Packing The Hospital Bag (for planned caesarian) [AD] [CC] 

Good Luck with everything! Cheers Ladies!🎉❤🎉

@Allison Hunter that's the point, they want to put them in gender neutral clothing

What's wrong with peppermint tea?

@@andromeda8rose It can effect the milk supply

@@DigiForever gotcha, good to know

Tbh we will rock you is a much cooler anthem to celebrate arriving into the world lol

This sounds epic. 😂

That it is EPIC!

And, that seems to be the way it ALWAYS goes... NEVER “as planned”, but perhaps “meant to be”. That is a GREAT story! Indeed, they no doubt, DID “ROCK YOU”! 😂 🎼 🎵 🎶 #synchronicities #Queen

When my mom was born the nurse turned on the radio and Rock and Roll All Nite by Kiss started playing as she came into the world

"Look at something wrong" my goodness I've never related to something as much as I relate to this. Both in PP and Ehlers Danlos Syndrome lol

Usually the hospital provides these? Although I did buy a second one

@@genrainey8394 sometimes they do, but mine didn't. I also liked that I was able to get one that fit my weird body proportions- being 4'10" with standard clothing gets interesting!

2 csections here and that pillow tip is GOLDEN! I had a pillow at arms length at all times when I had my babies because they were both born in spring and my allergies were killing me! Lol.

Definitely the pillow trick! Im 2 weeks post c-section and it's sooooo painful!

😭😭😭😭 a swimsuit?!?! That’s classic!

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He packed like you’re going on holiday lmao

I had honestly forgot it was June/Pride Month until someone in my class said something about pride.. I was shocked It’s my first pride where I can leave the house and I’m still in school until the 24

Briana Colegrove - Yes very best wishes to both parents... But let's not forget that emotions are exactly the same as for heterosexual parents-to-be... Either if a person is hetro/homo sexual let's not forget that we r all part of the Human Race - I find it tedious that minority groups of any catagory sometimes not only, quite rightly, want to have equality but become prejudice themselves against "normal" people; look at the great Nelson Mandela, after all his prison term when other coloured people wanted avengence on the whites he stated that he wanted what he'd fought for & won, that is equality, but not racism against whites

Same

@@susanmargaretwills6432 hey i understand where you are coming from, but a few points. They didn't say anything about straight people not being as happy to have a child. Gay people are still discriminated against in nearly every country and having a child is either extremely hard or an impossibility for a lot of same-sex couples, so it's perfectly normal for a gay person to see a same sex couple that is expecting and get excited, because they may be able to see themselves in them or hope that one day that could be them. (Apologies for the run-on sentence) Having people say "but straight people feel the same emotions feels like tone policing and it's not the best way to go about this. I myself am more excited to see Jessica and Claudia have a child as a gay couples because where i live it is going to be very hard for me to adopt. It's legal for adoption agencies that take federal and state money to turn us away on religious grounds even if they aren't run by a certain religious institution(and someone could kill me and claim gay panic in my state and get off/a reduced sentence so that's another thing that shows equality is just fucking not here.) Equality isn't here yet so please don't get up in arms about us be a liiiittle more excited to see lesbian moms (something represented waaaaaay less in movies, tv shows, etc. Name five shows or movies you've watched where the lead has two moms. I'm certain you can name dozens or hundreds where the lead has a mommy and daddy). We want equality, but we don't have it yet so this is a win!! This is why we might be more excited. I promise I'm not trying to be argumentative, but I've seen a lot of "straight people do this too" over the internet and I know they do, but i wanted to explain why some lgbt may be more excited/talk more when people from their community do it. Simply because you see waaaaaaaaaaay more straight couple representation so seeing a couple like us/the couple we want to be do the thing it's really exciting!! It makes us think "oh crap that could be me!!!" That's important. I hope this explains why without feeling too preachy? Have a lovely day 😘 😊

