MSE Pregnancy Club 22

ddebski_us

Morning ladies

Congrats madbird and littlebit!!

Apricot and sparkle - hope your last week at work goes easily for you - jealous much?!

27+2 today - back and rib pain was constant over the weekend - ended up spending most of the weekend visiting my parents (who I see max once every 2 months) flat out on the sofa - not good.

GTT tomorrow - boo - means no breakfast in the morning. Not good.

Watched a re-run of OBEM last night - I still find it difficult to actually believe there is one of those baby things actually in my belly. DH doesn't understand as he says it's obvious - does anyone else know what I mean! Or am I weird?

xDx

Lirin

I was working all day yestarday, and little one thought it would be a nice Father's Day gift to wake up DH when he'd asked her to let him lie in, harangue him until he got up, and present him with plans she'd made to rearrange her room to accomodate baby. Amazingly, everything fits where she's drawn it, but he was hauling bookcases and beds around all morning before breakfast......

Puzzledbubbles

ddebski_us wrote: »

Morning ladies

Congrats madbird and littlebit!!

Apricot and sparkle - hope your last week at work goes easily for you - jealous much?!

27+2 today - back and rib pain was constant over the weekend - ended up spending most of the weekend visiting my parents (who I see max once every 2 months) flat out on the sofa - not good.

GTT tomorrow - boo - means no breakfast in the morning. Not good.

Watched a re-run of OBEM last night - I still find it difficult to actually believe there is one of those baby things actually in my belly. DH doesn't understand as he says it's obvious - does anyone else know what I mean! Or am I weird?

xDx

Morning Debs,

Hope the GTT goes well, i had mine a couple of weeks ago and the best advice i can offer is take a deecent size bottle of water with you and keep sipping, it really helped me

I am also totally in agreement with you on the whole baby inside thing, i am 28 + 1 and held a friends 4 week old last week, sat there with him on my lap and Elvis kicking away and i just dont get that there is a baby inside me, its so strange, i KNOW that there is one, but my head doesnt make the connection.

Definately not just you that is odd

Puzzled

ddebski_us

Puzzledbubbles wrote: »

Morning Debs,

Hope the GTT goes well, i had mine a couple of weeks ago and the best advice i can offer is take a deecent size bottle of water with you and keep sipping, it really helped me

I am also totally in agreement with you on the whole baby inside thing, i am 28 + 1 and held a friends 4 week old last week, sat there with him on my lap and Elvis kicking away and i just dont get that there is a baby inside me, its so strange, i KNOW that there is one, but my head doesnt make the connection.

Definately not just you that is odd

Puzzled

Thanks for the tip for tomorrow. And thanks for making me not feel freaky - I worry that even when I've given birth I won't feel like the baby is mine as I won't be able to believe he/she was in my belly. I just find the whole pregnancy/childbirth thing such a miracle that I can't believe that my body is capable of it.

xDx

bella2121

Morning ladies

Congrats to new babies and welcome to the newbies I am completely useless at remembering what everyone has said sorry

Hope GTT goes well debs, I havent had one of these? does everyone have one, dont think I had one last time either??

I've been working last 3 days, am completely worn out may back pain is back with avengence, had to ring in sick today i seriously could not cope with working, got antenatal this morning hoping everythings ok, going away for 4 nights next monday cant wait gonna be so lovely to have a break

xxx

Lirin

ddebski- Sorry, what is a GTT? It's probably really obvious too what it means......

Another one here for it not feeling real- I held a friends two-week old baby on Saturday- it doesn't feel like there's one inside me! I've worried as well, but my friend told me that especially as she went early, she can't believe there's one there, even when she looks at Aaron.

little_angel_2

ddebski_us wrote: »

Morning ladies

Congrats madbird and littlebit!!

Apricot and sparkle - hope your last week at work goes easily for you - jealous much?!

27+2 today - back and rib pain was constant over the weekend - ended up spending most of the weekend visiting my parents (who I see max once every 2 months) flat out on the sofa - not good.

GTT tomorrow - boo - means no breakfast in the morning. Not good.

Watched a re-run of OBEM last night - I still find it difficult to actually believe there is one of those baby things actually in my belly. DH doesn't understand as he says it's obvious - does anyone else know what I mean! Or am I weird?

xDx

i also know what you mean, i know there's something in there that's supposed to be a baby, but when i see the real thing i just can't put the two together i also can't see myself having to give birth to it or having a little person to (hopefully) look after at the end of it. my brain just can't comprehend it yet. my husband feels the same. the only time it's felt real for both of us is at our 20 week scan, once the scanner was turned off and we left the room it went back to being very surreal.

this GTT, does everyone have to have it? just my midwife hasn't mentioned it at all!?

seeing my midwife on thurs, got to have my anti-d. i'm really quite scared, i'm infact more scared of having an injection than i am of giving birth - which my husband and most of family and gp find hysterical :eek::cool: so on thurs i've got to have a blood test swiftly followed by being jabbed with a needle anyone know where they do the injection?

after last weeks drama of my husband failing his driving test, we were sent into panic by the fact there were no available retests until the 2nd of august, which is cutting it very fine. luckily his instructor managed to get a cancellation for the 13th of july, so fingers crossed again :T

SmlSave

Morning ladies.

Could I ask to be sent labour vibes? I'm due on Sat but am ready now!

Sequeena

A GTT is a Glucose Tolerance Test - it looks for diabetes and Gestational diabetes I had mine at 28 weeks because my father is type 1 diabetes and I was having hypoglaecemic episodes (passed with flying colours though).

It's not standard in the UK to have one (is in the US). You're only offered one if you are over a certain BMI, have hypoglaecemic episodes, family history, baby measuring weeks ahead etc.

Debs you'll be fine. The early start is a killer but once things got going I found the time passed pretty quickly and I actually enjoyed the glucose drink as it was the first thing I'd had other than water since 10pm the evening before (my test started at 8:45am).

Congrats to the new mummies and labour vibes for those who needs them!

I would love some 'keep Thomas in!!' vibes if you can spare any. I'm off for another scan today to see if the AFI has increased (was only 1-3cm last week, I'd lost 8-10cm in 4 weeks). If not then my consultant says induction could be the path we go down (I do not want him here at 34 weeks if I can help it!!).

Strange thing is if he is born this week or next week he'll be born at the same gestation I was... they say premature babies don't run in the family but it makes you think doesn't it...

Winnie_in_Pooh

Its V-day for me today!! 24 weeks yay :j!

I'm a bit clueless about GTT too - still, I hope it goes well for you today Deb!

I met my friends 10 day old baby the other day who weighs in at 8lb4oz which was DS's birth weight - I'd completely forgotten how big an 8lb4oz baby is! Can't believe that there might be a baby that sort of size in there but its really starting to feel real, now I can actually feel arms and legs

ETA labour vibes for SmlSave and stay put vibes to Thomas and Sequeena!