MSE Pregnancy Club 23

Gillyx

Morning ladies. Hope you are all well. 29 week appointment for me today, so lots of needles and not being able to find a vein, which is always lovely. Then will have to nip to town, looked and I only have 2 pairs of breast pads left :eek: won't do, at all. DWP still messing me about with MA. Just aswell we don't need money to live on eh?

Sammy85_2

Gillyx wrote: »

Morning ladies. Hope you are all well. 29 week appointment for me today, so lots of needles and not being able to find a vein, which is always lovely. Then will have to nip to town, looked and I only have 2 pairs of breast pads left :eek: won't do, at all. DWP still messing me about with MA. Just aswell we don't need money to live on eh?

Good luck with the MW today. :-)

Breast pads - have you looked at washables? Little lambs make lovely ones - The Nappy lady sells them here (although im sure they are available elsewhere!) Its a bigger initial outlay than slinging a pack of disposables in the trolley but cheaper in the long run, particularly if you're using during pregnancy too.

tiny_tear

toniq wrote: »

Morning ladies, hi tinytears, the lovely Ro is right, I got diagnosed in the last week, I thought it would be diet controlled but levels are too far out so I'm on insulin, Seafarerswife also has it and is on tablet control.

The clinic will explain your levels and what you need to do, my protocol, is to check blood with a !!!!! test first thing in the morning, then an hour after brekkie,lunch and dinner, results get logged into a diary they provide, I take insulin immediately before meals.

The finger !!!!! doesn't hurt and the insulin again is virtually painless, just faffing.

Yours might be diet controlled, which will just mean swapping sugar for sweetener and cutting back on potatoes and juice etc.

It is very overwhelming at first but i'm starting to get my head around it all, often with gd because baby could get big and labour can be slow they often plan to induce you a few weeks before, my consultant will book my date nearer the time but they are looking at 38 weeks and in my case a caesarean.

Hope you are ok, the ladies on here were fab to help me get my head straight.

I'm also benefiting from extra scans and consultant every 2 weeks in between i see mw, so am having weekly checks which is nice and reassuring.

Thanks Toniq! I think my levels were quite high as well (on the phone they told me 6.8 (fasting) and 9.4 (after the 2 hours)) so I might have to go straight to meds as well.

Been emailing a friend who had it 2 years ago and feeling a bit more settled. I am sure I will cope... But I hope they don't induce me early! I am only stopping work at 37 weeks and wanted some time at home to laze about! :rotfl:

So far all my scans (been having extra ones because of past miscarriages) have all been normal and the baby hasn't seemed too big... at 28 mw appointment the bump measured 30cm which she said was normal...

Thanks again!

Gillyx

Sammy85 wrote: »

Good luck with the MW today. :-)

Breast pads - have you looked at washables? Little lambs make lovely ones - The Nappy lady sells them here (although im sure they are available elsewhere!) Its a bigger initial outlay than slinging a pack of disposables in the trolley but cheaper in the long run, particularly if you're using during pregnancy too.

I'd love to use disposables but I'm not sure how well they dry? We live in a flat and I try to maybe do 2/3 loads of washing a week. 4 if you include towels, not sure how many pairs I'd have to buy?

Sammy85_2

Gillyx wrote: »

I'd love to use disposables but I'm not sure how well they dry? We live in a flat and I try to maybe do 2/3 loads of washing a week. 4 if you include towels, not sure how many pairs I'd have to buy?

I think it depends on how often you need them. I wear them only at night because i leak when laid on my side, so only a pair a day, so i can go 4 days before having to put them through the wash. Just a 5 pack is enough for me, although i will be ordering another set for when baby arrives as i imagine i'll need them through the day then too.

Im not sure how they are with larger leakage but I couldnt see needing more than 3 sets a day as they dont leak through your clothes when saturated due to the plastic layer so a 10 pack would last 3 days, 2 if you change more often.

Washing is easy, just chuck them in the regular wash with everything else, havent lost any yet, but i think it might be better to get a net wash bag when i have more going through the wash as they seem to end up inside tops and down trouser legs after the spin cycle!

Drying time is quick, especially at this time of year as they are sat ontop of the radiator. A couple of hours at the most and they are done. When the heating wasnt on they dried overnight on the airer ok.

*Ro*

Morning All

Good to here how you are all getting on and things are improving for those who have been finding it tough.

