MSE Pregnancy Club III

maryjane01

EDD
Mell242 - 7 October 2007
madcasey500 - 12th October 2008
Danielle_Kenzies-Mum - 20th October 2008
Doodledoodle24 - 22nd October 2008
pollyanna24 - 22nd October 2008 - changed my date
Daisykate124 - 28 October 2008 - C-section booked
sarahriley53-1st November 2008
Sammie0782 - 6th November 2008
rachelleblondel - 7th November 2008
levers81 - 9th November 2008
emmaBZ - 10th November 2008
icklepiggle - 12th November 2008
kaza - 13th November 2008
Emms - 14th November 2008
MrsY - 18th November 2008
Lwcus78 - 19th November 2008
redballoon - 21st November 2008
rosies_mum - 21st November 2008
Toto - 24th November 2008
Sammiebmouse - 28th November 2008
Poppyjoe - 3rd December 2008
LashyLashla - 4th December 2008
Avfcforever - 7th December 2008
Verianna – 8 December 2008 (girl)
Paddington- 9th December 2008 - a girl!
miss_corerupted - 10th December 2008
giger - 5th December 2008
Skylight - 14th December 2008 - Whey-hey its not Xmas Day!
SeptemberBaby - 17 December 2008 (boy!)
Bonniethemadcat - 22nd December 2008 (this may change at dating scan)
Rara32 - 22nd December 2008 (this may change at dating scan)
SallyCinnamon - 25th December 2008
Ladyra - 26th December!!
sooz - 5th Jan 2009 30th December 2008
Spendaholic13 - 31st December 2008
nesky99 - 4th January 2009
ladybirdintheuk - 5th January 2009
onlyroz - 7th Jan 2009
Flipper_72 - 8th January 2009
Madmoobag - 10th January 2009
Bekkki1 - 12th January 2009
boredjellybean - 13 January 2009
r.mac - 24th January 2009
Lday77 - 1st February 2009
spyrobabe - 5th February 2009 (C/section Offered 39W- Its a Boy!)
Jamz (well Mrs Jamz) - 7th February 2009
3onitsway - 9 February 2009
sampainter - 11th february 2009
lucifa73 - 11th February 2009
cazscoob - 16 February 2009
durham05 - 17 February 2009
MrsHayes - 20 February 2009
bargainbird - 21 February 2009
voodoozoe - 23rd February 2009
Mikeboy - 28th February 2009
My Fathers Daughter - 2nd March 2009
happytails - 3rd March 2009
carrieparkinson - 4th March 2009 (ish)
Millie's Mum - 7 March 2009
new mum again - 10 March 2009
Redmel1621 - 12th March 2009
jenkellyxx - 12th March 2009
angelfairy - 13 March 2009 - Fri 13th it is so NOT happening on that day
CanadaBound - 14 March 2009
Snuffilin - 15 March 2009
Astroming - 15 March 2009
olliesmummy06 - 16 march 2009
bathbabe - 17 March 2009
crazyaboutsaving - 18 March 2009
Cookiesncream/cookie304 - 19th March 2009 (could change though!!)
JanineGr - 19th March 2009 (by my reckoning)
taney - 19th March 2009
Choccie - 22 March 2009
angchris - 24th march 2009
candygirl's daughter - 26th March 2009
mrsctobe! - prob march 2009 but having a little confusion over due date!
jakesmummy - 31st March 2009
bloomin freezing - 2nd April 2009
slscarborough - 8th April 2009
newmum1 – 9th April 2009
sismith42- 15 April 2009
sparkle03 - 15th April 2009
astonsmummy - 20th April 2009
emma-uk – 21st April 2009
Cat4772 - 22nd April 2009
xredwebx - 22nd April 2009
Ems2 - 29 April 09
Kathy72- 5th May 2009
Claire Jones - 6th May 2009
shellsuit - 9th May 2009
MrsTine - 16th May 2009
Icklebeans - 18th May 2009
ticklepenny – 22 May 2009
Blottedcopybook - 28th May 2009
Sami_Bee - 4th June 2009 (am I jumping the gun abit adding myself so early?)
Saverram_ May be 12th or 13th june 2009
armybike's wife - 21st June (Father's Day!!)
mirrorimage0-- 27th june (by my guess)
mollythewestie - 27th june
maryjane01 - 01 July
Nicole136 - 8th July

