However, when my waters went a week ago at night, I didn't go into labour right away and though my lovely MW was there right away, DH had to look after DS (2) all morning while I tried to contact friends. Scans indicate this baby, a girl, is likely to measure a similar weight - so doctors might forgo a natural labour in favour of an induced birth or even a c-section. They would go into temporary foster care if no relatives were able to help. The 3rd stage of labour happens after your baby is born, when your womb contracts and the placenta comes out through your vagina. I know they didn’t mean any harm, but I had sacrificed my personal wish of not having any visitors come to visit me at the hospital for the sake of being polite to people that wanted to be there anyway. 3rd stage of labour. When they arrived, I was in early labour. Eventually, one managed to dig car out of snow and her DH turned up to collect DS. There are 2 ways to manage this stage of labour: active – when you have treatment to make it happen faster; physiological – when you have no treatment and this stage happens naturally This is a sure-fire way to earn the death look of the century and a gnarly scolding after the birth. My in-laws planned on coming down the day before my due date and it worked out perfectly. My wife nearly broke my hand and dislocated my arm once during … During labour, there is a shift in your oestrogen and progesterone levels, which can be described as really bad PMS. Here are the after-effects you can look forward to in the days after having a baby. Fortunately, i was not early with my second. The best way to avoid this is to prepare for birth as much as possible. 1. 25 minutes before I gave birth! Keep your discomforts to yourself and offer them up for your wife and baby. So the severeal back-up plans I had spent months planning were not needed! LOL. No one ever tells you that you’ll wake up in a pool of sweat or have trouble grabbing a glass of water from your nightstand in the days after giving birth. I really do. Dumb move, dude (I speak from experience here). Same goes if your doctor gives the okay to get down with your hubby (which is usually no … Recently, people have become a lot more open about postpartum sex, and I think that is awesome. Just as there's no way to tell what kind of pain a baby feels when he travels through the birth canal, doctors are also unsure about how much a baby sees or hears during labor. They were there in time to look after my daughter while we were in hospital. But in a recently resurfaced video, we see the miracle of childbirth very up close and personal: The soon-to-be mom is standing up and leaning on a bookshelf while delivering her fifth child… My parent used to foster when I was a child and we had a few kids, one who's mum was a lone parent and went into hospital to have another baby and another set of twins who's mum was in hospital and the dad was overwhelmed with the thought of looking after 5 kids! Shivering or getting the shakes. I love that there is a national conversation about sexing after baby-having. No matter how turned on you are, your vajayjay may be dry after delivering a baby. After giving birth to my first child, these were the statements I was welcomed with by family members.