MSE Pregnancy Club IX

shellsuit

Krystaltips wrote: »

Yeah stands a chance they did them with your GTT then, I had mine at 28w and they did my 28w bloods at the same time... And I think we have similar midwives... Mine got my name wrong about 4 times 2 weeks ago, even though I corrected her... And today I corrected her again... She apologised... And proceeded to get it wrong another 3 times! It's not like I have a particularly difficult name... It just ends in an A not an E....

It's so annoying isn't it! I feel like saying 'You can't get something simple right, like a name, but I'm putting mine and my childs safety in your hands you dozy bleedin' bint!' :cool:

She's an older lady though, not that there is anything wrong with that, but I've also seen someone else who must only be in her 20's and she was fantastic with me and so on the ball. I hope she's there when I go in to have the baby and I don't have dozy hole :rolleyes::rotfl:

Sami_Bee

shellsuit wrote: »

I've just realised, I'll be 38 weeks on Saturday, but midwife hasn't mentioned my birth plan at all.

Apparantly I should have had my bloods taken at 36 weeks too ~ this wasn't done at my last appointment because me being dozy hole couldn't find my notes, but I did tell midwife they weren't lost and I did come home and find them.

If the bloods were that important why did she tell me to go back and see her when I'll be 38+5??

Provided you're 'normal' those blood are just for blood count and just need to be done before you give birth so I'm sure you'll be fine to have them now

I don't think my MW ever asked me about my birth plan last time and this time its being discussed because I have asked for a homebirth

EDIT - sorry just seen Krystal has answered, My webby is being stoopid and keep refreshing with out me telling it too :mad: I'm all mixed up!

Krystaltips

Lol, it's the young one I'm having trouble with... She's so inept... And very patronising with it too...

Bah... My husband is wasting a half days holiday so he can have the afternoon off for no reason... And we have an after school play date so we're not even going to be here... This is why he has no holiday left come christmas!

Damzel_In_Distress

Good afternoon

Well its been a productive day so far..I eat a tube of mini eggs for breakfast,opened the mail,And snuggled up on the sofa with my son watching winnie the pooh...Ive yet to get dressed...Perhaps i wont bother at all :rotfl:

All this talk of length of babies ive never understood..My son was never measured as a baby. Not at the birth or after. I asked and was told it was an old practise they didnt use anymore as it wasnt needed.

I didnt need a tape measure to tell me he was huge though....He turned 3 two weeks ago and is...3ft8 already :eek:

Sami_Bee

Good lord DID is his dad a giraffe?
I'm just gonna peel a Satsoooooma for Chris (yey he can say it now even if it does sound a bit funny!) then I think we'll leave the house - how exciting

Damzel_In_Distress

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Good lord DID is his dad a giraffe?
I'm just gonna peel a Satsoooooma for Chris (yey he can say it now even if it does sound a bit funny!) then I think we'll leave the house - how exciting

His dad is 6ft1 or 2 ...I forget ...And i am 5ft8 so neither of us are short.

Was just looking at the things they gave me at the hospital the other day and the baby measured 10.9 cm at 13 + 3 weeks ...Is that normal?

Krystaltips

Actually, measuring the length of a baby is a better indicator that a baby is thriving than weighing them... Aimee was 56cm born...

Nicki

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Good lord DID is his dad a giraffe?
I'm just gonna peel a Satsoooooma for Chris (yey he can say it now even if it does sound a bit funny!) then I think we'll leave the house - how exciting

God, I need to read things more carefully :eek:

I read this post as saying that you were going to expel a satsuma and thought that was taking the childbirth preparations just a tad far!

Sami_Bee

Damzel_In_Distress wrote: »

His dad is 6ft1 or 2 ...I forget ...And i am 5ft8 so neither of us are short.

Was just looking at the things they gave me at the hospital the other day and the baby measured 10.9 cm at 13 + 3 weeks ...Is that normal?

did they say what they measured as the only thing I can find that may be ten of anything is femur length is about 10mm at 13 weeks
average crown - rump length at 13+3 weeks is 72mm

Nicki - LOL!!

skintchick

Nicki wrote: »

I like yoga as well. I didn't think that a yoga teacher would take a complete beginner on in a general class if they were pregnant though? It's different if they have some experience albeit with a different teacher, but given how differently the body moves and reacts when pregnant, surely starting as a newbie in a general class would be a recipe for injury? And all the ante-natal yoga classes round me won't let you start until you are at least 14 weeks pregnant. In fact, now that the kids are back at school, and I'm past that mark, that's one of the things I'm just about to get into, as I really enjoyed it with my first two pregnancies, and it was a really good way to meet other expectant mums in a fun setting. I have no idea whether it helped with the birth or not though, as have no experience of giving birth without the benefit of ante-natal yoga beforehand! I suspect it did though, if only in terms of staying relaxed and reasonably supple throughout the pregnancy.

I imagine it depends on the teacher and how far gone you are. If you're very early on then you don;t have to do anything differently in terms of poses.

I had a friend who did pregnancy yoga classes and she has shown me some of what they did, and it isn;t yoga! So maybe the special calsses are just a weird mix of stuff vaguely based on yoga and that's why you have to be more careful?

Certainly, I'd expect any good yoga teacher to be able to adapt a class for a pregnant lady, and to watch her and make sure she isn;t overextending - my teacher is contantly telling me cos I was the bendiest in the class and forget I can;t really do that any more right now!

But my class is small - usually only five of us, and if you were in a big class you could get lost, which is why I wouldn;t touch classes run at a gym or leisure centre, as I don;t feel those teachers are going to be able to give enough time to each person.

My teacher is happy to have pregnant ladies join classes, and she's excellent at accommodating them, even if they haven;t done yoga before, although I think if you were very far gone she might only give you very gentle things to do.

The onyl thing to really worry about is overstretching hte muscles, and avoiding most inversions and anything that engages the abdominals (like plank) but I still do downdog and the balances, and as well as a lot of the twists although I go the opposite way to everyone else so I'm only using my shoulder and back muscles rather than my tummy ones, and I avoid squashing the bump that way too.

In fact, I do pretty much everything, and when we lie down on our backs to relax I lie along a bolster so I'm not flat - my teacher arranges stuff round me, including blocks, which I use now for lunges and for trichonasna (sp?) so I don;t bend too far in that pose (although I used to happily put my hand flat on the floor).

I can see what you're saying, but I don;t think it would be 'a recipe for injury' if you went to a good teacher in a small class setting, and I definitely think it would be safer than doing a DVD at home with no teacher.




Sami - I have just been to the dentist and on the wall there was a poster and I thought 'why is Sami on the wall? How odd.' Then I realised your avvy is a real character from a cartoon!