as soon as he/she opens yansh,would be going for another scan next week In Shaa Allah#TeamJuly#

phlakkeys:
Congrats to cappo Sixx and other mamas.


Felt it won't be nice if team August roll call comes before ours so I decided to do it for now.
ROLL CALL TEAM JULY 2017
1. spiceeamie ---------------- Team ??, EDD ??
2. eksbabe --------------------- Team ??, EDD 19/7
3. nneejima -------------------- Team ??, EDD 9/7
4. Bbglory ----------------------- Team??, EDD ??
5. chocome --------------------- Team ?? EDD ??
6. lululuv ------------------------- Team ?? EDD ??
7. phlakkeys -------------------- Team ?? EDD 7/7
8. nana228 ---------------------- Team ?? EDD 20/7

Hi Teamies, how are we doing? Hope we are gradually defeating MS. We should be in our 2nd trimester by now and we must have registered for our ANC. I took my 1st TT & malaria tablet yesterday.
I understand we can't see baby gender yet but let's supply our EDD.

How far with the headache, pains and swelling?
How far gone are we with shopping for baby things?
How far with our bumps? Am sure some of us are already showing.

Please, if you are team July and i didn't add you here, kindly mention me to include your name.
May God bless our Dh, keep our pregnancy safe and healthy and give us strength to carry to term, Amen.

Ameen. @prayers
Edd/july 15
Pls add missmalachi too
Congrats sixx, God bless your lo