what ami supposed to waer in labour???!

[someonesgirl]

Hello fellow fatties!

4 weeks and 6 days to go! i had a thought this morning....what am i supposed to wear in labour??! What if my waters leak all over my clothes before i get to the hospital (if theyve broken) and do i have to be naked or what? I havent discussed a birthing plan with my midwife yet, i havent been liking the idea of a birthing pool, although some peolpe have said it helps....but then id have to be naked wouldnt i? I know that probably going to be the last thing on my mind but im nervous of all these strangers seeing my bits!! Help!

[redcrx]

I recall those exact same feelings about people seeing my bits. Believe me that when youre in the last stages of pushing your entire neighbourhood could walk past the bottom of your bed and you wouldnt give a stuff lol

try and find some long nighties, matalan do cheap ones for a couple of quid and just get a huge size. You can wear clothes in the water if you want Im almost certain.

as for your waters leaking, theres nothing you can do. Take extra clothes and wear sanitary pads if you can. Some women just trickle waters slowly, others lose them in a gush but you wont know until the day. Also some womens waters dont break until they are well established in labour and your midwife will be prepared for this and just clear it away with no fuss.

If your waters have gone and you feel that it might be on show when getting to hospital then tie something around your waist like a shawl or something to cover up?

[someonesgirl]

god......its soundignified this childbirth stuff isnt it?!!! hahah

[daffy654]

Long t-shirts are great for wearing during labour.or short night shirts,don't spend a lot of money on whatever you decide on though as it will most likely be ruined anyway.lol. You can wear a t-shirt in the birthing pool as long as it doesn't get in the way of your legs when moving about. Redcrx is right about your dignity though.they should have a sign on the door saying "abandon all dignity all ye who enter here"

[confused79]

i worse a very large nightie think i brought size 18, im not saying thats a large size just normally im about a 12 just wanted enough room to move, and move around i needed, it was also very long and dark in colour.

[someonesgirl]

hahahhah! so the first photos of me and my baby will be of me looking utterly foul in a rancid t-shirt ! hahahah

[redcrx]

i bought a nightshirt to wear afterwards that had an orange on the front and said 'freshly squeezed'.

Never has a slogan seemed so true lol

[someonesgirl]

hahahah! thats funny!! I will have to try and find something like that! or make one myself! ive got some of that iron on tranfer paper. Ive made a few customised baby grows so far.....(you design it on the computer and print it out and then iron it on). my favourite so far is "granny magnet"...

[daffy654]

You honestly will not care what you look like someonesgirl.Once you have the baby in your arms nothing else matters. I would make sure you have a clean top/nightie for photo taking,it only takes a few seconds to change into it so its no big deal.

[someonesgirl]

i'll probably be so traumatised that i wont even be concious anyway! lol

[natalie_1982]

I still have ages to go (not due til April) but this post has made me laugh out loud, I am not sure if it is through sheer terror or not though......

someonesgirl, I am so excited for you - do you know if it is a boy or a girl?

[Psychick]

I thought I was well prepared by having two short night shirts. I even got ones with buttons at the front ready for feeding. My thinking was one for labour, one for after when I was all clean again. Didnt bank on the gas and air making me throw up down myself though did I? lol Luckily for the rest of the labour, they gave me a hospital gown so I was still able to put a nice clean night shirt on after the birth and my bath. This time round Im planning a home birth and more worried about my bedding rather than my clothes at the moment! lol Think I will make use of the plastic sheet I used on my daughters bed when she was potty training!

[Preggie_Sam]

lol i got 5 weeks to go - and i feel to embarssed to be naked?? lol My mum cant understand this - as well everywhere else is on show lol so i brought myself a nice nightie - but then realised it will get wrecked!! So im going to wear one of there nightie things - i will go in the pool to ease the pain - but deffo not to give labour in!!

