MSE Pregnancy Club XVI

karen1907

gymfiend wrote: »

Morning!

Could most of you feel baby moving by 18 weeks? Think today is 18+2 (or maybe 3, really struggle to remember!) and I don't think I feel anything, and I don't look pregnant, beginning to worry a bit


xxx

Gymfiend I think I started feeling mine at about 18 weeks. Just like bubbles in your belly. If you lay on your back with your head slighly up it is meant to help.

EA - re people touching belly, I was atdarts last night with 7 other ladies and made the mistake of saying that the baby was moving about so they all wanted to feel - at one point I had one each side of me - I was getting a bit embarrassed to be honest, but they were really excited when the baby moved so I didn't say anything.:o

DH likes saying "hellllllllloooooo bump junior" and more often than not jr does move:rotfl:

got-it-spend-it wrote: »

Nanc- i don't know how you've done it. The thought of having to get up early everyday is just too much for me at the moment!

Had my 36 weeks appointment today and MW took bloods, which I wasn't expecting! She's happy with everything though and I don't have to see her again till my due date! I do see the doctor in two weeks time instead of her, but is that normal?! I expected to go to weekly appointments from now on .

I slept so badly again last night. I just really need a good nights sleep but it isn't happening at all. I just seem to toss and turn and get up for a wee about 6 times a night.

Helen- I got the 300mg in the end, but will prob get my next lot at Tesco or Asda as I think they are cheaper than Boots!

Mine MW appointments are every two weeks since 36 weeks so have a 38 wk & 40 wk booked in.

EPO I am taking one 500mg a day and currently 2 raspberry leaves capsules next week I am going to up my EPO to 2 x 500mg and 3 raspberry leaves capsules. On the container for EPO it says max 1000g a day so may leave it at that but keep upping the RL capsules each week till I am on 4 a day.

I got up at 7 today to have breakfast with DH then did the washing up (that I should have done yesterday) and went back to bed for a couple of hours. The kitchen is now looking tidy so that is making me feel better. Next to do on my list is clean some secondhand toys I got from my sil and a friend- as it is sunny today I should be able to put them outside to dry.

Also I am going to make a list of what I want to do so I can tick things off - I love being able to tick stuff off;)

Evansangel

nikkit72 wrote: »

EA , dont you book your appoinments through your doctors surgery for MW ?, i do
i just call my surgery and they book me in i have them at 15 weeks , 25 weeks , 28 weeks ( anti d inj ) 34 weeks ( anti d inj ) and then 38 weeks , 40 weeks . and thats as a new mum as there is so much age between my other kids and because its a dif dad to my other 3

Well we dont book them ourselves, they are meant to contact us. But my doctor told me that they are really behind and screwing alot of things up since there was a massive move from one hospital to another, so to give her a call to remind her

Last time i see her i was when i 8 weeks i think. And she called me for that one.

karen1907

EA- just give her another call - it can't hurt. If you leave a message just say something casual like - I was just wondering why I hadn't heard anything from you, thought I should have an 18 week appointment? Let me know when you can fit me in or if I was mistaken...........

Evansangel

karen1907 wrote: »

DH likes saying "hellllllllloooooo bump junior" and more often than not jr does move:rotfl:

I told OH that babies can hear deeper voicers more than high pitched voices (i read this somewhere) and he doesn't have the most deep voice, so he put on a deeper voice and tried to speak to the baby :rotfl:

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elastigirl

I was looking forward to a lovely girly day spent shopping with my mum yesterday but i tell you it was a big mistake it was worse than taking my son with me. We are very close but she is not a girly girl and i am not really but i am more of one than she is. She rushed me around in every shop, kept going on about the time and getting something to eat and drink, kept sitting down and waiting for me at the exits etc she was driving me mad she is only 57 but i swear she is losing the plot.

We went in several shops that has baby clothes, items and she wouldn't look at anything with me, There was me getting all excited and she wasn't joining in. She just kept moaning about the price of things.

