MSE Pregnancy Club 25

chonorla

Morning ladies :wave: and congratulations on the new babies
babymonster2 - 11lb 6 :eek: That makes me feel so much better about my 9 1/2 and 10lb monkeys! They are positively tiny in comparison Hope you are both doing well :j I see my Consultant on Friday so fingers crossed I am having an average size baby this time - or at least one that is no bigger than the others were .....If so I may be induced in 6 weeks and I am so not ready!!!!!!

As for the weight gain - I am not weighing myself I had put on 2 stone by 28 weeks so am guessing its been rising steadily since

As for hospital food I think that varies from hospital to hospital. Cant remember much about the food with eldest DS - it was 15 years ago . I was in and out within 6 hours with my last 2 (my choice), so didn't need to be fed but they did bring me toast and coffee after both of them and ran me a bath. I did get strong coffee and brown toast like requested I will be going home asap again with this one - providing it all goes well and providing I actually get to the hospital Am having nightmares about it now the time is getting closer :eek: As the hospital is 30 minutes away the chances are slim.....

I also admittedly popped into Asda on the way home after my DD, I was so excited about buying girls clothes I couldn't wait ... People were saying how old is she and I was like ummm about 6 hours lol I got a few surprised faces

helen4891 - The hospital you went too sounds lovely More like a hotel than a hospital! Sadly none of mine in reach are like that - all very large and very busy. Two friends have recently had c-sections and both were home within 24 hours of giving birth.

I had wanted home births with my last 2 but have not been allowed for safety reasons - I cannot think of anything nicer than being tucked up in my own bed with baby But everyone is different with this part I suppose. DH has always been very hands on from day 1 with the babies and I sort of feel he would miss out otherwise. But I guess some people like the peace and quiet (????? agree with the screaming women helen?????? What is that all about!) and disturbed nights.

Got a few bits for my hospital bag last night from Sainsburys so have at least made a start

Have a lovely day xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Jewels1207

Hi All,
I'm new to this forum and tried to add myself to the list but it wouldnt work

Can anyone tell me how i can add myself to the list. It said as a new user I couldnt post links?

Thanks

pigpen

helen4891 wrote: »

Pigpen, its just so different everywhere, i went to a little low risk hospital , there were only 7bed and with ds2 there was me and one lady so there were alot more staff . The only way in the buliding is through doors which you had to be let in from so no one could nick ur baby.

The cattle market here has locked doors but the scrotes are in and out constantly smoking so anyone can just tag along behind them and noone would know until it was too late. Another reason I go home straight away .. I am starved lol

I actually wanted to go to a different hospital with the last 2 after ending up with PTSD twice .. and they refused to do the booking.. so much for patient choice. Anyway.. this one I am just turning up at the other hospital if I have to take myself on the train and bloody well walk there!!

chonorla

Ok ladies - had to go and weigh myself out of curiosity as I have been no where near the scales since 28 weeks - was scared lol. I have actually lost weight :think:

I had put on exactly 2 stone at 28 weeks but now at 32 weeks have only put on 1 stone 9lbs. No idea what is going on, as bump is growing at an alarming rate!!! So I am 4 weeks further on but actually weigh 5 lb less :T As I am a little on the "cuddlier" side to start with, this is fine by me!

Welcome Jewels1207 !!! Am sure someone will be along soon who can add you to the list

dizziblonde

Our big hospital (the one that I've so far refused to go back to - and am praying the smaller unit's not closed to being too busy when I need it) has the most horrid post-natal ward going.

No baths - only shared showers no one ever cleans, so you're paddling among mountains of used maternity pads for days on end, no loo roll so desperate women have been using hand towels and blocked the toilet with them (I was fishing them out by hand to have a pee on several occasions)... yeah nice small 4 bedded bays but I was always in the last bay to fill up with new admissions so they'd fill it up overnight and never did so quietly - I'd wake up to find staff reaching through the curtain complaining loudly about my baby's cot and moving it (utterly terrifying) and blethering on really really loudly about how amazing women had done (I won't lie - that one really hurt to be woken up to after the disaster of my own delivery)... staff who'd sit at the nurses' desk and complain about the patients - my first night on the ward was spent listening to them go on about me.

Food - I'm not a picky eater - but there were days I actually sat and sobbed at the sight of what they were expecting me to eat from sheer hunger and despair over it all. That was on days when I actually got to eat at all - because they sent babies up from NICU to transitional care (dump in a post natal ward until they've figured out how to feed) on a feed schedule directly clashing with ward mealtimes - and they would yell at you if you were a minute late with doing a tube feed - when I pointed out after about day 3 of having no food whatsoever (I was existing on Go Ahead fruit bake bars at this point from my hospital bag) that this was an issue they might want to look at for future patients I got the condescending reply that "well, sometimes being a mum means you miss out on the odd meals" - if I was in my own house I'd have had a fridge, a toaster, a phone to ring for takeaway - options I didn't have there when I was just left to starve.

