MSE pregnancy club II

Doobees

purplegirluk1 wrote: »

I am 24 weeks now and am begining to feel like I have been pregnant forever, I was pregnanct at the begining of the year but miscarried so I have been pregnant for most of this year :eek: I am feeling rather big now and am tiring easily. At 24 weeks was anyone part of any antenatal groups? I am begining to feel very lonely as I have no friends who are pregnant or have children and my parents are not happy about my pregnancy so are not really involved, things like not mentioning the baby or asking about how I am feeling when I speak to them etc. OH's mum has been amazing, she is so happy for us and has done more than enough to help us already, we are truly lucky to have her. I just wish that I could make some friends who are in the same situation as me who I could meet up with and chat to. Does anyone have any suggestions? I tried to join a yoga group but the one in my area has been cancelled and the nearest one is quite far away. Any other ideas would be really great?

I'm 25 weeks on Tuesday. I've been doing a pregnancy pilates group since I was 15 weeks and also do a normal aqua aerobics class. These have been great for trying to build up my stamina for labour. Exercise is meant to make things a lot easier (I hope!) Have got chatting to a few ladies at the same stage as me at the Pilates class.

We also moved to a completely new area when I was 3 and half months pregnant so haven't been able to get a job. I've been going along to one of the mother and baby/toddler groups in the village so I can start to get to know other mums. There are a few other ladies there who are pregnant but they already have kids. Once I explain that I am just trying to get a head start on getting to know people they don't think it is weird at all.

Sugarcubed

tsstss7 wrote: »

Congratulations Sadie204 glad all is going well for you on the sleeping feeding front ....makes life so much easier ....

Glad to hear your little one is doing well now also curious ...

as you know from my previous post Archie too spent 3 days needing special care and although we didn't allow ourselves to think too far into the future at that point it was mega stressful not knowing exactly why he had problems and how long it would take to make him well again. The stress and extra activity going up to SCBU has also delayed my healing and so I'm now off to the dr's tomorrow to get my wound seen to ...very yukky at the mo :rolleyes:

Here's my piccy of my little Archie as promised, he's sleeping well too ...practically all the time really unless he's eating so I don't know why I feel so shattered and the house is a mess already......

I've never posted a picture before so hope it works!!!


OOPs not so good any tips anyone?????

Not sure if you can upload images on the MSE forum.

Either open an account on photobucket.com, upload and copy the http://imageshack.us/, upload the img and copy the url from that. See if that works

mandy2383

congratulations sadie204 :j i really like your little girls name.

Mandy

Sugarcubed

Congrats Sadie204!

Ready to pop 37 weeks on Tueday - Gotta stop counting!!

MrsW82

Morning all,

Congrats to all new mums, dads and babies!

I've had a rubbish night's sleep, and feel the need to have a bit of a rant (sorry!)

I'm drinking pepcid (for the chronic heartburn) by the pint (or so it seems!), and still I'm waking up in the night 4 or 5 times with acid heartburn...that is when I CAN fall asleep, as my hips and lower back are now stupidly achey, so much so that swimming which was helping, is more effort than help now!

I appear to have lost my libido - has anybody seen it?!

Every woman who I speak to who has had a baby keeps offering advice...this isn't too bad, EXCEPT for the fact that they're focusing on "OOOOhhh it's gonna hurt!" - You think?!
And - "Enjoy the peace while you have it/ Your lives are gonna change so much" - again, WE KNOW!!!

After having 30 odd weeks of getting our heads around the idea of having babies, myself and Hubby are well aware of this!

Plus I feel bloated, and my belly's doing that hard/tightening thing.

But other than that, it's been an easy pregnancy...and I wanna meet my baby!

GGGGRRRRRRRR!

(thanks - feel much better now)

Does anyone know of anything non-medicinal that helps with heartburn, other than milk?

Thanks,

MrsW82

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NO NO NO step away from the milk.

My midwife said dairy makes it worse so you think you are doing yourself a favour by drinking it and actually its much worse. I do notice my heartburn is worse when I have cheese as well.

I have had it so bad (also got the big bottle by the bed and was swigging from it all night) but it ended up bringing me out in a rash on my arm - oops! SO now I try not to eat within 2 hours of going to bed, then i have plain digestive biscuits by the bed and if it gets bad i have a couple of rennies and a digestive biscuit and it does seem to be keeping it under control.

The only other thing i can suggest is that you dont lie flat in bed - try proping yourself up to sleep on lots of pillows. Personally I can't sleep like this but if you can its much better as the acid doesn't come so far up your pipes to burn your throat.

I do sympathyse. It's horrid. Its made me sick before now and sleeping with burnt pipes is impossible.

MrsW82

:eek: I didn't realise that the milk wasn't good!

(though bizzarrely I had noticed cheese makes it worse!)

Right, I'm off to get some rennies, and some digestives!



MrsW82

chocaholic110

Another one here eating rennies like a loony! Although when I bought them Boots had big boxes on 2 for £5 so plenty to get through! And milk does make it worse - funny when I thought milk calmed heartburn

The worst is when you are woken up during the night with a mouth full of bile? sick? goodness knows what it is?

MrsW82

Ewwww! :lipsrseal

Have felt it in the back of my throat - not actually had a mouth full of it (yet).

Have tried the pillow-propped-up route, but then I can't get comfy, and still wake up horizontal!

Hubby can now tell by my expression just how bad it is! (apparently now I have an "acid heartburn" face... )


MrsW82

ella_ella_ella

I need a little advice on writing a birthplan please as its never been mentioned by anyone.

Do i get a pre printed form, maybe from my midwife to fill in, or do i just type it out myself? I have searched online for sample birthplans but only seem to find the information to put in one, but its the layout im confused about.

If i need to type it out do i just write short sentences underneath a heading like a CV?