MSE Pregnancy Club III

angelfairy

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

I haven't even been weighed since I got pg

i was asked at my booking in appointment how much i weighed. the mw took my word for it, worked out my BMI. i said to her i know i should weigh less and she said 'dont worry about it' and that they were larger ladies around doing just fine. she was lovely, it was the beating up i gave myself that was worse.

ticklepenny_2

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

I haven't even been weighed since I got pg

I wish they would stop weighing me.... I am heavy and I will only ever be slightly heavier than I already am....hurumph :mad: I hate scales.:mad:

Although amusingly MW didnt realise I was "clinically obese" till she checked my BMI...... I would have though being 19st8 it was slightly obvious, oh well.

Krystaltips

Nobody has told me not to put on weight and when I was weighed for the triple test the other week the MW didn't comment on the 4lb I'd put on... I have had the consultant rant... I find internally giving them the finger and keeping a smile on your face works for me... Although I think it riled my consultant... But since I started working on postnatal I actually got talking to a delivery suite midwife who told me there would be no problem in me having a home birth medically speaking...

On the whole 'specialist equipment' I had my tonsils out last year and nobody mentioned my weight at all, they managed to get me from the hospital bed to operating gurney unconscious without a crane... (Although I did have big fingerprint bruises on the top of my big fat arms...) I don't think the hospital is against fat people generally... they just don't like us breeding...

My_Fathers_Daughter

Sami - I have got to be normal in one way haven't I?

Sami_Bee

Millie's_Mum wrote: »

So did you sterilise the bottles then make up the feed and keep them in the fridge? I'm sure thats what we did last time but OH disagrees and says we just put the water in and then made the feed up when about to give it, Now maybe thats what he did when he made the bottles up (once a blue moon) but I'm sure I just made the bottles up altogether once a day.

Its only five years ago but it feels like a lifetime!

yep, every night we'd wash, sterilise make up milk and put in the fridge, then just pop in the micro to warm when needed.
I really don't miss doing that so I hope b/f works out this time! lift top pop out boob, feed! much easier!

SeptemberBaby_2

I was weighed and had my height checked to work out my BMI at my booking in and then nothing (which I'm more than happy about ). I have a high BMI but no MW or consultant has ever made any horrid remarks like some ladies on here! :eek:.

xx

brookeslay

I haven`t put on weight as can`t really afford to over eat. Too much sweet stuff makes me feel sick too !.

While I`m here i had a really bad pain at the top of the bump by ribs and side pains. It was very scary:eek: but i had a long bath and i feel mostly better this afternoon. Anyone had something similar ????

thanks B

Krystaltips

Sami... I just wanted to say 'Eeeek!'

The safest way to make up feeds is one at a time with water that has cooled to no less than 70ºC. If you need to make feeds in advance, put some boiled water into a sterilised vacuum flask. When away from home, take the flask, together with the right amount of powder in a cleaned, sterilised and dry plastic container and the cleaned, sterilised bottle. Make up the feed, and cool the bottle before feeding it to your baby. Copied that from the NCT website

The reason the water has to be 70 degrees is because infant powder is not sterile and water colder than this won't kill the bugs... The longer you leave the milk made up the longer the bugs have to multiply....

Millie's_Mum

Sami_Bee wrote: »

yep, every night we'd wash, sterilise make up milk and put in the fridge, then just pop in the micro to warm when needed.
I really don't miss doing that so I hope b/f works out this time! lift top pop out boob, feed! much easier!

Yes thats what we did too, I hope to BF this time too but I am also determined not to beat myself up either way, I had a really awful time last time because I felt so guilty because I couldn't.

(see how long I last without using the microwave this time, made it to about 8weeks last time before someone said are you still using hot water? in a voice that made me sound weird!}

angelfairy

okay ladies, i am close to admitting defeat...can you help.

i am sure i read somewhere, either on this site or directgov or similar that if you receive SMP you can register as self employed and undertake work as self employed. now i cannot find this information anywhere

(no smirking MFD as you raised this query with me )

i am sorting out what i am going to work wise maternity leave etc, and this is an issue that has arisen.

my baby brain is in full swing (i want my pre pregnancy brain back please) so i am at a loss.

oh and bubs i think is having fun doing some somersaults and kicks at the same time.... be nice to mum i say, but does he listen???