Sam & Big big Bump x x x x x
:o)

[meltoadhall]

i gave birth in a birthing pool and was so high on gas I was inviting people in ( so I'm told lol). I always end up with nothing on as I get so hot and as others have said by that time you dont care and only what that midwife is saying matters !!

[someonesgirl]

tee hee....no i dont know what im having.....an orangatang judging by the amount of bottles of gaviscon ive got through!! i had all these visions of buying a pretty nightie and making sure my hair was washed etc for when i go in, but im kinda realising that its probably all gunna happen when i havent showered for a few days, have had a curry or something the night before (for farts) and im gunna end up wearing one of my many t-shirts with dinner stains all down the front which i'll probably throw up on anyway as well as leaking fluid in my trousers and i'll have to go home wearing my period pants! What a vision of lovliness! I only hope my poor boyfriend still finds me attractive!!!!!

[VillageVicar]

Typical trickster that I am, I left the birthing suite for a moment and returned wearing a diving mask and snorkel. �Dr. Gold,� I announced, �at your cervix today!� Throughout the birthing process I think I had more pethidine than my wife did. She�d get one whiff, then I�d get three, another for her and four more for me. Eventually they thought they were going to peel me off the walls and all along I was crying, apologising that I�d never touch her with �that thing again.�

�Our� birth was �natural� which meant my wife wore no makeup. I bought her an oversize T-shirt as she felt it would be more comfortable to hike up when she was in the midst of labour. Afterwards, I had a beautiful pale blue nursing gown for her that I found at Harrods.

What tickled me most of all was several days before we were due, my wife was handed an instruction sheet. I absolutely cackled as I read it: it told her that it would be �wise to prepare a meal for me in advance, and leave a few sandwiches for the following day.� It went on to suggest that she could ask neighbours to prepare dinner for me should she have to be in longer. That was many years ago, but truly one of the most hilarious moments of our celebration.

A couple of days later I asked my wife if she could describe the birthing experience to me. I was trying to be in touch with my feminine side I suppose and I think I must have felt slightly left out of at least part of the experience.

I clearly remember what she said: �Hubby, open your mouth�no, wider�WIDER! Can you open it any further?� When I shook my head no she said, �Fine, now shove a piano through it!�

Congratulations on your pending arrival! And don�t forget to tell your hubby to buy lots of nursing pads for you and cater to your every wish and demand! You deserve that and more! Fr. Bill

And don't worry about your 'bits.' Just think of it as a 'no makeup day.' :-)

[natalie_1982]

VillageVicar, I love your answers!

However, if my hubby was to appear in a snorkel whilst I am huffing and puffing away in the birthing pool I would be likely to drown him :-)

[VillageVicar]

Natalie, I certainly understand the sentiment! It�s fascinating what each of us goes through as we move to the miracle of birth.

It�s as if it were yesterday, I can still remember the moaning, clawing, shouting and screaming�and that was just at conception!

Wish we had access to the pool during our time. We weren�t so fortunate. But I still have lovely memories and two beautiful children. That�s the greatest gift of all!

I wish you every success! Fr. Bill

[annie0000]

I think when I was in labour and afterwards I looked like a dog's breakfast, but a colleague of mine had a baby about a year ago and looked really glamourous - she has a matching nighty and neglige with a matching headband for her hair as she was worried that it would look like her hair needed washed!
I am sure that she probably wore something else for the birth and then changed, but her first pictures of her and the baby were perfect. She'd even had her nails done!

[natalie_1982]

There's something slightly wrong about that though isn't there Annie? If your nails are on your mind as you go into to labour, there's someting amiss isn't there? Or maybe she was just a lot tougher than me! Hehehe

I have a photo of a friend of mine, just after the birth with her fella on the bed with her holding baby, I think she looks lovely, but she detests the picture, that he's always proudly showing off.

I look like a bog beast most mornings, my poor baby will be petrified when handed to me. S/he'll probably be thinking - put me back in there!

[4getmenot]

I wonder if crotchless knickers would work runs away back to B & S