@@serioussleuth6677 - hey there I'm not "up in arms" with you or most of the homosexual folk - just SOME of them (like as also in the hetero sphere)... I live in Italy (but I'm British-born) and this couldn't be a more non-discriminative (& non-rascist) nation - even the Pope (who is more Catholic than he?) has blessed homosexual couples, & civil gay marriages have been legal for a while now; when discussing with my friends my argument is "if 2 people like each other & want to get wed then why not?" - "oh but marriage is for procreation" is the response - well I know a bunch of couples who have no intention of having kids or max just one baby (cos money is needed for the couple's luxury goods & holidays & this is their concern)... consequence - Italy has the lowest birthrate in the WORLD and a huge population of elderly... disastrous; even the once proliferous Immigrant population (eg North Africans) r no longer having large families... This is all a bit off track from ur comment but shows how times r moving I think & soon (like in UK) we'll surely see legal adoptions 4 gay couples; just by the way even tho it's completely irrelevant I'm straight with 3 kids & 6 grandchildren PS here in Italy we have loads of pubblicity on TV showing gay couples kissing

The pregnancy Covid Club is a strange collection of rites of passage. For many of us, being separated during the hospital stay is one of them, and it sucks. I’m glad Claud’s stay is planned to be a short one!

Should be allowed to have a support person with you in the hospital. I was allowed a support person with me when I had my son last year.

@@At0micAllison mine was planned short too but my little one had jaundice and it was pretty bad so we had to stay a week without any visitation :( it was very hard but at least she is healthy now and we are all together at home :) i wish all the best to new parents who experience birth in these strange times.

omg wait i didn't think of that that's so cute😭

How is it perfect? I don’t understand

@@rachelcookie321 pride month :)

@@delilahhart9376 oh. I mean there’s only 12 months a year. Tons of kids related to lgbt get born in June. I’m lgbt and my birthday is in June.

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You think that you'll feel all shy breastfeeding until you need to do it. My experience was that I lost most of my modesty after about the first 24 hours of cluster feeding while waiting for my milk to come in. Seriously, the kid would just not stop eating, so I just pretty much always had a boob out. Baby's gotta eat, and mama gets tired of clipping her nursing bra up so much and ends up walking around with a boob out quite often (tip: do a boob check whenever company walks in the door). Even after his feeding schedule calmed down (after a couple months), I would cover up with a blanket if I was in public and thought people around me would feel uncomfortable, but usually it was like "eh, whatever".

@@kmetz878 yep after very few trips out, I didn't care if my boobs were out when feeding lol

Timestamp please?

@@cheesecakelasagna 15:20

No one?

@@saragarofano6471 one sad, sad little homo sapien

I heard there's some youtube algorithm that automatically gave dislikes to after your video get a certain amount of likes to balance things or some shit

There are bots set up to dislike videos too

2 dislikes wtf

I'm not pregnant, but I had no idea how it worked lol. Thank you.

Yeah and you can leak threw them i did with mine, to the point there was no point in wearing them.

Maybe this is an extremely stupid question but can a lactating person use sanitary pads as breast pads in an emergency?

@@auditoryeden i would say if have to yes, i just got to the point i wouldn't wear any i was leaking soo much milk i had to replace the lactating things reguallary and it just got fustrating. The lactating things asorb any extra milk coming out and so will sanitary pads.

@@auditoryeden technically yes, but in an emergency I generally just grabbed a muslin cloth or towel to shove over my boob! I guess if you were out and about and wanted to protect your clothes, a pad would work.

She kind of is!

I mean the last name probably should indicate that it is

@@dutchik5107 It's probably better to have the exact name so the nurses don't have to think about it as much.

@@SenshiSunPower that’s a good idea and I’m not sure about the uk but I’ve had two kids in Canada and the nurses never look at my stuff

The nurses aren’t going to take personal items from the room. Firstly it’s a liability to mess with a patients belongings secondly they aren’t going to need to be in or get anything out of a patients personal suitcase. So the suitcase could say Bob on it and the nurses wouldn’t touch it. I promise.

@@veronicarose6986 I was also thinking that sometimes when people get transferred to a different room, something might be lost in the shuffle, and then not get to the right person if it has someone else's name on it. Sorry, didn't mean to imply anyone would steal anything! I'm definitely assuming the staff want the items to be with the right person.

