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Please why do mothers that just gave birth have to drink hot things only what’s the correlation between stomach and uterus? I’m tired of scalding my tongue o

March mummies please drop BS oooo please ooo before we sign out

africaflozy:
It happens at times. I can't remember the week, for like two days my baby was not kicking like he should but i have heard it severally that it happens so I was not bothered. I only decided that if it continues till third day I will go for scan.
You can get the Doppler mama talks about or you should go for scan if there is no changes.

so far there’s movement it may because of his fetal position but so long as there’s movement

Haryanphe:
Congratulations teamie, welcome to the world our prince. I think am the only March left oooooo

no jor

MomoAdura:
I'm telling you. Herself and Oke try no be small. No leave us wey remain ooo.
Congrats once again.

Tinudesi:
BA BA
I welcomed my prince charming at the early hours of today 12:30 at exactly week 39
Baby weight:4kg with tears
Mum,son and dad doing well

yaaay I’ve been waiting for you my darling

Tinudesi:
Is someone also in my shoes.Scan dates keep changing although baby is fine but I keep wondering what makes it change o.Its now April again.What to do o

ha April ke

4th trimester is something else I’ve barely had 8 hours sleep

indian03:
There is everything wrong with herbs! Especially during pregnancy. Pls herbs is not safe during pregnancy. This is medically proven. You can ask a doctor

ok

DNA07:
B.A!!!

EDD: 21/03
Delivery: 22/03
My baby boy arrived 6:10am today weighing 3.5kg with little tears.

BS coming soon...

#teamMarch

yaaaayyy

Fruit4me:
thanks for checking on us. I’m so lonely and basically all by myself, dh is not around, he travels all year always busy. I don’t want to go to my mil because I’m scared of her herbs. I don’t like my antenatal clinic, the nurses are so mean, I can’t wait to take my final injection and Move to another clinic. I have been indoors feeling so emotional and I sometimes cry myself to sleep pls I want to buy pregnacare plus and start taking, will it be okay?, I was even telling the nurses my drugs is finished and they didn’t even answer me.

please change your hospital ASAP, also there’s nothing wrong with herbs I took herbs till I was 40 weeks I believe it prevents big baby, my baby was 3kg at birth

redsocks:
Birth Announcement!

EDD: March 16th
DOB: March 19th
Surprise Baby Gender: XY ( I went shopping for XX )
We are all doing great!
Cappo please update

tanks to God

Hello mamas I was banned after a very long week I’ve been discharged we had to do an exchange blood transfusion for my baby it’s been a long ass week I’m so so happy to be home with my prince the coolness of my eyes tanks to almighty

Teetopic:
I don't even understand again, what's with this antimalaria drugs and jaundice am seeing here and there? I'm in my 35th week now and I've not been given any anti malaria drugs in my clinic and I don't feel any malaria symptoms. The only drugs asides the routine drugs given at my clinic is Sunday Sunday tablet which sometimes I don't remember to collect, but we're being told that it prevents jaundice.

I heard so too

zaynie:
Good evening mamas.

Concerning neonatal jaundice, another culprit is oxytocin which is used in inducing labor.
I found out about this after my first child. His was mild. For the next 2 deliveries, I wasn't induced and none had it although by the 4th day it seemed my 3rd child was getting yellower than normal. I breastfed her heavily till she pooped A LOT, she pooped lots of black poop and then yellow.
Then the yellow in her skin faded away and she was more active.


The yellowish skin and eyes is as a result of bilirubin in the blood, the best way to get it out is to feed baby continually till baby no longer poops black or brown but only yellow.
Don't wait till milk comes out before you feed the baby, at most by the 24th hour, your baby should be eating so that it can start excreting the bilirubin out.

Note that before birth, the only organs doing any serious work is the brain and the heart. All others are just cruising and heavily dependent on the mother. As such some of the organs such as the lungs, kidney and the liver experience a shock as they have to now do more work.
Don't put unnecessary pressure on those tiny organs by giving them drugs or agbo from birth.

so are there better options than oxytocin?. Almost everyone in my ward had jaundice

Goldie50:
Good day Mamas. I'd like to say this for the malaria drugs in pregnancy. I'm a Parasitologist. And malaria is caused by a parasite that I studied. It is called plasmodium. In pregnancy, this parasite can be very bad. They gather on the surface of the placenta and affect the fetus. They can cause fetal loss, low-birth weight and maternal anemia.

So, WHO recommends that pregnant women living in malaria-endemic countries (like Nigeria) should be given malaria drugs from their SECOND TRIMESTER whether they have malara or not. . This malaria drug is for prevention NOT treatment. It doesn't matter if you're down with malaria or not because Nigeria has mosquitoes. It should be taken two or three times from the second trimester. It is given during antenatal. They call it Intermittent Preventive Treatment of Malaria (IPTp or SP). It is usually fansidar. You swallow the three tablets at once.

Please, let's endeavour to take this drug from our second trimester. If your doctor doesn't mention it, ask him or her about it. It is WHO's recommendation.

Malaria in pregnancy can be fatal. Sometimes, the mother may be fine, but a lot is going on with the placenta and the fetus. This is because the malaria parasite usually cluster on the surface of the placenta in pregnant women. Thereby affecting the food supply of the baby and leading to low birth weight and other issues. Please, the drug is not for treatment. It is for prevention. Let's try to take it.

Thank you

nicely done and very informative

Oliran:
Thanks for the response ma'am, I am rhesus-ve and I took Rhogam with my first child, this is my first time of hearing ABO incompatibility, I wanted to be sure it isn't Rhesus incompatibility.

