MSE Pregnancy Club 20

Mk14:37

The cheap TENS in Lloyds pharmacy are not maternity TENS, which have a booster button for use during contractions. Go with MamaTENS rental.

gratefulforhelp_2

lilian1977 wrote: »

God that does sound awful, it's made me not want to go to mine. I have the breastfeeding one tonight - anyone know if it's worth going to or whether I can find out everything I need to know from you lovely ladies and the midwife?

I would go, here they get a new mum in with baby and they feed in front of you so you can see the real thing. I've done this, I thought i would be dead embarassed, but not at all.

CL wrote: »

Hi all. Still here after 2 pessaries and if anything I'm going backwards. Gone from 1cm yesterday to "closed to 1 cm" an hour ago. I've to get another pessary tonight and if still nothing then maybe a section. Not even a twinge. Haven't cried again yet which is a result.

Hugs, honey.

Princess_Coupon wrote: »

Are they not going to give you the drip before a c-sec?

That's what I was going to ask??

sammy where are you??xx

aless02

katyj10 wrote: »

Is anyone due Christmas day? I think the Royal Mint do a special edition silver coin free for babies born on the day (you have to prove it) if anyone's interested I can dig out the magazine I read it in and repost details.

hiya katy - someone linked me here b/c my little boy was born Christmas Day last year! If you could post where you saw that, thanks so much. :cool:

delain

Princess_Coupon wrote: »

Are they not going to give you the drip before a c-sec?

I thought that. I was in on the Thursday being given pessaries and nothing really happened and then they gave me the drip on the Saturday!

Its unusual for them to go straight to section.

gizmodo_2

Argh sometimes are too many posts I want to multi quote

How do you go about booking the classes? Is it generally done through the midwife??? I have my 24 week appointment in the morning and wasn't sure if I need to ask??

I assume you mean the NHS antenatal classes? Seems every area is different. For mine my antenatal classes are at the doctors (during work hours) and I just need to turn up, no booking. But there are also similar ones at the hospital which do require booking (got given a leaflet by midwife at 25 week appointment), but are after work in the evening. I've chosen the ones at the doctor as it means time off work, and it's free to park and also closer to home.
We're also going to the waterbirth class at the hospital as my midwife recommended it as the midwife that takes that class has delivered a lot of water birth babies. And OH is going to the dads only class Neither of these are pre-bookable either.

lilian1977 wrote: »

God that does sound awful, it's made me not want to go to mine. I have the breastfeeding one tonight - anyone know if it's worth going to or whether I can find out everything I need to know from you lovely ladies and the midwife?

Ooh I would definitely go to a breastfeeding one. We don't have one of those. I was given a breastfeeding DVD last time and we watched it last night and it had a bit about classes on it, they looked useful, but I can't find a free one in my area.

spaghetti_monster wrote: »

Hi all,

just got back from visiting my usually grumpy FIL (think 77 year old teenager), who was actually in quite a good mood. Fortunately didn't stay too long as even after just an hour in his house I absolutely stink of ciggies from head to toe (this will have to stop if he wants a cuddle with his grandson!)

Anyway, when I got home I found a big parcel waiting - with something roughly translated as birth package written on the side, from my insurance company. So, very curious, I ripped it open; first a cute dinosaur cuddly toy, a book of advice/games/activities for with the baby, advice on baby-proofing the house..so far so good......

And then.....
lots of mattress protectors for during the birth, gauze swabs, surgical gloves, surgical alcohol and an umbilical cord clamp....:eek::eek:

I don't think anyone told them I'm going for a hospital birth!!

Actually there are 2 packs of maternity pads, which I've seen people discussing - so I guess these will be really useful....and also some weird stretchy knicker things that looked like bandages at first.... maybe to use with the pads....????!?!?

That is so cool. Is that from your work? The knickers might just be the disposable knickers? Could be useful. The mattress protectors will be useful for if you're waters break while in bed...although some people don't like using them because of the crinkly noises.

digitalphase wrote: »

Anyone else got their free Vertbaudet bodysuit today? Got mine. It's very nice, shame it's for 6mths old though - it's huge! :cool: For some reason I thought it was a newborn bodysuit, silly me

Yes I did :j Really pleased with the freebie. Just checked and mine says 6 months too, but I thought it was newborn are babies really that small?

I also got the 2 free eco nappies

Bloomin_Freezing2

I rented mine from tesco pharmacy, think it was 30-40, could easily extend the rental period if need be. I think they all tend to be the same money.

Chakani

They do say 6 months, but they look like they are sized pretty small to me - I think most of their kids stuff is. My average sized just-turned 2 year old is bursting out of his age 3 coat from there. It looks like it would fit the 3 month old I was cuddling this morning, but not the 5 month old. (That's the best thing about second and subsequent babies - you get to cuddle lots and lots of snuggly babies at toddler groups while you're waiting for your own to show up :rotfl:)

chickywiggle

i was goiing to multi-quote then realised most of them had been answered.

Re: buggies for a toddler this is the fav among me and my mates at the moment.....although it can only be used from 6month baby+

been to midwife today and got to hear tinywiggles heartbeat and she re-assured me that i can throw a lot of medication at my body before 'she' will come to any harm. In her words "they like to cause us as many problems and worries as they can yet it takes a lot for us to make them feel that bad!"

itching is almost controlled now and dr has lowered my steroids to see if they still work on a lower dosage, signed off work another 2 weeks to ensure they are having the desired effect.

jillie1974

hi everyone.

just posting that there maybe a few christmas themed clothes on the fairy exchange
'my 1st christmas etc'

jackomdj

I bought mine from e-bay. It was a boots maternity one. It was used for me twice & about 5 or 6 friends (all once or twice) we just bought replacement pads each time. I then resold on e-bay for around the original price I paid!

One tip though is to make sure it has batteries in it very early on. One friend borrowed it, she went into premature labour, they took the machine into hospital & her OH went to the hospital shop but they did not have the right size batteries!