Like 20 of the people in subscribed or follow are pregnant and I’m so excited!

Absolutely! Please don't flush them, even if it says you can. It's just marketing.

The UK actually has a new manufacturing standard of flushable wipe that's endorsed by the water board as safe. If they have the 'fine to flush' logo, they're really, truly flushable. If they don't, they're not.

@@JoneseyBanana it kinda depends where you are. Near my house someone flushed one wipe, and no word of a lie, the entire sewage system was blocked lmao. Another time someone literally flushed some toilet paper and it got blocked and started coming up on people’s lawns

@@singingsimmers1829 that just sounds like you got sewage problems if it happened with toilet paper too

@@rachelcookie321 oh no yeah we did, like really bad, but I just thought it was funny to mention :)

Claudia is more of a gin aunt. Maybe like a nice cider aunt

@@emilybarclay8831 and obviously Jessica is a coca cola aunt

@@maitesoto1953 you’re right and you should say it

@@emilybarclay8831 @maite soto I love the peer review; y'all are so right, and thank you for improving this!

When’s she due?

This is a BRILLIANT idea!

This is such a lovely idea, I hope they see this!

@@gmiill I hope so, too!

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this is the cutest thing ever.

Hey beautiful, how's your day going today?

Same!!

Me too!!

Child-free baby-content lovers represent!

@@felicitymoorcross198 yasss.

Yeah I'm always so happy seeing people who are so exited to be parents! Go live your dream, lovely people! Meanwhile, I'm just excited about becoming a first-time cat parent in two weeks :'D

Lol Hey beautiful how's your day going today?

It's still ok to spoil your rat children. I had sugar gliders for a few years and spoiled my boys. Made them hand made sleeping pouches and sewed clothes with little pockets in them for my boys to hide in. They loved crawling into my shirt (holding onto my bra straps between my shoulder blades) and taking naps while I'd just walk around the house cleaning and listening to music

Flashbacks to my heatwave baby in a muslin cloth.

Agree, i used them for my daughter she was born in october so for me is spring

Agree! Muslin squares are sooooo helpful throughout the first couple of years!

Yup, they're the best!

Seconding this! Clean messes, catch spit-up, swaddle-they’re very all-purpose.

BUMP! Clogged drains are not a fun expense haha

Thanks for the tip, I hadn't thought of that

AGREED! Entire cities are having to redo their systems at the expense of millions of dollars. Just Google through the subject…. We use the wipes ourselves, but we don’t flush them.

May not be the same in UK though

@@felicitygee381 it is

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Yeah, some people react to peppermint & some don't but you don't know if you will until you try peppermint while lactating. I tried drinking a cup of peppermint tea once & it significantly reduced my mills supply for about 24 hours. I avoided anything peppermint after that until my child weaned.

i think fenugreek helps a lot of people but it’s not to be used until milk production has started bc it may hinder initial production

I wore slippers for my first week or so afterwards 😂

I'm the same way 🙂

Same here!

Yes same for me too, just lovely to watch you two be excited and a little nervous together. Good luck ladies xx

Same. Jessica and Claudia are the only people who I'll watch talking about baby-related stuff.

They should have some available at the hospital if they forget them, I think! But hopefully they pack some anyways

@@batlesbian they didn't have any at mine

Yeah my son was the same

@@batlesbian The hospital did not provide us with any, even after he had scratched himself up.

Socks could do in a pinch, and possibly more functional.

Brilliant idea! You're right - hospital tp is horrible!

I mean, even if c-sections were easier why would people give those who have them a hard time? Wouldn't you want to have an easier birthing experience (presuming there are no overly negative side effects for you in particular having a c-section).

@Giovanni Strider yes, I was making the point that if c-sections _were_ easier (in general, including on the body, in recovery) then that isn't really a thing to shit on people for wanting. I understand that they aren't necessarily easier, the comment I was replying to explained that, hence me saying ' _even if_ they were easier'.

Being cut open is definitely not the easy way out, that's full on surgery and you have to heal from having been cut open which really does take longer than recovery from a vaginal birth. Also normal contractions help the uterus to shrink back faster so that also takes longer with a c-section. Not like I want kids ever but if I would I would go for a vaginal birth and only choose a c-section if I have to.

