MSE Pregnancy Club 24

mishkanorman

Yes emsbet :rotfl: some nutbar of a midwife played happy birthday to the baby just after it was delivered ! Only in America


As for re-usable breast-pads, I invested in a couple of pairs but found they couldnt keep up with the leakage, does anyone remember that Will & Grace episode from years back - Grace bought a water filled bra to give her bigger boobs, it ended up with a puncture and leaked everywhere ? Heres the link if you are bored, start at about 9min in . . . . anyway, that was me at times used to have to change my pads several times an hour some days !


Have a busy start to the week this week, 28 week check up this afternoon with midwife, new sofa tomorrow (eeeeeeeee soooo excited) sports day for littlest on wednesday, then nothing to do for the rest of the week :j


Hope to see some baby news soon

Rups32

ah thanks dizsie. i knw how crazy is that? when i tell DH he gets sooo annoyed! he says we can do what we want and i agree. i just normally 'listen' to my mum but nowadays the sillier she gets, i tend to say stuff in return! stupid tradions! .

oh gosh reading about the stuff about being under GA is really weird. I was so scared when i had my MC and had that ERPC (always get the order of letters wrong?) and i kept asking everyone whether i would wake up again! its so silly but i was scared. another major point is the contact and then DH not being there! that's sounds so unfair! hadnt even thought of that. I know people have said about the movements varying but i am sure that will be something that WILL no doubt worry me too when i get there!

RebekahR

Thanks for the breastpads links. I have a box of johnsons - need to get another - lord knows how long 1 box will last for! But will buy and prehaps make some if I get some time too.

How are all the July ladies fairing up? Nurseries all ready and hospital bags all packed? What you got left to do?

KatyLiz

I mentioned the movements to my midwife last time I saw her, and she said they don't pay attention to frequency/strength until 27 weeks now. I'll see her on Thursday just before I get to that point, so I will mention it again.

Re bonding - I totally agree about not always feeling the instant rush of love. For me a lot of it can be put down to the birth experience. With my daughter (17 hour labour, epidural, left on my own, 3rd degree tears, no after care etc) I was so out of it that I didn't feel much except relief that it was over. She then had a complete collapse at 4 days old and spent over a month in SCBU so I didn't get a chance to build up that bond until she was 3 months old. The guilt is still there for me now that she is 8. With my son it was the total opposite. I was induced and he arrived 5 hours after the induction. I had a midwife with me the entire time and it was as nice an experience as it could be. I had the complete instant bond and he was my little mummy's boy even as a baby.

I'm hoping for another positive experience this time round. I'm more scared since finding out I'm having a girl. There is no reason why things should go badly again just because bump is a girl, but its sitting there irrationally in the back of my head that things don't go well for me with girls.

Rups32

ok just got my normal email alerts for seeing the baby week-by-week! i know they give appromixate sizes for the babies at a certain week. does it have to match? say at 13 weeks, your baby is about 8.5cm. mine was 7.5 at the scan. just got some time now so i guess reading up is not a good idea! lol

sexymouse

Don't worry too much about the size of the baby not matching your emails Rups - I get so many different emails, and they all say different sizes as they are approximate, and will vary from baby to baby. Also, the babies can grow at slightly different rates - it may be that your baby has a massive growth spurt and will be the right length by the end of the week rather than the beginning of each week.

sexymouse

Just spent the morning sorting out pregnancy-related things - called jobcentre plus and they are sending me out the form to apply for maternity allowance. Unfortunately we won't be entitled to the Sure Start Maternity Grant as we're not currently claiming benefits and Moon is working. Have also looked at our local health trust's parentcraft classes and booked into an active/water birth evening class in August. Had to call the NCT first though to find out what the dates of our September group course are (final payment hasn't gone through yet so haven't been sent the details and the course is full so not listed on the website) in case they clashed. Answered a bounty survey too.

Elelyn

Emsbet I have the same worries about movement. I'm 30+2 today and whilst I do feel some movement every day sometimes he goes crazy and other days it's very light movements and not that often. Certainly not the ten movements in an hour I've read about. And he doesn't really have set patterns (other than he usually goes mad about 11 o'clock at night - I wonder if he'll be the same when he's born?) so I don't know how I'm supposed to tell if somethings wrong. My mom tells me that if something were wrong I would instinctively know so I'm trying not to worry about it.

sexymouse

Welcome to the big girl's thread moneypenny - I'm sure you'll be at home in no time. x

emsbet

Welcome moneypenny :wave: do you want adding to the list?

xx