It seems that there are a few mothers causing too much stress, got visions of some on here locking doors and pretending not to be home!! Think that oh's will need to step up to ensure you get some peace when your LO's arrive. My friends hubby deliberatey waited before telling family LO had arrived so that visiting hours had finished for that day and they could not come until the next day


With my mum she is very reasonable apart from the subject of my father. She is currently 'proving' that she will 'be there' unlike my father however think I would prefer her there at the main event to my father :rotfl:I also think she is more qualified to help with breastfeeding than my father. She misses the point that as long as he is ok and can see him once in a while and get the odd phone call that is fine, I am certainly not keeping him away from the LO just because she hates him...

Hubby is struggling a bit though as he commutes with my mum so gets the 'talk of doom' about how difficult babies are most days, he doesnt want to know!!! he want to hear the nice fluffy stuff!!!

TC

Ro xx

little_angel_2

hope you all don't mind, but i still follow this thread from time to time

Blue_Monkey wrote: »

She asked me on 2 separate occasions if we'd like her at the birth and I said no both times. Then the other week she told me she wanted to be there desperately. I said it was still a "no". So it wasn't about her offering her support, it was about what she wanted.

When we were telling other friends and family about being pregnant, I'd emailed my stepsisters to tell them and the next time I spoke to mum she sounded all disappointed and said "I spoke to X and Y and they already bloody knew"...

She came round the other day with my stepdad who hadn't seen our new place yet. OH said to stepdad "do you want a tour?" and he said "I can see you're busy getting ready, so show me after you've showered" (we were all going out) and then mum jumped up and was like "this is the lounge, this is the baby stuff and most importantly here is the picture I painted for them" (and it is a lovely painting, but irritating that she took over and made it about her).

I read through this website http://daughtersofnarcissisticmothers.com/ some time back and some parts are so so true. Saying that, a lot of it doesn't apply and I feel awful even writing this, but I find it really hard to deal with sometimes... Everyone else is just leaving us to get on with it all, why can't she? It also worries me a bit that I'll be like this with my kids.

I'm a bit anxious that when the baby is here, our idea of her being around and helping is going to be a much smaller version of what she's expecting. I'm sure part of this is that her own mother showed no interest at all in helping my mum when she had babies, and she felt really isolated, so she's keen to ensure I don't feel the same... But it's gone from one extreme to the other

Blue Monkey, your mum sounds exactly like mine, even down to me reading that narcissistic mother website! i had all the same fears as you.

when i was first pregnant, she even went as far to say that the baby was going to be the second child she never had :eek::eek:

she too wanted to be at the birth, not for me, but for her. she tried to come to all my antenatal appointments, she claimed it was so i didn't have to use public transport and a long walk, but she never once asked how i was after each appointment. she told me how things would be and how i would feel. i tried to share nothing with her as she'd make some judgement on it (me). she planned that when the baby was due, i would go and stay at hers and she'd drive us to the hospital (no car at the time), she TOLD me this is what would happen, she didn't ask. we dreaded telling her we'd decided to have a home birth as we thought she'd see it as a way of being able to be there. i spent 9 months trying to avoid her and dreading what it would be like once the baby was here, even considered seeing a therapist to help me deal with her :eek:
but, after all that and me and my husband worrying about how she's going to be and thinking there would be a big bust up, she's been fine! i needn't have spent 9 months worrying, she's actually been quite supportive. there have been a few comments about how me and my husband are choosing to bring up Lilly, but i think that's to be expected seeing as how things have changed with parenting in the 30 years since she had me.

so, what i'm trying to say is, it might be nowhere near as bad as you're thinking it's going to be, she may well surprise you as mine did.

lovecrafting

morning everyone. its been a long night, i went to bed at 9 o clock because i had tummy ache and it hasnt gone away, im not worried about it to be honest because theres no bleeding but i will mention it to mw tomorow when i see her.

for anyone looking for bottles and sterilisers theres more on later on on amazon black friday, i dont know what they went for the other day but it might be worth a look.

im still getting morning sickness and its annoying so i might ask the mw if she can give me anything to calm it down a bit.

4nnabella

Morning all

I think I've just had my first recognisable Braxton Hicks thingy... I may have been having them before but have put them down to Pip sticking his/her bum out... but just now my bump went rock solid all the way across the top! When it's the baby moving then it can be hard to one side but then still soft on the other side, but this was all the way across so I don't think it was Pip...

mozzyc

Gillyx wrote: »

Morning ladies. Hope you are all well. 29 week appointment for me today, so lots of needles and not being able to find a vein, which is always lovely. Then will have to nip to town, looked and I only have 2 pairs of breast pads left :eek: won't do, at all. DWP still messing me about with MA. Just aswell we don't need money to live on eh?

Right, blonde question time - how early do we usually have to have these? Haven't even thought about getting any.

Also, i've outgrown my Primark sports bra, and now want some nursing bra's/maternity bra's. Has anyone got any good but reasonably priced suggestions?

Thanks!