Less than 12 weeks pregnant club! 2

sexymouse

lol Sa-ra-ra-ra - I think my Mum thought I was making up a lot of the symptoms I was getting as she didn't seem to have anything! She told me to stop looking things up on the Internet if it was worrying me, and I told her that it wasn't worrying me, as it gave me reassurance that everything was normal and the reasons behind my symptoms.

mishkanorman

funny my mum didnt get any either ! i sit here all greasy and spotty, my hair goes crap and Im far from blossoming and she delights in telling me how she loved being pregnant !

dizsiebubba

mishkanorman wrote: »

funny my mum didnt get any either ! i sit here all greasy and spotty, my hair goes crap and Im far from blossoming and she delights in telling me how she loved being pregnant !

Can't help thinking that by taking all the recommended supplements and avoiding certain foods etc that we are making our pregnancies harder....lol

Sa-ra-ra-ra

sexymouse wrote: »

lol Sa-ra-ra-ra - I think my Mum thought I was making up a lot of the symptoms I was getting as she didn't seem to have anything! She told me to stop looking things up on the Internet if it was worrying me, and I told her that it wasn't worrying me, as it gave me reassurance that everything was normal and the reasons behind my symptoms.

Oh yes, I've definitely been told by my mum that we know too much now and in her day they just got on with it. Apparently it's the internet's fault.

I have explained to her that I feel like knowledge is power, so being aware of the reasons behind everything will make me feel less out of control, but she pulls an unconvinced face at me.

fluffnutter

Hey, the madness of mothers doesn't stop once you've had the baby. Mine keeps telling me how tired I look with a note of surprise in her voice. No shit, sherlock! You'd be tired too with a baby gnawing on your boob on the hour, every hour. She even told me 'You look shattered. Get yourself a decent night's sleep tonight -that will help' the other day. I nearly punched her.

fluffnutter

Sa-ra-ra-ra wrote: »

Oh yes, I've definitely been told by my mum that we know too much now and in her day they just got on with it.

In my mother's case, 'getting on with it' meant sticking my brother and me on the bottle once she'd got out of hospital and getting my dad to do all the night feeds. No wonder she's surprised at how tired I am. She never was! Jammy cow.

Sa-ra-ra-ra

fluffnutter wrote: »

Hey, the madness of mothers doesn't stop once you've had the baby. Mine keeps telling me how tired I look with a note of surprise in her voice. No shit, sherlock! You'd be tired too with a baby gnawing on your boob on the hour, every hour. She even told me 'You look shattered. Get yourself a decent night's sleep tonight -that will help' the other day. I nearly punched her.

I'm not surprised! To be fair, my mum is aware of the sleeplessness of babies - she EBF me and apparently I didn't sleep through until I was about 13 months, at which point she and dad decided to do sleep training as they were exhausted and she was going back to work.

DH on the other hand, has a son from a previous relationship who slept through from 10 weeks. I keep warning him that it's unlikely to be like that this time but he remains optimistic...

dizziblonde

2ba3c wrote: »

I've just worked it out!

I was thrown by the midwife saying that I need to take 5mg, as this is a much higher doseage that what I am currently taking.

For most women, the dose is 400 micrograms (0.4 mg) a day.
If your risk of having a child with a spinal cord problem is increased then the dose is higher (5 mg a day - you need a prescription for this higher dose). That is, if:
You have had a previously affected pregnancy.
You or your partner have (or have a family of) a spinal cord defect.
You are taking medication for epilepsy.
You are obese - especially if your Body Mass Index (BMI) is 30 or more.
You have coeliac disease, diabetes, sickle cell anaemia, or thalassaemia.

So do I need go back to the doctor to get a prescription for folic acid (5mg)?

I take the high dose stuff - but the ONLY reason I do is because I was put on it by the recurrent miscarriage consultant at the hospital (somehow I managed to sneak into the system after 2 losses and not the usual three... although one was a twin pregnancy so three lost babies in another way). I think they sometimes use it as a first line of attempting to get a successful outcome in that it is thought to increase blood flow to the uterus or something like that (I googled it at the time she put me on it - but that was a good 2-3 years ago). I don't know if it was the direct cause - but the pregnancy I took it for turned out successful (apart from the 7 week prematurity thing)!

With vouchers - I joined the Pampers club - didn't get much initially but getting up to my due date I got two packs of 5 nappies to go in my hospital bag... and Boots of course do the freebie changing bag which everyone seems to sneer at at first, then ends up using when the Mary Poppins bag that could fit an entire small country in it is too big and starts to annoy them (yep guilty as charged - I go between one of the rucksacks from the Tesco luggage vouchers and the Boots freebie one). Always worth registering for the Boots club just in terms of the extra advantage points you get on baby stuff (think it's like 10 for £1 instead of 4)... most years half my Christmas stocking filllers come courtesy of Boots advantage points. Bounty packs I've only ever found of use for the little Sudocreme tubs and sample packs of Fairy - plus the Bounty woman at the local hospital's scared of me after she came creeping round the ward with her camera and stared at me like a freakshow exhibit for not having a cot at my bedside and got a very terse reply from me (baby was in an incubator in NICU)!

We have a scan booked at the EPU with the miscarriage consultant (who is fab - really down to earth and no nonsense) on 5th September by which time I should be about 8 1/2 weeks... from what I recall last time they had a probable heartbeat found at 7 weeks (I've got a tilted uterus so I'm a nightmare to scan early and tend to measure/show a good week or so behind the norm) and a confirmed one at 8 weeks so I should get a decent answer with viability then... booking in with the midwife the day before that - again I already know her and she's lovely (was only chatting to her earlier last week anyway since she remembers Erin as a little 4lb preemie).

dizziblonde

fluffnutter wrote: »

Hey, the madness of mothers doesn't stop once you've had the baby. Mine keeps telling me how tired I look with a note of surprise in her voice. No shit, sherlock! You'd be tired too with a baby gnawing on your boob on the hour, every hour. She even told me 'You look shattered. Get yourself a decent night's sleep tonight -that will help' the other day. I nearly punched her.

My mother's comment when I told her I was upduffed again was "I'm flipping impressed you've managed THAT with a baby keeping you up all night!" (Generally Erin's a great sleeper - just being a pain in the bum at present with her attempts to roll over starting at 1am... the grunting, legs flailing and arms flailing and general air of a tortoise turned on its back and being completely stuck I can sleep through - it's her getting increasingly cheesed off with herself for not being able to do it that wakes me up!)

2ba3c

Hi Ladies,

Hope everyones days/afternoons are going OK? For those of you working - how are you managing with symptoms?

I dont have MS, thank goodness, as I couldn't imagine what its like to have it at work, how do you cope/hide it from colleagues?

I'm just super duper tired and even though I work part time, I am struggling at the moment, everything is a bit of an effort, fees a bit like wading through treacle - even the commute to work! I am soooo ready for home and my sofa !