MSE Pregnancy Club V

Sami_Bee

Krystaltips wrote: »

For all those interested (probably none of ya lol) I used terry squares for Aimee... They're still around now

did you use Zorbit ones? shame I didn't know u back then coz I could have got you them dirt cheap I was working there 5yrs ago (and if I knew I'd fall preg 5yrs earlier than I had planned I wouldn't have given away so much of the stuff I got free!!)

skintchick

Mel - thanks for that. I'm scared of hassling her but I was only one of three people to know (her hubby and her mum and me) so I want her to have the support she needs. Her hubby has fallen apart, he just can;t cope, and her mum is a bit brusque sometimes, so I want to be there for her.

I will text as long as it's not hassling. Poor love probably won;t ever have one - has PCOS and MS and is overweight, no IVF on NHS here till you are 35, they have no money, and can;t adopt cos of her MS.

Sami_Bee

redmel1621 wrote: »

Morning All

What a freezing morning it is today. My back still hurts from when I fell over too:(

I was just giggling to myself over the terry nappies, it just reminded me - When I was a baby I was in terry nappies too, and when mum and I were discharged from the hospital she was told I had 'clicky hips' I had to wear double up terry nappies so my legs were amost doing the splits....thing is my mum reckons every baby discharged that morning had clicky hips, she says it must have been the nurse who had a clicky wrist...
incidentally when health visitors etc came round, there was nothing wrong with my hips!!

Mel x

My sis had clicking hips I cleverly married into a family with joint problems too so all my babies have to have hip scans within the first 6 weeks after birth.
Its very simple to "fix" if picked up so young but a nightmare of surgery, plaster casts, wheelchairs and a permanent limp if only found later in life (because you end up with one leg longer than the other!)

Glamazon

shellsuit wrote: »

Aww, your poor OH! :rotfl: :rotfl:

They found at my 20 week scan that I've got placenta previa, so we can't have sex incase we jolt something inside of me, which could lead to bleeding.

Thanks Shell - I wouldn't mind but he always waits until it's really late and I'm just dropping off to sleep!! I then get ratty cos I'm half asleep and we have a row, then I feel guilty and he gets his wicked way with me anyway! I've told him I've cottoned onto his plan now so it won't work again but I always do!

Think I would rather have sex than placenta previa - sounds scary as does just about everything with preganancy!

r.mac_2

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Ladies who have gone overdue - a question...

How sure were you of your dates? Were your dates ascetained by scan or did you know because you were actively trying??


Just trying to see if there is any pattern...

my dates:

I had three calculated. Once by the Dr, when I first told him I thought I was pg - he said 26th Jan. Once by the MW at booking in based on my LMP, which was 24th Jan and once by 16wk dating scan which was 25th Jan (the date they are using). So they seemed pretty certain. We fell pg straight away but I had had a period after coming off the pill, so was pretty certain of my dates, although have no idea of the length of my normal cycle, which I do know has some bearing on dates.

Some people argue that genetics are involved in pg - others argue that they don't. But my family pattern suggested I would go overdue - I was 21days late and induced 3 times, sister 1 was 10 days late and induced and sister 2 was 11 days later, but came by herself. My husband was 2 weeks late and induced and his 2 sisters were a few days late as well.

Does that help you at all?????

Princess81

shellsuit wrote: »

They found at my 20 week scan that I've got placenta previa, so we can't have sex incase we jolt something inside of me, which could lead to bleeding.

Shell do you know if this is otherwise known as a low lying placenta?

Sami_Bee

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Ladies who have gone overdue - a question...

How sure were you of your dates? Were your dates ascetained by scan or did you know because you were actively trying??


Just trying to see if there is any pattern...

ok lets see if this helps or just baffles you

With Chris I thought he was due NYE but hadn't kept a record of my periods as I'd come of the pill about 2 0r 3 mths before getting preg, I stopped taking it coz I'd forgotten it so much I was getting no protection from it and was spotting all the time due to that :rolleyes:
so the MW decided to use the scan date which said I was due 16th Jan (FIL's b-day) I had Chris on the 13th jan and the paediatrician thought I had been induced because he said from the lack of that white stuff (vernix??) and how dry his skin was he was at least 2 weeks late

So according to scans I was 3 days early but according to me and paediatrician he was 2 weeks over

Nicki

skintchick wrote: »

Poor love probably won;t ever have one - has PCOS and MS and is overweight, no IVF on NHS here till you are 35, they have no money, and can;t adopt cos of her MS.

I'm not sure that follows. PCOS causes problems conceiving (sometimes) but I'm not aware it makes you more likely to miscarry. If she's conceived 4 times spontaneousy though obviously her PCOS isn't so bad as to stop her ovulating. She'll probably need some investigations as to why she has recurrent miscarriages though. I thought you were offered this after 3 on the NHS but maybe it varies from place to place.

I have PCOS and find it hard to conceive as a result, but even so I have 2 atm and one on the way (1 with the help of fertility drugs and 2 spontaneously), and I think I've read that there are a few more of us on this thread who also have it.

If she does get back to you, whilst obviously being sympathetic for what's happened, I'd steer clear of suggesting that she'll never have a child of her own, even if that's what she's saying herself at the moment, as there's always hope.

Sami_Bee

skintchick wrote: »

Hope everyone is OK. My friend has just miscarried her baby It's her fourth mc and she doesn;t even want to talk on the phone. She was convinced this be would be OK. Not sure how I can support her if she doesn;t want to talk - is texting a no-no as welldo you think, or should I text her to let her know I'm thinking of her?

How about sending her a card with a poem in it you can google for them or there are books I've seen in WHsmith full of poems for loss, funerals etc
I saw someone with this as a tattoo, link to it typed not a pic of tattoo! http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=18032265&postcount=5833

Someone sent my mum a poem when my gt grandma died and every now and then she reads it and has a good cry about it nice and cathartic

shellsuit

Princess81 wrote: »

Shell do you know if this is otherwise known as a low lying placenta?

Not sure to be honest but that's the wording the Doc used when she told me and that's what is written in my notes.

I've got a scan this month (28 weeks), another scan next month (32 weeks), then if nothing has changed, another scan at 34 weeks and if things are still the same, I will have to have a C section.

My placenta covers the opening of my cervix, so a natural birth would be out of the question if things don't change - I don't know what's worse, the thought of being laid up after the birth because of a C section, or the pain in my nethers from a natural birth! :rotfl:


Ahhh, just googled and it says 'Low lying placenta' (placenta previa), so Yep, it's the same thing