We went in to m&s as they have a sale on and she was looking for baby clothes for my cousin who is due about a month before me. For some reason she will not buy for my baby while i am with her or even really talk about him or being pregnant to me. I still believe it is because everyone and i mean everyone in my family wanted this baby to be a girl. She picked up a unisex outfit and i picked out some blue ones and said to her what about these? do you like them? Her reply was but we don't know what the sex of your cousins baby will be and they are def for a boy.
I explained no for me, my baby and she just said oh yes.

I really wanted them but didn't want to pay for them as i have tons already and they could have been her gift to us. It was the cutiest set for £7 and some soft dungrees for £5

Well she had a voucher to use but was getting in a right muddle thinking she had to spend the whole amount i kept trying to explain that they would give her change but in vouchers but she wouldn't have it. So i said ( big hint here) Buy my things with the voucher as well then you have spend the whole amount then you can give the baby them. Again more confusion so she put the voucher in my hand then ran off to a till to pay for her one item with cash, i paid for my things with her voucher but i think she is expecting me to give her the money for them.

Oh and she went to 3 different tills as she was getting impatient at the queues, if she had just stayed where she was she would have been done quicker. She is popping over today to see my son before she goes on hol. I hope she is more with it.

Evansangel

Elasti *hugs* has she always been like this? Or is it just cause your having a boy?

x

elastigirl

Evansangel wrote: »

I told OH that babies can hear deeper voicers more than high pitched voices (i read this somewhere) and he doesn't have the most deep voice, so he put on a deeper voice and tried to speak to the baby :rotfl:

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My hubby doesn't have a deep voice either so i will have to get him to try that as the baby can be kicking me and moving like crazy but the min he touches my bump it stops.

My midwife always books me in for my next apt when i see her. I see her at a sure start center clinc where i will go to get the baby weighed also. Completely seperate from the docs. It's better there, more friendly than the stuffy docs and ds could go and play in the childrens center while i had apts. I am a week behind as i have had some hospital apts instead of seeing her so i see her next week at 31 weeks instead of 30 wks. I had full bloods done again when i had my GTT and she said they were my last ones.

Evansangel

We have so many surestart centres here! lol.
There is a drop in clinic at the docs, but she said they dont know whats going on with it and if its changing days, etc. So she would give me info at my next appointment.

I'll give her a call on my lunch break, well i'll call to see if her phone is switched on. If its not i'll get the maternity units number from my notes later and give them a call tomorrow to ask

elastigirl

Evansangel wrote: »

Elasti *hugs* has she always been like this? Or is it just cause your having a boy?

x

Well like i said she isn't a girly girl so doesn't go in for the whole shopping or emotions etc so the things i want to look at don't apeal to her at all, but she adores my ds he is her first grandchild and she was permently at my house when he was a baby, But she now has a granddaughter from my brother and his wife and she would def have prefered this one to be another girl as she isn't very close to her as my sister in law is a bit well trying shall we say and only really sticks to her family.

I know it will change once the baby is born but it's like i am the only one bothered about this baby. Even my grandad has said he was disapointed that i am not having a girl, I am a grandads girl and he would have loved that bond again. I would have loved a daughter but i am thankful i am pregnant at all.

Mum just keeps saying she is having senior moments but she get things wrong all the time and makes a full of herself a bit really, I hope she isn't getting early dementure. She parked her car and forgot she was parked somewhere she shouldn't have been went off for at least an hour or more and couldn't work out why she got a £70 fine I have explained it to her over and over again.

Evansangel

Oh no
Has she or you spoken to her doctor about it?

Its not your fault that your not having a girl (technically its the mans fault )

I can understand how she feels with not feeling close to your SILs daughter. My nan had always wanted a grandson, and my uncle and his ex had a son and when they broke up, the ex rarely allowed my nan to see her grandson.

When my mum had her son, my nan felt as if he was her first grandson that she could have a bond with.

Sorry, im not the best at giving advice, but i do like to try