MSE Pregnancy Club 17

bexta

MGEB - OMG!!!!! That's awful but I guess forwarned is forearmed as they say. sending you big 'head down Zachary' and 'natural birth' vibes your way.

my_gorgeous_ellie-belle

Thank you Bexta, i really need em....this pregnancy is stressing me out Arrrrgghhhhh - i loved my last one as i was so blase and calm about it all! I'm starting to feel that i'm not happy with my hosp but i have v.little choice to move to another as we don't drive

That said on a brighter note Hubbie is doing his driving test on Weds :T:T:j:j If he passes (it's just automatic as that's all i can drive too so no point in going for manual) we prob wont have a car by the time babys born, but we will by the end of summer....YAY! i'm so excited but hubby keeps telling me off incase he fails, lol!:rotfl: I don't mind if he fails, i won't be too disapointed - i mean not many people pass first time, but he is a good driver, he'll just have to re-do it and i'm sure he'll pass by august/sept time!

He never thought he'd pass his theory (nor did i tbh but i didn't tell him that, lol ) but he only got one Q wrong on both parts so was even better than me - thats never happened before in the many years i've known him, hahaha! So i'm mega excited and baby needs to stay put at least so he can do that test without worry

BudgetBlonde

MGEB :eek::eek::eek::eek:
Funny you should say this as 2 friends of mine have recently been advised to have C-sec. One was due to breech (they tried to turn it but apparently this didn't work so sent her in at 38 weeks for it) the other I think was always going to need one as was high risk anyway. This has really shocked me though and THANK YOU for the note.

I shall make sure OH knows that this is an emergency only situation.

Gillby1

MGEB and Pigpen - thanks for the hospital bag lists. Am going to try and suff a few more bits in my wheelie case!

MGEB - My midwife still thinks i'm in breech at 37 weeks:mad:, and at that stage they have to book you in for a scan to confirm as they don't always get it right by touch alone - mine's on Monday. So they will confirm by scan. If the baby is confirmed as in breech at 37 weeks they offer you the External Caphalic Version, which has a varied success rate and some risks, but may well be worth trying before opting for a c-section. The baby is monitored through-out and you'll be in hospital so an emergency c-section can take place if any problems occur.

I'll let you know how my ECV goes, if i have it done next week.:)

Sorry to hear about the worrying things you've been told, and fingers crossed for turning the baby x

Gillby1

Also MGEB, i can feel kicking all over the place - high and low - but the hiccups are definitely right at the bottom - you can actually feel them on the baby's back near my hip bone. Surely that couldn't be possible if the baby's head (and therefore chest) and up by my ribs?!

Hopefully they've got it wrong and our babies just have bony round bums!

my_gorgeous_ellie-belle

I know it's bad isn't it? I don't want to scare anyone though too much as obviously a c-section is sometimes the best option, mine with DD was but again that was the fact i was left with a student or cover midwife telling me to push from roughly 7cm :mad:, hubby had a massive row with her as she refused to call someone else in after i'd been pushing for a few hours and went into distress and in the end he ran out and tracked down a doctor, guess what doctor measured me and had a go at her in front of all of us and ordered her out of the room immediately :eek:. My care up to then had been fab - if i had a better MW in the room with me i'd prob have been fine going naturally.

I think it depends on how you feel your care is so far, if you trust your midwife then you should be fine. Also best to make sure birth partners are fully read up and clued up on things - they need to be your voice when your out of it....like my booklet for my Natal Hypnotherapy cd states, birth partners need to ask plenty of questions and query why things are being done and what the risks of no intervention is (don't argue obviously, lol)...that way you build a better rapport with the doctors/mw's. Remember they can't lie and say 'you must have XYZ' if it's not true, but they can try to persuade you to do something to make their lives easier, which is where you need to be aware. If they say 'YOU MUST' then best to listen to them and go with what they say

my_gorgeous_ellie-belle

Gillby1 wrote: »

Also MGEB, i can feel kicking all over the place - high and low - but the hiccups are definitely right at the bottom - you can actually feel them on the baby's back near my hip bone. Surely that couldn't be possible if the baby's head (and therefore chest) and up by my ribs?!

Hopefully they've got it wrong and our babies just have bony round bums!

Lol, i know - she did say both ends felt exactly the same...prob just a bony bum, haha!

That's what i thought too, you'd feel the hiccups from the upper chest and back wouldn't you - in that case it'd be tough for bubs to be breech and feeling it all so low, again like you, right near the left hip bone....grrrrr! Sometimes i get tickles low down - which i always assumed was fingers rather than feet - the movements nearer top deffinately feel like feet as they are much much stronger, and often push out more like stratching his legs.

That said he has barely moved since yesterdays injection - it must have really doped him up But i have had one or two big stretches from him.

Fingers crossed for your scan - please do let me know too if you don't mind

x

Gillby1

Thanks - fingers crossed! I did mention the hiccups to the midwife, and she said sometimes the movement 'echos' in different places! Eh? But you can actually see the movement under the skin!

Maybe just my wishful thinking though.

Have a lovely Easter Friday everyone! Lots of Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns to all! x

pigpen

bexta wrote: »

With the whole pram thing, I realised last night that I'd put more thought into it than when I bought my car. Scary huh? I bought though - and I'm not sure what it's actually really like- a Bertini London pram off ebay for £100 last night. It's a big old bus, but the daughter of one of my colleagues has one and says it's the best pram she's ever had, and she's got 4 kids. Like me, she does a lot of walking, and it seems really spacious if you need any shopping. I guess when bubs is bigger I'll wind up with a little stick buggy just for ease, but hopefully I'll get on with this one.

I've had 4 bertini bidwells.. and wouldn't even consider anything else!

MGEB.. that is old news.. they also often have useless inept surgeons doing sections because they are 'easy plentiful practice' .. there is no way on earth I would EVER EVER consent to a section.. unless it was in baby's best interests.. like when DD3's hb dropped from 170+ to 86.. thenback to 170+ then to 15 and wouldn't come back up.. the surgeon sliced an inch long gash in her head above her ear.. and said 'oops' !!!! they then painted it with iodine.. have you any idea how much that stings?! They left me with a perforated bowel and bladder and my peritoneum rolled up to my ribs and the muscles attached only at the top. This surgeon has since lost his licence.

The chances of uterine rupture are next to nothing.. and it is most likely to occur in the first hour of labour or while pushing.

My advice is to arm yourself with as much proper information as possible and not take as gopel whatever crap the hospital staff care to spout.. they want an easy job!

my_gorgeous_ellie-belle

Oh !!!! - that is scary stuff. You hear about these things but it's not until you really delve into it you uncover some horrible facts. I always knew there were surgeons who 'needed a practise' but you'd never expect them to make a !!!!-up like that Pigpen :mad: Sometimes you are aware of things on the surface but it's not until you really think about it and realise how commonplace it is that it really makes you mad!

I was lucky - my surgeon did a perfect job, everything went to plan and i was up walking just 12-14hrs later after the operation. My scar is near non-existant now and i've never had any probs apart from the usual less sensitivity over the scar line - which is pretty norm as it's dead cells.

I'm sorry to hear yours was so bad...this is what i'm scared of as i know the second and subsequent are apparently harder to do for the standard surgeon and can leave more problems after. And i still want at least one more child, maybe two in the future. If i go down the route of a second section i'm really cutting down my options