MSE Pregnancy Club 25

missymoo81

Oooooh huge congratulations highland lass!! Sorry you didn't have yr easiest labour, but glad you're home x

Claree__x

Congrats highland lass, what a gorgeous name

Woman was supposed to be coming tonight to a bikini and eyebrow wax for me tonight and has just text to say she's fallen down the stairs and can't make it. How irrititating! It took me long enough to get psyched up to book an appointment!

claretsgirl

Congratulations HighlandLass!!! I hope you're enjoying the sunshine and your beautiful daughter. X
Well, all is not well here. I'm in a foul mood. Just spent the last hour weeding and sweeping my driveway while OH sat on his fat backside in the sun reading the paper! I'm struggling to bend as it is. Can't believe he would be so ignorant. Don't get me wrong, I know I'm one of those people who carry on as much as they can and likes top be independent but I think he was taking the P a little. Not happy and feel unloved. :-(
Rant over. Sorry.

Sparkles87

Ugh, anyone else totally fed up of the final trimester? The days feel so long because I can't sleep for more than four hours a night and I have a mountain of work to finish before she arrives for both uni and work. Can it just be the end of June now please?

missymoo81

Poor you clarets, my OH can be just like that sometimes but then I'm hugely independent and he'd probably expect me to bite his head off if he said anythig along the lines of me needing help. Or that I shouldn't be doing something. Tis really hard. Jut in the garden with roo and have noticed the people over the backs cats have pooed all over the garden!!!!! I've just had to go around and pick it all up so roo does t pick it up and
Eat it! I wouldnt mind picking it up if I had a cat and it's made the mess but not the neighbours bl00dy cat! any ideas how to stop them without putting harmful stuff down, Ive never even seen one in the garden to be honest so I can't water squirt them either.

Yes sparkles so sick of the third trimester, just over 2 weeks to go and just want her out. Can't help thinking the longer she stays in, the bigger she's going to get, and already being massive it's not the best thought. I too have assigbments to write and no attention span. Will have to start the last one tonight. Not sure what to do with the rest of my afternoon, really missing other half and Roo keeps going around the garden calling for him, so sad. God I'm such an emotional wreck at the moment, I welled up at the new r0binsons advert!

lovecake

sweaty_betty wrote: »

Hello there - popping over from the earlier thread again with a quick question about slapped cheek syndrome.

My LO has a strange rash on his cheeks, different to teething redness, with few if any spots elsewhere. I'm thinking/worried it could be slapped cheek syndrome. He's OK in himself other than this.

I'm 15+5 pregnant and obviously there's a risk to me (& babies) if this is the case. Does anyone know:
- should I try to get him diagnosed before I worry?
- should I contact the out of hours GP (with it being a bank holiday) to ask about a blood test for immunity, or just mention it to the midwife when I see her on Thursday?

I don't want to over-react, but also don't want to put the babies in danger by putting it off. The web just tells me to contact the GP/midwife if in contact, but I don't know if I definitely have been, or how quickly something would need to be done.

Does anyone have any experience of this?

Hi, I haven't been on here for ages (was on holiday and have been floored by a chest infection) but I saw this and thought I should share my experience.

There is a specific stage that it is infectious and I think it's before the rash appears, but I don't think you need to be in a massive rush. All they do for slapped cheek is monitor you a bit more carefully I think - there isn't any actuall 'treatment' so I would say you are fine to wait a few days.

My niece had slapped cheek a while ago and I had been in contact with her around the time she would have been infectious. I always say better safe than sorry so I got in touch with my GP as the midwifes don't man the phones on a Tuesday and that's the day I found out. The GP got me to pop down and get some blood taken to see if I had the virus or not - they said if it was negative they would get me back in a month to test again just to be on the safe side. However when I mentioned it to the midwife at my next appointment she was able to check back the records for the first set of bloods that I had taken at my booking appointment and see what my immunity was (I was immune so it meant I didn't have to go back to the GP for more bloods). So this may be something that your midwife can do very easily.

Sometimes the symptoms can be very mild in children so it is hard to tell whether it is slapped cheek or not (although the midwife said if you have it as an adult it is really bad - she'd had it herself and said it was awful! So you'll probably know if you've caught it)

I think if there is anything worrying you, you may as well just contact the GP or midwife just to put your mind at ease. I went the other week because I had a cold and cough - I would never normally bother just for a cold/flu type thing, but when you are pregnant you think differently because you have the baby to think about rather than yourself and I was glad I did because it turned out that I had a chest infection and needed antibiotics!

Hope you got it sorted!

claretsgirl

Thanks missymoo. I gave him short shrift and he dutifully went and cleaned the bathrooms (guilt is a wonderful thing sometimes)! But it meant we could go for a lovely long walk through the fields by the river on this gorgeous sunny afternoon. We are friends again (for now). I know what you mean about the cats, it drives me insane. X

lovecake

Hi everyone, I haven't been on here for weeks! It would take me an age to catch up, but I hope everyone is ok I am 31 +3 today and starting to feel the tiredness of the final trimester kicking in - especially as I'm still getting over this nasty chest infection . Sleeping is difficult, bending over is difficult, standing up from a low seat is difficult etc.etc. I have to get OH to tie my shoe laces and even had to get him to help me paint my toenails!

We were visiting family at the weekend and spent two nights in different beds - one night at his Mum's and the other night at my Mum's and I tell you what, I missed my mattress topper like crazy! I would recommend to anyone to get one while you're pregnant. You don't realise what a difference it makes until you have to sleep without it. Godsend!

Anyway, apart from the chest infection and the usual niggles I'm feeling pretty well still - long may it continue! Less than 6 weeks til mat. leave! Cannot wait!

Hope you are all keeping well! x

*BigBird*

Congrats Highland Lass!

Citrus peel is supposed to be good at deterring cats. I'm going to give that a go on a flower bed at the front as I've noticed our neighbours cats have started using it as a toilet. (Our cat uses a flower bed down the side of the house, which I don't complain about (much) as he's ours and I'd rather he pooed there than in someone else's garden - doesn't make it any less unpleasant to clear up though!)

Or you can get sonic cat scarers. One of my neighbours has one of those to keep cats off her front garden and it seems to work.

I'm very much over being pregnant now. I'm sick of being uncomfortable all the time, not being able to sleep properly, not being able to bend over and being kicked in the ribs.

missymoo81

Thanks big bird will definitely Have a look.

Love cake, glad you're better now. Bending over is the hardest, putting tights on is a joke! Lol at OH painting your toe nails. I complained of not being able to see let alone reach my 'lady parts' to tidy them up, thinking he'd offer, but he said I bet a lot of people in your position don't even bother!!! Thanks for the help lol. I think worst part of this pregnancy I'd being so huge and only beig able to walk at a snails pace along with the awful piles! Really really not nice. Strange that last time I had the most horrendous heartburn, but very rarely Have it with this one!