MSE Pregnancy Club 17

1more?

morning ladies
ive not posted for a few days but ive been stalking you:rotfl: i find some times i dont have a lot to add

red mel im on no.3 and am just as nervous as with the others i think its normal:p maybe worse as we know whats coming but hey you have done it 3 times you know you will be fine x

freebie sorry mw as carp, mine asked me if i was there to book in but she had been out to my house a few weeks before to book me in, does anybody know when im supposed to see her next im 23 w this week?????

choccy dont worry about your friends i think people find preggy women public property its not personal they feel its ok to comment

welcome to the new ladies and congratulations to you

its my dd bday today shes 13:eek: shes gone to school now but we are out for dinner tonight, pizza hut is her choice, i cant believe shes a teenager and here i am i pregnant i must be mad :rotfl:

Sarah_Joanne

Somnium wrote: »

Just popping by to see if there is any news from gym? Hope the induction went well for her and she is having mummy cuddles now

All still going well here, still getting waves of visitors and pressies, am stunned by how much we've been given!

Hey Som!!

Just thought I'd pop back here to let you all know gymfiend is ok, still in hospital since Sunday and as of last night still nothing happening so this morning she was going to be put onto the drip to try and get things going.

Hopefully she will be having some mummy cuddles very soon now!

redstararnie76

SJ - Thanks for the update on Gym, I was wondering how she was getting on.
Gym (not that you're likely to see this until afterwards!) - I'm sending you lots of 'baby, get on with it!' vibes...
For those with rubbish midwives, I have to admit I had one good one last time, but this pregnancy I feel like none of them have the time to be bothered with me. My appointments have felt like a waste of time and I don't really have faith in the midwife when she's trying to work out how far along I am and obviously can't count 7 days in a week (one week she claims I am 27 weeks and 6 days, I go back 8 days later to be told that I'm 29 weeks and 2 days!) and won't believe me when I try to point it out.

kitkat5566

I have to admit, my MV is lovely but I did feel like my appointments were abit in-personal, she was friendly but I felt like I was on a conveyerbelt 'pee, blood, feeling ok, NEXT!' lol. I said I had felt abit low last time I saw her and she just said 'oh its the hormones' and no cause for concern! :rotfl:

redstararnie76

The best bit I found, was when my midwife asked if I had any problems and I said 'well, I am finding this pregnancy a bit of a struggle...' and she wrote down 'no problems'! It's nice when they at least pretend to care!

fernliebee

This time my MW is fairly nice, and seems quite relaxed and has a good chat as she goes which helps you feel like a person rather than being on a conveyer belt, but this means nothing really as IMO it's all down to who you get when you are in labour.

First time round though my MW was carp! She didn't even see me for the last 5 weeks (I was 2.5 weeks late) and she didn't even know! (she rang me when I was 15 days over and asked had I had the baby yet, when I said no she said in a stroppy voice, well you should have seen the consultant by now you know, so she booked me an appt that would have been when I was nearly 4 weeks over???!) Though I didn't want to be induced it would have been nice to be seen just to check bub's was fine in there. I had to see GP for my checks in the last few weeks and he was useless I was telling him all he needed to know ie no Oedema, do my BP, etc all he wanted to do was weigh me- helpful!

Then the experience I had in labour with some of the midwives was rubbish. I had a long labour (which I'm convinced is because they just would not leave me alone to get comfy) so saw a lot of different MW's due to shift change/ breaks etc. Out of the 7 MW I saw while in labour only the MW and her 3rd yr student were really good, lovely women and I was glad they were the ones that were there to deliver DD. I was sick to death of the incompetence and sheer rudeness of one particular MW and this time round will remember to say get me someone else as I didn't think of this last time! Duh!!!

Anyway last time I was booked for HB but they managed to convince me to (unnecessarily) go in last time for dubious reasons. This time I will only be transferring in an emergency situation as I want minimum contact with the fools I had to deal with last time.

redstararnie76

Fernlie, that sounds quite similar to my labour experience - I had around 6 midwives - one of them I remember as being pretty good. One midwife managed to pull the iv out of my arm, didn't seem to know what was going on and asked my mother if she was a nurse when she expressed some concern. My husband ended up storming out and asked if she could be removed as he thought she was completely incompetent.

maureenjscott

CAFCGirl wrote: »

Well as someone whose now not so very dear to me has just pointed out, "a good outfit can do a lot for how you're feeling but your face -you cant change, so theres only so much an outfit can do really"

I apparently look like im about to give birth any minute, everyone keeps looking so shocked when I say June.... its when they say "really? June? Are you sure?" No I'm lying, I plan on bursting my waters all over your shoes right now and giving birth against this shop fixture!!!!