I feel like mothers are always subject to a lot of judgment and criticism, whatever they do, and especially if they don't breastfeed and if they have c-sections. As long as it's in the interest of your health or your baby's health and you consulted with medical professionals beforehand, it's okay. People love to be judgmental assholes and you can never please everyone. So just do your best and ignore what everyone else says.

@@Lisa_Flowers no one really gave me a hard time about the elective one I had with the second but I did! I beat myself up because no women in my immediate family had ever had one. So I felt like I failed some how. But the Dr explained medically why I couldn’t and that it wasn’t my fault and I did nothing wrong. So the second one was a piece of cake compared to the first. As long as baby is ok then I’m ok with it.

Which makes total sense why this was her "official" maternity leave send off!

Gosh I LOVE the name Rupert

I thought the same! I was like yeah leave it to them to have a fancy af baby.

for me, I did a double-take when she pulled out the peacock thing, because for me (US-mid-atlantic) a comforter goes on your bed - what the british would call a duvet, I guess. I was thinking "that's very small and thin for a comforter?"

@@lydia9522 lol i had the same thought too

@@lydia9522 same!

@@lydia9522 A duvet is a cover for a comforter. Think of it like a giant pillowcase. I love duvets because you can change up the bed cover and just use one comforter.

Did the hospital not provide formula for you? I ask because I work in a hospital and have been to two other hospital for delivery and they provide both donor milk and formula to moms.I work in an American hospital. Yes you have to advocate for yourself in the US they will strongly suggest breastfeeding but you must be firm on your decision.

@@reinadeelsur I asked for a bottle many times, they kept telling me to give the colostrum drops I could hand express to him off my finger. They didn't bring me any formula until his blood sugar dipped. Never offered donor milk, but I think that is usually saved for NICU babies. Plus, it was COVID-- last July-- so I am sure there were extra precautions going on. Part of the problem was the lack of a lactation consultant; they were so stretched thin, they were doing other duties in the hospital.

@@TheKanaRenee by the third time you should have made a complaint or once the sugar whent down for the baby. My hospital always had a lactation consultant even if the mom had covid.

@@reinadeelsur Oh no, it wasn't that I had COVID. They were used the lactation consultants in other roles in the hospital because of the need for nurses. They didn't have enough, so the lactation consultants were filling in.

UK hospitals don't provide anything. You need to bring it all

I was born in 1990 and remember my mum telling me the pads were like giant nappies 😮

Omg same! When I got my period at 10 at like midnight they were the only pads in the house. I woke my mom up and she handed me this giant thing. The next day, I went to school with it feeling as if I had on a diaper and a ruler lol.

Maybe don't hold reproductive expectations over your child.

@@casebeth I don’t have a single expectation and she knows it. She’s the one who talks about it daily. She’ll do what makes her happy✌🏻

Wow! That's really cool. Your family must have really taken good care of that outfit for three generations. The multi-generational photo album must be really special, too. I'm curious about the fashion and construction. Does it use little metal snaps? Does it have lace? Is it solid color or patterned? Would it be something you would bring a boy home in, or just a girl? I'd love to learn more. :)

@@resourceress7 my grandma doesn’t have a photo of my mom in the outfit unfortunately. It’s a bonnet and a knitted sweater, blue in colour so it’s very neutral, both my grandma and my mom had no idea what they were having when they packed it. It’s been pretty easy to keep stored, but keep in mind it’s only been worn 3 times so as long as you keep it in storage in an ideal room (not too much humidity or too dry) it’s totally fine. For our second child my grandma knit him a blue sweater a lot like the generation one, it might be a few generations behind but it’s just as special and he will get it for his first born. And from there who knows, maybe I’ll knit one for any other grand babies I might be blessed with.

@@casebeth 🙄

My wife would 100% agree. Pockets for the win!

They don’t have comforters in the UK they have duvet. Which is like a comforter but better.

I've heard of soooo many poo explosion stories from blocked drains recently, some with photos 🤢 it's just not worth it - bin don't flush! Even the flushables!

