MSE Pregnancy Club 17

Sarah_Joanne

CAFC sorry you and your OH are not seeing eye to eye. Hope you can come to some sort of compromise soon. Does he know how you feel about staying where you are for so much longer?

So, assuming Gemma has had her baby by now (I really hope so as she was being induced days ago!), how does it feel to be top of the regular posters list three2be????

Nikkit, glad was ok so far at the hospital but that sucks they just left you waiting. Hope it goes well in the morning.

tinkwigs the dr doesn't seem to confirm the pregnancy any more as the home tests are so accurate they don't need to. I think if you can afford the early scan and if DH is up for it too it can't do any harm. I just had paperwork at my first MW appointment too.

Supersaver I take pregnacare too. However, if you have a balanced varied diet you shouldn't really need to take anything else. Babycentre have most things covered here: http://www.babycentre.co.uk/pregnancy/nutrition/diethealthypregnancy/ And good luck with the scan tomorrow!

Bexta - welcome and congratulations! And if your OH's daughter is almost 19 I'm sure this will feel like the first time all over again as things will be so different now to how they were back then!

EA yey for finding your ring!!! Bet you are so chuffed! And yes the book is fab. It mentions MSE budget planner too.

I need to go to bed soon really. I need to be up and dressed by 10am as my incle is coming over to have a look at the nursery as he is putting up the wallpaper border for us.

Som, not sad at all about the baby event! I get very exzcited about any baby-related purchases.

FR good work today!! Very productive!!! I can't be bothered doing my hospital bag! Hoping hoping hoping I won't need it anyway as planning a HB and there's just so much I should put in it that I don't want packing away, plus my bag is too small! It's half done and I'm not sure if I'll get round to doing it properly. I know I should though

EA someone metioned Saturday I think for the asda baby event.

kindofagilr

Evansangel wrote: »

Tell him its amazing! Even my OH loved it and he hates everything lol x

Ive tried, he is still being a poopy head though

Som - if OH is due to upgrade his phone, get him to look at carphone warehouse or some other companies, they are offering free PS3's or Xbox's or laptops or Ds's, my brother just got his wife a new contract, so she got anew phone, and he got a free PS3 I am dying for my contract to end so I can get one lol

http://www.freeps3mobilephones.co.uk/

http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/mobiles/mobiles-free-gifts

I might drag OH into sainsburys tonight

Yay for being perfect Twinkles I am like that, everyone loves to tell me I am big but I am measuring exact!

Well I am at work and I totally want to be at home lol

Somnium

Kindof - both me and OH are with 3 and want to stay there as we have good loyalty discount atm and lots of free calls to each other which will be even better when am on mat leave Besides he'll only want games if he gets a new console (I wouldn't be able to pry him away from it and sell it!)and with us just getting a blu ray player that was bad enough.

EA - Really want to see Avatar but no way can last 3 hours, Ill cease up completely! I also really wanna see Alice and I know my best friend does too so will have to see when bubs arrives and if (big if) I can bring myself to be away from her eek!

Twink - am only due 4 days after you eek, need to think a bit more about my hospital bag too then.

FR - wow your so ahead, am due a month before you and havent done any washing yet, tho thinking about starting tommorow. MIL has offered to help, have said that most help will be with ironing as standing over the ironing board kills my back.

Well talking with ILs about OHs birthday dinner on Feb 12th as they usualy take us out that night and would still like to this year, said to OH as Ill be 37 weeks by then and restaurant he likes is a way away will have to make sure I take bag and notes with me that night just in case, now theres a scary thought!

Right well my lift has decided she can drive again now roads are slush and not ice so dont have to walk in this morning , yeay Really hoping it doesnt come down heavy today as forecast as could be hard getting home and they might cancel my antenatal again tomorrow, booo also would probably mean missing aqua again on Thursday, double boo. Now big decision do I take my wellies just in case?

kindofagilr

Same here Som lol its my brothers birthday on the 19th feb and he wants to do something on the 20th and I'll be 37 + 5 eek so I need to take a bag in the car wherever I am lol

bexta

Thanks for the welcome. Yeah, things are different from when OHs lad was born - he's 47 and keeps joking about how he was nearly ready for SAGA holidays! As if with that one believe me. I had no symptoms either, for those girls worrying, to the point where I'd just about convinced myself I wasn't. Great shock, relief and happiness to see Blob snoozing away (that's what I think it was doing anyway, awkward lil thing wouldn't give us a decent piccie.)