TTC LIST
witchyroo
sjm
Fishcake_random
Lesleydejager
jo_jo
picklesmum
durham_girl
likabu
Pooky
emptypocketz
Miss_pink & Mr Pink
Boobylou
lilmrsmullen
jiblets1
Lillian06
Uisge10
CHARLIE54
Andrea78
AnnieM
Wondermum07
Melvis
Janec08
Helen79

BIRTH LIST
wotnext - Baby girl - 3rd September at 4.20pm - Rose - 8lb
jennywren1976-Baby Boy-12th September at 11:03 -Ross Steven,10lb 5.5oz
SUPERJULES- Baby girl 15th September at 9.28am- Emma Olivia- 8lb 10oz
Keelykat-Baby Boy-16th September at 4:27am-Elliot William John,6lb 8oz
LolaManCity - Baby Boy - 17th September 2008 at 1.45am - Jake Luca, 6lb 13oz
Fritha - Celia born 25th September 2008 at 20.30 weighing 7lb 12.5oz
Sarahsaver - Baby Girl - Florence - 2 October 2008 at 2:47am weighing 7lb 15oz
Foreversomeday – boy – Ryan – 5 October 2008 at 7:35am weighing 6lb 11oz
Heather38 – boy – 16 October 2008 at 8:24pm weighing 9lb 5oz
Pisces - boy - 15th October 2008 - just over 7lb
Sarahh112 - boy - Ethan James - 24th October @ 11:07am via the sunroof weighing a whopping 6lb 7oz! (which is huge for a baby of mine)
BargainAholic - 25th October 2008 - Charlie Harry born at 22.44 by emergency C section weighing in 9lb 3.5oz!


PROBABLY GIVEN BIRTH BUT TOO WORN OUT TO LOG ON LIST
Usually allow 2 weeks after EDD before transferring to this list...
CJ2405 - 2 October 2008
Jmarko's wifey - 4 October 2008


This thread is so long I hope I found the most up to date list to copy over and didn't leave anybody off!

I am really worried about this postcode lottery stuff. How do you find out about different maternity units? Are there any web sites? I am loath to go to my local hospital to give birth. From the sounds of things they run a baby conveyor belt in there. They make you hang out in the car park till you are about to drop, then they give you a bed at what seems to be the last moment, then it takes a few more hours than expected and they chop you open to get it out so they can give your bed to another woman waiting in the carpark :eek:

My husband is freaked out about the idea of a home birth, how do you find out about midwife units and is it easy to get refered to them if they are not in your local area? I am in south east London by the way.

MrsTinks

No ticklepenny mine ain't trapped although when DH was home he said he wished it was :rotfl:

But I'll swap you my nausea and heartburn?

MrsTinks

maryjane you might find you have a choice of a couple of hospitals to be honest... I had the choice of 2 out here in the middle of no-where oxforshire Ironically the closest to me is in Bucks but I can't go there because I'm just over the county border... daft huh?
Instead of listening to horror stories about the hospital go and see it for yourself... I've heard good and bad stories about where I'll be giving birth and you probably will everywhere else too.
Sometimes it can come down to who exactly you get delivering when you're there and ofcourse if they suddenly get a "wave" of women giving birth - some early, some late - then things will run slightly different than normal - but that's going to happen at any hospital... Unless you want to pay to go private...

feelinggood_2

With private, aren't you in the same hospitals, with the same staff, just a private room? Thats what my SIL found when she looked into it, but that was a few years ago now.