Regularly people got chucked out that shouldn't have made it onto the ward on the say-so of social services... always done appallingly indiscreetly (and actually quite frightening to have it going on on the other side of the curtain from where you had your child when it was becoming confrontational - I was desperately trying to inch the cot around the bed without it becoming obvious to the neighbouring bay that I was doing it on a couple of occasions).

People letting older siblings run riot and run around the ward yanking curtains open or peering underneath them - invariably when I had a breastpump going, or staff just waltzing in, then leaving the curtains open while I had both boobs out pumping in the middle of visiting time totally exposed to the world - I wanted to snog and do positively indecent things to the (very yummy) doctor who came and said "I came earlier but heard a breastpump going so didn't disturb you - first thing to say... congratulations - she's beautiful" cos none of the other staff gave a stuff.

Add in visiting time and me being the utter freakshow with the tiny tiny baby which was horrid as well when I was carrying her to the changing area... I didn't mind people looking and asking questions - but !!!!!! shut yer mouths and don't stand there with your tongues out in amazement!

We had the bonkers woman I've mentioned before who was refusing to wake up to feed her baby... with very limited English so the conversation had descended to Basil Fawlty-esque levels of shout a bit louder and resort to mad handwaving by the staff on duty... with me in the next bed while the YOU. MUST. FEED. BABY!!! conversation was going on at 3am... then hubby rolled in with one of their religious elders to conduct rites over the baby at 6am - involving lots and lots of singing and chanting and a loud removal from the ward by the staff as well. THEN hubby reappeared at 8am and the official start of daddy visiting hours with a toddler that he dumped on mum to mind so he could disappear off for the day - cue a lovely day of toddler banging bins, crawling under curtains and generally annoying everyone so much that 2 out of the 4 women in the bay discharged themselves against medical advice before they lost the plot completely (they gave me their unused telly cards though bless 'em!).

The other one I really wanted to throttle was the one who rang EVERYONE at 3am to tell them of her premature baby ordeal (baby was 1 day early), then again at 4am to tell them about her first breastfeed, then at 5am she was into nappyville... oh how I wanted the phone to go somewhere she could have dialed by doing pelvic floor exercises by that point...

Yeah - our post-natal provision needs work - the place resembled the Jeremy Kyle show with helium "it's a boy/girl" balloons!

Funnily - I spoke to one of the peri-natal mental health staff over THIS pregnancy by phone (I can't go into the hospital in question now as it triggers such bad flashbacks) and she just insipidly agreed "Oh yes we DO have a lot of women who've particularly been traumatised by post-natal and transitional care come to think of it"... grrr!

neneromanova

Well, I'm back after asking my last question about a September baby, that didn't happen so now I'm having an October one Got the BFP this morning

I'll probably be popping back and forth in this thread and the under 12 week one as I feel at home here as I'm used to it with my other 2 girls

I've updated the list accordingly. Jewels1207, let me know your DD and I can add it for you

EDIT: I've updated the Overdue list as some have given birth, some haven't been on the forum for nearly a year and some accounts have been deleted

1. zcrat41 - 30th January 2013 :male:
2. ellionic - 30th January 2013 ?
3. b_girl - 11th February 2013?
4. countrybum - 12th February 2013?
5. tattoo - 13th February 2013 ?
6. earring - 17th February 2013 :female:
7. jwil - 20th February 2013 ?
8. Sarahs999 - 21st February 2013 :male: (scheduled c-section)
9. Queen_B - 22nd February 2013 ?
10. MrsDL - 22nd February 2013 ?
11. carrie78 - 26th February 2013 :female:
12. JT100 - 28th February 2013 :female:
13. ellie1788 - 1st March 2013 ?
14. msnigella - 9th March 2013 :female:
15. Mrshaworth2b - 11 March 2013 :male:
16. Miltarytwins - 13th March (twins) ? ?
17. findingmyownway - 15th March 2013 :male:
18. lkmc01 - 15th March 2013 ?
19. 2ba3c -17th March 2013 :female:
20. Jewels1207-18th March 2013 ?
    
