Pregnancy's Best Kept Secrets

bikerqueen

we were expecting a home birth - as it didnt happen and we ended up in hospital we spent a fortune on car parks too - although the day she was actually born the ward stamped our card and we got it discounted...

loopy_lass

ooobedoo wrote:

I have been in for an appointment this morning and I think the best kept secret is just how much money you spend in the hospital on parking!!!!!! I am 29weeks and I have spent over £20 on parking in my local hospital car park.

It's shocking how much hospital car parks charge

keep a note of it oobeee, you know the ones we keep on our kids about how much THEY cost us, when they shout "i get nothing from you - your soooo tight"

Te he hehe ... bless, just shows ya the little darlings start to cost before they even get here....

loops

EssexGirl

If at a hospital check up late in pregnancy, if the midwife pokes your very swollen ankle, leaves a dent in said ankle and says quote "thats not water it's fat, send her home" get a second opinion from another doctor and get them to test for protein in the urine. I was suffering from pre-eclampsia at this time, no-one would believe that I had thin ankles normally. Thanks to that woman I got Bells Palsy which I still suffer from 8 years on, and me and my son were close to death at one point. If it wasn't for the emergency c-section, we might not be here now. He was 10.5 lb and I'm also pretty sure I had undiagnosed gestational diabetes. Needless to say I only have one child

The first time you get out of bed after a c-section, your insides won't fall out all over the floor, honest!

Thriftylady

EssexGirl wrote:

The first time you get out of bed after a c-section, your insides won't fall out all over the floor, honest!

and on that note, if you have a C-section it seems that you will spend the rest of your life listening to people tell you that you are lucky (no episiotomy, no forceps, whatever) as if being cut open and chopped up is just a pain free walk in the park......And conversely you will also spend the rest of your life with other people telling you that anyone can give birth to a baby 'naturally' if they just try hard enough. And the media jumping on in with another scare story about them. So one way or the other, you are left feeling useless as a mother when you have barely even started.

I know I shouldn't care what people think, but ......

ooobedoo

I was told yesterday bu the midwife just to put the minimum on the car, and as long as there a ticket it will be ok.

On another point, I am 29weeks pregnant and measuring 36 weeks!!!

They scanned me as they were not beliveing it was that large and apparently she is 4lb 4oz already.....needless to say I had a blood test this morning to check my blood sugar................

She will be born on the 4th Dec......13days early.

Question is....will I be able to breastfeed?

rchddap1

Question is....will I be able to breastfeed?

I think everyone gets that question. I certainly do. However, have bought a steriliser & bottles just in case (tommee tippee ones that seem to allow switching between the two....if things do go well, because I'd like to express).

My partner had a good feel of my bump last night and thinks that our little awkward madam is still transverse (31+3 weeks). I know she may still move, but useful to read about the c-sections as I'll know more about what to expect. It might not be necessary, but if that's the only way she's going to come out then it has to be done.

It'll be just my family's luck that I'll have to have one. My mother was induced with both my sister and I....and my sister was induced with my nephew. Are any of us capable to doing things naturally? (no reply required)

loopy_lass

and dont beleive them when youve had an emergency Salad spoon delivery and your ripped north south east & west & darned up like and old sock when they say "everything will return to normal" .....

LIARS......... 15 yrs later & i can still sit on a pin and not feel it!!!!! definate lack of feeling!!!!!! nuff said?????


loops

MummyMiche

my baby is now nearly 5 months and i still regret not being able to breastfeed her properly. I had no help with it in hospital and was left to get on with it, my DD had such a grip on her all she did was was leave marks and make me unbearably sore, i tried expressing but after an hour only produced 3oz and was incredibly sore that i soon gave up.
When my milk dried up (after only 3 weeks) somebody reccomended breast shields to me which may have helped (I'll never know), i've deceided if i ever have anymore i will try everything and will look for help.
I think i only gave up because i was so tired after having her at 37 weeks and having an epistomy, no pain relief and being left for 1 hour before being stitched and losing lots of blood.
But i'd do it all again, if only my oh would let me.

Miche

Bargain_Rzl

I have just read this thread from start to finish...

I started off not wanting kids and ended up DEFINITELY not wanting kids! Much as I love other people's.

Still, the thread has given me a good laugh (though not literally PMSL as my pelvic floor is blissfully unspoilt!)

I must say that as non-parents go, I consider myself relatively clued-up on the mechanics of birth cos IN THEORY it's a subject that interests me. So a lot of the stuff people have said they were surprised by, was stuff I already knew or considered. But the bit about the pain as all your internal organs fall back into place was something that certainly hadn't occurred to me!

I could at least nod sagely at the bit about babies coming out grey, though - I was present at my brother's birth (he'll be 21 next month :eek: ) and I remember going to school about an hour later and not telling a soul about the birth until the next day, because he came out grey and didn't look "real", so I couldn't quite accept that it was true that he's been born... (well, I was only 7).

Any news on your ex's partner, elisebutt?

bikerqueen

thriftylady - you're not on your own there