My_Fathers_Daughter

Maryjane - I was given the option of going over the county border if I wanted. Basically with the nhs care you are supposed to be able to give birth wherever you want and you receive antenatal care wherever you want to give birth IYSWIM.

So my midwife said I could go into Staffordshire no problem but I would have to see them for all my antenatal care (meaning I would no longer have any antenatal care at my local docs).


But you have ages before you need to be thinking about things like that - welcome aboard, congratulations and how do you feel so far.

maryjane01

It is exciting but a little bit unreal at the moment. The big question is when to tell people. Around christmas or just before I think is a good time, but my OHs best mate has been TTC for over 4 years and had a miscarriage just before Christmas last year. I have only known my OH 3.5 years and got pg as soon as we staretd trying, so we are trying to be a bit sensitive to my OHs best mate.

I don't think there is any such thing as just telling one or 2 close people because they just tell one or 2 people and so it goes on before you start getting random congratulations on Facebook when nobody is suppossed to know.

But none of you are real people, right? (please don't congratulate me on Facebook rofl)

My_Fathers_Daughter

I think it depends on how you feel about it as a couple. Personally, we didn't wait, especially with family and friends and we just told people as we went along. I also told work very early on because I was having some heart trouble that needed some extra appointments and I didn't want to take holiday or keep making excuses. I went along the lines of all these people will need to know if the worst were to happen anyway so I would rather tell them now so they can be supportive.

There are other ladies on here who have learned the hard way that if you tell the world you then have to un-tell the world...


If your OH normally shares everything with his best mate (for example if had he told him you were TTC) then I would treat this as other aspects of their friendship and be honest. It will be tough for the mate but ultimately keeping it from him when you would normally have told him will be tough to...


....and welcome to the world of baby brain where we waffle away and make no sense.


I'm not here today anyway, ignore me

feelinggood_2

I was more hurt by the SIL who hid the fact that she was pregnant, than the SIL who told me openly. I was going to find out in the end, and I didn't like the fact that they'd all discussed it and decided not to tell me because it would hurt me. Luckily, OH didn't join in thier secret keeping, and he told me.

miss_corerupted

hi all, i haven't been on for ages. Haven't been able to sit down much as i've had really bad pains in my right hand side for weeks. i thought it was a kidney infection but found out esterday hat the baby is in breech and his head is up under my ribs so no wonder i'm sore. I'm having something called moxibustion next week to try and turn him has anyone else had this and what didi they think??

http://www.expectancy.co.uk/docs/advicesheet09.pdf

thanks

blottedcopybook

feelinggood wrote: »

I'm terrified of the birth at the moment. Everyone has been telling me horror stories about blood up the walls and tearing and things. Doesn't help that I was with my SIL when she had her two, and both were traumatic births.

I was discussing pain relief with my Mum, and how I've decided that I don't want to give birth anymore. I don't want opiates or an epidural, but I've got a really low pain threshold. She said I'll be find on gas and air, and that I'm built for childbirth. All the women in the family have really easy labours, even with twins. Should I be hopefully?

Probably far too early to be thinking of this, but I'm all worried!

Honestly I get so angry at people who do this. I had probably the worst labour and birth experience you could have without suffering a loss, I came through it alive, my son made it through alive, there was no blood spraying up walls, nurses fainting etc - it happens very occasionally! But, he was my first and I'm pregnant with my fourth, so hopefully that will reassure you that even the worst experience can be overcome.

When it comes to pain relief I believe that it's folly to make firm decisions on what you do or don't want until you're actually in labour and able to consciously decide what you can cope with. I've tried everything except c-section and my best (and easiest) birth experience was in a water pool with gas and air not because I was better equipped to deal with the pain, but because the power had been given to me to make the decision and that relaxed me a huge amount. I had an epidural with #2 and was so so against it until I got it, but I loved it while it worked. Opiates didn't rock my boat at all though.

But that's me! Your experience will be different because it's yours