May God help us with all these orishirishi compatibility issues.

sorry I can’t stop laughing at the last line

dunpredictable:
Mogbe! Why do you think so? How did you manage yours?

my baby is actually not big at 34 weeks he was 1.7kg

dunpredictable:
Please what can one do/take to reduce lo size. Mine seems to be on the big side. Lol

I doubt it could be reduced o

Oliran:
Mama please what's the Rhesus factor of you and your hubby?
I mean are you O+ or O-

rhesus is different from ABO incompatiblity

Rekhi:
God bless u million times for this...was about writing this wn i saw ur input....Wondering where these mamas got their fact that malaria drugs should be taken compulsorily during pregnancy,even when u ain't having malaria...I don't take any malaria drug during my LOs pregnancy(why should i do when i have no malaria?)..and there was NO jaundice..

lol I’m sure the malaria drug was for some specific reason because you didn’t have doesn’t mean everybody’s pregnancy babies or blood group is same. Please please women let’s all do whatever we are told to do during our ante natal.

MamaOO:
For both of my kids, it was caused by ABO incompatibility. I’m blood type O, my husband is blood type B and both my baby boys came out sharing their dads blood type B. During pregnancy and birth, the mom’s immune system might detect the baby’s unfamiliar blood protein antigens and create antibodies to fight the unfamiliar protein in the baby’s blood. This immune response causes the baby’s red blood cells to break down after its born and that’s what causes jaundice in babies who’s blood type is different from their mom’s.

I really appreciate your explicit response we’re currently facing this and an EBT has been done. I’m stressed but I’m hopeful

africaflozy:
I am changing hospital now because someone told me she used the place for her two kids and she is no longer using the place now because their negligence is too much...

I’m very thankful I changed hospital too. Honestly

africaflozy:
Mamas please help me shook mouth o...I am just confirming now that anti-malaria drug is important o

I have never taken one since I got pregnant, I thought since I didn't have malaria there's no need besides this yeye doctors didn't say anything and because of that I have planned to register in a good private hospital tomorrow

Please, is it not too late to take anti-malaria drug now that I am 38weeks

I am not happy right now

haaaa how didn’t you take you’re supposed to take it 3-4 times before you born

Tinudesi:
Divine healing for our prince.I pray my lo is fine I no gree use antimalarial o the second dose I would have taken I vomitted it since then I did not use it again it is well Sha.

please use it and get dymaprim I heard it averts jaundice

africaflozy:
Please, don't take too much zobo o, I heard it reduces baby's size.
That long aspect ehn, the remaining few weeks be like months for my eyes no.its well with us

small size equal less tear but I doubt that theory sha I tried reducing I still got 3kg

sweetlady4real:
Hello mama, how are you and LO doing this morning ? Your baby will be fine . The light therapy is one of the treatment given amongst other treatments. Yes, I didn't like it too, it seems too much for a new baby coupled with the fact that their eyes has to be covered and all. Jaundice treatment can really be tiring but at the end you will laugh. Make sure you ask questions to be sure the level is reducing. The level and response to treatment will determine how soon you will be discharged. Make sure baby feeds well either way, this also helps.

My DD2 had it so bad that she had exchange transfusion. She is a rainbow baby and i had her through ELCS, so you can imagine what I went through. We were in the hospital for 2 weeks and 2 days after her birth.

Stay strong mama, there is light at the end of the tunnel, you are not alone. Soon you will be home with your baby and everything will be in the past. When I started getting agitated then, my dad told me to calm down because I also had it as a baby .

Sending love, light and plenty hugs to you.

wowwwww thank you so much mama kisses to your LO

Tinudesi:
@oke how is our prince doing now.Quick recovery ijn.
Experienced mamas should enlighten we ftm what causes jaundice in babies.At my clinic they said not taking antimalarial drugs causes it.How true is that cos I only used it once in the journey of this pregnancy

I heard about this anti malaria but I never missed my drugs at all not once though a week to delivery the weather brought on a lot of mosquitoes so it could have caused malaria for me

MamaOO:
Please don’t say you don’t like the UV light o. For them not to discharge you, that means the jaundice is really high. You have to be patient and let them take care of your precious one, mom. I know you want to go home, you will eventually. Infact Na you go eventually tire.

Jaundice is no joke and if left untreated can lead to live altering outcomes for the child. Both my kids were severely jaundiced and spent no less than 16 days at the hospital before they let them go home. My first actually had to be airlifted to a children’s hospital in another city cos his own was so bad. They didn’t check his blood type nor check his jaundice early until very late and the thing had already set in. They were already preparing our minds for an exchange transfusion, but God intervened and it didn’t get to that.

What kind of jaundice does your child have? Did they tell you? What other treatment are they given apart from the phototherapy? How many lights are on him/her? What are the daily levels? Is it reducing? Does the baby have a bili blanket underneath? Is the baby breastfed or formula fed? Ask questions mama. Don’t be afraid to ask. It’s your right.

oh my! He’s at 10.9 he’s under 3 uv lights and taking furoxetil every 12 hours and abidec daily he is currently breastfed the nurses said if I keep him under the light well it would improve but he keeps crying

Hi mamas please who has or had experience with jaundice they’ve refused to discharge me since Sunday o and I don’t like this uv light therapy seems it’s not working I’m honestly tired and drained

I’m telling you I was expecting roses and dandelions I cried even lost my voice and I wasn’t afraid of contractions, the pain was unbearable pls!

Ayauche:
Congratulations mama, welcome precious baby.

hahhahahahahahha abeg permit me to laugh small. You know the day I was reading that post of Labour very easy, that's its only the mindset abi endurance, I kept mute because I didn't want to cause unnecessary arguments that early morning and know a post like this will certainly come.
Everyone prays for a very easy and painless labour but we should not cancel the fact that labour pains are damn so real.

Congratulations once again and welcome to the world of vigilante