21. penguin83 - 23 March 2013 ?
22. abbeybryan1982 - 28th March 2013 ?
23. jaibaby - 29th March 2013 :male:
24. SpiderWestCider - 30th March :male:
25. dundeediva - 31st March 2013 :female:
26. missty25 - 7th April 2013 :male:
27. big5 - 11th April 2013 :male:
28. chonorla - 13th April 2013 :male:
29. dizziblonde - 16th April 2013:female:
30. Saffagal - 20th April 2013 ?
31. Just Want a House - 23rd April 2013 ?
32. helen4891 - 27th April 2013 :male:
33. lazywife - 29th April 2013 ?
34. HighlandLass - 1st May 2013 ?
35. nomorespending - 4th May 2013 :male:
36. The_Bride - 6th May 2013 :female:
37. claretsgirl - 11th May 2013 ?
38. lolamancity - 1st June 2013 ?
39. Snozberry- 3rd June 2013 :male:
40. Sparkles87 - 30th June 2013 ?
41. conventgirl - 7th July 2013 (twins) ? ?
42. anderson8 - 23rd July 2013 ?
43. triangle - 27th July 2013 ?
44. elliegibbo - 30th July 2013 ?
45. neneromanova - 23rd October 2013 ?
    
    

Hospital Bag list here

Supplement list and dosage here

BIRTH LIST - Within the last month

:female: will-be-debt-free - 9th October 2012 - 11:52pm Lexie 6lb 11oz
:male: Rups32 - 3rd January 2013 - 12:17 Andre 8lb 8oz
? Jenjenf21 - 13th January 2013[/I]
:female: hngrymummy - 19th January 2013 - 1.18am 7lb 8oz
:male: Nephthys - 21st January 2013 - Jasper 7lb 10.5 oz
:female: Morocha - 25th January 2013 -3pm Jade 7lb 2oz
:male: walby1993 - 27th January 2013 - Toby 8lb 1oz
:male: babymonster2 - 7th February 2013 11lb 6oz]
:male: mrs_B - 11th February 2013 04:43 8lb 6oz]


PROBABLY GIVEN BIRTH BUT TOO WORN OUT TO LOG ON LIST

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Babynumber4 - 2nd November 2012 :female:
Myatt - 1st December 2012 ?
mayforher - 4th January 2013 :male:
Missus Aka- 15th January 2013 ?
mountainmum - 16th January 2013?
cali77 - 19th January 2013 ?
Elisabeth854 - 22nd January 2013 ?
mintedby30? - 24th January 2013 :male:

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Please post your birth stories here when you have time/energy.

claretsgirl

Good afternoon girlies!
Hope everyone is doing well and many congratulations to the new mums. I'm feeling much better at the moment but will probably have a dip when I have to go to my friday hospital appointment alone again. Never mind. I should be grateful that the hospital is lovely and only within a stones throw from my house. The only trouble is that they only take straight forward cases so if there is any cause for concern the next hospital is fifteen miles away and much busier. Hopefully things will be ok for me. I'd like to be able to come home as soon as possible.
Can I ask you ladies a question? I didn't really want to start a whole new thread about it, but I'm wondering what everyone is doing about names. Not first names but surnames.
I have two children with their dads surname, my partner (we are not married) has two children with his surname (he doesnt get to see them very often, although they are very close and in contact every day), I went back to my maiden name following my divorce three years ago. Now what surname to give our baby. My eldest girl thinks it should have my surname, as if it has my partners surname she feels it seems more like his existing childrens sibling than hers. It's so complicated. I dont know what to do for the best.

IHateDida

claretsgirl wrote: »

Can I ask you ladies a question? I didn't really want to start a whole new thread about it, but I'm wondering what everyone is doing about names. Not first names but surnames.
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I'm 6 days away from joining this thread but I do have a quick peek from time to time!

Me and my OH aren't married (nor any plans to) and we are going to have a double barrelled surname for child. Out of girl power (and all that!) I refuse to let baby have OH's surname alone and also for him its the same (luckily our surnames do fit together quite well!). Baby won't have a middle name though as with a double barrelled surname - I don't want child to have to fill out upteen names everytime it has to fill something in!!!!:p Good luck in deciding! (do think about what the initials could spell out to though - you don't want something like Clarisssa Rosie Anna Purvis = CRAP!)

dundeediva

claretsgirl wrote: »

Can I ask you ladies a question? I didn't really want to start a whole new thread about it, but I'm wondering what everyone is doing about names. Not first names but surnames.

My bubs is getting her dad's surname. I didn't even consider giving her my name tbh, but we are engaged so I will have his name later anyway so I suppose that way makes more sense anyway.

BTW I'm #24 on the list! When did that happen!!!! Scary :eek:

claretsgirl

IHateDida, thanks for your input. Unfortunately the double barelled surname isn't really an option. Thankfully first names are already decided upon so I can relax on that count.
dizziblonde, oh my goodness! I can't believe you had to deal with that in your hospital, that's horrifying. You deserve a medal.
It makes me very grateful for my local hospital. It's really lovely, but I hope I can get home as soon as possible. X