Apparently being pregnant is a free for all - everyone seems to think that telling us we're huge is a compliment! I walked into Church on Sunday morning and as i went along the hall the woman coming towards me was like 'here comes the wee fat woman now'!:eek: I've also been called Speedbump in the last few days!:mad: And what is with them thinking they can touch our bellies!? Is it just me or are people so inconsiderate! I've felt like carp all the way through this pg and for the last few weeks, dh cant even look at me and i'm crying for no reason and yet these people seem to think they can pass comment and we'll be happy about it... :mad:
Sorry, rant over, been a bit sensitive recently with hormones and crying at just about everything.

Gillby1 wrote: »

Mermaid85 - I've never heard of hand expressing?! Might look it up. Have any of you who've already had babies had any luck with a manual pump - I've heard a few people say they aren't very effective?

Maureen - you're plan sounds like a great idea - feed one one breast and pump on he other!:T

Just thought about how i'd written that - Thats what i was doing if i was feeding her at home... obviously not in the middle of a restuarant/park/on the bus! :rotfl: I found I got more out with the pump than manually. But i didn't bother doing it till my milk was in properly, figured the early milk was for the baby at that stage and no point storing it for later when she would need the real stuff IYKWIM.

choccybikkie wrote: »

Gillby, I have used a manual pump before and found it fine although I found doing it by hand easier until your milk supply is properly established IYKWIM.

My 'friends' up at the school when collecting DD just now had a good laugh at how my coat was bursting at the seams today I know bump has suddenly really expanded this last week and cos the weather had been better until today I hadn't worn it for a couple of weeks but they actually thought it was hilarious. Now I'm hoping weather is good tomorrow so I don't have to wear my stupid bursting coat only got 5 weeks left so I refuse to go and buy a bigger one!!!

I'm totally with you on the coat thing choccy! I've been wearing my DH's XXXL Fleece for the last few days since its been dry - not a chance am i buying anything just for the last couple of weeks. I'm down to 2 pairs of trousers that fit me now and skirt for Church on a Sunday but no way i'm buying anything else!

Freebie - thats awful about your mw appointment, i'm glad mine have all been ok and she's not going to see me now till Easter monday - she's going to come to the house for it too cos the health centre will be closed. Hoping i'll be at home with a baby by that point tho! lol

Gym - hang in there! hope everything goes well today for the drip!
SJ - thanks for the updates!

Well, having lazy day today, gutted the kitchen yesterday, chucked stuff out and cleaned walls, floors, bins, etc Dont really have the energy but did it in 15minute bursts with an hour of sitting down in between! lol

Gonna do next to nothing today to make up for it!
hope everyone has a great day
mo x

maureenjscott

Sorry for ridiculously long post!
mo x

pigpen

redmel1621 wrote: »

My midwife appts are all soooo boring. Sit down, am I feeling movement, bp, wee, blood(if required), goodbye see you soon.

I don't know why I bother going to be honest?

Exactly why I don't

Piggers - I was thinking about you the other day. I was wondering how you are feeling about giving birth again? I was also wondering if you have delivered in hospital each time or have you had any home-births?

I had post traumatic stress after my 6th and 8th so no I am really not looking forward to it.. I amwith a new partner who has no children so this is his first so he is terrified anyway.

I have had prem babies so they have all been in hospital.. and 5 were in SCBU for up to 3 weeks.

No nice plain sailing type births here.. my quickest was 16.5 hours.. and 3 were 3.5 DAYS!

I almost died with 2 of them, we almost lost 4 of the babies.. but we are all fine and here.

I am refusing point blank to go to the local hospital but looking at Leeds (65 miles) and Manchester (100 miles) because the standard of care here is so appallingly low.

Quite frankly the whole idea of this baby arriving is frightening the living daylights out of me.. and I am trying to block it from my mind entirely until it is here!! I don't want to go to hospital.. and by delayig booking in at one I feel I am delayig the awful awful prospect of either me or the baby being killed by their negligence and stupidity.

I am refusing ALL antenatal [STRIKE]harassment[/STRIKE] appointments because I cannot cope with the ignorance and prejudice and ineptitude and total rudeness of ALL the staff.

I'd quite happily have mine at home, unassisted and left alone.