MSE Pregnancy Club IX

elle_gee

Hi all..

Guess what? I'm working from home! :j I'm never ever ever allowed to do that but my boss takes the mick and does it all the time - bone of contention throughout the whole company. I didn't feel good at all after my midwife visit and as home is closer to the doctors than work, I came home and logged on to carry on working. I bet you once boss finds out I'll have all my access rights closed off by 10am tomorrow morning! :rolleyes: (her early finish today so she thinks I'm back at work ).

I know I am dodgy with needles anyway but I haven't had a bad reaction to a blood test for a couple of years - and I have to have about 6-8 blood tests a year normally anyway. I'm usually okay unless something goes wrong and today I heard the horrid words "oh, your vein's collasped" - cue me coming over all faint, clammy and queasy! _pale_ I always have blood tests lying down anyway but if I hadn't have been on the bed already I'd have been on the floor in seconds

Thing is, I had to have the AntiD jab too and they apparently can't give me the jab until they've done it 28wk bloods. Midwife offered for me to come back next week and have the AntiD if I would go to the hospital in the meantime for the bloods, but I really didn't want to leave it any longer to have the AntiD, so I stayed lying there for ages until I felt brave enough to have the bloods attempted again. luckily I was pretty much alright the second time, although I now have a bruise and normally I never bruise Midwife warned me my arm would feel like I'd been punched after the AntiD but I was told that last time too and was fine so I wasn't too bothered. This time, she proper stabbed me with the needle to get it in (no gentle scratch!) and she was right - it really aches now!

Feel okay now, queasiness wise, but as my arm's probably going to get worse tonight I decided not to bother going back into work. Will probably get way more done here than I would at work anyway!

SugarSpun

I wish I could have a rare steak

Blood on the plate rare. None of this "grey till you hit the middle" nonsense. Blood!

With mashed potatoes, and green beans, and Bearnaise sauce.

And a Martini. I want a wet, dirty Martini with Hendricks and an extra olive.

elle_gee

Mrs Moc, really glad you're able to go home We expect to see you posting lots though so we know you're not up to mischief and housework!

JM, congrats on joining Team Blue

Hope everyone else having scans today gets good ones!

Re: scans - we were told 95% sure it was a boy at the NHS 20wk scan.. By the way the conversation went, the sonographer definitely caught sight of something obvious! We've had two other scans since and seen for ourselves his "hangly dangly bits" as the other sonographer called them - even have a picture in full colour 3d glory too!

Re: steak - medium well for me.. cooked, vaguely pink in the middle but not chewy. Hmmm.. really fancy steak and chips now! :drool:

Am sure I had more to say or someone else to mention.. will go back again!

Oh yes, Claire! *hugs* Hope everything is okay with the hospital stay

Right, I'm off to assemble afternoon tea - sultana scone, butter, strawberry jam and clotted cream

lil_miss_06

thanks elle i hope they can be that sure when i go,,i dont know why but i am just so inpatient this time around or is just excitement,,,well it was almost 13 years ago with my daughter,,

is there anyone here with a big age gap? my dd is so excited

searching_me

lil miss theres only 7 years between zoe and this bubba... but cant wait xxx

Triggles

there was 20 years between DD and DS2, so we were quite excited as well - just 2-3 years between DS2 and this baby, so not such a huge gap!

Hooorayyy!! DH is getting chinese takeaway for tea! Yummmmmmmmmmmm

searching_me

full up from a huge pasta salad (with omega seeds in) and a veggie burger bubba is feeling very sluggish x

mountainlioness

Well, ladies, I am back...

The scan was good - the MW was happy with everything and thought that Cub's measurements were about right for the dates. She took us through all the body parts, which was cool... there was a brilliant moment when the hands were up like a boxer and you could almost see a proper face. The pics we actually got weren't that great but the experience of the scan was memorable enough. Really happy that everything is where it should be

Now the moment of truth we're expecting a daughter but as you ladies will know I don't like all that girly prissy stuff so I guess I'll have to start my own team :rolleyes: Hmmm, maybe lilac or 'javan dawn' like the nursery?! :cool:

We're not telling anyone but my mum so you ladies are in on the secret We daren't tell DH's parents or we'll be drowning in frills and dolls before we know it!

The trip to the hospital didn't end that well though. I went to have some blood tests for anaemia etc and I collapsed afterwards I've had similar experience only twice before in my life - due to sudden low blood pressure. It's fine, but horrible at the time. Was v embarrassing as about 5 nurses, a crash team and 2 porters with a gurney arrived on the scene (by which point I was lying down and feeling much better - had stopped sweating buckets) DH was dispatched for sugar. Am feeling fine now, just a bit washed out. Thank god no-one had to pick me up or anything like they had to last time - I weigh a ton, it is so embarrassing.

Anyway, spose I better get myself a nice cuppa and put me feet up

Looking forward to hearing all the other scan stories

lil_miss_06

Triggles wrote: »

there was 20 years between DD and DS2, so we were quite excited as well - just 2-3 years between DS2 and this baby, so not such a huge gap!

Hooorayyy!! DH is getting chinese takeaway for tea! Yummmmmmmmmmmm

Really,wow thats great,and congrats on baby 3

elle_gee

*hugs* ML!! And I thought I was bad.. Funny you mentioned feeling "washed out" - I couldn't stop yawning once I'd gotten over the clammy faint feeling earlier. Had to tell the midwife she wasn't boring me!

Incidentially, just in case anyone didn't know (I didn't until this afternoon), if feeling faint you should lie on your left side. I didn't think it would make any difference but it really did to me this afternoon (tried me on my back, then my right then my left). Apparently the recovery position is always to your left - I didn't think it made a difference (it is 10 years since I did a first aid course tho'!).

Congrats on team javan dawn