tinkwings

Twinkles08 wrote: »

Docs don't seem to do tests nowadays as they accept our word when we say the home test was positive.They also don't seem to do early scans unless you are bleeding ie threatened miscarriage.My mum was quite shocked when I explained how it works now although she had her last baby in 1990 so quite a bit before you.Also it seems different areas do things in different ways too.How confusing!I can understand wanting reassurance thou and making it seem more real,those first 12 wks before the scan are a killer.Did you suffer badly with your dd?Just wondering why your finding it so hard to accept this time?(Tell me to bog off if you want, :pjust wondering!)

It is fine I have PM'd YOu!!!!! xoxo

Kelinik

Hello all, have flicked through the last few pages and glad that for the most part you all seem well.

I am doing ok too as got the all clear for gestational diabetes yesterday. What a palaver though! 10 hrs of fasting (water only), then half a pint of disgusting glucose stuff to drink all in one go then exactly 2 hrs later (still water only) your bloods have to be taken at the hospital.

Well not only did that length of time with nothing to eat make me extremely light headed and the glucose swishing on a very empty tummy make me feel sick the traffic getting there was hideous and it took us an hr to drive the 3 miles to the hospital. We missed the crucial 2 hrs by 25 minutes. :rolleyes: Was convinced I was going to have to do the whole thing again but when we explained the lovely midwife said she would still do it but take another vial of blood for some other glucose tolerance test just to be sure. I had my 28 weeks bloods done at the same time too and so much blood in one go must have been the last straw as when she clipped on the last vial I proceeded to almost pass out in the chair!

Anyway I must have looked rough as the we were supposed to take the sample to pathology ourselves and then wait around an hour for the results, midwife said we could go home and she'd run them down and then phone later with the results.

Very relieved to get the all clear after all that!

Oh and my HIP grant arrived in my bank account this morning and I didn't post it until 30th december!

Sarah_Joanne

Kindof :rotfl: @ poopy head!!

Som I'd take your wellies just in case! Better to have them and not need them than the other way round!

Well my uncle just popped in to scope out the nursery and is coming back on Thursday to put up the border!! I'm so excited, just really want the furniture delivered now! Hope they ring soon to arrange it.

I'm going round to a friend from work's house this afternoon, him and his wife had a baby 5 months ago and they gave us a moses basket already and some clothes, now they have a breast pump for me! I don't know her very well and my friend will be at work but will be nice to have some mummy-chat! Think she's finding it hard being home alone all the time so will be nice complany for her too I hope. She's also invited me to a breastfeeding clinic thing on Friday mornings. Not sure whether I'll go but I guess it can't hurt. She'll only be there for 3 more weeks as then she's back in work.

**kym**

hi all

thanks for your help - i guess making decisions on equipment is a pretty personal thing - i plan to stick to a tight budget but could easily see myself getting carried away with all the pretty things! hehe

tinkswings - i live in newquay. despite having early bleeding in weeks 6 and 7, the epu wouldnt give us an early scan so we went to the baby skan studio in truro for an early reassurance scan at 9+5. i would highly recommend it - it was £49 and gave us such a sense of relief that all was well. the lady doing the scan (irish lady called elaine) was so lovely and reassuring, and we got to look at the baby in 3d which was brilliant as you could see it really clearly - included in the price they printed us about 12 2d and 3d photos and gave us a dvd. im even more glad we did it since having the 12 week nhs scan as that was by comparison so impersonal - we were just bustled in and out with very little chat - it was like a conveyer belt. HTH

ps. ive lurked for a while on this thread and its pretty scary to see my name going on "the list" especially as there a quite a few names below mine - almost makes it seem real

Sarah_Joanne

Kelinik doesn't sound like much fun at the hospoital but yey for getting the all clear. Excellent news about your grant too! That was super quick! Do you work? If so when are you finishing?

I'm so glad to be finished now, I'm just so tired!

We made plans for some friends to come over and stay with us in 2 week's time and we are going to go to York for the day. I've had to point out that I will be 37 weeks then so may have to cancel last minute if bubs arrives, or may have to change our plan to go to the York Dungeon if I don;t think I'll manage the 90 minute tour round by that stage!!

I'm 35 weeks today and cannot believe I'm so close now!