MSE Pregnancy Club VII

redmel1621

I get my shopping delivered, and use either Asda or Tesco. I have started to do a monthly shop, instead of weekly and usually spend £200-£230 for the month, then just top up with milk and fruit from the local small Somerfields:) That's for 2ad 2ch 2cats, the dogs food I bulk buy 3mths worth at a time from petplanet

sls, it doesn't sound selfish...my mum popped in yesterday after work and said she is on holiday from work this weekend, and said she was thinking of going away for the weekend!! 'Thanks Mum, and what happens if I need the kids looking after if I have to get rushed into hospital!!'

Maybe when it is close to your due date they may stay home a few weekends?

Mel x

Sami_Bee

workinmummy wrote: »

Sami_Bee wrote: »

I got told it was tripple test at wigan, that's whats on my notes too

No, the midwife definately said quadruple, she said it used to be the triple by has now been improved.

ooh poshness I prob wasn't listening right coz I decline tests so prob switched off as she went on about it

emlou2009

moving the car in pj's is completely acceptable! thats the same as putting the bins out or whatever! but asda? hmm. i must admit when i lived above a shop i did wander down in my pj's once at 7am for milk but i went in the back way so nobody except the shop staff would see me lol!

Glamazon

emlou2009 wrote: »

moving the car in pj's is completely acceptable! thats the same as putting the bins out or whatever! but asda? hmm. i must admit when i lived above a shop i did wander down in my pj's once at 7am for milk but i went in the back way so nobody except the shop staff would see me lol!

I think it was the brown cowboy style boots with monkey pj's that made OH go :eek: :eek: :eek:


Wonder what they have added to the triple test then? she goes off to google it...................

Glamazon

Between 15 - 20 weeks a double, triple or quadruple test can be used. The difference between these tests is the number of substances called markers that are looked for in your blood. Markers are indicators of the condition.

So it must be just extra proteins that they look for in your blood?!

alison6692

Hiya x

I am looking at buying a new buggy and like the look of the Tribo but cannot find a shop locally to have a look at it. Does anyone own one or know anything about it?

Thanks x Alison x

Nicki

Gosh. I last checked yesterday evening, and there have been loads of posts since then!

On the c-section/normal delivery question, I'm firmly in the camp that it doesn't matter a jot how baby comes out so long as mother and baby are both safe and alive at the end of it. I feel uncomfortable reading posts which are really anti-c section as it can make mums who have no choice about having one feel they have failed, when in fact they have grown and given birth to a beautiful healthy baby, just in an alternative way.

I had a planned c section with my first child and it was truly a fantastic experience. It was calm, relaxed, completely pain free from beginning to end, baby was born healthy and I recovered quickly. The reason for the c section was a breach presentation, and I was told due to the position of the baby and the cord there was a serious risk of the cord being compressed if I attempted a vaginal delivery. Others may disagree with my decision to go for an elective c section, but I felt then, and feel now, that it was the right decision for me and for my baby. I was in hospital for less than 5 days and feeding was established immediately.

With baby no 2, she was in the correct head-down position and I opted for a vbac, as there were no indicators this would present a problem. I bled heavily from the moment my waters broke to the moment she was delivered, she got stuck at the pushing stage, and was delivered by ventouse, which was extremely painful despite an epidural and very stressful. I also tore badly. I heamorredged (sp) after the birth and was extremely ill for 10 days afterwards, in hospital for all of this time, and unable to breast feed for the first week as I was just too ill to attempt it. That baby was later discovered to have severe learning difficulties though there is no evidence for or against that this was due to the manner of her birth. I was in a lot of pain for several days after the birth, due to the tearing and the after effects of the birth.

If I have to be completely honest, I would say that I "failed" on my second birth, as I was unable to push the baby out without assistance, and took so long to recover from the experience, but I "succeeded" on the first one by taking the right decision for me and for my child. I'd therefore really recommend that everyone keeps a totally open mind about how their baby should be delivered, and listen carefully to what the medical staff are advising, rather than to make knee-jerk reactions about eg it being totally unreasonable to advise a c-section for every breach presentation. It may well be that there is something about the particular manner of your breach which means that a c-section would be preferable, or the consultant may know that the vast majority of midwives in your chosen birth centre are inexperienced at delivering breach babies and for that reason be concerned for your and baby's safety if a trial of labour is attempted. C sections are vastly more expensive than normal deliveries and if you think about it there is no reason why a hospital or a doctor would recommend them if there was no evidence whatsoever that in those circumstances it would be safer than a normal delivery.

...rant over!

Sami_Bee

alison6692 wrote: »

Hiya x

I am looking at buying a new buggy and like the look of the Tribo but cannot find a shop locally to have a look at it. Does anyone own one or know anything about it?

Thanks x Alison x

I don't know about the tribo, but I have a cosatto diablo and love it, My dad managed to break it and cosatto fixed it for me, their customer service was fantasic!
Have you contacted them to ask about local suppliers?

money_maker_3

Hi everyone

Has taken me a while to catch up, but I am done !!!

Weezel, thanks for the BS and Fergus is sooo cute

Weekly shopping in our house is £30 and a few top ups like milk and bread and that is for 2adults and one child at the minute

Glad everyones scans and check ups have gone well, tia are you sure it is fornightly checks from 37 weeks? that could only be 2 checks at the most???

As for when you should start mat leave, I left at 39 weeks with DD and was exhausted so am taking 4 weeks this time, 3 weeks mat leave and one week holiday, but as I am having elected section I will only be off for 3 before I have my bump !!!:eek:

Cant think of anything else to say for now!! Can never tell my OH that though, he would never believe it :rotfl:

Sami_Bee

Nicki - we're not saying that c/s's are bad just that medical peeps shouldn't tell women that they "have" to have one when they don't
Its unnecessary c/s's I personally don't like, I understand that for some there is not another option due to lots of diff reasons but it gets my goat when a woman who could deliver a feet first breech (with no other complications) baby is told baby is breech you have to have a c/s.