I think they should ban the phrase flushable wipes, because there's no such thing

Actually you shouldn't flush toilet paper either

@@nosoynadaoriginal that depends on the country. They're in the UK where it's generally fine. Toilet paper is designed to break apart quickly. But yes, in a lot of countries you shouldn't flush anything but human waste.

I use a bin with a tight lid for them. ( I'm disabled). None of baby wipes or 'flush' wioes are flushable.

I thought shes just doing that because she lip read

Awesome, Hey beautiful how's your day going today?

I’ve always been scared that I’d have to go to the hospital for an operation and I’d have to be left there alone. Even before covid I saw that some hospitals only have certain visiting hours and then they have to leave. If I went to hospital I could not be left alone, I would be terrified.

Also they got a few 0-3 months clothes, and that's different than newborn

😂 In Venezuela we call them buchero, wich kind of loosely indicates that is a thing to catch spit with. Buche in Spanish is what the pouch birds have in their throats to keep food is called, by extention the amount of liquid you can keep inside your mouth stretching your cheeks (like when you use mouthwash) is called a "buche".

The outlets are ALWAYS a long way from the bed....it seems to be a universal hospital rule. Ive been in hospitals all over Australia and Ive never seen an outlet conveniently located.

Most of the ones in the UK hospitals I've been in are directly behind the bed which causes it's own unique set of issues haha

How is a mattress a SIDS risk??? How would you be able to put your baby down at all then?? Please dont use that scary word without reason. New moms are terrified enough from the actual risks. We dont need imaginary ones too...

The topponcino is a SIDS risk because it isn’t as firm as a crib mattress

Hey beautiful how's your day going today?

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I was delivered by C-Section because I was facing upwards instead of down, and my sister was delivered the same way because my mom wanted it.

Do you mind me asking why she had you without drugs? That seems quite unusual. Obviously, if it's too personal that's fine. Edit: I realised that I probably misinterpreted the original comment to mean no pain relief whatsoever, including nitrous oxide

@@amiscellaneoushuman3516 I didn't have drugs with either of my two (just gas and air). First one kept changing phase of labour b fire they could give me the drugs for that phase. Second one was only 30mins from entering hospital to birth so no time

@@amiscellaneoushuman3516 I had both of my daughters without drugs, it's not at all uncommon in my country, to be honest I think an epidural is less common here. I also had very manageable labors, and I have a high pain tolerance, so I really didn't need pain relief...

My mom had two epidurals with me. She lied to her doctor and convinced him she wouldn't deliver for ages still, so he gave her the second dose. Half an hour later, here I come breech baby, and she was incapable of pushing. So the doctor had one hand inside guiding me and the other outside pushing on her belly to get me out. All while the hospital was being shelled during a bush war. Fun times. Oh, I was also a month premature.

This!! And even better are the ones with a zipper at the top and bottom so you don’t have to undress them more than you need to

I believe their snaps are magnetic, as Jessica struggles to grip small objects like zippers and magnet snaps

Yes!!!! And now they have the zippers that unzip from bottom or top to make diaper changes easier!

@@jessicaann-marie2365 ahh okay!! That’s a whole different story then.

YESSS. 100% seconding this. Snaps on baby clothes should be illegal. lol

I have a cousin who is

I am too! They bang it in bloody everything and I'm sick of it 😩

If I had a penny for each time I've had to explain that "natural" actually means that you are more likely to react badly than clean and consistently produced artificials....

@@annejeppesen160 ah yes, the naturalistic fallacy. There's a great quote in a Terry Pratchett novel where one character offers another a wart cure "wonderful stuff, all natural, not like a doctor'd give you." "What's it made of?" "Arsenic." "Arsenic?" "Very natural sir. And green." Equally annoying is the assertion that something has "chemicals" in it. Err, everything you ever encounter, from your own body to the air you breathe is "chemical."

Both my mom and I are allergic to aloe but my sister isn’t. I’m 38 weeks pregnant and having to look at the baby stuff to make sure I can use it and it’s highly baby will be allergic