MSE Pregnancy Club 24

thegreenroom

So have you not had scans fishcake?

turtlemoose

Triangle I've joined in the world of maternity leave my last day was today, had some lovely prezzies off everyone, but one of them is a monitor (very generous!) but we already have an angel care one with sensor pad so not sure what to do with that, feel guilty selling a gift, but we don't need two!

It feels weird to know I won't be going to work until 25th February 2013 although I'll have work related stuff as I got a date for my employment tribunal, in September, to last 5 days, eep - baby will only be 3 months by then so i think it will be hard to leave her/him for 5 full consecutive days!!

Question for those of you nearing due date - anybody sometimes feel like the baby is going to fall out if you don't clench, or that you are sitting on the poor thing?? Am sooooo uncomfortable down there, I'm sure it is head butting me in the pelvis bones!!!

Miss_Money

turtlemoose wrote: »

Question for those of you nearing due date - anybody sometimes feel like the baby is going to fall out if you don't clench, or that you are sitting on the poor thing?? Am sooooo uncomfortable down there, I'm sure it is head butting me in the pelvis bones!!!

yes i feel like she's going to fall out of my foof every time i walk!!:eek::eek::eek::eek:

rjh090384

Any of u spd sufferers? How did u did out u had spd? I just said to my midwife I was having pain but I couldn't distinguish it from my normal back pain from an old sporting injury. She asked a couple of questions said its spd and referred me to physio. Do they not need to do an examination or something to check?

Miss_Money

rjh usually they ask you a load of q's about where the pain is when it started etc. I have an old back injury but the pain is very different to that. In my 1st pregnancy i had physio for the spd as it was in my hips and lower back and i had awful sciatica... in pregnacy number 2 i knew what the pain was and told the mw what i was going through again she sent me to physio and they confirmed what i already knew. With this pregnancy the pain is in a different place but i saw the gp who said it was spd just making itself known in a different place.. in my groin and upper thighs this time. they didn't examine me, i think it's so common in pregnancy they are trained to see the signs.
hope that helps.

rjh090384

Thanks miss money. I have bad sciatica feel like a 20 stone woman is sitting on my tailbone and the best waddle u have ever seen. At night I get the hip ouchies. And I look like an eerily walking up stairs so try to avoid it at all costs

turtlemoose

Sympathies to all of you with spd - it sounds horrific. I'm so glad I have managed to avoid something like that - I'm grumpy enough with my ordinary aches in my back/hips/knees. I don't think I'd cope very well with anything as extreme as some of you poor ladies

ikkle87

Rjh, I have SPD and Coccydynia (think thats how you spell it) have you tried a gel cushion or one of these http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/8650610/Trail/searchtext%3ECUSHION.htm

sexymouse

Evening ladies,

Sorry for not posting earlier - we went straight to the shops after the scan and have literally just got back in. I'm shattered now.

All was ok with the baby - they saw the heart clearly this time, and although we were in the same room as last time where the monitor was too far away to see, she did turn her monitor slightly so I could see a bit, and it did seem a bit clearer this time. As I predicted, we are also team blue. I was a bit gutted really (I know I'm lucky to have a healthy baby boy and it's selfish of me to be disappointed), as although I had a feeling it was a boy, I really hoped to have a girl. Moon is thrilled though, and everyone else in my family seems happy too (my Mum told me that she'd wanted a boy, and ended up with me and then my sister, so she and my Dad are happy that I'm having one - my sister's first comment was "yay - that means I can have all the girl clothes" that my Mum saved for us).

On a plus note, I got measured for some maternity bras in mothercare, and have ordered 2 as they didn't have the ones I wanted in my size. In one bra I'm a 34DD (having been a B cup before, I'm thrilled to have more than a handful), and the other, I'm a 38C (they said this particular bra has very strange sizing hence the huge difference in sizes). We've also had a look at lots of different pushchairs, so have some food for thought now. MIL has said she wants to buy us the pushchair, but I don't know that she's aware of how expensive they are - will have to get Moon to talk to her about it, as we're considering the Bugaboo Bee, and it will cost just under £600 new. Will have to do a bit more research online, and hope some second hand ones come up on gumtree or similar. I also got a few bits and pieces at Boots: the changing bag (bought the newborn pampers with a 50p off voucher too), the pampers, and 2 packs of maternity pads in their 3for2 offer. Also got a car charger for my mobile as it went a bit flat whilst we were out (forgot to charge it last night) and I don't have one.

dizziblonde

The physio prodded me a lot, watched me walk around, checked the alignment of my hips and asked lots about where I was in pain and where it started before confirming it was SPD (I was pretty darn sure it was).

Mine started with niggles in the back of my hips when I was walking, then moved around to the more "typical" pain of feeling like you've been repeatedly kicked between the legs with a steel toecap boot. But basically since it's that joint - it can impact on so many different bits to cause different pain - I never had the "grinding" lots of people describe... but really felt it early on in my lower back and hips, other people go straight to the pelvis pain - if you've got that bit of your body going unecessarily springy with all the forces going through it there are loads of bits that can bend out of kilter to compensate really.