MSE Pregnancy Club 20

Teenie_D

On_The_Edge wrote: »

I have terrible tooth ache today and can't remember if I can have paracetamol????

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=34326751&postcount=6354 is link to supplement dosages.

Yeah you can take paracetamol, oh dear there are a few ladies who are having problems with tooth ache at the mo

Thanks for that link, so you can take EPO and RLT right something else to go on my list :D

SusanC_2

coops228 wrote: »

I cheered myself up with some retail therapy last night on the Mamas and papas site and ordered the crib matress and a totally adorable pram suit that was in the sale for taking the little one on their first journey home.

What is a pram suit?

Teenie_D wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl:I have just gone through my bounty pack and sorted out the coupons I had a wee read of the book this is what is says for 27 weeks "Around this time you may need to move to maternity clothes..." are you serious I've been in maternity clothes from 12 weeks LOL!

:eek: Last time I wore maternity clothes from five months but even that was pushing it.

lilian1977

Teenie_D wrote: »

It's so annoying ice I like to have my lists on the lappy but it broke a few months ago and my brother fixed it but he said he would have to wipe everything including micrososft office. Of course I now can't find the disc which has word and excel on it. I used to have my montly expenditure on excel too and I really need it again. Going to have to do some serious searching.

Need that disc for my lists :mad: LOL

Have you tried using Open Office? It's a free download version of everything you get with Microsoft, it's pretty good and you can open Excel sheets with it and Open Office sheets with Excel.

http://www.openoffice.org/

Teenie_D

ooh cool will have a look thanks x

Hope your ok, have been keeping a wee eye on you and MV on the other thread

hitchins

Oooh ontheedge, go to dentist asap, don't leave it as long as I did, nothing worse than pregnancy and toothache.

Love your avatar lillian, little cutie!! x

iceicebaby

Well, I have just finished all my cleaning, well as much as I can be inclined to do anyway, just enough so it looks respectable!

Just ticked things off my list that I have already got, and I have more than I thought I did!

I'm quite excitied now, got a new car being delivered some time next week, new baby in 13 weeks and moving in with OH in the summer. What a fab year this is going to be.

lilian1977

Teenie_D wrote: »

ooh cool will have a look thanks x

Hope your ok, have been keeping a wee eye on you and MV on the other thread

Thanks Still a bit sore but two baths a day are helping (not very MSE!)


I thought I would pop on and post my things you may not know/expect about hospital as there are a few things that caught me out, I hope it's useful to some:

1. Take way more maternity pads than recommended - I took two packs of 10 but because my waters went 56 hours before I gave birth I used them then as well, so went through loads. They do have them in hospital but in mine they didn't have sticky bits on them so weren't brilliant.

2. Same with knickers and nighties - you don't know how long you'll be there so make sure you have more than enough.

3. Check the weights on the newborn clothes you've packed - it's an idea to have a couple in different weight ranges as Sam didn't fit into anything newborn apart from the stuff from Next, the Tesco range was too big so he needed Early Baby.

4. All the hospital bag lists I've read say to pack your eye mask and earplugs in the post-birth bag - pack them in the labour bag in case you're in a ward before the birth for any reason, I was on the postnatal ward before having Sam and was kept awake by other people's babies.

5. Be prepared for it to take ages for anything to get done. Our discharge was delayed by a whole day because the paedeatrician didn't have time to come and do his blood test.

6. Take flip flops for the showers.

7. You should get fed 3 meals a day if you're kept in, breakfast is brought to you and can take a while to get around the wards so take a few extra cereal bars in case you're awake early and hungry. Lunch and dinner was a queue-with-a-tray process - the food was pretty stodgy which was good cause I was starving most of the time after he was born, but you don't really get any vitamins from it so get your OH to bring you fresh fruit and juice - and prune juice at that if you want to keep things moving, especially if you've had stitches, you'll lose all control of your pelvic floor for a while so it's hard to push poos out!

8. Lucozade glucose tablets are excellent if you have an epidural as you won't be allowed any food - they'll keep your energy up.


I think that's everything I wanted to say, I hope it's helpful x

SusanC_2

lilian1977 wrote: »

4. All the hospital bag lists I've read say to pack your eye mask and earplugs in the post-birth bag - pack them in the labour bag in case you're in a ward before the birth for any reason, I was on the postnatal ward before having Sam and was kept awake by other people's babies.

Our hospital has an antenatal/postnatal ward (although they do separate the two into different rooms) so (if you're in there rather than the labour ward) if you're not getting kept awake by babies you're being kept awake by women in labour.

Teenie_D

SusanC wrote: »

What is a pram suit?
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Similar to a snow suit but probably not as heavy.

Rockinbikergal

Afternoon Lady bumps

first off labour vibes for Jenapples and lwcus I'm not going to cross anything for you so it can get out :P hehe

Well we have had a productive morning in the RBG household, lol....our new appliances were delivered this morning at 8.45 am (woke me out of a nice sleep too but can't complain lol) Hubby has spent the morning installing the dishwasher and making sure that the FF fits and playing with the tumble dryer off out this avo to get a few bits and bobs but can't wait for 2pm to start loading up the new FF....first thing going into it is a bottle of Champers lol

Have totally forgotten everything now coz hubby spoke to me while I was doing my post so big hugs to those in need....sleep vibes for those heading for a snooze and labour vibes to all in need xxxxxx