MSE Pregnancy Club 24

emsbet

I feel for you rj. I can't stay in the same position for too long and am constantly shifting about and getting up and down. Fortunately I don't have anything I have to do, I can only imagine how hard it is to be revising too!

xx

MrsBryan_2

Haha, I'm quite happy to have our little tinker at 38 weeks too fluff!
Are you going to be drinking raspberry leaf tea?

Was funny, on the way out of the surgery yesterday OH turned to me and said, I think we should have more sex to get you used to a 12lb-er coming out......I nearly punched him but I was laughing too much! He certainly rates himself!

The way my MW is talking she's letting things progress naturally but has said that 1 in 4 women have to have a C-sect so be prepared for that eventuality.

It is lovely having another scan when they are big. Can see that heart really beating and all the bones, love it

turtlemoose, I think it must be in their job description, I've seen 2 different consultants and both of them have been d!cks!!

emsbet that sounds amazing! I remember around 24-28 weeks I just wanted constant back and shoulder massages, but had to put up with the OH doing them x

rjh090384

Question for you girls. At my 26 week midwife appt she said I was measuring 31 but only wrote 29 in my notes. I don't have another appointment until 34 weeks but I was wondering I should ask for an appointment before that as I measured myself today and at 29 I'm measuring 33 weeks. This is above the 90th centile in my notes chart. Any advice ?

fluffnutter

MrsBryan wrote: »

Haha, I'm quite happy to have our little tinker at 38 weeks too fluff!
Are you going to be drinking raspberry leaf tea?

It is lovely having another scan when they are big. Can see that heart really beating and all the bones, love it

Yep, I'm on the raspberry leaf tea

I'm quite looking forward to the scan if I'm honest. Although I've a tendency to worry excessively, at the end of the day, if the baby's measuring a bit big for dates, it's simply means the baby's a bit big. Compared to what can happen during pregnancy I should really try to chill out. I asked the MW what was likely to happen. She said one of two things: either they'll say the baby's fine for its dates, no further action, or they'll agree it's a whopper and the consultant will probably want to induce at term (which is not unlikely anyway because of my BP).

No biggie is it really?

One thing with the scan though... how do you avoid seeing its bits?? :eek: Perhaps we should just be done with it and find out the sex

fluffnutter

rjh090384 wrote: »

Question for you girls. At my 26 week midwife appt she said I was measuring 31 but only wrote 29 in my notes. I don't have another appointment until 34 weeks but I was wondering I should ask for an appointment before that as I measured myself today and at 29 I'm measuring 33 weeks. This is above the 90th centile in my notes chart. Any advice ?

More confusion! My being 1cm over (or below) puts me right outside my scale! I've got such a narrow margin that the slightest deviation puts me below or above the 10th/90th percentile.

Honestly, it seems that everyone does things differently! You were a whopping 5cms over your dates and are still coming up 4cms over. I'm a poxy 1cm over (less than because I'm actually 36+1) and I've got to go for a scan! Madness.

MrsBryan_2

I think I will pick some up tomorrow when I'm out. Is it rank or quite nice?

I was worried too at first but both the MW and consultant said its quite normal and that they prefer the baby to be measuring up big rather than small. Chunky monkeys are generally nice and healthy! Also, the fundal height measurment is just a 'guide' and dont forget theres all that water in there too!
Could mean we're both going to go swimming when our waters break?!

At the growth scan she literally got all the measurements, then turned the screen round so we could see baby and said, 'nice strong heartbeat' then bubba turned his back on us and we saw his lovely little spine and that was it. Our sonographers aren't the friendliest people in the world anyway. Didn't even mention the sex, or if we knew etc!
They need to go to charm school, seriously.

Have you got a date for your scan yet?

At 33 weeks, our fat !!! bubba weighed 5lb 11oz according to the scan and his femur bone length was off the scale so think he's long more than fat tbh!
Either way, as long as he's ok I don't care, I love the rolls of fat on their arms and legs, could just eat them!

rjh I dont think you should worry hun, but if you really do want it checked, give your midwife a call x

fluffnutter

MrsBryan wrote: »

I think I will pick some up tomorrow when I'm out. Is it rank or quite nice?

I was worried too at first but both the MW and consultant said its quite normal and that they prefer the baby to be measuring up big rather than small. Chunky monkeys are generally nice and healthy! Also, the fundal height measurment is just a 'guide' and dont forget theres all that water in there too!
Could mean we're both going to go swimming when our waters break?!

At the growth scan she literally got all the measurements, then turned the screen round so we could see baby and said, 'nice strong heartbeat' then bubba turned his back on us and we saw his lovely little spine and that was it. Our sonographers aren't the friendliest people in the world anyway. Didn't even mention the sex, or if we knew etc!
They need to go to charm school, seriously.

Have you got a date for your scan yet?

At 33 weeks, our fat !!! bubba weighed 5lb 11oz according to the scan and his femur bone length was off the scale so think he's long more than fat tbh!
Either way, as long as he's ok I don't care, I love the rolls of fat on their arms and legs, could just eat them!

rjh I dont think you should worry hun, but if you really do want it checked, give your midwife a call x

Just to make things more difficult I've got an abdo scar between my boobs and tummy button that makes it really awkward to find my fundus. TBH, I'm surprised she's referred me but heyho. No date yet but should be next week sometime.

According to my growth chart today (36+1), this baby weighs 7lb 11oz :eek: Mine's also got long legs but then so has husband (37in inside leg!).

Raspberry leaf tea is nice but then I like fruit teas generally. If you don't, it might be worth sticking with the capsules.

mishkanorman

I guzzled raspberry leaf tea with my first, rankness it was too as it was loose leaves so had little bits floating,

I found it gave me an irritable uterus with just loads of niggles and twinges but absolutely no progress. I had a full induction at the end of it which took 4 days in total so cant say it actually helped me at all !

so on the massively negative note i will say dont pin all your hopes on it doing much

rjh090384

I had raspberry tea with my first. Didn't induce labour but then I have an inkling I read somewhere it's not meant to. It's meant to prime the cervix and make for eaasier labour and pushin. Certaintly did for my first. Less than an hour of pushing and out she slid

Thing is my midwife is off sick so I have seen a different midwife every time lol. So I have no idea who I would call lol!!

fluffnutter

Problem is, with the tea, it's not a controlled experiment. You simply don't know what will have happened personally without it. So far mishka's said it slowed down labour and irritated her womb, rjh thinks it sped things up. How would you ever know whether your labour would have been any different anyway?

TBH, I only drink a cup when I remember

And it's never as nice as a proper brew