Birthday Party Help/Ideas Please 💙

Does anyone know any nice reasonable halls to hire around slough for a birthday party for around 30-40 people please ? Also how do I go about trying too hire a bouncy castle or soft play please ? I have no idea Andy help or advice is welcome please. Thank you girls xx

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Sticky eye or conjunctivitis?

My newborns eye has been coming out with discharge since birth some days are worse than other and some days nothing comes out at all.

37 weeks 3 days - baby measuring on the 90th percentile

Been to triage this evening as I was having reduced movements. Baby was monitored and movement was fine. Midwife informed me that baby is measuring on the 90th percentile.. should I be worried? At my midwife appointments when they measure bump it was always that he’s growing not big or small but on track. Just a bit confused now he’s measuring on the 90th percentile..

Trauma vent ahead

Honestly just need to vent..
I had my second girl almost 2 months ago via emergency c-section. Now it wasn’t life or death emergency but emergency in my situation. I chose to be induced at 39w2d, the epidural failed and I was only at 6cm. I was in immense pain, sobbing with every contraction. I honestly think she was stuck in my pelvis. I had a choice of either redoing the epidural, laboring to dilate more for 10-12 hours or have the surgery. Doctors were also worried about baby’s HR. I chose the surgery. It wasn’t ideal. All I can think of is staring at the ceiling tiles, waiting for my husband to be at my head, being extremely nauseous and feeling all the tugging and pulling. Now to today, I love watching medical dramas, but I just get and feel so triggered watching them now. It takes me back to the surgery and I can’t escape it. I hate it and idk what to do 😩😭
Ok vent over, thanks for reading if you did 🫶🏻

Would you move house 3 weeks post c section?

I’m having a c section on Thursday and my flat sale and onward purchase have dragged on and on to the point that if we don’t complete at 3 weeks post partum then our mortgage offer will expire and likely the chain will collapse.
Would you do it? It doesn’t sound fun at all. It would be a 2hr drive from where we live so we’d have to stop lots. We would use professional removers and packers so in theory I wouldn’t be doing anything myself, and could even check into a hotel with my mum to miss the whole thing.
I’m just scared from both an emotional and physical point of view that it’s a disaster waiting to happen.
Has anyone done it?!

Labour times for second baby

Hi all! My labour was pretty speedy and was 6 hours from my water breaking (7.30am) to the birth (13:26). I didn’t really have any contractions before my water breaking. I was also induced the night before at 11pm.

I just wondered, those who had quick labours with their first - what was your second labour like? I don’t know if there’s a likelihood or not of the second being just as quick or quicker or if it doesn’t matter.

New mumma by c section

so my beautiful baby girl was born on Tuesday through c section. Due to me not dilating quick enough.
So I have some questions on like belly , swelling

So my feet are still really swollen is this normal? What’s everyone’s experiences when did it go down?

My belly this is probably gonna sound stupid but I just want to know. So I still look like I have a baby in there 😅 and I wondered what other mommas did to help the belly back to normal. Obvs I can’t go back to the gym yet so wondered what I could do in the meantime that’s safe whilst healing ?❤️‍🩹